The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 699 Hope and Despair (2)

"Eh? Fire?" The girl at the hotel reception desk said, "It seems that this really happened."

Qian Xiaoyi leaned against the front desk and asked curiously, "Really? Is it true? I thought it was just a legend. My friend told me about this legend, saying that the Killing Stone killed again."

“It’s fake, fake~” the little girl waved her hands and said, “If the Killing Stone could really kill people, I wouldn’t dare to work here~ It’s probably just an accident.”

Qian Xiaoyi did not refute. The old newspapers he had investigated in the past two days also said the same thing, saying that the fire was caused by the aging of the hotel's wiring. The killing stone killed people and so on were all made up by some tabloids to attract attention, and they made it sound very convincing.

"But this place has been rebuilt so beautifully." Qian Xiaoyi pretended to look at the decoration of the hotel and said, "I can't see any traces at all. The owner of this hotel really loves this place and spent so much money to rebuild it."

The girl at the front desk was not shrewd, nor was she as cold as the people in the big city of Tokyo. Instead, she was very happy that someone came to chat with her. She smiled and said, "Then you are wrong, sir."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Qian Xiaoyi asked.

The girl at the front desk said, "After the fire, the original owner of the hotel sold this place. Because it is an old hotel, he couldn't afford the cost of repairing it. Now the owner has changed."

Qian Xiaoyi asked: "Where did the original owner go?"

The girl at the front desk shook her head: "I don't know about that. I've only been working here for less than two years."

After chatting for a few more words, Qian Xiaoyi returned to the room. Inuyama Heita was watching TV bored. Although Qian Xiaoyi did not ask him to stay there, after staying in the hot spring hotel for a week, Inuyama Heita was no longer interested in hot spring hotels. It would be better to stay in the room with air conditioning and watch TV than to go to the hot spring.

"Have you found any useful information?" Ajian popped up and asked.

Qian Xiaoyi shook his head: "No, this place has been rebuilt. All the original people are no longer here. We can't get any useful information from here."

Inuyama Heita watched the variety show and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. After all, more than a decade has passed. It's been too long."

"It would be nice if there was a famous detective at this time..." Ah Jian looked at Qian Xiaoyi: "However, we seem to have a psychic detective, who is it..."

Under Qian Xiaoyi's expressionless gaze, Ajian shrank his head, laughed dryly twice, and angrily dived into the jade pendant in Inuyama Heita's pocket, pretending to be mute and keeping silent.

Qian Xiaoyi shook his head. What Inuyama Heita said was right. Such a long time had passed and things and people had changed a lot. It was impossible to find out anything.

"So the focus of the investigation should be on the Killing Stone." Qian Xiaoyi stroked his chin and thought, "As a well-known legend, the Killing Stone should be able to gather some knowledge. We will know when we go tonight."

Inuyama Heita turned around and asked worriedly, "If that's the case, will it be dangerous? Like on Mount Osorezan, is there something left inside? Should we call other people?"

Even though he had not participated in the battle before, Inuyama Heita could still feel how powerful the enemy was that Qian Xiaoyi and his team were fighting against. This gave him a sense of insecurity, especially now that there were only two of them, so he was somewhat afraid of enemies. Qian Xiaoyi smiled and said, "Heitaro, don't be such a pessimist. If powerful ghosts could appear so easily and everywhere, the enemy would have unified the world long ago. How could they hide in the shadows and develop slowly?"

"Is that so?" Inuyama Heita was a little confused. Not so many? It seemed that... during the time he followed Qian Xiaoyi, he had encountered many powerful enemies. Could it be that, as Qian Xiaoyi said, these enemies were actually very rare? But they just encountered them all?

So it’s no wonder that Inuyama Heita has misunderstandings about ghosts. The tough guys they have encountered these days may be more than some exorcists have encountered in their entire lives.

"Anyway, don't worry." Qian Xiaoyi said, "Think about it, in most of the previous times we took the initiative to come to your door, and we had reasons to fight, but this time is different. We are here to gather information, so even if we really meet you, we can choose to escape."

Inuyama Heita was shocked: "What? Brother O, you actually chose to run away?"

Qian Xiaoyi had a strange expression on his face: "What are you talking about! Of course you have to run away when you encounter an enemy you can't defeat? Do you think I'm like King Kong, who rushed forward even though he knew he couldn't win?"

Inuyama Heita wanted to say something but finally shut his mouth. Qian Xiaoyi's previous battles were all tough ones, and he thought that the word "escape" did not exist in Brother Xiaoyi's life dictionary.

The two of them were playing with their phones and watching TV in the room to kill time. When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Qian Xiaoyi opened his eyes and called Inuyama Heita who was still watching TV. The two of them sneaked out of the hotel and walked towards the Killing Stone.

At night, the atmosphere in the Killing Stone Garden became a little solemn. Inuyama Heita felt that this place was a bit similar to Mount Osore. After all, both were near the crater and those Killing Stones were volcanic stones with similar colors. However, the sense of oppression here was much less than that of Mount Osore. They were not on the same level at all. Apart from that, they could not see any residual souls wandering on the roadside.

"Strange~ There's still nothing?" Qian Xiaoyi was wandering around with a flashlight. He scratched his head, "It shouldn't be like this? Logically speaking, even if that guy didn't leave anything behind, a legend like the Killing Stone can still gather some knowledge. Even if it can't form a ghost domain, it should have something special..."

But let alone the ghost realm, there is nothing special to be seen nearby. It is as clean as the head of the office worker summoned by Inuyama Heita.

However, this normality became an abnormality, making Qian Xiaoyi more and more certain that something had happened here.

Qian Xiaoyi frowned and murmured, "Even if it's an ordinary cemetery, it's probably weirder than this place... Ah Jian, you still can't feel anything?"

Ah Jian wandered back and forth, and then circled around the fenced-off Killing Stone. After hearing what Qian Xiaoyi said, he shook his head and said, "No, I can't feel anything. Brother Yi, are you sure we are in the right place? This isn't really a fake place that deliberately deceives tourists, right?"

Qian Xiaoyi was in deep thought. When he came here, he was already prepared to face a strong enemy, but in the end, he encountered nothing?
But he trusted Granny Tao's intuition, so he decided to be bolder.

"Heitaro, keep watch for me! Notify me immediately if anyone comes." Qian Xiaoyi looked around, and then under the gaze of Inuyama Heita, he pulled up the shimenawa rope surrounding the Killing Stone and sneaked in like a thief, obviously intending to do something to the Killing Stone.

"Ah...he went in." Inuyama Heita looked at the signs that said "No Entry" and "No Touching" and remained silent.

(End of this chapter)