Kamiya House, basement.

It's completely different from the time when the color weaving and the birth of a woman were kept.

After tidying up and cleaning the basement every day, the basement has become very tidy.

Moreover, the day and the square will come down from time to time to dry the environment, plus some new lamps and lanterns, the overall bright and spacious.

A corner of the basement.

The little old man's bronze bronze pendant was placed on the ground, and on both sides of the copper match, a red weeping blood candle was lit.

One F-class, one E-class.

The candle flame is dim.

The scouts of the Kamiya family are undergoing an upgrade ceremony to promote F-rank to E-rank.

The little old man's requiem candle input has always been a medium-high priority, after all, he is the only scout in the team, and it has a lot of cultivation value.

Since the end of Daughter's Day, the candle of the ceremony has been burning for three days.

It's finally about to burn out.

As soon as the candles on both sides were extinguished, the copper match of the bird reacted.

A crimson purple ghostly aura that was stronger than usual emanated from it, condensing into the appearance of a little old man.

"Congratulations, little old man, you have successfully advanced to the E rank."

Kamiyagawa sat on the sidelines, flipping through a book called Kojiki, which records Japanese mythology.

When he saw the little old man appear, he smiled and congratulated him.

"Aba!"

Faced with the fact that the master personally greeted him at the end of the promotion ceremony, this behavior of "loving his subordinates like children", the little old man was naturally moved.

One would raise his hands and circle around his master excitedly like a strange species, and the other would bang his bare chest to show loyalty.

"After the upgrade, are there any changes in abilities?" Kamiya asked him.

"Aba! Aba! ”

The little old man impatiently showed his hand to his master.

Two wisps of purple ghost qi separated from his body, and they fell to the ground, turning into a mini form that looked the same as him, but was reduced in size.

This is the little old man's [outer body].

It is a doppelganger who moves freely and connects with the ontological consciousness.

You can only summon one when you're in the F rank, but it seems that you can summon two after you advance.

"Good." Kamiyagawa nodded in satisfaction.

If we continue to develop according to the trend of increasing the number of doppelgangers, the little old man will be a whole scout team in the future!

After being promoted to E-class, the size of the little scout has not changed much, and it is still 20 centimeters in size.

However, his promotion ceremony took a bit long.

After all, the originally inferior weird race value is there.

If there are no new strange relics for him to absorb and increase the upper limit of his ability, it is estimated that he will be stuck in the E rank.

But it doesn't matter!

The corresponding relics, Kamiyagawa had already prepared for the little old man.

"Try to absorb this."

He took out the [Mirage Cloth Bag], took out the [Void Shakuhachi], and placed it in front of the little old man.

This shakuhachi is a relic of the D-class Monster Void Monk.

The little old man is on the E-level, so there should be a possibility of absorption.

"Abaaba!"

The crimson ghost relic wrapped the shakuhachi on the ground, and the entire bamboo musical instrument slowly dissolved as the ghost qi slowly dissipated and drifted to the little old man.

He originally didn't have a wisp of it, and only relied on ghost qi to cover the key parts of his body, and clothes began to appear.

A deep straw hat appeared on his head, and on his body was a somewhat ragged white robe, with a robe around his neck and a convenient bag with the word "nothingness" written on it.

Similar to the previous Void Monk's appearance.

Including the two mini little old men who had just been summoned, their clothes also changed.

This change indicates that the absorption of relics has been successful.

"How?"

Kamiyagawa narrowed his eyes and stared at the little old man, feeling that the strange aura on his body was a little stronger again.

After absorbing this relic, it shouldn't be a problem for him to be promoted to D-rank in the future.

"Abba ......"

The little old man was stunned for a moment, feeling the enhancement of his own ability.

After about half a minute, he raised his hand and dragged a miniature version of shakuhachi from the purple ghost aura beside him.

The two outer bodies are the same as the main body, and they also each have a shakuhachi.

"Whew-"

Shakuhachi was played.

The timbre is desolate and vast, ethereal and quiet, but it also contains some rough and poignant flavors.

It is like a moonlit night, the wind blows the wheat waves, and there are monsters swaying in the fields.

The shakuhachi sounded stopped, and the little old man's ghost aura was hidden, and his figure disappeared completely, and even his spiritual descendant, the bronze match of the bird, could not be seen.

Kamiyagawa continued to stare at the basement.

It's out of sight.

I can vaguely feel that there is a subtle atmosphere of strange talk here, but I can't tell where it is at all.

It's similar to the situation of the Void Monk before.

"Come out."

Kamiyagawa was pleased with the change and spoke into the air.

"Aba!"

The little old man reappeared with his two outer bodies, just five or six meters away from the Kamiya River.

At the same time, the bronze match of the bird on the ground also reappeared.

With the assistance of [Autumn Slash], Kamiya's perception ability is very strong.

If you can keep such a close distance from him and still hide, it is estimated that there will be few soul killers or strange people who will be able to find the little old man in the future.

Your Scout's professional ability has greatly increased!

"If you can hide your brass as well, can you do anything else?" Kamiya begins to study the little old man's new abilities.

"Abba whoop."

After communicating with the master and servant, it was roughly clear that the little old man could now hide some small objects with the help of shakuhachi.

"That's just right."

Kamiyagawa took out another prop from the [Mirage Cloth Bag].

It's the leech's [Seven Emotions - Magatama].

"Try this."

The little old man once again unleashed his new abilities.

In the illusory shakuhachi sound, the outline of the small warm magatama began to blur and dissipate.

However, the grade of [Seven Emotions Chronicles: Magatama] itself is much higher than that of the Bronze Pair, and Kamiyagawa can still roughly "see" its location when he stays in the basement.

Leaving the basement, the feeling becomes even more blurry. If you go to the living room, you don't feel it at all.

But it's already very good that Kamiyagawa, who has a high sense of perception, can do it to this extent.

Kamiya named the little old man's new ability [Nothingness].

"Now you have two external objects, and one of them is separated, and there is a fixed job that needs this doppelganger of yours to do."

……

Nerima-ku, Tokyo.

A haunted house of Ci Urgent Hospital in a remote location.

This large haunted house, known as a trembling labyrinth, has a little relationship with the Kamiya River.

Last year, he took his ghosts, the staff inside, and a team of tourists to have a friendly exchange of scare experience.

In the follow-up, he personally eliminated the hidden dangers of the haunted house, and solved the "epidemic species" epidemic god buried in the breeder.

Moreover, the Sato-world region corresponding to the Jikyu Hospital is currently under the full control of the Kamiya River.

The whole haunted house is no longer a safety hazard.

The ancient and hot-hearted Kamiya River is a great benefactor of the Cijian Hospital!

"Suddenly coming here is really a little nostalgic for the experience of the last time I played, and if I have the opportunity in the future, I can take the weird people who have never been here to play here again."

Kamiya rides in a ghost car, in a secluded place that appears outside of the haunted house.

He came here for a simple purpose, to collect intelligence cores.

The effect of [Seven Emotions - Magatama] is: [People have seven emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, sorrow, fear and panic, this piece of Magatama can sense emotions and slowly condense emotions into a nucleus. ]

And if there are more human horror emotions, the first thing that comes to mind is the haunted house of the Okyu Hospital, which has a good service attitude and makes tourists "feel at home".

Previously, because the countermeasures room had to deal with the plague god, the area around the Cikong Hospital was locked down for a while.

Externally, it is a haunted house facility that needs to be maintained.

However, the large-scale blockade still caused people to speculate and discuss.

Some people even suspect that the Cikong Hospital is really haunted, and that the lockdown during that time was an exorcism ritual for a respected mage.

However, despite such rumors, when the haunted house reopened, the number of tourists increased instead of decreasing.

For example, today is a weekday, but there is an endless stream of tourists waiting in line to enter the park.

Kamiyagawa bought a ticket outside the haunted house, and the young lady in the ticket booth was not the same as last time.

However, when handing over the tickets, he still shouted out the sentence very professionally: "Welcome to the Urgent Hospital!" ”

Circumstances change with the passage of time.

The yellow-haired Dashi Junma Jiaoerlang stood behind the boss, watched the performance of the ticket seller, and smiled proudly: "Sure enough, it was I who said this line at the beginning with a greater impact." ”

"Don't be complacent, you scared a tourist out of the way, okay?"

Miss Takayama whispered angrily, reaching out and tugging at the yellow hair's ear.

Maybe it was too hard, and he directly pulled Dashi's head down and pulled it halfway.

Dashi raised his hand to straighten his head: "Don't just talk about me, didn't you scare a tourist when you were separated at that time?" ”

"It's not a long time ago...... Accidentally...... I want to save her. Sister Ohara shook her head and argued in a low voice.

Kamiyagawa took the ticket and entered the hall with a familiar way, the layout here was still as usual, similar to the waiting hall of an abandoned hospital, dilapidated and deserted.

Finding a corner and sitting down, Kamiyagawa took out the [Seven Emotions - Magatama] from his pocket.

Entering the Cijian Hospital, this piece of magatama has changed a little.

Originally, it was a warm jade color, but now both ends of the magatama have changed color.

The wide end of the yin-yang fish gradually turns black, and the pointed head shows gray.

These two colors should represent fear and panic respectively.

It seems that after entering the Cijian Hospital, Magatama began to work and collect the heavy panic here.

Holding the [Seven Emotions Magatama] in his hand and looking through it for a while, Kamiya called out the little old man.

The latter retracted a little bit of breath and maintained it in a state that ordinary people could not see, but the owner could see.

"As promised, let one of your outer bodies go into the interior of the haunted house with a hidden aura of magatama and concealment. Until you collect the Dinosaur and the Shock, your clone stays here, guarding Magatama. ”

The process of condensing the core of emotions is very slow.

It's hard to say exactly how long it will take to produce a core.

Moreover, in the process of Magatama's work, it is impossible for Kamiyagawa to guard it personally all the time.

Now the little old man has the ability to summon a second outer body, and he has just given this job to him.

"Aba!"

The little old man answered, summoned a clone, and entered the safe passage with Magatama, who soon disappeared.

Even Kamiyagawa couldn't tell where he had gone.

"That's it, I can't even feel it. And the haunted house is so big, even if there are really some capable people, they can't detect the existence of Magatama under the care of the little old man's clone. ”

Kamiya was more relieved that Magatama would stay in the hospital and work.

Besides, if there is a very unlikely accident, the little old man can also notify him in time to deal with it.

"Gone."

Kamiyagawa did not enter the haunted house to play, and called the hearse group that had been following him to leave the Secret Hospital.

The collection of intelligence cores has already begun, and the next step is to wait patiently for the output.

And Kamiya's next job is to go to Ehime Prefecture to find Shikijiro and officially use the mines in Aokihara.

……

Don't Tongzi Mountain.

It was located in what is now Shinihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku.

The Shikoku region is located almost 850 kilometers from Tokyo and is a large island in its own right.

It is connected to the island of Honshu in Japan by the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge. The 37.3-kilometer-long bridge spanning the Seto Inland Sea is a spectacular bridge complex consisting of suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges and girder bridges, and was once the world's longest sea-crossing bridge.

Later, this longest record was continuously refreshed by the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Jiaozhou Bay Bridge of the big country next door, and now the length of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge has retreated to the third place.

Because of the existence of the cross-sea bridge, Kamiyagawa directly chose to take a ghost car on this trip.

He hadn't crossed the bridge before.

Sitting on the Mazda, watching the bridge continue to retreat, the shadows of clouds on the blue sea rippling with the sea, and the sparkling waves reflecting the bright sun.

It's a pretty fresh experience.

Anyway, it's much more comfortable than taking a boat.

The ghost car itself has three times the speed of a normal vehicle, and [Ghost Acceleration] can also ignore volumetric collisions.

The 850-kilometer journey took about 3 hours.

From the Jiyu Hospital in Nerima Ward, I arrived in Niaihama City, Ehime Prefecture, and the time was exactly 6 p.m.

It's getting closer, but it doesn't matter.

It's also okay to leave at night to find Shikijiro.

Betsutsuko Mountain is located among the mountains, and in order to avoid the mines that have been commercially developed and have become part of the theme park, the Kamiya River must enter the mountains.

In the face of complete mountainous terrain, the ghost car can be a hard time.

A few kilometers or so away from Beitongzi Mountain, Kamiya and his party found a small town to pause.

This town seems to have been a gathering place for miners and their families who collected copper ore on the side of Tongshan a long time ago, and later developed into a small town, even if Tongshan stopped mining, it was still not abandoned with the help of the rise of tourism.

Kamiyagawa had a simple dinner in the town.

After that, he wandered around the streets and alleys of the town with [a thousand silver needles] in his hand, and late tonight, he planned to go deep in the mountains and dense forests to find abandoned mines.

Before the action, you may try to find out about the information related to other Tongzi Mountain that cannot be found on the Internet or books.