The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 18 Lucky Mutual Aid Society (10)

Qian Xiaoyi walked out of the utility room. Inuyama Heita looked inside. There was no light inside. He could still see clearly with the light from outside, but it was very dim. The small table that was moved in before was now an offering table. There was a tablet on it. The tops of the three incense sticks in the incense burner in front of the tablet had three red dots that flickered, and the jade pendant was hung on the tablet by a red rope. Although it was an airtight utility room, Inuyama Heita always felt a cold wind blowing out of it, accompanied by bursts of incense, which made people shudder.

"whee……"

Inuyama Heita was startled. A baby-like laughter suddenly came from inside. He was not sure whether he was hallucinating or there was a real sound. The misty smoke above the incense burner changed unpredictably and slowly turned into the outline of a fetus. As the smoke changed, it seemed to turn its head and look at him...

"Hey, what are you standing there for?" Qian Xiaoyi waved his hand in front of him and snapped his fingers: "Done, you can close the door now."

"Yes!" Inuyama Heita quickly closed the door of the utility room and isolated himself from this strange little room. The moment he closed the door, he breathed a sigh of relief, the cold feeling disappeared, and he felt like he had returned to the real world from a nightmare.

Inuyama Heita hesitated and said, "Mr. Qian, could it be that..."

"Yes, it's the little devil I abducted today." Qian Xiaoyi stretched lazily: "I helped it build a new home to make it feel more at ease."

"Abduction...if other people hear this kind of words, they will probably misunderstand..." Inuyama Heita was suddenly speechless. The existence inside was clearly a terrifying thing that made people feel creepy, but in Qian Xiaoyi's mouth it seemed like no big deal.

Maybe this is the margin of excellence that professionals have, Inuyama Heita thought.

Inuyama Heita suddenly became excited and continued to ask, "Since it's so easy to bring back the other party's means of controlling believers, doesn't it mean that we only need to abduct other little ghosts one by one, and the conspiracy of those people in the Lucky Mutual Aid Society will be broken by itself? Is this what we are going to do next?"

"It's not that simple." Qian Xiaoyi took out a can of beer from the refrigerator and threw a can of Coke to Inuyama Heita. He pulled the ring and took a sip of ice beer, making a refreshing sound. Then he answered: "According to my observation today, there are more than a dozen people wearing those black Buddha amulets. Let alone how to find their addresses and contact them without alerting the enemy, and recover the ghosts from them, even if we can succeed, it would be completely useless and meaningless."

"Thank you." Inuyama Heita took the Coke and asked in confusion, "Why is it meaningless?"

Qian Xiaoyi sat back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and explained while enjoying his cold beer, "This kind of little ghost needs a container to hold itself so that it can exist for a long time, such as a Buddha amulet or incense burner mixed with its ashes, or even an urn directly. Otherwise, it can only survive for seven days at most in the outside world. Note that it is a maximum of seven days. If it does not go back, it will generally dissipate in two or three days. Of course, they can't go far, because they can only move around near their main body. My case is a special case. I feel that because this method is slightly different from the similar evil magic I have, I will catch one first to observe and study it to avoid mistakes."

"I see." Inuyama Heita understood and asked, "So what should we do next?"

"What's next?" Qian Xiaoyi stared at Inuyama Heita and grinned: "What happens next depends on you, Heitaro~"

"That's Heita." Inuyama Heita had a bad feeling when he was stared at in that way.

"Young man, I notice that there is a black spot on your forehead. Something bad will happen in the near future and you will have to spend money to avoid the disaster." Qian Xiaoyi said in a mysterious tone like a charlatan.

Qian Xiaoyi chatted with Inuyama Heita for a while, and after explaining the arrangements for the future, Qian Xiaoyi waved his hand and said, "Okay, I've said everything I need to say. Go home now. Have you done your homework? If not, do it quickly. You still have classes tomorrow, right? Students should act like students. If you don't study hard now, how can you get into college in the future?"

Inuyama Heita stood up speechlessly, and the other person's tone suddenly became as nagging as an old woman. The next day, Inuyama Heita went to class as usual, went home after school, and took the train to the restaurant where he worked part-time. He worked in a nervous and expectant mood until the evening, and then took the last train home, as if nothing had happened.

In fact, nothing really happened. Inuyama Heita did not suffer the financial disaster predicted by Qian Xiaoyi. Everything was normal.

But it wasn't until the next day, when Inuyama Heita was working part-time, that something finally happened.

"Ah! It's so hot! Do you want to kill me?!"

Suddenly, in the noisy hall, there was a scream like a pig being slaughtered, which made the whole hall quiet. The diners turned their eyes in that direction and looked at it curiously.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" Inuyama Heita panicked and bowed to the guest in front of him to apologize: "Are you okay?"

In front of him, the diner was wailing while holding his arm, which was scalded and reddened. On the ground beside him, a casserole was broken into two pieces, and the rich soup was flowing all over the ground, emitting bursts of hot steam.

Hearing Inuyama Heita's question, the diner's companion shouted rudely: "Nothing? Are you blind? How can you be okay after being scalded by such a big pot of soup? Ambulance! Call an ambulance quickly, bastard!"

"What happened?" The hotel's foreman arrived at the scene immediately. After seeing the situation, he yelled at Inuyama Heita: "Hey, Inuyama! What did you do to the guests? Go to the kitchen and get some ice water and burn ointment!"

"I didn't mean it... I'll go right away!" Inuyama Heita left the scene in a panic.

"What ice water? Didn't I tell you to call an ambulance?" The companion of the scalded man shouted, "Is this how you treat your guests?"

The foreman bowed repeatedly: "I'm very sorry, sir, this is our mistake. I have asked someone to get burn ointment and ice water. This kind of situation can be handled in the store. As long as it is handled in time, no trace will be left. As for the subsequent compensation, we will also..."

"It hurts! It hurts so much...ahhhh, I'm going to die." The burned person wailed exaggeratedly without caring about anything.

"Isn't compensation a given? Also, are you a doctor? We don't need you to intervene." The man shouted forcefully, "What he needs now is professional treatment! Didn't I tell you to call an ambulance? Don't you take me seriously?"

"I'm so sorry, I'll call an ambulance right now! But we have experience in dealing with burns, so please let us wait until the ambulance arrives..."

"I told you not to deal with this bastard! Are you looking for trouble on purpose? An ambulance! Call an ambulance right now!"

"Yes! Yes! I'll call right away... Hello, this is Sanwailou on 2-chome 16-bangai. Someone is burned. We need an ambulance urgently..."

(End of this chapter)