The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 142: Training trip (15)

dozens of minutes ago.

"Hey, boys, wake up!"

Miyamoto Yuzhi heard a female voice calling him in his sleep. Thinking he was dreaming, he muttered a few words and was about to turn over and continue sleeping, but someone shook him and woke him up.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the face of Yui Maeda, which frightened Miyamoto Yuzhi so much that he gasped and pushed her away, saying with a pale face: "I like Yang Cai, don't come over here!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he found that everyone else was looking at him, and Yui Maeda was rolling her eyes at him.

"Sorry, that's not what I meant..." Miyamoto Yuzhi covered his head that had just come to his senses and asked awkwardly, "What happened? Why did the girls run into our room? Where's Miss Ono?"

Kawasaki said: "That's why. Something terrible has happened. Ono and Inuyama sneaked out."

Miyamoto Yuzhi was shocked: "What? When did they hook up?!"

Suzuki said with a dark face: "Please don't say such misleading words. Now is not the time. Put on your clothes quickly. There is something wrong with Ono-senpai."

On the way, the boys found out what had happened. It turned out that when Suzuki was sleeping just now, she was suddenly awakened by a slight noise. Then she saw Ono Haruna got up expressionlessly and went out in her yukata. Her movements were not like those of a normal person at all. Even when Suzuki called her softly, she did not respond.

She originally planned to follow him secretly, but she found that someone was already there outside.

"Is he sleepwalking?" Sato said, "I heard that you can't suddenly wake up a sleepwalker, because that would cause him to be severely frightened. I guess Inuyama-san also discovered this, so he followed him quietly, right?"

Miyamoto Yuzhi said angrily: "That idiot, why didn't he wake us up too? Could it be that he has some intention towards Miss Ono? No, we have to go there quickly! It would be terrible if Senior Ono is in danger."

They followed the two men stealthily until they arrived at the mountain path. Miyamoto Yuzhi wanted to rush up directly, but was stopped by Kawasaki.

Kawasaki said: "Don't be so reckless. Don't forget that Ono-san is sleepwalking now. Inuyama is very close, so there shouldn't be any problem with him taking care of her. And... I don't think this is sleepwalking. Don't you think her walking movements are a little strange? She looks like she knows the way and wants to go somewhere, maybe to the cemetery on the mountain. Could it be that Ono-san was like this last year..."

The cool mountain breeze at night made them shiver. Sato said with tears in his eyes, "You mean...it's possible that something is controlling her? I suddenly don't want to follow them. Teacher Qian is not here now."

Kawasaki felt that this familiar village had become strange, but he did not feel fear. Instead, he became excited. His old illness came back again.

"They're going in! Hurry up and follow them!" Kawasaki said, "I want to know what happened to Ono-san!"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go together." Miyamoto Yuzhi said, "We must not let Hina get hurt!"

The two of them hit it off immediately and followed him regardless of others' attempts to stop them, heading straight into the mountains. Seeing this, Yui Komaeda's heart started pounding.

"Getting along with the minister in the dark, the so-called suspension bridge effect... this is a good opportunity!" Yui Omaeda shyly shouted "Wait for me~" and ran over.

At this moment, only two people were left there. Sato asked hesitantly: "How about we follow them?"

"Follow them? Are you familiar with the terrain here?" Suzuki said very rationally, "It's not uncommon to get lost in the mountains at night. They are too reckless. It's okay for Kawasaki, after all, he knows how to get there, but it would be bad if someone got lost. We should stay here. If no one comes back after a while, we have to go to the village for help."

Sato took out his cell phone and said in panic: "Oh, by the way, we can tell Teacher Qian about this. He should know what to do... Oh no, there is no signal here. Don't stand here. It feels scary. Let's go back a little and wait for them in the village." After experiencing what happened last time, Sato has understood the truth that if you don't seek death, you won't die.

On the other side, because he had to concentrate on maintaining the Bagua Seal at all times, Inuyama Heita did not notice that he was being followed by others, and just followed Ono Haruna into the mountains.

He held the flashlight in his mouth, illuminating the figure of Ono Haruna in front of him like a spotlight. The night in the mountains was very dark, and only in this way could one see the road ahead clearly. However, Ono Haruna just walked in silence, which inevitably made people feel weird. Fortunately, Ajian was with him, which alleviated some of the horror atmosphere.

Suddenly, Ono Haruna stopped, and stopped under the torii gate on the shrine's mountain path, just lowered her head and said nothing.

"Something is coming, Inuyama!" Ken warned.

The flashlight went out, and Inuyama Heita nervously placed the Bagua Seal in front of his eyes, staring at the darkness in front of him with wide eyes, but he could not see anything. There was deathly silence around him, with only the sound of his own breathing.

Then, in his field of vision, a red lantern lit up, followed by a second, a third...

The cylindrical lanterns formed a line and floated above the mountain path, just like that night, emitting faint laughter, and Ono Haruna's figure appeared again on the mountain path higher up. She turned around, wearing a white fox mask on her face, and looked at Inuyama Heita, as if inviting him to come up.

"Sure enough, Senior Ono has long had a connection with the fox in the shrine, and she was marked last year." Inuyama Heita took a deep breath, took a step forward, passed through the torii, and walked up the mountain path.

As he approached Ono Haruna, her figure flashed and appeared on the next section of the mountain path.

This long staircase seemed to be extended infinitely. Whenever Inuyama Heita approached Ono Haruna, she would be pulled away, like Zeno's turtle, and could never be touched.

"No, Inuyama, it seems that the foxes want to stop you." Takeru reminded: "You are just standing still, think of a solution quickly."

"It's cognition. I must find the right cognition." Inuyama Heita immediately realized and muttered to himself, "Because I am 'chasing' Ono-senpai, I can never catch up with her. So I just need to make her 'wait' for me."

He aimed the gap of the Bagua Seal at Ono Haruna, just like taking a photo, and then concentrated his mind and fixed his eyes. At this time, the picture in the gap was frozen. During the special training these days, he also slowly found the trick of using the Bagua Seal.

His forehead was covered in sweat and his hands were shaking. He maintained this feeling and then grafted Ono Haruna in the picture in the gap to the top of the mountain path.

For a moment, the space stagnated, just like an elevator falling, and the distance between him and Ono Haruna was suddenly shortened, and then they stood together at the door of the shrine on the top of the mountain.

"Success... Success! Is this the cognitive spell?" Inuyama Heita was very excited. It was the first time for him to use a seal to affect the ghost realm, but it seemed to require a high level of mental strength. After using it only once, he felt a little tired, as if he had concentrated for an hour for a final exam.

Before he could get excited for long, new changes occurred in the shrine.

(End of this chapter)