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Obviously the latter.
"understood."
This information is not very valuable. A black cloak alone is hard to use as a basis for finding someone unless you happen to see it while on patrol.
"I'll contact the Metropolitan Police Department and have them send a message to all police stations in their jurisdiction to check the surrounding warehouses."
This needle-in-a-haystack effort is likely to be ineffective, and we can only give it a try in the absence of other clues.
As it turns out, it really doesn't make any sense.
By the evening, almost all the police officers in the police station were dispatched, but they only visited less than 10% of Tokyo in the whole day. The area was too large and they found nothing.
"It would take at least two weeks to visit the entire Tokyo area. If the pandas are moved during this time, there would be nothing we can do."
They can't afford to wait that long.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received inquiries from China. The loss of national treasures is never a trivial matter. The cabinet hopes that the TAC team can give a reply within two days.
The loss of a national treasure is indeed no small matter. In the study of the Oshima Manor Castle, Ling Ye stood alone in front of the French window, watching the setting sun, and the sky fell into darkness.
National treasures, like the national flag and national emblem, are symbols of a country and should not be insulted.
"Heavenly evil ghost."
She suddenly whispered.
The study room was originally empty except for Lingye, but the next second, a hunched figure appeared.
"It's night time, Tian Xiegui, can you find the person I'm looking for?"
"I'll try my best to look for it, Miss, but Tokyo is really too big for me to find it alone."
"Then gather more companions."
Tian Xiegui lowered his head deeply.
"But this world and this era no longer allow us to appear. Humanity has forgotten us, and the world has abandoned us."
"Then now, for tonight, I allow it."
This sentence untied the shackles, and the laws of the world changed because of this sentence.
That night, hundreds of demons roam the night!
The Tokyo of this night is called Heian-kyo.
Chapter 254: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Scientology, which was founded by Galileo three hundred years ago and later developed to its peak by several archbishops such as Newton, Faraday, and Einstein, is now the orthodoxy in the world.
Under materialism, all monsters and demons have become fallacies. They are not believed in, not recognized, and are all fake.
Humanity flourishes, so the rules that humans believe in are the laws of the world. This has been the case for hundreds of years.
But with her words, the rules changed, at least for a few hours tonight.
Destiny, fate, heaven's way, people in ancient times had many names for it. It is invisible and intangible, but as a rule, it does exist objectively and affects everything. It is the riverbed of the long river of history and a signpost of the stream.
Today, the signpost was covered for a moment by the gentle brush of a hand.
A moment is a night. During this night, humans were unaware, but the legendary objects that had been sinking in darkness for hundreds of years disappeared under the restraining force that drove them away from this world.
Just one night, just Tokyo.
"Don't do unnecessary things."
Lingye's reminder made Tian Xie Gui Shen lower his head and agreed. Of course, he didn't dare to do anything unnecessary.
Intimidating and even harming humans was indeed what the ghosts loved to do in the past, but tonight it was an absolute taboo.
For his own sake, and also for the sake of whether the last of his kind in the world could be pitied and allowed to continue to live.
Tonight, the shackles would be released only once, and he dared not hope for such a thing. But as long as he still had some compassion for the dark things in the past, then these demons and ghosts at least had a future.
Even if you hide in a corner, at least it is much better than the countless forgotten people who disappeared in the past.
Tian Xiegui thought she would not have any other instructions and was about to leave, but Ling paused for a moment and continued speaking.
"If you can find the stolen panda tonight," she said, "I promise you a 'fantasy land', a land far away from the world, a land of fantasy that belongs only to dark things."
Tianxiegui looked up suddenly, he couldn't even believe his ears.
Fantasy town?
No longer living in a dark corner, but truly owning a land promised by God?
The 'Fantasy Town' that Lingya mentioned was of course a secret place, and to Gaia, it was nothing new.
In Japan, where there were eight million people who believed in gods in the past, secret places were more common than you might imagine. Although most of them were broken apart and inaccessible to ordinary people, some could still be found if you were willing to look for them.
Even the legendary Takama-ga-hara is now worthless and ownerless.
Using some secret realms as raw materials, creating a plane far away from the world for these demons and ghosts, where they would not interfere with humans, was an idea Lingye had had before.
If you have never seen it, you don't need to care about it. Even if you have heard of it in the past, it is just "hearing". But once you have seen it, once you have personally come into contact with it, it is a real existence. Whether it is the Tianxie ghost or the ghosts in the oil house, they are not just individuals, but a whole group. They really live on the earth.
Ling couldn't ignore this realization.
Tianxie Gui kowtowed heavily, not for himself, but for all the surviving monsters in the world.
Late at night.
The Tokyo of this era was not the city that never sleeps like in later generations. At that time, tired office workers wandered the streets after a day's work, as if late night was just the beginning of the day.
The streets of Tokyo in 1973 were still quiet late at night.
But tonight seems a little different. The night is deeper and darker than usual, and there are some unknown things in the darkness. The chains of the world have loosened for some reason, so they are confused, surprised, hesitant, and ready to move.
Until they heard that voice, the voice uttered the word that was almost forgotten in their memory.
"Pardon! Tonight, a hundred demons will roam the night!"
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons starts from Suzaku Gate and goes along Suzaku Street all the way to Rashomon Gate.
Of course, this is Tokyo, not Kyoto, so there is no Suzaku Street. But the entire city is divided into two from a perspective invisible to humans, and the central axis is a main street. Regardless of whether this street exists in reality, it is the "Suzaku Street" of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
There is no Tokyo here tonight, only Heian-kyo.
"Tian Xiegui, it's you. You old thing is still alive. I thought you were torn to pieces by that human team."
The speaker was a short and strange old man. Last Christmas, the demon demon transformed into a monster with the remains of a snow woman and invaded Tokyo. Everyone knew about this and thought that the demon demon, who had caused such a big fuss, had no reason to be spared. The world had lost another demon demon, but it was unexpected that it was still there.
"Shan Tong? You're not dead either?"
So many forests have been destroyed in modern times, but I didn’t expect that the monster transformed from this forest is still there.
"It seems that humans are not that powerful. They can't even kill you. I'll go and play with you in a couple of days."
"Be careful what you say! If you do that, I'll be the first one to kill you."
"Ha, I thought, you were recruited by humans? Why, you summoned the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons to catch us all in one fell swoop?"
"I was not summoned by humans."
Shan Tong was a little surprised to see that Tian Xiegui did not deny being amnestyed but only denied being a human.
Soon some more monsters came around, most of them were nameless little monsters, but there were also some famous monsters in the Book of Monsters, such as Guchang and Laolaohuo.
Every time someone comes, they greet each other. They are all old friends who haven't seen each other for many years. They may have been friends in the past, or even enemies in the past, but now they are all friends.
"Since you are not human, who recruited you?"
Tianxiegui said nothing and pointed to the sky.
The boy was a little confused, he looked up at the sky, it was dark without stars or moon, he didn't know what the evil spirit was. But suddenly, he remembered the shackles that he had untied tonight, his heart was shocked, and he had a horrified thought.
He also pointed to the sky, and when the evil ghost nodded, he lowered his head and dared not speak again. The monsters around him, whether they understood or not, also fell silent.
They are called "Hundred Ghosts", but there are only about ten with names and surnames. In addition to Shan Tong, Gu Chang, and Lao Lao Huo, there are also Yesifang, Lai Hao Shu, Bingzhubu, Yujiang Xiaoseng, etc. The rest are just insignificant monsters.
Among those present, the only one who could barely be considered a great demon was Tenxiegui. None of the former powerful demons such as Aoandon, Ushio, and Daitengu were left.
And the General...
Tonight, he will lead the Night Parade of Hundred Demons.
"During tonight's trip, you must not damage anything or hurt anyone. We are only here to find something that humans call a 'panda'." Tianxiegui said, looking around and as expected, he found some unhappy ghosts.
The purpose of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is never to find something, but to spread fear and gain the fear of humans. That is the cornerstone of their existence.
No harm is allowed, no destruction is allowed, how can this be called the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons?
"He promised us a place to stay if we can find it."
These words instantly extinguished the monsters' dissatisfaction.
‘Him’?
How long has it been since we heard this word?
"The place of refuge you mentioned...is there really a place for us to live in this world?" The one who spoke was the monk Yujiang. He had something on his head that looked like a straw raincoat, but upon closer inspection it was actually an umbrella with a broken handle.
Unlike other monsters, Yujiang Xiaoseng is a boy who serves the rain god, so strictly speaking he should be a small god, not a monster. Of course, if you disrespect the gods, you will be punished (for example, if you snatch the umbrella from his head).
"It's not this world. He promised us that our habitat would be called 'Fantasy Township', a world opened up for us far away from the mundane world."
"Open up the world?!"
This kind of god of creation had never set foot on earth even in the mythological era, let alone now when all gods and demons have fallen?
Monk Yujiang instinctively didn't believe it, but when he looked up, he saw that the invisible but real shackles between heaven and earth were indeed loosened tonight, and he had no choice but to believe it.
"Fantasy... "
He was chanting the word. Every demon was chanting the word.
It's like magic.
"Let's go find the lost panda. Dig deep into the ground all over Tokyo!"
No one objected, but digging three feet into the ground was something that a monster wouldn't have to go through. The black team marched forward, and some monsters joined along the way, forming a torrent.
It's raining
This is Yujiang Xiaoseng. Wherever the rain passes is within his sight.
Rats appeared beside Lai Hao Rat, several, dozens, hundreds, far more than that number, as if endless, stretching into the darkness of the street.