"po~po~po~"
This strange sound forcibly interrupted Asakawa Hanpei's terrifying dream and brought him back to reality.
Banping suddenly woke up in the room.
His mattress was already soaked.
The horrific experience in the dream just now made 11-year-old Asakawa Hanpei incontinent.
Even when he woke up, his heart was still beating wildly, fearing that Ji would not be able to move.
After a long time, Asakawa Hanpei finally came back to his senses, and his originally distracted eyes slowly returned to focus.
"What should I do...I wet the bed, how should I tell my parents?"
Banping first turned on the light in the room, and then curled up on the bed, troubled by the embarrassing thing in front of him.
Before he could think of a solution, he suddenly heard a familiar voice in the room.
It sounded like someone sucking their lips together and then releasing them.
"po~po~po~"
It wasn't loud, but it rang out extremely clearly in the otherwise quiet room.
This sound...
Isn't this the kind of sound I heard in my dream just now? ?
Asakawa Hanpei's brain froze, and an emotion called "fear" quickly climbed along his spine to the top of his head, causing his back and scalp to feel numb and cold.
what happened?
what is going on?
Are you still having nightmares and haven't woken up yet?
Huhu——
The night breeze blew in through the half-open window, causing the dark curtains to flutter.
However, Asakawa Hanpei clearly closed the windows before going to bed tonight.
He subconsciously looked towards the window.
Between the dark curtains that were constantly floating, Asakawa Hanpei saw a figure standing there quietly.
Huhu——
The night wind blew harder, blowing the curtains apart completely.
There was a person standing really still outside the window. With the light in the room, Asakawa Hanpei could see the other person's face clearly.
That's a big sister.
Wearing a long, flat white round hat, it was hard to tell what she was wearing because only half of her body could be seen through the window.
But it seems to be a white suspender dress with a slightly transparent texture.
The eldest sister outside the window has beautiful, smooth, straight black hair.
The white dress and black hair are fluttering in the wind.
Her complexion is very white, her face is beautiful, her eyes are black and white, bright and warm, and her eyes seem to be wire-drawing.
There is a beauty mark diagonally below the right corner of her mouth, which is red in color. It was small, but very conspicuous, adding a different kind of charm to her.
The elder sister stood outside the window with a half-smile, looking at Asakawa Hanpei.
She sucked her two plump lips together, then released them, and a sound came out between her perfectly curved lips:
"po~po~po~"
Asakawa Hanpei was inexplicably attracted to the woman outside the window, and he was slightly in a daze.
But a few seconds later, the fear that had been temporarily forgotten due to the appearance of the woman in the white dress exploded in his mind again.
This woman...her, why can she stand in front of her window?
This is obviously the second floor!
Asakawa Hanpei finally realized something was wrong.
The woman outside the window, she was too big, too big in every sense of the word.
Abnormally large.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
Asakawa Hanpei finally couldn't bear it anymore and screamed.
His screams attracted his parents downstairs.
However, when the adults of the Asakawa family hurriedly opened the door to their son's room, they only saw the windows in the room half open, and the dark curtains were still swinging back and forth in the wind.
As for the woman by the window, she has long since disappeared.
…
The woods east of Ouri Island.
The mountains and forests are silent, and the insects and birds are dormant.
This is where the Red Ray Shrine is located.
Although the mother-in-law at the hotel had kindly warned me not to come here when it was dark and the roads were slippery at night.
But Kamiyagawa came anyway.
The Red Ray Festival was held in the last few days in mid-December. He felt that now was the most likely time to find Lord Red Ray, and he had to make good use of it and not waste it.
The woods are very dark at night, but with the vision bonus provided by the [Autumn Hair Cutting] skill, Kamiyagawa can still clearly see all the details around the woods.
Under the guidance of the little old man's true body, he quickly found the Red Ray Shrine.
The Red Ray Shrine is built in an open space near the outside of the woods. There is a slightly deserted path leading directly to it. It is not too difficult to find it.
The shrine is not big, it is a very small one.
If the Juqiong Shrine where Onizuka the little shrine maiden lives can be compared to a regular temple, then the scale of this red stingray shrine standing in the island woods can be compared to that of a rural earth temple.
Slightly desolate and decaying green tiles, redwoods and withered buildings.
A white rope that looked old and yellowed hung at the door of the shrine, swaying slightly.
Two incomplete stone statues stand on both sides of the shrine.
The shape of the stone carvings is somewhat peculiar.
On the stone pillars below, the words "Na" and "Feng" are written on the left and right respectively. On the stone pillars, a flat fish shape is carved, which is a stingray.
"The shrine does not have the name of the person to whom it is enshrined. And as the inn's mother-in-law said, this shrine seems to have been abandoned for a long time, but..."
Kamiyakawa looked around the Red Ray Shrine with his eyes fixed.
Although this small shrine does look abandoned, some traces of recent cleaning and worship can be seen.
There are some remnants of incense ash around.
"It seems that someone has just worshiped Lord Red Ray in the past two days, and judging from the traces, it is estimated that more than one group of people have done so."
Kamiyagawa was not too surprised by this.
As a foreigner, he had just arrived on Oali Island for one day, and he could clearly feel that this island, which makes a living by fishing, would probably have a very difficult time this winter.
Today's catch is a poor payday.
The islanders are worried.
In the minds of the people of Ouri Island, Lord Red Ray is the god of fertility who can bless harvests and catches.
"Although this shrine seems to have been abandoned for a long time. However, the catch on Ourishima Island this year is very poor. Under this situation, someone may have thought of this former god of fishing abundance. So come here to worship the god."
After walking around the Red Stingray Shrine for a while, Kamiya River found nothing else.
In the end, I could only return to Dali Town with a little regret.
…
Kamiyagawa returns to town.
People on the island go to bed relatively early, and there are basically no people on the road at night.
Kamiya walked from the east side of the town towards the "Zhonggu Family" hotel.
The road was dark, with thick shadows like curtains drawn between the street lamps.
Didn't walk for a few minutes.
A blurry crimson light jumped out from his side.
The blurred shimmer shrank and slowly turned into a strange little beast the size of a Shiba Inu, with a bear body and an elephant trunk, and short white fur.
"tapir?"
"Puff-puff!"
The dream-eating tapir swung its long nose and pointed the tip of its nose in a certain direction.
Because he had become more and more accustomed to communicating with his Shikigami Kaidans who couldn't speak, it took Kamiya more than half a minute to roughly understand what Tapir meant.
It said that it felt a very strange nightmare smell in the direction where the tip of its nose pointed just now.
It is different from ordinary dreams.
"I know, let's go take a look."
Kamiya nodded and motioned for the tapir to lead the way.
He was originally here to investigate Master Red Ray, and he did not want to let go of any abnormalities that occurred on Ouri Island.
"Puff! Puff!"
The dream-eating tapir moved its limbs and trotted ahead.
Kamiyagawa followed closely behind.
One person and one animal ran for a while, and the tapir in front suddenly stopped suddenly.
"What's wrong?"
"Puff..."
Tapir turned around and blinked his eyes towards Kamiya River with a slight guilt.
Kamiya, who is both an onmyoji and a breeder, can roughly understand its meaning——
The nightmare I was looking for was gone.
Can't find it.
Kamiyagawa made a "wait a moment" gesture towards the tapir, stood still and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Using his "clear-sighted" eyes that could see through all the smallest details, he saw a strange and evil atmosphere in this street that was not his own.
It was a trace of black air, sticking to various parts of the street. Some of the black air floated high, twisting like fine yarn.
It's very thin and looks like it will dissipate at any time.
It's very inconspicuous, unlike now where you can't see it if you get very close.
Kamiya estimated that if he were thirty to forty meters away, he would not be aware of the presence of these evil auras at all.
"These...weak ghosts are left behind? No, more like those left by the powerful ghosts who have restrained their aura."
Kamitani knew the aura of Kaidan very well.
After all, I spent the whole day with a lot of different weird stories.
The aura left behind by the truly weak monsters should be like that of Hiyoribo and Kuuchang, which is thin and thin, but at the same time, the amount is relatively small.
It won't be like what we see on the street now, with a thin and evil atmosphere sticking everywhere.
This method is fine to deceive ordinary spiritual masters, but it is not possible to deceive Shen Gu.
Judging from Kamiya's experience, any strange story that can actively restrain its own aura will not be weak.
Among his men, only B-level Mary and C-level Prajna could do this. Even the mid-level D-level dream-eating tapir and the upper-level D-level Inugami can't do this.
"So, what has been moving here? Lord Red Ray?"
Kamitani didn't dare to make a conclusion easily.
He made another serious exploration around this alley, but without much success.
This thin black air has begun to dissipate, and no trace can be found.
The strange story that happened here must have been a foreign visitor. After walking around for a while, he entered the other world.
"If Lord Red Ray is visiting from a foreign country, should I use the [Blank Divine Candle] directly on Ouri Island? It would be safer if I enter the other world for activities. However, the current situation is unclear, so I'd better be more careful. , it would be better to collect more information on the island and make a long-term plan."
Kamiya just arrived at Ouri Island this evening.
It's not even half a day, so it would be too arbitrary to use the [Blank Divine Can] directly now.
And it is not completely certain now that the powerful foreign visitor who has been active in this street must be Lord Red Ray.
In addition, Kamiya has not yet fully figured out the details of Lord Red Ray.
I don’t know what kind of weird story this is.
But if the red stingray is indeed what the inn's mother-in-law said, he is a benevolent and kind-hearted god of fertility, a god of fertility who will bring good harvests to the islanders as long as he worships them.
That Kamiya really couldn't find any position to defeat him and seize the red stingray bone.
After all, as a growing co-leader of ghosts and gods, he definitely wouldn't do anything about ghost stories when he sees them.
Kamiya, who is trying to become the master of ghosts and gods, will not deny the existence of ghost stories.
In a world without ghost stories, where would there be a king?
Kamiyagawa is more inclined to gather them to his side if they are valuable, can be communicated, and have no evil deeds.
Like our own Shikigami Kaidans, like the craftsmen in Takamagahara, like Usagi Maru in Paradise...
"If Lord Red Ray is just a neutral and kind-hearted monster, then I've come here, and I definitely can't run away in vain. I have to try to win over him to see if I can get any benefits... As for Mary's shrine, it might really be We have to use [Empty Grain Stem] to make the next level."
I took the dream-eating tapir around twice more on the street, but there were no follow-up clues about the nightmare or the unknown visit.
At this time, a dark purple ghost energy swirled around Kamiya.
Another one of our own ghost stories took the initiative to appear.
"Abba! Abba!"
The little old man hurriedly began to report.
"Ah... are you talking about the jc who peeked at me in the evening? Is she around here? There is something really wrong with this girl. She is wandering out alone so late at night, and she happens to be on the edge of the block where foreign visitors have come. ——Take me over there and see what she’s up to.”
"Abba!"
…
"Didn't you say tonight? Why don't you respond to me..."
Kanoya Yukino walked back and forth in the dimly lit streets.
He looked very anxious, not knowing what he was waiting for.
"How about we try again."
Just when she was about to call the adult again, she suddenly heard a slightly teasing voice from behind: "What are you trying again?"
"ah!"
Kanoya Yukino jumped up on the spot and shrank back like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
She turned around and saw the person standing behind her.
It was the outsider who came to the island. Kanoya had asked the old lady who owned the hotel before. The mother-in-law said that this person was a foreign college student, majoring in monster studies, and he was half a folklorist. He came to the island to study the red stingray and do some learning.
"What are you doing here?"
"Should I ask you this?"
Kamiyakawa looked up and down at the girl in front of him.
It was indeed the middle school girl hiding on the street corner in the afternoon and peeking at him.
But now she is not wearing a uniform, but is wearing a thick sweater, a light blue bread suit, and carrying a black handbag.
The girl has very short hair and looks like a tomboy.
Her skin color is not fair, but up close, it looks smooth and delicate.
The dark eyes are very bright and shining.
Even though he is a tomboy, he is also a tomboy with a very cute appearance.
"I'm not doing anything here." The girl avoided Kamiya's gaze, took a step back, and moved the bag in her hand behind her.
Kamiyakawa clearly saw her little movements, but did not point them out, but asked: "What is your name?"
"Shikanoya Yukino... No, why do I have to tell you!"
Because she was nervous, the girl subconsciously reported her real name, and then realized later that she should be more cautious when dealing with strangers, especially in this environment.
Kamiyagawa:……
This kid doesn't seem very smart.
"Is Kanoya right? Let me ask you, why are you following me in the evening?" Kamiya moved closer to Kanoya.
The child was so frightened that she continued to retreat, but there was a wall behind her and she couldn't retreat anywhere.
"I want to help you!" Kanoya subconsciously raised the bag in his hand to his chest to cut off the distance between himself and Kamiyagawa, "I want to save you, I want to save you!"
