After in-depth research and discussion between Fukaya and a group of investigators from the East Police Department, they all agreed that the only way to rescue the guest was to first rescue the living person, and then use the living person's ability to substitute death to rescue the guest.
Of course, the premise for this rescue cycle to be established is that the [living person] is still alive.
As a result, they began to investigate the [living people] who were determined by the [Soul Master] to have had their souls replaced. This was a special operation that required the concerted efforts of multiple investigators, led by the always resourceful investigator Fox.
The first step of action is to observe the condition of the living.
After being returned from the green friend Rie Hui, the living person behaved as usual. He would still accept the investigation tasks assigned by the organization and complete them as efficiently as possible.
When he has no tasks, he maintains his old living habits - going to the bookstore every morning, drinking coffee in the afternoon, fishing at night on odd days every week, rock climbing, rowing, bungee jumping, skateboarding, etc. on even days every week, and sitting on weekends.
Watching pigeons flying around in the square not far from home.
However, the investigators who were familiar with the living people felt the deep indifference and numbness in his eyes that seemed to be the same as before, and then determined that this person was definitely not a living person.
"Could it be possible," someone speculated, "that the living person's substitution ability has been activated, so the person was replaced?"
The fox denied this speculation.
He has learned from Shen Gu that the essence of the living person's ability to take the place of death is to exchange positions with himself in a certain parallel time and space at the moment when death is infinitely approaching——
This ability was originally due to the fact that the living person and his other self had met in sleep, and had the good fortune to come into contact with a high-ranking grotesque named [Weird Contractor] who was far beyond the knowledge of this world. After paying the price to hand over the ownership of his soul to
After paying the price to the [contractor], he signed a weird agreement that could temporarily exchange lives.
It is a simultaneous exchange of soul and body.
At the moment of exchange, with the help of the powerful force generated by the intersection and collision of time and space, they can almost avoid most dangers of death and escape to any corner of the world they want to go in an instant.
When the next fatal danger comes, they will return to their original lives again, and the cycle continues endlessly.
In order to prevent each other's mentality from exploding when fulfilling this contract, the living people and themselves in parallel time and space have reached an unspoken tacit agreement——
None of them ever married and had children, lest they put themselves in trouble.
Based on this, the fox believes that the living person's ability to substitute for death is not a true substitute for death, but it is more accurate to call it avoidance of death.
It can also be inferred from this that the living person in front of you is definitely not another living person exchanged from the parallel world after activating the ability to replace death - because the body and soul did not arrive at the same time.
No matter which angle you consider, the survivors are of great significance to the Dongdu Metropolitan Police Department and even investigators across the country, and rescue is imperative.
While continuing to observe the living, Fox brought in trial-and-error death row inmates and asked them to try to purchase figures designed by Midori Toshiro from the website platform.
Midorito Toshiro's figure has now reached its tenth generation, and the first nine versions have long since been permanently removed from the website. All the old versions available are out of print and may one day be sold for sky-high prices.
The latest version still has twelve main characters, and each customer can only purchase one of them.
When the death row inmates opened the webpage, they discovered that only eleven figures were displayed on the online shelf. The note stated that the remaining quantity was only "1", and the twelfth figure was shown to have been sold.
The soul masters who had already rushed to Lidu hurried back and marked the souls and bodies of the condemned prisoners one by one.
Eleven death row inmates placed orders on the spot and purchased all the figures on the shelves.
That night, the figures arrived. The death row inmates who received the figures were isolated in separate shielding rooms and behaved normally. However, the soul master said with absolute certainty:
"Their souls have been replaced, without exception."
After further inspection, the soul master finally discovered that all the marks he made on the souls of the condemned prisoners had been transferred to the eleven hand-made dolls.
The dolls at this moment no longer have the cold and numb expressions they had at the beginning. Their eyes are more lively and their expressions are fuller, silently expressing their desire to escape from the shackles.
The investigators immediately thought of the grotesque object contained in the East Police Department - the soul-sucking machine. Before it became grotesque, the soul-sucking machine was just a vacuum cleaner, until one day its owner pointed its straw at his son.
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Investigators summoned a soul-sucking device on the spot, and planned to have a death row inmate hold a straw and point it at the doll, press the button of the soul-sucking device, or vacuum cleaner, to suck out the soul trapped in the doll's body.
Considering that the experimental object is an item designed by Class B grotesques, any experiment done on it may trigger the backlash of Class B rules, so the location of the experiment was chosen in the isolation laboratory of the East Police Department on the outskirts of the city.
Except for the soul master who offered to stay here to control the experimental process, all the other investigators cleared out and left, and even the video surveillance was not open to the public.
"I am interested in everything related to the soul," the soul master said, "even if I pay the price of my soul for it."
Soon after the experiment began, the Soul Master felt the soul mark he made quickly transfer from the doll through the straw to the dust bag of the vacuum cleaner - now it was the whole process of the soul bag.
"It's done." He said calmly.
The price paid is that the souls of the condemned prisoners who use the soul-sucking device will also disappear, and there is no way of knowing where the souls will go.
All that's left is how to put the sucked out soul back into the original death row prisoner's body. There's another problem -
Where did the souls in the bodies of those death row inmates whose souls had been replaced come from? Did they come from dolls? What should be done with their souls?
After the soul master recorded the progress of the experiment, he continued to let other death row prisoners absorb the souls of those whose souls had been replaced.
The people being absorbed once had the intention of resisting, but the inertia of trial and error from the body of the original owner made them finally submit.
The Soul Man believes that this state is only temporary. If these death row prisoners whose souls have been replaced are allowed to survive in this world for a period of time, they are likely to break away from the inertia of the original owners of their bodies and develop new thoughts and life characteristics.
From this, the soul master thought that the enthusiast who bought the doll from the green friend Rie a long time ago might have confirmed his prediction.
Regarding this matter, he had no time to be distracted for the time being. He just arranged for the intern assistants who were still free to start monitoring and observing those enthusiasts again.
The soul-draining trial-and-error experiments continue.
The nozzle of the soul-sucking device trembled violently, and the body of the condemned prisoner who was sucked also trembled to the same extent. A faint black mist overflowed from the death-row prisoner's body, rolled and stirred on the surface of the body, and then curled up under the action of a strong suction force.
go back.
"Continue!" the soul master decided.
After another tortuous experiment, and after paying the price of the souls of five death row inmates dissipating, the investigators finally absorbed the soul from the doll into another soul bag.
The soul bag was designed by the soul master himself. It was made from the skin of death row prisoners through special processing methods. After many experimental tests, it was determined that this material was the most suitable for holding souls.
In addition to modern technology and crafts, onmyouji and witches, who are helpless against weirdness but always have great power against ghosts, also contributed a lot in the production process of soul bags. They used various herbs with weird names such as soul-eating grass and flower of the two worlds.
The powders were stirred together and brewed into a decoction for the skin of death row prisoners.
During this process, the soul master also saw the true appearance of the doll's soul, which was completely different from the soul of ordinary humans - the latter was transparent in various colors, more like something floating in mid-air, quite mysterious.
Cohesive liquid.
The former is larger in size and appears in the shape of a dark mist, like the legendary dead soul. The edges of the black mist roll like waves, showing an overly active and restless character.
The soul master was overjoyed by this astonishing discovery, and even more determined that the risk he took was worth it.
The process of returning the soul of a condemned prisoner to his original body requires the precise control of a soul master who was originally an Onmyoji.
The soul master used the power of the shikigami for this purpose - it was the spirit body of a fox hidden in a bamboo tube. Driven by the soul master, its spirit body expanded rapidly and gently held the soul of the condemned prisoner in its mouth.
In his mouth, he carefully pulled it into his original body.
Afterwards, the death row prisoner fell into a coma. But the soul master was convinced that he would wake up soon.
The whole process took a day and a night. After the infusion, the soul master almost collapsed to the ground from exhaustion. But at the same time, the investigators from Dongdu also saw the dawn of rescuing the survivors and guests——
They speculated that the soul of the living person is now bound in the twelfth hand-made doll that the death row inmates did not buy, and that the doll is probably currently hidden in Midori Rie's home.
So next, the biggest problem is: how to steal the living doll from the green friend Rie...
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