Chapter 15: Wood Charm
The night passed quickly.
Su Ziyu got up very early the next day, ate a little casually, and prepared to turn around to Ene Country, which was actually the distance to the next county town, but the bride was active in a place close to Shinano Country.
This kind of monster is a relatively common one in Fuso.
It is said that one will run out every few decades, and folk rumors say that it is a monster turned into a spider, but what is recorded in the story of the Hundred Stories is that the bride is a monster turned into a human.
"Legend has it that the first bride was a beautiful woman who married a lord who was executed by an angry lord for cheating on someone else, who threw her into a chest full of poisonous spiders and let the spiders suck her body. After her death, the spirits and spiders merge and become ruthless spider girls, often haunting the forests to seduce young men and then take their heads for food. ”
The bride is a monster made of resentful spirits.
In fact, both in Middle-earth and in the West, there are rumors of such people who have died as a result of capital punishment becoming ghosts. There is a similar legend in ancient Egypt where some cruel punishments during the Pharaonic period believed that those who were put to death would become terrible demons that had to be sealed away to avoid calamity.
Su Ziyu's second goal is to connect with the bride.
This kind of monster is rumored to be afraid of fire, and it just so happens that he still has the alchemy fire oil brought by the Demon Hunter World in his hand, so it should be relatively easy to deal with.
However, unlike the mountain boy dealt with before, the bride has no specific activity territory, it is often elusive, only occasionally harmful rumors, people will find eaten headless corpses near the forest.
There is no clear destination for the squid, so you can only wander around and try your luck.
"Will Hyakmonogatari absorb the spirits of ghosts?"
After killing the mountain boy yesterday, Su Ziyu found that the part of the record about the mountain boy in the Hundred Things had also changed, and the original child-like portrait of the mountain boy actually became the one he killed yesterday, an extremely tall and burly mountain boy.
"What the hell is this thing used for?"
"Why did you give it to me?" Su Ziyu boredly flipped through the hundred things in his hand.
Although it is a legendary-level strange thing, Su Ziyu doesn't know how to use it, it sometimes automatically absorbs the soul of ghosts, but Su Ziyu can't use it whether it is injected with spiritual energy or other methods.
In other words, this thing is equivalent to a book in his hands.
If it hadn't been scanned by the Space-Time Watcher System and found it to be a powerful strange thing, I'm afraid Su Ziyu would only think it was an ordinary book.
Originally, he planned to return the lantern to Qingxing.
But now the ghost Kyoto can't go back, and the underworld is probably still wanted for him, and Su Ziyu can only take it with him temporarily, and it just so happens that the monster information recorded on it is very useful.
Yuanjiang Country arrived in half a day's effort.
It's a little more barren than the rest of the place, it's full of mountains, and there's not even a decent town nearby. If Su Ziyu continues to move forward, it will be the territory of Takeda Shingen during the Warring States Period in the later generations, and Echizen is the hometown of Uesugi Kenshin, if he rushes with all his strength for half a day, he can pass over, you can imagine how small the territory of Fuso is, but there are so many demons and monsters entrenched in such a small place, it can be seen that the patience of Fuso people is still very strong.
Outside a lush woods.
Su Ziyu tidied up his clothes a little, and then wandered around casually.
It is said that the bride will turn into a beautiful woman during the day, and she likes to hook up with young and handsome men the most, Su Ziyu is still very young, and her appearance is handsome enough, so she dresses up a little and dresses up a little handsome, what if it is directly hooked?
Little by little, time passed.
Su Ziyu walked around here for a long time, and he didn't even see the shadow of a monster.
He only heard from other mouths that Bride Luo had harmed people in this vicinity, but no one knew where Bride Luo's nest was, and Su Ziyu could only try it by trying his luck.
It soon darkened.
Su Ziyu finally didn't bother to leave, so he found a random place to sit, and if he couldn't touch him today, he continued to go to Edo. After staying here in Fuso for so long, Su Ziyu found that there are still the most youkai in Kyoto, which is completely different from the side of Middle-earth, where it is rumored that the youkai are all avoiding people, all of them are hiding in the barren mountains and mountains, and the youkai in Fuso seem to like to mix in the crowd.
Where there are more people, there are more youkai.
What a strange phenomenon!
"It looks like we won't be able to touch it today." Su Ziyu said secretly.
It's getting late.
Su Ziyu got up and prepared to return along the same road, first find a place to stay nearby, and then go directly to see Mount Fuji tomorrow, he has not been to Fuso before, and he goes out to play in the European region.
"Are you lost?"
"Do you want me to take you out?" Just as Su Ziyu got up, suddenly a timid female voice came.
Hooked?
Su Ziyu's expression couldn't help but be stunned, and he suddenly rejoiced in his heart, and turned around to look at the back.
Soon he was a little disappointed.
Because the person who appeared behind him was not a bride, but a girl who looked fifteen or sixteen years old, and there was no demonic aura on her, but on the contrary, there was a smell that he felt very familiar.
This is a beautiful girl who looks a little scared and shy.
She was wearing a dark green dress, her hair was light green, and her eyes looked at Su Ziyu with a hint of kindness in her curiosity, as if she wanted to get close to her but was a little afraid to do so, seeing that he didn't reply, she asked in a low voice: "Are you lost?" I can take you out there! ”
"Don't be afraid."
"I'm the mountain spirit here, and I won't hurt you."
He walked around for a long time and didn't meet the bride, but he attracted the mountain spirit here.
But someone can do it.
"What kind of spirit are you?" Su Ziyu looked at each other curiously and asked.
The aura on this monster made him feel a little familiar and friendly, but he couldn't say what it was, but it didn't seem like she was the kind of dangerous monster.
"Me? Me? ”
The girl in front of her was a little flustered, and then lowered her head and said timidly: "I am the Mu Mei here." ”
Wood Charm?
It turns out that she is a wood spirit!
No wonder she would take the initiative to show up and ask Su Ziyu if she was lost, Mu Mei is an elf who lives in trees in Fusang, as long as you don't cut down the trees where she lives, it is completely harmless. She is roughly equivalent to the legendary Dryad in Europe, which means that she belongs to a kind of Eastern goblin.
The Guardian Witch's Blessing is still in effect here.
Maybe the other monsters didn't feel it, but the Mu Mei in front of him found the friendly aura on Su Ziyu's body, and after seeing him wandering around the woods alone for a long time, he thought he was lost here, so he appeared and asked him if he wanted to take him out.
Suddenly.
Su Ziyu thought about how she should find the bride.
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