The land of the Far East, the land of the Far East. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe people here take pride in believing that their country is the place where the sun appears on the earth.

And in this island country, which is not the vast territory of the rest of the world, an off-road vehicle is jolting through the mountain roads on a rural dirt road outside a rural town. Of the five people sitting in the car, four of them are campers with good relationships, but they don't come here to form a team for wilderness survival training today.

"Now, I say, Yutong."

A man sitting in the passenger seat turned his head and looked at the only person in the car who wasn't known to them, a young employer named Yutong Shiai. The boy, who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, heard his cries, raised his eyes, which had been looking at the map and compass, looked at him, and smiled.

"What's wrong?"

"Don't look at the map, look at this, this is taken by satellite, it's more accurate and specific."

The man had a laptop in his hand, and on it was a satellite map of the area, which, after zooming in, showed the general topography of the area. The man smiled a little smugly.

"Although we are not a particularly professional team, I have to say that the current technology has brought us a lot of convenience, which is not reflected in those maps. If you want me to say, you have this compass with you. ”

The boy named Yutong listened to his words and smiled slightly. Shook his head.

"Thanks, but it's good to have this."

He shook the map in his hand. In this regard, the talkative man in the front seat seemed to feel helpless, and he looked at Yutong.

"I say, Yutong, I've heard that you've been asking about strange things about this place in the town. You can't really be like they say you're here to find a youkai, right? ”

"Why not?"

Yutong smiled softly, her clean and delicate face was playful, but it was not annoying.

"It's not so much that it's not this, it's better to say, Yutong, why are they all such big people, people who can drink with us in two years, do you still believe in this kind of thing?"

This time it was another man who was also sitting in the back row. Several of them were hired by this young man, and took the unfamiliar Yutong to such a deep mountain and old forest, although it was not unsuitable for such a camping environment, but for him, this young man seemed to have something he didn't like even more.

Although it is true that the other party has personal abilities that ordinary teenagers do not have, and even that there are many places where adults can only be ashamed of themselves in dealing with people, he also has something that makes the people of the four camping associations feel strange - for example, he is very interested in strange stories. After being hired by him to instruct them to come to this place, the four of them also saw on the road that the boy often inquired with the old grandfathers and grandmothers in the town about some local rumors, and the gods were strange.

And he doesn't like to use electronics. Although he said that he would use it, he obviously didn't like it, and he always had a troublesome look on his face after operating the phone.

"Yes. For people, the past is just a myth. ”

As if to convince himself, and as if he was laughing at something, the young man named Yutong gently closed his eyes, folded the map in his hand, and put it on his lap. He gently curled his knuckles and tapped the map.

"When I was a child, I believed in the story of Suzhan Naruzun, Amaterasu Gojin, Princess Kaguya, those things, as long as you grow up, you will know that they don't actually exist, it is just literature created by ancient people, and it is a beautiful imagination. Ah, think about it, humans are such creatures, aren't they, as long as they understand something, as long as they study it thoroughly, they will control it, and then loudly announce to the world "Hey! Look at me! I have found the secrets of the world again! 】”

He opened his eyes and waved his other fist softly, like a scientist excitedly announcing his new discovery in the Book of Genesis, and then he smiled disdainfully.

"Humans have always been so tireless in exploring the whole world, always trying to use what they know to answer all the doubts of the past. Ah, for those things that can't be answered, it's either the lack of science and technology, or the imagination of ancient humans. ”

He chuckled and shook his head slightly.

"But that's it, there's no point in talking about this, you just need to send me to the bottom of the mountain."

He pointed to the foot of the hill ahead. At the foot of the mountain, there is a path that runs into the mountains, which seems to have been carved out by the locals in the past, but now it has been deserted for a long time.

“…… Although the commission is like this, I would like to ask, Yutong, why do you have such an idea? ”

The young man's argument was very surprising, and the other people in the car were interested, but the young man just smiled, shook his head, and when the car drove bumpily to the foot of the hill and stopped, he got out of the car, did not answer the other party, but nodded slightly to the few people in the car.

"That's it, please wait a minute."

With that, he walked down the path that was almost invisible. Obviously not very strong, Yutong quickly disappeared into the forest. The man in the car, who was holding a laptop and motioning for him to show it, couldn't sit still and got out of the car.

"I'll go with it, young people are always too impulsive."

"Be careful, too."

So the adult man followed the path that the boy had traveled to the depths of the forest, walked for two or three minutes, and entered the depths before he saw the young man's light figure. He was standing in the middle of this ancient primeval forest, raising his hand, and a black bird was falling on his hand. Strangely, the bird did not seem to be afraid of the boy, but kept combing its feathers on the boy's horizontal fingers.

“…… Yutong? ”

He was amazed at the sight of the man and the bird in harmony, and called out to the young employer. But the boy did not pay attention to him, but nodded respectfully at the black bird, bowed, and answered.

"Yes, I see, Yakumo-sama."

Hearing his words, the bird blinked its black eyes, chirped a few times, flapped its wings and flew away. And the man also walked up to the boy, looking at the boy who could talk to the birds with some abnormality.

"Yutong, are you alright?"

"Huh? It's okay. I'm happy right now. ”

Yutong turned around with a slight smile on his face, but his slightly rapid breathing was a sign of his excitement.

"I found her."

"She?"

The man looked left and right, but not to mention the girl's figure, there was not even a trace of human activity. However, the question he retracted his gaze and wanted to ask was stuck in his throat, and in front of him, the young man named Yutong stretched out his hand and plunged deeply into the void.

His hand seemed to have disappeared from the world in a soft white light. The man, who had never seen this scene before, was so frightened that he took two steps back, only to tripped over the vegetation on the ground and fell to the ground. Yutong turned her head sideways, looked at him, smiled and nodded.

"It's been a hard journey, but I've paid in advance, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to leave now, right?"

"Ah......h No, rain, yutong! What's going on? ”

Some inarticulate men looked in amazement at Yutong's hand that disappeared into the air and the white light that devoured his hand, all of which was impacting the worldview he had cultivated for decades, making him constantly waver. In this regard, Yutong just smiled and shook his head.

"Even if I say it, you can't understand it, and you, who are full of science and reason, can't agree with such an existence. Ah, of course, including me, you just treat me as a youkai, a youkai looking for youkai. ”

He chuckled and said his final goodbye.

"Farewell, please go back quickly, forget about today. If there is fate, we will always meet again, and then you will know the truth of this world. ”

Then, ignoring the men's stops, he stepped forward, and a white light erupted around him, and he disappeared into the light. His pace never stopped, walking in the world of light, the whole world is light, everywhere, everywhere, all the time wrapped Yutong's body in an excessively high light explosion.

There was an extremely subtle power in this, and the young man frowned slightly, trying to catch a few traces of it, but it was difficult to sense it clearly.

Legend has it that in the far east, in the foothills of the mountains, the youkai sage Yakumo Murasaki and the Hakurei shrine maiden clan joined forces to build a place far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, gathering the world's fantasy settlement, and a new world composed of [fantasy and reality enchantment] and the Hakurei Great Enchantment.

In order to find this place from the mouths of the dying old monsters, he searched for this island nation for a whole year, and now he has found the right place. That's why the crow came just now.

The development of human beings in science and technology has led the future of mankind to a new direction. But at the same time, because of the omniscience and omnipotence of everything in the world, human beings have lost their longing and respect for nature, and have fundamentally denied the existence of demons and monsters -- that is only imagination, the imagination of ancient people about scientific phenomena that they cannot explain. It is at this point that human beings' respect for the world is retreating, abusing resources, wanton exploitation, and the world has become a slave of human beings, so the likes of monsters must also be nothing. Zi is silent, and the meaning of what he says is nothing more than that.

This is one of the reasons why Gensokyo was founded because of the negative power of humanity.

Thinking like this, Yutong has stepped out of the world of light, and the light is gradually fading, but the surrounding environment is still in the forest.

He looked up. This forest is obviously more ancient than just now, the trees are thick, the foliage is dense, and the layers are so dense that the rain tong can not distinguish day and night for the first time.

“…… Ahh ”

He noticed that there were tiny floating objects of different colors in the air around him, and they floated in the air. These may be the spores of the surrounding plants, and in such a shady and humid place, it is very suitable for the reproduction of fungi, and it is normal to have spores.

Fortunately, Yutong is not a human and will not be bothered by these poisonous fungi.

So he casually found a direction and took a step. The ground was sticky and slippery, full of moss, but Yutong was strolling leisurely, easily stepping on these things that might have been disgusting to vomit for normal people, brushing away those fine spores, and leaving the place.

After walking for a few minutes, all the way through the dark forest, the boy suddenly noticed something moving in the grass not far away. He raised his eyebrows, wanting to come up and take a look, maybe he could meet the natives of Gensokyo.

"Hello, anyone?"

He greeted the bushes. After this question, the grass trembled, but then the boy felt a gaze from the grass, and a white mass ejected, and he turned sideways to avoid the impact of the other party, and saw the monster that had come at him.

The white monster was the size of a basketball and fluffy, but the cracked mouth with sharp teeth wasn't a joke.

Yutong looked at the little guy, thought about it, raised his hand, and suddenly a silver light lit up in his eyes, and the little guy seemed to be held by an invisible hand, struggling in the air but unable to do anything. Yutong stretched out his hand and touched it, the little guy is actually not as big as a basketball, but the fur is very long.

Yutong, who was disinterested, pursed his lips, and the silver light in his eyes shone brightly, and he threw the little guy into the distance, while he turned over the grass.

“…… Ah, that's what a sorry thing to do. ”

He looked at the corpse of a young male who looked like a quarter had been eaten, and his face looked apologetic.

"I'm disturbing someone else's dinner."

He looked at the young man who had already lost his breath, noticed the identity card in the pocket of the other party's jacket, and pulled it out.

“…… There is no moon in Iwajo, may you rest in peace. ”

The boy slipped the ID card back into the deceased's pocket, then ignored the body and continued on his way. Along the way, he often encountered those little white monsters, but he coped with them easily, occasionally grabbing one and rubbing it. Speaking of which, the hair is quite soft.

After walking like this for a long time, every time the thick mucus on the boy's shoes dried into glue, his eyes flashed silver, and the gel fell off.

So the boy is not a human being.

He walked like this for nearly an hour, and finally found an exit. In that direction, there was a faint light among the trees, indicating that there was good lighting. Yutong walked out in that direction, but was surprised to find that it was not an exit, but a gap in the entire forest.

In the middle of this gap, there is a flat bottom, and on this flat ground is a beautiful looking foreign mansion. It is a Western-style building, with clean, flat walls painted in a classic and elegant brown, and a round attic like a clock tower above the second floor. In addition, there is a balcony on the second floor, which looks very suitable for basking in the sun when the sun is shining. Beyond the wooden gate on the first floor, there is a garden fenced off by a white fence with round wooden tables and chairs.

The whole building has an innate sense of nobility, and it feels more like a beautiful villa standing in the middle of a huge human city than in the middle of a forest. But this beautiful building is now in the middle of the forest.

The boy smiled, walked to the door of the mansion, and knocked on the door.