My Opinion in Gensokyo

() 741 A.D., the 29th year of Kaiyuan Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and the 13th year of Emperor Shengwu Tianping in the eleventh district

Yoshino Yamanaka

Shang Yang walked alone on the mountain path, looking at the flowers and plants on both sides of the mountain road with great interest. For more than 40 years, Shang Yang has been very familiar with every plant and tree in Jiye Mountain, but the difference is that after so long, Shangyang didn't have any change in mentality at all, or to be more clear, the monster didn't have the melancholy feeling that human beings have about the passage of time.

Longevity is not only the longevity of life, but the longevity of mentality is also a part of longevity. For non-human aliens who live forever, no matter how long they have experienced, everything they have experienced will not be erased by time, and the initial mood will never fade. se.

However, the current Shangyang is not a newcomer to the Asuka era. He has lived in this era for so long. Although he still lives a life similar to his previous life, he has undoubtedly marked Shangyang with the label of this era.

That is to say, ancient anime fans...

Cough cough, ruined the atmosphere again, all in all, just look at Mr. Shang Yang's current appearance, you can probably understand this point.

Most of the time, Shangyang's current appearance is modern casual clothes cut from white silk and satin. Although it is the style of casual clothes, the upper part has patterns such as seal script, bamboo leaves, and flames. Gray and white windbreaker, the hem reaches below the knees, and a big blue lotus is embroidered with blue silk thread on the back.

Unlike the long hair that is customary in this era, Shang Yang still has a hair style that is neither long nor short, which is no different from modern times, but it seems that it is because of being a monster or some other reasons. In these years, Shang Yang's original black hair Parts of my hair are starting to turn gray.

Over the years, Shangyang has not stayed in Jiye Mountain all the time. He has looked around the 11th district and encountered many monsters, but he does not know whether it is because the humans in this land have not systematically treated the monsters. Fear arises, and he can only rely on his own instinct to cultivate monster power. Among the monsters Shang Yang encountered, few of them have mastered their own abilities, and most of them rely on some illusionary talents to prey on them.

During this period, Shang Yang even went to the underground Nether Realm, which is hell.

There are all kinds of ghosts living in hell, but these ghosts have not yet developed the concept of "ghosts", they just gather together instinctively.

Although the Yan Mos began to organize the establishment of an institution for judging souls, which was the prototype of the underworld, they were not as complete as the legends later said. Some legendary places did exist, such as Santuchuan.

To put it simply, with the development of the culture of this island country, the non-human aliens also showed a starting state.

"It turns out that the key lies in the myth."

Not only in the 11th district, this is the conclusion that Shangyang reached after inspecting quite a lot of areas after going out to various parts of the world with Ai and Kaguya in the past few decades.

Monsters, or rather non-human intelligent creatures have existed for a long time, and their history can even be traced back to billions of years ago. Powerful creatures are only short-lived. Among the myriad biological races of Lord Earth, monsters are natural phenomena that occasionally appear, such as animals that become monsters by chance, such as fox monsters, dog monsters, and unconscious creatures. Plants that become monsters in nature, such as tree monsters, flower monsters, or dead things that gain wisdom and become monsters, such as stone monsters, and some life that arises from natural phenomena, such as wind monsters and flame monsters.But they are not the protagonists of life evolution, and this kind of heterogeneous species that cannot be produced stably does not have the population base to become the ruler of the earth, but since the emergence of intelligent and fast-growing humans, it has become different.

Human beings will fear, worship, and think about their origins after observing all kinds of aliens with abnormal power, so myths are born.

Human beings have fabricated myths for the aliens based on their observed characteristics. The myth itself is a concept with power, and the aliens who have a "position" in the myths can truly break away from the "natural phenomenon".

To put it simply, the relationship is: human beings have seen non-human intelligent aliens, in order to explain their existence, according to their appearance and displayed power, human beings fabricated myths, and myths themselves are a kind of concept, as myth prototypes In this way, the non-human intelligent heterogeneous obtained a "position" in the myth and got the blessing of the myth concept.

Human beings are different from the powerful non-human intelligence that exists as human mythology after that, a perfect balance.

Therefore, whether it is gods, ghosts, or monsters, they are all "natural phenomena" that existed hundreds of millions of years earlier than human beings. After the birth of human beings, after recognizing their existence, they fabricated myths to make these creatures that existed originally Obtained the "position" in the myth and became a "mythical species".

When more and more myths are born, there will be more and more "positions", and more and more non-human things will break away from "natural phenomena" and become gods, devils, and monsters.

Human beings gain a sense of security from myths, and take on the role of fabricating new myths. Non-human things gain positions from myths, gain beliefs from humans, and take on the role of giving humans hope, fear, and gifts according to myths. This is human beings. The "common benefit and symbiosis" relationship with gods and demons, a perfect and balanced state of two appearances.

Mythology is really an incredible thing. It is clearly the power of words, but it has the power to influence the real world. Shangyang has lived in Jiye Mountain for a long time, and in recent years, he has felt some unknown power pouring in from the outside world from time to time. After Shang Yang’s visit, he found that among the residents here, some residents may have seen him by accident, so there are elementary myths and legends such as "the humanoid monster in Mount Jiye". The power of the Shang sheep has not been widely spread, so the Shang sheep only feel a little "faith".

But this is also a big discovery for Shang Yang, at least this phenomenon fully supports his judgment.

Walking and walking, Shang Yang returned to his villa in Mount Jiye.

After the bamboo building in the other place became deserted because of the establishment of the hot spring resort later, Shangyang had already razed it decades ago, and he has no habit of living in an empty one.

Back home, as expected, Ai and Kaguya were playing games with the controller early in the morning.

For decades, Ai and Kaguya have not changed at all. Needless to say, Ai is already a monster and she has no feeling for the passage of time at all. As a native of Penglai, Kaguya has no feeling for time, but this guy It is estimated that it will still be like this in thousands of years.

30 years ago, these three guys co-starred in the costume fantasy drama "Bamboo Tori Returning to the Moon", which has already spread the legend of Bamboo Story to half of the [-]th District. Although the final ending is not very happy, but in Nara In the first generation, there is a niche ending like "Kaguya Hime finally returned to the ground, and returned to the moon forever after she died for Taketori Ong and Taketori Granny".

Of course, as for the real ending, Shang Yang, Hui Ye and Ai laughed and said nothing.

And this has nothing to do with our story. Our story is a happy and pure love drama, not an emotional drama in ancient costume mythology.

The Yamato court moved the capital from Fujiwara-kyo to Heijo-kyo 30 years ago. The Asuka era ended and the Nara era officially began.Fujiwara had already died of illness at home before moving the capital. Although he was honored after his death, the Fujiwara family had already lost most of the right to speak about the government. It has been broken down, but it will still not be cleaned up in the short term.

The original Fujiwara-kyo officially moved the capital, and the people followed the royal family and nobles to the new Heijo-kyo. Without the suppression of the sinister spirit from the ground, the entire ruins of Fujiwara-kyo were quickly occupied, and the south gate was also officially opened. It became a Rashomon connecting the hell and the human world. Soon, ghosts from the underground lived in the ruins of Fujiwarakyo. After decades, many monsters migrated to this human ruined capital. The original capital city has now officially become a heterogeneous city belonging to ghosts and monsters. Even in the daytime, the ruins of this capital city still look gloomy.

However, Shang Yang, Ai and Hui Ye thought it was good. The three of them visited the night market of ghosts and monsters at night. With the development of people in District 11, the monsters gradually began to have their own myths. , all kinds of ghosts are setting up stalls to sell, which is a bit more lively than the world.

Speaking of the Fujiwara clan, there is a very interesting plot. 30 years ago, Kaguya Ji returned to the moon and left behind a secret medicine called "Horai's Medicine". It is said that it can give people great strength and immortality. Taketori Ong dedicated it to Emperor Wenmu, the present god at that time. Perhaps the present god did not want to take risks, anyway, after the present god died, he would become a high-ranking ancestor god, or it was because of other reasons. In short, at that time The present god Emperor Wenmu did not take the medicine of Horai, but instead ordered Tsukiiwa Kasa to take the medicine pot containing the medicine of Horai to the volcano of Suruga country and burn it, but this matter failed in progress, and now The messenger of the human god fell to his death under the cliff, and the medicine pot containing the medicine of Penglai was also missing. Soon after the minister Fujiwara Bubiwai died of illness, a daughter of a concubine of the Fujiwara family also disappeared.

In recent years, Shang Yang has concentrated all his spirits in the cultivation of the power of Liangyi and Yuanshen Qinglian. It is profound, but Shang Yang always feels that the power of Liangyi is missing a key point. If he doesn't know where this key point is, the power of Liangyi will not be advanced to the level of a big monster in 1000 years.

Scratching his head, Shang Yang put these aside first, and then thought about it.

Recently, I heard that the plague in the 11th district is very serious. It is really a tragedy. It just so happens that the conditions we have been waiting for for a long time are now ripe. How about going far away?

Thinking in this way, Shang Yang immediately recalled the current situation slightly, um, it is totally feasible.

Thinking of this, Shang Yang casually greeted Ai and Hui Yedao.

"Love, princess, I will go away from tomorrow."

"Huh?!" Hui Ye didn't turn his head, his eyes were fixed on the screen, and he asked casually, "Where are you going?"

At least turn around and ask...

Sighing, Shang Yang responded.

"I'm going to the Tang Kingdom, and I'm going to live there for a while."

"Well, I have no objection," Hui Ye said without turning her head, "Do you love you?"

"Hmm~" Ai nodded lightly, staring at the game screen, and kept pressing on the controller.

Shang Yang felt that it was absolutely not his fault that Ai became like this, it was definitely Hui Ye's fault. A few years before Hui Ye and Ai met, Ai was just a quiet girl who liked to take baths and read books, and now She has become an otaku who is almost on par with Kaguya. Although this setting is not bad, I always feel that something will collapse all at once!

Give me back Yan Moai, who I often have three nothings and occasionally shows cuteness!

The next day

"I said, what's the situation..." Shang Yang got up early in the morning, and saw a package the size of two people placed in the main hall, and fell into a state of shock.

"My concubine's body and love's luggage~" Hui Ye looked at Shang Yang strangely, and said as a matter of course.

"That's too much..." Shang Yang retorted speechlessly.

"Not much, not much," Hui Ye waved his hand casually, "At first I wanted to stuff my bed in, but Ai let me put it back."

"I said, princess, do you still have the problem of recognizing the bed..." Sighing helplessly, Shang Yang complained about Hui Ye, then looked around, and asked strangely, "Where did the love go?"

"I'm going to prepare some food on the way," Hui Ye replied casually, then turned to look at Shang Yang and asked, "By the way, my concubine hasn't asked us how to get there yet, Shang Yang, how do we get to Gaotianyuan Tang Country? It’s not going to fly, it’s agreed in advance, half of the flight will be carried on your back.”

"Then what should we do with love?!" Shang Yang asked back.

"Relax," Hui Ye waved his hand and said indifferently, "I will carry love behind my back."

"That means you are both on top of me!" Shang Yang's eyes twitched, "Princess, aren't you afraid that one of us can't hold us and the three of us will smash into the sea? It's alright, alright, I'm going by boat this time, although I didn't fly so fast. , but it’s just a sea trip, by the way, princess, do you suffer from seasickness?”

"I don't know, probably not." Hui Ye tapped the corner of his mouth with his index finger, and said with some uncertainty, "I am from Penglai, so I should be able to adapt to any discomfort and get rid of it."

"It's okay to get seasick," Shang Yang rolled his eyes, thinking about it, "If the time comes, princess, you get seasick, we'll knock you unconscious with a single hand knife, once you wake up, and you won't hit it when you get there, what do you think, princess?" ?”

"Go to hell..."

Eleven District. Fukuoka

As early as this era, Fukuoka became an important port for the [-]th District to trade with the outside world. The wharf was full of traffic and the stream was constantly flowing. Large ships kept entering and leaving the port.

"What a lively scene," Kaguya said, wearing a bamboo hat and ordinary linen clothes, looking around curiously.

"Princess, this way, this way," Shang Yang carried a small package on his back, and he took the overly large package into his private space. Holding Ai's little hand, seeing that Hui Ye was walking a little far away from him, he hurriedly pulled Ai Shang a few steps forward, grabbed Hui Ye's arm, and pulled her towards a large merchant ship parked at the port.

"Ah, Shang Yang, are you caring about my concubine?" Hui Ye looked at Shang Yang who was holding her arm, covered her mouth and smiled, pulled out her arm, and stretched out a white and flawless jade hand to Shang Yang, " You are allowed to be rude once."

"Yes yes yes~" Shang Yang grabbed Hui Ye's hand helplessly, and pulled the two girls towards the big merchant ship he had chosen.

Hui Ye saw Shang Yang holding her naturally, smiled mischievously at Ai, and made a "v" sign with the other hand.

Seeing Hui Ye's appearance, Ai shook her head helplessly, and the hand holding Shang Yang's hand also exerted a little force.

ps: The next chapter is Jianzhen’s journey to the east. This is to prepare for the lunar war and afterward. It won’t be very long. Once these chapters are over, we will officially enter the big monster chapter.

And watching me write this type of text will not be boring at all~ yes~ (hee hee

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