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The so-called [Instant Weirdness] is the name given to this thing by Uncle Lin.

The reason why it is called "gui" is because this thing itself is a special phenomenon formed by some kind of weird, spiritual soul.

It is called "Instant" because the phenomenon caused by this thing only exists in the mind of the attacked person, and no matter how long the person spends in the strange illusion, in fact, to the bystanders, it is only a moment of less than one second.

This is not something that can be done by one or two sneaky creatures. For some time, Uncle Lin has been investigating this volunteer mission alone, and finally confirmed that the entire southern suburbs of Fengcheng City has completely turned into a place where evil spirits roam. Countless grudges have merged with each other to create a world that ordinary people cannot discover.

This world is usually isolated from the real world, but if someone has a strong sense of perception, they may be able to sense and discover this world and fall into it, falling into a momentary Shura state called [Instantaneous Weirdness] that only exists in the mind.

The essence of the instantaneous strange state is not a direct contact with those things, but a severe mental shock after coming into contact with countless sneakily constructed [fields].

In this illusion, the power of those sneaky things will continue to increase with the improvement of [communication] and [cognition], and will gradually affect the mind of the attacked, step by step putting them in an escapeable situation, and reflect the mental changes on the real body.

Lin Yi’s previous exploration was a very significant confirmation. He established communication with those sneaky creatures and continued to go deeper into dangerous environments. As a result, along with the [decapitation] in the spiritual realm, his body in the real world was directly decapitated, and he was almost sent away at the beginning.

However, simply avoiding communication and cognition and choosing to stay away from danger does not mean that you can be safe from hallucinations.

In the spiritual world, people's cognition will become similar to a dream state. It is difficult for people to recognize the dangers around them and take precautions. Even without any communication, after seeing those things and establishing [cognition] of them, the real sneaky things outside the illusion will be able to establish contact with the victims after they come out of the illusion, and ignore the space and directly reach the victims' surroundings to attack them.

If this step is not enough, then go one step further. The power of these killed and destroyed ghosts will not disappear directly, but leave a [trace] on the spot. The trace itself is directly connected to the [field] of the ghosts, so the ghosts in it can emerge continuously from it, kill the victims, and gradually transform an area into the domain of the ghosts, turning it into a nightmare place that the living are forbidden to enter.

"Before you entered this mission, I had been active in this mission world for about a month. [Instant Trick] cannot be discovered by ordinary people, but those special people with different perceptions from ordinary people were attacked and killed. Even if someone occasionally managed to escape from the illusion, they would die in the subsequent sneak attacks. When I just entered the sealed city, there were already more than 20 sneaky areas of various sizes spreading throughout the city."

"There are many twisted sneaky things wandering in these areas. Although they cannot be seen by ordinary people, their existence itself will constantly weaken the power of living people, and gradually make ordinary people able to see them, which will then lead to greater tragedies. For this reason, I had to spend a lot of time to clear out the sneaky areas outside the southern suburbs to ensure that the power of that forbidden area would not spread to the outside world. It was not until a few days ago that I barely suppressed the spread of that thing."

In an inconspicuous teahouse, Uncle Lin explained with a serious expression what happened before Lin Yi and others arrived.

"[Instant Trick]? That's right, I got caught without even realizing it, and I didn't even realize what was happening until I was attacked."

Lin Yi nodded slightly, reached out and rubbed his neck again, with a somewhat unhappy expression on his face.

The mission almost went wrong just at the beginning, which is not a good thing.

Although he quickly healed himself after being injured, and through energy resonance he then roughly figured out how these strange things worked, thus ensuring that he would be immune to the momentary weirdness and would not be pulled into the hallucination again, the previous near-accident was still a bit unpleasant.

"I have a special energy resonance method that will prevent me from being pulled into the illusion again, but Tanjiro, Suzuran and Miko don't have this power. Especially Miko, her perception is very high. We have to find a way to prevent her from being pulled into the illusion again."

After some thought, Lin Yi made a request to Uncle Lin.

"Don't worry about this problem. I have a solution. Follow me."

Uncle Lin turned and left after saying this. Lin Yi and the others followed him into the teahouse and went upstairs to a small secluded room.

Lin Yi noticed that the windows of this room were covered with yellow talisman paper, and there were some strange symbols drawn on the door with red paint.

There were several tablets and statues in the house, as well as a huge incense stand, on which most of the incense sticks had been burned to the roots. Some unknown objects were piled on one side of the house, and on the other side were several sealed jars, and even a lot of cold weapons such as swords and spears were placed in the house.

"Two weeks ago, the owner's child was trapped in the [Momentary Ghost]. After escaping, he was haunted by a fierce ghost and nearly died. After I rescued his child, he gave this room to me to decorate. Now, the three of you, each take a strand of hair and blood."

Amid the calm words, Miko, Suzuran and Tanjiro each took out a strand of their hair and a drop of blood, while Uncle Lin took out a large piece of yellow paper, cut out three paper figures from it, dripped a different paper figure on each of them, then passed his hair through the paper figure and took out a red rope to wrap around the paper figure.

Lin Yi felt an imperceptible flow of energy while the other party was performing their skills. It seemed that the three of them had established some kind of connection with the three paper figures. It was also as if the paper figures possessed some kind of aura and were able to obscure the auras of the three saviors, or in other words... were bearing something on behalf of the three of them?

"You must carry this paper figure with you at all times and make sure it is not damaged."

Uncle Lin handed the three paper figures to Linglan and the others, gave them some casual instructions, and then the three of them returned to the small room in the teahouse.

When he walked out of the room, Lin Yi turned around and looked at the window. He found that the yellow talisman on one of the windows seemed to have traces of burning, as if something had tried to break into the room. Moreover, when he looked at the sealed jars carefully, Lin Yi vaguely felt the same gloomy atmosphere as he had felt in the apartment building before. He was afraid that the things sealed in the jars were not things that could get along well with people.

Before the four of us came, Uncle Lin had stayed in this city alone for a month.

Has he been trying to figure out how to deal with that haunted paradise in the southern suburbs for a whole month?

Although the other party claimed to be just an ordinary F-level savior, Lin Yi was sure that this man should have some powerful power against evil things, and could display abilities far beyond other saviors when dealing with this kind of enemy.

Is that a strategic savior with a specific specialty?

He seems to be a very reliable teammate.

"Well, before explaining the specific progress, let me remind you of one thing."

After returning to the teahouse, Uncle Lin looked at the people present and spoke slowly with a dignified expression.

"The rating for this volunteer mission is Sipok, but it is actually very likely that it has reached Waim. It's just that the volunteer mission rescuer system pays little attention to it, so the classification is not strict enough."

"That is to say, we are about to face a very dangerous situation. If we don't have the confidence to deal with these things, it's better to leave quickly."

"After all, according to my investigations over this period of time, the source of danger in this volunteer mission is very likely to be artificially created. The specific situation is still confusing and difficult to confirm. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is extremely dangerous."

Uncle Lin's expression was extremely dignified as he said this, with a bit of the demeanor of a master.

However, Lin Yi did not pay too much attention to the other party's words, but just used the system's private chat function to ask Tanjiro and others.

【Lin Yi: What are the Sipok and Waim that Uncle Lin just mentioned? 】

[Lily of the Valley: Maybe... you're talking about the two levels of danger, Spark and Vlam?]

[Tanjiro Kamado: When Uncle Hayashi said these two levels of danger, his pronunciation was very similar to the pronunciation of the Demon Slayer Corps when they were learning foreign languages.]

[Yotani Miko: Stop complaining about Japan's foreign language at this time. This uncle is obviously not going to harm the correct pronunciation of the grade, so don't worry about it.]

In short, the image of Uncle Lin, who just had the demeanor of a hermit, changed slightly in the hearts of several people after he uttered this sentence.

Of course, these are just minor details. The most important thing at the moment is how to resolve the crisis in this volunteer mission.

"Is the sneaky area in the southern suburbs of Feng City artificially created?"

Lin Yi muttered to himself, thinking and recalling the sneaky things he had encountered in the apartment building before, which filled all five floors and even created a non-existent sixth floor.

"Yes, I have been to the southern suburbs many times in the past month. I am very sure that the ground veins of this place have been changed, and it was changed at least decades ago, forming an unprecedented gathering place of yin, which is enough to gather the yin and evil energy of the entire planet and imprison all the wrongfully dead people in the world in the southern suburbs, causing this place to change step by step."

Uncle Lin nodded, his expression still extremely serious.

"As the saying goes, people become bad because they don't live up to expectations, and people become sneaky because they have too much to swallow."

"This energy is becoming more and more concentrated, changing the originally normal environment, and turning the southern suburbs into a hell on earth. Currently, these things can only be seen by a few people, but if they continue to develop, they will become visible to ordinary people and become enough to affect the entire world. That is when the real disaster will break out."

"And this behavior of changing the earth veins cannot be formed naturally. It is too deliberate. It can only be man-made. And according to my investigations over the past period of time, the people of this world do not have the power to control the earth veins. In other words, we may have to face enemies like [Evolvers] who can travel through the world."

As he spoke, the expressions of the people present became serious.

Evolver.

Lin Yi silently chewed on these three words in his heart.

Will I encounter those guys again in this volunteer mission?

Last time it was the extremely powerful opponent Atreus. This time, if we really meet him, what kind of guy will he be?

Chapter D-08: Mixed Souls: The Hour of the Rooster

Time passed slowly, and it was almost dusk.

In front of the gate of Fengdu City Municipal Mental Hospital, Uncle Lin slowly stepped in and raised his head to look upwards.

Tanjiro and Suzuran followed behind him. Suzuran wore a leaf that had been cast by Uncle Lin, which created a slight illusion so that people around her would not pay attention to her ears and tail.

On the other side, near the entrance to South Suburbs, Lin Yi and Jianzi were waiting for dark in a small square on the street.

There are several reasons for choosing to divide the work. One is that Lin Yi's special resonance ability and Jianzi's senses can play a big role in facing those strange and sneaky things. After having some experience from previous encounters, they can have a way to deal with further in-depth investigations. In contrast, Tanjiro and Suzuran don't have particularly good coping methods, and Uncle Lin also needs help with another matter.

"Uncle Lin, what exactly do you need help with?"

Tanjiro, who had changed into modern clothes and hid the Nichirin sword in a backpack, looked at the deserted corridor at the entrance of the mental hospital and asked curiously. By the way, this backpack was actually commissioned by the Demon Slayer Corps in the Savior Community. It can block the detection methods of various security inspection machines. It is a camouflage tool made for the Demon Slayer Corps members to avoid trouble when performing missions in the modern and future background worlds.

"There is a patient here who survived after going deep into the southern suburbs. His name is Zhang Yuan. His condition is somewhat different from the victims I met before. I need to confirm it further. If the problem is serious, perhaps the situation in the southern suburbs has begun to change further."

Uncle Lin explained briefly and then looked towards the ward in front of him.

This is the latest victim of the Nanjiao ghost den. The victim Zhang Yuan and his three college roommates, together with the girlfriend of one of the roommates, drove to the Nanjiao at midnight. It is speculated that they may have heard some horror legends about the Nanjiao and therefore wanted to test their courage there.

The result of that test of courage was that Ayuan himself disappeared, and then the other few returned to school the next day and started killing people like crazy in the dormitory, using tools such as kitchen knives and axes to crazily attack other students and dormitory managers. They were finally shot dead on the spot by the police.

In fact, A Yuan himself was not missing, but was found by Uncle Lin fainted on a street in the southern suburbs. He then brought him back and secretly sent him to this mental hospital for protection after discovering that his mental state was abnormal. He was originally going to further confirm A Yuan's situation at noon today, but he did not expect Lin Yi and others to appear and trigger the sneaky power of the southern suburbs, so he had to help these companions out of danger first.

"Master Lin, you are finally here."

After Uncle Lin passed through the sealed iron gate and went up to the fifth floor, a middle-aged woman quickly came up to him and looked at him with a worried expression.

"How's the child?"

Uncle Lin didn't waste any words and started asking about the situation directly.

"It's so bad... Ayuan didn't say anything the whole time. He just stared at us and smiled. He, he made us all feel terrified. I don't think he is Ayuan at all. I... please, Master Lin, you have to help us!"

The woman seemed to be under great mental stress. She clutched Uncle Lin's sleeve tightly and pleaded in a low voice.

"I will do my best. Take me to check out the situation first. These two are my...apprentices. They will help and assist me."

After roughly confirming the situation, Uncle Lin nodded slightly and signaled Tanjiro and Suzuran to follow him to the ward.

This ward is a special ward in the mental hospital. The door is reinforced, the interior of the room is padded, and the bed in the room is an extremely sturdy restraint bed that can effectively prevent the patient from causing harm to himself.

The moment he entered the ward, Tanjiro felt a strange and cold sensation. Although he didn't see anything, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, with goose bumps all over his body.

A terrible smell... a feeling of despair and terror...

Tanjiro lifted his nose slightly and smelled an indescribable smell at this moment.

"Well, this person..."

Lily of the Valley slightly tightened her grip on the staff disguised as a crutch in her hand, and subconsciously took a step back and adopted a defensive posture.

Tanjiro didn't quite understand why Suzuran had such a reaction, but when he looked in the direction of Suzuran's gaze, he immediately had a similar reaction.

Just to be watched.

On the hospital bed, firmly fixed in the straitjacket, he was being watched by that man.

look.

It was a chilling look that seemed to chill the very bones of the body.

Tanjiro couldn't describe the expression on the young man's face as he looked at him. Even the demons he had fought before had never made him feel this way. This wasn't a difference in aura and temperament caused by strength, but... a feeling of being completely [inhuman].

Because even the most cruel and vicious demon is still transformed from a human, and Tanjiro can still feel the remnants of humanity in the other party.

And such a gaze... the only way the boy could think of to describe it was that the other party had absolutely no connection with [human beings], and was a terrifying existence beyond cognition in the absolute sense. There was no way for them to understand each other, no way for them to feel each other. There was only deep terror and distortion, only the feeling that they absolutely could not coexist, which emerged in his heart at this moment.

How can humans have such a vision?

At this moment, Tanjiro understood why the middle-aged woman, Zhang Yuan's mother, was in a state of near collapse.

"As expected, it's possession? No, it's [Mixed Souls]. Even the King of Hell would frown when seeing such a vicious method."

Compared to Tanjiro and Suzuran, Uncle Lin stood there motionless, as if he had seen such situations many times. Therefore, he just frowned and stared at the young man on the bed and spoke slowly, with a bit of disgust in his voice.

"Mixed soul, what does it mean?"

Linglan took a deep breath, calmed herself down, and then asked Uncle Lin.

"A ghost has possessed his spirit, and mixed its own soul with the other person's. People have three souls and seven spirits, and ghosts are usually missing a certain soul. This thing, it mixed its own soul with the soul of the person, forcibly fused the two into one, and in the process constantly devoured the person's soul. In other words, even now, this possessed thing is [eating] Ayuan's soul."

Taking a deep breath, Uncle Lin's expression became extremely serious the next moment.

"Get ready. We must remove this possessed thing immediately. Otherwise, even if he recovers, Ayuan will become demented."

Uncle Lin said this and signaled Tanjiro and Suzuran to take out the magical weapons they were carrying.

At the same time as things were progressing on this side, Lin Yi had already stood up at the entrance to the southern suburbs.

"So, this is the second exploration."

Looking at the setting sun, Lin Yi's voice became extremely serious.

"Well, I'm ready, Senior."

The girl next to him nodded seriously and waved her hands vigorously. She looked very cute with her serious expression.

"You've grown a lot, Jianzi. You were also able to escape from the [Instant Trick] on your own without any external help before, which was better than what I, a senior, did. This time, I may have to rely on you."

Seeing that the other party looked very serious, Lin Yi couldn't help but smile and spoke.

"Without the guidance and help of my predecessors, I would definitely not be able to become what I am now. Anyway, this time, let us continue to work together to overcome the difficulties."

Jianzi spoke softly to Lin Yi with a smile, which was completely different from her timid look two months ago, making Lin Yi feel even more emotional.

[And me, I will also provide assistance to Mr. Lin Yi]

Iino's voice sounded at this time, and it seemed to be in a hurry to declare its existence.

It was already six o'clock in the afternoon. Without any hesitation, Lin Yi began to walk towards the southern suburbs.

I don’t know what I will encounter this time.