Gamers Are Fierce

Enkei Shrine, where there was still some whispering, quickly fell silent.

Two rows of musicians wearing Noh masks took their seats one after another, each picking up their instruments.

The dancer stood in the center of the shrine and, accompanied by the sound of musical instruments, began to perform the scene of the samurai wife-seeking Noh drama about the Enyama myth.

Wang Congshan stood there and squinted her eyes to watch. The performance in front of her was still a traditional Noh play.

The dancer bends her knees, moves her center of gravity downward, puts her soles close to the stage, and does not raise her ankles. She looks like she is sitting on a compass, moving slowly in a circle, dancing and singing.

Putting aside the so-called poetry and beauty, Wang Congshan couldn't appreciate this art form at all. Instead, she felt it was a little strange——

Accompanied by the sound of flutes and drums,

The dancers move slowly, wear masks with no expression on their faces, and sing obscure and difficult-to-pronounce lyrics and poems.

The candles in the shrine were flickering, and the light shone on them, forming strange shadows on the ground.

Although there were bright fireworks outside the shrine, I always felt that there was a cold and weird atmosphere brewing inside the shrine.

However, everything seems to be fine.

Wang Congshan frowned and looked around.

I saw the villagers and tourists who came to watch the performance in the shrine, all standing in place and keeping quiet, nothing unusual.

She hesitated for a moment, took a step, and like an insubstantial shadow, easily passed through the surrounding crowd and walked towards the entrance of the temple.

I don’t know if it has any meaning. The main hall of Enkei Shrine has no gate.

There is only a rope hanging under the roof.

Wang Congshan walked towards the door and was about to step out, but she hit a wall of air.

The hallucination caused by Guizhen wine seems to be that the venue is only as big as the main hall of the shrine.

Wang Congshan hesitated for a moment, turned her head, and carefully observed the Noh performance and every audience member around her.

In the hall, the Noh performance has reached the stage where the samurai's wife dies in childbirth and the samurai goes to the god of Mount Habari to ask for help.

The actor who plays the God of Karma in Mount Habari,

Wearing a mask with a face as white as paper and a kind-hearted smile, the upper and lower jaws of the mask are broken and connected with a thin hemp rope.

Wang Congshan understood that this was not because the shrine was in short supply and could not provide complete noodle dishes——

When she was at Fujimura's house before, Li Ang casually mentioned to her that Noh opera actors respect masks as sacred, and they should put Noh noodles as treasures in wooden boxes covered with brocade cloth and not show them to outsiders casually. Every time during a performance, the actor has to face the mask directly towards himself and say I want to play you to Neng Mian. This means that after the actor puts on the mask, he is no longer himself, but the character represented by the mask.

The reason why the mask of this God of Karma is damaged is because this type of mask is also called Ong, which comes from Kagura singing and dancing that is older than Noh drama. The setting itself is hanging jaw face.

That is, the upper and lower jaws are disconnected and connected with a rope.

Wang Congshan knew little about the specific details behind this, but this did not prevent her from noticing that the face of the God of Karma was extremely delicate, and when worn on a person's face, it actually looked like a real human face.

It's like...a mask found in the secret room of the Fujimura family.

Thinking of this, Wang Congshan suddenly realized something.

All the masks worn by Noh actors here should be provided by Shuhei Fujimura.

Just as she was deep in thought, the Noh performance reached a new level——

The samurai broke his promise and saw the rotting corpse full of maggots in advance in the main hall of Huangquan Kingdom. He was so horrified that he turned around and ran away.

And the rotting corpse (actually the samurai's wife) came after her.

The actor who played the samurai wife changed from the previous [Zengjo] Nomian to one similar to [Hannya], and she changed into tattered clothes.

Two actors were in a circular area in the center of the hall, one running and the other chasing.

The musician's accompaniment gradually became more and more sad,

The shrine candles flickered violently,

The two actors playing the roles of the samurai and the samurai's wife were like crazy, running around the stage and chasing each other, completely ignoring the dignified manners and traditional steps of dancing.

And in the center of the stage, there is the God of Karma sitting cross-legged on the ground with his head lowered and a half-smiling smile.

The many spectators watching the performance seemed to have all their attention taken away by the plot and stood motionless.

Everyone seemed to be involved in an invisible whirlpool, focusing entirely on the performance.

Um?

Wang Congshan was keenly aware of something. The state of everyone present was not right.

Even with the masks on, you can still see the red skin on their necks and the bulging veins.

The smell of wine.

Wang Congshan suddenly woke up. No wonder she always felt a little strange.

After entering the hallucination, she could smell a vague smell of alcohol.

This smell doesn't just come from myself who just drank Guiquan wine,

It also comes from the surrounding Noh theater audiences and even Noh performers - they have all drank Guisen sake.

Has the effect of alcohol taken effect?

Wang Congshan was suspicious. After drinking Guiquan wine, she saw a vision of Yuanke Village decades ago before it was destroyed.

So what will other people see after drinking Guiquan wine?

While she was thinking, the Noh performance on the stage was still going on.

The samurai grabbed a hemp rope hanging from the top of the stage and climbed up.

The samurai's wife revealed her identity below.

The couple recognized each other, and the warrior climbed back to the human world along the hemp rope to seek help from the gods of Karma and Destiny.

Since everyone present was in some inexplicable state of confusion,

Throughout the performance, only the musicians were still playing reluctantly, making noisy and messy music.

The actors in charge of the performance acted in a crazy and random way and couldn't even speak a single line. Only Wang Congshan knew the plot in advance and knew what they were playing.

Tap tap tap tap.

The sound of footsteps came from outside the shrine. Wang Congshan turned around and looked,

I saw a group of people who also wore nengmou, filing into the shrine.

This group of people obviously came with some purpose.

One of the women, wearing a Hashihime mask, walked forward tremblingly with the help of others,

Standing behind all the audience, as if observing something.

...

Wang Congshan's face was expressionless. She could tell that the woman in front of her wearing a Bridge Princess mask, whose exact age and appearance was unknown, was blind——

The eyes of the Hashihime mask have holes,

Through the hole, you can see the opponent's collapsed and sunken eyelids.

The opponent's eyes were gouged out.

In the Hiratsuka Residence, there happens to be a demon wandering in the room with his eyes gouged out.

Are these all members of the Hiratsuka family?

What are they going to do?

Wang Congshan did not wait too long.

The blind woman pointed towards the audience, pointing at a mother and son wearing masks whose faces were unclear.

People on both sides immediately stepped forward, gently pulled the mother and son's arms, separated from the crowd, and walked towards the shrine gate.

The mother and son had obviously drunk Guiquan wine, and seemed confused and unaware of being led.

As he was about to walk out of the shrine gate, something fell from the mother's sleeve and landed on the threshold of the shrine.

That is...

Wang Congshan took a deep breath and raised her legs to follow the group of people out of the shrine. As soon as she took a step, the surrounding scene melted like ice and snow under the scorching sun.

The surrounding hallucinations gradually disappear,

Wang Congshan blinked and her eyes returned to clarity.

She was still standing in the center of the shrine, wearing a kimono and a Noh mask on her face. She could vaguely smell the smell of wine every time she breathed in and out.

Bang bang bang bang.

Fierce gunfire rang out behind him,

Wang Congshan turned around suddenly and saw Li Ang squatting at the door of the shrine with an assault rifle, shooting down the mountain.

You stood there stunned for ten minutes, and those monsters at the bottom of the mountain have already come up.

Li Ang knew what Wang Congshan wanted to say in advance, Have you found any clues?

Um.

Wang Congshan nodded solemnly, took off her mask, took off her kimono, strode forward, and asked very fast: In the vision you saw when you picked up the scissors, the mother next to the well was , is he wearing a black furisode kimono with pink flowers?

And was the child she stabbed to death with a pair of scissors wearing a brown kimono with hexagonal patterns?

Li Ang shot a mountain monster in the head and said without looking back: Well, what's wrong?

These flytrap-like ghosts seemed to be converted from villagers. They moved slowly and had just passed the torii gate and climbed halfway up the mountain.

That's Masumi Fujimura and her son.

Wang Congshan took a deep breath, If I'm not wrong, we are about to reach the end of the script mission.

As she spoke, she picked up something from the threshold at Li Ang's feet.

It was a small wooden sculpture the size of two fingers. The image was of a mother holding her infant baby.

It was the mother and son Jizo whom they had seen at the entrance of the village before.

The moment she picked up mother and son Jizo, a system prompt rang in their ears.

[The three-stage mission objectives have been completed]

[The four-stage mission goal: Enter the Guiquan Well, find Ogasawara Sho, and end the Yuanke Village incident]