From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

Moreover, if he could drive the monster away once, could he drive it away a second time?

The roar of the monster continued to come from afar, and Xia Chuan began to try to use his own strength to help the girl leave. But now he only learned to stimulate the power in his body in an instant to cause damage and harm to the target. Actions such as supporting, which require continuous and gentle force, are still a problem for him.

Run away quickly!

He looked at the girl anxiously. She finally overcame her fear and physical pain and began to crawl forward using her hands and feet, sobbing softly.

Xia Chuan could finally relax a little. He turned his attention back to the monster. It was constantly attacking and intimidating the soldiers, but they were all silent and did not utter a single cry of fear from beginning to end. Even when they were caught up by the monster, flew out and hit the pillars, fell to the ground, and were injured again and again, they just got up as quickly as possible and continued to run forward in silence.

The monster soon lost interest in continuing. It passed the man who was running last because of a broken leg, and directly grabbed the fastest runner. It lifted him upside down in the air, grabbed each of his feet, and began to slowly tear them apart.

The soldier finally screamed in pain, but the next second, his closest companion pulled out a pistol and shot him directly in the head, relieving his pain before he was torn apart alive.

This action made the monster roar in anger. It grabbed the man who fired the gun and smashed him to death against a pillar, then strode towards the third man.

Xia Chuan finally couldn't stand this kind of cruelty anymore and pounced on it, but the monster blocked his attack with just one claw, and then swung its huge claw, forcing him to flee backwards.

The monster roared angrily, as if accusing Xia Chuan of interfering with its hunting.

"Let them go!" Xia Chuan shouted loudly.

The monster attacked him furiously, its speed was extremely fast, and its huge body seemed to have no effect on it at all. But Xia Chuan soon discovered that when he focused all his attention and tried his best, he could move faster in space than it.

This discovery gave Xia Chuan more confidence. He might not be able to cause any substantial damage to the monster, but he had no reason to fight it to the death here.

All he had to do was hold it off to give the girl and the soldiers a chance to escape.

The monster waved its claws wildly, trying to drive Xia Chuan away, or kill him directly, but Xia Chuan was always carefully controlling the distance between the two. He attacked the monster from different directions again and again. Although he was blocked every time, after more and more attacks, he gradually became familiar with his own state and the means of using strength, and gradually began to learn to attack the monster from more tricky angles.

Gradually the monster could no longer fight as easily as it did at the beginning, and Xia Chuan gradually began to break through its defenses and attack its body.

In a rage, the monster suddenly gave up its defense and no longer cared about Xia Chuan's attack. It pounced directly on the injured soldiers and began to brutally kill them.

"Stop it! You damned bastard!"

Such behavior made Xia Chuan furious. He hit the monster's neck hard and hit it with all his strength. Most of the monster's head was almost cut off. There was no blood, and no bones or internal organs, no organs or tissues. Inside was a whole mass of pale, chaotic and blurry matter, which gathered together again after a moment.

Xia Chuan vaguely felt that there were things in there that were very similar to the things that made up his current self, but he could not attract or seize them, nor could he easily peel them off the monster's body.

The giant claw swung, forcing Xia Chuan to jump away. The next moment, the monster had used its other claw to pierce the body of the soldier who had been repeatedly tortured by it before, and picked him up.

He tightly grasped the huge weapon that was invisible to the naked eye, blood spurted out of his mouth, but what appeared on his face was a smile that Xia Chuan could not understand.

Xia Chuan pounced on the monster again, causing another huge wound on its shoulder. Almost at the same time, the soldier's body was cut open by the monster's claws, but the strange phenomenon that had occurred before did not occur.

Nothing appeared except entrails and blood.

The monster roared once more, and Natsukawa had the feeling that it was more in response to its anger at the soldiers than the damage it had done.

The fourth soldier suddenly laughed. Ignoring Xia Chuan's attack, the monster cruelly pierced his body with its claws, lifted him up, and waved to block Xia Chuan's attack, forcing him to retreat temporarily. Then, it suddenly started and rushed straight in the direction where the girl escaped!

"You..." Xia Chuan was shocked and angry, and used his speed advantage to get ahead of it, but the monster once again ignored his attack that almost cut off one of its arms, and landed heavily in front of the girl who was groping forward in the dark.

The loud noise made the girl scream and she fell to the ground.

Xia Chuan attacked the monster frantically. He could not accept such an outcome!

The soldier's body was suddenly thrown towards him roughly, and Xia Chuan could only try his best to slow down his falling speed. The next second, a huge claw came like a shadow, and there was no way to avoid it. Xia Chuan put all his strength into the present, and collided head-on with the monster for the first time, and was directly knocked flying.

No!

He struggled frantically in the air against the force and finally stopped after a few seconds, but by then, the monster had already walked in front of the girl and the soldier, crushing the soldier's thigh with one foot, causing him to scream uncontrollably.

The screams so close made the girl scream again. She covered her mouth tightly, her body trembling and curled up into a ball. It was obvious that she was terrified to the extreme.

The monster laughed with satisfaction.

"Don't be afraid." The seriously injured soldier suddenly said at this time.

His voice was shaking with extreme pain, but his tone remained calm.

"Don't be afraid of them, they won't be able to take away our power. Remember, no matter what happens, don't be afraid!"

"Who are you?" The girl was so frightened that she couldn't hear what he said. "Save me, please..."

"Don't be afraid, and don't beg." The soldier was barely breathing, but his voice was still firm. "Don't leave this world with regrets and resentment. If you do this, you will get nothing. Don't be afraid, as long as you hold on, we can..."

The monster finally killed him, but it tore off his head and tore his body apart, but still got nothing.

The next moment, Xia Chuan pounced on it with unprecedented anger and hatred, directly split its ugly face, and stabbed it wildly in the face. The monster was finally unable to ignore such an attack, but when its huge claws swung, Xia Chuan had moved to its back and stabbed its body violently again.

The two spirits were entangled with each other. In the darkness, an object suddenly flew towards them with a tail flame.

Keep asking, keep asking...

Chapter 3: An EMP at the beginning?

The next moment, the darkness was suddenly torn apart by a scorching light, and the entire building was illuminated by the flash. A huge sound wave came with some kind of power and hit Xia Chuan hard, as if he was directly submerged by a huge wave of strong acid.

It was a pain like the soul being torn apart, but it lasted only a short time, just a flash by. For Xia Chuan, it was more of a surprise.

What is this? Are humans in this world capable of this?

The monster standing across from him, due to its larger size, took more of the attack and let out the most tragic scream yet.

The second explosion occurred at this moment. Xia Chuan only had time to curl up his body to withstand the attack with the smallest area, but the monster opened its body because of the previous pain and anger, and was hit hard by the energy contained in the shock wave.

After the shock wave passed, Xia Chuan looked up and saw that about a hundred meters away from them, two groups of soldiers were scattered around loading ammunition into some kind of weapons with brackets at the fastest speed.

The monster left Xia Chuan and the girl behind without hesitation and rushed towards one of the groups. Its huge, blood-stained body crossed the distance between the two groups at an extremely fast speed and violently slammed into the soldiers before they could complete their second attack, sending their bodies flying high into the air.

Another group of soldiers finished reloading at this time, and the third bullet flew towards the monster immediately, and suddenly detonated before it was ready to destroy the bullet, giving it a heavier blow. At this time, the position attacked by the monster also exploded, and the shock waves hit the monster's huge body one after another in a very short period of time, causing it to stagger and almost fall forward.

Although Xia Chuan was also affected, he suffered much less damage because he was farther away and huddled together.

The monster's body finally showed obvious changes. It became more and more broken, and the pale color finally became a little blurry.

The pain made it even more furious, and in just a moment, it rushed to the soldier who was loading the third round of ammunition, smashed the weapon into scrap metal with one claw, and cut a soldier in half with the other claw.

Blood was everywhere, and the soldiers immediately began to flee silently, but no matter how fast they were, they could not match the monster. One soldier was knocked flying and landed heavily in the distance. The second soldier was grabbed from behind and thrown out by the monster. Just as the monster was about to catch up and cut him in half, Xia Chuan jumped on its back again and hit it hard.

These people have already shed enough blood, regardless of whether they are friends or enemies. After hearing the words "Don't be afraid, don't pray", Xia Chuan has made a decision that he will never stand idly by and let them be killed by this monster.

Maybe he is no longer human, maybe after a while of continuing in this state, he will gradually become different, gradually become a non-human monster, and his position will become completely different. But at least at this moment, his thinking mode is still the same as before, and he will still be infected and moved by the great things in human nature.

The monster wailed for the first time, and Xia Chuan was surprised to find that this attack of his had caused more serious damage than any previous one. After suffering four consecutive explosive attacks in a short period of time, the monster's body was no longer as solid as before. His attack almost directly pierced the monster's body. Inside its body, a strange-shaped white object appeared, but was immediately covered up.

Its core?

Xia Chuan became excited, but the monster suddenly became crazy. Another pair of sharp claws suddenly sprang out from its back, almost piercing Xia Chuan's body.

The four sharp claws were waving wildly, leaving Xia Chuan with no space to attack. At this time, the monster quickly moved to the soldiers and slaughtered them brutally.

Xia Chuan was unable to stop it and could only watch it slaughter the soldiers to death and swallow them whole.

"go to hell!"

He suddenly heard a voice. It was the survivor of the fire team that had been knocked away by the monster. At some point, he had crawled back to the destroyed weapon and opened the fuse of one of the shells that had fallen to the ground.

But he hit it hard with the handle of the knife, but the shell did not explode. Instead, his cry attracted the monster's attention and made it realize the danger lurking in this place!

It immediately dropped the prey at hand and pounced towards the figure.

But Xia Chuan was faster than it. He rushed to the man first and guessed the operation required to detonate the shell from his desperate movements.

He slapped the bulletproof shield on the soldier's chest hard, trying to push him further away, then turned around to face the monster that was rushing towards him.

Four sharp claws swung at him one after another. This time he did not choose to escape or resist. Instead, he used up his last bit of strength and chopped fiercely through the gaps between them as they hit him. At the same time, he used the convenience of his spiritual body to penetrate the shell of the shell and directly triggered the fuse from the inside.

The monster's claws tore open his spirit and shattered his soul, bringing unspeakable pain, but his blow also split the monster's body and exposed its core.

Then, there was the all-encompassing light that exploded around them.

……

I feel a little unwilling...

Xia Chuan sighed, preparing to face his own end, only to realize a moment later that everything that had happened before seemed to be in the past.

The huge building had once again fallen into darkness and silence, but his consciousness seemed to be interrupted.

The moment before, he was in front of the monster, thinking only of how to kill it, willing to endure the pain of having his soul torn apart for this. But at this moment, he was already in the palm of the girl he saved, attached to a small amulet.

The girl was still crying and praying silently, and the faint but warm feeling was being transmitted to his body through the amulet as before.

Xia Chuan didn't quite understand what was going on for a moment.

Maybe…I saved her, and she saved me in return?

Footsteps were heard from somewhere in the darkness, and a moment later, several soldiers approached cautiously with weapons and instruments in hand.

Xia Chuan wanted to leave, but he was too weak and was totally incapable of comparing to before. In the end, he could only stay in the amulet and leave everything to fate.

"Are you okay?" A soldier took out a fluorescent stick, bent it, and it emitted a faint blue light.

The girl subconsciously held the amulet and shrank back.

"Don't be afraid, we are here to save you! You are safe now!" said the soldier, then he picked up the intercom hanging on his shoulder and said, "Confirmed! The target has been eliminated! I repeat, the target has been eliminated! Let Mu Yuan come over! A survivor was found, it's a girl!"

A short-haired woman in casual clothes with a red sleeve on her arm soon trotted over and began to comfort the girl in a low voice, asking her name, home address and guardian's phone number. But the girl did not answer a single question.

Xia Chuan was still a little worried at first, but he soon discovered that perhaps because he was too weak at the moment, many people walking around were holding that kind of instrument in their hands, but none of them noticed him.

However, he soon discovered that for some reason he was bound to the amulet that the girl had been holding in her hand, and it seemed that the farthest he could get away was about twenty meters.

This is really a mixture of fortune and misfortune.

After a moment, more lights came on and many people began to walk around. Then, several medical staff rushed over and put the girl on a stretcher.

The woman named Kimoto got into the ambulance.

The ambulance quickly drove out of the building, and Xia Chuan finally relaxed a little.

He saw that they were originally in an abandoned factory building. At this moment, the factory building was surrounded by people. High-power emergency lights illuminated the surroundings, and isolation belts had been set up.

But when they drove away from that area, it immediately became dark around them.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a regional power outage, it happens all the time." Kimoto grabbed Aoki Yui's hand and said to her with a smile. "Don't be afraid. It's okay, it's okay now."

Chapter 4: The First Day of Being an Earthbound Spirit

"Her name is Yui Aoki. She is sixteen years old and is a student in Class C of the first year at Higashioku Senior High School in Arakawa. Her mother is Mika Aoki, who died of a sudden illness six months ago. Her father is Takeshi Aoki, who used to run a small cosmetics company, but it has been bankrupt for nearly three years. He has been living on odd jobs recently and his whereabouts are unknown. Records show that he has been a long-term alcoholic and owes a lot of loan sharks. He has been arrested many times for disorderly conduct and violent behavior in public places, but in the end he was not prosecuted. Neighbors said that the last time they saw him was more than ten days ago, and the last time they saw Yui Aoki was two days ago. The police station has arranged personnel and is looking for him."

"Violence?" the woman named Mu Yuan said indignantly. "That would explain all the old injuries on her body! Living in such a family, how is it different from being abandoned? No wonder she was targeted by those cultists! Speaking of which, why haven't they prosecuted her? And why is there no record of domestic violence?"

"Maybe it's because the consequences of his crimes are not serious, and he has no compensation, so no one wants to be associated with someone like him?" the man holding the file replied. "As for domestic violence, Mu Yuan, don't you know that most victims of domestic violence choose to endure it silently? After all, that man is her father, the only relative in this world. If he is arrested, what will she do?"

"It would be better for her if she didn't have such a relative, right?"

"Kimoto, don't jump to conclusions." said the old man who had been watching the pedestrians outside through the glass. "Besides, this is not our job, Akasaka! Your mission is to confirm whether she has been contaminated by the incident, whether she remembers anything about the aliens, and to confirm that she believes our words and will not spread the matter. As for other matters, leave it to the police!"

"But..." Kimoto said unwillingly. "Agent Ishino, isn't the probability of a long-term abused person becoming a ghost after death much higher than other situations? Why don't we spend more time reducing the number of victims at the source and eliminating the soil for the production of ghosts, instead of just passively discovering and eliminating them?"

"Don't deny others just because you don't care! How do you know that no one is working on this?" Agent Ishino said seriously. "Kimoto, if you want to express your opinion, then work hard at your job and get promoted to a position with enough influence as soon as possible! Before that, I don't want to hear you say such things again!"

"Yes." Mu Yuan said unwillingly.

"Get your work done as soon as possible! There are so many things to deal with, don't waste your energy on meaningless things!"

"Yes!"

The two of them watched Ishino Agent leave, and Mu Yuan reluctantly said, "A meaningless thing? What a cold-blooded guy!"

"Because the agent has seen too many things like this, right?" the man next to her said. "What should we do? Do you go or should I go?"

"Of course it's me!" Mu Yuan slammed the folder heavily into his arms. "Her emotions are still very unstable, don't scare her!"

Akasaka...pollution...ghost?

Where they couldn't see, Xia Chuan was floating in the air, thinking seriously about the little information he had just obtained from their conversation, trying to piece together a more complete truth about this world.

He had confirmed that he was currently in Arakawa District of Neon Tokyo, because when they were sent here, he clearly saw the plaque at the entrance of the hospital: Arakawa Takamura General Hospital.

But the exact time made him a little crazy... Who could tell him what year it was in the twenty-first year of Yuanhua?

No matter how unfamiliar he was with Japan, he was still stunned when he saw the nurse write this year on Yui Aoki's admission form.

Where did this era name come from?