A comic book, but a librarian

"So we will arrive at that town at night like last time, right? Sometimes I really find this kind of thing creepy."

Yotsuya Miko took over Uesugi Sumire's words and touched her face. The feeling of being connected and pulled became more obvious, as if the mountain god really felt her approaching.

"That's probably it. Because the plan has changed, the time we have to go there will also change. But there is good news. The sisters are doing well. I called to confirm. It was the younger sister who ran around in the middle of the night who answered the phone. She said that although the town has undergone a large-scale transformation and the power of the Centipede God has weakened a lot, the whole town is still developing in a good direction..."

"Can a little girl in elementary school really say so many things in a coherent way? Well, apart from the midnight snack..."

Yotsuya Miko looked at Uesugi Sumire with some horror. She could not imagine that the little girl who she had accompanied for at least one night a year ago could now speak so many things clearly.

"No, that's what her sister taught her, or what her sister told her when she was free. She was just repeating what her sister said."

After hearing what Uesugi Sumire said, Yotsuya Miko breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought that any random person she met in the small town was a genius girl.

The tram ran from noon to dusk before reaching its destination. When the two people got off the bus, the sky had already been dyed golden by the setting sun, and at the end of the golden color, night was slowly climbing up the sky.

"We have to hurry. I don't know if there are any shops open in that town at night. I'm not optimistic."

Uesugi Cheng sighed. He estimated that this time would be the same as last time. He would have to take the last bus and arrive at the small town at night. Judging from the chaos in that small town at night, it was estimated that basically no one would open a shop at night.

"Yes, that's true... Ah Cheng, be careful, I have a bad feeling, it's very strong... After the mountain god woke up, it seems that there are some changes that we don't know about. It's very likely..."

The bus drove into the dark tunnel, and Yotsuya Miko's voice stopped abruptly, as if the tape was broken. Sugi Uesugi Sumika's eyes instantly burned with golden light, but found nothing. Yotsuya Miko seemed to have disappeared in an instant. He sat down silently. The mountain god seemed to have completely mastered the power of "fate" and even learned how to exert this power. Of course, Yotsuya Miko was not in danger now, and it had no way to directly transfer Yotsuya Miko in front of it.

"Jianzi is right. Next, we must hurry up and go meet that guy. Otherwise, if we let him get used to his strength for a while, it won't be harder to beat him, but there will be more troubles waiting for me on the way."

Uesugi Cheng looked at the bus driver. The driver had long since disappeared, or rather, the bus had never existed in the first place. It was the mountain god who used the "connection" between them and the last bus when they came last time to reappear. The driver had long since turned into a skeleton, lying on the driver's seat, pointing his finger forward, as if explaining something. Although it looked old just now, the carriage that had obviously been cleaned was now covered with weeds and vines.

"Power, it's a truly wonderful thing... but once you see it once, you can feel the difference."

Uesugi Sumiko walked out of the car and stood at the end of the tunnel. After going out, he could see the small town with lights still on, and the next town connected by a bridge.

"Is it over there? I reached that place in an instant... Let me go find the sisters first, and then see if I can ask Master Ye Hui to take me there. It's too slow to walk there by myself."

His original plan was to take the ghost driver with him, but the ghost driver shook his head after hearing this.

"Boss, that place is very evil. We can feel it without even going there. If we get close, we will get lost and the car will end up somewhere unknown."

So he had to come here by himself.

……

"If that's the case..."

The chestnut-haired girl stood numbly on the box, looking at the red rope in front of her. She hung the rope loop with trembling hands and put her neck into the rope loop.

The sound of the dog barking was still lingering in her ears, but the little girl exerted a little force with her legs and kicked the wooden box open. Then she felt a fatal feeling of suffocation and struggled frantically.

"Hey!!! What are you doing?!"

The little girl felt someone picking up her legs and she got precious air back. She started coughing loudly as if she had come back to life.

"I'm sorry, I don't know why..."

Her voice was tearful. The brush with death was too heavy for her. The little girl finally couldn't help crying.

"Okay, okay, stop crying. It's not safe here. Let's go first."

The black-haired girl's golden pupils seemed to be burning. She took out a tennis ball, and at that moment a huge but invisible object suddenly appeared beside her. The furry touch reminded her of a pet dog.

"What's your name, and why are you running up the mountain alone at this time?"

Yotsuya Miko also looked terrified. She was suddenly transferred to the mountain and could only walk up the mountain road. When she reached the end, she saw the little girl hanging herself under the big tree. If she had not been in good physical condition and ran in time, she didn't know whether she could have saved the girl before she fell into coma.

"Xiao Wei, you can just call me Big Sister... Wait, Big Sister!! Someone is still coming down the mountain, and the mountain road is full of monsters!! I want to save her!"

Xiao Wei looked suddenly anxious.

"There are still people..."

Yotsuya Miko became distressed. She made up her mind as she watched the evil dog having fun biting the monsters.

"Then let's go and rescue him."

494

Chapter 494: Nightfall.

"How did you get to this place? It's impossible that there was nothing along the way and they just let you go like this, right?"

Yotsuya Miko looked at the chestnut-haired girl in front of her with distress. She was carrying a small school bag and seemed a little too calm.

"I don't know. I just remember... Xiaoyao was moving away, but I..."

The chestnut-haired little girl named Xiao Wei looked very confused, and the red bow on her head was shaking along with her head.

"We're moving away, so are you scared? For the separation from your friends..."

Yotsuya Miko was speculating silently. She touched her pocket and suddenly found that she had put a piece of paper into her pocket without knowing when. It looked like it was written by the little girl in front of her.

"Even if Xiaoyao is moving, we can write lots of letters..."

The more Yotsuya Miko read, the more she felt something was wrong. If the little girl in front of her really wanted to commit suicide, why would she write such words...

She felt that familiar sense of connection, the red thread appeared in front of her without her knowing when, and at that moment, she understood the origin of the matter.

"It's you again, you damn bastard...are you trying to trick someone into committing suicide this time? Bastard..."

Yotsuya Miko truly felt her anger. Such a young girl who was full of hope for life almost hanged herself under the deception of the mountain god. She really could not tolerate such a thing happening.

Of course complaining is one thing. She now has to take the little girl to a safe place. Not to mention how safe it is, but at least she can avoid the influence of the mountain god.

A Ksitigarbha statue that is slightly larger than the ordinary Ksitigarbha statue stands on the side of the mountain road. The red line on its wrist looks particularly abrupt, as if someone had deliberately wrapped it around its wrist.

"This guy is inside the mountain below me... Fortunately, the influence of the aromatherapy has not completely dissipated, so it can't clearly sense where I am."

Yotsuya Miko took out a pink candle from her bag. That was the incense that Uesugi Sumire had originally planned to use today to help her avoid the influence of the mountain god. However, because they changed their itinerary, they did not light it. Instead, they asked Yotsuya Miko to keep it. Unexpectedly, it would come in handy at this time.

The pink candle was lit. Yotsuya Miko held the candle in one hand and held Xiao Wei's hand with the other, slowly leading her down the mountain.

"Although I have been prepared for this, I still have a question... Has it always been like this here?"

Yotsuya Miko looked at the floating spirits that were almost everywhere in front of her, as well as those monsters that might have been influenced by rumors and ancient stories in certain towns, and felt that even Tokyo seemed a little safer than here. At least the floating spirits in Tokyo would not run around everywhere, nor would they block people's ways.

"Eh, I... I don't know. I've never seen these things before."

It was obvious that Xiao Wei was no less frightened than Yotsuya Miko. She looked as if she had never seen these things before.

"So what are you going to do now? Should I take you back to your home first?"

Yotsuya Miko walked all the way to the foot of the mountain very smoothly. The evil spirits and monsters seemed to be afraid of the smell of the incense and did not come over here. The mountain god seemed to have been looking for them. At least she saw a lot of monsters that looked like spider balls on the road, but they subconsciously avoided them, as if they hated the smell of the incense like the floating spirits.

"No, Xiaoyao is still outside. If..."

It was already completely dark, Xiao Wei looked up at the sky worriedly. Today was supposed to be Xiao Yao's last few days in this town. She would move out in a few days, so they went to the mountain. Xiao Wei had planned to say goodbye to Xiao Yao formally there, but for some reason she couldn't say it out loud, and in the end she ran to a tree alone and almost hanged herself.

"I understand. I'll help you find her. You stay at home and don't wander around... Forget it, just follow me. I'm afraid you'll be seduced by that guy again."

Yotsuya Miko sighed. She didn't know what kind of power the mountain god possessed, but since it was able to seduce Xiao Wei, Xiao Wei might have been marked by it long ago. If she was left alone and turned herself into a sunny doll at home, then Yotsuya Miko would have worked in vain.

"Well, I see..."

Xiao Wei looked unusually well-behaved, as if she was frightened by the current situation. She didn't know what to do so she just listened to Yotsuya Miko.

"Crack! Click!"

Yotsuya Miko subconsciously turned her head and squatted down. A section of her long black hair was cut off and the black hair was floating in the air. She subconsciously looked up and saw a huge monster made up of mixed limbs. Two hands stretched out from both ends of it, holding a huge pair of red blood-stained scissors.

It was that pair of scissors that almost cut off Jianzi’s head.

"What is this?!"

Before Yotsuya Miko could finish her complaints, the crunching sound was heard again. Yotsuya Miko picked up Xiao Wei and started running away without looking back.

Listening to the sound of the scissors closing and opening behind her, Yotsuya Miko realized for the first time as she did today that her physical fitness seemed to be still very good.

……

"That means...she might be in the next town, right?"

Uesugi Cheng was sitting in the little girl's home, chatting with her sister. The town was still in chaos at night, and even the Night Return did not stop its work. It was still taking the children who wandered outside late at night to a place it thought was safe. But now with the two sisters, they would go and bring the children who were taken away back to where they should go, so there were not so many missing cases.

"Well, the town over there hasn't been very peaceful recently... Yuan Tianzun, it's causing a commotion, but it's just going crazy because no one is worshipping it... Can you please save it?"

"I see. I understand. I need to go see Master Yami first. Otherwise, it would be a waste of time if I run there by myself."

As Uesugi Cheng said this, he called the monster called Yami. It still carried a huge bag and appeared in front of Uesugi Cheng and greeted him.

"Can you take me there? Where the girl who came with me is?"

Ye Hui looked a little confused, but finally opened his pocket and put Uesugi Cheng in it.

"Then take me to where you think she might be."

495

Chapter 495: Respective destinations.

"Where is...where?"

Yotsuya Miko opened her eyes and the clock showed nine o'clock in the evening. She had never thought that she would sleep so soundly in the home of a little girl she had just met.

"Big sister, you're awake! That's great. Let's go find Xiaoyao. I was afraid she didn't come home..."

The chestnut-haired little girl Xiao Wei pushed open the door and looked very happy. She also knew that it was too dangerous at night. If she went out alone, she might never come back or even drag others down. So she was patiently waiting for Yotsuya Miko to wake up.

Yotsuya Miko held her and ran all the way back to her home. After hiding in the house, the huge monster holding a pair of scissors wandered outside the house for a long time, and then gave up reluctantly. Then Yotsuya Miko said she wanted to rest for a while, panting. While she was pouring a glass of water for Yotsuya Miko, Yotsuya Miko fell into a deep sleep.

"I fell asleep? How could this happen? I wasn't that tired..."

Yotsuya Miko rubbed her eyes and climbed up. She shook her head and took the water from Xiao Wei's hand.

"Forget it, regardless of that, where might your good friend be going?"

Yotsuya Miko put this matter aside. Perhaps she was really too tired and fell asleep for a nap. The more important thing now was to find the little girl who might also be targeted by the mountain god, and then meet up with Uesugi Sumire to get rid of that guy, the mountain god. This guy who would endanger human lives at every turn could no longer be allowed to act.

"I... I don't know either. There are several strange places in this town. If Xiaoyao wants to find me, she might appear there... Although I can't explain the reason."

"Okay, it's okay, we'll just do as you say, maybe we can find her in no time."

Yotsuya Miko stroked the little girl's soft chestnut hair and fiddled with the red bow on her head.

The power of the mountain god is related to fate. Perhaps under the entanglement of fate, they will meet in a way that no one can imagine.

"Then let's go to the library. There seems to be a big exhibition there. We've always wanted to go and see it, but we didn't go until she was about to move."

"Then let's go. The library...it's really a very suitable place."

Yotsuya Miko wiped the water off her lips. This kind of place was indeed suitable for ghost stories and evil spirits, so she had to be extra careful. After all, who knew whether the mountain god would send minions to capture them.

"Ok!"

The little girl nodded happily and put on her little schoolbag.

……

"Where the hell is this place?"

Uesugi Cheng wandered on the street somewhat speechlessly. Ordinary floating spirits and evil spirits wanted to stay away from him when they saw him, so he could be said to have an unimpeded journey. But because of this, he found that he had forgotten a very important thing, which was to ask someone for a map of the town.

So now he could only get lost on the road, hoping to find some landmark building, but unfortunately, apart from the noisy voices of the girls who jumped off the buildings and screamed "No, no, no..." in his ears, he didn't see anything that could serve as a landmark.

"The phone is still working... Could it be that Jianzi has muted the phone?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at the unanswered call speechlessly. Perhaps she encountered some dangerous situation and had to set the phone to silent mode.

Thinking of this, Uesugi Sumiko stopped and planned to use his spiritual sense to scan the entire town. Although in his perception, everything about Yotsuya Miko was quite good, and it didn't matter if doing so would be sensed by the mountain god.

"Wait... Hey!! Little girl!! What are you doing here so late?"

Uesugi Cheng saw a flash of gold on the edge of the street, and he immediately followed. This town was as strange as the one next door. Although the streets were full of monsters, the 24-hour convenience stores were still open for business, and there were even little girls running around on the streets.

The little girl seemed to be avoiding something and ran wildly without looking back. Of course, she could not outrun Uesugi Cheng and was soon caught up.

“Don’t…don’t come over here!!”

The little blonde girl hid in the bushes, holding her head and trembling. She looked so scared that she didn't have the strength to run away.

"I say... why are you running around in the streets in the middle of the night? Do children nowadays have the habit of wandering at night? Be careful not to be taken away by the Night Return Master, because it specifically takes away little ones like you who like to wander around."

After hearing this, the little girl trembled even more violently. She sat down on the ground and couldn't speak for a long time.

"Um... I'm looking for Xiao Wei. Big brother, have you seen her?"

"Who?"