A comic book, but a librarian

Uesugi Cheng was stunned for a moment. It was at this moment that he felt the connection that was so faint that it was almost indistinguishable. The almost invisible red line had already wrapped around the little girl's elbow.

"Ah... Xiao Wei is my best friend. She... she wears a big, beautiful red bow on her head. We went up the mountain to play today... but when we were going down the mountain, Xiao Wei asked me to go back alone. I haven't been able to contact her until now..."

The little girl in front of him seemed to be about to cry as she spoke, so Uesugi Sumiya could only comfort the girl and then sort out the information.

"So, your friend is missing now, right? I see, you are looking for her now..."

Uesugi Cheng sighed. He encountered such things all the time, and most of them were related to the mountain god.

"Well, Xiao Wei must be looking for me too. We are best friends."

The little girl in front of him named Xiaoyao nodded and looked at Uesugi Cheng with expectation.

"Okay, I'll help you find someone, but we have to make it clear first. You have to listen to me and can't run around casually..."

Uesugi Cheng touched Xiaoyao's golden hair, looked into her eyes seriously and spoke.

"Okay, I understand. I will listen to you, big brother."

Xiaoyao held up her little notebook, on which was a map of the town drawn in a very childish style, which solved Uesugi Cheng's urgent problem.

"Abandoned house... Do you know why it was abandoned?"

Xiaoyao shook her head, looking clueless.

"Okay, let's go over there first. There's a residual scent over there...similar to the one left by that guy on your body."

Uesugi Cheng said so. Of course, the main reason why he made such a choice was that the abandoned house was closest to them.

496

Chapter 496: Library and Abandoned House.

"This is the library... What the hell are these things... Aren't they a little too scary?"

Yotsuya Miko walked slowly forward holding Xiao Wei's hand. The entire library seemed dead silent. Of course, this was the conclusion that could only be reached if the 'natives' who only appeared at night were ignored.

Be it those evil spirits pretending to be decorations but baring their fangs and claws like sculptures as soon as someone runs nearby, or those guys with their heads spinning 360 degrees and their eyes glowing, looking like human-faced owls, none of them are easy to deal with. Yotsuya Miko was once accidentally seen by those owls that were like surveillance cameras, and as a result, that guy let out an extremely shrill scream on the spot, waking up all the evil spirits around her to attack her.

If she had not been quick-witted and still had some fighting ability, she might have been lying in the library waiting for rescue. Of course, this library was a little too big for her. Compared with the library of Integrated High School, this one was not only big but also had complicated paths.

"Do you really think she will appear here?"

Yotsuya Miko helplessly pressed the evil spirit 'monitor' in front of her to the ground, and then stabbed a knife into its eyes to make it completely quiet. After several attempts, she finally figured out the movements of those evil spirits that were motionless in the library. As long as the guy under her feet didn't scream, and didn't run when they left, then these sculptures were really just sculptures, and it didn't matter if they were touched.

"Well, but it seems that Xiaoyao didn't come..."

Xiao Wei looked at the exhibition hall in front of her with some depression. She obviously wanted Xiao Yao to come with her to see the artworks and clay figurines here, but in the end, only she and Yotsuya Miko appeared here together.

"And... there's a very strange place in this library..."

Miko Yotsuya rubbed her golden eyes and looked towards a strange room in the library. She could feel that something inside was tempting them to go over.

"Now that we are here, let's get rid of it, before the things in this library harm the townspeople."

Yotsuya Miko sighed, stretched her body, and drew out the short sword, which was the 'anti-spiritual weapon' given to her by Uesugi Cheng. It was no problem for her to cut off most of the evil spirits with one blow.

"Um……"

Xiao Wei also nodded. What she didn't say was that she actually wanted to go over there and take a look. She always felt that there was something there that she wanted.

……

"Wow, this abandoned house looks like a house full of evil spirits... and there are bloodstains."

Uesugi Cheng carefully brought Xiaoyao into the abandoned house and said in an exaggerated tone with an expressionless face that the arrangement of the furniture in this place was extremely unreasonable and did not look like something that could be placed there by humans. Coupled with the floating spirits wandering around in the room, he suddenly understood the true face of this abandoned house.

Xiaoyao looked terribly scared, but in order to find her good friend and say goodbye to her, she mustered up the courage to follow Uesugi Cheng in.

"You left us this kind of painting. Do you think you can scare us?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at the roughly torn paper in front of him. There were distorted figures scribbled on it with black and red crayons. It looked as if it was drawn by a child in extreme panic.

"Goo-roon-go-roon!"

A huge wooden barrel rolled down the stairs, and with a vague sense of voyeurism, it hit the wall next to them and shattered.

"Don't be afraid. This guy doesn't dare to fight us head-on. He is just trying to scare us."

Uesugi Cheng simply protected Xiaoyao behind him. He could feel that the only suspicious thing in the house was the huge wood that served as a load-bearing pillar, but this wood seemed to be able to hide itself among ordinary woods, so he had to find the real body first, otherwise he could only violently demolish the entire house.

"Besides... something that can be solved by fire actually wants to scare us."

Uesugi Cheng took Xiaoyao's hand and walked upstairs step by step. This house was originally bought by a wealthy businessman. However, not long after they moved in, the businessman's wife and children died in accidents. In the end, even the businessman himself hanged himself in his study in despair. Before his death, he told the servants who worked here that this house was a cursed house. Of course, the servant seemed to have escaped the disaster because he did not stay here for a long time, and passed the news on.

"Ah, it's a very clichéd story, and I don't know how much truth there is in it, but if that's the case..."

One by one, the hanged evil spirits fell to the ground, as if they were lining up to welcome them, or as if they were trying to expel Uesugi Cheng, and they screamed. Xiaoyao's breathing was extremely rapid, but she still followed Uesugi Cheng step by step forward.

"Just kill them all... If you still can't rest in peace after death, how about letting me help you?"

Uesugi Cheng picked up the lighter, and at that moment, countless chairs and paintings rushed towards him. The huge table crashed into them like crazy, and even the chandelier above their heads was shifting its position, trying to kill two people at once.

"Don't be afraid... these things are not difficult to deal with."

Xiaoyao originally squatted down with her head in her hands and tried to protect her body as much as possible, but after a few seconds she heard the furniture that had been jumping around and making loud noises suddenly become quiet. She slowly opened her eyes and saw an incredible scene.

Behind Uesugi Sumiko, in his shadow cast through the firelight, a beautiful kimono doll waved her wide sleeves. The boundless silver mist crushed all the furniture that tried to attack them or dragged them into the mist and disappeared. The huge pillars were shaking as if they were about to open their eyes.

"Ying, take her out. I want to have a good talk with this guy... It's not a good thing to hurt people like this."

Uesugi Cheng looked at the charred human figure and several pools of blood on the ground, and finally just watched Himegami Sakura take Xiaoyao out without saying a word.

"Okay, be a good ghost in your next life and don't hurt anyone."

The flames ignited the pillars and the huge abandoned house. As Xiaoyao looked on in disbelief, the house collapsed.

497

Chapter 497 Midnight (Part 1)

"Hey, did that house just... burn down?"

Xiaoyao was stunned. She was not thinking about compensation or anything like that. Little kids simply couldn't think about that. She was just worried about whether Uesugi Cheng could come out safely.

"Ah, this guy is a little weird, so I just let him be quiet for a while. The night time is very precious, so I just let him fall asleep. He will probably sleep for several years or decades without moving."

The little blonde girl didn't really understand what Uesugi Sumiya said so casually, but she understood that this house would not change for decades. Decades were indeed long enough for her, even her current age was not as long as decades.

"Well, big brother, have you seen Xiao Wei? Where is Xiao Wei?"

She shook her head in distress, looking as if she was trying to recall other places where there might be people.

"No, no one has been here for a long time, so the guy in the house was so anxious to make a big fuss. Otherwise, he would have to continue to starve. But now he doesn't need to worry about this problem."

Uesugi Sumire took out Xiaoyao's hand-drawn map, crossed out the abandoned house, and took out his cell phone. Yotsuya Miko did not answer the call, but only replied with a text message. The content was very simple, with only three words "library".

"Are you asking me to come over? She was transferred directly to this town? It really seems to be fate. Let's go and take a look at the library first..."

Xiaoyao nodded and looked towards the small town in the night. Due to the obscurity of the houses and apartment buildings, she could not see the library that she had always wanted to go to with Xiaowei, but she remembered how to get there. She had always remembered it.

……

"Ahem, I have to say that evening is a magical time. Xiao Wei, are you okay?"

Yotsuya Miko looked at the huge full-length mirror that was covered with white cloth again and asked the little girl who was slumped on the ground next to her and looked exhausted. As soon as they walked into the room, they saw the huge full-length mirror. The mirror was facing the door, which was already very wrong. What was even more wrong was that the whole room was brightly lit, as if all the lamps on the bedside tables were deliberately turned on.

Then, as expected, their figures reflected in the mirror were giving them a weird smile, and then they walked out of the mirror.

"Really? Although white dots are good, the whole person is like a line drawing on white paper. It won't work if it's just black and white. That won't look good."

Yotsuya Miko looked at the room that had darkened again and put the dagger back to her waist. You know, even if the mirror images were broken, they would be reassembled after a few seconds. In addition, every time a light was turned off, there would be one more mirror image of two people. When she turned off the last light, she was almost pinned to the ground. If it weren't for her strong physical fitness and the fact that they were just mirror images with no combat experience, she felt that she might be in danger.

"Big sister...are these things always so dangerous? Have we always lived in a place like this?"

Xiao Wei looked frightened. After all, this thing that was obviously full of malice towards humans was actually placed in a library where people came and went every day. When Xiao Wei thought of this, she felt like she had survived a disaster. After all, she had been to the library quite a few times.

"No, a normal person may not encounter such a thing once in his life... But to be honest, this town is not normal. So if you continue to live here in the future, go out as little as possible at night. This is not a joke. The number and strength of the spirits here are far beyond the normal level."

Yotsuya Miko took Xiao Wei's hand and prepared to take her to find a place to hide and check her phone. The library was not far from many places, so if she waited a little longer, she might be able to wait for Uesugi Sumika to come over. She had already confirmed with Xiao Wei that this place was not far from the next town, so the only thing she needed to worry about was whether Uesugi Sumika had not seen the text message. However, judging from his style, this should not happen.

Yotsuya Miko had just quietly walked out of the library and was about to take out her cell phone to take a look and turn off the mute button when the clicking sound, as if of rusty scissors blades closing and rubbing against each other, rang out again.

This time, Yotsuya Kenko had experience. He picked up Xiao Wei and started running without saying a word. Sure enough, the ghost-faced floating spirit behind him was broken into two in an instant, and then returned to the earth. The huge spherical evil spirit that seemed to be made up of limbs held a huge pair of scissors and rushed over again as if it wanted to cut them in half.

"What the hell, why did they choose us? Is there really no one else walking on the road at night in this place?"

Yotsuya Miko really couldn't understand why this huge evil spirit was haunting them like this. Aren't there enough other evil spirits for it to slay?

"Big sis... where are we going now?!"

Xiao Wei was let down and ran wildly with Yotsuya Miko. It must be said that this little girl's physical fitness is indeed extraordinary. She could barely keep up with the speed of Yotsuya Miko, a high school student.

"I don't know. Let's just walk first. Damn it... Now I'm the one who stood up Cheng?!"

Yotsuya Miko was able to handle this life-or-death situation very calmly. It would be more accurate to say that she had encountered this situation so many times in the past year that she had become numb to it.

They were chased by a huge evil spirit into a field. The field looked extremely quiet. Sowing had not started yet, so it seemed a bit empty. The guy holding the scissors gave up chasing them after they came here.

"Did it cut something... and then it stopped chasing us?"

Yotsuya Miko recalled that she always felt that the appearance and disappearance of the evil spirit had specific rules, but she was so focused on escaping that she didn't see anything.

"How did we get here..."

Xiao Wei approached Yotsuya Miko with some fear.

"here it is……"

"There's a lot of discarded stuff in the town that's thrown away here."

Xiao Wei answered like this.

498

Chapter 498 Midnight (Part 2)

"A garbage dump...we are actually in a place like this?"

Yotsuya Miko was very surprised. She thought she was unlucky enough tonight, but she didn't expect to be chased to such a place. You know, it's not surprising that anything would come out of a garbage dump that might be full of resentment. It's like...

She kicked an umbrella that started moving on its own and when the flashlight shone on that place, the umbrella suddenly moved. Fortunately, Yotsuya Miko reacted quickly and kicked the thing away with one kick. However, when the flashlight shone on the abandoned umbrella again, it came to life again.

"Can't be illuminated by light? Is it because the light represents the arrival of someone? Do you hope to make contact with humans?"

Yotsuya Miko subconsciously mobilized her own strength, and she put the Silence Technique into practice. She was thinking while releasing her spiritual power.

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be a real chaos of demons during the day?"

She suddenly felt somewhat ridiculous about the picture she had imagined. These guys should be completely well-behaved during the day. Perhaps only at night would they be given a short life.

"Alright, alright, get out of the way...let's move forward."

Yotsuya Miko sighed. She could feel a strong resentment ahead of her, or rather, it was not a resentment at all, but just a poor guy who could not leave.

"Xiao Wei, let's go see a poor person... I hope I can successfully make her quiet down now."

……

"Where is he? Didn't you say you would wait for me in the library? Where did he go?"

Uesugi Sumire looked at his mobile phone speechlessly. If he was not mistaken, the library that Yotsuya Miko referred to should be this library. But what was going on with this empty library in front of him? Was he stood up?

"But after all, there are traces... Did it go somewhere else? What happened?"

Uesugi Cheng walked into the library in silence. There were indeed signs that someone had been there. After all, the open doors everywhere didn't look like they were forgotten to be closed when the staff left.

Uesugi Cheng ignored the spirits in the library. The evil spirit in the shape of an owl that looked like a human head was trembling like the quail and closing its eyes, not daring to see anything. So Uesugi Cheng and Xiaoyao finished visiting the library almost unhindered.

"This mirror...well, at least I found something that can be used."

Uesugi Cheng lifted the white cloth that was obviously put on not long ago. There seemed to be nothing abnormal about him in the mirror. After a few seconds, Xiaoyao stared at the mirror blankly. She clearly heard the sound of something breaking, and then she saw cracks slowly appearing in the corners of the mirror.

"Don't overestimate your own abilities. Wouldn't it be better if you were more honest?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at the mirror with a headache. He didn't want to become a vandal of public property, but he thought that this mirror was placed here and no one would care about it, so he started to use it as a medium with peace of mind.

"This is... Xiao Wei!!"

Xiaoyao looked at the picture that appeared in the mirror with surprise. She had read many story books and fairy tales, and the current situation looked very much like the mirror was responding to her wish.

"Well, they are here... My divination skills haven't fallen behind much, luckily."