The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 315 The Child I Pushed (4)

"Heitaro! Over there! Over there! Block it!"

"It slipped away again, I couldn't catch it, Mr. Jian!"

"Hey! Don't come towards me!"

In the WTV building late at night, three people were chasing a fat, panicked raccoon in the corridor. However, the WTV building at this time was different from usual. The corridor they were in had become distorted, with televisions of all models placed randomly everywhere. The screens were all flashing with snow noise, which looked extremely weird.

The raccoon cats in Japan are different from the raccoon cats in China. The raccoon cats in China refer to the tabby cats, while the raccoon cats in Japan refer to the raccoon cats, which are like a combination of a raccoon and a fox. In Japanese legends, this animal has the ability to create illusions, just like a fox. This is what they are chasing now.

"Catch it!" Qian Xiaoyi took out a talisman and threw it at the raccoon cat. The talisman turned into a big golden net, blocking the fat raccoon cat's way, but the raccoon cat quickly turned at a speed that was inconsistent with its body shape and rushed towards Inuyama Heita.

Inuyama Heita rushed over quickly, but the raccoon cat quickly changed direction again and got into a big-bottom TV against the wall. The next second, it came out from another LCD TV in the distance, stood up, touched its belly, looked at them, and laughed.

"Follow it!" Qian Xiaoyi shouted.

"Why did the TV turn into a raccoon cat?" Inuyama Heita and Qian Xiaoyi were running together. He had no idea what was going on. He asked, "What is that raccoon cat?"

Before, after Qian Xiaoyi finished reading this issue of "Ghost Stories Forecast", he set up a magic circle around the room and then attacked the TV. He wanted to tie up the TV with a plumb line, but unexpectedly the TV suddenly deformed and turned into a fat civet cat.

At that time, the surrounding ghost areas also changed. A wall of TV screens suddenly lit up on a dark wall, and then a civet cat crawled in and ran away.

Qian Xiaoyi took out a compass and chased after him, and this scene happened.

"It's a monster!" Qian Xiaoyi looked at the raccoon with shining eyes: "Just like the ghosts we encountered in the Golden God game hall, this is a monster!"

"Eh?!" Inuyama Heita was shocked: "Monster?! A raccoon cat monster?"

The civet cat once again crawled into a TV and fled among the TVs in the corridor. Its figure appeared randomly on TV screens of all sizes, making it impossible to tell which direction it was running. However, Qian Xiaoyi did not intend to catch the civet cat with his eyes alone. He stared at the compass, looking for the civet cat's location.

"To be precise, it's a monster called Yunwaijing. Through this mirror, you can see magical scenes, just like on TV." Qian Xiaoyi stared at the compass and said, "In most versions of the legend, Yunwaijing is an old mirror transformed into a Tsukumangami, but in some versions it is a thing transformed from the belly of a raccoon cat, and all the images are illusions of the raccoon cat. Now it seems that we have encountered this kind of monster... over there!"

Facing the fork in the road, Qian Xiaoyi rushed to the left without hesitation. Sure enough, he saw a civet cat struggling to get out of a mini TV in front of the road. The civet cat discovered Qian Xiaoyi and ran hurriedly to the front of the road.

"We are approaching the core of this ghost area! It should be the No. 0 studio." Ah Jian followed behind them and said excitedly: "That raccoon cat is the key to opening the ghost area! I didn't expect the method to enter there is so simple."

He was right. Qian Xiaoyi had thought that the TV they watched the show on was the key to the ghost realm. They had brought the TV here, and they had to rely on it to collect information about the ghost stories every week. So they had tried countless ways to enter Studio 0 through the TV, but never considered attacking the TV. It was not until this afternoon that they saw the mascot "Cat Cat" that Qian Xiaoyi thought of a monster in the monster information that Xingchang had shared.

So he suddenly wanted to give it a try. Anyway, the ghost story information in the ghost story forecast had been collected. It didn't matter even if he couldn't watch the show in the future. If he failed, the most he would have to pay for a TV. The program crew didn't necessarily ask him to compensate because they were using an old prop TV.

Now, Qian Xiaoyi has confirmed his guess, and they have finally made a breakthrough in investigating WTV's ghost domain.

"I should have thought of it earlier." Qian Xiaoyi followed the civet cat's trail and said, "We can watch the program recorded in Studio 0 through the TV, which means that the TV itself is connected to the ghost realm. As long as the ghost realm when watching the program is expanded, the two sides can be connected, and the civet cat is the guide between the ghost realms... Look back, it's behind."

They turned and ran towards another road, and the figure of the raccoon cat flashed across the TV at the end of the road.

Inuyama Heita asked, "But monsters... monsters are different from ordinary ghosts and urban legends, right? Why are you sure it's a monster, not an urban legend?"

Qian Xiaoyi said: "The core of urban legends is rumors. The more people believe in them, the more faith and panic they can arouse, and the more likely they are to take shape in the ghost realm. But monsters are different. The core of monsters... is their real bodies in reality!"

Inuyama Heita nodded. He was also present when Qian Xiaoyi and Xingba Rang were discussing in the store, so he knew the difference between monsters and other ghosts.

Among the examples given at that time, Xingchang once mentioned the famous "Shuten Douji", the legendary big monster. In fact, in history, he might just be a big bandit and thief who could not be wiped out by official forces. Because of his influence, after the fermentation of various rumors, he gradually possessed the projection of monsters in the ghost realm.

If we have to make an analogy, it is similar to the 108 heroes in "Water Margin". Aren't these people also demons from the sky who were sent down to earth?
Therefore, the core of the monster is something in reality. No matter how it appears in the ghost realm, it has a corresponding entity in reality. Because its real influence is formed in the ghost realm and then seen by psychics, there are legends about them.

It is also very simple to deal with monsters. As long as the main body is destroyed, the monsters will also be destroyed. Therefore, many monsters are unique and only appear once in history, because their position in reality is irreplaceable.

"So monsters are different from urban legends. They really have a real body first, and then there are legends." Inuyama Heita asked puzzledly: "But... this raccoon cat, what is its real body? Is it one of those idols? This thing is exactly the same as the mascot of 'Raccoon Cat'."

"Didn't you see its big belly?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "It's obvious that its prototype is the TV in reality~ No, that's too general. It should be said that it is a window for all information dissemination. The essence of [Yunwaijing] is to release information to the audience. Those idols are just illusions played by it..."

"It's coming! Studio 0 is right in front!" Ajian interrupted Qian Xiaoyi's teaching and said seriously.

In front of them, a fat raccoon struggled out of an antenna TV and rushed into the darkness at the end.

"Be alert." Qian Xiaoyi raised his eyebrows and said with interest: "Let's go in and take a look! If we miss this opportunity, we may not have another chance."

(End of this chapter)