Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Kagudu
In the deep night, a car drove into the territory of Hase City.
Saionji Tamon looked out the window silently. Hase City, with its back to Yokohama, was once a very prosperous city with bright lights at night. But the disaster more than ten years ago changed everything. 700,000 people died in the explosion, and the other survivors were left with huge psychological trauma. Many people moved out of the city, and Hase City declined as a result.
Outside the window at this moment, old buildings that have not been renovated for a long time stand on both sides of the street, like the last defenders of this city.
In such a tired old city, there are naturally few vehicles on the road at night, and the traffic is extremely smooth. Not long after entering the city, the Chang family's vehicle drove to the vicinity of the Kagudu crater site.
"We'll just drive here," Yuyin said, opening the car door and getting out of the driveway. "The road ahead is rough and the ride is too bumpy. I'll just go in on my own."
She had come to explore the Kagutu crater once before, but it was during the day, on the outskirts, in order to determine whether there was a king in this fusion world. Now in the dark night, the huge crater seemed to have no end in sight, and there was a unique sense of eerie horror.
Deba Shizuji also got out of the car and stood beside her, looking into the interior of the Kagudu Crater. "I don't sense any demonic aura here, but maybe it's not..." He glanced sideways at Yuyin and smiled, "You haven't done any formal commissions in a while, have you? Do you really not need me to accompany you in?"
It is not a possibility of monsters. In the past, in the world of monsters, it referred to commissions of supernatural events fabricated by human beings to cause trouble. However, in today's fusion world, it refers to a broader and more complex range. The ones causing chaos may be monsters, humans, or cursed spirits. Considering the particularity of the Kagudu crater, Yuyin can also guess that it is related to the royal power.
"No need, don't underestimate me," Yuyin put on her bow and arrow bag, turned around and said to Dechang Jingsi, "Brother, just stay in the car and wait for me to deal with the results."
Dechang Jingsi raised the corner of his mouth slightly and sat back in the back seat: "Then I'll wait and see."
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Light footsteps brushed the ground. Yuyin turned on her cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and walked step by step towards the depths of the crater.
Like Leibo Street, after the government abandoned this land, vagrants and homeless people gradually gathered here, and tents and simple buildings gradually covered the surface, becoming a slum-like habitat.
As she walked through the perimeter, she noticed some buildings were half-demolished, and most of the tents had been torn down. It seemed the Matsudaira family had already begun preliminary work to evict the homeless, and to prevent future trouble, they had simply removed the shelters. But as she walked deeper, the tents and buildings gradually multiplied, and she could hear the sound of breathing from among them.
This isn't good... If it's really a cursed spirit, there's no way to control the damage during the fight.
Yuyin frowned slightly, thinking about various possible follow-up responses.
However, most people were hiding in tents or inside buildings. Even when she shone her flashlight over them, no one came out to investigate. She was quite sensible about the situation.
Alas, the only good news was that not too many people would see her fighting, although just in case, she took out a mask from her bag and put it on.
Stopping at a fork in the road, Yuyin randomly chose one based on her feeling and continued to go deeper. The breathing sounds of humans around her gradually faded away.
It seems that there is indeed something special here. Even if the curse spirit cannot be seen, the human instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm will not change. The subconscious mind will make them avoid those dangerous places. This is also one of the simple ways to determine whether there is a curse.
Click.
There was someone. Yuyin noticed the movement in front and stopped.
The sounds of animals running, the scent of cursed energy, and people breathing, multiple people, at least two people.
Even from a long distance, she made a quick judgment and decisively turned off the flashlight function.
The surroundings returned to darkness again, with only the faint moonlight shining through the clouds, allowing people to see slightly.
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The other side.
"Really? Why are we wandering around like headless flies in a place like this in the middle of the night?" Kugisaki Nobara said with her hands on her hips, quite angrily.
"Well, you complain to me, but there's nothing I can do," Yuji Itadori said, rubbing his head. "They detected a special cursed energy reaction nearby, but the people sent by the monitoring department didn't find any specific cursed spirits. Coming here during the day would attract too much attention, so they asked us to sneak in at night to detect if there are any abnormalities?"
"Ahhh, I should be leisurely putting on a face mask and watching TV series at this time, instead of searching for Schrödinger's curse spirit in this shabby pit. They are just passing the job to us!" Wild Rose rushed forward, venting the depression in her heart.
"Wait, you're going in the wrong direction, the Jade Dog is going that way!"
Yuji Itadori stretched out his hand and shouted, and couldn't help but shout in his heart, why were he and Kugisaki in the same team? Could it be that Fushiguro had foreseen all this and was the first to ask to run away alone when the teams were divided?
“Woo——!”
The jade dog running in front of them suddenly stopped, lowered its body, bared its teeth and howled.
Yuji Itadori and Nobara's expressions were stern. The Jade Dog was Megumi Fushiguro's Shikigami, summoned by Fushiguro specifically to assist them. They knew very well that this reaction meant that the Jade Dog had discovered some threat and was warning them.
"Kugizaki." Yuji Itadori quietly called his companion's name.
"Ah, I understand." Wild Rose took out the hammer and nails and looked around more vigilantly.
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Tokyo, Houmaira Bar.
After the slight sound of the door opening, the voice of "Welcome" rang out.
"Excuse me for disturbing you."
Hearing this calm yet familiar voice, Kusanagi Izumo, who was busy cleaning glassware at the counter, and Hatta Misaki, who was curled up on the sofa, both raised their heads and looked towards the door.
Reiji Munakata and Seri Awashima, both wearing Scepter 4 uniforms, stood there one after the other.
"What are the people from Scepter 4 doing in our Houmaru?"
The Blue Group and the Red Group have always been at odds. Even though the Dresden Slab is now broken, the grudge still exists, especially the death of Suho Takashi... Hatta Misaki gets angry whenever she sees Munakata Reiji, and being able to hold back her swear words is his greatest wisdom.
"Yata," Kusanagi Izumo called out to stop him, then turned to Munakata Reisi and said calmly and politely, "I wonder what brings the Blue King to our Homura?"
Munakata Reiji adjusted his glasses and turned his head to look at the gothic-clad girl sitting quietly on a sofa in a corner of the bar. "Excuse me, I'm here to see Anna Kushina, the current leader of your Homura."
"Huh?" When Hatta Misaki heard he was looking for Anna, her PTSD kicked in. She grabbed a baseball bat and stood up. "If you want to cause trouble for Anna, you'll have to get past me first."
"Yata!" Kusanagi Izumo once again stopped Yata's impulsiveness, his gaze shifting from Awashima Seri behind Munakata Reiji back to Munakata Reiji. "With the slab now broken, I believe there's no need for Scepter 4 and Homura to clash. I'm unsure of the Blue King's motives for coming here. Please explain."
Reiji Munakata stretched out his right hand, and Awashima Seri behind him immediately handed a book to him.
Munakata Reiji walked towards Kushina Anna with the book in his hand: "I would like to ask your Excellency to help us find someone."
When Kusanagi Izumo heard that Reiji Munakata wanted to ask Anna to find someone, he breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he was not here for a battle or conflict between psychics, it would be fine.
But after pondering Munakata Reiji's words, Kusanagi Izumo became confused again: "Looking for someone? Is there anyone in this world that you Scepter 4 can't find?"
Scepter 4 has the support of the government and possesses extremely high special powers. It can even call upon the electronic surveillance system called [Consciousness-Only] at will. Kusanagi Izumo finds it hard to imagine that there is someone they can't find. In order to find this person, the leader personally goes to Houmaru to make a request.
"This person might be the force left behind by the Green King. He is very advanced in network technology, and even Fushimi cannot trace his identity." Reiji Munakata did not think it was shameful to seek help from the organization of his old rival as long as it was necessary.
"What? We can't even find that guy?" Misaki Hatta was shocked when she heard someone's name.
Munakata Reiji nodded: "Indeed."
Kusanagi Izumo immediately understood: "So you want to use Anna's special ability to help you find that person."
Anna Kushina, before becoming a member of Houmura and Red King, was an outsider with special predictive abilities, which is clearly recorded in the Scepter 4 data.
"Even so, why should we help you!" Although it was satisfying to see the leader of the Aogumi begging them "humbly", Hatta Misaki still insisted that this matter had nothing to do with them, Homura, and they didn't need to care.
Munakata Reiji ignored Hatta Misaki's questioning and walked directly to the girl, Kushina Anna. He looked her straight in the eye and said, "The peaceful and tranquil life you enjoy today is hard-earned. That person is very likely plotting something in secret. If we ignore it, it may cause harm to those around him in the future. Is this okay?"
Kushina Anna was touched, especially when she thought about the people around her getting hurt. She immediately nodded and said, "Okay."
"Anna, don't be fooled by this man's high-sounding words..."
Yata was still trying to persuade her, but Anna had already shaken her head and said, "This is a decision of my own will."
Hatta suddenly stopped talking, sat aside angrily, and stared at Reiji Munakata.
Anna looked at Reiji Munakata and said, "If there is no connection or a specific medium, I can't find someone."
Munakata Reiji handed the book in his hand to Anna and said, "I wonder if this book can be used as a medium?"
"Book?" Anna looked at the book and couldn't help but read the name on the cover, "Rainbow Crown...?"
Munakata Reiji pushed up his reflective glasses and said, "Yes, that's the author of this book I'm looking for."
Anna thought for a moment and nodded, "It should be possible, but the predicted positioning may not be very accurate, so you have to be mentally prepared."
Munakata Reiji finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "A new clue is helpful."
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Anna Kushina congealed blood, a red marble hovering over a map of the Kanto region spread out across the entire size of her desk. She placed one hand on the cover of her novel, eyes closed, concentrating, sensing something.
At this moment, the Homura Bar was extremely quiet. Whether it was Izumo Kusanagi and Misaki Hatta, who were originally from the bar, or Reiji Munakata and Seri Awashima, who were outsiders, everyone tacitly remained silent and solemnly waited for the result of Anna's prediction.
After a while, the blood-red marble slowly moved on the map, moved in a certain direction, and finally stopped at a certain place.
"This location is...?"
Kushina Anna suddenly opened her eyes, as if frightened by something, and her little hands quickly left the novel and the map.
"Anna, Anna, how are you?" Yata asked hurriedly with concern.
"Yes, it's the power of the Red King. I feel it..." Anna panted. "It's even more violent and evil than when I was there, and when Zun was there..."
Awashima Seri took a step forward and whispered, "Director, could the direction she pointed just now be..."
"Ah, that's right," Munakata Reiji nodded, his expression becoming serious. "It's definitely Hase City, the location of the Kaguto crater."
In addition to the power of the Red King that Anna Zhiming mentioned, now that the stone slab is broken, where can there be a second power of the Red King? However, Anna Zhiming's perception of the Red King's attributes should not be wrong.
Just as Reiji Munakata was immersed in analyzing the internal connections of these clues, the communicator suddenly rang.
He pressed the communication button, and Fushimi's anxious voice came from the other side:
"Director, we've detected a Wiesmann Deviation at the Kagudu Crater site. We speculate that the power most likely originated from the former Red King, Kagudu Xuanshi!"
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Author's Note: 1. Hase City is the location of the K-Ri Kaguto crater and is a fictional city in Kanagawa Prefecture.
2. The series of derivative plots about the Kagudu crater at the beginning of this chapter are mostly secondary settings of the author.
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