The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 220 Horror Night GO (9)

Nojiri: "Huh? Did Mr. Qian find anything? Suzuna-chan, you have worked with Mr. Qian before, and you are also an exorcist. Did you see any strange phenomena in that room just now?"

Ling Na said: "Well... because I was not at the scene, I am not sure what Mr. Qian saw."

Narrator: [What happened? Something unexpected happened. What did Mr. Qian discover? ]

Sato gritted his teeth as he stared at the TV: "Don't play commercials at this critical moment!"

Perhaps because the audience's voices were heard, the scene did not jump to the advertisement this time. Instead, the camera followed Qian Xiaoyi all the way back to the room.

Qian Xiaoyi looked around the room full of talismans, his nose twitching as if he was looking for the source of the smell.

"Mr. Xiaoxi, please ask the director for me." Qian Xiaoyi asked, "Ask him if there are any other tricks in this room besides the ones we just saw, such as modifying some parts of the room."

Just as Konishi Hirobu was about to do so, the director's instructions were transmitted to his headset. Konishi Hirobu immediately replied, "The director said no, what we just saw is all."

Qian Xiaoyi nodded. He first groped the wall and knocked here and there. Then he wandered outside the room for a while and then ran back.

Mutsu: "Mr. Qian...what are you looking for? Are you trying to play a trick on Mr. Konishi?"

Just when the guests were extremely confused and almost impatient, Qian Xiaoyi looked at the ground, as if he suddenly thought of something. He squatted down and said, "Mr. Xiaoxi, please help me move this piece of tatami that is tilted up."

Konishi Hirobu stepped forward and together with Qian Xiaoyi lifted up the tatami on the ground. The faint stench like stinky socks in the room suddenly became extremely strong and nauseating.

"Ugh~" Konishi Hirobu frowned and said, "What? This is... so stinky!"

I saw several cracks on the cement floor under the tatami, and it was these cracks that made the tatami stand up.

"The stench of a corpse..." Qian Xiaoyi could tell at a glance that the color of the cement floor under this tatami was slightly different from that of other places, so he turned to the camera and said, "Stop filming, call the police."

Narrator: [Emergency! Mr. Qian seems to have discovered something incredible! After Mr. Qian confirmed it again and again, the program team called the police! ]

In the studio, the host and guests all looked unhappy.

Mutsu: "Are you kidding? What did Mr. Qian just say? The stench of a corpse?"

Nojiri: "Mr. Qian, you are not playing a prank on you before you take revenge on our production team, are you?"

The guests had a discussion.

Narrator: [After waiting for a while, the police came! The following is the footage captured by the program crew. ]

The camera turned and in the picture, policemen were digging with tools around the floor of the room. The camera just captured something in the hole that seemed to be wrapped in a plastic bag when it was blocked by a hand.

"Get out! Stop taking pictures!" said the police.

Narrator: [Shocking! Due to the discovery of an emergency, the production crew had to suspend filming! ]

The scene returned to the studio. Mutsu said solemnly, "We just received a message from them saying that the police found a body under the tatami floor! The area around the hotel has been blocked off now."

There was a burst of horrified shouts in the studio. "Ehhhhhhh?!!!"

Ling Na covered her mouth, her eyes wide open: "You must be kidding, right? There really is a dead body? Where are Mr. Qian and the others?"

Mutsu said: "He is currently taking a statement at the police station. Even the director has rushed over there."

Nojiri: "This is really... Could it be that Mr. Qian heard the call of the dead, this is it?"

Mutsu: "We've been there before, which means... did we really encounter a supernatural phenomenon that time?!"

On TV, the host and guests began to replay previous expedition videos and started discussing the identity of the deceased.

In front of the TV, everyone was looking at Qian Xiaoyi in surprise, stunned.

Inuyama Heita was dumbfounded and asked, "Brother Yi, did you really dig up a body?"

Kawasaki looked at Qian Xiaoyi with reverence: "Teacher Qian must have sensed the existence of the spirit and discovered the deceased, right? As expected of Teacher Qian, he can easily do things that ordinary people can't do."

Qian Xiaoyi shook his head: "It's really not a coincidence. The stench is too obvious, it's the smell of a rotting corpse. I can smell it. Plus, the area around the ground is just big enough to bury a person. Unless someone had nothing to do and buried a dead pig there, it can't be such a coincidence."

Qian Xiaoyi had once gone with his master to perform a ritual to help unclaimed bodies reach the souls of the dead, so he was very sensitive to the smell and couldn't forget it even if he wanted to.

The sudden bizarre incident actually perked up the high school students. Kawasaki was very curious and asked, "The body should have been buried for a long time, right? Why didn't the production team find it last time?"

Qian Xiaoyi said, "The body was wrapped in layers of plastic wrap, making it airtight. It was also sealed with cement, so the smell wasn't easy to leak out. It could be that the ground was damp recently or for some other reason, so the ground cracked and a gap was exposed. That's why we smelled that smell after we went in."

Suzuki asked, "Who is the deceased?"

Qian Xiaoyi said, "It was the owner of the hotel. He disappeared a few years ago. His wife said at the time that they had a quarrel, and then he ran away from home and disappeared. Now it seems that he is buried here. The hotel even operated for a while before it was closed."

"So... the murderer is the innkeeper's wife?" Sato asked, "Where did she go?"

Qian Xiaoyi said: "His whereabouts are currently unknown. It is said that he has fled overseas."

Kawasaki asked, "But what about those spells? Were they put up on purpose to make people afraid to go in? And what about the supernatural phenomena they encountered in the previous episode?"

"As for the spells, they are not wrong." Qian Xiaoyi said, "That room is actually the hotel owner's room. Her wife even lived in it for a long time in order not to attract other people's attention. Living with a corpse is of course frightening. It is normal to put up some spells to suppress the plague. As for the supernatural phenomena, it is probably a gimmick made up by the program group. Those strange and bizarre supernatural pranks cannot be done in a short time."

Of course, it is also possible that there was indeed some residual resentment in the hotel last time, but it was gone when Qian Xiaoyi went there. It is possible that the resentment was not strong and had dissipated over time.

“That’s why I said that…” Qian Xiaoyi sighed, “After this show is aired, its popularity will definitely soar. Those guys will never give up this hot topic. For a supernatural show, this is simply a jackpot.”

Ono Haruna asked curiously, "If that's the case, why do you look so reluctant, Mr. Qian?"

Qian Xiaoyi did not answer, but sighed again.

(End of this chapter)