From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

With such hope, Natsukawa felt much less burdened when he told Chiyu Moriyama and Rena Kawaguchi what had happened.

Although it was just a guess, the legendary Shikigami were more of spirits than entities. Xiachuan hoped that Shengli and Luko could come back in another form. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, he would give 100% effort to save them.

Both girls tried to comfort him in return, but Xia Chuan could detect subtle differences in their emotions.

Chisuke Moriyama is strong yet also sad and uneasy, whereas Rena Kawaguchi's emotions have a little more hope.

Xia Chuan knew exactly what kind of thoughts were hidden in her head, which made him only shake his head.

However, he lost two of his important fighting forces at once, and they were the two strongest Shikigami. Even if it might be only temporary, it still had a great impact on the strength that Xia Chuan controlled.

Although it was a bit inhumane, while trying to save the two shikigami that were most likely just sleeping, Xiachuan also began to encourage Moriyama Chiyu and Kawaguchi Reina to raise new pets. On the other hand, the training of the apprentice shrine maidens of the Xiachuan Association was once again strengthened.

Although under the current circumstances, they probably have little chance to gain combat experience and hone their combat skills through actual combat, but Shikigami are Shikigami, and as long as they exist, they are valuable combat power.

Because small birds were specially chosen as pets to cultivate, and their training was strengthened according to the experience of Moriyama Chisuke, in fact, the pets of several shrine maidens have shown signs of imminent breakthroughs. But what worries Xiachuan more is that the two spirit rats of Nomiya Wakana, who first owned a Shikigami and also chose a small pet, and who has been investing a lot of energy in her pets since a long time ago, have not shown any signs of a breakthrough.

Nomiya Wakana did not abandon them, but just kept more spirit rats as pets. In fact, she now has seven spirit rats as pets, but except for the first awakened Poji, the other six are just smarter and stronger than ordinary spirit rats.

Does this mean that every shrine maiden can only have one shikigami?

In that case, if you cannot find a way to further enhance the power of your shikigami, you must be very careful in choosing a spirit pet.

In order to obtain a Shikigami as quickly as possible, one should choose smaller animals as pets. But now it seems that their easier training and awakening are not without cost. The upper limit of small animals awakening to become Shikigami is relatively lower. For a shrine maiden with higher talent, it is definitely more advantageous to choose stronger and smarter animals as pets in the long run.

As for Kiryu Ichiryu, Natsukawa did not invest more. Imitation of the ghost mask and the demon sword was not a big problem for him, but the process of selecting the target was somewhat eye-catching and it was easy to leave information that could be tracked.

At a time when the Watchers will certainly intensify their investigation and may even send more personnel, exposing Kiryu Kazuyu just to gain a force whose combat effectiveness and loyalty are questionable is clearly not a wise move.

"Oh, you really hurt people a lot..." When talking about this with Kamio Hitomi, she also complained half-jokingly. "It seems like Tokyo is going to be ruined soon. What should I do? I might as well let Kamio Hitomi find a decent young entrepreneur in Osaka or something like that, get married and retire."

"You really think so?"

"What else? If this goes on, there will be no interest or meaning in holding a concert. At Kamio Hitomi's age, getting married and retiring is the least noticeable way to go. I can't leave Japan to study abroad, or else I'll get a serious illness? If that happens, I'll be pounced on by a large number of reporters and eaten alive, right?"

Xia Chuan was seriously considering a possible way out for her, but she looked at Xia Chuan and suddenly said, "Can't you transform into anyone now? Why don't we find a writer, artist, director or something like that who has no relatives, kill him, and then you pretend to be him and get married to Kamio Hitomi? I guarantee that Kamio Hitomi can be a good wife and help you manage the Great Inner Palace properly, and there will never be any discordant things happening."

"Can you please stop joking around at a time like this?" Xia Chuan could only sigh. "How about you take on a movie that will be shot outside of Tokyo? That way, you can leave Tokyo for a reasonable amount of time without arousing suspicion, and it will be convenient for you to return."

Hitomi Kamio suddenly covered her mouth and laughed: "I was just talking casually, you took it seriously? Tokyo is such an interesting place, how could I leave so easily? Don't worry, I have lived for so long, I have many ways to protect myself. But your little lovers, are you really not going to send them to a safe place? At this time, sending them to study abroad is also an option, right? It happens that you are both in the third year of high school, so spending some money to find a way to go abroad to study together in advance is also an option, right?"

Xia Chuan had thought about this plan, but was there really any place in this world that was absolutely safe for these outliers?

Even someone with a strong personality like Long Qingting had no choice but to work his way up under the Daxia Special Case Management Bureau. From what he said, Xia Chuan couldn't get more details, but he could guess the general situation.

If the United States and its allies and sphere of influence cannot be reached, will Daxia and Russia’s allies and sphere of influence be okay?

It is certainly possible to get away with it by swallowing one's anger and keeping a low profile, but with a sharp blade in hand one will naturally want to kill, and there is always a mutual attraction between the alien and the supernatural. The past two years have made Xia Chuan fully understand one thing, that is, when he has become a god rooted in Tokyo, he can no longer go back to living a low-key life.

Even if he started over in a new place, he would never be able to keep to himself again.

When he had been through all of this, could he live like a powerless ordinary person?

The word "ordinary" has nothing to do with him anymore.

Everything will start over again, it's just a matter of facing different enemies in a different way, experiencing different events, and involving more people.

If that was the case, why did he have to abandon everything he had now, leave behind those who trusted him, and run away like a rat?

The Watcher may be strong, but he is not a weakling either.

If he is pissed off, he can also make the Watcher pay a heavy price.

"No." He then said to Kamio Hitomi. "That is not an option, at least not the option that should be available now."

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"They're here." Kuroda Koji knocked on the car window. A moment later, VIP J straightened his clothes and got out of the car with Derek.

A military transport plane was taxiing down the runway, heading towards the apron where their car was.

Three days have passed since Officer T was killed in battle near Yokosuka Naval Base inexplicably, and Officer J is in the worst mood possible.

The code names of the Watchers were never constant, and one rather bizarre thing was that when a certain person died, the next person who passed the test would be the candidate with the same initials. This made the Watchers' selection agency simply test only the candidates whose initials were the same as the code name of the vacant person.

And the Watchers never recruit candidates whose first names start with the letter A.

It is said that a new member K has been selected and is undergoing further training, and T's candidates are also eager to compete for this rare opportunity.

What made J angry was that he had not died in battle. It was said that the candidates with the initials J had already started to prepare, because there was a strong voice within the Watchers to ask him to give up the name of Key Member J and become the first key member to be dismissed since the establishment of the Watchers. Another rumor was that Key Member A was considering sending him to perform a mission that would require his death, so that his blood could be used to cleanse the stain on the code name of Key Member J.

No matter what kind of rumor it is, it is a great shame for him, but what does the death of officer T have to do with him?

At that time, he had made all preparations to surrender the rule of Tokyo, and did not even prepare a trap, just to leave this quagmire as soon as possible. But the important person T did not follow the usual path, but wanted to conduct a secret investigation and deliberately concealed his whereabouts from him.

When he learned what happened in Yokosuka, important officer T was already dead, but the blame was firmly put on him, making him feel so aggrieved that he wished he was the one who died in the battle in Yokosuka.

Neither Kuroda Koji nor Derek said much, so as not to bring bad luck to him.

The three of them stood quietly beside the car, watching the huge military plane stop not far from them. The rear cabin slowly opened, and a dozen people slowly walked down from it, while the staff drove a forklift towards the military plane, ready to help them unload the equipment that was randomly transported.

"Hey! Guys!" A black man carrying a huge backpack waved to them from a distance.

Member J did not move. Kuroda Koji did not know this person. Only Derek nodded at him and said, "Howard, I didn't expect it would be you."

"Guys, your luck is really bad." The black man whom he called Howard came up to hug him, and then greeted J with a series of complicated gestures. "Of course, my luck is not good either. Let us, the unlucky ones, do something to show them!"

Kuroda Koji was a little confused, but Howard quickly gave him a familiar hug and said, "So you are Kuroda?"

"Nice to meet you, please take care of me!" After Kuroda Koji waited for him to let go, he immediately took a step back, straightened his body, and bowed to him.

"So I like Neon, and we should let the monkeys in other places learn how to do it!" Howard said, and then began to introduce other people to them.

Eight members of the "Exterminators" are also Howard's subordinates, while the other six are aliens sent to support the distribution of Tokyo Watch.

"Who is leading the team?" Officer J asked in confusion after waiting for a while and not seeing his expected target. "Where is the person?"

"I'm the leader." Howard shrugged. "A decided to give you another chance, man, you still have the final say in Tokyo!"

VIP J's tense nerves finally relaxed. The previous notice did not list the name of any VIP, and he thought it was some kind of confidentiality measure.

A is actually willing to give him a chance?

"Here's his letter to you." Howard then handed him an envelope.

After people briefly got to know each other again, Kuroda Koji and Derek began to lead them to other cars, while directing the staff to hand over the equipment to different cars.

When they came back, J had finished reading the letter, but he looked a little confused.

He did not seem to receive the reprimand as he had expected.

"J?"

"Read it for yourself." J handed the letter directly to Derek.

The content of the letter was completely different from what he had imagined. There was no reprimand at all. It simply told J his mission: to maintain the basic structure of Tokyo and to fully cooperate with and support the actions of Howard's team.

"What is your mission?" J asked immediately after Howard arranged all his men and equipment and came back.

"Sorry, man, if I tell you, I will have to kill you." Howard answered seriously. After a few seconds of silence, he suddenly burst into laughter, even laughing to tears. It took a few minutes before he finally stopped.

"I'm sorry, but I really can't tell you. You just have to pretend that I'm here on vacation and ignore our actions."

"A asked me to fully cooperate and support you. How can I cooperate if I don't know your mission?"

"Sorry, I'm really sorry." Howard said with a smile. "Where are you going to let us stay? Not in a military camp, right? Damn it, guys, don't be so serious, isn't Tokyo a man's paradise? Where are the girls? Why isn't there a row of big-breasted girls waiting for us by the runway? J, please don't let us down!"

"Who is he?" When the so-called Howard team finally drove off by themselves, Kuroda Koji found an opportunity to ask.

"A senior candidate for the VIP, the butcher of the exterminators, nicknamed Mad Dog, but don't call him that to his face." Derek sighed slightly and said, "Many people say that VIP H is trying to stay alive just to prevent him from becoming a VIP. He hasn't been through the trials yet, but he's already crazier than most people."

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"The headquarters didn't send new personnel?" Xia Chuan asked in surprise. "Are they going to launch another covert operation? Isn't it enough to suffer a loss once?"

"I don't know." Derek said. "It's a good result for us that J was not transferred. Kamiya, seize this opportunity! If you really want to be free, you must show your value."

"You've said it many times." Xia Chuan sighed, but he felt very uneasy in his heart.

Only these people were sent?

How can it be!

Chapter 188 Borrowing a Knife

Natsukawa spent a lot of time reviewing the surveillance footage that Asakawa Manabu obtained through hacking methods, hoping to find the suspicious person in the same way as last time, and use him to target more people sent by the Watchers.

But his luck seemed to have run out. At least from the entry records of the airports and ports that they were able to pay attention to, they did not find any suspects with that kind of unique alien temperament, especially those from the United States who did not treat the Japanese as human beings.

"It is very likely that they did not enter directly from Narita Airport or Haneda Airport." Asakawa Manabu quickly proposed possible reasons. "If they entered from Osaka or other international airports, and then entered Tokyo by train or car, then we would not be able to see the surveillance video of their entry. Moreover, they may have entered directly through the US military, in which case, even the entry records would not be visible."

Xia Chuan had to look elsewhere.

The most important thing, of course, is the road surveillance near where he and Chiyu Moriyama live.

He did not think that Agent T had left any specific records related to him at that time, otherwise, he would not be so peaceful now. However, he could not guarantee that Agent T had not told the people at the Watcher headquarters about his ideas before leaving, letting them know how he was going to start working in Tokyo and using this as a starting point for investigation.

Another focus is road surveillance in Kabukicho and Yoshiwara.

The weird members of Scott's group who came from the United States were never tired of doing these things, and the new guys in Howard's group were the same. It was probably the characteristic of Americans that they couldn't control their pants and would do these things even if the sky fell. Therefore, Xia Chuan thought that it was very likely that they came to these two most famous red-light districts in Tokyo to visit.

Of course, he also paid attention to the surveillance video near Yokosuka Naval Base, because if the other party wanted to investigate the death of important officer T, that place would be a point that could not be avoided.

Fortunately, he didn't need to sleep, and he had long since adapted to being distracted. He could check four or five screens divided into nine-square grids at the same time. He spent seven or eight hours every night checking the surveillance videos that Asakawa Manabu had obtained, filtering through images of hundreds of thousands of people. Finally, he found the suspicious guy in the vast crowd.

It was impossible to determine whether he was a member of the Watchers just from the surveillance video, but his posture that penetrated deep into the subconscious made Xia Chuan certain that he must be a foreign alien who had just entered Neon.

He and Chisuke Moriyama are still under strict protection and surveillance. In this situation, he can only send the only Shikigami, Kobori, who can be used at the moment, to blend in with the other crows and quietly follow this guy.

Shikigami are far more useful than ordinary crows and can handle more situations. When necessary, they can kill directly and eliminate hidden dangers.

However, because the identity of Crow Tengu is already known to the Tokyo Watchers and Akasaka, Natsukawa does not want to use its power unless he has to.

The opponent's actions were very cautious, but he probably couldn't imagine that the opponent would target him so quickly and track him in this way.

They soon followed this guy all the way and found more unidentified aliens like him.

Two of them were East Asian, but they had never lived in Japan. Their gestures were obviously different from those of the Japanese around them, while the other three were all Caucasians, all disguised as tourists. They stayed in different hotels, always acted alone, and seemed to communicate using encrypted mobile phones, but occasionally met in places like cafes, probably to exchange information they had.

"They are courting death." Kobori had been quiet for a while after the incident in Yokosuka, but after discovering that he had become the only available Shikigami for Natsukawa Daimyojin, he became much more excited. "It would be difficult to kill them if they always acted together, but if they separated on their own initiative like this, I can kill them all in one night."

"What if they have other hidden members?" Xia Chuan was not interested in this suggestion at all.

Even if it is an enemy, you must attack with purpose.

One of his goals was to gradually deplete the power of the Watchers, making them feel that Tokyo was a bottomless, insatiable swamp, and that continuing to invest would only lead to more losses than gains. However, through the test in Guam, he had realized that killing the people sent by the other side too intensively would not achieve this goal, but would only cause the incident to escalate rapidly, attracting more attention and more intense confrontation, and ultimately making the incident difficult to handle.

He certainly won't force the Overwatch to withdraw over 20 or 30 years as he did in the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War, but reducing the frequency of trouble to once a month or about 20 days should be appropriate.

This intensity will not make the upper echelons of the Watchers pay too much attention to Tokyo and invest too much power and resources, but it will be enough to make the middle and lower echelons feel difficult and afraid of Tokyo. When the Watchers invest a lot of resources, they will immediately stop and disappear, and then continue to attack after they leave. After a few years of consumption, Tokyo should become a complete waste.

What if these five exposed guys were bait?

What if they are not from the Watchers, but sent by other forces?

Because crows have become one of the symbols of the Skeleton Society, Xiachuan must use them very carefully when facing the Watchers and Akasaka, which prevents him from letting Kobori get close and hear any valuable information. As an alien, the other party cannot obtain information by invading dreams.

However, the other party's use of such actions gave him the opportunity to solve the problem by another means.

"Do you want to make merit, Machang?" He sent a crow to peck at the glass window of Machang Hao's house and asked him this question. "If you make more merits, some of your comrades should be able to be promoted to a higher position, right?"

"Lord Haizhai?" asked Baba Hao in surprise.

"I accidentally discovered the traces of a foreign alien who sneaked into Tokyo. He must have hidden his identity and had some ulterior motives. The opportunity has been given to you. What are you going to do?"

Baba Hao sat on the sofa and looked out the window at Ling Ya for a few minutes, then nodded: "I understand. Lord Haizhai, if it's convenient, please tell me his address!"

Chapter 189 Borrowing a Knife (2)

As the head of the General Affairs Section of the Akasaka Regional Department, Baba Hiroshi certainly had no way of directly discovering, attacking and capturing aliens. However, the list he submitted to Natsukawa did not lack such grassroots commanders who charged to the front line, and below them were many more front-line personnel who were not yet qualified to be listed.

Natsukawa naturally had no intention of letting these people die in vain. All he needed was to let Akasaka fight these guys who sneaked in directly, so as to determine their background and identity, and confirm whether they still had hidden powers.

So, all we need is an opportunity.

With these insiders around, it is extremely easy to create opportunities.

In addition to the fixed large-scale abnormal wave detectors, after the rapid increase of vicious abnormal incidents in Tokyo, every police car and every Akasaka front-line agent will be equipped with a portable detector. Under J's promotion, Akasaka even spent a high price to purchase a batch of new detectors from the United States that were originally only supplied to the "Exterminators" for use by front-line elite and high-level agents.

However, from what Xiachuan had seen, most of the aliens in Tokyo had actually mastered the spell to conceal their breath so as not to be detected. These detectors could only be used to detect evil spirits, as well as those aliens whose powers had been exposed and who were unable to use concealment techniques when being pursued.