Chapter 2: Rashomon
- "Ten miles of Pinghu is full of frost, and every inch of green silk is sorrowful." Look at the moon-shaped single look at each other, only envy the mandarin duck and not the immortal. ”
The Qingxing lamp in front of him looked at the pond not far away in a daze, and only after a long time did he sigh lightly: "What a poignant story." ”
"Ning Caichen is affectionate and righteous, and Yan Chixia is chivalrous and courageous."
"It's a pity that Nie Xiaoqian is a ghost after all, people and ghosts have different paths, they are destined to be together without fate."
Su Ziyu smiled but did not speak.
He didn't expect that he could be so good at telling stories, and he remembered the whole story with a little recall, and he also deliberately controlled the time, and told the story of a Chinese ghost story all night. Qingxing Lantern is a legendary youkai that is said to be met in a game called Hyakmonogatari, where a hundred white candles are lit at night, each person tells a strange story, and after telling a story, they blow out a candle until the hundredth story is finished, the gates of hell will open, and the terrible goblins will pull everyone into hell.
In fact, as long as your story is long enough, you won't be able to tell it all in one night.
It'll be fine at dawn.
So the author of the writing should not have to worry about this.
Because as long as the number of grotesque stories is less than a hundred, then the ritual will not be completed, and it is only when the number of a hundred is reached that something extremely terrible will happen in the legend.
This incident tells us that it is easy to have an accident if it is too short.
Su Ziyu looked up at the sky.
There is no sun in Oni Kyoto, but the moon has come to the westernmost side, which means that the sun is about to rise, and the day is about to come.
The ghostly fires that were wafting around were gradually dissipating.
Su Ziyu was not quite sure about the situation in the underworld, but he could feel a door open in the ghost Kyoto.
- "Spatial Sense: Strengthen your ability to sense space forces, and you can detect nearby spatial rifts. ”
Su Ziyu glanced at the Qingxing lantern in front of him, who seemed to be still immersed in the story, and stood up directly and arched his hand: "Thank you for your hospitality tonight!" It's not too early! ”
"Then I'll take my leave!"
After speaking, he didn't wait for Qing Xing Lantern to respond, the whole person directly rose into the air, and landed on the high wall with a light tiptoe.
But just then, a cloudy wind blew through.
A piece of long black hair stabbed towards Su Ziyu like a long needle, the speed of this long hair was extremely fast, and it was already approaching in front of him in an instant, Su Ziyu pulled out his meteorite without thinking about it, and with a cold light crossing, a large piece of long black hair was cut off by Qi Gen, and a trace of pain was faintly heard.
The Witcher's weapons are just as effective against these goblins.
The ghost who secretly attacked Su Ziyu seemed to be enraged, and in the blink of an eye, a large area of black hair attacked, as if to entangle him in all directions.
"Stop!"
Qing Xing Deng snorted and frowned, "Needle girl! Retire! ”
A large piece of black hair stopped in front of Su Ziyu, and then receded like a tide, disappearing directly from sight.
"Su-sama's story is really interesting." Qing Xing stood up with a lazy expression, her loose kimono showed off Miao Man's beautiful body curves, her expression seemed to be a little hesitant and reluctant, there was a faint flame in her pupils, and her voice was extremely ethereal: "Originally, I wanted to stay here for a long time." But since Your Excellency is leaving, the concubine can't be forced. ”
"I just hope that another day we can have a long talk and listen to your wonderful stories."
Looks like it's passed.
Su Ziyu directly bowed his hand and left here without looking back.
His figure jumped rapidly in the Dead Ghost Kyoto, and many hazy phantoms could be seen along the way, and with the guidance of his spatial sensing ability, Suziyu traveled all the way through half of Kyoto, and finally stopped in front of an empty shrine.
The spatial rift is nearby.
This is the first time that Suziyu has used the ability of spatial sensing to find dimensional rifts, so it is not completely sure of the direction it is in.
Da-da-da-da.
Just as Su Ziyu was looking for the location of the exit, he suddenly heard a strange sound of footsteps, and then two figures, one black and one white, appeared in his sight, dragging a large area of ghost fire behind them, and were walking from the position of a bridge.
Black and white impermanence?
Su Ziyu's pupils narrowed slightly, and the figure took a step back quite vigilantly.
It should be the black and white impermanence of Fuso.
Because the other party is dressed as a Fuso person, one is holding a spirit flag in his hand, and the other is holding a soul hooking sickle in the other. At this time, the two of them were tying up a large number of ghosts and dragging them over like rice dumplings, and Bai Wuchang walked in front with an expressionless face, and Hei Wuchang seemed to be saying something.
They soon spotted the squid as well.
"Living?" Hei Wuchang frowned and put his hand on the weapon, and said in a deep voice, "What is a living person doing in the underworld? ”
The strength is not particularly strong.
The pressure brought by the two of them to Su Ziyu was not as great as that of Qingxing, because he had seen the Death Attendant, Su Ziyu was not afraid of this kind of ghost envoy, and directly said: "I accidentally strayed into the underworld." Just about to return to the Yang Realm. ”
"I don't know where the exit is?"
Hearing Su Ziyu's words, the black and white impermanence in front of him couldn't help but glance at each other, and Bai Wuchang said in a cold tone: "After crossing that bridge, it is the Ghost Gate." ”
"Get out of here."
"The hell gate is about to close. The living cannot stay in the underworld. ”
It's good to talk.
After Su Ziyu thanked him, he walked towards the bridge, and when he passed by the black and white impermanence, he saw the ghosts tied up behind the other party, all of them were some mountain spirits, ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, and ghosts, and they were making a terrible wail at this time.
It doesn't look like it's very peaceful here!
A large part of Fuso culture comes from China, but the dominant position here is Shintoism, which belongs to the animistic polytheistic faith, and the core idea of the gods is 'Senluo Wanxiang', all kinds of goblins and ghosts can be worshiped by mortals, claiming to have eight million gods, you can imagine how many mountain spirits and ghosts are mixed in it.
The status of many gods here is actually similar to that of yokai, and some big yokai even have shrines dedicated to themselves in the mortal world.
Suziyu is not yet sure of the specific situation in this world.
However, judging from everything you see in the ghost Kyoto, big monsters like Qingxing Lantern have their own territory, so the other big monsters should be in a similar situation.
It is said that it is a ghost gate, but in fact, it is just a spatial crack.
Su Ziyu immediately saw a ray of sunlight that had just risen in the distance after passing through, and the spatial crack behind him had disappeared directly, and his location was near a bamboo forest in the suburbs, and there was a dilapidated stone tablet not far away, and there was a small god standing next to him, with a hideous head and wearing human clothes, holding a seal, which should be similar to the existence of the land lord of Fusang.
The neighborhood is a little desolate, and there is no sign of the living.
Su Ziyu walked out along the bamboo forest for a while, and soon saw a small village, probably dozens of households, at this time there were farmers and peasant women were fiddling with some tributes, burning something at a three-way intersection, after they finished burning, they pulled the children playing next to them to a clay statue and began to kneel, looking very, very pious.
Take a closer look.
Su Ziyu found that the clay statue looked like a humanoid civet cat, and the part of the ** was carved unusually large, although the statue looked very rough, but the appearance was a little expressive.
They are worshipping the god of the road, the god of the wild.
This is mainly the object of folk Shinto sacrifices, and many wild gods are folk mountain spirits and monsters.
Su Ziyu faintly heard their prayers, it seemed to be related to an epidemic, these farmers seemed to be quite wary of outsiders, after seeing Su Ziyu's figure, they quickly put away the tribute, began to clean the sacrificial things.
Perceive a hint of spirituality.
When Su Ziyu turned around and looked at a small forest in the distance, he saw a black shadow flashing in the treetops, the figure was as agile as a cheetah, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Are there so many youkai?" Su Ziyu frowned slightly.
He walked over to the panicked farmers and casually asked, "How do you get to Kyoto?" ”
"Follow this road and you'll be there for half a day." The farmer's expression was a little frightened, the clothes Su Ziyu was wearing were prepared by the elves, and they looked a little out of place in this era, but they were extremely exquisite and luxurious, and they looked like the clothes of princes and nobles.
Su Ziyu nodded and turned to leave, throwing a silver coin over before leaving.
There was no one along the way.
Instead, he saw some debris left over from the roadside sacrifices, which seemed to be wild god sacrifices that had been performed many times recently.
Suziyu is on the road very fast.
When the sun rose, a bustling ancient city appeared in his sight, and in the distance there seemed to be a lake, which should be Lake Biwa.
The shape and layout of this ancient city are modeled after the capital cities of the Tang Dynasty of China, Chang'an and Luoyang, especially the imitation of Chang'an City. Su Ziyu has looked at it a little last night, and the general layout is exactly the same as in the ghost Kyoto, except that there are many living people during the day, and you can see the bustling flow of people.
Su Ziyu changed his dress slightly, and then walked into the city.
The population here is quite large.
Suziyu can see many people dressed as samurai, but it is not as widespread as in the Fuso Warring States period, and the shamrock emblem that Ms. Enid once gave him several times along the way, which means that there are still some youkai active in Kyoto during the day, but even Suziyu is not easy to distinguish.
There was a slight panic on people's faces.
Most of the things they discussed were related to the 'Rashomon', because not long ago, the Rashomon Gate at the southern end of Suzaku Avenue in Kyoto collapsed, and then some strange things began to appear in various parts of Kyoto, and some strange rumors continued to appear in other places.
In addition, the most Su Ziyu heard was about Ampere Qingming.
Abeh Harumi seems to be the most influential figure in this place, and he has just received an order from the Fuso royal family last year to go to Nachi Mountain to hold a ceremony to seal the tengu.
It's 980 years.
Not long ago, the Rashomon Gate in Kyoto collapsed, and everyone thought it was a bad omen, and many people thought that it was necessary for Ampei Harumi to come out and solve the trouble at this time. Because this guy is the most famous onmyoji of the current era, he is extremely valued by the Fuso royal family, and it is said that he has the ability to drive the gods, and he can do many things that ordinary people can't do.
"Onmyoji? Interesting! Su Ziyu's figure walked through the streets and alleys, and randomly found a hotel to stay.
The north side of Kyoto is the residence of the princes and nobles, and the south side is increasingly deserted, and the place where Su Ziyu stayed last night is a mansion in the north, and he originally planned to go over to see who lives there during the day, but after hearing the news about Ampei Qingming, he really wanted to meet this onmyoji.
Fuso in the Heian period is a bit like the late Jin Dynasty in China, with singing and dancing on the surface, and the princes and nobles were luxurious and obscene, but in fact the lives of the low-level commoners were extremely difficult.
Ghosts are extremely common among low-level civilians.
Su Ziyu just sat in the inn for a while, and then heard two merchants discussing the ghost, talking about a mountain ghost near the southern Omi, and the merchant on the right said that he had seen with his own eyes how the mountain ghost swallowed the living.
"The time of the demons?" Su Ziyu stood up and walked towards the outside of the inn.
He was going to see the so-called Rashomon.
The area of the whole Kyoto is about 20 square kilometers, which is not very large, but the population is quite dense, and the so-called Rashomon in the mouth of the aborigines is actually the Rashome Gate, which suddenly collapsed one night, and it is said that someone heard the howl of a hundred ghosts that night, and it is said that it is the place where Kyoto connects to the underworld of hell.
"Is this it?" Su Ziyu frowned and looked around.
It was quiet.
There are very few pedestrians in the vicinity, and it seems that ordinary people would deliberately avoid this area.
There was a lot of rubble in the place where Rashomon collapsed, and Su Ziyu had just approached here when he noticed some abnormal fluctuations, and he found that there were many places where the onmyoji's talisman was pasted, and there seemed to be traces of formation on the ground.
I didn't see any of the demons and monsters.
Suziyu just felt that this place was a little cold, and the wind blowing over seemed to have a hint of chill to the bone.
"Who?" A low cry came.
Soon.
A man dressed as an onmyoji appeared in front of Su Ziyu, he was about twenty years old, he looked quite handsome, wearing a very traditional yin-yang suit, holding a folding fan in his hand, and wearing a jade pendant of a yin-yang fish around his waist.
Ampere Clear?
Wrong.
This Onmyoji is a little weak!
"Get out of here!" The onmyoji in front of him said quite unceremoniously: "It is forbidden to pass here." Hurry up. ”
"If you don't leave, don't blame me for being rude!"
It seems that you have to pass him to see what is going on with Rashomon.
Su Ziyu glanced at the other party, and directly raised his foot and kicked a stone away, which flew out like a bullet and directly hit the head of the onmyoji in front of him.
Bang!
The onmyoji in front of him instantly changed his face, he quickly took out a piece of rune paper, and quickly sealed it and shouted: "Guard! ”
An invisible barrier of energy opened.
The stone kicked out by Su Ziyu stopped in front of him and fell to the ground with a thud, accompanied by a rapid spell sound, and a phantom in the shape of an armored puppet quickly appeared behind the other party.
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