Chapter 69: Full Moon, Cherry Blossoms Falling (Part 9)
With the help of Yakumo's power, everyone left the underworld and returned to Gensokyo.
The location of the landing is the front yard of the Hakurei Shrine, and they have just come out of the cracks in the space, and before they have time to gain a firm foothold, they are warmly "welcomed".
The first Hakurei Reimu can be seen at a glance that it is not a creature that exists in "this world". It's different from the "demon" born out of fear, different from the "demon" distorted by power, that kind of thing is simply ......
"Weird".
She could only think of the word.
They have the slender, muscular body of a hound, and run on all fours like most animals, the only things they have in common with the natives of this planet. For the rest, the traits of any "normal creature" cannot be found in them.
They have no skin or tail, and their red muscles are twisted together like earthworms, tightly coiled around their bones, and they move their entire bodies by constant wriggling.
They have no facial features or facial features, and the so-called "face" is nothing more than a lump of flesh made up of dozens of muscle tissues twisted together. In the middle of the lump of flesh, the radial distribution of muscle fibers swirls like a whirlpool, and the eye enclosed by it is their "mouth". They don't even have claws or teeth, and the tongue that sticks out of the "mouth" that drags all the way to the ground is probably the only tool they use to hunt and forage.
As soon as they arrived here, they noticed the dozen or so "hounds" wandering around the shrine, dragging their long tongues and bowing their heads to the ground and sniffing together - at least, they were similar to ordinary hounds in their behavior patterns. Of course, these abominable evil creatures noticed them at the same time, considering that they had no eyes, no mouth, and no nose, and perhaps the air that flowed into their bodies through the little hole in their faces with their tongues sticking out, bringing with them a little bit of human breath. And with this extremely subtle smell, they "smelled" the direction of everyone in that instant.
"Even the sense of smell is exactly the same as that of a hound......"
Reimu looked at them, and they all stopped their original movements, raised their heads and "looked" at her, facing her with their ugly red flesh face without eyes. Before Reimu could begin to think about the possible or non-existent connection between these monsters and normal canines, they moved.
The skinless four-legged tapping on the bluestone pavement made a continuous "click" sound, leaving a series of dark red, fishy marks, as if smeared with rotten blood. The "hounds" surrounded them in all directions, and the distance of a few tens of meters was reduced by half in an instant.
They are very fast, even far above the fastest big cats on land. The ugly musculature and limping running posture seemed to hide more secrets. However, cracking them is the job of the biologist, Reimu pulled out a few spells from her pocket, held them between her hands, and held them up—her job was to send them to death.
“The......”
“World!”
Before she could throw the rune paper, Sixteen Wild Sakiya made the first move.
"Then time began to turn......"
When they heard this, they saw one dagger after another, shining silver in the dark night, appearing out of thin air in front of the heads of the "hounds". It was all thrown out by Sakuya in still time, one of each, aimed at the center of the eyebrows.
I don't know if it was the knife that stabbed them in the head, or if the high-speed "hound" actively crashed into the knife. In short, in the next instant, all the "hounds" had an extra silver blade on their heads that had sunk into the hilt. But......
"It's not over yet!" Reimu yelled, frowning.
The movements of the "hounds" did not stop because of this. Instead, they kept their heads stuck in their heads, speeding up into the final sprint.
"Physical attacks alone have no effect, you have to use magic!" Nalan Twilight shouted, "Reimu!"
"I know, I know!"
Reimu shouted, staring intently at the fastest one, mentally estimating the distance.
There were still ten meters left, and at most a second, everyone would be within range of their attacks. This situation, even for the many strong people present, is quite tricky.
A large-scale spell that can bombard these tenacious monsters with vitality like Xiaoqiang to the slag at one time, first, there is not enough time to release, and second, in order to avoid accidentally injuring the crowd, there is no room for release. Once they get close to them, melee masters like Youxiang and Nalan Yu are of course fearless, but ordinary people like Xiaoling and Ah Qiu, who are traveling with them, are afraid that they will become the targets of siege, and they will be more than lucky.
No one knows how much attack power the toothless mouth and long tongue have, and no one wants to try it with their lives. Right now, the only person who can put an end to civilian casualties and perfectly clean up these monsters is Reimu, who has the rune paper pinched in her hand, and she must not make a mistake.
She is also true and will not make mistakes.
Eight pieces of rune paper, four in one hand, that's everything Reimu has on hand, in other words, there are a total of eight bullets in her magazine for "this gun". If each monster gives one shot, it will definitely be able to knock them all down, but there are more monsters and fewer bullets, and the conditions do not allow it, Reimu's tactics have turned in another direction.
She threw 7 of the 8 runes at once, aiming at the ground.
The moment the spirit rune touched the ground, it produced a small explosion. Seven rune papers, seven different directions, all caused by an explosion, and their areas of influence were cleverly connected together, forming a large circle, blocking all the gaps that could be passed through. And the timing of the explosion was just right, the moment when those "hounds" passed near the landing point of the rune paper.
The light devoured their figures, the impact from the ground, damaging the four legs they used to run. In the midst of the wolfdog-like wailing, all the "hounds" were not spared, all of them were colored, and their positions were all feet. Those who were slightly injured only fell once, while those who were seriously injured had their limbs broken and fell to the ground. With this move, Reimu quickly and accurately unloaded the biggest killing weapon of these monsters, which was called "speed".
However, this explosion alone was not enough to completely destroy those creatures, and Reimu knew it, and it was for this reason that she kept a piece of talisman paper in her hand.
"Demon Sealing Array!"
She let out a loud shout and pasted the talisman paper on the ground under her feet, and suddenly four golden walls of light rose in all directions, surrounding everyone inside. These walls of light can create both physical and magical resistance, trapping the people inside. Originally, this was a move used to seal demons, but now, Reimu uses it as a shield to protect the people behind the wall of light.
The "hounds", who had been lightly wounded, limped up, leaped up from what they felt were far enough, launched a final pounce, and then crashed headfirst into the solid wall of light.
Now, the threat of these monsters has been reduced to zero. In the eyes of everyone, even their distorted and strange appearance seems to be less hideous. Reimu used a "sub-hole" and teleported to the outside of the wall of light. All the "hounds", those who fell and those who stood, all turned their heads to look at her in unison. Before they could change the target of their hunt to the girl in front of them, Reimu's hunt had already begun.
That figure has been seen by everyone present. That is, the Hakurei witch who runs rampant in Gensokyo and fights invincible opponents all over the world.
"Spirit Rune, Dream Pearl!"
Three yin-yang jades floated, swirling, bulging, and flashing, charging at her foes, then crushing them like iron balls on plasticine. The rest is very characteristic of the Hirori witch, one-sided torture and killing.
When the light curtain that surrounded everyone fell, all that was left on the ground around them was black and red blood and broken corpses. Reimu stood between the corpses, the blood-stained yin-yang jade fading from its light and retracting to its original form, floating back to her side.
Everyone was solemn and didn't say a word, only the timid Motoju Xiaoling hid behind Kamibai Zehuiyin, covering his eyes and not daring to look at this bloody scene, but asked with a trembling voice:
"Knot...... Is it over?"
"The end?"
Nalan "poofed", as if he was laughing at something, and with a little bitterness, laughed.
"How can it end?" he said, "and everything has just begun!"
With that, he raised his hand and pointed to the sky. Above there, a full blood-colored moon hung high in the sky, casting its filthy and unclean light on every corner of the land of Gensokyo.