As he gained a deeper understanding of the city, Yang Tao discovered that the number of ghosts in this city was far fewer than in Miko's city.
Moreover, the ghosts here didn't seem to like coming out much during the day.
The car slowly stopped in front of a beautiful two-story house. Elisa, sitting in the passenger seat, spoke up, "There's a massive number of ghosts on the second floor."
Hearing this, Yang Tao looked up at the second floor, but found nothing unusual.
Just then, the elementary schooler Hozuki Yayoi jumped out of Hozuki Eiko's car and ran to the outside of his car, watching him as if afraid he would run away.
"Uncle, this is my house."
Yang Tao nodded slightly and said to the people in the car, "You guys wait here for a bit, I'll go take a look with the little girl."
If it was really as Elisa said, then the second floor of Hozuki Yayoi's house must be a relatively important place, and it would definitely provide a large amount of exploration value.
Currently, he was about to reach the 60% critical point, and a new mod was beckoning to him.
"Mr. Yang, please be careful..." Miko said worriedly.
"Okay."
Yang Tao opened the car door and got out of the driver's seat. He lowered his head to look at the elementary schooler Hozuki Yayoi beside him, not bothering with any pleasantries.
He said straightforwardly, "Yayoi, can you take me to see the second floor of your house?"
Hearing that Yang Tao wanted to see the second floor of her house, Hozuki Yayoi's little face showed a look of confusion, but she quickly realized that what Yang Tao wanted to see were the ghosts she had captured.
"Wait a moment..."
With that, Hozuki Yayoi ran up to Hozuki Eiko and asked if she could let Yang Tao into the house.
Hozuki Eiko readily agreed.
Like Yurikawa Hana, although she knew ghosts existed, she didn't have the ability of spiritual vision and couldn't see ghosts normally.
But today was different.
She not only saw the bridge-jumping ghost but was also controlled by a ghost.
And when Elisa unfolded The World, she even saw Kishimojin and a group of little ghosts with her own eyes, allowing her to fully enter the true world of the bizarre.
"Mr. Yang, of course, no problem. What about your friends?"
"I just want to take a look at the second floor, I'll leave after a while..."
Hozuki Eiko nodded slightly, took out the house key from her backpack, opened the door, and led Yang Tao into the house.
Keitarō, who was following at the back, looked at Yang Tao's back with a hesitant expression.
Coming to the second floor.
Hozuki Yayoi led Yang Tao to a room door.
"This is where I store my dolls..."
Dolls?
Yang Tao looked thoughtfully at the doll with a health bar on Hozuki Yayoi's waist, but even after Hozuki Yayoi opened the door, he couldn't help but be surprised.
There was nothing else in the dark storage room, only rows of shelves and dolls, each with a health bar.
[The World Exploration Value 61.25%]
[Activated Special Combat Tower mod]
The exploration value surged up a notch.
However, Yang Tao was no longer in the mood to care about this point. A large number of black tentacles reached out from the dolls in the room towards Yang Tao.
Hozuki Yayoi naturally saw this scene and immediately shouted into the room, "Stop!"
"What do you want..."
Some black tentacles had already climbed onto Yang Tao's body. Seeing this, Hozuki Yayoi immediately took out a doll, but was stopped by Yang Tao.
"The little ghosts inside are too weak. If I have time, I'll compensate you with a few more powerful ones."
Compensate?
Under Hozuki Yayoi's confused gaze, a Cherry Bomb appeared out of thin air in Yang Tao's hand, and then he directly threw it into the room.
He slammed the door shut with a bang.
Boom.
An explosion sounded. Yang Tao opened the storage room door again. The health bars above the heads of 90% of the dolls inside had disappeared.
He stepped into the room.
The Yamato had appeared in his hand. With a swish, the blade easily pierced through a doll with a red frame, instantly clearing the remaining health above the doll's head.
In the small storage room, only three dolls with over four hundred health remained in an instant.
These dolls were trembling with fear from Yang Tao's brutal actions, and each of them started to play dead like quails.
Hozuki Yayoi: "..."
I worked so hard to collect these...
"Don't worry, I'll have Elisa catch a few stronger ghosts to compensate you, but your method of managing subordinates is still too lenient..."
"Uncle, you're too brutal..."
Hozuki Yayoi couldn't help but complain. She originally thought the female ghost named Elisa was already powerful enough, but she didn't expect there to be a master here.
And Hozuki Eiko and Keitarō behind them were completely dumbfounded. Keitarō was a little better as he could at least see the ghost hands extending from the storage room, but Hozuki Eiko could only see the large cherry that appeared out of thin air and the katana with a blood-colored blade.
Hozuki Yayoi looked at the intact dolls in the storage room. She couldn't understand it. She clearly heard an explosion just now.
"Uncle, I put effort into cultivating these to become graduates..."
The 'graduates' Hozuki Yayoi referred to meant locking the captured ghosts in this room. When a special situation occurred, the ghosts in the room would devour each other, leaving only the strongest one.
They were collectively called 'graduates', similar in nature to raising Gu.
"Disobedient subordinates, no matter how many there are, are meaningless. I'll train them and send you some more later."
Training intelligent ghosts is simple; the complicated ones are handed over to Elisa for brainwashing.
With him, there are always more solutions than problems.
Hozuki Yayoi nodded slightly. In her opinion, Elisa was a ghost subdued by Yang Tao, and a 'ghostbuster' with such strength would never deceive her.
"You guys had a good rest during the camping trip last night. Oh, by the way, give me a few of the dolls you use for snacks. I'll go around the city later, and if I find suitable ones, I'll catch a few to bring back for you."
"Wait a minute..."
Hearing this, Hozuki Yayoi immediately ran into the small storage room, hugged out several dolls from inside, and handed them to Yang Tao, saying, "These are the dolls I made myself..."
Yang Tao reached out and put the dolls into his backpack, patted Hozuki Yayoi's head, and turned around to go downstairs and leave.
Just then, when Keitarō saw Yang Tao getting ready to leave, he finally mustered up the courage to speak, "Mr., wait a moment..."
Yang Tao looked at the usually introverted Keitarō with a puzzled expression.
Seeing this, Keitarō became a little flustered, but he still took a deep breath and asked, "Mr., do you know about curses?"
"Curse?"
Yang Tao turned around to look at Keitarō and asked, "What kind of curse? A ghost seeking revenge?"
This could very well be the male protagonist. A curse that could affect him must be very special.
Keitarō shook his head slightly and slowly took off the gloves he had been wearing, saying, "I don't know what kind of curse this is."
"But after suffering from this curse, my body became like this..."
Keitarō took off his gloves, revealing a hand full of 'worms'. Yang Tao frowned slightly and leaned closer to look at his hand.
Things that looked like nematodes grew on Keitarō's hand. They even distorted when exposed to the air.
"What is this?"
"Nerves. These things are extended nerves. They are very sensitive and greatly affect my life, Mr., can you help me?"
Yang Tao was greatly shocked, but he felt that this thing should not be human nerves. If it really were, then he would call Keitarō's nerves rebar.
Just thinking about a single dental nerve is enough to make someone suffer unbearable pain, let alone a hand full of exposed nerves...
Toothache.