The Weird Tale Takes Control

The once peaceful street instantly descended into chaos, with pedestrians swarming towards both ends of the street, only to stop after running twenty or thirty meters.

Feng Xue was very puzzled by this situation:

"Are all the people around here reckless and willing to risk their lives for a spectacle?"

"How should I know?" Baihe Hua, dragging Rinka away from the battlefield, was clearly speechless upon hearing Feng Xue's words. However, Rinka, unable to compete with Baihe Hua and forced to be dragged along, shouted:

"Stop running! It will be very dangerous if you keep running!"

"Huh? I Think it's more dangerous if we don't run!"

Baihe Hua immediately retorted, while Rinka, while slowing Baihe Hua's escape, anxiously said:

"When you encounter Weird Tale, never run away. Instead, gather with other people who have seen it, otherwise you might easily be caught by the Weird Tale if you're alone!"

"..." Baihe Hua suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a legend, and immediately stopped in her tracks, while Rinka, panting, complained:

"When did you become so strong? Oh well, just get into the crowd!"

Rinka pulled Baihe Hua along and squeezed into the crowd of onlookers. At this moment, the dozen or so Low-level Supernatural Tale that could only be described as twisted had surrounded the Kamen Rider group that the decadent old man had transformed into, just like the monsters in a tokusatsu movie.

Whether it was for the sake of spreading knowledge or for some other reason, neither the High-level Supernatural Tale that looked more like a human nor this group of Low-level Supernatural Tale attacked the onlookers. The Kamen Rider uncle, on the other hand, waited nonchalantly for the passersby to clear the space for the battle, until all the Weird Tale surrounded him, before slowly pressing his Transformation Belt.

"Attack Control!"

"Bai Rongyi!"

The strange sound effect rang out again, and as a crystal card depicting a rotting white snake was crushed by the Rider Belt, a tattered white cloth was draped over the Kamen Rider bore a 30% resemblance to Decade.

Without any communication, the tattered cloth transformed into slippery tentacles, precisely wrapping around every low-level Weird Tale in the vicinity.

At the very moment the attack was launched, the Weird Tale the baseball cap, who looked like an exhibitionist with bare legs but wearing an oversized trench coat, suddenly unfolded the trench coat.

However, beneath those trench coats were not naked bodies, but rather female faces filled with resentment and malice.

"Face Stealer!" Rinka exclaimed softly, and from the crowd around her came gasps of surprise such as "Face Stealer actually happened?" and "Is this the legendary Face Stealer?"

"What is 'Face Stealer'?" Hearing her Stand ask this question, Baihe Hua felt extremely ashamed, and then asked Rinka the same question.

"A very terrifying Weird Tale: it's said that it attacks beautiful women who are alone, cuts off their faces, and those whose faces are taken away become invisible and die quickly. Only after death will others notice that their corpses are completely faceless and often have very gruesome external injuries..."

Baihe Hua listened to Rinka's description, she felt a chill run down her spine, while on the battlefield, the "Face Stealer" had already flung the face out from under the coat.

Those faces, filled with resentment, spun in the air, some tearing at the tentacles released by Kamen Rider with their teeth, others clinging to other Weird Tale.

The Weird Tale faces pressed against them immediately changed from distorted postures to beautiful young women. The original scene of Kamen Rider fighting monsters instantly veered into a tentacle monster attacking a beautiful girl.

Fortunately, this Kamen Rider didn't make any blunders by being unable to harm "humans." With those sticky tentacles wrapped around him, all the Weird Tale that seemed to have turned into humans were tightly bound. With a series of cracking sounds, their heads bent down at angles that made one's scalp crawl.

However, these Weird Tale, whose faces were pressed against each other, did not die immediately. Shaking their severed necks and limbs, they launched a stiff attack on the Kamen Rider like puppets.

"Using the flesh and blood of their subordinates as weapons... How utterly despicable!" Rinka whispered a look of contempt, while Feng Xue whispered in Baihe Hua's ear:

"Don't be fooled by how gruesome the scene looks. In reality, those faces have the ability to absorb damage. Even though these Weird Tale are all twisted and mangled, all the damage is absorbed by those faces... or rather, by the owners of those faces. The Weird Tale are actually all fine."

"So, does that mean those who had their faces stolen died this way?" Baihe Hua's heart clenched, but Feng Xue said:

"Do you think that Kamen Rider doesn't know? He's already beyond saving just because he's turned out like this. Instead of showing sympathy for someone who's already doomed, we should kill the culprit. Otherwise, even more people will suffer."

"Isn't it true that if we defeat this Face Stealer, those faces will return to their original owners?" Baihe Hua found Feng Xue's answer rather hard to accept, but Feng Xue sighed and said:

"The idea that killing an enemy will remove your abilities is ultimately just a compromise for the sake of the story. In the end, what has already happened cannot be erased. This world is not so kind as to believe that killing a murderer will bring those he killed back to life. You'd better keep that in mind."

"Can you go up and help?" Baihe Hua gritted her teeth, watching the Kamen Rider slowly losing ground in the attack. Feng Xue, upon hearing this, said:

"The range is sufficient, but is it really feasible? You might expose yourself because of it!"

"But we can't just do nothing, can we?" Baihe Hua looked at the Weird Tale figure manipulating faces like puppets, her eyes still filled with fear, but she remained resolute.

"If this is left unchecked, even more people will suffer!"

"Even at the cost of your own life?" Feng Xue didn't refute Baihe Hua's words, but simply asked in return.

"At least I have the ability to resist, while most people don't." Baihe Hua's tone remained firm, but then softened as she said:

"Furthermore, I didn't say you should act now. I said you should only act if you can't defeat that Kamen Rider!"

While the two were discussing this in their minds, something else happened on the battlefield. The Kamen Rider, who looked like a tentacle monster, drew another crystal card. This time, however, there seemed to be a shrimp-like thing swimming on the card.

"Weird Tale the Strange!"

"Net Cut!"

The mechanical, chuunibyou-esque sound effects were successfully activated as the card was inserted into the slot. The original white tentacles instantly transformed into sharp blades, and the tightly bound low-level Weird Tale was almost instantly sliced into pieces of flesh. The female faces burned amidst the shrill screams.

As flames rose, the Low-level Supernatural Tale sprang up as if they had been hit by a thousand-year death spell, frantically trying to escape the Kamen Rider's attack range. But at this moment, the tattered white cloth on the Kamen Rider's body had transformed into a powerful-looking cleaver, which sliced the two closest Weird Tale in half with a single strike.

Without the protection of a human face, the Low-level Supernatural Tale became cannon fodder, quickly hacked to pieces. But just then, someone in the crowd shouted—

"Careful!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Face Stealer who had been acting like a commander suddenly appeared behind the Kamen Rider, holding a dark, rusty pair of scissors.

"I'll accept your mask!"

Regarding the question of Eternal World.

It doesn't make the mysterious side "invisible" or "less noticeable," but rather more like the Stone Hat, which makes them resemble natural phenomena and thus be subconsciously ignored by ordinary people. Hmm, it feels a bit like a god of disobedience or a Crimson World Demon King.

In other words, in most cases, the Weird Tale of the East are in a blind spot, just like keys or cell phones that are right in front of you but you can't find them no matter what, because you instinctively ignore them.

The reason why ordinary people can see Weird Tale after Kamen Rider transforms is not because Kamen Rider uses any special methods, but because the person directly enters the "blind spot," causing the person who was originally focused on him to "incidentally" shift their attention to the "blind spot."

This is like your phone, which you couldn't find, suddenly receiving a call, and you find it by following the ringtone.

P. S.: Let me also organize the timeline.

Chen Xiyao traveled to Infinite City in the winter of 2011 (winter vacation).

In early 2012, the protagonist encountered a newly Landfill Area, then went to Colombia and Victoria, created Libra, and then Yan Country People Know Martial Arts. At the end of the year, he failed to challenge the Tower of Babel.

In early 2013, he created the Orca Martial God, igniting the Supernatural Tale Fire. At the end of the year, he defeated Sea Monk and gained the Residence Right.

In 2014, he created a mystical master in the Wuxia World, and in the same year, he created Kamen Rider in reality.

The current time is January 2015, and the protagonist has just arrived in the Eastern Kingdom.