After Kitagawa Temple put down the duffel bag, he took the pity out of the house.

"Shimaji City Municipal Library..."

Kitagawa Temple took out Google Maps and glanced at the location of the library, and he had a number in his mind.

The Shimaji Municipal Library isn't far from here, and it's two stops away by bus No. 2.

After spending about five minutes sitting at the city library, the time came to two o'clock in the afternoon.

Since today is a Saturday and Sunday, there are only a lot more people at the city library at this time.

Most of the people who come here are college students in the neighborhood and high school students who have the holidays on Saturdays and Sundays.

Kitagawa Temple passed through the library security check with a small backpack and followed the signs to the local historical area of Shimaji City.

It is divided into two areas, the left and right areas, the left area is the newspaper area, and the right area is the book area.

The number of people in the local history area is much smaller than in other places, and except for some history students who need to do a project, there are only a few elderly people who are slowly flipping through the newspaper.

"This is it."

Beichuan Temple took out the notepad he had prepared in advance, and went to the book area to find the two books "A Brief Record of Major Events in Island Road City" and "Island Road Folk Customs".

I hope to find the clues I want from these records.

Putting Nishikujo pitiful on the table, Kitagawa Temple reached out and opened the first book.

A certain project was built in the city of Island Road on a certain day in a certain year.

What kind of big event was held here in Island Road City on a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day.

The earliest record of the "Brief Record of Major Events in Shimaji City" is only in the Showa period, and it is too brief, and the record is usually about the events in Shimaji City, and there is not much ink on the surrounding villages.

Beichuan Temple only gave up this book after a cursory glance and opened the second book "Island Road Folk Customs".

It is a record of the ancient customs and traditions of many villages around Shimaji City, but there is not a single record of the village of the god in Kitagawa Temple.

It's weird.

Kitagawa Temple recalls some of the sayings on the Internet.

The village of God is a village with a population of four or five hundred, and everything has to be recorded.

Even if outsiders don't know about the customs and habits of the god in the village, it is not recorded in the local city records.

It's also too unnatural.

But if this is man-made, why should the account of God's presence be artificially erased?

It seems that no useful information can be obtained from the official account. ’

Kitagawa Temple turned his eyes to the neatly stored newspaper area.

Newspapers are publications that are sold to the general public by local and private media, and they are basically published on them, regardless of whether they are official or unofficial, as long as there is something to be interesting about.

Kitagawa Temple brought his notepad, carbon pen, and Nishikujo pity to the newspaper area.

The newspapers here are carefully divided into districts by age, region, politics, entertainment, etc.

Kitagawa Temple soon found folk entertainment in it.

Most of the newspapers here are old.

After all, people now have mobile phones, and electronic media reading materials are much more convenient than paper reading materials.

And most of today's young people like those novelties, and they are not very interested in some traditional things, so there are very few people who come naturally.

Sweeping all the way to Kitagawa Temple, I found that the newspaper age here can even be traced back to the Meiji period.

While he sighed in his heart that the library was well preserved, he did not hesitate in his hand, and directly raised his hand to take out the earliest Daolu Folk News newspaper of the year.

Kitagawa Temple also paid attention to the issue number on it, and when he found that this newspaper was only the 13th issue, he raised his eyebrows.

"It seems that there were not many newspapers recording local folklore at that time, so it was just in time." Kitagawa Temple glanced at the newspaper a few times, and then it completely unfolded.

The Island Road Folklore News is a fully open black and white newspaper page.

This newspaper was produced at the end of the Meiji period, and most of the paper is mainly written with characters and few pictures.

Beichuan Temple glanced and found that there were many ancient traditions of the village recorded on it.

After all, the mountainous area of Daolu is densely divided, many villages are divided like chess pieces on a chessboard, and there is a lack of means of communication in the past, mainly letters, and many isolated traditions have naturally flourished in these mountainous areas.

"I see..."

In this way, the isolated god village may really have some hidden rituals that are unknown to outsiders.

Hidden from the map, the world can't know... The long, bloody and cruel ritual...

Beichuan Temple's heart moved, and his eyes scanned.

But unfortunately, the No. 13 issue does not have an explanation of God's residency.

Kitagawa Temple stretches out to the next folk newspaper.

This folklore news newspaper is not, it just goes deep into the folklore news of the previous issue.

There was not the slightest expression of surprise on the face of Kitagawa Temple, if it was so easy to find, it would not be called a hidden village.

He moved and pulled out the next folklore newspaper.

No.

It's not...

Or not.

Everything seems to be as literal as it seems, and the god is really hidden in the village.

Hidden by the gods, the Japanese romanization spelling is kamikakushi... In human society, being hidden by God means disappearing, missing.

So is it true that there is no trace of existence in the world?

Beichuan Temple had a calm face, not caring at all about this small failure.

He repeated the action of taking the newspaper and reading it again, until he took off almost forty-fifth newspapers, and finally there was a welcome change in it.

I saw that on the lower right corner of the page, the Japanese characters of 'God in the Village' were slightly marked.

It's a very small area, and if you don't look closely, you will probably subconsciously skip it.

"It's finally here." Kitagawa Temple was refreshed.

There was nothing he missed in every newspaper, and he carefully read all of them before replacing the next one.

This high-intensity reading made Nishikujo give up pitifully and softly early.

"But the results are always gratifying." Kitagawa Temple spread out the newspaper flat, rolled his eyes, and swept his gaze.

I saw that the yellowed and faded newspaper was marked with a line of fine words in neat printing.

'This is a village hidden from the gods, a village unknown to outsiders, with mysterious and strange customs that make people shudder. ’

'God is stationed in the village. ’

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This concludes this line.

It seems that this is just a cunning way to lay the groundwork for the next issue and to arouse the interest of newspaper readers.

This kind of thing is broken here, and there is a feeling that it can't be up or down, which makes Beichuan Temple frown when he sees it.

He simply reached out and reached for the next newspaper.

Presumably, there should be a record of the god he has been caring about in the village.