Tokyo: I am the Lord of All Demons!

After getting out of the car, Akihiko Noguchi immediately called the five men together, distributed walkie-talkies, and held a combat meeting.

"Osaki, Hamasaki, Imamura, Kawamura, Hase."

After roll call, the five people came over.

Among them, Priest Osaki is a young man who has just entered the profession. He follows closely by Noguchi Akihiko's side, holding a talisman and a baton, always ready to protect the vice priest.

Accompanying the vice-chief was this shrine maiden from Kawamura, who was Noguchi Akihiko's secretary. Now thirty-two years old, she was considered a senior figure compared to the younger generation.

Hamasaki, Imamura, and Hase Shinto are middle-aged men with some experience; they are all over forty and have worked tirelessly for Sakuraba Shrine for many years. It is said that they will be promoted soon.

Unlike the other two anchors, Akihiko Noguchi was born and raised here for decades and knows the surrounding geography very well.

The "Haunted Houses" area was originally the old town of Nerima, but it became deserted in modern times due to the concentration of urban population, which is why so many "gloomy old houses" have appeared.

After a brief strategic meeting, the group decided to split into two teams to search for the two girls.

In the first group, Akihiko Noguchi decided to walk at the front, followed by two young men.

The second group consisted of three experienced senior priests.

The second group started from the right, followed by the first group from the left. The two groups will eventually meet at the end of the village.

But before he had gone more than a few steps, Noguchi Akihiko noticed a car parked in front of an old house not far ahead.

The car's headlights were still on, but they seemed to be broken, flickering weakly as they illuminated the old house ahead.

"Let's go ahead and take a look. Remember to approach slowly and don't alert them," Akihiko Noguchi whispered his instructions.

The henchmen replied in unison, "Roger!"

The three of them crawled forward.

Noguchi Akihiko had barely taken a step when he noticed two young girls emerging from the old house ahead. Judging from their attire, they must be the two ghost-hunting livestreamers.

It was truly effortless. Just as Noguchi Akihiko was about to go up and greet them, he suddenly felt something was wrong!

Even though those two people were right in front of him, in Noguchi Akihiko's mind, they seemed to be a world apart from him.

Is it just my imagination?

It's not an illusion.

Noguchi Akihiko felt as if the air in front of him was compressed to its limit, and even with all his might, it was difficult to move forward any further.

And so, Akihiko Noguchi could only watch helplessly as the two anchors got into the car and quickly drove away from the scene.

It's good that they're gone.

In conclusion, the rescue operation has ended!

Just as Noguchi Akihiko breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn around to gather his team to retreat, the Kawamura Shrine Maiden behind him suddenly called out, "Priest Noguchi!"

The shout startled Noguchi Akihiko, who quickly turned around and asked in a puzzled voice, "What's wrong?"

The shrine maiden Kawamura whispered, "I can't contact Hamasaki, Imamura, or Priest Hase..."

Upon hearing this, Akihiko Noguchi quickly spoke into the walkie-talkie, reading out the names of the three people in turn: "Hamasaki? Imamura? Hase!"

No one answered.

At this point, Akihiko Noguchi realized that things were not simple, but he soon discovered something even more serious.

He asked, "Where's Osaki?"

Upon hearing his question, the Kawamura Shrine Maiden belatedly shook her head, looked around, but couldn't find anyone.

She murmured, "How could this be? He was just behind me a moment ago..."

Sensing something was wrong, Akihiko Noguchi immediately called out into the walkie-talkie, "Osaki? Osaki! Respond if you receive this!"

Still, no one answered.

The walkie-talkie only made a hissing sound.

The atmosphere was getting increasingly strange.

Noguchi Akihiko could clearly feel the pressure on his chest, as if something heavy was pressing down on him, making it increasingly difficult for him to breathe.

Furthermore, the temperature is getting colder and colder, as if it has suddenly turned from summer to winter.

As the situation grew increasingly bizarre, the Kawamura Shrine Maiden couldn't help but worry: "Noguchi-san, what do we do now?"

After a brief moment of thought, Akihiko Noguchi made a decision: "Something's not right here. Let's leave first and call for backup before going back to find them."

Kawamura Miko: "Okay."

The two then turned around.

This turn.

The two of them were stunned.

What was behind them was no longer behind them, but in front of them, because what lay before them was an old house and a luxury car.

"What's going on..." Noguchi Akihiko swallowed hard. Wasn't the luxury car driven away by the girls? How come it's back?

calm down!

Could it be that I'm just confused?

Realizing this, Akihiko Noguchi suddenly turned around, rubbed his eyes, and looked back at what he had been looking at.

But they found that the front and the back were the same, both old houses and luxury cars.

"I refuse to believe it!" Noguchi Akihiko charged forward, approaching the old house and the luxury car.

To his surprise, there were still old houses and luxury cars ahead, and the luxury cars ahead were currently being driven on.

This time, however, the "people" were no longer the two girls, but two ghosts.

What's truly terrifying is that, as Noguchi Akihiko looked up into the distance, he discovered several more "old houses and luxury cars" ahead, with "people" on those luxury cars as well.

The further away the scene is, the more people get on the bus, and the more fleshy the people in the further away the scene is, the less flesh they have.

When they reached the furthest old house and luxury car that Akihiko Noguchi could see, which was the fifth terrifying scene, they discovered that the people getting into the car had turned into five skeletons.

"Priest Noguchi!"

Just then, Kawamura Shrine Maiden's scream came from behind. Noguchi Akihiko quickly turned around and saw a "person" getting out of the Cayenne next to him.

No, it's not so much that it came down, but rather that it floated down directly from the car window!

Noguchi Akihiko could not see the person's face, but could only glimpse that he was wearing a triangular scarf on his head and a white cloth draped over his body. He had no feet and just floated over like that.

Chapter 7 I hate it so much

late at night.

An unknown apartment building.

After the two female streamers went offline, Makoto Araki originally planned to go to sleep without showering and continue causing trouble the next day, but the system was still accumulating "fear", and quite a lot of it.

With doubts in his mind, Makoto Araki controlled the monitoring spider back to the scene, only to find that others had entered the "Haunted House" area.

Judging from their clothing, they are likely priests or shrine maidens from a nearby shrine, and it's speculated that the live stream may have caught their attention.

Prior to this, Makoto Araki had already witnessed Suzune Shimizu using beans to drive away the ghost through his spider vision.

This is very strange. The ghost's behavior is inconsistent with the "setting"—it did not return to scare the two girls again after escaping, and no one knows where it ran away to.

In previous scenes, ghosts have often been attacked by passersby, but this is the first time I've seen a ghost so timid.

For example, last time at the shrine, the ghost was scared away by the "consecration device" held up by the priest, but then it came back and became even more ferocious.

The system that Makoto Araki possesses is only responsible for creating urban legends and does not have the ability to reclaim or destroy them. However, this is not a weakness. According to the system's description, as long as the monitoring spider stays away from the urban legend, the urban legend will soon disappear naturally.

That said, even after racking his brains, Makoto Araki never imagined that the ghost had stopped attacking Suzune and Shimizu because it had a new target—the priests and shrine maidens who had mistakenly driven into the area.

A blood moon hangs in the sky.

Makoto Araki controlled the monitoring spider to crawl quickly on the ground, and along the way he found three middle-aged priests lying on the ground, who had no vital signs after offering multiple units of "Fear".

The spider continued crawling forward and soon found a young priest by the roadside, leaning against a thousand-year-old cedar tree, already lifeless.

He remained exactly as he was in life, his face contorted, his mouth deformed, and his eyes staring ahead in terror.

Makoto Araki felt no sorrow for the dead. As for the ordinary people, they were dead and that was that. If they hadn't died, they wouldn't have generated a lot of "fear" income. Besides, they brought this situation upon themselves.

Makoto Araki, controlling the spider, followed the ghost's trail back to the old house where the two female anchors had previously explored the haunted house.

In the spider's vision, a middle-aged man dressed in a priest's white robe ran to the wall of the old house. He was holding a weapon and was protecting a red and white shrine maiden.

The ghost that floated out of the car window slowly drifted upwards from one side of the roof, looking down at the two of them.

"I hate it so much!"

The ghost was approaching~

Unstable, loaded! The whole operation was completed in one smooth motion. Noguchi Akihiko stood up, drew his gun, aimed at the ghost, and fired!

"boom!"

The bullet spun and shot out, the sound echoing through the old village house before finally disappearing into the endless darkness.

The bullet, carrying a scorching trajectory, struck the ghost directly between the eyebrows. The ghost's figure flickered slightly from the gunpowder attack before disappearing from the priest's sight.

As the pistol fired, the village of Witch River, crouching beneath the wall, nervously gripped his baton, waiting for his chance to strike.

"Did it work...?" Noguchi Akihiko put down his pistol; the recoil from firing had made his hand a little numb.

"Hahaha! Too bad you didn't succeed!"

A wild laugh came from behind Noguchi Akihiko, but before he could react or make any move, he found that the direction he was facing had changed inexplicably.

Now, he is facing the ghost.

Just a second ago, he should have been facing the wall, looking at the Kawamura Shrine Maiden below.

"What's going on...!" Noguchi Akihiko swallowed hard, completely unaware of what had happened.

At this critical moment, the ghost stretched out a thin, pale hand that was devoid of any blood color and grabbed his neck!

The ghost was much stronger than expected, and with ease, he lifted Noguchi Akihiko, a burly man weighing 180 pounds, with just one hand.

Noguchi Akihiko struggled violently, the pistol slipped from his hand, and his eboshi hat fell to the ground.