A comic book, but a librarian

Uesugi Cheng walked forward. The crude gun formation that originally consisted of only three or four soldiers had now expanded to a team of ten. It was obvious that this tyrannical method of taking away the evil spirits and transforming them into "soldiers" made this space full of evil spirits feel threatened, or in other words, the evil spirits that had become increasingly crazy because they could not be freed for such a long time had undoubtedly set their sights on the outsiders who looked very threatening. In their eyes, perhaps only the screams and blood of the outsiders could temporarily calm their resentment.

The head of an evil spirit fell off from what could barely be considered its neck, along with its eyeballs and tongue. Its body, which was disintegrating like mud, exuded the most malicious curse of the dead, but it still closed its eyes under the illumination of the blood-red light.

Uesugi Sumiko's body was on the other side. At this moment, he looked no different from those terrible evil spirits. His soul was covered with dense scars and cracks, and there was a spreading light that seemed like dusk, but was far more terrifying than dusk.

"Although I stopped providing services to the 'Sunset' after the death of Emperor Elagabalus, I didn't expect that these things would still be preserved after I became an evil spirit?"

Uesugi Cheng stretched out his hand, with a red halo, a strange flame with a black flame core burning in his hand. This was a gift from the setting sun. After he became an evil spirit in this world, the rewards paid to him by the Sichen people in the waking world were now all transformed into the power of this terrifying evil spirit, Uesugi Cheng, in the form of a curse.

[Sad Ending - Setting Sun]: Enemies within the range will be ignited by the flames of the setting sun and then dragged into hell.

Of course, the hell here is not the virtual world of the waking world, but is directly burned into the most basic and pure spiritual power units. After returning to nature, however, generally speaking, these spiritual powers will become fuel for the burning flames, allowing more living and dead things to be ignited by the "flame" that represents a tragic ending.

Obviously, the flame was ignited in this space, but the area near Uesugi Sumira seemed to have lost temperature. First the road surface, then the various utensils, and finally even the bodies of the evil spirits were covered with frost, as if the temperature was ignited by the flame. After the evil spirits that came here were infected by the flame, even if they were lucky enough to cut themselves off and escape, they would soon be stabbed through the body by the soldiers around Uesugi Sumira and killed.

But even so, the evil spirits rushing towards Uesugi Cheng were still endless, and some even seemed to have become a lot stronger.

"I don't know if the commotion was big enough... I hope they have found the person."

Uesugi Cheng looked at the setting sun still hanging in the sky. After he turned into an evil spirit, the world seemed to be more accepting of him, but even so, he still felt as if he was at war with the whole world.

The next moment, the spearmen formed a formation again, and something stood out from the group of evil spirits and rushed directly towards Uesugi Cheng.

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"Huh...Huh...Nothing here, next area!"

Yotsuya Miko was panting, her eyes wide open as she scanned every corner of her surroundings. Next to her, Kawasaki Saki, who was holding a baseball bat that was said to be "blessed," was not panting, but her heavy breathing still showed that she had not fully recovered yet.

"Okay... let's go over there now. If we follow the route on the map, the possibility of encountering danger should be much smaller... right?"

The humans standing in front of them, or rather, 'something' that was once a human, were like zombies. The humanoid creatures that were being controlled to stagger forward were slowly approaching them. Something had already discovered them, and perhaps it was just playing with its prey, so it had no intention of showing up immediately.

"This is so troublesome... Are you okay, Jianzi?"

"That's great... After we fight our way out of here, turn over there. The concentration of resentment over there is lower."

If she had not been prepared in advance, Yotsuya Miko felt that her eyes would probably be completely ruined in this place. Everything in front of her was more or less tainted with resentment and death. The streets that looked ordinary to Saki Kawasaki were completely a huge road to hell in her eyes. But even so, she still saw places where the resentment was not so terrifying. Even now, that was still the area with the greatest possibility of living people.

"Go that way? Then you have to follow me closely... I'll lead the way!"

Saki Kawasaki clenched the bat and knocked an enemy away with one blow. The feeling of the hitting flesh made her feel a little uneasy, but now that there was no way out, she could only take one step at a time.

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168

Chapter 168: Area S-XXXX.

Also walking on the street, Yukinoshita Yukino looked at the dim sky and felt a little uncomfortable. This area, this street, and the words said by the middle-aged man made her feel confused. She only knew one thing, that is, she and Himeno Mikoto were trapped in this place for unknown reasons.

"Mikoto-san, can you still go?"

"That's fine with me...but where are we going?"

Yukinoshita Yukino was silent. This was the biggest problem facing them now. They didn't even know where they should go. This place was like a huge hunting ground, and they were the dying prey. They had relied on Himeno Mikoto's blood and her premonition to at least avoid being hurt by three terrifying earthbound spirits along the way, but even so, they were still just walking forward aimlessly.

"I... Let's go find a place that can contact the outside world. We should be able to find it."

Yukinoshita Yukino replied weakly. According to the middle-aged man, the inner S district should be completely isolated from the real S district in Tokyo. Even if they found a place to contact the outside world, how would they get out?

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

There was a sound of something hitting a concrete wall or a telephone pole, and Yukino Yukino and Himeno Mikoto wanted to leave immediately as if it was a conditioned reflex. After all, they had suffered a lot in this situation. In the S area, they had to put away their curiosity and ignore whatever happened on the road, otherwise they would be hunted down by all kinds of evil spirits for all kinds of strange reasons.

But this time, they were walking on a one-way street. When they looked back, the road behind them had turned into a silent wall, which seemed to be forcing them to move forward.

Then they covered their mouths, because in front of them, the middle-aged man who had entertained them was hammering his head against the electric pole again and again. The reason for hammering was because Yukinoshita Yukino had obviously seen that the man's head was already broken and bleeding, and it could even be said that the skull was already sunken. Logically, he should have been dead long ago.

But he seemed to be crazy, even though his cervical vertebra seemed to be broken, he swung his head against the telephone pole in front of him like a machine, splattering a lot of blood and even white stuff. Yukinoshita Yukino didn't want to think about what it was. The nausea made her want to vomit out all the stomach acid in her empty stomach. It was at this moment that she realized that she seemed to have not eaten for a long time.

However, just as they had expected the worst case scenario, when they appeared in this place, the middle-aged man stopped moving, and like a twisted puppet, he turned his head towards them in a way that was completely inconsistent with the structure of a human neck. There seemed to be a hint of surprise in his desperate eyes, and he squeezed out the last few words.

"Let's go... XXXX"

Then the fear on his face disappeared completely, revealing a strange and peaceful smile. He hit his head against the electric pole again, and then fell down headfirst, without a sound.

"What is that?"

Himeno Mikoto looked like she was about to vomit. The horrifying scene of blood and brains flowing out, coupled with the gentle smile the man maintained even after his death, made her legs tremble uncontrollably. Even though she had seen such a bloody scene in Yumeng, it was still too horrifying for an ordinary high school girl to see someone die in front of her in such a weird way at such a close distance.

"I don't know...but..."

The blood on the ground began to move and turned into an arrow, pointing to the road ahead.

"But it looks like it wants us to go there..."

Yukinoshita Yukino subconsciously looked back and saw an even more horrifying scene. The wall had moved closer at some point, and from a distance, it seemed not to be a wall, but a structure made up of countless twisted limbs.

“We have to…we have to get through. That thing behind us won’t let us go. We can’t leave.”

The walls on both sides were at least two meters high, and no one knew what was behind the walls. Himeno Mikoto and Yukinoshita Yukino stood there for a while, and after confirming that the terrifying "wall" was indeed approaching them, they had to move forward.

At the end of the road was a park. They couldn't describe what the monster was, as if it was made up of countless limbs, just staring at them. In fact, it was hard to say it was "staring" because they didn't even know whether it had eyes when picking up things.

"She stays, you leave."

The bloodstains on the white cloth on the ground formed these words. It was at this time that they discovered that the tree next to them was full of human heads, and the eyes of all the heads were staring straight at them, as if that was the monster's vision system.

"..."

Yukinoshita Yukino still stood in front of Himeno Mikoto. She certainly would not choose to believe what such a thing said. Not to mention that Himeno Mikoto had helped her so much along the way, even if she left this place, where could she go?

The monster seemed so happy that even the heads hanging on the trees began to laugh. Yukinoshita Yukino just wanted to take the initiative, at least she couldn't die without making any attempts. But when she wanted to move, she found that her body could no longer move. Instead, it was as if someone forcibly lifted her arms and punched Himeno Mikoto next to her.

Himeno Mikoto was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground by a punch. The people around her laughed sharply, as if they were mocking Yukinoshita Yukino for overestimating her own abilities.

"In that case, you will have to kill her yourself."

Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't control her mouth and uttered these words. It was obvious that Himeno Mikoto had understood what had happened. She desperately shook out her blood, which splashed onto Yukinoshita Yukino's face.

"No... Let's go..."

Although Himeno Mikoto's blood is very effective against evil spirits and monsters, it can only allow Yukinoshita Yukino to speak with difficulty.

Yukinoshita Yukino still couldn't control herself and swung her fist towards Himeno Mikoto who was lying on the ground.

Then her hands were held tightly.

“Stop her!!!”

A familiar voice came from behind her. At this moment, her thoughts coincided with those of the evil spirits. She successfully turned around.

Yotsuya Miko looked like she was about to faint, but she held a flag tightly in her hand and waved it at Yukinoshita Yukino.

"Do it!"

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169

In Chapter 169, Area S - the evil spirit doll Himegami Sakura.

In fact, it was difficult for Yukinoshita Yukino to explain what she saw. Her body was controlled by the monster called 'XXXX' and her field of vision was extremely narrow. She could only see Yotsuya Miko and Kawasaki Saki rushing over from a distance, but she had no idea what they were doing or what they had done.

Himeno Mikoto fell to the ground, holding her stomach. The solid punch from Yukinoshita Yukino left her with no strength to get up for a while, but her stomach was still aching. She opened her eyes wide and looked at the two girls of her age rushing towards her, a little surprised.

Yotsuya Miko waved the flag in her hand to stop the evil spirit of Yukinoshita Yukino... Himeno Mikoto didn't know if it should still be called an evil spirit. There was nothing above the black flag, but the controlled Yukinoshita Yukino was fixed in place and unable to move.

"Ahhhh!!!"

The tree with the human heads was shaking, and the human heads on it were roaring angrily. Countless pairs of eyes were staring at the uninvited guests who had ruined their plans, as if they wanted to skin them alive.

"Yukinoshita! Are you guys okay?"

Yotsuya Miko stood firm, holding the flag and confronting the strange big tree in front of her. Behind her, Kawasaki Saki helped up Himeno Mikoto who fell to the ground, and then approached Yukinoshita Yukino, looking for a way to take her away.

"Feel sorry."

Yukinoshita Yukino said in a low voice, her voice showing a rare fatigue. Although her body was still extremely stiff, she could finally relax a little in her heart.

"Sister Yukino is... being controlled. Be careful."

Himeno Mikoto finally relaxed, leaned against the wall and spoke, as if she was looking for something to enlarge her wound and squeeze out the blood to dispel the evil spirit that was controlling Yukinoshita Yukino.

"Don't mess around, protect yourself first... We will handle these things!"

Saki Kawasaki sighed as she watched Himeno Mikoto's actions, took out the blood-stained scripture, and stuck it on Yukinoshita Yukino's clothes.

The paper, which was so old that it seemed like it could fall apart at any time, was now extremely tough. The fonts and the blood-stained words twisted and changed together, as if countless sentences flashed by in an instant. Yukinoshita Yukino fell down, looking like she had a serious illness. Her face was pale and her lips were gray, but she still managed to squeeze out a sentence.

"Thank you..."

"That's nothing. The problem now is how are we going to get out of this damn place."

Saki Kawasaki looked at Yukinoshita Yukino, who was probably unable to stand up, and finally carried her on her back, then lit a talisman with a lighter.

"Jianzi... Let's retreat slowly. This guy doesn't look like a good person."

Saki Kawasaki felt that she was no different from someone who was listening in all directions and looking in all directions. After carrying Yukinoshita Yukino on her back, she had been trying to find a way to leave here. However, it seemed that the "human head tree" in front of them was obviously unwilling to let them leave.

"This guy is probably the biggest evil spirit entrenched here... No wonder there are so few evil spirits here, their territorial awareness is quite strong."

In front of Yotsuya Miko, two black evil spirits blocked the flying stones and steel bars, which seemed to be mixed with some body parts and blood.

"Death, death, death!!!"

Countless heads were shouting with anger and murderous intent, and the monster made up of countless limbs that was originally standing in the middle of the park finally moved.

"Jianzi! Be careful!"

Saki Kawasaki shouted as she watched the monster running at such speed. It was the first time she truly witnessed the powerful strength of such a monster.

“Please stand back.”

A faint and soft voice sounded, and Kawasaki Saki subconsciously took a step back, then looked back as if she had come to her senses. Behind the road, fog spread along with noisy sounds.

"Well, I haven't seen this in a long time... This is a really nice place, but it's a pity that it's better to be with the master."

The petite doll stepped out of the mist, its eyes seemed to be gouged out, leaving only dark holes like the abyss. The gorgeous clothes on its body were now stained with blood, and the doll's flawless face like white jade was now covered with cracks. Kawasaki Saki squinted her eyes and saw that those cracks seemed to be permeating some grayish-white mist, and in the grayish-white mist behind her that was rolling as if boiling, screams seemed to be heard from time to time.

"Everyone... well, according to the time here it should be afternoon, okay. I'm here to escort you out. Please follow me."

Himegami Sakura stretched out her hand, and countless arms stretched out from the mist, some made of porcelain, some made of wood, and even some made of human beings. She covered the lower half of her face with a small fan, leaving only the two dark and frightening eye holes in front of the several female high school students present.

"I think you're scarier than that guy..."

Saki Kawasaki was very tactful and did not say this. She felt that neither the puppet behind her nor the big tree in front of her were good people, so she did not move.

"Is it Sakura?"

Yotsuya Miko recognized the true face of the doll. After all, she had just mentioned "Sir", which was her unique name for Uesugi Sumire.

"It's me, Miss Jianzi. Please bring your companions with me. I'll take care of this guy... Although it's a bit troublesome, it's just a trouble."

Himegami Sakura's long hair fluttered. Even though she looked gentle and harmless, she was still a 'spirit' nurtured by the Hinashiro Shrine after nearly a hundred years of worship. She had the necessary power.

"it is good!"

Yotsuya Miko looked at the somewhat creepy fog, finally gritted her teeth and nodded, slowly stepped back, letting Himegami Sakura walk to the front and confront the big tree, then turned around and left with the remaining three people.

"Next... well, I rarely do this, but since the master is not here, a small loss of composure should be allowed."

At this moment, Himegami Sakura looked more like a revenge doll in some urban legend than a cute doll. Dark liquid flowed from her eyes, and countless grievances spread along with the mist, colliding with the roaring human-head tree.

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"The communication device has been set on fire... They should be preparing to evacuate!! Ms. Yongzi, be ready to respond at any time!"

Hikigaya Hachiman lit the candle in his hand and maintained the door that suddenly began to shake. This was the signal they had agreed on before the action began. They all held a talisman paper of the same style in their hands. As long as one of the talismans was lit, the others would also catch fire. Once this happened, it meant that everyone had to evacuate, no matter what they were doing.

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170

Chapter 170: Area S - Start another fire.

"Let's go... they should have succeeded!"

The moment Baoyue Yexiao saw the talisman paper floating out and burning, she waved her hand very soberly. Although the spirit in the transition period seemed to be still a little unsatisfied, after weighing the pros and cons, she immediately followed Baoyue Yexiao. After all, as long as she followed the girl in front of her, there would be no shortage of such good things.

"The spirits here...are a bit weak. Their numbers are terrifying, but this space shouldn't only have these things..."