He started by brutally defeating the demon lady, and the passersby were terrified!

"Officer! This kid beat us up so badly, look at all these bruises!"

"Hey! Why are you handcuffing us?!"

……

"First, we arranged for this woman to act as a ghost in an abandoned house in someone's village, then she pretended to be a Taoist priest to exorcise ghosts and swindle money, and then she even asked us why we were arresting her!"

"Walk!!"

……

Aoyama City Police Department.

"Xiao Meng..."

"Uncle Guan! You don't need to praise me. As a successor to society, an outstanding student in the city, and a pioneer in breaking down feudal superstitions, it is my duty to combat feudal superstitions, popularize scientific knowledge, and prevent people from being frightened by these superstitions!"

A strikingly handsome young man with short, choppy hair sat in the interrogation chair, flashing a bright smile that revealed his pearly white teeth.

"Sigh... Xiao Meng, you should go back now. Although your actions didn't constitute a crime, next time you encounter something like this, don't just grab a stick and start hitting people. You should call the police immediately. As a student, your most important thing right now is to study, you know?"

Hong Guan sighed.

He spoke with a completely helpless expression.

The story begins three years ago.

At that time, some students at Qingshan No. 1 Junior High School said they encountered ghostly figures in the toilets, and some students had grayish-white handprints on their bodies, which were suspected to be ghost marks.

The entire junior high school was filled with anxiety.

The most serious problem is that students are afraid to even go to the toilet after class, and they are even more afraid to go home after self-study at night.

The school did a lot of work to appease them.

But the students didn't believe it.

Until a bold male student named Meng Yan, who had just been awarded the title of "Three Good Student," appeared in the student group.

The other party stated that ghosts could not possibly exist in this world, and privately spent a long time in all the toilets where ghost legends had appeared.

Nothing.

He even tried all the methods people said could help him encounter ghosts, such as hanging wind chimes, touching the mud of dead people, combing his hair at midnight, wearing black clothes and holding an umbrella, banging a bowl at a crossroads, humming ghost songs in the middle of the night, and burning red-clothed dolls, etc.

Still nothing.

As a result, the students' fears were gradually reversed, and they came to believe that there might not be ghosts in the world.

Later, the police went to the school to hold a safety meeting.

Out of encouragement, Hong Guan, the deputy director, publicly praised the other party, saying that he was a pioneer in breaking down feudal superstitions.

But now he regrets it deeply.

Since becoming a little vanguard, this kid carries a stick and goes wherever there is feudal superstition, such as a place being haunted, and beats it to death!

The ghost screamed in pain as they were beaten.

But in reality, the ghost was a person in disguise.

So isn't this intentional harm?

"Okay, I got it. Thank you, Uncle Hong."

Meng Yan got up and walked out of the interrogation room with practiced ease, also taking a bunch of grapes and two packets of spicy strips from the police station.

motherfucker.

It's fake again!

Breathing in the fresh air outside the police station, he had lost count of how many times he had stormed into places where evil spirits lurked and beaten up these fake ghosts over the years, all under the guise of being a vanguard in the fight against feudal superstition and an outstanding student in the whole school.

When will we find the real ghost?!

Meng Yan was eating grapes and chewing on spicy strips, feeling a little lost.

This time I saw it in a local WeChat group. It said that a woman's crying could be heard at night in an abandoned house, and some people even saw a long-haired female ghost wearing red clothes.

Before coming, he specifically checked the history of this old house and found that people had indeed died there.

I thought it was a real paranormal event, a female ghost in red.

I came here specifically to activate the cheat code.

Yes.

Even back in junior high, everything he did was to activate his cheat ability.

Who would have thought it would be a human again?

Seventeen years have passed.

When will this cheat ability finally awaken?!

Meng Yan, male, holder of the Demon Suppression Tower, please accept the first demon to be unsealed as a reward!

He was born with the Demon-Suppressing Tower awakened. Over the years, in order to be confident in fighting against demons, he has mastered the Five Arts of Metaphysics, the Art of Divination, and the One-Punch Man Fitness Method. His refined demeanor is just a disguise; in reality, he is terrifyingly strong!

But we've waited for so many years.

They still didn't encounter any evil spirits.

So he took the initiative starting in junior high school.

To find the monster and activate the Demon-Suppressing Tower, they searched for haunted toilets in schools, wind chimes hanging by beds, and even corpse mud, combing hair at midnight, wearing black clothes and carrying umbrellas, banging bowls at crossroads, watching horror movies at mass graves, and even hitting ghosts with sticks when they appeared at various paranormal sites!

But it's all fake! It's all fake! The demons and monsters are all people in disguise!!

That's fucking infuriating!

"Director Hong, why is this kid so vehemently opposed to paranormal events? Those two con artists were incredibly unlucky to have run into him!"

"Exactly! Even when we were in college, we were terrified of ghosts. But he wasn't afraid at all and went up to stab someone in the face! Maybe the commendation for being a pioneer was too inspiring?"

After Meng Yan left.

The two young police officers, a man and a woman, started chatting.

Meng Yan is a senior high school student at Qingshan No. 1 Middle School in their jurisdiction. He is 17 years old this year and has been awarded the titles of outstanding student, outstanding class leader, and even praised by their Director Hong as a pioneer in breaking feudal superstition. However, this praise caused trouble... Only a week after the college entrance examination ended, he has already been brought in three times.

The reason, of course, is to knock a ghost unconscious.

"Alright, get ready to go out on a call. We've received a report of a murder in Xuanwu Lake Community. A young woman living alone was found dead in the bathtub. She not only cut her own hair but also slashed her stomach."

Hong Guan, with a somber expression, solemnly recounted another recent murder case.

Qingjiang Portal Website.

[Oh my god, a murder has just happened in our Xuanwu Lake community! A young woman named Wei Jing was found dead in the bathtub with a wooden comb in her hand. She seemed possessed; not only did she inexplicably cut off her hair, but she also slashed open her stomach, and her intestines spilled out of the bathtub. It's absolutely horrifying!!]

A newly posted message has attracted attention.

Judging from their appearance, they seem to be residents of this community.

Xuanwu Lake residential area?

Isn't this the prime riverfront new district right across from their old, dilapidated apartment?

As soon as Meng Yan got home, she opened her phone and started browsing randomly when she noticed a post.

One of the photos was taken secretly.

Meng Yan immediately clicked on the photo. The first thing that caught her eye was a head of hair that had been cut off and was scattered all over the floor. Then she saw a pale hand hanging down by the bathtub, with slender jade fingers holding a black wooden comb with red tassels and a relief carving.

As someone who awakened a cheat ability to fight against demons, he studied various arts of metaphysics and folklore. He immediately recognized that this comb was extraordinary, like an antique.

However, just as he was preparing to enlarge the wooden comb separately and take a closer look...

"Grass……"

The photo was suddenly deleted by the administrator.

"boom--"

A door closed, and he left home, heading towards Xuanwu Lake residential area.

It's somewhat reasonable for a young woman to die in a bathtub, but why would she hold a wooden comb, cut her hair, and even slit her own stomach? Even suicide shouldn't be done like this!

Could it really be that I've been possessed by an evil spirit?

He planned to go to the scene to see if he could also bump into one.

……