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"Kotaro, Nanhara, Ueno, the three of you go to the scene and investigate. If you have any questions, contact the headquarters immediately."
On the other side, a dimensional door suddenly opened in the flat space and time.
If it was the TAC team, any time such a dimensional fluctuation appeared, the radar would issue an early warning. But now that the Yabo people have been defeated and there are no more super beasts, the radars that monitor the dimension have also lowered their warning levels.
Nadeshiko, Sakura, and Ling also appeared in the wasteland after the earthquake.
"Please, Reiya," Nadeshiko pleaded.
The earthquake not long ago was also felt by Nadeshiko who was far away in the hot spring hotel. The epicenter was exactly where her husband Fujitaka went to work. She was unfamiliar with Kagoshima and didn't even know who to ask for help. The only person she thought of was Reiya.
So she returned to Tokyo through the dimensional gate and found Lingya at Oshima Manor.
She originally wanted Sakura to stay in the hot spring hotel, but Sakura was unwilling to do so because she was worried that something might happen to her father, so Nadeshiko had no choice but to let her follow.
So three people appeared here at the same time.
The scene was indeed tragic, with the entire earth cracked and divided.
Ling also closed her eyes and let her thoughts drift away. In an instant, she felt the entire world. The plants and animals around her were her eyes and ears, and then she quickly discovered something.
"It's okay, Uncle Kinomoto is not injured, and there is someone nearby so it's okay."
After hearing this, Nadeshiko finally felt relieved. Sakura was also sobbing. She was too scared in the past ten minutes. Fortunately, Ling was here now.
Sakura grabbed Reiya's hands with both of hers, sensing her fear, and Reiya let her hold them.
There was no need to use the dimensional gate, as the place was not far away, the three of them walked through the woods and soon found Fujitaka sitting against a tree.
Chapter 393 Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva during the Tianbao Period
"father!"
Teng Long was a little surprised to see his daughter running towards him, followed by Nadeshiko. Also, was that the one from the Oshima family?
He didn't quite understand why Oshima was here, but soon he didn't want to think about it anymore because his daughter threw herself into his arms and cried.
Of course, my daughter is more important than anything else.
"Get out of here quickly. There will probably be aftershocks. An earthquake this big will cause the volcano in Kagoshima to erupt!"
This was Fujitaka's judgment. But Nadeshiko looked at Reiya and was relieved when she saw Reiya shaking his head. If Reiya said it was okay, then it must be okay.
I don’t know if there will be aftershocks, but Ling also knows that the volcano in Kagoshima will not erupt.
Because all the damage was concentrated only within a one-kilometer radius around here, even at this moment, she did not feel any abnormal pressure from the earth veins.
This is enough to prove that this is no ordinary earthquake.
Because the ground was cracked, part of the ruins that originally needed to be excavated were exposed, revealing objects that had been deposited underground for many years.
There were Buddhist beads, alms bowls, and fragments of wood and silk that were so broken that their original appearance could no longer be identified. There were even more bones, so densely packed that it was frightening.
Fujitaka covered Sakura's eyes to prevent her from looking. His daughter had been afraid of ghosts since she was a child, and so many corpses might leave a psychological trauma. To his surprise, the child from the Oshima family was not afraid at all and just stood by the crack in the ground.
"It's dangerous there, come back quickly."
The crack in the ground was very deep. Aren't you afraid of heights? Even a grown man like him didn't dare to go over there. If it shook again, he would fall straight down.
Ling didn't force it. She had already looked at it and there was nothing worth noting, so she retreated obediently.
"Uncle Kinomoto, are you investigating here?"
"Yes, this is a relic from the Nara period a thousand years ago."
But Ling did not agree with this judgment.
Fujitaka was a little confused by the girl's sudden words, but Oshima's words didn't sound like the random words of an ordinary little girl, so people couldn't help but believe it.
"What do you think it is?"
What is it? Ling also thought about it, put herself in the other person's shoes and thought about it in her mind and organized it.
"Probably, it's a fight."
The reason why Lingye said this is because there is a strong smell of death here, but there is no fear or resentment.
If I have to say, some of them are great ambitions.
I will not attain Buddhahood until hell is empty. I will not cease reincarnation until the King of Hell dies.
She didn't know what happened at that time, but these bones were all from people with strong faith and great ambitions.
They were not forced or deceived into being human sacrifices, but made the choice after realizing what they would have to pay and understanding the significance of the sacrifice.
Fighting till the last moment of life.
This is not a sacrificial site, but a battlefield! More than a thousand years ago, a battlefield that was not recorded in human history and belonged to the mysterious side.
"Hey, Professor! Professor Kinomoto!"
"Oh, Shimazu, I was worried when I saw you weren't here just now, luckily you're okay."
Shimazu was limping over from a distance, with a sprained foot, but other than that he seemed fine.
When the earthquake occurred, Fujitaka and Shimazu hurriedly ran towards a safe place, but they ran in different directions and were separated after the earthquake stopped.
"I'm glad you're okay, Professor Kinomoto. Why... did your daughter come here?"
The "daughter" refers to Sakura and Nadeshiko. When they were introduced yesterday, they were a family, so Shimazu naturally thought that they were both Fujitaka's daughters.
"If I don't tell you this, professor, you will never guess what I just found!" Shimazu changed the subject without waiting for Fujitaka to answer, "Come with me, I found a Buddha statue. It seems that we can find out the history of the ruins here!"
When he got separated from Fujitaka, Shimazu slipped down a hillside. At the fault point on the hillside, the earthquake had shaken out a Buddha statue, not far from here.
Shimazu pulled Fujitaka over there. It wasn't far, only about a hundred or two hundred meters away. There was a cliff.
Fujitaka thought it was a tall statue of Tathagata. It was not. It was just a statue as tall as a person, embedded in the middle of the mountain. It looked like it was about to fall down, but it didn't.
Ling also came here because of Sakura and Nadeshiko's request, because Fujitaka was in danger. Now that the danger is over, she has become interested in this ruins.
Human history was too shallow and even meaningless to Gaia. But Ling also found it very interesting. Looking at the light of faith that had not completely disappeared in a thousand years, she became curious about the unknown battles that were lost in history.
Archaeology, I’ve only seen it on TV before.
[Looking for dragons and dividing gold, one must look at the winding mountains. Each winding mountain is a hurdle.]
I remember seeing it in a movie, but I didn't understand it at all. Now I'm watching it live. Of course, Fujitaka and his team are doing formal archaeology, not tomb robbing.
"Aunt Nadeshiko, you and Sakura should go back. I will follow Uncle Kinomoto and will not put him in danger."
She looked at the scattered cultural relics in the deep pit for a while, but couldn't understand anything, so she wanted to go and take a look at the so-called Buddha statue.
When Lingye walked in the direction of the two people, she found a worker wearing a safety helmet arguing with Shimazu.
"Hey, you guys, this is private territory. There's blasting going on nearby, it's very dangerous. Get out of here."
This is indeed a construction site. The explosion noise came from here.
But what caught Lingye's attention was not the quarrel between the two, but the surrounding environment.
A dead silence.
Within a few hundred meters from the construction site, all the vegetation has died.
This could be attributed to the construction work, but what Fujitaka, Shimazu and the workers did not realize was that there were no living creatures on this land or in the soil beneath it, not even the tiny ants that could be seen everywhere.
This place is dead.
On the other side, Shimazu had already taken out his business card.
"I am the director of the Kagoshima Archaeological Institute. Look at that hillside. There is a Buddha statue that should be a cultural relic. You cannot destroy these cultural relics."
The construction manager looked at the business card and hesitated. Shimazu Musashi, Director of the Kagoshima Archaeological Institute.
Such intellectuals are somewhat distant from him, and he always feels that it is difficult to offend them.
"What about this one?"
"This is Professor Kinomoto from the Tokyo Tower and University's Archaeological Research Department."
University professor in Tokyo?
The combination of the words "Tokyo" and "university professor" made the foreman even more afraid to speak.
“Is that really a cultural relic?”
"Fuck cultural relics!"
Before Shimazu and Teng Long could say anything, an old man ran over, shouting. He looked to be about 70 years old, and he walked quite fast with a walking stick, and his voice was full of energy.
"Mr. Inada!"
Daotian didn't respond and glared at the foreman fiercely.
"This is my private territory. Cultural relics or not, they all belong to our Inada family."
"Are you the owner of this place?"
Teng Long's words touched Daotian's heart, and he chuckled proudly.
"Yes, I am the famous tycoon Inada here. It's hard to say about other places, but in Kaseda City, there is no bigger landlord than me."
He glanced at Shimazu Musashi's business card in the foreman's hand, was stunned for a moment, and then became even more proud.
"Shimazu? Haha, this surname is really interesting. Two hundred years ago, this Satsuma country belonged to you, but now it belongs to our Inada family!"
The once unattainable and wealthy family that controlled the lifeline of Satsuma for hundreds of years became commoners after the Meiji Restoration. However, he became a big landlord and the owner of the vast land.
Shimazu Musashi was not disappointed, nor did he feel angry at being ridiculed. He never felt that the former Shimazu family had anything to do with him now.
The 21st century is only 20 years away. Who cares about things before the 19th century? Why should he care about things that have nothing to do with his grandfather's grandfather?
"But Mr. Inada, this Buddha statue is really a cultural relic. Taking possession of something that does not belong to you by force can bring disaster."
"what?"
Inada didn't expect that Director Shimazu didn't speak, and Professor Kinomoto from Tokyo didn't speak either. Instead, a little girl who had been standing there next to them spoke.
"Who are you? It's an adult matter, why do you want to butt in on the affairs of adults? Go back to your parents."
"I'm not a baby, I'm Oshima Reiya. Mr. Inada, if you think this artifact belongs to you because it's on your land, then it's okay if I buy the land, right?"
"Buy it? Do you know how much it costs to buy the land?"
"Hmm? I haven't really learned about the land prices in Kagoshima, but they should be cheaper than in Tokyo. This piece of woodland is not along a transportation route, and there are no supporting commercial facilities around it. Are you planning to build an independent resort estate? I think the land price is between 15 billion and 20 billion, right?"
Daotian wanted to speak, but was a little hesitant to respond, because what the girl said was true.