Chapter 36: The Passage Between the Yokai and Reality Is Opened

The yokai's mockery left Bunyuu and the others feeling more grief and despair than anger.

Handguns were the most lethal weapons they had on hand.

If even handguns couldn't kill a giant yokai, what could?

The key point!

There weren't only giant yokai here—there were other yokai as well.

A pall of death spread across everyone's hearts.

"Quick, translate—what are those yokai saying?" Director Takahashi signaled the lip-reading expert to translate the yokai's words.

A round of translation.

Everyone was horrified, all turning to look at Professor Gutian.

"That thing is really called Dainyudo!?" Minister Saito turned pale: "Do yokai really exist…"

Up to now, regarding the Yunhu situation, Saito and the others had reason to conclude that Yunhu could not be mere imagery, because the Sakada-gumi had also appeared within it……

All the clues indicated that the world within the Yunhu footage very likely truly existed!

The Sakada-gumi, President Yamazaki, and the others had, in all likelihood, stumbled into the Supernatural world by accident, causing the upheaval over Arakawa Ward.

To verify whether Yunhu truly existed, Director Takahashi had people summon yokai experts and lip-reading experts, all to obtain more clues.

Now, the yokai had spoken the name Dainyudo, matching the yokai name Professor Gutian had described.

The whole truth was plain as day.

The terrifying creatures in Yunhu were the yokai of Japanese legend.

In other words, yokai truly existed!

Furthermore, with the Yunhu creatures confirmed as yokai, one further conclusion could be drawn: the world of scenery within Yunhu might be a real world—after all, if yokai truly existed, how could the world within Yunhu where yokai dwelled be anything but real?

Then, combining this with other clues—Japan in ancient times had many yokai legends passed down, and even legends of ancient people slaying yokai.

Another conclusion could be drawn……

This world, in ancient times, had intersected with the real world—the two sides had been connected!!

The reason was none other than this.

If the two worlds were not connected, how would the ancients have known about yokai, and how would legends have spread among the folk, and how would tales of humans slaying yokai have circulated? It must have been after humans and yokai had contact.

The truth was reached.

Everyone's head buzzed, feeling as if it would explode; from body to will, all were shaken and horrified.

"These damn bastards, they couldn't have accidentally opened the door to the Supernatural world, could they? Damn it."

Minister Takahashi cursed viciously.

He had clear evidence to support this conjecture.

The evidence was simple: yokai existed in ancient times, but not in the modern era.

No one in today's world had ever seen a yokai.

But yokai weren't extinct, because the footage from Yunhu was clear—yokai still existed, numbering in the tens of thousands.

So there was reason to believe.

The people of ancient times might have done something to block the passage between the Supernatural world and this world, preventing yokai from crossing over, resulting in yokai vanishing from the world, leaving only yokai legends.

"Quick, run the calculations and simulations for me—what scale of weapon would be needed to kill a Dainyudo."

Director Takahashi was utterly grim, his gaze Solemn.

Once the yokai passage reopened, Tokyo would bear the brunt of a yokai assault; the yokai's strength was incalculable, and it was hard to determine what scale of military force would be needed to resist them.

"Damn it, damn it—what the hell did Sakada Wenzhijie and the others do."

The angrier he got, Director Takahashi slammed both fists on the table, rage sweeping through him.

According to the lip-reading expert's translation, yokai loved humans who had killed people; perhaps the Sakada-gumi's accidental entry into the Supernatural world was related to their many evil deeds—wickedness and fear were what yokai loved most.

Never before had Takahashi hated the Japanese yakuza so much, wishing he could purge them outright.

The others present also realized the severity of the situation.

The yokai in Yunhu were densely packed, countless in number; if these yokai came flooding into Tokyo, the consequences would be unthinkable.

It was entirely possible that Japan would be destroyed.

Even if not destroyed, after finally repelling the yokai, Japan would still suffer enormous losses, the economy set back by at least several decades.

Every senior official was taking deep drags on cigarettes, exhaling clouds of smoke, trying to ease the oppressive tension.

For a time, the conference room was wreathed in smoke.

At the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, analysis followed analysis.

Online, many armchair analysts were likewise conducting analyses, reaching conclusions similar to the Metropolitan Police's.

Although the government had begun a full-scale suppression of online discourse, censoring related information, netizens kept spreading it regardless, and the conclusions still got out, causing a stir across the internet.

Meanwhile.

In a strange twilight, the Supernatural world.

"Ah!!!"

The scream was heart-wrenching, utterly harrowing.

Under everyone's gaze, the captured cadre was tossed into the Dainyudo's mouth.

As its jaws closed.

Crunch, crunch……

The scream cut off abruptly, blood spurting from its mouth.

At this moment.

Everything seemed to fall silent at that instant—even the air went still.

In the four directions, only one sound remained.

It was the sound of the cadres' flesh, blood, and bones being chewed apart by the Great Nyudo.

Hearing the giant monster's chewing, everyone's scalps went numb; they trembled uncontrollably, their bodies as if having lost all warmth, chilled to the bone, their very souls shivering in the cold.

Gulp.

The Great Nyudo smacked his lips, patted his belly, revealing a satisfied look akin to obsession and greed.

"Humans are indeed delicious."

Like the switch of a fuse or the ignition line of a bomb, with the Great Nyudo's single word "delicious," all the demons could no longer hold back.

Over a hundred demons present all surged forward together.

Like madmen, they crashed into every demon beside them, disregarding everything as they clawed and bit at Sakada Wenzhijie, Mizuno Yuuichi, and the others.

The scene spiraled out of control.

Plunged into endless madness.

"Ah—"

Mizuno Yuuichi screamed, his voice filled with panic, hoarse and desperate.

A head-only demon, two meters tall with no body, suddenly flew out from one side.

Like a speeding truck, it rushed past Mizuno Yuuichi's side, opened its blood-filled maw, and tore off Mizuno Yuuichi's upper body in one bite.

The speed was so fast that Mizuno Yuuichi had no time to react; even his scream stopped in an instant.

And his lower body stood straight up.

As if the lower body had not yet realized its upper body was already separated.

The next second.

Like a gushing spring, Mizuno Yuuichi, standing in place, sprayed a three-foot column of blood.

Blood gushed like a spring, spouting continuously, splashing up ghastly blood flowers that covered the ground everywhere.

"Roar!"

"Awooo!"

In less than half a second, a dozen demons, like a pack of wolves hunting for food, all pounced and bit down on Mizuno Yuuichi's lower body, tearing and gnawing at each other.

The sight was horrifying.

Just one glance sent a wave of fear straight to the heart, as if standing at the scene of the most gruesome horror movie.

The underlings beside Mizuno Yuuichi, their faces splattered with his blood, covered entirely, were all so terrified they couldn't speak for a long time.

Everything happened too suddenly.

One moment, Mizuno Yuuichi was still alive.

The next, he was drenched in blood on the spot, his bones and flesh completely gone...

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