The inn's wraiths are likely to be just a confusing option, as the wraiths with the red string bells are just ghosts of the evil spirits, and even if they succeed in putting all the hotel wraiths to rest, there is no way to actually break the energy of the evil spirits and leave the dungeon.

And the smell of burning in the shrine shows that this powerful evil spirit hiding behind the ghost was also burned to death, and for some reason, it is now trapped in the shrine, and its power has not been truly released.

After successfully obtaining Koya's Ema, the two began to try to leave the shrine.

But something strange happened in the end, the inside of the shrine is not big, and they returned the same way, but they couldn't find the gate of the shrine to the hot spring town, and they couldn't see the torii gate when they came.

The white fog grew thicker and thicker, so thick that it almost engulfed the light of Qi Jiu's flashlight.

The two of them circled around the courtyard and prayer stand several times, and the gate with the chains literally disappeared into the thick fog.

"It's... What's going on? Qin Rang hugged his arms and trembled slightly, and he couldn't tell whether he was scared or felt clammy and cold at the moment.

Qi Jiu: "The ghost hits the wall, right?" Why don't you try Xiaomi's method? ”

Qin Rang: "Ah... Do you mean hot urine shower? Now I can't pee. ”

Qi Jiu: "Just kidding, we can't get out, most likely because we haven't completed the rules set by the shrine for travelers." ”

Qin Rang suddenly said: "What do you mean... Because we didn't make a wish? ”

"But the hot spring mother-in-law has explained that the black painted horse is polluted by evil spirits, try not to use it..."

Qi Zhen: "But if we don't use it, we may be trapped in the shrine until we die, and we won't be able to get out, and..."

Halfway through his words, he walked straight to the table where Ema was placed.

Qin Rang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed his footsteps: "And what? ”

"Since we can't change the rules of the shrine, and we can't change the color of Ema, then we can control our wishes."

As he spoke, Qi Yan had already picked up a piece of black Ema and wrote his wish on the front of Emma-

"Meet Ikuko-san."

Chapter 48: 404 Hot Spring Street (18)

After all, instead of guessing the identity of that Miss Yuzi, it is better to summon the other party directly to meet her.

After writing the wish of "meeting Miss Ikuko", Qi Yan turned Ema over, he thought about it for a while, and wrote down the price-

"Negotiable"

Qin Rang, who was watching from the sidelines, was shocked: "... Anyway, you pay this price... Is it really okay? ”

Qi Yan shrugged: "I don't know this Miss Yuzi well, I don't know what the other party wants, can't we meet and understand each other first, and then talk about the conditions?" ”

Qin Rang was speechless: "......"

Good guy, it's the first time he's seen someone write "negotiable" directly at the cost when they are trading with evil spirits, and this is not a salary negotiation with HR!

"Let's meet and talk, I think it's good for both sides of the deal." Qi Yan took it for granted.

He dared to make such an outrageous condition as "face to face" with Miss Yuzi, first, he really didn't understand this evil spirit hiding behind the ghost; The second is that he is sure that Miss Yuko will agree to the request to meet, and no matter what price he writes, the other party will appear.

After all, he had already called the evil spirit by its name, "Miss Yuko", wouldn't the evil spirit be curious about how he knew it?

Qin Rang picked up a piece of Ema with a hesitant face: "It's my turn..."

The shrine is only a black ema tainted by resentment, but he is not willing to make a deal with evil spirits.

But if they don't, they won't be able to leave the shrine due to the rules......

Just when Qin Rang was in trouble, Qi Yan said categorically: "You don't have to make a wish. ”

Saying that, he also took the opportunity to throw away the black painted horse in Qin Rang's hand.

Qin Rang was stunned and puzzled: "Huh? Are you sure? But the rules don't say..."

"The rules only say that after entering the shrine, please take Ema and write down your wishes, but it doesn't emphasize that it's every traveler, and I think as long as one of the visitors entering the shrine does so, it's in accordance with the rules." Qi Yan reminded.

Qin Rang was stunned, and suddenly said, "... That's right, the rules don't say it's everyone! ”

Since quests can trap them for wordplay, they can also exploit the loopholes of quest rules.

If it doesn't work at that time, he will find a way to make a wish, save what he can, and strive to minimize risks and losses.

Qi Ji tied the black painted horse with a red string bell with a red string bell, then slightly raised his toes and hung it on the top of the prayer stand.

Qin Rang suddenly remembered something, and took out the spell pendant of the hot spring mother-in-law and returned it to Qi Jiu: "I feel that you should take it, you made a deal with the evil spirit, it is more dangerous......"

Qi Yan accepted the pendant: "It's okay." ”

"Jingle bells, jingle bells—"

At this moment, the night fog in the shrine courtyard was raised by the wind, and the thick white instantly blurred Qi Yan's sight, and he was like falling into a white swamp, and everything around him was swallowed up by the thick fog in an instant.

"Jingle bells, jingle bells......"

The bells of Ema on the prayer rack came and went, connecting like waves in the thick white, and the damp white mist also turned into countless white noises, and the sharp bells carried countless noises on the surface, in order to prevent the pleasure value from dropping, Qi Yan quickly closed his eyes.

It wasn't until he felt that the noise had receded, the sharp ringtones had gradually weakened, and the strange smell of fat powder and the faint smell of blood had replaced the smell of burning, that Qi Yan slowly opened his eyes.

Intense red rushed to his face, and Qi Jiu was in a corridor full of bizarre ukiyo-e paintings.

He was in a trance for only half a second, and then he realized that he was now in a fantasy world woven by the evil spirits of the shrine - "Yu no Ya".

The wall at the end of the corridor turned into a semi-transparent shoji door, the candle flame flickered inside the paper door, and the silhouette of a woman dressed in a costume and holding her hair in a high bun appeared behind the door.

Unlike the previous two dreams, the woman behind the door had neither a pipe nor a cat.

Although it was just a vague silhouette, Qi Zhen was almost sure in his heart that Miss Yuzi was not that guy.

The originally fast-paced heartbeat also calmed down in an instant, and it was undeniable that he was inexplicably a little disappointed.

It seems that Miss Yuzi's clue is more complicated than he expected.

Qi Yan quickly digested his emotions, he took two steps forward and knocked softly on the shoji door at the end of the corridor: "Excuse me, I'm here to make an appointment with Miss Yuzi." ”

Knocking, he politely took two steps back and waited for a response.

The tense silence spread for two seconds.

With a creak, the shoji door was finally pushed open from the inside.

A beautiful woman dressed as an Oiran sat inside the door, holding a blood-stained fan that covered half of her face.

It's not that guy......

The last glimmer of hope in Qi Jiu's heart was also extinguished, and he lowered his eyelids slightly while wearing a noh face.

The costumed Oiran looked at him for a moment: "You know me?" ”

Qi Yan: "Yes, I heard about you from other guests. ”

Miss Ikuko: "Why do you want to see me?" ”

Qi Jiu: "I don't think there should be anyone who doesn't want to see you." ”

Miss Ikuko was stunned for a moment, then giggled: "You're funny, no one has ever written a wish to meet me on Ema, and no one has written "negotiable" on the price. ”

Her shrill laughter stung Qi Jiu's eardrums, and Qi Jiu's pleasure value began to show signs of decreasing.

But Qi Ji still said quietly: "But you are still willing to see me, right?" ”

Miss Yuzi's shoulders trembled slightly with laughter, and the hairpin inserted in her bun was shaken by her and clanked: "Say, what are you seeing me for?" ”

Qi Yan asked straight to the point, "I want to know why you are trapped in the shrine." ”

The smile on Miss Yuko's face instantly froze, she lowered her eyelids slightly with sadness, and after a while, she pressed her pale hand on her stomach and said in a crying voice: "Because I am pregnant with the child of the martial family, the martial family will not allow such a thing to happen, they want to completely erase this scandal and erase my existence, so they can only use a big fire to burn me and the child here." ”

Qi Zhen raised her eyelids again to look at Miss Yuko, the heavily makeup Oiran drooped her eyelids sadly, and the blood-stained fan always covered the lower half of her face.

On the handle of the fan is hung a red bell of the same style as Ema.

Qi Yan also noticed that Miss Yuzi also had the same red thread wrapped around her ten fingers, which reminded him of the puppeteer who manipulated the dolls.

"The fire destroyed everything, and then the hot spring town gradually became cold, and the times changed, and finally the flower street that was once flourishing became a tourist resort, and this "Yu no Ya" was transformed into a shrine, and my soul was trapped here forever."

As if recalling the painful past, Miss Ikuko whimpered lowly.

The story of Oiran being wiped out because of the child of a man with a high position sounded reasonable, even too reasonable, but it made Qi Zhen suspicious.

After all, in the description of the filth of the soup pool, this Miss Ikuko is not such a weak and infatuated woman.

"I'm sorry," Qi Yan didn't reveal his suspicions, and continued to ask, "After that fire, has the Yin Fire here been spreading to this day?" ”

Miss Yuzi was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "That's the case, because my resentment has been trapped here for a long time, and this fire will never be extinguished." ”

As she spoke, she secretly glanced at Qi Yan through the blood-stained fan.

But Qi Zhen was wearing a "Sixteen" mask on his face, and she couldn't see the young man's expression clearly.

Qi Ji continued to ask quietly: "Can you tell me, why did you choose Xiaomi?" ”

Miss Yuzi was slightly stunned, and her eyes narrowed slightly when she looked at Qi Yan: "Do you mean that poor child with strong energy and a mother who has died?" She took the initiative to give herself to me, so ...... The unexpected happened. ”

Qi Zhen was silent, can this accident really be summarized as an "accident"?

Regardless of whether Miss Yuzi's background is true or not, her words confirm Qi Jiu's long-standing speculation: because of the relationship between powerful resentment and incendiary objects, the fire in Flower Street a hundred years ago was transformed into an endless yin fire, which has been burning in an invisible place in this hot spring street.

Miya, who was born with psychic abilities, made a deal with Miss Yuko, and Miss Yuko used her energy field as a connection to lead the century-old Yin Fire to the real hot spring street, thus causing the tragic fire on Chinese New Year's Eve that killed 21 people.

The fire in Flower Street a hundred years ago was the "cause" of the hot spring street accident, and the New Year's Eve fire accident at the hotel was the "effect".

Mi's transaction is the "key" that connects this cause and effect.

There are only two options to truly prevent the impending fire accident: either to solve the "key" that connects the cause and effect, or to fundamentally cut off the "cause" of the year.

As for why Miss Yuzi did this, Qi Zhen guessed that she might need to rely on the power of others to devour the lives of the living to maintain her own continuation.

For example, through this accident, the Yin Fire was used to cause the accident, so as to transform the lives of twenty-one tourists into stronger resentments to sustain themselves, and at the same time make the dead tourists their own ghosts.

Seeing that Qi Jiu was silent, Miss Yuzi suddenly giggled and said, "I have met your conditions, seeing you, should you fulfill your obligations and provide me with a price?" ”

Qi Zhen cut to the chase: "What do you want from me?" ”

Miss Yuzi seemed to have been waiting for his words, she glanced at Qi Yan's bare neck, and after secretly swallowing her saliva, she lowered her gaze pitifully: "Let me drink a sip of your blood, I may be able to recover some strength to break free from the suppression of the shrine, and the resentment that has accumulated in my spirit body over the years will also dissipate, so that this yin fire that has been burning for a hundred years can be extinguished..."

Qi Yan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Is this okay?" ”

Miss Yuzi smiled bitterly, and secretly peeked at Qi Ji with her spare eyes: "I don't have too many extravagant hopes. ”