Chapter 267: The Road Meets the Old
The story continues, and this time a bird's beak, a frog's limbs, a monkey's body, and a turtle's shell appear like a combination of animals.
This image, Bai Ze suddenly, turned out to be a kappa.
Legend has it that his weakness is the dish on his head, and if he tricks the kappa into bending over and the water in the dish on his head runs out, he will lose his energy.
There are legends of kappa spread throughout the basin, and the common point is that they are called "kappa".
Originally, the kappa was a spirit in the water, and was worshipped by the people as a river god, but there is also a theory that the kappa was a messenger of the water god, and was transformed by the frost that fell from the water god.
The kappa is small, about 60 cm to 1 meter tall and weighs about 45 kg, and has a foul smell and mucus that is difficult to catch.
It is said that in some places kappa have long hair all over their bodies. The kappa has a recessed disc-shaped area in the center of its head, and it is full of vitality when there is water, but when it is empty, it will be weak.
There are different theories about the color of the head, some say it is red, and some say it is dark blue.
He has round eyes that glow and his eyes are sharp. The nose is prominent, with a keen sense of smell; There are four fangs on the upper and lower sides of the mouth.
Slender limbs. The arm has a strong ability to regenerate, and it will regenerate if it is severed.
Each hand has only four fingers, and the fingers are webbed from one finger to the other. There is a carapace on the back. There are three anuses on the buttocks.
It is said that there was a leader named Kuzenbo who led the kappa clan from China to live in the area of Unzen Onsen on the Kuma River in Kyushu.
He often leads his men into the village, causing a lot of trouble, and because of his strange ability to pull horses to the river, the people in the village are no match for him.
Kato Kiyomasa, the lord of Kumamoto Castle, who was extremely angry when he learned about this, used the ape, which kappa hated the most, to teach the kappa who harmed the people a good lesson, and from then on the kappa had to live obediently in the Chikugo River in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Later, he became an envoy of Suitengu Palace, and its branch office was located in the residence of the Arima clan on the bank of the Akabane River in Edo, and later moved to the vicinity of Nihonbashi.
It is said that in order to defeat Kuzenbo, Kato Kiyomasa lured the kappa to the valley of hell, where sulfur gas spewed out, and not only poisoned the river, but also threw hot stones into the pool, and finally gathered the mountain ape, which the kappa hated the most.
The group attacked, the 9,000 square because of the heat of sulfur, so that the water in the plate on the head gradually disappeared, with the power of mana, he finally had to beg the city lord to let him go, promised not to harm the place again, this is one of the legends of the kappa.
(Note: Kiyomasa Kato was a military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the Foot Basin, and when he was a child, he followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi Shogun, and during the battle to the death with Shibata Katsuie, he showed his superb martial arts, and defected to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, and became the lord of Kumamoto Castle after the war, and was famous for his bravery and castle architecture.) )
Still continuing, Bai Ze rubbed his eyes, as if he had experienced it himself.
Long-necked monsters are roughly divided into two types according to the autonomy of the spirit, one is a long-necked monster that can wander with their own thoughts and fly freely; The other is a long-necked youkai that can't control where it will float and floats unconsciously.
Long-necked youkai that can wander with their own minds will sneak into private houses and strangle people who are sleeping, and then gnaw them away with their sharp teeth, and even several of them will gather together to act collectively.
Since the head and body of the long-necked youkai are often separated, there is a habit of winding red silk threads around the neck, so there is an unwritten taboo in the local area, "You must not marry a woman who sees a red thread around her neck", and the reason for this should be that the wife who is afraid of marrying into the door is likely to be the incarnation of the long-necked youkai.
Some people don't know that they are long-necked monsters, so they are driven by some kind of external force in an unconscious state, although they look no different from ordinary people during the day, once they fall asleep, they will show their true colors.
It is said that the ancients once saw a person whose body was still covered with a quilt and sleeping in bed with her own eyes, but her head was connected to her neck, and a smoke flew away from the window, until the rooster crowed, and then the head and body would be reunited, and after waking up, she would act like a normal person.
I often don't remember what I saw or did the night before? The long-necked youkai that floats in an unconscious state loves to spun flying insects in the air, earthworms or centipedes on the ground, and her ears are her wings.
In the early morning of the next day, if the head of the long-necked youkai can be successfully retrieved, it will be safe, and if the head is not successfully retrieved, the youkai may never wake up.
It is said that the long-necked youkai may have come from a rare disease, or have inherited a special constitution that separates the head from the body, but is there really such a creature or such a strange minority? Accounts are mixed and have not yet been confirmed. This kind of monster that feeds on insects and flies on its head is not only found in foot basins, but also in other regions.
Bai Ze eased up, looked at the light curtain that appeared in the sky, and stepped out.
It's still on the streets of Edo, and it's late at night, and there are still a lot of people.
There is a guy with a mobile phone live broadcast, and there is a girl in a sailor suit standing in front of the camera.
Bai Ze turned his head to look at it, this is still a fellow countryman, according to his self-proclaim, it seems to be called Dabao.
Originally, it was just an inadvertent glance, but when I saw the girl in the sailor suit, I raised my eyebrows, and this girl seemed unusual.
As for how not to be ordinary, it really takes a little time to observe and observe.
Dabao called Bai Ze: "Watasiwa Qiujin."
Roughly speaking, he is a Chinese, and he asks Bai Ze if he is a foot basin or a Chinese.
"After so many years, the motherland has remained the same, I am a Chinese." Bai Ze looked at Dabao and replied.
"Oh, big brother, we are also a hometown acquaintance, hello audience friends, today, I am honored to meet a fellow from China.
Big brother, say hello to your friends in the live broadcast room. Dabao gave the camera to Bai Ze.
Bai Ze said hello to the online audience in the live broadcast room.
Nanako looked at it quite curiously, she had not yet risen in the live broadcast industry at that time, and some curiosity was inevitable.
"I observed the eldest brother, staring at Kazuka just now, is there something wrong?" Dabao looked puzzled.
"Are you sure this Kazuka is a person?" Bai Ze asked rhetorically.
Dabao raised his head and said seriously: "It's not a human, is it still a ghost?"
After finishing speaking, Dabao rolled his eyes.
"Tell me how you met her!" Bai Ze handed over a glass of ecstasy wine.
Dabao drank and fell into a strange situation.
Bai Ze turned off the live broadcast easily, and some things are better not to let too many people know.
Dabao came to his senses and opened his mouth to say that his acquaintance with Kazuka was in the footbasin network.
Because the live broadcast needs Japanese girls to support the scene, there will be more people watching it this way.
I met on the Internet, said the conditions, and then met in a place.