I planted a sacred tree in Tokyo

The gloomy clouds overhead cover the sky and the sun,

The surroundings are filled with lingering dust and mist, as if the heaven and earth have merged into one, and everything is dim.

There are messy piles of stones at your feet, and in the distance are shadowy buildings: there are modern single-family houses, ancient wooden houses with brick walls, and extremely simple thatched soil embryos. The dark undulations stretch out, like a In addition to the tombs, you can also see a few big dry trees on the roadside, with messy dead branches growing like ghost claws.

brush,

A group of figures appeared in this deserted stone wilderness,

"This is 'Yomi Hirazan'?"

Jiukong Yaoai looked around, but he didn't expect that he would step into the world of the 'dead' himself.

"Huh? It's you-"

On the other side, the spirit body of the girl Saki screamed in surprise.

"This is not surprising, Saki."

The clear girl's voice was somewhat helpless, and a girl wearing a high school girl's uniform, holding a long knife, and with thick bangs that almost covered her eyes spoke.

"There are only a few thousand people in our town. Since the initiator of everything is the 'doctor', it is only natural for me to be his accomplice."

"But, but how could Yukino do that?"

Seeing that her 'good friend' turned out to be a villain, for the girl named Saki, it had a greater impact than the mayor of the town next to her, the police, the school security guard, and the tram driver.

"I'm the adopted daughter of a doctor, that's all."

"Put aside the old things for now,"

Because it was a soul body, the elegant doctor with intact arms clapped his hands.

"Miss Jiukong, we will go to Santu River next."

"Let me lead the way, okay?"

"good,"

After getting Jiukong Yaoai's approval, the doctor took steps towards the mist in the distance.

The 'bone' in his hand was snatched away by the little girl and had been swallowed; but the knowledge he had engraved in his mind and the extraordinary power he gained through the sacrifice method had not disappeared; Dr. Yaya was still a wolf Extraordinary person.

‘Hehehehe~~’

'The fresh soul is mine, mine.'

As a group of people stepped forward, the surrounding abandoned buildings gradually became denser. They were surrounded by undulating houses, including thatched houses from the Heian period, wooden houses from the Warring States period, tiled houses from the Edo period, and tiled houses after the Meiji Restoration. Western style architecture

All this makes everyone feel like they are in a city that has been abandoned for many years, a mixture of all eras.

It's like being in a huge maze of underground tombs, with a weird, gloomy, and decaying atmosphere everywhere. There are a few vague sounds that are far away, like the sound of water dripping, and like the squeaking of mice. There was a squeaking scream; gusts of cold wind shuttled through the streets and alleys, and there were intermittent whispers, sighs, and snickers, which was creepy.

"Everyone, be careful,"

Dr. Ru Ya reminded his five subordinates,

"These evil spirits are not low in intensity. Please restrain yourself and don't be tempted and disturbed by them."

After saying that, he turned to Jiukong Yaoai to explain.

"The most critical aspect of resurrecting a person is the soul."

If it was just the body, he had already researched it thoroughly: in small towns in the real world, the 'underworld slaves' wandering around at night were his products.

It is not afraid of injury, cannot die, and only needs "spiritual power" to survive. It is simply a perfect body.

pity--

"The souls of ordinary people come to this underworld after death."

"At the same time, some memory will be lost."

As for whether it is more or less, it depends on the person's obsession and strength.

In order to collect this data, he did a lot of experiments: making corpses with his own hands and then resurrecting them.

"Saki, get behind me!"

While the doctor was talking and Jiukong Yaoai was listening carefully, the battle had already begun.

The evil spirits in the dense buildings around them finally couldn't hold back anymore and began to attack the team: there were headless warriors, drowned corpses that were as swollen as balls, and hungry ghosts with limbs as thin as firewood crawling on the ground.

The two 'big guys' didn't care about this, and the others were already ready to fight these evil spirits.

"Obviously, such a resurrection would be flawed."

The reason why doctors 'train' these subordinates is for this moment.

"The person who wants to be resurrected has a complete soul and must go to the Santu River to rescue him."

Santu River, Wangchuan River, and Styx River.

In the myths and legends of almost all countries, there is such a river that runs through the world of the dead.

This is normal, because as long as you take a map and look at it, you will find that most cities in human history have a river passing through them.

Water is a necessity for the development of civilization.

In ancient times, there was no water supply company. If there were no rivers passing by and we had to rely on digging wells to drink water, how many people could it support?

Besides, if there is no river irrigation, it will be difficult to develop farmland; without farmland, famine will only occur when a large population gathers.

Therefore, the humble river has always run through human civilization.

It is also given a special meaning:

After death, the place where the soul returns.

"All human souls flow in the Santu River. Only by rescuing them from the river can they achieve perfect resurrection!"

"Is that so?"

Jiukong Yaoai still believed in the doctor's words.

They are now using the doctor's research to reversely project the soul into the 'Yellow Spring': as the doctor and Jiukong Yaoai who have mastered the skill of 'Immortal Reincarnation', they can interrupt the technique at any time and return the soul to the real world.

As for the others.

Hehe,

The doctor and Jiukong Yaoai lead the way. With their strength, ordinary evil spirits naturally dare not seek death, and instead attack the sides and rear of the team.

In the team, Mrs. Tatsuki, Yuto Tatsuki, and Saki are ordinary people; but the genuine 'monk' of Yamagami Ryuji, although he only has one move of 'Acalanatha Mantra', is very sharp in dealing with these evil spirits, which is not comparable to other small town extraordinary people who wield swords.

"Huh?"

While fighting and walking, the small town police was stunned.

He accidentally glanced at the alley next to him,

and saw a figure holding a sharp knife in the depths of the darkness, wearing a leather skirt on his chest, who seemed to be a butcher.

Bang,

Waving the baton in his hand, he knocked an evil spirit out. The policeman had no time to think about it and walked forward quickly.

After running for more than ten meters, the policeman's eyes swept across another dark alley: there was also a butcher's figure inside, with blood stains on his leather skirt clearly visible, and the butcher's knife shining with cold light made people feel cold, and it was much closer to the team, but as everyone quickly moved forward, it disappeared again.

Is it the same evil spirit?

The policeman just had this thought in his mind, and subconsciously turned his head to look to the other side:

However, in an alley over there, the butcher's figure was only a few meters away from everyone: he could clearly see the other's face full of flesh and scars, as well as his eyes staring at him like a hungry wolf, and the bloody butcher's knife held high in his hand.

? !

Three times in a row, he saw the butcher appearing in different directions and positions; such a nightmare-like scene made the policeman's hair stand on end, and he dared not look left and right again. He immediately retracted his sight and kept staring at the front.

But the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became in his heart, and the more uneasy he felt, driving the policeman to look to the side again.

"Ah!!"

This glance made him let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Because the butcher was already close, almost face to face! In the twisted and hideous smile of the other party, the bloody and cold butcher knife in his hand had already chopped down.

Puff,

"What's wrong?"

In front of the team, the elegant doctor turned around.

In his eyes, the 'policeman' in the team suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, blood kept coming out of his open mouth, but there was no obvious external injury.

"Those wolf-level evil spirits have taken action."

Jiukong Yaoai glanced behind him slightly, and the pupils in his golden eyes were vertically connected.

Wolf-level evil spirits have all kinds of weird 'supernatural abilities'; these abilities are strange because they are the remnants of human souls: after meeting certain conditions, the lethality will increase; or they may become useless for some reasons.

"Speed ​​up!"

The doctor sped up while pulling out several scalpels with cold light from under his coat.

He held the scalpel between his fingers and swung it forward like a claw.

Poof,

An evil spirit emerged from thin air,

Followed by three cut marks on the evil spirit, extending from head to toe!

Without taking a closer look at the evil spirit that he had "sliced", the doctor strode forward. For this day, he had consulted countless ancient books and done many things that violated the professional ethics of doctors. At this point, there was no possibility of turning back.

He didn't need to turn back!

Jiukong Yaoai kicked lightly and floated forward.

With her tiger-level strength, she could still come and go freely even in this "Yoquan Biliangzaka".

It's impossible to encounter super-sized enemies every time you go out. Those special evil spirits can't shake the little girl full of hatred.

However, something unexpected happened at the back of the team.

"Child."

A familiar call came from behind and fell into the ears of the tram driver. It was his mother's voice.

Mother?

No, it's the power of the evil spirit!

He almost turned his head subconsciously, but fortunately he reacted in time and just broke out in a cold sweat.

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

The voice changed, and it became the high school girl he often "helped" recently. The youthful and crisp voice was mixed with panting and groaning, which was very exciting.

Humph,

Do you really think I'm a fool?

The tram driver cursed in his heart, ignored it, and ran forward.

"Ouch."

At this moment, the sound of the old mayor's staggered footsteps suddenly came from behind.

"Help me, I sprained my foot"

After all, he was the mayor of the small town, and the tram driver subconsciously turned his head and reached out to help.

The opponent's palm pressed on his shoulder, and it was cold and piercing!

And the "old mayor" lowered his face and pulled with his palm.

With this push and pull, the tram driver felt confused and couldn't tell the direction, but anyway, there were "people" on both sides, so he just kept running.

"Hey, where are you running to?!"

As the school security guard holding a long stick shouted, the tram driver suddenly rushed out of the team and ran towards the group of evil spirits next to him.

"Don't worry about him, he's been hit--"

The old mayor glanced over and noticed the tram driver's cloudy eyes.

"Focus and get out of here!"

How easy is this?

"Mom?!"

In the running team, a housewife stumbled out, obviously also bewitched by the evil spirit.

"Yuto, don't go!"

"Asshole, calm down!"

Holding Yuto Tatsuki who wanted to catch up, Saki and Yamagami Ryuji dragged him forward: Before Yuto Tatsuki could struggle, two servants with bare feet and short clothes and a circle of cloth tied on their heads rushed over carrying a sedan chair called "jiacang".

The sedan chair of the island country is not located on the lifting pole, but under the lifting pole.

This resulted in this kind of "jiacang" being only a dozen centimeters above the ground, and with the narrow space, it looked like a "coffin".

As the two servants opened the "jiacang", Mrs. Tatsuki got into it in a daze, and was immediately carried away like a gust of wind and disappeared, causing Yuto Tatsuki, who opened his mouth wide, to feel weak all over.

If it weren't for the two childhood playmates supporting him, he would have fallen into the underworld in a state of despair.

Swish, swish, swish,

The long knife in his hand chopped continuously, like dazzling lightning.

It was the gloomy girl named "Xue No" who killed the evil spirits around with a knife, which prevented the team from collapsing.

But as more and more evil spirits came, they were about to give up:

"Get lost--"

With a childish cold snort, poisonous snakes spread out in all directions under Jiukong Yaoai's feet.

The poisonous snakes moved and spread, and opened their mouths with two fangs at the same time: immediately new poisonous snakes drilled out of their mouths, and then these poisonous snakes also opened their mouths one after another, which had a taste of "sons give birth to grandchildren, grandchildren give birth to sons, and there is no end to the descendants."

Ten thousand snake formation!

Thousands of poisonous snakes spread out rapidly, like a "carpet" covering the stone ground of Huangquan, killing those evil spirits.

In front of these poisonous snakes that only have the instincts of biting, entanglement, and killing, most of the evil spirits' abilities against "humans" have failed, and they were killed and routed, and forced into those buildings.

"Miss Jiukong's strength is really amazing."

The evil spirits were killed and the team's speed of advancement increased sharply;

"That's because you haven't seen a real strong man."

Jiukong Yaoai's little face was calm when she admired the doctor sincerely while running. As she said, how could these extraordinary people hiding in the town know what a strong man is!

The great onmyoji Abe Haruaki, and that Youjun - in front of their magic that can destroy the world with just a raise of their hands, what is my strength?

But being weak is not useless.

His eyes swept over the doctor leading the way in front: This doctor's wolf-level strength is undoubtedly a weak man.

But his research on "resurrection" is unique.

"We're here!"

I don't know how long I ran, and my eyes lit up.

With the doctor's words, they have passed through an area composed of a large number of messy buildings.

A huge river appeared in front of them: it crossed the Yellow Spring and rolled in; the river was mighty and endless, with an indescribable magnificence.

With everyone's eyesight, they couldn't see where the river came from, nor did they know where it ended; even if the river had no "other shore", they didn't know. If it hadn't been rolling all the time, everyone would probably think that there was a vast sea in front of them.

Moreover, the color of the water in the river was very strange, it was a kind of yellow with a hint of green, so yellow that there was no luster; in the boundless yellow and green mist, there was always a trace of green water vapor rising, and at the same time, there were waves.

No, it wasn't the sound of waves!

Instead, it was the desperate cry, the helpless sigh, and the final curse. These sounds kept coming into everyone's ears, making their souls tremble and ripple.

"This is it"

The old mayor subconsciously stepped forward and looked carefully.

In this boundless yellow-green river, there were countless incomplete and bizarre people, animals, birds, and fish struggling and howling, countless arms desperately trying to catch them, and countless souls floating in it: there was no end in sight, layer upon layer, and the number was unknown.

Hundreds of billions? Hundreds of billions? Or hundreds of millions?

"This is the Santu River,"

The doctor took over the topic, and at the same time, his palm fell on the old mayor's shoulder.

"I promised you, and it will come true soon."

After saying that, his five fingers suddenly clasped into the spirit,

Swish,

Raised his hand and waved,

throwing the old mayor forward and falling into the rolling river.