Makoto Kyushu flipped through the list of participants and found that this inch-headed boy was named "Mitsuru Iwata", who was the head of the team at Okishima High School and the leader of the team competition team.

He immediately called Eliza and told her all about the situation.

"I see. I didn't expect your knife to be used as a dog's nose. Eliza made a very cold joke, and continued:

"According to what you mean, that guy named Mitsuru Iwata might have something to do with that youkai."

"That's right, besides, he is a student of a local high school in Fukuoka, and he wants to attack the Jade Dragon Banner champion this year, so he is very suspicious." Kyushu Cheng nodded, and his eyes were always locked on the inch-headed boy:

"If we can find out the truth before the end of the game, it's all the money, and it's a lot of points for you, right?"

"You still know me~?" Eliza said meaningfully:

"I happened to be on patrol around the arena today, so I just 'patrol a little bit farther.'"

"Do you have a general direction for the investigation?" Makoto Kyushu glanced at the arena, the second round of the team competition was about to start, and it was estimated that it would end in two or three hours.

"If the youkai aura on Iwataman's body has been strong to that extent, then he should have lived with that youkai all this time." Eliza analyzed:

"I'm going to take a look at his nearest residence."

"Are you going to go alone?" Makoto Kyushu asked.

"Now all the Class B Soul Slayer who can be mobilized are participating in security work, and no one will accompany me." Eliza sighed.

"I'll go with you." Makoto Kyushu said.

"As I said, there's no pay to participate in cross-level missions." Eliza reminded.

"But what if you go there alone and get in distress like you did last time in Yokohama?" Kyushu Cheng said in a deep voice:

"As I said a long time ago, it doesn't matter if you don't get paid. If that beast dares to target me, then there is an account between me and it! ”

"Then do whatever you want" Eliza sighed, "You come to find me at the gate of the gymnasium, and we will go together." ”

“.” Hang up, the second round has officially begun.

Kyushu Makoto called the Mizuhashi school over and ordered, "You help me take care of the game, I have something to go out." ”

"Huh? Are the seniors in trouble? Mizuhashi asked worriedly, "Is there anything I can help with?" ”

"It's okay, you can cheer for them on the field with peace of mind." Makoto Kyushu rubbed the schoolgirl's head.

Mizuhashi Hideki had no resistance to the physical contact of her seniors, and obediently squinted her eyes and shook her head. When she came back to her senses, Kyushu Makoto had already run out in a hurry.

Makoto Kyushu saw Eliza at the entrance of the gymnasium, and she rented a car out of nowhere.

"Where are we going?" Kyushu Cheng jumped into the passenger seat and asked.

"I asked someone about it, and the players in the Kendo Club of Okishima High School have been living in a small villa in the suburbs for the past few days." Eliza replied as she switched gears:

"That house is the private property of the Iwata family. Out of private privacy regulations, Yin Yang Liao only sent someone to guard the door of his house for one night yesterday, and did not enter the door to check, nor did it detect obvious traces of spiritual power. ”

"So what are we going to do?" Kyushu Cheng asked: "Break in and search their villa?" ”

"It would be troublesome to be found trespassing, but that's all we can do." Eliza turned the steering wheel hard and drove in the direction of the suburbs:

"If it's really found out by the homeowner, I'll stuff some money and see if I can bribe it."

After driving for more than 20 minutes, the vehicle finally came to a villa in the middle of nowhere, backed by a forest, and there were almost no buildings taller than it around.

After getting out of the car, the two went around the villa, and then sneaked over the wall into the backyard to investigate. Makoto Kyushu is in charge of guarding the surroundings in case anyone finds them. Eliza took out a detector to scan everywhere, making a screeching sound of "Dididi" from time to time.

"Did you find anything?" Makoto Kyushu asked in a low voice.

"It's going to take a little time... Damn, it's a misjudgment again..."Eliza seemed to be even more anxious, and kept fiddling with the instrument in her hand:

"Ever since the spiritual rift was opened, the aura fluctuations in this broken place have been in a state of disorder, and the detector has often gone wrong."

Kyushu Cheng didn't want to wait next to him to do a hurry, so he took out the broken knife in the sword box and asked:

"Can you still smell something?"

"My lord, I am the blade of a samurai, not a dog." Yuan Yiyong said with a slight resentment.

"I'll let you smell it." Makoto Kyushu frowned and insisted.

He wouldn't give this murderous knife a good look, at least this knife definitely didn't refuse his right.

"I see... Sniff and sniff..."Yuan Yiyong felt the strong will of his master, not to mention that the governing contract could not make him disobey the order, and he could only do it aggrieved.

Since Yoshiyoshi Minamoto had "eaten" the blood of that youkai, he was impressed by the disgusting taste of the bug. Kyushu Cheng took the knife around the backyard, and it suddenly shouted:

"Smelly! I feel it! That disgusting bug! ”

Under the guidance of the broken knife, Makoto Kyushu came to the woods behind the villa. The ground was covered with fallen leaves and branches, and a few sticky spider silks could be faintly seen between the trees, reflecting bright traces in the sunlight.

"Hongzhong, did you find anything?" Eliza also followed quickly, and the detector in her hand jumped brighter and brighter, and made a fierce alarm sound:

"The detector has responded, and there are traces of frequent spiritual energy activity around here!"

Eliza swept the detector again, eventually pointing to the ground.

"Underground?" Kyushu Makoto swung his knife and swept the ground a few times, blowing away a large canopy of leaves and dry soil, revealing an iron grid cover that could drill through two people at the same time, and the bottom was a deep and dark tunnel.

"The smell is getting stronger!" Minamoto vibrated the blade excitedly.

"It seems that the monster attacked so many people's livestock right down there, and it was hiding in a place like this." Makoto Kyushu reached out and picked up the lid, but found that it was locked and couldn't be opened from the outside.

"I'm going to destroy it." Eliza attached five talismans to each of her hands, and with the harsh sound of metal twisting, she pulled the lid of the iron grid open.

The stench coming from underneath grew stronger, like a dark, damp smell suitable for insects, and a disgusting smell.

"No way, let's go inside." Eliza covered her mouth and nose with her clothes, her eyes tangled.

"Wait a minute, don't worry." Kyushu Cheng hurriedly stopped her and reminded:

"We don't know what's down there yet, and it's easy to fall into an ambush by a monster if we rush in."

"So what do you say?" Eliza asked.

Makoto Kyushu thought about it, went back to the car and fumbled around, and found a spare barrel of gasoline in the trunk.

Originally, he had planned to ask Eliza to drive to a nearby gas station to buy a few barrels of gasoline, which would save a lot of effort.

Makoto Kyushu ran back with a gasoline can, gathered as many nearby leaves and dead branches as he could, paved a long road, and then sprinkled gasoline all the way.

Eliza seemed to understand Makoto Kyushu's intentions, and she also followed the collection of dead branches and leaves, and piled them into the tunnel together.

Makoto Kyushu took out a plastic lighter from his pocket, lightly lit a branch with dead leaves, and threw it into the tunnel.

In an instant, the flames burned with the help of gasoline, extending all the way inside, billowing white smoke pouring out.

"Ahem." Makoto Kyushu took a few steps back with the pungent smell, secretly expecting that the monster would be smoked out.

Sure enough, a moment later, a huge black shadow sprang out of the tunnel, splashing a cloud of smoke and ashes.

It was only after the dark shadow stood still that the two of them could see its true face.

It is a half-human, half-worm youkai with a giant stuffed spider the size of a cow on its lower body, and an upper body resembling a human female attached to its head. However, this half of the "human" looks more like a patchwork of insect limbs, with both arms and fingers being insect limbs, and the face is also the sharp mouthparts of insects and six single eyes as round as black pearls.

"Despicable. Humans" spider monsters glared angrily, chirping their mouthparts and making a noisy and unpleasant sound like mosquitoes.

"Hmph, since it's a bug, it's really afraid of fire." Kyushu Cheng put down the sword box, holding a long and short double knife and preparing to fight.

"This youkai is supposed to be the "Bride of the Moon", a spirit species transformed from a spider that has absorbed a large amount of aura, and has mastered the skill of changing between humans and giant spiders. But looking at it now, it shouldn't have evolved yet. ”

Eliza also removed the broken talisman from her arm, and pasted five pieces of talisman paper on each of her limbs:

"Insect monsters are generally more afraid of fire, this time you are a blind cat and hit a dead mouse, but you still have to pay attention to its good at using toxin red, are you okay?"

Eliza turned her head strangely, only to find that Makoto Kyushu's expression was a little uncomfortable, and covered her mouth in disgust.

Since joining the Yin Yang Liao, Kyushu Makoto has also seen all kinds of monsters, but most of them are close to human form, and the most terrifying thing is the resentful spirit that resembles a female ghost in a movie like Yuki Mercury, which will only make him feel slightly scared at most.

But what he saw at this time was a monster in the true sense of the word—absurd, terrifying, and unreasonable, barely human at all, but with human thinking and language.

Just looking at him, Kyushu Makoto felt in a trance, his stomach turned upside down, and he wanted to vomit out all of today's food, and this is the gap between the C-level monster and the B-level monster.

He had lived for more than twenty years and seventeen years in his two lives, but today was the first time he had seen such a terrifying monster. It seems that there are really many people in this world who are carrying the burden for ordinary people.

"Are you alright, Hongzhong?" Eliza patted Makoto Kyushu on the shoulder and sensed something: "It can't be the first time I've seen this kind of inhuman youkai, I'm scared, right?" ”

"How can you not be afraid?" Kyushu Cheng clenched his teeth and said as a matter of course:

"This level of monster, I don't know how to fight head-on."

In the face of an enemy who is beyond common sense and is completely uncertain of victory, Kyushu Makoto will never be reckless, and will definitely follow his survival instinct and run away for help as soon as possible.

"What do you think is the difference in physical strength between B-level monsters and C-level monsters?" Makoto Kyushu asked.

"Actually, the gap is huge, but," Eliza said halfway through, when she suddenly realized something.

"yes, do you think you can kill that car?" Makoto Kyushu asked in a low voice.

"If you're facing this kind of insect demon that doesn't evolve completely, you probably have a chance." Eliza shrugged her shoulders and suddenly laughed unconsciously, as if she was nostalgic for the old days: "It seems that it is still the old plan?" ”

"Then I'll trust you, if you fail, you'll be in trouble." Kyushu Cheng nodded, and also smiled.

The two looked at each other, and Eliza tossed the car keys to Makoto Kyushu, and they immediately retreated, threatening to escape.

"Stop. Mankind! ”

The bride roared angrily, and her eight legs staggered to the ground in succession. During the run, several spiders the size of human heads erupted from its tail one after another, and the tail was holding the connected silk thread, jumping towards the two of them, but they were blocked by Eliza's rune paper and Kyushu Makoto's broadsword, and the green slurry rotted on the ground.

The two of them ran out of the woods, and Makoto Kyushu continued to run out, while Eliza stopped at the entrance to the woods, looking like she was going to break off for him.

"You die here" A dozen small spiders erupted from the bride's tail one after another, flying towards Eliza.

Facing the little spider, Eliza frowned slightly, took out a large handful of rune paper from her pocket, and threw it all into the sky.

The rune paper turned into a wide paper barrier that kept the little spiders out. From time to time, one or two of them broke through the defenses, and they would also be pierced by the darts that Eliza had made out of rune paper.

Seeing this, the bride also struck quickly, and pounced on the rune paper barrier with one paw. The barrier, which was still strong, suddenly loosened and seemed to be about to fall apart.

"Hongzhong, are you alright?" Eliza pinched her fingers to maintain her defense while calling Makoto Kyushu.

"Ready, come out!" Makoto Kyushu responded anxiously, and there was the sound of a car engine starting on the other side.

Hearing this, Eliza withdrew her fingers, and the rune paper barrier was finally shattered in the last attack of the bride. She didn't linger any longer, and quickly jumped out of the woods.

"You're damned!" The bride took advantage of the victory and pursued her, followed her out of the woods, and went straight to a road.

Just as the bride stepped onto the road, she heard the roar of an engine not far away. When it turned its head, it saw a sedan speeding straight towards it, almost hitting the accelerator pedal.

The spider was about to dodge, but Eliza threw out a handful of rune paper, which turned into chains and wrapped around its eight legs, immobilizing it for a short time.

"Humble" Before it could say the last word, the car flew it all the way out.

Zi - Bang Dang——!

With a thrilling sound, a car and a youkai did not stop until they slammed into a large tree.

The airbags on the car were all blown out, the front of the car was completely deformed, and the glass was all blown up. Makoto Kyushu in the driver's seat almost fainted in the impact, and his forehead was bleeding.

On the other hand, the lower half of the spider's body had been smashed into two pieces, and the disgusting green liquid had exploded all over the ground along with the internal organs of the insects, and only the upper half of the human body was still conscious, and it was convulsing slightly in a state of confusion.

Makoto Kyushu staggered out of the car, clutching his dizzy head for a while before recovering his strength.

But he didn't let up there, and rushed up and slashed off the bride's arms and eight legs with a knife, so that she no longer had the strength to resist, and then he was barely relieved.

After confirming that the monster was dying, Eliza approached and pulled out a piece of talisman paper from her pocket.

"Is this a talisman?" Makoto Kyushu asked a little deliriously.

"Of course, aren't we trying to get to know the truth of the case?" Eliza replied as a matter of course, and put the talisman on the bride's forehead:

"Take my hand and start channeling."

(End of chapter)