Looking down from the edge of the sinkhole, it looks like someone has hollowed out a mountain peak alive, leaving a hole with a large mouth and a narrow bottom with stagnant water. Even though I was a few hundred meters away from the bottom of the pit, I could see a dead dark green from the pool at the bottom of the pit - it was probably not living water. The Ito samurai gathered at the bottom of the sinkhole look like toy soldiers placed around the waterhole.

It wasn't long before I saw someone on the edge of the waterhole raising a fire, and four devils in white robes and black gauze hats danced around the fire, and strange voices came out of their mouths, but the Ito samurai bowed their heads respectfully to the four people.

In the distance, there is a white draperium. In the light of the fire, I could faintly see a kneeling figure behind the curtains, but I couldn't tell who it was.

Lu Xinyao said in a low voice, "What are they doing?"

"I don't know. I shook my head and said, "Judging by the clothes they are wearing, they should be Shinto priests in Japan." I don't have much research on Shintoism, so I can't tell what they're doing. ”

I only know that Shinto is a native religion of Japan, derived from shamanism, and shamanism belongs to a pantheistic religion like shamanism, believing that all things are animist, and the gods worshiped are also extremely extensive, mountain gods, water gods, sun gods, etc. are all worshiped in Shinto, and Shinto also integrated Confucianism and Buddhism in the later period to form its own characteristics. As for the rest of the stuff, it's all from the anime, so I can't take it seriously.

Masaka Ito said that the old devil Ito has been studying shamans and has also turned to an onmyoji for help. Now it seems that Mayaka Ito is not telling the truth. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's Onmyodo declined rapidly for various reasons, and was even abolished for a time, and Shinto officially broke with Onmyodo. A true onmyoji, if any, is hard to find.

Old Ito should be Shinto's help. He brought the priest into the flat heavenly sea, presumably to unlock the secrets of the shaman's secret vault with the help of Shintoism.

As my head was spinning, the spells of the four priests had produced an extremely strange resonance, and the voices of the four people quickly converged on the same frequency, reverberating back and forth in the sinkhole. The echoes that suddenly arose from all directions seemed to respond to each other's scriptures, but they also seemed to carry some kind of strong repulsion.

Lu Xinyao said in a low voice: "How do I feel that there is any strength to resist those priests?"

"I think so...... No, they're not praying, they're forcibly subduing something. These little devils are going to cause trouble......"

I watched as the puddle under the sinkhole rippled in circles, and the waves of water that were floating in the opposite direction from the position of the fire seemed to be the four people using scriptures to influence the fluctuations of the water.

How did they do it? Psychic power? Or something else?

I was in the middle of my confusion when the waterhole suddenly splashed from the bottom to the top. In a short time, the water began to splash more and more rapidly, and spread in all directions, and it was not long before I could faintly see a brass coffin tumbling out of the water.

The samurai of the Ito family couldn't help but cheer, and the old Ito devil also laughed, and couldn't suppress his excitement and shouted loudly: "Really fragrant, come here, this should be the Great Witch Bronze Coffin." Whether you can get the inheritance of the Great Witch or not is up to you. ”

Several samurai guarding near the curtain grabbed the edge of the curtain at the same time and pulled it back, the curtain made of white cloth was suddenly torn in half, and Ito Maka, who was kneeling on the ground in a moon-white witch robe, also stood up at this time, and someone quickly put an upside-down wooden barrel at her feet, and Ito Mayaka stepped on the wooden barrel and danced a strange dance against the coffin.

Masaka Ito's dance was not only unaesthetically pleasing, but even a little crazy, and the wooden barrel under her feet was trampled like a drum, and the four priests who had been dancing around the fire scattered at once.

Some people stood near the coffin with bronze mirrors, some people approached the bronze coffin with their free hands, and the other two people hid in the dark with ropes.

I couldn't help but say, "What the hell are they doing?"

Lu Xinyao said in a low voice: "They are imitating the story of the goddess of Tenden in Japanese mythology. ”

"Legend has it that Amaterasu was so angry that he hid in Amawado and didn't come out because of his brother's misdeeds, and Tenden danced on an upside-down barrel, and Amaterasu opened the door in curiosity to see what was going on, and the Tenjuri man who was guarding the door grabbed Amaterasu's hand and pulled him out, and the other gods surrounded Amajido with ropes and told Amaterasu that it was impossible to enter here, and Amaterasu saw his face in the mirror again, and returned to the world full of joy. ”

Lu Xinyao said: "I only remember the general meaning, it should be like this." ”

I nodded and said, "It turns out that Maka Ito is dancing the Invitation God Dance." Her Invitation Dance didn't get home. ”

The legend that Lu Xinyao told was obviously tinged with shamanic mythology. The dance is a characteristic of shamans, in which it is necessary to use drums, some shamans dance with drums in hand, and some shamans dance standing on drums. The legend of the goddess of Tiandian is nothing more than the replacement of the divine drum with a wooden barrel.

Legend has it that when a shaman stands on a drum and dances, the drum does not make a sound. The barrel under Maka's feet had a disturbing sound.

While I was talking, I quietly touched the side of the two corpses, picked up a handful of 38 big covers and handed it to Lu Xinyao: "Knock down Ito Maka, you can't let her toss anymore." ”

Lu Xinyao took the spear and aimed it twice before shaking his head and said, "Ito Maka's shaking is too big, it's hard to aim." Why don't you fight Akikawa Ito?"

"No, I can't. I shook my head and said, "Ito Akikawa has a golden mask, and his perception is beyond that of ordinary people, so it's easy for people to spot him if you aim at him." If it really doesn't work, change the goal. ”

As I spoke, there was a loud bang on the brass coffin floating on the water—I watched as the lid of the coffin lifted a few inches high and then fell back into place, the same loud sound that had come from the coffin.

The contents of the coffin really let Ito Maka come out?

I pushed Lu Xinyao: "If it doesn't work, hit the barrel." ”

Before Lu Xinyao could aim again, the samurai guarding near Ito Maka moved his position and blocked the barrel.

Worst!

In a short period of time, the brass coffin sounded several times, and when the coffin lid was lifted again and again, the brass coffin also quietly moved a few meters to the water's edge, and the things in the coffin seemed to be unable to break out of the coffin.

Akikawa Ito shouted excitedly, "Ready, ready, make sure everything goes wrong......!"

The priest who was guarding the coffin simply stepped into waist-deep water and approached the edge of the coffin, and reached for his hand next to the coffin lid.

Lu Xinyao pointed the gun at the priest next to the coffin, but I gently pressed the barrel of her gun: "There's no point in hitting him." After a while, wait until the coffin is opened again, and you can see if you can touch the contents of the coffin. If you really can't do it......"

While I was talking, a loud bang suddenly came from inside the brass coffin, and the coffin lid, which weighed hundreds of pounds, suddenly stood upright and stood above the coffin. The priest who was guarding the coffin was overjoyed and leaned into the coffin, grabbing the inside of the coffin with both hands at the same time, holding something.

As soon as his body fell, the man let out a scream.

I don't know what he saw inside the coffin, but I could hear the horror in his shouts.

When everyone looked at the coffin in unison, the coffin lid that had been erected fell suddenly. The sound of the priest's spine being crushed by the coffin had just been heard, and blood suddenly overflowed around the coffin lid, and the lower half of the priest's body also fell into the water against the edge of the coffin.

In this situation, at first glance, it looks like the body of the priest can't bear the weight of the coffin lid and is crushed in two, but the coffin is not a gate knife on the guillotine, how can it be possible to cut off the human body alive?

Between the scarlet blood flowers spreading in all directions in the water, Ito Akikawa shouted hoarsely, "Dance, keep dancing, you must lure out the gods in the water, hurry up and ......"

I gently touched the stunned Lu Xinyao: "Hit it in the water, just hit it against the position of the coffin." ”

Lu Xinyao lowered the muzzle of the gun slightly and pulled the trigger, and the deafening gunfire suddenly started, and all the Ito Takeshi turned around together and raised their guns to the edge of the sinkhole. I originally thought that the other party would not find my location so quickly, but I was pressed to the ground by Lu Xinyao.

Before I could raise my head, the earth that had been blown off by the bullets exploded in front of my eyes, and at the same time, an earth-shattering noise was heard from under the sinkhole. I couldn't help but look up, and when I looked down, there was already a sky-high white practice in the waterhole, and the brass coffin that was still floating on the water was like a building block thrown into the air, tumbling and roaring into the sky.

It was only then that I saw that the coffin had only three long boards including the lid, and the bottom of the coffin had long since disappeared.

Before I could figure out why the bottom of the coffin had disappeared, I saw a long, narrow, four-clawed, crocodile-like monster swoop out of the water. The other party stuck to the ground between exiting the water, bit the ankle of a priest with his head on his side, and quickly retreated into the water. The priest struggled only a few times, and the monster was already shaking its body. The priest who was bitten by the sharp teeth was torn apart in an instant, and half of his body suddenly flew a few meters away, but the monster swallowed the other party's thigh between its heads.

"Fire! Hurry up!" Ito Akikawa shouted angrily, and the frightened Takeshi Ito came back to his senses and fired wildly at the monster. The rain of bullets sent a splash of blood to the monster, and the monster dived back into the water with a terrible howl.

Ito Mingchuan shouted angrily, "Over there, go up and arrest them!"