Yu Quan, guarding the alleyway with a talisman, narrowed his eyes as he watched Kogoro Mori cautiously approach the Kuchisake-onna.
Although the talisman was from the system's Daoist arts guide, Kuchisake-onna was no pushover.
The talisman could temporarily protect Ran Mori and Kogoro Mori, but it wouldn't be able to kill Kuchisake-onna...
Moreover.......Yu Quan subconsciously glanced at the time, it was less than a minute before 7 pm.
This Hyakki Yagyo was about to end!
Therefore, Yu Quan stopped paying attention to Kuchisake-onna and focused on the three corpses on the ground.
Unlike the four empty corpses in the previous blocks, this time, souls appeared above the corpses!
Yu Quan's gaze swept over Conan, sure enough, the souls in the world of deductive reasoning really were related to Conan!
Yu Quan beckoned with his finger, collecting the three souls into his system space...
Almost simultaneously with Yu Quan finishing this, Kuchisake-onna, who was about to be approached by Kogoro Mori, suddenly disappeared.
At the same time, the system's prompt followed: "Ding~ Hyakki Yagyo ends, Kuchisake-onna temporarily returns to system space."
Yu Quan subconsciously glanced at the system space, in addition to the previously collected souls, but ten fewer, there was also a card belonging to Kuchisake-onna!
Besides that, Yu Quan's points exceeded three thousand.
Among them, quite a few were converted from Conan's emotional value.
Looking at Conan in the distance, who seemed to be "devastated," a hint of a smile curled Yu Quan's lips.
Tsk! The feeling of having one's worldview reshaped shouldn't be very good.
Unfortunately, it had nothing to do with Yu Quan, he turned and left the alleyway.......
"Damn it! Where did that guy run off to?" Kogoro Mori quickly checked around, clenching his fist.
"Dad........Dad, did Kuchisake-onna disappear?" Ran Mori swallowed hard, not daring to look at the bodies on the ground.
As for the survivor, they had already fainted from fright!
"Well.......I think so." Kogoro Mori took a deep breath, his expression becoming unusually serious: "I'll call Officer Megure first."
Conan, next to him, seemed to have just realized, abruptly turning to look at Ran Mori: "Ran-nee, do you have Yu Quan-nii's contact information?"
"Right!" Ran Mori's eyes lit up: "For something like this, Yu Quan might know something."
As she spoke, Ran Mori hurriedly took out her phone to call Yu Quan.
However, to Ran Mori and Conan's surprise, Yu Quan's phone was constantly busy.......
……
Yu Quan's phone was indeed busy.
Almost as soon as Yu Quan returned home, the phone in his pocket vibrated violently.
The caller was a former client of Yu Quan's, anxious to ask Yu Quan about Kuchisake-onna......
Yu Quan himself wasn't in a hurry, instead, he directly turned on the television, it turned out that most of the accident locations had been discovered.
Coupled with the video recorded by the people on the bus earlier, the incident quickly made it onto the evening news at an accelerated pace.
【One-chome, Two-chome, victims with their mouths slashed, a serial killer or a psychopath?】
【Three-chome, all the employees of a company were killed, the cause of death was excessive blood loss from their mouths being slashed, it is said that these people saw terrifying things before their deaths.......】
【Shocking! According to witnesses, the urban legend Kuchisake-onna has appeared, brutally attacking a bus!】
Besides that, the news specifically released the video shot by the survivors.
However......Kuchisake-onna, besides being an urban legend, was also a ghost, so naturally she wouldn't be captured on camera.
However, from the video angle, although there was only air in front of the victims in the video.
But all the victims in the video were as if they were attacked by some sharp weapon at the same time, their mouths were split open to their ears, forming a horrifying wound.......
The damage appearing out of thin air, plus the survivors' descriptions, many people believed that Kuchisake-onna had appeared!
The appearance of Kuchisake-onna caused a stir throughout Tokyo.
Besides the people who were panicked and wanted to escape, and those who were curious and wanted to investigate Kuchisake-onna's whereabouts and behavior.
There were also many people who were afraid of death, those who knew of Yu Quan's existence, who called Yu Quan one after another.
Their purpose was to ask Yu Quan about Kuchisake-onna, or to seek Yu Quan's protection, to ask for a talisman or something.......
"Regarding Kuchisake-onna—that ghost hasn't appeared near me." Yu Quan said without hesitation.
"Ghost?"
"Yes, the so-called urban legends.......are actually similar to faith, when desires reach a certain level, people's wishes and thoughts will reach a shore that no one knows about."
"And when the nianli of something reaches a certain level, perhaps some unspeakable existence will be born, like Kuchisake-onna."
Yu Quan spoke quite seriously, this explanation was like the spider fairy he dealt with in Spider Ridge—
Besides the factor of Conan's variable, the birth of the spider fairy was also inseparable from the worship of the spider fairy in Spider Ridge.
Of course, the difference was that this Kuchisake-onna, which caused panic in Tokyo, wasn't born because of legends, but because of Yu Quan!
But strictly speaking, the system's choice of subjects for Yu Quan's Hyakki Yagyo were basically urban legends or the like.