The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 409 Urban Legend Part
"Special training? Is it finally coming?" Inuyama Heita clenched his fist. He actually had the same worry. Since going to White Fox Village last year, Qian Xiaoyi had never given him special training. He just let him exercise on his own and would occasionally give him a word or two of advice.

In addition, there were no enemies in the commission for him to measure his own strength, which made him feel a little uneasy and he didn't know what level his strength had reached.

Qian Xiaoyi said, "I have been considering testing your current level for a while now, and the challenge just now just saved me this step. Judging from your previous performance, you seem to have reached the threshold for further learning and can move on to the next step, so I will arrange special training for you during this period of time."

Inuyama Heita asked, "When does it start? Where?"

Qian Xiaoyi thought for a moment and said, "Let's do it now, here."

Inuyama Heita was shocked: "What?" Did he want him to attack Huangquan House?
Qian Xiaoyi asked: "Why do you have such an expression... Did you bring the notebook with you?"

"Notebook? Oh, I brought it." Inuyama Heita took out a small notebook from his arms. Because he couldn't use complicated electronic devices normally in the ghost realm, he usually carried a notebook to record things he didn't want to forget.

His notebook also records some important information, such as all the information about urban legends reported in the "Ghost Story Forecast" that he copied from the supernatural TV programs when he was still at WTV.

The urban legends that appear in "Ghost Stories Forecast" are not just cheap stories that are circulated on the Internet, but ghosts, strange places and phenomena that have been shaped by people's cognition.

Qian Xiaoyi said: "Look for urban legends about this area. I remember there seems to be one."

Inuyama Heita kept muttering "Kabukicho, Shinjuku District" and kept turning the pages. He stopped on one page and said, "Found it! It's... a human-faced dog, a monster with a human head and a dog's body."

When I watched "Ghost Stories Forecast" before, the location where the human-faced dog appeared was in this area, and you can also search for sighting reports nearby on the Internet.

"But the human-faced dog..." Inuyama Heita asked doubtfully, "It shouldn't be a particularly dangerous urban legend, right? Apart from scaring people, there are no other dangerous settings. It can be said to be completely harmless."

That’s right, in the urban legend of the human-faced dog, no one died, and its level of danger was not even as high as that of Turbo Granny, so Inuyama Heita didn’t understand why Qian Xiaoyi chose this.

Qian Xiaoyi glanced at him and said, "You have really high standards. Do you want me to find you a better one? For example, how about the Hanako in the toilet?"

"That... forget it." Inuyama Heita was sweating profusely: "I think as a start of special training, a human-faced dog is good enough."

What a joke! Hanako in the toilet is on the same level as the slit-mouthed woman! Its prototype can be traced back to the ancient Chinese "toilet god" Zi Gu, which was passed down to Japan and merged with contemporary urban legends. How could he, a poor high school student, possibly deal with such a monster?

"They are quite self-aware." Qian Xiaoyi said, "No matter what urban legend it is, it has its own unique features, because it is a complete collection of cognition. Rather than saying that they are some kind of monster, it is better to say that they are concrete 'rules' and 'settings'.

When we went to WTV before, we saw that the enemy was probably using urban legends as a shell to gather the power of people's cognition to shape their own nest, so the work of investigating urban legends also needs to be restarted. By the way, you can also use them as your special training targets, isn't it killing two birds with one stone?"

Inuyama Heita said he understood and it would be a good idea to start with something simple.

So Qian Xiaoyi shouted, "Ajian, come out and work. The sooner we find that thing, the sooner we can go home and sleep."

"No! I won't go out!" Ajian's voice came out from the jade pendant: "The world outside is too dangerous! Everyone covets my body! I don't want to go out! Didn't you tell me to stay out of public?" Qian Xiaoyi scratched his head and said, "That was in the past. Now my reputation has spread. I guess no one will dare to steal my employees... right?"

"Can't your tone be firmer?" Ajian shouted.

"Come out soon." Qian Xiaoyi said impatiently, "At most, I and Heitaro will go out to eat with you tomorrow."

Ah Jian said, "I want to eat high-end sushi! I didn't get to eat it last time!"

"If you don't come out, I'll throw away the figurines that Heitaro bought for you." Qian Xiaoyi felt uncomfortable when he heard the words "high-end sushi" and said sternly, "I saw it all. Those figurines in Heitaro's room were all bought by you, right? You don't want to see anything happen to them, do you?"

"I surrender! I surrender! Don't touch them!" Ah Jian floated out unwillingly and said, "And not all of them were bought by me... Two of them were..."

Ajian suddenly noticed the ambiguous look of Inuyama Heita and immediately shut his mouth.

"Ahem... I'll lead the way!" Ajian volunteered to float to the front and headed towards the deep alley.

Qian Xiaoyi followed him and said casually, "Let's go, Bian Taro."

"..." Inuyama Heita followed silently, regretting his decision in his heart. When he went to a comic convention with Ken, he happened to see the figures of the characters from his favorite comics and bought them out of infatuation.

In an awkward atmosphere, the three of them wandered aimlessly in the alley. Due to the characteristics of urban legends, they do not exist all the time. They will only appear when people's common cognition reaches a certain level in a certain period of time, and the place where they appear is not very fixed.

Urban legends like the human-faced dog, which have been circulating for thirty years, have been reported by eyewitnesses all over Japan. It is not certain that just because it appeared in the ghost town of Kabukicho in "Kwaidan Preview" last time, it will definitely be there this time.

Therefore, the current actions of the three people are more like taking a chance. They plan to wander around this ghost area. If they really can't find it, they can only go home and sleep.

Fortunately, their luck was pretty good today. Ah Jian was floating slowly in front, but suddenly his face changed, as if he sensed something, and then he said excitedly: "I heard a sound! Everyone follow me!"

As he spoke, he floated forward.

Qian Xiaoyi and Inuyama Heita followed Ajian through many twists and turns, and finally, under a dim street light in the alley, they saw a dog sticking its head into the garbage dump looking for food.

And they knew very well that this was a ghost town and an ordinary dog ​​could not be here, which meant that this one was the urban legend they were looking for - the human-faced dog.

The dog seemed to sense the presence of someone behind it, so it raised its head from the black garbage bag and turned to look at them.

(End of this chapter)