Pushing open the wooden door, a pitchfork hits towards you, and the sharp tip shines in the setting sun.
Zong Gu was wary and quickly turned around to avoid it.
The pitchfork passed by and pierced into the air beside it.
He grabbed the wooden handle with his backhand and tried to grab the pitchfork. However, the opponent's grip was very strong, and he couldn't succeed after pulling it a few times. He turned around and kicked it over.
In the narrow warehouse, holding the pitchfork on the other end is a spirit body of a bald middle-aged man.
The bald man had a fierce face, one of his eyes was missing, a faint blue light was emitting from his socket, and his other eye was staring at him fiercely.
Although he lost one eye, his spirit body was still complete and his consciousness was still clear. At the same time, he had the strong aggressiveness of taking action when he met. There was no doubt that this was an evil spirit.
Zong Gu kicked between his chest and abdomen, and the bald evil spirit was kicked back two steps and was furious.
He was about to fight back, but Zong Gu suddenly pulled his hand. Although he still couldn't take off the pitchfork, his body used this force to get closer again, and he jumped and penetrated his jaw and neck.
Snap.
Something seemed to be broken.
The bald evil spirit retreated repeatedly, covering his neck, making a silent roar of pain, and threw the pitchfork to the ground.
Zong Gu quickly adjusted his figure, then picked up the draft fork, aiming at the bald evil spirit who had lost its ability to resist.
He raised his fork, covered his spiritual power, and then stabbed the evil spirit in the head without hesitation.
“…”
A hoe slashed from the dark place without any warning. When Zong Gu realized it, he had no time to resist and could only hurriedly hide next to him.
It was dangerous and dangerous, and the sharp blade rubbed against the tip of his nose and hit the concrete floor of the warehouse, bursting out a few sparks.
Bang!
Standing firmly, Zong Gu continued his attack just now, held the fork tightly and stabbed forward quickly. After succeeding, he immediately retracted it, and turned to another enemy in the corner of the warehouse.
"What kind of poor mountains and bad waters is this? There are two evil spirits hidden..."
Although there is only one left now - the lightning strike just now left a row of black holes on the face of the bald evil spirit, and the spirit body has begun to disintegrate and dissipate.
Then the attack on another spirit body in the corner was avoided by the opponent two steps back. Zong Gu held the wooden handle of the pitchfork tightly and confronted him.
Everything happened between lightning and flint, and the cold sweat on the forehead was flowing down until now.
"It's really dangerous..."
Although he avoided both sneak attacks in time, if there was any accident, the result of waiting for him was either a hole in his face or a hole in his head, which was very dangerous.
Thinking of the casualness when receiving the commission, Soya is now more fortunate to come to investigate, rather than Kyoko or other witches in the shrine, as well as Akane Kirino and Yoshikawa who are even more unprepared.
All kinds of thoughts flew in his mind, and he still focused most of his attention in front of him. The sinister spirit hidden in the corner was short and thin. He was a thin old man.
The old man held the hoe and stared at him with his eyes: "Who are you? Why are you attacking me!"
"Why... this is not what the person hiding in the dark should say, right?"
"You must be here to harm me!"
Zong Gu glanced at the iron hoe in his hand, "Although in terms of the result, it's true..."
Before he could finish speaking, the hoe hit him again.
It is already prepared, so it is much easier to avoid it. After all, no matter how sharp the hoe is, it is just a clumsy hoe. What's more, the evil spirit in front of you looks like an old country farmer, and you don't necessarily have much experience in fighting with others.
.
Bang!
Move sideways to avoid it, and the blade of the hoe is cut on the cement floor again. Zong Gu seizes the opportunity and throws a pitchfork.
Puchi!
"ah!"
The sharp pitchfork entered without a chest, and Zong Gu also approached him, using his hand as a blade, slashed the old man's wrist, easily snatched the hoe, and then raised his knee and hit the old man's jaw.
"Um!"
In just a few strokes, the old man evil spirit was put to the ground, but he couldn't get up.
Zong Gu held the pitchfork that was inserted into his chest, stabbed him a little further, and nailed him to the ground.
"May I have your name?"
The old man who fell to the ground struggled and cursed, ignoring his problem at all.
"You are going to die. What is your name? What does it have to do with the Sugimoto family? You should be the one who climbs into the attic, right?"
“…”
When the old man suddenly paused and then struggled even more intensely.
"I've just been dead for half a year, and they threw all my things into the attic! Do you still have my father in your eyes?"
"really……"
This old man is from the Sugimoto family, and he is the grandfather of the client Sugimoto Natsuki.
Soya turned his head and looked outside the warehouse. Sugimoto Natsuki was held back by Akane Kirino and Yoshikawa, who noticed the dangerous situation here, and stood far away.
"Isn't the loft just used to store that kind of thing? Or do you want them to throw your stuff into the trash?"
“…”
The old man suddenly stopped struggling and stared at him in a daze.
Evil or evil spirits always hold some obsession like a stubborn mind. In short, it is paranoid, which is also the biggest difference between them and the vengeful spirits that are not aggressive.
This is somewhat related to the character of the spirit body during its lifetime, and more importantly, they lose more thinking ability when they lose their life and condense into the spirit body.
"he……"
Zong Gu looked around and found that the bald evil spirit he had knocked down had completely disappeared. "Who is that bald man just now?"
When the old man opened his mouth and opened his mouth again, his voice became much weaker.
"I don't know... that guy doesn't know where to go. If I want to stay here, I let him stay."
It seemed like a passing evil spirit, Zong Gu thought.
Moreover, he may not be an evil spirit. He may have been instigated by the old man Sugimoto. Otherwise, Sugimoto's parents would have been in and out of the warehouse where farm tools were stored these days, and would have been killed long ago. Although the old man had resentment, he would have been in and out of the end.
Will not hurt your son and daughter-in-law.
"So..." Zong Gu held the pitchfork and was about to pull it out, "It was probably my arrival that made you think of killing. Is there any reason?"
The old man looked up at him and did not deny it.
"You can see me, and you may stop me..."
"Just that's it?"
"I don't know either……"
Zong Gu nodded and did not ask again.
After a few words, the old man became weaker and unable to lift his hands, and his face became confused.
"Am I going to die... This feeling is so familiar..."
Soya looked at him for a while, "Mr. Sugimoto, I heard nothing wrong just now. You have been dead for half a year."
"Ah...yes...I'm dead."
Old Sugimoto looked at the roof of the dim warehouse. The beams and tiles here were all built by him decades ago. "Are you going to die again now..."
"No." Zong Gu pulled out the pitchfork, "It didn't hurt the vital point, you won't dissipate immediately, but it will become another spirit with no memory or thinking ability, and will continue to float in the world... for decades...
.”
"Is that right... it's better to die just like this."
The old man Sugimoto, whose consciousness was about to be destroyed, took more than half a minute to fully understand his words, and his eyes turned and stared at the pitchfork.
"Can I...please ask you something..."
Zong Gu raised his draft fork, "Is that true?"
He nodded slowly, and squeezed out the last vague response from his throat.
"yes……"
The pitchfork fell.
Puchi.
Outside the warehouse, Sugimoto Natsuki suddenly felt shocked.
She looked at the warehouse that was in silence in the distance, and then looked at Akane Kirino and Yoshikawa who were holding her.
"I said... it doesn't matter? Student Zong Gu has been in for a long time."
"I don't know either."
Akane Kirino stared at the other side, "But if it goes by now, it will cause trouble for Soya."
Yoshikawa nodded beside him, "And he will be very angry after he goes by rashly."
"Yeah……"
When Sugimoto Natsuki wanted to say something else, Soya came out of the warehouse.
"Student Zong Gu, what happened just now?" She looked at him bringing the door of the warehouse with his backhand, "You seem to have started fighting with something?"
"ghost."
“Hey…”
"But there is no problem."
Soya came over, "I have wiped out the ghosts hidden in the warehouse. During this period, they were rumbling around in the attic of Sugimoto's senior sister's house."
"Why do you do this?"
"Who knows. In short, there will be no abnormal noise in the attic in the future."
Sugimoto Natsuki nodded in a daze, "I understand..."
Soya stopped in front of Akane Kirino and Yoshikawa, "Fortunately you didn't come yesterday."
“Is it dangerous?”
Akane Kirino took out the tissue and wiped the sweat on his forehead and the side of his face.
“It’s very dangerous.”
She laughed, "Fortunately, Soya is here."
After coming back to his senses, Sugimoto Natsuki asked several people to go back to the house to rest.
"Since the problem has been solved, the abnormal department will take a while at my house. The bus back will take you a few dozen minutes to arrive."
"Senior sister, it's the Unnatural Research Department..."
"Sorry, sorry~ I forgot again."
"Senior sister." Zong Gu suddenly spoke, "Where is the Buddhist temple in my senior sister's house? I want to go and worship."
“Eh?”
Sugimoto Natsuki was stunned.
"Come with me here."
When he arrived at the Buddha's niche, Zong Gu looked at the thin old man on the portrait, lit a piece of incense, and knocked out the copper.