From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

The difference in the year number and his current state were enough to show that this was not the world he was familiar with. As for whether it was advanced or backward, he was trapped within a range of 20 meters from Yui Aoki and could not move far. He also did not know much about the country of Neon before, so he really could not make an assessment.

Floating in the air twenty meters and looking around, he could see that most of the houses near the hospital were not that new or good, and were even not as good as the small city he remembered as his hometown. However, many tall buildings could be vaguely seen in the south, as if showing off the prosperity of this huge city.

However, he noticed that most of the doctors and nurses still used flip phones, and there didn't seem to be many entertainment functions. This might mean that the timeline of the world he lived in was much more backward than the world he came from.

Everything around seemed very peaceful, which made the things that happened last night seem like a dream. In fact, this is how Kimoto explained it to Aoki Yui.

Xiachuan watched from the side as she tried to elicit the memories from Aoki, and then told Aoki calmly that none of that had ever happened.

Her kidnappers injected her with hallucinogenic drugs and took her to that place. Just when they were about to abuse her, the police rescued her in time.

There were no cultists, no sacrifices, no corpses, and no monsters.

Everything was just a hallucination caused by fear after she took hallucinogenic drugs.

She even produced photos of the arrest scene as evidence. It was really difficult for them to forge such vivid evidence in such a short time.

"I already... don't remember who they were..." Those photos made Aoki Yui feel uneasy, so Kimoto put them away.

"Because you are a minor victim, in order to protect your privacy, we do not require you to testify against them. Don't worry, they were caught at the scene, and the evidence is enough for them to spend several years in prison. It is impossible for them to endanger you again."

Aoki Yui seemed to believe her words completely, which made Natsukawa somewhat discouraged.

However, he also noticed a detail that Kimoto did not notice. Aoki Yui had been holding the amulet tightly and never let go even after falling asleep.

When she was alone, Xia Chuan would always feel that warmth from time to time, indicating that she was still praying to the amulet intermittently. This made Xia Chuan's condition slightly more stable, and her strength was slightly enhanced. But this brought another hidden worry, because Kimoto and other Akasaka members always carried that kind of detector, and they really didn't know if the detector would suddenly sound an alarm at some point, letting them discover Xia Chuan's existence.

However, the probability of such a thing happening should be small, at least before Yui Aoki leaves the hospital and gets out of Akasaka's attention, such a slight increase should not bring such serious consequences.

Everything has returned to normal, but that's not a bad thing.

With the idea that since he was already here, he might as well make the best of it, Xia Chuan felt that he could slowly adapt to and integrate into this world, learn more about it, and then decide on his next move.

However, there was one thing in the previous conversation between the Akasaka members that concerned him. Kimoto once mentioned that the probability of people who were abused for a long time becoming ghosts after death was much higher than other situations. So, thinking about it the other way around, this sentence meant that ordinary deaths rarely produced ghosts?

Does this have anything to do with cultists killing their victims and monsters killing their prey?

This may also explain why he wandered around the hospital for a whole night and a day, witnessed several deaths, but did not see even one of his own kind.

That agent Ishino said that there are a lot of things to deal with. Is he saying that there are many people like him, or is he simply saying that Akasaka has too much paperwork?

Natsukawa is more inclined to the latter, because at first glance the world before him is not fundamentally different from the one he lives in. If people have to face events that must be dealt with by Akasaka every day, then the world will never be so peaceful. Kimoto and her companions definitely don't have so much time to spend on a girl like Aoki Yui.

After passing through the wall and returning to Aoki Yui, Kimoto was peeling an apple while chatting with her about random things. In fact, Aoki hardly spoke, it was Kimoto who was talking all the time, but Aoki looked much calmer, and although there was no smile on her young face, at least it was much better than before.

Xia Chuan started to feel bored after wandering around for a while, so he began to walk through the surrounding wards one by one, looking for information that could help him pass the time or be helpful.

There was no point in walking up and down the stairs for a few times. Just as he was about to float to a higher place to bask in the sun, an ambulance suddenly rushed over with sirens blaring. The emergency doctor who had been waiting at the door also rushed over immediately, and the team rushed to send the stretcher to the emergency room without stopping.

"What's going on?" a passing patient asked the ambulance driver.

"Suicide." The driver paused for a moment. "He jumped from the roof of the teaching building, but his feet landed first... He looked like this, ah..."

suicide?

Xia Chuan hesitated for a moment and followed. Fortunately, the emergency room was within his free range.

Several doctors were busy, but the teenager's injuries looked quite serious and he looked to be in a lot of pain.

A man who looked like a teacher was waiting anxiously at the door. After a while, someone who looked like a policeman came to question him.

Xia Chuan floated directly next to them and heard the police asking if there was any bullying in school, while the teacher denied it.

The doctors were busy for nearly twenty minutes, but the boy eventually lost his life.

Xia Chuan quietly looked at the spirit floating in the air. Although it looked exactly like the boy, it was missing something, like a crude wax figure.

It neither moves nor responds.

She was almost exactly the same as the girls he had seen when he first came into this world. The only difference was that the boy's spirit looked very faint, almost transparent.

"Time of death: afternoon of September 9, the 14st year of Yuanhua..."

As the doctor spoke tiredly and helplessly, the spirit suddenly began to collapse from the inside. Xia Chuan subconsciously moved forward. His body seemed to have some kind of suction force, and immediately rolled over the fragments of the collapsed spirit.

It was a heartwarming feeling of satisfaction, but Xia Chuan could only smile bitterly.

The world is full of surprises...

"Sorry." The instinct of being a Akasaka member made Kimoto feel the vibration at the first moment. She immediately smiled apologetically to Aoki Yui and turned around to check the abnormal wave tester hanging on her waist.

The pointer has returned to zero, but the record clearly shows that there was a slight fluctuation more than ten seconds ago.

"Mu Yuan!" Tachibana Hiroichi, who was guarding outside the door, also opened the door at this time.

"Sorry, I'm going to go out for a while." Mu Yuan said to Aoki, and then walked out quickly.

"Did you see that fluctuation?" asked Tachibana Hirokazu.

Mu Yuan nodded: "Level E fluctuation."

"Since we've encountered this, we can't just ignore it." Tachibana Hirokazu said. "I'll go downstairs, you go upstairs, and evacuate immediately after confirming it. Don't act rashly!"

"I understand." Mu Yuan nodded.

The two immediately split up and walked through the entire hospital as quickly as possible, but they did not find anything unusual.

"Previously, a teenager who was suspected of being bullied for a long time jumped off a building and died in the emergency room. The time also matches."

Mu Yuan nodded: "Maybe it's an unstable spirit, which took shape briefly and then dissipated on its own."

"Most likely," said Tachibana Koichi. "But we should still walk around a few more times tonight, just in case."

As night fell, two people disguised as a nurse and a security guard were still searching for suspicious spirits everywhere, and Xia Chuan could only float to the highest point he could reach with tears in his eyes, watching their actions silently.

Sorry, but I really don't want this to happen!

Chapter 5 Guardian Spirit

The excess energy must be consumed!

After the two people below finally left, Xia Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The farthest distance he can be away from Aoki Yui now is only twenty meters, which is not short, but in fact, it is hard to say how far it is.

Xiachuan noticed that the detectors carried by Mu Yuan and others were completely different from the handheld ones used by the soldiers in the old factory before. It can be imagined that the sensitivity of the two must be different.

Since there are such differences, there may be larger and more sensitive fixed detectors in places like stations, and there will definitely be similar devices in government departments, police stations and the like.

We must find a way to avoid these devices in the future, but the most urgent thing now is to reduce the energy to a level that will not trigger the detector before Aoki is discharged from the hospital, so as to get through this most dangerous stage.

He passed through the ceiling once again and came to the ward above Aoki Yui.

Xia Chuan already knew that this was the cardiovascular department ward. Among the four patients in the room, two had undergone surgery and were recovering, while the other two were still in the hospital for observation due to chest pain.

Modern medical examination methods are already very advanced, but for spirits like Xia Chuan, all that is needed is to pass through their bodies and focus on a specific point.

It's a little gross, but what's more frustrating is the complexity of the human body.

Fortunately, Xia Chuan chose an organ in the human body that is perhaps the easiest to find and least likely to be misplaced.

The color was a bit strange, but Xia Chuan didn't know if it was normal. He began to look for possible blood clots along the aorta, and then the slightly thinner blood vessels.

The biggest advantage of living in an era of information explosion in his previous life was that he knew a lot of strange and useless knowledge. However, just because these knowledge were useless then, it didn't mean they were useless now. At least he knew that myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction were caused by blood clots.

But the brain is too complicated, so let’s start with the simple heart.

He soon found his target.

It is very small compared to the human body, but such a small embolism in the blood vessels may cause a life to suddenly pass away.

Then... look at my Turtle Wave Qigong!

After making such a boring and somewhat immature declaration, Xia Chuan poured his weak strength into the small mass of blood-red substance, peeling it off bit by bit, breaking it up, and letting the tiny particles be carried away with the flow of blood.

The advantage of insufficient energy is that even if he wants to make a drastic move, it is difficult for him to do so. Invisibly, he is forced to learn to control the input of strength more finely.

There are certainly risks, but for the patients he randomly chooses, this may be a rare opportunity.

The blood clot gradually became smaller as he pondered, and was washed to another place by the blood, where it got stuck again. So he continued his exercise until it was completely broken up.

The blood flow became smoother, the patient's breathing became slightly rapid, then became relaxed, and the expression on his face became relaxed. He must have had a good dream.

The difficulty lies not in eliminating emboli, but in finding them among countless blood vessels.

About an hour later, he found a mass of abnormal-looking tissue on an organ in the patient's abdomen that was suspected to be the pancreas.

Could this be?

He immediately went to check the pancreases of other patients nearby and finally confirmed that this very random-looking thing should be cancer cells.

It is still small in size, but if left unchecked, it will definitely become something fatal one day in the future.

Xia Chuan looked at the medical record card on the bedside. It was Kentaro Sato, a very ordinary Japanese middle-aged man's name. But since he would stay in a four-person ward like this, he must not be a big shot.

You are really lucky.

When I returned to the room where Yui Aoki was, a faint light appeared in the distant sky.

Looking at the girl's curled up body and slightly uneasy sleeping face, he couldn't help but sigh, but more of it was a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

The energy in the body finally returned to the previous level. All the energy obtained from the self-destructing spirit was used up, but in return, I gained a familiarity with the internal structure of the human body and more experience in energy control. At some point in the future, these things will definitely come in handy.

He also checked the girl and confirmed that apart from being thin and having some old injuries, there should be nothing wrong with her.

It was not difficult for Xia Chuan to remove the old wounds at this moment. They were nothing more than some bruises or something like that. However, Mu Yuan already knew about the existence of these wounds, so it would not be a good idea to treat them now.

"Mom~"

The girl in her sleep suddenly sobbed softly and said this.

"Ah... it's okay," Xia Chuan floated in front of her face and said to her with a sigh. "Don't worry, nothing will happen again."

……

"I'm very sorry. I'm really sorry for causing you so much trouble!" The greasy and dirty middle-aged man bowed repeatedly to the police officer who sent them out, with a smile on his face. If he wasn't wearing a suit, he would be the most standard Japanese office worker template.

"Aoki, please be more careful! Do you know how much effort we put into finding you?"

"I'm so sorry! I'm really, really sorry!" The man bowed again, as standardly as possible.

The reason why he was able to escape punishment so many times after sobering up in the past was because of his sincere and professional spirit. If this still doesn't work, he would just kneel down and refuse to get up unless he is forgiven. Because the consequences are not serious, no normal person would pursue it further.

"Forget it!" the police officer said unhappily. "Don't do it again!"

"Yes! Yes, please take care!" Aoki Takeshi nodded repeatedly.

The policeman turned around and prepared to go back to the police station.

"Snapped!"

Everyone, including Natsukawa who was floating in the air nearby, was stunned. Only Aoki Takeshi and his daughter Aoki Yui were there. One of them looked as if it was a matter of course, while the other lowered her head and accepted it submissively. Both looked as if they were used to it.

"Don't cause trouble for others, you bastard!" Aoki Takeshi growled in a low voice like a wild beast, as if he wanted to vent all the grievances he had just suffered from the police on his daughter.

"I'm sorry." Yui Aoki said in a low voice.

"Asshole, didn't I teach you? You have to apologize nicely when you apologize to someone!" Aoki Takeshi raised his hand again, but for some reason his feet suddenly felt sore and he could no longer stand. He fell out in a very weird posture.

"What a bastard, you're drunk again so early in the morning?" The police officer muttered in dissatisfaction, but had to help him up. "Aoki, your daughter is already so old, you can discipline her, but don't use violence! And in front of the police station? I warn you, domestic violence is illegal!"

"Yes, yes, I'm very sorry, very sorry!" Aoki Takeshi agreed repeatedly, but he was wondering why he fell.

Did he sit in pachinko for too long? Did he have a blood clot?

Full of doubts and fear, the father and daughter walked back home one after the other.

Aoki Takeshi had not eaten since the night before, and he was only busy bowing and apologizing at the police station without even drinking a sip of water. He was already hungry and thirsty.

He opened the refrigerator door and found it was empty. He opened the cupboard and still found nothing. His anger instantly rose again.

"Asshole! Where's the food?"

"The family has been out of money for a long time..." Aoki Yui answered in a low voice. She didn't dare not answer, because silence would surely bring more anger and beatings.

"...If you have no money, can't you go work?! What's the point of raising you to this age? You only cause trouble for me all day long! Damn it!" Aoki Takeshi roared angrily, and grabbed the pot on the stove and wanted to smash it.

But his arms suddenly felt an unbearable numbness and pain, and the pot fell directly on his toes. The back of his knees also suddenly felt unbearably sore that he could no longer stand and fell forward.

Crackling bang!

He fell down heavily with a bunch of things and was dizzy.

"Father?" Yui Aoki called out with a complicated expression.