Chapter 27 It's broken, it's coming to me
Although Cheng Xiaoyu had mobilized the Ghost Corps to investigate intelligence, she was not idle. She changed into an outfit that suited the times and began to walk around to see if she could extract any useful information from the recent "gossip".
Intelligence was gathered, but most of it was confirmed to be the work of evil spirits, and the remaining few were caused by extremely weak cursed spirits that were difficult for ordinary people to kill.
The targets they found were not very strong. When they were being checked, Cheng Xiaoyu had the Ghost Soldier fetch a few of the Demon Slayer Corps' Nichirin Swords and kill them. After killing the evil spirits, he had the Ghost Soldier send a message to the Demon Slayer Corps, telling them that the situation was resolved and they didn't need to come back.
The Ghost Corps will automatically carry out some simple tasks assigned by their master. Their detection ability and attack power in the dark far exceed those of ordinary Demon Slayer Corps members. Their main function is to perform automated salvation in an assembly line.
Although Cheng Xiaoyu was only looking for the stowaway Kyubey, this was not the case in the eyes of Muzan Kibutsuji who discovered that a large number of his demons had died.
Muzan Kibutsuji: Oh no, it’s coming towards me!
After discovering that Cheng Xiaoyu was not afraid of the sun at all and was hanging out outside 24 hours a day, Muzan Kibutsuji still stayed in the Infinite Castle every day and dared not show up, even though he got a rechargeable device from Kyubey that made him not afraid of the sun.
After a thousand years, Muzan Kibutsuji finally obtained something that made him immune to the damage of sunlight. As a result, he can neither go out to feel the feeling of walking in the sunlight, nor send his precious upper-rank combat forces out to get killed.
As a competent and scumbag boss, Muzan Kibutsuji certainly would not let anxiety and pressure affect himself, so he stared at Mingnu every day, urging her to find a way to find out Cheng Xiaoyu's origins and how to get rid of this monster.
He even said, "Mingnu, I have high hopes for you. Of course, I also know that your current strength is not enough, so I have decided to give you more of my blood. Feel honored."
"By the way, gather the other powerful demons to Infinite City, and tell the others to settle down!" Muzan Kibutsuji looked coldly at Mingnu, who was curled up on the ground and trembling in pain from receiving blood, and ordered, "That woman has search abilities that are comparable to yours. We must not let that monster find Infinite City or my whereabouts. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir."
So, Mingnu, who was always looking for trouble under the boss's nose, was happy to work overtime for 24 hours without interruption, and the pressure and anxiety were successfully transferred to Mingnu.
Muzan Kibutsuji: "Also, have that creature called Kyubey come to see me."
He cannot defeat the monster alone, so he must find a way to bring down Kyubey, who also comes from outside the world and possesses magical powers, in order to win.
This is also a good opportunity to put pressure on Kyubey and make him reveal more things for your own use.
But it's not just Muzan Kibutsuji who has ulterior motives.
At the same time, Kyubey, who was promoting the contract, also heard the news from Muzan Kibutsuji. Kyubey, who had made many time and space jumps and could observe the timeline and the laws of the universe, was completely different from Muzan Kibutsuji. He immediately understood the purpose of Cheng Xiaoyu's coming here.
Kyubey: It’s bad, it’s coming for me.
Kyubey knew that in other cosmic dimensions there were many organizations that spontaneously maintained the stability of the space-time dimension.
Previously, the Kyubey civilization had imagined that if the heat death of the universe could not be prevented, they would move to another universe as a whole, and then move to a new universe when the universe they settled in was almost eroded by their forced interference and fusion.
They conducted experiments to this end.
This behavior is similar to that of viruses and parasites, but they can escape from the space-time cracks before the "host" dies completely, and move into a nearby universe that has tiny cracks caused by the collapse of the "landing universe" before its death, and repeat the process.
Or maybe it's like this time, extracting the value from other universes and bringing it back for use.
However, every time they initially set up colonial observation posts, they would be discovered by those organizations that spontaneously guarded the time and space line, and then beaten back home.
The emotionless Kyubey tried to negotiate with the members of these organizations, but without exception, after listening to Kyubey's appeal, these members chose to greet it warmly with their own unique means and "poems and songs" with their hometown flavor.
There are even some space-time maintenance organizations that focus on protecting the universe they are in, and these organizations will only beat Kyubey harder.
It's no wonder, if anyone suddenly shows up and says, "Hey, I might die, I don't know when, but I don't want to die, your organs are so healthy, give me a few" and tries to kill your whole family...
Anyone who doesn’t mix the ashes of this thing with water and drink it is considered a conservative!
Even Qibi hasn't said it in advance, so often when it is discovered, the kidneys are being prepared or are already in the process of being prepared.
Who can tolerate this?
For a time, the civilization where Kyubey was located and even the entire universe were blacklisted by the surrounding universes that had the power to observe timelines. Any cosmic walls between them that could be reinforced were frantically reinforced by their neighbors, not only cutting off the possibility of Kyubey civilization's smuggling, but also the possibility of cooperation and communication.
If they hadn't considered that the forced cross-universe interference would cause problems in the universe and affect the neighboring universe, and that the desperate behavior of the Qibi civilization might also affect other innocent civilizations in the universe, these people would have gone to the Qibi civilization to clean up their accounts long ago.
Coming to this newborn universe was a pure accident.
Although this newborn universe is too fragile to be a colony, it is still very useful as an exploited resource. Kyubey is bound to seize this rare opportunity to earn a lot of energy.
Therefore, it must eliminate the restless factors. This body is definitely not able to fight physically, and it cannot ask the group of magical girls to fight. If the other party is an employee related to the magic side, its own flawed terms will be exposed, and the other party may even force the group of girls to "refund".
How can that be possible? How can a refund be given? Wouldn’t that be a waste of business?
Now that things have come to this, let Muzan Kibutsuji help it attract firepower.
Although Muzan Kibutsuji is weak, he has many subordinates and is tough. As long as he can get some help from it, he will definitely be a good shield.
In this unknown corner, two people are running towards each other. Although their ambitions are different, at this moment, they both tacitly turn their eyes and hearts to each other.
Kyubey said to Muzan Kibutsuji: "The situation is indeed very serious now. We must join forces even more."
Muzan Kibutsuji, just be its meat shield and cannon fodder.
Muzan Kibutsuji thought Kyubey had been tricked by him, and was secretly delighted: "Of course."
Kyubey, just be his wish-making machine!
At this moment, they have the same goal.
At this moment, they (who treated each other as cannon fodder) were in sync with each other!
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Due to Cheng Xiaoyu's automatic assembly line salvation during this period and the orders given by Muzan who is struggling with new PTSD, the workload of the Demon Slayer Corps' front-line members has been greatly reduced.
Taking advantage of this precious time, the Demon Slayer Corps tightened its ranks, and in order to cope with the upcoming crisis, the Nine Pillars conducted intensive training for all the front-line personnel of the Demon Slayer Corps.
At the same time, Ubuyashiki Kōya also invited the female demon Tamayo, who also hated Muzan Kibutsuji, to work with Shinobu Kocho, who was also good at pharmacology, to develop a poison against Muzan Kibutsuji.
With fewer ghosts to verify information, the intelligence personnel of the Demon Slayer Corps were free to collect more information, and soon they discovered a piece of information that was wrong -
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Jiyuan Flower Street?"
"Yes," said a crow wearing a purple scarf. "There's been an unusual change in the number of people there. Before you came, we noticed that several women would mysteriously disappear from Yoshiwara's entertainment district every few years, at very consistent intervals. We suspect it's the work of a volcanic demon, and while it shouldn't be bothering us, we've noticed something amiss lately."
"And after you came, the fluctuations in the number of people in Yoshiwara's red-light district became even more abnormal. In a short period of time, the number of oiran increased significantly, and the age of those oiran was unusually young."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "How young?"
"The oldest is 13, and the youngest is 10," the purple-scarfed crow explained. "Becoming an oiran requires experience, so you have to be at least 20. But those girls were so inexperienced, previously apprentices, not even old enough to become prostitutes. Yet, no one raised any objections. Even the intelligence officers who went to the scene didn't notice anything amiss."
Cheng Xiaoyu was screaming in her heart: "What other reactions do the people around them have?"
"The people around the sudden increase in the number of oiran (cousins) have shown an abnormal obsession with them. We've observed that these people pay a lot of money to meet the oiran, just to give them gifts, and then leave immediately after giving them the gifts. The gifts are mostly candies, snacks, jewelry, and cosmetics. And regardless of their previous attitude towards the oiran, the people around her will become very friendly and caring towards her, including the store owner."
"These courtesans who showed unusual symptoms were not ghosts, because intelligence personnel detected that they were out buying candy and shopping during the day, just like before."
Cheng Xiaoyu rubbed his brows and sighed, "Based on the situation, it's most likely cognitive modification and mental manipulation. The reason for the abnormalities is that those abnormal courtesans are too young. They don't know what it means to be a courtesan."
Those little girls grew up in the red-light district and only knew that if they became the most popular prostitute, people would chase them and give them gifts, and everyone would be nice to them.
Crow: "Also, more and more young girls are disappearing from Yoshiwara's red-light district. Most of the missing women are between the ages of 13 and 15, and they are all young girls. Because they are missing, we have not been able to gather much information, but they all disappeared during the day when everyone in Yoshiwara was sleeping. They have previously expressed the desire to leave Yoshiwara."
"Are the girls displaying unusual traits appearing en masse or scattered across a large area?"
"They appear scattered, with a maximum of five appearing in a single day, and the areas where they appear are not fixed."
Cheng Xiaoyu closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
Crow tilted his head slightly: "I think you have already made a judgment in your heart."
Cheng Xiaoyu said without a trace of emotion: "Haha, I actually hope I'm wrong."
Good news: It does not constitute regional collective alienation. The special training of abnormal influence will automatically be lifted after leaving the environment, and the host's cognition and behavior are not affected. Therefore, the possibility of high-dimensional organisms and high-risk cognitive pollutants can be ruled out.
Bad news... Who is this wicked guy who is making a contract with an underage girl in Yoshiwara Red Street?
What contractual obligations can a minor fulfill? This is definitely a shady sale!
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