"I've seen how the people of Matsuzawa look like late at night. They don't look like humans at all."
Kumiko Sugiura looked horrified, as if she was starting to reminisce, and her voice became dull: "Their skin will turn into a moist black-gray color, and there will be circles of ring-like textures on the exposed skin. Their facial features will be distorted, like
It has degenerated. There are no eyes on the wet face, only two small holes in the nose, and the mouth has turned into a disgusting flesh sucker."
"Some of the senses of the Matsuzawa people who have turned into monsters seem to have deteriorated, but their sense of smell has become very sensitive. They will use the two holes on their faces and the slimy skin to sense the smell and act accordingly."
"There are also limbs, yes, limbs. The hands and feet are shortened and fit close to the torso, but they can still move, and their fingers can also use tools. However, after turning into monsters, their movements will be slower than normal."
"After they are deformed, they look like leeches, just like the statue above the canteen in the village! That thing leaning on the cross, that is a leech! The Matsuzawa people worship this thing."
Kumiko Sugiura became more and more excited as she spoke, her body visibly trembling with fear.
Kanoya: "You seem to know them well?"
"Of course I understand. I want to leave this village." Sugiura smiled sadly again, "And it won't be too long before you will be like me. As long as you stay here for two more nights, you will have a chance to see Matsuzawa
People turn into leech figures and they wander past your window late at night, or they may just stick to your window all night long.”
Well, that sounds scary.
After thinking about the scene of Matsuzawa people turning into "leech people" wandering around the village late at night, Kanoya asked again: "Aunt Sugiura, you always said that no one can leave Matsuzawa Village, but I think those Matsuzawa people
It’s weird, but it doesn’t seem to directly restrict our freedom.”
Sugiura Kumiko said seriously: "Don't be fooled by the friendly and cheerful appearance of Matsuzawa people. As long as you enter Matsuzawa Village, it will be fine if you stay in the village and don't go out. But as long as you try to step out of the village, those Matsuzawa hunters will
will point the barrel at you."
"How many hunters are there in Songze Village?"
"About twenty or so."
"So many!?" Lu Yewu felt extremely surprised.
Then she learned from Kumiko Sugiura that there were approximately one hundred and eighty people in Matsuzawa Village. Counting the original villagers and the modern people who were subsequently assimilated, the number was almost the same.
And those people Xiaolu had seen in the cafeteria were just some of them.
Among the indigenous people of Songze Village, more than 20 are gun-toting hunters.
Considering that the background of this space seems to be seventy or eighty years ago in the real world, it seems normal to think that the villagers have such a high rate of gun ownership.
"There are so many hunters. If they really stop me from leaving the village, it will be very troublesome."
Kanoya thought in his heart.
She was brought to Matsuzawa Village by the three hunters headed by Watanabe, so she knew that these people with shotguns were dangerous elements.
As Aunt Sugiura said, even though the people in Matsuzawa are always having fun, they don't seem to be much of a threat. But the old hunter Watanabe's first reaction when he bumped into Kanoya in the woods was to shoot, which was not the case at all.
With vagueness.
In addition, the people of Songze seemed to be celebrating a festival, and the scene of happily eating black raw meat in the cafeteria is still vivid in my mind.
Nothing the Matsuzawa people do will seem unreasonable, because they are "unreasonable" themselves. Therefore, Xiaolu feels that what Aunt Sugiura said that Matsuzawa hunters will attack people who try to leave the village is not a lie.
When it came to Matsuzawa's hunters, Sugiura Kumiko naturally mentioned her previous encounters——
In fact, before Kanoya came to Matsuzawa Village, there were four other normal people in the village, and together with Sugiura, there were five people in total.
The five of them had the same idea, which was to escape from Songze Village and stay away from the weirdos here.
There were two escapes in total.
Once during the day and once at night.
"The hunters in Matsuzawa are a well-coordinated team during the day. If you try to escape during the day, you will face an organized hunt by the hunters before long."
"On the contrary, the possibility of escaping at night is greater. Especially late at night, after the people here have turned into leeches. Leech people who are not hunters generally do not leave their homes late at night. As for the original hunters, they will bring
The guns are wandering around, but they rarely cooperate with each other. It may be that their thinking has been slowed down after they turned into monsters."
"But because the Matsuzawa hunter who became a leech man was extremely sensitive to smells, the escape at night ended in failure."
"Among the five people, two were shot to death by hunters, and two chose to eat pieces of meat and blend in here. I am the only one left to survive."
At this point in the conversation, Kanoya's vigilance towards Kumiko Sugiura has dropped a lot.
After all, a lot of useful information was obtained from the other party.
The two agreed to help each other as much as possible in the village. After that, Sugiura Kumiko stayed in Kanoya's "home" for a while before saying goodbye and leaving to go back to her own "home".
It's getting late. If we stay any longer, the people in Songze will turn into leech people.
…
"Abba whining!"
After sending Kumiko Sugiura away, Little Old Man No. 3 released his restrained aura and appeared in front of Kanoya.
"Little grandpa, are you always by my side?"
"Abba!"
Little old man No. 3 nodded.
Luyeya looked out the window at the gray night, closed the curtains, and asked, "Are there people from Matsuzawa watching this house?"
"Whew."
Little old man No. 3 shook his head.
Luyeya found an old chair, wiped the dust and sat down. Now she finally had a chance to deal with the wounds on her body.
She took out the Shotoku incense burner and the scripture stickers given by Teacher Kanazawa and placed them in front of her. Then she continued to perform mudra, with her slender thumb, index finger, and little finger stretched out and connected, and the rest were tightly clasped.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is a Buddhist mudra learned from Honganji Temple, called the inner lion seal, which expresses the power to freely control one's own body and the bodies of others.
To put it bluntly, it is a healing Buddhist spell that acts on oneself or the body of a selected target.
The healing effect of the Inner Lion Seal is much worse than that of Prajna white powder which can instantly stop bleeding and relieve pain.
But it's enough for Kanoya's current situation. Anyway, there's no problem in treating a bruise.
The little deer controlled his spiritual power, closed his eyelids, shook his head and started reciting the Vajrasattva mantra.
The brass color of the Shengtoku Royal Incense Burner in front of her became a little brighter; the spread scripture posts also felt the effect and started to glow slightly.
These two props have a very good blessing effect on Buddhist spells.
"The spiritual power of all things is at my disposal."
The sutra post was originally blank, but as Lu Yewu continued to open and close his mouth, small golden Sanskrit characters appeared on it, corresponding to the content of the sutra. Those small Sanskrit characters floated towards Lu Yewu's red and swollen right knee and turned invisible.
The gentle warm current wraps the wound...
I waited for seven or eight minutes.
The effect of the inner lion mark was almost the same, the deer’s knees were no longer red and swollen, only some bruises were left.
No matter whether you are jumping or squatting, you will not feel any pain.
"I have never really tried to use this kind of magic on my body before, but the therapeutic effect is better than I imagined? Am I really a genius? No... maybe the props given to me by Kanazawa-sensei and master are too powerful.
Already..."
Just when Kanoya was feeling happy about her successful spell healing, the little old man No. 3, who was silently guarding her and sensing the surrounding situation, suddenly felt as if he was electrocuted.
"Abba!"
He shouted to his eldest lady, dancing and gesticulating with great excitement.
"What, what's wrong?"
However, Xiaolu is not Kamiya and cannot roughly understand what the family's ghost stories want to express through tone of voice and body language.
"Abba! Abba!"
Little Old Man No. 3 used his fingers to write directly on the dusty floor. The handwriting was crooked and ugly, but it was legible——
[The owner is contacting us!]
…
Real world, countermeasures room building.
After getting the guide from Satoru, Kamiya rushed here for the meeting.
The agenda lasted until midnight.
Moreover, Kamiyagawa also brought other information, about encountering demons, and about a certain unknown old god.
As for where this information came from, there is no need to lie completely.
To put it bluntly, his subordinates have spied on and deduced strange stories about future possibilities based on the current situation. The current intelligence is a summary of the results of snooping and deducing.
Kamiyagawa has great trust in Satoru's ability.
But that's not the case for the people in the countermeasures room, but it's not a big problem, as long as the "Ghost Master" comes out and endorses it.
The information brought by Kamiya suddenly made the issues to be discussed and sorted out at the meeting more complicated.
In tonight's countermeasures room meeting, Kamiyagawa rarely showed a proactive attitude. In order to save Kanoya, he must take the initiative, and it would be best to directly take over the highest command of the subsequent crusade against the earthquake catfish.
With his current strength, as well as his connections and prestige in the countermeasures room, there are really not many people who oppose the proposal of "Kamigawa taking command".
However, the few who objected also had reasons to say——
The personal strength of ghost and god disciples is indeed there, but a high force value does not mean a high command value.
The reason for this objection was acceptable to Kamiya after he calmly thought about it.
After all, he really has no experience in commanding humans to conduct large-scale operations.
The only time seems to be when Wakayama subdued the little whale?
But that was just an incident with a C-level monster rating, and the final resolution of the matter actually depended on Kamiya’s personal strength.
The crusade against the earthquake catfish is currently a large-scale operation. A single decision-making mistake by the commander may affect many lives and deaths. If it is just for the convenience of rescuing Kanoya, and the command authority here is forcibly taken over, what meaning will it have?
It's all irresponsible.
Kamiya's disciple's life is his life, and the lives of others are also his life.
In the end, command of the operation was assigned to Yuki Masakisuke.
This result is acceptable to everyone, and Uncle Yuki is a master of magic.
His own commanding ability is very strong, so he can convince the crowd; Kamiyagawa doesn't have to worry about Uncle Yuki's commanding conflicting with his rescue of his apprentice. The two of them have mutual trust and tacit understanding.
Uncle Yuki is currently on his way from Fukuoka to Tokyo, and he will probably start to get busy with overall planning as soon as he comes back.
It was 1:30 in the morning, and Kamiyakawa was still in the countermeasures room building.
The meeting is not over yet, but everyone is given a short break.
The information on the earthquake catfish and the information on earthquakes in various places are still being further compiled and summarized; the new information brought by Kamiya has no research direction at the meeting yet, but the clerks in the office are already working overtime to check the literature, trying to find useful corresponding information.
information.
In the tea room, Kamiya and Onitsuka were making coffee.
The whole building was still brightly lit, but because it was late at night, there was no very lively atmosphere.
Quiet, busy, and depressing.
Before Kamiya could brew his bag of instant coffee, the little old man suddenly appeared, gesturing at him emotionally and saying something.
"Wait a minute, you mean, have you contacted Yukino?"
Kamiya understood the scout's expression and movements, and suddenly became excited. This news was much more refreshing than coffee.
Satoru has indeed confessed that among all the "futures" she has seen, the little old man is very reliable and can steadily help the master and apprentice get in touch.
But I didn't expect that the contact would come so quickly.
…
"Aba Aba."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
On one side is a clean and bright office with clear windows, and on the other side is an old house with shabby furnishings and dust.
Two completely different worlds, which may not even exist in the same time and space, finally got in touch with each other through the efforts of the little old man's body and his third body.
Once contacted, the "signal" was fairly stable.
Because they didn't know when the "signal" would be disconnected again, the master and apprentice quickly started communicating.
The specific method of communication is to have the little old men on both sides write down what Kamiyagawa and Kanoya said at the same time.
In other words, the scout is now doing secretarial work and taking meeting minutes.
[Master, I thought I would never see Master again, uh-huh. Eh? Wait a minute, little grandpa, you don’t need to write this sentence.]
Compared with Xiaolu, Kamiya is racing against time to focus on the output as soon as he opens his mouth, without even a little greeting——
[Xiaolu, Satoru used future vision, so I have a rough idea of your current situation. What I am going to show you next are the precautions for your activities in that strange space. You must take note of it.]
[First, don’t eat the food from that dimension and don’t drink the water there.]
[Second, find a helper, a petite female wolf Guitan...]
[third……]
The guide given by Xiao Wu actually contains many of her personal colloquial customary words.
Kamiya later streamlined the focus of this part. In order to cope with the current situation, just let the little old man copy it, which can ensure that effective strategies are passed to Xiaolu very quickly.
After writing the most important notes, Xiaolu gave a reply:
[Master? Isn’t it okay to drink water? I met an aunt named Sugiura Kumiko who claimed to be from the Tsuyama earthquake. She told me that drinking water was okay. In other words, she was lying to me?]
Kamiya looked at the words written by the scout on the paper and frowned slightly: "Kumiko Sugiura? It seems that this person was not mentioned in the guide given by Satoru."
Isn't this an open-book exam?
Why is it that the first question is not in the book?