The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 262: Halloween Carnival Night (7)

"Defeat... the illusion?" Inuyama Heita was stunned and asked, "But how to defeat it? It's an illusion, right? We are not in the ghost realm now, and... those illusions give people the feeling that they are real ghosts. No, they are more powerful than real ghosts!"

Recalling the illusion of Sadako he had just encountered, he couldn't help but feel a little scared. As long as the other party got close to him, a depressing aura would make him breathless. Apart from panic and palpitations, he would not have any other thoughts.

Qian Xiaoyi said: "I have already said that those are all illusions. The so-called illusions are things that you imagine. The feelings those things give you come from your cognition of their images. It is your own senses that deceive you."

"But I can't crack this deception, I can't eliminate the illusion." Inuyama Heita said. He now knew why Shibuya on Halloween was called the "forbidden zone for exorcists". Illusions without substance are sometimes more difficult to deal with than real ghosts because you have no idea where to start.

"That's because of the influence of the venue." Qian Xiaoyi explained: "The illusion you see is the cognition of everyone here. Although everyone knows that those things are fake, at this point in time, with so many people playing these fake ghosts, these cognitions are transmitted to your mind and form illusions. And it is also very simple to defeat them. Most of these ghosts have distinct personalities. Whether it is in movies or other works of art, the personalities have their own weaknesses."

Inuyama Heita asked, "But what should I do if I encounter a ghost that I am not familiar with?"

Qian Xiaoyi rolled his eyes: "Can't you check it online?"

Inuyama Heita: “…” He didn’t expect this.

"I'm going to hang up first. Something is coming to me." Qian Xiaoyi hung up the phone and turned to look to the side. Two little twin girls in blue skirts were holding hands, standing in the middle of the busy street, looking at him quietly.

"Ah, it's hung up..." Inuyama Heita put away his phone and said to Ken beside him, "It seems that not only can we not escape from those ghosts, but we have to take the initiative to find them."

Ah Jian swallowed his saliva, looked around and said: "I wonder if there is an eight-foot-tall girl..."

Inuyama Heita said darkly: "Although the Hachisha Onna is also an urban legend, in some versions, she is a scary old woman with wrinkles all over her face."

Ah Jian was shocked and said seriously, "Let's go find Miss Sadako. Although we can't see her face, at least her skin looks good."

Inuyama Heita was just about to complain a few more times when he heard a sad and beautiful theatrical singing voice. This quiet, eerie and sharp voice could be accurately transmitted to his ears even in the crowded streets, giving him goose bumps all over his body.

Because he had watched a lot of Hong Kong ghost movies when he first met Qian Xiaoyi, so he could hear that this seemed to be Cantonese singing.

"Over there!" Ajian said with trembling fingers, pointing in a certain direction. Inuyama Heita turned around and found a woman with long black hair wearing a blue robe with her back to them. The sad Cantonese singing voice came from her.

Ah Jian asked: "What kind of ghost is that? It looks... like it has a good figure."

However, the female ghost over there seemed to have heard his words, and turned her head. She pulled her hair apart, revealing a pair of white eyes, and her mouth was so big that it exceeded the limit of human beings. Black blood kept oozing out of her mouth, and she screamed at Jian. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong!" Jian also screamed and hid in the jade pendant in Inuyama Heita's pocket.

The scream was so intense that it made Inuyama Heita tremble all over, and even blew his hair. This terrifying scene made it impossible for him to remember which horror movie the ghost in front of him came from. But he knew that if this continued, he would definitely faint from fear.

"Heart... If your heart is as clear as ice, you won't be startled even if the sky falls..." Inuyama Heita gritted his teeth and recited the formula taught to him by Qian Xiaoyi. It is said that this formula came from an ancient family and was created to suppress the crazy curse in the body. Such a magical origin made Inuyama Heita believe it without a doubt. Every time he recited it in Chinese in his mind, he felt that there was a magical power helping him resist mental damage.

With the help of his mental formula, he resisted the opponent's screaming attack. While his spirit was still intact, he reached into his trouser pocket and touched a utility knife with a talisman on it.

"Please help me, Miss Jingxia."

The figure of a high school girl appeared behind Inuyama Heita. There was a horrible wound on her neck. She looked at the phantom in front of her with resentment. Then she raised the utility knife in her hand and stabbed the blue-clothed female ghost's throat hard. After doing all this, she disappeared into the air.

The scream of the blue-clothed female ghost stopped abruptly with the knife. She covered her throat and took a few steps back in disbelief. Then, Inuyama Heita actually saw a sigh on her face.

"Ugh……"

With a sigh, the blue-clothed female ghost floated away, and at the place where she disappeared, Inuyama Heita suddenly felt that the connection between her and something was broken. Inuyama Heita subconsciously turned his head and saw a man dressed as Bai Wuchang with his back to him, standing on tiptoe to watch the performance of a beautifully dressed ghost nearby.

"That's... Wuchang, the soul-collecting messenger representing death!" Inuyama Heita quickly took out his phone and sent a message to the others: [A ghost suspected to be the carrier of the token has been discovered! The location is...]

After finishing all this, Inuyama Heita breathed a sigh of relief, touched the utility knife in his pocket and said, "Thank you, Miss Shizuka."

That utility knife was the cursed object that Qian Xiaoyi picked up from Hiruda. After giving it to Inuyama Taira, he began to try to exorcise the resentment inside it, but even after more than three months, he still hadn't succeeded.

But it wasn't that there was no effect at all, because through his continuous attempts and accumulation, as well as his imitation of the remaining power of the [cursed priestess] Terao Keiko in the utility knife, he had gradually mastered the trick and began to share the resentment with the utility knife ghost. Until recently, the resentful spirit inside finally stopped hating him, and he also learned the name of the utility knife ghost. Maybe after a while, as his skills improve, he will succeed.

This was the first time he borrowed the power of the ghost of the box cutter, because he didn't want to become like Hiruda, who only used the other party to profit for himself. His goal has always been to save the other party and let the ghost of the box cutter rest in peace, so he decided that he would only ask for help from the other party when it was a critical moment.

"It's still because I haven't practiced enough..." Inuyama Heita thought distressedly.

At this moment, the advertisements on the screens of the surrounding buildings disappeared again, and Anna's mysterious figure wearing a hood and veil appeared on the screen again.

(End of this chapter)