After sizing up the new visitors, Grandma Shan stepped aside from the gate, revealed half of the doorway, and invited everyone to enter.
She said to Kamiya, "My lord, I think we can talk."
"Is it so direct? A gathering place for living people, a neutral ghost talker... let me see what's going on inside."
Kamiyagawa's black-eyed child, covered by the hood of his leather coat, condensed for a moment, nodded silently, and then calmly walked through the door with the Ichimonji sheathed in his hand.
At the same time, he briefly gestured to Prajna beside him.
The latter understood and floated to the side of the five ordinary people accompanying him.
"I've been here! It's relatively safe!"
Nagatomo Masao's ears once again sounded the roaring motto.
After hearing this, he thought for a moment and then stepped over the threshold of Grandma's residence on the mountain.
The rest of the people stood at the door, looking at each other under Prajna's supervision.
Considering that the mysterious and powerful Lord Thunder God and the little flat-headed classmate Nagatomo who dared to hit the devil's head with a stone were both admitted, they hesitated for a while and finally chose to enter the Mountain Lama's Residence.
Shan Lao's residence looks very big, and the layout inside really looks a bit like an old hotel in a traditional style.
The corridor is paved with wooden floors, and there are small independent rooms on both sides.
Most room doors are locked.
The mountain lady, who looked like a bloated little mountain of meat, walked in front, her steps heavy and slow. Every time she took a step, the old floor beneath her feet creaked with difficulty.
Kamiyakawa followed Shan Lao calmly.
The sanitary conditions in Shan Lao Juli seem to be not good.
Entering it, you can clearly smell a smell, like a mixture of rancidity and rancidity, a smell that has been fermented for a long time and is disgusting.
Thick yellow stains that are decaying can be seen everywhere on the walls and corridors.
Kamiya has been in the map of Jiji Hospital for a long time, and his tolerance for the bad environment has improved a lot, so he basically has no reaction.
But the Changyou who followed him were not so calm.
The ol sister and the high school girl even started retching.
However, Kamiyakawa didn't pay much attention to them.
His attention was focused on other places, and he could see that there were other living activities in Shan Lao's residence, and the number was not too small.
Some of them were like pieces of rotten meat, casually slumped against the wall of the corridor, with empty eyes and dull expressions. They only occasionally uttered unintelligible, incoherent gibberish.
The other part is obviously sane.
When I see Shan Lama walking by in the corridor, I will bow my head respectfully and fearfully to get out of the way. Some people will carefully open the door, peek outside, and then quickly close the door.
However, Shan Lao ignored these people and ignored them. She just chewed the barbecue and walked past them without looking back, as if they were nothing.
"The optional mission at Kisaragi Station asks me to release the living people trapped in the Aokigahara map, so these people in Shan Lao's residence should also be considered as mission targets. There seem to be a lot of people here, judging from the situation in the corridor Look, the first and second floors add up to dozens if not hundreds..."
Kamiya thought silently in his heart.
Following Shan Lao around a corner, a group of people stopped in front of a large wooden arch door that was different in style from the doors along the way.
In front of the arch, there was a living person sitting paralyzed, seemingly unconscious and stupid.
"Hey - bad luck, I told you not to come to the door of my kitchen."
Shan Lao stretched out her fat, greasy hands, closed her five fingers as thick as a radish, lifted up the idiot on the ground, and swung it casually toward the outside of the corridor.
The man fell in the corridor, groaned listlessly, and then lay still.
Shan Lao pushed open the arched door, moved in, and waved to Kamiya River:
"My lord, if you want to talk to the old lady, then let's do it in here to ensure it's clean. Huh-huh - in addition, these strangers you brought here are not allowed to come in."
Kamiya doesn't have much problem with this.
He nodded slightly to Prajna behind him and walked into the arch.
But Prajna understood what Kamiya meant and stayed outside, bored and continuing to monitor Xiao Pingtou and the others.
…
Inside the arch, the space is spacious and is called the "kitchen" by Shan Lao.
How can I put it, it is true that some kitchen utensils can be seen inside. But what is more eye-catching is the blood and water flowing on the ground, the rotten pieces of meat and some sewer organs, randomly abandoned in the corner.
The cooking preparation table was covered with dirt and smelled bad.
If I had to describe it, the whole place looked like an extremely bloody and dirty Hell's Kitchen.
In addition, on one side of the kitchen, two strange corpses were hung on two huge iron hooks.
Blue-grey, very tall, with a thin and long body, and the organs on the body are scrawled and twisted.
One of the corpses had its legs removed.
Kamiyakawa could now know where the barbecue that Shan Lao had been eating came from.
But...what exactly is this thing?
If it was a ghost story, why didn't it turn into ashes after death?
In other words, although they look like ghosts now, they are actually not dead yet?
Uh, do you want to call the dog out and try to take a bite?
Opposite the mountain lady who brought Kamiyagawa in, sat down on the dirty kitchen floor, picked up the bad barbecue on her shoulders and took a bite:
"This sir, seems to be very interested in my food?"
"So what is that?"
Kamiyakawa pointed at the two blue-grey corpses.
"Chi. It seems that there is no such thing in your territory, sir. That's a pity. This thing tastes very good."
"mountain elf?"
Kamiya was not too surprised by Shan Lao's tone.
It seems that he feels that the territory where he, the "leather-clothed ghost talk", used to operate is free of ghosts, and it is normal to not understand this kind of thing.
So he simply let go and asked:
"Those two monsters look dead. Why do they still retain their flesh and blood?"
"Huhu, it seems that you really don't know, sir." Shan Lao chewed the meat in her mouth, drooling, and began to explain, "Children are transformed from the living meat outside. They do not belong to our world. In Many places are different from us.”
"oh?"
Kamiyakawa frowned and gently rubbed the handle of Ichimonji's sword with his fingers.
Listening to this, the two blue-grey corpses were transformed from living people outside.
"Don't be excited, sir. They turned into monsters, but they have nothing to do with me." Shan Lao said calmly, "Those strangers do not belong here. They entered our world, and even the rules of death are different from ours. They It’s fun to be able to come back from the dead so many times, right?”
"Resurrection from the dead?"
Kamiyagawa frowned again, but temporarily let go of the hilt of Ichimonji's sword.
"Yes. The price of each death is that part of their living soul is peeled off and lost. Losing a piece of living soul will cause them to forget some things in the past. When they die a few more times, they will remember nothing and know nothing. When, it means that the living soul has completely separated from the body, and the remaining skin is just a body. And if this body continues to stay in our world, it will slowly turn into a dangerous human being."
