Chapter Forty-Six: Earth-Shaking Changes

Katsumura is a freight driver, and when he returned to Tachikawa as usual that morning, he was surprised to find that the scenery on the side of the road was a little different, and after a closer look, he immediately woke up his companion Saito: "Saito, Saito, wake up, do you see if this is Mt. Sumida?"

Saito rubbed his sleepy eyes and muttered unhappily, "We've been running this line for three years, don't tell me you don't even know where Mt. Sumida is." ”

"Of course I know where Mt. Sumida is, but it seems that Mt. Sumida has changed today. ”

"Just kidding, what can happen to a mountain? Could it be that it can change all of a sudden?" said Saito, angrily.

Jian Cun shook his head and replied, "It hasn't changed, but it has turned green!"

"It's green? How is that possible?" Hey, it's really green!" Saito, who didn't believe it at first, couldn't help but shout in surprise after turning his head and seeing the brand-new Mt. Hitada, but then he thought of a possibility: "Kenmura, it's not that you're sleepy and in the wrong place, are you sure this is Mt. Sumida?"

"You just said that I have been driving this road for three years, can I not know where Mt. Sumida is? And if you look at the signs around you, this is not Mt. Sumida, where is this?" said Kenmura unhappily.

Saito took a closer look, and then said in surprise: "Hey, it's really Mt. Sumida, it's weird, why haven't you seen it for two days, and it's become like this, could it be that someone came to plant trees by surprise?"

"Don't talk nonsense, who has nothing to do to go to this kind of barren mountain to plant trees, and with the kind of soil quality of Mount Sumida, it can't be planted alive. Kenmura immediately retorted.

"It's hard to say, those officials can't do anything, you wait for me to call someone to ask. ”

However, when Saito finished the call, he was even more surprised: "Kenmura, Nishikawa told me that there has been no construction here in Mt. Sumida in the past two days, and the only change is that it was said that there was an earthquake here last night. ”

"What are you kidding, if there is an earthquake, there will be no signs in the surrounding area, and I have never heard of grass and trees growing after an earthquake. ”

Saito didn't answer, he directly picked up his mobile phone and flipped to the "Tachikawa Shimbun", pointed to a message on it and said, "Look. ”

Kakumura took it and looked at it, and sure enough, it read, "A 2.3-magnitude earthquake occurred near Mt. Sumida in Tachikawa last night, and the amplitude of the earthquake was very small, and the tremor was very weak, and it did not cause any impact on the surrounding area." ”

"It's really nonsense, Mt. Sumida has become like this, and it's embarrassing to say that it hasn't caused any impact?" Kenmura scolded at first, and then suddenly his mind moved, and proposed: "Saito, anyway, we are resting today, why don't you go to Mt. Sumida to have a look now? Such a strange change has occurred, maybe some treasure in the mountain has been shaken out?"

"I always say I'm, if you want me to say the most, it's okay to read those comics, don't you think what kind of treasure changed Mt. Sumida like this?" Saito immediately sneered.

"Then you give me an explanation, what the hell is going on?"

"W-How do I know this? Forget it, forget it, I'll go crazy with you today! Let's go, get out of the car!"

The two of them agreed and drove to the foot of Mt. Sumida, and they were surprised to find that at the bottom of the mountain there was a winding, smooth and solid stone staircase leading to the top of the mountain, and there seemed to be a stone statue standing next to each stone step.

Jian Cun was able to take a look, then frowned and said, "Hey, this, this seems to be an Arhat statue!"

"What Arhat?" asked Saito, puzzled.

Jian Cun made a gesture of clasping his hands and replied, "It is the five hundred Arhats in Buddhism!"

Saito was surprised: "You even know Buddhism?"

"I don't know much about Buddhism, but I often see Arhats and Bodhisattvas in comics, and it feels very similar to this statue!" replied Kenmura very proudly.

"In that case, then let's see if this stone statue is also the same Arhat Bodhisattva?" said Saito, pointing to the stone statue next to the second staircase.

Jian Cun glanced over, and then ran up to look at a few stone statues, then frowned and said affirmatively: "That's right, these are Arhat statues, then this is strange, who has so much energy, not only planted so many trees on Mt. Sumida, but also built stone steps and erected Arhat statues?"

"It's impossible for anyone to complete such a big project in three days, and the only explanation is the PokΓ©mon you just mentioned!"

"I'll just say it so casually, are you serious?!"

"But the problem is that I can't think of any other explanation, unless I can see a spaceship, then I can still believe that the aliens did it, anyway, the earthlings don't have the ability!"

"Don't talk about it, let's go up this stone staircase, maybe you will know the mystery when you reach the top of the mountain." ”

Just as the two of them had just walked up a dozen steps, they suddenly heard someone shouting below: "Wait a minute!"

The two looked back and saw that it was a middle-aged man in sportswear, obviously out for morning exercise, so Jian Cun stopped and asked, "Hello, is there anything wrong with you?"

The middle-aged man ran up in a few steps, and then introduced himself: "Hello, I'm Endo, who lives nearby, and when I came out for morning exercise just now, I found that something was not quite right with Mt. Missata, so I ran over to take a look, but now I found that something was even more wrong, and I happened to see the two of them on it, so I wanted to ask, what the hell is going on?"

Saito spread his hands and said, "We don't know what's going on, so we want to climb to the top of the mountain to have a look." By the way, Mr. Yuanteng, since your family lives near here, do you know what has happened to this Sumida Mountain recently?"

Endo replied with a wry smile: "If I knew, I wouldn't ask you two, I only know that there was an earthquake and a volcanic eruption here last night, which is strange to say, this Mt. Sumida is not a volcano at all, how can a volcanic eruption occur? And where did all these trees, stone steps, and stone statues come from?"

"According to our manga artist, Mr. Kenmura, there is a shocking treasure in Mt. Sumida that was shaken out by this earthquake, which is why such a earth-shaking change has occurred!"

Looking at Endo's strange look, Jian Cun hurriedly said embarrassedly: "Mr. Yuanteng, don't listen to Saito's nonsense, I'm just teasing him." Let's go up the stone steps to the top of the mountain and have a look, maybe the mystery is at the top of the mountain. ”