A comic book, but a librarian

The heads of Buddha statues were scattered everywhere in the huge space. The moment they stepped into the door, there was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground. Then, as if realizing something, Yashiki Kazuo looked back at the iron door he came in through. At this moment, the iron door was locked. Then, the sound of roaring water reached the heads of the three people, and soon the water submerged their feet.

"Safety valve... the code word for safety valve is diamond! Yashiki, diamond!"

Uesugi Cheng immediately thought of the diamond in the record that was out of tune with the other words and shouted it out.

"Diamonds... What are diamonds..."

132

Chapter 132: Death Seal-The Difficulty of Guanyin Soldiers.

"Diamond! It's Vajra! Vajra Arhat!"

At the critical moment when the water level was gradually rising, Daimon Shuji suddenly had an idea and shouted out. Yashiki Kazuo immediately understood what he meant and found the head of Vajra Arhat which was almost at hand.

As he pressed down hard on the Vajra Arhat's head, the valve on the ground seemed to be opened. However, what the two thin middle-aged men, Daimon Shuji and Yashiki Kazuo, did not expect was that the suction of the valve seemed to be too strong and the water flow was too rapid. They slipped and fell directly into the valve.

"Hey! Are you okay?"

Uesugi Cheng did not expect that those two people were so unreliable, but considering that the people who were marked would not only lose their memories, but also their physical condition would gradually become weak.

Uesugi Sumiya could only sigh, because he didn't have this feeling at all and actually forgot about this matter.

The water pouring down from above was gradually weakening, completely lacking the momentum of the waterfall just now, but Uesugi Cheng could no longer figure out what this place was used for, a storage room? Or was it just used as a garbage dump?

However, since Yashiki Kazuo and Daimon Shuji had been swept away from the room, there was no need for him to worry about anything anymore. He jumped lightly from the platform with the Buddha heads and kicked open the door that had just been locked. At that moment, Uesugi Sumiko felt that something seemed to be touched, and along with it, the breath of death and decay seemed to begin to spread towards this place.

"Guanyin soldiers? Let me see what kind of disgusting weapons those scumbags from fifty years ago could make..."

Uesugi Cheng did not notice that his emotions seemed a little abnormally excited, or he noticed it but did not care at all. When facing the enemy, appropriate excitement can make it easier for him to concentrate.

Soon after.

"Cough cough cough..."

Yashiki Kazuo woke up with difficulty from the feeling of being cold all over. He looked at his wet clothes and the short and wretched homeless man next to him. He wanted to speak, but no sound came out.

"Didn't I warn you last time not to come in again? Oh, don't worry, your companion is fine."

The homeless old man looked relaxed and didn't feel that the place was dangerous at all.

"My name is Bansi, and I'm a homeless person living here. I'm not trying to save you, but I'm hungry."

An idea suddenly occurred to Yashiki Kazuo. Language and words are really wonderful things. Although what Bansi said was incoherent, he still understood what Bansi meant.

With Bansi's help, he successfully left the underground pipe. The moment he saw the door, he felt like a huge stone had fallen from his heart. The two of them immediately began to wipe their bodies with towels, and then tried to change their clothes to prevent their already weak bodies from being attacked by the disease. However, the chill brought by soaking in the cold water for more than an hour obviously could not be driven away so quickly. Even the warm air in the car was not enough to restore consciousness to their cold hands and feet immediately.

"By the way...where's that high school kid?"

Daimon Shuji's doubtful words startled Yashiki Kazuo. He turned to look at the old homeless man next to him, but the other party just said.

"I didn't see any high school students at all. You two were the only ones who landed there following that super loud noise... Is there someone else in there?!!"

Bansi suddenly understood what the two people meant and his face turned very ugly.

"That place... there's a walking Buddha statue there! If you come across that thing!"

Bansi's words made the two men's faces change instantly. Daimon Shuji spoke before Yashiki Kazuo, who was still unable to speak clearly, and asked.

"You saw the walking Buddha statue, didn't you? Where is it?!"

"No, if anyone stays in there, they will definitely be killed by the Buddha statue! I will go back and find him and bring him out!"

The old homeless man who was obviously a mercenary just now was unexpectedly proactive at this moment. He was about to get off Hachiki's car and return to the underground passage. He knew very well that the Buddha statue was definitely not something that humans should deal with. He had seen the Buddha statue from a distance, which seemed to have just appeared at that time. The horrible appearance and strong malice made Bansi feel that his heart almost stopped beating.

"Wasn't he washed away with us? Why did he have to do it at this time..."

Yashiki Kazuo was finally able to speak. He propped up his car and got out to rescue the person. He still remembered that Uesugi Sumire saved him next to the telephone booth a few nights ago.

"You can't even stand steadily now. Are you going to be a burden over there? I'll just go with you."

Daimon Shuji, who seemed to be in better condition, stopped Yashiki Kazuo's plan. He pushed Yashiki back into the car, and then followed the old man Bansi to crawl back into the underground passage.

This time, in addition to water vapor, the underground passage was also filled with the smell of blood. The rotten and fishy smell spread along with the smell of blood, and the gate had a bad premonition.

"Is there anyone who can be so shameless? No wonder it can be used as a weapon..."

Uesugi Cheng was a little worried. The huge Buddha statue was waving its eight arms. It should have been a stone statue, but the arms were as soft as those of humans.

The Buddha's head had obviously been sawed off, and replaced by a distorted human head. Four of the Buddha's eight arms were placed on its head, two arms were holding up its hair, and two arms were covering its face, as if it was very reluctant to let people see its face. The remaining four arms each held a sharp weapon, which looked as if they were obtained locally in this underground research institute, intending to make all living humans taste its pain.

There was a faint sound of chanting coming from the side of the Buddha statue, which caused a slight disturbance to Uesugi Cheng's soul. If an ordinary person stood in front of it, he would probably just be slaughtered by it.

However, these are not the fundamental reasons for Uesugi Cheng's complaints. The most fundamental reason is its tricky ability, semi-spiritualization.

To put it simply, when facing physical attacks, it can transform into a semi-spiritual body to avoid the attacks, but when facing attacks with spiritual power and soul power, it can withstand them all with its hard stone body that is blessed by spiritual power.

"What's more troublesome is... cough cough cough."

The mark appeared on Uesugi Cheng's body again, this time on his abdomen. He could feel the burning pain in his abdomen, but that was not the point. The point was that something seemed to be trying to urge him to do something.

133

Chapter 133: Escape from the underground passage.

Of course, what Uesugi Cheng was worried about was not how to deal with the Guanyin soldiers. After all, the attacks of the Guanyin soldiers didn't seem to be anything special except for the death seal and the sound of chanting. If it didn't work, he could still ask Baoyue Yexiao to come over. She would surely have a great interest in this evil spirit that could switch between the virtual and the real at will, especially the means of imposing marks. Even if it was not the power of the Guanyin soldiers, Yexiao should be as curious about the mastermind behind the scenes as Uesugi Cheng.

No matter what, while he is using [Silent Contemplation of Dawn] to observe, he will not be attacked or affected by the Guanyin soldiers.

What worries Uesugi Cheng is what happens after solving the Guanyin soldiers. For example, the so-called "Tianfo Project". It can be seen that these crazy things are simply planning to use human lives to fill in controllable evil spirit weapons. It is even more excessive than Baoyue Yexiao's capture of evil spirits and raising Gu, but the value contained in it is self-evident.

After all, for some guys, hundreds of lives might not be as valuable as a Guanyin soldier, and this Guanyin soldier does not need to be controlled, just deploy it when the time comes... Ordinary weapons have little effect on this kind of semi-spiritual "weapon" that also comes with a curse.

"We have to destroy them all. It's such a huge project..."

Uesugi Cheng muttered to himself as the huge cone smashed into the wall, creating a circle of spider-web-like cracks. The Guanyin soldier roared in pain. In front of it, the iron door was like a piece of paper, but it just couldn't catch this living person who should have had his cervical vertebra broken like it.

"Uesugi!! Uesugi!! Where are you?!"

"I was just saying... this is the kind of thing I hate the most, but stories really like to use this kind of plot."

Uesugi Cheng was stunned for a moment when he heard the voice coming over. His face was full of helplessness. All the plans he had made were completely disrupted. What he had to do now was to run, run as hard as he could. So he shouted loudly.

"Run! Run as hard as you can! If you can't run, you'll die!!"

Along with his voice, hurried footsteps and the sound of stones hitting the ground rang out one after another. Uesugi Cheng did not intend to care what the Guanyin soldiers would do next. He realized something very important during the dealings just now. This thing might have just revived and had a very strong sense of territory. It had no intention of stepping out of the area that served as its territory. But perhaps after revivification, it would begin to actively "hunt".

"run!"

Almost the moment he heard Uesugi Sumiya's voice, Daimon Shuji grabbed the old man Banshi's arm and ran towards the exit with him without saying a word. He felt the mark on his chest as painful as if it was burned by a branding iron. Since Uesugi Sumiya still had the strength to respond to them, he naturally would not be stupid enough to go over and say that they would go out together after some rounds.

Unexpectedly, when it came to running, the short homeless old man ran faster than the dignified young man who was guarding the gate. Perhaps it was really the existence of the mark that caused his physical fitness to begin to deteriorate?

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

A sharp sound that sounded more like a wail than a roar was heard. The moment he heard the sound, Daimon Shuji felt his whole body begin to tremble uncontrollably. The threat of death was gradually taking away his right to move. Fortunately, he had already climbed to a position close to the wellhead by then, and Yashiki Kazuo above pulled him out with force.

"Bansi!"

Bansi below didn't seem to be so lucky. Halfway through climbing, his body became stiff and he seemed about to fall to the ground. You know, for an old man, if he fell straight down like this, he would most likely not be able to stand up again, even if he was in very good health.

“Get up there!!”

The voice coming from below was Uesugi Sumiya's. The thunder-like roar broke the influence of the scream, and in an instant Bansi successfully climbed up the ladder. Next, Uesugi Sumiya nimbly dodged the things thrown by the Guanyin soldier and climbed up the ladder. The huge Guanyin soldier looked at the small ladder that was only enough for people to go up and down and could only roar furiously.

"Ahem, ahem, I'm finally alive... I've never faced anything so exciting in my life."

Shuji Daimon lay on the ground retching, then simply lay on the cold floor looking up at the sky. The dark night covered up all sounds, and the roar that was so terrifying just now had now disappeared without a trace. Shuji Daimon couldn't help but sigh at the horror of the supernatural power. Then he saw Uesugi Sumiya who was working hard to put talismans beside him.

"I don't believe you can get out of here after what I've done to you!"

Various talismans sealed the manhole cover tightly. Both Yashiki Kazuo and Daimon Shuji suddenly began to think about a question: if they wanted to go in through the manhole cover again, would it be too much effort to remove these talismans?

"Come to think of it, Brother Uesugi, you have this skill..."

As more and more talismans appeared on the manhole cover, Yashiki Kazuo felt that the air around him was not as heavy as before. Although his body was still very cold, he had obviously recovered his breath.

"You have to have some tricks to deal with these guys. Come to think of it, the elementary school student you saw not long ago who stuffed evil spirits into dolls, her tricks to deal with these things are much better than mine."

Uesugi Cheng did not lie. He was an academic talent and was more concerned with books, while Baoyue Yexiao was facing evil spirits that could tear her to pieces at any time. Her skills could be said to be the result of her fighting her way out of a pile of evil spirits.

"Really? Young people are really formidable. If I have the chance, I will pay a proper visit to them."

Yashiki Kazuo did not say that Uesugi Sumire seemed to have changed, because he could not tell exactly what had changed about Uesugi Sumire.

"You suddenly discovered that you also have a psychic physique? Then you really need to ask her. That little girl's favorite thing is to collect evil spirits. She will definitely be very happy if you can take her to find a powerful evil spirit."

Uesugi Sumiya's words had made Daimon Shuji's eyes blank. Elementary school girl, collecting evil spirits, capable, he could never have thought that these three groups of words could be put together.

"Go back first. You need to change your clothes. Don't let yourself get sick before fighting the evil spirit. Then we have to look through the notes again. At worst, I can call someone over. She must be very curious about these things."

What Uesugi Cheng said was unanimously approved, and finally the car was driven back to Kujo Hall by Uesugi Cheng, who did not have a driver's license but had rich driving experience.

134

Chapter 134: Gathering troops.

So, at dawn the next day, several people sat in the Kujo Pavilion. The two people who had been soaked in water for almost an hour changed their clothes and finally looked better. Then they prepared to take Bansi to the restaurant to have a good meal as agreed with him.

"Take a look at this information first. This is what I found when I was dealing with that guy underground..."

Uesugi Cheng took out a stack of severely weathered papers. Of course, he brought a small bag as a cover when he went downstairs. These papers were actually thrown directly into a room in the Silent Bookstore and then sorted out by Himegami Sakura.

"The 'Heavenly Buddha' project, are they really crazy... or is it that the plan to defraud funds has actually paid off?"

Yashiki Kazuo didn't know how to evaluate what happened in this underground research institute. A person's cervical vertebrae were broken with a Buddhist sculptor's chisel while he was awake, and then the human head was placed on the neck of a headless Buddha statue, all for an illusory plan. He felt that as a human being, such a thing would never even think of.

"According to this 70, at least people died in that place. Not counting those killed by the Guanyin soldiers later, there must be at least a hundred bodies piled up underground. The vengeful spirits generated under such circumstances... are perfectly in line with the weapons they wanted to create in their original plan."

Uesugi Cheng remembered the ability of half-spiritualization and told it to the remaining two people.

"That half-spiritual transformation needs to be resolved with the Kagura Bell, right? But the Kagura Bell can only be used by women."

Yashiki Kazuo sighed. He really didn't expect that in the end he would have to ask Uesugi Sumiya to bring Baoyue Yexiao over. After all, the female researcher Hiroo was not as calm as Yexiao when facing the evil spirit.

"So next, besides the semi-spiritual transformation... Mr. Yashiki, you have obviously been to that underground research institute, right?"

Yashiki Kazuo was stunned for a moment, then nodded. He looked a little confused and a little painful.

"I should... have been there, but... I don't remember anything. Because of the mark, I don't remember anything."

"You're talking about this... Old man, I saw this person ten days ago. Wait... Old man, I remember now!! I saw you five years ago! In that underground research institute!!"

Bansi put down his bowl and said something that shocked everyone. Then he seemed to remember something and patted his head and said.

"Yes, I saw you in the underground research institute that year! But you did it for... for..."

Bansi suddenly covered his head, and it seemed that he could not recall the part of his memory that was erased by the Death Mark.

"Don't be in a hurry to remember it. Let's deal with the Guanyin soldiers first. And old man, you don't have this mark on your body, do you? No... you must have it. You have seen the Guanyin soldiers."

Uesugi Cheng then remembered that in Bansi's autobiography, he had seen the "walking Buddha statue" from afar, so naturally there was no way he could escape the curse of the Death Seal.

As expected, Bansi took off the scarf around his neck, revealing a bright red mark.

"Yes, yes, are you interested? After all, there's a big guy squatting behind it. Coming soon? Okay... We'll wait for you at XX Restaurant."

Uesugi Cheng hung up the phone, and Baoyue Yexiao seemed very interested. Although today was a school day, Baoyue Yexiao stayed at home to study on her own and Baoyue Yongzi was a college student and had no classes today, so they could come over immediately.

"Oh, by the way, I found this bunch of keys in the underground passage. It must be useful to you. My memory is so bad that I almost forgot it."

Under everyone's gaze, Bansi took out a bunch of keys. Obviously, those were the keys to the locked iron gate.

"I didn't expect to find you here... I'm so lucky."

Yashiki Kazuo finally heard some good news. The places where the evil spirits were generated probably contained a lot of relevant information, which might contain methods on how to defeat them. More information meant more chances of survival.

"Appeared in an underground facility five years ago..."

Uesugi Sumiko remembered the old newspapers in Kujo-kan. Five years ago, the previous head of the Kujo family disappeared, and Kujo Saya took over the Kujo family and Kujo-kan.

Let's look at Yashiki Kazuo again. Although he looks more like a homeless middle-aged uncle, it is obvious that Yashiki Kazuo meets the answers in all aspects, and he suddenly begins to recall things in the underground facility.

"Speaking of which... that chisel, was it in that big house? When I passed by that room just now, I felt the mark."

Bansi spoke again, and Uesugi Cheng began to wonder if this old man had read the script. First he sent important props, and now he was sending important information.

"Wait, if that chisel is what we guessed, we have to go back to Kujo-kan later... that thing is too important."

Uesugi Sumiko said, and Yashiki Kazuo nodded. It would not be wrong to take something that is so closely related to evil spirits with you, as the weapon used to kill humans and create the Guanyin soldiers was the right thing to do.

"Uesugi! We're here!"