Lu Ning would not agree to let others enter the RV while she was away.
Thanks to the secret scene, after she made such a request, Sugiyama and Inahara had no objections, and the two of them found ways to squeeze out space in the passenger seat. Fortunately, these two people are petite and there is enough space in the RV.
"It hasn't been a long time from here, but just in case, I hope we can have a limited exchange on the scope of the problems we can handle." Lu Ning started the car and glanced at the two people on the co-pilot, "My My main skills lie in medical skills, I am also good at making some poisons, and my marksmanship is not bad. But that's all I can do. The distribution center assigned me a supporting role. Don't expect me to suddenly burst out in a crisis. Come the strength.”
"Understand, understand!" Suiyama looked very interested, "Qianshan told me, he has told you some of our identity and background, right? But he can't understand too much."
"Yes, you two are Onmyoji. Generally speaking, there is no misunderstanding about this profession, right?"
"No. But you also know that there are many different branches in the Onmyoji system. My family and Inahara's are about the same strength, but our research directions are different. We are good at jutsu and shiki respectively."
As Suiyama said, he reached to his neck and pulled out a pendant. It was a transparent round crystal ball, half filled with liquid, which slowly flowed with Suiyama's movements.
"Under normal circumstances, we don't need you to rescue us when we encounter dangers. We just need to do a good job of self-protection. The technique I am good at is the Five Elements Technique, which is enough to deal with most situations, and Inahara..."
"I will speak for myself." Inahara nodded, "Dr. Lu has also seen it before. What I can drive is 'Shiki', but I don't have my own Shikigami yet. The ones I use are all temporarily condensed. The advantage of the system is savings, because you can keep the 'Shiki' as long as you achieve it, and if you give me time, it won't be a problem to form a legion."
"But don't count on it now, she's trying to protect herself at most." Suiyama exposed her unceremoniously.
Inahara smiled and did not argue. Lu Ning nodded accordingly.
Just like herself, the two of them will definitely not tell the truth. The identity issued by the distribution center is enough to cover everyone with several layers of masks, but from another aspect, the two of them can definitely do what they are saying now.
That would be much more convenient.
It took more than ten minutes for Lu Ning to park the car at the lakeside cabin. The three of them got out of the car and walked towards the door of the cabin. When they passed the outer fence, they found that the windows of the restaurant had been restored to their original appearance.
"Tomorrow is Tuesday." Lu Ning stopped, "The only cleaning staff in town who will come here must not have been here yet, so..."
"The legend is true."
Suiyama held the crystal ball ornament and shook it slightly. The liquid inside gradually turned white.
"One style, silhouette."
Inahara threw the four paper figures around, and the paper figures melted when they touched the ground. Then, in addition to her original shadow, four more elongated figures stretched out from under Inahara's feet. The four shadows completely ignored the light and The pattern of shadows continued to extend into the restaurant and its surroundings until the head entered the restaurant through the window.
"There is nothing abnormal, everything is as if no one has touched it." Inahara bit his fingers unconsciously, "Do you remember when we left?"
"I hope even the wood has been restored." Suiyama opened the door, glanced at the yard, and frowned.
"The barbecue grill Carl left here is gone, but there's something else we can look at."
Lu Ning climbed over the fence and jumped into the front yard, heading towards the swimming pool in the corner.
After Robert showed her the water bottle that night, he casually placed it by the pool. After so many things happened, he did not recycle it.
Now, the glass bottle is still there, but the water inside has become clear.
The strange thing is that no matter how much Lu Ning picked up the bottle and shook it, the water remained clear. The substances that originally made the water dirty did not "precipitate" but disappeared directly.
Or……
Lu Ning looked at the still turbid pool.
Back to the original place?
After checking this, Sugiyama and Inahara ran to the tool room in a familiar manner, with Lu Ning following behind, and soon came to the entrance of the basement again.
It was a simple cover, covered with a dirty blanket. When Suiyama and Inahara were about to lift the blanket, they stopped at the same time.
"Have you been here before?" Lu Ning glanced at the blanket and the dust-covered ground that had no other traces around it.
"Do you think it's restoration?"
Sugiyama asked Inahara.
"I don't know, but that's never a good thing."
There was a slight cold sweat on Inahara's head.
Among the various puzzles in the scene, time dilemmas are always among the top five on the list of tricky ones.
The second-level people have experienced it to some extent, and it is obvious that Sugiyama and Inahara's experience in this regard was not very good.
"Don't worry too much about this now." Lu Ning moved the blanket aside with her feet, and then opened the basement with the two of them, "If it is to be restored, there are still some things that can be used."
The three men walked down to the basement. Since they had already been here once, it was much faster to find those pieces of wood. Sugiyama and Inahara quickly dug out pieces of wood from the debris pile in the basement and piled them in front of the stairs. Lu Ning didn't have the ability to search, so he squatted down and looked through the wood.
From her perspective, the pieces of wood looked like a puzzle.
They were not destroyed and then discarded. Each fragment was painted and oiled for anti-corrosion treatment, and the cut surface was flat. It should have been intentionally cut and hidden here.
But...even as a demon, Lu Ning couldn't feel any special power on it.
She began to try to piece the pieces of wood together, following the grain and some marks on them. It's a pity that those are not words, but other marks.
It didn’t take long for all the wooden blocks to be found. Sugiyama and Inahara also joined the puzzle game. The three of them worked together much faster. In the end, a large six-pointed star-shaped puzzle was completed, and those The scars form a pattern of hexagons and centers.
The person who carved the pattern had poor craftsmanship, and it looked like a simple drawing from the outside. The six corners are engraved with a matchstick-like villain, a diamond-shaped eye, a heart with a thin stick, a key, a tree without leaves, and a severed cross.
Surrounded by six patterns, there is a symbol like "♀".
"What is this? Female?" Suiyama poked at the symbol in the middle, a little confused, "Does it mean a witch?"
"Maybe so."
"Then what are these things around? What special meaning do they have?"
"A ritual to summon a witch?" Inahara also guessed.
Lu Ning let the two of them think about it, while she began to think about the origin of this wooden board.
The information that ordinary tourists know includes the name of the scene where the devil and the witch return. Although it is not difficult to think of the summoning of the witch, no one knows that the devil needs to perform a witch ritual to make the witch return. The things on the wooden board are obviously related to rituals. The symbol should indeed represent the witch, but it also has another meaning...
If that was the case, then she would have to think about what kind of state the witch was in.
But before that, the credibility of this board must be confirmed first.
She took out her notebook, copied three copies of the pattern on the board, and gave it to Sugiyama and Inahara.
"You said you felt some strange energy here?"
"Yes, this wooden board must have been specially treated." Suiyama's fingers slowly moved between the lines, "I can still feel that this kind of thing is like Yin Qi, but also like death Qi? Strange? , who on earth, and for what reason, dismantled the wooden planks and threw them in a place like this where no one can find them?”
If it weren't for Suiyama and Inabara, this wooden board would never have seen the light of day.
"Maybe it's a desperate response. Should we take the wood back?" Inahara asked.
"Brother, we have to see if it can run back on its own." After Sui Shan finished speaking, he glanced at Lu Ning a little embarrassedly, "I mean... it's okay to ride on the car, right?"
"Can."
The three of them moved the pieces of wood out separately and placed them on the RV. When Lu Ning closed the car door, she felt something flash past her out of the corner of her eye. She quickly turned her head, but what she saw was the quiet forest.
"Hey...did you get something just now?"
"What? I didn't pay attention." Shanshan also looked in the direction Lu Ning was looking, but didn't find anything.
Another hallucination?
Lu Ning couldn't help but feel suspicious. If the hallucination was caused by a witch, then why would she be looking for a demon who is in the same camp as her? Shouldn’t human tourists be disturbed?
She was not prepared to catch up, but Suiyama became a little nervous. He held the crystal ball with his fingers and stared in that direction, and stepped back into the cab step by step.
"No, maybe I saw it wrong." Lu Ning started the car safely. Hearing the sound of the engine, Sugiyama felt a little safer. However, at this moment, Inahara suddenly asked a question.
"By the way, that day...how were the bodies of Sally and Xue Fengchun disposed of?"
"The body? Of course they brought it back—"
Before Suiyama could finish his words, he suddenly paused.
What if the body is really taken back? Xue Fengchun's body was moved by Qu Siyuan and Pan Haishu, while Sally's body was driven back by Luo Nan, but...how to cover it up?
The best way is to find a place to bury it on the road, or even throw it away deep in the woods. After all, no matter how well the tourists perform their emotions on the surface, there is still a question of whether they really know each other!
Suddenly, dark shadows flickered in front of my eyes. The darkness at that moment was almost at the limit of human reaction, and it would not even be noticeable if it were not for a high degree of tension.
"Use gold, Yang Lei!"
Sui Shan was already in a state of being on the verge of breaking out. When he was so frightened, he immediately threw out the magic in his hand, and the golden thunder and lightning was shot directly from the car. Naturally, it was in vain. On the contrary, Lu Ning's hand shook, and the car Turn off the flame immediately.
"Hey! Don't panic-"
boom!
A mass of black and red mixture exploded on the car window. It was a crow. It swooped down at an extremely fast speed and hit the car window desperately, and was naturally shattered to pieces. However, in contrast, there were also inconspicuous cracks on the car windows.
"What the hell!" Sui Shan stretched out his hand to support the roof of the car, and held up the crystal ball with his other hand. The white gradually turned into ink-like black, "Lu Ning! Let's start! We have to get out of here!"
"I'm turning on the ignition!" Lu Ning turned the key several times. Perhaps it was because of the lightning strike just now, but the car didn't respond for a long time.
"Star style, break the army."
Inahara stretched out his hand and stuck the two paper figures on the car window. The strong wind blew up from the car window. The two crows that followed were cut into four pieces by the wind blade in an instant, and then rolled in other directions.
"Jin Sheng Shui - can't you activate it yet? I apologize! But don't cause problems at this time!" Suiyama saw another crow swooping down from the side and hurriedly activated the spell.
"It's just a crow, we can handle it." Inahara was still able to hold his own, and was able to find time to comfort Lu Ning, "Just concentrate on starting the car."
Ice lotus flowers appeared outside the car. These lotus flowers looked insubstantial, but they condensed into shape the moment the crow passed by, crushing the crow from the inside out in an instant.
Fortunately, Lu Ning finally started the car again.
The RV moved slowly, and there were constant crashing sounds from behind the car that had no time to pay attention. It was hard to imagine what it was like. Lu Ning turned the car and drove quickly to the woods, but there were still crows rushing down from the sky. A lot of the flesh and blood on the glass had been removed by the wind, but it was inevitably stained with new ones.
"This won't work! Your line of sight will be blocked." Lu Ning kept using the wiper to try to scrape off the flesh and blood, but it only made the car window even murkier.
"Broken window! The two of us will cover your departure!" Inahara made a prompt decision.
"Water - Dry Rain!"
Suiyama reached out and pressed his hand on the car window. A crisp explosion sounded. The glass and the blood on it turned into tiny pieces, scattering forward like a rainstorm. All the crows who tried to pounce from the front were hit by this blow. Immediately after the hit, the whole body was torn apart, and it instantly exploded into a new rain of blood.
"Were these birds just now?" Lu Ning regained a clear field of vision and stepped on the accelerator to get rid of the pursuit of the crows as quickly as possible, "But the birds pecking and killing... doesn't seem to be..."
At this time, out of a subconscious desire to drive, she glanced at the rearview mirror.
On the fading road, dozens of crows circled low in the sky, and a woman in a black trimmed robe stood in the middle of the road. Her face was a silver metal mask, with only a narrow slit for her eyes. The woman raised her hand, and a crow landed on her wrist, making a hoarse and unpleasant cry.
Her short pale golden hair slowly rose up in the wind picked up by the flapping wings of the crows, and then she turned her head. As the car turned a corner, the woman's figure was completely obscured by the woods.
"Those crows don't seem to be chasing anymore." Inahara was the first to notice this.
