The red-hot charcoal fire releases high temperature, peeling off and sputtering sparks.
Above the charcoal fire, two deformed pieces of blue-gray meat hung, exuding an unpleasant burnt smell.
"Huhu - almost ready."
The mountain lady was holding a stove hook in her hand, turning over the poor-quality barbecued meat in the stove with great interest, her little eyes full of energy.
Turn over and over.
Grandma Shan's hand suddenly relaxed.
Clang——
The metal stove hook fell on the dirty ground, bounced twice and then fell silent.
Shan Lao's bloated and fat body suddenly drooped stiffly like a puppet with its strings cut off, motionless.
In the bloody kitchen, only the fire was still roaring.
I don't know how long it took.
The fat on Shan Lao's body suddenly began to tremble.
Puff puff.
The fat and muscles bulged and collapsed, swaying and making the sound of flesh and blood slapping together.
A normal-sized arm squeezed out of Shan Lao's body. Then came the head, body...
What came out of Shan Lao's body looked like an ordinary stranger.
A girl in her 20s, wearing glasses and looking pretty.
"But I figured it out. It's very hard every time I come out."
The girl adjusted the frame on the bridge of her nose.
She stretched out her hand and reached into Shan Lao's mountain-like back.
The girl's hand felt like it had been inserted into a piece of soft plasticine, flowing freely through Shan Lama's body.
After groping for a while, she took out a head from Shan Lao's body.
The head looked neither human nor animal. Half of it was covered with brown-gray animal hair, while the other half had smooth scales.
It has two pairs of pointed ears, three asymmetrical eyes, a large mouth full of fangs, and a forked tongue similar to that of a snake.
The strange eye opened the deformed eye on the lower jaw, while the other two eyes were closed. It opened its mouth and spat out a red message: "Lianshi..."
"Here you are." The girl responded, then blinked her delicate eyes and said to herself, "I feel like I can't control Grandma Shan more and more recently. She has too many ideas of her own and has been completely overwhelmed by yours.
That 'tainted chaotic goodwill' affected."
"Not my share."
"What?"
"I repeat, the 'goodwill of chaos' is not mine, but a relic of the fallen God of Mount Fuji. And I am just one of the three remnants. The mountain aunt is the mountain aunt, the pig king is the pig king, and I am me
, I am just Shanyan. We are all independent."
When the head speaks, the voice it emits changes at any time, sometimes old, sometimes immature, sometimes delicate, sometimes masculine.
But every sound is vivid, like words spoken by people of different ages and genders, smoothly edited together.
"Whatever you say, I don't think it's necessary to make such a clear distinction."
Hasumi didn't really care about Yamabiko's repeated emphasis and went her own way.
After the death of the God of Mount Fuji a long time ago, he left three remnants in the other world, namely [Goodwill of Chaos], [Corrupted Underworld Maggot], and [Echoing Head].
The three leftovers have each evolved into three different kinds of strange stories from the mountains and forests, but they all have certain characteristics of gods——
Shan Lao, Zhuji Wang, Shan Yan.
Among them, Shan Lao's situation is quite special. She was formed by the "chaotic goodwill" sticking to a body that should have belonged to a stranger.
And Hasumi is the stranger who is bonded with [Chaos’ kindness].
After being invaded by the remnants of the old mountain god, the former lotus cracked open, and the body slowly evolved into a mountain aunt, while the living soul fell off and became the current "lotus".
They become two different individuals, but there is a certain connection between them.
The current lotus is an extremely special living soul.
She won't be like other living souls who can't find a support and dissipate. She is solid.
This effect of the independent existence of the living soul comes from Shanyan's gift and blessing.
"Grandma Shan will not get rid of control easily. After all, she was once your body. Moreover, as long as we continue to feed the second body with 'questioned unclean beliefs', this body will not be able to develop a complete consciousness, and it will always be
Meat puppets at our mercy."
Shan Yan licked his lips with his forked tongue.
The so-called "questioned unclean belief" comes from the sacrificial ceremony held by every living person in the residence for "Mountain Lama".
In Shan Lao's life, none of the conscious strangers who have survived completely trust Shan Lao.
Because after everyone arrives at the residence and before participating in the sacrificial ceremony, they will see a girl who calls herself Hasumi.
The girl will tell them that Shan Lao has other plans and that Shan Lao has a deal with the monster King Inojisa in the sea of ​​trees.
Always be careful and don't become a sacrifice sent to the Pig King by the Mountain Lama.
Not everyone will believe what Hasumi said.
But everyone will have doubts about "Mountain Lama".
Once doubt is generated, the belief they provide will no longer be pure.
This kind of belief is harmful rather than beneficial to Shan Lao, who is still just a body with scattered consciousness born from the "goodwill of chaos".
"Don't say these useless things. Even if her consciousness is still broken, she has already begun to fight for control of her body with me. When I am inside her, I can feel more and more thoughts that do not belong to me, and even my body
And he will act on those thoughts, such as eating those disgusting roasted chickens. Ugh——"
Hasumi looked extremely disgusted.
"Maybe next time I leave her, she will move on her own and be completely independent."
Shan Yan: "Our action has begun. For Shan Lao, there is no next time. Don't worry, she won't cause any trouble."
Hasumi: "I hope so... To be honest, I have never trusted you very much. If I didn't have no choice, I wouldn't even want to cooperate with you."
"well, why?"
"Why? You are also a part of the legacy of the old mountain god. You are too weak, aren't you? If the strange man who calls himself the God of Thunder hadn't suddenly appeared, you wouldn't even be able to deal with King Zhuji, let alone get the underworld maggots——"
"And I can guarantee that if Shan Lama has complete self-awareness, you will definitely not be her opponent."
"Hasumi, what you said makes me very sad." Yamahiko, who only had a brain, showed no anger at Hasumi's venomous words. They seemed to have always gotten along like this.
Just like friends who can hurt each other.
Shan Yan's face, neither human nor animal, with broken features, pieced together an expression that looked like a smile but not a smile:
"As I said, I am the highest-level existence among the mountain gods' remnants, but I am not complete yet. But as long as I can become complete, I will be stronger than the Pig King and the Mountain Lama combined."
"Just take it as what you said." Hasumi sighed, "Anyway, don't forget our agreement. After you create an ideal body and inherit the power of the old mountain god, you will send me back to my original world.
.”
Hasumi doesn't know who she is now.
Is it a person or something else?
But it doesn't matter anymore.
She wanted to leave this damn place and return to the sunny world that belonged to her.
There are many people she cares about and who used to care about her, waiting for her to return.
Even after she returns, those people will not remember her.
But so what?
"I still remember them. I can get to know them again, even if I change my identity and stay with them. I have heard their voices and heard them calling my name in my dreams more than once. I want to go back, as long as I can be with them.
To be continued...