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The moment the box was opened, they suddenly felt a tremendous force coming from inside, which violently pushed the lid off!
A skeleton suddenly stood up from the middle!
"Aaaaaah!!" the old wolf screamed in terror.
Kotaro jumped back a big step in fright, his eyes wide open.
Blue flames burned in the empty eye sockets of the skull, and the stark white bones, though devoid of flesh, could move freely. The scene before them, even more surreal than a half-demon transformation, clearly terrified the two.
Seeing that the two were frightened by him, Ejima Izai burst into laughter.
"Skull, the skeleton is talking!" Kotaro clenched his fists, looking like he wanted to rush in and fight but didn't dare.
Old Wolf, standing to the side, patted his chest, still shaken, and said, "Ah, that scared me to death, that scared me to death..."
Lu Zizhen walked forward with a smile and said, "I knew you two idiots would be scared, hahaha... This is Jiangdao Yizai, a powerful demon!"
"Big demon?" Kotaro asked doubtfully.
The old wolf let out a long breath, slowly calmed down, and said, "A great demon... that's truly extraordinary."
“I remember now, Bone Tengu… So Kiryu-kun knows such a powerful helper.” He continued, raising his hand and waving, “Mr. Ejima, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
"Ah, hello, hello." Ejima Izai nodded vigorously, completely losing his composure.
Then, he stepped out of the box, smiled, and said, "Oh dear, it's all thanks to Miss Lu's idea; it's so interesting!"
Lu Zizhen gave a thumbs up.
"Let's sit down and talk!" Dou Tang said.
The group sat down at the table again. After introducing everyone, Dou Tang looked at Aida Yue and Jiangdao Yizai with a serious expression and said, "I am very happy that Mr. Aida and Professor Jiangdao could come. Thank you for coming to help."
“This humble monk cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening in Urayasu City.” Aida Gaku bowed slightly.
"It's nothing, I'm just bored out of my mind at school anyway," Ejima Izai said, shrugging.
So what exactly is the situation now?
Xueqing brought a map of Pu'an City, while Doutang began to tell the two about his experiences during this period and the current situation in Pu'an City.
After hearing this, Ejima Iya slammed his fist down in anger: "Damn it! Kiryu-kun, you actually did something so interesting behind the teacher's back!"
Dou Tang pointed to Mikazuki beside him: "At first, I just wanted to help my own cat."
Mikazuki nodded.
"Cat girl... Hmm, that guy is really interesting, turning monsters into humans and stuff..." Ejima Iya looked at Mikazuki, seemingly deep in thought.
"So, how can Mr. Ejima and I help? What is our next plan?" Aida Gaku interrupted.
“Before you arrived, we were in a predicament of waiting for the rabbit to run into our trap,” Dou Tang said. “But there is a drawback to this. When the exorcists enter Puan City and begin to take back control of the order, Ling Ming will definitely run away. He is not stupid. After seeing that the situation is beyond saving, he will not fight to the death like a half-demon. With his strength, if we let him escape, it will be difficult for us to catch him again.”
"We were waiting for him to come to us, which was a gamble. We were betting that he would be eager to clear his name and take the initiative."
"But judging from what you've said about the Tokyo Exorcist Association, since Tokyo is already in such a mess, a large number of exorcists will definitely arrive in Urayasu City soon. From the moment you arrived, Ling Ming has already lost his chance to clear his name."
"So once he gets the information about Tokyo, he'll definitely choose to escape. What we need to do now is to do it before he does..."
Dou Tang's finger slammed down on the map, his eyes blazing with murderous intent: "Shoot straight to the heart of the enemy and end all of this!"
Upon hearing this, Aida Gaku nodded in agreement: "Understood. Now it's our turn to take the initiative, end the chaos in Urayasu City, and get everything back on track."
"But... I really didn't expect that guy to be the former second-in-command of the association, and he also had a close relationship with Shui Tianjingsaburo."
"Could someone as powerful as him also become intoxicated by the power brought by the new era...?"
Aida Gaku sighed: "It's really disheartening. Recently, many people in the association have suddenly gained exorcism abilities, and some of them are good while others are bad... I have a feeling that a storm is brewing in this era."
Just then, Ejima Iza, who had been silent for a while, suddenly raised his head and looked at Mikazuki.
He asked very seriously, "Mikazuki-san, you said you could reproduce with humans..."
Quarantined?
Chapter 128 Rainy Night, Final Battle!
evening.
In Urayasu City, people hurry by in the evening. Since the Halloween incident, people have been more worried. Now, every evening when people get off work, the streets are full of office workers who are obediently going home. Traffic jams are getting worse and the business of izakayas on the street has dropped sharply.
And people suddenly noticed that the weather had changed.
As the fiery red sea of clouds in the distance disappeared, thick, dark clouds gradually gathered over the entire city of Puan.
These clouds arrived quickly and suddenly, gathering heavily and piling up, gradually pressing down as if the bottom of a continent were covering Urayasu City.
The rapidly changing weather was unsettling, and more and more people were rushing home, as if the gloomy, eerie clouds were foreshadowing something.
Soon, a torrential downpour began.
On the streets of Urayasu, the rain covered the ground with a thin film, and dappled light flowed on the puddles, only to be shattered by the dense raindrops.
The streets were filled with the honking of vehicles, and looking up, the neon lights between the tall buildings seemed to illuminate even the low, heavy clouds.
Unbeknownst to anyone, on a high-rise building opposite the Royal Silver Private Hospital, a skeleton was spreading its arms and waving them toward the sky, stirring up the immense weight of the heavens.
"The wind is strong enough! And the rain is pouring down too!"
Wearing a raincoat, Tou Tang stood next to Ejima Izai and shouted loudly.
Under the storm, the blue flames in Ejima Izai's eyes dimmed, as if controlling such a large area of wind and rain was quite a challenge for him.
His body swayed back and forth in the wind, his chin opening and closing as he said, "Is this enough? This rain will probably last until the middle of the night!"
"Enough! Absolutely enough! Let's finish this quickly!" Dou Tang shouted.
Ejima Izai then lowered his hand, his shoulders rising and falling as if he were panting heavily, even though he no longer had those organs.
"I'm exhausted... Phew, I don't think I'll be able to fight alongside you guys later." He said, holding his lower back with one hand.
"Stop talking nonsense! This little thing can make you tired? This is worse than the night you first awakened!" Dou Tang tugged at his arm.
"How did I end up with such a troublesome student who doesn't respect teachers at all!" Jiangdao Yizai wailed.
"You're the one who wanted to help!" Dou Tang pulled him to the edge of the building.
Jiangdao Yizai looked at the hospital not far ahead, and at the non-existent sixth floor, and said, "Even heavy rain can't make that so-called sixth floor appear. What do we do now?"
The rain poured down on them, severely obstructing their vision. The hospital across the street was half-hidden in the darkness created by the rain, with only its lights swaying in the wind like a mirage.
Dou Tang held up two fingers and waved them.
"Two teams, we'll wait on the top floor and see how the others perform!" he shouted, his eyes already glowing with a bluish light in the darkness. "They'll enter from the inside. Lu Zizhen and Aida Yue will find a breakthrough in the barrier. Although they won't destroy the entire barrier, making the sixth floor visible is no problem at all!"
"Once the sixth floor becomes visible, it's time for us to take the stage!"
Dou Tang stood on the edge of the building with one foot, staring at the hospital across the street. Beside him was the skeleton Jiangdao Yizai. The two of them hid in the darkness, like ghosts secretly watching the living.
………………
In the hospital's underground parking lot, security guards patrolled with flashlights in hand.
It was only evening, but the parking lot was already deserted with hardly any cars in sight. The security guard sniffed the air and noticed a damp smell.
Just then, his walkie-talkie crackled to life: "Tanaka, come quick to the entrance! Water's starting to flood in! This rain is torrential!"
"received."
The security guard responded as he ran toward the parking lot entrance.
As the security guard's footsteps faded away, a white van in the parking lot suddenly opened its door.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry..." a woman jumped off the car and whispered.
The woman was dressed in a stylish black casual outfit that allowed for easy movement, with particularly striking transparent sleeves.
Behind her, several even more eye-catching and strange people jumped down.
There were three Kamen Riders in armor, and a bald, muscular man in sportswear.
Both women and strong men wore gas masks to avoid inhaling miasma or poisonous fog during the battle.
Lu Zizhen reached out and took out several talismans. With a few quick movements of her hands, the talismans flew out automatically and stuck to the surrounding surveillance cameras.
Then she waved her hand: "Quick, let's hurry up and go to the stairwell where there are no security cameras, then go straight upstairs!"
The five people looked rather furtive as they walked along the wall to the stairwell, opened the fire door, and lined up to crawl inside.
By this time, the hospital had already closed for the day, and visits were not allowed after closing. Therefore, the stairwells were empty, and apart from the nurses' stations on each floor and the patients in the wards, there was no one else in the entire hospital.
The five of them crept up the stairs, sneaking around, and surprisingly, they didn't encounter anyone.
The timing was impeccable; it was right after the first handover patrol between the day shift and the night shift, with the next patrol not starting until midnight. Therefore, they rushed straight to the fifth floor.
We arrived at the stairwell on the fifth floor.
Xueqing drew her knife and stared at the stairwell, while Guangtaro and Laolang waited on the side. Lu Zizhen and Aida Yue arrived at the end of the stairs on the fifth floor and looked at the wall in front of them.
"It's up to you now," Xueqing said.
When it comes to things like barriers and spells, the three Kamen Riders are all inferior to each other, all of them being reckless novices who only learned the basics halfway through their careers. Only Masashi and Aida Gaku are considered experts.
Looking at the wall in front of him, Lu Zizhen's expression was solemn: "As expected of the most famous Onmyoji family in all of Japan, they really have something."
Aida Gaku pursed his lips and remained silent.
In their eyes, there was indeed a space behind the wall, but that space was enveloped by a thick barrier of resentment. This barrier was not something that ordinary evil spirits could release simply by instinct; rather, it was as intricate as a spider web made of spider silk, with countless tiny threads of resentment covering the entire space. These threads were layered upon each other, like a silk cocoon.
“That guy’s skill in creating barriers far surpasses ours,” Aida Gaku said with a sigh.
“That’s true.” Lu Zizhen pursed her lips.
"What, you can't do anything either?" Kotaro asked anxiously.
Upon hearing this, Lu Zizhen chuckled mischievously: "Hehe, how could that be?"
"Destroying something is always much easier than building something. Although we could never create such an exquisite barrier, it would be much simpler to dig a hole in it!"
Chapter 129 Confronting Ling Ming
Lu Zizhen took out a few talismans and stuck them on the wall in front of her, smiling smugly: "Anyway, we don't need to worry about anything, right? Let's just use the most brutal method!"
Aida Yue nodded approvingly, took out his gloves and put them on, clenched his fist tightly, and a faint electric current flashed on the gloves.
"Uh oh my, a Taoist priest dressed in fashionable clothes, and a monk wearing boxing gloves ready to fight, this is too strange." Old Wolf still had the mood to complain.
“You two aren’t much better.” Lu Zizhen took two steps back. “This talisman won’t destroy the entire barrier, but it will open a crack so we can squeeze in. Once inside, all we need to do is quickly take up a good position and then break the entire barrier.”
“That guy Dou Tang… has a rather special constitution. He’s not very good at dealing with barriers, so we have to clear the way for him first.”
Everyone nodded.
At this moment, Lu Zizhen brought her index and middle fingers together to form a sword-like gesture and shook the talisman paper stuck to the wall.
She shouted coldly, "The old country is lost in the river, the road leads to the border city, open!"
The talismans pasted on the wall began to shimmer, and the bright red cinnabar on their surfaces ignited into flames, which then spread outwards, consuming the talismans without stopping. They spread across the wall like flowing water, eventually expanding into a circular opening.
Beyond the circular opening lies a quiet corridor.
Kotaro and the old wolf stepped forward and entered the cave first. The two kept a close eye on both sides, and after finding no danger, they waved back.
Lu Zizhen and Aida Yue followed closely behind.
Xue Qing, carrying a long sword, entered last.
The five of them finally entered the vanished sixth floor.
The structure of the entire sixth floor is no different from that of the fifth floor. The entire floor is shaped like a "回" (hui) character and has almost no lighting. The only two light sources are the green surgical light on the door and the streetlights shining through the covered wall next to it.
"It's so quiet." Kotaro said doubtfully.
Lu Zizhen focused her gaze on the operating room door, which was lit up with a green light, not far away.
"Looks like this is that guy's lair. It looks like an abandoned operating room floor," Old Wolf said.
"Da da……"
Suddenly, footsteps came from the far end of the corridor, where Kotaro was.
Everyone immediately became alert and looked in that direction, except for Xueqing, who remained vigilant behind them to prevent being ambushed.
The footsteps in the distance grew closer and closer, and finally, a figure emerged from the side and entered the corridor where everyone was.
It was a person dressed in a dark red Shinto priest's robe, wearing wooden clogs, and wearing a tall hat with the hallmarks of the Heian period. He looked like an ancient person who had stepped out of a ukiyo-e print.
"It's so late, and we still have guests visiting. It's a pleasant surprise."
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