At four o'clock, to the north of the people, the barnyard field. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The study of the barnyard family is simply and neatly furnished. A bright window opens to the door, looking out onto the wild forest in the back of the mountain, and in front of the window is a spacious desk. On the table, there are pen, ink, paper, and inkstones neatly arranged, and a pot of bamboos is placed next to these four treasures, and there is nothing else. The shelves on the walls on both sides of the desk are crowded with books and ancient books, which can be described as "left picture and right history".

In addition, there is a yellowed ink painting hanging on the wall of this study, which shows an ink bamboo with small pale yellow flowers, which appears to be alone in the large blank space. On the side of the scroll is a line of small characters in regular script, "Bamboo is easy to root in sixty years, and the roots must give birth to flowers, and the flowers must bear fruit, and the fruits will die, and they will be resurrected when they are fruitful", which is a sentence in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". The signature under it is "Barnyard Ali".

It's a good place to read and write, but it's not the girl's interest.

Honju and Aqiu laid a blanket on the wooden floor, with an oil lamp and two cushions, as well as a pot of cold tea and three cups that no one had used. The two of them each had a mat and played cards all night, without a nest on their buttocks.

"Liberate, Sky Dragon of Osiris!"

"Liberate, Obelisk Titan Soldiers!"

"Liberate, pull the Pterodactyl!"

"Special summoning, creator of light, Hakrati!"

Holding the gold-shining card between his fingers, he held it high and pronounced the declaration of victory:

"The effect is activated, and the player who summons this card will directly win!"

"Lose-lose-la-"

Suzu Honi spread her hand full of cards onto the blanket, then raised her hands, leaned back, and lay down on the floor. Her legs were still crossed, but her arms were stretched out, and her blouse was pulled up, revealing a small piece of her snow-white belly, which made her look like a kitten stretching her waist.

"It's still good at playing cards!" Xiao Ling lay on the ground and sighed, "The skills are not as good as others, and I am willing to bow to the wind!"

"Whereever, where, good luck. Ah Qiu smiled and said humbly, "I happened to have the three illusion gods, so I just played another one and won this one directly." ”

"So why are you so skilled at gathering the three phantom gods, how many times have you played this routine!"

"About eighty? no, maybe a hundred!"

"Ahh......h But why was it reversed?"

"yes, why?"

Anyway, after Ah Qiu won five consecutive games, the card game between the two was over. The two of them have been fighting from dusk to the present, each with the same plot and the same result, and it is almost time to feel burnout.

As for the card, it is a new item that has only recently been sold in Korindo, and it is said that it was introduced from the outside world and produced jointly by Korindo and Tengu Printing Industry.

As soon as these cards came out, they became immediately popular, and there were even many small monsters who used card battles to resolve disputes, which has a tendency to replace bullet hell battles. Maybe one day in the future, card battles will rise strongly, and Kiruno will really become the strongest in Gensokyo.

After all, Reimu doesn't have the money to buy a card.

But at the moment, the only ones who will be in favor of replacing barrage battles with card battles are probably the weakest little monsters and goblins. When the innocent barefoot little girl ran into the store with a few rusty copper plates, and shouted "give me some of the strongest cards, and I'll blow them up" with a serious attitude of buying weapons, what kind of expression would the sour shopkeeper have?

"Please do not make loud noises, lest you disturb the hexagram. ”

At this time, a young man sitting cross-legged in the middle of the study frowned and spoke.

This young man looks no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, the same size as Xiaoling and Ah Qiu, both in face and voice, he is childish, but he is full of mature and sophisticated adult temperament, and he has no innocence that a child should have, and he is not likable at all.

However, in terms of appearance alone, he is also a beautiful young man with a personable demeanor: a white hair that does not match his age is trimmed half long and not short, neatly trimmed, and a loose silk white robe is light and fluttering, both light and thin, like cicada wings, and even the shape and skin under it are faintly visible.

His eyes were as blue as the ocean, like two diamonds, set in the delicate and delicate face of white porcelain, so beautiful that it was almost not like an ordinary thing.

Such a young man, if one day he suddenly declares that he is a half-immortal, or simply an immortal, I am afraid that most people will believe it, after all, he has such a face that mortals can't grow at all.

Actually, he's really ...... Well, it's not a half-immortal, it's an onmyoji with high mana. No one knows where he came from, but when he opened a small shop in the human world, began to sell rune paper items, and helped the neighborhood solve supernatural events and demon infestations, his name spread throughout Gensokyo.

"Baili Bailing, thirteen years old, cultivated in the western mountains, became a young man at the age of ten, then left his master's door, traveled all over the world, lived here, divined 500 wen once, refused to bargain" - this is his self-introduction.

Or, in the words of the neighborhood leader, "a mysterious genius boy", "an onmyoji who exorcises ghosts with a pen", and "a cheap and easy-to-use prop house". By the way, the hexagram he calculated was 100% fulfilled, and it was so evil that it had almost become a strange story in Gensokyo.

In any case, this young man is indeed the best person to help people deal with demon chaos in addition to Reimu. No, in most cases, he is more reliable than Reimu, after all, Reimu is not something you can ask for.

As early as when the corpse tide first appeared and the villagers began to take refuge in an organized manner, he was invited by the barnyard family. Since then, he has been nesting in this little study, fiddling with his little gadgets, staying at home, but he knows everything about the outside world, even when Xiao Ling and Ah Qiu will come to disturb him, he knows very well.

It's clear, but you can't stop it.

After all, the barnyard family has become a temporary refuge in the human field, and all the rooms that can live in it are overcrowded, except for this study, which is regarded as the respect of the head of the family for him. So, when the head of the house came knocking on his door with her little friend and a set of cards, he really couldn't refuse.

"Aren't you playing with Bai Ling, it's fun?" Xiao Ling said, sat up, picked up two cards casually, and shook them at him.

"No, you can't. ”

Bai Ling shook his head, then took out a yellow rune paper from his sleeve and placed it in the large porcelain plate in front of him. The plate is octagonal in shape, with a Tai Chi Bagua diagram drawn on it, which is a magic instrument used for divination.

The rune paper fell into the plate, first shook a few times, as if pulled by some invisible force, and then spontaneously combusted violently, turning into a cluster of pale blue ghost fire, and after a few seconds, only green smoke and white dust remained.

He wiped the pinch of ash from the bottom of the dish with his fingertips, blew it on his mouth, letting it disperse into the air, and said:

"This 'departure' is a sign that tonight's war may change, and I advise the two of you to be mentally prepared. ”

"Eh, yes...... Really?"

Xiao Ling was bluffed by this vision, and was stunned for a while, not knowing what to say. However, Ah Qiu, who was opposite her, was well-informed, and he was not surprised, and asked:

"What will happen tonight, can you concretely calculate?"

"Suddenly, the people have nothing to bear, and they are fierce. This safe haven is afraid that it will be raided, so that the whole village has nowhere to hide, no way to escape, and can only resign itself to fate. Bai Ling looked up at the wind chimes hanging on the window frame and said.

It was very strange that the brass wind chimes were very small, with a bunch of tassels hanging from the bottom, swaying in the wind but never making a sound. Bai Ling this night, he either looked down at the gossip plate, or he looked up at the wind chimes, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Huh?" Xiao Ling heard this and exclaimed, "Isn't that bad?"

Before Ah Qiu could react, she stood up and was about to run out the door.

"Suzu, wait a minute!" Ah Qiu stopped her, "What are you going to do?"

"Why, of course, tell everyone the results of the divination, and let them go to evacuation quickly!" said Xiao Ling, who had walked to the door, turned around.

"Not necessarily. Bai Ling didn't look back, and said lightly to the little bell behind him, "Even if you leave here, the villagers have nowhere else to go." If you run out and shout now, it's just to increase panic, and there is no point. ”

"That'...... What should I do then?"

Xiao Ling was stuck at the door, not out, not back, so anxious that he jumped to his feet.

"You come back first, sit down. Bai Ling stretched out his hand and pointed to her cushion, which was still very warm, and said.

"I think so too," Ah Qiu echoed, "and since I can't help, I might as well do nothing." ”

"Yes...... Is that so?"

Xiao Ling looked at the two people in front of her, then looked at the wooden door behind her, hesitated for a moment, and finally returned to her seat.

"Let me ask first," as soon as she sat down, she turned her head and asked Bai Ling, "You should have something to do, right?"

"Undoubtedly. Bai Ling still said in that flat tone, "That's why I'm here." ”

"Disaster and savior come together, there is nowhere to run, and there is no need to escape, although there is a shock, there is no danger. He turned to the two girls and said, "This is the correct interpretation of the hexagram." ”

"Hehehe, with your words, I am relieved. Ah Qiu covered his mouth with loose cuffs and chuckled.

"Jingle Bells"

At this time, a crisp bell came to the ears of the three of them, and they all focused their eyes on the upper part of the window, looking at the little wind chime that was shaking vigorously.

"Wind chimes...... It's ringing!" the bell exclaimed, "...... that hasn't been ringing all this time."

"Jingle", "Jingle", "Jingle"

As if to cooperate with her, the brass bell rang more happily. Bai Ling looked at the wind chimes, was silent for a moment, and then stood up.

"The hour has come. He straightened his shirt and said, "Ah Qiu, Xiao Ling, go and inform everyone who has taken refuge in the barnyard field, lock the doors and windows, stay indoors, and don't go out before dawn." ”

"I'll go back as soon as I go. ”

With such a sentence in mind, he walked out with a light, barely silent step.