The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 199 Chapter 21 Final Battle ()

"Just for a moment, I felt the breath of Miss Suzuki." Ajian said.

Inuyama Heita was running in the woods in a panic. When he heard what Ken said, he was shocked and said, "No way? Even that Suzuki classmate came in? I thought that just telling her about cognitive theory would not let her enter the ghost realm."

Ah Jian floated beside him and shook his head, saying, "Although I don't understand the principles of that cognitive theory, it seems that Miss Suzuki hasn't completely entered here. Her breath is looming, and the last evil spirit is already near her. But since she didn't enter the ghost realm, she should be fine for the time being."

"As long as she doesn't enter the ghost realm and doesn't establish contact, the ghosts can't hurt her." Inuyama Heita said impatiently: "Takeru, haven't you found that one yet?"

Ah Jian said, "It should be nearby! The distance between the ghost realm and reality is different. I don't know exactly where it is. My perception has been weakened by the thick fog. I can only vaguely feel the location... Be careful to the left front!"

Inuyama Heitai bent down, and a bullet pierced through the thick fog and flew over his head.

"Hiding like this is not a solution." Inuyama Heita looked at the thick fog and thought to himself, "The evil spirit's way of attack is to inject its own resentment into the target's body in order to assimilate the target's spirit. So that's not a real bullet, but an aggregate of resentment. Even if it is hit, it won't die immediately. In this case..."

"Ajian, go find that person, I'll hold it back!" Inuyama Heita shouted. He aimed at the direction where the bullet came from and used the Bagua Seal again to dispel the fog, revealing the figure of the evil soldier ghost in the fog.

"Understood! Hold on, Inuyama." Upon hearing this, Ken immediately flew away and disappeared into the fog.

Facing this evil spirit, Inuyama Heita has realized that he must hold on until Ken finds rescue before he has a chance to defeat the opponent.

"Resentment, this is the nature of evil spirits." Inuyama Heita recalled: "Brother Yi said that no matter what kind of evil spirit it is, its ultimate goal is to vent, to vent the resentment and unwillingness in its heart, and let others also taste the pain they have suffered. As long as they can resist the other party's cognitive pollution..."

boom!
The gunshot rang out again, and Inuyama Heita used the Bagua Seal to block the bullet, but was knocked out by the impact again. He quickly got up, gritted his teeth and aimed the Bagua Seal at the evil spirit.

"I can do it. I can hold on." Inuyama Heita stared at the soldier ghost breathlessly, not letting it out of his sight. Now that Ajian was gone, losing track of the enemy would be tantamount to seeking death.

The soldier ghost raised his gun and pulled the trigger again.

……

Suzuki tried her best to stay calm and continued to explore in the woods. Fear was constantly eroding her sanity. Even though she could complete the whole process in the haunted house without changing her expression, she was still a normal person after all, and the environment would still have an impact on her.

Feeling fear in a pitch-black environment is a reaction engraved in human genes, not to mention that there are so many people with strange behaviors in this forest. If it were an ordinary little girl, she would have been scared to death. Only Suzuki was able to remain calm.

But as time passed, Suzuki felt her body getting colder and colder. She always felt like someone was following her, which made her feel creepy. The sound of her footsteps was extremely abrupt in the woods, completely different from usual.

In her peripheral vision, the girl holding the utility knife appeared more and more frequently, but when she looked straight at her, she still could not see anything, which made her feel annoyed.

Now she was completely lost. She had seen a tree several times, which meant that she was wandering around in this area and couldn't get out. Although Inuyama Heita had told her some knowledge of cognitive theory before, it was just a brief statement. So she didn't know that encountering this situation, the so-called "ghost wall", was one of the precursors to entering the ghost realm.

"Huh..." Suzuki exhaled a breath of white air, and fog began to gradually appear around her. She knew in her heart that it would not be long before she would fall completely into that world, so she regretted it now. If she had known earlier, she would not have asked Inuyama Heita. If she remained ignorant, she would be safer. Sometimes, digging into the details and knowing too much would bring danger.

Just as she felt the environment around her becoming increasingly distorted and the fear in her heart was about to overwhelm her rationality, she seemed to hear a childish voice:

"Mother……"

It was the voice of a baby. Suzuki was stunned. She should have felt strange to hear such a voice suddenly in such a situation, but this call made her feel familiar and kind. "This is..." Suzuki took out the jade pendant she was wearing from her collar. It was a jade pendant with a cute fat baby carved on it. Qian Xiaoyi gave it to her after the Lucky Mutual Aid Association incident. Suzuki thought it was cute, so she kept wearing it.

Now, this jade pendant brought her the long-lost peace of mind, and also warmed her body.

"Mom...Mom...over there..."

Suzuki seemed to see a baby arm as thin as a lotus root pointing in a certain direction in front of him.

So she rushed in that direction. At this juncture, she chose to believe what Qian Xiaoyi gave her.

After running for a while, she finally saw something familiar in the woods.

——Qian Xiaoyi’s motorcycle was parked there quietly.

Suzuki felt something sharp scratching her neck, maybe a branch or a leaf. The touch gave her goose bumps all over her body, and she even began to hallucinate a heavy breathing sound in her ears.

She quickly came to the motorcycle, and the motorcycle key was inserted into the keyhole. Although she didn't know why, Suzuki knew what to do at this time. She didn't ride the motorcycle, but turned the key as if possessed by a ghost.

Rumble! The furious sound of the engine rang out, echoing in the woods. The headlights came on, piercing through the darkness and dispelling her fear.

Bang! The bullet hit Inuyama Heita's forehead accurately. The huge impact made Inuyama Heita fall to the ground. He looked up and fell to the ground, his eyes wide open. The bullet hole on his forehead began to spread spider-web-like black lines around.

In Inuyama Heita's consciousness, he saw the past of the soldier evil ghost... no, he became the soldier evil ghost and experienced what it had experienced.

After finally becoming an officer, he discovered that his wife was having an affair with her superior and was even planning to kill him, so he picked up a gun and walked into the barracks, but he didn't expect that the other party had been waiting for him. The moment he raised his gun, before he pulled the trigger, he was hit by bullets from all directions. He could only watch his wife snuggle in the arms of her superior, and then died with resentment...

Those scenes replayed over and over again in Inuyama Heita's consciousness. The resentment of being betrayed and the pain of being shot continued to wash away Inuyama Heita's reason.

"Cognition... must hold on..." Inuyama Heita moved his eyes and looked at the soldier evil spirit in front of him, trying his best not to let his cognition be changed. Once his cognition was changed, he would be completely finished.

The soldier ghost looked at Inuyama Heita silently, with only madness and malice in his eyes. He raised the gun again, pointed the black muzzle at Inuyama Heita, and was about to pull the trigger.

"Roar!!!!"

The roar of a tiger that rose to the sky sounded like thunder from not far away, causing the soldier evil spirit to take a step back and fail to successfully fire his gun.

"Inuyama, here I come!"

The next second, a strong wind blew, and a huge, colorful figure jumped out from the thick fog. It was so fast that even Inuyama Heita didn't have time to react. The strong claws pressed down on the chest of the soldier ghost and pinned it to the ground.

At this time, Inuyama Heita saw clearly that it was a tiger. A low roar like thunder came from the tiger's body, and Ajian was riding on the tiger's back, hugging his arms, and shouting majestically:
"Nuhuwan, come and join us!"

(End of this chapter)