For a moment, Hongye felt as if she was being targeted by a predator. She saw that the air friend with a big mouth on his chest seemed to smell her scent and came closer.
It was not moving with two feet, but it was like moving instantly, and it was a short distance away in the blink of an eye.
For a moment, Hongye couldn't move.
All he could see was the huge open mouth slowly approaching towards him.
Then, he stuck out his invisible tongue and licked the back of Hongye's hand.
The air friend suddenly became excited, jumped left and right, and licked the back of Hongye's hand.
"..."
Hongye suddenly felt a strange feeling. She raised her hand and touched the head of her air friend.
Since the air friend's form was very vague, Hongye didn't know where his head really was. He just hoped that it wasn't inserted in any strange place.
Immediately, Hongye saw that the air friend bent down meekly and rubbed his hand with his invisible head, like...a dog?
"......sit down?"
Hongye couldn't help but think of what Lu Tan said to him before.
The air friend immediately sat down obediently, its huge and ferocious mouth opening and closing as if sticking out its tongue.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Tran glanced at Hongye strangely.
"Your air friends... seem to be different from those elsewhere."
The red leaves were a little messy for a while.
Although she has never dealt with incidents related to air friends, according to the description in the file, such strange stories as air friends will attach themselves to the host, and then continue to absorb the host's vitality. Although it is invisible and silent at first, it will gradually affect the host's life.
Consciousness, eventually, the host will fall into madness and will be swallowed by the air friend, and the air friend will become a truly tangible filth, or even replace the host.
But now?
What is this dog-like air friend?
Moreover, it seemed that Lu Jian couldn't see it yet. It was probably an air friend in its early stages, but the oppressive feeling it displayed was even more frightening than some powerful filth.
"Huh? Can you see him? Is it true that only the shrine maiden of Wajima has such power?"
Lu Tan suddenly became curious.
"...Your air friend is, well, very powerful."
Hongye considered the words, and the air friend in front of her jumped up excitedly after hearing these words.
"Yeah, he sometimes talks to me, and he can give me first aid when I'm in danger. Speaking of which, if you can see him, what does he look like? I just came into contact with the mist. I don't know if he was injured.
?”
Lu Tan asked with concern.
"...He's fine."
Hongye felt that it was great that this air friend could beat her three times.
"That's fine. Hey, let's not talk about air friends for now. Do you have any clue about the mist just now? Is it some kind of weird story or filth?"
Lu Jian asked.
"It's like a fog of uncertainty, but I'm not sure."
Hongye looked back at the shrine on the top of the mountain with lingering fear.
Immediately, she saw a person wearing a witch costume standing on the roof of the shrine, seeming to be looking over here.
Hongye blinked his eyes, and the man disappeared again.
"Did you see that?"
she asked.
"This is very similar to the person I saw on this road. Is she the evil witch?"
Lu Tiao naturally saw the same thing.
"Probably not... Utashima is relatively remote, far away from Wajima Taisha Shrine. Candidates for the Son of God like us usually don't work here. Looking back, there may have been one only three to four hundred years ago.
"
Hongye thought.
"Now we need to figure out a few questions. First of all, the priests and priests of Wajima Shrine are dead. Then who are the priests in Ansinin now? Secondly, what is the cause of the death of these shrine maidens?
If it is the Uncertain Fog, then where is the Uncertain Fog now? Finally, who is in charge of this island now?"
Lu Tan briefly summarized the situation and took out the bottle that contained the mist.
There is nothing in the bottle, it looks like it is empty.
"This fog doesn't look like an uncertain fog."
In Lu Jian's field of vision, the system text did not appear, which meant that he did not obtain [Sigh of the Uncertain Mist]. The bottle in front of him was naturally not the Uncertain Mist.
He opened the bottle.
I waved my hand over the bottle, and there was no smell in the air. There was no weird grainy mist, and it naturally didn't cause a burning sensation in the respiratory tract and lungs.
"Can you identify it?"
Hongye looked slightly surprised.
"It's just that I can distinguish the uncertain fog. I suspect that the fog is some kind of living thing, but it just takes the form of fog."
Lu Tan said simply.
In the Quiet Land, the concept of "living things" has been greatly expanded. Grass and trees can grow wildly, and mist may also exist as a life form.
"Anyway, let's go back first. Can we go to the teahouse and the island's headquarters tomorrow?"
He thought about it and decided that if he encounters a problem, he should just go to the person in charge.
Since, according to Hongye, a big problem has occurred on this island, the island is an institution that maintains public security. It is either too stupid to not notice it, or it is so bad that it has become homogeneous, so it is necessary to visit it anyway.
Hongye nodded, and the two began to go down the mountain.
We didn't encounter any trouble on the way down the mountain. Maybe it was just a warning just now, warning Lu Jian and Hongye not to meddle in other people's business.
The festival has ended. Surprisingly, the streets are clean and there is no trace of the prosperity of the past. Lu Tiao leaned down and touched the ground.
"The dust is so dusty that it doesn't look like anyone has walked through it."
He stood up and realized that several hours had passed since he and Hongye went up and down the mountain, and it was clear that he only felt good for thirty minutes.
Anxinyuan was guarded by the island followers. From a distance, Lu Jian saw two guys with weapons standing at the gate.
only......
"!"
Hongye's eyes widened slightly, and she and Lu Tran looked at each other to confirm that what they saw was true.
She turned her attention to the island.
The shapes of the two "people" were no longer humanoid, but monsters made of countless piles of flesh and blood. Even the clothes on their bodies were made of fake fur. Lu Jian could see between the flesh and blood, a bloodshot monster.
Eyes looked at him.
It was difficult for Lu Kan not to look into those eyes.
"Is there something on me?"
The monster asked curiously, and even its voice was not a human language, but some kind of headache-inducing gibbering.
More importantly, it doesn't seem to know that it is a monster.
Just like, humans who have been alienated into monsters still maintain human cognition and live like humans, just like other monsters that form human society.
For a moment, Lu Jian was in a trance.
Because he thought of a question.
If the monster doesn't even know that he is a monster, then how can Lu Jian and Hongye think that they have not mutated and are still the original human beings?
With such doubts in mind, Lu Tan returned to the courtyard where he lived with Tachibana Masamune and Yinping.
He saw Yinping and Tachibana Masamune sitting at the table, drinking and talking.
"I didn't expect that Master Lu Tan could be so charming and successfully invite Miss Hongye."
Yin Ping looked like a human being at least, which made Lu Tiao feel relieved.
However, when he walked directly opposite Yinping, he saw that Yinping's chest was ulcerated, and the wounds deep into the bones were squirming and giving birth to new life.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Tan sat across from Yin Ping.
"We are playing a game."
On the side, Masamune Tachibana, who has also turned into a semi-monster, said.
"It's called [One Hundred People's Song]."
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