Chapter 390: Strange New Vest (Combined Chapter)
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Xia went to walk around the police again.
Then I successfully got some information.
——According to Hattori Heiji's reasoning, Takeda Shinichi was using puppets to sell drugs.
However, after the police checked the puppets in the Takeda family's inventory, they found that although there were holes inside, they were empty; they wanted to ask the customers who had purchased these puppets, but they were unable to find the corresponding customer list in Takeda Shinichi's study.
In the end, the police held a small meeting in the hospital to discuss whether Shinichi Takeda was trafficking drugs.
Jiang Xia didn't listen anymore and left with peace of mind.
The disappearance of the drugs and the client list at the same time indicated that the organization had come here to clean up the mess. Gin should have come along as well, since he did say "I'll be there later" before.
Jiang Xia also recalled that when he was still at the Takeda family and did not go to watch the stars, there were no traces of the men in black around - otherwise they should have been able to see the ghosts jumping around to catch Miss Spider... In other words, the follow-up operations were carried out after he left the Takeda family.
It was already late, and now, it was only the first day of his business trip with Gin and Vodka, and the time was not so tight that Gin needed to complete two tasks overnight.
After all, according to the ghosts who visited Gin's box last night, Gin might be too busy, or he might be waiting to see how Boss Yun died. In any case, he also didn't close his eyes all night.
Gin doesn't have any ghost mint to eat, so he can only replenish his energy by sleeping. So he probably won't go to the island tonight, but find a place to rest.
Jiang Xia feels very ok.
As long as I wait at the dock on time tomorrow, I should be able to reunite with my two teammates in black.
…
After Hattori Heiji finished his reasoning and picked up the ghost on Robert's leg, Jiang Xia got into the police car and went down the mountain overnight.
Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha did not stay long either.
Although Hattori Heiji was concerned about the missing drugs, he could only hand the matter over to the police for investigation - because it was past midnight, it was Sunday, and he had to go to school tomorrow. In addition, he hadn't finished his homework for this weekend...
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji looked at Jiang Xia who was sitting next to him and checking his phone from time to time: "Why don't you go to class?"
There is still no signal on the phone.
Jiang Xia closed the screen and sighed uninterestedly: "I'll go when I don't get a perfect score on the test - otherwise it feels like a waste of time."
Hattori Heiji: "...?"
...He felt that he was being taken advantage of by someone, but he had no evidence.
…
When they arrived in the city, the three got out of the car and waved goodbye.
Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha took a taxi to the station, preparing to return to Osaka.
Jiang Xia thought about it and took a taxi to a pier.
Then we found the nearest hotel to stay in.
——On the way down the mountain just now, his cell phone finally connected to the signal and received an email from Gin.
Perhaps considering that Jiang Xia might be hanging out with the police, this email contained no text, only a ","
According to the itinerary confirmed before departure, this means that everything will proceed as usual - as usual means that on the day after Takeda Shinichi was killed, go to the designated pier and take the boat prepared by the organization in advance to Tsukikage Island.
So when Jiang Xia arrived at the Wharf Hotel, he specifically chose a room on the third floor, the top floor.
This can barely be considered a sea view room. Looking out the window, you can just see the harbor. The ghosts can take turns standing guard and observe when gin and vodka will arrive to prevent them from missing the trip.
After returning to the room and locking the door, Jiang Xia first found the anti-surveillance equipment and tinkered with it.
After confirming that everything was OK, he took off Miss Spider who was still sitting on his shoulder.
It might be difficult for a normal ghost to maintain this sitting posture on his shoulder, and it would be easy to fall down if it stopped and walked.
However, this ghost has her own unique skills - when she can't sit steadily, she secretly extends her spider legs from behind, hooks Jiang Xia's clothes to adjust her body shape, while the human form remains motionless.
The ghost had been crying all the way. Maybe the vast ocean had some healing effect on ghosts. Miss Spider looked at the vast ocean outside, wiped her face, and stopped crying.
Jiang Xia nodded secretly. It happened that there was no one here. She would sign the ghost first while she was in a calm mood...
Go to the window and close it tightly.
Then Jiang Xia put the somewhat nervous Miss Spider on the bed, unzipped her collar skillfully, pierced the mark on his chest, and dripped the blood on the Spider Ghost's body.
A series of frying-like noises were heard, and the blood gathered and dispersed like boiling water, flowing wildly along the ghost's body surface.
The other ghosts all poked their heads out from the edge of the bed and watched curiously.
Miss Spider secretly grasped her sleeves at first, quite tensely, but later she found that the process was not as painful as she thought, so she relaxed again, staring at the blood dripping with a little curiosity.
But soon, her vision could no longer follow the blood drops.
It’s not that the blood is moving too fast.
Instead, it finally stopped on Miss Spider's forehead, gradually forming a "z"-shaped mark.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He had thought before that since Miss Spider could retract her eight claws, if he used her as a puppet, he might be able to make a normal humanoid vest.
Although he is a little bit different from the adult male ghost that Jiang Xia expected, he is at least a normal person. When it is not convenient to use Miyano Akemi, he doesn't have to drive the pregnant woman or pregnant husband who is the parent ghost around.
Who would have thought that now, the marks would actually gather in a place like the forehead.
The location of the tattoos on the ghost fetus cannot be chosen and is random.
But Jiang Xia now discovered that Xiaobai, Miyano Akemi and Miss Spider, who have normal human forms, or may have normal human forms, have one tattoo on their neck, one under their eyes, and one on their forehead, all of which are quite conspicuous.
On the contrary, the marks of these monsters that are usually inconvenient to drive out are harder to find than each other - the Mist Tengu's is hidden between the two wings, the inseparable parent ghosts are at the connection, the mermaid's is at the lower back... The mermaid's mark can usually be seen, but this is not because the position is obvious, but because the vest clothes she transforms into are small.
...In short, in a sense, this pattern is quite intelligent and can cause trouble accurately.
Fortunately, the white mark can be covered with a scarf, and Akemi Miyano can wear sunglasses. As for Miss Spider, the hat she brought with her might be useful, but she would have to lower her head more often...
Jiang Xia was in a mixed mood for a moment, then he sighed, stopped thinking about it, and quickly shifted his attention to another place.
——When the ghost baby and the psychic sign a contract, there is a chance that a certain skill will be awakened due to the influence of each other's status.
For example, Xiaobai's forced confession, Miyano Akemi's 1 second invincibility, the parents' ghosts' fire resistance, the mermaid's underwater breathing, and Kiri Tengu's one-click suicide... Oh no, death reappears.
From this perspective, Jiang Xia felt that he was quite talented, or perhaps the ghosts in this world were quite talented - regardless of the content of their skills, at least all the ghosts he signed in had successfully awakened their skills.
The new Miss Spider is no exception.
Although her skills are also quite strange.
Jiang Xia remembered the legend that Takeda Yoko had introduced to them in Spider Mansion, and thought that this skill should perhaps be named "Heaven Questions and Answers"...
The person who launches it can ask three questions to a specific target:
——"Do you think there is a heaven in this world?"
——"What kind of place is that?"
——"Would you like to go with me?"
If all three questions are asked and the target nods to the last question, then, whether sincerely or perfunctorily, that person will get lost in a place where no one can find him/her within the next 1 to 72 hours, and the specific time is random.
If the target refuses to leave with you at the end of the questioning, then from the time he refuses, within 1-72 minutes, the person who activates the skill will grow eight spider legs on his back that he can control freely.
In addition, there is a third situation.
- If the target refuses to answer, or leaves in frustration before the third question is answered, then in the next 1 to 72 minutes, the person who activated the skill will fall into a state of extreme lack of confidence and will try to hang himself from the beams, wander to the edge of the mountain and jump off a cliff... or take the initiative to perform other dangerous restart behaviors.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He was silent for a full minute regarding this skill. He felt that it was similar to Mist Tengu's skill of "being able to recreate the death method that the user has seen before".
——It’s very convenient to commit suicide.
...After all, under normal circumstances, most people probably don't have the time to listen to someone asking these three questions and answering them one by one...In other words, using this skill will most likely jump directly to the third situation.
However, this skill is at least more practical than Mist Tengu's.
Because if you look closely, this world is actually a little different from the world Jiang Xia is used to.
——The concentration of Chuunibyou here is even higher. The more powerful people are, the more they seem to like to become talkative in certain situations.
As for those who are not so powerful... putting a knife on their necks should be able to buy an opportunity for a peaceful conversation. Then, not only can you ask the three questions, you may even have a chance to guide the answers.
Therefore, achieving the first lost ending may not be as difficult as imagined.
Also, Jiang Xia is not alone - he has many puppets.
If you use a puppet to ask a question, it would be great if you can achieve the first or second situation. But if you are unlucky enough to encounter the third situation, the puppet will also suffer the negative state.
If the vest wants to commit suicide, then let it go. It’s not the first time that vests have died anyway…
The only thing to worry about is whether this dangerous state will continue after the vest commits suicide and disappears, and consciousness returns to the main body, until the negative effect ends.
However, judging from the feedback received when the contract was signed, this negative state is not an instant death skill like Mist Tengu, but a process of continuous change in mentality.
In other words, if one's will is strong enough to resist the suicidal mentality, then not only the original body, but even the vest will not die.
…The more I think about it, the more excited I become.
After all, after getting a strange new skill, how many people can resist trying it...
Jiang Xia had tried Mist Tengu's suicide skill before using a pseudonym, and had successfully scared a person who had a lot of Shikigami hanging on him into jumping off a cliff.
Miss Spider's skills will be even more powerful if used well.
After all, apart from the third case, at least the first result is very useful. It can make someone disappear within a certain period of time. It is really a good supplement for psychics who are not convenient to kill people.
Moreover, psychics have a natural ability to control their thoughts and emotions. Looking at the bright side, that negative effect may not have much impact on him at all.
But you can't rush into death...
Jiang Xia struggled for a long time and finally decided that when he had time in the future, he would find a place without a suicide environment, put the main body there and fix it, and he could even find a reliable person to help watch it; then he would drive the puppet to provoke a grumpy old man who would not answer questions seriously, and try the specific negative effects of the third situation.
Although it is difficult for both humans and machines to trap a psychic who can manipulate clay puppets, Jiang Xia feels that the negative state brought by this skill should not make him work so hard as to use those things to kill himself. And if he is really affected to that extent... then he will not commit suicide.
Jiang Xia silently pressed his temple and moved his hand away.
After having a simple plan, bold ideas, and a series of operational plans for the newly added skills, Jiang Xia temporarily put aside this painful and happy problem and began to gather puppet clay in the room.
He wanted to try out a new vest.
In an instant, many more shikigami than when he first came to this world flew out from under his feet, gradually piling up into a white clay-like colloid in the center of the room.
Then, Jiang Xia poked Miss Spider again and asked her to blend in as well.
Soon, a figure wearing a white kimono and a white gauze hat gradually took shape in the room.
Jiang Xia moved his consciousness into the puppet and pressed the hat on his head thoughtfully.
In the past, when making puppets, the clothes would be generated according to the habits and aesthetics of the ghosts. After that, Jiang Xia could make some simple adjustments based on the quantity and quality of the puppet clay.
However, Miss Spider seemed to be deeply influenced by the legend and was extremely obsessed with this look, so much so that Jiang Xia was unable to change it.
...Luckily, these days, there are actually quite a few people wearing kimonos on the streets. Although I've never seen anyone wearing a bamboo hat, he looks like a normal person - this can also cover the tattoo on his head, as long as he pays more attention to lowering his head.
After briefly observing the puppet's appearance, Jiang Xia moved the real body to the bed and turned off the lights.
Then he drove the puppet, walked to the window, and silently pushed it open a crack.
There weren't many people staying here, and it was already past midnight. Except for the lobby, all the lights in the entire building had been turned off.
When a person is in a puppet, the ghost fetus is also in the puppet and can enjoy the benefits of night vision without having to borrow the ghost's vision.
Jiang Xia looked around but saw no one or any equipment.
He then stood by the window, closed his eyes slightly, and carefully felt the current condition of his body.
After a moment, he heard a slight sound of clothes tearing on his back.
(End of this chapter)
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