Chapter 68: Day 68 of Cultivation
Chapter 68
At night, Teitan Elementary School, near the laboratory on the fourth floor of the teaching building.
The cursed spirits wandered in the corridor, waiting for humans to enter the network automatically like they were waiting for rabbits by a tree.
Born from negative emotions, they rarely have the patience to wait, so they impatiently and dissatisfiedly scratch the glass windows with their sharp and thick nails, making an uncomfortable creaking sound.
Most of them are low-level cursed spirits without intelligence, but there are still some high-level beings that can communicate with other cursed spirits.
They happened to gather together out of boredom, stopped by the window, and complained, "I feel cheated."
"What?"
"I feel like I've been tricked by a curse caster," a cursed spirit, crawling on the floor, gnashed its teeth and said angrily, "He said he would establish the appropriate rules in advance, then set up a special barrier and lure humans into it."
"When the deed is done, he will give us that area as a slaughterhouse for our entertainment," it said, "and he can enjoy watching it."
The cursed spirit crouching against the wall snorted subtly, "How can you believe the words of a curse master? That cunningest of all cunning humans, are you bound to him?"
"No," the prostrate cursed spirit said casually, "If we have fixed constraints, it's easy for humans to trick us. If we don't, once we find out they've deceived us, or if we've grown tired of playing with them—"
They smiled evilly at the same time: "Just destroy him."
"What are you guys talking about? Can I join in? Can I? Can I?"
A clear voice suddenly appeared, and the cursed spirits chatting by the window were stunned for a moment. They looked around vigilantly, their eyes full of wisdom drifting around: "Who is it? Who is it!"
They couldn't sense any presence at all and were easily invaded by humans!
What a shame for the cursed spirit!
"Why don't you lower your heads!!!" the human voice spoke again in dissatisfaction.
Following her instructions, the cursed spirits crawling on the ground and lying on the wall finally noticed a head protruding from the floor.
The human's head was covered with a long white cloth with the words "Specially provided by the infirmary" printed on it.
Kanako let out a "hey-whoosh" and used her hands to pull her body out of the gap. She stood on the open space and brushed off the dust on the surface of the white cloth.
She put her hands on her hips and greeted, "Hi, I'm the new cursed spirit, Little Ghost. Can I join your chat?"
Cursed spirits: “…”
Do you think you can pretend to be a ghost by covering yourself with a white cloth? The outline of the human body under the cloth is too obvious!
No, wait, how does she restrain her aura?
Kanako didn't care at all and continued to talk to herself: "Were you also introduced by the Curse Master? What a coincidence, I was too!"
"You are cursed spirits, and I am also a cursed spirit. How could there be such a coincidence in the world?" Kanako said righteously, "This must be the arrangement of the Curse Queen!"
The cursed spirits crawling on the ground couldn't help but burst into laughter, but their point of laughter was to mock humans' lack of self-awareness.
“Hahahahahaha!!”
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
It quickly approached the "human" disguised as a cursed spirit and stretched out its small hands to catch prey.
When the body touched the long white cloth, it felt like touching a hard wall. Kanako held the claw in her palm without any hesitation.
"Is this a gift? Wow you guys are really good at cursing, thank you!"
With a few snaps, the restless arm was broken off completely, as crispy as a Cheetos.
Kanako originally wanted to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, killing one first and then leaving the others to extract information, but suddenly an inspiration came to her.
In those works, when the villain appears, he always kills a few extras, but Kanako thinks that is boring.
So she said with a serious expression, "I'm hungry and want to eat some curse spirits."
Cursed spirits:?
Kanako explained it clearly: "The advantage of cursed spirits is that they can regenerate after you eat part of them. If you keep doing this, you can catch a cursed spirit and eat it until you are full..."
"Do you guys usually prefer boneless chicken feet or bone-in chicken feet?" Kanako asked with a smile.
Cursed spirits: “……!?”
Kanako also had no patience. She broke a finger on the cursed spirit's arm and urged, "What's the answer?"
"Boneless...boneless! We like boneless ones!" This group of cursed spirits who adhere to the law of the jungle to the end turned into cowards in an instant.
"Please don't eat me! I'm not tasty... I haven't washed my hands in the four hours since I was born QAQ!!!"
Kanako patted their foreheads one by one: "Good boy, you are quite obedient, so I am...?"
"It's the cursed little ghost!" they shouted in unison.
"That's right!" Kanako nodded in satisfaction, then shouted down at the hole in the floor, "You can come up now!"
After receiving the instructions, the diligent system carried Conan and floated from the gap in the ceiling on the third floor to the fourth floor.
The moment Conan appeared, the cursed spirits who were frightened by the Dogeza smelled a strange fragrance and moved at the same time.
"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen my kite? Lower your head!" shouted the little ghost Kanako.
The system panted, not forgetting its original intention: "Don't use props to represent a healthy human being!"
Conan's face was filled with despair and disillusionment: "It's okay, I'm... completely used to it."
He closed his eyes: "Apart from reasoning and football, there is nothing worth cherishing anymore."
The system gasped: "Oh no, there's no light in Conan-kun's eyes!!"
The cursed spirits knelt on the ground with uneasy hearts, their thoughts full of confusion.
...What happened on the three floors below? Aren't the rules of the game arranged by floor?
Could it be that they avoided all the loopholes in the rules and broke through to this level intact?
"Speaking of agents, the curse master who recommended my little ghost to this barrier was so ugly. Can you believe it? His eyebrows were as thick as a caterpillar, and half of them were broken off!" Kanako began to make up stories.
"Yeah...yes." The cursed spirits echoed mindlessly but happily.
"Does the curse master you are discussing have any physical characteristics?"
"I don't remember...I wasn't paying attention."
Kanako lifted her bangs and started to sprinkle salt on the severed limb, drooling: "Cursed Soul BBQ~Cursed Soul BBQ~"
The system was ashamed to look at it: "Why are you still carrying salt with you?!"
"!!!" One of the cursed spirits quickly changed his words, "I don't remember his human gender. I vaguely remember... his eyebrows seemed to be complete and not too thick, but..."
"It's just a black dotted line on the forehead."
Kanako stopped what she was doing.
She walked to the system and poked her hair: "Conan-kun, don't sleep. How can you sleep at your age? Get up!"
"What are the rules and strange stories on the fourth floor?"
Hearing the key words, Conan suddenly woke up as if some mechanism had been activated, entered the state, and repeated it word for word based on his memory.
[Article 6, Laboratory Instructions.]
Please don't make loud noises in the hallway to avoid attracting attention. If you see someone standing outside the window, banging on it and asking you to open it, please ignore them and remember that you are on the fourth floor.
Please stay away from the window and do not respond to the sounds outside the window.
A gust of wind blew past, cracking all the glass windows on Kanako's side.
The cursed spirits outside the window were tied together by Youyun and were disheveled in the wind.
"There won't be any problem without the window. Next one," Kanako said cheerfully.
Please be careful to distinguish the equipment in the laboratory and avoid using things that should not be in the laboratory. If you accidentally use them, please seek help from security personnel as soon as possible.
Regarding this, Kanako was very calm: "Who would touch the things in the lab? Just leave them alone!"
Conan fell into deep thought: "Kanako-san, where did you get the plate you used to hold the cursed spirit's arm?"
Kanako was silent: "..." She picked it up casually.
She lowered her head to look at the plate that appeared out of nowhere, and found that legs had suddenly grown from the bottom of the plate. The little curse spirit on the plate giggled and rushed into the laboratory.
System summary: "I won't actively use it...but I can't stop the equipment from actively coming up to be used."
Kanako lifted Erkang's hand and said, "Give me back my food before you run away! And my salt!"
System: "Don't worry about food!!"
BANG!!!
Waves of low roars came from all directions, and the ground began to shake slightly.
The door frames of the front and back doors of the laboratory were twisted into a knot, and a group of hideous cursed spirits surged out like a tide.
They flashed red, and a foul-smelling purple-black mist filled the air. Kanako jumped on the spot and announced, "Walk, run upwards!"
Kanako, holding the Conan-style kite, accurately attracted the attention of all the cursed spirits, and countless curses slowly gathered behind her.
Some even came all the way up from the floors below.
Conan took a deep breath and took off into the air again.
Kanako ran and shouted, "Are there any unresolved rules?"
"We've already figured out the purpose of the barrier, its underlying logic, and the culprit's appearance. The next seven points are the final ones in this strange story of rules!"
Conan, who was held in mid-air, swiped the screen of his mobile phone with difficulty.
[Article 7, Security Personnel Instructions.]
If you have violated at least one of the six rules above, you can seek protection from security personnel. The steps to find them are as follows:
【……】
1. No security personnel
2. No... No security personnel
3. There is no need to give you shelter.
4. Please enjoy this party for pure evil.
Kanako easily climbed up the outer wall to the fifth floor. The cursed spirits that had been chasing them from behind tacitly avoided charging.
Seems to be blocked outside.
The environment on the fifth floor is very quiet, so quiet that it is eerie.
On the clean white wall was a sign reading "Security Room." Conan finished reading the last sentence of the Rule Ghost Talk post and said, "I think this should be the last cursed spirit."
Following the thinking of online games, he said: "According to the usual routine, it should be the type of BO boss level."
Kanako pushed open the door, and the figure of Haibara Ai appeared in the center of the empty room.
To be precise, it's fake Huiyuan.
Kanako was about to take action when she heard "her" softly call out, "Kudo."
"...?"
Edogawa Conan immediately squatted down in disbelief and pressed the button of his power-boosting shoes.
"...What is it?"
How do you know his true identity?!
When he finished speaking, the fake Haibara's figure had disappeared from the spot.
Conan shone the flashlight at the walls, and couldn't imagine how a human-sized creature could disappear out of thin air in the blink of an eye.
But the fake Haibara's voice still echoed in the house.
"Kudo Shinichi..." "She" said, "Your soul is very interesting, the most interesting one I have ever met."
"Although the body is that of a young human, the soul has already grown into the second stage of humankind."
"Body and soul...are there any surprises you humans still have that I haven't discovered yet?"
As the volume got closer, Conan finally realized the location of the sound.
——right under his feet.
A flesh-colored strip emerged from the gap in the floor, condensed into shape like paste, and quickly turned into a hand that looked like a human.
At this moment, it was extremely excited, filled with joy of touching Conan and anticipation for subsequent experiments.
Moreover, it seemed as if there were barrages of comments flashing across the screen in his mind: It turned out to be the right choice to accept the invitation to come to this barrier. The malice of the entire Beika Town has infected Conan Edogawa.
It finally found the perfect host for human malice!
Facial features gradually grew on the flesh-colored palm.
Next is——
[Technique: Transformation through inaction].
"I'll give you one chance to stop, Masato," Kanako said.
...Ouch. It froze.
The right name was called.
While the real person was confused and stunned, the system quickly picked up Conan and flew away.
Kanako took two steps forward.
The real person transformed back to his original appearance, his tone full of curiosity and confusion: "Do you know me?"
It is like a newborn baby, with curiosity about the unknown and an inflated thirst for knowledge all over its body.
"Why do you know my name? How did you know me? Who are you~?"
Masato continued to ask questions, and after observing Kanako's soul, he was overjoyed: "You are not human either!"
"Could it be a cursed spirit?...That's not right." It bit its fingers aggrievedly, biting off one and then a new one grew out to continue biting.
"The man with the sutures on his forehead clearly told me that I was the most special one, that I was the only one who looked so human..."
Before she finished speaking, Kanako's eyes suddenly widened and she exclaimed angrily, "That man deceived you! He deliberately said those nice words to pua you, real person!"
"Wake up! Do you really not recognize me?!"
Real person: “?”
Kanako was getting into the mood, clutching her chest in grief. "I never thought that hateful bastard would go this far... He wiped out all the beautiful memories we had together!"
Zhenren's curiosity was immediately piqued: "What? So what was our relationship in the past?"
Kanako stepped forward and grabbed Masato's long blue hair.
Then she grabbed her long hair with irresistible force and pulled it downwards, forcing the real person to sit cross-legged on the ground, looking up at her.
She really still likes this perspective.
"We played Monopoly, mahjong, and cards together, honing our skills by competing with each other..."
"——We became friends to defeat the worst curse master in history. We have a relationship where we can turn our backs on each other and touch each other's palms!"
Real person: “!!!”
Masato: "So... a companion?"
Kanako: "No, I am your king."
The real person was stunned: "...Huh?"
【Author’s words】
The private setting of the real person was just born during this period. The question is that Beihua Town is really suitable for nourishing the malice between people x
Juan: Great! I found a treasure (Tool Man)
Kanako: (brain racing) Yours? It's clearly mine!
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