The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 59 Urban Legend 3 ()

"Ah! Uh ah! That..." Inuyama Heita's glasses were as big as copper bells, and he pointed at the old woman running wildly outside the car window with an anxious look on his face, but he didn't dare to say anything in order not to irritate the driver in front. Neither the driver nor Qian Xiaoyi beside him had any big reaction.

"An old lady wearing an old kimono..." Qian Xiaoyi stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "So this urban legend is so old?"

After being panicked for a while, Inuyama Heita saw that Qian Xiaoyi ignored him, and Turbo Granny didn't make any other moves. He just kept running wildly. Looking at the figure in front of him gradually moving away from them, Inuyama Heita slowly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that everything was fine.

But Qian Xiaoyi seemed to have other ideas. He suddenly asked the driver, "Can you catch up with the person in front?"

Inuyama Heita looked at Qian Xiaoyi in disbelief, his face was confused, and he shouted in his heart: What are you talking about! Didn’t you say not to provoke the driver? !

The driver was silent for a while before responding. He said in a hoarse voice, "Please take your seat, we will arrive at the destination soon..."

Inuyama Heita breathed a sigh of relief, secretly thanking himself that nothing worse had happened. Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Qian Xiaoyi took out a stack of square yellow paper from his bag and handed it to the front, saying, "What about this?"

The driver looked down at the yellow paper, as if he was attracted by it. He stretched out his hand tremblingly, then tightly grasped the stack of yellow paper and slowly put it back...

"Passengers, please... fasten your seat belts..." The driver still spoke in the same dead tone, but for some reason, Inuyama Heita heard a sense of excitement in his tone.

"Brother Yi, you just didn't..." Inuyama Heita turned around and asked with tears in his eyes, but he saw Qian Xiaoyi had already fastened his seat belt and said to him, "Didn't you hear what I said?"

Upon hearing this, Inuyama Heita immediately pulled out his seat belt, but before he could fasten it, the taxi suddenly accelerated and roared towards the front of the tunnel.

"Wow, ahhhhhhhhhh!!!" Inuyama Heita gripped the handle of the car with both hands with a pale face. The strong push on his back made him terrified. The scenery outside the window had turned into streams of light, constantly flying backwards.

"Oh! That's awesome!" Qian Xiaoyi screamed in excitement: "Great!"

Watching the black spot outside the front window getting bigger and bigger, until the figure of Turbine Granny reappeared in their sight, parallel to the taxi, Inuyama Heita was desperate. Qian Xiaoyi definitely never said that investigating urban legends would be so exciting.

Qian Xiaoyi observed Turbo Granny with great interest through the car window. Turbo Granny also slowly turned her head while running wildly and looked at the car.

Faced with this situation, Inuyama Heita suddenly remembered something. That is, in the urban legend of Turbo Granny, there is a version in which Turbo Granny will race with cars. In that version, if you see Turbo Granny and ignore her and let her overtake, basically nothing will happen. But if you are bored and catch up with her and want to race... then the final result is often that the car is going too fast and causes the car to be destroyed and people to die!
At this moment, the taxi driver also turned his head and looked at the other party through the car window. The two seemed to be looking at each other, and time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Inuyama Heita's bad premonition appeared again. It must be said that he was a man with very accurate intuition.

In the next moment, the taxi driver and Turbo Granny seemed to have telepathy and started accelerating at the same time. The acceleration shocked Inuyama Heita and made him feel nauseous.

In the tunnel, a man and a car were speeding forward at a dizzying speed... Half an hour later, at the intersection.

"I'm going to vomit..." Inuyama Heita covered his mouth and said with a very bad expression.

Qian Xiaoyi handed a stack of yellow paper to the taxi driver, then closed the door and watched the taxi go away. Then he sighed and said quietly, "You have already vomited... and you vomited on me..."

"Pfft!" Inuyama Heita held onto the electric pole and vomited out another rainbow. He almost vomited out all the oden he had eaten before. Before tonight, Inuyama Heita would never have known that he had such severe motion sickness. He had never been like this before.

"Alas~" Qian Xiaoyi said helplessly: "If you really couldn't stand it, maybe we could stay in the car for a while longer and study that turbo grandma."

"Please don't take me with you next time." Inuyama Heita wiped his mouth with his sleeve uncomfortably and said with a dark face: "You didn't say things would turn out like that, with ghost taxis and turbo grandmas racing... I've never heard of it!"

"We have an old saying, 'Money makes the world go round'. Our version is called 'Money makes the world go round'." Qian Xiaoyi said with a smile, "To be honest, I didn't expect what would happen today. I was just trying to confirm the information about the ghost taxi, but I didn't expect this guy's ghost domain to be able to connect to another ghost domain. It's really a big gain. According to the map, there are no tunnels nearby."

"What are those yellow papers?" asked Inuyama Heita.

Qian Xiaoyi said: "It's ghost money~ or paper money. It's specially treated paper. Some ghosts who still have the concept of money will regard it as real money."

Inuyama Heita took a while to calm down, and finally suppressed the nausea. He asked, "Brother Yi, didn't you say before that you wanted to find the ghosts in urban legends to test how to eliminate them? Why didn't you try it just now?"

Qian Xiaoyi explained, "For harmless ghosts, we Taoists usually perform rituals to help them transcend, rather than destroy them. Those two are obviously not dangerous ghosts. They are just acting according to their own logic. As long as they don't show too much harm, we can ignore them. And as for dealing with urban legends, after my observation just now, I doubt they can be destroyed so easily. These things are the product of the combination of people's cognition and the ghost world. As long as people continue to spread their stories, perhaps they can be reborn continuously. They are more like the traditional 'evil' rather than ordinary ghosts."

"Then there is no way to deal with them?" asked Inuyama Heita.

"Who said no? I already have some ideas." Qian Xiaoyi pushed his scooter over from the street, patted the back seat, and said, "But it's late now, I'll take you home first."

"Ah."

"By the way, seeing as you just vomited so cleanly, why don't we go find a late-night restaurant to have some midnight snacks? It's my treat."

"……it is good."

(End of this chapter)