The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 144: Training trip (17)

The dazzling sunlight shone through the window onto Inuyama Heita's face. He sat up from the quilt, covering his head and feeling a little dizzy.

"Hotel? Why am I back here?" Inuyama Heita couldn't remember clearly. He seemed to have gone out with Ono Haruna last night, but his memory suddenly stopped when they entered the mountains.

"Oh~ Inuyama, you're awake." Kawasaki opened the door and said, "You are such a troublemaker. I thought only Ono-san had problems, but I didn't expect you too." Hearing that Inuyama Heita was awake, the other boys also rushed in.

Inuyama Heita asked: "Everyone...what happened?"

Kawasaki said, "Do you also remember nothing like Ono? We found you two at the shrine on the mountain. You had fainted on the ground when we saw you. We wanted to ask someone to send you to the village clinic, but Suzuki contacted Teacher Qian, who said you were just sleeping soundly and asked us to bring you back directly."

Inuyama Heita asked in confusion: "I only remember seeing Ono-senpai last night and then following her... Wait! Are you awake too? You should have been sleeping when I left?"

Miyamoto Yuzhi said angrily: "Speaking of this makes me angry! You should at least call us when something like this happens. If Suzuki-san hadn't woken up over there with the girls, you might really be in trouble."

"Um, Inuyama, you really don't remember anything?" Sato asked.

Inuyama Heita shook his head in confusion: "Well, it seems that my memory has disappeared after entering the forest. I don't even know that I have been to the shrine."

"Ghost! This is definitely a ghost!" Sato said fearfully.

Kawasaki pushed his glasses and said regretfully, "Ah...what on earth did you encounter? I'm really curious. Why did something happen when you went there, but I didn't encounter anything? It's really strange."

Inuyama Heita smiled bitterly. He would rather the problem didn't happen to him. He asked, "How is Ono-senpai?"

"She didn't even realize that she went out last night." Kawasaki said, "She was wondering why we were surrounding her so early in the morning... Because we were afraid that she would be scared, we didn't tell her what happened last night for the time being. After all, that's what happened last year."

Sato said, "Have a good rest and remember to come for lunch later. We can attend the summer festival in the village in the evening."

Kawasaki instructed: "Don't forget to prepare a set of old clothes. I see you are quite unlucky. Maybe you can burn away the bad luck of the whole year."

"I gave my clothes to Granny Taniguchi at the hotel yesterday." Miyamoto Yuzhi said, "I haven't burned them yet, but I feel happy. It's amazing. I'm looking forward to the festival tonight."

The boys left the room, leaving Inuyama Heita alone to rest.

"Mr. Ken, are you there? What happened yesterday?" Inuyama Heita took out the jade pendant and whispered, "Mr. Ken?" However, the jade pendant did not respond. Inuyama Heita could feel that Ken was in the jade pendant, but he seemed to be dead. Just when he was a little panicked, he took out a talisman folded into a triangle from his pocket and dropped it on the ground.

"By the way, Brother Yi told me yesterday that if anything unusual happens, I should stick the talisman in the room!" Inuyama Heita suddenly remembered this, so he quickly got up and stuck the talisman back on the wall behind the calligraphy in the room.

In his eyes, the moment the talisman was stuck on the wall, an invisible ripple spread out, covering the entire room with a layer of transparent film.

"Hiss..." Just like a person who has been in the toilet for a long time and can no longer smell the bad smell suddenly breathes normal air, Inuyama Heita took a deep breath, and the things that happened in the ghost realm last night kept emerging in his mind.

"It's not that nothing happened, but something big happened!" Inuyama Heita took out his cell phone impatiently: "I have to tell Brother O quickly that Senior Miyamoto and Classmate Komaeda have also been infected, and there are also things about Minister Kawasaki and Mr. Ken..."

Inuyama Heita anxiously reported to Qian Xiaoyi about his experience last night, including the scene he saw in the shrine and what happened afterwards.

"Okay, don't be so anxious. It's not as serious as you think." Qian Xiaoyi consoled him, "The attack of the magic circle in the village is not that strong. It is just to lure people back here. It won't cause any substantial harm in a short period of time."

Inuyama Heita said: "But that's also very strange, isn't it? A good person suddenly can't stand the pressure and collapses and wants to escape to this isolated place to live..."

Qian Xiaoyi said: "This is the effect of the magic circle on the target. Only those who like the quiet life in the village will become the target of capture. Once they live here for a long time, they will become more and more accustomed to the life here, hate the outside world, and gradually become the nutrients of the village, turning into scarecrows to continue to protect the village."

"And Mr. Ken!" Inuyama Heita said again, "He seems to be seriously injured and has been silent. I wonder if he is okay."

Qian Xiaoyi said, "Don't worry. It seems that he escaped into the jade pendant in time. He must have just been frightened and became autistic and dared not show his head. As long as the jade pendant is fine, he can be slowly brought back to health. That guy's spirituality is much stronger than ordinary ghosts. It won't be long before he will be alive and kicking."

"That's good." Inuyama Heita breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then, Brother Oto, do you know any way to destroy this magic circle? Komaeda-san and Miyamoto-senpai have already been affected, plus Kawasaki-senpai and Ono-senpai... If we don't do something, I'm afraid that after a while, they will be disappointed with the outside world and come back here."

Qian Xiaoyi said, "As for the way to destroy it, of course I know. At present, there are two feasible ways. The first one is the simplest to operate, which is to find the location of the dead door of this formation and then destroy it. In that case, the Feng Shui pattern accumulated by this formation over the years will be destroyed. Coincidentally, I have already calculated the location of those places yesterday."

Inuyama Heita asked, "But what?" He knew that this matter was definitely not that simple.

"But there must be someone guarding that place." Qian Xiaoyi said, "Because this formation was given to this village by an unidentified master, it is impossible for him not to tell them where the weakness is. You will probably have to start from another method."

Inuyama Heita said: "Ghost Domain."

(End of this chapter)