Hidechiyo looked at someone strangely, and enthusiastically took several different photos from different angles of the Crow Tengu who had met a miserable end.
Although she couldn't understand what he was doing, she vaguely felt that this person had some bad taste. After all, it had been so long, so she naturally knew everything about him.
certainly--
This is just a small episode.
After the Crow Tengu attack, it seemed that the demons had become silent and no longer as lively as before. I wonder if they had all been killed. The three of them continued walking along the mountain road. The road ahead seemed more rugged and complicated. It was probably because no one had walked on it for a long time, and the mountain path became desolate and silent.
Plants begin to regain lost ground.
Everywhere becomes vibrant and green.
——It is no exaggeration to say that it is almost impossible to identify the traces of the road, and the group is completely trekking in the dense jungle.
And not far ahead, the vague outline of a village finally appeared.
It looked like it had been abandoned for a long time, the wood had completely rotted, and plants had grown all over the house, so you could only roughly see its former appearance and layout.
However, it can be seen that before being abandoned, the village itself had already suffered a baptism of disaster.
Because many houses and buildings obviously became like this after being turned into ruins, and then gradually became like this due to the accumulation of abandonment over time. Even with deep greening, the growth of trees covered the houses, and the ivy vines covered the ruins. After all, it is impossible to completely cover up the treatment he has suffered in the past.
"...Is this also a village destroyed by war?"
Kikyo raised her eyebrows. She carefully sensed her surroundings, but was unable to read any useful information from the environment.
The disaster that this village suffered happened too long ago. It did not happen recently, nor did it span a year or two. Under such circumstances, even if there is any remnant of information, it has long been completely worn away by the years.
"That's right, but it can also be said that... there is no way to bring about blessings and misfortunes, they can only be brought about by oneself."
Gu Mo glanced around casually, his eyes penetrated many obstacles, and fixed on a dilapidated shrine on the other side of the village. When he heard the witch's whisper, he answered.
"Huh? What should I say?!"
The witch immediately raised her eyebrows slightly, looked in his direction, and cast a questioning look.
"Actually, it's like this. This village has ended up like this. It should be regarded as the result of asking for a hammer. After all, they think good people should be pointed at guns..." Gu Mo explained with interest. He had a deep understanding of the plot. The advantage of foresight and foresight in understanding can also be used to review past history and confirm what has happened in the past.
Therefore, it is natural to understand what happened on this land.
Basically, it was no different from the plot he learned at the beginning, except that the details were more detailed.
Specifically——
This village was once the settlement of Otakemaru. Because this man was tall, powerful, and had two horns on his forehead, he was called "the rare man" in awe by the villagers at that time. Respect and fear are intertwined, and keeping a respectful distance may actually be the most ideal state of getting along with each other at that time.
Just because Otakemaru is very enthusiastic, he always does his part to help the villagers deal with many difficulties and troubles, which is a task that cannot be completed by manpower.
——Over time, he won the goodwill and respect of the villagers, making people no longer awe...
——In other words, the villagers began to think that all this was natural.
It can only be said that habits are really terrible things. Stories about favors and feuds have been common since ancient times. After all, there is evil in human nature. It is actually very common for people to remember bad things but not good things. If you keep helping others, it is easy for people to think that helping them is the right thing to do.
As a result, even if you help him a hundred times, he will not be grateful at all, but as long as you fail to help him once, he will probably hold a grudge.
Because he feels that others should help him, and he already takes it for granted.
Once others do not help him or do not do a good job, it means that he feels that his original interests have been damaged, and naturally he will not have a good look towards the person who has harmed his interests.
It can be said that the rift between the villagers and Otakemaru gradually accumulated because of this. After all, over time, even Otakemaru could not unconditionally fulfill all the villagers' requests. When the demands were not met, the villagers' dissatisfaction and even resentment towards the man gradually fermented and became a common phenomenon.
And when a thief came to rob the village and was directly killed by Otakemaru, the villagers showed no gratitude at all. Instead, they finally broke up with each other, and the killing of the thief became the real trigger of the conflict.
——Although thieves come to the village to rob and kill people, threatening their lives...
——On the other hand, Otakemaru is protecting the village and their wealth and lives...
However, the villagers, who had long been dissatisfied and resentful towards Otake Maru, still seized this opportunity to use the topic to their advantage, preaching that "those who are not from our race must have different hearts"... After all, such unclear trash will be caught in future generations. There are a lot of them, and it is true that we cannot expect the ignorant villagers of this period to have a high level of ideological awareness.
Maybe he simply thinks that honest people are easy to bully, and if he hugs the other person, he is a good person, so he can point a gun at him.
It's just that the villagers probably didn't think about it, or they didn't think about it at all, that even honest people will always reach the limit of their patience.
"After being treated cruelly by people, Otakemaru finally couldn't bear it any more, and he slaughtered the entire village... Then the official sent a large army to hunt down the ghosts, but it was slightly different from the story recorded in later generations, and the details were quite different. Lots of discrepancies.”
Gu Mo gave a brief introduction and summarized the whole story of the village's disaster.
Even though it happened a long, long time ago, it can indeed be regarded as a hammer. Their demise was not because of others, but because they had a way to die. As long as you can't die, just do it towards death. If they don't die, who will die? Hard work paid off, and they succeeded.
"I see……"
The miko couldn't help but sigh.
Such a tragedy really makes people feel sad, but there is nothing they can do about it, because she has seen many similar things. Sometimes, not to mention monsters or ghosts, even a strange person like her who has power but is particularly talkative may be secretly ostracized by the villagers.
Naturally, nothing like this has ever happened in Maple Village.
But when she was practicing in Yunyou, she had experienced similar situations in other villages, seen some similar examples, and suffered similar treatment.
Because when a person shows more ability, can do a lot of things, and the easier it is to talk...then others will easily place too many unnecessary or even unnecessary hopes on this person, hoping that the other person will be unconditional. satisfy all your reasonable or unreasonable requirements.
When they decide that their demands must be met, the nature of the matter has completely changed.
But this tragedy could have been avoided.
"..."
The black-haired girl over there didn't express any opinions. She just turned her eyes seriously and thought about what Gu Mo said. She is not too unfamiliar with the matter of Otakemaru. The former Guoxin layman caused a lot of trouble. It is said that the essence of it is Otakemaru's evil thoughts.
She lowered her head and looked at the Chu Ye Lost Sword in her hand, and then looked at the land in front of her.
so--
Was this place where this ghost-killing weapon was first forged?
The reason why there is such a strange phenomenon now, with the sound of swords ringing and buzzing incessantly, is because the magic weapon has a spirit and wants to come all the way back to his hometown to have a look? This... is impossible no matter how you think about it, but this guy is pretending to be mysterious and doesn't say anything.
Hidechiyo looked at the black-haired young man in white clothes over there, and felt that the other person must have some deep meaning. Maybe even talking about Suzuka Gozen and Otakemaru had some deep meaning.
It's probably hinting at something.
But in the past, he usually told himself directly about anything. Why did he want to be the Riddler this time? Is it not good to tell yourself directly, or... you don’t need to tell yourself clearly, because you will know it right away?
The black-haired girl was thoughtful. She tried waving the Chu Ye Lost Sword in her hand a few times, and then walked towards the village.
The source of resonance is not far ahead.
The witch glanced at Gu Mo, then turned around and followed him. The latter smiled slightly, but did not take any action. He glanced at the land calmly, the long river of history in the past reflected in his eyes, and his consciousness continued to return to the upstream time and space of a single timeline.
With a historical span of hundreds or even nearly a thousand years, and the fact that the Time Stone was not in his hands, he simply relied on his own ability to control the time domain to look back, even though he felt a little strenuous.
From this era, back to the beginning of the Heian Era, the length of time spanned and the difficulty of this matter were already too much for his branch spirit to cope with.
But the problem is not big, there is no time stone, he has other help. While thinking, an illusory guardian spirit figure appeared, circling around him, like a planet orbiting a star. If you look carefully, it is the figure of Kurama Tengu with the attributes of time and space.
At the same time, on the other side of the earth, the moon is also slowly turning.
The god-like calculation machine's power fluctuated slightly, and it directly completed the calculation of an important process. The support of the clone body of the real machine god was as powerful as ever.
Gu Mo located the exact time point almost in the blink of an eye. He looked in the direction ahead. The moment he noticed that the power of time and space was blooming and releasing inexplicable weird fluctuations, he also directly initiated his own time travel. As if being rubbed by an eraser, the outline faded and disappeared into the air.
…………
…
It's like walking through the long river of time, but going upstream instead of downstream.
The feeling of history and era roaring towards him, as if the whole world was coming towards him, made Gu Mo find a trace of the feeling he had when he was a mortal and riding a roller coaster for a long time.
The surrounding environment was changing rapidly, and only his eyesight could clearly see the pictures of these lakes. It seemed that thousands or tens of thousands of pictures flashed in one second. They overlapped and appeared to be transformed into... A chaotic scene, flashing with colorful black and colorful white...
Time and space were alternating, and eventually, like a speeding train entering a station, it slowly slowed down and finally stopped.
——The surrounding scenery became clear again.
