On the country roads in Niigata Prefecture, a rugged ghost car is driving at high speed.
Sitting in the driver's seat and the passenger seat in the front row are still the Kamiya family's "royal drivers" Oishi Shunma and Takayama Mai.
The two apprentices of the Kamiya family, Kanoya Yukino and Tsurumi Aoi, were sitting safely in the second row.
There were only four of them in the car. The Mikami brothers in the hearse group were still participating in transportation operations in the permanent sea country, while Hayao Obara was left at home by Kamiyagawa.
"Xiao Kui, I heard that the soup here in Niigata Prefecture tastes good. It's a hot pot dish made of fish pieces and green onions. If you have time, would you like to try it? Just treat it as lunch. If it tastes good,
If so, you can take a few copies back to Master and everyone at home to try."
Lu Yewu looked at the scenery passing by outside the window and chatted with his junior sister, full of energy, as usual.
Arriving from Tokyo to the countryside of Niigata Prefecture in the north-central part of Honshu Island, Oka and Tsurumi had taken a long trip today.
However, with the ghost car on hand, the journey won’t take much time.
The reason why the two of them are here is because of Kamaitachi's incident.
According to the report of the little old man, his body had been tracking the newly discovered weasel last night. Nothing unusual happened in the first half of the night, but towards the second half of the night, the weasel suddenly started running fast.
At first, the little old man thought it was Kamaitachi who noticed him following him.
Later I realized that this was not the case at all.
The sickle was heading north, simply moving towards a certain destination.
As expected, Kamaitachi is a monster that can control the wind, running extremely fast. The little old man almost lost his body several times, but fortunately, the scout's professionalism consolidated through long-term training was excellent, and he finally fulfilled his mission.
In this way, he followed Kamaitachi to a place near an elementary school in Kitagahara-gun, Niigata Prefecture.
The weasel arrived at its destination, but just wandered around the elementary school, barking, seeming to be looking for something, but also seemed to be afraid of something. In short, it never officially entered the elementary school.
After staying in Niigata Prefecture until dawn, Kamitachi finally returned to Tokyo.
Kanoya received the intelligence report from the scouts, so he asked for leave from the school early this morning, and rushed to Niigata with his junior sister.
"Xiao Kui, we're almost there. It's over there, Sasagami Elementary School."
"Um."
Sasagami Elementary School is where Kamaitachi wandered around last night.
Sasakami Village is located in Kitagahara County, Niigata Prefecture. It is located at the foot of the mountain. The light yellow school exterior wall complements the surrounding tree-lined natural environment. The school building is not large, but it is spacious, bright, well-ventilated, and has complete teaching facilities.
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Generally speaking, it is no different from other ordinary rural primary schools.
Because he was about to arrive at his destination, Xiaolu rechecked his equipment, incense and talismans, and took out a small object from his pocket: "Qiang Qiang! This is a Thousand Silver Needles, a prop lent to us by Master before going out.
, it will definitely come in handy in a while.”
[One Thousand Silver Needles·Change] has the effect of weaving lies and confusing right and wrong.
Because this was the first time that the apprentices had completely "independently" performed supernatural work, and the process would probably involve incident investigation, Kamiyagawa lent this prop to the apprentices for use.
Tsurumi also inspected his own equipment.
She wore a pure white long-sleeved shirt today, and the cuffs of the shirt were embroidered with a gorgeous golden pattern.
"Little Sleeve Hands."
As Tsurumi called softly, the golden lines on the sleeves shimmered. Then, two more long sleeves extended from the armpits of the white shirt, and inside the extra long sleeves, there was a rustle.
Many soft and slender white wrists spread out from the rustling.
Those arms were as soft as boneless, and according to the master's wishes, they took out Ichimonji, Hotumaru and Xiaomian Qingjiang, and then put all three famous swords back into their sleeves.
Just from this small move, it can be seen that Tsurumi and Kosodetsu have developed a certain tacit understanding.
"Brother Junma, Sister Zhenyi, Xiaokui and I have gone to the school. You are waiting for news about us on the road. Keep in touch!"
Xiaolu and Tsurumi got off the ghost car, waved goodbye to Oishi and Takayama, and headed towards Sasagami Elementary School not far away.
…
"Xiaokui, can you see anything?"
"There is evil spirit, but it is very weak. The wind here is a bit weird... The evil spirit of Kaitan seems to have been blown away to the maximum extent, so it is difficult to distinguish clearly." Tsurumi looked around with his eyes fixed and shook his head slightly.
Lu Yewu sniffed and echoed his junior sister: "Yeah, me too. The wind here has blown away the smell, and I can only vaguely smell something similar to the strange tales of beasts."
A pair of sisters from the same school walked outside Sasagami Elementary School and quickly attracted the attention of the security guard at the door.
"It's class time now, do you have anything to do?"
"We are from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, here to investigate some matters." Xiaolu said, the [Thousand Silver Needles·Changed] in his hand was slightly hot.
At the same time, Tsurumi showed his countermeasures room ID.
"Ah, you two are police officers." The security uncle's expression was a little dazed.
There was nothing wrong with the certificates of the two police officers. As for whether the two young girls were too young for their status as police officers, the issue was subconsciously ignored.
"Oh, you guys came so fast." The security guard had no doubts, but was slightly confused, "But why are the Tokyo police here?"
Xiao Lu heard something strange in the other party's words. Something seemed to be happening in this elementary school, but she didn't see any stage fright. She just said calmly: "We want to meet the principal here."
"certainly."
Not long after, Xiaolu and Tsurumi met the principal of Sasagami Elementary School, a middle-aged man wearing glasses.
Along with the principal, there was a young woman who seemed to be a teacher in the school.
Both of them looked a little flustered.
With the help of the [Thousand Silver Needles·Change] and the Countermeasures Room's IDs, and after a brief identity introduction, they also accepted Xiaolu and Tsurumi's status as "police officers."
"Tell me the details of what happened."
Kanoya and Tsurumi looked at each other, put on a mature look, and asked straight to the point.
Although she didn't know what happened in Sasagami Elementary School, she could definitely get information by asking questions like this.
"It's...the missing thing. The two children named Sugiyama Toshinichi and Takase Tetsuya in Mr. Kihara's class." The principal raised his hand to wipe the sweat and motioned to the female teacher beside him with his eyes.
Teacher Kihara took the words, her voice trembling slightly due to nervousness and anxiety:
"Neither Sugiyama nor Takase arrived during class this morning. Neither of them asked me for leave, so I contacted their parents, but was told that the two children had already come to school early."
"I told the principal about the situation, and then we checked the school's surveillance together. Judging from the surveillance at the school gate, the two children had indeed arrived at school early. They were responsible for cleaning the rabbit house and taking care of the animals today, so they came extra early.
There was no one in the school at that time. After leaving the rabbit house, the two children went to the playground together."
"The cameras in the playground had many blind spots and could only capture two children arriving at the playground, but not their leaving. We quickly searched the playground, but did not find them. They seemed to have disappeared there...
…”
Teacher Kihara couldn't speak anymore. She was more scared now than nervous.
"The child may have climbed over the wall." The principal took over the words and tried to give an explanation, but this explanation seemed to be unable to convince himself. "However, the wall of the playground is very high, and the two third-grade children...
...It should be, it should be difficult to get out. So, we called the police."
Kanoya and Tsurumi looked at each other again.
Now, they know what happened in Sasagami Elementary School this morning. Two third-grade children disappeared from the school.
If the two little boys didn't climb over the wall and leave on their own, then their disappearance is probably... related to monsters.
During the conversation, another police officer arrived at Sasagami Elementary School.
This time it was the local police in Kitagahara County who actually received the call, and the parents of the two children also rushed to the school.
After meeting the local police, Xiaolu and Tsurumi still maintained their identities as "police ladies". After all, the countermeasure room certificates they held were real.
After checking the IDs of the two people, the local police in Kitagahara County contacted their superiors to make a report. After about ten minutes, they received the above reply——
He told them to cooperate well with the "big shots" coming from Tokyo.
In this way, Xiaolu and Tsurumi's actions are much more convenient. The police will cooperate with the investigation of sudden disappearances, and the two of them can focus more on the strange and powerful gods in Sasagami Elementary School.
…
The investigation of the incident did not go smoothly.
Just like how the disciples felt when they approached Sasagami Elementary School, this elementary school seemed ordinary, but it was always surrounded by a wind that was difficult for ordinary people to detect.
Because of the presence of wind, evil spirits, smells and other perceptible ghost stories have been blown away to the maximum extent, making it difficult to obtain clues to the supernatural. The body of the little old man who followed the deer is still wandering around the playground.
, and I don’t know if further clues can be obtained.
"Well, Miss Kanoya, and Miss Tsurumi."
Just when the disciples had no clue, Teacher Kihara came over.
"What's wrong, Kihara-sensei?"
"There is something, I don't know if it is related to the disappearance of Sugiyama and Takase. You may think it is a bit ridiculous, but I..." The young female teacher looked a little hesitant and hesitant.
"No, Teacher Kihara. You can tell us anything you know. Maybe it will be the key to helping find the two children."
"Um, um... Could you please come to the office?"
Judging from the internal exchanges between the police officers just now, the subsequent police officers all respected these two young and beautiful police officers from Tokyo.
Presumably the two of them have the highest status.
Therefore, Kihara-sensei felt that if he really needed to explain, he should tell them both.
In the office.
Teacher Kihara took out a stack of drawing paper from the drawer of his desk.
It looks like a child's drawing.
She handed the paintings to Kanoya and Tsurumi and said, "This was painted by the children in my class two weeks ago in art class. The theme of their paintings was school. Then, this is Sugiyama and Takase's
Paintings, and these..."
Kihara-sensei pulled out six or seven pieces of drawing paper.
Children's paintings can be good or bad, but their brushstrokes are still childish and innocent.
These selected paintings have the same scene, which is the school playground. The children in the paintings are playing and playing games on the playground. However, it should be a happy scene, but there is something extremely abrupt and inconsistent.
place--
In the corners of these paintings, there is a strange shadow.
The children focused on using crayons with very strong colors to outline it. The interweaving of strong colors reveals an unstable mood.
The shadow showed a distorted human shape, with a total of six holes drawn in black circles on its body, which seemed to refer to the eyes. The six eyes seemed to be staring at the children in the game, and they seemed to be through
On the paper, Kanoya and others are spying on the painting.
And because the children's painting techniques are immature, the combination of such innocent brushwork and grotesque content makes the ferocious shadow in the painting even more terrifying and penetrating.
Among the several paintings, the painting signed "Sugayama Toshinichi", which is the work drawn by the child who disappeared this morning, has a more detailed description of the distorted shadow.
Sugiyama painted the humanoid shadow as three weasels stacked on top of each other.
The weasel at the bottom was holding a sinister sickle in its paws. Those weasels were glaring viciously at the children with their scarlet eyes, as if they were threatening, as if they would launch an attack at any time.
"Kamaitachi?"
Xiaolu and Tsurumi exchanged glances quietly.
At this time, Teacher Kihara spoke, her tone was trembling, and her eyes were full of fear:
"This is weird, right? After I got these paintings, I asked these children privately what the thing in the painting was and why they drew it. Then they told me that they didn't know
What is that thing, but, but... it is on the playground, it has always been there, and it has always been watching everyone."
"I was really scared at the time. I didn't know if there was something psychologically wrong with the children in the class or if there was something really going on in the school. I told the principal about it. The principal had some friendship with the priest of a nearby shrine.
I don’t know how they communicated. Anyway, last weekend, a priest came to the school to exorcise the spirits in the playground. After the secret ceremony, the priest told us that it was okay. The evil spirits lingering in the playground
Already driven away."
"So, Miss Police Officer, what happened this morning is that the evil spirit is back again? It is taking revenge on us, so... so it took Sugiyama and the others away?"