Kamiyagawa was wandering around the small town next to the mine with the [Thousand Silver Needles] in his pocket.
"Bie Tongzi Mountain was closed in 1973. This town seems to have been a gathering place for former miners and miners' families. If you look for the older people in the town, they might be former miners. From them, you should be able to get first-hand information about Bie Tongzi Mountain.
."
Kamiya did the same thing on Ourishima back then.
Claiming to be a folklorist, he held a small silver stick and talked to local middle-aged or elderly people.
good results.
The town is not large, and the streets are far from spacious. After walking for a while, I didn't see any suitable targets.
"Hiss...huh?"
At the corner of a certain street, Kamiyakawa's eyes were attracted by a person walking towards him.
It was a woman in her early twenties, who looked like a female college student.
Very pretty.
Kamiya's eyes stayed on the other party for a while.
The girl also noticed Kamiya and kept watching.
The two met their eyes.
"puff."
After a moment, the strange girl opposite chuckled lightly and turned her head to the side.
It seemed to be signaling Kamiya to follow.
Kamiyakawa didn't have any scruples and followed directly.
The two of them walked into a deserted alley one after the other.
"This is the first time we meet, my name is Ai Saotome." The girl turned around and bowed gently towards Kamiya, introducing herself, "I didn't expect to meet my colleagues here."
That's right, this is the opening statement.
This man is a spiritualist.
Real exorcists are always attracted to each other in the crowd.
After all, they can feel each other's aura more or less differently than ordinary people.
"Miss Saotome, right?" Kamiyagawa called the other party by her last name, "Hello, my name is Kamiyagawa."
"Kamiya...Kawa? I seem to have heard of this name." Saotome was fond of reminiscing, and after a moment she suddenly realized, "Wait a minute, you are a spirit exterminator from Tokyo? You rescued many living people of Kamigakure from Kisaragi Station, and you also
The one who solved the Wakayama whale disaster?”
Kamiyakawa noticed that the other party did not mention the treatment of the Pink Fairy, the Plague God, and the Dream Man.
Perhaps these three events were related to the time of demon sealing and involved the secrets of the countermeasures room, and Saotome Ai did not know about them.
If this is the case, this Miss Saotome should not be an official spirit slayer.
Or even if you join the official list, you have not yet entered the inner circle.
"Let's call it that."
Kamiyakawa nodded, thought for a moment, and took out the countermeasures room's ID card from his pocket.
"Eh——? It's really true!" Ai Saotome looked at the seal and certificate on the certificate, "So you are so young!?"
"Um……"
Kamiya didn't expect that his reputation would spread so widely.
Anyone who encounters an exorcist will have heard his story.
"I'm offended!" Ai Saotome bowed again, this bow was much deeper than before. She kept her head lowered and said, "Let me introduce myself again. My name is Ai Saotome. My family is Shinto. I am not yet qualified to join the countermeasures room.
, but I have been working hard, please give me your advice!”
"It doesn't have to be so formal."
"Yes, you are a senior in the countermeasures room!" Saotome Ai raised her head, "Senior, did you come to Iyo to remove spirits?"
"That's right."
It feels weird to be called "senpai" by someone who is obviously older than me.
"Ah... is it also for the Headless Horseman?" Saotome Ai looked slightly embarrassed, "Then it seems like I came here in vain?"
"What is the Headless Horseman?"
"Eh? Isn't that why you're here? It's a commission I finally received a few days ago."
Kamiyakawa thought for a while and said: "I plan to go to Bie Tongzi Mountain. What level of ghost story are you talking about about the headless horseman?"
"I guess it's around E level." Saotome Ai relaxed a little and raised her hand to touch her chin, "That's right. It seems that such a level of weird stories is far from worthy of a big shot like you coming all the way from Tokyo."
"I'm not a big shot." Kamiya shrugged his shoulders. E-level weird stories were also commissioned by others, so Kamiya would not snatch them. "By the way, where are you from?"
"He's a native of Ehime. He lives in Ikata Town. Senior can come as a guest at any time!"
"That's not necessary...can I ask you something?"
The exorcist who lives in Ikata Town is a complete local.
Maybe you can get the information you want from Miss Saotome.
"You say."
"How much do you know about Bie Tongzi Mountain? Are there any strange stories in the area of Bie Tongzi Mountain? For example, Shikijiro or something like that?" Kamiyagawa did not directly conceal his purpose of looking for Shikijiro. Anyway, normal people would definitely not be able to think of it. He was looking for
Shikijiro was brought to the other world to mine.
"Shikijiro? Senior, why are you talking to such a low-level wandering spirit?"
"I have some shikigami monsters under my command, and one of them needs the materials Shikijiro may produce to cultivate."
The reason Kamiyagawa gave is reasonable.
Like last year, before the little old man was promoted to F level, the [Shadow Mass] he absorbed was a Kaidan relic produced from a very low-level Kaitan Shadow Ghost.
"Shikigami... I seem to have indeed heard about this matter of yours." Saotome nodded without raising any questions, "As for Tongzishan, let me think about it, it seems that Shikijiro exists all the time, but
Ehime’s spiritual slayers rarely go there.”
"Why?"
"Ah, because it has always been peaceful there. There is also a Betsuko Theme Park with a lot of tourists, and there have been no supernatural incidents at all in the past ten years. If senior wants to find Shikijiro, he may have to go into the deep mountain area to look for abandoned or dusty
Let’s try our luck in the mines. Generally speaking, spiritualists won’t go to great lengths to find such low-level ghost stories that have no record of harming anyone.”
"Um."
All right.
Asking is almost the same as not asking.
It is quite different from the information I judged before.
"Oh, there's one more thing I thought of, senior, about Bie Tongzi Mountain." I don't know if she wanted to show off in front of Kamiyagawa, the "senior" of the countermeasures room, but Ai Saotome seemed very positive:
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "This is a story I heard from my grandfather when I was a child. It is said that during the Meiji Era, a strange thing happened in Bie Tongzi Mountain for a while.
A sudden whipping wind blew up, and many miners suffered greatly from it."
"Whipwind?"
This vocabulary sounds familiar.
"Yes, legend has it that when this kind of wind blows, it will make the sound of whips and billowing dust. People and animals who encounter this kind of strange wind will get sick."
"Then what?"
"Then what happened is a bit unclear. Anyway, after a certain period of time, the whipping wind in Bie Tongzi Mountain stopped inexplicably and never appeared again. However, this is just a story told by my grandfather, and it is very difficult to tell whether it is true or false.
It’s hard to verify. It may just be a pure country legend.”
"Okay, I understand, thank you." Kamiyagawa thanked Miss Saotome who knew everything.
Whip wind...
A piece of information I don't know if it's useful.
However, after listening to Ms. Saotome's description, Kamiya belatedly remembered that when he was supplementing his knowledge on various ghost stories, he had read a record similar to Whip Wind in a certain book.
In Kagami Village in Tosa County, Kochi Prefecture, there seems to be a legend of whip wind. It is said that this strange wind can cling to cows and horses. When walking with cows and horses at night, if you are unlucky, you will encounter a whip wind with a sound. At this time,
If the cows and horses are not blindfolded, they will die in the whip wind.
There are also places where the whip wind is called "butchi". When it hits, it will make a sharp "whoosh" sound in the mountains and fields. The sand and dust carried in the wind can cut people's skin like a knife and injure people.
The two chatted casually for a while, and Saotome handed Kamiya a business card.
Kamiyakawa accepted it and said: "It's getting late, I plan to go to Bie Tongzi Mountain tonight to have a look."
"Then I wish you success in finding Shikijiro, senior."
"I also wish you good luck in removing the spirit."
The two people who met by chance parted ways.
…
Around 10pm.
Kamiyagawa arrived at Beetongzi Mountain in a ghost car.
On the way, you can see the Miopia theme park in the distance. The park is very lively during the day, but it is very quiet at night. There are only a few scattered lights on. It is estimated that there are staff staying inside to keep vigil.
However, this is not the final destination of Kamiya.
Saotome, a local spirit exorcist, said that the years since Betsuko Park was built have been peaceful, and the Kamiya River needs to go deeper into the mountains.
The ghost car drove on the winding mountain road in the mountainous area for a while.
At the end of the road, there is only a winding muddy path ahead, and I don't know where it leads.
The Phantom Mazda stops here.
The terrain is not what the ghost car is good at, so Kamiyagawa plans to explore it directly on foot, going straight into the hinterland of the mountains and forests.
After getting off the car, he called out the little old man.
He asked his scouts to separate a second body and stay in the ghost car with Dashi and the others. He took the little old man's body and set off.
Dashi and the others are old partners with Little Old Man.
The combination of scout and ghost car has super strong perception and extremely fast speed, so there is no danger at all when dispersed.
If he really encounters something difficult to deal with, the little old man will warn him in advance, and Dashi can just step on the accelerator and run away.
"You guys wait for me around here. I'm not sure how long I will be active in the mountains. If anything happens, let the little old man inform me." Kamiyagawa explained.
The remaining ghost talkers all nodded.
With the help of the technique of slashing a hair, Kamiyakawa narrowed his pupils slightly, his eyes were as bright as a torch, and he understood everything.
The dark road ahead suddenly became clear.
Be able to move as freely as during the day.
Taking the little old man with him, he started exploring tonight.
…
The little old man leads the way.
The master and the servant walked for a long time on the muddy path, and then went down the slope and entered the dense forest.
The air in the mountain forest is humid, especially at night. The humidity is very heavy, and only the subtle chirping of unknown spring insects can be heard everywhere.
After walking for who knows how long, there are no roads around at all, only dense shrubs and branches, and the waning moon above the head is completely obscured by the branches high up.
While going around in circles, Kamiyagawa could no longer tell where he was now.
But with the little old man here, there is no need to worry about getting lost.
"Abba."
The little old man in the front dressed as a void monk stepped on the rotten branches and leaves with his straw shoes, and suddenly shouted in a low voice with a slight excitement.
"What? Did you find anything?"
"Aba whined."
The master and the servant communicated for a while, and Kamiyakawa confirmed that the little old man was indeed somewhere nearby and felt the presence of a subtle strange atmosphere.
But it cannot be confirmed that it is Shikijiro.
After being promoted, the little old man's hiding ability is super strong, and his perception ability has also become stronger.
Stronger than his master.
Anyway, Kamiyagawa was standing in his current position, so he couldn't feel the aura of kaidan around him.
Continue to let the little old man lead the way.
The master and the servant came to a mountain col and found a covered mine at a lower level.
The reason why this is a mine is because some wood remains can be seen at the entrance. When these things were intact, they should have been used to support the entrance of the mine.
However, the mine passage in front of me has been completely blocked by rocks.
Kamiyakawa stood at the closed entrance of the cave and felt carefully. Behind the stones, there seemed to be some vague and ghostly atmosphere.
"Then let's explore this place first."
He made up his mind and took out his mobile phone. Because he was in the deep forest, his mobile phone had no signal, but he could still check the time. It was one o'clock in the morning.
Shengu has been groping in Bie Tongzi Mountain for a long time, and only people like him dare to stay in the deep mountains and old forests at this time.
However, thanks to his higher physical fitness points and the coordination of the Ah-Hum breathing method, he still has plenty of physical energy.
"Mary." "Inugami."
Kamiyagawa called out his two shikigami.
The stones blocking the entrance of the cave require the help of powerful ghosts like them to clear them away.
"Ouch——"
Like a werewolf, the Inugami stood up half upright, thrust its sharp claws into the crevices of the stone, and easily lifted out a large stone.
Mary didn't need to do it herself. She used the red mist to pour into the gap and expand, causing the rocks and soil to loosen. The nine red spirits pulled and pulled, destroying most of the originally solid stone wall at the entrance of the cave.
While the two shikigami were working, the little old man next to him reported a situation to Kamiya.
About the hearse group left on the road.
Dashi and the others encountered something unexpected.
"Are they in danger?" Kamiya asked.
"Whew."
The little old man shook his head firmly.
No danger.
It's just an unexpected event.
Kamiya's scouts have a very strong sense of danger.
Be cautious and be the first to run away.
Since he said there was no danger, then it really was nothing.
After being together for so long, Kamiyagawa still has some confidence.
"Then let Dashi and the others deal with it on their own." He explained, and returned to focusing on the excavation work at the mine entrance.
Through the efforts of Mary and Inugami, the mine that had been blocked and covered was finally revealed. It was dark inside and exuded a stale smell.
In addition, the strange atmosphere that I sensed earlier seems to be a little stronger.
"Is there any air movement in here?"
Kamiyakawa glanced inside, then took out the [Mirage Bag] and took out an ordinary candle.
This candle was specially brought by him to explore the mines on the other side of Tongzi Mountain.
Kamiya did not enter the mine immediately, but waited outside for a while, and then used [Kabuki Puppet] to summon a Kabuki puppet.
Light the candle and let the puppet enter holding the candle.
Although his body in reality has become much stronger, it is still a body of flesh and blood.
It is unknown whether suffocation will occur if you go deep into this rashly dug mine, and whether there is any danger of landslides inside. It would be safer to put the puppet in first to check the situation.