After Kamiyagawa arrived at Nagasaki Airport, he was directly picked up by local police officers. After a short rest, he went straight to Tsushima Island's Jika Ryokan.
Sitting in a police car, as he approached the villages and towns in the Wumao Mountains, his cell phone vibrated in his pocket——
[Special event mission, [When Encountering the Demon·4] has been opened!]
[The core requirements of this mission are as follows: Defeat the members of the "Encountering Demonic Time Organization", Xu Shi.]
Kamiya, who was sitting alone in the back seat, was dozing against the car window at this time, but his sleep was very light and he woke up easily. He took out his mobile phone and took a look, with a fleeting expression of confusion on his face.
Currently, there are two special event missions given by "Kaitan Monogatari" that are still in progress.
One is [The Time of Encounter·2], which has only been half completed since last year, and requires the defeat of the Noontime Breeder.
The other one is the newly spawned one near Jixiang Su, [Time of Encountering Demons·Four], which requires defeating Xu Shi.
Kamiya touched his chin and remained silent, just thinking in his mind:
"I originally thought that something strange happened here at Tsushima Tsushima, and the appearance of the Yellow Springs Naraku Curse was related to the breeder. But now it seems that a new member of Enmaji has appeared...Xushi?"
The development of things seems to be different from what was initially expected.
"Did Xu Shi cause the people here at Jixiangsu to turn into trees? And this Xu Shi happened to know the Huangquan Naraku Curse?"
Without investigation, Kamiyagawa still doesn't know the reason.
But his intuition told him that things in Jixiangsu might not be too simple.
"It's right to entrust Bachi Xiang to come and help."
The Ksitigarbha statue of Hachisaku-onna will now be placed in Kamiya’s [Mirage Bag].
The small cloth bag is a very convenient prop.
It is very easy to carry, and it can hold so many miscellaneous items without feeling heavy when you carry it on your body.
More importantly, when the airport security machine scans the [Mirage Bag], it will show that there is nothing inside. If it is mixed in a carry-on backpack, no staff will ask to open this inconspicuous small bag for inspection.
Saved a lot of trouble.
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By the time we arrived at Ji Xiang Su, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.
Kamiyagawa met Yuuki and Nagatomo who arrived here yesterday.
We haven't seen each other for a while, and neither of them seems to have changed much.
"Kamiya-kun, long time no see."
Nagatomo scratched the back of his head and greeted Kamiya.
"Boy, you came very quickly." Facing Kamiya's arrival, Uncle Yuki looked very happy. After all, he had a very reliable elite combat force. "I have reported the matter here to the headquarters truthfully.
The superiors are allocating as many manpower as possible and there are already people on the way."
There are more and more supernatural incidents happening in various places and they are becoming more and more frequent.
The available manpower in the Countermeasures Room is already stretched thin, but matters related to encounters with demons are a matter of great importance. The organization has begun to mobilize all official ghost exterminators who are free and on vacation, and has also hired and dispatched some additional ones.
Folk spirit exterminator.
But it's hard to say how many elites will be dispatched to Tsushima in the end.
"Do you have any clues about what's going on here?"
After just a few brief greetings, Kamiya quickly got to the point.
Although he has not had a full sleep since last night and only took a brief rest on the plane and in the car, his mental state is very good, and he is even vaguely excited.
"There is only a little clue. It is not yet certain what is the direct cause of people turning into trees. It is only certain that it is related to the Huangquan Naraku Curse, but we don't know exactly how it happened..."
Yuki briefly talked about yesterday's investigation and details, and at the same time took Kamiya to Kusakabe's old man's house for an additional inspection.
Kamiyagawa summoned the little old man, but the master and servant didn't see much information there.
The general findings are the same as what Yuki Masakisuke did yesterday.
"Old man Kusakabe was probably the first victim to be transformed from a human into a tree in Seka-juku. The spiritual exterminators who came to investigate at first were not sure that the strange tree was transformed by the old man. Until later, a man named Akashi Kurayuki
Abnormalities also occurred in the young people introduced."
"Akashi Kuranosuke grew up here in Seikajuku. After graduating from college, he went to work in a small club in Tsushima City. He was killed in a car accident not long ago. According to the custom here in Seikajuku, Kuranosuke's
The body was transported back for burial, and everything was normal at first. But later, someone saw with their own eyes that blood-red buds were pulled out from Kuranosuke's grave."
"The tree buds grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon grew into a shape similar to the strange tree in Kusakabe's old man's house."
"What happened after that became even weirder. Living people began to mutate in Jixiang Su. One second they were fine, and the next second they suddenly sprouted tree buds. By the time the people around them reacted, the victim had turned into a tree.
Strange tree.”
"I also checked the condition of the other trees yesterday, and they are in the same condition as the one at Kusakabe's house."
"In addition, according to my observation, there are a few more ghosts in the town this morning. There should be new victims."
The group of people walked out of Kusakabe's old man's house and walked on the deserted streets of Jixiangjuku. During this period, Yuki continued to add to yesterday's findings.
"Um."
Kamiya just listened and didn't express any opinions.
Along the way, the body of the little old man dressed as a void monk, holding a shakuhachi in his hand, was always sitting on his shoulder.
Things in Jixiangsu are indeed strange.
At first, dead people became trees, but later this change began to happen to living people as well.
The source of the strange things must be related to the Huangquan Naraku Curse, but it is not yet known whether someone cast a curse on these people, or whether these people were exposed to something else that caused them to be killed.
The group continued walking and finally stopped in front of a very elegant and unique courtyard in the center of the town.
The name of the owner's family, Inuzhu, is engraved on the tablet on the courtyard door.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Abba."
The little old man leaning on Kamiyagawa's shoulder gave a reminder and pointed at the house.
At the scout's reminder, Kamiyagawa narrowed his pupils slightly and looked at the Inuzake family.
He found that the entire Inuzhu family was shrouded in a hazy light blue smoke.
"what are these?"
It's not like a sneaky smell, but something else.
But since Kamiyagawa can see it directly with the help of [Autumn Hair Cut] technique, it means that these hazy smoke must involve extraordinary power.
"Abba...Abba."
The little old man continued to speak.
At his reminder, Kamiya smelled a very faint fragrance coming from Inuzake's house.
It seems to be the smell of incense, but I'm not sure.
Kamiya has no research or involvement in the way of incense.
"Is this hazy light cyan smoke an aroma? A visible aroma?"
Kamiyagawa reacted and quickly realized something. This Inuzake family was probably not ordinary people.
"It's amazing, isn't it?"
Yuuki Makensuke came over and spoke softly:
"When I first discovered it, I was also surprised. The incense of the Inuzake family seemed to carry extraordinary power. Yesterday, I contacted Tsushima City through Police Officer Hanai to check the details of this family. It should be a private person.
They are different people. However, this family has not established any contact with the countermeasures room. They are relatively indifferent by nature, and their ancestors have been squires who accumulated incense. The incense method passed down in their family should be a kind of folk Shinto technique.
."
It seems that Uncle Yuki must have done a lot of investigation and work after arriving here yesterday.
As for the abnormality in the Inuzake family, among everyone present, only he and Kamiya can directly see the abnormality.
"I entrusted Police Officer Hanai to contact Mr. Inuzake of this family. You can come to visit now. You can come in with us when you arrive." Yuuki added.
Bang bang.

To be continued...