Chapter Twenty-Three: The Ferry Tells the Devil

["Jade Fireworks Fire": A unique shape with eaves and seats, like a building-like house-shaped boat. Once the only eldest lady of the Mogami family, the supreme ruler, the property of His Royal Highness Hanabi, His Royal Highness Hanako was born on this ship, grew up here, studied, practiced swords, watched fireworks displays, and held coming-of-age ceremonies...... However, last year, His Royal Highness Hanako was suddenly imprisoned by his father Mogami Yoshiji in the Okuno Castle Black Prison Prison, and the "Jade Hanabi" also became a tool used to carry people across the river in the Ghost Mother River. 】

[This time, there are only four people on the "Jade Hanabi" that goes to Okuno City.,You, the psychic.,The old boatman.,The middle-aged samurai with the sword.,The Moonyo head ronin who is in the flow.】 】

[The old boatman tells you that the Tangram Festival is approaching, when the fog on the Onimu River will be thicker than the usual night, all ferries will stop sailing, and if you want to go back to Onimu Town to participate in the Tangram Festival, you must return here before sunrise tomorrow. 】

According to the time schedule in the game, it is still early in the morning, and compared to the real world, there are almost 20 hours of activity left.

No hurry, no hurry.

[It takes 15 minutes to cross the Ghost Mother River to Oku-no-jo, and the journey is long, and the old boatman suggests that you tell some ghost stories to relieve your fatigue. In the war-torn land of the Reed Plains, where bones are everywhere, there are countless dead, ghosts and gods who live on human flesh and blood and faith are gradually recovering, and there are many terrifying and terrifying ghost legends flowing out of various places, and you must have a lot of good goods in your stomachs. 】

If the story is scary enough, he can reward you handsomely. 】

What kind of strange boatman is this?

Kitahara Shu looked at the phone screen and was almost amused.

How did you go from Onimucho to "Jade Flowers", and I didn't meet a normal person?

The entire country of the Reed Plains is full of ghosts and gods, why is it so difficult to find a normal person!

The boatman disliked that the 15-minute journey was too long, and it was okay to ask the passengers to tell a ghost story to relieve their fatigue.

Kitahara Shu suddenly understood why [Hundred Ghosts Night Walk] was going to be made into a word game, if this thing was made like a triple-A masterpiece, it would definitely make people's scalps tingle, and the SAN value would go crazy.

[Hearing that there is money to be made, the head of the moon generation is interested, and I have to tell you a terrifying story he once encountered when he crossed the Ghost Mother River on another ferry. 】

[The head of the moon is from Meito County, which is hundreds of kilometers away from Aomori County, and after settling in Okuno Castle, he is idle all day long, and has no fixed job. He loved to wander around the Okunojo Pier because he always had some good business there, and a month ago, he suddenly noticed something strange. 】

[In the four territories around the port of Okuzhicheng Pier, there are different ferries and cargo ships set sail for the return trip day and night, under normal circumstances, when they set sail at night, the ferry will hang strings of red lanterns outside the cabin, and the cargo ship will hold torches and torches, but that night, he saw a ferry with white lanterns and sailed out. 】

[The next morning, he inquired around, and the helpers and guests on the dock said that they had never seen a ferry with white lanterns, and later from an old helper, he learned that the white lanterns were funeral boats, and that the ferry boats of the boatmen were usually in an accident, and the white lanterns would be hung on the new boat to pay tribute to their dead companions. 】

[The funeral ship will never set sail. 】

[He inquired around, and finally was stunned to find that the white lantern funeral boat he had seen had sunk a year earlier, and what he saw that night was not a ferry boat at all, but a ghost boat returning from the Ghost Mother River!] 】

The sound of water waves when the ferry is sailing is heard on the mobile phone, which is quite realistic.

When the head of the moon generation is telling the story, there is also a gloomy BGM soundtrack, which is quite appropriate.

That was the end of his story.

[After listening to the story of the ronin, the saber warrior who had been silent suddenly spoke. 】

[The story he is going to tell happened a year ago.] He used to be a jailer at the Black Prison Prison in Okunojo City, and later he was fortunate enough to be appreciated by the head of the Mogami family, Mogami Yoshiji-sama, and became an accompanying samurai. 】

[A year ago, the Mogami family launched a war against the Kurosaki ryo, and he went out with him, and he and thirty samurai took a ferry boat to the Kurosaki ryo first. Then they crossed the Ghost Mother River and passed through Sword Mountain, when they crossed the border and entered the Sword Mountain area, angering the Weaving Heavenly Maiden who inhabited Sword Mountain. 】

[The wind and waves did not stop, for a whole twenty days, the ferry boat could not leave the range of Sword Mountain, their dry food and water were bottomed out, thirty-one people were panicked, and finally in order to fill their stomachs, they began to kill each other. 】

[I am the only samurai who survived. 】

A deep middle-aged man's voice suddenly came from the phone.

Kitahara Shu was taken aback.

Good guy, with a sudden dubbing.

[After returning to Okuno Castle, he felt guilty and hung a white lantern on the ferry, paying tribute to his dead companions day and night. Without them, he would not have been able to return to Oku-no-Castle alive. 】

[The story of the saber warrior is over.] 】

[The old boatman is pleased with their story, and he looks at you, so what about your story, psychic.] 】

???

Kitahara Shu glanced at the phone screen, is this really going to make up a ghost story for them to enjoy?

It seems that there are rich rewards, but it is not impossible.

He got up and prepared to use his computer to search for some small Japanese short horror stories, but before he could get up, the text changed again.

[You talked about what happened after leaving the dilapidated shrine, the unknown ghosts, the ghosts and raccoon dogs that you killed, and the strange legends of the Tangram Festival and the Oni Mother Town.] 】

Obviously, your story is far more exciting than that of ronin and samurai. 】

[The old boatman listens with relish, and he thinks your story is the best and the most deserving of his reward.] 】

Why, you thought I wanted to say one myself.

Kitahara Shu lay back on the bed, thinking that his image might be a naked man in a cloak, and suddenly felt a little strange.

No, I went to Okuno City, bought a set of clothes to wear seriously, and so on, so that in the past, would I be arrested and imprisoned as a pervert?

Kitahara Shu scratched his head, but seeing that these three people didn't have any complaints about themselves, if they can save money, try to save some money, after all, there is still such a big imprint warehouse left by a predecessor waiting to be excavated by himself.

[Before giving you that reward, the old boatman has a question he wants you to answer. 】

[On the ship, who said that the ghost story is true?] Who are the real ghosts? 】

[1. The head of the moon generation who is flowing in the flow]

[2.Middle-aged samurai with a sword]

[3. Yourself]

[4. Refuse to answer, give up the reward]

Well?

What is this?

Kitahara Shu held his mobile phone and looked sluggish.

Quiz with a prize?