"Well, don't really say it, this kind of bottled tea with bagged refreshments has a different flavor feeling!" Aoba swallowed the refreshment in his mouth, took another sip of the bottled tea, and nodded thoughtfully.

"I'll just say, in fact, the taste is not bad, the bottled tea is still brewed, isn't it all tea? The taste is obviously the same, I really don't understand how so many people can drink it and taste different. Uesugi Maki said with a puzzled expression.

"Actually, the taste is still different, but it's not as bad as I thought, it has a big industrial taste. Aoba thought for a moment and said with a smile.

"The smell of big industry? What is that? Forget it, let's not talk about that, Brother Aoba's time is almost now, isn't it time for us to go?" said Uesugi Maki as she looked at the sun that had completely set, and the sky that was getting darker and darker.

"Won't it be early? I thought I'd have to wait until midnight!" Aoba looked at the sky that had just darkened, and didn't expect Uesugi Maki to be in such a hurry.

"It's not early, it's not early, Brother Aoba still thinks this is in the city? It's a country without even street lights, it's no different when it's just dark and midnight, it's all the same dark anyway, and there won't be a few people who go out after dark. Uesugi Maki waved his hand and said, of course, Uesugi Maki waved his hand in the next room, and Aoba would definitely not see it.

"Well, you're obviously more familiar with this place than I am, so you have what you say. Aoba said with a shrug.

"Alright, let's go!" Uesugi Maki was talking when the figure had already burst out of the room and stood in front of Aoba's door.

In this way, through the open door, the dazzling starlight in the sky shone on Aoba's room, making the room not appear dark.

But now that Uesugi Maki blocked out all the starlight outside the door, the whole room instantly darkened.

So Aoba had no choice but to raise his hand and pull the ancient electric light rope hanging in the center of the room. I turned on the lights in the room.

"Are you leaving? at least some flashlights or something, right? and don't you need to change your clothes? It's going to be cold on the mountain at night, right?" Aoba frowned when she saw that Uesugi Maki was still in her original outfit.

"Hmph, of course I've been prepared for these for a long time, Brother Aoba wait for me. Uesugi Maki rushed back to his room as he spoke, and then Aoba heard the sound of changing clothes from the next room.

It's just that Aoba didn't hear the sound of Maki Uesugi pulling the door shut.

"Sister Maki, I said that you should change your clothes and close the door of the room!" Aoba said in a somewhat helpless tone.

"Is Brother Aoba interested in his sister's change of clothes?" Uesugi Maki said in a pretending seductive tone, but the smile that couldn't be hidden in her voice made it obvious that she was just joking with Aoba.

"Yes, yes, I'm interested!" So Aoba said perfunctorily, but it was a weak look, but no one could hear that Aoba was perfunctory.

"Brother Aoba is really. Obviously, my sister is changing clothes next door, and she didn't even close the door, you didn't even peek at it, if it weren't for knowing that Brother Aoba you already have two girlfriends, I would have to wonder if Brother Aoba you like girls. Uesugi Maki said dissatisfied, and as she spoke, she had already changed her clothes, and walked out of the room, reappearing in front of Aoba's door.

So under the light of the lights in the Aoba room, Aoba saw a man who was already fully armed. Dressed in a denim suit and carrying an exaggerated hiking bag with ropes and hammers and other gadgets on his body, Maki Uesugi also has several flashlights.

"Are you ready, then let's go!" said Aoba who was still lying on the tatami floor. Looking at Maki Uesugi, who was already fully armed, he got up from the ground and said.

"Hey, Brother Aoba, are you wearing this, didn't you change your clothes just now?" Uesugi Maki said in surprise when he saw that Aoba was still dressed in the same clothes as during the day.

"I didn't know I was going on an expedition in the middle of the night, so where would I have clothes like yours!" Aoba said with a shrug.

"Even if you don't have clothes like mine. At least change into some thicker clothes, right? It's very cold in the mountains at night. Uesugi Maki frowned and said very seriously, it could be seen that she really cared about Aoba.

"Okay. I see, thank you for your concern. Aoba saw that Uesugi Maki was really worried about herself, so even though she wasn't afraid of the cold, she turned around and went to her gift box to find a coat and put it on her body and said.

"Then let's go! Brother Aoba, do you have a flashlight? I have extra here, you can take it. Uesugi Maki saw that Aoba was obediently wearing an extra piece of clothing, so he was satisfied and handed Aoba a flashlight, and at the same time reached out and pulled Aoba over, ready to pull him out.

"Thank you, Sister Maki. In this way, Aoba smiled and took the flashlight handed by Uesugi Maki, turned off the lights in the room at the same time, and followed Uesugi Maki out of the room, and walked all the way out of the small courtyard where the two were.

At this moment, as the sky completely darkened, the entire building complex where the Uesugi family was located was completely plunged into darkness, only the moonlight and shining stars in the sky illuminated the building, so that everything did not fall into darkness completely.

But in the corners of the courtyards, where weeds or shrubs are overgrown, darkness is still everywhere.

Especially in the rooms where Aoba and Uesugi Maki passed by, it was even more black as if some demons and monsters would rush out in the next moment.

Uesugi Maki didn't look like anything on the surface, but Aoba kept holding his hand from Uesugi Maki, and there was a slight wet sweat in his palm, and he could still feel Uesugi Maki's nervousness.

In this way, the two shuttled through the courtyards under the leadership of Uesugi Maki, these courtyards were pitch black and silent at the same time, or the entire mountain where the Uesugi family was located at this moment, except for the place where the father and son Uesugi Yuichiro and Uesugi Ginji lived, were all pitch black.

Although there are many buildings left behind in the heyday of the Uesugi family, there is a time when they are finished, and Aoba is led by Uesugi Maki all the way through the increasingly dilapidated courtyards. Finally, I walked out of the Uesugi family complex and came to the edge of the forest.

"Brother Aoba, look over there. Uesugi Maki, who had just walked out of the complex, pointed to the distance and said to Aoba.

So Aoba followed Maki Uesugi's finger and saw the light on another mountain on the other side of the mountain.

"That's the lights in the village, right?" said Aoba as she looked at it and made sure it was the direction of the village.

"Yes, that's the only source of light for this place at night, so just by seeing the lights of the village, plus where we are, we can determine the location of the temple. Brother Aoba comes with me. After Uesugi finished speaking, he pulled Aoba into the forest in front of him.

The trees in the forest are not particularly lush, at least the distance between the trees is still very large, and there is no way to walk.

The two of them could even continue to see the lights of the village in the distance through the tree-to-tree intervals.

So under the light as a coordinate to guide the way, Aoba followed Uesugi Maki, and the two turned on the flashlight in their hands to illuminate the way ahead, constantly shuttling through the forest.

"Is the temple so far away?" Aoba looked at Uesugi Maki who had already walked far away, and still didn't mean to stop at all. So he asked.

"Of course, it is far away, and it is said that the Shikigami that inhabits the temple needs a quiet environment for sleeping, and the Uesugi family had a large population, so it is natural that the temple was built far away from the residence. But I didn't expect that by now, there are few people left in the entire Uesugi family, and even if it is built next to the Uesugi family, it will not be noisy at all. Uesugi Maki said without the slightest reverence for the Uesugi family in his mouth.

So the two of them walked through the mountains. Until the lights of the village behind them gradually became more and more invisible, a stone path in the middle of the mountain appeared in front of the two of them.

"Found it. Finally found, then just follow the road up the hill, and soon we will reach the temple. Uesugi Maki looked at the stone steps that appeared in front of him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Uesugi Maki is also very unsure about whether he can find the temple with Aoba, and now that he has finally found a route to the temple without fail, he naturally relaxes all of a sudden.

"It's getting late, let's hurry up, or when we come back in a while, we won't be able to go back without the lights in the village as coordinates." Aoba said as he looked at the light behind him, which seemed far away.

"It's okay, we won't be in the temple for long, an hour or two should be enough. Uesugi Maki looked at the time.

"But I'm afraid that the lights in the village will be on for less than an hour or two, and this is not Tokyo, and there are a lot of places where the lights are still on even at midnight. Aoba smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Ah, I forgot, people here usually turn off the lights early, and even if they are late, they are very rare. Uesugi Maki seemed to have just reacted.

"Yes, given the distance from the village, it would not be easy to see the lights if there were only a few places left in the whole village. Aoba nodded and said.

"What then?" Uesugi Maki was a little confused for a while, she really couldn't imagine what it was like to be trapped in this deep mountain and old forest for a night.

"What else can we do? Speed up, let's go back early. After Aoba finished speaking, he walked down the stone steps to the mountain.

"Yes, let's hurry up and come back early. Uesugi Maki immediately hurried to catch up with Aoba.

In fact, for Aoba, with the guidance of divine sense, it is impossible to get lost, the reason why he said this is just to scare Uesugi Maki, so that she has a little sense of crisis, and will come back early in a while!

The temple was in an unnamed state right now, and even with Aoba's protection, he didn't want Uesugi Maki to stay in that kind of place for too long in the middle of the night.

So the two of them walked on the stone steps up the mountain, all the way to the temple located halfway up the mountain.

At this moment, the two of them could already see the temple on a platform formed by a rock protrusion halfway up the mountain.

I don't know how long the temple has been there, but as Aoba and Uesugi get closer, they feel more and more that this temple exudes a strange aura.

Uesugi Maki was only approaching the temple, and he felt goosebumps all over his body, and Aoba had already clearly felt the ghost aura coming from the temple.

That's right, it's ghost, because Shikigami is essentially a ghost, but it's not necessarily a human ghost.

So when Aoba felt the heavy ghost aura coming out of the temple, it was already determined, there is indeed a Shikigami here, it seems that the ancestor of the Uesugi family is an Onmyoji, it can already be determined that it is true, and the rest is to determine whether the Shikigami here is really actively sleeping, or has been sealed in some way.

If it is actively sleeping, then it means that the legend spread by the Uesugi family is not false, this Shikigami is a good-hearted guy, grateful for the kindness of the Uesugi family, and has been waiting for an owner who can control it.

If it is sealed, it means that the legend is biased, and the Shikigami here is not a good guy, it is just sealed.

But all of this doesn't really matter to Aoba, because whether this guy is asleep or sealed, he will definitely not be able to turn over Aoba's Five Finger Mountain anyway.

"Brother Aoba, are we here?" Walking on the stone steps up the mountain, Uesugi Maki, who looked out of breath, looked at the temple that finally appeared in front of him, and didn't care if he had goosebumps on his body, but was so tired that he sat on the stone steps in front of the temple, and kept wearing a rough fit to rest.

"It's here, we've arrived, but as for being tired like this?" Aoba looked at Uesugi Maki's snorting appearance, and was really speechless about the physical strength of modern urban youth.

"No, I'm not good anymore, I didn't expect to be so tired climbing the mountain, I remember not feeling so tired when I was a child!" Uesugi Maki said without mind revealing that his current physical strength is not as good as when he was a child.

Seeing Uesugi Maki sitting on the stone steps like a fool, not wanting to move a single step, Aoba didn't know what to say for a while. (To be continued.) )