From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

The child was awakened by her, still smiling awkwardly, trying to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes. Her crying finally stopped, and there was life in her eyes again, but what was burning in them was the flame of despair.

Chiyu Moriyama sighed. Seeing this, she could already guess what would happen next. However, she was still trapped in the memories of the evil spirit and had no way to change anything, or even do anything.

The scene changes to the room upstairs. The child has fallen asleep with a smile on his face, but his elderly mother has tied him and the quilt tightly to the bed with tape and ropes.

She sat by the bed holding a knife, gently stroking the child's cheek with her hand and humming a nursery rhyme softly. After a long time, she finally stood up with the knife in her hand.

"I sympathize with your misfortune, but this is not a reason for you to stay in this world and harm others." A man's voice suddenly said in my ear.

Moriyama Chiyu was startled, only to find that she had been lying on the bed without knowing when, her body firmly trapped by countless rolls of tape and ropes, making it completely impossible for her to take any action. The evil spirit of the old woman was firmly grasped by a hand and lifted in the air, and no matter what shape it became or how it twisted, it could not break free.

The resentment turned into countless sharp blades waving in the air, but they were unable to get close to the man's body. They just twisted in the air in vain, leaving countless deep marks on the wall.

Of course, the sharp blades did not spare Moriyama Chiyu, but she could do nothing and could only watch them stabbing towards her.

At this moment, the evil spirit suddenly let out a shrill and piercing scream, and then seemed to be burning, and disappeared in an instant.

"Aren't you going to say thank you?" the man suddenly asked.

It was only then that Chiyu Moriyama realized that the things that trapped her had turned into rotten garbage at some point. She hurriedly sat up and felt a strange touch under her body. She touched it with her hand and finally couldn't help but screamed and jumped up.

The bed where she slept before was full of rotting corpses, but because it was already late autumn, the temperature was not very high, and most of the corpses still maintained their human shape.

Although it was a monster, Chiyu Moriyama had never experienced such a scene before. She subconsciously hid behind the man, her legs involuntarily went weak, and she had to grab the man's clothes to avoid falling.

"He's been dead for less than a month." Xia Chuan said with a frown.

Judging from the clothes and condition of the corpses, most of them should be nearby residents, including men, women, old and young. They were spread thickly on the bed like a huge cushion, with at least a dozen people.

How could Akasaka be completely unaware of such a large-scale mass disappearance incident?

Have they become so lazy?

Chapter 24 I'm Just a Passerby

"One month?" Moriyama Chiyu finally came back to her senses.

She wasn't afraid of dead people, but she couldn't accept that she had once lain on those things.

Perhaps it is because I have stayed in the human world for too long. Although I have always known who I am, many things have been subtly changed without my knowledge.

"Do you know anything?" Xia Chuan asked.

It has been about a month since Chiyu Moriyama started looking for something or a place, and Xiachuan feels that there must be a connection between the two.

"Ah..." Moriyama Chiyu realized at this time that she was still holding the clothes of this strange man, and quickly let go, then took two steps back and bowed vigorously: "Thank you very much for your help. That... I am not very clear about this matter, but since forty-two days ago, evil spirits have been appearing near the school one after another. It is very likely that something is attracting them and affecting them. So, I want to find it."

Xia Chuan judged that she was not lying. This guy looked smart and calm, but in fact he was impulsive and simple, a typical example of an embroidered pillow.

"Your family would allow you to take such a risk alone?"

"They don't know... I didn't tell them about this." Moriyama Chiyu's expression was a little complicated, which made Xiachuan guess that she was probably in for another mess like in a big family.

Monsters are not immune to this.

"Then how can you make such a judgment?"

"I have a notebook with similar things recorded in it, and someone got a very useful item because of it!"

"Notes?" Xia Chuan was a little curious. Wouldn't there be something useful in this notebook? However, considering his current status, wasn't it a bit too low to ask for the notebook under the pretext of En?

"Is Akasaka mentioned in this notebook?" he asked with a sigh.

"Of course I know Akasaka!" Such doubts made Moriyama Chiyu a little angry, but she did not forget that the other party was her savior and was much more powerful than herself. "It was because I knew about Akasaka that I tried my best to eliminate the evil spirits that appeared in the campus and surrounding areas to avoid attracting their attention. However, I didn't expect to encounter a situation like today."

"You're lucky to meet me." Xia Chuan shook his head.

I don’t know how many years this girl has lived, but considering her personality, she is extremely lucky to have lived safely until now.

However, there was nothing wrong with her idea.

Although she can hide her own aura, if Akasaka finds out that supernatural events continue to occur near the school, he will definitely conduct a more detailed investigation here. With her abilities and personality, although she will not necessarily be discovered, it is still a very dangerous thing.

However, her ability was too weak to bear such a responsibility. The newly born evil spirit was definitely not her opponent, but because it took her more than a month to find this place, the evil spirit had enough time to kill so many people and had accumulated powerful strength.

If Natsukawa hadn't happened to see her and followed her, she would have become part of the evil spirit's power. After killing the monster that devoured her soul, the evil spirit's power would probably be too strong to be hidden, eventually attracting Akasaka's attention and attack.

Besides, her methods were a little too rough.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Chiyu Moriyama walked to the side and looked at his face.

"Don't worry about it. I'm just a passerby." Xia Chuan replied. "With so many people dead, this matter can't be concealed anymore. What are you going to do?"

Chiyu Moriyama fell silent for a moment.

This situation was completely beyond her ability and experience.

However, after working so hard to get to this point, the final result is still like this, which is really unacceptable.

"How many incidents have you handled before? Are there any insiders, injured or dead people?" Xia Chuan asked.

"I killed five evil spirits!" Chiyu Moriyama answered without hesitation. "No one should have seen my face. But one person did die. If I hadn't accidentally seen him being attacked by an evil spirit, I wouldn't have known that something was happening around the school."

Ignorance is fearless. She just changed her school uniform into casual clothes, put on a cap, let her hair down and put on a mask. People who are familiar with her can tell who she is at a glance. Even if they are not familiar with her, they can recognize her as soon as they see her.

After all, that pair of long legs is absolutely eye-catching among ordinary people in Japan.

Do I need to look at your face to recognize you? How much do you despise other people's IQ?

Moreover, he climbed over the wall and broke into people’s homes for more than 40 days... Let’s not even talk about the issue of witnesses, have you ever considered the issue of surveillance video?

For a moment, Xiachuan wanted to tell Moriyama Chiyu directly that there was no cure, take her away, and move on to the next one.

However, this girl is still very attractive after all, and she is also my classmate. I can't just watch her die.

And her notebook...

"Forget it, since we have come across this." Xia Chuan sighed. "I will help you deal with the issue of the surveillance video, and I will try to direct the investigation to other places. It is up to you to decide whether to tell your family or not. But you'd better find an excuse to ask for leave and not come to school or appear around here in the next few days. If you must come, you must wear a long skirt to cover your legs, sit instead of standing, and try not to attract other people's attention. As for the secret behind this matter, don't think about it anymore. This kind of thing is not something you can get involved in."

Chiyu Moriyama bit her lip, but finally nodded.

Home?

Ah……

To them, she was just an accident, an object of no value.

If she hadn't shown a little bit of blood power, they might not have acknowledged her at all.

The love and care they have shown her in the past few years, apart from the money transferred through the bank, is probably not as much as that shown to this stranger in front of her?

"Sorry, I..." She wanted to say something to thank you, but when the words came to her lips, she didn't say them in the end. She just silently bowed to Xia Chuan.

It was already dark outside. Xia Chuan shook his head and said to her, "You go first."

"How can I repay you?" Moriyama Chiyu asked with a stiff upper lip. "If you can't let me know your name, at least let me know how to repay your kindness, right?"

The man's expression was always very relaxed, which made her very sure that his power far exceeded her own, and might even far exceed any monster she knew.

Maybe it was really like what he said, he just happened to pass by and did it casually, maybe to this man, she was like an ant on the roadside, but Chiyu Moriyama could not take such a thing for granted.

Favors must be repaid, grievances must be repaid; these are the words on the title page of the notebook, and they are also her life creed.

Do we need to be taught how to repay a favor?

Xia Chuan couldn't help but wanted to shake his head again, but he finally held back.

"I've already said that I'm just a passerby. As for repaying a favor, we can talk about it when we have the chance later."

Chapter 25: Things Underground

Moriyama Chiyu left quickly, and Xiachuan stayed in the room and looked at the bed full of corpses for a while. He threw several fireballs in succession to control the fire from spreading to other places. At the same time, he cast a whirlwind wall to lock in all the smells of the burning corpses, and the smell rose straight up into the sky without spreading to the surroundings.

There were almost no lights on in the houses nearby; the residents inside had probably died here, while there were faint lights a little further away.

I don’t know who lives there and when they will notice that their neighbors have disappeared, but for Xia Chuan, the later the better.

He began to mobilize the scattered rats, and at the same time sent out the crows to search for the location of surveillance cameras around the school.

Fortunately, Tokyo does not have a Skynet system. The police only install a small number of cameras, and most of them are on the main roads. The areas where Chiyu Moriyama mainly moves are almost all equipped by each family. There are even old-fashioned systems that do not use computers but record videotapes over and over again.

It was a bit troublesome, but it was not difficult for Xia Chuan. He just had to control the spirit mouse to crawl into the house and find the relevant equipment, and then see if it was necessary to remove the magnetism on the videotape or use the computer to delete the relevant records when the owner was not paying attention.

His main purpose in summoning the rats was actually to find the object that Chisuke Moriyama mentioned, which constantly attracted and influenced evil spirits.

After having a physical body, he gained more intuitive and sharper five senses, but he also lost the ability to scan the streets at will as before. Otherwise, with Xia Chuan's previous spiritual state, it would only take him an hour or two to thoroughly search the area.

However, rat swarms can also play a similar role, and are definitely much more efficient and reliable than Chisuke Moriyama's search method.

As it happened that he didn't have to sleep at night, he simply stayed nearby and searched with all his heart.

Huh? I seem to have forgotten something?

Those thugs?

It was almost nine o'clock when Xia Chuan remembered that he had forgotten to entertain these guys. When he turned back to look for the alley, there was nothing there except cigarette butts on the ground.

Judging from the cigarette butts on the ground that had been stepped on and crushed again and again, those guys must have been in a very upset mood when they left.

That's great.

Why not just keep them hanging day by day and see how annoyed they get? That would probably be much more interesting than just killing them all at once, right?

While Xia Chuan was thinking about this meaningless thing, he was distractedly controlling and directing the spirit rats to crawl in the yards of each household and in the cracks under the houses. When it was almost dawn, he finally found something.

In fact, it is not far from the school, but it does not work all the time. Instead, it sends out pulse-like signals at regular intervals, and the intervals are irregular.

If there hadn't been a clever rat nearby, Xia Chuan might have ignored it.

He rushed over immediately.

It was a house that looked a bit old but was well preserved. People still lived in it, but the pulses emitted by the thing under the house didn't seem to have any effect on them.

Xia Chuan quickly controlled the spirit rat to dig a hole and found a lacquered wooden box buried about three meters deep. It was wrapped in a layer of talisman paper. Apart from that, there were no other restrictions. It seemed to have been buried here in a hurry.

But seemingly due to its age, the talisman paper had shown obvious signs of decay, and in the soil around it were densely packed with corpses of various insects.

They seemed to be attracted by this thing, but also died because of it.

At this moment, the wooden box suddenly vibrated in front of Xia Chuan's eyes, and the blurred and dim words on the damaged talisman paper suddenly lit up, as if they were fighting against the things in the box. Then, some kind of power was released while fighting, which had no effect on the spirit rat. But a moment later, Xia Chuan heard that in the house above it, the man and woman suddenly started arguing over a trivial matter.

Not only that, in the surrounding houses, several families had minor quarrels, parents scolded their children, children talked back to their elders, couples suddenly quarreled over a little misunderstanding, and workers who were working overtime on their laptops suddenly had a mental breakdown and smashed the things on their tables to the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that Xia Chuan had been obtaining power from believers for many years, he might not have realized this. As these negative emotions were released, they began to quietly gather here like power, and finally gathered on the wooden box, but failed to flow in, and only quietly caused some damage to the talisman papers.

what?

Xia Chuan's curiosity was completely aroused.

It shouldn't be a monster or demon sealed by someone, because both the wooden box and the talisman paper wrapped on its surface look too casual, and are completely insignificant compared to the seal that sealed Yiyou before.

If it was a powerful monster that was sealed by someone in ancient times, it would not have been possible to use such a hasty method. Moreover, it should have escaped long ago and would not have had to struggle to free itself in such a way.

There was nothing around, no inscriptions or other items that could reveal the contents of this thing. It felt more like someone had buried it here in a hurry, but in the end did not come back to take it away for various reasons.

This area was once the bank of the Arakawa River, which often flooded. The three meters above the wooden box were all mud, which was probably left after a flood. Then, with the passage of time, the once desolate place became a city, and houses were built on it. But because the foundation was not dug deep at that time, people did not dig this thing out.

What could it be?

Some kind of inherited item that can stimulate negative emotions and evil thoughts in people and also take advantage of these emotions?

Xia Chuan tried to let the spirit rat touch the talisman paper, and a force suddenly backfired, colliding with the spiritual power Xia Chuan attached to the amulet in its body, tearing it to pieces in an instant.

interesting.

A few minutes later, another clever mouse was sent down by Xia Chuan, and it studied the box carefully.

It is about 60 cm long, 20 cm wide and 10 cm high.

The details cannot be seen because it is covered by the talisman paper, but considering its size, it shouldn’t be a knife, at least not an ordinary knife.

What could it be?

How can I get it out without alerting anyone?

Why not just buy this house?

Chapter 26 A life without cheating is incomplete