Smack.

The silver-white metal lid of the Zippo lighter slid open with a crisp sound.

Yuuki Makenyu lit a special cigarette.

The fumes are inhaled into the lungs and then exhaled. In the white smoke, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and carefully observed all the three soul slayers who had entered the Jixiang Su.

Didn't see anything wrong.

There was no evil aura left on the bodies of the three of them.

"Have you ever come up close to a tree that a man has turned into?" Yuuki asked.

"Yes...... Some. ”

"Got it."

Then, Yuuki Shinkenyu looked in the direction of the street again, and the empty streets and alleys at dusk were the same, and he didn't see anything strange.

However, in several other places where Jixiang Su, you can faintly see the ethereal ghostly aura. These sneaky aura, in the eyes of Yuuki, took the form of light black smoke, and there were dozens of places over the entire town, with such black smoke curling up.

Presumably, the source of these ghosts is the victims who have changed from people to trees.

"Alright." Yuuki extinguished the half-lit cigarette and exhaled softly, "I think we'll have to go back to Jixiangjuku." ”

"This, Mr. Yuuki, will it be dangerous to go in?" Officer Hanai was so nervous that sweat broke out on his forehead, "I mean, is it possible that we're also infected with that weird change?" ”

"Nope. That kind of weird change shouldn't be so easy to spread. ”

People turned into trees, and in a short period of time the number of victims reached dozens.

It's easy to think that this change is contagious.

However, Yuuki carefully observed the three soul slayers who had entered the Sukikasu and had close contact with the "Human Tree", and there was nothing abnormal about them.

In addition, Yuuki just wondered if there was a problem with the environment of Jixiang Yaku.

For example, if there are pollen, spores and other things floating in the air that are invisible to ordinary people, as long as they come into contact with it, they will become "human trees".

However, when observing the situation in the villages and towns just now, this conjecture was again rejected.

In a sense, the environment here is quite normal.

The ethereal and rising ghost aura in the dozens of places, judging by Yuuki's rich experience, was similar to the ordinary strange tale aura.

It does not have the characteristics of infection or attachment.

If it can really be infected, in the perspective of Yuuki lighting a cigarette, those ghosts should be more "viscous".

Therefore, it is still difficult to judge the transmission route of the strange events in Jixiang Suku. It's just that I know that it shouldn't be very easy to spread, and simply entering Jixiangsu is not enough to be infected.

"Okay, okay."

Officer Hanai raised his hand to wipe his sweat, and stubbornly arranged for people to follow Yuki in.

The special system of the countermeasures room, although relatively independent, is also subordinate to the police system, and the members of the countermeasure room have more powers. In addition, Yuuki Shinkenyu himself is a high-level member of the direct countermeasure office, and in terms of position, it is much higher than the sheriff of Hanai.

He commanded the command, and the others had to choose to do it.

"Be careful, hold your weapon, and follow me."

Before entering Jixiang Suku, Yuki patted Nagatomo on the shoulder and said so.

……

The sun gradually sank to the west side of the Ebondake Mountains.

Probably because of something strange, the entire Xiangji Residence was unusually silent, and the doors of every house were closed. Only occasionally about the dog at home, hearing the footsteps of Yuuki in the street, barking restlessly.

The group walked a little way to an old house near the farmland.

"Mr. Yuuki, the owner of the house here is named Hirokichi Hisakabe, and he is a 75-year-old man who lives alone. Judging by us, he is likely to be the first to turn into a strange tree. Officer Hanai said, glancing uneasily at the courtyard of the house.

Because the light of day had fallen, the courtyard was dead and blurry, and gray.

The night breeze whipped the clothesline in the courtyard, on which hung a few old shirts and trousers, whirring and swaying.

"The three of us came to Jixiangsu first, and it was also because we learned about the strange things that happened to the old man in the lower part of the sun. We've been here, and this is the first strange tree we first came into close contact with. Then...... It's not certain that the tree was changed by the sun. ”

"The old man usually lives in a simple house, and because he lives alone, by the time he is found, he is likely to have been dead for a long time. According to the locals at the beginning, there were at least four to five days when they had not seen the elderly in the lower part of the country come out for activities. ”

The Soul Remover Lady, surnamed Fukuyama, who had previously said that she had entered Jixiang Suku, also began to talk about what they had learned about here.

Yuuki Makenyu was outside the station house, listening carefully to their speeches while lighting a cigarette.

That's right.

The ethereal black qi I saw before was the richest here.

Probably the old man in the lower part of the sun was really the first to turn into a strange tree.

However, the ghost qi the size of a teacup only rose in a curling manner, and when it rose to a high place, it was invisible, and there was no sign of spreading to the surrounding area.

Yuuki took a little more time, carefully observing the black smoke coming out of the roof of the house, confirming that his initial judgment was correct, and that the smoke did not have the property of infection, and then beckoned to the people around him:

"Let's go in and have a look, and don't leave anyone alone."

The old man's home in the lower part of the sun has thin wooden walls and miscellaneous items everywhere, so it looks a little crowded.

The old man's bedroom is on the ground floor.

There are no beds, and tatami mats are laid directly.

The floor was covered with futon, yellowish and damp, as if soaked in some cloudy slime, and on top of it was a strange tree.

The ghost energy comes out of the trees.

The tree was about 1.8 meters long, and it was impossible to tell what it belonged to, and the roots had been thrown under the quilt and sunk under the floor. The branches and leaves are scattered luxuriantly, the leaves are green, but the veins are red.

The trunk is the thickness of a bowl, the bark is wrinkled, and it is full of ravines, and the surface is bulging and intertwined like annoying growths, and if you look closely, it looks like a twisted face.

In addition, a vest and pants were worn over the trunk. The clothes and pants were torn, but they looked completely inseparable from the trees.

A tree that makes people feel uncomfortable when they look at it.

Yuuki was the first to speak in the crowded room, "You didn't mention anything on the ground. ”

Yes.

There is still something on the ground.

Centered at the base of the trunk, there are some slender red flowers.

There are not many of them, only six or seven.

The flower stems are slender, and the flowers are clustered like dragon claws. The big red flowers, delicate red, red like blood.

"Is this Manju Sahua?"

Sheriff Hanai, who was already a little obese, began to sweat on his forehead again, and if he could, he didn't want to stay in this room with a strange atmosphere for a moment.

"Well, the flower of the other side." Yuuki Shinkenyu nodded.

"These flowers, these flowers, we didn't have them the last time we came in." Ms. Fukuyama explained in a bit of a hurry.

"Got it, I don't blame you."

With the help of the smoke from the cigarette roll, Yuuki looked at a few bunches of flowers from the other side, but he didn't see a problem.

Just staying in this room, whether it is next to the strange tree or the flowers on the other side that is not quite right at first glance, will not have any real impact on people.

It's obviously weird here, but you can't find any core problems.

The current discoveries are like scratching the itch in the shoe.

Yuuki smoked a cigarette and continued to observe the strange tree. His gaze scanned back and forth between the leaves and the trunk through the blurred smoke.

Everyone else held their breath, fearing that the force of their breathing would affect him.

After just watching it like this for a few minutes, Yuuki's expression suddenly changed a little: "...... here"

He seemed to have found something.

I saw that in the trunk of the tree, which was full of ravines and bulging tree nodules, the uneven rough texture was faintly pieced together into some symbol.

Because the trunk itself is covered with misaligned bumps, it's not uncommon for soul hunters not to notice this.

Yuki himself found out after lighting a cigarette and looking at it in detail for a long time.

He took out a notebook and a pen from his bosom, and through the smoke, he began to copy the small piece where the signs of the symbol could be faintly seen.

A black ballpoint pen stops drawing on the paper.

"Shhh...... Wrong. ”

Yuuki scratched his hair with one hand and drew it three times, eliminating the distraction of not needing vertical lines, and finally restored the symbol to the paper.

Then, looking at his notebook, he muttered briefly:

"Talismans...... Kind of familiar. ”

Yuki took out his phone and took a picture of the strange tree's tree pattern and the clearly restored talisman pattern in his notebook.

After that, in front of everyone in the room, he called the countermeasure room directly.

After a while, Yuuki's cell phone rang, and it was the countermeasures room that sent him a few pictures.

Then, he compared the picture from his side with the picture sent by the countermeasure room, and his expression became more and more gloomy.

"Mr. Yuuki?" Nagatomo called him softly.

"Ho......" Yuuki exhaled and looked at the others in the room, "Let's go, let's go out first." Guys, we seem to be in big trouble. ”

The group walked outside the house.

On the way, Nagatomo leaned over and asked carefully, "Mr. Yuuki, is this more troublesome than the task we dealt with before?" ”

"Well, you haven't touched this yet, we'll need to get more people over." Yuki nodded, "Also, I have to inform that kid Kamiya to come to Tsushima Island as well." ”

……

Tokyo, Arakawa, Kamiya's home.

Kamiyagawa is having dinner with Pranya and Zashiki.

I was only halfway through it, and I received two pictures from Yuuki Shinkenyu.

Kamiya looked at the message prompt on his mobile phone, a little helpless, and said that Uncle Yuki would not give up, and directly sent a photo of the marlin he caught in the sea in the afternoon, right?

But when I clicked on the message, I found that it was not the case.

[Picture]

This is what appears to be an interior photograph, and you can see that the room in the background is a bit old and crowded, but the center of the shot is the trunk of an unknown tree.

In the center of the painting, you can see the strange tree lines of the tree trunks rising and hollowing, twisted and vaguely arranged into symbols.

[Picture]

This photograph was taken on notebook paper.

With a black ballpoint pen, a clear talisman is drawn on it, which looks somewhat similar to the tree pattern on the first sheet.

"What is this?"

Kamiya stared at the second photo for two seconds, vaguely feeling familiar.

Then it was as if a thunderclap exploded in my head, and I quickly thought of something.

Then, a third photo was sent.

[Picture]

It's a talisman again.

It's just painted on yellow paper with cinnabar.

This Fu Shen Gu recognized that he himself had taken pictures and kept them.

It was the haunted house of the Urgent Hospital last year, and the yellow charm that was hidden in the locked "hidden half-floor"!

Through the comparison between the second picture and the third picture, although the two talismans are not identical, they can see the commonality, and they are definitely from the same spell system.

It is a breeder's charm.

That noon breeder who killed himself and said that he was going to turn into a strange story and come back to Kamiya River, this is definitely his Huangquan Naluo curse!

Buzzing.

The phone keeps ringing.

Yuuki sent a positioning, as well as a paragraph:

[Boy, what I've found here isn't quite right, the breeder's Huangquan Naraku spell has appeared on Nagasaki Tsushima Island, you need to come here.] ]

Kamiya's expression sank: "Breeder, he's back?" ”

……

Almost all the members of the countermeasure room who participated in the crusade against the noon breeder knew that at the critical moment, it was the "ghost god disciple" Kamiyagawa who directly prevented the breeder and the plague god from approaching the Dawu array.

So the breeder had a strong grudge against Kamiya before he died.

And with high-ranking people like Yuuki Shinkenyu, it's almost certain that the breeder has definitely not been completely wiped out.

He may have made himself a strange story through the Huangquan Naluo curse. Like the plague god, like the ghosts of his hands.

There is a good chance that the breeder will come back and come back in a strange way.

But everyone agreed that it should be a long process, including Kamiya himself.

But now, the breeder's curse has appeared on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki. It's been less than a year since the last operation.

"Can breeders come back so quickly?"

Kamiya isn't so sure.

But one thing is for sure, he had to put down everything he was doing and go to Nagasaki.

With the help of Pranya, Kamiya quickly packed his luggage and directly bought a high-priced flight late this night, planning to fly to Nagasaki overnight.

To go to Tsushima Island, they had to cross the strait, and the ghost car could not cross the water, so Oishi and they were arranged to stay at home.

As for some other strange arrangements.

The little sun can already be stably used as a weather pendant, bring it.

The red deer has been looking reliable lately, and it has a lot of sense of belonging to the group, and Kamiya's trust in it has increased, but the red deer's ability itself is very peculiar, so bring it with you.

The demon concubine of Wenche, who is in prenatal education, is relatively gentle at present, but in order to avoid causing any trouble when she is not at home, she simply put it in a [mirage cloth bag] and take it away as before.

In addition, there is an eight-foot woman.

Contact Xiaolu and entrust the eight-foot sample to come over on the Ruyue train to help again.

In real life, it is better to be careful.

It's a big deal to compensate the little apprentice and the eight-foot sample afterwards.

Before leaving for the airport, Kamiya asked Shikipo to test the good fortune of himself and his family.

There is no evil or bad luck in the family.

And Kamiya himself has both good and evil.

After that, he thought of something again, and directly called Keiko Kido and Hoshiro Kanazawa.

Kido's body also has the breeder's flower seed, which is her mother's second daughter. Although according to the follow-up contact, the two women seem to have been purified by Honganji.

But it's hard to say what will happen if the breeders do return.

Anyway, Mr. Kido is still quite rich, and he arranged for his daughter to recuperate in Honganji Temple for a long time.

Let Kanazawa communicate directly, and Keiko Kido will definitely live in Honganji Temple during this time.

Kamiyagawa is now lacking in skills himself, so it is also benevolent and righteous to give a reminder like this.

With everything ready, Kamiyagawa embarked on a flight to Nagasaki late that night.

After taking his seat, the plane slowly drew out, and Kamiya sat by the window, holding his cheeks in a daze, and from his position, he could see the lights outside the airport spilling on the plane to form a reflection.

"The talisman that Uncle copied is definitely related to the Huangquan Naluo Mantra. But is the breeder really back? Maybe it's Tsushima Island, or something else......"

The plane lifted off into the air, and from the window down, it was brightly lit, like a huge gold dust scroll paved in the night.

The night in the world, the lights of thousands of homes.

Kamiya didn't go to appreciate these.

(End of chapter)