The mountain was like a giant beast dormant in hibernation, wild birds chirping in the branches, and the leaves rubbing against each other made a crisp noise.

In the mountains and forests, the distinct rhythm of ups and downs is like breathing, sometimes rising, sometimes drifting.

"It's been a long time since I've been to Najiu Mountain like this at night."

After hearing Jiang Yuanshen say this in a low voice, Jinghai Shenyue walked forward slowly, her knees pushing the hem of her skirt, and the soles of her shoes knocked on the stone steps, making a bangbang sound.

"Shake the apricot didn't accompany you?"

"No, it's just that I can't find the joy of going up the mountain at night."

- If you want to go up to the mountain at night, you will definitely come with Shake Apricot without saying a word.

"Well, even before, I couldn't find the pleasure of going up the mountain at night."

Her timbre stretches infinitely in the dark night, and it is very clear and transparent.

The sneakers rubbed against the stone slabs, making a voice similar to a mournful sound.

When you come to the torii gate of Chitori Shrine, the moonlight makes the flowers blue and blue.

"Do you want to go in?" Shizumi Fukatsuki stood in front of the torii gate and looked at him quietly.

"What else am I doing here?"

Probably because of the nervousness, in order to suppress the nervous mood, Jiang Yuanshen took a deep breath repeatedly,

"Anyway, who will you pay for?"

He took a step in the middle of his words and walked into the Chitori Shrine.

Jinghai Shenyue immediately followed, and Liu Mei frowned slightly and said, "What is it for?" ”

"Like a friend, or someone you like, or family." Jiang Yuanshen walked up the stone stairs that were too small in two steps.

Jinghai Shenyue knew that he was diverting his attention, but he was still seriously annoyed, and his good-looking brows squeezed out shallow wrinkles.

"I'm sorry. I didn't think about it, and if I had to say it, so far, I've only paid for myself. ”

Jiang Yuan smiled disapprovingly, his crystal bright eyes reflecting the face of the deep moon in the quiet sea.

"I will, even if it means giving everything, I will."

He said it with confidence and no doubt.

That smile made Jinghai Shenyue forget to breathe for a while, and when he thought that he might be serious, I don't know why, his chest throbbed.

His lungs were filled with the air of the night's wakefulness, but every now and then a tingling, pain-like sensation swept through them.

Jinghai Shenyue's heart beat rapidly, and her breath continued to speed up, condensing all her attention.

The word "everything" exuded a shocking sense of oppression, and she couldn't help but lower her head and bite her lip.

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In front of Chitori Shrine, there was a cold silence, as if there was a door in front of you, closed and closed.

"The door is open." Shizumi Fukatsuki has been staring at the shrine.

"You have the key, don't you? We went straight to the main hall. ”

Walking into the shrine, the lights at the approach came on, as if they were destined to miss a certain section of the train, but the two stopped.

Standing on the approach was Igarashi stealing paper.

In the faint glow of the lantern, there was no joy or anger in his eyes.

"Jiang Yuan, come here with hard work."

His tone was very gentle, full of comforting warmth, squeezing out a smile like daytime, but the next second he tensed the muscles of his face, and looked at Jinghai Shenyue very confusedly and said,

"But why did Empress Jinghai come over? Do you think we will hurt Jiang Yuan? ”

"There is no such thing." Jinghai Shenyue's answer was categorical, "It's just that he has been entangled and wants me to come, so I will choose to come with him, I don't think it's good to refuse him, Jiang Yuan is a good person." ”

Even if he knew that she might be joking, Jiang Yuanshen was no longer in the mood to joke at the moment.

"Mr. Igarashi, why me?"

After listening to Igarashi eavesdropping papers, she covered her face gloomily, and said with a helpless expression:

"Jiang Yuan, do you remember what I told you? Sacrificing the individual for the sake of the collective is correct from the perspective of the big picture, freedom is not vulnerable at all, you are here now, just go to the main hall, she is waiting for you. ”

The corners of Igarashi's paper-stealing eyes flashed with a red-blue light, and she took a few steps back sideways, letting the two of them pass.

As I passed by him, I faintly heard whispered words—

"The fledgling girl is not my daughter Hanasa"

Jiang Yuanshen suddenly raised his head as if he was awakened and looked at Igarashi stealing paper, but he just lowered his head and couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.

I know that the Fledgling Girl is not a flower yarn, but who else can she be?

It's not the quiet sea and deep moon around him, and neither is the night seeker, who else on this island can become a young puppet girl who is connected with the young puppet god?

Perhaps it was to spy on the confusion on Jiang Yuanshen's face, Jinghai Shenyue took the initiative to ask, "What's wrong?" ”

"I saw a girl wearing a mask of a chicked doll at the shrine, but I never knew who she was."

Jinghai Shenyue was a little puzzled, and put her hand against her small chin and said, "It stands to reason that there is only one young girl, who else can there be besides me?" Or are they all masked? ”

"I don't know." Jiang Yuanshen smiled awkwardly.

The two of them were speechless for a while, and finally came to the deepest part of the shrine, where the main hall is located.

The main hall, which is backed by Nakuyama, is several times smaller than the worship hall, and resembles a small boxy house located deep in the shrine, with maple trees growing vigorously on both sides and a tiled roof covered with fallen leaves.

Under the eaves, there is a wooden plaque with a blue background of gold letters.

It is a place where no one can easily enter or leave, and it is a place where the gods live.

On both sides of the entrance, there are human-height stone dolls.

At this moment, I can see through the thin paper window that there is a faint light emitting inside.

Just standing at the bottom of the stairs, just seeing this small main hall and the light, my heart beat non-stop.

At this moment, Jinghai Shenyue clenched his hand, and a cool touch slid over his skin.

"I'm fine."

He took the initiative to let go of her hand.

"Okay."

Sweat was wet in Jiang Yuanshen's palm, the gentle and gentle darkness blurred on the inside of his eyelids, and the breathing sound of Jinghai Shenyue standing aside was clearly imprinted in his ears.

She took out the key, it was a very simple key, and the gap was not complicated.

"You can get in with this key, right?" Jiang Yuanshen asked.

"Hmm." Jinghai Shenyue's fingers gently rubbed the lines of the key, and her eyes looked at him and said, "You really want to do this?" ”

"It's all already here, and it's too uncourageous to turn around and run." Jiang Yuan smiled bitterly, "Do you want to go in with me?" ”

"Yes, because I don't know what's going to happen." Jinghai Shenyue's long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and a voice like a silver bell rolled in her throat, "I want to take a few more looks, too." ”

Before Jiang Yuanshen's brain had time to think about it, his feet had already followed Jinghai Shenyue forward, stepping on the stairs of the main hall step by step.

The key is inserted into the jack of the door, but Shizumi Shenyue finds that the door is not locked.

With a slight push, the door opened.

Her eyes widened in surprise, her lips, which were usually tightly pursed into a line, bent down slightly, and her snow-white and transparent skin was faintly stained with a layer of redness. Jiang Yuanshen understood that she was also nervous.

Inside the main hall, it is an ordinary tatami room.

However, under the dim light, you can see dozens of "young doll queen" shelves in front of the gold screen made of gold leaf against the wall.

On each seven-layer puppet shelf, there are chicks placed from top to bottom-

The first floor houses the emperor and his wife, the second floor houses the court maids, the third floor houses the musicians, the fourth floor houses the guards, the fifth floor houses the retinue, and the bottom two floors contain palanquins, vanity mirrors, fans, and other household items.

Each of the dolls is exquisitely crafted, with extravagant dyeing, embroidery, and metalwork visible to the naked eye.

Jiang Yuanshen had never entered the worship hall of Zhitori Shrine, and at this time, the countless chick dolls in front of him made him swallow his saliva.

In particular, the Hina Doll Queens of all eras are extraordinarily exquisite.

According to Igarashi's paper stealing, the main hall is rarely entered, but there is not even a fine dust here.

"That's . I? ”

At the right time, a trembling voice came from Jinghai Shenyue beside him, and his eyes stared blankly at one of the chick puppet frames.

Jiang Yuan looked at her line of sight, and saw that at the top of the hina doll frame, there was a particularly eye-catching name under the queen's hina doll -

"Deep Moon in the Silent Sea"

Their minds were distorted by the scene in front of them, as if the hot glass had been cooled and solidified into a strange shape.

A sympathetic look appeared in Shizumi Fukatsuki's bright dark eyes, staring at the Hina puppet frame in front of him.

"An Jixiang Mountain Shadow, seeing the mountain well, the shallow heart is like a shallow well, not my chest-"

When the two of them stood still, the gentle and gentle singing voice was like a latent queen's mouth, gently flowing into the ears of the two, shaking the eardrums.

Jiang Yuanshen peeked in the direction of the song, and saw that Yami Xunyu was sitting on a tatami mat at some point, and in his arms was a "Emperor" chick puppet.

Her carefully painted red nails and delicately trimmed eyebrows all highlight the feminine posture.

And beside the night to see Xun Yu, there stood the young girl that Jiang Yuanshen had seen in the shrine before, and asked him to leave quickly.

The young girl was like a statue at this time, and she didn't move.

The eyes of the deep moon in the still sea were trembling in an unconcealed way, and the seemingly soft little mouth was like a goldfish moving meaninglessly.

She can understand that the night in front of her is just a physical body, but the soul in it is "the god of Zhitori Island".

Yami Xunyu's eyes were confused, and his slender and white fingers gently stroked the face of the hina doll:

"Women are too weak, even if they are beautiful, they can't choose to stay, and sure enough, men will be better."

"That's Jiang Yuan's chick puppet?" Jinghai Shenyue looked blankly at the chick doll in her arms, and took the initiative to speak, "You want him to replace my mother?" ”

Ye saw Xun Yu hugging the chick puppet tightly without saying anything, a cold light flashed on his face, and his eyes stared straight at the deep moon in the quiet sea:

"You're just as selfish as your mother, and you need someone better."

Then her expression changed when she looked at Jiang Yuanshen, and suddenly changed to a smiling face as warm as a spring flower field.

"Xiao Shen, I like you so much, you can do whatever you want on the island in the future, as long as it is all the regrets that happen on the island, you can make up for it, become the first "emperor" of Zhitori Island, and be with me forever."

Her voice is like a clear and transparent note, and it is like a spring breeze left in the past wafting in the house, which will bring new green unconsciously.

It was so wonderful that Jiang Yuanshen's heart suddenly had a groundless sense of mission, telling him that he had to take on this responsibility and promise her words.

"Me"

"What do you mean to be the first "Emperor" of Chitori Island?" Jinghai Shenyue looked at her long eyelashes vibrating up and down, and the light outlined the delicate outline.

"I don't need you, just stay with caution." Seeing that Xun Yu looked at Jiang Yuanshen's eyes were full of enthusiasm and determination, "As long as Xiao Shen promises me, you can leave at any time." ”

Not only Jiang Yuanshen was stunned, but even Jinghai Shenyue's breathing slowed down by half a beat.

How could they not know about the "deal" proposed by the "gods".

As long as he promised her, Jiang Yuanshen would become the "emperor" of Chitori Island.

From then on, the "Queen" will cease to exist because of Jiang Yuanshen, and the quiet sea and deep moon can be free, and she will be able to leave Zhitori Island and live the life she wants without causing an earthquake.

Instead, Jiang Yuanshen will be trapped on Zhitori Island forever.

The muddy and sticky emotions surged into Jiang Yuanshen's heart mercilessly, making him grit his teeth and his throat hot.

"I don't like to force it, so if you want to, I'll put the chick doll I made for you on the table." The eyes of the night seeker are like stars.

Shizumi Fukatsuki's shoulders shook up and down with the disordered breathing, and Sakura's lips opened and closed, making a strange sound that was almost mournful:

"I won't leave, Jiang Yuan, let's go."

Her hand gripped Jiang Yuanshen's arm tightly, but he stood still like a statue.

"Jiang Yuan?"

A thin sound came from between the teeth of Jinghai Shenyue, and then, hearing Jiang Yuanshen's words, made her eyes shake violently.

"Can I have the power to go back to the way I was?"

Jiang Yuanshen's deep words hit Jing Hai Shenyue's eardrums fiercely, and his serious thinking made her gasp.

Yami Xunyu gently stroked the head of the chick doll and said:

"Yes, but I won't allow the earthquake of that year not to happen."

"Why?"

"There is no reason, there is always a price to pay"

She looked at Jiang Yuanshen, her eyes narrowed softly,

"But what does that matter to you? As long as it goes well, your sister can survive the earthquake, Chao Kong's mother can avoid sudden death at work, and Shaoxing can live a life with you, and everyone will be happy because of you."

"She's bewitching you." Jinghai Shenyue leaned over to Jiang Yuanshen's side, and said with a solemn face, "Don't be fascinated by her words, we don't know if she's here."

"What about you, Jinghai-san?"

Jiang Yuanshen suddenly glanced at her.

"Me?"

"Will you go back five years for me?"

Seeing his serious expression, Jinghai Shenyue felt his fingertips become cold, his throat was tight, and he was suddenly speechless.

"Xiao Shen, after all, she always thought that you would give up on helping her, otherwise she would have gone back to five years ago for you."

Ye Jian Xun Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a clear and calm tone,

"She's just as selfish as her mother, and you're helping the wrong person."

In front of her was a very unpleasant scene for Jinghai Shenyue, a person dressed in her mother's skin, saying words that made her heart swell with anger.

Jiang Yuanshen saw that she didn't respond, and immediately smiled bitterly: "I can only rely on myself, I can do everything."

"Okay, I can." Jinghai Shenyue stared straight into his face and said in a firm tone, "If you want to go back, do it now." ”

(End of chapter)