Chapter 17: Intelligence to the Lost Bamboo Forest

"Ahem......"

Thick smoke rose, and the once flat meadow had now turned into a pothole like a mine test area.

From the place where the smoke and dust were at its highest, Huiyin walked out in a mess.

"It's me who loses."

There was no anger, no unwillingness, and no shouting like a middle two, "Now you are stronger", Huiyin just calmly admitted her failure.

However, there seems to be some feelings of loss of this level.

"It's up to you to do whatever you want."

Because of the existence of the rules of the rune card, there will be no real casualties, so Hui Yin did not show much worry about his defeat.

"Hmph, it's long overdue."

Probably because of the relationship between being "deceived" before, she was still a little unhappy with Huiyin Reimeng, but at this time she also knew that wasting time was meaningless.

"Since you have lost, let's return the 'history' of the people according to what was originally decided."

"I have a proposal for this......

After organizing the language for a moment, Huiyin asked:

"Reimu-sama and youkai sage-sama are here to investigate the mutation of this full moon, right?"

"That's right."

"Then there is no need to enter into the human world, and I can tell you what I know."

"Do you know what? About this aberration? ”

Reimu looked at Huiyin in surprise, is this an unexpected joy? Suddenly, she felt that the fight just now didn't seem to be in vain.

"It's just speculation, but if it's related to this moon, maybe it's that one."

Huiyin stretched out her hand and pointed into the distance, the direction surrounded by the quiet of the night.

"There is a bamboo forest directly opposite the Yokai Mountain, and the people who live there may have something to do with this change."

"Bamboo forest, is there such a place in Gensokyo......?"

Reimu frowned, then looked at Wu Ye, only to see that he also shook his head in confusion, but she could only turn her doubtful gaze to Zi.

"Purple, you know what?"

"yes, I know."

Nodding, Purple lived up to expectations and gave answers to the questions of the two.

"Takeya and Reimu are still too young, so they've never been there."

Looking in the direction Huiyin pointed, Zi said in a slightly reminiscent tone:

"When we first established Gensokyo, we just tried to enclose as many areas as possible into the scope of the enchantment, and the advantage of this is that Gensokyo will become more extensive, but there are also disadvantages, that is, there are often people or things that we don't even know."

"Then, the bamboo forest is also ......"

"Exactly."

Affirming Wu Ye's guess, Zi smiled and said:

"That bamboo forest has existed since the beginning of the establishment of Gensokyo, and we used to be with ......"

The words suddenly paused, and Zi's smile changed imperceptibly, but because she was a monster who was good at disguise, everyone wondered why she suddenly stopped.

"Purple?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, where did I just go, yes, that bamboo forest, the name seems to be called the Lost Bamboo Forest, right?"

Skillfully concealing his gaffe in his usual unserious tone, Purple continued:

"We've been there before, but there's only a few bamboos that are easy to get lost as the name suggests, and if there's any, they're just some little monsters that don't go into the stream, and to be honest, there's nothing special about it."

Hearing this, Wu was also surprised.

"But Teacher Huiyin didn't say ......"

"That being said, though."

Zi, who understood what Wu Ye meant, made a helpless expression.

"But we're not such boring people, if we have to check everything in Gensokyo, even if we add ten more Shikigods, we won't be able to be busy."

“......”

Wait, did you guys say something strange, and the work of feelings is all done by Blue?!

What a murderous master, ahh

Ignoring Takeya's contemptuous gaze, Zi naturally threw her own pot to the ground:

"So, it's inevitable that something will be missed."

"Then how can the deformed prisoner really be?"

Without complaining about Zi's brazenness, or too lazy to complain, Reimu ignored all the nonsense and went straight to the point.

"Then let's go."

With that, she looked at Purple.

"I know, I know, Xiao Lingmeng really makes Sister Zhao."

Shaking her head helplessly, Purple once again drew a gap with the folding fan.

"Anyway, this is also the job we asked Xiao Lingmeng to do, even if it is an advance payment."

"Hmph, you can't help much during the battle anyway, this kind of job is best for you, isn't it?"

Although the last battle just accepted the other party's love, but with Reimu's unfamiliar character, he won't remember this kind of thing.

"Yes, yes, what Little Reimu said."

Responding to Reimu in a perfunctory child's tone, Purple didn't feel the slightest bit unhappy about it.

Just after a big battle, he immediately continued to rush to the next battlefield, such a tight rhythm did not cause much discomfort to Wu Ye, it was better to say that this was the feeling of solving the anomaly.

I don't know why.,In Gensokyo, the witch set off to solve the mutation.,It's always impossible to lock the main owner at the first time.,It's often like an RPG game.,Knock down the enemies on the road one by one.,Finally, you can see the boss.,No.,It's a prisoner.。

But in terms of difficulty, isn't it a bit too strong to put Teacher Huiyin on the first side as a passerby? I always feel that I should let the weaker youkai do the work for me......

"Wu Yejun."

"Huh?"

Just when Wu Ye's mind was open, Huiyin interrupted him.

After Reimu and Purple had already crossed the gap, Take, who had stepped into it with one foot, was also stopped by Huiyin.

"What's wrong? Teacher Huiyin. ”

"No, there's still nothing ......"

Huiyin, who wanted to stop talking, smiled apologetically at Takeya.

"I'm sorry to stop you all of a sudden."

“......”

Huiyin, who obviously had something hidden in her heart and refused to say it, disappeared into the quiet night.

Frowning and distressing himself for a while, Wu Ye still shook his head and slowly walked into the gap, after all, his understanding of Huiyin was limited to Bai Ze's monster identity and the teacher's human identity.

In addition, he can be said to know nothing about Huiyin, so even if the other party puts on an expression of "I don't know whether to say something or not", he can't say anything to persuade him.

Leaving the unsolvable doubts behind, Takeya, who came through the gap, has turned from an empty earth to a dense bamboo forest in front of him.

Bamboo trees several stories high have carved out the place from the light of the full moon and become a dark world.

Even with the two stone lanterns on the side of the road, which are suspected to be the entrance, the atmosphere here is still very eerie.

No, it's weirder to have a stone lantern, right? Why do you put something like this at the entrance?

"It's so dark, I can't see anything."

Reimu, who had squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, let out such an emotion.

"Let's go separately, I'll fly over from above to look for it, and Zi you and Wu Ye will go in through the entrance together."

"Hey, wait, why aren't we looking for it up there?"

"Because it's pitch black here, it looks dangerous, doesn't it?"

"Wouldn't that be more of a way to let you go! Who is the shrine maiden? ”

"Long-winded, you can't die anyway, don't worry about the danger if you are in danger, isn't it just right for you to go?"

"Damn, Reimu, you ......"

Wu also endured the tic-tac-toe beating on his head, and was about to preach to this unreliable witch, but there was a sound behind him that was so healthy that it made people have a headache-

"Ahh