Zongman, can you be immortal with me for the rest of your life?

"I feel something is wrong. We'd better not go out through the door." Kerry said as he quietly pushed open the window.

"Hey, even if the ceiling here is not high, it's at least three meters below the windowsill!" Kazuma looked at Kerry in disbelief.

"It's okay, I can go alone. You pretend that there is someone else in the room." Kerry didn't ask Kazuma to go with him. After preparing himself mentally and putting on the Batman helmet, Kerry jumped off the windowsill.

"Bang!" Even though the vehicle had already rolled over to relieve the force, a muffled sound still occurred.

Kerry felt that his foot and wrist were sprained, and the skin on his hands was broken, but he didn't care. Instead, he endured the severe pain and didn't make any sound, and took a few steps into the shadows.

Although he said he was looking for those people, Kerry didn't have any direction and just walked towards the village.

After just a few steps, Kerry realized something was wrong.

Fuck!

It smells good! It smells really good!

Kerry, who had walked all the way from the back of the hotel to a dark corner, felt very surprised.

It felt like I was at a buffet restaurant where all the dishes I wanted to eat were available.

Besides, this is a bit too lively.

In the village at night, the sounds of people and dogs barking filled the air, but the strange thing was that when one looked towards the noisy place from afar, there was not a single light, only the houses still had lights on.

Kerry closed his eyes and carefully felt the feeling of positioning. It seemed that there were at least 50 individuals that could be "eaten" moving in the village.

Some are entering the house, and some are gathering together. If those things are spirits, then it is truly a night parade of a hundred ghosts.

Kerry wanted to get closer to observe, but was afraid of being discovered, so he began to walk around the place where the smell was, looking for the fragrance.

After walking around for a while, Kerry came to a temple.

There seemed to be several targets here before, but now the smells have all left and are heading towards the center of the village.

Kerry looked around and tiptoed into the temple.

But just as Kerry was about to lie down at the temple gate and look outside, he heard voices.

There was no smell, so it should be an ordinary person. Kerry looked around and wanted to go outside, but there was another fragrance coming from outside, as if approaching from a distance.

Helplessly, Kerry had to walk into the main hall, walked around and finally took a look at the statue of Sakyamuni in the middle. There was a gap between the back of the statue and the wall. Kerry hid behind the statue. It was relatively clean here, as if someone cleaned it regularly.

only...

Kerry stared blankly at the back of the statue, where a pink-haired figure was sitting on the ground, looking at him with fear written all over his face.

Kerry: ?

What's this for? Dio flips the manhole cover - this place is full, right?

When the other person saw Kerry, she seemed to want to scream, and Kerry stepped forward and covered her mouth.

Kerry didn't care about anything else and just shrank into the shadow behind the Buddha statue.

Just as Kerry hid inside, two people dressed as monks entered the hall with lanterns and closed the door.

Kerry heard some rustling noises, as if the other party had sat down on the cushion in front of the Buddha, only a Buddha statue's distance away from him.

At this time, the two of them spoke.

"Master Jingxin, really, why don't you even listen to the president's opinion?"

"You still call him Master! Have you forgotten that your father was also involved in arresting him?"

The sound of two people talking came over.

Chapter 19: Village Secrets

At night, candles were lit in the main hall of the temple, and the half-open and half-closed eyes of the Buddha's golden body seemed to be looking down at the two people in the hall.

The two monks, who did not want outsiders to hear their conversation, were talking freely.

"Following that guy Jingxin, there are so many rules, it's so annoying." One of them picked up a bottle of soda and drank it, showing a distressed expression.

"There's nothing I can do. He's still useful. At that time, I went to the richest man's house many times just to get to know his family." Another voice that sounded younger also joined in the conversation.

"After all, isn't he just after that woman? No, it would be more appropriate to say girl? Sometimes I really wonder how perverted that hypocritical guy is."

"That's right. Come on, how's that kid from the Shangshan family doing? I haven't been to the mountains these past few days. Wasn't he very disobedient before?"

As if not wanting to talk about this issue, one of them changed the subject.

"Oh, him? Wasn't he asked to take over old Yasuda's job? I guess he'll behave himself after a while. Haha, the mountains are really not a place for people to stay."

"Indeed, that place in the mountains is really tiring. We turned all those things into feed. They are our fellow human beings. I hope Buddha can forgive our sins..." The young man, who seemed to still have some awe for the Master Jingxin they mentioned at the beginning, spoke with an awkward tone.

"What do you mean by the same kind and different kinds?" The other person seemed a little anxious, and shouted loudly like a cat whose tail was stepped on, interrupting the young man.

"We've all done this, what are you afraid of? Doesn't your old man have enough people to eat? It sounds nice, feed, feed! Aren't they all human beings?

What are we doing? If you don't want to become like that fodder, harden your heart as soon as possible.

What if we grow old without them?"

Listening to the older man speak, the young man seemed to take a few breaths and become more determined.

"Yes, Brother, what you taught us is that we will have to walk in the lotus pond one day. The main reason is that the people who were sent here in the past ten days are all locals, so I am a little..."

"Humph, our compatriots, aren't they all just debt slaves or vagabonds? You'd better give up that idea as soon as possible. We are different from them.

When we have enough money, we will go to Tokyo and live a carefree life for a few decades. We can have any woman we want and any good woman we want.

When I am almost old and dying, I will go to that lotus pond. Lotus pond, lotus pond, it sounds nice.

Isn't it just blindfolding yourself and letting that woman bite you to turn you into a ghoul? That's what it's called in the book written by that old ghost Jingxin, but here it's called body sculpting. I think those people want to be ghosts and have fame, taking all the advantages and not allowing anyone to say anything about them.

"Be careful with your words, senior brother. This name was decided by the richest man in Yamada." The young man heard it and repeatedly asked him to stop.

However, the man called senior brother did not seem to be as calm as he appeared to be about this matter. He seemed to be holding back his anger, which was why he was so excited.

When he heard the people around him trying to dissuade him, he became even more furious.

"What are you afraid of? Will you tell on me or are you afraid others might overhear you?"

"No...I can't!"

"I'm telling you this because I know you won't. After all, what's that old Yamada? He's the richest man, but he only owns a few hotels and entertainment venues. Aren't there dozens of us doing the work?

Didn't we work so hard to grow leaves for him in the mountains? With that little revenue, can't he afford to buy people from outside?

We are the ones who buy people from abroad and connect with the human traffickers. We are the ones who watch those people grow and process the leaves in the mountains. We are the ones who risk being caught to send them all across the country. We are the ones who eat them up, turn them into zombies, and chop those monsters into pieces to make pig food!

What happened? Each of our families only had one spot. The year my mom died, I begged him for a break. What did he say? He said there wasn't enough food? His entire family, minus his grandson, had already turned into ghouls, and they were eating faster than the rest of us!

Now that he has a new source of supply to expand his membership, what's he doing? He's using these quotas to win over the prefectural governor, demanding a meeting, promising them to high-ranking officials in the Metropolitan Police Department and to council members, and then investing all the money he's earned, completely disregarding those of us who have worked for him for so many years!

The fiery and generous words are like a complaint against the capitalists by a poor worker who has been exploited for many years.

But the content contained in those words is indeed horrifying.

It's hard to imagine how people can say something like cannibalism so normally.

The junior fellow who heard his words agreed with some of his words, but was also a little trembling. He kept paying attention to see if there was anyone outside the door and seemed a little nervous.

But at this moment, there was someone shaking even more violently than him.

On the other side of the Buddha statue, where Goto Ichiri and Kerry are.

Pochi-chan was shaking like a piece of jelly that was about to melt, afraid that her breathing would be too loud and attract the attention of others. She kept shaking her head and her mind was blank.

She left the store at dusk. At that time, the whole family didn't know that the store would deliver dinner, so they were preparing to go downstairs to eat. However, they felt that the drinks in the store were expensive and not to their taste, so they asked her to go buy some.

But the lady boss of the store was too enthusiastic. Every time she saw her, she would pull her aside to talk and ask her if she had a boyfriend. This made Pochi-chan a little embarrassed, so she hid at the stairs and waited for a while when she went out. She waited until the lady boss went into the kitchen and then she rushed out.

After coming out, Pochi-chan thought of the uncle who might be a farmhand in the village. He would chatter non-stop every time he saw her, so she thought of going around from behind, but she got lost because of this.

Although they were traveling, their family only arrived one night earlier than Chris, and Goto Ichiri usually walked with his head down, so he had no idea how to get to the convenience store.

At this time, Line rang. Goto Ichiri picked up the phone and saw that it was a message from his father.

[Dad: The boss lady brought some curry. We're waiting for you. Please come back early. Erli is hungry, so we let her eat first.]

Pochi-chan was a little anxious after seeing the news, but she was embarrassed to tell her father that she was mygo (pronounced here, meaning lost) in such a small village. She walked around a few times outside and was about to walk back to the hotel according to the landmarks when Goto Ichiri's phone rang. After picking it up, she heard something that frightened her to the point of suffocation. It was her father's words in a low voice trying not to make any sound, and her mother's low sobs.

"Ichiri! Ichiri! Are you okay?" His father's voice was extremely anxious. It was the first time in Goto Ichiri's life that he heard his father's voice like this.

I breathed a sigh of relief after getting the answer that I was fine.

"Run, you run first! Find a deserted place to hide. I've already called the police. There seems to be something wrong with the food in this restaurant. Erli fell asleep shortly after eating. The police said they will be here soon. You hide first!"

As a result, not long after she discovered that everyone here had left and found this place to hide, someone found her. The person was very strange, wearing a Batman mask, but fortunately, the person did not seem to be in the same group as the villagers.

He covered his mouth with his hand and hid inside.

While leaning against the other person, Pochi discovered that this person seemed to be one of the two passengers during the day, and she still remembered his clothes.

Then...then she heard something about "eating people" and "leaves", which made her extremely panicked.

Her breathing became heavier than ever before. She wanted to cry, to do something or even scream to vent her emotions, but her reason was like a taut string that prevented her from moving.

Suddenly something happened, and suddenly a stranger came over and covered his mouth, listening to those horrible things.

You'll die! You'll die! If you make a sound, you'll die. Although I don't understand some of the jargon, you'll definitely die! Even worse than death.

Fear was like a python that wrapped around this ordinary, otaku high school student.

Two lines of tears flowed uncontrollably, wetting the hand covering her mouth. Her nose felt increasingly sticky and difficult to breathe, so she had to open her mouth slightly to breathe in, but she was afraid that the sound of her breathing would be too loud and disturb the people around her.

His heart was beating as fast as if it was about to pierce his massive chest, and he could even clearly hear his own accelerating pulse in his ears.

But even so, no sound can be made.

No matter how uncomfortable she felt, she didn't even dare to stretch out her sleeve to wipe her eyes.

Time is so unbearable that it feels like every second is torturing one's heart, making one want to die so that everything will be over.

Chris felt the wetness on his hand, but he didn't let go, feeling the girl beside him...

At this time, only a god can feel what the people around him feel!

Kerry didn't care about who was around him at all. He just turned his head and adjusted the direction of his ears to hear as much information as possible, while processing the information in his brain.

However, at this moment, the sound of footsteps caused the conversation to end.

There was a knock on the door of the temple's main hall.

"Junren! Ichiro! Are you guys there? Something happened! The stranger who came yesterday called the police! Seriously! Fortunately, the Metropolitan Police Department had its own people who stopped this thing. Those two Yasudas couldn't even handle such a small thing!

Those outsiders also blocked the door lock with something so the key can't be opened. Uncle Tian kicked it twice but couldn't open it. Didn't the Yasuda family lend you the hammer last time? Take it!"

"Hey, hey! Isn't there even a lock in Yasuda's house? I'm coming! I'm coming!"

"Huh? Is it the pink-haired family? I've already told Master to take action. The lady in that family is quite pretty. If we catch her, we must..."

The two people in the hall responded and stood up.

"Brother, I'll go get him a hammer. You rest here for a while."

ps;

Because I think it's better to release this part together, I updated three chapters today with a total of 8k words.

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Chapter 20: Piercing the Night

Cold and desperate.

It's like falling into an icy cave with no one around on a winter night.

Goto Ichiri widened his eyes in disbelief, and the tears that he thought had dried up kept overflowing from his eye sockets and streaming down from the corners of his eyes.

Impossible... This is all a dream... Hurry up! Wake up! This is a nightmare without logic!

How is it possible that my family and I were just out for a trip? There are many villages like this around Tokyo. Why would a monster suddenly appear? Calling the police is useless.

At least until just now, she was just scared.

Because even though something happened, the police have been called. As long as we call the police and delay time, everything will be fine. It is a ray of light in the darkness and the psychological bottom line that allows ordinary people to live so peacefully in the world.

But when they heard the Metropolitan Police Department tell the people here that someone had called the police, the light shattered, and there was no longer a trace of light in the deep seabed. There was only heavy pressure and a feeling of suffocation, and an unknown giant wandering around.