After staying at the celebration for more than an hour, a voice came out from the central loudspeaker: "It's time for the celebration ceremony, please gather the children."

This is a special event of the Xiangshan Echo Festival.

There has been a saying in this area since ancient times that "the echo is the response of the mountain god". In the past, it was a custom to stand on the protruding rocks on the top of the mountain and shout when you wished for a good harvest, rain, or other wishes.

The Echo Festival also evolved from this.

This habit is still retained today. Whenever the "Echo Festival" comes to an end, the finale activity is for the children to climb the mountain and shout out their wishes.

"Go, go, it sounds fun!"

As soon as she heard that there was a special event, Misako immediately became interested.

However, the event itself is nothing. As a local, Shinagawa’s mother also participated in it when she was a child.

Moreover, she had just seen that the celebration was hosted by an acquaintance of her mother's family.

Shinagawa's mother asked her acquaintances to take care of her two daughters, and then asked her daughters to follow the parade of children at the celebration.

The children were divided into several teams, and under the leadership of the adults who presided over the celebration, they began to climb along the long and slender mountain path and along the stone steps toward the middle of Xiangshan Mountain.

Every few sections of the procession, there are adults holding lanterns to guide the way, and there are four or five adults at the front and the back. With the light of the lanterns, the surroundings are not too dark, but the further away from the light of the festival, the more people in the mountains at night

The atmosphere of terror gradually increased.

"elder sister……"

Rieko, who was still a primary school student, became frightened while walking and grabbed her sister's clothes.

No one spoke along the way, only the chirping of insects and birds could be heard.

And because most of the team is children, it feels like a test of courage.

Rieko was young and got tired after walking along the mountain path for a while. And she began to regret that she should not have followed her sister here, but should have stayed with her mother.

While grumbling in their hearts, the team came to an open place.

A huge rock protruded from the face of the mountain, and everyone stood on top of the rock.

Rieko looked around nervously and felt a little relieved when she saw that there were fences all around.

"Now, go to the front in order and shout out your wishes."

The adult responsible for guiding said this.

Soon there were boys in the front row standing at the railing and shouting.

The first little boy was very brave and confessed his love loudly to the person he liked.

However, it is estimated that the person he likes is not in the team for tonight's celebration. After all, most of the people attending this kind of event are boys, and there are only a few girls. Among them are the Shinagawa sisters who came from the city to visit relatives on vacation.

After a while, the boy's echo echoed in the mountains.

Everything is normal.

Sister Rieko, who had settled down a little, also began to think about what wish she should shout out when it is her turn.

Why not just make a wish to become smarter?

Just as she was thinking about this, Rieko suddenly heard her sister whisper: "What was that sound just now?"

"Isn't it just an echo?"

Rieko was speechless.

Xin said that even a primary school student knew common sense, but her sister, a junior high school student, still made a fuss about it.

However, the elder sister Misako ignored her sister at all and looked around.

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At this time, one after another children stood on the railing in front and shouted out their wishes.

I hope that I will be stronger and can achieve good results in future football matches; I hope to get a brand new game console and so on.

All the content of the shouting turned into echoes.

"Rieko, did you hear that? Someone is repeating everyone's voice."

My sister Misako's reaction became even more strange.

"Isn't this an echo? Sister, don't scare me!"

"No, no, this is not an echo. If it were an echo, it should be coming from all directions." Misako shook her head vigorously.

At this time, someone from the front shouted again.

"I hope I can date Misato-chan! Misato-chan, I like you!"

Huhu——

The wind sounded in the darkness, accompanied by layers of echoes.

"I like you!" "I like you!" "I like you!"

Rieko listened carefully.

Because of her sister's reminder, she paid special attention to the direction from which the sound came. The repetitive echo really did not come from all directions in the valley.

But it comes from the valley under the rock!

Before she could react, the sister next to her ignored the queue and rushed towards the railing in front.

Rieko reached out to grab her sister.

But he failed to hold on firmly and was staggered instead.

Because she was unsteady, her vision was spinning, but out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a figure standing upright under the shadow of a forest on the outskirts of the mountainside site.

Judging from the body shape, he should be an adult.

But it seemed that they were not the ones guiding this ceremony, because all the adults who followed the children had lights in their hands.

But there was no figure, just standing stiffly in the shadows.

Rieko seemed to see a strange mask on the face of the figure.

But when she wanted to confirm again, as soon as she opened her eyes, she couldn't see the figure again.

The series of strange things made Rieko feel a creeping fear.

And her sister Misako, regardless of the others, rushed to the front of the team, grabbed the edge of the railing, and shouted down: "Hey - come out! Who is it!?"

Misako shouted very loudly.

But after a few seconds, there was still no reply from her.

Instead, there was a strong, smelly wind that swept up from the valley and made everyone blind.

The sound of the wind was mixed with murmurs similar to human voices.

Such a change shocked everyone present except Misako Shinagawa.
Chapter completed!