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

As expected, the thing also chased after them. The cracked face of the human-faced dog had turned back into the appearance of a three-no girl. It came to the river with hair and blood at the corners of its mouth.

"Clap! Clap!"

Without much hesitation, the sound of a dog paddling in the water was heard. In this dark river with only faint ripples, Chris almost lost his vision and could only judge the direction of the human-faced dog by the sound of the dog's paws splashing in the water.

As the sound came, it seemed to indicate that Kerry's judgment had failed. This thing was not the undead of Soul Two, and it would not be easily soluble in water. The other party was chasing him into the river!

But at this time, Kerry, whose half face was already under the water, smiled.

Because he had no intention of releasing this creature that appeared for unknown reasons and was still wandering around the city. Besides, it couldn't swim at all, and it just kept flapping in one direction relying on the fact that it wouldn't choke to death.

Kerry didn't want to let such a dangerous thing return to the crowded place. By the way, although he didn't show it, he was really hungry.

That’s right, since I’m immortal anyway, the race column has to be changed to be the same as Fujiwara no Mokou’s, so why should I run?

Enduring the discomfort of the river water irritating his eye membranes and the rapidly dropping body temperature, Kerry forced himself to keep his eyes open to catch the faint white reflection on the river surface.

As the sound of the splashing water grew louder, when Kerry saw the claws flapping forward, he slapped his hands hard on the river surface, splashing half a meter of water onto the face of the thing, then raised the knife in his hand and rushed back.

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Ps:

Gaiba Village: This is where the main story of Shiki takes place, as the next main plotline is Shiki. For those who have seen it, please don't spoil it! It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, as the timeline is set over a decade after the original story, so it won't affect it at all.

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Chapter 8: Spirit, delicious!

"Ouch!"

A howl rang out from the dark river water that reflected some moonlight.

If it were bright enough here, you would definitely see thick red liquid overflowing from the turbid river water.

In the river not far from the shore, Kerry's left hand was being bitten tightly, and the front end of his hand had been bitten to pieces, while his right hand was pulling the dagger out of the monster's neck.

As if in pain, the monster's body twisted more frequently, splashing water.

However, in a place where the light could not reach, the wound on the monster's neck was slowly healing. However, after the wound came into contact with the river water, or rather the river water mixed with Kerry's blood, the healing stopped, and a violent blood flow like a severed aorta began to spurt out of its neck.

"Ahhh! Ohhhh!"

A whine like a dog-like creature in pain came from its huge open mouth, but this did not stop the monster's actions, but instead made it even more ferocious.

However, it seems that even the monster cannot fight underwater. It has to constantly use its claws to doggy-paddle to ensure that it does not sink. Its mobility, which is far superior to that of humans, cannot be brought into play, and it can only bite off Kerry's wrist again.

"hiss."

Kerry was gasping in pain, his expression painful, but his movements did not stop at all.

The left hand with the wrist bitten off was raised, and the tips of the unevenly broken bones showed sharp edges. He directly aimed the bones and the wrist that was in severe pain as it came into contact with the river water at the opponent's mouthparts. Kerry turned his upper body in the river, trying to put as much strength as possible into this attack.

Twisting his waist and shaking his shoulders, he felt a touch and penetration in his wrists. The moment the other party bit him again, Chris also completed the fixation of the human-faced dog.

Then there's...

The dagger reflected a faint light and slashed towards the opponent's abdomen in Kerry's hand.

"Promise me you won't play alchemy for nothing in your next life, okay?"

...

3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

"Hoohoo!"

Sato Kazuma suddenly opened his eyes and looked around to see a river bank.

Damn it! Kerry! He betrayed his teammates without hesitation! If there were any restrictions on that death resurrection, I'd...

He must have found a place to hide and escaped the pursuit! We can no longer allow this bastard to live in a world where there is still hope! He is a born evil psychopath! Master Zhen and I will...

Kazuma's eyes, filled with distrust and anger, turned as his head searched for the heartless man who had abandoned him.

But after he finally found that guy, he couldn't say a word.

With his back to the moonlight, in the shimmering river, Chris walked towards the shore with his body still faintly moving.

The one that Kerry was dragging by the legs was actually a dying human-faced dog.

Taking heavy steps, feeling the weight of his clothes that made him want to fall after absorbing water, Chris walked up to the shore step by step, panting.

Kazuma looked at Kerry, who was covered in blood and had not yet been completely washed off, and the monster that he had just fought hard for but could not survive for more than 20 seconds, being held in his hand like a dead dog, and his expression instantly changed to one of concern.

"Chrisan, are you okay?"

He took a few steps forward and supported Kerry with a smile, regardless of the fishy smell on his body.

"Phew! It's okay."

Kerry threw the monster, which was still bleeding, onto the shore, then sat down and stabbed the monster a few more times with the knife in his hand.

It seemed that the tenacious vitality had finally reached its end. Even the monster that was neither human nor ghost could only lift up its face that had turned into a beautiful girl again with great effort and glanced at Kerry and Kazuma. Then, its body emitted some faint light in the surprised eyes of the two.

But it feels a bit strange to call them light spots, because those things are black, but the black color emits light so that people can see them clearly in this dark night.

Those tiny particles first dispersed, and then, as if they had found a backbone, they split into two streams, one large and one small, and flowed towards the two people.

Kree instinctively raised his hand to block it, but the particles still penetrated his arm and entered his body.

Kerry frowned and thought it was some kind of curse, but he soon realized something was wrong.

As those things entered his body, the hunger that had always lingered in his heart also dissipated.

Or rather, he was filled, and very full. Kerry felt like he didn't need to eat for at least a few weeks.

Sato Kazuma next to him seemed to have the same feeling and touched his belly.

But at this moment, Kerry was not in the mood to look at Kazuma, because with the influx of the particles, some broken picture fragments appeared in front of his eyes.

During the Edo period, with the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo, which was once a wasteland, began to prosper little by little. In this way, a little girl was born in a rural area on the edge of the city. The little girl's life was not good, or it could be said that in that era when the shogun only ate salted fish with rice, few people had enough to eat.

One day, when the little girl was digging for food in the field, two strangers suddenly appeared. Seeing that there was no one around, they covered the little girl's mouth and took her away. The scene paused for a moment here.

When the scene appeared again, it was already a street in a city. People were talking about a strange thing that had happened in the city before. Two men brought a talking dog. Many people saw it, and some even heard that a young man from Kyoto bought the dog for a large price.

But the next day, the whole city began to hunt for the two people with the talking dog.

Because of its thin body, it does look like a dog when lying down, but that's not enough. It needs to sew the dog fur soaked in medicine onto the human body bit by bit. It doesn't speak too clearly like a dog, so it needs to be branded on the tongue so that although it can speak, it's not slurred. Its legs are too long, so it doesn't look like a dog. Saw off some parts and put on the props, and it won't be unable to walk. The shape doesn't look like a dog. The ears and nose were not removed first and the fur was sewn on. It can be disciplined slowly. I believe this kind of creativity will definitely sell for a high price.

Finally, a talking dog appeared. After the young man discovered the truth, he was frightened and ordered his men to kill the dog and arrest the two human traffickers throughout the city.

The scene ended, Kerry frowned, and with a cold face, threw the corpse next to him into the water.

You might as well call me big brother.

...

While Chris and Sato Kazuma were looking for a place to buy cheap lighters so they could make a fire and keep warm.

At night, in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, in the basement of the Metropolitan Police Department's Chief's Office, newly transferred Inspector Megure Juzo is being trained as a "special talent."

He advertised that he was being transferred to the Sex Crime Investigation Division. For him, who was once on the verge of becoming the top official in the Beikacho Metropolitan Police Department, many people believed that this was a complete demotion in name only.

Even he himself thought so at the beginning. He didn't know who he had offended to be treated like this.

However, when he arrived here and signed a series of confidentiality agreements and secret treatment agreements, he realized that this time it seemed that he was not really being demoted, but rather that he, an ordinary police officer, was being transferred to some secret department.

And here his worldview was also severely impacted.

"As we've been saying, the outside world has only confirmed the existence of spirits and various unusual events in the past four years. For a long time before that, people like us were considered complete charlatans. Our Metropolitan Police Department's first encounter with something beyond imagination was the Sotoba Village case 4 years ago."

Megure Juzo had an impression of this incident. It was a big case at that time. It was said that Waichang Village, which mainly made local coffins, suffered a fire. More than half of the villagers died and only a few people escaped.

As if noticing that Inspector Megure's attention was drawn away, the person in charge of training knocked on the briefcase.

"Our first lesson is about spirits, but honestly, I've never seen any so-called spirits that attack people. The ones I've seen are just ordinary souls. These characteristics are summarized based on the records written by police officers who have observed spirits.

First of all, the first point is that people who cannot recognize spirits will not be harmed by spirits.

If a spirit wants to harm a target, it will try to interfere with the target and make the target aware of itself."

"Hmm...this sounds like a horror movie." Megure Jusan said weakly.

"Megure, you can understand it this way. Just like in those horror movies, if spirits want to attack us, they have to make us aware of their existence. Then nightmares, turning off the lights, strange shadows, and other things that often appear in horror movies may appear.

Hey! Maybe this can explain why horror movie monsters don’t kill their victims immediately upon seeing them.

Just like in horror movies, when the victim truly recognizes and can see spirits, death is not far away. However, this is also mutual. When people cannot recognize spirits, they may pass through them without knowing it, but if they do recognize them, they may collide with them. In other words... what do you young people call it, interfering with each other.

"Yeah, go on and talk about Grandma Tokugawa."

...

ps: Tokugawa grandmother: full name Tokugawa Kanko, from "Baki", a bloodthirsty Autobot, the sister of Japan's underground emperor Tokugawa Mitsunari, once communicated with Miyamoto Musashi's soul and passed it to Miyamoto's clone, allowing him to resurrect after 400 years, and finally sent Musashi back with a fiery red lip.

(I feel that those who have only read the first part of Baki, or have just heard that it is a fighting manga, will be puzzled when seeing this description. What kind of fighting manga is this?)

PS2: I put some PS about the setting in the main text so that the listeners can hear it. But as for asking for votes, I put them in "You Shuo Wai" so that they can't be heard. But after the book is released, I will put them in "You Shuo Wai" to save the word count.

Chapter 9 What is this?

The sun has not yet appeared in the sky, but the faint white light has begun to dispel the darkness on the earth.

On the river bank, next to a fire.

Chris and Sato Kazuma finally got to know the fire.

Because the white mourning clothes that Kazuma was wearing were really not suitable for running to a convenience store, and Kerry's wet clothes were also not suitable, the two of them finally ran to the store that the homeless people said often did business with them, woke up the owner, and got a lighter while the owner was cursing.

It was still late spring, and the riverbank in Tokyo was very cold, but fortunately, Kerry had a special physique and probably wouldn't catch a cold.

"That is to say, if we want to alleviate that hunger, we may need to kill things like the human-faced dog..."

Sato Kazuma covered his head in despair. He felt that his life had nothing to do with peaceful daily life from then on.

Listening to the wailing in his ears, Kerry instead focused his attention elsewhere.

Kerry held a stone and exerted force. He always felt that his strength had increased significantly since he "ate" the human-faced dog, but he couldn't be sure because he had no specific reference.

"So what are your plans next?" Kazuma shook Kerry's shoulders and raised his voice.

"Let's continue investigating those yakuza." Kerry replied.

Why are you still thinking about those b-jidao?!

We can't even go out on the streets! Shouldn't we find a place to stay first? I'm not sleepy at all, but I can't sleep on the streets when I'm sleepy, right?

He wanted to say that, but Kazuma held back.

"Why don't you just listen to me? Let's find a hand mechanic and do day jobs at nearby construction sites. First, we'll at least buy a tent, and then we can make other plans!"

We can’t just sit here and wait! We’re not lucky enough to have our shelter find us if we just sit here.”

I have to say that Sato Kazuma is quite pragmatic to some extent.

The term "hand fitter" is actually not a good one. When you say it, it basically means the same as a black intermediary. They mainly introduce down-and-out people to do some tiring work and then make money from the difference.

Moreover, many of the more "evil" guys will pretend to be hand-fitters. For example, foreigners who dream of getting rich are often deceived by those guys.

"Cough cough!"

At this moment, a cough suddenly came from behind them, and they both stood up and looked back vigilantly.

The events of this evening alone had already stretched both of their nerves to a point of tension, especially Kazuma. If he hadn't been sure that there was news about him, he would have wondered if he had arrived in some parallel world.

Is this still the same Japan I live in, full of peaceful daily life?

When the two looked up, they became more alert. Not far away from the river bank, a green thing was standing there. It seemed that he was deliberately making noises to attract their attention.

"Kappa? It was just an urban legend, but now even monsters have appeared?"

Sato Kazuma stood up nervously, ready to run away at any time if he disagreed with something.

Because the thing in front of them at this moment really didn't look like a human. It had green skin, a white belly, and a turtle shell on its back.

But Kerry was not overly nervous like Sato Kazuma because of the previous events, so he keenly noticed that this guy did not have a bird's beak on his face like the legendary kappa, and the kappa mask tightly reflected a man's face, and it seemed that the leather suit had been worn for too long and the neck had become loose, revealing a piece of yellow human skin.

The guy in front of me is a man in a leather suit!

Kerry looked at this thing and felt that it looked familiar.

I seem to have seen a similar image in some animation before. Yes, it should be a funny anime called Arakawa Under the Hood.