From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

"Let's leave this task to the Skeleton Society," Xia Chuan said.

It does sound difficult, but it should not be difficult to conduct investigations with the help of Akasaka's system through insiders such as Baba Hiroshi. At least it will definitely be much simpler than the Cheka.

Physical features seemed to be a clearer clue, but now that makeup techniques were so advanced, the other party could easily cover it up through various means, so Xia Chuan only used this as a reference.

In the past, he had never paid special attention to the places in Tokyo where spiritual energy naturally gathered. After paying a little attention, he found that these places had either already been built into various shrines, temples and churches, or were under the supervision of Akasaka and monitored by surveillance equipment 24 hours a day.

It was easy to confirm from the surveillance video that using the prophecy props could not be a task that could be completed in just a few minutes and it could not be carried out in these places, so the scope was narrowed down at once.

The Skeleton Sect also had people in the Zonglian, and Xiachuan immediately commissioned them to conduct a secret investigation of religious sites in Tokyo to see if any of them had been occupied or invaded recently, or if any suspicious people had entered or left.

On the other hand, he also investigated reports of missing persons and recent deaths through Akasaka's system.

Tokyo is indeed a world of indifference, especially since many people come to Tokyo alone far from their hometowns to work hard, and no one cares about their life or death. Many people are reported missing by their families only after they have been missing for a long time, but unless a body is found, most cases will not be filed for investigation by the police, but will only be recorded in the books.

Even Akasaka was only concerned about whether these disappearances were related to new cults and vicious incidents. Their clues were often long-overdue utility bills, tenants who left their personal belongings missing without warning, and vagrants who suddenly left their luggage and disappeared from their fixed activity areas. If there were no abnormal incidents, it would usually take one or two months to discover someone was missing. However, Akasaka finally had such a task, and with the help of this system, he finally found some clues.

Two or three shrines reported unusual cases of coma, but surveillance footage was inexplicably missing that night, and disappearances that were ignored occurred around these shrines. Most of the missing people were vagrants and homeless people, and a few were office workers returning home late at night. There were no fewer than ten missing people who could be traced, but Xia Chuan believed that there should be more people who were buried because the watchers wanted to find out the secrets related to him.

"Do we need to investigate further?" asked Baba Hao with a little uneasiness.

"No need, just give me the address of the missing person." Xia Chuan said.

Of course, there were no clues from the homeless people. Their limited luggage had been divided up by other homeless people, so there was no way to determine what they had left behind. Among the missing people who could be traced, one was a company employee who disappeared after getting drunk, and the other was a high school student who worked in a convenience store. Both of them left enough personal belongings and photos at home to be tracked down.

"Leave it to us next." Natasha was increasingly amazed at the Skeleton Society's efficiency and abilities.

"Can I watch?" Xia Chuan asked.

Natasha hesitated: "I have to ask Vera's opinion."

The psychic gave an affirmative answer, perhaps to further express his friendly attitude towards the Skeleton Society, or perhaps to ensure his own safety in this situation. After all, the strength of the Skeleton Society has been fully proven, and it is definitely much stronger than the agents and the Ancestral Werewolves.

They chose a remote shrine. The embarrassing thing was that because of the previous investigation, the Zonglian had strengthened the surveillance of these religious sites. Xiachuan had to remind them to tamper with the surveillance camera at the entrance of the shrine first. Then, he watched them sneak into the shrine, stun the priest's family with anesthetics, and then escort the medium into the shrine.

The prophecy prop they used was a crystal ball. Just as the ceremony was about to begin, Xia Chuan suddenly saw several strangely shaped black bags on the ground.

"what is that?"

"The sacrifice required for the ritual." Natasha answered nonchalantly.

Xia Chuan suddenly felt a little disgusted for no reason. It was not because he was so loving or just, but because this moment suddenly made him realize that the Cheka and the Watchers were, in a sense, birds of a feather.

But he didn't want to become like them, taking human lives at will for some unimportant reasons.

"Does it have to be a human sacrifice?"

"What's wrong?" Natasha was a little surprised. "Didn't I tell you before? The ritual must pay a price. If we don't use them, will Vera bear the price alone?"

"What kind of price is required?" Xia Chuan blurted out, and then explained: "I am curious about what kind of power is behind such a ceremony. If possible, I will provide a substitute."

As he spoke, he waved his hand into the air and summoned a crow. He injected a little more spiritual energy into the amulet in its body and let it fly in front of the medium.

Natasha couldn't understand it at all. In her opinion, they were just a few passers-by who had nothing to do with them. Why bother with this? But she had been beaten up by the shikigami after all, and she didn't want to have any conflict with Xia Chuan because of such a thing, so she had to walk up to the psychic again and whispered to ask for her opinion.

The medium stretched out a hand, and Xia Chuan controlled the crow to jump onto her hand. She gently stroked its feathers, as if to feel its vitality, then nodded and asked the assistant beside her to take the crow and put it in the magic circle.

The missing person's personal belongings and photos were also placed in the magic circle, and the psychic soon began to move. She waved her hands over the crystal ball, muttering something in her hands, and some kind of power gradually appeared, circling the magic circle, and suddenly poured into the crystal ball.

From their position, they couldn't see what was in the crystal ball at all. It seemed that there was only a ball of mist swirling around. However, the psychic's misty eyes kept staring at it. After a few minutes, he suddenly took a deep breath, as if he had just broken free from the deep sea, and began to gasp violently.

The objects and photos used as the medium had turned to ashes, but there was nothing wrong with the crow. People helped the medium sit up, and the ceremony should have been completed. Xia Chuan then tried to call back the crow, but found that one of its wings could no longer move.

The medium started telling Natasha and the others something a few minutes later. Xia Chuan couldn't understand what they were saying, so he simply checked the crow's body. He found that almost all the spiritual energy in its amulet had been devoured, and its wings had shrunk strangely, with many cells dying.

Such an injury was nothing to him, so he healed its wound, replenished the spiritual energy in the amulet, and let it fly into the sky.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet and the psychic's voice stopped abruptly. Xia Chuan turned around and saw her raising her misty eyes and staring at him strangely. Half of her face was distorted to be almost hideous, while the other half remained stiff, looking crazy and scary.

A moment later, she suddenly struggled and fell off the chair, causing the Cheka agents around her to scream in surprise.

"Please! Please help me!" She threw herself on the ground regardless and shouted loudly to Xia Chuan.

Natasha looked at the scene in front of her in surprise. After a moment, she finally realized something and went over to support the medium. At the same time, she said to Xia Chuan, "Mr. Haizhai... can you cure the backlash of prophecy magic? Um... please... please..."

Chapter 205 Goal

Xia Chuan had never paid much attention to his healing ability, because it was the first skill he easily mastered through his own efforts after coming to this world.

What's more, every religion claims to have the ability to cure diseases, especially new religions and cults. This gave Xia Chuan the illusion that curing diseases was just a basic ability of a god and was not worth mentioning.

Even under the double pressure of Tokyo Watch and Akasaka, politicians and businessmen are still enthusiastic about the Skeleton Shrine. In his opinion, this phenomenon is simply because apart from him, there is no god in Neon who dares to show up in an official background.

The performance of these people finally made him realize that his healing ability might not be that simple.

The healing ability alone should not be enough to make them so excited. Natasha's words may have revealed a possible reason for their excitement: Could it be that the backlash brought by the prophecy is a special physical injury that is difficult to heal?

Xia Chuan then extended his hand forward. The agents hesitated a little, but Natasha immediately helped the medium up and handed her hand to Xia Chuan.

Sure enough.

Unlike the patients Xia Chuan had cured before, the inside of the Cheka medium's body was riddled with holes. Many of the holes were not caused by blood lipid issues like in ordinary people, which led to blood vessel blockages. Instead, the cells had completely lost their activity and were dying in clusters. In her body, they were like another kind of cancer cells.

If I were to make an analogy, it would be like part of your body's muscles and internal organs have turned into wood. Not only are they unable to function normally, they will definitely continue to cause pain.

It is much more troublesome to treat than ordinary diseases, and it will definitely take a lot of time and energy. However, for Xia Chuan, it is not an unsolvable problem.

However, agreeing to such a request easily and completing the treatment may not be a good thing for him.

Being kind and being easily bullied are often only one step away.

After thinking for a while, he first solved the problem of some of the infarcted blood vessels and cells in the psychic's brain. He now needed her to play a role, at least to ensure that there was no problem with her brain.

The half of the medium's stiff face changed quickly. Although it did not return to normal immediately, the dead nerves and muscles showed signs of coming back to life.

Others may not be able to feel such a change intuitively, but the medium realized it immediately. She was stunned for a while, stroking her cheeks with trembling hands. After a moment, tears welled up in her eyes and she excitedly said a lot to Xia Chuan.

"Mr. Haizhai, she is very grateful for the treatment you just gave her. She...well, the Cheka will remember your kindness and give you generous rewards for your efforts. You should know that Lucia is never stingy with friends, and we in the Cheka are even more so. If you are willing, we are willing to contact the Skeleton Society immediately..."

Xia Chuan believed that what she relayed was completely different from what the medium said. From the perspective of a werewolf, it was impossible for him to truly understand the medium's pain, nor could he make any promises. Moreover, although this woman who was known as the strongest medium in the Far East was certainly important to the Cheka, she seemed to have almost no fighting power, and her importance was definitely not so high that the Cheka was willing to pay too much.

The relationship between the two seems to be good, but what kind of promise can she make on behalf of the Cheka? The Cheka probably won't give her many chips, and she will throw them all out at this time. What should she do next?

"Her problem cannot be easily solved in a short period of time, and the same is true for our further cooperation." He interrupted Natasha's obviously embarrassed words. "Let's deal with it after completing the current task."

The wolf's expression became a little better, but he still insisted that the Cheka would never take advantage of the Skeleton Society.

"Consider it that I owe you one favor. Combined with the J incident, I owe you two favors." She said seriously.

"So, what was the result of the ceremony?" Xia Chuan asked.

"Vera has seen a place where they hid the bodies," Natasha replied immediately. "It's in the basement of a residential building. If we're lucky, we might be able to find the whereabouts of those guys. At worst, we should be able to find more means to track them down."

"So, do you want to continue?" Xia Chuan asked.

There was more than one victim kidnapped by the Cheka, and they should have been prepared to undergo multiple rituals.

Natasha asked the psychic for advice, and eventually they used rituals to track all the clues they found and obtained clues to another body hiding place.

The results obtained by using the crow as a sacrifice were much clearer than using humans, and the completion time was much earlier than expected. The agents evacuated with the medium before dawn, while Xia Chuan and Natasha headed directly to the place where the bodies were hidden.

There was a house near a shrine where a prophecy ceremony was suspected to have been held. More than a dozen bodies were wrapped tightly in plastic sheets and piled up in the basement, many of which were minors. The owner of this house was probably one of them. For no reason, just because he lived near the shrine and was chosen, he disappeared quietly in this way.

"They should have stayed here for a few days and should have left some clues," said Natasha.

She suddenly took off her clothes, which scared Xia Chuan, but after a few seconds he realized that she was just going to transform into a werewolf and use her sense of smell and sensitivity to find more clues.

"They've been gone for about four or five days, so there should be five of them." She sniffed around the room, not missing any suspicious corner.

Xia Chuan's sense of smell is actually not bad, but it is far from her level.

The room had been cleaned carefully, but they had lived here for four or five days after all, so it was inevitable that some of the remains were left in the cracks and corners that were hard to notice. The werewolf even found their hair in the drain pipe in the bathroom. No matter how hard people cleaned, they would never think of cleaning such a place.

A new ritual was immediately performed. Because of the possibility of backlash, mediums would rarely rashly use prophecy tools directly on aliens of unknown strength. However, Xia Chuan's existence and ability seemed to have given Cheka's mediums enough confidence. For safety reasons, Xia Chuan also summoned several crows and injected sufficient spiritual energy into their amulets as sacrifices.

The process seemed to be no different from before, but when that power was injected into the crystal ball and it began to churn like before, the medium's body suddenly twisted unnaturally, as if someone had suddenly stabbed him inside, and he spat out a mouthful of black blood.

Xia Chuan immediately held her hand. One of the medium's cardiovascular systems had become obviously fibrotic, and the surrounding lungs also showed the same lesions. However, the strange power that caused this result did not stop and was still surging upwards, as if trying to rush into her brain.

Xia Chuan immediately used his own power to block it and surrounded it. This power rushed through the medium's body, causing her body to tremble violently again, but it was not very strong and was soon eroded by Xia Chuan's spiritual power and eventually disappeared. Xia Chuan cured the lesions in the medium's heart and lungs and left her body, but just as he was about to let go, she grabbed his hand tightly and looked at him pleadingly.

After not seeing her for a day, her face had slightly returned to normal, and one could vaguely see the shadow of her former beauty. However, the red spots on her face still made her look ugly and scary.

"Please..." she begged in a low voice.

"Not today." Xia Chuan said.

The psychic took a deep breath and finally let go.

"Have you found it?" Xia Chuan turned to Natasha and asked.

She was staring at the two of them, and was stunned for a moment when he asked her the question, then she began to ask the medium in Lucia.

"We've found the approximate location, but the opponent is much stronger than Vera. He may have known that someone is watching him!"

"Give me the address!" Xia Chuan said immediately.

The psychic immediately pointed out the area on the map of Tokyo. It wasn't very specific, perhaps just the size of a town on a map of this scale, but it was enough for Natsukawa.

"Evacuate immediately." He said to Natasha, and then left using the Earth Escape Technique.

All the Cheka people were frightened. The psychic raised his gray eyes, looked in the direction he left, and remained silent for a long time.

"Vera, I will let him cure you." Natasha whispered in her ear. "No matter what method!"

"We can't force people like this." The psychic sighed. "And we don't have enough to exchange for them."

"Don't give up hope!" Natasha held her hand and said, "Even if...even if..."

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The place pointed out by the medium on the map was not too far away, less than 20 kilometers in a straight line. With Xia Chuan's full effort, he reached that place in just a few minutes, and the surrounding crows had gathered under his control of his thoughts long before he arrived.

In the dark, anyone's movement would be very conspicuous. Xia Chuan was sure that no one had left during this period of time, so he slowed down his pace and began to control the crows to move.

There are many possibilities as to why the other party has been doing nothing. Xia Chuan has seriously considered the possibility that the other party deliberately set a trap for him to fall into.

It was not unexpected that they would seek cooperation with the Cheka or the Special Management Bureau, and Anloses's strange methods had already made Xia Chuan sufficiently wary.

He didn't suffer any loss in the last fight, but if it was on a battlefield set up in advance by the opponent, who knows what would happen?

Why not just blow up the entire area?

A thought suddenly popped into his mind, but he immediately drove it away.

I can't become a beast like the Watcher!

More crows gathered here from afar, and Kobori, the fastest among the Shikigami, was summoned here again.

On the one hand, we must prevent ourselves from rashly stepping into the opponent's trap, but at the same time, we must also prevent ourselves from being too cautious and losing the opportunity for a surprise attack, which in turn gives the opponent the opportunity to set a trap.

A large number of crows began to search door to door, and ordinary rats and various insects also began to move under his command. The previous experiments in Guam had given him enough experience in controlling the actions of these creatures.

Most ordinary people would have fallen into a deep sleep during this period and would not be easily startled by the movements of such tiny animals, but the keen senses of the aliens would definitely allow them to detect such abnormalities, especially when one of them might have already noticed that someone was spying on them.

Xia Chuan soon discovered several places where insects had been killed. The crows immediately swooped over, smashing the glass and rushing in to check the situation.

Ordinary people would only scream in shock when faced with such a situation, but the aliens' first reaction would be to attack.

The target was soon discovered.

Go on!

Xia Chuan immediately issued orders to the swarm.

The crow that rushed in was quickly killed, but this time was enough for the nearby mosquitoes to rush in frantically, followed by other flying insects, and the third wave was other insects that were brought in by the mice crawling on their bodies.

The flames immediately lit up. There must be someone among them who is good at controlling flames.

Xia Chuan prepared for battle in the dark.

The city does not have a large number of insects like Guam, and Natsukawa does not have enough time to gather the insects around, but there are quite a few birds of various kinds in Tokyo. Driven by Natsukawa, a large number of birds that were originally sleeping began to rush into the house frantically and attack the people inside.

The flames continued to light up, and a burnt smell began to spread. Xia Chuan observed the situation in the house through the crows that rushed in among the flock of birds. Three alien creatures were desperately attacking the various animals that rushed into the house. Two of them had turned into non-human appearances, and the third one was constantly spewing flames.

What about the other two guys?

He controlled the crow to move at an extremely fast speed through the corridor that they were trying so hard to block, and finally saw two aliens putting something like a sandbox into a container. The crow was killed directly by one of them as soon as it rushed into the room.

More crows rushed into the room after being given the multiplication technique, making the three aliens panic. Finally, three or four crows rushed into the room again.

The sand table has been put away. The alien who had taken action earlier was protecting the other one who was trying to leave. When he saw more crows rushing in, he immediately swung the weapon in his hand and killed them.

The power looked strong, but it was not the fighting style of the Watchers that Xiachuan was familiar with.