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On the contrary, outside the Earth's orbit, Ling also had an unexpected gain.
An unmanned spacecraft ready to go.
The original owner of the spaceship was a Steele. He failed to steal anything, but left behind the means of transportation.
It was a spaceship with a tripod-like shape. It was not very big, only a hundred meters long, much smaller than TAC's Eagle Fortress. But it had the ability to travel between star systems at curvature.
However, due to the different technology trees, fuel cannot be produced by humans, so if it is really used for interstellar travel, it can only be used as a disposable consumable.
In fact, such a spacecraft is of little significance to humans. If necessary, the TAC team can also build an aircraft that can fly at superluminal speed.
Otherwise, it would not have been possible to build a rocket to go to the dark universe and destroy the planet Gogotha last year.
Although the earth's civilian technology is still stuck in the 1970s, the cutting-edge technology is already sci-fi enough.
Unless it was a star destroyer, the TAC team no longer cared about this kind of alien civilian spacecraft. So in the past battles, humans would blow up the enemy spacecraft they encountered, and never thought of capturing or confiscating them.
Thus, the spaceship became Lingye's personal collection.
Ordinary people like to collect sports cars, those with a little money like to collect private jets and cruise ships, but hers is much more advanced.
The spaceship stopped in the secret realm of the Moon Palace.
Maybe one day when she feels like it, she can drive around the solar system.
Although Gaia can also fly in the universe, the feeling of walking by yourself and taking a ride in a scooter is certainly different.
When the sun sets, it's time for the devil.
Reimu was carrying her schoolbag on the familiar way home, but the moment she passed the torii gate of Izumo Taisha Shrine, she was shocked to find that the torii gate had changed its appearance.
The familiar black color was replaced by red, and the style was also much taller and became completely unfamiliar.
But when she looked more closely, she found that the Torii was still the same as before.
Is it an illusion that the sunset color dyed it red?
After stepping through the Torii gate, everything was the same. It turned out to be my illusion.
Although she also thought the black torii gate was ugly and the red one was more impressive, her stingy father would never spend money on such a thing.
In a place that Reimu couldn't see, a black crow flew from a distance and landed in the torii gate. The moment its body passed through the torii gate, it seemed to be erased by an eraser and disappeared.
The Torii gate is like a mirror, an invisible boundary that divides different worlds.
Then there was a kitten, which had two tails if you looked closely. There were fiery red foxes and civet cats with their bellies sticking out. Some of them were hard to tell if they were living things, walking cups, bowls and chopsticks, and dolls with graffiti on their faces.
Suddenly, a blue-white elf with wings on its back crashed into the torii.
"Woo——"
"Idiot, the entrance to Gensokyo is the black torii gate at the gate of Izumo Taisha Shrine, not the bronze one!"
"Cirno is not an idiot, but those who call others idiots are idiots!"
The elf, who was knocked dizzy, cursed at his companions and flew away staggeringly.
Reimu, unaware of anything, walked along the forest path towards the shrine. Today was another ordinary and boring day.
As the sun set, countless monsters, ghosts, and strange creatures came to Izumo from Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. After midnight, even monsters from Hokkaido came over.
Because of rumors, there is a fantasy land that belongs to them. It will not be suppressed by humanity, nor will it disappear due to being forgotten. This is the last mercy left to them by this world.
Chapter 258: Evil Spirits Raging
On the streets of Tokyo at night, after a day's work, most office workers will meet up to have a drink at a street pub.
For many people, a little wine after work is an essential part of the day. Only at this time of the day can you feel truly alive.
"Kumaru, did you hear any sound?" Walking through the alley towards the tavern, Jiuji suddenly felt a little cold. It was not the coldness in his body, but as if he was being stared at by some ominous gaze.
"What? You're drunk before you even drink." Xiong Wan laughed and didn't care.
Ever since the front-page headline of the newspaper reported the surrender of the Yawa people half a year ago, there has been no news of super beasts in Tokyo in the past six months.
Not long ago, the Shinkansen and civilian airliners were attacked, and people were in panic for a while, but before the citizens started to get anxious, the super beast was defeated the next day.
It was over before it even started. It was hard to get nervous with such a dedicated TAC team.
So now, a few months later, nightlife is booming again.
Of course, some people still have anxiety in their hearts.
A mental illness called post-traumatic stress disorder has been recognized by people. People are always anxious and panic about everything, thinking that they will be attacked by super beast aliens at any time. This is a kind of paranoia.
Some even don't believe their own family members, and always feel that their relatives and friends have been replaced by aliens. They live in fear and anxiety all the time.
In Xiong Wan's opinion, the neurotic Jiuji is about to become like this.
"Relax, Jiuji, drink some wine, and all your troubles will go away. If there is a super beast, the TAC team will alert and evacuate."
Even so, Jiuji was still a little panicked. There were no street lights in the alley, and he always felt that there was something in the darkness.
Maybe he really has a mental illness?
"By the way, you've taken a week off. Are you getting married?"
"Yes, go back to my hometown to get married." When it comes to this, Jiuji temporarily put aside his previous uneasiness and smiled foolishly.
"Where are you from? Yamagata?"
"No, it's in a small place in the countryside of Kitakata City, Fukushima Prefecture, a neighboring county of Yamagata."
"Kitakata, I heard the miso there is famous."
"Ah, my family makes soybean paste. Do you like it? I've been smelling this since I was a child, and now I get a headache when I see soybeans. If you like it, I'll bring you some when you come back next week."
At the corner of a street trash can, a corner that was too dark to be seen, a black shadow opened its scarlet eyes and stared at the two people who were chatting and gradually approaching.
It is neither a black dog nor a black wolf. It is much larger in size, with two heads attached to its shoulders.
At a certain moment, it suddenly pounced on the two people, faster than a cheetah, making it completely invisible.
But at this moment, another black shadow fell from the sky and smashed it directly into the trash can.
thump!
This time the sound was not an illusion, because the trash can was overturned.
Jiuji and Xiongwan were both shocked.
"what is that?"
"wildcat?"
"How can there be such a big wild cat! It looks like a black panther!"
The black shadow just now flashed by, and even the retina could hardly capture it. Only an afterimage remained briefly in the memory, but it did not leave any trace.
The two of them didn't dare to go closer to take a look. The trash can fell in the middle of the road, blocking the way. The two looked at each other and felt guilty.
"How about we take another route?"
Although changing the route would require walking a few more blocks and several hundred meters, the two of them still stepped back from their hearts and fled in a hurry.
It is better to take a few more steps than to walk a few decades less in your life.
A moment later, a hunched old man appeared where the trash can was. Under his feet was a vicious dog with two heads. Its chest and abdomen had been pierced and it quickly turned into black smoke and dissipated.
"There are more and more irrational evil spirits." Tianxiegui said to himself.
Those are also monsters, but they have no reason, they are just monsters.
They cannot communicate or be tamed, and are never recognized as a member of the same clan by the ghosts. They even often fight each other.
Such monsters are more hated by the world than ghosts, and have not been seen for many years.
Tianxiegui knew that it was because on the night before, the Heavenly Dao suddenly lifted the restrictions on dark things, including hundreds of ghosts and, of course, these monsters.
There is also the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, which gives these monsters that have been buried in the underworld a chance to awaken.
These monsters will attack humans indiscriminately, and will even attack demons of the same kind. They have no rationality, only the desire to destroy and sharp intuition.
Now, with the emergence of Gensokyo, they are ready to take action.
He didn't know if the young lady knew. In Tian Xiegui's view, these things were just dregs to the young lady, and she could suppress them back into the netherworld with a wave of her hand, but she shouldn't bother herself with such trivial matters.
So he took the initiative to undertake the hunting task.
The number of monsters was somewhat unexpected. From nightfall to now, in just two hours, the Tianxiegui who shuttled through the streets of Tokyo had killed no less than ten of them. Correspondingly, they were also weak enough that even ordinary humans, if they had the courage and weapons, three or five people could hunt one.
However, there is certainly no problem with such unconscious evil spirits, but if some more troublesome things that were sealed awakened due to the release of the restraints the day before, he might be helpless.
I hope such trouble will not happen, otherwise it would be a dereliction of duty for the young lady to do it herself.
When she got up in the morning, Ling was a little surprised to see Tianxiegui again in the living room.
"Didn't you go to Gensokyo?"
To build Gensokyo was originally her agreement and promise with Amazakki. Unexpectedly, almost all the monsters in the island country went there, but Amazakki himself did not go.
"Miss, these are the apples I picked this morning."
He was just like an ordinary farmer. Perhaps because of the origin of the legend of the Tenshaku, his accent was also unique to the countryside of Kansai. But it was not out of place, in this family, he was just an old farmer.
For a god who can create the world, there should be a more respectful name. The most noble is called Zun, and the rest are called Ming. But Tianxiegui did not call her anything else, and still called her "Miss", which is unique.
"I've lived here for so many years, and I still feel reluctant to leave."
This sentence was in response to the young lady's question about why he didn't go to Gensokyo.
He cleaned up some unconsciously cursed objects last night. Tokyo has been uneasy these past two days, and there are still some things he needs to clean up, but that is not the main reason.
As he said, the real reason was that he was reluctant to let go.
In this world that has suppressed him so severely, if you ask him what he is reluctant to leave, he really can't say it. It's just that he is really about to leave, but he feels like there are many things he hasn't done.
"Let's wait until summer, until I finish planting those seedlings." Tian Xiegui said. The farm behind the manor was usually taken care of by Maria, and it was also where Tian Xiegui worked recently.
After planting the seedlings in the spring, he might have other things to do in the summer.
"Then stay here. Maria told me the day before yesterday that with the help of the evil spirit, she has taken good care of her vegetable garden."
Then? Then stay. He didn't want to leave in the first place, and that fantasy was for his fellow tribesmen.
"I understand, as long as the young lady doesn't despise an old man like me."
Except for a few lucky charms like Zashiki-warashi, monsters bring bad luck. Of course, he does too.