The shop owner stared blankly into the deep night, his smile gradually fading. For some reason, he suddenly felt a pang of unease.
After returning to the shop and seeing the gray-black, tooth-like bone beside the three coins on the table, he was inexplicably compelled to carefully put it away.
After cleaning up the tableware, he closed the shop and headed home beneath the dim streetlights.
Before leaving, he even patted his pocket to make sure.
Then he shook his head helplessly, seeming to feel that he was being overly suspicious.
Wu Heng had already arrived at Threefold Mountain, which stood 765 meters tall. It was the name of a triple-layered stratovolcano, and many people chose to end their lives by jumping into its crater.
This was one of Japan's most infamous suicide hotspots.
But that was only its public identity. In reality, it was also an important site for sealing an evil god.
Wu Heng had already discovered that there were two layers of space beneath the volcano, arranged much like the site in Portland, Oregon.
A sealed armored vehicle had quietly arrived there.
Twelve children under the age of twelve were packed into its rear compartment. They were the sacrifices for the evil god sealed in the Japan zone.
At the same time, this was the very sacrifice from the plot—the one during which the protagonist group met with disaster.
When the clock hand pointed to midnight, the entire night sky fell completely dark, without even a trace of cloud in sight, as though it had been dyed with ink.
The children, their eyes blindfolded with strips of cloth, were taken to the second underground level.
There was a classroom disguised there.
Various strange objects sat atop the teacher's desk: a battered old pen, a fortune-telling board, a