The silver-white metal cover of the Zippo lighter slides open and makes a crisp sound.
Yuuki Makensuke lit a special cigarette.
The blurred smoke was inhaled into his lungs, and then exhaled. Amidst the white smoke, he narrowed his eyes slightly and carefully observed all three spiritual masters who had just entered Jixiang Su.
Didn't see any problems.
There was no evil aura left on the three of them.
"Have you ever had close contact with a tree turned into a person?" Yuuki asked.
"There is."
"knew."
Then, Yuuki Makensuke looked towards the street again. The streets were also empty at dusk, and he didn't see anything strange.
However, in several other places in Jixiangsu, one can vaguely see misty ghostly auras. These sneaky auras appear like thin black smoke in Yuki's eyes, and there are probably dozens of places above the entire town.
Black smoke curled up like this.
Presumably the source of these ghostly spirits is the victims who turned into trees.
"Okay." Yuuki put out the half-burned cigarette and breathed out lightly, "I think we have to go into Jixiangsu again."
"Well, Mr. Yuuki, will there be any danger after entering?" Officer Hanai was so nervous that sweat broke out on his forehead, "I mean, is it possible that we will also be infected with that weird change?"
"No. That kind of weird change shouldn't spread so easily."
People turned into trees, and the number of victims reached dozens in a short period of time.
It is tempting to think that this change is contagious.
However, Yuuki carefully observed the three spirit exterminators who had entered Ji Xiangsu and had close contact with the "Human Tree", and there was nothing unusual about them.
In addition, Yuuki just now wondered whether there was a problem with the environment of Jixiangsu.
For example, are there pollen, spores and the like floating in the air that ordinary people can't see? As long as they come into contact, they will turn into "human trees".
But when I observed the situation in villages and towns just now, this conjecture was rejected again.
In a sense, the environment here is quite normal.
Judging from Yuki's rich experience, the dozens of ghostly ghostly auras rising up are similar to ordinary ghostly auras.
It does not have the characteristics of infection and attachment.
If it could really be contagious, from the perspective of Yuuki lighting a cigarette, those ghostly auras should be more "sticky".
Therefore, it is still difficult to determine how the strange events in Jixiangsu spread. We just know that it is not easy to spread, and simply entering Jixiangsu is not enough to be infected.
"Okay, okay."
Officer Hanai raised his hand to wipe the sweat, and decided to arrange his manpower to follow Yuki in.
Although the special system of the Countermeasures Room is relatively independent, it is also subordinate to the police system, and relatively speaking, the members of the Countermeasures Room have more power. In addition, Yuuki Makensuke himself is a senior executive directly under the Countermeasures Room. In terms of position,
, that is much higher than the police chief in Huajing.
He gave orders and command, and others could only choose to follow them.
"Be careful, hold your weapon, and follow me."
Before entering Jixiangsu, Yuki patted Nagatomo on the shoulder and said this.
…
The sun gradually sets on the west side of the Black Hat Mountains.
Probably because something strange happened, the entire Xiangjisu was extremely quiet, and the doors of every house were closed. Only occasionally did the dog at home bark uneasily when he heard the footsteps of Yuki and his entourage on the street.
After walking for a while, everyone came to an old house near a farmland.
"Mr. Yuki, the owner here is named Kusakabe Kokichi. He is a 75-year-old man who lives alone. According to our judgment, he is probably the first person to turn into a strange tree." Officer Hanai introduced this while uneasily
I took a few more glances towards the courtyard of the house.
Because the daylight had faded, the courtyard was dead, blurry, and gray.
The night wind blew the clothesline in the yard, and a few old shirts and trousers hung on it, swaying.
"The three of us first came to Jixiangsu because we learned about the strange things that happened to old man Kusakabe. We had entered this place, and the strange tree we had close contact with at the beginning was also this one. At that time... we were not sure which tree it was.
The tree was transformed by Kusakabe."
"The old man usually lives in seclusion, and because he lives alone, he may have been dead for a long time by the time he was found. According to the local people in Jixiangjuku at the beginning, he did not see the old man coming out for at least four to five days.
Pass."
The exorcist lady, whose surname was Fukuyama, who had previously stated that she had entered Jixiangsu, also roughly began to talk about what they had learned here.
Yuki Masakisuke was outside the station room, listening to them carefully and lighting another cigarette at the same time.
That's right.
The ethereal black air I saw before was the strongest here.
Probably that old man Kusakabe was really the first one to turn into a strange tree.
However, the ghostly energy that was as big as a teacup only curled up and disappeared when it reached a high altitude. There was no sign of spreading to the surroundings.
Yuki spent a little more time, carefully observing the black smoke coming out from the top of the house, confirming that his initial judgment was correct, that the smoke did not have the characteristics of infection, and then called to the people around him:
"Go in and take a look. Don't leave anyone alone."
Elder Kusakabe's home has thin wooden walls and debris everywhere, making it seem a bit crowded.
The old man's bedroom is on the first floor.
There is no bed, just tatami mats.
The floor was covered with bedding, which was a little yellow and damp, as if it had been soaked in some turbid mucus, and a strange tree grew on the bedding.
The ghostly energy comes out of the trees.
This tree is about 1.8 meters tall. I can't tell what kind of tree it belongs to. The roots of the tree have already penetrated the quilt and penetrated into the floor. The branches and leaves are very lush, and the leaves are green, but the veins of the leaves are red.
The trunk is as thick as a bowl, and the bark is wrinkled and full of ravines. The surface is bulging and interlaced like annoying proliferative tissue. If you look closely, it looks like it is crowded with distorted faces.
In addition, there was a vest and trousers on the tree trunk. The clothes and trousers were torn, but they seemed to have grown completely into the tree and were inseparable.
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Yuki was the first to speak in the crowded room: "You didn't mention the things on the ground."
Yes.
There are things on the ground.
Centered at the bottom of the trunk, some slender red flowers grow.
There are not many, only six or seven.
The flower stems are slender, and the flowers are clustered like dragon's claws. The big red flowers are as red as blood.
"Is this Manzhu Shahua?"
Sheriff Hanai, who was already a little fat, began to sweat again on his forehead. If he could, he didn't want to stay in this room full of weird atmosphere for a moment longer.
"Yes, Higanbana." Yuuki Makensuke nodded.
"These flowers, these flowers, were not available when we came in last time." Ms. Fukuyama explained anxiously.
"I know, I don't mean to blame you."
Yuki used the smoke from his cigarette to inspect several bunches of Hibiscus flowers, but found no problems.
Simply staying in this room, whether next to strange trees or those other side flowers that don't look right at first glance, will not have any real impact on people.
There is clearly something weird everywhere here, but no core problem can be found.
The current findings are like scratching the surface.
Yuki held a cigarette in his mouth and continued to observe the strange tree. His eyes looked back and forth at the leaves and trunk through the blurred smoke.
Everyone else held their breath and concentrated, fearing that any effort in breathing would affect him.
After watching it like this for a few minutes, Yuuki's expression suddenly changed: "Here..."
He seemed to have found something.
I saw that on the tree trunk covered with ravines and raised burrs, the uneven and rough texture was vaguely pieced together to form some kind of symbol.
Because the tree trunk itself is covered with twisted and convex ridges, it is normal for spiritualists not to notice this.
Yuki himself only discovered it after he lit his cigarette and looked at it carefully for a long time.
He took out a notebook and a pen from his pocket, and using the smoke, he began to copy the small area where the symbols could be vaguely seen.
The black ballpoint pen kept drawing on the paper.
"Hiss...that's not right."
Yuki scratched his hair with one hand and drew it three times, eliminating the interference of unnecessary raised vertical lines, and finally restored the symbol to the paper.
Then, he looked at his notebook and pondered briefly:
"The talisman... looks familiar."
Yuuki took out his mobile phone and took photos of the tree pattern on the strange tree and the clearly restored talisman pattern on his notebook.
After that, he directly called the countermeasures room in front of everyone in the room.
After a while, Yuki's cell phone rang. It was the countermeasures room that sent him some pictures.
Then, he compared the pictures he had with the pictures sent by the countermeasures room, and his expression became more and more gloomy.
"Mr. Yuki?" Nagatomo called him softly.
"Hey..." Yuuki breathed out and looked at the other people in the room, "Let's go out first. Everyone, we seem to be in big trouble."
The group of people walked outside the house.
On the way, Nagatomo came over and asked carefully: "Mr. Yuuki, is this matter more troublesome than the tasks we have dealt with before?"
"Well, you haven't been exposed to this yet. We have to find more people to come over." Yuki nodded, "Also, we have to inform that guy from Kamiya to come to Tsushima Island."
…
Tokyo, Arakawa, Kamiya Home.
Kamiyagawa is currently having dinner with Hannya and Zashiki.
I was only halfway through eating when I received two pictures from Yuuki Makensuke.
Kamiya looked at the message notification on his phone and felt a little helpless. He thought to himself that Uncle Yuuki would not give up and just send him a photo of the marlin he caught in the afternoon, right?
But when I opened the message, I found that was not the case.
[picture]
This seems to be an indoor photo. You can see that the room in the background is a bit old and crowded, but the center of the photo is the trunk of an unknown tree.
In the center of the picture, you can see the strange tree patterns with raised and sunken tree trunks, which are twisted and vaguely arranged into some kind of symbols.
[picture]
This photo was taken on notebook paper.
A talisman was clearly drawn on it with a black ballpoint pen, which looked somewhat similar to the tree pattern in the first picture.
"This is?"
Kamiya stared at the second photo for two seconds, feeling vaguely familiar.
Then there seemed to be a thunderclap in my mind, and I quickly thought of something.
Then, the third photo was sent.
[picture]
Another talisman.
It's just painted with cinnabar on yellow paper.
Fu Shengu recognized this one, and he himself had taken a photo and kept it.
It’s the yellow talisman hidden in the locked “hidden half floor” of the Haunted House at Ji-Chi Hospital last year!
By comparing the second picture and the third picture, although the two talismans are not exactly the same, we can see the similarities. They are definitely talismans from the same spell system.
It is the breeder's talisman.
When he committed suicide, the noon-hour breeder said that he would turn into a ghost and come back to Kamiya River. This was definitely his Yomi Naraku Curse!
Buzzing.
The phone continues to ring.
Yuki sent a positioning and a paragraph:
[Boy, what I found here is not quite right. The breeder's Naraku Curse appeared in Tsushima Island, Nagasaki. You have to come over.]
Kamiya's expression darkened: "Breeder, is he back?"
…
Almost all members of the countermeasures room who participated in the campaign against the Wushi Breeder knew that at the critical moment, it was Shen Guchuan, the "disciple of ghosts and gods" who directly prevented the Breeder and the Plague God from approaching the Nuo Formation.
Therefore, the breeder had a strong resentment towards Kamiya before his death.
As for high-level officials like Yuuki Makiyu, it is almost certain that the breeders have never been completely eliminated.
He may have turned himself into a ghost through the Huangquan Naraku Curse. Like the plague god, like the ghosts under him.
There is a high chance that the breeder will come back and return as a ghost story.
But everyone believes that this should be a very long process, including Kamiya himself.
But now, the breeder's curse has actually appeared on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki. Less than a year has passed since the last operation.
“Could the breeders be back so soon?”
Kamiya is not sure.
But one thing is for sure, he has to put down everything at hand and go to Nagasaki.
With Hannya's help, Kamiya quickly packed his luggage and directly bought a high-priced flight late at night, planning to fly to Nagasaki overnight.
Going to Tsushima Island requires crossing the strait, and the ghost car cannot cross the water, so Oishi and the others were arranged to stay at home.
As for other arrangements for strange stories.
The little sun can be used as a weather pendant stably, so bring it with you.
Red Deer has recently become more reliable and has a sense of belonging to a group. Kamiya's trust in it has increased, but Red Deer's ability itself is very strange, so he also brought it with him.
Princess Wenche, who is undergoing prenatal care, seems to be relatively docile at the moment, but in order to prevent her from causing any trouble when she is not at home, she simply puts it into a [Mirage Cloth Bag] and takes it away, just like the previous arrangement.
In addition, there are eight-foot girls.
Contact Xiaolu and entrust Bachiyang to take the Kisaragi train to provide help again.
In real-life activities, it is better to be more careful.
The worst thing to do is to compensate the young apprentice and Bachi Xiang well afterwards.
Before leaving for the airport, Kamiya asked Fu Bao to test the fortunes of himself and his family.
There is no evil or good luck in the house.
Kamiya himself has both good and bad luck.
Then he thought of something else and made a phone call to Keiko Kido and Seira Kanazawa.
Kido also has the flower seeds of the breeder, which is her mother Futakuchi. Although based on subsequent contacts, Futakuchi seems to have been purified by the Honganji Temple.
But if the breeder does return, it's hard to say what will happen.
Anyway, Mr. Kido is quite rich, and he had arranged for his daughter to rest in Honganji Temple for a long time.
Let Kanazawa communicate directly. Kido Keiko will definitely stay in Honganji Temple during this period.
Kamiyakawa is currently too busy to do anything, so giving a reminder like this is the most benevolent thing to do.
With everything ready, Kamiyagawa boarded the flight to Nagasaki late that night.
After sitting down, the plane slowly pulled out. Kamiya sat by the window, holding his chin in a daze. From his position, he could see the lights outside the airport reflecting on the plane.
"The talisman copied by Uncle Jiu is definitely related to the Yellow Springs Naraku Curse. But has the breeder really come back? It could also be something else on Tsushima Island..."
The plane took off, and when you looked down from the window, you could see brightly lit lights, like a huge gold powder scroll spread out in the dark night.
