Old room.

The mud on the ground smells of saltiness, and it's relatively close to the sea, which is basically always the case.

The white dog has been following Xia Mu for more than ten years.

The lifespan of a dog is always limited, even if the white dog already has a certain amount of spiritual power, but this spiritual power cannot extend his original lifespan.

After all.

It's just a young youkai in the nurturing stage.

"Xia Mu, you're back......"

The white dog crawled out from under the bed and lay at Xia Mu's feet, and when he spoke, his tone looked very weak and old.

"Let's go out and talk, don't wake up Grandpa Liu."

Xia Mu said softly.

At this time, it was already night, and the old fisherman had probably only fallen asleep for a short time, so Xia Mu didn't want to wake up the old fisherman at this time.

"Uh-huh."

The white dog replied.

Just as Xia Mu and the others were about to leave the old fisherman's room, the old fisherman suddenly woke up, and behind Xia Mu's back, he asked slowly, "Yes...... Xia Mu? ”

Xia Mu turned his back to the old fisherman.

didn't turn around immediately, in fact, after leaving the old fisherman for so long, and now meeting again, such a scene is still a bit sensational for Xia Mu.

"Hmm."

Xia Mu nodded and replied.

"Are you hungry, I'll cook for you......"

The old fisherman was already ready to get out of bed with his hands on his hands, and it was obvious that he had completely woken up from his sleep now.

The old fisherman didn't ask Xia Mu where he had been these days.

Didn't ask him when he would be back.

Just asked the simplest and least important question......

"Okay."

Xia Mu replied.

At this time, no matter whether Xia Mu was hungry or not, he would answer like this.

Because.

Cooking for Xia Mu is, in a sense, the only thing the old fisherman can do for Xia Mu.

Such a thing is very important to the old fisherman.

For this, Xia Mu had clearly understood it a long time ago. So Xia Mu will definitely answer like this.

After the old fisherman got out of bed.

It seems to be much more energetic, at least much better than when you are asleep.

"Xia Mu, are these your friends?"

The old fisherman looked at Xia Mu and asked him.

"Well, they're friends I met out there, so please prepare some more meals."

Xia Mu looked at the old fisherman and replied to him.

"Okay, it's on me, now you guys can play outside for a while. When the meal is ready, I will call you. ”

The old fisherman had a very energetic smile on his face, and his voice became louder as he spoke.

……

Qingmang Mountain.

The entrance to a cave covered with vegetation.

Crane Weng and more than a dozen onmyoji, as well as Black Feather and Wolf at the end of the night, they all stood silently, and no one spoke.

After all.

Inside this cave, there is a large youkai named Tamamo Mae, who is sleeping.

If you speak, it is possible to wake it up.

"Tsuru, let's act?"

A man dressed in black and embroidered with a red sasa gentian pattern wrote these words on the ground with a dry branch.

Crane Weng looked at the man and shook his head, which was a response.

Tsuru Weng set his eyes on the cave that was hidden by grass and trees, his face was heavy, his brow furrowed, and he was obviously facing Tamamo.

Even the Crane Wong.

I also think it's very tricky.

"I have to make sure that Tamamo is not in the cave or not."

Tsuru Weng also wrote with a twig.

The words written by Tsuru Weng look very strong and powerful, giving people a very hard feeling, which has something to do with his own style.

"It takes all of us to activate the Spirit Law Seal, and it's too dangerous to let people in alone to confirm......

The man wrote.

Since they were already planning to come here to catch Tamamo, they must have made some preparations, the spiritual seal in the man's mouth.

Perhaps, it was their preparation.

"Hmm."

Tsuruon's brow furrowed even tighter.

The current situation is indeed a bit difficult for them, although the iron rat has already said that Tamamo is in the cave.

But.

It had been hours since then.

During this period of time, no one can be sure whether Tamamo left this cave or not.

If Tamamo had already left, then if they were able to seal the cave with the spirit seal now, they would be able to seal the cave.

Then it doesn't work at all.

It is even possible to startle the snake and make Tamamo hide, or directly attack them who are walking to cast a spiritual seal.

That's the case.

The situation is very unfavorable for them.

Crane Weng glanced around, as if looking for something, and eventually, Crane Weng's gaze fell on the Black Feather and the wolf at the end of the night.

Tsuru's frowning brow was finally relieved.

"The two of them...... I guess I can do this task. After all, the Spirit Law Seal only needs you twelve Genji Onmyoji, and that's enough. ”

Crane looked at the man, and quickly wrote this line on the ground with a twig.

This time.

At the end of the night, Black Feather and Wolf sat far away, after all, compared to Crane Weng and the twelve Onmyoji, the level of the two of them was much lower.

When the superiors are talking.

People of their level are not allowed to participate casually.

So.

At the end of the night, Black Feather and the wolf didn't know what Crane had decided, and the two of them still looked at the cave with a worried face.

"You two come here......"

Crane Weng beckoned to the black feather and the wolf at the end of the night, and motioned for the two of them to come over, even if they didn't make a sound, the black feather and the wolf at the end of the night still immediately understood.

At the end of the night, Black Feather and Wolf came to Tsuru Weng.

Stand straight.

"We're not sure if Tamamo is in the cave now, so you two, let's go in and find out."

At the end of the night, Black Feather and Wolf were standing on the ground, Crane Weng wrote this line.

Look at the words written by Tsuruon.

The wolf's face darkened a little, and in such a situation, let the two of them go to the cave to find Tamamo.

Such an approach.

There is no difference between sending a helpless person to a cage with a tiger in it.

At the end of the night, Kuroba is a member of the Ghost Master's clan.

The wolf is an enchantment master though.

But.

The cultivators of their branch of Yin and Yang have long been getting weaker and weaker, and Tamamo was indeed a great youkai who had already been famous in the Heian period.

"Go!"

Crane Weng wrote this word with extremely heavy wrist strength, and the last exclamation mark made both the wolf and the black feather at the end of the night feel a trace of despair.

Even so.

Now, all they can do is go into the cave.

Although they followed Tsuru Weng to catch Tamamo before, but at this time, for them, they should not want Tamamo to be in that cave.

After all.

If Tamamo is in that cave.

Even if Tamamo doesn't kill them, they may not be able to come out alive.

The range of the spirit seal can cover the entire cave, and no one can be sure if Tsuru Weng will trap the wolf and the end of the night black feather and Tamamo in order to make the plan go more smoothly.

Even wolves and black feathers at the end of the night.

They weren't sure if Tsuru would do something like that.

The wolf and the end of the night looked at each other, and then the two of them nodded together, indicating that they had agreed with Tsuruon's decision.

Tsuruon's face.

A hint of a smile appeared, and the originally heavy face became a little lighter at this time.

Apparently.

Crane Weng was still quite satisfied with the wolf and the black feather at the end of the night, after all, at this time, the two of them agreed to do so.

already represents them.

I am willing to sacrifice my life for the sake of the crane.

Even though.

This willingness is coerced, but why not?

Anyway.

As long as the wolf and the black feather at the end of the night are willing to enter, then the process is no different to the crane Weng.

The wolf went ahead.

At the end of the night, Black Feather followed.

The two of them didn't walk fast, but even if they walked slowly, they would soon walk into the cave......

In the old days.

As the captain of their previous team, the end of the night black feather is always ahead of the curve, no matter what they do.

Right now.

The wolf chose to go ahead.

And at the end of the night, Black Feather also chose to default......

At this moment, in fact, at the end of the night, Black Feather's heart has already regarded the wolf as a man and himself as a woman.

It's very pure.

In one sense, it is to abandon one's original identity and return to the original gender feeling.

……

The small town of Scarborough.

Night.

Tranquil and serene.

Today is the third time that the Hemo clan has come to Scarborough Town, and the Hemao clan already has their own residences.

Sailing at sea for so long.

Everyone is already tired, and even if someone says they are not tired, it is probably false.

On this night, everyone went to bed early, and the bed was not much different from that of a normal day.

But.

After tiredness and exertion, the bed gives the feeling.

It's even better.

The Dream Eater tapir entered through one room wall, and then came out through the other wall, all the way through the room.

Everyone slept deeply.

The dream-eating tapir has always existed by sucking the energy from the dream realm, which is its main way of gaining spiritual power.

This one night.

It was a very beautiful night for the Dream Tapir.

The dream energy absorbed by the dream-eating tapir could already allow her to maintain the spiritual power needed for her body form and basic activities for the next few months.

Chen Beibei and the others were still at Xia Mu's house at this time.

The lights in Scarborough have all gone out, but to the west of Scarborough there is a place far away.

Inside a big dilapidated house.

There was still a dim light, a warm yellow tungsten lamp, that lit up the whole house.

It gives a warm feeling.

Such a lamp can easily form shadows, and the shadows are extremely thick, as black as ink......

Now.

Xia Mu crossed his fingers and made some strange gestures.

Various shadows also appeared on the ground.

"It's a rabbit......"

Zashiki said.

There is indeed a shadow on the ground that looks like a rabbit, this is made by Xia Mu, such a game, in that era when there was no Internet.

It's going to be a night, a game that people never get tired of getting.

Xia Mu crossed his two thumbs, and then the other four fingers of his hands opened, and a new shadow formed on the ground.

"It's an owl!"

Seeing this shadow, the bride said with an affirmative face.

“……”

Xia Mu shook his head.

"Isn't that right?"

The bride asked a little aggrieved, and her voice became much quieter.

This shadow on the ground.

She was very familiar, after all, she and Smoken were friends, and she had seen many times the scene of Smoken flying silently in the night, very similar to this shadow on the ground...... Much like ......

"It's not wrong, how can I say it?"

Xia Mu scratched his head with his hand, and the shadow on the ground disappeared: "It's just that everyone said that this is an eagle...... If you want an owl, you should be able to do it. ”

Xia Mu stretched out his hand and touched Xiaoluo's bride's head, which was considered to comfort her.

"Hmm."

The bride replied.

A smile also reappeared on her face, for smoke, how could she admit her mistake.

Xia Mu continued to change his gestures, and the shadow on the ground changed again, and a more fierce shadow appeared.

"It's a wolf......"

Yingcao replied.

"yes, that's right."

It's a shadow that's easy to make and easy to recognize.

The game is played all the time, and from time to time there are shadows like black dots on the ground, moving rapidly.

These shadows.

Sometimes it gets big, sometimes it gets small.

"Bang ......"

It is small-...... The sound of something hitting the glass......

Moths.

On summer nights.

There will always be a lot of moths, constantly using their bodies to hit the tungsten lamp, and again and again, never backing down.

and they will not repent of their mistakes.

With a sense of stupidity.

But.

But it also gives people a strong sense of obsession and perseverance.

In a word.

It's a very strange creature, in their life is very short, and it is also very dark, and the only sense of existence.

I guess it was the time when the lights went on.

Some of the scents that soon came from the hall, the aroma of steamed fish, the aroma of spicy snails, the aroma of crayfish......

These scents fill the air and emerge from time to time.

It was blown away by the cool summer wind.

"Master, I'm so hungry."

Yingcao and Zashiki boys covered their stomachs, struggled with their big eyes, looked at Chen Beibei pitifully, and said to him.

"Hmm. I already know, but let's wait a little longer. ”

Chen Beibei replied.

"If you're hungry, eat first."

The old fisherman's voice sounded in the room, and although it still had a feeling of old age, it was devoid of decadence and lifelessness.

At this time, the old fisherman's mood should also be very good......