The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 198 Chapter 20 Final Battle ()

In the foggy woods, Ken appeared next to Inuyama Heita and said, "Inuyama, I sensed the location of Otoko and Hina-chan. They are not together."

"Let's go find Senior Ono." Inuyama Heita made a prompt decision. Going to find Brother Otoko now would only cause trouble, so he should find a way to rescue Ono Haruna first.

After just finishing his call with Suzuki, Inuyama Heita ran to the woods behind the shrine according to the location Suzuki said, and came to the ghost realm here.

"I also feel a malicious aura." Takeru continued, "It's the smell of an evil spirit! It has reached Haruna-chan."

Inuyama Heita hurriedly quickened his pace, muttering in fear, "How far is it? Can we make it?"

"It's a bit difficult. The evil spirit has caught up with her. I'm afraid that Yang Cai-chan... wait!" Ajian was about to announce the bad news, but he perked up and said excitedly: "It's the smell of that stinky fox! It's also over there, it should have saved Yang Cai-chan!"

As the weakest spirit in the office, Jian is occasionally teased by the white fox, so he becomes unhappy whenever the white fox is mentioned.

"Not bad..." Inuyama Heita breathed a sigh of relief. Since the white fox had already passed by, there was no need to worry too much. Senior Ono had been possessed by a white fox before. According to Brother Oto, she had the potential to be a shrine maiden. She could at least protect herself by being with the white fox. As long as he rushed over...

Ken suddenly reminded him, "That... Inuyama, I think you'd better not be so optimistic. It seems that there is not only one evil spirit in Hina-chan's place in this ghost area, but there seems to be another one. What should we do now..."

In the ghost realm, the perception ability of spirits is much stronger than that of ordinary psychics. When Ajian sensed the other party's breath, the other party might have also sensed the breath of Inuyama Heita.

"This is troublesome." Inuyama Heita frowned and said, "We can't escape now. This is a barrier. We should go first..."

Before he could finish, Ah Jian's face suddenly changed and he shouted, "Danger!"

He pushed Inuyama Heita away, and the next second, a gunshot rang out. The bullet shot out from the fog, passed through Inuyama Heita's original position, and hit a tree.

"The third evil spirit!" Inuyama Heita, still in shock, formed the Bagua Seal and pointed it in that direction, shouting in Chinese: "Break!"

Within the range of the Bagua Seal, the fog was dispersed, revealing a figure hiding behind the thick fog.

It was a soldier ghost wearing the uniform of the Taisho period of Japan. Under its wide-brimmed hat was a face that was completely unrecognizable. There were several bullet holes on its face, and blood was flowing out and dripping on the ground. Not only its face, but its entire body had bullet holes, as if it had been shot to death before it died.

The evil spirit held a revolver in its hand and pointed it at Inuyama Heita. The bullet just now was fired from the gun in its hand.

"Be careful, Inuyama clan." Ken said, "This guy is very good at hiding his aura. I almost didn't find him just now. Don't let him hide again."

Inuyama Heita said nervously: "Even if it doesn't hide, it seems we can't defeat it."

Bang! Without saying a word, the soldier ghost fired another shot at Inuyama Heita. At this time, Inuyama Heita had already prepared the Eight Diagrams Seal. With a muffled groan, the bullet exploded in front of Inuyama Heita, emitting a cloud of black mist, as if it was blocked by an invisible barrier. Inuyama Heita was also blown away by the force of the bullet and fell to the ground.

"Inuyama!" Ken followed and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"

"My head hurts." Inuyama Heita climbed up, covered his head with his hands, looked at the soldier evil spirit in horror, and said, "The resentment in it is so strong!" He was just a newcomer, and evil spirits of this level were not something he could deal with. It would be good enough if he could withstand a few attacks.

Inuyama Heita climbed up and said, "Ajian, remember what Brother Yi told us before the competition? He left a backup plan in the competition venue. We need to find that place! As long as we can find it..."

He aimed the Bagua Seal in another direction, changing his cognitive state. Another gunshot rang out, and Inuyama Heita's figure suddenly disappeared before he was hit, and then appeared at the position where the Bagua Seal had been aimed before, as if he had been there originally.

"Inuyama, run!" Ajian's voice came from the jade pendant: "There is no way to defeat him! Try running over there, it should be over there."

Inuyama Heita ran into the depths of the thick fog without any hesitation.

In reality, Suzuki looked at the dark forest in front of him and murmured: "Cognitive theory..."

When Inuyama Heita told Suzuki this theory before, she was quite skeptical and thought that the other party was fooling her again, but the scene before her finally made her believe it a little.

When she entered the back mountain of the shrine to search for Ono Haruna, the flashlight of her mobile phone acted as a flashlight to illuminate the way forward for her. As a result, after searching for a long time, she did not find Ono Haruna, but found other people instead.

She didn't know this person, and she was scared when she first saw him, because this person was standing behind a tree, staring straight ahead with lifeless eyes, without making a sound, as if he was possessed. The scene was extremely terrifying, and even she was a little scared.

Suzuki tried calling out to the other person and even waved the flashlight in front of his eyes, but the other person's pupils didn't even shrink, like a standing vegetable.

"Is it the sorcerer that Inuyama-san mentioned?..."

She didn't dare to touch him anymore, what if he suddenly went crazy? Then she went deeper into the woods, looking for Ono Haruna, but she didn't find Ono Haruna. She found several more people like the previous ones, some of whom kept banging their heads against trees, some curled up on the ground and shivered, and many were unconscious, just like the patients in a mental hospital going on a group outing.

"Is this... the state after being stimulated in the ghost realm?" Suzuki frowned. According to Inuyama Heita, after being injured in the ghost realm, the wounds will most likely appear in reality. If you look at it from a bystander's perspective, you will find that most of those things are accidents or self-inflicted, such as strangling oneself to death.

So much evidence confirms Inuyama Heita's statement. As a materialist, Suzuki has begun to believe this theory with the facts in front of him. If this theory is used to explain Ono Haruna's previous situation in White Fox Village, many things can be explained.

"So... these so-called psychics can really see the existence of 'ghosts'?" Suzuki thought in shock. To her, the world seemed to become strange, and even the scene in front of her seemed a little unreal.

When this thought began to spread in her mind, a chill gradually crept up her back. It was clearly summer, but the temperature in the woods seemed to begin to drop, and mist was faintly creeping out not far away where the light could shine.

"Not good!" Suzuki immediately came to his senses: "According to this theory, when I thought about it this way, my cognition had already changed..."

Suddenly, she saw a girl in a sailor suit deep in the woods. There was a deep wound on her neck. She was holding a utility knife and looking at her quietly. But when she turned her eyes away, she saw nothing.

"Don't think about it. You definitely can't think about it too much." Suzuki took a deep breath. "I haven't fallen into that state yet. This means that those things in my cognition have not yet established a connection with me. As long as I maintain my previous cognition, I won't be affected!"

She suppressed her fear and continued walking towards the woods. She was now outside the ghost zone. Since she could see those people, Ono Haruna might be nearby!
(End of this chapter)