CHAPTER 584: THE SUDDEN THOUSAND FACE

Liu Xing and his two companions hid their guns in their waistbands, and they were about to go upstairs, after all, the activity room of the Mysterious Stories Club was on the top floor, while they were on the ground floor, so it would take some time to get there.

Except for Lu Tianya, who stayed behind to deal with any possible questions from Meng Mengzi and others, Liu Xing and the rest quietly slipped out from the back door of the activity room and went straight to the stairwell on the top floor.

At this time, the Old Teaching Building was still very noisy.

"What’s the situation?" Liu Xing asked Zhang Wenbing in a low voice.

Zhang Wenbing shook his head and said, "Right now, there are only hushed voices in the activity room of the Mysterious Stories Club, and the voices are very noisy. It sounds like Oyamaya and the members of the former Urban Legends Club are chatting with each other. Oyamaya is probably waiting for a suitable opportunity to make his move, because there are people in the activity rooms next door. If there’s a big commotion, people from the neighboring activity rooms will definitely come to watch, which would not be good news for Oyamaya and his group."

Liu Xing nodded. If Oyamaya and his group caused a big commotion when they made their move, all the nearby clubs would come and join the fray. At that point, Oyamaya’s objective would fail because they couldn’t possibly deal with the members of other clubs as well.

At this time, Miguel also sent a message to Liu Xing, telling him that he and Hu Li had reached their designated positions and had confirmed the situation inside the Mysterious Stories Club’s activity room.

In simple terms, currently inside the Mysterious Stories Club’s activity room, there were two distinct groups of people, and they were chatting separately, not even looking at each other.

However, Miguel noticed that Oyamaya’s group was constantly making small movements, secretly taking out all sorts of strange objects and holding them in their hands.

It seemed that Oyamaya and his people were indeed preparing to make their move.

At this point, Miguel also sent Liu Xing a video invitation, which Liu Xing immediately accepted. So Liu Xing and his group were able to see the situation inside the Mysterious Stories Club’s activity room.

At this moment, Oyamaya was whispering with someone next to him, and then that person got up and left the activity room, looked around the hallway, and then went back and continued whispering with Oyamaya.

It seemed that Oyamaya and his group were about to make their move, and they had already confirmed the situation around them.

A moment later, Oyamaya suddenly stood up and started saying something to the members of the former Urban Legends Club.

At this time, Zhang Wenbing provided a simultaneous translation: "Right now, Oyamaya is saying that he has obtained the sheepskin scroll from Mizuta Saki’s mobile phone, the student who previously held the summoning ritual for the Soul-Eater Demon. So today, he wants to perform this ritual with the members of the former Urban Legends Club to determine whether mythical creatures truly exist in this world. Of course, if the members of the former Urban Legends Club choose to back down, that’s also fine, but Oyamaya still hopes that they will leave the activity room so as not to interfere with their club activities."

Indeed, that was the case.

Liu Xing and his group nodded slightly. It seemed that Oyamaya’s idea was the same as their own – to use the summoning of a mythical creature to scare away the members of the former Urban Legends Club. And this time, Oyamaya was also using the "provocation" tactic, forcing the Urban Legends Club members to accept the challenge. Otherwise, if they backed down today, they would never be able to hold their heads high again.

However, what concerned Liu Xing more at the moment was whether Oyamaya had really obtained the sheepskin scroll from Mizuta Saki, and whether he truly intended to perform the summoning ritual for the Soul-Eater Demon.

After careful consideration, Liu Xing thought it was indeed possible for Oyamaya to have obtained the sheepskin scroll from Mizuta Saki. After all, Mizuta Saki’s scroll was originally obtained from someone suspected to be a member of the Deep Diving Society, so it was natural for Oyamaya to be able to get it back, at most by spending some money.

But as a minor leader of the Deep Diving Society, Oyamaya should also be aware of the consequences of summoning the Soul-Eater Demon. With his and his subordinates’ abilities, they would not be able to control the Soul-Eater Demon. If Oyamaya really did summon the Soul-Eater Demon, it would be a huge mess. Just two days ago, Mizuta Saki was expelled by the School for summoning the Soul-Eater Demon, and now Oyamaya was doing the same thing, clearly not taking the School seriously. In that case, the School would definitely expel Oyamaya, and maybe even all the students who participated in this Summoning Ritual.

This is a case of mutually assured destruction.

So Liu Xing felt that Oyamaya probably wouldn’t actually summon the Soul-Eater Demon, unless Oyamaya had gone truly insane, or Deep Diving Society decided to bring in fresh blood to the Tokyo Comprehensive University branch.

Therefore, if nothing went wrong, Liu Xing felt that Oyamaya was probably just trying to scare off the original Urban Legends Club members by taking advantage of the events that happened a few days ago.

If that was the case, then there would be no need to use guns today.

Liu Xing couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. If they didn’t need to use guns, that would be for the best, because once the gunshots rang out, all sorts of trouble would come.

At that moment, a member of the original Urban Legends Club stood up on the mobile phone screen, and from his appearance, it was clear that he had accepted Oyamaya’s proposal. Ｒ𝓪ΝỐβƐṨ

Then, Oyamaya had the people around him draw the curtains in the activity room because the ritual to summon the Soul-Eater Demon was quite special. If passersby saw it, it wouldn’t be good, as it would easily attract the attention of teachers.

Although they lost visual, Zhang Wenbing’s listening device was still running, so Zhang Wenbing said, "Now Oyamaya and his group are preparing to start the ritual to summon the Soul-Eater Demon. But I just heard Oyamaya quietly instructing his subordinates to arrange some small things, so it seems he doesn’t actually plan to summon the Soul-Eater Demon but wants to use certain items to scare the original Urban Legends Club members. So what should we do now?"

What should they do?

Liu Xing scratched the back of his head, feeling that the current situation was still a bit tricky.

Because if nothing went wrong, Oyamaya and his group were probably just planning to use certain special items to scare the original Urban Legends Club members, as Zhang Wenbing said, in order to force them to leave the club or weaken their position in the Mysterious Stories Club. This way, Oyamaya and his group could continue doing their own thing under the guise of the Mysterious Stories Club.

So Oyamaya and his group probably wouldn’t choose to harm the original Urban Legends Club members. Even if they called the Inspection Team now, it wouldn’t have much effect because Oyamaya and his group could claim it was just a courage test, and the school wouldn’t punish them for that.

This was a bit of a problem.

"Why don’t I summon my baby? Let it run around the Mysterious Stories Club’s activity room and injure a few people?" Ling Ishikawa suggested a mischievous idea.

Zhang Jingxu shook his head and said, "Let’s not do that. If Ling Ishikawa summons your Shoggoth and it causes destruction, it will definitely attract the attention of Deep Diving Society because mythical creatures like Shoggoth generally can’t appear in big cities without any warning. And if it were a wild Shoggoth, it wouldn’t just run around the activity room and leave. So Deep Diving Society would definitely guess that there are practitioners like them at Tokyo Comprehensive University. If they investigate further, they might discover us."

Ling Ishikawa nodded and sighed, "If that’s the case, let’s just go back for now. From the current situation, we have no way to intervene, so we’ll have to find another opportunity..."

Before Ling Ishikawa could finish, Hu Li suddenly called Liu Xing.

Liu Xing frowned, knowing that Hu Li had an urgent matter to discuss because before this mission, they had agreed that under normal circumstances, Hu Li and Miguel would just send messages, and only call directly if there was an emergency.

Liu Xing answered the call, and on the other end, Hu Li said urgently, "Ryuusei, if I’m not mistaken, Thousand Face is rapidly approaching our direction. I’m not sure if we’re Thousand Face’s target, but judging from its current direction and speed, it will pass right over us in two minutes!"

Thousand Face was coming?!

Liu Xing was stunned at first, then considered the possibility that Deep Diving Society had cooperated with Thousand Face. The "small things" Oyamaya had arranged for his subordinates to set up were probably special signals to notify Thousand Face.

After all, Thousand Face was now a follower of Dagon, so Thousand Face likely bore Dagon’s mark. Just as Rundell could see the mark of the Yellow King on himself, the Deep Ones should also be able to recognize that Dagon was behind Thousand Face. So it made sense for Thousand Face to collaborate with Deep Diving Society.

As for why Alice had previously said that Deep Diving Society was also looking for Thousand Face’s trail, it was possibly because Deep Diving Society already knew about Thousand Face’s situation and wanted to cooperate with it. Therefore, they had been inquiring about Thousand Face’s whereabouts from various sources, meaning their own group had inadvertently helped Deep Diving Society...

Let’s talk about it again. If the Deep Diving Society really cooperated with Thousand Face, then this time Thousand Face can really help people like Oyamaya. Because if Thousand Face is responsible for the killings, Oyamaya and others can easily stay out of it. After all, Thousand Face even dared to bomb the Tokyo Skytree, so what’s the big deal about killing a few students now?

Now Thousand Face doesn’t care about killing a few more people, even if they have nothing to do with the Purple Dreamliner Cruise Ship incident.

Because for mythical creatures, killing someone is no big deal.

Of course, the possibility that Thousand Face was just passing by cannot be ruled out yet, although the probability of this possibility is extremely slim. According to Hu Li, Thousand Face flew straight towards Tokyo Comprehensive University, while the locations of Inukai Abe’s residence and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant are not on this line.

So, the possibility that Thousand Face came to Tokyo Comprehensive University is very high.

"Damn it, Thousand Face is very likely to have come here. What should we do now?" Ling Ishikawa asked with a frown.

Liu Xing shook his head and pointed downstairs, saying, "I think we should go back to the activity room of the China Society for now and observe the situation, because whether Thousand Face came to help Oyamaya and others or not, we can’t intervene in this matter anymore. So to avoid being injured by mistake, we’d better leave here."

Zhang Jingxu and others nodded and followed Liu Xing downstairs.

On the way down, Liu Xing didn’t forget to reply to Hu Li, telling Hu Li and Miguel to hide and make sure they weren’t discovered by Thousand Face. Then Liu Xing sent a message to Ming Hanxing, informing him that Thousand Face might come to Tokyo Comprehensive University, and asking him to stay away from the rooftop. When he heard that something might happen on the rooftop, he shouldn’t rush to the front, because Thousand Face wouldn’t care who you are when it comes to killing.

When Liu Xing and others returned to the activity room of the China Society, they saw from the video footage sent by Miguel that a black figure was slowly descending from the air and landing on the rooftop of the Old Teaching Building. Naturally, this figure was Thousand Face.

This was the first time Liu Xing and others truly saw Thousand Face.

At this time, Thousand Face looked like a burly man wearing a cloak, with his whole body shrouded in the cloak, and he seemed to be wearing a mask on his face.

But more importantly, Thousand Face was now standing right above the activity room of the Mysterious Stories Club, so it could be confirmed that Thousand Face did come to help Oyamaya and others kill the members of the original Urban Legends Club.

After all, Thousand Face is no good person.

Liu Xing sighed and could only mourn for the members of the original Urban Legends Club, because they were basically doomed now.

At this moment, Thousand Face started to act!

It was seen that Thousand Face revealed a sharp claw and then directly plunged it into the rooftop. Then there was a strange explosion sound, and the area where Thousand Face was standing was completely covered in smoke.

After the smoke cleared, Thousand Face was nowhere to be seen, and a large hole appeared where it had been standing.

Obviously, Thousand Face had entered the activity room of the Mysterious Stories Club.

A second later, Liu Xing heard a series of horrified screams, and in the mobile phone footage, he could only see shadows running inside the room because the curtains of the Mysterious Stories Club’s activity room were drawn.

But no one could leave the activity room!

Ten seconds later, Thousand Face flew out from the rooftop and headed towards the Shinjuku district.

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