From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

The door was open, and Tachibana Koichi and Kimoto walked in and immediately saw the bodies scattered around the room.

"There were seven people in total, six of them were employees of the financial company, and one was the debtor. They must have died accidentally during the lynching of the debtor, and then they were retaliated by the evil spirits while handling the body, and all of them froze to death in a very short time. The time of death is difficult to estimate, and we can only guess from the testimony of eyewitnesses. They probably haven't been seen out and about since the afternoon, so the incident must have happened around that time.

After we detected a high-intensity abnormal fluctuation in the store downstairs, we immediately applied for an EMP strike, and confirmed that the source of the fluctuation had completely disappeared after the strike. "

"Congratulations, you solved the problem so smoothly." Tachibana Hiroichi said a little reluctantly. "Thank you for your hard work."

It was certainly a good thing to be able to resolve unusual incidents cleanly and without casualties, but he couldn't help but wonder why such a simple thing didn't happen to him.

For example, Yui Aoki, she looks like an ordinary girl no matter how you look at her, but there is nothing we can do about her. We can't get her to speak, and we can't be sure if there is something wrong with her.

"Now that the problem has been solved, we'll leave first." He nodded after making one final circle. "If you need any help, just ask."

"I heard you guys are in a lot of trouble! Go to bed early."

The two walked up the stairs towards the car. Even though a cordon had been set up, many nearby residents still gathered around, asking what was going on, and some were even taking pictures.

"Ignorance is bliss!" Tachibana Hiroichi sighed, but saw Kimoto's body pause. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, maybe I saw it wrong."

There was a face in the crowd that looked vaguely familiar, but it disappeared in a flash.

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【This is Akasaka】

"Yes! Thank you for your reminder!" Sato Kentaro whispered in the crowd. "I will be more careful in the future!"

Natsukawa didn't expect Sato to take him to the legendary Pachinko, but after observing for a while and figuring out how to play, it was not very difficult for Sato Kentaro to earn 100,000 yuan with his last 2,000 yuan.

However, due to the program settings of the machine itself, even if the cheat mode is turned on, the efficiency of making money in this way is too low.

Xiachuan asked Sato to take him to a real casino, but Sato was powerless. Because gambling is actually illegal in Neon, underground casinos need someone to bring you in, and he doesn't have such a way. As for legal horse racing, boat racing and bicycle racing, the money is also too slow.

In the end, they could only stop after making NT$300,000 from three different pachinko parlors. Natsukawa felt that this was simply a waste of his time, but Sato Kentaro thanked him profusely and did not think there was anything shameful about it at all.

This has a different meaning for him, because in fact, it was because he became addicted to pachinko after being cheated that he fell into the quagmire and eventually became the prey of loan sharks. In his opinion, taking back the money that was cheated from him in this way is undoubtedly a reward and warning from God.

"I will never set foot in these places again! Thank you so much for your teachings!"

Natsukawa could only sigh. This amount of money was not even enough to pay back one third of what he promised to Takahata and Yoshiyama. Sato suddenly had an epiphany at this moment. He didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.

He then ordered Sato to find a place to wait nearby and let him see Akasaka's working style and work efficiency with his own eyes.

Of course, this is a risk. In a strange place, it is difficult to ensure that no Akasaka people will accidentally approach from a place they have not seen and trigger the alarm of the detector. Unlike in the vicinity of Aoki Yui's home and Tsuru Manor, any unfamiliar face will stand out. But in order to make a deep impression on Sato, and to further observe Akasaka's response process, ability and speed to such incidents, Xiachuan finally decided to take the risk.

The results were indeed rewarding.

It turned out that the EMP they used in the residential area was different. It looked like some kind of remote-controlled robot that could automatically climb the stairs. Compared to the ones he had seen before, this device was indeed more concealed and more difficult to guard against. And it took them less than an hour from discovering the problem to confirming the problem to launching the attack.

Just imagine, if such a thing sneaked in through the gate of Hezhuang and exploded, even for him, unless he paid attention to the situation outside the door at all times, the probability of being hit would be very high.

[Don’t go back to the shrine yet, find a small hotel in Higashioku to stay]

Although he still didn't understand the details, Sato immediately agreed.

"Yes!"

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If I don’t ask, will I not get a ticket?

I'll just have to ask it every morning.

Mina-san, have you collected it? Have you voted for it? Have you given it the blade? Where is the monthly ticket?

Thank you...

Chapter 33 Thirteen Strands of Spiritual Energy

After bearing pressure for the entire day and experiencing the process from joy to sorrow and back to joy several times, Sato's spirit was already overwhelmed. He quickly took a shower and fell asleep, while Natsukawa, as usual, floated in the air on the roof of the hotel, thinking about his next plan.

The biggest problem has always been the severe lack of information. Relying on himself to explore bit by bit is inefficient and requires taking great risks. But apart from the two losers Takahata and Yoshiyama, he has not seen any other aliens who can have a rational conversation.

It’s really nerve-wracking.

In Natsukawa's opinion, if the goal was just to survive like Takahata and the others, then the area of ​​Higashio Hisahisa, which he was very familiar with, would be an ideal hiding place.

The population is small and relatively stable, there aren't many outsiders coming in, and the pace of life is bland. No matter if it's Akasaka or someone else who comes in, they'll immediately stand out.

But the problem with this place is the same, not having many people means not having much potential to tap. Even if he took a huge risk to develop all the residents of Dongweijiu into believers, the harvest would only be the kind of one-touch-and-see.

If I were an alien that had survived since ancient times, where would I hide?

If Akasaka didn't exist, there could actually be many different answers, but it is precisely because of Akasaka's existence that if he can think of something, can't the people in Akasaka think of it?

Unless there is a reliable way to evade Akasaka's detection equipment, there should be no outliers among those celebrities who often need to show up in public. The same is true for government agencies. Otherwise, an organization like Akasaka would not be able to survive for a long time, and the outliers in high positions would definitely do their best to root out Akasaka.

Places like the Yakuza, shrines, temples, and churches are also out of the question, because they will definitely be the focus of Akasaka's attention.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Chuan found that he had no better choice except leaving the country or hiding in the mountains.

For humans living in this world, Akasaka is truly an admirable existence like a secret guardian, but for outliers like Natsukawa, they are like a turtle that will not let go once it bites them, and they are indeed a group of very troublesome guys.

An incident of this magnitude could not cause the people who were monitoring Aoki to leave, which means that they still had enough manpower. However, Tachibana and Kimoto hurried away afterwards, which may mean that if there were twice as many incidents, they would most likely have to relax or even cancel their surveillance on Aoki.

Xia Chuan has already mastered the method of making trouble, and the spiritual power he has distributed is roughly equivalent to the contribution of Aoki or Sato's continuous prayers for half a month. This price is acceptable to him. The real problem is that even though he has become an alien, his worldview is still not much different from when he was a human.

There is certainly nothing wrong with killing loan sharks like he did today, but if the victims were completely innocent passers-by, that would be beyond his moral bottom line.

He had originally considered asking Sato to take him to a casino during the day, but they ended up going to a pachinko place that most people would go to... Although in fact that could be considered a casino, he really couldn't do something like killing people in a pachinko place.

This damn twenty-meter limit... Should Sato throw the amulet he possesses somewhere first and then pick it up again?

But the biggest problem with doing this is that if this loser Sato can't go back, then he will be completely trapped at the scene of the supernatural incident and become a lamb to be slaughtered in front of Akasaka.

It would be great if there was a way to break through or bypass this twenty-meter limit.

Xia Chuan thought hard.

He subconsciously searched for some inspiration in the hotel room, separated a strand of spiritual power, and began to try to see if he could integrate it into some object, but he never succeeded.

So he began looking for usable items in other parts of the hotel, and then a small bronze Buddha statue placed in a shrine behind the cash register on the first floor caught his attention.

There is no spiritual power in it. It is just an ordinary idol. The workmanship is also very crude. It should be of no value.

But when Xia Chuan pushed the spiritual energy over, it only delayed for a moment and then directly merged into the Buddha statue.

This is……

Xia Chuan began to observe and study the Buddha statue more carefully, and even checked its internal structure over and over again. Due to the poor processing, there were even a few sand holes and bubbles inside the Buddha statue, and there was nothing special about it. But when Xia Chuan sent another ray of spiritual power to it, it also quickly merged into it, and even the previous lag disappeared.

This situation forced Xia Chuan to start thinking seriously.

According to Takahata and others, there should be no gods or Buddhas in the shrines, temples, and churches of this world, and there is nothing about them in their memories.

So were they driven out of this world, cut off from this world's connection, or were they... killed?

The third possibility was so arrogant that even Xia Chuan himself felt it was an unrealistic delusion. In his opinion, the most likely possibility should be the second one.

But where did the power of the wishes generated by the believers when they prayed devoutly to the Buddha statue in the temple go? Why was it not connected with the gods and Buddhas? And would the spiritual power he injected into this small Buddha statue bring about any unpredictable bad consequences?

Bring all the gods and Buddhas back to this world?

This possibility should not exist. If it is so simple to break through the limitations, someone must have done it long ago.

What Xia Chuan was worried about was whether this Buddha statue would become a one-way door, suddenly and frantically draining the spiritual power from his body, or even taking him to another world?

This is not impossible. Perhaps these Buddha statues are a conspiracy by Akasaka, a secret weapon to consume and absorb the power of human wishes and render harmless the spirits that appear by chance?

But... knowing clearly that this thing is very strange, just leaving it alone and abandoning the possible opportunities is not Xia Chuan's character.

Someone once said that curiosity is one of the most important instincts that drives human evolution. Without the spirit of exploration and the desire to die, humans might still be living in trees.

After becoming a spirit and losing most of his pleasures, curiosity and thirst for knowledge had long become one of the few remaining pleasures for Xia Chuan. So, after more than an hour of serious thinking, he finally made a decision.

The critical point that caused the previous spirit body to change was fifteen strands of spiritual energy and thirty strands of spiritual energy, so, another thirteen strands of spiritual energy will be distributed out.

Wait a minute, why is it thirteen strands?

Chapter 34: Attachment

Before he became what he is now, Xia Chuan could probably say without feeling guilty that he was an atheist.

But at this point in time, if you still say arrogantly that you don't believe in these things, the only explanation is probably that you are stupid.

The only question now is whether the various legends and taboos of the past world are the same as in this world, and how many of the taboos circulating in this world are true, and how many are fabricated by organizations like Akasaka to confuse right and wrong.

Xia Chuan carefully separated thirteen strands of spiritual power, gently pushed them towards the Buddha statue, and then fled in the opposite direction without hesitation. After a few minutes, after confirming that no changes had occurred here, he slowly approached little by little and began a second round of inspection and testing of the Buddha statue.

It is difficult to say what is different. Obviously, no substantial changes have taken place, but the Buddha statue has indeed undergone some qualitative change, as if it has been polished and suddenly there is a faint light that cannot be distinguished without careful observation.

So, Xia Chuan once again separated out fifteen strands of spiritual power and did the same thing, but this time, he didn't need to go back to check, as he realized what changes had taken place.

It suddenly became part of his consciousness.

It wasn't a clone, it hadn't reached that high level. Rather, when Xia Chuan focused his attention on that side, he found that the spiritual power he had previously divided had formed a weaker version of himself, while the original part remained in place.

It’s like the feeling of wearing a VR device to play games in your previous life. Your body remains in the same place, but your consciousness can use some mechanism to go to a completely different place, do completely different things, and give you completely different sensory feedback.

Xia Chuan immediately tried to control both ends simultaneously to perform multi-threaded operations, but unsurprisingly failed.

No matter how he tried, even if he divided more spiritual power into the Buddha statue, the result was still the same. He could only control one end at a time, and it was obvious that the power on the main body side was much greater.

There would be a brief pause of a few seconds when the consciousness switched between the two ends, and there would be a slight loss of spiritual power each time. However, this pause and loss was still within Xia Chuan's acceptable range. In a sense, this could also be regarded as a certain degree of doppelganger achieved in the form of schizophrenia.

He could finally see himself, but he was just a shapeless chaos, without hands, feet, limbs, tentacles, etc. When he tried to bring the two bodies together, they immediately merged into one without any hindrance, and the feeling of schizophrenia disappeared in an instant.

It seems that some of his spiritual power was lost in this process. The exact amount is difficult to estimate, but it should not exceed one third of all the spiritual power he invested.

Very interesting.

Xia Chuan immediately began a new experiment. This time, he found that perhaps because he had already invested spiritual power in this Buddha statue before, even a small amount of spiritual power could produce a schizophrenic effect. However, the more spiritual power he invested, the more complex and precise the things he could do. If he only invested a little spiritual power, he basically couldn't even leave the Buddha statue. He could only rely on it, look out through the perspective of the shrine, and hear the sounds near the shrine.

Except for the first time, the spiritual power invested later can be recovered without loss. However, at the same time, each switch back and forth of consciousness will still result in a slight loss of spiritual power.

The part of consciousness attached to the Buddha statue can only move freely within about five meters around the Buddha statue. Beyond this range, it will be restricted by some irresistible force. Even if more spiritual power is invested, the size of this restriction cannot be changed.

Xia Chuan immediately began to try more objects, and after a while, he found another object that could be infused with spiritual power in the belongings of a resident.

An amulet from unknown origin.

It was just a cloth bag with words written on it and a vermilion seal on it, but for some unknown reason, it became different from other papers and had a mysterious capacity to receive spiritual power.

Xia Chuan began to conduct further tests and found that the copper Buddha statue could accept a lot of spiritual power and could not test the upper limit, while the paper amulet could no longer accept more after injecting forty strands of spiritual power. It is worth mentioning that when the consciousness is attached to the amulet, the range of free movement is only about two meters.

He tried to switch between the three endpoints and found that when switching directly between two endpoints, the delay time was as long as more than five seconds, and the loss of spiritual power was also higher. It would be more convenient to return to the main body first, and then switch from the local to the other end, which would reduce the loss.

The action of injecting spiritual energy can only be completed by the main body, and it is impossible to ignore the distance and add spiritual energy to the end point that has already established contact. If you don't actively switch to a certain end, you basically can't know what is happening there, and you can't get any information.

There are a lot of restrictions, but in Xia Chuan's opinion, many new tricks can be played.

Do real gods and Buddhas also bless and protect their believers in this way?

There is no way to know the answer to this question now. But he can do it.

For some reason, he finally injected twenty strands of spiritual power into the amulet of the unknown guest. Just as he was about to take back some of the spiritual power from the Buddha statue, he suddenly saw the owner of the inn lit a stick of incense in front of the shrine.

Xia Chuan waited with bated breath.

Nothing happens.

Perhaps some weak wishes were generated in the process of his praying to the Buddha statue, but they obviously were not transmitted to Xiachuan through the statue.

Sure enough, the generation and gathering of willpower is not that simple.

Judging from the results so far, the object of the prayer should be the most important factor in this process. The amulet or Buddha statue is just a medium. If they pray or fear another object, then you can't take away the power of their wishes even if you stand in front of them.

The bold idea of ​​running to ownerless shrines and temples to occupy their place and steal the power of gods can be declared to be unsuccessful at this moment.

The sky had brightened up without him noticing. Xiachuan reduced the spiritual power in the Buddha statue to about ten strands, and then returned to the room where Sato was.

He was sleeping soundly and snoring loudly, and his sleeping posture was extremely ugly.

Xia Chuan knocked on his head, but there was no response, so he had to increase the force and knock again.

Sato finally woke up screaming.