Chapter 319: The Story of the Fox Fairy
During the arrival of scientific experts and support troops, the original team was panicked, and everyone did not know what was going on, how reality had been changed, and how to solve it.
After all, for many people, the memory in their minds has become an obsession, the son they originally liked has become a daughter, the person who was originally alive has died, and the fiancée who was originally loved has become a stranger.
Either way, it was clear to everyone that all of this was happening because of the dark cave.
A soldier named Murakami told him that this may have been caused by offending the fox, because in his hometown of Miyagi Prefecture, there is a fox village, and the village also worships fox fairies.
For example, the person you love will become the person you hate, and the person you have a deep hatred for will become your confidant.
When Masao Shikabu heard this story, he casually asked, "Has this person left the illusory realm?" ”
Murakami replied, "Legend has it that it was after he confessed his mistake to the fox, and the fox made him re-embark on the path to the illusory realm, so that he could return to the real world." ”
Shikabu Masao was distracted, he thought, if he entered that cave again, would it turn all this around? Although Masao Kabu is not a so-called scientist, he is also a scientific researcher, and he is also eager to find answers to such things, and if he gets the answers, he can gain fame.
Driven by vanity, he began to show his eloquence, and it took him two days to convince the 201 men to return to the cave, this time not with scientific theories, but with myths and legends.
In that era of imperial supremacy, as long as these were combined, it was far more convincing than scientific theories.
So, under the arrangement of Masao Shika, the 201 people lined up to enter the bottomless dark cave as they did the first time.
This time, as last time, even the order of arrangement was exactly the same, and the commander was the last to enter the cave and start counting the numbers.
Everything was exactly the same as the previous day, the first time it was 210 people, the second time it was 200 people, and the commander went into the cave again to count it himself, but this time to his great surprise, he really found the missing 10 people led by Inozoshi Shiro.
After all 211 people, including the commander, left the cave, everyone immediately gathered around the 10 people and asked what had happened. The 10 people thought they were strange, because in their memory, time was still stuck in the day they disappeared, the moment after they entered the cave.
So how does the rope explain? The rope was still in the cave and could never be dragged out, but the rope around Shiro Izome's waist had long since disappeared, not untied by him, nor cut by something, just like that.
Things are getting weirder and weirder, and the 201 people, including the commander, have not changed in the slightest, and this result makes Kabu Masao feel that he can't control this matter anymore, so it is better to leave it to the people who come to support.
However, what is strange is that the 10 people, led by Shiro Inozome, also claim that their reality has changed, just like the 201 people.
Things were chaotic and completely clueless, and Masao Shikabu could only record everything in distress and prepare to submit it, which could not be explained by his theory of knowledge.
That night, strange things happened again, and the 201 people were immobilized again, turning into statue-like people, and Masao Kabu and the sober people carried back the people who were still outside the tent again.
Masao Shikayu was already numb, he didn't want to think anymore, but the 10 people of Shiro Izome were terrified, and Shiro Izome kept asking Masao Shier what was going on with all this?
But how did Shikabu Masao answer? He could only shake his head, and then handed the recorded thing to Shiro Izome and asked him to see it for himself and judge for himself.
After reading the record, Shiro Izome didn't say anything, fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he just asked about the legend of the fox in Miyagi Prefecture that was recorded.
Kabu Masao just asked him to ask Murakami, and he lay down tired to sleep.
The next day, Masao Shikabu woke up and found that the 201 people were able to move again, but this time the strange thing was that these people clearly remembered the trip to the cave and what happened after leaving the cave, and they were pleasantly surprised to cheer that everything was back to normal.
Kasheng Masao was puzzled, and stepped forward to ask what it meant?
The commander took out his photo and told Masao Shikabu that just yesterday, the photo he was holding in his hand belonged to his wife and son, but his wife had obviously given birth to a lovely daughter for him.
Kasheng Masao was stunned and confused, yesterday it was clear that the commander personally told him that he had a son, not a daughter, but what happened today?
Kasheng Masao found Jun Cao again, and Jun Cao also said that his mother had obviously died, but the letter he saw yesterday was his mother's, and the senior soldier also said that his fiancée had returned, and his fiancée's name was Zhizi.
Kasheng Masao was completely confused, how could these things change another hundred and eighty degrees in an instant?
No, it should be, yesterday it was a 180-degree change, and today, it's a 360-degree change, and everything is back to square one.
The non-commissioned officer named Kanda also said happily that he was still a fat man yesterday and had been puzzled, but fortunately he changed back today.
Shikasheng Masao was silent, recording everything one by one, he didn't understand what was going on, he didn't understand whether the memories of these people had been tampered with, or what was going on. Reality is not modified, after all, he is a witness to reality.
However, that night, Masao Shikayu decided to experiment with himself and go into the cave to experience what was going on.
Before leaving, Masao Lusheng wrote a simple identity information, which recorded his date of birth, place of birth, time of graduation from university, when he arrived in Northeast China, his wife's name, his wife's place of origin, date of birth, and attached a photo of himself and his wife.
He kept the information in an envelope and hid it in a waterproof information bag, which had been issued by the Manchurian Railway Investigation Department, and each team had ten of them, which was used to store highly classified documents.
Masao Kabu hid the bag under a rock outside the camp, marked it there, and walked alone into the cave, towards the final darkness.
Before entering the cave, Masao Kabu took the so-called "awakening agent" issued by the Japanese military department, which is what is called ice in modern times, and was distributed to soldiers in large quantities on the battlefield to improve combat effectiveness. Of course, personnel like them who belong to the Manchurian Railway Investigation Department have also obtained this chemical, which is extremely harmful to the body.
Masao Shikabu knew very well what the awakening agent was and how harmful it was to his body, but he had to do it in order to keep himself awake.
Kayo Masao walked into the darkness and continued to walk forward, not knowing how far he had walked, or he had not reached the end, but just as he was getting more and more frightened and decided to return, he heard someone behind him shouting his name.
Kasheng Masao subconsciously turned around, shone back with a flashlight, and found that it was the other three people in Shika's class who were looking for him and also entered the hole.
Jiro Koyama, Masashiro Kubo, and Shiro Izome finally breathed a sigh of relief when they found out that Masao Shikabu was missing during the day, and they guessed if he had entered the cave, so they hurried to look for him, but they didn't expect to come in time and found Masao Shikayu.
Masao Shikabu subconsciously asked, "It's already daytime?" ”
Jiro Koyama said, "It's already nine o'clock in the morning. ”
Kasheng Masao hurriedly raised his hand to look at his watch, and found that his watch had stopped, and the hands were still pointing to ten o'clock, and it was ten o'clock in the evening.
Shikayu Masao felt strange and followed a few people back, but he didn't walk about ten meters before he left the dark cave and returned to the grid-like cave.
Kasheng Masao immediately stopped, because he remembered very well that he had entered the dark cave at half past eight, and by ten o'clock, he had been advancing in a straight line for an hour and a half, how could he only walk a distance of ten meters in an hour and a half?
Moreover, how could it be possible to spend an hour and a half inside, while it was already nine o'clock the next morning?
Kasheng Masao hurriedly left the grid cave, ran to the location where he hid the materials, turned out the waterproof bag, and carefully looked at the words he wrote last night, the words have not changed, everything is still the same.
Kasheng Masao breathed a sigh of relief, but the doubts in his heart were still not solved, but that night, he had a nightmare, in which he dreamed that Tokyo had turned into a sea of fire, and he also saw the skyrocketing fireballs, and the heart-rending cries and cries of the people.
After a night, when he woke up the next day, Shikasheng was sweating profusely, but he found that the tent was full of people, and everyone was asking him with concern, what was going on?
Lu Sheng Masao was puzzled, and after inquiry, he learned that he suddenly didn't move like the 201 people before he went to bed last night, and the others didn't know what was going on, so they could only move him back to the tent and take turns to take care of him like they had done with the 201 people earlier, until he woke up at this moment.
But Masao Shikabu has no memory of what happened last night.
Suddenly, Masao Shikasheng thought of his own information, hurriedly rummaged through the box, took it out and looked at it, and was dumbfounded, because most of the words on it had changed-
His birth date has not changed, but his place of birth has changed from Toyama to Nara, and although the time of his graduation from university has not changed, he has changed from Sendai University to Etajima Naval Academy, his wife's name has changed from Hamako to Kashiko, and his wife's hometown has changed to Osaka.
On top of that, the woman who took the picture with herself also turned out to be a strange woman.
Kasheng Masao was dumbfounded, he was still skeptical that these things happened to those 201 people before, but this time he believed it, he believed that it was not his memory that had been tampered with, but that reality had changed.