After in-depth research and discussion between Fukaya and a group of investigators from the East Police Department, they all agreed that the only way to rescue the guest was to first rescue the living person, and then use the living person's surrogate power to rescue the guest.
Of course, the premise for this rescue cycle to be established is that the [living person] is still alive.
As a result, they began to investigate the [living people] whose souls had been replaced by the [Soul Master]. This is a special operation that requires the concerted efforts of multiple investigators, led by the always resourceful investigator Fox.
The first step of action is to observe the condition of the living.
After returning from the green friend Rie, the living person behaved as usual. He will still accept the investigation tasks assigned by the organization and complete them as efficiently and with high quality as possible.
When he has no tasks, he maintains his old living habits - going to the bookstore every morning, drinking coffee in the afternoon, fishing at night on odd days every week, rock climbing, rowing, bungee jumping, skateboarding, etc. on even days every week, and sitting on weekends. Watching pigeons flying around in the square not far from home.
However, the investigators who were familiar with the living people felt the deep indifference and numbness in his eyes that seemed to be the same as before, and then determined that this person was definitely not a living person.
"Could it be possible," someone raised this conjecture, "that the living person's substitution ability has been activated, so the person was replaced?"
The fox denied this speculation.
He has learned from Shen Gu that the essence of the living person's ability to take the place of death is to exchange positions with himself in a certain parallel time and space at the moment when death is infinitely approaching——
This ability was originally due to the fact that the living person and his other self once met in sleep, and were fortunate enough to come into contact with a high-ranking grotesque named [Weird Contractor] that was far beyond the knowledge of this world. After paying the price to hand over the ownership of his soul to After paying the price to the [contractor], he signed a weird agreement that could temporarily exchange lives.
It is a simultaneous exchange of soul and body.
At the moment of exchange, with the help of the powerful force generated by the intersection and collision of time and space, they can almost avoid most dangers of death and escape to any corner of the world they want to go in an instant.
When the next fatal danger comes, they will return to their original lives again, and the cycle continues endlessly.
In order to prevent each other's mentality from exploding when fulfilling this contract, the living people and themselves in parallel time and space have reached an unspoken tacit agreement——
None of them ever married and had children, lest they put a hat on themselves.
Based on this, the fox believes that the ability of the living to take the place of death is not really a place of death, but it is more accurate to call it avoidance of death.
It can also be inferred from this: the living person in front of you is definitely not another living person exchanged from the parallel world after activating the ability to replace death - because the body and soul did not arrive at the same time.
No matter which angle you consider, the survivors are of great significance to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and even investigators across the country, and rescue is imperative.
While continuing to observe the living, Fox brought in trial-and-error death row inmates and asked them to try to buy the figures designed by Midori Toshiro from the website platform.
Midorito Toshiro's figure has now reached its tenth generation, and the first nine versions have long since been permanently removed from the website. All the old editions you get are out of print and may one day be sold for astronomical prices.
The latest version still has twelve main characters, and each customer is limited to purchasing only one of them.
When the death row inmates opened the webpage, they discovered that only eleven figures were displayed on the online shelf. The note stated that the remaining quantity was only "1", and the twelfth figure was shown to have been sold.
The soul masters who had already rushed to Lidu hurried back and marked the souls and bodies of the condemned prisoners one by one.
Eleven death row inmates placed orders on the spot and purchased all the figures on the shelves.
That night, the figure arrived. The prisoners on death row who received the figures behaved normally, but the soul master said with absolute certainty:
"Their souls were replaced, without exception."
After further inspection, the soul master finally discovered that all the marks he made on the souls of the condemned prisoners had been transferred to the eleven hand-made dolls.
The dolls at this moment no longer have the cold and numb expressions they had at the beginning. Their eyes are more lively and their expressions are fuller, silently expressing their desire to escape from the shackles.
The investigators immediately thought of the strange object contained in the East Police Department-the soul-sucking device. Before becoming a monstrosity, the Soul Sucker was just a vacuum cleaner, until one day his owner pointed its straw at his own son.
Fox summoned a soul-sucking device on the spot, and a death row prisoner pointed the suction nozzle at the doll and pressed the button of the soul-sucking device, or vacuum cleaner.
Soon, the Soul Master felt the whole process of the soul mark he had made being quickly transferred from the doll to the dust bag of the vacuum cleaner - now a soul bag.
"It's done." He said calmly.
The price paid is that the souls of the condemned prisoners who use the soul-sucking device will also disappear, and there is no way of knowing where the souls will go.
All that's left is how to put the sucked out soul back into the original death row prisoner's body. There is another problem -
Where did the souls in the bodies of those death row inmates whose souls had been replaced come from? Is it from a doll? What to do with their souls?
Investigators continue to have other death row inmates drain souls from those whose souls have been replaced.
The absorbed people once had the intention of resisting, but the inertia of trial and error from the original owner's body made them finally submit.
The Soul Man believes that this state is only temporary. If these death row prisoners whose souls have been replaced are allowed to survive in this world for a period of time, they are likely to break away from the inertia of the original owners of their bodies and develop new thoughts and life characteristics.
The investigators thought that the enthusiast who bought the doll from the green friend Rie a long time ago might have confirmed the soul's language.
Regarding this matter, the investigators had no time to be distracted for the time being. They just arranged for the intern assistants who were still free to resume monitoring and observation of those enthusiasts.
The soul-draining trial-and-error experiments continue.
The suction mouth of the soul-sucking device trembled violently, and the body of the condemned prisoner who was sucked also trembled to the same extent. The black mist overflowed from the death-row prisoner's body, rolled and stirred on the surface of the body, and then was affected by a strong suction force. , curled back.
"Continue!" the fox said decisively.
After another tortuous experiment, and after paying the price of the souls of five death row inmates dissipating, the investigators finally absorbed the soul from the doll into another soul bag.
The soul bag was made from the skin of death row prisoners through special processing methods. After many experimental tests, investigators determined that this material was the most suitable for holding souls.
In addition to modern technology and crafts, Onmyoji and witches, who are helpless against weirdness but always have great power against ghosts, also contributed a lot in the production process of soul bags. They used various herbs with weird names such as soul-eating grass and flower of the two worlds. The powders were stirred together and made into a decoction for soaking the skin of death row prisoners.
During this process, the soul master also saw the true appearance of the doll's soul, which was completely different from the soul of ordinary humans - the latter was transparent in various colors, more like something floating in mid-air, quite mysterious. Cohesive liquid.
The former is larger in size and appears in the shape of a dark mist, like the legendary dead soul. The edges of the black mist roll like waves, showing an overly active and restless character.
The process of returning the soul of a condemned prisoner to his original body requires the precise control of a soul master who was originally an Onmyoji.
The soul master used the power of the shikigami for this purpose - it was the spirit body of a fox hidden in a bamboo tube. Driven by the soul master, its spirit body expanded rapidly and gently held the soul of the condemned prisoner in its mouth. In his mouth, he carefully pulled it into his original body.
The whole process took a day and a night. After the infusion, the soul master almost collapsed to the ground from exhaustion. But at the same time, the investigators from Dongdu also saw the dawn of rescuing the survivors and guests——
They speculate that the soul of the living person is now bound in the twelfth hand-made doll that the death row inmates did not buy, and that the doll is probably currently hidden in Midori Rie's home.
So next, the biggest problem is:
————
Please move on to the rest of this chapter. The writer continues while talking.
So far, the first chapter has 3135 subscriptions, and all have 1118 subscriptions!
Friends who follow the update, please turn to the next page and give a like to your favorite character.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
So next, the biggest problem is: how to steal the living doll from the green friend Rie...
