421 Caring for Gensokyo empty nesters
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Gensokyo Frontier is a world formed by dynamic space, and its resources are never exhausted, with different water sources and satisfying food randomly popping up here and there every night. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, there will never be surplus resources in the border world, the border is too large, there are too many imprisoned monsters, and the resources are too scattered and too small to provide the survival of the border residents.
Creatures don't survive here, and there are even occasional time travel events, and tonight you sleep in a cave and the next day you're teleported to the middle of the desert, or...... Buried in the earth.
But no matter how bad they are, they don't dare to go to the border of Gensokyo, they are Yakumo Zi's evil monsters that are not tolerated, as long as they get close, they will inevitably be found and killed by Yakumo Zi, and that big youkai will never sit idly by and ignore potential threats.
They are all terrifying youkai who have killed countless people, and they don't expect Yakumo to have mercy at all. There are no permanent resources here, and when you run out of water, you have to find new water, and when you run out of food, you have to find new food.
The monsters on the border can never rest in peace, like sheep and cattle driven by herdsmen who nomadize the vast border world all day long.
In the gray desert of the border world, there stood five men and women who looked like beggars, none of them spoke, silently looking at the lake and thinking.
The water of the lake is crystal clear, the lush greenery around it is pleasing to the eye, and the storm that carries the sand particles cannot pollute the water source, and it is still clear, as if the sand grains have also developed an appreciation for beauty for fear of destroying this beautiful scenery.
Water sources are particularly scarce in the Gray Desert area on the border, and having such a good place on the border will inevitably lead to a bloody battle for water from the Gray Desert monsters.
None of the youkai will think about the long term, as no one knows where the oasis will be teleported by the unstable forces of the Rift when the next day comes.
Luckily, there are only five people here, and the flowing water of the lake allows them to enjoy different areas, even if they drink to their heart's content and even jump in and take a bath.
But the five of them were still standing in the gray desert, and no one had taken a step forward.
"Aren't you thirsty?"
The person who spoke was one of the five men, who appeared to be in his mid-thirties, with a face covered in stubble and dust. I don't know where I picked up the shabby robe, which was just barely covering my body.
And his thin body inside his shabby robe was covered with strange tattoos, which shone slightly in places that people couldn't see.
"Do you dare to go?" replied another scruffy woman with a cloak that looked like a madman.
Her eyes were black: both the whites of her eyes and her pupils were black, like a glass ball made of pure black stone and stuffed into her sockets.
None of the remaining three spoke.
They are very similar, as down-and-out as beggars, each of them looks inconspicuous, but they have a strange characteristic that makes it impossible for others to regard them as mortals, and no one will despise them when they come to them.
Maybe it's because they're young and frivolous, or maybe they've had some ambitions, and they challenge the authority of the monster sages for various reasons, and they end up losing everything.
The glory of the past is long gone, and he has been cut into a dog on the border of Gensokyo, which lacks magic, and even fought to the death for three meals a day and water sources that he had never looked at.
Bigu?
That's death!
The consequence of Bigu is that he is weakened, lacks energy, and eventually becomes a victim of other youkai.
To survive alone is to do their best, and they have no other way, knowing that Yakumo Zi deliberately uses this to weaken them, but they have no other way to deal with it, they can only struggle in a dead loop.
They didn't dare to cross that line, and they didn't even have the courage to enter Gensokyo a little.
............ Perhaps one day, after hearing about Yakumo's death, he would dare to have the courage to rush into Gensokyo, venting his humiliation and resentment on the world she was protecting.
They are the best cannon fodder talent for succubi.
However, they are also just cannon fodder.
One of the five formed youkai walked in the other direction, not missing the oasis and the lake, dragging his weak body towards the depths of the gray desert.
The remaining four looked at each other, and after the first, there was the second and third, and the second chased the back of that person away, and finally the third person also made up his mind to fly into the air and prepare to leave.
"You gave up too?"
"I don't want to die. β
The monster replied.
Not to survive, she had the figure of a blonde woman in her mind: she would never die before she knew that she was dead.
Until Yakumo disappears, becomes weak, and dies, she will try to live, even if the dog that lives by is not as good as trying to live, and she believes that sooner or later she will wait until Yakumo Murasaki is defeated.
Until then, she will struggle in the gray desert with hatred and a strong desire to survive.
Now there are only two people left: a banshee with her eyelids cut off and a down-and-out beggar man.
They were the same, afraid, afraid of approaching that oasis.
The existence of the oasis is unique, the oasis existed before many yokai came to the gray desert, and many yokai knew about it, but the yokai would not come here to try their luck even if they were thirsty and starved to death.
Anything within the Gensokyo border is unstable, items will disappear at any time, people will be randomly teleported, and only a few powerful youkai can resist it.
Being able to fight against unstable spatial turbulence with a 50% reduction is bound to be a dangerous role.
And the oasis has been standing still, and the result is obvious: it is man-made!
The black-eyed enchantress with her eyelids cut off took a step forward, crossing the line between the desert and the oasis.
The beggar man was terrified, and although nothing had happened, her actions really scared him!
The first step was a little hesitant, but when her bare feet covered with sand stepped on the soft and comfortable grass, she was no longer afraid.
Because nothing happened.
She no longer hesitated, and began to walk towards the lake, her dull black eyes full of longing.
"Nothing to be afraid of. β
The enchantress was still afraid, but the soft touch of her feet and the air blowing from the surface of the lake made her forget her fear, and her desire for nature, water, and life made her overcome everything.
The banshee destroys the trees that stand in the way and creates a path for people to walk steadily in an oasis where the woods are unusually dense.
She didn't move her hands, there was no magic movement in her body, her eyes didn't change, but the trees, shrubs, and grass that stood in her way all seemed to have been destroyed by an invisible hand, and the dense trees that several people could hold on to turned into powder in front of her in a blink of an eye, there was no sound, there was no process of change in the middle, all the obstacles that blocked her instantly turned from thriving to powder, her existence was like a god of death, and what went against her will, whether it was life or death, would disappear into nothingness.
The beggar man watched all this quietly, he didn't care about the power of the banshee, he cared about what would happen next.
But nothing happened?
It's quiet, it's quiet, is it that those rumors are self-deception?
The beggar's expression gradually changed from horror to emotion, and he was very envious of her great determination.
But Yidong is only Yidong, and soon his emotions become resolute and indifferent.
Because he saw the man.
It was impossible not to see, and the banshee brutally and unreasonably destroyed the obstacles, and in a daze made a smooth path, and after breaking through the grove at the edge of the oasis - there stood a man on the beach about a hundred meters from the lake.
A spotless scholar, but I can't tell from his appearance whether it's a man or a woman, full of silver hair, holding a brush the height of an adult, and I don't know what to write on the big rocks on the beach.
From the perspective of a youkai, the beggar can see everything there clearly.
The stone is very strange, it is strange to have such a big stone on the beach, and its color is as black as ink...... But there is always a thin layer of dust on it, and the scholar occasionally uses a long brush dipped in the lake water to write words on it, but before the handwriting can be revealed, it is covered with dust again, and the brush paints off the dust but is still spotless, and then the scholar repeats the steps just now, manipulating the spear-like white brush to continue the futile work, with a focused and serious demeanor, and does not care about the outside world.
Whether it's a beggar peeking in or a mad witch who breaks in, they are ignored equally.
The beggar took a step back, out of fear.
The enchantress is still moving forward, out of madness.
And, the body of the demon girl began to change gradually.
The scars left by the battle with Yakumo Purple seem to have healed,
Her steps grew faster and faster, her steps became lighter and stronger, her slashed eyelids grew back, and her appearance changed at a visible rate, her long-malnourished shriveled body gradually plumped, her skin regained luster and hydration with her forward movements, the color of her tattered clothes became brighter, faded patterns resurfaced from above, and the pupils that had been robbed of their brilliance regained their former beauty.
The original crazy momentum instantly turned into a majestic demonic aura, and the crazy woman turned into a fiery phoenix with red wings on her back.
She didn't look at the scholar, maybe she didn't notice the changes in her body, maybe she didn't realize that she was getting younger, or maybe she forgot how to use it because she had lost her strength for a long time......
............ In short, she still rushed to the lake with the most primitive run.
Compared with the terrifying phoenix, the scholar who blocked the way was weak, he had neither magic protection nor the spirit of a strong man, and the approaching phoenix was not something that mortals could withstand even with the most brutal and primitive posture.
"Now that you have eyelids, don't open them again. β
The scholar used the brush in his hand to write a Chinese character on the black stone: blind.
When he finished the last stroke with the long bristle pen in his hand, the phoenix closed his eyes, and as he said, he could never open them again.
"Is it a psychological suggestion?" the beggar guessed as he watched the scene quietly.
This banshee hadn't practiced blinking for hundreds of years since she had her eyelids cut off by Yakumo Murasaki's pretended punishment, and it wasn't impossible to forget to blink in the case of a mental suggestion.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way!" However, the darkness could not stop her steps, and her all-destroying power was even more terrifying, and the water of the lake hundreds of meters away stirred, and the tranquil water was as violent as the waves of the angry sea, splashing the sleeves of the scholar's clothes.
The clothes on the scholar's body began to tear soundly, and began to have a tendency to see the body subjectively, and as the phoenix shrank a little bit, the body gradually changed from clothes to flesh, and eventually the flesh and soul would disintegrate and annihilate.
"You're in the way!, get out of the way!" the phoenix screamed.
The glamorous phoenix continued to make her way towards the beach, and with each step she took her appearance gradually changed, becoming younger and taller at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her abilities gradually became stronger.
But when the momentum reached the strongest in her life, a new round of changes began, and the phoenix's height slowly shrank, and her appearance became more and more immature, from a young woman to a girl and then to a loli, a young girl.
In the end, she couldn't even maintain her young girl form, and turned into a red bird, and finally the red feathers retracted into her body, and she screamed and roared into the crisp chirping of the bird, and finally ...... turned into an egg in front of the scholar and happened to stop in front of the black stone.
The scholar placed the brush on the huge black stone, picked up the phoenix egg, and opened his mouth to the sky...... Crushed the phoenix egg in his hand, and the clear yellow and a few eggshells in it fell into his mouth.
Then the scholar's gaze looked to where the beggar was.
The beggar, fledβ
Ran away without hesitation.
He knew what an oasis was.
That's bait!
Green plants and clear water are all bait!
To go against this kind of person is to seek death!
Beggars don't want to die.
He couldn't have died willingly before he heard the news of Yakumo's death!
He kept running, he kept running.
Gradually, several people appeared in his field of vision.
A long-haired samurai woman with two swords around her waist, a youkai that looks like a patchwork of pieces, and a long-haired woman with a pointed hat...... Spirit woman.
The beggar didn't care about these people, even if he thought the green-haired woman was a little familiar, he didn't bother to say hello!
The beggar still fled forward, but he could no longer move.
Gaining weight again?
No, or gravity!
In an instant, the beggar was crushed by the weight and lay on the ground unable to move.
And it was the monster girl who did all this - Connor, who looked like a stitching monster.
"Ha, dude, you're a little familiar, haven't we seen each other somewhere? Hey, you can't see anything with your head down like this, Connor, take a little!"
The beggar reluctantly raised his head: or rather, with the permission and connivance of the other party, he raised his head and looked at the green-haired monster.
The flirtatious tone and familiar appearance reminded the beggar of the identity of this guy.
"Succubus, aren't you dead!?"
"Oh, it's an acquaintance, you remember me-" The succubus scratched his cheek and said with some embarrassment, "But I don't remember who you are, dude." β
The momentum has not weakened, but has become stronger.
The previous identity of the Lenovo Succubus........................
The beggar instantly changed his face to a flattering look, the reason for the resurrection of the great magician succubus is a mystery, but it is the best to meet her, this woman definitely has the ability to take him out of here silently.
It's a great time for Grey Desert to return to Gensokyo!
That's right, back to *life* in Gensokyo*
Although he hates Yakumo Zi, it is impossible for Yakumo Zi to intervene if he is not finished, and if he can go back silently, he is naturally willing to live secretly and wait for Yakumo Zi to be unlucky to watch a big show, or it is not impossible to secretly push it.
"Forget it, if I can't remember you at this time, you're definitely not an important role. β
The succubus has always had a flirtatious tone, giving the impression that he is very good at talking.
However, she also has a big problem: that is, she is hot for three minutes, and she likes to meddle when she sees things of interest, but it doesn't take long for her to lose interest.
"Let's go. β
The succubus bypassed the beggar and left, followed by the spirit spirit.
Connor, on the other hand, looked at the beggar quietly, and the beggar still had a flattering and hypocritical look on his face, and the good words had just been squeezed out of his throat, and before he could compliment, the other party lost interest.
And this loss of interest does not mean that he will be let go, the beggar's experience of fighting the field has made him smell familiar.
Death.
"I'm not convinced!"
The beggar struggled violently on the ground, and all the power began to be released without hesitation, ready to kill the ugly stitched girl in front of him-
Resistance, however, is ineffective.
The bones were crushed into bone cakes, the muscles turned into a puddle of useless mud, and the blood instantly soaked ten layers of gray sand
"I, I, him...... Mother...... How can you lose to, you ...... Such...... ............ Role............"
There is no exciting battle, no fierce resistance, and no tension and solemnity of the new generation relaying with the older generation.
People who see it don't have any emotion, they just think, "It's so easy!"
Killed instantaneously as if he were joking.
And in fact, succession is such a cruel thing.
No newspaper fanfare said that the era of young people has arrived, and no one cares about these backward monsters who have not caught up.
The old monster can't be as stable as Mount Tai. If they can't keep up with the trend, they will inevitably be killed by the new generation of monsters as they are now, and become their stepping stone.
In the world of monsters, there is no concept of pension.
No one cares about them.
Even if the rabbit dies and the fox dies, there will be no emotion.
After all, it's all a bunch of older wastes with no way out, who cares?
No one.
Either keep up with the trend and get used to society.
Either work hard to become stronger and achieve a hegemony.
Of course, those who know the times are handsome, and if they are sensible and obedient, they will not be in trouble.
If you don't keep up with the times and don't know how to practice still, you don't know whether to live or die to challenge the monster sage, what is this not death?
This is the end!
The succubus doesn't care what happens to the beggar.
She arrived at the oasis with two small henchmen, and the traces of the damage caused by the phoenix had disappeared imperceptibly, and the destroyed trees and jungles were restored as if no one had invaded them in the first place.
But it doesn't fool them.
The delicate soul demon sensed the traces that had not yet been erased, and she could tell from the traces on the ground and the breath in the air that someone had invaded the oasis in this direction not long ago.
"Succubus-sama, something seems wrong. β
"Of course I know it's wrong, it's normal to have retribution for forcibly invading someone else's territory. β
"So what are we going to do?"
"Greetings, of course!"
"Huh?"
The Soul Demon couldn't understand what the so-called greeting meant.
"Do you have a shield?"
"???, I use a knife. β
The succubus sighed: "Your soul family is a bit brainless, you are like your father, like your daughter - you are just pretending to be a bunch of rot in your head"
The soul demon blushed as he was trained, but he didn't know what he had done wrong.
The soul clan has always looked down on the Saiyuji family before his death, and has been dealing with the undead and abnormal people for a long time, and it was not obvious when he worked for Yakumo Zi and Yuyuko of Saiyuji Temple before, but with the down-to-earth succubus, a bunch of weaknesses were exposed.
"I don't understand the reason why you have to knock on someone's door before you enter someone's house. β
The soul demon suddenly had a bad premonition.
The succubus took a deep breath, then stood at the door of the oasis and shouted, "Hey!?
It's no wonder that the soul is sluggish, and it's rare for someone with such a whimsical mind as a succubus.
"Bai Ze inside, you heard that, right? Are you still alive? Open the door and let me in!"
Does this really work!?
However, the Soul Demon soon stopped doubting, because the oasis had really opened - the oasis in front of the succubus and the others began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye, giving way to a path of gray sand.
The demon spirit was dumbfounded, and the succubus patted his subordinate on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Look! you should be like this, be cheerful...... Actively greet people, don't be so old and brainless, and have less selfish thoughts!"
The succubus walked in front, Connor in the back, and the stupid demon spirit was at the end, and the three of them walked into the oasis, and inside the oasis...... The scholar sat on the black stone and watched them coming.