I loaded the ghost talk game

"Run, the spider is coming."

The thin arms that emerged from the cuffs of the blue kimono were soft and boneless, swaying strangely in the dim warehouse.

Toyama was terrified.

He didn't know what the so-called "spider" meant, but...

Run!

Running away is right.

Bang!

The flashlight flickered randomly, and Toyama crashed out of the warehouse door.

He rushed to the staircase closest to the warehouse.

At this time, he didn't even think about which way to go back to the first floor, whether to take the stairwell, the escalator in the mall, or the elevator. He didn't think about it at all, just ran to the nearest place.

As soon as he rushed into the stairwell, Toyama heard a sound coming from below.

Click, click...

A very mechanical and noisy footsteps sound, which was particularly clear in the narrow and dark stairwell.

Toyama shone the flashlight downwards, and there were actually people in the passage below.

A large number of figures walked up in a very distorted posture, walking towards him.

With the help of the flashlight, Toyama could see that the figures that were crowded up from below were basically not real people.

Instead, they were mannequins wearing clothes.

The surface of these figures was covered with spider silk, which pulled their joints, driving them forward, making strange creaking sounds.

"Matsushita?"

Among the mannequins, Toyama also saw a familiar figure.

His colleague, Matsushita.

Matsushita stood with those strange mannequins, also covered with spider silk, and also mechanically climbed the stairs.

Under the direct light, his face was blue-gray.

"No, no..."

Toyama stepped back suddenly, turned around and ran.

But the mannequins moved so fast that he was surrounded by the models who chased him just as he fled back to the corridor on the fourth floor.

With his back against the handrail of the corridor on the fourth floor, there was no escape.

Then, the mannequins twisted even more severely.

Among them, Matsushita fell to the back. In the narrow staircase behind him, several pale arms suddenly stretched out and climbed the wall, and many naked thighs swung out.

A human-like thing climbed out upside down.

Toyama saw the long flowing hair and a woman's face.

And on the woman's face, there were a bunch of dense red eyes!

"Spiders are coming."

Toyama thought of the warning words he heard in the warehouse just now.

Is this what "spider" refers to?

Why does such a thing exist in this mall that he has patrolled countless times before! ?

Toyama didn't have time to think about these.

He only knew that he was about to die, and he might soon become like Matsushita.

The mannequin closest to him had raised his hand and grabbed him.

It was a female mannequin wearing a white dress.

He could feel the stiff touch of the plastic mannequin's hand, and the spider silk had already climbed up Toyama's body stickily.

At this time,

On the cuffs of the female model's white dress, a golden pattern suddenly flashed.

Slender, boneless white arms slid out from under the cuffs.

They grabbed Toyama and threw him directly out of the corridor railing.

Toyama fell from the fourth floor on his back.

But he did not feel too much weightlessness.

The white dress somehow detached from the original model and floated around him.

The slender arms in the cuffs were pulling and dragging him.

As they approached the ground, the arms loosened and retracted at the same time.

Bang!

Toyama fell to the ground.

It hurt, but he could still move.

The white dress that fell to the ground with him shrank at the same time and fell at his feet.

The thing with many slender arms inside seemed to be detached from the dress in an instant and disappeared.

"Run."

Toyama heard the girl's voice again.

This time, it came from the window of a clothing store behind him.

He turned around.

I saw golden lines flashing on the cuffs of a piece of women's clothing in the glass window.

White arms came out from the cuffs and waved up and down.

Then they disappeared again.

The next second, these slender arms appeared again in the same posture on the women's clothing in the shop window farther away.

The thing that saved Toyama seemed to be leaving in this way.

And one of the hands of that thing was always holding the pearl hairpin taken from Toyama.

"I took your things, but I can only help you here."

The girl's weak voice was so far away that it was difficult to recognize.

In fact, Toyama had no spare energy to recognize it.

From the fourth floor of the mall, one mannequin after another fell to the ground, breaking into pieces. And those plastic limbs and debris, under the pull of spider silk, twitched and squirmed, twisted and pieced together again.

The instinct for survival drove Toyama to get up despite the pain and desperately fled towards the exit of the mall.

...

Yoshikoji.

It was early morning now.

Mr. Tsurumi received a request for assistance from the Ibaraki Prefecture Countermeasures Office Branch.

It was said that a strange incident occurred in a shopping mall in Ibaraki where someone was injured.

As the spooky activities in the world become more and more frequent, there is a shortage of manpower available for ghost exterminators in various places.

Therefore, the Ibaraki Countermeasures Office hopes that Yoshikoji can provide assistance in this incident.

According to the description of Mr. Toyama, the person involved in the incident, there may be two strange stories that appeared in that shopping mall.

One of them is a spider ghost story with a female body.

Very aggressive.

Toyama's companion Matsushita has probably been killed due to the attack of this spider monster.

In addition, there is another strange story in the mall, which according to the description is suspected to be "Little Sleeve Hand".

Kosode Hands had a neutral to friendly attitude toward the parties involved in this incident, and also provided key assistance for Toyama to escape from the mall.

Mr. Tsurumi has accepted the request from the Ibaraki Countermeasures Room.

Now he is fully armed and waiting at the entrance of Yoshikoji Temple for the countermeasures room personnel to arrive and go to the scene of the incident together.

He was wearing a monk's robe, with a string of Buddhist beads wrapped around his left hand and a knife across his waist.

Tsurumi Shinchi's family is a practitioner of tachijutsu, but he himself has not made much achievements in this area. He only carries a sword for self-defense and an additional means of battlefield response.

In fact, according to the request from the Countermeasures Room, Shinchi Tsurumi was originally intended to use Yoshikoji's auxiliary techniques to provide some support to other spiritual exterminators who were good at attacking difficult situations.

"Really? Okay, I understand, Ms. Fujino."

While waiting, Mr. Tsurumi made a phone call.

The person I called was Ms. Fujino who had brought the kimono to the temple during the day.

Through conversation, Mr. Tsurumi was able to confirm that the Kosode kimono sent by Ms. Fujino was purchased from the mall where the supernatural incident occurred tonight.

Therefore, the Sode-chan who appeared in the mall must be the same one that Ms. Fujino witnessed.

Mr. Tsurumi hung up the phone and thought to himself: "It seems that the little sleeved hand did not follow the kimono to Yoshikoji Temple, but went back to the original shopping mall."

Waited for a while.

Before Shinchi Tsurumi could wait for the personnel in the countermeasures room, his daughter Aoi Tsurumi walked out of the temple with a bulging sword bag on her back and came to stand beside him calmly.

"Aoi, what are you doing?"

"Dad, I'll go to that mall with you."

Tsurumi Aoi has also learned about what happened tonight, and it seems that she plans to get involved.

"But it's very dangerous over there, and there's more than one weird story."

"It's okay. I've already applied to Master and he agreed." Tsurumi Aoi replied matter-of-factly.

Tsurumi Shinchi:......

Without first asking myself about my opinion on becoming a father, I immediately reported the itinerary to Kamiya-kun...

Speaking of which, my daughter really obeyed her master.

It's obviously been more than half a year since I became a disciple.

Mr. Tsurumi was in a delicate mood, but since even Kamiyagawa agreed, he seemed to have nothing to say.

"Okay, once you go over there, you must obey the command in everything. Also, don't leave my sight."

He compromised.

As a father, I feel a little sad for no reason.

The special car from the countermeasures room quickly arrived at the entrance of Yoshikoji Temple, and both father and daughter got into the car.

The person who came to pick him up was a deputy-level figure in the Ibaraki Countermeasures Room, Inoue Yoji.

Mr. Inoue naturally knew Tsurumi Aoi, and was surprised that the eldest lady of the temple would participate in tonight's action.

This was unplanned.

However, Mr. Inoue would not think that a little girl like Tsurumi Aoi's participation in tonight's action would be a hindrance.

From an objective point of view, Tsurumi Aoi, who studied under the disciples of ghosts and gods, might be more powerful than her father?

This is Kamiyagawa's apprentice!

Moreover, Ms. Tsurumi's participation in the operation means that the ghost disciples have noticed this strange incident in Ibaraki Prefecture.

It’s stable now!

In the car, Tsurumi Shinchi and Inoue Yoji discussed more details of this incident.

It was said that the shopping mall where the incident occurred had no previous signs of ghost talk activities.

The monster that appeared there tonight may have recently arrived in reality.

Tsurumi Aoi listened quietly, and exchanged a few words with the little old man's body during the break.

That's right.

Aoi is Kamiya's apprentice after all.

By her side, there is also a scout who acts as a "housekeeper".

The treatment is the same as that of Kanoya.

"Little grandpa, when you confirm the information about the strange talk in the mall later, pay close attention to the movements of little sleeves."

"Abba!"

The scout patted his chest outside.

Aoi seems to be particularly interested in weird stories like "Kosode's Hand".

A monster with many arms.

It always feels like it’s very suitable…

…

The father and daughter of the Tsurumi family soon arrived at the shopping mall where the incident occurred. At this time, some personnel from the countermeasures room had already arrived here in advance.

"Aba, Aba! Wuji, Wuji!"

The little old man's body quickly circled around the mall and returned to his lady's side.

Using body movements and handwritten text, he reported the internal situation.

The scout's work efficiency is still very high.

There are indeed two strange stories in the mall.

One of them should be a somewhat alienated bride, the so-called female spider monster.

The original meaning of the neta-shinbun is "lady spider", also called Shinbun Luo. In Toriyama Sekien's "One Hundred Demons Night Parade", it is recorded that it is a monster that turns into a human form and seduces men. When the man is seduced, the neta-shinbun will take the man's head and eat it.

The girl spider that appeared in the mall is probably C-level.

As for the other monster active in the mall, it is confirmed to be Kosode no Te, which should be D-level.

The relationship between these two monsters is not the same.

According to the narration of the parties involved in the incident, the neta-shinbun is killing people, while Kosode no Te is saving people, which can also verify this point.

However, they don't seem to be completely hostile.

Perhaps it is more like a temporary partnership, but there are differences of opinion?

In short, it may be because Kosode no Te let the neta-shinbun's prey run away, and the two sides had a certain conflict.

But now the conflict has temporarily subsided.

It should be that the two ghost stories realized that there were some humans with extraordinary auras outside.

"According to the original plan, enter the mall."

Mr. Inoue began to issue orders.

He also listened carefully to the information brought back by the little old man.

A C-level ghost story plus a D-level ghost story are more difficult enemies for the Ibaraki branch, but they are not impossible to deal with.

If left alone, when the sun rises and the crowds move, it will inevitably cause greater trouble.

It is better to solve it as soon as possible.

The exorcists began to advance into the mall in an orderly manner, and the Tsurumi father and daughter followed in.

The mall was dark and silent. On the cold ground of the first floor hall, there were many body parts of human models scattered.

There were also many sticky white spider silks covering various places in the mall.

This place has become like a spider nest.

Under the leadership of the little old man, the exorcist team went deeper into the interior.

In front of them, everyone saw a dark mass of people.

It was a large number of human models.

Most of these models were broken, wearing various kinds of clothes, and their bodies were completely covered with spider silk.

The hands, feet and torsos of each model were connected with extremely thick spider threads, extending upward to the darker, but unobservable upper floors.

Crunch-Crunch-

As the exorcists deployed their battle formations, the human-shaped models that were originally standing still in the distance all twitched violently, and under the traction of the spider threads, they ran over with their hands and feet!

"Lihuo Fulu!"

Mr. Inoue gave an order.

The two exorcists in the team lit the Kikyo Fulu at the same time, and a blazing fireball formed in front of them and rushed out with a roar.

And the two exorcists who took the lead were both representatives of the Ibaraki local shrines this year, and went to the Giant Qiong Shrine to study and exchange talisman skills.

The exchange of forces between local shrines and temples that Kamiya and Onitsuka are promoting is indeed a good thing for the exorcist industry.

Whoosh--

The flames attacked, and the spider threads on many human models were melted and scattered on the ground.

The unpleasant smell of burning plastic filled the entire mall.

But even so, a small number of models broke through the flame barrier and rushed towards the exorcists.

From the joints of these models, sticky spider silk sprayed out again!

"Aoi, come to me..."

Seeing this, Tsurumi Shinchi, who was behind the team, held the Buddhist beads in one hand and stretched out the other hand, intending to protect his daughter behind him out of fatherly instinct.

But his voice had not fallen yet.

A red and upright figure lightly jumped in front of him.

And with an unstoppable momentum, he jumped into the group of burning models.

Clang——!

The Ichimonji hummed out of the sheath and cut out a gorgeous and bloody arc in the air.

Whether it was plastic or spider silk, they were swept away, making dense and difficult cracking sounds.

When the knife was cut out, the strong energy burst out from the Ichimonji blade, spreading in all directions like waves, and any debris along the way was washed away and shaken and scattered where the red ripples hit.

"Dad, get behind me!"

Tsurumi Shinchi: ...

Anyway, Aoi did not leave her father's sight.