From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

He is still very careful and cares about me.

"Mr. Asakawa, are you also a member of the... Investigation Section 4?"

"Yes." The more Kinoshita Takashi thought about it, the more awkward it felt. Lord God, you can pick up girls, but why do you have to use my name?

"Can you tell me about Mr. Kinoshita?"

"Well... our work needs to be kept secret... but since it's you, Miss Kamio, of course you will be treated preferentially!"

Chapter 231 Wuye Mountain

Natsukawa was not just making excuses to avoid Kamio Hitomi. In fact, he did suddenly receive a call from the psychic and came to her to find out what new discoveries she had made.

But he was indeed relieved to be able to leave that place smoothly.

"It's very strange... Lord Haishan, starting from last night, the results of the calculations have suddenly changed a lot." The psychic looked a little uneasy.

"Last night?" Xia Chuan frowned slightly. Could it be related to Kamio Hitomi? "What kind of changes?"

"The results calculated previously suddenly became clear, but also contradictory. The opportunity that can make the skeleton powerful is both on the west bank of Pipa... and very close to you." The psychic said. "I don't know why there is such a result, but I have calculated it many times, and although the results each time are slightly different, they almost all point to this result."

It seemed that she already knew the biggest secret of the Skeleton Society from her words. As a psychic with predictive abilities and having entered the inner circle of the Skeleton Society, it was not surprising that she had such an understanding.

What makes Xiachuan even more concerned is that, could it be that the opportunity she had predicted before that would allow him to become stronger is actually related to Kamio Hitomi?

Or is it that the secret that Kamio Hitomi said before, that she could tell him if he dated her, is the same one that the medium had calculated before?

"Is this what you meant when you said the results became clear?"

The psychic handed him a cell phone, which contained a photo. On the sand of the blood sand table, there were three faint Chinese characters: "Wuyeshan".

"I asked Ms. Moriyama to look it up, but she didn't find the place name."

Perhaps it is an ancient place name, or the name of a small hill that is so unknown that only locals know it, but compared to the previous vague statement such as the west bank of Lake Biwa, it can be said to be very specific.

The psychic's body showed signs of damage again. While helping her recover, Xia Chuan thought silently.

Because it is not a very clear-cut prediction, the backlash is not very serious, but of course the result is still vague.

Whether the thing that can make him stronger is hidden in this place called Wuye Mountain, or he can find further clues there, or something will happen there that will make him stronger, nothing is known.

"Is there any danger?"

"The result is unclear. It should be somewhat dangerous, but it will not cause too much harm to you. However, this is just my guess." The psychic replied.

She should have no reason to deceive herself, Xia Chuan thought.

It might be much simpler to get this result directly from Kamio Hitomi, but when he thought of the whole lot of headaches that would cause, Natsukawa would rather take the long way around.

He doesn't have anyone under his command who can complete this task independently. Instead of sending them over and then worrying about it, Xia Chuan would rather take the time to go there and take a look before the Watcher recovers and attacks Tokyo again.

With his current spiritual energy reserves and escape techniques, it would only take him about an hour and a half to rush back to Tokyo from Kyoto at full speed, even faster than the Shinkansen. Therefore, people only need to hide and hold on for that long.

The crows set out immediately, and Xiachuan immediately began to arrange various affairs in Tokyo.

The fewer people who need to know about this, the better. It is enough for these few people to know: Asakawa Manabu, Kiryu Kazuyu, Aoki Yui, Moriyama Chiyu, and of course the unavoidable psychic Vera.

"I'll be back in two days at most." Xia Chuan said. "If you need me, I'll come back every night and go back in the morning."

Some people in Tokyo spend more time than this commuting to work, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Where is Kamio Hitomi?

He was just distracted for a moment and saw that Kinoshita Takashige was getting along well with her and seemed to be discussing the plot of a crime drama, so he didn't do anything else.

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"The diamond should have been sent to the United States and auctioned as an anonymous donation to a charity that helps girls. However, this is just our guess. After all, this is what she earned with her life. As police officers, all we can do is not reveal the truth."

"This is really..." Kamio Hitomi was already crying so hard that he had to quickly look for tissues for her. "Kinoshita-kun is so gentle!"

This kind of conversation had happened several times during the day, making Kinoshita Takashi feel awkward but also a kind of perverse satisfaction.

Although he knew that the "Kinoshita Takaya" that Kamio Hitomi praised again and again was not him, and that she had been listening to his bragging so attentively because of "Kinoshita Takaya", but the fact that a superstar who was at the peak of his popularity listened to his stories so eagerly and treated "Kinoshita Takaya" as the greatest legendary detective of all time was enough to make him satisfied even if he knew it was fake.

However, the story just told was the plot of a very popular criminal investigation drama. He once thought that if there was a mistake, he could say that the screenwriter referred to the cases they actually experienced... But, I really don’t know what Kamio Hitomi does in her daily life. It seems that she has never heard of such a famous drama.

Moreover, most of the stories he boasted about before came from the crime dramas he had watched before, which Kamio Hitomi seemed to have never watched.

"It would be great if a story like this could be made into a movie. If possible, I really hope I can play that girl!" Kamio Hitomi suddenly became excited. "Asakawa-kun, the cases you told me before should be able to..."

"Well... let's not talk about it. After all, these are real things that happened, and we have to consider the feelings of the parties involved and their families." Kinoshita Takaya said hurriedly. "I only told you this because of you, Miss Kamio, so you must keep it a secret!"

Hitomi Kamio nodded and moved her hand across her mouth from left to right, indicating that she would keep her mouth shut and would never tell anyone about it.

"But, Kinoshita-kun... um, isn't Mr. Kinoshita coming back yet?"

"Yeah..." Kinoshita Takashi looked at the time, hesitated for a moment, and picked up the phone. "Let me call and ask."

The person who answered the phone was Asakawa Manabu. Of course, he couldn't tell Kinoshita Takaya such an important thing as Natsukawa leaving Tokyo, and he didn't know the true identity of Kamio Hitomi.

"You can coax her and make her stay quiet. Otherwise, try to persuade her to go home. That's it."

"Hey... Hello? Hello?"

Kinoshita Takashi's head suddenly started to hurt, but he turned around and looked at Kamio Hitomi who was looking at him with concern, and could only force a smile, made an "OK" gesture to her, and then pretended to be still on the phone, trying hard to recall the TV shows and movies he had watched and what he should do in this situation.

"Asakawa-kun?"

"Well, I'm really sorry. A murder case suddenly occurred. The method was very similar to a case a few years ago, so the section chief and his colleagues were busy all day..."

"Ah?" Kamio Hitomi covered her mouth with her hands in surprise. "Then Asakawa-kun, why didn't they contact you?"

This soul-stirring question made Kinoshita Takashita feel a little embarrassed. After all, in the previous series of boasting, he, Asakawa Manabu, was Kinoshita Takashita's indispensable partner and assistant...

"The section chief was worried that I might scare you, and I wasn't fully recovered from the injuries I sustained in another case not long ago, so they wanted me to take a break."

"Asakawa-kun? I'm so sorry, I didn't know it was like this, and I even asked you to run around..."

"It's okay, it's okay. I just can't go to the front line to investigate the case. It won't affect anything else."

"Hurry up and sit down and have a rest. I'll make you something delicious and reward you!"

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Xiachuan had already reached the west bank of Lake Biwa at this time, but there were mountains stretching for hundreds of miles here, with hundreds of peaks of various sizes, but there was no "Goyeyama" at all in the local tourist brochure.

Natsukawa was not prepared to alert the local alien management organization "Kono", but in this situation, he could only use a disguised official identity to go to Suga Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture to seek help.

After leaving Akasaka, he finally realized the normal working efficiency of the Japanese bureaucracy. Because it was not an urgent official business, he could not explain the purpose of his investigation into "Goyeyama". He was passed around by different government departments and finally pushed to a history professor at Kyoto University.

But this professor also knew nothing about "Gohayama" and had no interest in helping Natsukawa, a civil servant from Tokyo.

After wasting three days, Natsukawa finally couldn't bear it anymore and had to call Kuroda Koji. Half an hour later, he immediately received a high-level reception from "Kono". At the same time, hundreds of people began to search for clues that might be related to "Goyeyama" through various databases and document libraries.

"I found a record that mentioned Goyesan Mingguang Temple."

"Where?" Xia Chuan asked immediately.

"Imazu Town, Takashima City. However, a mudslide occurred there several decades ago, and the entire temple seems to have been buried."

Such a thing did not pose any obstacle to Xia Chuan. He quickly determined the location of that place through the crow, and then immediately rushed there using the escape technique.

A small mountain, only about 70 to 80 meters high, with obvious signs of landslide on one side. If you use your imagination, you can imagine the shape of a leaf with five sharp corners. The so-called Five-Leaf Mountain is probably named after this.

There are still a few terraced fields around, but the nearest residential area is about a kilometer away. The landslide happened decades ago, and the ruins are now covered with all kinds of trees, and there is no sign that there was once a temple here.

Xia Chuan felt that he would not be able to find out anything valuable even if he asked the villagers around him, so he simply walked directly to the landslide and began to control the surrounding rats to dig holes underneath.

Thousands of voles worked frantically under the influence of the spell and soon dug out dozens of passages that ran through the entire landslide, but apart from the rotten fragments of wood that probably made up the houses and a small number of stone foundations and sculptures, nothing more valuable was found.

The scale of this temple itself is not very large. Compared with the temples in Mount Hiei and Kyoto that Xiachuan had visited in the past few days, it is like an underdeveloped dwarf. Xiachuan did not find any buildings such as pagodas around the temple, and of course did not find any secret rooms. However, according to the custom of Neon, a tomb buried by the landslide was found behind the temple.

Xia Chuan didn't feel any abnormality like the overflow of spiritual energy, but things had come to this point and he could only check each grave one by one.

Most of the graves belonged to certain families and should have been the family cemeteries of nearby residents. After a long time, Xia Chuan finally found a special tombstone that looked quite old.

The tomb owner's surname and name are not written on it, nor are his birth and death dates recorded, but a farewell poem is engraved: "The breeze carries the plum blossoms, which scatter and dance in my sleeves."

The unknown warrior buried here?

This was the most suspicious discovery so far. Xia Chuan immediately mobilized more field mice, who quickly dug up the tomb and carried out the urn buried underneath.

There was nothing else worth noting around, nor was there a wooden box covered with talisman paper like the one used to store the ghost mask. Even the surface of the urn was blank, just ordinary celadon.

But when Xia Chuan opened the urn, he saw a very gorgeous hairpin inside. Even after so many years, it still maintained its bright color and gorgeous appearance.

More importantly, Xia Chuan felt a faint demonic aura on it.

This should be it.

He used his spiritual power to check it, and after confirming that there was no problem, he reached out and took it out.

But something strange happened suddenly at that moment.

The surroundings suddenly became eerie, with white bones lying all over his feet. Around him, the sky suddenly darkened and became eerie, and one could even see faint white shadows floating in the distance.

A lantern stood abruptly in front of him, and behind it, there appeared vaguely the figure of a woman with a huge body, lying in the air, with a mask on her face, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and holding a pipe in her hand.

This is?

Strangely, Xia Chuan didn't feel any strong demonic aura, nor did he feel any danger.

"Who are you? Why are you disturbing the rest of the dead?"

The woman's voice drifted over vaguely. The strange thing was that although it was certain that he had never heard this voice before, it gave Xia Chuan a very familiar feeling.

"Who are you? Who is buried here?" he then asked.

"Bury it back, and you can leave safely. Otherwise, the curse will follow you and make your family..."

Xia Chuan walked straight forward, and the woman's figure suddenly pounced on him, but the next moment, she disappeared under Xia Chuan's attack, and the illusion also disappeared, and everything returned to the way it was before.

The hairpin was still in his hand, but the evil spirit on it had become increasingly weak, and its originally bright color had suddenly dimmed.

Chapter 232 Illusion

"Eh? Where is the person?"

Xia Chuan didn't expect the other party to be so vulnerable. He continued to search in the hairpin, but the little remaining demonic energy was consumed by the previous illusion and disappeared without a trace.

This didn't seem like a trap, but rather a precaution to protect the tomb from tomb robbers. It really didn't seem like an opportunity that could make him stronger.

Xiachuan had to start searching around again, and even checked the tomb of the unknown warrior carefully again and again. No matter what had been in there, after a long time, all that was left were the urn and the hairpin inside the urn.

There seemed to be no more clues worth paying attention to around. Xia Chuan thought for a moment, sent the urn back to a distant place, and returned to Tokyo as quickly as possible, taking only the hairpin.

A person's name has emerged in Xia Chuan's mind. If the hairpin was really left by that person, then her purpose should be to protect the tomb from being disturbed, and she and the owner of the tomb should have some kind of connection.

The psychic's previous indication was actually very clear, but because he didn't want to have any entanglement with her, he wasted his time and went around in circles. It would have been better for him to go directly to her from the beginning.

Hitomi Kamio still lives in that house, but Kinoshita Takashi had previously reported that she had called the company and her agent to let them know she was safe. Otherwise, the news of Hitomi Kamio's disappearance would have been all over the media by now.

Of course the company and her agent wanted to coax her back, or at least get her back under their control, but perhaps because of the influence of the demon fox in her body, Kamio Hitomi was determined not to go, and she also refused to tell them her whereabouts, only saying that she was living at a friend's house and was safe.

"Hitomi Kamio's company has quietly investigated Hitomi Kamio's whereabouts that day, and is also using the Metropolitan Police Department to investigate the identity of a police officer in his thirties or forties who is unmarried and meets Hitomi Kamio's aesthetic standards." A message also came from Asakawa Manabu. "She probably didn't tell them the name Kinoshita Takaya, nor did she say the location of the search section 4, otherwise, at least the company should have known the truth."

"Got it. Thank you for continuing to pay attention to their actions." Xia Chuan said.

Asakawa Manabu nodded and didn't say anything, but this made Xiachuan even more helpless.

Now that things have come to this, how does Kamio Hitomi want to end it?

He used the escape technique to enter the room directly.

Kamio Hitomi seemed to have fallen asleep, and Kinoshita Takashi was slumped on the sofa in the living room watching TV.

Xia Chuan's sudden appearance scared him so much that he almost screamed.

"You should go home and rest first." Xia Chuan said.

"Eh? Yes, thank you!" Kinoshita Takashi was about to complain and show off his achievements, but he didn't expect Natsukawa to just let him go home. "Well... in order to gain her trust, I made up a little story..."

"I understand. It's okay. You can go back." Xia Chuan said.

Kinoshita Takashi hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to be obedient, so he quickly picked up his things, said goodbye and left.

Natsukawa stood in the living room for a while, but still couldn't think of how to start the conversation. Finally, he made up his mind, took out his hairpin, and walked towards the room where Kamio Hitomi was resting. The next second, he suddenly entered Kamio Hitomi's dream.

"You're finally here." The fox said with a half-smile. "I thought you brought Kamio Hitomi here because you had figured out something and were ready to do something, but you just threw her to a greasy man who's full of nonsense? Aren't you afraid that he might suddenly go wild?"