Goo, goo.

The black object in the middle of the pool still undulates on the surface of the water.

Is that thing alive?

Something to do with the leech people in Matsuzawa?

The wolf prostrate itself and continue to look upwards and downwards.

A large number of water bubbles began to float around the black object, breaking out of the water and melting into the air, and the smell of water below became even stronger.

Then, centered on the original black object, more wriggling black blocks floated up under the pool, each connected with a black line, leading straight to the bottom of the pool.

The flesh-like stuff twisted and expanded in the water, slowly deforming into a human form. The scene in the waterhole is like a black deformed baby, connected by the umbilical cord, floating up and down in the amniotic fluid of the womb.

This scene is just too weird.

"Ho Ho ......"

The wolf heard the black pieces of flesh start to make noises.

Their humanoid features became more and more obvious, and each of them was slightly different in appearance, like humans who were tall, short, fat and thin.

No, it shouldn't be human.

Because the skin of those things is blue-gray, and the bare skin has a ring of texture on it. The facial features on his face are also in a distorted state, he can't see his eyes, his nose has only two small holes, and his mouth is a disgusting flesh sucker.

It's a leech man.

However, now that it is daytime after sunrise, those leech people in the deep pool have not maintained the form of monsters for too long, the blue-gray color on the skin has slowly faded and become a normal human skin color, and the distortion of the facial features on the face is gradually fading.

Rushing.

The water in the waterhole was tumbling, and all the leeches transformed into normal human shapes, and the black umbilical cord attached to the navel fell off automatically.

They climbed onto the broken shore one after another.

The newlyweds looked completely unsane, their eyes were hollow, and they all had strange smiles on their faces, like lifeless puppets.

The early sun rendered the sky gray and yellow, and the glimmer of the morning sun fell on the staggered and spreading cracks in the earth, and also on the unsane Matsuzawa people.

Naked, they writhed and crawled from the water onto the broken shore, their normally healthy skin wet and shining.

The juxtaposition of new life and the rising sun was supposed to be a hopeful picture, but the scene here in the waterhole only makes you shudder.

Seven or eight Matsuzawa men began to walk through the shattered earth, and Mu Ran headed in one direction.

I'm probably going back to Matsuzawa Village.

"Fur ......"

The wolf on the high ground struggled to keep his body down, and he had a piece of information from Shikanoya—

After the people of Matsuzawa are "killed", they will change to a new body and return to Matsuzawa Village.

Now it kind of understands what the hell is going on here.

Those so-called "new bodies" were born in this pool.

The wolf who observes the situation from a high place can't make up his mind, and he doesn't know what to do now.

According to Kanoya Yukino, and the newly obtained information tonight, there is a terrifying god in Matsuzawa Village, and there is a special human who is connected to the god, it seems to be called leeches and eight hundred bhikshunis?

Both of these are existences that have to be handed over to Master Kanoya to deal with.

And this waterhole in front of me may have something to do with leeches or eight hundred bhikshunis.

Acting rashly here may lead to some unmanageable terrorist incident, so the wolf thought about it for a while, but still planned to stand still.

It's a pity that Shikanoya has gone back to Matsuzawa Village now, and it would be nice if I could find this waterhole sooner and let Shikanoya know about the situation here.

The wolf crawled around, stared at the situation in the direction of the waterhole, and began to slowly move his limbs and retreat.

At this time, it suddenly saw that the black object in the center of the water surface floated up and down violently, causing the dark pool to rise and fall. Dense bubbles floated from the bottom of the water, and between those spherical bubbles, there was a petite human figure.

It seemed to be a drowned corpse, already soaked in the water for an unknown amount of time, unrecognizable.

But he didn't smell the stench of rotting corpses, only a strong smell of water.

After the corpse appeared, the black flesh in the center of the waterhole finally began to wriggle and deform, as if extending its deformed limbs, turning into a blue-gray leech man, and then the monster's characteristics slowly faded and turned into a normal person.

The wolf saw very clearly that the black piece of flesh had finally turned into a fair-skinned little girl with pigtails.

Sunna?

The name suddenly came to mind.

It's still from the information shared by Kanoya Yukino.

The soul slayer girl, when she was acting with the wolf, chattered about almost everything she had seen and heard in Matsuzawa.

So send the wolf to know that there is another human in Matsuzawa Village who has not been assimilated, Kumiko Sugiura.

Seems to be a crook with bad intentions.

The man had told Kanoya that she was looking for her daughter, Yona Sugiura.

So, the unrecognizable corpse in the waterhole, which can only barely be seen to be a child, belongs to Yangcai?

She drowned here a long time ago?

If it is drowned, then Hina must have choked on Matsuzawa's water before her death, and meets the conditions for assimilation.

It's just that I don't know why, Yangna's "newborn body" has not appeared in Matsuzawa Village for a long time.

Moreover, the body of Yona is now transformed from the black piece of meat in the center of the waterhole. Perhaps, there is something special about that little girl?

The wolf tried to analyze the situation in front of him, and in the deep pool below, the newborn Yangna had already dragged her old corpse slowly ashore.

The girl slowly took off her clothes from the corpse and put them on one by one.

Her expression was much more vivid than the other Matsuzawa people.

"Uh-woo."

Send the wolf to wrinkle his nose carefully and continue to retreat as lightly as possible on the high cliff.

Just as it was about to break off the cliff, the girl below who seemed to be Yangna suddenly looked up and looked straight at its location.

The wolf's pupils dilated, facing the girl's face, which was full of innocence, extremely bright and dazzling smile.

"Ugh!"

A curved golden knife condensed from the wolf's mouth, and he threw it back.

The golden malign sliced through the air, clanged and snapped against the trunk of a pine tree in the distance.

The petite white beast figure then vanished from its place, appearing directly at the pine tree.

The scimitar on the trunk of the tree hummed and dissipated, sending the wolf to run on all fours through the forest.

That little girl who seems to be a young girl is so wrong.

Just by her glance, the wolf felt upside down with white hair.

Yona appears, and it feels like something bad is about to happen.

Gotta go find Shikanoya and let her know what's going on here!

However, Shikanoya should have returned to Matsuzawa Village by now......

If the wolf appeared in that village, it would inevitably cause a riot in advance and affect the action agreed in the afternoon.

But now there seems to be no other way.

The wolf can't take care of resting now, and plans to lurk directly around Matsuzawa Village. Doing so would be risky, but if anything happened in the village in advance, it could go to the aid of Shikanoya as soon as possible.

It had no choice but to completely believe in Luyeya, believing that the master that the other party said could really rescue them.

So no matter what, no matter what happens, you have to make sure that the action of the afternoon can be carried out.

She had to be guaranteed to survive.

And in the deep pool, Yangcai didn't chase the wolf, but just stared at the cliff at the height and took another look.

The vivid expression on her face suddenly vanished, and she became as numb and hollow as the Matsuzawa people before her.

Yona followed her companion who was walking in front of her, bathed in the morning light through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and slowly left in the cold morning light......

……

Matsuzawa Village.

Shikanoya took the little old man No. 3 and sneaked back to the village before dawn.

She cleaned up briefly at home, feeling her stomach rumble.

In the past three days, the fawn has eaten too little.

"However, the afternoon is the decisive battle, and I have to hold on a little longer."

Shikanoya drank a little water and lay down on the spread mattress.

She struggled to control herself from meditating according to the Buddhist method, and her exhaustion overcame her hunger, and she soon fell asleep.

By the time I woke up again, it was already 10 a.m.

The fawn only slept for just over four hours.

However, it may be because the afternoon is the key decisive battle, plus in the first half of last night's operation, she also had a small nap, and her current mental state is actually okay.

When I leave this ghost place, I return to Master and Lord Eight Feet, and I have time to sleep.

But although the spirit is barely good, because of hunger, the feeling of weakness in the body is still obvious.

"It really feels like it's the limit."

Shikanoya got up from his bed and heard some noise outside.

She's gotten used to it.

After spending three nights in Matsuzawa, Shikanoya would go out to hunt Matsuzawa's hunters late at night every day.

In the morning, the "dead" would return to the village in a new body, naked and covered in water.

So every morning, there is a commotion in Matsuzawa Village.

Shikanoya briefly tidied himself up, then pushed the door and went out, and went to the entrance of the village with the happy Matsuzawa people outside as usual.

A large crowd has gathered here.

The ones who had returned were the Matsuzawa hunters who had been attacked by Shikanoya and the wolf last night, and they were already dressed, but their bodies were still soaking wet.

And among the people who came back this morning, there is another one that is very special.

It was a pigtailed girl of seven or eight years old, standing with the hunters, smiling sweetly at the villagers.

"Yona is back, haha."

"Really, where the hell did you go, your mother is worried about you."

“……”

The people of the village seemed to be familiar with the girl, and smiled at her.

As for the monster attacking people again, everyone is also talking.

But everyone was smiling happily all the time, and there was not the slightest hint of tension or oppression.

Kanoya stood in the crowd and looked Yona up and down: "This is Sugiura's daughter?" But looking at her appearance, it seems that she has become a Matsuzawa person. ”

As she thought so, she suddenly heard a hysterical scream.

Kumiko Sugiura shouted, almost frantic, rushing into the center of the crowd.

"Yangcai, Yangcai, you ......"

Sugiura held his daughter's immature face with both hands, and his voice and body trembled.

But her daughter didn't give her any strong response, just a hollow and bright smile.

"Mom."

Yangna's voice is delicate and soft.

"You...... You...... It's my mother's fault, it's my mother's fault......"

Sugiura couldn't utter a complete sentence, just cried hoarsely and loudly.

She knew that her daughter had become a Matsuzawa person, a monster that she couldn't avoid and hated from the bottom of her heart.

In fact, Sugiura is an extremely intelligent woman.

Hina has been missing for so long, could she not have imagined what might have happened?

She just didn't want to face the results she was in.

And even if there is little hope, even if there is only a slight possibility, she wants to live with her daughter in a strange place here as a normal person.

The daughter is almost the only psychological pillar after Sugiura entered Matsuzawa.

And this pillar collapsed, and Kumiko Sugiura's heart was nothing.

She just cried, crying loudly.

And her daughter, and all the Matsuzawa people around her, just looked at her happily and smiled.

The laughter of the crowd overlapped with the only crying, and it was eerily suffocating.

Shikanoya stood in the crowd, not knowing what to do.

Matsuzawa only said a few words to congratulate Sugiura on finding his daughter, and after discussing the monsters and pesky wolves in the mountains and forests for a while, he happily dispersed.

At the entrance of the village, only Sugiura's mother and daughter remained, and there was a Shikanoya who didn't say a word.

I don't know how long it took, but Kumiko Sugiura finally stopped crying and slowly got up from the ground.

Her eyes were red and bloodshot, but her expression could no longer see joy and sorrow, as if she was finally no longer sad, only a faint emotion that Shikanoya couldn't understand.

Sugiura took his daughter's hand and turned back and walked towards the village.

When he passed by Shikanoya, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

She opened her mouth and spoke with some difficulty, her voice hoarse like that of a dying old woman: "Sorry, don't drink Matsuzawa's water. ”

"Hmm......"

The fawn didn't reply, and he didn't know what to say.

Then, Sugiura fumbled around his body, took out a key and handed it to Shikanoya: "Under the floor of my room. ”

Shikanoya hesitated for two seconds, took the key, and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Sugiura didn't reply, but took his daughter's hand and continued to walk forward.

The happy and lively Yangna is bouncing around her mother.

Kanoya watched the mother and daughter walk away, watching their figures grow smaller and smaller in their field of vision.

Today's Matsuzawa is rarely sunny.

The weather was actually very nice, with plenty of sunshine and dust flying in the sun.

Matsuzawa Village, which covers a huge area, seems to have become lazy in the bright daylight, and it is more harmonious and happy. The village was like a giant beast napping, resting its head heavily on the shoulders of Sugiura, who was drifting away, unconsciously licking her body with his tongue, saliva running down her floral dress.

The unimaginable weight crushed Sugiura's originally tall body to decay.

"Matsuzawa is going to accept Sugiura, or rather, Sugiura is going to accept Matsuzawa."

Shikanoya suddenly thought.

She saw that the direction Sugiura was taking her daughter was where the village's public cafeteria was located.

(End of chapter)