The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 449: The Great Battle of Exorcism (24)

The puppeteer released the remaining puppets and said in a timid tone: "Don't come over here! Otherwise I will destroy their souls!"

The middle-aged office worker said, "Isn't that too cruel, President? It's just work. Otherwise, just deduct their bonuses. I will make them kneel down and apologize. Give them another chance."

"Shut up!" the puppeteer said angrily.

Terao Yu was a little puzzled: "Who are they talking to? It's like there's an invisible person over there."

Inuyama Heita didn't say anything, but he knew that the power of the human-faced dog was beginning to take effect.

At first, they would just see the phantom of a social animal chattering around them, like a harmless but shameless salesman.

It would be fine if you completely ignore it, but once you start to care about this guy and your emotions start to fluctuate, he will begin to absorb your emotions and slowly grow.

The more anxious, uneasy, and bored he is, the more annoying he will be, eventually reaching a level where he can affect the subject, but the subject cannot hurt him.

But without knowing this mechanism, how many people can ignore the existence of this guy?

This is how human troubles are. The more you care about it, the stronger it becomes.

"Get lost!" The puppeteer shook off the office worker who tried to stop him, looked at everyone, and shouted at the puppet in his arms, "Don't you believe me? Then I'll destroy one first and show you!"

The puppet stretched out his hair, and he grabbed the puppet of Suzuna's brother, and it looked like he was going to twist the puppet's neck apart!
"No, President!" The office animal rushed over and cried, "I don't want to go to jail! Turn yourself in now before anything serious happens!"

The puppeteer screamed, "It's so annoying! You're so annoying! Go to hell! Go to hell!"

Seeing the puppeteer start to fight with the air, others didn't know what was wrong with him, but King Kong knew it very well. He shouted: "Now, it's decided by you, Musashi!"

King Kong's arm muscles bulged and he threw the puppet on his shoulder out like a football, so fast that the enemy had no time to react.

"Musashi Musashi!" Musashi opened his arms and threw himself into the arms of the puppeteer, hugging the puppet that controlled all the puppets. Musashi smiled and said, "Hey, this guy who looks a bit like me, are you the one controlling this old man?"

The puppeteer was so frightened that he almost lost his soul. He shouted, "Don't touch her!"

As he said this, he reached out to grab Musashi, but Musashi bit his hand instead, making him jump up, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"Help me!" The puppeteer instinctively looked to his side and saw that the priest had already escaped for some distance.

"Oh my, he escaped." The phantom of the office worker shook his head and said, "What a heartless man."

Seeing this, Inuyama Heita said, "Mr. Terao and I will go after him. He can't escape. I'll leave this place to you, Kongo."

"Don't worry, I'll let him sleep well." King Kong pressed his fist joints and walked towards the confused puppeteer with a smile. At the same time, in the courtyard outside the mansion, Qian Xiaoyi eliminated another wave of enemy soldiers and finally walked out of the maze and came to the outside - the main entrance of the mansion.

The western-style building at this moment had completely lost its elegant appearance as it had when it was first seen. On the top of the attic was the Rising Sun Flag, the flag of the Japanese army, but it was hanging drooping wilfully, no longer able to catch the slightest breeze.

In the open space in front of the mansion, obstacles consisting of various sandbags, wooden stakes, and spikes separated Qian Xiaoyi from the mansion. Behind those obstacles, there were still a dozen evil soldier ghosts still resisting stubbornly. There was even a machine gun in the center, aiming at Qian Xiaoyi.

The person sitting behind the machine gun was actually a familiar face, it was Gōriki Kaito. He was wearing a military uniform different from the other evil spirits. There was a cut on his stomach with his intestines oozing out, and he had a Japanese sword on his waist. He looked like an officer.

"Finally... you have no more troops, right?" Qian Xiaoyi looked up at Gangli Kaidou and said, "This place is simply an incomplete monster nest, it can't be self-sufficient at all. I guess it needs the spiritual power of the exorcist as fuel to temporarily build it up, right?
Now I think the battle over there is almost coming to an end. Without those victims as energy, this monster nest will end here. Am I right? Mr. Gangli... maybe I should call you a ghost warrior or a ghost warrior? "

"You are really amazing." Gang Li Kaidou sat there with a big horse and a golden sword, and said expressionlessly: "No wonder the people above are so afraid of you, what else do you know?"

"You are called [Hundred Ghosts], right?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "I used to think that the legend here was fabricated, just a rumor to attract tourists, but now I don't think so. This legend is true, right? A group of soldiers did commit suicide here before, but they didn't become undead. It's just like other places. Otherwise, if the dead have undead, then this world would have been overcrowded with ghosts long ago."

Gangli Kaidou looked at Qian Xiaoyi coldly without saying anything.

Qian Xiaoyi continued to explain as if no one was around: "The so-called 'nest' does seem to require a special location like this to be built, and it is not enough to just spread rumors. Thank you for letting me know this information... But you are not an official member of the [Hundred Ghosts], right, Mr. Gangli?"

Goriki Kaito asked, "Why do you feel that way?"

"It's simple, your social status is too low." Qian Xiaoyi said.

Goriki Kaito clenched his fists.

Qian Xiaoyi smiled and said, "From Shan Chenggong's perspective, it can be seen from the Cloud Mirror that only those with a certain social status, wealth, and power can own a complete nest. You are just an exorcist, how can you have such qualifications? So at best you are just the manager of an unfinished nest.

Here, however, is an abandoned 'unfinished nest' that has all the basic conditions for building a nest, but has all kinds of defects. It is equivalent to a failed product, like chicken ribs, tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away. You are the administrator of this place, the lowest-level role of the [Hundred Ghosts] organization. Otherwise, they would not risk exposing themselves and the destruction of the nest by letting you set such a trap here to lure me in... Oh, by the way, maybe you don't know as much about the Hundred Ghosts as I do, so you are talking nonsense to me here, right?"

"Great reasoning, you are worthy of being a psychic detective." Goriki Kaito applauded and exclaimed, "My plan was destroyed the moment you arrived. I originally thought that you would follow my pace and search for the murderer step by step, just like the detectives in novels. For this reason, this time I specially used several "batteries" that I had prepared for many years, as well as the two baits Suzuna and Kidou. In the end, you didn't play by the rules and regarded everyone as a potential murderer. You defeated my plan with force and made it ineffective. It's amazing."

Qian Xiaoyi sneered: "Should I still say: Thank you for the compliment?"

Goriki Kaito shook his head and said, "You are such a powerful person. You could have joined our organization and enjoyed power and benefits with us. But unfortunately, you succeeded in killing Lai Shan. So for the sake of harmony within the organization, a bounty was issued for you... Do you know how much you are worth within the organization? One hundred million! One hundred million yen!"

Qian Xiaoyi rolled his eyes and said, "After talking about benefits for so long, you guys still want to deal with me for a mere 100 million? I don't think there is any future in following you guys. Besides, you guys killed Lai Shanchenggong yourself. What does it have to do with me? How shameless."

"Haha... you're right. I'm at the bottom of the organization, doing odd jobs, so I really need that money." Goriki Kaito grinned, "But as long as I can kill you, I can go one step further! Go to hell!"

As he spoke, he raised his machine gun and pulled the trigger.

(End of this chapter)