A comic book, but a librarian

"The cherry trees planted in the yard are quite rare..."

Yotsuya Miko looked at the cherry tree and was curious about what kind of family the Baoyue family was. But when the two of them stepped into the Baoyue family's door, they felt an extremely chaotic yet depressing atmosphere.

"Well, welcome. Would you like something to drink? Hotaru is still guiding us on our midnight snack homework."

Hozuki Eiko opened the door to welcome them. Uesugi Sumire walked slightly in front of Yotsuya Miko, his eyes gradually becoming sharper.

"Oh, yes...it's the same two from yesterday. Good afternoon."

Huandenghe Yingduolang didn't seem to notice anything unusual in the house, but he was still a little afraid and uneasy about the purple-haired girl in front of him.

"Good afternoon, welcome."

Baoyue Yexiao was still wearing that loose coat and doing her homework seriously, but judging from her expression, these homeworks were probably just trivial matters to her.

"Besides bringing some gifts this time, I also have something to discuss with you, Ye Xiao. Do you have time?"

Baoyue Yexiao nodded, and several people sat on the sofa in the living room. Ying Duolang listened to their conversation. Even though he had accepted Yexiao's extraordinary qualities and the terrifying fact that there were countless evil spirits stored in the room deep in the house, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

"Come to think of it, Mr. Hotaru is a man with a very strong sense of inspiration... Are you doing well?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at Hotarou who was still wearing gloves. It was obvious that he was indeed troubled by his special physique, but it seemed that he should have found a way to use his physique by now.

"Ah, nothing serious, although I sometimes get into danger..."

Ying Duolang said something that even he himself did not quite believe. In the past few days after meeting Baoyue Yexiao, he had narrowly escaped the crisis of death twice. He really did not think that he could still maintain a carefree attitude.

"Speaking of which, I have something I want you to see..."

Yexiao jumped off the sofa and brought Uesugi Sumiko and Yotsuya Miko to the door of the room. Although they were only separated by a door, both of them could feel the atmosphere as if countless pairs of eyes were peeking out.

"These are... my spoils of war."

Ye Xiao said this with an unknown feeling in his heart and pushed open the door. There were many cabinets in the room, and each cabinet was full of dolls. The moment the door was opened, there was no doubt that countless pairs of dolls' eyes were staring at the visitor, and it was unknown what they were waiting for or expecting.

"I want to collect evil spirits that are strong enough and vicious enough... to save my mother's soul."

Baoyue Yexiao said this firmly, standing in the center of the room where many evil spirits were bound. She turned around and looked at the two people.

"But... they don't look that vicious, do they?"

Uesugi Cheng was a little confused, and Baoyue Yexiao also turned around in confusion when she heard this, and something shocking happened.

All the evil spirits seemed to have closed their senses like ostriches, intending to allow themselves to be ravaged by the outside world.

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Chapter 124: The incident seems to be resolved.

"Eh?"

Bao Yue Ye Xiao couldn't help but frown as she watched the evil spirits behave like ostriches. She had imagined many possibilities, but had never thought of such a scene. Although the evil spirits she captured had been domesticated and educated for a long time and were able to obey her orders, this did not mean that they had no ill will towards outsiders.

"Well, Jianzi, come and see. I can't tell the difference between the puppets attached to the puppets at all now."

Uesugi Sumire waved to Yotsuya Miko, who nodded and tried hard to open her Yin-Yang eyes and looked at the puppets carefully. From his knowledge, these puppets looked like gentle little animals that would only tremble when they saw him.

"They are all very powerful evil spirits...but why do they all seem to be afraid of something...?"

Yotsuya Miko said in a low voice, then she looked at Baoyue Yexiao and began to sigh that you can't judge a person by his appearance. She didn't expect that such a young girl could torture these evil spirits full of resentment and murderous intent into such a tame state that they didn't even dare to look at them for another second.

"Ah, yes... why?"

Baoyue Yexiao looked at Uesugi Cheng thoughtfully. Although she couldn't figure out how this powerful human could scare these evil spirits, this was actually the effect.

So much so that her attempts to communicate with these evil spirits were fruitless. They either pretended to be puppets or closed their senses and trembled like ostriches.

"In that case...will you come with me to find the evil spirit?!"

Baoyue Yexiao took a deep breath, and then looked at Uesugi Sumiko and Yotsuya Miko with great anticipation. With the same detection ability as Hotaru, plus the ability to deal with evil spirits and even deter them in return, Baoyue Yexiao felt that his next journey to conquering evil spirits might go from taking one step at a time to a car on the highway.

"It's okay to go with you to find the evil spirit...? What about you, Jianzi?"

Uesugi Cheng thought about it and decided that since he was the only one living in his house, it wouldn't be a big problem if he went back late, but Jianzi at least lived with his family.

"Well... it shouldn't be a big problem. My family has been busy lately, so I just need to go back on time. By the way, could it be a vicious evil spirit?"

Yotsuya Miko still shrank her neck. Of course, the disgusting thing she referred to was not those ordinary evil spirits, but the small town mountain god who left the deepest impression on her and almost took her life. At least she felt that she would not be able to survive if she encountered such a behemoth now. Even the fox in the shrine later who looked like a god but turned out to be an evil spirit did not give her such a strong sense of oppression.

"I don't think so. Although it is aggressive, I haven't actually seen its true form, so I don't know what the situation is."

Baoyue Yexiao was very careful. She didn't know what Yotsuya Miko had experienced, but judging from the rumors that she was just an eyewitness and there were no rumors of murder, the other party should not be very powerful and vicious.

"Oh, is that so? Well...then I'll go with you too."

A hint of curiosity ignited in Yotsuya Miko's heart. After all, she had never experienced such a thing as catching ghosts. Usually she was more likely to comfort or simply exorcise evil spirits.

So the five of them got on the bus together, and in the bus, Baoyue Yongzi, as the tour guide, began to explain those "rumors" to everyone.

"S Tunnel is a famous haunted place that was completed fifty years ago. The rumors circulating here are basically just 'sightings'. It is said that a woman wearing a white dress, with long hair and covered in blood can often be seen wandering in the tunnel. A female ghost with a child passes in front of the car. There are also figures of people crawling on the ground and reaching out to the car in the rearview mirror. There is also a female ghost hanging upside down that falls on the hood of the car when it is driving. These are the mainstream rumors at present."

They had already driven the car to the front of the S tunnel. To be honest, this was just a very ordinary tunnel. One could even easily see the brightly lit road at the other end of the tunnel. The soft orange light in the tunnel also dispelled every darkness inside. To be honest, if Ying Duolang had not had a vague feeling, he would probably think that the rumors here were just rumors and had no truth at all.

"Um, Brother Uesugi, could you please wait outside?"

Baoyue Yexiao said this suddenly. She certainly had her own reasons. According to Uesugi Cheng's behavior in her house, an evil spirit of this level would not only scare people, but would probably want to move out of the tunnel. How could it appear in front of them on its own initiative?

"Oh, then I'll just read a book outside."

Uesugi Cheng knew that he seemed to have a special deterrent effect on evil spirits, although he didn't know where it came from.

He opened "The Mirror of Melanthe". He hadn't finished reading the book anyway, so he might as well analyze the remaining content carefully. After all, this Ms. Melanthe interpreted the exquisiteness of "Scenery and Color" from another novel perspective.

The few people who walked into the tunnel began to try to find the evil spirits they wanted to find according to the various methods of encountering ghosts in the rumors. However, from the results, except for Ying Duolang who was frightened by various vengeful spirits, these evil spirits did not even have any tendency to attack them.

"In that case, just grab it and put it inside the puppet and take it back."

Bao Yue Ye Xiao said so. This was also her most commonly used method, forcing the evil spirit into the body of a specially made puppet and then taking it home to slowly mold it into an obedient evil spirit.

Having said this, she opened the car door and stopped the car in the middle of the tunnel.

"She's coming up!"

Yotsuya Miko saw it very clearly. Hotaru next to him picked up the puppet in a hurry and tried to capture the evil spirit. After working for a while, it seemed that it was finally over. At least Yotsuya Miko saw with her own eyes that there was indeed a spirit trapped inside the puppet.

Hotarou touched the back of his head. Although he still had some bad feelings, he thought that this ghost catching operation should be considered a success. He closed his eyes and suddenly looked behind Yotsuya Miko, but saw nothing.

"What's wrong?"

Miko also turned around to look at Hotarou, and when he suddenly turned his gaze to her, she thought Hotarou had something to say.

"No, it's nothing..."

Not finding anything, Hotaru breathed a sigh of relief, then remembered Uesugi Sumiko who was still outside the tunnel.

"Well, is this the end?"

Yotsuya Miko asked, pointing at Uesugi Sumiko who was flipping through a book outside.

"Can you take us home then?"

The last uncomfortable feeling that Hotarou had disappeared without a trace the moment Uesugi Cheng got on the car. He just thought that he had calmed down a little after leaving that uncomfortable tunnel.

He didn't notice at all the long-haired ghost quietly following on top of the car.

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Chapter 125: The Suffering Day of the Evil Spirits - Yotsuya Miko.

"Sakura, do you feel anything?"

"Yes, there's a guy lying on the roof of the car, looking for someone... I need her right now..."

Himegami Sakura's voice reached Uesugi Sumire's ears. She was hanging far behind the car, so far away that only Uesugi Sumire could hear it.

"No hurry, just keep an eye on her. I've never seen such a scheming evil spirit before. No matter who she targets, just stop her and deal with her at sunrise. I want to see how smart this evil spirit is."

Uesugi Cheng intends to use this evil spirit that looks very smart, at least one that knows how to endure and choose, to test what kind of IQ these evil spirits have, as a standard for how to deal with those evil spirits in the future.

"I see. Then please allow me to make a little preparation, sir..."

Himegami Sakura's voice became more and more ethereal. Strictly speaking, she should be considered a newborn 'elf' and might even be considered a 'god' in Japan. But in fact, neither she nor Uesugi Sumiya cared about this matter at all. She only regarded herself as a tool puppet, and Uesugi Sumiya only regarded her as a useful assistant.

The misty fog disappeared in a flash. Even so, Yotsuya Miko, Baoyue Yexiao and Hotaru all frowned for a moment, but then found that nothing had happened. Baoyue Yexiao looked around in confusion, as if trying to find the source of her sudden frown.

It was obvious that the female evil spirit was also frightened by the sudden change, and shrank a little tighter. It was indeed not sure that it could defeat several humans who obviously seemed to be well prepared, so it could only use the method of using a scapegoat to be captured instead of itself, and then wait for an opportunity to find a lone human to attack, but it did not realize that a wisp of mist had already wrapped around its body.

"Kill that girl! Yes, that girl!!"

Not surprisingly, it set its target on Yotsuya Miko. Not only was Yotsuya Miko able to notice him, so it didn't have to expend too much effort to interfere with her, but more importantly, she clearly didn't look like someone capable of fighting. Compared to the little girl Baoyue Yexiao who kept shouting to catch it, this high school student was clearly an easier target to bully.

Moreover, women are always more emotional and easily frightened, making them easier targets for evil spirits. With multiple choices, the evil spirit who felt that he was very right looked at Yotsuya Miko who slowly got out of the car and said goodbye to the people in the car. A gradually hideous smile appeared on the corners of his mouth, and the skin on his face rolled, revealing his most terrifying and disgusting side.

It slowly got out of the car and tried to enter Yotsuya Miko's house.

"Wang!"

It heard the barking of dogs, but it didn't matter. Dogs could indeed see these things more easily than ordinary humans, but it didn't matter. Humans who didn't believe in these things would not be affected by the dogs' sudden actions as long as they could enter the room.

The long hair stretched into the room on the second floor. It could clearly feel that the girl was inside. It could not wait to enjoy the girl's terrified and desperate expression in the blood.

Then it saw it, the pair of bright golden eyes staring straight at her. Through the window, Yotsuya Miko was looking at her just like that, without fear or surprise, calmly as if it had already guessed that it would appear here.

"I knew that the fleeting feeling I felt in the car was definitely problematic. Although Cheng didn't say it, I guess he thought I could solve the problem myself, and that's indeed the case... If you are strong enough, you shouldn't have waited until now to attack me."

Yotsuya Miko took out a small whistle, put it to her lips and blew it hard.

The evil spirit panicked, thinking that she had some way to repel it, and was ready to escape. However, when it saw the meaningless whistle that Yotsuya Miko took out, it suddenly felt like it was being fooled, and pounced on her angrily.

"Woof!! Woof!!"

Then it was bitten on half of its body by the huge evil dog. The other party's ferocious expression and scarlet eyes showed that it was definitely not an easy opponent. It finally understood what the barking of dogs meant. It was not the fear of living dogs towards it, but the low growl of an evil dog who was enduring the desire to attack and waiting for orders.

"Die!! Human!! Die!!"

It struggled hard to break free from the dog's mouth, and then pounced on Yotsuya Miko like a madman. Yotsuya Miko had seen many evil spirits launching furious attacks, so she dodged the attack and prepared to use the Silence Technique to control the evil spirit and let her dog destroy it completely.

However, what she didn't expect was that the evil spirit ran away from her without even looking back, without even stopping, and just walked through her door and disappeared behind it. The speed and intelligence of its escape stunned her. She had never seen such a fearful spirit.

"Chase!"

She gave her dog an order, and the eager-looking hound immediately chased after it, but soon came back with its head down, looking depressed.

"Good boy, you did a great job today. If it weren't for you, I would be in trouble..."

Yotsuya Miko was very skilled in soothing the scary-looking evil dog. After a summer vacation, she had learned to get along with and even communicate with evil spirits through the use of silence, but this was only limited to evil spirits that had no ill will towards her, so she was so surprised by Baoyue's night snack's behavior.

"Next, I'm going to kill him! I must!"

The evil spirit's intuition made it let Uesugi Sumiya go. It always had a feeling that if it followed the smell to find Uesugi Sumiya now, it would most likely not see the sunrise, so it chose the man called Hotarou.

"DELICIOUS! KILL!!"

The physique and spiritual power of the man named Hotaru also made it salivate. Although it was not as delicious as that shown by Yotsuya Miko, it was still a rare and delicious meal for it.

So it used all four limbs and began to crawl rapidly in Tokyo at night, moving rapidly towards its next target.

"It looks like it can even assess the situation. The intelligence of the evil spirit should not be underestimated."

Uesugi Sumiko's voice came from the puppet on Himegami Sakura's shoulder. He bought a puppet on the way home and imitated Baoyue's midnight snack to stuff his own soul into the puppet, and the effect was very good.

"Then what happens next..."

"We follow and solve it before it harms anyone."

Uesugi Cheng said so.

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Chapter 126: Doll girl on the street.

The evil spirit followed the smell and found Ying Duolang's home. Of course, this was a special harmless mark that it left on its victims, a special label that only it could feel. It was with this little trick that it successfully avoided a lot of attention. After all, there had never been a fatal accident in the tunnel. Only some special passers-by died in special "accidents" one day after passing by.

Its restless heart suddenly began to panic. It felt the location of its mark, then opened its eyes, stared at the doorplate with the three words "Huan Lantern River" barely written on it, and began to think.

Just now, a part of its body was bitten off by the evil dog driven by the girl named Yotsuya Miko. If it had not run fast, it would have become a snack in the dog's mouth. Then, although this man named Hotaru looks as easy to kill as Yotsuya Miko, there might actually be some trap waiting for him.

It carefully walked around the Huandeng River house again and again, which seemed a little too smart in the eyes of Uesugi Sumiya and Himegami Sakura.

"It has the ability to learn and summarize its experiences and lessons... Is this thing really an evil spirit? I remember that the evil spirits I saw before didn't look like this?"

Uesugi Cheng complained in disbelief. The evil spirits he had seen were extremely proficient in how to lure humans, as if it was an instinct engraved in their bones. However, this was the first time he had seen an evil spirit with such a strong learning ability.