The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 261: Halloween Carnival Night (6)

"Thank you, Lingnai, I understand." Qian Xiaoyi hung up the phone and looked at the ghostly figures in front of him.

"An open conspiracy, right? Quitting is the same as giving in. The popularity of Horror Night GO will be cut off. In the words of a fortune teller, your luck will be cut off."

Qian Xiaoyi sighed to himself, "That's why I hate these charlatans the most. They're all just riddlers who pretend to be gods. They don't like to speak human language and always like to make people guess. They give vague hints and let people make choices. When they make the wrong choice, they regret it and make people sigh, 'Ah, so this is what the prophecy meant.'"

The surrounding crowd was bustling with shouts, cheers, laughter and strange cries that gathered together and enveloped Qian Xiaoyi. The bizarre lights and these sounds made Qian Xiaoyi feel like a corn in a microwave that could turn into popcorn at any time.

“But this also saves me the trouble of looking for the token.” Qian Xiaoyi looked at a ghost with a shadow of the god of death behind him and said into the headset, “Director, I found a zombie that looks like the carrier of the token. The location is…”

On another street in Shibuya, a man wearing a pumpkin head was running. He finally shook off the pursuers behind him, and then leaned against a road sign, taking deep breaths while panting to regain his strength.

"What was that just now?" Inuyama Heita took off his pumpkin head, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cloak, and shouted, "Why did Sadako appear?"

"I don't know either." Jian appeared beside him and said in panic, "So Sadako is a real ghost?"

Recalling the experience of being chased by a mysterious black-haired female ghost, they felt a chill. That girl was definitely not a real person. No one could have come out of a TV on the street. That kind of terrifying aura would make one's heart stop as soon as they got close, making it impossible for people to think about anything else.

"I have to contact Brother Yi!" He picked up his phone in a panic and found that there were several missed calls from Qian Xiaoyi. Because he was running for his life, the headset in his ear fell off, and the surrounding environment was noisy, so he didn't hear the phone at all.

He called over hastily, and Inuyama Heita shouted anxiously: "Brother O! There's Sadako! There's really Sadako here!!!"

A passerby dressed as Sadako walked past him, heard Inuyama Heita's shout, and made a "yeah" gesture to him.

To be honest, the black-haired female ghost look is too common here. You'll run into a Sadako every two steps, so Inuyama Heita's shouting seems like he's crazy.

"Don't be anxious. I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious yet." Qian Xiaoyi said, "Calm yourself down first. Have you forgotten the mental method I taught you before? Repeat it silently in your mind."

Hearing this, Inuyama Heita took a deep breath and then said in Chinese in his mind: If your heart is as clear as ice, you won’t be startled even if the sky falls…

After calming down, he felt the dizziness in his head eased a little, so he quickly told Qian Xiaoyi what he had just encountered: "This is it, Brother Yi, I just met a real Sadako! Ajian can also feel the other party! She is definitely the real thing, not a fake one!"

"Oh, it's normal." Qian Xiaoyi looked at his own reflection in the glass window of the store. It was a ghost image with a rotten face, a hat, a red and green striped sweater, and steel claws on his gloves. It was sneering at Qian Xiaoyi. He walked away as if nothing had happened and said, "What you saw was an illusion." Qian Xiaoyi told Inuyama Heita the "common sense of exorcists" that Suzuna had told him, and then said, "... In other words, what we are seeing now are all illusions. Shibuya is now equivalent to a magic circle with chaotic feng shui. Psychics who enter here will be affected by the chaotic aura and see things that do not normally exist. Therefore, no matter what fictional ghost images appear in front of us, it is normal."

"Eh? No matter what appears..." Inuyama Heita saw a human head balloon floating by not far away from the corner of his eye. When he looked closely, he found that it was just an ordinary balloon.

Then the balloon turned around and looked at him with a smile.

"Ah!" Inuyama Heita was so frightened that he almost dropped his phone.

"Don't be so surprised." Qian Xiaoyi put the phone away from his ear and said, "If you stay here for a long time, the psychic's cognition will gradually be polluted. If people from the classical school are here, their 'spiritual power' will also be damaged. But since we have understood the principle, what are you afraid of? We cognitive school don't have spiritual power, so there is no need to worry about spiritual power being damaged. Just change your cognition and do it."

Inuyama Heita understood what Qian Xiaoyi meant. If the classical exorcists were like solids, and the purpose of their practice was to make themselves as solid as diamonds, then the cognitive school was more like water, which could play different roles in different environments. Normally, it was liquid, but when necessary, it could condense into solid ice, or it could turn into air currents and rise.

"This is a duel." Qian Xiaoyi said, "If we run away like this, it means we have admitted defeat. When we face the enemy again in the future, we will be less aggressive. Therefore, even if this is a battlefield carefully prepared by the enemy, we cannot be cowardly. Moreover, in order to set up this battlefield, Miss Anna still left a flaw."

"Flaw?" Inuyama Heita was stunned.

Qian Xiaoyi said: "If it was an ordinary Halloween night, the atmosphere in Shibuya would be even more chaotic, and it would not be possible to produce a clear illusion. But in order to take advantage of the environment in Shibuya during this period, Anna used 10 million yen as a gimmick to restrain the chaotic atmosphere for her own use.

As the number of people who want to get the bonus increases, the number of people playing ghosts increases significantly, which unifies the chaotic atmosphere in terms of categories. At least the people here are all dressed as ghosts, rather than more funny characters.

Then, Anna used the activity rules to announce a type of ghost every hour, which further strengthened the group's cognition of a certain impression, making it easier for ghosts of that type to appear and more likely to cause trouble for us psychics."

"So where's the flaw?" Inuyama Heita asked, "It's called a duel, but the other party is the only one attacking. How are we going to fight back?"

"Good question!" Qian Xiaoyi said, "The answer lies in the token of the activity, because Anna uses the Tarot token to temporarily condense the group's cognition and produce ghost illusions. In other words, as long as you can see those ghost illusions nearby, there must be a token, because that is the node that maintains the illusion!"

"What we have to do is to defeat those illusions and find the location of the token!" Qian Xiaoyi said: "Winning the prize is victory!"

(End of this chapter)