The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 260 Halloween Carnival Night (5)

When Qian Xiaoyi heard that Suzuki's team had received the first token, he just smiled and was not very excited.

According to the rules, the first round of tokens is the easiest to get, because with each round, the time to get new tokens will continue to decrease. In the first round, there are four hours to collect the initial tokens, and in the last round, there is only one hour. Therefore, the tokens at the beginning are actually the least valuable, and there are the most of them. The really valuable ones are all in the back.

Qian Xiaoyi was wandering aimlessly on the street in a bunny doll costume. As the people who received the token tarot cards posted photos of the tokens on the Internet, the ghosts around him became more and more into the play, performing various absurd or funny sitcoms one by one, which made it feel more and more like a carnival.

"Heitaro, how are you doing over there?" Qian Xiaoyi called again.

"Heitaro? Are you there?" There was no response. Qian Xiaoyi frowned slightly. He switched to the public channel and asked, "Who has seen Heitaro? He should be with Kawasaki and the others, right?"

"Ah? Inuyama-kun?" Kawasaki, dressed as a Taoist priest, was struggling to resist the siege of demons and monsters around him. He took the time to answer: "You were here just now? Maybe you went to the toilet. Hey, Sato, help quickly! These guys are so annoying. By the way, do talismans work on vampires?"

A Qing Dynasty zombie jumped out, howling and blocking Kawasaki. They were a corpse-driving duo, Kawasaki wore glasses and dressed up as a Taoist priest, while Sato was jumping around as a zombie.

Because of the "Death" tarot card in the first round, zombies were targeted as monsters that had come back from the dead. They were directly surrounded by other ghosts, and in the chaos, Inuyama Heita somehow disappeared.

"Tsk, forget it, no need to look for it, I know what's going on..." Qian Xiaoyi looked ahead, and saw a black figure standing behind the crowd of people dressed as ghosts. Under the cloak, a clear skull was staring at him silently, with faint will-o'-the-wisp dancing in his eyes, and the sickle in his hand hung low, flashing with cold light.

If you look closely, you will find that he has no feet under his cloak and is floating in the air.

The people around seemed unable to see that thing. Qian Xiaoyi and the thing stared at each other silently. Then, a group of people walked across the road between them, temporarily blocking Qian Xiaoyi's sight. When he looked again, the figure had disappeared.

"Hiss... are you waiting for me here?" Qian Xiaoyi tried to suppress the growing dizziness in his mind. He looked around. From time to time, a shadow appeared behind the people who played the ghosts, looming in his sight. Qian Xiaoyi murmured, "Is this the battlefield you chose, Miss Anna?"

Qian Xiaoyi considered that the 1000 million event bonus was a bait to attract him, but he didn't expect that people were not fishing, but directly scooping with fishing nets.

——Now the entire Shibuya is a fishing net, trapping this big fish.

"So, do you want to break free from the fishing net and escape from this place, Mr. Qian?" Anna sat in the lounge, shuffling the tarot cards leisurely.

"In order to keep the news secret, you didn't tell any of your colleagues that you were going to attend the Shibuya event on Halloween, right? Because they are all Japanese, and so am I." Anna murmured, "So you couldn't trust them, and then on this day, you ran into this quagmire. You know, the Halloween carnival is...

——It’s a restricted area for exorcists.” “What?! You’re in Shibuya?!” Suzuna asked in surprise on the phone: “Why are you in that damn place?”

Finally, Qian Xiaoyi called Lingnai and asked her about the matter. Facing Lingnai's surprise, Qian Xiaoyi couldn't say that the program was being filmed and she hadn't been notified, right?

He could only say: "Of course it's because... it's fun. I'm a young man, so it's normal for me to hang out here at night~ But... this place seems to be a little different from usual?"

Suzuna said on the other end: "You don't know about this? It's not a good place for psychics right now. That's right, you've only been in Japan for a short time, it's normal that you don't know about this. You should have seen the phantom of ghosts in the crowd, right? In fact, those are not just false shadows, they may also attract real things..."

After listening to Lingnai's explanation, Qian Xiaoyi finally understood what happened here.

For ordinary people, the Halloween carnival is just a fun way to vent stress and relieve loneliness, but the way they vent is to abandon their usual image as "human beings" and start to play various monsters and ghosts, temporarily abandoning the pressure of life.

Both masks and facial makeup play an important role in metaphysics. In ancient times, people played ghosts and monsters in addition to acting and sacrificial activities. Even for opera troupes, they had to perform specific rituals to obtain the forgiveness of gods and monsters before playing ghosts and monsters.

On Halloween night in Shibuya, there were so many young people dressed as ghosts that they affected the aura of the entire area, making it chaotic. Everywhere you look, there are terrifying monsters. People's usual cognition changes once they get here.

Having said that, without professional guidance, this aura is too chaotic to form a large ghost domain, so for ordinary people, it is just a chaotic carnival and no strange encounters will occur at all.

But it is different for psychics. Their senses are much more sensitive than those of ordinary people, enough to feel the pressure brought by these chaotic auras. They are like being in a chaotic sacrificial ceremony. Countless perceptions of ghosts will flood into their minds at the same time. These pressures will make the psychics suffer here and see some illusions.

However, this is not the end. In the carnival of Halloween, there has always been an urban legend that there are real ghosts hidden among the people who play ghosts. In other words, this chaotic ceremony may invite real ghosts, but also thanks to the chaotic aura, they can't tell the difference between ordinary people and their own kind, and generally won't affect ordinary people.

Except for psychics.

"Do you understand, Mr. Qian?" Ling Na said on the phone, "Don't go to Shibuya on Halloween. This is common sense among Japanese exorcists. Leave there as soon as possible while you are still conscious. The longer we psychics stay there, the greater the impact we will suffer."

"So, will you admit defeat?" In the lounge, Anna took out another tarot card and murmured, "Qian Xiaoyi."

A [Chariot] lay quietly on the table.

(End of this chapter)