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

When the boss heard Kerry mention invisible things, his pupils shrank, and he looked at Kerry again in a panic.

"You...you are from the government?"

I don't know how he came to this conclusion.

But Kerry did not deny it. Let him guess if he wants.

Seeing Kerry's attitude, the boss seemed to confirm his guess, clenched his fist, and then released it.

"Never mind. This is what we deserve. I'll make it clear to you, but these things really have nothing to do with the children's generation..."

Then the boss told a strange story.

There was a group of people who originally lived in a village not far from Tokyo. It was popular in their village to worship a ghost. It was said that it was a monster that once circulated in the local area after the end of World War II. Later, with the economic recovery, people built shrines, set up shrine maidens, and worshiped them. Then the monster disappeared.

They also believed that this was a symbol of the being's wrath being extinguished.

Although this is also normal in Japan, if there is any demon causing trouble, just kowtow to the god and that's it.

Everyone always felt that this was not a good method, so in the early years, they invited an onmyoji to set up a formation for the back hall of the shrine, using repeated mirrors, incorrect signposts and prayer ropes, which was said to prevent the things being worshipped from finding the way out.

The days passed like this, the shrine was not very effective, and no one took it seriously, but then a series of strange things happened.

Four years ago, the rear hall of the shrine began to erode due to rainwater erosion due to years of neglect. As time went by, the younger generation no longer believed in it and even went so far as to oppose the two-dimensional image of Amaterasu, let alone a minor deity that was only worshipped in her hometown.

Then the young people organized a repair, but the result was very unexpected.

After the repairs, the young people were very puzzled, saying that they were worshipping a stone statue of a deity, so why was there a golden Buddha statue?

But in fact, ever since the Yin-Yang Master set up the formation, the old villagers had no idea what was going on inside, and no one went in to make trouble, let alone know what the Buddha statue was.

When he got to this point, the shop owner paused.

Then he sighed and shook his head.

“If only we could realize it at that time.

After that renovation, strange things started happening in the village. People would suddenly change their temperaments and hurt others, and develop strange illnesses. Even moving away didn't help. We thought the formation might have been broken, and the gods were angry that we had imprisoned them to retaliate. Even the medium we invited later died tragically in the village.

"And then you burned the shrine down in a rage?"

Kerry asked curiously. After all, if it was a neighboring country, the local government would definitely take the lead in destroying the four olds after such a strange incident. They might even drag out the statue and torture it if they were a little more aggressive.

As a result, when the boss heard what Kerry said, he looked at Kerry in surprise.

"How could that be? Then, to appease the deity's anger, we resumed the worship.

And it really worked at that time.”

When he said this, a gleam of reminiscence flashed in the old man's eyes.

"In just half a year, all the villagers who participated in the worship became wealthy. Those who worked got promoted, those who studied got admitted to Waseda University, and those who started businesses quickly became successful. Those who had suddenly changed their temperaments also became gentler and told everyone how to make offerings to the Buddha Mother.

Only then did we realize that the one who had been helping us was the golden-bodied Buddha who had appeared at some unknown time, not our Qiong Qiong Long-nosed Statue.

But greed is something that can never be satisfied. After people fulfill their desire to get rich, they begin to desire more.

We chant sutras in the shrine day and night, and make more and more desires. First, we ask for a little wealth and honor, and for our children to go to school. But after all these are met, we want to continue to occupy the market and want to be healthy and live a long life.

well……"

At this point the boss sighed.

"But it was then, three years ago during the New Year, that we learned that the Buddha Mother's wishes all came at a price. Each of us who had dedicated ourselves and our children's names to the Buddha Mother was already considered her property. When she needed our lives, we were powerless to resist. At that time, many of us contracted strange diseases, a very painful illness in which the hair, teeth, and nails of the affected people would fall off bit by bit, but the hospital could not find anything. That was when we realized something.

At that time, our village, wanting to keep the secret of wealth, had always forbidden outsiders from worshipping the Buddha Mother. However, one family broke the rules and brought their distant relatives to worship. We punished them at the time, but they were the only family that didn't get sick. The Buddha Mother's intention was clear: She wanted more people to join in worshipping Her, and we, those who benefited from Her, would become Her slaves.

"so……?"

Kerry made inferences based on the premise that what the old man said was true. Combining it with the memory fragments he saw last night, he has pieced together a general outline of what happened and guessed the outcome.

The boss took a deep breath.

"So, we made a decision that went against our ancestors. We didn't want to spend our days worshipping the Buddha Mother, nor did we want our grandchildren to spend their entire lives helping the Buddha Mother spread her teachings from the moment they were born.

After a vote, we smashed the mirrors, took out the statue of the Buddha Mother, and brought it to Tokyo.

We thought that the Buddha Mother was like this because she was also trapped in the formation. In this case, we let her move freely. The wealthy people funded the construction of a park and moved the statue of the Buddha Mother there, across a shrine, facing the whole of Tokyo. At that time, the Buddha Mother and Shadow-sama would take the lives of several of us every year. Of course, the village could not bear it, but if it was Tokyo, it would not matter if two people died. That's what we thought at the time.

And it really works. Since moving to Tokyo, the disease has been cured.

But soon, there was a rumor about making a wish to kill someone. As long as you go to the shrine and make a wish, you can exchange your life for the life of your enemy. Sigh..."

111

Chapter 111: All clues recovered.

Hearing what the other party said, Kerry's face darkened.

That's right.

I've heard about the wish-killing incident since Totsuki. Since this incident is not actually promoted by a certain cult, it may be something like an urban legend, so it has been heard everywhere. However, most people probably don't know the reason behind it, so it's just a rumor.

It's just that when Nakiri Senzaemon asked his men to collect clues, he found this first, instead of any content related to the Deep Diver that was deliberately hidden.

The invisible monster was also matched. It should be an evil spirit, the god that was worshipped by the villagers before. After being released, it killed people along a certain trajectory. The old man and his gang thought that it was the Buddha Mother collecting sacrifices, and maybe they thought it was the Buddha Mother's subordinates.

The mess they made seemed to be consistent with the situation in the beginning when they were followed when they went out. The street where they lived was probably because the residents of that village moved out of the village and came to Tokyo, and for convenience, they all chose to buy houses on the same street.

If you think about it this way, the auntie who met in the town meeting on the first day they moved in might be one of those villagers, or someone who was converted by those villagers.

The villagers should have moved to Tokyo en masse two years ago, and the Buddha statue was also moved here at that time. They probably didn't place the statue too far away from them, as they probably still needed to worship it every day. This also coincides with the time when the low-probability crimes Kirito collected suddenly began to occur frequently on this street.

Now there are only two questions that remain unanswered. One is what is so special about Kerry's house, and why those people seemed to want them to leave at first, but later began to warn them not to go out.

"So why did you hire someone to tell us not to go out?"

Kerry felt that this question could explain all the problems ahead.

Hearing what Kerry said, the old man shook his head in annoyance.

"If I had known this would be the outcome today, I would never have thought of warning you.

When Shadow-sama is mainly active, he will go to the house where we place the offerings, but sometimes he may go to other houses after eating at one house.

For some reason, Lord Shadow never visits that house, so we used to hide in it whenever Lord Shadow arrived. However, there was something strange about that house. Every time we stayed in it at night, strange things would happen, so we didn't dare to stay there permanently.

We wanted to buy the house at that time, but it seemed that it was bought by a big shot. We were even warned when we tried to investigate who the owner was. However, no one had lived there for several months, and we were afraid that someone would move in, so we could only spread the word that it was a haunted house.

But after you came, we had to find another place."

Chris nodded at what the old man said, because when they moved in, they did find it a little strange. There was not much dust on the first floor, but there was quite a lot on the second and third floors.

The main reason why the shadow didn't come might be because there was already a ghost here.

The previous owner of the house was the village chief. He bought the house because of an old friend, but just as a souvenir.

And that night, the shadow must have attacked the neighbors.

But actually Kerry had miscalculated, because those people had placed offerings in the gutter in front of their house last night, and since they basically went out every night, those people had calculated that they were going to die last night.

But there is one last strange point. If they are warned not to go out, and they live in a safe house, doesn't that protect them?

Seeing Krina's puzzled look.

The boss sighed.

"I saw it when you were chatting with Yasuda before. Ueno and I are friends. He used to hang out on this street often. I even invited him to work in my shop, but he didn't want to. I also advised him to stay away from that street, but he insisted that he had a secret base in the sewer. Yasuda also often came to see him, so we were kind of acquaintances.

Ueno disappeared later. I heard from Yasuda that he was missing. Seeing that you can chat with that sloppy old man, he should not be a bad person.

It's just hypocrisy. The other day, I found a stray cat that was half-eaten by other big cats in the back street. Thinking that you were still so young, I spent some money to find those little brats to tell you to stay out of the house. That way, maybe you wouldn't be involved. But now it seems that I was overthinking it. You are here to investigate this matter, right?

Haha, I can tolerate that thing killing people randomly, but I don’t want to see a few young people who are used to seeing it die. Maybe this is what human beings are like.

I plead guilty. Although I voted against the village's plan to move that thing out, I didn't stop them when they were about to do it. Over the past few years, I've been renting a house in Tokyo and running this shop. I made a lot of money from that thing, so I bought the shop and started my own family. But my children are innocent. They were really just tied up and worshipped by us old antiques. You can investigate all this. Take me away now."

After saying this, the old shop owner spread out his hands calmly.

Yasuda is the homeless man who talked to Kerry about the sewer incident.

When he finished speaking, he no longer used the honorific title of Buddha Mother, but instead used the term "that thing".

Undoubtedly, this old man is a very complicated person, with both good and evil, but Kerry doesn't want to let him go.

Thinking about how to leave here after killing someone, Kerry sniffed.

But I found something wrong.

Downstairs! There's a nice aroma coming from downstairs!

Kerry stood up under the old man's surprised gaze.

When I rushed downstairs, I found a very horrifying scene.

As a Japanese restaurant, deep-frying is indispensable.

But at this moment, the old lady downstairs was bursting out with a strength that she shouldn't have, and lifted up the entire small frying pan that was still plugged in.

Then she turned around and gave Kerry, who was coming down the stairs, a weird smile, and poured the boiling hot oil directly onto her body, which was still wearing a cotton jacket.

"Ahhhh!"

Horrifying screams and the sound of oil splashing on noodles rang out at the same time, and heat rose in the small shop.

The terrifying bubbles swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, but Kerry's eyes were no longer looking there. Instead, he stared at one direction. He couldn't see it either, but this one was much stronger than what he had seen before.

The other two happened at night, but here it was a busy downtown area in broad daylight, and the method they used seemed to be mind control, which was much more severe than the shadow's most powerful job of making people fall asleep.

And Kerry could feel that thing was fleeing out of the store.

Kerry chased after him without hesitation.

Push open the shop door and chase that feeling in the crowded crowd.

But when Kerry chased more than 30 meters, a scream came from behind him.

"Ahhh!"

Kerry turned around suddenly.

The old man actually climbed out from the second-floor windowsill, pointed a pair of sharp food scissors at his mouth, and jumped directly from the second floor.

"Crack!"

The scissors pierced the boss's brain and he died instantly.

It seems to be saying that this is the consequence of talking nonsense.

Kerry, who was in the crowd, felt the screams and panic of the people around him, and the other group of people fleeing from the second floor, but he stood still.

He raised his eyebrows and looked there.

"Is this a warning or a provocation?"

112

Chapter 112: Declaration of War.

After watching for a while, Kerry followed the crowd and left.

At the same time there is some regret.

"Tsk, I forgot to ask which park it was."

Share the information you have collected.

They agreed to meet at home and prepare for the battle together.

No matter what it is, the statue will kick it free.

Chris first took a taxi to Feiniaoshan Park, but unfortunately found that it was not there.

Then back to the street, considering the distance, the suspects are Akabanedai Park, which is opposite an elementary school, Higashi-Akabane Park, which is slightly smaller but in the city center, or the small lakeside park by the river.

The three of them gathered together to discuss things.

"I see."

Kazuma asked for some more details in person and nodded to show that he understood.

"But what if the other party escapes? You also said that it is something that can be divided into multiple paths."

Kazuma began to formulate a strategy.