From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

Chapter 263 Disaster

Xia Chuan and Long Qingting cursed at almost the same time. Without thinking, the jade slip quickly took shape in Xia Chuan's hand. Then, he said loudly: "I said, there must be fire!"

A sea of ​​fire suddenly appeared above their heads, igniting the bombs before they fell. A violent explosion ensued, and thousands of metal fragments were thrown out, but were quickly swallowed up by the sea of ​​fire.

People didn't realize that they had just walked around the gate of hell. They thought the sea of ​​fire above their heads was part of the explosion, and they fled in all directions more frantically. Many people fell and trampled on each other. They soon discovered that the area within a few miles had been reduced to ruins and corpses were everywhere. Only the area where they were was spared.

The sea of ​​fire suddenly disappeared at this time, leaving only an exceptionally blue sky after the raging flames.

They could not understand this scene, but what Xia Chuan and Long Qingting, who were standing in the middle of the area, had done before quickly filled in the gaps in their cognition. Many people knelt down without thinking, and soon, there was no one standing around except Long Qingting's subordinates.

The power of faith continuously gathered into Xia Chuan's body, quickly replenishing his previous consumption.

"You really surprised me this time." Long Qingting returned to normal after a moment, but there was a subtle change in his tone towards Xia Chuan.

Xia Chuan didn't know what to say in this situation, so he could only smile and said, "What are they yelling?"

"They regard you as a prophet... It may be difficult for these guys to accept new things all at once. They can only try to find things they can understand from what they already know..." said Long Qingting.

At this time, both of them felt some strange fluctuations.

"Oh no!" Long Qingting said, and at the same time rushed quickly towards the direction where the wave came from.

Atop the ruins, some kind of force is at work, and among the corpses, a large amount of resentment and death energy is rapidly gathering.

Long Qingting roared, and golden light and fist wind dispersed the gathered resentment, but their number was too large and too scattered. Just as the words on the jade slip in Xia Chuan's hand changed rapidly and he was about to say another decree, they suddenly gathered in one place rapidly, as if they were sucked away by something, and suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"I said, let there be light!"

The white light appeared again with Xia Chuan's voice, but it failed to purify anything.

The resentment in the ruins had completely disappeared before that.

Long Qingting looked a little ugly and rushed quickly towards the place where the resentment disappeared.

It was a gentle slope between two mountains. After the bombing, tens of thousands of bodies were left here, it was a horrific sight.

If they had not stopped one side from moving forward, the two sides would have collided head-on in this area. But now, because of their interference, most of those killed here were from the indigenous people.

Long Qingting quickly checked the surroundings but couldn't find any suspicious objects. Xia Chuan simply summoned Paul out and let it, in its spiritual form, drill into the ground to check, but still found nothing.

"Master, if it were me, I would definitely not leave any evidence that could be used to catch us after doing something this big. Even if they had set up some magic array or something like that, it should be the type that would disappear over time or would automatically disappear after taking effect."

"This is..." Paul in spirit form can actually become very small, but the most comfortable state for him is the size of an elephant. Long Qingting looked at it floating in the air in silence, as if it was talking to Xia Chuan, and his heart was once again greatly shocked.

"Sorry, I forgot to introduce you. This is my Shikigami Paul." Xia Chuan realized at this time that Paul was actually someone he could discuss things with. He might not know as many secrets as the fox, but he had collected a lot more knowledge and secrets online than the fox. In a sense, his vision and pattern might even be the highest among all the intelligent beings around him.

"Nice to meet you, nice to meet you." Paul displayed words in different colors on the surface of his body, leaving Long Qingting with no choice but to continue shaking his head.

This way of communication was obviously not very efficient, and Long Qingting couldn't talk to Xia Chuan's Shikigami on an equal footing, so he just nodded and said to Xia Chuan: "Sorry, I didn't expect the result to be like this. You made a wasted trip and got no meaningful spoils."

"It doesn't matter. Experience is the greatest gain." Xia Chuan said.

This trip could be considered a practical exercise of the Art of Words. Previously, he had no way to deal with Anloses' clone, but now he has absolute confidence.

Moreover, the ideas and experiences of Long Qingting in building an organization that they talked about on the road were also very valuable for him to refer to. Their environment, identity, resources, strength, and even the enemies they faced were not exactly the same, but many things were still in common.

Long Qingting was going to continue the investigation here for a while. Although it was not his jurisdiction, so many people had died and it was not his style to just leave without asking anything. No matter what, he had to find the relevant evidence.

Xia Chuan was about to say goodbye and go home, when a shocking piece of news suddenly came from Da Xia.

A strong earthquake occurred in Daxia. Fortunately, the place where the earthquake occurred was not densely populated. Although the specific results have not been investigated and counted yet, it should not cause too much loss of life and property. But what made them all angry was that the time when the first strong earthquake occurred was exactly when the resentment and death energy that had appeared due to the tragic deaths of a large number of people suddenly disappeared!

"Hahaha, how dare they do this on my territory!" Long Qingting laughed in anger, but the expression on his face betrayed his inner feelings.

"If we hadn't interfered with them, the results would have been much worse," Xia Chuan comforted him.

Either the earthquake was more severe, or it was located closer to a large city, or both.

"But those old guys won't think so. They will only say that I was clearly here but failed to stop them, which is a heinous crime." Long Qingting looked extremely angry, angry at the Watcher, angry at the internal strife of the Special Management Bureau, and perhaps also angry at himself. "I will make them pay for this debt!"

Xia Chuan didn't ask him what he was going to do.

The Watchers' bases are spread all over the world, but the closest one to here, apart from the dozen or so military bases in Sindhu, is the Australian base where M is located.

However, she shouldn't be so unlucky as to become the target of Long Qingting's anger, right?

"Master, this shouldn't be the first time they have done something like this, right? Do you want to conduct some investigation?" Paul suddenly said to him at this time.

"investigation?"

"Mr. Long and the others should have the authority to access the internal database of the Special Management Bureau, right? If they are willing to lend me the terminal... just give me a day or two." Paul's voice sounded a little impatient.

After becoming a spirit, it regained the ability to use a computer, which may be more important to it than its physical body.

Chapter 264 Divine Wind

"The database of the Special Management Bureau?"

"If it's convenient... you can let your people do the operation, and Paul will only be responsible for raising questions." Xia Chuan said.

Although he didn't know what the Special Case Management Bureau had in place regarding the internal database, Xia Chuan knew that it was not something that could be easily shown to outsiders. After logging in as Long Qingting or his subordinates, what they had read would definitely be recorded, and there would definitely be a mechanism to prevent hackers from intruding. Therefore, he simply took the initiative to propose that Long Qingting's subordinates should be in charge of the operation, so that Paul wouldn't be able to control himself.

Long Qingting thought about it for a while, but he was more surprised that Xia Chuan, the tentacle monster Shikigami, had such ability.

"No problem. What do you want to check? If it's something too confidential, I may not have enough authority. Besides, those old guys will definitely know what we looked at afterwards."

"It should be fine. If they see this information, you might be able to save yourself the trouble of convincing them."

Long Qingting's subordinates were not human either, but their computer operation speed and reaction time were really not comparable to Paul's. Its tentacles kept swinging in the air, and it looked like it was going crazy and almost couldn't control itself, and pushed away the person sitting in front of the computer. However, under Xia Chuan's strict order, it finally held back, and just used one tentacle to roll up the pen, constantly writing down the keywords that needed to be searched on the paper, and then used another computer next to it to frantically conduct auxiliary searches on the public network.

As each piece of information appeared, everyone quickly understood what it wanted to know, and the astonishing results soon appeared before their eyes.

Human sacrifice, cults, large-scale accidents, and racial hatred have been occurring all over the world since decades ago, or to be more precise, ten years after the end of the World War. Behind these events, many are accompanied by disasters.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, cold waves, plagues, locust plagues, droughts, wind disasters, forest fires, and so on.

Some, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, wind disasters and volcanic eruptions, occur immediately and are relatively easy to distinguish. However, disasters such as floods, droughts and plagues do not occur until one or two months later or even longer, making it relatively difficult to determine whether they are related to previous suspected sacrificial ceremonies.

These abnormal disasters first occurred in the United States. Not many people were sacrificed and the scale of the disaster was small. They must be doing experiments to confirm the relevant details.

Subsequently, abnormal disasters and suspected sacrificial events began to occur frequently in South America, Africa, and Oceania, varying in scale, as if more tests and exercises were being carried out.

Starting twenty years ago, these events began to occur purposefully and systematically around Lucia and Bactria. The reason behind this was the severe weather conditions that had persisted for many years in both countries. Large-scale, long-term, and frequent floods, forest fires, droughts, and epidemics in different regions, interspersed with wind disasters, earthquakes, and other disasters, had never stopped.

Even if they are allies, once they threaten the United States, they will immediately face a "natural disaster" and suffer heavy losses. For example, Japan suffered a major earthquake more than ten years ago, which could be said to have shaken the country's destiny. Thousands of people died, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and the economic losses amounted to trillions of yen. From then on, Japan was completely devastated.

Long Qingting began to sneer again, and Xia Chuan felt a little frightened.

They had no direct evidence, only data and facts that Paul had presented after frantically searching. Some of the things might be far-fetched, but there must be something they had missed.

But even by the most conservative estimates, over the past few decades, the Watchers have directly killed more than 100,000 people simply for the purpose of weakening their opponents, and have killed many more through various "natural disasters."

"They must be stopped and punished!" Xia Chuan said.

"I will return home immediately," Long Qingting said. "But even if we can prove it and convince those old guys, they will not immediately break off relations with the Watchers. After all, the damage caused by these disasters has passed, but if we go to war with the Watchers, the result will most likely be the destruction of the entire world."

"Will they swallow their anger in silence?" Xia Chuan couldn't believe it.

"That's definitely not the case," Long Qingting said. "They will definitely take a series of actions immediately to ensure that the Watchers will not continue to take such actions, and they may even carry out a series of retaliatory actions to show their determination. But this is the most they can do. After all, the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads under the control of the Watchers are not just for show."

"However, it should be a good thing for you to have this exposed." He sighed and patted Xia Chuan's shoulder. "There is no reason to hide this from the Cheka. The revenge actions of the Special Management Bureau and the Cheka are no joke. The Watchers will not have the time to think about how to deal with you for a long time. Seize this opportunity!"

At this point, there was no point in continuing the investigation, so the group drove back. However, until they left, they did not see anyone rushing to deal with the tragedy. Only a few relatives of the deceased were looking for their loved ones in the morgue like zombies.

When they arrived in Yangon, the official announcement of Sindhu was finally released, but the long announcement was all about condemning both sides of the conflict and did not mention the US air strikes at all.

"Regional conflict?" Long Qingting sneered again.

The two separated at this point. Long Qingting took a military plane directly to the north, while Xia Chuan once again used the escape technique to return to Bangkok and sneaked onto a passenger plane to Tokyo. He returned quietly just as he had left.

"So fast?" It had been less than two days since he left, and most of the time had been spent on the road. This efficiency shocked the fox demon. "Solved?"

"I guess so." Xia Chuan shook his head, summoned Paul out, and told her what had happened.

"This, isn't it the Kamikaze Formation you're talking about?" The fox demon said something that surprised him a little.

"Kamikaze formation?"

"You should know the story of Kamikaze saving Japan? It is said that the reason why Kyushu guardian Shoni was able to repel the Yuan army was because they slaughtered all the residents of Dazaifu to launch the Kamikaze formation. At the end of the war, the Ryukyu garrison also slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Ryukyu residents, trying to activate the Kamikaze formation to destroy the Allied Combined Fleet, but failed. The Watchers probably obtained the secret of the Kamikaze formation from some source after occupying Japan, and then..."

"Ryukyu? How did they fail? What else do you know?" Xia Chuan asked immediately.

Chapter 265 Shimazaki

"I don't know the details. After all, I was sealed away at that time. I only knew a little about what was happening outside through my guests." The fox demon shook his head slightly. "What happened in Ryukyu back then is known to the world. However, after so many years of being ignored, those who remember those things have aged even if they are not dead. Probably not many people still remember that tragedy."

Paul immediately added an explanation, and it seemed that he had already noticed this matter during the previous background search.

Official records show that as many as 200,000 Ryukyu residents were systematically massacred by the Japanese army, but for some unknown reason, such sacrifice ultimately did not produce any recorded effects.

"A should have already existed at that time?" Xia Chuan guessed.

The system of Overwatch members should have been established after the war, but A should have appeared much earlier than that.

Then again, what was the state and position of the evil god like Anroseth, who was suspected to be a key member of the Watchers? In that war that completely reshuffled and restructured the entire world, what roles did the original gods and aliens play?

All they know now is that almost all of Neon's "Eight Million Gods" died in that war, leaving only a few monsters like the fox demon Erika and the dog demon Shiina who did not participate in the war for various reasons. Most of the members of the Styx Society should be monsters who gradually grew up after the war, while guys like Iriyuu avoided that period because they were sealed too early.

Xia Chuan then recalled that when Shiina, the dog demon, was telling his story, he had vaguely mentioned something related to the "divine wind". However, he did not want to find him to dig deeper, but instead he was reminded of another alien species that he had forgotten.

The group of aliens behind Shimazaki Yagyo and Mifune Trading, although Mifune Trading has a history of only more than 50 years, at that time they were able to hide themselves in the human world in this way and actively develop their power, and even avoid the sight of Akasaka and Tokyo Watch. They should have had their own organization long ago.

These guys must have been secretly paying attention to all the big and small events between the Skeleton Society, the Styx Society, Akasaka and the Watchers, but they haven't shown up for such a long time since the Watchers withdrew from Tokyo. They want to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between the two tigers. Isn't this too much of a wishful thinking?

"Erika, do you want to show your face and presence?"

"What do you mean?"

"Remember those guys from Shimazaki Yagye I told you about before?"

The fox demon thought for a second and flatly refused: "If you go as my wife, I will go. It doesn't matter if you go as my sister... However, if you want to knock on my door directly, I don't mind watching the fun nearby."

Of course, Natsukawa would not add unnecessary enemies to himself for no reason. Besides, apart from being too involved, those guys from Shimazaki Yagyo had not done anything wrong to him. On the contrary, they had done him a favor in the matter of Nishiokyu Commercial Street.

However, with his current status, it would be a bit cheap for him to go there on his own initiative, so he sent a group of crows to hover over the Shimazaki family's big house for half an hour, and soon a car drove out and headed straight for the Skeleton Shrine.

As expected, it was the old acquaintance Onizuka and his assistant named Chiyo, but their attitude was obviously much more humble than before.

Natsukawa did not show up directly, but asked Nomiya Kana to receive them.

"Miss Nomiya, I wonder what Lord Mukuro has called us here for?" Onitsuka changed his fierce look and smiled, looking like a harmless old man. But he called out Nomiya's last name directly, which showed that they were not completely ignorant of the situation in the Skeleton Shrine.

"It was not Lord Mukuro who summoned you, but the Second Shrine Maiden." Kana Nomiya poured him a cup of tea and said calmly according to Natsukawa's instructions. "Mr. Onitsuka, although the gods seem to have forgotten you, as an alien living in Tokyo, don't you think your behavior is impolite?"

"Nomiya Miko, there seems to be some misunderstanding here." Onitsuka was calm. "When your company first publicly auctioned the magic weapon, we sent the president of Mifune Trading to participate in the auction. After that, we participated in the auction twice. We thought that since the elders of the Skeleton Society did not give any instructions, it might be that they wanted us to continue to maintain the status quo. So we..."

His words made both Nomiya Kana and Natsukawa, who was eavesdropping on their conversation, a little embarrassed.

Too many bronze mirrors were sold. Although the relevant information of the bidders would be recorded for each bronze mirror, most of the bidders were just agents, and the final owner of the bronze mirror might even be transferred two or three times.

At first, Xia Chuan was very interested in using the bronze mirror to see what shameful secrets these so-called big guys had in secret, but he soon became bored and stopped doing this completely.

Perhaps the secrets of these so-called big guys are incredible things to ordinary people, and accidentally hearing a certain sentence can make them make a lot of money or change the fate of many people, but for him who lives in a completely different world, these so-called secrets have really become meaningless.

It's unlikely that Onitsuka would lie about something that could be exposed right away, so...

"You are making a specious argument!" Kana Nomiya didn't get Natsukawa's instructions right away, but she had come into contact with a lot of upper-class people. After having a shikigami, she didn't have any psychological disadvantages against monsters like Onitsuka. The world they lived in was not a place for reason. As the strong party, how could they be easily cornered by the other party?

"Yes." Onitsuka had no intention of arguing with her. "We were inconsiderate. Please put in a good word for us, Nomiya Miko. These are just small gifts, not a token of respect."

The assistant named Chiyo immediately took out a small box from her bag and handed it to her, but how could Nomiya Kana dare to accept their gift under such circumstances?

"Forget about the gift." She waved her hand immediately. "I will naturally explain the situation to you, but I don't need to remind you how to express your sincerity, right?"

"If it's convenient, could Nomiya Miko tell us when the Lord God is available?" Onitsuka said. "The president of our association has long been willing to pay homage, and will definitely prepare gifts and come with sincerity!"

Chapter 266 Shimazaki (2)

　The most important thing is the alien attitude that has quietly infiltrated the political and economic circles for more than ten years.

Before the outcome of the battle between Xia Chuan and the Watchers comes out, they probably won't willingly stand up to help establish the new order that Xia Chuan expects. However, their position naturally determines that they cannot stand on the side of the Watchers.

Natsukawa finally chose to meet the "President" mentioned by Onizuka at the Skeleton Shrine in the image of the old man Kaibi. Unexpectedly, Tozawa Yasushi, the behind-the-scenes organizer of Shimazaki Yagyo and Mifune Trading, who came secretly accompanied by Onizuka and several monsters, was a guy who looked quite young.