As the most prosperous megacity in Japan, Tokyo is also the center of Japan's political and economic civilization.

Its influence radiates to several satellite cities and large towns in the surrounding area, thus forming the entire Greater Tokyo area, which is closely connected to the economy and develops together.

However, to the northwest, surrounded by the central Kiso Mountains and the Akaishi Mountains to the east, it contrasts sharply with the bustling scene of the Tokyo metropolitan area.

It's closed, conservative, xenophobic, and it's nowhere near as affluent as the greater Tokyo area.

Its inhabitants have lived here for generations, and to this day they still retain some of the customs that have been handed down since ancient times, the most obvious of which is burial......

After all, it is a vast area with sparse population, and the land utilization rate is far lower than that of a prosperous modern city; The difference between the two is huge, almost beyond the imagination of modern people~!

In addition, as a small town on the border of Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture in Chugo, because it is surrounded by two mountain ranges, and at the same time encounters the third natural and man-made definition, regardless of the situation, its connection to the outside world is often only a national highway, which can be seen in the blockage of information.

Outfield Village is such a typical village in the mountains that is almost isolated from the world.

There are only 1,300 people in the entire village, inside and outside, within a radius of dozens of kilometers.

Just across the mountain from here, to the east is Tokyo, a metropolis with a population of tens of millions......

Because of its isolation and sparse population, the inhabitants of this area are instinctively wary of outsiders.

Xenophobia is very common.

On the other hand, however, it has received a lot of uninvited strangers lately.

It seems that a few old women dressed in farm clothes are sitting on the stone pier next to the clearing in the village, resting and chatting, and there are a few leisurely cows in the distance eating grass and fodder......

The village has maintained a quiet place for a long time, but recently it has been broken one after another~!

First of all, the Yuki family of three, who moved to settle in this village from other places, I heard that they moved from Tokyo, which everyone yearns for, and the young man of the family, Yuki Natsuno, studied in the local high school for two years.

But unfortunately, the teenage boy looks like he looks down on the mountain people very much. Although it seems to have a good tutor, he has never spoken out.

But from his eyes, he can always read the disdain and contempt of Chiguodi......

It was because of this kid that many people in the village had a bad opinion of the people of Tokyo.

It's only the crazy girl who fantasizes about escaping from her hometown every day - Megumi Shimizu is always approaching the kid of the Yuuki family intentionally or unintentionally.

This makes many local teenagers who like Shimizu Hui secretly jealous.

But that's not all, I heard that just a few nights ago, a very mysterious family moved here.

Almost none of them entered the village, but moved directly into a villa that had been built at the entrance of the village a few months earlier.

In other words, the villa is really special, and the overall look is like a Western castle in a fairy tale book.

And since the family moved to a new house, they have lived in a secluded house, and almost no one has seen anyone come out......

Finally, the day before yesterday, a young "scholar" who claimed to be a "folklore researcher" suddenly came to the village, and the accent was similar to that of the Yuki family, who had just moved in, and was also from Tokyo.

I really don't understand, why do people in Tokyo like to run into this ravine~?!

However, this "folklore scholar" is different from the previous students, he is generous and not bad for money; Not only did he rent a house at a high price as soon as he entered the village, but he also hired a village person as a guide to run around.

In this way, this young "folklore scholar" does not seem to be very interested in folklore, but is very interested in the geography of the nearby mountains and rivers.

Not to mention those outsiders, just the night before yesterday, the crazy girl Shimizu Megumi, who longed to run outside the mountains, dressed fancy when she had time, and looked a little immodest and too public, disappeared~!

Many people in the village helped to find it, and it wasn't until two o'clock in the second half of the night that this girl was found under the cable tower in the mountains behind the village, and I don't know how she was in a coma there by herself~?!

This is something that has never happened in the village in more than 100 years......

Just when these old women were gossiping about it, suddenly, a loud siren sounded in the distance, listening to such a sound of different lengths, it was definitely the sound of an ambulance~!

Could it be that there was an old man in the village who did not survive, and was haunted by illness when the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the spring and the scenery were bright.

It's really worrying, and it's better not to say anything unspeakable.

By this time, there was no interest in small talk.

The old ladies who were sitting in idleness prayed earnestly to the revered mountain gods, and then they got up one after another, some of them continued to work in the farm, and some of them were very curious, so they simply walked over and listened to the situation......

After a while, a white ambulance came from afar, passed in front of this group of chatting old women, and finally braked suddenly, and stopped at the door of Qingshui's house not far away.

The car door opened, and a young man jumped out of it, and I saw that he was wearing a white lab coat and holding a suitcase engraved with a red cross in his hand, which should be a doctor.

The young doctor hurried into the Shimizu family's inner house, followed by the nurse from the clinic......

That family is the Shimizu family, his neighbor, although he said it was a neighbor, but he didn't see each other often, just nodded and said hello when he met occasionally.

There are three people in the Shimizu family, an ordinary family of three, two parents and a daughter.

Seeing the doctor's nervous and anxious appearance, it is estimated that something is not good.

At this time, next to the main house of the Shimizu family, a young man walked out of the door of the adjacent house.

Looking up at the sky, in May and June, it is the time when the sun is shining, looking around, what catches your eye is a peaceful pastoral scenery.

I saw him wave his arms and make a stretching movement, moving his muscles and bones, and then took a deep breath, stayed in his chest and abdomen for a while, and then slowly spit it out, like a white line......

This person is just mentioned by the group of chattering old women, a "folklore scholar" who came here from Tokyo to study and travel, and a foreigner who likes to study the local geography and scenery - Sima Qiudao......

In other words, wasn't Sima Qiudao in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the beauty god Reiko Exorcism Office on the seventh floor of the Shangri-La Building~?

At that time, were you explaining and demonstrating to Yokoshima how to warm up the sacrificial talisman sword~?

How did you come to such a small town in such an isolated ravine in a blink of an eye~!?

We have to start from the beginning......