Chapter 78

"What did you say?!" Amamiya Rei's face changed.

The woman was so anxious that she looked like she was about to cry: "Yes, yes, I just checked the number of children in the village and found that one was missing. I asked around but no one knew where he went. I think he must have disappeared. It was around this time before... before."

Amamiya Reizo had a gloomy face. He and Gojo Gochu came out to find the cursed spirit, but ended up being provoked?

"I'll go look for him. It's too dangerous around here. You should hurry back to the village." Amamiya Reizo turned his head and glanced at the Curse of the Damned who had been chasing him all the way. "Don't follow me."

After saying that, he quickly ran deeper into the cave. If he was right, the residual cursed power that had not yet been broken was left here by the cursed spirit on purpose. If it was a deliberate provocation, then the missing child this time might not be as safe and sound as before.

"Mr. Amemiya! Please be careful!" the woman shouted from behind, and her voice gradually faded into the air as the distance between them widened.

While running, Amamiya Ruisei took out his cell phone and tried to contact Gojo Satoru, but the signal in the deep mountains and forests was not very good. He looked at the message that was loading and circling, bit his lip, and put the phone away.

This is really... After I leave, I'll go back and ask Gojo Satoru if he can get me a satellite phone. This is too inconvenient.

I can only hope that when the fight starts, the explosion of cursed energy will catch Gojo Satoru's attention and he will come over quickly.

I hope it's not a cursed spirit above level one.

Amemiya Keisei casually cut off some bushes blocking the road, stepped on a tree trunk, exerted force with his feet, and jumped a few meters away. Soon, he came to the place where the residual strength of the cursed power was the strongest. There was no further extension ahead.

Is this it?

He narrowed his eyes and looked around vigilantly. This time was different from the previous time when the cursed power was suddenly interrupted. Whether it was on the trees or on the ground, there were traces of the cursed spirit everywhere. It seemed that it had built a nest here, but it was good at hiding, so even a sorcerer would find it difficult to see it.

Amamiya Ruisei thought about it, then raised his hand and set up an account.

An inky black barrier fell on this area, and a strange scene appeared in the woods. The tree trunks were hung with small red ropes. They were like hearts, with a scarlet color, as if they were about to drip blood. They hung in the air and jumped rhythmically. Dense silk threads wrapped around the trees, tightly encircling the surroundings.

Amamiya Ruisei looked up and saw the cursed spirit appear on the largest of the trees.

Appeared——Five first-level cursed spirits.

...five?

Amemiya Leisheng couldn't help but widen his eyes. He stared at the cursed spirits on the tree trunks. They were not big in size, but looked similar, like spiders, clinging to the trees and making hissing sounds from their mouthparts.

However, the cursed energy emanating from them is not the same. Unless they have the ability to change themselves, otherwise - these are truly five cursed spirits.

What's going on? Why are there so many cursed spirits here? And judging by their strength, they are all level one!

Amemiya Leisheng stood there, not daring to move. He felt a chill in his heart, and the icy cold ran from his head to his feet, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

He, he wanted to kill the first-level curse spirits with one strike, but he was already on the edge of his limit. If he wanted to kill five first-level curse spirits, his power fluctuation would probably soar to over 80, right? Not only would the vest be seriously injured, but it would also affect the main body. By then, he might not be able to recover even if he had to lie in bed for several months.

This is not right. There are so many cursed spirits here. Didn't the people at [Window] notice them? Even if they can hide their tracks, they shouldn't classify this mission as a normal suspicious mission. And the cursed spirits only catch the children but don't kill them. After a few days, they release them again. No matter how you think about it, it doesn't make sense.

Unless these cursed spirits were not the cause of the children's disappearance, but had only arrived recently, or were more likely led here by someone.

Why?

...Because of Gojo Satoru?

Because he has six eyes, there has always been a bounty on the black market. If the curser learns of Gojo Satoru's itinerary and wants to kill him, with his current strength, it will take some effort for him to deal with five first-level cursed spirits. It would be a good plan to jump out and attack them while they are fighting.

Amamiya Reisei stared at the motionless cursed spirits, but now he was the first to encounter them.

Can he hold on until Gojo Satoru comes over?

The boy's hands were stiff in front of him and were already a little numb. At the moment his fingertips trembled, the curse spirit on the tree moved.

There was a flash of silver light, and Amamiya Reisei cut off the spider's two legs, jumped to the other side, turned his wrist, and used the technique to cut towards the other one.

"After all, we should try our best. We can't just wait to die..." Amamiya Leisheng murmured, "The worst that can happen is that I have to lie in bed for half a year."

…

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"Finally I found you. You were such a hard-to-find cursed spirit." Gojo Satoru stepped on the cursed spirit's head, his face flushed with joy. "You're really good at running! Run, run for me, and I'll catch you!"

He laughed a few times, and without wasting any words, he stretched out his hand and cast a spell on the cursed spirit, exorcising it. Then he turned his head to look at the crying child hiding behind a tree and shouted, "Hey, little ghost, it's okay. Come out and I'll take you back to the village."

The child was already scared, and when Gojo Satoru's voice got louder, his crying voice got stuck for a moment, and then he started crying even harder.

Gojo Satoru: “…” His face fell.

Ahhh, children are so troublesome!

He simply walked over, grabbed the child by the collar, and held him under his arm. After determining the direction, he walked leisurely towards the village: "Why are you crying? I'm here to save you. I'm your savior. You have to thank me well, okay?"

The child cried even louder and struggled in Gojo Satoru's hands: "Waaaa, you are a bad person, I want to go home, mommy save me, wuwuwu——"

“Stop crying!!”

“Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo——”

Gojo Satoru had a terrible headache, and he had to use some force to prevent the child from breaking free from his hand and running away, forcing him to go look for him. The child was hurt, and was more certain that the strange brother in front of him was a bad guy who kidnapped the child. The crying became a weapon, piercing Gojo Satoru's eardrums fiercely.

Gojo Satoru stared with dead fish eyes, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Stop arguing. I'm taking you home. Your mother is waiting for you at home. If you keep arguing, I'll leave you here. Then you'll see ghosts that eat children at night."

The child stopped crying, and looked up at Gojo Satoru timidly, staring at him for a long time.

"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen such a handsome brother before?"

The child hiccuped and whispered, "Bad guy."

Gojo Satoru: "...Okay, okay, I'm a bad guy, if you keep making noise I'll eat you."

This time everything finally calmed down. When Gojo Satoru brought the child back to the village and put him down, the child disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Xiao Ye, run slower, be careful not to fall!" The woman who was waiting for them at the entrance of the village was relieved to see the missing child come back safe and sound. She must have gone to the mountains to look for the child in a hurry, so her body was covered with a few leaves and some dirt, and her face was very pale.

The woman bowed to Gojo Satoru and thanked him, "Thank you so much. If I couldn't find the child, I wouldn't know what I would do."

"Alright, alright, it's okay. I've solved the cause of the children's disappearance. No more children will go missing from now on." Gojo Satoru yawned, glanced at the bent woman, and waved his hand casually, "Are you the nanny who takes care of the children? If so, then go check on him. I don't know if he will be frightened."

"Okay, I'll go check on him right away. The doctor has already been contacted and will be here to check on the child soon." The woman lowered her head and grabbed the corners of her clothes with both hands. She seemed to be blaming herself for not taking good care of the child, which led to his disappearance. Even her voice was a little muffled. "Sir, you are tired too. Why don't you go to the village chief's house to rest for a while?"

"I'll go there soon."

Gojo Satoru said this casually, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Oh, by the way, where are my companions?"

"Your companion?"

"He's a guy with long grey hair and blue eyes, about my age. Didn't you see him?"

The woman thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I saw him. When I went into the mountains to look for my child, I told him that my child was missing. He asked me to come back first, and then he went in to look for the child himself..."

"Still in the mountains?" Gojo Satoru grimaced in distress. "But I've solved all the cursed spirits. If I can't find them, I should come back."

As soon as he finished speaking, his cell phone vibrated. Gojo Satoru opened it and found that it was a message from Amamiya Keisei. It was sent to him twenty minutes ago, but perhaps because of the poor signal, he received it only now.

Gojo Satoru opened it and looked at it, muttering, "Eh, could it be that he sent me a message saying that he would be back first…"

[Wu-kun, I found a high-level cursed spirit here. I'm not sure if I can handle it. Can you come over quickly?]

The smile on his face slowly faded.

Cursed spirit? Didn't he solve the cursed spirit? But he didn't meet Amamiya Reizo, so there is another one in the mountain? Not sure if it can be solved, which means that the cursed power residue found by Amamiya Reizo is at least level one?

Gojo Satoru's expression changed several times.

"Sir, what's wrong?" the woman asked concernedly.

"I'm going into the mountains to find my companions, don't worry about me." Gojo Satoru said quickly, without even looking at the woman in front of him, turned around and ran into the mountains again.

The figure of the young man disappeared into the forest. The woman raised her head and her expression returned to calm. She waited for a while, her cold eyes sweeping over the surrounding hills. She ignored the child who had been found and actually followed him into the forest again.