Why are there only loser heroines around me?

You'd better not move.

As for the existence of the "Devil Blind Box", we have to mention some early investigator secrets that the White House recently released -

Many unorganized exorcists of the older generation liked to use warehouses as a means of sealing off demons when the government's containment facilities were not yet fully established. Their warehouses themselves were a kind of "formation" to seal off demons. Many people would seal the edges of the warehouses with mercury and draw pentagram exorcism spells on both sides of the inner door. The moment the warehouse door was opened, it was likely that the "watermark matrix" and "sealing spell" inside the formation were destroyed.

Originally, these unattended warehouses were very safe, but who could have imagined that warehouse auction culture would prevail in the United States in the future?

The older generation of Chinese exorcists handled this more appropriately. When they buried those monsters that could not be killed, they usually put sealing talismans on them and sealed them in coffins.

Dig three feet deep into the ground to bury it, then find a wild horse to flatten the land, and finally plant flowers and plants. As long as future generations do not carry out large-scale land development projects in these places, the demon that cannot be killed will only be buried forever.

Speaking of "burying".

It just so happened that the second case in Toyohashi City was related to land development.

The local monks plan to build another temple on the mountain behind the Fuori Shrine to worship Amaterasu. There are rumors in the industry that the more powerful the god worshipped, the more powerful the divine sword will be, and the sword blessed by the god of war is obviously stronger than other gods.

For example, if a monster cannot be cut by the sacred sword blessed by Ebisu Shrine, it can be easily opened by replacing it with a sword blessed by Bishamonten.

Both of them belong to the Seven Lucky Gods, and the variable of the god's rank is controlled. The only difference left is the God of War and the God of Wealth.

There are many different opinions in the industry about this. Most demon hunters say that this is pure nonsense. There is no difference in the quality of the divine swords. Only the time of worship can determine the strength, which has nothing to do with the god itself.

However, a small number of people say that the divine sword used to worship gods with strong martial power is indeed more powerful.

The person who wanted to build an Amaterasu Shrine in the deep mountains and forests behind the Fuori Shrine was the latter.

Amaterasu is a man of both literary and martial arts, and the sacred sword enshrined in the Amaterasu Shrine is definitely more powerful.

The person who commissioned this task was a monk from the Fuori Shrine. When the construction team was building the foundation of the shrine, they dug out a bronze coffin from inside. On the coffin was amulets that were several times more complicated than the Platycodon seal of Lord Qingming, and there were more than one. It could basically be said that the entire coffin was wrapped in yellow paper.

He didn't dare touch such a weird thing.

The abbot who wanted to build the shrine was also an exorcist. His purpose in building the shrine was to make himself an invincible divine sword, but he also knew his limitations. Bronze coffins were a taboo in the industry, and those sealed inside usually contained great demons from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Ordinary exorcists could not handle them at all, so they had to find more professional people.

Yanami felt that Ukyo must be interested in this case because she knew that Ukyo had been looking for a bronze coffin for some time.

She sent both cases to Ukyo at the same time.

The first client employer was willing to pay a D-level commission. According to the price they just posted, Arthur's D-level commission was $10, and their firm would take 20% of that, which was $12.

The second employer could only pay an F-level commission fee. He had used all his own money to build the temple, and the things sealed in the bronze coffin would also require a "B"-level commission fee. However, the content of this commission was just to ask Youjing to help do a risk assessment. The bronze coffin was lying there safely, and the employer had no intention of touching it, but he was willing to spend 2 US dollars in an F-level commission fee to ask Youjing to do a risk assessment. He stated his purpose in the commission, which was just to have a professional appraisal application issued by Youjing, and to take a photo with his idol by the way.

Youjing gladly accepted both commissions.

He sent a private message to Yanaijian, asking them to set off immediately, without gathering, and to go directly to the home of the first employer to meet.

Teacher Gan Xia was just criticizing Kusai and Karen who were exchanging glances through the camera. As she was talking, Ukyo and Yanami suddenly disappeared from the camera.

Ukyo: "It's urgent."

Yanaijian: "Yes, it's urgent."

"Alas!" Gan Xia sighed helplessly after seeing the news. What else could she say? She could only turn around and continue criticizing Cao Kei and Hua Lian for skipping class. Some people were not bound by the classroom. Gan Xia knew that they might be rushing off to save the world again. She felt a sense of regret for the difficulties faced by fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys. But if Yanami told her that they skipped class to get a private commission that could make money, Gan Xia would probably be furious.

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[Love test notes number one: wear sexy clothes when going out] (manual cross) (Special note: It’s too cold in late autumn, so I deliberately wore thick black stockings. I wonder if this counts as sexy clothing?)

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Ukyo arrived at his employer's villa in the suburbs.

He took out his cell phone and took a look. He originally wanted to ask Yanaijian where he was, but he received a text message notification that 12 US dollars had been deposited into his account. Yanaijian filled in his bank account. The other party was very generous and transferred the full amount before the commission was completed. It seemed that the other party trusted the reputation of Ukyo Office very much.

The employer was not in the villa. He sent a private message saying that he was currently staying in a hotel and would come back to stay after they had sorted out the things in the warehouse. It would be even better if they could help him check if there were any strange Tsukumogami in the house.

The sun was shining brightly today, but the temperature was a little low. Youjing was wearing a black windbreaker and waiting for someone at the warehouse door. The sunlight shining through the leaves in the forest dazzled his eyes, and he squeezed his eyelids and opened them again.

Ukyo saw Yanami playing hopscotch on the flagstones of the lawn behind the warehouse. She jumped three squares at a time and ran towards him with the long strides of an elementary school student.

When she jumped in front of him, she stood at attention and saluted like a playful person: "Report to General Ukyo! Yanai saw that the corporal arrived at the designated location on time!"

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Ukyo's face remained expressionless, but Yanami thought he was probably smiling.

Youjing brought a heat source detector and scanned the outer wall of the warehouse. This thing can detect a small number of local monsters, allowing them to be prepared before opening the door. The employer left the key under the large carpet in front of the warehouse. The employer was very afraid that the things in the warehouse would come out, so he installed two locks on the warehouse, both of which were the largest warehouse locks that can be bought in ordinary hardware stores on the market.

"Step back two steps and give me a view."

"it is good."

Yanami obediently stepped back, and Ukyo opened the warehouse door. Yanami held the hilt of the knife in his hand, ready to draw his sword at any time.

In the darkness, a lantern ghost transformed from an ordinary electric light tilted its head to look at them. Its body was covered by a transparent glass cover, and tungsten filaments extended from the inside of the lampshade to the outside, turning into arms and legs. Its eyes were lonely and sad, and the small eyes made of tungsten filaments were looking at the two of them pitifully.

This small type of Tsukumogami is usually non-aggressive and silent. It may have stayed in the warehouse for a long time, making a lot of noise but no one paid any attention to it.

In the past, the term "lantern ghost" specifically referred to the tsukumogami transformed from the lanterns in front of houses, but now it is a general term for tsukumogami transformed from all kinds of lighting instruments.

It seems that this little guy was the one who made such a fuss in the warehouse before.

Youjing took photos for his employer, indicating that there was no problem with his warehouse.

He gave half of the 12 yuan commission to Yanaijian. Yanaijian felt it was unreal that he made 6 yuan in such a short trip. They didn't even do anything but just opened a warehouse door. No wonder Arthur said that now is the peak season for the exorcist industry. Exorcists are like pigs standing on the wind. It is hard not to make money.

Yanami thought that another fight was going to happen, but the commission was surprisingly easy.

"This is the daily life of a paranormal detective. You'll get used to it." Ukyo said, "Don't you always cheat the night watchman? Every day someone says they got the commission for free on this job."

"Let's go to the next place."

Yanai saw it and said, "What should we do with this lantern ghost?"

"I've sent a message to Maori, asking him to pick it up." Ukyo said, "The government plans to trial a pet monster program. Citizens can take these harmless Tsukumogami home as pets if they want. The government is currently conducting obedience tests on these monsters. If they pass, maybe we'll see monster pet shops on the streets in a few days."

"No trade, no harm." Yanai said, "Will there be monster dealers who kidnap monsters for profit in the future?"

"No one can predict what will happen in the future," Ukyo said.

Kidnapping monsters, monster dealers...

Two very niche words.

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Two hours later, on the mountain behind Fuori Shrine.

They came by tram.

Yanamin followed his employer up the mountain and complained to Ukyo behind him: "Why don't we drive here? The train is so slow..."

"You're quite right," Ukyo said. "I've been thinking about sending you to learn to drive these days. The government has just relaxed the age limit for psychic detectives to hold a driver's license to fifteen. Yanami, you're definitely qualified, right?"

"Um...actually, I'm already 16." Shouldn't driving be done by men by default? However, Yanami suddenly remembered his position as assistant and vice president. Indeed, driving wasn't something the boss could do himself.

As she was speaking, she saw someone selling octopus balls on a small mountain path. Her fair nose twitched in the direction of the fragrance, and Youjing felt that her soul had been hooked by the aroma of the heated octopus balls.

"Why are there vendors in a place like this? Could they be monsters like Obik in disguise?"

Ukyo was stunned. She thought of Obike. To be honest, when seeing vendors selling delicious food in the mountains, shouldn’t the first thing that comes to mind be the more famous monster "Yamasou"?

In many stories, that thing is the chef of the demon world. It likes to invite passers-by passing through the mountains and forests to taste its food. If the other party doesn't like it, the traveler will be the next meal on its table. So when you meet a mountain demon, you can't say that the food it cooks is not delicious. No matter what it serves, as long as you transform into a boastful monster, you can save your life.

But what is Obik?

He bought octopus balls, not soba noodles. Ukyo sighed silently in his heart. Yanami's knowledge was quite diverse. He walked behind and heard Yanami chatting with his employer, the exorcist who was leading the way.

"Could it be that the site you chose for your temple was once a village?"

"Haha~, Master Yanami is overthinking it. That place used to be a wasteland. There's no way an Obike would suddenly show up to mourn the village."

The employer said, "Many people heard that a temple dedicated to Amaterasu is being built nearby, so they came here early to reserve stalls. After all, Amaterasu is a model of great worship wherever she is, and many people will surely come to pay their respects. Isn't it normal to have snack vendors in such a busy place?"

That makes sense!

Yanaijian came to the stall and made a "1" sign with the owner.

"Give me some meatballs!"

The second test of love notes is to feed your crush and observe her reaction!

The two of them were busy the whole afternoon. Although there was no fighting, the process of waiting for the tram and walking on the mountain road was very tiring. She didn't believe that Ukyo was not hungry. This man was best at holding on.

Yanami held a box of octopus balls in her hand, deliberately keeping close to Ukyo.

"Would you like one?" Yanaijian put a small meatball on a bamboo stick and put it to Ukyo's lips, pretending nothing had happened. After being with Ukyo for a long time, she was now very good at controlling her emotions, but in fact she was extremely nervous.

Ukyo moved his head forward and ate the meatball on the skewer.

'Eat!'

'He ate it!'

Yanai became visibly happier, and the upturned corners of his lips were like the only ray of warm sunshine in late autumn.

In the love test notes, it says that if your crush eats your food, it proves something... Oops! My brain is suddenly not working! I can't remember~!

"Want to eat again?"

Yanai saw another one being picked up.

"I remember you being a bit protective of your own food." You Jing looked at her with disdain. "Why are you so generous today?"

"Guoshi" seems to be used to describe dogs, right? Yanaijian was a little confused.

"Eat another one anyway!"

Yanami put the octopus balls in front of Ukyo's mouth, looking expectant that he would eat them.

Ukyo thought it was nothing, he didn't know Yanami was taking a strange love test, and eating something handed to him by a girl was not considered an out-of-bounds behavior for him.

While chewing the octopus pieces in his mouth, he thought about the "car" problem that Yanami had just mentioned.

He really should get a car that he can drive regularly. Maybe he will have to take Xiaomari with him when the office goes on missions in the future. Motorcycles are indeed very convenient for traveling. Motorcycles can go on many roads that cars cannot go. Yanai saw that his mentor could take a motorcycle license, but it doesn't matter if one or two people ride a motorcycle, but if three people go in a group, it will look like a biker gang. Ukyo feels that their future travels should be more formal.

Recently, he heard that Arthur had really started writing a novel. That guy was fulfilling the flag he had set on the "Magic Train" last time. Could his own flag also be realized?

Buy a Maybach, or ask someone in the industry when Bugatti's next limited-edition sports car will be released.

With this in mind, Youjing exercised the unique privilege only available to the channel initiator in the Night Watchman channel.

@All members, "Everyone, who has connections at Volkswagen? I'm planning to buy a Bugatti soon."

Bai Ma (IP address: France): "I happened to be in France recently. Bugatti's factory is here. They seem to have recently made a strange concept car and plan to show it at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance."

Ukyo: "What is a supernatural concept?"

Bai Ma: "It's just a gimmick. I heard it's a dark blue carbon fiber paint job, and the body is made of aviation-grade high-strength aluminum alloy. They've changed their style and stopped making track cars. This time, they're using aviation-grade aluminum alloy specifically for use in exorcists. I came to France to see this car's first crash test. They did an internal test yesterday, where a regular track-grade off-road vehicle collided with this car. The Bugatti only chipped some paint, but the track car on the other side was completely destroyed, failing all five tests after the accident."

"Today is their first public test. I was invited here. If you're interested in buying, I can help you ask."

Arthur: "The test has already started, and you're still chatting in the group? I'm right here, where are you? Damn, I saw this car, they designed a new logo, it's a big Catholic cross! Their test subjects are 10 stacked lower-level demons! ... Tsk... These skinny lower-level demons are bleeding a lot, wait... why aren't they moving? Man, I always thought lower-level demons were pretty hard to kill."

Ukyo was very moved by what Bai Ma and Arthur said. No man can refuse a Bugatti. He really wanted to see the car, but it seemed that video shooting was not allowed during the first test, so he could only listen to the two men describing it with their hands and feet gesticulating on the Night Watchman channel.

"Ajing, we're here."

Yanami's voice made him look forward again. She started calling him "Ajing" this strange nickname again. Ukyo didn't care. He had already relaxed the bottom line for Yanami.

As far as the eye can see, there is a half-dug foundation ditch, and the bronze coffin is just a little way to the east.

"Uh..." Yanaijian suddenly started complaining, "I thought the bronze coffin would be a very large one. In the classics I've read, all the monsters that needed to be subdued with a bronze coffin were generally of extremely large size. Well, that's not always the case, ha~ I haven't read that many books."

Yanaijian felt that he might have said something wrong. Could this be a bit offensive to his employer?

But Yanami suddenly noticed that Ukyo's eyes became abnormal. He looked at his employer as if he was a fool.

"Boss, shouldn't we respect our employer?" Yanaijian leaned close to him and whispered.

You Jing didn't respond, but walked to the front of the bronze coffin, reached out and touched the green embroidery on it, and then rubbed off the stuff on his fingers with disgust.

His grades in antique appraisal classes have always been very good, and every member of the executive department has a keen eye, especially when it comes to bronzes.

So he could tell at a glance that this thing was cast using the lost wax method, and the rust was very fake. Ancient bronzes usually have mold marks left after casting using several ceramic molds together, while bronzes cast using modern technology are usually one-piece and do not have these marks.

Unless ancient Japan also had a fire-controlling master like Norton who could manipulate various types of flame words and cast a seamless bronze ware, this bronze coffin would be of no use.

Youjing stepped forward and patted his employer on the shoulder. The employer was a bald young man wearing monk's robes. He was obviously a little panicked by the pat.

You Jing said, "You want me to produce an appraisal certificate for the bronze coffin?"

He almost knew what the exorcist was up to. He was taking a certificate issued by a renowned master and then reselling the fake artifact to someone else. This kind of thing also happened in the exorcism community, such as reselling "demon antiques" authenticated by renowned exorcists.