The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 334: The Bizarre Adventures of Shichijo Masato (7)

No one, or rather, no raccoon cats cared about the seven-man with a raccoon cat on his head. They were still busy doing their own jobs, carrying out the filming work in an orderly manner, and no one looked at him too much.

"Successful?" Shichijo Masato looked back and found that he could no longer see Qian Xiaoyi and Inuyama Heita. He whispered in the direction they came from, "What should we do now? What should we do? Are you there?"

"Here it is." Qian Xiaoyi's voice came from beside him: "It seems to be successful. They don't suspect you."

The translucent silhouettes of Qian Xiaoyi and Inuyama Heita appeared beside him, so Shichijo Masato asked, "What should we do next?"

"What's next?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "It's up to you as an undercover agent to figure out what the purpose of these monsters is. At the same time, we can also explore how the defense mechanism of this place works."

Nanajo Masato asked in confusion: "Defense mechanism? Is there a trap or something?"

"Of course." Qian Xiaoyi said, "It's said that this place was deliberately built by someone, not formed naturally, so there must be some means of defending against foreign invaders buried here. We need to investigate it in advance so that it will be more convenient when we come here to deal with it later."

Shichijo Masato asked, "Deal with it...if we leave it alone, will there be any impact? Will it affect the real world?"

Qian Xiaoyi nodded: "Yes, but we don't know what the specific impact will be. We only know that it may be related to the 'information dissemination' characteristics of the TV station."

"I have another question." Nanajo Masato said, "Even if we solve the problem here, will it help my situation in reality? Or can we only be a superhero that no one knows about, silently helping people solve crises? Of course, I'm not saying that's wrong, but if that's the case, I can pay you and let you, a professional, solve it. Now that I believe in the existence of these things, why do you want me to take the risk myself? Isn't this the job of an exorcist like you? And I'm just an outsider who knows nothing..."

Qian Xiaoyi said, "Okay, okay, I understand what you mean, but believe me, our business is not over yet. You have already seen it just now, right? This world is a reflection of the real world, and a negative reflection at that. In other words, some shameful things that happened in the company are likely to be reflected here."

"You mean..." Nanajo Masato opened his eyes wide: "We can trace the darkness in the company from here, and cooperate with the investigation in reality, so that we can find out some things that some people don't want us to find out?"

Qian Xiaoyi nodded: "Yes, that's right. If it were just me, you wouldn't completely believe the information, right? So it's a hundred times better for you to see it with your own eyes than for me to report it."

Nanajo Masato was motivated: "What are we waiting for? Let's get started!"

Qian Xiaoyi rolled his eyes at him and said, "You are the one who insisted on asking for clarification. Okay, now you will take over the photographer's position."

"Photographer..." Nanajo Masato turned his head to look at the place Qian Xiaoyi pointed, and found that the photographer he was talking about was actually two civet cats stacked on top of each other. In front of the camera, one civet cat stood on the shoulder of another civet cat, observing the lens with its huge head.

"Go and change them." Qian Xiaoyi said.

"Switch down? That's too..." Nanajo Masato was a little embarrassed. He walked to the two "photographers" and thought about how to communicate with them. In the end, he had no choice but to ask, "Um...are you tired? How about letting me take over?"

Upon hearing that, the two civet cats looked at him strangely, with very human expressions, as if they had seen a fool. They looked at each other, and the civet cat below spread its hands. Then the civet cat above jumped down, and the two civet cats just walked to the side and lay down to rest.

Nanajo Masato was dumbfounded: "It's... that simple?" Qian Xiaoyi stroked his chin and said, "As expected, office workers are eager to share their work with others. This is exactly the same as reality."

Masato Nanajo stood in front of the camera, leaned his head forward, and carefully observed the image on it.

And the moment the attention was focused on the camera, Nanajo Masato suddenly shook, and the surrounding scene suddenly became dark, leaving only a bright light on the stage. A roller coaster like the one in an amusement park stopped on the stage. In the roller coaster sat a group of terrified people, who kept screaming in terror as if they had seen something horrible.

A voice was broadcasted: "Attention, passengers, the next stop is 'Burn', the next stop is 'Burn'."

"what!"

Nanajo Masato took two steps back with cold sweat pouring down his face, gasping for breath while holding his chest.

He just saw that the people riding on the roller coaster all had mutilated bodies, and the mutilations were all fresh, with broken fingers, eyeballs, burns... It made people want to vomit, it was like a scene from hell.

"Hmph..." He really covered his mouth and ran aside. The two photographer cats opened their mouths in frustration and pointed at him, chattering as if they were scolding him, then returned to their posts angrily and continued shooting.

Qian Xiaoyi walked up to him and asked, "What did you see? Why did you react so strongly?"

"Oh...roller coaster, so much blood...hiccups!" Qiajo Masato retched and Qian Xiaoyi had to pat his back to help him breathe. After a while, Qiajo Masato told Qian Xiaoyi what he had just seen.

He looked towards the stage in horror, and finally confirmed that the expressionless spirits on the stage were the people who had just been riding on the roller coaster. Their strange postures now seemed to be the result of punishment on the roller coaster.

"I see!" Qian Xiaoyi thought of something, turned to look at Inuyama Heita, and said, "It sounds a bit like that."

Inuyama Heita took out a small notebook from his arms, flipped it open quickly, and read out the key words: "Roller coaster... punishment, bloody... Got it, it's the urban legend [Ape Dream]."

They had seen this urban legend in "Ghost Story Forecast". The content was that the protagonist dreamed that he was on a strange train. There were many people on the train who didn't know how they got on. At each stop, someone would suffer a horrible punishment. It was said that quite a number of people had had the same dream...

"So, the real body of [Yumeng] is actually here?" Qian Xiaoyi murmured, "Creating urban legends and then spreading them through supernatural programs... So, the purpose of this studio is to spread 'panic'?"

Qian Xiaoyi pulled Qijiao Zhengren and said, "Well done, we got a piece of the puzzle. Now let's go to the next room."

"There's a next room?!" Nanajo Masato wailed.

(End of this chapter)