The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 3 The Visible Boy (2)

"Got it..." Following the guidance of the Bagua compass in his hand, Qian Xiaoyi walked slowly on the road with his lunch box in his hand, just like a person staring at his phone. However, the compass in his hand did not emit light, so it was a little difficult to see clearly at night.

Following the guidance of the compass, he walked forward. The surrounding atmosphere gradually became noisier, and colorful neon lights were shining on the signs. Qian Xiaoyi slowly walked to the bustling commercial street.

"Want to get rid of the entanglement by going to a popular place?" Qian Xiaoyi said to himself: "It's smart, but it's hard to do. It's hard to escape once you've been marked."

As expected, Qian Xiaoyi didn't walk very fast, and he caught up with the high school student who was running away in a hurry. The reason was that he seemed to have a conflict with someone. I saw a few bad guys... Sorry, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Here we should call them bad boys.

The three bad boys surrounded the high school student, flicked their tongues and yelled, "Kora!!! You bumped into someone and you still want to run away? Are your eyes just for show? Asshole!"

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean it." The high school student responded with an evasive look.

"Look here! Do you want to escape?" The bad guy grabbed his collar and continued to yell.

As for why the high school student didn't dare to look at him, it wasn't because the bad guys looked so vicious. They were just a few ordinary kids with dyed yellow hair and earrings. They were not even 1.7 meters tall. The reason why the high school student didn't dare to look directly at the bad guys was...

——The ghost with blood all over his face was standing behind the bad guys, staring at the high school student grimly.

"Please let me go!" The high school student began to struggle.

Passersby watched the farce, the bad guys winked at each other, and pulled the struggling high school student into the dark alley next to them, and the passersby pretended not to see anything and hurried away. If it was a vicious incident, someone might call the police, but these were just a few half-grown children, and they would not be punished even if they called the police, so no one would mind their business. You have to know that Japan has basically abolished the death penalty, and with Japan's Juvenile Protection Law, if you mind your own business and get stabbed by underage hooligans, you will suffer a great loss.

"Interesting~" Qian Xiaoyi muttered as he looked at the dim alley. He put away the compass, took out a lighter and lit the cigarette that had been in his mouth. A wisp of green smoke rose slowly.

Inside the alley, the bad guy threw the high school student against the wall and asked two people to block the entrance to the alley, cutting off the high school student's escape route.

The high school student seemed to be extremely frightened. He squatted down with his head in his hands, and his body was shaking like a quail.

"Hey, hey, hey~ It doesn't have to be like this." Buliang was a little amused: "I'm not a bad guy. It was you who bumped into me just now. How about this, pay some mental damages and I'll let you go. There are no cameras here. If you don't want to be beaten, take out the money."

The high school student was still shaking there, and the bad guy's face turned a little ugly. He kicked the high school student and said, "Hey! Answer me, you bastard!" Seeing that the high school student still ignored him, the bad guy frowned and searched the high school student's body and found a wallet. When he opened it, he saw that there were only a few coins in it, which totaled less than 1000 yen.

"What? You're so poor that you can only buy a few bottles of drinks..." Buliang said disdainfully. He took out his student ID from his wallet and read: "Inuyama... Heita, the school is..."

The other two bad guys at the entrance of the alley were watching the excitement when they suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, a bit like the mixture of incense and cigarettes in a Buddhist temple. When they were wondering, two hands suddenly came from behind and rested on their shoulders, one on the left and one on the right.

"Is this the Japanese delinquent? I thought she was the type with a crew cut, but I didn't expect that she would be considered a delinquent with earrings?" Qian Xiaoyi said with a cigarette in his mouth, hugging their shoulders and laughing. Then he formed a strange seal with his hands and wiped their eyelids with his fingertips.

The bad boy who was checking Inuyama Heita's student ID card suddenly heard a stranger's voice. He turned around and saw Qian Xiaoyi holding his hands on the shoulders of two younger brothers, who were looking at him with terrified eyes. "Who are you?" The bad boy said in a timid tone, "Don't mind your own business, uncle."

"Uncle... I just haven't shaved for a few days. I'm only in my twenties." Qian Xiaoyi retracted his hands and said unhappily. The two younger brothers beside him were already scared. In their eyes, the alley that was originally empty was now filled with many people. They stood in the alley in a scattered manner. Some were pale, and some had blood on their faces. But the same thing was: their lower bodies were like receiving a bad TV signal, flickering and fluctuating, as if...

——Like a ghost.

"Run! Ryoya! Run!"

"Ohh Ohh ohh……"

The two younger brothers turned around and ran outside, leaving the yellow-haired bad boy alone.

"Oh, your two little brothers have escaped." Qian Xiaoyi spread his hands and said, "Or do you want to fight me, an adult? Like you said, there are no cameras here."

"Damn it, you are meddling in other people's business!" Seeing that the situation was not good, the yellow-haired bad guy rushed past Qian Xiaoyi. Qian Xiaoyi was quick and snatched Inuyama Heita's wallet from the bad guy's hand. "It's not good to take other people's things." Qian Xiaoyi muttered.

Putting the cigarette in his mouth in the dirt, Qian Xiaoyi handed the wallet to Inuyama Heita: "Hey, stop shaking."

Inuyama Heita smelled a wonderful scent like incense, which calmed him down a little. He looked up and saw a man in front of him carrying a supermarket bag and wearing an ordinary gray sweatshirt. The terrifying ghosts in the distance no longer looked here, but gathered around one place, staring blankly with an intoxicated look on their faces. The source of the fragrance was coming from there, and a cigarette was burning quietly on the ground.

"Thank you...thank you..." Inuyama Heita tentatively took his wallet. Although there was not much money in it, many important documents were inside.

"Don't run around, brother. I had to chase you for a long time." A ghost with blood all over his face suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Ah!!!" Inuyama Heita was startled.

"Don't be afraid, your name is... Heitaro, right?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "This guy is not an evil spirit. He looks like he just died two days ago. He is very obsessed. He is pestering you because he has some unfulfilled wish, and you just happen to be able to see him, so he can only ask you for help."

But if I keep ignoring him, he might turn into an evil spirit, Qian Xiaoyi thought to himself.

"Help?" Inuyama Heita was a little hesitant.

"Yes! Inuyama-kun!" The ghost with blood all over his face said, "I am Oda who lives next door to your apartment! There is something I want you to tell my sister..." Inuyama Heita looked carefully and realized that he had indeed seen this person before. He didn't recognize him before because his face was covered in blood and his head was a little deformed.

(End of this chapter)