mudslides in the magic world

Time seemed to wind up, and in the blink of an eye, Xia Youjie bid farewell to junior high school and entered the winter vacation.

After he decided to go to Tokyo High School before, many seniors in the dojo advised him to think carefully again.

Xia Youjie was a little annoyed by the persuasion, but he felt lucky that he chose Tokyo College. If he went to Kyoto and listened to the persuasion of his seniors every day, his brain would explode.

It wasn't until Xia Youjie officially graduated from junior high school and firmly refused to change his goal of further education that the seniors in the dojo had no choice but to give up. Just as Xia Youjie heaved a sigh of relief, a younger junior in the dojo whispered something to him .

"Seniors are not allowed to speak, but I feel that since Senior Xia You went to Tokyo High School, it's okay to speak up."

The little boy said: "It is said that the heir of the Chanyuan family will enter the Kyoto Higher Technical College to study. He is a year younger than you."

Xia Youjie: "..."

The seniors said all day long that Wujo Wu is arrogant and looks down on people. It would be very difficult to go to Tokyo College to be a classmate with Gojo Wu. As a result, the heir of the Chanyuan family was going to Kyoto College, but they didn't tell Xia Youjie!

For a while, Xia Youjie was in a very bad mood, but he had trained in the dojo for three years, and he still respected the seniors in the dojo, so he just comforted himself, the seniors might hate Gojo Satoru even more.

Since her son is about to go to school, Xia You's mother did not go to Singapore after the Chinese New Year. Instead, she planned to wait for her son to enter school in April, and then go to Singapore to join Xia You's father after nothing else happened.

Xia You's mother saw that her son's condition was not good, so she simply said, "Do you want to go on a trip before school starts?"

Xia Youjie was not interested at first, but in the next second he heard his mother say: "According to Principal Ye Moth, you will start social practice immediately after entering school, and after that, you won't have much chance to travel for a long time, right?"

Xia Youjie thought that the teachers in the dojo occasionally mentioned the work of expelling curse spirits, and they seemed to be very busy. Seeing his mother's expectant eyes, Xia Youjie hesitated for a moment but nodded.

Xiayou's mother chose a hot spring hotel at the foot of Mount Fuji. They can go to the nearby mountains to enjoy cherry blossoms during the day, and they can also go to see the famous Oshino Hakkai, and then go to Lake Kawaguchi to see the scenery, and return to the hotel to soak in the hot springs at night.

The family trip of the mother and son went smoothly. They checked into the hot spring a little late on the first day. It was not until the next morning when Xia Youjie was strolling around the hotel that he noticed that there was a spell fluctuation in the hotel. There was a magician here. ?

Xia Youjie came to the front desk of the hotel and saw a man in a black coat and kimono with long wavy hair standing at the front desk, talking to the people at the front desk.

As if sensing that someone was paying attention to him, that person turned his head to look at Xia Youjie, and Xia Youjie noticed that the man was actually wearing gold hoop earrings.

Then Xia Youjie realized one thing, this man knew him, because there was a flash of surprise in the other party's eyes, he turned his head and continued to communicate with the front desk.

"...I see, so be it."

The long-haired man, that is, Ying Ji, finished communicating with the front desk and rubbed his temples with his hand.

He raised his hand and carried his spell tool, turned and left the hotel.

After taking two steps, Yingji stopped and looked at the young man who was following him: "What are you following me for?"

Xia Youjie looked at Ying Ji warily: "Are you a magician? You... know me?"

The spell power he felt just now was emitted from the spell tool the other party was carrying.

Ying Ji was half a beat too late to realize that Xia Youjie didn't seem to know him. Ying Ji wondered how did the director department raise children?

He simply turned to face Xia Youjie: "Zenyuan Yingji, of course I know you. I am a teacher of a high school. You are the next student Xia Youjie, right?"

Xia Youjie was taken aback for a moment, then reacted abruptly.

Wow!This is the old fox that the director department and the teachers of Xinyinliu Dojo say?

Xia Youjie carefully looked at Yingji of the Buddhist monastery in front of him.

Eiji was wearing a coat, black pants and boots on the lower body, and a white sleeveless kimono on the inside. It didn't look like a modern person, but it really had a Kyoto style frozen in time.

However, Eiki is wearing a lot of accessories that linger with strong magic power, and he is also carrying a long magic tool that looks like a kendo bag in his hand, so he must be on a mission?

"...Sorry to bother you."

Although Xia Youjie said so, he didn't leave immediately. He hesitated for a few seconds and asked, "Is it a troublesome task for me to come here for vacation? Will it affect ordinary tourists?"

Ying Ji looked Xia Youjie up and down, and smiled abruptly: "It's really troublesome, but it shouldn't affect tourists, because my task target is not a curse spirit."

Xia Youjie was at a loss, what does this mean?

Ying Ji invited Xia Youjie: "Do you want to come together? The mission is not dangerous, it's just troublesome."

Xia Youjie was a little hesitant on the contrary. Yingji suddenly understood what Xia Youjie said about tourists: "You are here to play? Then go and have fun."

After all, Xia Youjie was a young man with arrogance in his heart. Hearing what Ying Ji said, he immediately said, "I'm fine."

Xia Youjie talked to the front desk, left a note for his mother, and ran to Yingji quickly: "Will it last a long time?"

Eiji lowered his head to play with his phone, he sent a few text messages to Gojo Satoru, and then quickly shut down the phone.

Yingji sighed: "It depends on luck."

Xia Youjie: "...Huh?"

Yingji drove Xia Youjie away from the hot spring hotel. They drove all the way to the southwest. There were almost no people around, and they saw almost exactly the same scenery and trees.

Ying Ji parked the car on a relatively smooth road, got out of the car, and greeted Xia Youjie: "Let's go, we're going to walk on foot next."

Xia Youjie looked around carefully, but he didn't notice the breath of the curse spirit, so he couldn't help asking: "What is the mission?"

Eiji: "Find someone in the Aokigahara forest."

Xia Youjie was a little surprised: "Should I call the police?"

Ying Ji said casually: "The director's department has cooperation with the government department. This is a task entrusted to the director's department by a familiar politician. The hard disk carried by that person has kept a lot of shady data and evidence. The client hopes to get these If you really can’t get the data, you also need to confirm that the thing is completely destroyed and won’t suddenly pop up one day.”

Xia Youjie was shocked when he heard this, such a thing...

"Why, I mean we are magicians, why did you take this kind of mission? And is it really a mission from the director's department?"

Eiji raised his head and looked around, the trees in the Aokigahara forest were tall and straight, covering the sky and the sun, and the trees were all the same, it was almost impossible to judge the way and direction, but this was not a problem for Eiji.

"Going this way is indeed a task assigned to me by the director department, because I am good at tracking."

Yingji walked ahead, poking through the dense bushes around him from time to time, looking for some traces: "You don't think that the task of a conjurer is to deal with spell spirits, do you? Curse spirits are just one of the business areas."

Xia Youjie felt that his three views were about to be shattered. He had been told that magicians existed to protect weak ordinary people, and their enemies were magic spirits...

"Ah." Ying Ji stopped suddenly, Xia Youjie almost bumped into Ying Ji, he suddenly regained his composure: "What's wrong?"

Xia Youjie leaned out from behind Yingji, and immediately saw the dead body hanging obliquely on the black rock not far away: "This is..."

Ying Ji's expression became gloomy, he just took a glance, walked around the corpse and continued to move forward.

Xia Youjie couldn't help but said, "Wait, do you just ignore it?"

Always check it out and see what's going on, right?

Ying Ji's tone was neither salty nor weak: "There's nothing to see. Aokigahara is also known as the Holy Land of Suicide. Why do you think the target came here? He came to commit suicide."

Xia Youjie: "...Huh?"

"The target of my mission is a financial executive who belongs to the government department. The accounts he passed on showed a deficit of tens of billions. After the Chinese New Year, he left a letter of confession and disappeared."

Ying Ji sighed: "After the people above searched his residence, they found that the data hard drive for recording the accounts was missing, either it was taken away by someone or the mission target, that's why this mission was created. .”

Xia Youjie frowned: "A loss of billions? Where did the money go?"

"Being pocketed by politicians."

Ying Ji said in a very casual tone: "If you can't solve the problem, just throw the problem to a person, then kill the person, and finally bow and apologize. That's the way for high-level people."

Xia Youjie was stunned, he staggered and followed Ying Ji and continued to walk forward, because his mind went blank, he even forgot to look at the corpse, he murmured: "How could this be?"

"It's disgusting. In order to cover up this loophole, the commission fee given by the other party is 10 billion. Even if the director department takes half of it, I still have [-] million in the account."

Ying Ji curled her lips: "If the other party didn't give too much, I wouldn't run around in Aokigahara."

After Ying Ji said so, he turned around suddenly and stretched out his hand to grab Xia Youjie: "Hey, look at the road, there are many wild creatures here, don't you see the snake under your feet?"

The black-haired boy jumped subconsciously. He turned his head to look, and there was something moving under the leaf-covered land, and then fell silent.

Eiji continued: "The target of our mission obviously intends to have a good time before he dies. He checked into the hot spring hotel where you stayed, rested for a day, and even asked a geisha to chat. He didn't step into the Aokigahara Forest until yesterday afternoon. "

Because the Directorate and the politicians have been entangled in the exchange of interests, it was already yesterday morning when they reached a cooperation and delegated the task to Eiji.

After Eiji got the information, he immediately searched everywhere for the target's traces, and even went to the geisha to inquire about the news. Only this morning, he confirmed that the target had gone to Aokigahara.

Xia Youjie was silent for a while and asked Ying Ji: "If you get the information, will you return it to that politician?"

Yingji is very familiar with the small tricks of the director department. After all, he has passed at least one-third of the black material: "Of course it is for the director department. The director department will probably copy a copy and return the information to the other party. If in the future Politicians are looking for trouble with us, that's the reason."

Xia Youjie was very upset.

On the one hand, he has always believed in the past few years that the director department is an organization established to protect ordinary people and facilitate ordinary magicians. It is precisely because the existence of the director department endangers the interests of the magic family that the family magicians have been looking for it. Trouble with the Director's Department.

But on the other hand, Xia Youjie's cognition was completely overturned by what Yingji said about the director's department in the Chanyuan. He couldn't accept it at all, and even thought that Yingji was lying to him.

Xia Youjie pursed his lips, and a sharp look flashed in his long and narrow eyes: "You said all of this yourself, maybe your Buddhist monastery has secretly received commissions from politicians, and the Director's Department is totally unaware of it."

Yingji answered irrelevantly: "Our Chanyuan does accept commissions privately, because in this way, there will be no commission from the director department, and we will earn more."

He frowned and looked at Xia Youjie: "Calm down your emotions, your spell power is boiling and will attract unclean things."

Only then did Xia Youjie realize that before he knew it, he had followed Ying Ji to a gloomy and dimly lit forest. It was clearly past ten in the morning, but the surroundings felt like evening.

Ying Ji said in a very indifferent tone: "No matter how you look at the director's department, you should take care of your eyes first, and follow closely, and be careful not to be pulled into the birth of the curse spirit."

Xia Youjie immediately looked around: "I didn't find any trace of the curse spirit."

Eiji: "That's because the entire Aokigahara is a huge spiritual field. Why do you think politicians come to find conjurers to investigate? Because ordinary people will definitely get lost when they enter."

After Ying Ji finished speaking, he glanced at Xia Youjie, and found that Xia Youjie was still a little dazed, and simply said: "Many conjurers know that from a long time ago, people living near Aokigahara would not be able to support them. Abandoned children and old people here, over time, people's impression of Aokigahara has become a place of death."

Eiji: "Then, when everyone says that the Aokigahara forest sea is the land of the dead, will there be magic spirits born here?"

Xia Youjie: "...Yes."

Ying Ji nimbly jumped onto a rock, and Xia Youjie climbed up after him. Ying Ji made sure that Xia Youjie had been following him, and then continued to move forward.

"In order to quell the resentment in the Aokigahara forest, people simply enshrine the Aokigahara forest as a god body, so there is no magic spirit in the Aokigahara forest, but the entire forest is a huge place, and there is always a surge of magic power in the Aokigahara forest. spiritual field."

Eiji explained: "Because people think this is a death forest that cannot be walked out, gradually, the forest sea has really become a maze."

Xia Youjie understood Ying Ji's meaning: "No wonder you hired a conjurer to investigate."

Eiji shrugged: "Originally, the reputation of Lin Hai was only spread in the nearby area, but after the millennium, the economy became worse and worse, and gradually some people came to kill themselves, which actually contributed to the reputation of Aokigahara."

Ying Ji stopped suddenly. He pushed aside the thick fallen leaves on the ground to reveal a sign with rust spots on the edges. Xia Youjie came over to take a look, and the sign said cherish life.

"Although the police have erected many signs like this at the edge of the forest, you also saw the corpse just now."

Ying Ji's expression was not very good, "I don't agree with this kind of people, maybe it's really hard for them to survive, but for others, being alive itself is something to be thankful and excited about."

Xia Youjie remained silent, he reluctantly retorted: "This is a personal choice after all, right?"

In the next second, I heard Ying Ji from the Zen Garden in front of me say: "But it will increase the workload of our conjurers!"

Xia Youjie: "..."

Is this the point?

After Xia Youjie understood the whole picture of the whole incident, his mood inevitably became a little heavy.

The world the teenager lived in was too bright. Although his parents felt bad about him being able to see the magic spirit when he was young, the whole family moved to Tokyo soon. His father went to work in Singapore, and his mother now supports him. Become a conjurer yourself.

Even though he was training in the dojo, he occasionally heard that a familiar senior died in a mission. Although Xia Youjie was sad, it was not unacceptable, because he died to protect the weak and fight with the curse spirit. This kind of work is meaningful of.

Until now, Xia Youjie knew for the first time that a conjurer would still do the work that Yingji of the Zen Academy was doing, and encounter such unsolvable things.

Ying Ji was not affected at all, he looked up at the sky from time to time, occasionally touched the surrounding trees, carefully inspected the soil under his feet, and led Xia Youjie to shuttle forward in the forest sea of ​​Aokigahara.

Xia Youjie thought about it, and it took a long time before he came back to his senses.

He found that the scenery around him was no different from when he first entered the forest, he couldn't tell the way forward at all, and the young man's attitude towards Yingji was a little more cautious.

"...Where are we going? Are you looking for a target?"

Ying Ji hummed, he stared fixedly into the depths of the forest, and suddenly sighed: "It's too late."

"Mr. Chanyuan?"

Xia Youjie subconsciously called out in a soft voice.

Ying Ji glanced at Xia Youjie, and Xia Youjie was startled. At some point, the eyes of Mr. Ying Ji from the Buddhist monastery turned into a cold, icy blue.

Is it a change in light?Or a special pupil technique?

Yingji pointed in one direction: "Can you feel it? The breath of death over there is slightly stronger, and someone died over there."

Yingji approached the front desk to inquire about the performance of the mission target. It is said that the target also showed curiosity about Lin Hai, and asked about several frequent routes.

But Yingji learned from the geisha that the target will most likely enter Linhai from the other side. If Yingji follows the target's trail and enters Linhai, it will definitely be too late.

So Yingji took a shortcut and plunged obliquely into the depths of the forest. If he was lucky, he might be able to find the target before the other party died.

It's a pity that it was late.

"Forget it, it's all here, let's go and have a look."

Eiji was used to seeing similar things, so he quickly collected his emotions and accelerated his forward speed.

Xia Youjie struggled to follow, Yingji jumped in front of a big crooked tree, Xia Youjie turned over and climbed up the tree, but after he climbed over, he raised his head again, and he couldn't find Yingji of the Buddhist monastery back!

Cold sweat dripped down Xia Youjie's forehead. Instead of moving rashly, he summoned a curse spirit, which swelled into a ball, and the spell power spread out, circling back and forth above Xia Youjie's head like a lantern.

Maybe only a few seconds passed, maybe it took a long time, suddenly a cold blade appeared in front of Xia Youjie's eyes, and then Ying Ji landed in front of him as if he came out of the air.

After Yingji landed, he saw Xia Youjie and heaved a sigh of relief: "Well done, the power of the spell is like a candle in the dark."

Xia Youjie moved his lips, his expression was a little terrified: "What happened just now?"

Eiji: "Aokigahara is full of naturally formed boundaries between life and death, similar to closed barriers. Although they do not have the effect of attacking, they can make people completely lost in the forest."

He gave an example: "You should have been to a shrine, right? When you enter the torii, it means that you have entered the place where the gods live. There are similar conceptual partitions everywhere in Aokigahara, a fallen tree, a strangely shaped rock, A crack in the ground...you have to be careful when stepping over something like that."

Ying Ji stretched out his hand to Xia Youjie: "I'll take you with me?"

Xia Youjie felt a little embarrassed, instead of shaking Ying Ji's hand, he whispered, "I will pay attention."

Yingji smiled: "Let's go, it's just ahead."

Xia Youjie followed closely this time, his eyes fell on the small sword held by Yingji's other hand: "Did you just cut through the partition?"

"Yes, the Director's Department sent me here to prevent the situation you just had."

Yingji put the knife back into its sheath, and said with a smile, "Because I can cut it open."

They walked for another ten minutes, and came to a relatively spacious slope. A middle-aged man was sitting under a big tree, as if closing his eyes to rest his mind.

Xia Youjie suddenly understood: "Is this your mission goal?"

Yingji stepped forward, he touched his neck, his body was still soft, Yingji shook his head, reached into his bosom, and found a lot of things, including a small notebook, a driver's license, a hard drive and a box of unfinished cigarette.

Eiji put away the hard drive, and then he lifted the man's body with a little force.

"Come on, let's go out."

This time Eiji didn't go further into the forest, but headed in a straight line towards the outside of Aokigahara.

It took them more than three hours to get in, but it took them less than an hour to get out.

When Xia Youjie saw the sun shining through the trees and falling on the ground again, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The depths of the forest are too gloomy and cold, and even the mood will be involuntarily depressed.

Yingji took out her phone, and just as she turned it on, she heard the sound of a text message ding dong ding dong.

Ying Ji didn't read the text message, but found the assistant supervisor's phone number: "I found it, I brought the body out, you send someone to pick it up."

About 10 minutes later, a car drove over, but when the assistant supervisor saw that Ying Ji was still following Xia Youjie, his expression changed abruptly.

"Mr. Chanyuan, this is..."

Ying Ji handed over to the assistant supervisor, and he said with a smile: "Xia Youjie, the students who are about to enter the college, are their own people, so there is no need to sign a non-disclosure agreement."

The assistant supervisor glanced at Xia Youjie, and he said, "Do you need me to take the two of you to the nearby traffic station?"

Ying Ji shook his head: "No need, I have other things to do." He took the initiative to say: "You can send Xia Youjie away, he is here for vacation, he should live in a hot spring hotel not far away."

The assistant supervisor breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately left in the car with the mission target and Xia Youjie.

After the car left, Gojo Satoru suddenly appeared beside Eiji: "Hey, why did you turn off the phone?"

Eiji shrugged: "There's no signal in Aokigahara, so I'm just wasting electricity when I turn it on."

His tone was a little emotional: "That's Xia Youjie who has been hiding in the director's department for so many years and was used by Shi Er to let Youji go abroad."

Gojo Gojo glanced at Eiji: "What do you think?"

Ying Ji frowned slightly: "He doesn't look like a magician."

Gaoyuan Consulting Company has a special task of tracking Xia Youjie, which is basically in charge of by Lan Tang and Verlaine, and the task report is directly handed over to Gojo Satoru.

Eiji heard Ozaki Hongye mention this matter, Ozaki Hongye also said that Xia Youjie is a competitor of 99 Yuki, Xia Youjie is about to enter a high school, I hope Eiji pays attention to it.

Gojo Gora said in a long tone, "Oh? How should I say it?"

Ying Ji: "Conjurers face the most negative emotions of human beings. They should be very clear about the evil of human beings, but Xia Youjie..."

Yingji was a little dazed: "Maybe it's my illusion, is he a little..."

"Silly white sweet?"

"Correct!"

On the other side, the auxiliary supervisor drove Xia Youjie back to the hot spring hotel. After getting off the car, Xia Youjie watched the auxiliary supervisor and drove away.

He didn't go back to the room immediately, but sat in the lobby of the hot spring hotel for a while.

At the same time, the assistant supervisor was on the phone in the car, and he reported to his superiors: "Yes, I sent Xia Youjie back, yes, yes, I asked him if Mr. Zenyuan said anything to him, unfortunately, As expected, Mr. Zenyuan said everything, and Xia Youjie knew the content of the mission."

"Response? Xia Youjie asked what to do with the data we got. I replied that I would hand it over to the police. He seemed very satisfied."

"Yes, don't worry, he won't find out."

Speaking of this, the Assistant Superintendent's tone was a little rejoicing: "Fortunately, Mr. Zenyuan brought Xia Youjie into Aokigahara. If Mr. Zenyuan was alone, with his high efficiency and high speed, maybe when he arrived at the mission target, the mission target would still be alive. That’s not easy to deal with.”

"Yeah, it's nice that the target dies."

"Mr. Zenyuan? He didn't leave, he stayed in Aokigahara. He said he had something else to do. I'm sorry, but at my level, it is impossible to ask him to leave..."

"I see, I will keep an eye on Xia Youjie, and try not to let him meet Mr. Zenyuan."

After hanging up the phone, the assistant supervisor breathed a sigh of relief, and he called another person.

"Yes, I have the item, and it has been sealed with a special rune, eh? Do you want to make three copies? Well, I understand."

The auxiliary supervisor's car gradually moved away, but the supervisor didn't notice that a small magic spirit with almost no fluctuations in mana power leaked out from the back of the carriage.

The curse spirit was like a fly that can be seen everywhere, and it flew back to the hot spring hotel after trying hard for a long time.

Xia Youjie put away the curse spirit expressionlessly.

He stared blankly at the huge photo of Lin Hai hanging on the wall of the hotel. In the photo, the golden sunlight fell on Lin Hai and Mount Fuji not far away. The scenery was beautiful and beautiful.

It was completely different from what Xia Youjie saw with his own eyes.