Tokyo Fall Guys beats up the supernatural

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"What a joke! The higher-ups will think I'm hallucinating from using too much marijuana!" He plucked another hair from his beard, wincing in pain.

The man's name is Ryuichi Kume. He is a police inspector in the Toshima Ward Metropolitan Police Department. He is middle-aged and his career is not going well. He also has a rebellious idol daughter at home, which makes him anxious enough.

It's really frustrating that such a bizarre case has occurred in my own jurisdiction.

At that moment, he noticed a teenage girl being questioned by police officers.

...She doesn't look very old, maybe around the same age as Chinatsu? Or maybe a year or two younger. Does she live alone?

Kiryu Aine, wearing a coat over her pajamas, stood in front of the door recounting what had happened to the police. She looked anxious, helpless, and pitiful.

Huaiyin gives the impression of being weak and timid, and no one would doubt her; her delicate appearance is extremely deceptive.

At this moment, it started to rain outside. Although it was no longer the early summer rainy season, the rain still occasionally visited the city, adding a touch of romance to the busy and chaotic life shimmering with neon lights.

Just then, Kume Ryuichi heard a young couple talking in the corridor.

"How about we post that Fall Guy video online? We should get a lot of clicks, right?"

"Idiot, Fall Guys has its own website, but... you're right, if we're eyewitnesses, we could probably make this urban legend even more famous! Maybe the channel could even start making a profit..."

Kume Ryuichi glanced at the couple. They were dressed in flamboyant clothes and had exaggerated expressions. The girl had heavy makeup on her face, and they looked like a pair of idiotic couples who would be seen licking ice cream on the streets of Ikebukuro.

Their words were intriguing, so Kume Ryuichi walked over and asked bluntly, "What were you saying just now?"

The man swallowed hard, took a small step back, pulled his girlfriend along, and said, "Officer, we didn't say anything, did we?"

"I heard you mention the Fall Guys website just now, and I wanted to ask you to verify what you know about Fall Guys." Kume Ryuichi took out a pen from his breast pocket while holding a notebook.

The man in the couple was a little nervous, but Kume Ryuichi had no interest in finding out whether the person in front of him usually liked to take magical pills or did something heinous. He was not young, and sometimes he was too lazy to care about such things.

But I'm still very curious about Fall Guys, after all, it's a living urban legend.

The man in the couple thought for a moment, then slowly said, "Uh, officer, we don't really know much about Fall Guys. We've only heard that there's a Fall Guys channel with videos of that guy fighting evil spirits and monsters, but we haven't paid any attention to it. We've just heard about it."

How much do you know about this urban legend?

The man in the couple thought for a moment and said, "About half a year ago? We saw a video from a friend. In the video, there was a monster chasing a woman in white clothes floating in the air. At the time, we thought it was some new kind of A... cough cough, a prank, but we later found out it wasn't."

After the man finished speaking, he looked nervously at Kume Ryuichi, who calmly noted down what he had said and continued, "Do you know how to access this website?"

"No, I don't know..."

Kume Ryuichi looked at the two men with a scrutinizing and suspicious gaze, then nodded: "Okay, I understand. Thank you for your cooperation. Please leave the rest to us police."

Then he

He stopped looking at the couple and went to Kiryu Kaine, patted his colleague on the shoulder, looked at Kiryu Kaine again, and asked, "How did it go?"

After all, according to the other neighbors, the body knocked on the door of this girl's house. Even if she had nothing to do with it, she should still be taken seriously.

"There are no clues. This Ms. Kiryu has nothing to do with this matter. The identity of the body has also been confirmed. He was a truck driver who had been missing for two weeks. He disappeared 200 kilometers away from here."

Two hundred kilometers away... Kume Ryuichi looked at the mangled corpse's feet, almost revealing the bare bones, and then at the trembling girl in front of him, still in shock, like a little rabbit.

"Where is your guardian?" Kume Ryuichi asked.

"My family... only has me and my brother. My brother went out last night to spend the night with his girlfriend and didn't come home." Kiryu Kaine pulled out the explanation she had prepared beforehand.

"Where are the parents?"

Kiryu Kaine paused, then took a deep breath and said, "...He passed away in an accident a year ago."

"...I'm sorry." Kume Ryuichi offered a half-hearted apology, then continued, "There are no security cameras in this apartment building, so we can only rely on statements for information... Do you know why this person is targeting you? Have you experienced anything strange at home these past few days? Like being followed or anything?"

For some reason, Kume Ryuichi felt that the seemingly frail girl in front of him was not as simple as she appeared.

“I don’t know… I know nothing about this person, I’ve never seen him before.”

Just then, two people came up the stairs. They were Lu Zizhen and Tongsheng Toutang, who had been wandering around outside for several hours.

Lu Zizhen was extremely sleepy and kept yawning, leaning against Dou Tang. Dou Tang, on the other hand, was still full of energy and dragged the half-dead Lu Zizhen over.

"Please wait a moment, who are you?" Kume Ryuichi stopped the two.

“I am her brother, my name is Kiryu Toudou.” Kiryu Toudou then turned to Lu Zizhen beside him, “This is my friend, we were together last night.”

...I don't think I've asked you where you were last night yet, have I? Kume Ryuichi tugged at his beard and stepped aside.

After that, everything was simple. The police promised to strengthen security and protection in the surrounding area, and then the forensic team came and took away the body. As for the Fall Guys incident... Kume Ryuichi didn't say anything, but judging from his expression, he didn't seem to believe the so-called paranormal story.

After seeing the police off, Lu Zizhen had already fallen asleep on the sofa.

Meanwhile, while checking for the damage, Dou Tang discovered that the blue candy beans he had placed under the carpet had disappeared.

After considering it for a moment, he decided to open the system.

Chapter 12 Fall Guys' Super Grass Shop!

Welcome to Crown Games

Dou Tang sat on the sofa, closed his eyes, and in the darkness, an interface made of candy and cream appeared.

Sweet and dreamy, but the content that emerges is out of place.

Your current holdings are as follows:

[Low-level vengeful spirit (purified): 59]

[Advanced Evil Spirit (Purified): 1]

[Intelligence Gathering Beans: 3]

Intelligence-gathering beans can be exchanged for low-level vengeful spirits at a 1:1 ratio; in other words, they are spies harboring vengeful spirits and used by Dou Tang.

I've accumulated so many without even realizing it. Let's see what I can buy. I hope it's not another headgear or skin-related item.

[Entering the game store]

The interface expanded and turned into a series of cards, each decorated with different colors or headgear, with the function and required points listed below.

It's slightly different from the game, but at least it makes sense. Dou Tang likes the feeling of everything being in order.

Although the system is mysterious and has brought a lot of trouble, it also brings convenience like all cheat codes: you can use purified vengeful spirits to buy various items. However, because Dou Tang has a hoarding personality and likes to hoard resources, he has never bought anything from it.

After all, so far, no vengeful spirit has been able to withstand three moves from him in a direct confrontation.

But what happened to Huaiyin this time reminded him that he needed to become stronger.

They used their hands to crush cement and their fists to break steel bars, but that wasn't enough.

You need to make those high-level evil spirits avoid you, so that even if you are in the open, they won't dare to come near you.

So Dou Tang started browsing this online store full of various herbs.

The Streetlight King's armor... it's all golden and shiny, and he even throws in a golden, upturned hairstyle. Isn't that a bit much? The side effect is... he has to swear? No way!

Demon God Armor... those two red wings on the chest, so cool! And it can even launch its fists? Awesome! But what if it goes out of control and becomes a world-destroying demon god? No way!

Is this the true purple-tier equipment of a certain person? It has a horn on its head and a split in its mouth… Could it actually open? The effect is an extremely high-intensity body enhancement, but the side effect is uncontrolled berserk mode? No way!

The Mars Group Gundam's appearance... one outfit can transform into several forms, not bad... the price is that close friends and family members will be shot and killed by assassins who get out of a black luxury car, and a song will automatically play when they die?

Beach Dead Set

A costume? It allows you to transform like a Kamen Rider, covered in cool armor, but the price is that you're destined to melt into sand on a beach... Who would buy this?!

The mask that covers half of one eye allows four scarlet tentacles to extend from behind it, and it has the ability to eat human flesh to restore its body. The price is that it will frantically crack its knuckles and ask others very stupid elementary school math questions.

The internal and external contradictions of the obsession with divine assistance come from a strange god who is detached from many worlds. While gaining several random powers, he suffers a mental split and his left and right brains are divided into two personalities.

In her Thunder Chef form, she can attack with a spatula and frying pan, dealing lightning damage? But the price is... well, she'll become the family's culinary expert, with the risk of losing control and developing a split personality?

No, putting aside the déjà vu feel of this online store, those side effects are just too ridiculous!

Dou Tang's calm eyes gradually turned speechless.

Moreover, all of these forms are very expensive, some even requiring hundreds of high-level evil spirits to purchase... Where am I supposed to find so many evil spirits?

Even if you killed all the vengeful spirits in Tokyo, you probably wouldn't be able to gather a few hundred. Where would there be so many vengeful spirits in this world?

However, if there really are monsters in this world... perhaps the situation would be different!

As I scrolled down, the sense of déjà vu gradually disappeared, and all those weird things that had turned the original supernatural world into a bunch of jokes and half-original content vanished.

Then, after searching for a while, Dou Tang found one that was more suitable for the current situation.

[Wolf Head Set]

The Fall Guy in front of me is all black, with a comical and abstract cartoon wolf head on its head. The wolf head has its mouth wide open, and inside the mouth is the Fall Guy's white face and black eyes.

The edges of the wolf's head and mouth are covered in pink fur, and the wolf's eyes dart around, making it look both comical and cute.

But the thought of this person being over 1.8 meters tall makes me feel really awkward...

But its effects are really good.

[Skill: Manipulate Intelligence Gathering Beans: Transforms a Bean into a remotely controllable clone for 15 minutes. The clone possesses 40% of a normal Bean's strength. Cooldown: 24 hours. Each Bean can use this skill three times. This skill is calculated independently of other skills.]

[Price: 50 low-level vengeful spirits or 0.5 high-level evil spirits]

No, how can a high-level evil spirit be broken down and analyzed? That's a soul... What value is there in cutting a soul in half?

Based on this effect, Dou Tang will be able to truly create soldiers from beans in the future. Whenever he wants, he can buy a large number of intelligence-gathering beans, scatter them, and then with a shout, divine soldiers will descend from the sky.

Imagine what it would be like to recreate a Fall Guys elimination tournament with 60 participants in the real world.

Even a parade of a hundred demons couldn't be more spectacular!

Okay! I've bought it!

[Payment Confirmed: 50 Low-Level Wraiths]

At this moment, the sky above the Fall Guys world surged, and countless spirits that were originally immersed in the sea of ​​milkshakes were pulled up by invisible ropes, brought to the arena, and then merged together.

Flesh and blood, bones, rusted blades, and tangled long hair—countless vengeful spirits gathered in the center of this sweet, cloying world.

"Hey!"

It was as if an invisible giant hammer had struck, forging everything about the vengeful spirit, and the enormous impact resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

"Hey!"

Everything about the vengeful spirit was smashed flat, and the splattered blood and rotting flesh were pulled back by an invisible force, continuing to mix with the entire bizarre mass of flesh.

"Hey!"

The flesh lost its color, and the messy hair transformed into smooth sideburns, tinged with black and pink.

"Hey!"

Its face is an indestructible white form forged from stark white bones, and its eyes are atop a wolf's head.

"Hey!"

The bloodshot eyes of those vengeful spirits turned into deep, dark ink, flowing across the gradually forming flesh and eventually converging into entirely new eyes.

Dou Tang never imagined that his new clothes would be constructed in this way.

Finally, a brand new Fall Guy appeared at the start of the race, his eyes vacant, like a house waiting to be occupied...?

Dou Tang slowly integrated his consciousness into it.

Lu Zizhen had just come out of the bathroom after washing her face when she saw Huaiyin kneeling on the ground with a worried look on her face, staring at Dou Tang sitting on the sofa.

A dark, malevolent aura flashed, and a brand new Fall Guy sat on the sofa.

The wolf's eyes, along with the other eyes that couldn't see any light, opened together.

Lu Zizhen took a deep breath and then shouted, "Damn, you finally have clothes to wear?!"

"Wuhu!?" Wolf-headed Bean Man, also known as Dou Tang, tilted his head and looked at her with an expression that said, "What the hell are you talking about?!"

Can't you let me be handsome for just three more seconds?!

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Chapter 13 There isn't a single normal person in this house.

Dou Tang deactivated his transformation and briefly explained the current situation and the wolf head suit to the two girls who knew his secret.

Then, Lu Zizhen excitedly asked Dou Tang to let her see the so-called clone.

"To be honest, one candy bean can only be used three times. Isn't it a bit of a waste to use it once here?" Dou Tang said somewhat reluctantly.

"You should at least have a sense of what abilities you've acquired, right?" Lu Zizhen sat on the ground and hugged Huaiyin, as if Huaiyin were her younger sister. Although the latter was a little shy, she did not dislike such intimate behavior.

Dou Tang finally agreed and took out a pink candy bean. The vengeful spirit inside the candy bean came from a haunted mountain tunnel. That day, he and Lu Zizhen rode their bikes into the tunnel and caused a ruckus, finally drawing out the vengeful spirit.