The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 847 The Beginning of the War (26)

Wearing the [Kotobuki] Noh mask, Takuya acted like a real big rat, leading everyone forward stealthily. In his hand, he held the Japanese confectionery that Suzuna gave him, and he chewed it with his front teeth as he walked.

"It's right here, this door." Suddenly, he stopped, stood in front of an iron door, turned around and said, "You humans can't get in behind this. You have to let the people inside open the door."

Inuyama Heita looked at the iron door and thought, "In other words, in reality, there is an iron door in the corridor that separates the inside from the outside world? This is very consistent with the style of the Hope Cult."

He recalled that it seemed to be like this when he was in there before. Without the instructor's permission, these kids would be locked in the building and could not go out freely.

Luckily they had the key.

Inuyama Heita took out several bunches of spare keys from the guard room and started trying them one by one. Fortunately, there were number labels on them, and Inuyama Heita soon found the one and opened the iron gate.

The moment the door was opened, a rotten smell gushed out from inside. Xiao Fei sniffed the stench in the air and said with a grin, "This is it. The children you are looking for are inside, but besides them, there are some others... hehe~"

As if he was taking revenge on purpose, he only said half of his words before a shadow detached from Takuya's body and disappeared without a trace. The mask on Takuya's face fell off and was caught by Takuya's hands. He spat out some snack crumbs from his mouth. He didn't like the taste and his mouth felt uncomfortable.

"How are you, Takuya?" Suzuna asked with concern, "Are you feeling well?"

Takuya took a deep breath and said, "It's okay, sister. It's just an animal god that can be found everywhere. It didn't cost much, and it doesn't even have any debt."

"It's so dark inside." King Kong looked inside the gate. It was pitch black, he couldn't see anything, and it was filled with thick fog.

Terao Yu stretched out his hand and pulled off a piece of mist like plucking cotton, and led it to the notebook. The mist slowly formed a translucent symbol on the page. He looked at it and raised his head and said, "Vigilance, closure, repression, fear. Once the breath from the outside world disperses the mist, it will alarm the existence inside. It is equivalent to a warning device."

"Mr. Ken." Inuyama Heita said, "Can you feel it?"

"Of course!" Ken floated out of Inuyama Heita's pocket and said with a grin, "Is it finally my turn? Everyone follow me closely."

This time the tour guide was Ajian. He led everyone carefully through the fog and groped forward in the darkness. They could not see anything except each other and could only rely on Ajian's keen perception.

After a while, Ajian stopped and said, "This is it."

"Here?" King Kong looked around: "I can't see anything? Do you want me to light up the area?"

"Wait, let me go first." Inuyama Heita stopped him, and then a large number of black lines burst out from his body. These black lines seemed to have absorbed endless energy in this place. They continued to grow and formed a huge space around them, isolating the fog outside.

"My power is the same as the aura here, so it won't disturb them." Inuyama Heita said, "King Kong, illuminate this place."

"Oh!"

A soft light emanated from King Kong's entire body, and the darkness was finally dispelled, revealing the true scene around him.

They saw huge black cocoons wrapped around them, like a maze. These cocoons were of different sizes, some were completely closed, while in others, you could see children curled up inside through the gaps. They had not touched these things before, and they were awakened, thanks to Ken's guidance. "Sure enough..." Inuyama Heita's face darkened. He was very familiar with these things because he was once a member of this place.

Inuyama Heita looked at Terao Yu, who nodded and carefully pulled off a black line from a nearby black cocoon and placed it on the notebook. These black lines squirmed like parasites, changing on Terao Yu's notebook and eventually turning into unknown symbols.

"False hope born from despair." Terao Yu "read" the symbols: "Assimilation, control, restraint... They seem to be independent entities, but in fact they are connected as a whole. Once an individual wakes up, everyone will be awakened."

"Is there any way to subdue them without hurting them?" asked Inuyama Heita.

Terao Yu said with a headache: "I can only try my best. It's easy for me to destroy these things with curses, but to subdue them... I'm afraid it will be a little difficult. Give me some time."

At this moment, Ajian suddenly shuddered and said, "I feel it! Someone is approaching! They are entering the deep ghost realm where we are."

Inuyama Heita's eyes narrowed. "Did the power outage alert those people to something going on? It should be the instructors. They are the ones who are responsible for watching over the children. They started patrolling at night. We are preparing for an ambush."

King Kong laughed and said, "Hehe~ Are we finally going to fight? I will take them down very gently."

Ling Na also took out a terrifying Hannya female demon mask and sighed: "I hope nothing unexpected happens..."

In a real apartment building, or rather, it was unclear whether it existed in a real apartment building, a sturdy man was patrolling the dark corridor with a flashlight in his hand.

"Strange... Is there a power outage?" He pressed the light switch on the wall repeatedly, but there was no light. The strong man frowned: "What's going on... I always feel something is wrong. First a group of strangers came, then Mr. Sasaki was taken away by the police, and then there was a power outage again..."

Thinking of this, he decided to patrol the floor first to see how the children were doing, and then go down to the guard room to check the power situation.

However, while on patrol, he always felt that the corridors he was accustomed to had become unfamiliar. There was even an inexplicable sense of distortion in the places where the flashlight shone, as if some ghosts might jump out of the darkness at any time.

"Tsk... I have a bad feeling..." The strong man became alert and muttered to himself: "Something is wrong. Should I go upstairs and call those people down?"

He thought for a long time, then shook his head: "Forget it, let's patrol first. Those people are much more troublesome than these kids. If I stand in front of them, I feel like they will kill me at any time..."

He made up his mind and turned to walk in another direction. However, he did not notice that behind him, a strange head with a hideous face, hatred in its eyes and protruding fangs in its mouth had quietly approached and floated behind him.

"...I hate it so much." A faint voice came from behind.

"Who is it!" The sturdy man turned his head and saw the terrifying face rushing towards him.

The scream was strangled in the throat before it could escape from the mouth.

(End of this chapter)