The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 364 Shadow of Truth (11)

King Kong did not feel that he hit the iron fence, but he did hit something. If he had to describe it, it was a very, very thick layer of glass. He could even hear the crisp sound of the glass shattering when he broke it.

However, the glass could not withstand his full-strength impact.

Before he could react, after breaking through the obstacle, King Kong felt his feet were empty. He put his hands on his head and fell downwards.

Bang! King Kong smashed through a wall and fell heavily to the ground. The moment he landed, he quickly stood up and took a stance to prepare for the enemy.

This was a very modern room. In front of him was a wall covered with surveillance screens. Below the screens was a row of strange operating desks. A dozen civet cats wearing headsets sat on swivel chairs, all staring at him blankly, seemingly at a loss.

"What the hell is this? Is it also an illusion?" King Kong asked with a frown.

Above his head, Anna stepped down on the tarot cards fixed in the air. She glanced at the surroundings, sensed the atmosphere, and said, "No, we have come out of the illusion. This should be the node that controls the operation of the illusion."

"What should we do now?" King Kong asked.

Anna said only one word: "Smash it."

"Oh!!!" King Kong was very excited. He took out his vajra from his waist, rushed to the pile of machines and started smashing them. Sparks flew everywhere. Seeing that the situation was not good, the civet cats threw away the earphones on their heads and fled everywhere quickly. They soon disappeared in every corner, leaving King Kong to wreak havoc in the monitoring room.

In another place, Xingchang Rang was controlling the black mud monster from his body to fight with Ultraman. The surrounding city had been completely destroyed. At this time, a red light suddenly lit up on the chest of the giant hero. Just as Xingchang Rang was frightened and thought that the other party was going to shoot rays or something and was about to dodge, the light on Ultraman's chest went out, and the whole person turned into a stone statue and then collapsed.

Not only did Ultraman collapse, but the surrounding ruins also turned gray and lost their sense of reality.

Then, the lights above their heads flashed, and Hoshiba and Inuyama Heita realized that they were in a studio. The city buildings around them were all props made of cardboard and foam, just like something from a special effects movie.

"Is the illusion destroyed?" Xingchang put away the squirming black mud beside him and looked towards the exit of the studio. A big furry tail just disappeared from his sight. It seemed that the Ultraman just now was an illusion created by these little guys.

It was almost the same on Qian Xiaoyi's side. Qian Xiaoyi and Ling Na, who were ready to have a car fight with the Self-Defense Forces, felt their eyes go dark. The next second, they came to a studio that looked like a children's program. The background was cartoon skyscrapers drawn with crayons, and there were several toy helicopters hanging from the ceiling.

Suzuna was sitting in the driver's seat of a toy convertible driven by a child, grimace in preparation for drifting, but the scene in front of her suddenly changed, and she nervously pulled the steering wheel off the toy car.

"Looks like we don't have to race anymore." Qian Xiaoyi jumped off the trunk of the toy car and said regretfully, "What a pity, I haven't had enough fun yet. I can't have this kind of experience in real life, right? Lingna, I see you seem to be having a lot of fun driving."

"I'm not happy at all! I'm scared to death!" Ling Na threw the steering wheel away, her face pale as she covered her chest and cried, "There were several times when I felt like I was going to have a heart attack... What the hell is this place?"

"It's just an ordinary haunted building." Qian Xiaoyi spread his hands and said unscrupulously: "Let's go quickly. We can finish this commission as soon as possible and call it a day."

"You're a liar!" Ling Na suddenly covered her face and sobbed: "I don't want to go with you! I want to go home! I won't accept this commission! Wuuuuu... I want to leave here, it's too dangerous..."

"Okay then~ You go back first, I still have work to do." Qian Xiaoyi turned around and left, waving his hand without even looking back: "Bye~"

"Tsk..." Ling Nai made an unhappy sound, raised her tearless face, then quickly changed her expression and shouted weakly: "Please... please wait for me, Mr. Qian! Don't leave me alone!"

She lifted the skirt of her miko's costume and followed. What a joke! A weak woman like her, staying here alone is just asking for death! And how would she know how to get out?
"Mr. Qian, what should we do next?" Ling Na asked. Qian Xiaoyi glanced at her and said, "You're not leaving?"

Ling Na sighed and said, "I thought about it and felt that as an exorcist, I still need to have a bit of professional ethics. After all, I have already received the deposit for the commission. So Mr. Qian, can you tell me what our situation is now?"

Qian Xiaoyi said: "The illusion function of this magic array has been broken. What we need to do next is to go to the other centers of the array and destroy those places as well. This will weaken the enemy's power and prevent it from hiding behind the array."

"Oh! I remember Mr. Qian mentioned this before." Ling Na said, "There are three places, right? A news broadcast room, a theater, and a variety show..."

Qian Xiaoyi nodded: "These three places correspond to different functions of the magic circle. The news broadcast room is to spread information, just like a signal tower. The variety show is to attract the souls of the living, absorb their spiritual power, and maintain the operation of the magic circle. And the last theater..."

They drew aside the curtain, and a stage appeared before them. Various puppets in gorgeous dresses were on the stage, with fixed movements, as if they were dancing and then suddenly paused.

"This is..." Suzuna's eyes widened.

"Theater." Qian Xiaoyi said, "One of the important nodes of the magic circle, responsible for absorbing the target's 'wealth' from reality."

"Eh? Wealth? What is that? Can the power of money also be absorbed?" Suzuna was very confused.

Qian Xiaoyi raised the copper coin sword in his hand and said, "To be precise, it is the desire, greed, and satisfaction for money, which belongs to the yang side of yin and yang. Do you see the copper coin sword in my hand? Sometimes greed can suppress all fear. This is the difference between monsters and evil spirits. Evil spirits can only vent their resentment and absorb fear, while monsters can absorb other emotions as strength."

"Okay, the next step is to destroy this place, right?" Suzuna rolled up her sleeves.

"No, I want you to..."

Before Qian Xiaoyi finished speaking, some nearly transparent silk threads fell from the sky and quietly landed on the dolls.

Then, a puppet with its back to Qian Xiaoyi suddenly moved.

"Watch your back!" Suzuna warned.

Qian Xiaoyi turned around quickly, and the copper coin sword in his hand accurately blocked the sharp knife in the puppet's hand, making a sound of metal clashing.

He took a few steps back, distanced himself from the stiffly moving puppet, and looked toward the light above the stage.

"Tsk~ What a shame~"

In the light, the silhouette of a giant raccoon slowly emerged. Its claws squirmed, manipulating the transparent silk threads to control the puppets. The many puppets on the stage came to life, and with stiff joints they pulled out knives from their bodies, which flashed coldly under the stage lights.

The giant raccoon snorted coldly and said, "You broke the illusion so quickly. I underestimated you. But it won't be so easy next time, because I will deal with you personally..."

(End of this chapter)