In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

"He opened an exorcism agency, so he should be able to sell these talismans," Xue No said. "When we get out, I'll give you the address, and you can just go buy one."

"Yes, will it be very expensive?" Jianzi is just a high school student and doesn't have that much money.

This question hit Xueno's blind spot. She didn't know how much Ouyang Xuan would sell this thing for.

“People, people, people.”

The strange sound rang out again. In a carriage three cars away from Yukino and the others, many people suddenly appeared in the originally empty carriage, just like passengers, but their clothes were very retro. Some wore kimonos, some wore suits, but no one wore modern clothes. The biggest difference between them and Yukino and Miko was that their bodies looked like the same twisted pieces of burnt flesh as the evil spirit of the train conductor who was beaten to death.

"A human, a living human who can replace us!" An unknown evil spirit shouted, and the evil spirits in the carriage ran towards the carriage of Yukino Miko and the others like wild dogs that had broken free from their reins.

"Run!"

Yukino acted decisively, pulled Jianzi along and ran away. She had the talisman paper and red rope given by Ouyang Xuan, which could kill evil spirits, but there were too many of them. According to Yukino's estimation, the carriage was packed like the Tokyo subway during rush hour, with at least forty or fifty people crammed in, and she didn't know how many more were in the back.

With the magic weapon given by Ouyang Xuan, Xue No felt that she should have no problem protecting herself, but there was a living person, Jian Zi, beside her, and she was afraid that during the fight, Jian Zi would hold back for Xue No.

Fortunately, this train was not like the infinite train in some movies that never ended. After running for about five minutes, Yukino saw a door with "No Passengers Allowed" written on it. This was obviously the driver's cab. Seeing this door, Yukino and Miko accelerated immediately, knocked the door open with their shoulders, and then immediately closed and locked the door, using their backs to hold the door against their strength.

"Ah~~"

It felt like a train was hitting them from behind. The huge impact from the door behind them made the two of them stagger and move away from the position blocking the door. Some of the evil spirits reached in through the cracks in the door, while more of them went straight through the wall and drilled into the cab with hideous faces.

The situation was extremely critical. Xueno raised the talisman in her hand high and rushed towards the evil spirits.

Seeing that Yukino dared to rush over, the evil spirits immediately changed the direction of their penetration. At this time, the evil spirit that was progressing the fastest had already passed its head and shoulders through the wall and was about to run into the cab.

“Ah~ha!”

As an ordinary person, Yukino naturally wouldn't say anything like "Hurry up and follow the order" or "All soldiers and fighters must advance in formation." She just made the sound subconsciously to dispel her fear.

As Xue No shouted, her white little hand slapped the open yellow talisman paper against the wall. Suddenly, a golden light spread from the talisman paper to the entire wall. The evil spirits that were halfway through the wall turned into ashes with screams, and the evil spirits that reached in from the crack in the door also screamed and retracted their hands.

It's safe for now.

Yukino no longer had the strength to stand up, and she fell to the ground while holding onto the wall, her face pale and bloodless.

"Are you okay?" Jianzi wanted to pull Xueno up, but found that he had no strength left, and instead they both sat on the ground.

"With this talisman, those evil spirits should not be able to enter here for the time being. We are still safe."

"Yeah." Jianzi nodded vigorously.

The evil spirits outside did not leave at all, but just peeked at the scene inside through a small piece of glass from a distance. From time to time, a few evil spirits that could not bear it would rush up shouting, and then crash into the door or wall, and after stirring up a burst of golden ripples, they were bounced away.

Since she was able to see evil spirits, this was the first time that Jianzi saw so many evil spirits gathered together. If it weren't for the long-term battle of wits and courage with various evil spirits, Jianzi felt that she might be scared to death. However, the wall behind her that was emitting a faint golden light gave her the first such full sense of security and stability.

I don't know how much this talisman paper costs. I only have a little pocket money. I wonder if I can buy it in installments. Is it okay if I buy it in 100 installments?

"Yukinoshita Yukino, a first-year student at Sobu High School."

"Ah?" Jianzi was stunned for a moment, and realized that after introducing herself, Yukino immediately gave her name and school.

"Yukinoshita-san, if you hadn't been here today, I would have died here." Since Kenko and Yukino were both in the first year of high school, there was no need to use too many honorifics.

"I should be thanking you. If you hadn't stepped forward to save me, I might have died."

"No, no, no, I didn't play a big role. You have such a powerful magic weapon on you, Yukinoshita-san. That evil spirit will definitely not be able to hurt you."

"Even if I won't be hurt, the fact that you stood up for me is enough for me to express my gratitude."

"I should be the one expressing my gratitude to Yukinoshita-san," Jianzi said with a fearful expression, and ended his words with a long sigh. "We are safe, but how are we going to escape? We are completely trapped here. We have no food or water, and we can't hold out for a few days."

"Wait for rescue."

"Eh? In a place like this, with something like this happening, is there going to be rescue?"

"Yes, he said that if I use this rope, he will know and come to save me." Yukino looked at the red rope on her wrist.

"That exorcist, could it be," Kenko asked, "that he's Yukinoshita-san's boyfriend?"

"No, it's mine..." The word 'brother-in-law' was inexplicably stuck in Yukino's throat. She didn't want to say it, so Yukino could only replace it with words that had a similar pronunciation.

"It's my brother."

"Brother, that's great." Jianzi said enviously, "If I had a brother like Yukinoshita, I wouldn't have been scared by evil spirits for so long."

"They are all people who can see evil spirits. I'm not even half as good as Yukinoshita-san."

"Hmm?" Yukino asked doubtfully, "Today is the first time I've actually seen something like an evil spirit, even though I've heard about it a lot."

"This is your first time seeing an evil spirit, right? How did you manage to stay so calm?!"

"Fear and panic are useless. I just forced myself to calm down."

"Being able to force myself to calm down is already amazing."

The image of Yukino, a classmate, was infinitely elevated in Miko's eyes.

Chapter 30 Taisho Demon

"Well, let's first take a look at what's going on here." Yukino regained some strength and stood up.

"Here? Isn't this the tram cursed by an evil spirit?"

"Yotani-san, didn't you notice the clothes those evil spirits are wearing?"

"clothing?"

Hearing this, Jianzi cautiously put his head in front of the glass window and looked outside nervously. He didn't see anything strange except a group of evil spirits in kimonos and suits.

"Eh? The clothes they're wearing look like they're from a book."

"That's right," Yukino said. "I just took a look at their clothes. Although they are all kimonos, they are a combination of Japanese and Western styles from the Taisho period. The patterns are not traditional flowers and birds, but some European flowers."

"Then there was the conductor who was killed. Now I remember that it was the uniform of a conductor from the Taisho period. That explains why he had to check tickets. After all, technology was not developed in that era, and there were no automatic ticket machines or mobile phones."

"Did we travel through time?!" Jianzi came to the conclusion.

"We can't rule out this possibility."

"Then, what should I do? My influencer has a meet-and-greet on the 31st, and I finally managed to get the tickets!" Jianzi said in panic.

"Is that what you're worried about?"

"No, no." Jianzi shook his head and slapped his cheeks twice, "Because this is not the time to think about Koi-chan, the key now is to escape with Yukinoshita-san!"

"Yotani-san, haven't you always been able to see evil spirits?" Yukino asked. "Have you ever encountered a situation like this?"

"Oh, well, I'm sorry." Jianzi apologized dejectedly, "I've always pretended not to see evil spirits before. I've never encountered a situation like this before."

"However, Yukinoshita's brother is an exorcist. Has he ever told you what to do if you encounter this situation?" Miko placed her hope on Yukino.

"Run! Don't hesitate or even think about fighting! Run away and come to his rescue."

"That's right." Jianzi sighed deeply, "We are just ordinary people. It would be great if we could be like the magical girls in the anime."

"Yotani-san." Yukino suddenly called out.

"exist."

"Bring me that fire extinguisher."

Yukino knocked on the wall, and the sound didn't sound like metal, but rather dull like wood, and it echoed loudly. There was a space behind it, and the back of the wall was not solid.

"Here." Jianzi took the fire extinguisher and said, "Yukinoshita-san, the train is still running at high speed. Even if we break the window and jump out, we will definitely be seriously injured."

"Who wants to jump out of the car?" Yukino picked up the fire extinguisher, which was heavy and filled with dry powder for fire extinguishing.

"Yotani-san, have you seen any horror movies with trains?"

"I can't watch horror movies."

“When trapped in a place with no other options, the protagonists often choose a new path: breaking down the wall.”

Relying on the arm strength that she had developed from practicing Aikido for a few days before, although it was small, it was enough to pick up the fire extinguisher and use it as a weapon. In the eighty seconds of Yukino's hallucination, the red fire extinguisher collided with the silver-white tram wall. On a train that could speed over hundreds of kilometers per hour, a JK's thin arm could smash a big hole in it.

"Yukinoshita-san! What, what is this!?" Jianzi pointed in surprise at the back of the smashed wall, where there was a larger space.

"Is this really the routine?" Yukino put down the fire extinguisher and walked straight in. "Could it be that the first person who wrote this horror movie routine also experienced something like this?"

"Wait, Yukinoshita-san, please don't abandon me."

Miko followed Yukino into this new space, which was also the cab of a train, but it had changed from an electric tram to a coal-fired steam locomotive. The distance of one step seemed to have spanned hundreds of years.

[At 9:00 AM in the eighth year of the Taisho era, the train departed from Chiba Prefecture and arrived in Tokyo.]

Yukino opened the driving record and found that the car was actually a hundred years old, and Yukino was familiar with it.

As a prominent local family in Chiba Prefecture, the Yukino family preserved materials such as the Chiba Prefecture Chronicles. When Yukino was in elementary school, a historian from Tokyo once came to the Yukinoshita family and asked to look through the materials for investigation.

Yukino remembered that the hairless old professor was studying the history of the Kanto Railway in the island country. He came to Yukinoshita's house to investigate the local railway history of Chiba. When Yukino was bored, she would go to see what they were researching. At that time, the old professor told Yukino the story of this train.

Half an hour after leaving the station, a fire broke out in the middle of the train, engulfing the entire train within a minute. When the fire department arrived, they found that water was ineffective in extinguishing the flames, and they could only watch helplessly as the train burned for a day and a night. Not a single passenger's body was found on the train. Since neither the cause nor the remains of the victims could be found, the incident was hastily dismissed and ignored. During postwar reconstruction, the railway was demolished, and the new Chiba-Tokyo Railway was built on its site.

"So, that means, we, we are now on that train that has been burned down but there is not a single passenger?" Jianzi swallowed hard.

"It seems so."

After closing the driving record, Yukino's mood was unable to calm down for a long time. Although Yukino had always appeared to be very calm and mature, and seemed not to be afraid of evil spirits, how could such a thing be possible?

Of course Yukino was also scared. Ever since Miko dragged her away, Yukino's legs had been shaking, and even her hands that were turning the pages of the book were trembling. She was just forcing herself to calm down and not be afraid. Miko was already like that, and if she was scared too, it would be impossible for the two of them to escape.

Mr. Ou, my dear brother, my brother-in-law, can you please come and save me quickly? I can't stand it any longer.

"Ahhh!!" Miko's scream interrupted Yukino's thoughts.

"What's wrong, Yotsuya-san?"

Just as Yukino was about to ask what happened, she saw the reason why Kenko screamed. The cab was on fire and thick smoke filled half of the cab. She wanted to run back to the tram, but the gap she had created was already burning fiercely and she couldn't get through.

Having just escaped from the secret room of the tram, Yukino and Miko walked into the burning cab. The raging fire seemed to turn the two girls into a group of flesh-and-blood evil spirits.

-

Four hours had passed since Yukino boarded the train. It was already dark and the streetlights were lighting up one after another. The originally quiet railway line was now echoing with roars and gagged screams.

"Tell me, tell me quickly! Where did that car go?"

"Damn it, you're so stubborn." Seeing that the hung man refused to speak, Jiro became even angrier. He swung his fist as big as a sandpot and hit him, beating him like a sandbag.

"Don't you know that the time between Lord Ou and the princess is very precious? You monster, half-demon, half-ghost, hurry up and speak up! Tell me where exactly did you hide Lady Koyukishita? If you don't, I'll beat you to death!"

Jiro was a hippopotamus after all. After a few furious punches, the hung man's head tilted and a large dent appeared on his forehead. He was dead~~~

There was a large dent in the head, and it looked like his skull was shattered to pieces, and he was dead beyond dead. But when Jiro stopped to rest for a while, the man's head miraculously swelled up, and in a short while, he came back to life unharmed, his blood-red eyes filled with anger and hatred, and even though his jaw had not been fully restored, he couldn't wait to curse.

"You stupid hippopotamus, you took my—"

"Resurrected? Then continue!"

Seeing that the man was alive, Jiro punched him in the jaw, and the teeth that had just been restored immediately collided and shattered into a pile.

Now the entire line has been shut down. It is said that the tram has broken down and the engineering team of the Shinomiya Group is carrying out emergency repairs. For safety reasons, cordons have been set up for several kilometers around the railway to prevent ordinary passers-by from entering.

Dozens of monsters were conducting a carpet search over an area of several kilometers, determined to find the missing train and Yukino.

"Let's eat something first." Ouyang Jun handed the rice ball to Yang Nai.

"Well, I have no appetite now." Yang Nai had completely lost his usual vitality, and his whole body looked like an eggplant hit by frost.

"Don't worry, Yukino will be fine."

"I, I shouldn't have quarreled with Yukino."

"This matter has nothing to do with you." Ouyang Xuan held Yang Nai's hand.

After discovering that he couldn't find Yukino, Ouyang Jun called Hayasaka Nao and asked her to check which train Yukino got on. The result was that Yukino got on a tram, but the tram disappeared as soon as it left the station.

Knowing that something had happened, Ouyang Sun immediately rushed to the place where Xue No's car disappeared. Apart from his extremely thin and almost imperceptible magic power, Ouyang Sun could not find where Xue No was.

The second person to know the news was Kotoko. When she arrived, she brought the surrounding monsters with her to look for them, as there is strength in numbers.

In the end, Ouyang Xuan told Yang Noi the news of Xue Noi's disappearance. This was like a bolt from the blue for Yang Noi. In her opinion, if she hadn't quarreled with Xue Noi, she would not have left home at this time and would not have boarded the tram at this time.

Things have already happened, and there is no use blaming yourself. Yang Nai tried hard to make herself look energetic, but how could she hide it from Ouyang Xuan.

While Haruno was silently nibbling on her rice balls, Kotoko came over.

"How is it, Qinzi?" Ouyang Xuan asked.

"There's good news and bad news." Kotoko shrugged.

"Let's talk about it together."