CHAPTER XXXIV
The moon man is eternal, and the moon man is eternal.
This seems to be common knowledge in heaven and earth, and it cannot be broken.
"Komachi, you're lazy again. β
The petite Hades looked at the Styx ferryman leaning on the boat with a scythe, and his voice was flat and full of the unconscious majesty that had been cultivated on the long-lived people.
"Hmm-Lady Yinghime, why are you here?!Don't you have official business today, hahaha......"
The boatman, who was originally holding Erlang's legs and closing his eyes to recuperate, immediately turned over from the boat, and his movements were all in a hurry like a wild dog, and he tamedly welcomed the four seasons Yinghime who stood on the water into the boat.
"I'm on leave. β
Shikihime took off her hat, which was oddly shaped but popular in Gensokyo, and let her dark green hair, which was a little short for girls, sway in the wind.
But perhaps for her, the sophistication of this hairstyle is also one of the strengths. After all, the Enma in the form of a little girl really lacks credibility and deterrence.
"Sail the boat. β
But, maybe she is the only one who thinks so......
Onozuka Komachi drove the boat under his feet, and secretly felt bitter in his heart.
Ehime-sama's momentum,But it's going to make everyone who sees her shy away.γ
The tall boatman skillfully propped the boat with the iron handle of the sickle, the little girl with short green hair stood on the bow of the boat, the humble boat staggered aimlessly along the river, on its left bank was full of blood-red manju sawa, on the right bank was exposed desolate and mottled weeds and dry fields, and in the Lethe River under the boat were buried many lonely souls and wild ghosts who had given up the afterlife, and the dazed sighs on the bridge throughout the ages converged into the never-ending bleak cold wind on the Santu River, and the breeze carried the seemingly non-existent resentment and weeping to caress the hair and clothes of the boatmen and passengers, and they on the boat were indifferentγ
"Komachi, the moon man came to Gensokyo. β
"Come on, come here, it's not like they haven't been here before, and they're not under our control. β
"You hear clearly, it's the Lunarians. β
Shikihime turned her head and glanced at the lazy ferryman, her unangry gaze almost causing Onozuka Komachi to pee on the spot.
"It's the Moon Man, not some messy native god, and it's not a strange experimental product of the Moon Reading Destiny. β
"Uh...... So should I go and collect the soul of that moon man?"
ββ¦β¦ Need not. β
Shiji Yingji lowered her head, looked at the repentance stick held on her chest, and spoke indifferently.
"The kind of freak who has been cut off and the spirit has been transformed can't be reincarnated, so it's better to let her live this life and then let it go with the flow, and we'll be idle. β
"That, Eihime-sama, shouldn't the lifespan of a person be infinite this month?"
Onozuka Komachi spread his hands rather strangely: "I heard the guys in Gensokyo say that. β
"Ever since Tsukiyomi left the sanctuary world for the moon, his creation, the Hells, has not been in contact with it, and it's understandable that you would think so. β
King Yama rubbed the Pure Glass Mirror in his sleeve and was noncommittal.
"I also heard it from the previous King of Tarzan, who had come into contact with the inhabitants of the moon, and what he said should be true. β
"Thousands of years ago, Moonlit Night saw that the power of the strange and chaotic things was declining day by day, and he thought it was a problem in the shelter world, so he led his relatives to the moon. β
"It's just that as time passed, he found that not only the shelter, but also the moon, the glow, the stars, and even the distant Twenty-Eight Nights, and even the desolate and uninhabited abandoned areas, the power of the gods and ghosts continued to decline. β
After going around and around and finally returning to the moon, he found that the humans in the shelter began to move in the exact opposite direction of the supernatural powers, and they began to use crude and basic energy to create large and complex machines, leaving their personal cultivation behind. β
But to his dismay, it worked. β
So he thinks that the age of the gods is over, and then the age of technology is coming. β
"And the most serious problem he faces as a god is that once the world abandons the gods, then he, as a 'moonlit night' instead of a 'moon reader', will die immediately. β
"Fearing death, he began to lead his relatives to study human technology and try to use it alone to achieve eternal life. The current moon people are all the results of his experiments. β
Onozuka Komachi scratched her head, this kind of old thing really didn't interest her.
"So, he succeeded?"
"Barely so, but he didn't succeed completely. β
"The Moon City in the mouth of King Taishan is a world where technology and magic are mixed. All of the Luna's body codes are stored, and each time this body dies, a new body is created, and the soul is called back through the Soul Zhai and injected into the new body. β
But the method of shielding hell and retrieving souls is still a magic technique after all, and he found that as the number of body replications increases, the lifespan of each body gradually decreases, and the repeated death and conjuring also cause the soul of the moon people to be severely depleted. So to solve this problem, Tsukiyomi and his team began to transform the soul. β
"Until later, with the exception of the inhabitants of the same gods as Him, all the Moon People in the Moon Capital were solidly formed. And their souls are all mutilated and deformed, and even reincarnation is impossible, and most of the hormones secreted in their bodies are removed to eliminate emotions and be regarded as clean. β
"Until the monster sage led the crowd to attack the moon, the moon capital was destroyed, and the moon was transferred to the interior of the moon, the so-called moon people were essentially such a sad thing. There is nothing to do in life, there is nothing to do in death, and the body will be recycled into a new shell. And judging from the month man who came to the sanctuary this time, there was no substantial improvement in his technique, at least in terms of soul. β
Four Seasons Yingji raised her eyebrows imperceptibly, and seemed to be very disdainful of Yue's practice of reading life.
"And he actually sent the envoy to the fantasy country known as the enemy.,It seems that the current moon reading life is still in a predicament.γ β
"Uh...... So, did you take a leave of absence today to come to me for a day trip to Lethe just to tell me this?"
"Not really. β
King Yama frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
"I'm just wondering why the Tsukito, who is acting as Toyotamaki, seems to be stronger than most of the youkai in Gensokyo. β
"Generally speaking, if the soul is crippled, even if it is able to move and survive, it will never be so powerful, just as a human who has lost his hands and feet can never move more easily than a healthy human. β