Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 175 The Unsightly Smile
His ability was able to restrain ghosts and demons. In theory, he only needed to carry enough food and water as backup. Yang Liu felt that he could keep fighting.

After finding a bush to hide his thickened off-road bicycle, Yang Liu squatted at the entrance of the old Inunaki Tunnel, holding the information given by Sasaki Li in his hand and a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth. His two-meter-tall and sturdy physique gave him the temperament of a wretched scout.

"Only lone travelers can leave through the entrance. Tsk! These Japanese demons are really good at performance art."

Yang Liu dusted herself off and stood up, the beam of flashlight piercing into the darkness.

Beneath the moss-covered sign for the Inunaki Tunnel stands a smiling scarecrow, his faded kimono covered in brown stains.

All kinds of messy garbage were piled up in the corners. Because of the long time, they were covered with moss and there was not even a musty smell.

After taking a look at the rusty "Dog-Bing Tunnel" sign next to him, Yang Liu walked into the tunnel.

At first the tunnel looked normal, just like a normal abandoned tunnel, but as we went deeper, there was less and less garbage discarded around, and the tunnel became more and more humid.

The moss gradually became thicker, and after penetrating from the willows into an area that could not be fully illuminated by the sunlight outside, it was discovered that the moss under the rock wall had a luster like corpse oil under the light.

"Is this... such an exaggerated impact?"

Looking at the mosses, Yang Liu frowned slightly, thought for a moment, took out a pair of gloves from the backpack on his back which was a circle larger than before, put them on, and carefully touched the thick moss.

The touch of the moss did not feel like a plant, but rather like touching rotten internal organs, reminding Yang Liu of the systematic anatomy course she had taken.

And there wasn't just moss on the rock walls, there were also dried areas that looked like blood and liquid that smelled like gasoline.

Looking back at the entrance of the tunnel, although it had turned into a small dot of light in the distance, Yang Liu could still clearly see the scene outside with her eyesight.

“Do we need to go deeper?”

Yang Liu thought for a moment and continued to walk deeper into the tunnel: "Even in a place like this, there have been such serious changes. Is there really someone stupid enough to go deeper into the tunnel..."

After Yang Liu left, the moss he had touched just now suddenly moved slowly, and the bloodstains, mildew spots and shadows in the passage formed a human face.

They "looked" in the direction of the willow trees, with their mouths curled up in exaggerated arcs.

As Yang Liu turned a corner, the last ray of sunlight behind him disappeared, and the "atmosphere" in the entire tunnel changed immediately.

Zila...

The flashlight beam suddenly flickered violently. In the gaps between the lights, the ash-like stains and moss on the rock wall slowly crawled, forming a dozen huge human faces with painful expressions looking at Yang Liu.

"Oh, you're not going to pretend anymore?"

Faced with the sudden appearance of the enemy, Yang Liu did not panic. Instead, he looked at the person's face with a playful look and smiled.

As if they had sensed Yang Liu's teasing, dozens of stained faces suddenly broke away from the wall and floated in the air to form a human wall.

Their eye sockets turned into swirling black holes, and voices echoed in the tunnel: "Join us..."

Yang Liu took a deep breath and yelled at the wall of people in front of him: "Get out!!!"

The powerful airflow was compressed by the lungs and throat, and as soon as it came out, it turned into an air cannon that shattered the human wall in front of him.

The shattered face spurted out yellow-green pus, but Yang Liu frowned and looked up.

On the ceiling of the tunnel, Yi Jing had gathered countless stains and mosses at some point, forming one painful human face after another. "Is this... the unbearable smile stain?"

There are many urban legends about tunnels in Japan, one of which is called the unsightly smiling stain.

This urban legend mainly originated from the Tian Tunnel in Saitama Prefecture. The general meaning is that the tunnel stains sometimes look like painful human faces, but among the countless painful faces there is a face with a smile.

If anyone accidentally sees this smiling stain, they will go crazy and lose their life.

“There are some here too…”

The monsters evolved from urban legends are not unique. As long as there are enough people in an area who know about the urban legend and the emotional power provided is enough to allow a qualified ghost to evolve, then a monster that meets the urban legend can appear.

And even if the demons in the area are cleared away, as long as other ghosts that meet the requirements enter the area, the urban legend will be revived again.

Therefore, the distribution of urban legends mainly depends on the scope of dissemination, popularity and compatibility with ghosts.

For example, the most famous ghost is the Slit-Mouthed Woman. There is one in almost every district in a big city like Tokyo. As long as the ghost meets the description of "a woman who committed suicide due to failed plastic surgery", the ghost can accept the related negative emotions and evolve.

The prevalence of the "unsightly smiling stain" is not as high as that of the slit-mouthed woman, but the probability of one appearing in an entire county is still not small.

"Wait a minute..."

Yang Liu suddenly realized something, and her eyes lit up: "Doesn't that mean... as long as there is an urban legend related to the tunnel, there is a chance that you will encounter it in this tunnel? What an unexpected gain, a good thing, a good thing!"

While thinking, Yang Liu was still searching among a group of painful faces.

As if they had sensed Yang Liu's terrifying strength, these painful faces did not continue to attack, but quietly surrounded Yang Liu, as if waiting for something.

Yang Liu seemed to have sensed something and turned around abruptly. Behind him, he saw that those painful faces had silently formed a human wall, and in the middle of the wall, a smiling face was slowly opening its eyes.

"Fuck! Are you playing dirty?!"

Before he could finish his words, his blood-red eyes suddenly opened, and the surging mental shock turned into an almost tangible shock wave that rushed towards Yang Liu.

Even with Yang Liu's resistance, he couldn't help but take a step back. Although the mental shock was absorbed and turned into strength to strengthen his body the moment it touched his body, even the energy shock wave driven by the overflowing mental power made him feel unstable.

Yang Liu steadied her body and walked towards the smiling face despite the mental shock wave. The muscles on her face were wrinkled by the strong wind.

Seeing that Yang Liu was actually approaching slowly despite his attack, the originally smiling face couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then his eyes made of moss suddenly glared, and the shock wave immediately increased to a higher level.

"You...can't do this."

Yang Liu was about to grin when the dust brought up by the mental shock wave rushed into his mouth, forcing him to close his mouth.

He didn't walk very fast, mainly to put more pressure on the smile stains and to get more mental shock.

In just a few seconds, he had absorbed spiritual power comparable to that of an entire evil spirit.

The small saber worn around his neck was also glowing slightly. It was this magical tool that absorbed the impurities in the mental shock wave, allowing Yang Liu to be so unscrupulous.

Just as Yang Liu was about to approach the smile stain, she suddenly felt as if she had stepped on something soft.

(End of this chapter)