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Sensing the presence of the van, Qiu Jin's face suddenly turned deathly pale.
He grabbed Yuko Kakino's hand suddenly, forcing himself to speak through his fear, "Master, no... Yuko."
"Now, immediately, right now! Get out of here! Remember, walk out calmly and slowly, but quickly!"
Yuko Kashino was a little stunned, but she quickly realized what was happening and hugged Akihime tightly, saying, "No, I won't abandon you..."
Qiu Jin didn't have time to linger with her. Her eyes were filled with despair as she watched the door of the white van slowly open.
He could clearly sense that there was definitely more than one half-demon in that van.
It seems... a half-demon alliance has already been formed, and I'm in such a bad state... It's over, everything is over.
A man wearing a red scarf around his neck opened the door of the van and got out.
"Ugh, all I can say is that the air here stinks, it really stinks... Is the environment in Urayasu City really that bad?"
Chapter 19: Found the Right Place
The man in the red scarf stretched, seemingly feeling restless from being cooped up in the car, and his canine nature was making him want to move around.
Behind him, several more people got out of the car, all dressed in rather flashy clothes. Among them, the one with squinty eyes and a monocle looked dangerous.
"Oh my, my dear... where do you think we should go next?" The man in the red scarf put his arm around the shoulder of the blond man with squinty eyes and asked affectionately.
Kenny adjusted his monocle, sniffed the air, and chuckled, "Can't you smell a sweet, fishy odor? A... "
He slowly turned his head and looked in the direction where Akihime and Kenno Yuko were hiding. His squinting eyes opened slightly, revealing eyes that shone with dazzling golden light, as if he could see through everything.
Kenny, who was once a demon owl, possesses the strongest reconnaissance ability among the members of the Mighty Man Stronghold.
He looked at Qiu Jin, his golden eyes filled with curiosity.
"There's a smell of blood... Everyone, let's control that little cat demon first."
The tall man behind Kenny stepped out in response, twisting his neck, causing his white chick hat to tremble, which looked somewhat comical.
But no one dared to underestimate this monster named A-Tian. As a former polar bear, he was undoubtedly incredibly powerful.
Ah Tian pouted with a (д) expression on his face, strode forward, grabbed the park railing with both hands and pulled hard. With a loud bang, he forcibly tore the railing off and casually threw it aside.
Xiao Qin patted Kenny on the shoulder, grinned mischievously, and rushed forward, jumping into the park through a gap in the railing and heading towards Qiu Jin.
Akijin shoved Kenno Yuko hard beside him and roared, "Run! Run! Get to a crowded place!"
After Xiao Qin started moving, the others from Mengnan Village followed closely behind. Aji and A Shuang split up and rushed out from behind Xiao Qin, charging towards Qiu Jin from both sides.
Soon, Xiao Qin arrived in front of Qiu Jin, looking at him with a wicked smile, and then glanced at Jian Ye Yu Zi with a strange expression.
"How strange... these days, even monsters are learning to pull carts like children?"
Yuko Kashino understood what he meant and blushed.
Xiao Qin rubbed his hands together, noticed Qiu Jin's injuries, and laughed, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, we're not bad people... really!"
“We just want to know what happened in Urayasu.” Kenny walked up from behind, his hands behind his back.
Behind.
"Let her go... and I'll tell you," Qiu Jin said through gritted teeth.
Even though the people in front of him didn't kill him, Qiu Jin was still worried. Pu'an City was now like a dragon's den and a tiger's lair. How could an idiot rush in at this time?
………………
“Urayasu City now seems to be a den of dragons and tigers,” Mikazuki suddenly said.
The two said goodbye to Inspector Megure and were resting in a dessert shop.
After wandering around downtown Urayasu for a while, Toudou realized that someone was following him, while Mikazuki, being mischievous, wanted to play a trick on the person who was following him.
Mikazuki looked out the window of the dessert shop. Across the street, someone was standing under the bus stop, pretending to wait for the bus.
Looking at his heavy leather coat, Mikazuki took a bite of ice cream and said, "I didn't expect we'd be followed so quickly... and that guy is wearing such a thick coat in this heat, he's really courting death."
Dou Tang took a sip of milk tea and sighed, "So you're really that mean, letting him stand outside in the sun while we eat dessert here?"
Mikazuki shrugged: "He chose it himself."
Dou Tang nodded, continuing to observe the guy out of the corner of his eye.
The two had been sitting in the shop for more than half an hour. It was already afternoon, and the guy was sweating profusely, wiping his face with his hands again and again, but he still pretended to be waiting for a car.
Judging from Dou Tang's eyesight, this guy was probably just an ordinary person. He was even a little unsteady on his feet, and was probably on the verge of heatstroke.
However, the man suddenly took out his phone, seemingly making a call. After hanging up, he looked flustered and glanced towards the dessert shop.
The two, as if on the same wavelength, immediately pretended to chat, but still kept glancing at the man out of the corner of their eyes.
The man picked up his phone and held it up to the two people in the dessert shop, seemingly wanting to take a picture. Mikazuki suddenly had a bright idea, and he lay down, resting his hands on his arms, using the standee on the table to cover his face.
The man wandered around trying to find the right angle, but Mikazuki kept dodging him. Looking at Mikazuki, who kept changing poses as if picking something up or doing something else, Tou Tang couldn't help but smile.
After a while, the man seemed to give up, looking down in frustration. He then put away his phone and walked quickly toward the other end of the street.
Mikazuki peeked out from behind the signboard, looked at it, and asked, "Should we follow or not?"
Dou Tang downed his drink in one gulp and said, "Of course, he's our only lead right now."
Dou Tang got up to pay the bill, and then the two quickly left the store, hanging far behind the man in the leather jacket, using the crowd to conceal themselves. Dou Tang also took Mikazuki's hand, and some scattered black mist surrounded the two, completely obscuring the last trace of inhuman aura on Mikazuki's body.
Mikazuki curiously touched the mist beside him and said, "To be honest, Tou-tang, I have never seen anyone with resentment like yours. It can bring a powerful sense of oppression and cover up all auras to the point that even I cannot perceive them. How did you do that?"
Without turning his head, Dou Tang continued to pull Mikazuki forward, saying, "We should ask ourselves, what is the purpose of this fog?"
"The purpose of covering up the breath is to prevent the dead from frightening the living, while the sense of oppression is to drive away those who covet all of this."
Mikazuki was somewhat confused.
This sounds like... Dou Tang needs to use this kind of thing to cover up dead people, but we've never encountered such a situation before.
Suddenly, she shivered. Wasn't she just using a weapon to cover her breath? Oh no, the dead person was herself? Impossible!
No, no... Dou Tang may not have any special feelings for me, but he definitely wouldn't want me to die! Hmm!
Mikazuki sniffed, trying to dispel his worries.
The two followed the man and arrived at a staircase leading underground. Dou Tang looked up and saw that the staircase should lead to the basement. In Tokyo, it is common to convert underground spaces into restaurants or shops.
Just as Dou Tang was about to follow, Mikazuki grabbed him and pointed to the ground. Dou Tang looked down and saw some scattered bloodstains on the ground. As he went down the stairs, it seemed that an injured person had just passed by.
Dou Tang narrowed his eyes.
Found the right place.
Chapter 20 Underground Hospital
Dou Tang and Mikazuki slowly descended, the barrier of resentment silently opened, their bodies trembled, and they disappeared from the sight of ordinary people.
Although they couldn't hide it from the monsters who had turned into humans, they could at least reduce the noise of their movements. Before the monsters could see the two of them directly, they wouldn't be able to detect their actions.
The basement door was ajar. Dou Tang slowly pushed it open and pulled Mikazuki inside.
A short corridor came into view, with some glass doors on both sides, and a reception desk in front of it. A red and white cross hung on the wall behind the desk.
This is the clinic.
The bloodstains extended all the way to another corridor on the side of the front desk.
There was no one in the corridor at this time. The two went to the front desk and found a sign that read: "Suna Private Clinic is closed today".
"A private clinic located in the basement of an office building... it really does sound like an urban legend," Dou Tang remarked. "I wonder what we'll find out—a heartless doctor who sells organs, or a mad scientist who can perform human augmentations?"
Three days
Yue whispered, "Maybe she's a blonde girl with stitches all over her body."
"François Frankenstein?" Dou Tang raised an eyebrow. "You have quite a wide range of interests."
"This is a manga I read more than ten years ago!" Mikazuki exclaimed incredulously, "You actually know about it? We don't have any manga at home, and you probably don't have time to read them anyway."
Dou Tang wouldn't tell her that it was something from her past life, so he just laughed it off.
The two walked to the left of the front desk, where there was another corridor, which was even narrower. At the end of the corridor was an operating room, with a red light shining above it.
As you walk down the corridor, the wards and observation rooms on both sides are empty. The entire underground hospital seems to be a place used solely for surgery. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, and there are dried bloodstains scattered on the walls.
Dou Tang looked around thoughtfully and said, "This is probably an underground hospital."
Mikazuki burst out laughing: "What else could it be but underground?"
“I mean… an underground hospital that specifically provides assistance to yakuza or illegal individuals.” Dou Tang frowned. “Unlike large organizations like the Morning Star Group that have their own private hospitals, this place seems to be a treatment center for yakuza or petty thugs after they settle their cases privately. Therefore, it mainly treats external injuries. You can see these empty wards; they can basically only provide care after the external injuries have healed.”
Mikazuki nodded, squinting as he looked at the end of the corridor.
The operating room door at the end of the corridor was closed, with only the light above the door on, indicating that surgery was still in progress. The man the two had been following was nowhere to be seen, presumably also in the operating room.
After confirming that no one was around, the two arrived at the operating room door. Dou Tang placed his hand on the door, turned to look at Mikazuki, and asked, "Should we go in or not?"
Mikazuki closed his eyes and sensed for a moment. After opening them, he sighed and said, "Your mist has obscured my aura, but it has also prevented me from sensing other yokai. Can you sense anything?"
Dou Tang shook his head, indicating that he could not sense anything.
His perception was rather strange compared to others; for him, beings that were too weak would be automatically ignored and could not be sensed at all.
However, he will also detect beings that pose a threat to him, such as ordinary people wielding powerful weapons; this perception is extremely intelligent.
Dou Tang even felt that every time he opened his senses, countless threads were actually shooting out from his body, extending outwards regardless of any physical form. Each thread had its own thoughts and could accurately distinguish which were threatening and which were harmless.
It was as if... in that instant, countless wills emerged from his heart, went out to the outside world to be at his command, and returned to report back to him after obtaining information.
Dou Tang thought for a moment and said, "Anyway... those people behind the door definitely can't beat me, so let's just go in."
“That’s really your style…” Mikazuki silently hid behind Tou Tang and patted his shoulder. “Alright, let’s go in… Master.”
"What did you just say?" Dou Tang turned his head and raised an eyebrow.
“I said, let’s go in.” Mikazuki’s hands formed claws, his slender fingers slightly parted, the tips gleaming coldly.
Dou Tang chuckled, turned around, and suddenly kicked the door!
"Oh!"
Even though the operating room doors were incredibly heavy and locked, they couldn't withstand the monstrous strength contained within Dou Tang's body. The two doors were immediately kicked off their frames and collapsed with a crash.
In the operating room, three people are surrounding the operating table in the center. Under the operating lights, a man whose throat has been cut is receiving treatment.
The man in surgical scrubs faced the doorway, his eyes wide with astonishment. His hands, which were stitching up a wound, froze in mid-air, as if time had stood still.
The two people who had their backs to the door also turned around. One of them had a tongue sticking out like a snake's tongue, and the other was the leather-clad man they had seen earlier. Both of them were equally surprised.
The man in the leather jacket and the doctor were clearly confused. They were just ordinary people who had been tainted by some demonic energy or resentment, like ordinary people who had been enhanced by the Baoyu Sugar Pill. Therefore, they could not see through the resentment barrier set up by Dou Tang.
The snake-tongue demon's eyes widened, and it screamed, "Enemy!"
He reached into his coat pocket, pulled out two steel whips, and lashed them at Dou Tang without a word.
At the same time, Dou Tang also ran towards him, stretching out his hands and actually reaching for the steel whip.
The two steel whips lashed at his arms without any doubt, but the scene of skin being torn apart that the snake-tongue half-demon had imagined did not appear. The tall boy with deep eyes simply swung his arms to the sides, and the steel whips wrapped around his arms several times before he finally grabbed them firmly in his hands!
The hidden barbs on that steel whip would instantly cut off a layer of skin if it hit a person, but this guy not only caught it with his hand, but also wrapped it around his arm twice and grabbed the steel whip with his hand.
Dou Tang gritted his teeth fiercely and charged forward, releasing the barrier of resentment!
In the eyes of the man in the leather jacket, the air in front of him trembled, and then the man he had been following suddenly appeared out of nothingness!
Dou Tang bypassed the man in the leather jacket, charged forward and leaped up, delivering a knight's kick to the snake-tongue half-demon who was stunned in place.
"Oh!"
“滋
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—"
The snake-tongue demon was kicked away and slid on the ground, making a strange hissing sound. The two steel whips also slipped from its hands.
Dou Tang landed, then suddenly twisted his body and forcefully swung the steel whip in his hand, striking the leather-clad man beside him with the handle. The leather-clad man screamed and fell to the ground with a thud.
Just as the snake-tongued half-demon was about to get up to fight, Dou Tang turned around and lashed him to the ground. Although the handle of the steel whip had no barbs, it was as heavy as a hammer, leaving him completely dazed.
The doctor who was performing surgery was also startled and stood frozen in place by Dou Tang's pointing finger.
Mikazuki slowly walked in, looking at the scene with some shock. Only three or four seconds had passed since Tou Tang kicked open the door.
Chapter 21 Demons and Monsters Stirred Up Because of You
Mikazuki swayed and sat down at the table next to him, looking at everything in the spacious operating room.
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