And when we get to the place where the battle took place last night...

On the way over, Xiaolu imagined the situation here in his mind, but he never expected that it would be like this——

In the dark mountain forest, there are still clear dent marks on the trunk of the pine tree that was hit by the imperial incense burner.

In the shadow under the tree, a blue-gray corpse lay quietly there, with its head collapsed and lifeless.

Just like last night.

The only difference was that the bluish-gray color of the leech man's skin seemed to be turning toward black, which caused the flesh and blood of the corpse to look a bit like the pieces of meat that the Matsuzawa people grabbed for food in the canteen.

"This leech man...is Watanabe, right?"

The deer's pupils were trembling and he stood there at a loss.

Even the little old man next to him was confused when he saw this situation and didn't make any sound for a while.

It must be Watanabe, right?

Watanabe, the old hunter who came back during the day, told about his experience of "attack on forest patrol" and what happened last night.

But, why?

Why is there still a body here?

Didn’t Watanabe come back to life?

The mountain forest at night is quiet and dim.

In the dark and distant corners, only summer insects are still chirping. The faint chirping of insects is like half a stream, melted into the air by the mountain fog. The outline of the sound is completely inaudible, leaving only a thin layer.

A thin, ethereal sound, as cold as the skin of the dead.

"If the body on the ground is Watanabe, then what is that thing that came back to the village during the day? Where did that thing come back from?"

The mountain breeze blows at night.

Lu Yewu, who was at a loss in his heart, suddenly felt shuddering and terrified.

"Although I knew that Songze was a weird place from the beginning, this is too weird... Master, please come and save me..."

…

Real world, countermeasures room building.

I stayed up late last night to hold a meeting and discuss the next course of action. During the day, a new spiritual exterminator who arrived in Tokyo participated in the discussion.

Yukisuma Kenyu, who was appointed to carry out the next operation against the earthquake catfish, is also back.

Kamiya and Onizuka both went home to rest for a while during the day, but Kamiya and Kamiya returned to the countermeasures room building not long after.

When Kamiyagawa entered the building, he saw Masao Nagatomo communicating with a clerk in the countermeasures room in the lobby.

Xiao Pingtou left the campus prematurely due to a special experience and stayed with Uncle Jiecheng as an assistant for more than half a year. Now that I see him again, I feel that his youthful temperament has faded a lot and he has become more calm.

and reliable.

Moreover, Kamiyagawa saw fluctuations in spiritual power in his body.

Nagatomo can now be regarded as a spirit exterminator. Being able to get started so quickly must be inseparable from the special spirit behind him.

"Kamiya-kun."

Seeing Kamiya coming in, Nagatomo took the initiative to say hello.

"Where's Uncle Jiecheng?"

"Still in the conference room. Shortly after you left in the morning, two folklorists came to the countermeasures room. They first speculated that an earthquake related to supernatural power was likely to occur in Tokyo."

Nagatomo briefly explained what happened in the unit while Kamiyagawa went home to rest.

"Did those two folklorists bring any new news?"

"Yes, and it is still being discussed and further verified. Now it is said that based on the previous earthquake catfish activity trends and some abnormal conditions in various parts of Honshu, it is speculated that the next earthquake catfish will appear in Ibaraki Prefecture.

and near Tochigi Prefecture.”

This is actually a news breakthrough.

At least I have a rough idea of ​​where to go to catch earthquake catfish.

"Oh, and you came just in time." Changyou handed over a file in his hand. This file was taken from the clerk he just talked to. "The data room has sorted out some files, which are about

From Songze Village.”

I didn't expect that the information related to Songze Village actually existed in the countermeasures room.

Kamiya took over the file, and there were very few records related to Matsuzawa——

From the information, we only know that this village was once located in the mountains of Higashi Izumo in Neshima Prefecture.

It is an isolated existence.

In 1928, due to an earthquake and subsequent mudslides, the village completely disappeared.

Today, there are no relevant records in the records of Higashi Izumo, but there are still many historical rumors about Matsuzawa Village. The files given by Nagatomo are the results of the compilation of these rumors:

Songze Village once had heretical beliefs and mysterious customs and inheritances that were never seen in other places.

Matsuzawa is called the "Village of God's Hidden God" by neighboring villages because it is a place where missing persons occur frequently.

In the Matsuzawa area, the number of natural disasters is unusually high.

In addition, Kamiya also saw an eye-catching name appearing in this thin record of information——

[According to legend, a person who claimed to be the Eight Hundred Bhikshunis once appeared in Songze Village before disappearing.]
Chapter completed!