Tokyo, Chuo-ku, Ningyocho.

Su Qi helped Ms. Shanruzod run errands.

I bought a specialty manyoyaki snack.

Su Qi is not used to eating this thing anyway, it feels like taiyaki made in the shape of the face of the Seven Lucky Gods, and it is not as delicious as the taiyaki sold in the willow house next door.

……

Ningyo Town.

It is a well-known old street in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

The origin of this name is the humanoid pure glass.

Humanoid, is a puppet.

Joruri, is a kind of rap story that raps with the accompaniment of the shamisen.

The humanoid pure glass is a shamisen puppet show.

During the Edo period, there were many puppet shows, and the industry was very prosperous, and many puppet prop masters lived here.

This is where the name Ningyocho comes from.

……

You can now see the small bell towers on the side of the Ningyocho street.

Above the bell tower is a clock, and in the glass window below are dolls with mechanical controls, and the dolls move on the hour.

Of course.

This is what appears to the average person.

In Su Qi's eyes, it was a different matter entirely.

……

At this twilight time.

Puppet puppets with hollow eyes and bleeding eyes are sitting in a row next to the small bell tower.

Hand in hand, they sang terrifying ballads in unison.

Thriller anomalous.

A completely unwitting little human girl, standing under the bell tower watching the puppets put on a funny show.

Unbeknownst to him, he was surrounded by bleeding ghost puppet villains, singing strange songs, as if he were sacrificing.

Su Qi who watched that scene was simply mentally polluted.

……

Ningyocho is not far from Ginza.

Together with the surrounding Nihonbashi in Tokyo, the Suitengu Temple, the Daikannonji Temple, Takashimaya, Mitsukoshi Department Store and other old commercial stores, it forms a scenic business district that interweaves history and modernity, and transcends the times.

It is one of the few places in Tokyo where you can experience the atmosphere of Shitamachi in the "Edo period".

There is history, there is a story.

Su Qi didn't like this kind of place now.

Because this often means that ghosts and spirits gather.

……

It's not.

Next to the outside of the Water Sky Palace.

The rusty Zibao dog is running with a baby with a human face and a dog body.

By the wall, a wet kappa combs her hair.

A wandering ghost with a white face, black teeth, and a long tongue.

And in front of yourself.

Two deformed ghouls dressed as samurai with arrows stuck in their heads are drawing their swords and slashing at each other.

……

Kabuki, bushido, ukiyo-e ......

From the establishment of the Edo shogunate by Tokugawa Ieyasu to the present Nihonbashi in Tokyo, the rise and fall of the times is recorded.

Too many memories, too many ghosts.

"Dangchang."

The swords of the two 'samurai' collided.

Each inserts a knife, and the rookies peck each other.

Bushido, which is talked about in period dramas, is also a memory carried by Edo.

Since the Kamakura shogunate, the collapse of the emperor's centralized rule and the development of the manor system have greatly contributed to the formation of samurai groups.

Simply put, the mercenaries of the lords.

The establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period officially marked the formation of the samurai system in this feudal history, which was characterized by the coexistence of dross and splendour.

The splendid samurai is elaborated in the dramas of the times, and the spiritual characteristics of "monarchs and ministers, courtesy and loyalty" originated from the surface of Confucian and Taoist thoughts, have their shining points.

As for the dross, the feudal lords who could not afford to pay for the maintenance of the troops instigated the wanderers to harass the coastal seas, and the backward relations of production created social contradictions in the samurai system, which had been a long-standing problem, as can be seen from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's implementation of the system of separating peasants and soldiers.

At the end of the day, the gap between rich and poor.

Su Qi looked at the two down-and-out warrior ronin ghosts and gods in front of him.

In this sunset, the samurai's deformed arms wield their katana for the final showdown.

In the end, they both cut off each other's legs, hugged each other and nibbled on each other.

It's a pity that they all have knives, otherwise it will be the one with the gun who wins.

……

"It's not as good as I thought it would be."

The humanoid yaki of Yamaruzod is ready.

"Where are we going to find an informant?"

"She said that someone would come to pick her up, after all, she was a slanderer, and she might have done too much for her lack of virtue, and she didn't dare to always come out and show her face."

While the two were talking, a 'person' came over.

First bowed stiffly and said:

"You...... Guys...... Look for...... Law...... Division......"

It was very strange to speak word by word.

Su Qi was also strange.

Then the 'man' looked up, and he looked.

Where is this people.

Dressed like a man, and wearing a hat.

But this face, flattened.

Paper Man!

The physics holy sword he was scared of almost picked up, but it was still Shanruzod who said loudly:

"It's okay, this is a boy who slanders the mage."

The paper man nodded stiffly.

The crease on the neck, it can fold its head with a nod, and nod in half.

……

The paper boy leads the way.

Su Qi and Yamaruzode followed, entered the old street of Ningyocho, and turned into a doll shop.

The shop is decorated with a variety of large and small 'human figures', all of which are handmade.

The style is more Edo-style, and a woman doll with her hair in a bun and wearing a kimono.

This stuff used to be exquisite.

When the daughters of samurai families got married, there was often a custom that the dolls meant to ward off disasters and misfortunes were taken away by the daughters as a dowry.

At that time, the popular dolls were like this.

Delicacy and roughness are maintained in an eerie balance that manifests a unique effect: thriller.

……

Nowadays, some people still use this kind of doll as an ornament.

But young people generally don't like it.

Because the shape is more terrifying, especially now that it has been processed by a lot of ghost stories.

Anyway, Su Qi didn't dare to look at it.

He has experience now.

I've learned to anticipate.

……

Sure enough, he bowed his head and followed before entering the house.

All the dolls moved.

Turning his head in unison, he looked at him.

The shelves in this room are crowded with dolls, not thousands, but hundreds.

You can imagine what it would be like to have hundreds of puppets twisting their stiff faces and hundreds of pairs of strange eyes looking at them at the same time?

It's still a beanie eye.

……

It's really a nest of ghosts.

Is this the 'eyes on you'?

Why do you only look at me?

Su Qi's heart is very chaotic now, under so many pairs of eyes, the actor will also feel a lot of pressure.

Although his face was expressionless now, his legs were actually trembling slightly.

There are hundreds of ghosts and gods.

As soon as you enter, you are surrounded by them.

In case a flaw is revealed, the stuffing is exposed.

I don't even have a place to run.

……

Su Qi took out his mobile phone a little nervously, planning to continue to use this performance prop.

However, the phone screen went black.

I used it too much today and ran out of power.

Arriving at the Moho layer today, the living environment suddenly deteriorated, and in order to avoid caring about ghosts and gods as much as possible, he was always looking at his mobile phone and seeing that there was no battery.

"Dead phone?"

The mountain Luzod next to him noticed Su Qi's movements and asked.

Su Qi shook his head.

"It's out of the way, it'll be full in a while."

If the phone is out of battery, it is not a problem.

He has a power bank at night.

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