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He has turned back into the strongman of the TAC team!
"Okay Konno, stop playing tricks. The monsters will come later and need your help."
"Beidou, where's your hand?"
"Uh, it's fine! My hand is fine too."
Beidou's hand had healed a few hours ago, but there was no need to make himself special.
This happened in every corner of Tokyo, and the curse began to spread to those whose muscles had atrophied due to eating the red beans.
They are blessed.
boom
The ground seemed to shake. What was that sound?
"It's an evil spirit - I mean a monster. It's ramming into the Sanlai formation." The speaker was Kagura Chizuru who was walking over from a distance.
She also came to the foot of Yuefeng Mountain.
The Eight-foot Mirror has been taken back by her. The burden of the artifact is too heavy, and there is no need for it at this time.
The great formation covering Tokyo needs no host; it is perfecting itself, as if it is embedded in the rules and is a part of this world.
The advent of gods is more powerful than any divine weapon.
"Master Kagura, are you saying that a monster has appeared?"
“The monsters are always there.”
Dark clouds, thunder, all part of it, it had always been hanging over Tokyo. But now it wanted to escape.
The collisions happened again and again. The monsters that collided and the Three Lai Seals that were impacted could not be seen by ordinary people's naked eyes. Only the sound was real.
Like dynamite in a quarry, or thunder in the distance.
The members of the TAC team held their weapons tightly and looked into the empty darkness. At this time, the moonlight cast a silvery light on the earth.
The dark clouds above Yuefeng Mountain have completely dissipated.
There was no rain when the sky was cloudy before, but now the sky is clear and the rain is falling in thin strands.
Summer rain nourishes all things.
It also made a huge monster appear.
Chapter 288: The bow is like a full moon, and the arrow breaks the sky
Halfway up Yuefeng Mountain, a section of the forest collapsed and a huge creature stood there.
It has a single horn and bright red skin. In its hand, it holds a huge uprooted fir tree, more than ten meters long, which looks like a mace. It is exactly the same as the image in the myth.
Monster Onidewu, this is the code name given to it by the TAC team.
Oni is the pronunciation of "ghost" in Japanese, and Devil is the English word for devil, so just spell the two together.
This name was given by Mu Qi, just casually. It is exactly the same as the previous names like "Noise Killer".
"That's a space monster."
Kiji asserted this when he was in the command room earlier.
"Space monster? Are you sure?"
No matter how you look at it, it is a ghost from the island nation’s mythology, and that’s how it’s drawn in Momotaro’s picture book.
It's as if it was cast based on a legend. Is there such a ghost story in the universe?
"This is the result of scientific identification. In the previous battle with Ace, we extracted some of the monster's skin fragments, and confirmed that they contain elements that do not exist in the solar system."
Ace was suppressed before, but it doesn't mean that the monster was unscathed. At least some of its skin fell off, providing samples for the TAC team to collect data.
"It doesn't belong on Earth. At least part of it doesn't belong on Earth."
So, Onidewu is the product of the combination of cosmic creatures and earth... well, let's call it a ghost. Is it the product of the combination of cosmic creatures and ghosts?
Just like Snow Man and Ice Beast.
It’s confusing.
The previous super beasts can be said to be left by the Yabo people, but what about these? The style is completely different.
Yabo is a civilization that excels in biotechnology and dimensional technology. Things like resentment and resentful spirits are completely contrary to their civilization.
Beidou didn't think too much about it. Since the monster was in front of him, all that was left was to fight. Although the monster was motionless and looked a little strange, it was very scary and powerful. Ace had experienced this himself.
Onide Wuzhi stood on the mountainside, but did not move forward. Because in front of him was the torii gate of the shrine. The so-called torii gate is the gate that separates gods from humans.
For ordinary people, taking a step is very simple. You can't feel any difference inside or outside the torii. It's just like walking across a wooden beam.
But for ghosts, that is a boundary they cannot cross.
Unless they are granted permission, they don’t know what they will face after crossing the boundary. For ordinary people, one step beyond the boundary is a shrine. But for it, one step beyond the boundary is likely not a shrine, but the divine domain of the gods.
What’s more, there is a true God here.
If it could, it wanted to turn around and run away. But it couldn't, the whole of Tokyo was a huge seal. It was familiar with that method, a trick commonly used by the Ise Shrine, and it had dealt with it frequently in the past few hundred years.
But this time it was different. The seal was still the same seal. It fooled them at the beginning. When the real formation was established, they found that it was completely different. The little ghost of the Ise family pretended to set up the formation, but in fact, she was not the master of the formation!
And here, this shrine, is the center of the demon-sealing formation that covers the entire Tokyo.
"Oshima Miko, is there... is there something there?"
Hyuga Miyaji's eyes were blurry and he could not see clearly, but he seemed to see a dark shadow vaguely.
"It doesn't matter. If a ghost comes, just drive it away!" Ling also grabbed a handful of beans and continued to scatter them forward, just like any other exorcism performed for the public.
"Devils are outside, blessings are inside!"
Ordinary soybeans should not have been thrown far with the little girl's strength, but Onidewu screamed in pain and his body kept exploding.
Those soybeans seemed to be more effective than the TAC team's missiles.
People believed that there were evil spirits during Setsubun, so evil spirits were born during Setsubun.
People believe that soybeans can drive away ghosts, so soybeans really can drive away ghosts.
Because in this era, humans are the greatest "Tao" in the world. This era belongs to mankind.
The demons retreat, the gods disappear, and humans become the protagonists of the world.
The TAC team's weapons were also firing.
Onidewu waved the cedar in his hand, making a rustling sound. Compared with the shrine behind the torii, it would rather fight with the TAC team.
The captain took Konno and Yoshimura on the Eagle, while Yamanaka boarded the Aira.
Beidou was assigned to attack on the ground.
He clenched his fists. In the previous battle, he was careless and fell into a trap. His hands were weak and Ace was beaten by the opponent without any ability to fight back.
He had been holding back his anger for a long time.
Since he joined the Space Guard, no one had ever teased him like that, like teasing a clown. Facing a monster running away in a panic, this was the first time.
He never backed down when facing powerful super beasts, nor did he back down when facing the Yabo people.
Only this time, because he was unable to fight back, he fled in panic.
If my brothers knew about this, I wonder how they would laugh at me. He is Ace, the ace of the Kingdom of Light!
The rings on his hands were already shining, and he couldn't wait to make his debut.
So he clasped his hands together.
The giant appeared in the light, adjusted his posture while in mid-air, and kicked Onidewu to the ground with a flying kick.
Another group of trees fell in the forest.
"Captain, it's Ace!"
"Ah." Captain Long responded simply. He was not surprised.
Ace sat astride the monster and rained down his fists. This was what the monster had done to him half a day ago.
At that time, his hands were weak and he could not resist. Now, the one he could not resist was the monster.
After Ace appeared, Ling also stopped scattering beans.
Throwing beans can indeed drive away ghosts, but after the "ghost" has merged with the cosmic creature, it has become much more resistant to religious exorcism rituals.
The mastermind behind the fusion of local weirdness and cosmic creatures is indeed very creative. He also possesses superb scientific technology and the opposite idealistic means.
Being able to do this makes them much more capable than the Yabo people.
One, two, why are they all targeting the earth?
There is nothing special here. Although the Earth is beautiful, there are tens of millions of planets with mountains and water in this vast Milky Way that spans 200,000 light years.
One by one, they are all against the earth. Ling was also a little angry, and in order to calm down her emotions, she closed her eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, his expression had changed a little.
"Palace chief, are there any arrows inside the shrine?"
arrow?
Of course there are arrows, the ritual arrows distributed to the people during the exorcism ceremony, with white tail feathers and no arrowheads, symbolize blessing.
Hinata was about to look up to answer, but suddenly found that she couldn't bear to look directly at him. She couldn't explain why.
It was definitely not the ritual arrows that the Oshima Miko wanted.
After Hinata thought about it carefully, he remembered that there seemed to be something in the warehouse. He ran to the warehouse again. He walked more tonight than he had in the past week. His old bones should have fallen apart long ago.
But Hinata did not feel tired, but excited. Watching this real exorcism festival and feeling the reality of what he believed in, he had long forgotten the discomfort in his body.
This is the meaning of being a priest.
"I remember it was... yes, on the shelf."
Climbing up the shelf using the ladder, Hinata found the arrow.
Those were arrows that Izumo Taisha used to distribute to its branch shrines as offerings.
Unlike the imperial shrines such as Ise Jingu, Izumo Taisha is a folk shrine that does not attend the imperial court but only serves the common people. For hundreds of years, it has prayed for the surrounding villagers.