From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

"Are you not being followed?" The man using the computer became alert. He ran back to the computer and wanted to check the surveillance video downstairs, but found that all the computers had been disconnected at some point.

There was no way. With Xia Chuan's ability, it was too easy to destroy the network card and router.

He took out his cell phone in surprise, but when he turned on the screen, it flashed and then went completely black.

Kinoshita also took out his cell phone, but it also couldn't be turned on.

"What kind of people did you mess with, you idiot?!" He immediately started to disassemble the hard drives of the computers on the table. At this moment, the door suddenly slammed shut by itself.

Not only that, the table placed at the door also moved by itself, blocking the door tightly.

Both of them felt cold in their hearts.

Could it be that those incredible stories I heard before were actually true?

The computer screen suddenly flashed, and then a new document was created and a line of words jumped out.

【Good afternoon. Please introduce yourselves, the more detailed the better. It’s okay, you can take your time, we have plenty of time. 】

Chapter 62 A Choice

The two people in the room were breathing rapidly, but neither of them spoke. Instead, they looked at each other, panicked and at a loss as to what to do.

The network had been cut off, so there was no possibility of hacking, and the previous actions of the door and the table had made them realize that this was no joke.

But even though they have heard countless ghost stories and supernatural events since childhood, they only regard them as topics of conversation made up by people when they are bored.

When the scenes in the stories suddenly appeared before them in reality, their brains were unable to process such information, and they had no experience to help, so they froze in place.

Xiachuan waited patiently... for about a minute, then calmed down the crow that wanted to fly away, and pushed Kinoshita hard on the chest, causing him to scream and fly up, then land heavily on the ground.

[Sorry, I overestimated my patience. So, can you please hurry up? I'm in a hurry.]

"My name is Manabu Asakawa!" The man who was still standing was startled and shouted out subconsciously. "My name is Manabu Asakawa! I'm an information dealer!"

[Information dealer? What about him? ]

"His name is Kinoshita Takaya, and he's an acquaintance of mine. I often hire him to go on site, and sometimes we complete some tasks together."

[Mission? Including blackmail?]

After hearing this, Asakawa Manabu and Kinoshita Takashi instantly understood where the disaster came from, but they really couldn't answer this question.

【Are there nuts? 】

Suddenly, a sentence that seemed illogical appeared on the screen.

Asakawa Manabu didn't understand what was going on, but still pointed to the peanuts on another table.

A black shadow suddenly swooped in from an open window, causing Kinoshita to scream. A moment later, they saw that it was a large crow. It flew around the room, landed on the table, jumped a few times, and began to peck at the food. Asakawa Manabu and Kinoshita were surprised to see a mouse that had emerged from nowhere and had already begun to eat the peanuts.

[I suddenly have some free time again. How did you find that place? Tell me, is anyone hiring you?]

A chair suddenly broke in the middle and fell to the ground with a thud.

Kinoshita swallowed quietly.

【Think carefully before you lie, you won't get a second chance to answer the same question. 】

"Yes." Asakawa Manabu answered. "We must tell the truth."

Manabu Asakawa said that he was an information dealer, which was actually a bit of a self-flattering statement. He and Kinoshita were both so-called paparazzi, but he was more focused on collecting all kinds of information on the Internet, hacking into surveillance equipment, stealing personal information and privacy, and looking for clues that could be used for profit, while Kinoshita was more focused on wandering around this huge city, tracking celebrities, and taking pictures of scandals and exposed nipples to make a living.

Sometimes, when Asakawa Manabu discovered a clue that might be valuable, he would call Kinoshita and ask him to go to the scene to collect usable materials or confirm the value of the target.

People who work in this industry have little legal awareness, because what they do is just skirting the legal bottom line.

Selling news to newspapers or TV stations is of course their most important source of income, but blackmailing with scandals and photos is also a familiar and profitable thing for them. However, they occasionally do good things, such as selling clues of wanted criminals they accidentally discovered to the police, or selling certain illegal facts to relevant institutions to make profits.

[So, you are a paparazzi, a blackmail scammer, a hacker, and a police informant?]

"There's nothing wrong with saying that." After Natsukawa's behavior calmed down, Asakawa Manabu also calmed down a little.

[Okay, let’s get back to the topic]

"Yes."

It was completely an accident that the two men discovered Sato's activities.

The three things that Xia Chuan is best at treating, and which have the best effects on believers, are cancer, cardiovascular disease, and brain disease. The hospitals with the most patients with these types of disease are just a few specific hospitals.

Coincidentally, Asakawa Manabu and Kinoshita Takashi accidentally tracked down a piece of information that Takinogawa General Hospital might be secretly taking huge kickbacks, which made the two of them set their sights on this hospital. However, they unexpectedly discovered that patients with these three diseases, especially those with poorer economic conditions, have been losing patients recently.

Asakawa Manabu casually checked the nearby hospitals and found that the same thing was happening.

This immediately made the two of them think of two possibilities: either a collective fraud or a new religion.

The former can be sold to a familiar police officer in the Criminal Investigation Division 2 of the Metropolitan Police Department for a moderate price, which is better than nothing; while the latter can be reported to the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Special Mobile Investigation Team, which has a good price. So the two of them discussed it together and decided to temporarily give up the clue of Takinogawa General Hospital and turn to investigate the loss of patients.

It was not difficult for Asakawa Manabu to invade the hospital's system and obtain information about the missing patients. Kinoshita selected a few of them and tracked them secretly, and soon traced them to that place.

Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Special Mobile Investigation Team?

Could it be Akasaka?

"We haven't disclosed any information about you to the relevant authorities. Please let us go!" Kinoshita knelt down and begged with tears in his eyes. "I have young children and elderly parents at home. They can't live without me. Please, please let me go! I will never tell anyone about this!"

Such words made Xia Chuan stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help laughing. When he turned around, he saw that Asakawa Manabu's face had turned pale.

[This is really a headache. If you say this, aren't you forcing me to kill you? After all, I just want to take a breath to kill you. If you really didn't say anything, then if I kill you, there will be no danger of the matter being leaked, right? ]

Kinoshita was stunned, and after a moment, Asakawa Manabu gritted his teeth and said, "I am willing to devote my whole body and soul to you! As long as you ask, I am willing to do anything!"

He then knelt down as well, and said at a very fast speed: "Since we can accidentally ruin your plan, then others can definitely do it too. I am willing to be your sword, your shield, and kill all your enemies for you!"

[Very interesting. Kinoshita, how about you? ]

"I am willing to do so! I am willing to give everything for you!"

[Well, then. To prove this, kill each other! Only one of you can survive today. Whoever wins will become my apostle.]

Both people in the room were stunned. Kinoshita stood up suddenly and ran away from Asakawa Manabu, while Asakawa Manabu stood up slowly, shaking his head continuously.

"Please don't do this, please. We'll both be of use to you, right, Kinoshita?"

"Yes, that's right! Please! Please forgive us!"

[It seems that we can't do without a time limit, so let's just set it to ten minutes. After ten minutes, either both of us die together, or the winner survives.]

The screen was tilted towards Asakawa Manabu, and his face turned very ugly after seeing this line of words. Although Kinoshita didn't see it, he immediately guessed something and began to subconsciously look for items around him that could be used.

【Nine minutes】

Both of them were breathing heavily. The mouse on the table had slipped away at some point, leaving only the crow still standing on the table, spreading its wings and cawing.

【8 minutes】

Xiachuan wrote.

Chapter 63: Just Killing Rats

How to deal with these two people?

In fact, Xiachuan started thinking about this problem after he set his eyes on Kinoshita, but he never made a final decision.

Killing is easy, but making such a decision is not easy, at least for a spirit like him who had drawn a bottom line for himself early on and decided not to cross it unless absolutely necessary.

He had to make sure they were all damned.

Are these two guys criminals?

Yes.

Both of them deserve to die?

There are still questions for now.

However, the answer is slowly becoming apparent.

Only when people are forced into a desperate situation will they truly express their inner thoughts, and others can see where their bottom line is.

What will they choose?

【Seven minutes】

Xia Chuan wrote with great evil taste.

Asakawa Manabu's body began to tremble slightly.

Kinoshita Takashi, who couldn't see the screen, had already found a fruit knife on the table and held it tightly in his hand.

"Kinoshita..." Manabu Asakawa said.

"Shut up!" Kinoshita suddenly yelled frantically. "Don't try to lie to me! I can't die! I have a big family waiting for me at home!"

"God, will you really let one of us live?" Asakawa Manabu asked the void. "Can someone who survives by killing his own companions really gain your trust?"

【Six Minutes】

"If we can betray each other today, then can't we betray you again tomorrow? Please think about it again! Please!"

This person is quite interesting.

But Xia Chuan wanted to wait until the end to make a decision.

【five minutes】

"What on earth is written on it?!" Kinoshita suddenly became extremely uneasy. From his angle, he couldn't see what Xia Chuan wrote on the screen, which made him suddenly uncontrollably terrified.

"Kinoshita, we..."

"Turn the screen around!" Kinoshita shouted. "Turn it around!"

Asakawa Manabu hesitated for a moment, then slowly turned the screen, and Kinoshita Takashi finally saw the words on the screen.

【Four minutes】

He wailed like a wild animal.

"Kinoshita, we..." said Asakawa Manabu.

Kinoshita Takaya suddenly roared and rushed towards him. Asakawa Manabu hurriedly dodged backwards, grabbed a screen and smashed it hard on him.

"I can't die!"

Kinoshita's voice sounded like that of a ghost. He tried desperately to catch Asakawa Manabu, but he jumped over the table and hid on the other side.

This is really... Xiachuan originally thought that the first person to attack would be Asakawa Manabu who looked more insidious, but he didn't expect that he was wrong.

"There's no time!" Kinoshita's voice began to distort. He held the knife and tried desperately to catch Asakawa Manabu, while Asakawa Manabu used the few pieces of furniture in the room to dodge desperately, but in the end, the two of them still twisted together.

Kinoshita tried desperately to stab the knife down, but Asakawa Manabu tightly grasped his knife-holding hand. Kinoshita suddenly bit his hand madly, making him scream and lose some of his strength to resist. The next moment, the fruit knife stabbed into Asakawa Manabu's body, but was blocked by the thick winter clothes and could not go deep.

"Die! Die soon!" Kinoshita screamed madly and tried to grab Asakawa Manabu's neck with his hands, but he was scratched in the eyes by his fingers, and fell down with a scream.

Asakawa Manabu pinned him down in turn, subconsciously grabbed the knife and raised it high, but did not stab him.

"Please, Asakawa, I..." Kinoshita realized that he was at the end of his rope. He reached out to grab Asakawa's hand holding the knife, but failed. He could only beg.

The shadow of a knife flashed, and Kinoshita closed his eyes in despair, but he did not feel any pain. He opened his eyes and found that Asakawa Manabu had thrown the knife far away.

"beep"

The computer case sounded an alarm, and a moment later, a line of words appeared on the screen.

【time up】

Both of them subconsciously held their breath.

[Congratulations, Asakawa Manabu...]

Xia Chuan wrote.

Asakawa Manabu, who has a bottom line, won his recognition. However, although Kinoshita did not get recognition, his family saved him in return, so Natsukawa decided to keep his life in order to...

Kinoshita suddenly let out a shrill roar. He grabbed something and subconsciously swung it hard, hitting Asakawa Manabu hard on the head!

Asakawa Manabu immediately lost consciousness, and Kinoshita Takashi struggled to push him down. He raised the thing in his hand high up again, but was knocked away by Natsukawa!

"I am the winner! I am the winner!" Kinoshita said to the void in panic. "I am the one who should survive!"