Kamiya, Yuuki and others came out of the reception room and visited Mr. Inuzake without gaining much additional information.
"Who is Xu Shi in Jixiang Su?"
Kamiyagawa has been thinking about this problem.
But it's hard to say. From his perspective, except for Yuuki and Nagatomo, who received the commission and rushed to Jixiangsu after the "human being turned into a tree" incident, others may not be completely trustworthy.
Mr. Inuzake, whom I just met, and even the local spirit exterminator on Tsushima Island, these people are all suspected of being extraordinary beings.
In addition, after coming into contact with the Uoki family, Kamiyagawa learned that the members of Enmaji are not necessarily limited to extraordinary people.
At least the ones I will see on the road are completely different from the kabuki and breeders before. They are completely ordinary people.
Therefore, the "ordinary residents" who stay at home in Jixiangsu and are unwilling to go out, and even the police officer Huajing and the local police who are now acting with his group may be Shu Shi.
Or maybe Xu Shi was an outsider who lurked near Jixiangsu and secretly caused trouble.
"Isn't this completely clueless?" Kamiya sighed silently in his heart.
When I walked into the courtyard, I saw Nagatomo and the others talking to Granny Hideko, probably casually asking about the recent situation in the villages and towns.
During the conversation, an Akita dog staggered out from the depths of the courtyard.
I don’t know if this dog is old, but its movements are a little old and clumsy.
After Grandma Hideko saw it, she immediately showed an expression of surprise and joy, and did not bother to talk to Nagatomo and the others: "Ah, chestnut? Isn't this chestnut? Where have you been during the past week?"
The Akita named Kururi sat down, his tail wagging slightly and his eyes a little dull.
Kamiya stared at the Akita.
I just felt that the light blue color representing "scent" on the dog was a bit strong.
However, this kind of smell is everywhere in Inuzake's house, including Mr. Inuzake and Granny Hideko.
Kamiya had a feeling that it was hard to explain, but these "fragrances" seemed to be able to cover up other scents.
On Lizi's neck, there is a small patch of hair that is different in color from other places, as if it has just grown out.
"Lizi, Mr. and Mrs. will be very happy to know that you are back. You can't run around now, the village is not peaceful." Grandma Xiuzi continued.
Lizi still didn't respond to Granny Hideko, but just squatted and stared at the group of strangers at home with somewhat dull eyes.
After walking far away from Inuzake's house, Kamiya and Yuuki got together.
"Boy, what do you think of the Inuzake family?"
"I can't say what's wrong, but it feels weird."
"I think so too. During the period when Jixiangsu is active, we should keep an eye on his house a little more." Yuuki nodded.
"Um."
Kamiya winked at the little old man next to him.
The latter soon realized what he was doing, and he separated a gaikai on the spot, and let the gaikai turn around and run towards Inuzake's house.
…
Inuzhu's home.
Grandma Hideko brought the chestnut to Inuzake Sosuke.
"Sir, Chestnut is back." The old woman bowed slightly towards the master of the house.
Mr. Inuzake just nodded. He was not too happy to see the pet that had been missing for a week and returned: "Grandma Xiuzi, go get some food for Li Zi. He looks a little hungry."
"Okay, sir."
Grandma Xiuzi bowed slightly and turned to leave.
After the old woman walked away, Inuzake Sosuke stood up, walked to Akita Inuriko, raised his hand and touched the light-colored hair on its neck.
Below that, there is a small scar where the flesh and skin are tangled together.
"Lizi?" Inuzhu called the pet's name.
The Akita still didn't react much, and his eyes were dull.
Under its body, there seems to be a soul that has been decaying for a long time. In other words, this Akita dog is like a piece of rotten meat that is still alive.
Disgusting.
Inuzhu has always had an extremely keen sense of smell and can smell things that ordinary people can't smell.
"You still smell rotten. I should have thought of it earlier. Are you really still a chestnut?"
The Akita did not move, but stared at its owner with empty eyes, drooling from its mouth, and made a very vague whine.
Inuzake Sosuke's expression suddenly turned disgusting. As he spoke, he picked up the fragrant knife from the table.
This is the knife he uses to cut incense. It has a large handle and a small head, which is stable to hold and has a sharp edge.
The small blade matched the newly grown hair scar on Chestnut's neck.
"Lizi, I'll take you to the yard."
The Akita still didn't react.
And this time.
Da da--
The sound of slippers stepping on the floor was heard in the corridor, and his wife, the seventh generation, appeared at the door.
Since the death of his son, the seventh generation has been in a state of depression.
But Inuzake Sosuke has always taken good care of his wife.
He loves seven generations.
Now, although my wife occasionally remains alone in a daze and secretly sheds tears, her mental state has finally recovered. Especially these days, she seems to be trying to keep herself together.
"I heard from my mother-in-law that Lizi is back?" asked the seventh generation.
"Um."
Inuzake Sosuke quickly covered the fragrant sword in his hand behind his back.
"Lizi?" Seventh squatted down, looked at the family pet, and tried teasing it a few times. His expression became confused, "Lizi, what's wrong with you? Are you sick?"
In Seventh Life's impression, Lizi should have been a very lively dog.
But the one in front of me feels strange at first glance. It's like another dog that looks the same as Chestnut, but is completely different.
"Maybe I'm hungry." Inuzhu said calmly.
"I took it to my mother-in-law, who was making dog food for it."
Seventh Generation stood up and waved to Li Zi to follow him, and the latter staggered to follow.
After taking two steps out of the corridor, the Seventh Generation stopped, looked back at Sosuke who was a little blank, and tried to force out a smile: "Cousuke, after the weird things in this town are over, shall we go to Tokyo together? Over there. The cherry blossoms are blooming.”
"Well, let's go together."
"Cangsuke, those things in the town..."
Qishi wanted to say something more, but after mumbling for a while, he still didn't say anything.
After his wife left with her pet dog, Inuzake Sosuke's nose twitched slightly, and then he looked towards the courtyard.
He smelled a very light smell that shouldn't appear in his home.
"Those people are focusing on this place...things here, things here..."
Things are getting more and more troublesome.
…
Several exorcists dispatched from the countermeasures room arrived one after another during the day.
Some of the others have not yet left, and some are still on their way.
Tonight, according to the arrangement, Kamiya and Yuki will take turns leading the team to inspect Jixiangsu in the first half of the night and the second half of the night to check the situation.
at night.
The Terasaki family is located northwest of Jixiangjuku.
Anzhai Dingjiu is 14 years old and has lived in Jixiangsu since birth.
As far back as he could remember, nothing weird had ever happened to Jixiangsu for so long, and it had always been peaceful. The strange things that have happened frequently recently are really too weird. An Zhai's cousin's family, who lives in the east of the village, also became strange after strange things happened.
A series of strange events have made Dingjiu nervous for the past two days.
That night, Terasaki, who had not slept too deeply, suddenly woke up. He had a nightmare in which he dreamed that he had turned into a tree.
Sitting up from the bed, Anzai Sadajiu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and looked at the clock on the wall.
The time now is around 3 o'clock in the morning.
An Zhai wanted to go downstairs and drink a glass of water.
He put on his slippers, walked to the corridor, and raised his hand to turn on the porch light.
Sizzling——
The lights on the ceiling were a little dim and didn't give the corridor a bright feel.
There has been some problem with the lights in the corridor recently, maybe due to poor contact.
This is what the old house looks like.
Sadaku continued walking towards the stairs.
Squeak.
As the old wooden steps were stepped on, a certain cracked board made a dull friction sound.
At the same time as this sound sounded, Dingjiu seemed to hear something else.
He had lived in his family's house for so long that he was familiar with every sound the old house made. He was certain that the soft sound mixed with the sound of the wooden steps came from downstairs, and was the sound of the door shaft turning when the door was pushed gently.
Downstairs is the parents' bedroom.
"Dad, aren't you asleep yet?" Dingjiu asked.
There was no human response.
But I could hear subtle footsteps coming slowly towards the stairs.
"Mother?"
Tadashi yelled again, but this time the sound just caught in his throat and turned into a muffled grunt.
That footsteps didn't sound like what parents would make.
It's more subtle, airier.
It sounded like the jumping footsteps of a child younger than himself.
In addition, Dingjiu also smelled something.
It's the scent, the scent of incense. I seem to be able to smell this scent at the house of my parents' friend, Mr. Inuzake.
An Zhai Dingjiu plucked up the courage and took a few more steps down. He felt that he had to go to his parents' bedroom to see what was going on.
With the dim light flickering in the stairwell, he could clearly see the outlines of various furniture and furnishings downstairs, but he couldn't see the specific details, which were hazy.
He was about to fumble around and turn on the light downstairs.
At this time, the curtains of the first floor window were suddenly blown open by the wind.
Didn't your parents close the windows tonight?
It shouldn't be.
Because of the strange things that happened in the village and town recently, the doors and windows of the house have always been closed.
Wow.
The curtains fluttered in the night breeze.
The moonlight outside shines, illuminating many shadows in the house. One of them seemed more real than the others.
The smell of incense spread in the room and became stronger.
There was once again the sound of soft, bouncing footsteps in the darkness, and the sound of something heavy dragging the floor.
An Zhai Ding didn't have time to turn on the light downstairs for a long time.
But perhaps because he had adapted to the darkness downstairs, he could see some details of the surrounding environment.
The door to my parents' bedroom was open, and a small figure walked out.
After confirming who the person was, Anzhai Dingjiu felt his body become cold and his pores shrank, as if all the bones in his body were stiff.
Brother Aqua.
It is the color of dog bamboo and water.
Why is he here?
Didn't he die? I had attended his funeral with my parents as early as five months ago!
Mizuiro was wearing her burial clothes, which were covered with moss, and was grinning hoarsely at Anzai Sadahisa.
"Brother Dingjiu!"
Before Mizuiro's "death", she would often hang out at Anzai's house and watch baseball broadcasts with Sadahisa.
He called Anzai Saduhisa's name affectionately as usual.
But Dingjiu only felt a chill.
His brain could barely think.
Why, why is Aqua here?
"Uncle Anzhai and Aunt Anzhai have both turned into hibiscus trees. Brother Dingjiu, too, right?" Shuise added.
Only then did Anzai Singjiu notice that in addition to the slippery moss, there seemed to be some fresh stains on the water-colored clothes.
Some sticky liquid was dripping down the hem of his clothes.
It's blood, that's blood!
However, the smell of incense on Shuise's body was too strong, so Anzhai couldn't smell the strong smell of blood at home!
"Mom and dad...why are you doing this?" An Zhai took a few steps back.
Only eight years old, Shui Se had always haunted him when he was alive. Tonight, he was like a terrifying evil spirit crawling back from hell. People dared not look directly at him, and the hair on his head would stand on end just by looking at him.
"I'm sorry. Brother Dingjiu should have turned into a hibiscus tree in his dream like my uncle and aunt." Shui Se still smiled, with no flaws in her pure eyes, "You are in too much pain now. A little bit, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
In one hand he was holding several oddly colored tree fruits, and in the other he was dragging a heavy baseball bat.
The stick was covered in blood.
Mizuro quickly approached Anzai Sadahisa, his movements were too fast to be human, and the bat clicked against the floor.
"No, no!"
…
On the other side of Jixiangjuku is the residence of old man Kusakabe.
Yuki is staying here.
In the middle of the night, strange changes occurred here.
I don’t know when the number of those delicate and beautiful Bianhua flowers suddenly increased and spread out from the old man’s home.
Delicate flowers like dragon claws bloomed, with strip-shaped petals trembling in the bright moonlight. They bloomed everywhere.
Yuki led people to carefully check the condition of Higanbana outside the house. The cigarette in his hand burned until only the butt remained. He was about to wake up Kamiyagawa who had already taken a rest.
Then, suddenly I heard the sound of the house collapsing and shattering.
The strange tree that originally grew in the old man's bedroom, with its trunk covered with disgusting sarcomas that looked like hyperplasia, grew rapidly at an incomprehensible speed. The tree trunks stretched out of the roof and continued to extend upwards.
The flowers on the ground are blooming more and more.
It spreads towards the surroundings, spreading into the fields and roads, forming a sea of bright red flowers under the moonlight.
At the same time, Yuuki Makensuke heard screams from a distance, which came from somewhere in Jixiangsu.
"problem occurs."
The support manpower dispatched by the countermeasures room had not yet arrived, but there were big changes at Jixiangsu.
Yuuki quickly pulled out his revolver.
A slit woman wearing a windbreaker and a mask appeared from beside him.
"Notify everyone! Everyone is on alert!"
(End of chapter)
