Zongman: Please stop destroying the worldview!

The first thing to do today was to check out a shrine located on a leyline node. When Chen Mo arrived, he found it deserted. There was already a lot of information online about this shrine. This small shrine had once been popular due to urban legends that it was effective in granting wishes, but it had now faded. Not only were there no tourists, but there were no staff to maintain the shrine, not even the entrance fee collector. The building was dilapidated, with only a small shrine left standing.

No, there's still nothing. Chen Mo sensed everything inside and out. There was no spiritual presence here, no gods, no monsters, not even an evil spirit. I was the only visitor in the entire shrine. Wait, someone seems to be following me.

Chen Mo turned around with amusement and said to a pillar, "Come out quickly, why are you following me?"

The girl walked out from behind the pillar tremblingly, tears in her golden eyes - isn't this Yotsuya Miko? Why did she follow her here?

He walked over and explained to Jianzi, "I haven't yet determined the location of the evil god's body, and it will take a few days to accumulate mana. You have to wait a little longer to get rid of the evil god—don't cry, okay?"

Jianzi burst into tears in an uncontrollable manner: “Master Mage, I went out with my friends today and encountered an evil spirit again.

I saw a big one, but my friend with a weak clairvoyance was about to hit the evil spirit, so I had to use the one chance that God saved me."

She took out the paper sign, and sure enough, one of the bells was missing.

Jianzi: "Please, let me follow you. I really don't want to be entangled by those guys anymore.

I really don’t want to endure not telling anyone about this anymore!”

Chen Mo: "It's okay, just wait a few more days and I'll... Hey, why did you take out your wallet?"

"Fifteen thousand yen, that's the price for hiring you once, right?"

Jianzi took out her wallet, which was filled with her saved pocket money. She had originally wanted to buy evil-repelling stones from programs like Prodigy Roma, but now she might as well give it all to Chen Mo:

"I'll give you money so I can follow you today, okay?"

Chen Mo considered it for a moment. It was somewhat dangerous to have Jianzi, a vessel for the evil spirit, act as a medium. But if he paid her to be his bodyguard, it wouldn't be a bad idea. He decided to let her follow him. However, considering Jianzi was encountering seven or eight evil spirits a day, if he offered to charge 15,000 yen for each evil spirit removal, he'd be able to quickly fleece Jianzi and become wealthy. Wait, wouldn't I end up like Yamada Ryo if I did that?

Never mind. The kid looked genuinely terrified. Besides, the evil god couldn't be dealt with right now, and my current lack of mana was also to blame. Taking advantage of someone's misfortune to have three children was too much. I wasn't that wicked.

Chen Mo pushed the wallet back and said, "It's okay. Since I said I would solve your problem, I will take responsibility to the end. Just follow me today.

Also, if you encounter an evil spirit again, you can take refuge in the livehouse called RING. There is a friendly demon there who can protect you."

Jianzi finally became happy: "Really?!"

"Really, if you meet a girl with short white hair, yellow and blue eyes, and a cat-like appearance, that girl is the demon protecting the Ring.

Just buy her a matcha parfait and she'll protect you."

"Great!"

-

“Yeah, it’s wonderful to be out shopping without having to worry about evil spirits!

I never want to go to a dessert shop and see a dead head popping out of it, or open the door of a supermarket and see a fake clerk! "

While strolling on the way to Shinjuku FOLT, Jianzi was jumping around beside Chen Mo, very lively and cheerful. He would be happy for a long time when he saw an ordinary dessert shop on the roadside. When he came across some small attractions, he would take photos with Chen Mo actively, and even wanted to go into a small alley to take a look.

It was as if the child had been in prison for two years and finally waited for parole. Finally able to see her without fear, she was enjoying her daily life without seeing her, so much so that Chen Mo felt embarrassed to interrupt her.

As the two of them advanced, a figure hid in the darkness in the distance. The young man looked at the incredibly happy Jianzi, then at Chen Mo, who was looking at her with doting eyes. He excitedly bit his finger and said, "I told you, sister must be in love! I finally caught her!"

The boy's name is Kyousuke, and he is Miko's younger brother. Recently, he has noticed that his sister is becoming increasingly strange. Not only does she always look unhappy and moody, but she also often talks inexplicably in her sleep. Sometimes she jumps out of control and behaves strangely. When he asks her about it, she won't say anything.

After some serious thinking and reading relevant books, he came to a reliable conclusion - his sister must be in love! And the man she's in love with is a guy who's good at playing with women's emotions. He must carefully investigate this man and not let his sister fall into the clutches of a scumbag!

-

Jianzi: "Master Mage, where are we going?"

Chen Mo took out a ticket and showed it to her: "I'm going to FOLT in Shinjuku, a famous livehouse in the area. I want to see if there's any girl band that I'd like."

Jianzi was also very excited: "I haven't been to a livehouse yet! It looks like it's underground and it's very dark inside. There might be a lot of evil spirits - but now I'm not afraid anymore! It's so cool!"

Jianzi bought a ticket and looked around curiously after entering the livehouse for the first time. Chen Mo was familiar with the place; its structure was similar to Fanxing's. After greeting Xiaoyin, the store manager, who looked fierce but spoke like a girl, he led Jianzi into the performance venue.

They arrived a little late, and the venue was packed with cheering audiences, creating a particularly lively atmosphere. Curious, Chen Mo squeezed to the front row, wanting to see which band was creating such a lively atmosphere.

"Hello everyone, we are the sick hack band!"

The band members who appeared on stage were a drummer with short hair named Shima, a blonde foreign girl named Eliza who played guitar, and a bassist with long wine-red hair wearing clogs. Wait, this bassist was drunk, staggering, and holding a bottle of wine?

Based on my experience as a neighbor of Xiangzi, this bass named Hiroi Kikuri must be drunk!

Jianzi was surprised and excited: "Even when drunk, you can still perform on stage? How cool!"

Hearing the sound, Kikuri glared at him, holding her bass guitar. "Yeah! Inspiration only comes when you're drunk! Haha!"

Chen Mo: "Uh, you're looking at it wrongly, that's not what I said."

"Whatever, let's have some fun, scumbags!"

Kikuri yelled, drank a mouthful of wine, and suddenly sprayed it towards the audience.

"puff!"

Her two teammates quickly pulled the drunk guy back from the stage. Chen Mo, who was sprayed with alcohol, wiped his face and was also shocked:

“Is this rock and roll!?”

Chapter 43: Weekend Outing: Jiu Mengzi's Performance

The show begins

The ever-changing, dazzling lights shone on the three of them. As the performance began, Kikuri immediately transformed into a different person. With a voice that could be described as handsome and unrestrained, she played the bass and sang the hazy lyrics:

I am really happy to find the wrong staying up late

The lost child waved to me and took me to the land of dreams

Where is that? Where is this?

Ditch the batteries, don't wait, let's get the party started

Chen Mo witnessed a style he had never seen before. The low bass sound, which was often jokingly called inaudible in music, became the protagonist of the psychedelic music at this moment. The low and manic string sound formed an extremely heavy wall of sound that seemed to be overwhelming like a tsunami.

The drums are chaotic and irregular, like a randomly struck rhythm; the guitars are full of emotion, supporting a logic within the chaos that allows the audience to grasp a towline. The collaboration of the three forms an immersive experience, tossed and subsided by the waves of different tones.

It's really amazing

Turn, turn, turn, let's dance

Rub and rub, and it gradually spreads

Would you like a piece of toast covered with lies?

I'm the only ghost

"Wow!"

As the audience fell into a frenzy and the performance reached its climax, the extremely excited Kikuli bounced a few times, flapping her long burgundy hair into a pigtail, and let out a strange cry, and the audience responded with the same strange cry.

Even Jianzi, who was standing beside him, entered a state of psychedelic frenzy, waving his arms along with the crowd. A burgundy hallucination, soaring enthusiasm, the intoxicated performers, a sense of utter turmoil, a rich tapestry of emotions.

All of this intertwined into a glass of wine with a hallucinogenic aroma, and then turned into a ball of neon light that wrapped around the fingertips.

Chen Mo looked at the neon light in his hand and absorbed it into his body, successfully harvesting a bit of colored mana. What a pleasant surprise! This time at Shinjuku FOLT, he actually found a band that met his requirements.

Chen Mo looked at Ju Li, who was drunk and playing the piano furiously on the stage, and fell into deep thought.

"I see, is this rock 'n' roll? My understanding of music is still too superficial. So drinking before a performance can enhance the performance, then should I drink before going on stage? But with my current physical condition, it's going to be difficult for me to get drunk."

Seeing Chen Mo's thoughtful expression in the audience, Ju Li was unhappy. She pointed at Chen Mo and shouted:

"Hey kid over there, get excited!"

Then he drank the wine in his hand and smashed the bottle over.

"boom!"

The bottle smashed into pieces on Chen Mo's head, and the frenzied atmosphere in the entire exhibition hall suddenly stagnated.

Even the drummer and guitarist's performance temporarily stopped, and Shima's reaction could be described as cardiopulmonary arrest.

"Hahaha, haha, burp."

The laughing Ju Li was choked by a sudden burp, and she sobered up a little. She seemed to realize that she had made trouble, and covered her mouth, not knowing what to do.

"Ah, are you still going to smash bottles on the audience's heads? That could easily hurt them. Well, then we'll just have Bruce in the audience and smash the bottles on their heads."

Chen Mo was thinking while pushing away the broken pieces of the wine bottle. Then he noticed that the music had suddenly stopped. He looked around at the performers with embarrassed faces and the other audience members staring at him. He asked in confusion:

"Why are you looking at me? Keep going?"

"Ohhhhhh!"

So the music started again, the stage continued to play, and the crowd continued to revel. Only Jianzi came over and asked a little anxiously: "Master Mage, you are not angry, are you?"

Chen Mo: "What's wrong? Why are you angry?"

Jianzi: "It's okay now. So this is rock 'n' roll! I love it!"

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“Private Marseille with red bean paste!”

After the performance, the band members of Pathological Hacker found Chen Mo. Chen Mo was naturally happy to talk to his new treasure band. However, when he arrived backstage, the first thing he was greeted by was the drummer Zhima and the guitarist Eliza bowing and apologizing.

"Hey, hey, sorry, little brother."

Kikuri was holding a box of cheap beer in her hand and making noises in a nonchalant manner. You could smell the alcohol on her from a long distance away.

"Hey you! Apologize!"

Shima immediately gave Kikuri a stab on the forehead, and then he and Eliza teamed up to pin Kikuri to the ground, making her kneel and beg for mercy:

"If this guy hadn't been so tolerant of your antics, this performance would have been ruined!"

Under the pressure of her two teammates, Ju Li uttered a broken voice: "Yes, I'm sorry."

Chen Mo looked at the three people making noise in front of him and found it a little funny, but he still asked the question in his heart:

"The show was great, and I love your music. But why do you keep apologizing to me?"

Shima hit Kikuri again: "Did you hear that? Tell me where you went wrong! Admit your mistake now!"

"Hey hey hey."

"Tell me, 'I'm sorry for getting drunk and smashing a bottle on an audience member's head during a performance!'"

"I'm really sorry for getting drunk and smashing a bottle on an audience member's head during a performance, hehe."