Chapter 14: A Long and Slow Road Ahead (Part I)

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"Why is it thundering all of a sudden?" Yuka Yoshida was awakened from her sleep by the faint sound of thunder outside the window, and opened her eyes to look at her husband, who was sleeping soundly next to him, and he was unaware of the thunder.

The thin blanket that covered the body was lifted aside, but fortunately I wore pajamas inside, so I didn't catch a cold, and the sea breeze at night in Tokyo in the summer made the temperature relatively cool.

In the economic downturn, the air conditioner is not turned on at home, but the windows are opened everywhere in the house when sleeping, so that the flowing sea breeze can take away the heat in the house and play a good cooling role.

But instead, the strong humidity brought by the sea breeze makes it easy for mold to grow in all dark corners of the home, which needs to be disinfected and cleaned from time to time, which also increases the amount of labor Yuka Yoshida has in disguise.

Yoshida Yuka sighed, and then remembered that there were still clothes hanging on the balcony of the house. Because yesterday morning's weather forecast was sunny at night, Yoshida Yuka stole a little lazy in the evening, and did not take back the clothes that were dried during the day as usual, but prepared to wait for the night to blow and clean up tomorrow morning. From the faint sound of thunder outside, it seems that it is going to rain suddenly.

Yuka Yoshida lifted the thin blanket, straightened up, and poked her head out the window.

I saw that there was a white expanse outside the window, and the thick fog filled the whole world, even the magnolia tree near the window on the second floor in the courtyard could not be seen clearly, only a trace of silver with blue light passed above the white fog from time to time, and the light in that moment made the white fog faintly transparent.

The humidity is so high? And it's foggy?

Yuka Yoshida, who thought it was just thunder, and it hadn't rained yet, immediately got up from the mat, and the child's school uniform was still confiscated on the balcony, and if it fogged up, the clothes on the balcony must be full of weapons, and they had to be ironed immediately before they could be put away.

Yuka Yoshida was thinking about these household chores, and she couldn't sleep anymore, so she put on her slippers and turned on the street lights in the corridor, and tried to keep her footsteps as low as possible so as not to disturb the sleep of her husband and two children.

On the balcony, Yuka Yoshida listened to the faint thunder overhead while collecting the clothes on the clothes pole.

This thunder is like a big drum, sometimes striking, the sound is rich, straight into the heart, but not stuffy at all, there is no feeling of oppression, it reminds her of the taiko drum beaten by men when she was a child in her hometown sacrifice.

The sound that comes from the rolling sound is said to drive away evil spirits and make people healthy. Men by the sea, however, often use it to pray for a good harvest at sea.

The scene of the whole village celebrating with the joy of the whole village as the fishing boats sailing to the sound of taiko drums loaded with their harvest and returning home are really hard to forget in retrospect.

Thinking of this, Yuka Yoshida couldn't help but be interrupted by the thunder light that flashed above her head from time to time.

I really think too much, it's a taiko drum instrument, and this is a thunderbolt, can the thunder still cast a net and fish?

Yuka Yoshida put the clothes in the storage basket and prepared to take them back to the house for a while to iron them carefully, and gradually noticed that the white fog around her began to fade slowly in the thunder.

Is it because of the sea breeze? The southeast monsoon winds blowing in Tokyo Bay in the summer carry away most of the residual moisture in this famous city, making it difficult to see such a dense fog that obscures the sky and the moon in the city.

Yoshida Yuka finished packing up her last clothes and wanted to look up at the bright moon in the sky, because she felt that the moonlight tonight was exceptionally bright, and it had already covered the street lamp outside the courtyard wall, but everything in front of her made the storage basket in her hand fall to the ground.

Where did the bright moon come from in the sky? There was only a huge silver net hanging high and boundless, as if covering the sky of the entire city of Tokyo! The faint thunder that came from time to time was born from the silver net.

But none of this is the most terrible!

The most terrifying thing was that through the silver net, a huge whirlpool appeared in the sky above the city of Tokyo, and a huge city exactly like the city of Tokyo was passing through the whirlpool, hanging upside down and slowly poking out its hideous face.

Tokyo City hanging upside down?!

Isn't this the age of Edo mythology, where ghosts are only found in stories, legends, and TV dramas?

With the naked eye, it can be seen that a huge figure hangs upside down in the city of Tokyo from time to time, and it looks like it is not a normal humanoid creature. The falling figures were stopped by the huge silver webs in the sky, like mosquitoes and flies stuck in the cobwebs, unable to move anymore.

Yuka Yoshida sat on the ground with weak legs. With her housewife's mind, she really couldn't imagine what a terrifying scene it would be for these huge monster-like creatures to fall to the ground and destroy the city without a giant net to stop them!

Amaterasu is above, this is a miracle!

Moments later, strong air raid sirens sounded over the entire city of Tokyo, and it seemed that the government was just as quick to spot the strangeness above the sky after the fog had lifted. Countless searchlights were turned on, huge pillars of light were shot into the sky, silver nets covering the entire city were illuminated, exclamations were heard from all over the streets, thousands of lights were lit up, and the city that had just fallen asleep was awakened.

A woman with a beautiful figure stared blankly at the top of her head, the sound of countless air raid sirens sounded in her ears, and the terrifying figure, the same silver thunder, flashed in her mind. It had turned into a thin gossamer in the hands of that mysterious man, but now it was a large net that was densely covered in the sky above the city of Tokyo, and countless monsters with terrifying aura were glued to it.

"This is what you are talking about, I think it is a precursor to the destruction of the world~ Tokyo City is too dangerous, I have to get out of here quickly!"

Hundreds of warplanes and helicopters took off from air bases across the country and rushed to Tokyo, Japan's brightest city. The huge whirlpool in mid-air, the upside-down Tokyo Castle and the bright silver net are the most striking targets.

"Report, we're close to the silver net. ”

"Report what you see now! Repeat, report what you see now!"

"Monsters! All of them are monsters! All of them are now trapped in that mysterious silver net and cannot move!"

"What?!Are you sure?!"

"Report to the commander, there is a real-time picture from the radar ahead!"

"Play Now!"

Countless screens in the command rooms of military bases throughout Japan immediately showed a clear picture: countless terrifying figures trapped in that mysterious net. These figures let out countless roars from the mouth of the fangs, but they did not transmit any sound at all.

"Tengu!Mountain Boy!Essence Mole Cricket!Red Tongue!Oh my God, it's full of legendary ghosts?Is it true that the ghost door is wide open today, and these evil things are released?!"

"Odawara!Do you know these things?!"

"Report sir, because of my belief in Buddhism, I like to learn about the ghost stories of my country's folklore, so I have seen a lot of related atlases, and the ghosts painted on them are what they look like in the picture~"

"This~ Could it be that the upside-down Tokyo City hanging in the sky is actually a ghost town?!And the silver net prevented these ghosts from coming to Tokyo?!"

"And what is the silver net?!"

"Get the pilot closer to the silver net, and we'll have to figure out what it is. Why are these horrible monsters captured by it!"

"Report, we are now close to the silver net, close to the silver net. ”

"Report your findings now!"

"We discovered that these silver nets were not entities, but fluids of silver and pale blue brilliance. The specific substance cannot be judged~"

"Nani?!Not an entity?!" The commander was about to be driven crazy by the report of the pilot in front, he had always believed in science, he did not believe in the existence of ghosts and gods anyway, but the reality and the reports of the people in front told him that all this was a fact, not an illusion.

So, what exactly are these things? Who can give an answer?!

At this time, a counselor from the Cabinet Secretariat hurriedly came and handed the commander a note.

The commander suspiciously took it and looked at it, only to see that it was written: Immediately contact the Koyasan Shingon Sect and the Hieisan Tiantai Sect to inform them and dispatch the Esoteric monks!

Monks and soldiers? Our country still retains something that only exists in this legend? Your Excellency the Commander is full of unconfidence.

There's no way, why are you stunned, hurry up and send someone to contact you~

A few minutes later, the air raid sirens over Tokyo City died down and the beams of searchlights were turned off, but the bells of temples and temples across Japan began to ring one by one, and finally merged into a sea of bells and countless horns.

Buried in the deep mountains, the tall temple door was opened, and a group of monks lined up neatly, wearing five-colored armor on the upper body, white brackets on the lower body, shin scarves tied on the lower legs, and leather feet on the feet, holding hexagonal steel rods, the two ends of the stick heads were carved into fine lotus altars, the faces were expressionless, and they were extremely powerful.

The procession was neat and silent, and they exited the gate of the temple where the huge candle was lit and disappeared into the mountains along the stone steps between the mountains.

Are these the legendary monks? Can they deal with the ghosts in the sky above the city of Tokyo?

The officers looked at the silent procession, moving forward silently, without suspicion.

The so-called monk soldier is a major product of Japanese history, it is the secret armed force of the temple, so that the power of Buddhism in the Warring States period further developed into the third major force against the public and samurai ~ monks, and some regional religious leaders such as Honganji Temple also became the actual local ruler of the daimyo through this.

The Japanese government here refers to the bureaucrats who served the emperor and the imperial court and lived in the vicinity of Gyeonggi and were representatives of the aristocratic group.

The samurai family developed from the families in charge of guarding the military garrison in the domains and estates of the ancient public family, and its core was the Taira clan and the Genji clan, who established the shogunate system and overthrew the emperor, nobles, and bureaucrats.

Buddhism, as the largest religious sect in Japan, was not to be outdone, and also established its own armed group, which was the famous monk soldier, which was used to defend its own interests, and stood side by side with the public family and the samurai.

There are six schools of Buddhism in Japan: Tendai, Shingon, Zen, Pure Land, Pure Land, Nichiren (Hokke). The most famous of these are the Tendai sect and the Shingon sect, which have been used in captivity since ancient times.

"Five-wheeled workshop! They dispatched five-wheeled workshop!" exclaimed one of the officers.

"What is Gowabo?Omori, what do you know?!"

"Legend has it that they are the strongest troops of the Shingon sect, representing the five mystical forces of earth, water, fire, wind, and air that make up this world. ”

"It's fake, it's in this era, where is there ......"

Before someone could finish speaking, I saw a huge metal shield floating in the air above the temple gate, and the shield was two feet in circumference, like a huge flying saucer flying through the air.

There were serrated teeth on the edge of the shield, like gears, and the whole body exuded a strange metallic luster, and a mighty man with a giant sword and a woman with a purple cloud veil on her shoulders stood proudly on the shield, and walked away in the air.

"Omori~ Who are those two adults?Do you know?" This time the question, the tone was much more polite, and it was clear that the previous scene frightened all the proud sons in the general.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's the leader of the Wuwafang troops, the two adults of the Wind God Lan and the Thunder God Thunder Fire, they are legendary figures, and I didn't expect that this time they were also dispatched. ”

"It seems that the matter in Tokyo City is going to be big, I hope that the civilians are safe and not be drawn into this war..."

Yes, the city of Tokyo is like a boiling hot pot at this moment, and when people wake up from their sleep, they find that their heads have changed, and the legendary ghosts and the upside-down Tokyo city do not look friendly at all.

Although there was no action for the time being, and the mysterious silver net locked the falling ghosts one by one, threatening the city below, fear still spread in people's hearts like weeds.

The flight of the plane was naturally grounded, and no aircraft dared to touch the silver net thousands of meters above the city, for fear that if one was not careful, the silver net would be broken, and the thousands of ghosts that were locked would fall down again, and the entire city of Tokyo would immediately turn into a ghost.

While most people have been comforted by the government and the media and have gone to work, some are still preparing to pack up their belongings and escape from the most prosperous city in the Pacific.

Trains, shinkansen and cars are their preferred route, and some even hire yachts and fishing boats to get out of here.

And Lu Xihua also came to the entrance of Tokyo Station Marunouchi, preparing to go to Osaka, as the first time to take the Japanese Shinkansen, then Japan's famous train bento, naturally must not be missed.