Departing from the parking lot at the mountain pass south of Ibuki Mountain, the group walked up the mountain in the darkness and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
It was not until noma Nan could be seen that Sayaka Hasegawa returned to the car. Reiko Kobayashi, who was left with her, was holding a cup of noodles in her hand, as if she was hesitating whether to chew it.
She pointed outside, "Go to the parking lot manager to ask if there is any hot water."
“Oh… OK.”
The two of them went over together, and they successfully got hot water. They returned to the car with cups of noodles.
The fragrance spreads, Kobayashi opens the doors on both sides to avoid leaving too much smell.
Sucking the instant noodles, Hasegawa raised his gaze again and looked at Mount Ibuki, which blended with the night.
The outline is blurry, and only a huge shadow can be seen.
"Is Kobayashi good at head-on combat either?"
Kobayashi looked up and swallowed the instant noodles before saying, "I'm not good at all, but I have little practical experience. It's not a big problem to deal with ordinary spirits."
"It's the same as me." Hasegawa took a sip of the soup and felt a little salty.
"Because I was transferred to Fuyun Shrine to fill the vacancy of Miss Sayaka."
Kobayashi said, while scanning the other spiritualists in the parking lot, looking for familiar people without expectation.
"There are few spiritual enlightened people nowadays. According to Zong Gu's classification method, spiritual enlightened people who have the ability to deal with an evil spirit can basically serve as the team leader at a certain station..."
Hasegawa nodded.
In order to take care of more shrines, spiritualists of this level usually do not concentrate in one place.
However, there are exceptions, such as Fuyun Shrine.
"A few years ago, he was still a child, but Kyoko grew up quickly. In two years, Anan might be transferred to another shrine."
Kobayashi: "It seems that there is this intention in the Shiramaru Shrine."
“…”
Hasegawa's face turned dark, "You can also apply to stay at Fuyun Shrine."
"That's right." Kobaya nodded, "But the person they want most is actually Soya... Although it's even more hopeless. Miss Kyoko will never let anyone go."
"Mr. Zonggu..."
Not long after returning to Fuyun Shrine, Hasegawa and Soya acted together not many times, and they didn't have the chance to see him take action.
"Anan also said that he is very powerful. How powerful is he?"
Kobayashi looked at her, "Let me say so, I can't beat one of the ten or even Miss Sayaka."
"...If I compare it, I don't feel how powerful Zong Gu Jun is!"
Reiko Kobayashi laughed and then thought for a while.
"I'm sure if the evil spirit really fled here in the end, then its escape would end."
......
The rising moon cannot shine into the valley.
Entering Mount Ibuki and walking along the dark mountain road to the foot of the mountain, the group stopped and waited for subsequent instructions.
The middle-aged man in charge of command and dispatch came from the Kinki Institution Headquarters, named Shinji Yoshiyama, and was constantly communicating with groups in other regions.
Looking at the dark forest in front of him, Zong Gu suddenly felt like he was a policeman and was chasing a fugitive, but in fact it was not much different.
"And they are all civil servants..."
"Hmm?" Noma Nan turned his head and looked at him, "What did Soya just say?"
"Nothing, don't worry."
"Concentrate on a little bit."
"Yes, team leader."
Look, it was already the police's behavior when they were in action.
Fortunately, they do not need to rely on their vision like police, searching mountains inch by inch. Under the sensation of spiritual sense, any spiritual body passing by is clearly visible like a candle in the dark night.
"Everyone-"
After a while, Shinji Yoshiyama suddenly raised his voice, "The target has been driven to the southeastern area of Ibuki Shandong. It is very likely that he will choose the south as a breakthrough. Please be prepared for the challenge."
Soya and Kyoko looked at each other and were both energetic.
"Please take this place as the center and spread it to the left and right along the foot of the mountain. The distance between them is no less than fifty meters, and pay attention to the talisman signal in the sky at any time."
Shinji Yoshiyama held a demon-breaking bow, and the front of the arrow in his hand was wrapped with a red talisman paper. After shooting into the sky, he would explode into a ball of spiritual fireworks. It was not gorgeous, but it could make the nearby spiritual conscious people immediately notice it.
Seeing the signal means that the evil spirit has escaped here.
"If you find a spirit, please shout loudly immediately, and the rest will support you quickly. Those carrying the Demon-Breaking Bow..."
He also distributed several red talisman papers to the witches with the Demon-Breaking Bow as a more conspicuous contact signal when discovering the spirit body.
"Action."
The spiritual savages scattered along the foot of the mountain to both sides and stopped one after another. The four people from the Fuyun Shrine naturally gathered together.
Hanai Matori and Noma Nan stopped one after another, maintaining a distance of fifty or sixty meters between each other; they continued to walk forward with Kyoko and dozens of other spiritual enlightened people, and Soya stopped first.
He stopped in the middle, so that no matter where he encountered evil spirits who had escaped, he could support him as soon as possible.
"Be careful."
"Um."
Kyoko nodded and walked forward for a hundred steps before stopping.
If it is dispersed at such a distance, only a few dozen spiritual enlightened people can cover a considerable range.
As the crowd walked away, the voices dissipated, and the surroundings quickly fell into another kind of tranquility where only insects and frogs were left.
Far away from the city, the mountains and forests at night are pitch black, and only the starry sky above our heads is shiny, and the embellishments are clearer than ever.
After looking up for a moment, Zong Gu lowered his head and touched his stomach.
Eating on time is a good habit, but it can also make people more sensitive to hunger when they have no food to eat.
"Fortunately, I ate half a piece of bread before departure..."
It's just a bit dry, and he wants to drink water again now.
I took out my cell phone and looked at the time. I rushed all the way from the near lake and then went up the mountain to scatter. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening.
Zong Gu's psychological expectation was to get off work before twelve o'clock in the evening, but if he dragged it until tomorrow morning, there was nothing he could do.
"I remember the reward for performing tasks at night, it seems to be a little more..."
Institutions are never stingy about the rewards for nighttime overtime work, and implement step-by-step growth. The longer the overtime work, the higher the increase, up to two.5 times.
If the evil spirit is successfully stopped and eliminated, everyone involved in the operation tonight will receive at least 200,000 yen... Soya estimated.
Standing at the foot of the dark mountain, you can see a little light flashing on the hillside south of Mount Ibuki, scattering each other and vaguely connecting them. That is the spiritual enlightener who is creating momentum to drive away evil spirits;
The Ibuki Mountain, which is more than 1,000 meters high, has a vast scenery during the sun. At this time, it posed a huge challenge to the physical fitness of the Lingjuans. Soya is glad that he is a member of the mountain.
After waiting for a while, a wave of spiritual power swept across his body.
“…”
He raised his head and a dark blue spiritual firework was blooming in the sky, which was still spreading out.
It is a signal released by Shinji Yoshiyama.
——The evil spirits who were driven away escaped here.
Zong Gu held the knife tightly and took a deep breath of the fragrant air with the grass and trees.
No need to work overtime.
Looking up the mountain, the subtle spots of light are gradually becoming dense, forming a clear pocket, gathering here from all corners of Ibuki Mountain.
He looked around.
The defense line is long, where will the evil spirit choose to break through?
Just two or three minutes later, another blue firework bloomed in the sky, telling him the answer: the direction is on the left, which is where Kyoko went, and the distance is not close.
Kyoko reminded him, "Soya--"
"I'm here!"
Soya immediately rushed over there and soon chased Kyoko who was running and waiting. The two continued to support the deepest part of the left.
It seemed that the evil spirit chose to break through from one corner of the defense line, which made it take a lot of time for the other spiritualists to come, and the two of them were almost the fastest support speed among them.
He continued to move forward, surpassing seven or eight spiritual enlightened people one after another, and another demon-breaking arrow wrapped in signal talisman paper rose to the sky, and the distance was very close.
Bypassing a stretch of mountain, Soya and Kyoko could already see the spirits rushing down, just among the sparse forest not far ahead.
The spiritual enlightened people around him surrounded him.
Holding the Demon Blade Bow in his hand, Kyoko continued to walk straight, intending to block it from a distance, while Sunya turned to the hillside in order to get closer as soon as possible.
The spiritual fireworks in the sky were about to dissipate. Kyoko stopped, took out the talisman paper and rolled the arrows in her hand, and shot them into the sky.
The dark blue blooms, and the moon shines on the mountains and forests.
Putting down the Demon Blade, she looked at the running Zong Gu again, but he suddenly staggered and almost fell down.
"Student Zong Gu..."
Kyoko was nervous.
After he stood firm, his steps stopped and looked down at his left arm.
“…”
The black mark as narrow as willow leaves came alive.