Tokyo: My Hundred Ghosts Scroll

Chapter 60 The Ghost Story Bus
"Okay."

Hearing that grandpa wanted to take him to visit relatives and friends, Gu Yun was naturally willing.

He likes this supernatural world very much, and he is eager to go and have a look.

However, the old man did not take him there immediately, but waited in the old house of Iijima for an afternoon, and it was not until 11 o'clock in the evening that his grandfather called him to his side.

"Spirit out of body?"

"Ah."

Grandpa smiled and said: "Those friends of mine have passed away for many years, but they still live in Huangquan and have not embarked on the road to the afterlife."

The place where grandpa is going to take Gu Yun tonight is not somewhere else, but the destination of all living beings after death - the other side of the underworld.

"Huangquan is in another dimension, where there is no material world."

They could use the spirit vision technique to improve their own existence and thus get in touch with the spirit of the underworld, but that would be too troublesome.

The best way is to get out of the body, and then go to the afterlife according to the rules like ordinary dead.

"The most difficult thing about going to Huangquan is not how to get there, but how to come back after going."

It doesn't have much to do with the strength of the warlock here, it mainly depends on spells and connections.

The former refers to a method similar to spiritual vision, which can travel through the world, similar to exploiting loopholes in the rules of the world, so as to escape opportunistically.

Network, is whether you know the gods.

The personality of the gods is higher than the spirit of the underworld, so they can lead some souls back to the present world.

Of course, the soul here refers to the person who has not died.

The Underworld has its rules, the dead cannot come back, and the guidance of the gods is useless.

"If you die, you can't come back?"

"I can't come back."

Grandpa said: "But we are just out of the body, not dead, and the law of the underworld can't control us."

Therefore, Gu Yun and Grandpa can go to the underworld, and then return to the world with the help of the gods or with the help of spiritual vision.

Grandpa's spiritual vision is not advanced enough, he can't freely travel through various worlds like Mr. Kogoro.

However, Grandpa knew many powerful gods. Before going to Huangquan, he would make appointments with them in advance, or borrow some artifacts, so that he could go back and forth between life and death.

"Xiaokong..."

Gu Yun asked: "Is it possible?"

"of course can!"

Grandpa smiled and said, "With Master Tianhu, it will be much more convenient for you, Gu Yun, to go back and forth between the two places than Grandpa and me."

Friends are just friends after all, and the gods are willing to help grandpa.

They have a pure personality, helping Grandpa is like making friends with him, wishing that he would come to play with them more.

But grandpa is really embarrassed to trouble others again and again.

In terms of philosophy, Grandpa is a "not too much contact" faction. He mentioned to Gu Yun before that he should not go too deep into another world.

"Xiao Kong doesn't care, she is one of her own!"

Void is different, she is Gu Yun's fox, helping Gu Yun to and from the underworld is a matter of course.

"I have a god at home," said grandpa with a smile, "it really makes people feel at ease."

"Okay, let's start."

The grandpa and grandson came to the bedroom, where there were two quilts, one big and one small.

The two told Yaeko's mother-in-law and Iijima Juanjuan that they would rest in the same room tonight.

"Prajna, Xiaobai."

Gu Yun summoned two shikigami: "After my grandfather and I go to Huangquan, I will entrust you to take care of my body."

After the soul leaves the body, the body will enter a state of deep sleep.

At this time, if someone with a heart discovers and destroys it, the spirit body will be judged as 'dead'.

If it happened to be in Huangquan again at that time, he didn't leave.

Then, the whole world of hell will directly regard you as a 'dead person'.

In other words, you can't come back.

Even with the help of the gods, you can't come back.

"Leave it to us, master."

Banruo and Xiaobai are here, together with several high-level demon-level shikigami prepared by grandpa, no one can touch their physical bodies unless the big monster comes in person.

"Ah."

Gu Yun just lay down, and then silently recited a mantra in his heart.

Not long after, a person exactly like Gu Yun emerged from his body like smoke.

"This is, is the soul out of the body?"

Gu Yun looked at himself lying down, feeling very novel.

"The state of the soul is indeed very convenient."

"Hey?"

Gu Yun heard the reputation, but his eyes widened: "You, are you grandpa?"

I saw that the person standing in front of Gu Yun was not an old man, but a young man in an old-style kimono.

Wearing round glasses, he is handsome and gentle, just like a Japanese scholar from the previous era.

"Ok?"

As the young man spoke, his figure changed, and he turned into the appearance of an old man again: "Just now, it was my appearance when I was young. Is this the first time Gu Yun saw it?"

"It turns out that grandpa was like this when he was young!"

Gu Yun asked: "Could it be that in the spirit state, we can change our appearance at will?"

After speaking, Gu Yun also started to use his spiritual power, wanting to become an adult.

It's a pity that no matter what you do, Gu Yun is still what he is now.

"Um…"

Grandpa looked at Gu Yun's actions and laughed loudly: "Little Gu Yun, do you want to look like an adult?"

"I tried it just now, and it doesn't seem to work."

Gu Yun found that he couldn't grow bigger, which made him a little confused.

Therefore, Gu Yun looked at the old man expectantly, hoping that he would teach him how to change his age at will in the spirit state.

"Is there a spell that can make the spirit body grow older?"

"Well, if you are blindfolded, there is."

"But it really gets bigger," Grandpa shook his head and said, "I can't do it."

"its not right!"

Gu Yun used the spirit vision technique to see his grandfather's youthful state just now. The other party definitely did not use blindness and illusion, but really made the soul younger.

"This is the soul imprinting technique."

To put it simply, it is to imprint a spirit body artificially for the convenience of using it when you get old in the future.

In fact, many powerful female sorcerers will freeze their spirit bodies in the youngest and most beautiful state.

However, this imprinting technique is unique.

In other words, you can only freeze one form, which can be changed, but you can only engrave one at a time, and it must be in the state you were in at the time.

Gu Yun's physical body is still a child.

If he becomes a teenager in the future, he can freeze the youth form, and when he gets old, he can still choose the freeze-frame form to keep his spirit body young.

But it's impossible to get bigger now.

"Maybe there are other spells that can do this kind of thing, but Grandpa really doesn't know how to do that."

Grandpa said helplessly: "I'll teach you the spell later, but at Gu Yun's age, you probably won't be able to use this spell for the time being, right?"

"Um…"

Gu Yun said speechlessly: "This spell is not only beautiful, but also..."

"Ah."

Grandpa smiled softly, then changed into a youthful posture again, and opened his arms for Gu Yun to observe carefully.

"I see."

Gu Yun knew the purpose of this spell.

Human beings will age, and the body after aging has various disadvantages, such as lack of agility, poor athletic ability and so on.

This point, even if it becomes a spirit body, it will still exist.

It's not that ghosts get tired too, but a special kind of psychological suggestion that binds the mind and perception of the spirit body.

Now, through the out-of-body experience, Grandpa can shape the spirit body into the appearance of his youth.

In this way, even if the physical body is very old, grandpa can still fight the enemy with the spirit body, gaining the fighting ability and reaction speed of the past.

"Sometimes you will encounter monsters who are very good at physical arts. They are very fast, and they like to jump over shikigami and attack the warlock directly."

Grandpa was not used to being young, so he reverted to his old age: "In this case, an old body is easy to be targeted."

It is much easier to fight with a young spirit body than a decayed body of seventy or eighty.

If one day in the future, Gu Yun's body is injured.

Then when he encounters something, he may also need to fight the enemy in the form of a soul out of his body.

The posture of the soul, the physical body is definitely gone, but the huge spiritual power will not change.

"Okay, let's go."

"where are we going?"

"Kamakura."

"Is it that far?"

Many people think that by becoming a spirit body, they can pass through walls at will and go wherever they want.

But in fact, this idea is wrong.

Because ghosts cannot enter the gates and walls of inhabited houses at all.

Every building has its own 'feng shui aura', which is an invisible barrier that blocks spirits.

Only with the permission of the master, you can ignore this obstacle and come in and out at will.

Gu Yun and Grandpa are powerful warlocks, so they can ignore this weak barrier, but the straight-line distance from Iijima's old house to Kamakura makes it impossible for them to rush directly.

"I'm here to summon Xiaokong's chariot."

"Oh, wait a minute."

Grandpa stopped and said, "This time, let's use the conventional method."

"The usual way?"

"Even if there is no shikigami and no chariot, how can ordinary warlocks go to the underworld in a spirit state."

The ordinary sorcerer that grandpa said might make Mr. Daomo cry and faint in the toilet.

A bald man said: Do you think that all warlocks can casually go out of their bodies just like you? !

"it is good."

Gu Yun is now a sorcerer apprentice by his grandfather's side, and he obeys the old man's instructions in everything.

Leaving from the Iijima old house, the grandfather and grandson are different from ghosts, not floating in the air, but down to earth, which makes Gu Yun a little strange.

I saw him jumping and found that he didn't feel as light as a swallow.

"The soul is out of the body, why can't you even fly?"

When Gu Yun asked this question, Grandpa explained: "We are not really dead, so we will still be bound by the laws of this world."

"If you want to fly, you can go and read "The Art of Immortal Journey" when you come back."

Fugue is an ancient oriental technique. It is divided into two types: day travel and night travel, collectively referred to as the art of fugue.

"Is it the one in the study?"

Gu Yun thought of the magic book he saw in his grandfather's collection, which contained the method of day and night fugue.

However, because Grandpa has collected too many spells and too few uses of fugue, Gu Yun hasn't had time to read this book yet.

"With Gu Yun's talent, you can probably learn it in no time."

Grandpa said and stopped.

Gu Yun looked around and found that the two had passed through the woods outside the old house and came to a road beside a field ridge.

"Warlocks can fly in the sky through out-of-body and fugue."

The speed isn't particularly fast, but it's not slow either. Anyway, it's definitely more convenient than a car.

"What I'm going to do now is how ordinary people can take places in a spiritual state."

As the old man spoke, he stretched out his hand while chanting mantras, as if he was summoning something.

"hu~hu~"

Soon, Gu Yun saw two clusters of bright car lights moving from far to near at the end of the originally dark road.

"This is…"

Gu Yun is now in a spirit state, so he can clearly see the strange aura emanating from around this strange bus: "Is this a strange story, grandpa?"

"Ah."

In Japan, there are many urban legends such as the hearse drifting, the ghost bus bound for hell, and the taxi that kills people in the middle of the night.

These urban legends will continue to produce all kinds of hearses.

The hearse itself has no combat power.

But because of the characteristics of the hearse itself, they can quickly travel across various places, which is very convenient.

"Most hearses are not dangerous. The probability of ordinary people encountering them is about the same as winning the lottery."

Grandpa looked at the ghost bus parked in front of him. Some people were already sitting in it. He saw their dull eyes and pale faces, which were very strange.

"But a hearse is a hearse after all," Grandpa said, "Sometimes, if you don't pay attention, you may be taken to the virtual world and ghosts by them."

"Is it so dangerous?"

"So you need to have ample knowledge of ghost stories."

Grandpa said, "You have to know where these hearses come from and why they were born."

"Forehead…"

Gu Yun asked: "But grandpa, didn't you say that you don't understand ghost stories?"

"Stinky boy, don't you look at whose territory this is?!"

Grandpa really doesn't understand, but he doesn't even know the strange stories around his home, right?
"That's right, haha."

Gu Yun scratched his head with a smile, quickly followed in Grandpa's footsteps, and boarded the ghost bus with him.

"Are these all ghost stories?"

"not all."

Grandpa ignored the bloodied driver on the driver's seat, and calmly handed the two coins to the conductor.

Well, the conductor is also a pale female ghost.

"The drivers, passengers, and conductors here are all lonely ghosts who don't want to go to Huangquan for various reasons."

Grandpa and Gu Yun found a seat and sat down, and then began to communicate as if there was no one else around.

The ghosts also seemed to know that the two were not easy to provoke, and had no intention of actively scaring or provoking them.

"This strange story about the hearse, to be precise, only this bus is."

"Then what about them?"

Gu Yun asked: "Aren't you afraid of being swallowed up by ghost stories?"

He had seen the Gap Girl before, and saw many poor souls bound by ghosts and ghosts.

But now, the ghost and the ghost bus exist at the same time...

"Are they bound by this strange talk about the hearse?"

Gu Yun asked, "Should we save it?"

"No," said Grandpa. "Besides, they're not bound by a hearse."

Human beings, ghost stories and ghosts, the relationship between the three is very complicated.

Ghost stories devour human beings and torture souls.

But if the person has died and turned into a ghost, then they are not afraid of ghost stories.

"What ghost stories really need are all kinds of emotions in living people."

Grandpa: "However, it is difficult for ghosts to have strong emotional fluctuations. For ghost stories, they are wastes that are neither tasty nor useful."

This is the reason why Guitan regards living people as food, but does not touch dead ghosts and ghosts.

"And one of the prerequisites for the strange story that gave birth to this bus is 'there is a living person on board late at night'."

Note that 'living' is specifically declared here.

After all, you said that the main character of the horror story that humans came up with is a ghost. Does it still have a sense of substitution?
You want to scare the living, not the dead!

As we all know, any urban ghost story is basically a certain 'person' who encountered various supernatural events and then never returned.

How could there be such a weird saying that a ghost is waiting for the bus at night?

Even if ghosts are involved, they must have encountered ghosts when they were alive, and they must still be tortured after death.

Anyway, Gu Yun has never heard of horror stories where the main character is a ghost and then encounters ghosts.

"The reason why the strange talk still tortures the souls of the dead after devouring the living."

"One is to extract their surplus value," Grandpa said, "Second, it is also because these victims do not know that they are dead."

Only this kind of "wandering soul" can retain the emotions of human beings and continue to provide nourishment for strange stories.

Theoretically speaking, if a person can understand that he is dead after being swallowed by strange talks, then he will be attracted by the power of the underworld and be liberated.

The most troublesome thing is like Tamura, he doesn't know that he is dead.

This made him, like falling into an illusion, keep repeating the evening when he met the girl with a gap.

As for these ghosts on the hearse.

They died violently, and the resentment in their hearts has not disappeared, and they will not let go of the hatred in the world and go to Huangquan.

"According to Grandpa, we are spirit bodies now, almost like ghosts."

"Then why did we encounter this car?"

They are now in the state of spirit body. It stands to reason that Guai Tan would not be attracted by the dead.

Gu Yun saw the mantra that his grandfather chanted before, so if he takes the initiative to call, can the ghost call the hearse?

"My spell is the medium of summoning."

"But the reason why the hearse can be summoned by ghosts lies in the hearse itself."

When many people hear about the strange stories of the hearse, there will always be 'someone got into the car and found many pale people in the car'.

That is to say, ghost talks about hearses usually appear together with ghosts and ghosts.

"Over time, this type of hearse comes with the ability to carry spirit bodies."

Ghosts will use these hearses to travel from place to place.

And warlocks like Grandpa occasionally take them for travel convenience.

Grandpa has lived on this land for 70 to [-] years, and he is very clear about any supernatural events nearby.

"Are there many hearses like this?"

"Not all urban legends will form ghost stories," Grandpa said, "It requires enough power of prayer."

Just like the ghost bus summoned by grandpa, its driving range is very wide, far beyond the road near the old house of Iijima.

And to encounter it, there are many prerequisites.

In the end, the ghost bus doesn't kill people.

"Its effect is probably to make the people in the car fall asleep in a daze, and when they wake up, they find themselves in another city."

Not all strange stories are like the Gap Girl, there are also all kinds of strange things.

The Ghost Bus, apparently, is also on this list.

"In addition, the resurrection speed of the hearse-like ghost stories is much faster than other ghost stories."

It's not that grandpa has never thought about the strange talk of getting rid of the cure.

However, although the hearse itself is weak, its regeneration speed is frighteningly fast.

Among the ghost stories, the existence of powerful power tends to have a longer resurrection cycle.

And such as the ghost bus.

If you wipe out today, a new one will appear tomorrow night.

No matter how idle a warlock is, he wouldn't be so bored.

"In the future, if you come across such a weird story," Grandpa suggested, "When it doesn't hurt anyone, just ignore it."

"Ah."

Gu Yun is not the kind of person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes.

The existence of strange talk is closely related to human speech, you cannot eradicate it from the source, and it is meaningless to eliminate it many times.

(End of this chapter)