"Yanoshugahara...what is that?"
The cupboard was smashed by Uesugoshi, and the contents inside fell to the floor. Gu Bei didn't pick it, and picked up an unbroken bottle of sake from the ground, opened it and poured himself a glass.
Uesugoshi glanced at it: "Shiroe 100,000 yen."
Gu Bei couldn't help but squirt out a mouthful. He held it in his mouth and thought about it. He felt that it would be a loss if he squirted out, so he had no choice but to swallow it: "You dare to charge me 100,000 yen for such a bad drink!?"
"Mengque, you have good taste. Among the piles of wine on the ground, it is the most valuable." As he said that, Uesugi picked up a cup and poured it for himself. "Even I was reluctant to drink it, so I kept it."
Gu Bei stared at him: "You can't let me spend money if you drink it yourself."
"It's no fun if you drink too much." Uesugi Yue clinked Gu Bei's cup to himself, making a clear sound.
Gu Bei finally figured it out. This old guy was a character from the same era as Ange, so he definitely knew Ange, even in shameless ways.
He angrily drank the wine in his glass and filled it up again: "Now let's talk about the "Night Food". "
"Yakushihara..." Uesugoshi looked at the deep alley through the rain curtain, "That is the opposite of Takamagahara, the city in the mirror. It is far less famous than Takamagahara, but it really exists."
According to the myth, after Inzanagi gave birth to three children, he ordered Amaterasu to guard Takamagahara and Suzuo'o to guard Kaijiang. The place given to Tsukuyomi to manage was Yonoshugahara.
That is the country of night, a world without light.
Anyone who has heard of myths will remember Takamagahara because it is the abode of the gods and the place where the sun rises, but they do not care about the Night Food Plain.
Because the purpose of the Night Food Plain is not mentioned at all in the myth, and the gods all live in Takamagahara, what exactly is the Night Food Plain without light...
"Nibelungs..." Gu Bei guessed it, but precisely because he guessed it, he felt a little outrageous, "Why do you have so many Nibelungs in Japan?"
"Actually, there is only one Nibelung root." Uesugi Yue looked at Gu Bei, "Your thinking has fallen into a misunderstanding. You have always thought that the Nibelung root is an extension of reality and a variant of the alchemy field, but this is actually just a prejudice. "
"The Nibelungs are indeed a reflection of reality, but this reflection is relative. It is like a two-way mirror. Reality may not be a reflection of the Nibelungs." Uesugoshi's eyes were dim and unclear.
"Reality... is the projection of the Nibelungs..." Gu Bei felt as if he had touched something. He could get the true image just by touching it, but he was separated by a thin layer of things.
Uesugoshi sighed: "Let's be more straightforward."
"Takamagahara and Night Shokuhara are both Nibelungs, but they are like two sides of a disc. When Takamagahara is on the upper level, Night Shokuhara is the Nibelungen hidden in the lower level. When Takamagahara is on the upper level, When I fell into the Nibelungs..."
"The Food of the Night will escape from the Nibelung situation and become a reality!" Gu Bei suddenly realized, and then his scalp became numb.
The information Gu Bei received from the two brothers of the Yuan family always recorded the existence of Gao Tianyuan, but there were some contradictions in this record.
In the early days, Takamagahara was a real city standing on the earth, but after Amaterasu Tsukuyomi teamed up to sink Takamagahara and two generations of Yamata no Orochi into the deep sea, the recorded Takamagahara became the Nibelungen.
And the one who exists in reality instead of Takamagahara is Yono Shikhara.
but……
"If Yaku no Shokuhara really exists as a "reality", then why are there no traces of Yaku no Shokuhara in Japan until now? "
This is a loophole.
The existence of Takamagahara can be glimpsed, and as the mirror image of Takamagahara, there should be no traces of the night food source, but the fact is that apart from written records, there is no trace of the night food source in reality.
Uesugoshi shook his head: "You misunderstood. Although Takamagahara and Yonoshokuhara used the loopholes in the mirror image to squeeze one of them into reality, in the final analysis
At the end of the day, both Takamagahara and Yonoshugahara are still Nibelungs in nature, and they can only be entered through a specific entrance. "
"It might be clearer to put it another way..."
Uesugi Koshi lit up a cigarette, and the sparks flickered: "Actually, the whole of Tokyo... no, the whole of Japan is the backside of Takamagahara. The "reality" of the night food plain and the real "reality" are superimposed, and only Only by opening the "door" connecting the two sides through a specific entrance can the Night Food Plain and the real world be truly integrated. "
"Door..." Gu Bei chewed on the word and suddenly trembled. As he spoke, Uesugoshi looked towards the deep alley.
Heavy raindrops made a crackling sound on the roof of the rooftop car, and the chill in the air suddenly increased tenfold, making people doubt that these raindrops would be frozen instantly.
"You are very smart." Uesugoshi nodded, "This is the Night Food Plain and one of the portals to reality."
Uesugoshi is the owner of all the land on this street.
The former movie king is now so poor that all he has left is this piece of land, but he would rather sell ramen than sell this piece of land. It cannot be out of nostalgia.
If he was really nostalgic, he wouldn't have sold the Uesugi family's old house.
Gu Bei looked around, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the heavy rain was hitting the wooden houses that were nearly a century old.
The techniques of these buildings have been passed down from the Edo period. Craftsmen laid layers of tiles between the wooden rafters. The rainwater rushed along the tile troughs, shooting out silver parabolas in the night. In this heavy rain, all The cherry blossoms have fallen, the streets are full of water, and the water is covered with fallen leaves, like a shuttle boat.
[An app that has been running stably for many years, comparable to the old book-chasing tool, used by all old bookworms.
Going deep into every street and alley, on this rainy night that should be silent and deserted, there are countless shadows wandering in those dark alleys, which cannot help but remind people of the legend of the underworld.
After turning off the vision, other senses become ten times and a hundred times sharper.
He felt the ground shaking slightly, the sound of the heavy footsteps of the shadows in the distance.
He smelled the smell of corroded metal, not from the kitchen utensils scattered around, but from the long knives on the shadow's waist that had been washed away by rain for hundreds of years. The wind brought the iron smell to Gu Bei's nose.
Uesugoshi threw the cigarette butt into the water, and with a "sting" sound, the dream-like scene in his mind was shattered into pieces. Gu Bei opened his eyes, and Uesugoshi took the time to light up another cigarette.
The lighter he used was Gu Bei's.
"How about it." Uesugi showed mercy and poured him a glass of wine, even though it was Gu Bei who paid for it.
Gu Bei didn't move, looking thoughtful.
While Uesugoshi was smoking a cigarette, his soul seemed to follow his thoughts to another world and saw monsters that were different from reality.
It wasn't until the sound of the cigarette butt being extinguished by water that he was pulled back from that world.
"What exactly is that sound I heard?" Gu Bei asked.
"They are hunters, creatures between humans and dragons. Hybrids usually call them deadpools. Some of them have been wandering in the Night Food Plain for hundreds of years, some may have been for thousands of years, and even more Some of the long-lasting ones have probably become demonized.”
"They are called "hunters" because they only have the instinct of hunting, which is determined by the bloodthirsty genes of dragons. Food of the Night was originally a creation of ancient hybrids. At that time, humans had not yet learned how to refine bronze, and the descendants of the White King had already built cities like Takamagahara. In human memory, it was mistaken for the Kingdom of God on the distant horizon. "
Gu Bei nodded: "So, the Snake Qiba Family are also the gatekeepers of the Night Food Plain to a certain extent."
"Wrong." Uesugi Koshi shook his head, "The Snakekihachi family are just servants serving the emperor's blood. The real gatekeepers are the holders of the emperor's blood in each generation. The emperor's blood is the only key that can open this door, so It must also be guarded by people with the same royal blood."
"The emperor's blood...is the key." Gu Bei suddenly thought that everything that happened in Japan seemed to revolve around the emperor's blood and the holy bones. Whether it was Eri Yi or the Genji brothers, the ultimate goal was the emperor's blood, and they were all emperors. The heirs of blood are also used by people behind the scenes.
At first, Gu Bei thought that the man wanted to use the holy blood and holy bones to resurrect the White King, but now he had another guess.
What if the opponent's targets include Takamagahara and Yonoshugahara in addition to Hakuo?
Herzog's thoughts are closer to those of pure-blooded dragons, and everything is based on bloodline and strength, so he probably can't accept multiple white kings on his head.
But what if he controls Takamagahara and Yonoshugahara?
Or does he have the means to control the White King?
Gu Bei had a lot of thoughts, but in the end they were just guesses.
"By the way," Gu Bei looked at Uesugi, "You just said that this is one of the entrances to the Night Food Plain. Are there other entrances to the Night Food Plain?"
Uesugoshi did not answer directly, but asked: "Have you ever wondered why dragons create this kind of paradoxical space?"
"The Nibelungs are the tomb of dead matter and the warehouse of alchemical materials. It is natural for dragons to make them. And in this kind of space where they can make whatever they want, they have absolute control and feel safe." Gu Bei's The answer was from the library in Kassel. As for which book it was, he could no longer remember.
Uesugi shook his head: "That sounds reasonable, but those ancient dragons who can create space out of thin air will not lack the materials needed for alchemy, and making Nibelungs first requires a huge amount of alchemical raw materials. They don't have to buy alchemical materials for them. And do this.”
"Also, in the ancient era when dragons ruled the world, they also had absolute control over the real world. The world was their territory. They should place their throne at the core of their territory instead of creating a paradoxical space to trap them. The throne is hidden inside."
Gu Bei thought
After a moment, he nodded: "You are right."
"In fact most Nibelungs were created for one of two purposes, either as a refuge or as a prison."
"Prison?" Gu Bei was stunned for a moment.
"The food of the night was originally a prison. Yin Zhenaki, whose ability is close to that of the Dragon King, created it. It was continuously reinforced by successive Shadow Emperors to imprison our ancestors." Uesugi Koshi said quietly, "Those who have fallen into "Deadpool" descendants. "
"You just said about the hunters of the Night Food Plain..."
"They are the ancestors of the Sheki Hachi family." Uesugoshi said.
"I once heard a story from the Snake Qiba family. There was a well in the courtyard of the Feng Mo family, but the well didn't produce water. It seemed to have been dry for many years."
"The elders in the family warned the children not to get too close to the well, so iron railings were added to the well and it was locked."
"One year, a cat owned by a Feng Mo family slipped through a gap in the railing and jumped into the well. The cat never came out again."
"But until later, when the old head of the family died and a new head took office, the people of the Feng Mo family could still hear the meowing of a cat nearby. An old man in the family said that it was the cat that jumped into the well and turned into a god. , will never die."
"And long before the current head of the Feng Mo family was born, the well was filled with soil and transformed into a pond, but the cat's meowing and other incredible sounds still lingered around it."
"Sounds like a ghost story." Gu Bei said.
Uesugoshi nodded: "With the lifespan of a cat, it is obviously impossible to live from that era to now, and the well will not have enough food to support it to live for decades."
"Later I found an original family record. In the hundreds of years of history of that house, every time the eight Sheqi families gave birth to a freak, or the bloodline of a family member got out of control, the family would throw them into the well. They held a large-scale massacre at the well, seemingly to pray for their dead family members, but in fact they used alchemy to set up a ban, cutting off the family's way back to the human world."
"Is that well the entrance to the Night Food Plain?"
Uesugoshi nodded, "Yes, one of the entrances."
"So I can't guarantee that there is no other entrance to the Night Food Plain in this world. Even if Yin Zhenaki is resurrected, there will be no answer to this kind of thing, because the Night Food Plain is the mainland of Japan, even if the whole of Japan is The entrance is not an exaggeration.”
"Tsk," Gu Bei smacked his lips, "your ancestors are like troublemakers."
"Yeah." Uesugi thought deeply.
