I'm in Tokyo, caught in the clutches of the demon princess.

Finally, he saw the landmark street he had seen before, proving that they had come full circle.

The ghosts that had previously blocked the exit of the rift were now part of the group chasing them.

Feng Zejian also saw that crack.

I thought there wouldn't be any obstacles, but who knew there was a glutton in there sucking on a bone with no meat left.

There's still a glimmer of hope if we fight it out.

Kazema, carrying a briefcase and shouldering Shimada Chinatsu, ran towards the bone-sucking monster. The monster, seeing its new prey approaching, opened its blood-red maw.

Kazema threw Shimada Chinatsu into the air as bait. The monster leaped up, and Kazema slid in from below. In mid-air, Shimada Chinatsu stared blankly at the gaping maw that was less than a centimeter away from her.

But the monster's bloated size brought its connection with Chinatsu Shimada to an end.

Kazema caught Shimada and Chinatsu steadily and they escaped through the crack.

Chapter Thirty-Five: The Vanished Fengbei Road, the Non-existent Guanye District

The two appeared in downtown Tokyo.

Even at night, the place is brightly lit with neon lights and bustling with people.

So much so that if two people suddenly appeared, no one would pay any attention.

Chinatsu Shimada glared fiercely at Kazesawa with her beautiful eyes.

"Although you saved me, you really went too far. I was almost eaten by that thing."

Feng Zejian shrugged.

"You know, that was the only thing I could do in that situation. Of course, I didn't expect that thing to jump, let alone jump so high. My intention was just to get your attention."

Chinatsu Shimada took a deep breath.

"As long as you survived, that's good. By the way, you still haven't told me how you got in."

Feng Zejian says whatever comes to mind.

"I saw a post on an urban legend forum. It had two pictures and the words 'Save me.' The pictures showed a scarlet moon in the sky, a street sign for Fengbei Road, and an approaching dark shadow. The post only lasted for about ten seconds before it disappeared."

"I had nothing better to do, so I came out to see what was going on, and followed the location to Fengbei Road."

Chinatsu Shimada took out her phone and searched for Toyohoku Road, but the results showed news from decades ago.

However, there was no trace of Fengbei Road when searching for it on the map.

Feng Zejian fell into deep thought, looking up at the moon. The moon was now obscured by the night clouds, and there was no red light on it, so he guessed it was over.

The two walked down the street, and to be honest, this was the first time they had ever been in close proximity.

Moreover, their shared experience of life and death led to a somewhat rapid development in their relationship.

"Don't talk about what happened today. I suspect that the post was deleted by someone who knows the inside story. He's always watching social media. Don't get involved in any troublesome things."

Chinatsu Shimada nodded. "Okay, I understand."

As he spoke, he suddenly suggested, "We're practically brothers in arms, how about I treat you to some street food?"

Feng Zejian joked, "Even the young lady is this stingy?"

"I'm not being stingy, I just like eating at street stalls."

"Then I hope that I can accept what you like, Chika."

The scene shifts to that eerie world isolated from reality, where the members of the exorcism team look at the corpse of a monster that has been stabbed to death with a wooden stick.

The greasy middle-aged man calmly lit a cigarette and exhaled the first puff.

"It seems that someone else has broken in from somewhere we don't know about, and they're quite skilled."

The muscular man asked, "How should we handle this?"

"Keep an eye on the internet and try to find that person."

As she spoke, Sanqifen walked over from a distance, carrying two cups of milk tea in her hands.

"Everyone, I found two cups of milk tea that have been drunk."

The woman with glasses stepped forward and examined the two cups of milk tea.

"These were drunk by two different people. One of them still has a lingering fragrance, which might be body lotion or some kind of cosmetic, but both cups of milk tea were bought by one person."

The woman with glasses asked, "Is there a body?"

Sanqifen shook his head. "I didn't see any, but I did see a group of weak spirits. This kind of thing doesn't usually happen; they were probably attracted by something."

"So that means more than two people broke into this space and escaped, right?"

The woman with glasses pushed up her glasses.

"If that's the case, then one of those two people must know how to escape, and their arrival was not a coincidence."

The greasy middle-aged man threw his cigarette butt, which he had smoked in the blink of an eye, on the ground and ground it under his foot. "If that's the case, then it's even more necessary to find them."

"That spirit today was unusual; you could tell he wasn't completely unleashed, probably because of what was in the briefcase. Did you find the briefcase?"

Everyone shook their heads.

The greasy middle-aged man already had his answer.

"It seems that the spirit wasn't just thrown away randomly. There should be a person or spirit in that direction, and the briefcase is undoubtedly in his hands."

At the same time, Feng Zejian suddenly sneezed.

Chinatsu Shimada asked with concern, "Did you get choked by the chili peppers?"

Feng Zejian coughed and waved his hand. "It has nothing to do with that."

After a while, the wind and rain returned to normal.

"Is that enough? If not, I'll give you another bowl."

Feng Zejian did not refuse.

Chinatsu Shimada turned to the owner and called out, "Boss, another bowl, please. No, I want to eat too, two bowls, please."

"okay!"

Upon seeing this, Feng Zejian's lips curled up slightly, but when his gaze fell on the briefcase, his expression became somewhat serious.

The man in the half-haired suit had thrown himself a hot potato.

First of all, the things here must be very important, and they cannot be obtained by those people, so they were forced to choose to give them to themselves.

That monster will definitely come looking for me.

Instead of waiting for him to come to you, you should go to him yourself next time and return the things to him.

Judging from the previous situation, he is not the kind of monster who likes to fight, otherwise he wouldn't have been attacked first by that group of people.

I reckon everything will be fine as long as I return the items to him.

And that eight-foot-tall man in red—I was thinking of never going to a place like that again, so I can only prepare a gift in case he spares my life.

For monsters of that level, some quick-thinking methods can only be used once.

Since it's a case of being lost in a maze, it makes perfect sense to raise the wall a bit, doesn't it?

There are also places that don't appear on the map, news from fifty years ago.

It's safe to say that things are getting more and more interesting.

Chinatsu Shimada poked Kazawa with her finger. "What are you thinking about, so engrossed?"

"It's nothing, just a series of events that happened today, which were a bit shocking."

Then Shimada Chinatsu had an idea.

He turned back to look at the boss.

"Boss, do you know Fengbei Road?"

The boss was chubby and had a bit of a beard, which gave him a very honest look.

Kazesawa saw Shimada Chinatsu's mouth agape and frowned slightly.

Surprisingly, the roadside stall owner actually knew.

The boss sat down and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the towel hanging around his neck.

"How did you find out about Fengbei Road?"

Without a second thought, Chinatsu Shimada replied, "On some urban legend forums."

Kazema's eyes lit up; this Shimada Chinatsu seemed quite clever.

“No wonder, Fengbei Road is an old road from many years ago. If my mother hadn’t told me her stories, I probably wouldn’t have remembered it.”

Feng Zejian also became interested and took the initiative to start a conversation.

"Boss, is there any story behind Fengbei Road?"

"Since you've brought this up, I'll say this: Fengbei Road was in Guanye District, but that district no longer exists."

Feng Zejian promptly searched for the name "Guan Ye Qu" (观叶区, meaning "Foal Leaf Viewing Area").

This area does exist, but the description of the foliage viewing area is too brief.

"Let's talk about Fengbei Road first. Fengbei Road is just an ordinary road, but it's also a street that holds my mother's memories."

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Terrifying Illusion of Opening the Door

“A tragedy occurred on Fengbei Road. A woman died naked under the road sign of Fengbei Road. After that, strange things happened frequently, but then a master performed a ritual, and things calmed down for a while.”

Feng Zejian extracted the key information from this. "Why did things quiet down for a while?"

"Because something happened in the entire Guanye area."

Chinatsu Shimada also became agitated. "What happened?"

“Many people died in a big house. I was young at the time and can’t remember too many, but there must have been several hundred. I heard from the old folks that it was some kind of religious activity.”

"After that, some very tragic incidents occurred in Guanye District. Couples killed each other due to marital discord, people committed suicide or hanged themselves due to dissatisfaction with life, and someone was bitten to death by their own pet dog. Such incidents were rare in Guanye District for more than ten years, but they happened one after another after that incident."

"After that, a group of people came to my mother's place and took many people away, letting my mother and the others live outside for a while. When my mother came back, everything in Guanye District had disappeared and turned into a brand new residential area, as if nothing had ever happened."

Feng Zejian narrowed his eyes slightly and then asked, "Then, boss, could you roughly point out the direction of your foliage viewing area?"

The boss paused for a moment and pointed south.

Feng Zejian fell into deep thought, recalling how he had followed the navigation northwards.

The boss's memory shouldn't be wrong, so the only conclusion is that the vanished foliage viewing area didn't really disappear, but was completely separated from this world and then randomly reappeared under some kind of trigger.

And this randomness also has a specific region.

The house the boss mentioned was probably the one that was emitting black smoke that he had seen from the rooftop.

After the boss finished speaking, he also got up and started packing up his stall.

"You two little kids should go home now. Although ghosts are hard to find, there are plenty of bad people."

Chinatsu Shimada expressed her gratitude.

"Okay, then we'll be going now."

"Ah."

The two waved goodbye and disappeared from the roadside stall owner's sight.

In the shadows, a man in a suit, missing half a head, silently watched everything, disappearing into the darkness as the two vanished completely.

The two were walking back when they suddenly realized they were in the same neighborhood, which could only be described as a coincidence.

Through subtle questioning, Kazema learned that Shimada Chinatsu lived alone. She didn't say why, but Kazema could guess.

It's usually because of a bad relationship with family members.

Although they live in the same neighborhood, their homes are still some distance apart.

Kazema escorted Shimada Chinatsu downstairs and then turned to walk back.

The journey home was unusually quiet for Feng Zejian, but the bright streetlights gave him a great sense of security.