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"I heard that Tamamonomae is the most beautiful woman in the world, but it's a pity that I can't see her true face." Hongye Shou said while leaning against the tree.
He held the wine jug in his hand, but he didn't drink. He just played with it. He wouldn't drink when he wasn't in a good mood. He drank for a mood.
Isayama looked at Momiji Kari and for a moment he couldn't figure out his identity.
But compared to that unknown dog demon, this young man in a red robe was obviously different. Even she didn't dare to look down on him.
"If you are interested in me, please fetch me the Eight-foot Mirror. I will then restore my true form and I will certainly personally pour wine for you."
Forget it then.
Inuyasha, Seshomaru, Momiji Kari, Gyuto-no-Oni, etc., is there someone missing?
Isayama also noticed a slight incongruity, and she instinctively jumped back. A white-haired figure fell from the sky, tearing through the forest mist in an instant. Compared with the previous Demon Curse Storm, the power of this attack was much stronger.
Even though Isayama dodged it, the aftermath of the unknown force still cut a corner of the Killing Stone, and the fragments shattered.
It's not demonic power, it's not spiritual power. It's just a corner of the long river of history.
"It's you! Bai Ze!"
"It's been eight hundred years since we last met, Tamamonomae, and you're still as outrageous as ever." Ueshirazawa Huiyin waved her hand, as if she was disgusted by having touched something dirty.
"You, if you hadn't said too much in front of Toba..."
"Why, do you really think you can control the government and turn Heian-kyō into a demonic capital, a land of demons?"
Bai Ze is a lucky beast. As long as the king has not lost his virtue and is deceived by monsters, she will appear before the king to point out the disaster and give guidance. It was she who pointed out Tamamonomae's identity to Toba.
Kamishizawa Huiyin can use history as a weapon. The power of monsters lies in their antiquity and the fear left in people's hearts by history. Once history is broken, even a thousand-year-old monster will become mortal.
The red leaves are flying. Momiji Kari did not intervene in the battle between Huiyin and Isayama. He transformed into a flying red leaf and was swept towards the barrier that trapped Kagura by the wind.
The barrier is maintained by the fog in the forest.
In just a moment, like the roar of a ferocious beast, the fog in the forest began to dissipate.
"Oh, I thought of a fun game."
Isayama suddenly put away the sickle in his hand, and the sickle turned into an exquisite little umbrella.
There was a rustling sound in the forest. Someone was walking on the grass. Huiyin and Hongye Shou both stopped what they were doing.
Because they saw clearly that there were dozens of ordinary people in different clothes walking through the forest.
At least they were ordinary people, men and women, young and old, some wearing construction helmets, some in school uniforms, and even toddlers.
But now, they have all lost their minds. It can even be said that they have lost their lives. They are parasitized by the fragments of the Killing Stone, and this parasitism is irreversible.
They became puppets of the walking dead. They were like zombies, surrounding Huiyin and Hongye Shou in an inhuman manner.
"how dare you……"
In this era, with the great human trend, if it weren't for the protection of Gensokyo, the monsters would have to hide themselves in order to survive.
Tamamonomae actually uses humans as bait!
"How dare I? It's you! You are obviously big monsters, but you all stand on the side of humans. Have you even forgotten your identity as monsters? Traitors."
Hongye Shou let out a breath, he knew that things had become different.
Tamamonomae has already chosen a way to die, and she doesn't even understand who makes the rules in the world. The death of a mere nine-tailed fox is not a pity, but if it makes him have a bad impression of monsters...
"Let me confirm once more, Tamamonomae, can these humans still be saved?"
"No. Not only that, I want you to kill them yourself. Why, don't you like humans?"
Ah, that's really the worst answer.
"How many other humans have you parasitized?"
"Dozens? Hundreds? How can I possibly remember all of these things?"
Hongye Kari's heart had sunk to the bottom. He even laughed like Naraku in the story, which could scare a child to tears. It was a bitter laugh.
In a small town in Nasu County
Because of the villagers' call to the police, Deputy Captain Araki of the ZAT team arrived at the scene with Kotaro, Kitajima, and Minamihara.
"You mean the attack of the nine-tailed fox? Are you kidding me? This is the age of science. There is no such thing as a nine-tailed fox."
Araki took off his sunglasses and the person he was talking to was the head of the town's vigilante group.
That's a stupid guy, Araki has already defined the person opposite him.
"But, Mr. ZAT, our Nasu County is the place where Tamamonomae was killed and sealed in the story 800 years ago. It is said that the Killing Stone was left behind to bring disaster to the village. The people around us all believe in the story of Tamamonomae."
"A week ago, the Daban Hot Spring at the entrance of the village suddenly exploded, and many people saw the light of the nine-tailed fox. Then all the people in the hot spring disappeared. There was also an explosion at the road construction site this morning, and people also said they saw the light of the fox. The road surface was blown up, the equipment collapsed, and many workers also disappeared, just like a week ago. It must have been done by the nine-tailed fox!"
"What is this fox light, fox light you're talking about?"
The leader looked at the vigilantes behind him. It was hard to describe. He had only heard of it and had never actually seen it.
"Hey, Dalang, you said you saw it before, come and tell the gentleman from the ZAT team what Foxlight is like!"
"Me? I can't really describe it. There were just a few balls of blue, uh, or maybe gray flames spinning in the sky, and then there was a huge explosion on the ground."
"Is it blue or gray?"
"Ah, I can't really explain this."
This is what the legend is like. You pass it on to me and I pass it on to him, and it sounds very vivid, but in fact no one can explain it clearly.
Many people who claim to have seen it are just hearsay, and those who have actually seen it may have distorted their memories due to the influence of others.
"Oh, Hongxiang! It's always right to ask Miss Hongxiang!"
"Hongxiang? Who is that?"
"She's the daughter of the nine-tailed fox... I mean, she was there every time an attack happened, she must know a lot!"
Chapter 401: Blooming after Oblivion
Hongxiang is an eleven-year-old girl whose mother disappeared in public three years ago.
No one knows what happened.
Suddenly, several gray-blue fireballs appeared in the sky, just like the legendary fox fires. A circle of six or seven fox fires slowly rotated in the sky.
Then at a certain moment, the fox fire exploded. At the same time, her mother disappeared. Hongxiang was only eight years old at that time.
Hongxiang watched her mother disappear. After that, she would always go to the place where her mother disappeared and wait for her to come back.
"Hongxiang's mother was the first person to disappear. After she disappeared, nothing strange happened in the three years. So everyone gradually forgot about it."
"But a week ago, the fox spirit appeared again! Many people disappeared. Some people said they saw Hongxiang's mother, so everyone said that Hongxiang was the daughter of a fox spirit."
"When the Foxfire appeared, an explosion occurred, and then the people disappeared." Araki pondered for a moment and felt that there was something wrong. "Is he really missing? Didn't he get burned to death after the explosion?"
"Yes, it is true. No one saw the body."
"How many people are missing?"
"As for the exact number, you'll have to ask the police station. From what I've heard, nearly a hundred people are missing so far!"
"So many!" Araki was shocked. He thought there were two or three, or at most five or six, but he didn't expect it to be three digits!
"Is it a monster?" Kitajima said from the side.
Araki was also inclined to this speculation. For large-scale, unexplained casualties and disappearances, it was always right to consider monsters as the cause.
"Where is the Hongxiang you mentioned?"
The head of the vigilante group thought about it.
"In recent years, she has often been in a daze on the hillside where her mother disappeared. We may be able to find her there."
Hongxiang is indeed on the hillside.
Just like she had often done in the past three years, she sat on the hillside and was in a daze. When she was not in school, she would sit there for the whole day.
There are patches of poppies blooming on the hillside, and when the mountain breeze blows, the flowers wave in layers.
The woods on the other side of the hillside were filled with fog from the morning onwards, and it did not dissipate until the evening. Hongxiang was not surprised because this kind of thing happened occasionally in the past.
"Is your name Hongxiang?"
Suddenly someone spoke next to me.
A little girl about her age was sitting next to her, and no one knew when she came.
Hongxiang was a little surprised, because there were few strangers in this village, and she said her name right away. But she didn't know the other person.
"I'm Hong Xiang, who are you?"
"My name is Oshima Reiya."
Hongxiang read the name again and confirmed that she didn't know him. There was no such person in the village, and there should be no such person in the school.
"Are you from outside the village?"
"Well, I'm from Tokyo."
"Tokyo? I've heard of it. It's the capital. It's pretty far away, right?"
In fact, it is not far away. It is only a few dozen kilometers from here to Tokyo. In a few decades, this place will also be considered as the Tokyo metropolitan area. But for Hongxiang, who has never left the village since she was born, it is indeed a distant and inaccessible world.
"Let me see you."
"Look at me?"
Hongxiang didn't expect someone to say that. People in the village usually ignored her, not to mention coming from far away Tokyo, she never had any friends. But so what, someone came to visit her on purpose, it was much better than no one remembering her.
“These poppies are so beautiful.”
The poppies blooming on the hillside, with white petals and purple-red patterns, form a sea of flowers that stretch all the way to the valley.
“These are Mom’s favorite flowers.”
“Did your mother grow it?”
“My mother and I planted it together.”
The flower seeds that were once sown have now become a sea of flowers, but my mother never came back.
Ling also stared at the sea of flowers in a daze, not saying anything for a long time.
The poppy is very beautiful, but few people plant it on purpose. It is a wild flower that often blooms beside the red spider lily. The flower language of the poppy is the same, its flower language is the separation of life and death.