Chapter 77

"Hello?" Amamiya Reizo's eyes were a little confused. "Excuse me, what can I do for you? I just heard...uh, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

He always felt that the person in front of him was strange. When she started talking behind him, a bad feeling suddenly arose, and he almost cast a spell at her. Fortunately, he remembered that the other person was a person, not a cursed spirit that needed to be exorcised.

I don't know what the seam on his head is. Amamiya Leisheng glanced at him quietly and suppressed his doubts: "I am indeed from outside."

The woman smiled and said, "Is that so? That's great. The children keep disappearing and everyone is worried. Yes, I'm the nanny hired by the village chief to take care of the children. You can call me Xiangzhi. I just finished my farm work and was going to call the children home for dinner."

"I'm Amamiya Reizo," Amamiya Reizo thought, is this a nanny? It feels more like a human trafficker, "Miss Kaori also has to take care of farm work, this doesn't seem like something a nanny would do."

"Haha, there's nothing I can do. After all, there are too few young people in the village. But the village chief will pay me, so it doesn't matter."

The woman looked nonchalant. After saying a few words, she walked past Amamiya Keisei and walked ahead: "I'm going to look for the children. Mr. Amamiya, are you going there too?"

Reizo Amamiya recalled what he had just heard and spoke tactfully: "...Yes, those children just now?"

The woman laughed and said, "Children like to play. I'm sorry to embarrass you. Actually, they are usually very well behaved."

"Look—"

As they were talking, they had already turned the corner and came to the place where the children had just been talking. They saw several little boys squatting on the sand, making sand piles with small shovels, laughing and talking happily, and they didn't look like they were bullying anyone at all.

After seeing the woman coming, they stood up and rushed over happily, shouting in unison: "Auntie Xiangzhi, how come you came so soon? We wanted to play for a while longer."

The woman said softly, "It's past lunch time now. If you go back later, it will be dinner time. Your grandparents will be worried. Aren't you afraid of the monsters that eat children that have appeared recently?"

"Wow! How scary!" The children screamed and ran away, not forgetting to turn around and wave, "Then let's go back! Aunt Kaori should go back too!"

Amamiya Raisei looked at the harmonious scene, but his frown did not relax. He glanced at the woman next to him and said, "I was just about to go and see the missing children to find out about their situation. I heard that you are the one who takes care of them. Do you want to go with us?"

“I’m sorry,” the woman shook her head. “I still have to go and call the other children. It may take some time. Why don’t you go back and wait for me, Mr. Amamiya? We can’t let the children’s families wait anxiously.”

Didn't they say that because of the recent events, the children didn't go out? Amamiya Leisheng was puzzled, but he had no choice but to nod and said, "Okay, then I'll go to the children's homes and wait for you."

The woman narrowed her eyes and smiled: "That couldn't be better."

Amamiya Keisei watched the woman leave, stood there without moving for a while, and looked around.

No matter how he thought about it, what he just heard could not be an auditory hallucination, but he had only been here for a few minutes. Could it be that these children could predict it and put on a show in advance? No matter how he thought about it, it seemed impossible.

He frowned and wandered around for a few circles, but finally turned around and left to look for Gojo Satoru.

As soon as he approached the house where the children lived, he heard faint crying coming from inside. The children's crying sounded miserable and pitiful, as if they had been severely bullied. Yu Gong Leisheng was stunned for a moment, slapped his forehead with his hand, and hurriedly pushed the door open.

As soon as I entered, I saw the village chief hurriedly coaxing the children. Several children were huddled in bed, covered with quilts, crying. Turning my head, I saw Gojo Satoru sitting on the side with a grim face, resentment emanating from his body.

Hmm... In this situation, no matter how you look at it, it can only be Gojo Satoru who made the children cry.

Amemiya Reishi's eyes suddenly became a little absent-minded, even with a hint of condemnation.

"What are you doing?" Gojo Satoru said angrily, "I really didn't do anything. Don't look at me like a bad guy."

He felt that he was really wronged. He had only asked a few questions and the children started crying. No matter how he comforted them, they kept crying. The more he comforted them, the harder they cried.

Amemiya Ruisei didn't say anything. He just glanced at the children and then at Gojo Satoru. What he wanted to say was left unsaid.

"Reisheng! Don't you believe me?" Gojo Satoru was criticized by Amamiya Risheng's eyes and shouted, "Am I the kind of person who would bully a little kid?"

It was fine while he was sitting there, but now that he was talking so loudly, he frightened the children again, and the crying that had almost subsided started again.

Gojo Satoru: “…”

"Ahem, okay, let's go out first." Amamiya Leisei said quickly, "Let the children take a break first."

Gojo Satoru snorted, stood up and left the room.

After getting away from the crying child, both of them breathed a sigh of relief. Amamiya Ruisei wiped the non-existent sweat from his head and sighed, "You really can't make a child cry."

Crying can be very destructive.

Gojo Satoru said unhappily, "I told you it's none of my business. I just asked them some common questions, such as what they had for lunch and whether they slept well recently. After a few questions, they started crying."

"It's indeed a very common question..." Amamiya frowned, "Maybe you rarely see strangers, so you're afraid?"

"Who knows them?"

Gojo Satoru said, "By the way, have you found their babysitter?"

"Yes, but I always feel that she is weird."

Amamiya Reizu groaned, "On the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong, but she gives me a bad feeling. I hope it's just my illusion."

"Besides her, I think the situation in this village is also very strange. I can see children playing outside in the village when they should be protected. From what she said, she wants to call those children who are playing in the village back home."

"Is that so..." Gojo Satoru stroked his chin, "That's really strange. Could it be that children don't go missing in the morning, but only after lunch?"

The mission information was very vague, and I didn't know whether [Window] hadn't found it or the villagers had deliberately concealed it.

"Why don't we just go into the forest during the day and look for it. If we can't find any cursed spirits around, then it's very likely a human error. We can then hand it over to the police. We need to make it quick and easy. I don't want to spend the night in the village."

Gojo Satoru said as he left first. He waved his hand and called out to Kamimiya Ruishou: "Let's go together. You go one way and I'll go the other. It'll be more efficient."

Amamiya said helplessly: "Okay, but this forest is so big, how long will it take to find it? The surrounding curse power is so weak."

Having said that, he had no choice but to follow.

The trees in this mountain are very dense. It is still daytime, but because of the dense branches and leaves, the light in the forest is several degrees darker. Amamiya Ruisheng stepped carefully on the rugged mountain road and shouted to Gojo Satoru in front of him: "Satoru, don't walk so fast. Remember to meet up in an hour!"

"I'll follow the remnants of cursed power and take a look around. It may take less than an hour. Why are there so many of them..." Gojo Satoru glanced around. The remnants of cursed power extended in all directions. There were more than a dozen of them. He didn't know which one was the right way. Or maybe there were just more than a dozen low-level cursed spirits gathered together.

Forget it, just pick one at random, they are all similar anyway.

Gojo Satoru randomly selected one in his mind and walked along it with a relaxed pace.

Amamiya Leisei looked at the person walking away, shook his head helplessly, and also chose a direction to walk.

There was no one in the forest. Apart from the sound of him walking on the branches and the occasional cries of animals, the rest of the time it was eerily quiet.

"It's so quiet, there can't be any powerful cursed spirit that can hide itself, right?" Amamiya Leisei muttered, "I hope it's not a special grade one, otherwise I can't defeat it alone."

He didn't know whether it could be considered lucky or not, he followed the three cursed power residues to look for it, but in the end he couldn't find it. After walking for a while, the three residues were broken in the middle, forcing him to go back and take another one.

There is no way to keep searching like this...

Amamiya Leisei looked up at the sky. It would be too unsafe to walk in the mountains and forests if it got dark.

[System, do you have any detection function?]

[Yes, but if you want to detect a large area, it will consume too much energy.] The system said, [It also needs to be saved for the host to repair the vest.]

[But it does have some low-level functions.]

The system flipped through its various plug-ins: [It can detect which of these cursed power remnants has the highest energy fluctuation, but it is impossible to know whether it will break down halfway...]

It seems a bit tasteless, but it's better than nothing.

[Then you can get it tested, the higher the probability, the better.]

The system moved quickly, selecting several routes with higher energy fluctuations: [These are the ones.]

Amemiya Ruisheng took a look at the data and said that it was a little higher, but in fact it was not much higher, probably just the difference between 1 and 2.

"At least the chances are higher, let's go and see."

He took a deep breath and chose a path to walk over.

This time, the residual cursed power did not disappear quickly. Amamiya Leisheng walked for about half an hour and was a little tired. The residual cursed power was still extending into the depths of the forest.

He rested for a while and was about to move on when he heard the rustling of bushes not far away.

"Who?" Yu Gong tightened his body and turned to look.

Someone walked out from behind the tree. Amamiya Keisei looked closely and found that it was the woman named Kaori who he had parted with not long ago.

"Why are you here?" Yumiya Leisheng was a little surprised.

The woman looked very worried and said, "Mr. Amemiya, another child is missing. I'm here to look for someone. Have you seen anything?"