Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

What happened?

No…

That little girl, and that mysterious person who suddenly appeared…

Are they still alive?

Probably… impossible, right…

Looking at the several large trucks that had been turned into a twisted mess by the massive impact, and the hard ground that had cracked under the force of the collision, everyone felt a sense of heavy sorrow.

Even if they weren't directly hit, it's like the principle of trenches on the battlefield.

Many soldiers hiding in trenches don't die from being hit by shrapnel, but from being shaken to death by the force of the shells hitting the fortifications they're hiding behind.

And the scale of the collision produced by these several large trucks loaded with heavy logs, traveling at full speed, was even more violent than artillery shells.

How could anyone survive that?

"Oil… oil leak!"

Among the onlookers, someone with sharp eyes noticed that the fuel tanks of the trucks had ruptured due to the deformation caused by the recent collision.

A pungent smell of diesel fuel gradually permeated the area.

Long-haul trucks like these have much larger fuel tank capacities than ordinary cars.

The diesel fuel leaking from the fuel tanks quickly formed a river, mixing with the blood on the ground, giving off a scent of impending danger.

"Back… back away!"

Among the tourists present, some had clearly witnessed serious traffic accidents and immediately panicked, dragging their friends away to escape to a safe distance.

First, there was the fuel tank leak.

And within the vehicles, there were not only mechanical parts but also electrical wiring.

All it takes is a single spark…

And it could cause a massive explosion.

"Buzz…"

As the tourists scrambled to escape, trying to retreat to a safe distance, a spark burst from a broken wire connector.

Normally, this little spark wouldn't cause any ripples; even if it landed on someone's body, it wouldn't cause any pain.

But at this moment, it proved the saying.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

In that instant, time seemed to slow down considerably.

Saki Kawasaki's pupils constricted, her vision suddenly magnified dozens of times, allowing her to clearly see that dazzling spark slowly falling towards the gasoline on the ground.

No matter how much time was stretched out, the spark eventually landed on the gasoline.

"BOOM!!!"

In just a brief moment, accompanied by a deafening explosion, a sea of flames erupted.

"Come out."

At the moment the burning fireball, as dazzling as the sun, erupted, this unusually calm voice could be heard clearly.

The instant those two words were spoken, the tourists who had already retreated dozens of meters away, their eyes filled with fear, shock, and dread, suddenly saw a monster as tall as six or seven meters appear in front of the Ferris wheel.

The monster had no lower body; its upper body resembled a giant human torso, with the left side as black as ink and the right side a ghastly white, distinctly separated.

Furthermore…

It had no head, only an empty neck with a smooth cross-section.

The instant the monster appeared, it immediately leaned forward, extending its pale and jet-black arms in a gesture resembling an embrace, and with a speed almost invisible to the naked eye, it engulfed the flames that were about to erupt.

"Bang!!!"

The violent explosion sounded much muffled under the monster's body.

The ground of the entire amusement park trembled for a good while.

From the gaps shielded by the monster's body, the tourists saw a dazzling light, as if the sun in the sky had fallen to the ground.

Although the debris from the truck explosion was completely contained,

The flames produced by the ignited gasoline, however, clung to the headless monster's body like maggots on a corpse, quickly rising into a burning sea of flames several meters high.

The heatwave from the high temperature distorted the air.

"That is…"

"That little girl…"

"She… she can't survive this, right…"

Looking at that burning sea of fire, the tourists in the distance all had complex expressions.

How could any human survive such an explosion and high temperature?

Just as everyone was thinking this, Saki Kawasaki, inside the Ferris wheel cabin, also felt despair, but then she saw a figure wearing black clothes slowly walking out of the sea of fire.

The high-temperature flames seemed to have no effect on him whatsoever, and even his pace was unhurried.

"Vanish."

As Ye Xing softly spoke these three words, the pale ghost hand… no, the Black and White Headless Thing, which had now evolved to the second stage, slowly dissipated into the air.

Watching this mysterious person in a black coat and a pure black mask walk straight out of the sea of fire, without even a scratch on his clothes, let alone injuries, the tourists were all dumbfounded.

"This… this guy… is he a monster?!"

"Wait a minute… what was that just now?"

"Am I seeing things?"

"No… I saw it too, a huge black and white headless monster appeared!"

"Wait… that's 'Mask'!"

"'Mask'? The one from the online rumors?"

"This guy… actually exists?!"

…

Although the legend of the mysterious person "Mask" had spread online after the Kyoto Municipal Kindergarten, violent gang, and sudden train malfunction incidents, only a small number of people had heard of it after all.

Among them, even fewer truly believed in the existence of "Mask."

After all, there were also urban legends about the Slit-Mouthed Woman and Eight-Foot Tall Woman, with even richer settings, and even the reasons for wandering the streets in past and present lives were explained clearly.

Doesn't that mean there really are Slit-Mouthed Women and Eight-Foot Tall Women in this world?

How is that possible?

But only after witnessing it with their own eyes did they know.

"Mask" is not just an urban legend.

At this moment, Ye Xing lifted the hem of his coat.

A petite Kyoka Kawasaki, like a koala, was clinging to his body, well-protected by the clothing formed by the power of the evil spirit, without a single burn mark on her body.

"Okay, come out."

"Mm-hmm."

Kyoka Kawasaki nodded obediently, came out of Ye Xing's black coat, and smiled sweetly.

"Thank you, my hero."

"Okay, go wait in a safe place."

Ye Xing patted Kyoka Kawasaki's little head, said with a smile, and then his figure suddenly disappeared from the scene.

Saki Kawasaki, in the Ferris wheel car, seeing that her sister was safe and sound, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She just had a very strange feeling.

It was as if at the moment the sea of fire rose, someone seemed to be whispering something in her ear.

But when she came back to her senses and saw "Mask"… no, when she saw classmate Ye Xing safely taking her sister away, that faint voice disappeared without a trace.

Was it an illusion?

Or was she so nervous that she had auditory hallucinations?

"That was really dangerous."

Hearing Ye Xing's smiling voice that suddenly sounded, Saki Kawasaki trembled all over, only to realize that the other party had returned to the Ferris wheel car at some point.

And, he had conveniently closed the door.

"You… you…"

Saki Kawasaki looked at Ye Xing's face with a relaxed expression, opened her lips, and seemed to have thousands of words to say, but didn't know where to start.

In the end, she only had one question.

"Kyoka… has she known your true identity for a long time?"

To Saki Kawasaki's surprise, Ye Xing only shook his head in the face of this question.

"That's not a very accurate way to put it."

Saki Kawasaki looked slightly puzzled.

"Where is it inaccurate?"

Ye Xing smiled and said softly.

"First of all, unlike that sexy double-chin from Gotham City, the code name 'Mask' given by the police department and those who know is not my true identity, it can only be regarded as… um… a disguise when I'm working."

"Working?"

Saki Kawasaki showed a bitter smile when she heard this.

"You call this working?"

"There's no difference."

Ye Xing replied indifferently.

"It's the same as receiving remuneration, and improving your skills in the process, and it's during my spare time, so of course it's working."

Then, he spoke again.

"So, your use of the word 'true identity' is not very accurate. I'm just an ordinary, slightly handsome high school boy."

Saki Kawasaki sighed and complained.

"Your definition of ordinary is really different from mine. You're not ordinary at all."

Who knew that as soon as she finished saying this, Ye Xing nodded repeatedly, his tone very approving.

"As expected, worthy of being classmate Kawasaki, you can actually see through my pretense of being ordinary? It seems you've also discovered that, in fact, I am the Son of Heaven, chosen by God, possessing unrestrained aptitude, saving Kyoto City from fire and water, reversing the tide, supporting the collapsing building, Kyoto's number one butter shooter, a professional exorcist who has never been defeated, the nemesis of Shura fields, the destroyer of party struggles and stock speculation, the king of harems…"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Seeing Ye Xing becoming more and more outrageous, Saki Kawasaki quickly raised her hand to interrupt the spellcasting.

"The beginning was fine, what the heck is a butter shooter? Why is there even a king of harems? What is all this!"

While feeling speechless at Ye Xing's abstractness, Saki Kawasaki also breathed a sigh of relief.

As expected.

Ye Xing was still the same Ye Xing, with an abstract personality, always saying some very outrageous things.

"Mask"…

It was indeed just a disguise of the other party.

Did this change anything?

No.

Ye Xing was still the person she knew, the one who had helped her, the one who was always sarcastic but actually had a very gentle personality.