Chapter 7 The So-called Master
"Who are you?"
The door was gently opened up a gap, and then half of its bearded face was revealed.
"Fu Jixian, from Tokyo.
It came for ‘that thing’.”
Fu Jixianri took a step back so that the other party could see clearly that he was not a suspicious person. At the same time, he briefly introduced himself... Although the statement from Tokyo is wrong, it can quickly point out his identity and purpose.
So next he clearly felt the gaze behind the door from vigilance to scrutiny. It might have been more than ten seconds before the other party opened the door.
"Please come in." The man said to Fu Jixianli.
His hair is gray and messy, his face is protruding, his eyes are sunken, his eyes are swollen, and his eyes are full of blood. The first impression he gives people is a bit "half-unman"... But this may be just caused by mental stress and excessive anxiety.
Fu Jixian walked into the door, and then the other party closed the door heavily.
Fu Jixianli came to the living room and sat down. The man walked into the kitchen, then took a glass of water and placed it in front of him.
Is this a hospitality?
Fu Jixianli looked at the black garbage bags piled up in the corner of the wall in this space, and the sour smell that was filled with the air... Fu Jixian decided not to touch the cup.
After sitting down, he was facing a TV and a TV cabinet, with a photo on one side of the TV cabinet. There were two people in the photo, one of whom was the middle-aged man in front of him, and the other seemed to be a girl who looked like a high school student.
Probably a daughter?
Just as Fu Jixianli was about to observe carefully, the other party pulled over a chair and sat opposite him, his figure just blocking his view.
“What’s the name?”
Fu Jixianli withdrew his gaze and asked.
"Taonai, I didn't expect you to actually send someone here.
I just explained what I had encountered on a website that looked very suspicious. Unexpectedly, a person named Zong Gu contacted me later...
And you are not that Mr. Sonoya.”
"If you want to use RPG to describe it, Mr. Zong Gu is the 'elder' who stays in the village to issue missions, and I am the 'brave' who is responsible for the work..."
Accepting commissions from all walks of life and then helping the masses to deal with some problems, Zong Gu Xuanren seems to be doing similar work as detectives, but his business scope is obviously more professional, more dangerous, and more beyond ordinary people's understanding.
To be honest, I am not very skilled in my business, but as the saying goes, 'Masters have the heart of apprenticeship', and apprentices also have the heart of apprenticeship, so masters are equal to apprenticeship, and apprentices are equal to masters."
"..." This statement seems to sound unreliable.
"So can you explain what happened to me? Although I have come here, I actually don't know the specific incident."
Wu Nei was recalling something, and after a while he said with an extremely complicated expression, "That is... a weird thing beyond understanding."
Although his voice was a little tight, it generally gave people a relatively calm feeling, not very much like someone who had experienced something particularly terrifying... Compared with horror, he seemed to be suffering.
"Ghost? Ghost?"
“No, it is…
Things have to do with my job, it’s Mount Fuji, and what I have to do every day is patrol the forest.”
“Protect forests, prevent fires and so on?”
Fu Jixianli understood that this was a forest ranger.
"Well, I will occasionally help clean up the bodies of those who died or commit suicide."
“…”
When it comes to the sea of trees on Mount Fuji, this kind of thing is indeed quite famous. And thanks to Japan's household registration management system that is five hundred years ahead of the world, many people who died here will never be able to figure out their identities. In this way, this place is indeed a place that looks haunted...
Either haunted or “studying”.
“A month ago, while patrolling the forest, I took a little deviated from my daily route and took a path that penetrated deeper into the forest, and then, there I saw a...
monster."
"Monster? Can it be described in more specific language? The body shape of the monster? The ability characteristics?"
"I don't know, I could only turn around and escape immediately at that time. If I wanted to describe it... In fact, what I saw was just a black fog that could swallow everything."
"Then it may not look like black fog, but black fog. The gathering of insects and activities such as underground river eruptions will have similar visual effects.
As far as I know, the internal lighting conditions of the native forest are not very good."
If this is just the explanation, then Fu Jixianli thinks that the other party is likely to be dazzled, and then he is too conscious and scares himself.
"No, I'm sure it's a living thing..."
"Whatever it is, if it is just inside the forest, then you don't have to care about it at all... It's harmless, so it doesn't have to deal with it."
"It would be great if it was just that, I thought so at first. But since I experienced that, a voice has been echoing in my mind for a while.
More importantly, my daughter disappeared soon after.”
"Disappearance? Do you think your daughter's disappearance is related to what you've experienced? It doesn't feel logically related."
"No, there must be some connection... That's what my intuition told me. After I called the police, the police did not find any clues about my daughter, just as she never existed..."
Fu Jixianli glanced at the other party deeply, and then said seriously, "I understand. I can't do anything about your daughter's whereabouts, but I can help check it out about the weirdness in the forest you mentioned...
Hopefully these two things are one thing.”
Since they have come, Fu Jixianli decided to go to the scene to take a look.
There is a clear sense of incongruity between the emotions shown by Mr. Takeuchi and the explanations he made. If you only listen to his words, then you should not find someone like Fu Jixianli to solve his problem. It would be more reasonable to find a psychologist.
But things are not that simple.
"What is unknown" is the most terrifying, but Mr. Takeuchi seems to know something about his "unknown" experience.
"Thank you very much, but... are you capable of dealing with that kind of thing? The danger is unpredictable, and maybe you and I will be in crisis."
Takeuchi doubted Fu Jixianri's ability, which was not surprising. After all, he looked just a young man coming to travel, and he didn't even have professional props on him.
"Don't worry, I'm professional no matter what... In this way, I can prove my ability, but I need a little prop."
As he said that, Fu Jixianli stood up and then searched for it in the living room.
Soon, he found something suitable for "demo" - it was a metal bat placed in a corner of the room.
Fu Jixianli waved the bat casually and said, "Don't mind if I borrow it."
"Please feel free."
Fu Jixian Ripei raised the bat, while Takeuchi stared at his movements.
At first, Takenai was a little confused, but soon he noticed the abnormality and became shocked.
With the harsh metal rubbing sound, the bat began to twist and stretch quickly, becoming red as if it was stuffed into a furnace. In just a few seconds, it turned into a twist - or rather, it was more like a "spiral sword".
Fu Jixianli let go of his hand and pierced the solid wood floor under his feet with high temperature metal, and then ignited the surroundings.
"How could this be...how could it be done?"
Making a blacksmith with bare hands? It's really beyond imagination.
“Well, it takes a little trick.
But this doesn't matter, what's important is...I should be worthy of trusting, right?"
Fu Jixianli said with a smile, but he did not give a corresponding explanation.
His ability, in relatively professional terms, should be "mind motivation" or "mind ability", exerting force on objects without any physical contact - and the scale and degree of this "force" seem to be a bit exaggerated.
The so-called special power is something that is invisible and intangible, and cannot be described as something lacking cognitive concepts. Therefore, how to control it, present it, and more importantly, how to avoid causing unwarranted damage, etc., is not an easy task.
The method learned by Fu Jixianli is...
Imagine.
Imagine concentrating that power around you and then giving it a certain form.
Chapter completed!