I loaded the ghost talk game

Azukibon.

It is a traditional Japanese ghost story.

Its appearance is just like its name, with a big face like a wooden basin, and blood red as if it was painted with red paint. There is a small horn on the forehead, and the hair is straight like sharp needles, and the bloody mouth is cracked all the way to the base of the ears.

In the corresponding ghost stories, the temperament is generally more fierce.

Apart from that, there is not much worth mentioning.

After all, it is a monster that is not very well-known.

In the cemetery in the forest of Chizu Town, the little old man found a total of two Zhuben, which are probably about D-level strength and have strong aggressiveness.

It should be the target of this exorcism.

Now we can only say that the two Zhuben in Chizu Town are really unlucky.

If it weren’t for the fact that I had to bring my apprentices to experience this time, this level of ghost story would definitely not be handled by Kamiyagawa, who has the ceiling combat power.

After confirming the strength of the target to be eliminated, Kamiyagawa asked Oishi to stop the car in a secluded place, and pretended to tell the two apprentices: "The matter here in Tottori will be assisted by one of the little old man's bodies. You two should solve it by yourselves. Go and come back quickly."

Tsurumi certainly did not have any objection to Kamiya's order, and got out of the car with Nanquan Ichimonji and Xiaomen Qingjiang.

Kanoya first blinked at the master, then quickly took out the Shengde Imperial Incense Burner and strode to catch up with the apprentice sister.

Kamiyagawa: ...

Although Xiaolu tried not to show any emotion in his eyes when he looked at the master before leaving.

But Kamiyagawa, who controls emotions, can still feel that the girl seemed to be laughing secretly in her heart just now.

No respect for elders and younger children!

After the figures of Kanoya and Tsurumi disappeared in the lush forests on the side, Kamiyagawa slowly followed them.

Although I let my disciples solve the Chizu Town ghost story incident by themselves...

But since I'm here, I'd better take another look at the battle between the two of them.

...

About thirty minutes later.

In a cemetery in the forest.

Bang.

The small but heavy incense burner fell to the ground, bringing with it a cold and austere fragrance like the autumn wind.

The brass body of the burner was already stained with dirty blood, and when it hit the ground, it knocked a small pit on the wet ground in the cemetery.

Kanoya raised her right foot and skillfully touched the incense burner. The copper chain flipped and drew a faint arc in the air.

The Shengde incense burner fell heavily back into her palm.

While putting away the copper burner, Xiaolu looked to the side not far away, and saw that Tsurumi Aoi was also carefully wiping the blood stains on the smiling face Qingjiang.

There was a red basin next to each of the two girls.

This monster is short, but its round, red head is huge, and its hair stands up like needles.

Although it looks a bit scary, it's just that.

Now both red pots have been defeated. One head has obvious blunt marks, and the other has several sharp marks. The bodies of the two monsters are slowly turning into ashes.

The battle between Kanoya and Tsurumi to exorcise the spirits lasted for a short time, in fact, only a few minutes. Most of the half an hour was spent trekking through the mountains and forests to reach the cemetery where the monster hides.

"Grandpa Xiaoxiao, are there no other ghost stories here?"

Xiaolu first sniffed the humid air of the cemetery again, and then asked the little old man who was traveling with him.

"Aba Aba!"

The scout gestured and nodded, giving a positive answer.

It was just a D-level ghost story, and it was no match for the two young ladies who were fighting seriously.

"Xiao Kui, let's go back to find Master. It looks like we'll have dinner in Hokkaido." Kanoya called out to his junior sister.

Tsurumi answered briefly, then leaned down and picked up a small object from the ground.

It was a dark-colored wood carving.

The craftsmanship of the maker was a bit rough, and the wood carving didn't seem to be completely carved, but it could still be seen that it was a dragonfly that landed on a lotus bud.

This wooden dragonfly was left behind when the red basin that Tsurumi killed turned into ashes.

That was a trophy.

However, it didn't seem to have much value.

"Senior sister, look at this."

Tsurumi showed the wooden dragonfly he had just picked up to Xiaolu.

The younger junior sister came closer and fanned it to smell, but she only felt a little bit of the fishy smell left by the red basin from the wood carving.

"Since you got it after defeating the ghost story, why don't you give it to Master later?" Xiaolu suggested.

"Yes."

The two sisters from the same sect returned the same way under the leadership of the little old man.

And next to the ghost car parked at the foot of the mountain, he saw Kamiya River again, who had been "waiting for a long time".

The apprentices briefly reported the process of defeating the red basin, and then gave the wooden dragonfly to the master.

In the eyes of Kamiya, who has extremely rich "experience in plundering", this roughly carved wooden dragonfly is nothing worth talking about. At most, it is tainted with some strange stories.

However, when he took the wooden dragonfly in his hand, "Kaidan Monogatari" gave the identification information-

[Honda Tadakatsu's wooden dragonfly (common item): Honda Tadakatsu carved a wooden dragonfly after he retired in his later years. A failed unfinished work with no artistic value. But because it is tainted with strange stories, it may be used as a support for some very weak wandering souls. Or, it can be used as a home display to show the owner's unique taste? ]

"oh?"

Kamiyagawa did not expect that this inconspicuous wooden dragonfly had a certain background.

Judging from the identification information, this wood carving was made by Honda Tadakatsu, a famous daimyo from the Warring States Period.

Honda Tadakatsu was a powerful general of the Tokugawa family.

The name is very resounding——

The Flying General of Sanhe, Heihachi of Oni, the unparalleled warrior in ancient and modern times. It is also known as having both flowers and fruits, unparalleled in the East.

He was undefeated in his life and went through 57 battles unscathed. He was repeatedly praised and praised by veterans of various forces. Later generations even called him "Japanese Zhang Fei".

However, it is said that Honda Tadakatsu fell in love with wood carving after living in seclusion in his later years. He was cut by a carving knife and the wound became infected, causing complications and eventually died of illness.

After half his life as a soldier, he was invincible on the battlefield, but he died of tetanus caused by a small carving knife.

Such a life experience is quite embarrassing.

"This wooden dragonfly was carved by Honda Tadakatsu... It seems that the Mikawa Flying General was really obsessed with handicrafts in his later years? I don't know where he picked up the two red basins."

Kamiyagawa held the wooden dragonfly in his hand and looked through it for a while.

Although the maker of the wood carving is famous in the world and is the kind of hero who will definitely leave behind the ashes of war after his death, it is a pity that this wooden dragonfly still does not have much practical value to the Kamiya today.

Occasionally, you will find useless little gadgets like this during ghost removal operations.

In fact, there are a lot of things like this in Kamiya River.

As for this wooden dragonfly, although it is a "failure", it is better than that it is well preserved. And when I think that its creator is Honda Tadakatsu, the humanistic style of the small wood carving suddenly improves!

If you really don’t need it, you can also put it as a decoration in the living room at home.

Anyway, Kamiyagawa's family has never been taboo about displaying some strange collectibles.

Their family is so vicious that they can control anything.

…

Let the two apprentices deal with Zhu Pen, and Kamiyagawa and his party set off again.

As a member of the Countermeasures Office, he visited the old mage who reported the situation to Tottori County.

And showed the newly obtained [Honda Tadakatsu's Wood Dragonfly] to the opponent.

In the end, the old mage determined that the strange aura left on the wood dragonfly was indeed consistent with what he had felt on the deceased before.

In this way, the matter in Tottori will be officially settled.

Kamiyagawa arrived at Chizu Town at around one o'clock in the afternoon and left here around three o'clock.

Soldiers are valuable and quick, and work is extremely efficient.

This experience of leading a disciple still seems a bit too easy.

But after all, this is actual combat. It will always be beneficial for Xiaolu and Tsurumi to have more contact and accumulate some experience.

Then their next stop is the Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido.

After arriving in Hokkaido, Kamiyagawa first contacted the local police who had been notified in advance and obtained more detailed information about the recent "missing young man incident".

The situation here is still unclear, and it is not even sure whether the disappearance is really related to the strange story.

By the time we came out of the police station, it was already dark.

As usual, Kamiya asked the scouts to send out the Waikato Corps to explore the situation around the Nemuro Peninsula.

The "missing incident" has yet to be investigated. No one knows where the missing young men have gone.

Since they have all appeared in the northeastern part of Hokkaido, that is, around the Nemuro Peninsula...then Kamiya River does not need "reasoning to solve the case". He can just use force to overcome cleverness and let the little old man rummage through the place. You should be able to find some useful clues.

The search for the peninsula took much longer than Chizu Town, and the scope of the investigation also included other areas along the coast. Considering that it was already late, Kamiyagawa first took his apprentices to settle in a local hotel.

His Aragami's physique didn't matter, but the disciples had to eat and rest anyway.

The first day of training passed like this.

At around six o'clock the next day, Kamiyagawa, who had gotten up early, was drinking coffee as usual while flipping through the large number of files he had brought yesterday. The little old man, who had been busy working all night, finally reported back an important piece of information——

One of his avatars found a somewhat strange shrine at the site of the original Habomai Village near Nemuro.

The owner needs to check the situation in person.

…

Habomai Village was originally a second-class village in Hokkaido formed by the merger of multiple villages.

Later, it was included in Nemuro City.

The "strange shrine" the little old man called was located near Luoshi Village, which once formed Habomai Village.

Of course, the so-called "Luoshi Village" no longer exists.

The target shrine is located in a hill facing the sea to the east and is very remote.

Even in an already desolate area like Nemuro City, it is extremely remote.

Climb the relatively long shrine and pass through the faded torii gate.

Kamitani and his disciples came to an abandoned shrine.

The statues enshrined in this shrine are...

It is about two meters tall and has a very lifelike shape. It is a unique female human body organ.

The Japanese generally call this kind of statue - "Ji Zhi Bao".

Before Kamiyagawa came to the target shrine to check the situation, he obtained the county records from Nemuro's local contact and learned some about the situation in Luoshi Village in advance.

When this village still existed, fertility worship was prevalent.

This Ji Zhibo Shrine is the product of this belief.

In fact, fertility worship is not so rare in Japan, and it exists in many places.

Some worship the princess treasure, and some worship the male root. There are more than 400 shrines with similar straightforward shapes throughout Japan.

And the belief culture of fertility worship is far more than that.

For example, the Asukazuki Shrine in Nara holds the "Oda Festival" every year, which is said to be a religious performance handed down from ancient times.

During the performance, one person wears a "Tengu mask" to represent men, and one person wears a "Tafuku mask" to represent women. The "Tengu" throws "Tafuku" to the ground and performs various "sexual" actions.

As for why the male is represented by Tengu.

In fact, the long nose on the face of Tengu originally had "sexual" connotations.

Moreover, Saruta Hiko-no-Mikoto, whose divine bones were collected by Kamiya River, is himself a male representative of fertility worship.

Kamiya is at least a "top student" who studies folklore, and he actually knows a lot about these things.

And this ancient fertility worship was indeed popular in the main island of Japan. However, the aboriginals of Hokkaido are Ezo, which is a tribe related to the Ainu controlled by Kamiya.

This belief in Luoshi Village has nothing to do with Ezo.

Because the villagers gathered here first migrated from the Atago area after Hokkaido was controlled by the Japanese shogunate.

"Uh, this... looks like it?"

The accompanying deer saw the statue of "Hime Treasure" in the abandoned temple and immediately approached curiously.

As a young painter who often draws books, she has no taboos.

But Tsurumi is not as calm as her senior sister.

Although she still has a cold face, her eyes have nowhere to go, so she turned her head and looked elsewhere.

The place where Tsurumi Aoi looked was a side hall that was also dilapidated.

Kamiya Kawa, who had read the county annals, knew that the side hall was called "Zayu Qintang".

What should I say about that side hall...

It's not as useful as the main hall.

Because of the strong fertility worship in Luoshi Village, there is a custom of sexual indulgence.

On the festival day commemorating the good harvest, the sexual restrictions here are not strict. On the night of the festival, all the villagers, regardless of age or gender, will go to the side hall of Hime no Treasure Shrine to sleep together.

[Whether it is the wife, daughter, maid, or male servant of the village chief, regardless of age, everyone sleeps in the side hall. Only tonight, you can do anything. ]

Because everyone lies together, it is like all kinds of miscellaneous fish just fished out, so it is called "miscellaneous fish sleeping".

In fact, after the Meiji Restoration, similar customs have been explicitly prohibited.

However, Luoshi Village is located in a remote area, and the celebration custom of miscellaneous fish sleeping has been maintained until around 1950.

Kamiyagawa briefly recalled the contents of the county annals he had just read, and then pushed out the head of Shikanoya, who was watching "Hime no Treasure" with interest in the main hall.

Then, he condensed his eyes and carefully looked around the entire Hime no Treasure Shrine.

"No wonder the old man would notice this shrine... There is the power of faith and the remnant of the aura of the wild gods here."