Truth is everywhere within range

After watching Ariko Asano and her father leave, Qiao Qiao also rode his motorcycle.

It's four o'clock in the morning.

Have you ever seen Tokyo at four in the morning?

Qiao Qiao has seen it before.

He didn't go home directly.

Instead, we came to an alley.

An izakaya-style restaurant with lights on.

It's the boss's late-night canteen.

Park the car and open the door.

There is still only one boss in the cafeteria.

It seems a little deserted.

"You came."

The boss was not surprised by Qiao Qiao's sudden visit.

Maybe he had already guessed that Qiao Qiao would come.

"Well, I'm here."

Qiao Qiao sat down and ordered a fried pork cutlet set meal.

He had no choice but to think of the fried pork cutlet set meal at the police station, and Qiao Qiao couldn't forget it.

"good."

The boss said nothing more and turned back to the kitchen to get busy.

After a while, the hot fried pork chop was served.

"I'm gonna start now."

Qiao Qiao actually doesn't have this habit. After all, he is Chinese.

But in the boss's shop, it's better to respect local customs.

"It's not going to be peaceful tonight."

The boss lit a cigarette and said quietly.

"Yes, as you hinted before, boss, Iguchi Tetsu's death is indeed related to those missing girls."

"?"

The boss was obviously stunned.

Then, he took a deep drag on the cigarette.

"It seems you understand."

"Yeah, I understand."

Qiao Qiao then told his boss what happened tonight.

"Boss, your cigarette ashes are going to fall off."

After finishing speaking, I did not forget to remind the boss who was frozen in place.

"Oh, hot, hot, hot!"

The boss shook off the ash from the back of his hand and put out the cigarette butt.

"Artists who kill people for the sake of art, in this world, can't tell whether the spirit is more terrifying or the human being is more terrifying."

He sighed and poured Qiao Qiao a glass of iced oolong tea.

"One more thing, boss."

Qiao Qiao stated the purpose of this time.

"When I was channeling, I saw a person teaching Iguchi Tetsu how to turn ordinary spirits into resentful spirits and how to build a villa as a barrier."

He spoke.

The man's face was erased from Tetsu Iguchi's memory.

Qiao Qiao felt that the boss was well-informed and might know something.

"Someone taught him?"

The boss asked back, with a strange expression.

"Um."

Qiao Qiao nodded.

".Speaking of it, this can be regarded as a scandal in the Heguo Spiritualist Association."

The boss leaned against the wall and remained silent for a long time before speaking.

He told Qiao Qiao a story.

Once upon a time, about thirty years ago.

This coincides with the bursting of the economic bubble in China and the period of economic depression.

A few years before the economic collapse, the Republic of China was still prosperous and wealthy, claiming to be able to buy the entire country on the other side of the ocean.

Compared to the current taxi, it looks like a robbery.

At that time, even if you waved down a taxi on the street with 10,000 yen, people might not be able to stop and let you take a seat.

But after the crash, a large number of businesses closed down and unemployment soared.

In order to repay their mortgages, people have to work for banks throughout their lives to repay their debts.

Being able to repay debts is already very good, but more people have gone bankrupt overnight and owed countless foreign debts.

In the end, he could only commit suicide.

As a result, countless resentful spirits were born.

It can be said to be an era of a hundred ghosts walking at night.

This sounds ironic.

At a time when all industries are in decline.

Instead, the spiritual master made a lot of money.

The boss said that at that time, he was just a newcomer to the industry.

At that time, except for the circle of spiritual masters, there were only a few major shrines, temples, and great powers in Onnyangliao in Tokyo.

There is also a genius exorcist.

The boss didn't say his name.

That exorcist was eclectic.

Whether it is Shinto, Buddhist, or Yin-Yang Tao, all factions' methods of removing spirits can be mastered and developed in a short period of time.

When he was at his most powerful, he dominated the world, and even the ghosts and gods in the shrine were in awe of him.

Later, several years passed.

The spirit-killing master invented a spirit-killing tool called the Four Souls Jade.

"Wait a minute, has that exorcist also seen "Inu Osha"?"

Qiao Qiao couldn't help but complain.

"Rather, it would be better to say that the creation of "Inu O'Cha" was influenced by the exorcist."

The boss smiled.

"After all, Teacher Takahashi has a pretty good relationship with some spiritual masters in private."

"?"

Is there such a thing?

Qiao Qiao suddenly felt that the boss was really awesome.

Even this kind of gossip is clear.

Immediately, the boss explained to Qiao Qiao the concept of four souls.

The Four Souls is a concept in Japanese Shinto. Every living being has four souls with different properties. Different proportions of the souls will lead to different personalities and characteristics of the living being.

It sounds a bit like Hippocrates' theory of humors.

Huang Yuhun, Xingyuhun, Heyuhun, Qiyuhun.

These are the four souls of Shinto.

The four-soul jade made by the spirit-killing master can absorb the yin energy of resentful spirits and evil spirits and store it.

Just like a battery.

Gradually transform these yin energy into spiritual energy.

Reuse it in some rituals and to remove spirits.

This greatly facilitates the work of some spiritual exterminators who lack strength.

After all, if you have the Jade of the Four Souls, even if your spiritual power is insufficient, you can rely on it to increase it.

Easily remove spirits.

Gradually, the method of making the Four Souls Jade spread among the spiritual masters.

Some people even believe that this is a new era of spiritual masters.

"But in the end, there will be people who will look for resentful spirits or even create resentful spirits themselves in order to store more spiritual power in the Four Souls Jade, right?"

When Qiao Qiao heard this, he already had some guesses.

"That's right."

The boss sighed.

Less than half a year later, the method of making Shikon no Tama was revealed.

There was an incident where the spiritual master killed someone.

They tortured and killed ordinary people, created resentful spirits, and then absorbed them with the Four Souls Jade.

At first, everyone thought that with the popularity of the Four Souls Jade, the average strength of spiritual masters had greatly increased.

After this incident was discovered, the Four Souls Jade was banned by Shinto, Buddhist, and Onmyoji. All those that had been made were recycled, and the production method became taboo.

Just at this time.

The exorcist stood up.

He controls all the Shikon no Tama.

Trying to fight against the traditional exorcism system.

According to him, it is to create "a world where no evil spirits appear."

At that time, the entire circle of Heguo's spiritual exterminators started a fierce battle with that spiritual exterminator.

Faced with perhaps the strongest genius after Seimei Abe, the spirit exterminator who carries the Shikon Tama with the power of hundreds of thousands of dead souls.

The circle of Heguo spiritual masters suffered heavy losses.

Most of the famous spiritual masters were killed or injured, and those who survived would not be able to recover for more than ten years.

Even the ghosts and gods of the sixteen shrines in Tokyo.

Eliminated in one battle.

Overnight.

Just like the economic collapse of China a few years ago.

The newly prosperous circle of spiritual masters is also close to collapse.

It was not until a few years later that the Heguo Spiritualist Association was established.

It was only slightly relieved.

"Then this exorcist is last."

Qiao Qiao imagined the scene at that time.

I couldn't help but have my thoughts stirred up.

Unexpectedly, the world of spiritual masters also had such a turbulent past.

A spirit slayer who can rival ghosts and gods.

Unheard of.

"He exhausted the spiritual power in the Shikon no Tama, ran and fought, and was finally suppressed on a small island from Awaji Island to Akashi Strait in Hyogo Prefecture."

The boss couldn't help himself and lit a cigarette.

He blew out a smoke ring and said.

"When he died, he set a curse. Anyone who has used the Four Souls Jade will bear his own resentment. Anyone who mentions his name will be watched by him who falls into hell."

"That year happened to be 1995."

Hearing this, Qiao Qiao thought for a while.

Then came an answer.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Yes.

The center of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that occurred in 1995 happened to be near Hyogo Prefecture.

It is the deadliest earthquake in Japan since the Great Tokyo Earthquake nearly a hundred years ago.

The earthquake not only caused a large amount of economic losses, but also led to changes in the political arena of the Republic of China.

This record was not broken until 2011.

Could it be that the earthquake was not a natural disaster?

But a man-made disaster?

As for the subsequent impact on Heguo.

How much of it was caused by the Four Souls Jade and the Spiritual Exterminator.

Qiao Qiao didn't dare to think about it carefully.

Qiao Qiao thought in the past.

The spiritual master is in charge of the dead and will not affect the living.

But now, he discovered that the spiritual master had such terrifying power.

But no book records anything like it.

Mysterious indeed.

As for the spiritual master whose name cannot be mentioned.

This reminded him of a Chinese proverb.

With great power comes great responsibility.

The boss told this story to himself probably to remind himself.

Qiao Qiao's heart was filled with gratitude.

"The method you mentioned about artificially creating resentful spirits and the matter about that villa, I think, may be related to the Four Souls Jade."

The boss finally said.

Although the method of making the Shikon no Tama was widely circulated at the time, all written information has since been completely destroyed.

Those who master the production methods are also closely monitored.

To this day, except for those big shrines, big temples, and Yin Yangliao.

Not many people probably know.

As for the name Shihun no Jade.

Later, through Mr. Takahashi’s comic works, people’s impressions have gradually changed.

It became something completely different.

this incident.

If it is really the Jade of Four Souls.

So the things involved behind this are very deep.

"You'd better not get too far into this."

The boss warned me.

"I see."

Of course Qiao Qiao knows.

I still dare not touch the boss who can cause earthquakes with just a casual fight.

Maybe someone sneezes.

My own people are gone.

If something similar happens in the future.

Report to the association immediately.

Never try to be strong.

He made up his mind.

The story is very long, and when I finished it, it was already dark.

Qiao Qiao stood up, paid and prepared to leave.

The phone suddenly vibrated.

It’s Ariko Asano’s Line.

She seemed to have arrived home not long ago, and at the same time she reported to Qiao Qiao that she was safe.

Also sent a photo.

Of course it’s not a home selfie in pajamas.

But the picture of the cat who survived.

Qiao Qiao has no time to raise cats.

So the kitten was brought back to the shrine by Asano Ariko. Anyway, there is no shortage of all kinds of cats in the shrine.

The kitten in the photo is sleeping peacefully.

Perhaps because the light was too bright, he stretched out his paws to cover his eyes.

Ariko Asano said she named the kitten "Saya".

"Good name."

Qiao Qiao replied.

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