Satoru specified the key points in the "Saving Kanoya Battle Strategy" in detail, and wrote down all the information that she would be able to see in the future.
In addition to some action points she summarized, there was also some detailed information. for example--
[The god of Gao Tianyuan will know some information about the people who enter that space, but usually, the god himself does not care about this. ]
[Once humans or monsters eat water or food from that space, they will slowly be assimilated, and gods will descend on them in a very strange way. There may be other ways to be assimilated, such as staying longer than a certain time limit. But in the foreseeable future, Kanoya will only be assimilated because he was forced to drink water. ]
[The little old man and his No. 3 body are a very strange combination. This combination was created by that space, but it is also a bit like a virus that invaded that space, or a bug. ]
[The first two exchanges between the little old man's body and his clone are unlikely to be known and noticed by the old god. But there are only three things that can happen. If the third contact is made, there is a high probability that it will arouse the perception of the somewhat slow old god. Therefore, we must use the first two communication opportunities to clearly explain all the things that need to be disclosed to Kanoya, so as to avoid the third loud conspiracy, which will lead to the enemy taking the upper hand. ]
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Kamiya carefully read the information left by Satoru several times to make sure nothing was missed.
"Earthquake Catfish, Encountering Demons, the Old God of Gao Tianyuan... I don't know how these three are connected together."
"Satoru said that the people in that area have been assimilated by the old gods. Even the earthquake catfish is an old god. When combined with the old gods, the old gods will come to humans and Kaitan in strange ways... maybe it is parasitism or something?"
"There is also a time of encountering a demon, a special time of encountering a demon that I have never encountered before..."
Kamiyakawa actually had some vague ideas about how special it would be when encountering a demon.
The time of encountering monsters refers to "the time of day when you are most likely to encounter monsters and monsters", which corresponds to three hours -
In the wild, morning and dusk alternate, that is, the two time periods of Yin hour in the early morning and You hour in the evening are the most likely to conflict.
Indoors, supernatural events are most likely to occur during midnight.
The so-called devil time refers to these three hours.
"But the members of the demonic hour organization with this name, the ones I have dealt with include Sitoki Kabuki, Wushi Breeder, Utoki Family, and Xushi Perfumer. The four hours they correspond to are not real A time of evil in a sense.”
"In the information in the countermeasures room, I have also seen records representing other time periods in which members of the Demonic Time appeared or were defeated."
"That is to say, there should be twelve full members of the Feng Mo Shi organization, and after the death of the old members, new members will appear to take over their identities. But in the information, I have never seen Zi Shi. There are records of the appearances of members of Feng Mo Shi in these three time periods, Yin Shi and You Shi.”
Kamiya estimates that if there is a special time to encounter a demon, then it should correspond to the three time periods of Zi, Yin, and You.
"However, it is still a bit unexpected for me to be able to get involved with the old gods during a special encounter with demons. No wonder this organization will be targeted by "Gaidan Monogatari". How did this extraordinary organization with anti-social members develop? In the first place, Who is the founder of?”
Kamiyagawa feels that the truth behind these questions may be very important.
"I hope that if this battle goes well, I can get more information about this organization. Find out what the forces I have been fighting against in the real world represent."
After thinking for a while, Kamiya stood up from his chair.
He saw Cai Zhi, who was made of messy red lines, standing in the corner, curiously touching the old desk phone where Xiao Wu was sitting.
If that phone is regarded as Xiao Wu, the little crayon may be touching his unconscious and defenseless sister now?
Although the latter has no perception of this.
"That's a big help. Now take a good rest, Satoru."
Kamiya said this to the peeled-off phone, turned around and walked out of the study.
In order to rescue Kanoya, to fight against the earthquake catfish, and the combination of the old gods and the demons, he still has a lot of things to do next.
Let's go to the countermeasures room first. They may be planning to fight against the earthquake catfish there. Kamiya needs to fully participate in it and share some information at hand with the organization.
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A special space of unknown location.
Songze Village.
Kanoya had already left the village cafeteria.
This girl is really unlucky to have fallen into such a ghost place.
The loving scene where the Matsuzawa people shared their dinner just now really had a great impact and shadow on her young mind.
The little deer was so frightened that he almost cried.
But Matsuzawa did not force her to have dinner together.
Anyway, Kanoya declined with a pale face, saying that he was "tired from the journey" when he returned home and he still had no appetite.
The people in the village just greeted her with a few friendly words and sincere expressions of concern, and then let the deer "go home" to rest.
Songze people only care about eating their own food, as if they are sharing rare delicacies in the world and having a feast.
In addition, Kanoya also noticed that the normal woman with a sad face did not eat the black meat on the plate.
If possible, I would like to talk to her, but the cafeteria full of Matsuzawa people is obviously not a good place for conversation.
"If you are hungry at night, you can come to the cafeteria and I will leave you a midnight snack."
Before Kanoya left the cafeteria, the old hunter Watanabe said this cheerfully.
If you don't look at the corners of his mouth and beard stained with thick juice, but just listen to these caring and kind words, you can really feel that the village is harmonious and the people in the village are simple and kind.
Holding a small quilt in her arms, Kanoya walked back to the small house that nominally belonged to her alone.
The quilt in her hand was given to her by a kind-hearted old woman in the village who made a special trip home before leaving the canteen.
Luyewu's "home" looks a little dilapidated, but the structure of the house is intact.
The house was small and covered with dust. It must have been unoccupied for a long time.
There are electric lights at home, which are old bulb-shaped incandescent lamps that have turned black inside. The light switch is a pull-type switch, something you can only see in period dramas, but it is indeed a product of a long time ago.
"The people in Songze are all crazy, and those who fall into Songze seem to become just like them... But what do they want to do? Or, in their eyes, I am really just a person A little girl from my hometown?"
Luyewu was still frightened at this moment and could not analyze any useful information.
Just when she was hesitating, thinking that it would be better to take care of her wounds first, there was a knock on the door of her house——
Tuk-tuk-tuk.
A small knock on the door sounded in the silent night, which was inexplicably scary.
"who?"
Kanoya once again took out the [Shōtoku Royal Incense Burner].
"I..." The person at the door spoke in a hoarse female voice.
The other party paused for a while, probably observing the surrounding situation. After a few seconds, he lowered his voice and continued:
"I'm not from Matsuzawa, at least not yet. I want to talk to you."
Not from Matsuzawa?
Xiaolu immediately thought of the sad-looking woman he had seen in the cafeteria.
She came to see me?
Putting the hand holding the incense burner behind his back, Kanoya carefully opened the door a crack.
Sure enough, there was the woman wearing a modern floral skirt outside.
"I'm the only one, and no one from Songze is following me." The woman drooped her eyelids and looked lethargic. "Actually, the people from Songze don't care about our conversation, especially since it's not late at night yet... They may really think that Everyone who comes here is from the same hometown. So, can I come in?"
"Well……"
After hesitating for a while, Kanoya nodded.
However, he still did not put down the incense burner behind him. While letting the woman enter the room, he faced the other party and stepped back a certain distance.
"My name is Kumiko Sugiura."
The woman closed the door with her backhand. Seeing Lu Yewu's alert look, she didn't say anything and didn't approach any further.
The two maintain a relatively safe distance.
"My name is Kanoya, as you already knew just now. Well, what do you want to say to me?"
Because the two of them didn't know each other and the other person was an elder, Xiaolu used honorifics obediently and habitually.
"Where did you come here from?" Sugiura Kumiko asked, and added about her own situation, "I am from Yukimo, Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture. When there was an earthquake in Tsuyama, a huge crack opened in my home. I fell into the crack, and when I woke up again, I came here."
There was indeed an earthquake in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, about a week before the Tokyo earthquake that hit Kanoya.
The magnitude of the Jinshan earthquake was not large. There were no casualties after the earthquake, but a very small number of people were missing.
Kanoya only had a vague impression of the situation in Okayama Prefecture, and he definitely couldn't remember the details.
However, I heard that Sugiura Kumiko's experience was similar to her own, so she was probably not lying.
"I came from Tokyo and had the same experience as you."
"Shikanoya, um..." the woman's tone suddenly became urgent, and she unconsciously grabbed the hem of her clothes with her hands, "Have you ever seen a little girl since you came to Matsuzawa? Wearing a skirt and braids. Yes. She is my daughter, her name is Hina. I saw her fall into the crack with me, but I didn’t see her after Matsuzawa woke up. "
"Sorry, I didn't see it."
"That's it." Sugiura's frustration was evident in his words, and it didn't look like he was pretending, "I'm sorry, I'm a little too excited."
The deer didn't reply.
After a moment, Ms. Sugiura adjusted her mood: "Kanoya, although it's very presumptuous, but can I ask you a favor?"
"Please what can I ask for?"
"If you go out from the village and see my daughter, can you please take care of her?"
"Why do you say that? Besides, my knee is injured and I can't get out at all." Kanoya shook his head.
"I'm sorry. I also know this is ridiculous... In fact, I said this to every normal person who comes to the village. Some are neurotic, right?" Sugiura smiled sadly, "But no one left the village at all. After that, everyone became Matsuzawa people.”
Originally, Xiaolu thought it was strange that Ms. Sugiura suddenly made an inexplicable request.
But if she said this to every normal person she met, it would be somewhat understandable.
After thinking about it for a moment, from Kumiko Sugiura's perspective, if a mother and her daughter were separated in such a weird and terrifying place, anyone would go crazy, right?
Ms. Sugiura may be considered relatively calm now.
When you see someone who is still normal, you should ask if they have seen your daughter, and ask them to help take care of her if they see her.
Although that please may not have much effect, it is better than not doing it at all.
Moreover, from what Ms. Sugiura said, it seemed that she had been staying in Matsuzawa Village for some time.
Kanoya felt that he could get some useful information from her, so he asked: "Become a Matsuzawa person?"
"Yes. As long as you eat the food here, you will become a Matsuzawa person. He will have no other expression except a silly smile. At night, he will transform into a terrifying and disgusting monster."
Ms. Sugiura's expression was one of clear fear.
When Xiaolu heard what she said, he suddenly had many questions in his heart.
"Food? Aunt Sugiura, are you talking about those black pieces of meat in the cafeteria? Would anyone really eat that kind of thing?"
"If there were normal things to eat, no one would want to eat that. But if you stay here for a long time and don't eat anything, you will die... When you get hungry, someone will try to cook it. Eat those pieces of meat, or just drink the broth. But the result is the same. Those people you saw just now, they are no different from the original Songze people, eating raw meat in the cafeteria."
"What are those pieces of meat?"
"I don't know either."
"But, Aunt Sugiura, why...?" Xiaolu looked suspicious.
Since everyone else has been assimilated by Matsuzawa, why is Sugiura Kumiko a special case?
"I brought compressed biscuits and cans. When the earthquake happened, my house collapsed. I couldn't run out with Yangcai, so I had to hide in the toilet, where there was an emergency evacuation kit. Only then did cracks appear on the ground."
After all, Japan is a country prone to earthquakes. Families with good disaster prevention awareness will indeed prepare emergency evacuation kits at home.
As Sugiura Kumiko said this, her eyes suddenly became a little uncertain: "It's just that the emergency food has been eaten now."
This aunt doesn't seem to be good at lying.
Maybe she still had food left.
Afterwards, Ms. Sugiura's expression became bleak again: "I don't want to become a Matsuzawa person or a disgusting monster. When I get too hungry and can't stand it anymore, I will choose to commit suicide."
"Hmm... Aunt Sugiura. You just said you can't eat the meat here, but what about drinking water? Will drinking the water here also be assimilated?"
"I can't drink water." Sugiura shook his head very normally, as if he was telling the hard facts that he had practiced, "So, if you happen to bring food, you must plan the amount you take in every day, and you must not exceed it. Eat. And then...then I don’t know, just survive as long as you can.”
Kanoya wrote down what Sugiura Kumiko said, and then asked the second question that she was very concerned about. She must master as much information as possible:
"Aunt Sugiura, what do you mean when you say that Matsuzawa people turn into monsters late at night?"
(End of chapter)
