Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 174: Inunaki Tunnel
Saturday.

Miyawaka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, near Mt. Inunaki.

The weather doesn't look very good today. It's covered with dark clouds and the air pressure is low, making the mountains seem particularly depressing.

Yang Liu sat in a dilapidated auto repair shop on the roadside, looking at the weather outside the window with great emotion:
"Oh, it seems that my luck is not very good today. Not only is the weather bad, but the tire of my bicycle is flat. Thank you so much, boss. If you were not willing to help me fix the bicycle, I would have to push it away."

The owner of the auto repair shop put the wrench on the rusty engine hood next to him, pulled out the inner tube of the bicycle and carefully checked the leak, and answered without turning his head:

"It's just something that comes handy. I have nothing else to do anyway. You should be thankful that it's just the inner tube that burst, and the wound is not serious enough for me to repair it for you, otherwise I don't have any parts to repair bicycles in this garage."

"Oh, it seems that my luck is actually pretty good. The bicycle just had a minor problem, and I got to meet a good person like you, the boss." Yang Liu shook his legs happily.

The owner of the auto repair shop raised his head when he heard this: "I didn't expect you to be an optimist."

"Ahahahaha, that's what my friends all say to me."

The two of them chatted idly and time passed slowly.

Soon, the owner of the auto repair shop reassembled the bicycle, helped to fill it with air, tested the condition of the tire, and nodded with satisfaction:
"Okay, it's enough for the time being, but I advise you to replace the inner tube when you get back to the city. I can't find the right tools here, and the material used is for repairing tires, which is quite corrosive and won't last for a few days."

"Oh, thank you so much, boss, otherwise I really don't know what to do."

Yang Liu happily took his large mountain bike, checked it briefly to make sure it was OK, and nodded with satisfaction: "How much?"

"Come on, this is a car repair shop, not a bicycle shop. I don't know if you ask me."

The owner of the auto repair shop lit a cigarette and put it between his lips. He sat back in his chair and waved his hand impatiently at Yang Liu:
"Go home quickly! Judging from the weather, you probably won't be able to climb the mountain today."

"I didn't plan to go hiking. I was planning to go to the Old Inunaki Tunnel to take a look." Yang Liu replied cheerfully.

Hearing this, the boss of the car factory's hands trembled, and the smiling expression on his face quickly subsided, and he became serious:

"You want to go to the Old Inunaki Tunnel?"

"Yeah, I heard that it's a famous haunted place, so I plan to go there and see for myself."

The owner of the auto repair shop hurriedly put out the cigarette he had just lit, stood up and looked Yang Liu up and down in silence, then shrank back into his chair as if he remembered something, his face looking terribly gloomy.

"Kid, listen to my advice and go back quickly. There's nothing interesting in that tunnel. It's just a gathering place for a group of bikers. If you get entangled by bad boys by accident, the consequences will be quite serious."

"Ah, thank you for your concern, boss. Don't worry, I'll just be outside to take a look and won't go in." Yang Liu smiled and nodded at him, then rode away. "Goodbye, boss."

Looking at Yang Liu's back as he walked towards the mountains, the owner of the auto repair shop's face darkened.

He took out an old photo from his jacket pocket. The photo showed a teenager standing in front of a car repair shop. The car repair shop was not as shabby as it is now.

Carefully touching the faded edges of the photo, the auto repair shop owner remained silent.

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Because there were not many people in the deep mountains and forests, Yang Liu slowed down a little.

Following the navigation on the electronic map, it didn’t take long to find the abandoned old Inunaki Tunnel around Inunaki Mountain.

The Inunaki Tunnel is a gorge that passes through a series of mountains around Jeonmyeongsan Mountain. After the new Inunaki Tunnel was completed in 1975, the old Inunaki Tunnel was abandoned and later became a place for illegal dumping of waste and bosozoku gatherings.

What made the Old Inunaki Tunnel famous was the burning and murder incident that occurred in 1988.

At that time, a 20-year-old worker who worked in Tagawa City was approached by two bad boys on his way home and they attempted to "borrow" his vehicle by force.

He was then forcibly taken to the home of his accomplice, and finally a total of five people tied him up and took him to the Old Inunaki Tunnel, poured gasoline on him and burned him to death.

Later in 2000, a murder and abandoned body was discovered in a reservoir not far from the north side of the tunnel, and many urban legends emerged in the tunnel.

This is also the main location that Yang Liu finally chose to hunt demons.

There are quite a lot of urban legends or myths related to tunnels in Japan, and the most famous urban legend in the Old Inunaki Tunnel is probably the "Inunaki Village".

Legend has it that during the Edo period in Japan, the people of Inunaki Village were treated unfairly by the outside world, so they completely refused to interact with the outside world and lived a self-sufficient life for hundreds of years.

However, due to long-term inbreeding, the villagers in this village have become extremely brutal. There is even a sign at the end of the Old Inunaki Tunnel that reads "The Constitution of Japan does not apply ahead."

This hodgepodge of legends, which is obviously a fusion of many different legends, became popular throughout the Kyushu region for a period of time due to the case that occurred in the Old Inunaki Tunnel.

A huge amount of human emotions are mixed together and gathered here. When some ghosts that meet the requirements pass through this tunnel, they will be assimilated by the emotions and eventually evolve into the third stage demons and become villagers of "Inunaki Village".

According to urban legends, the transformed ghosts will become similar to earthbound spirits, and after evolving, they will be integrated into the area called Inunaki Village.

According to urban legend, Inunaki Village itself is not on the map, so the situation in this area is rather special and will not be revealed on the surface.

According to the information provided by Reiko Sasaki, in order to enter the territory of Inunaki Village, one must meet the two identities of "alone" and "traveler".

Being alone means being isolated and being a traveler means not being able to prepare here in advance.

However, due to the particularity of the urban legend of Inunaki Village itself, there is more than one monster in the village, and they are extremely hostile to outsiders.

Faced with an unknown number of third-stage demons, and having to fight them in their "territory", alone and unable to prepare in advance, even the most powerful ones would not dare to enter here casually.

Yang Liu fell in love with this area at first sight and felt that this place was tailor-made for her.

The black light balls dropped by monsters can repair injuries, and you can strengthen yourself by absorbing the monster's spirit.

(End of this chapter)