The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 146: Training trip (19)

"Don't think about the elephant..." Inuyama Heita murmured, then stood up and walked towards the field.

At this moment, no one paid attention to him, as if he didn't exist in front of people. Even the elderly people who were responsible for setting up the venue didn't notice that Inuyama Heita had walked past them. Inuyama Heita walked farther and farther, leaving the crowd behind until he came to a vast field.

"Huh! I did it!" At this point, Inuyama Heita exhaled in one breath. He came out of the state just now with a heavy breath, looking at the surroundings that did not exist in the real world in disbelief, and said to himself: "The entrance to the ghost realm is actually in the crowd when the festival started... Is this really a magic circle created by humans? It's so scary."

He was somewhat shocked at the ingenuity of the design of the magic circle, and was also glad for his success.

"Inuyama, are you okay? Where is this place?" Ken seemed to sense the changes in the outside world and turned into a physical entity and appeared next to Inuyama Heita.

Inuyama Heita was surprised and said, "Mr. Ken, it's you. You haven't appeared for such a long time, I thought something happened to you."

Ah Jian waved his hands: "I was just scared and hid in the jade pendant and dared not show my head. Is this a ghost place? I didn't know there was such a place in the village."

"To be precise, we are now in the magic circle." Inuyama Heita said: "Next, just follow Brother O's instructions."

"Brother Yi is back? He's not here, is he? I can't sense him." Ah Jian looked around and asked, "Besides, there is absolutely no direction here, how do I know where to go? Or did you get Brother Yi's compass?"

Inuyama Heita said: "There is no compass, but we can look at the map."

He took out a map with a route drawn on it from his pocket. There were many small dots of different colors on it, and said, "Brother Yi had already drawn this magic circle when he was in the village. This is the orientation map of the magic circle that he speculated. We just need to follow it."

"The problem is... we don't know which direction is east, west, south, or north?" Ah Jian asked in surprise, "In this case, a map is useless, right?"

"There is a way to determine it." Inuyama Heita said: "According to the map, we must first find a scarecrow wearing red clothes as a beacon to determine our location... Ah, I got it, it is indeed nearby!"

He just turned around a little and found the scarecrow in red clothes that Qian Xiaoyi mentioned. Inuyama Heita pointed to the red dot on the picture and said, "Brother Yi's drawing is correct. We are currently at approximately this location."

Ah Jian exclaimed in amazement: "The environment of the ghost realm is completely different from the outside world. It may change at any time. It is amazing that such an accurate map can be drawn without any guidance."

"Maybe it has something to do with him breaking the magic circle." Inuyama Heita looked at the map, used his fingers to blur out the route, and then said: "Let's go forward."

Following the instructions on the map, Inuyama Heita estimated the approximate angle and then headed towards that direction.

Ah Jian floated aside and said, "This place... is really strange. My perception ability seems to be broken here. It is completely useless. If I don't have a map, I will probably be trapped here..."

"Hush, be quiet!" Inuyama Heita suddenly stopped. In the field around them, a scarecrow with a human head suddenly appeared. He kept a stiff posture and just floated past them quietly, seemingly not noticing them. "Ah! How scary!" Ajian said in panic, "I didn't feel anything at all. What on earth is that!"

Inuyama Heita continued to walk forward and said, "It is the self-defense power of this magic circle. We are currently taking the safe route planned by Brother Yi. He said that we are in a moving life gate. In addition, I also gave my old clothes to the village to strengthen the connection. So as long as we go to the right place, the magic circle will not regard us as enemies."

Next, they walked and stopped as if they were taking a walk in the fields, and they did not encounter any danger at all, which made them unbelievable. Soon, the surrounding scene changed.

"We are almost at the core area." Inuyama Heita looked down at the map and said, "As long as we can interfere with a certain point of this magic circle..."

"Inuyama, look ahead, there's something going on."

When Inuyama Heita looked up, the scene around him had changed from fields to villages, and it felt exactly the same as reality. Inuyama Heita passed by a grocery store, where a scarecrow was staring intently at the TV on the counter, not moving.

"It's Ryuji from the grocery store." Inuyama Heita said. Unlike those scarecrows with human heads, the Ryuji scarecrow is just an ordinary scarecrow painted on it.

"I see..." Ah Jian said, "The scarecrows that the dead people turned into are the heads of real people here, and the living people attracted here are ordinary scarecrows, which is exactly the opposite of reality."

They walked through the village. The streets and buildings were filled with motionless scarecrows, which added a very eerie atmosphere to the village.

Finally, Inuyama Heita arrived at his destination, which was a golden field. The evening sun made the field very dazzling. In the field, there was only a scarecrow standing there alone.

Inuyama Heita and Ajian walked over and looked up at the old face.

"It's so lonely... Why is everyone leaving? Is the city really that great?"

The scarecrow muttered to himself in a frustrated tone, and Inuyama Heita vaguely felt that it sounded familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he remembered that this should be the person who spoke to the master who set up the formation in the scene seen in the shrine last night.

Hearing what the scarecrow said, Ajian nodded and said, "Although it's hard to get along with people in the city, it's indeed much more convenient than in the village."

He just chatted out of habit, but the scarecrow heard it. It raised its head and said angrily with its wrinkled face: "What's so good about that place? There is exhaust fumes from cars everywhere, and the living place is very small. The room is like a coffin. Everything there costs money, and nothing belongs to you! Everyone is so cold and indifferent, the young people speak incomprehensible words, and there are incomprehensible machines everywhere... Why do people want to go to that kind of hellhole!"

Ah Jian was shocked at first, but after hearing what the scarecrow said, he pointed out: "After all this talk, you are actually just an old man who can't keep up with the times, right?"

"What did you say?!"

(End of this chapter)