The Mystery of Fangshi Edo

Fang Shi Yangming rode a motorcycle and sped towards the outskirts of the city.

He was alone on the remote road at night in early summer, and even the sound of the engine seemed very lonely.Streetlights, the ground, motorcycles, and distant city lights—these are all from modern society.

The samurai refused to go with him, somewhat frustrated, but to be expected, and complaining about 'I don't have enough friends' is of no use now.

"Maybe it's my side to let a ghost of the Warring States period who is new to computers go to meet netizens?"

The road was hard to find. He went out at [-] o'clock in the evening, and it was nearly ten o'clock when he arrived at the place. After leaving the flat concrete floor, there was still a path in the forest with dense vegetation.

Driving a motorcycle into an unpaved area rashly is a suicide act. It is enough to experience it once in Xiushui. It is safer to go on foot here.

Fang Shi Yangming locked his precious motorcycle and turned on the flashlight with a click. The sudden light pierced a hole in the dark night, startling the animals in the nearby trees.

If you turn the world over, you will be able to pour out a lot of things.

He thought wildly like this, and moved on.

This is an old park site on the outskirts of the city, which was abandoned due to nearby construction and other reasons, and will be transformed into a factory after a while.The intersection is marked with a dangerous do not enter sign, and some patrol officers used extremely exaggerated techniques to write some fierce warnings (or threats are more appropriate) on the notice board to dissuade those who seek excitement or traffic. By.

Things like 'all irrelevant persons are strictly prohibited from entering and leaving' and 'violators will be fined' are fine, but words like 'if you dare to step in, you will be killed' can really be written by an inspector?

Fang Shi Yangming felt that the person who wrote this sentence must have suffered a lot of punishment.

There is a passage in the woods. It seems that it was a road that was trampled out before. It has been too long since no one came, and the vegetation has grown again.He walked and observed the surrounding environment.It's more like a wasteland than a park.

When he was about to turn back, he suddenly heard a rustling sound from in front of him. The young man thought about it and decided to stop first.

"Excuse me—" He raised his voice and called out to the darkness at the end of the road, "Excuse me, is anyone there!?"

Before approaching, check the situation on the other side. It would be best if someone responded.

Although it's remote here, it's better than a remote mountain village like Xiushui. Not long after, a dissatisfied male voice came from the opposite side:

"Who are you!?"

"Uh..." Fang Shi Yangming froze for a moment.

"Forget it, just stand there for me and don't move! Wait until I find you!"

Is it a ranger or a security guard or something?Why not turn on a light?He stood there obediently, thinking about the identity of the person who got up.Judging from the helpless tone, the other party obviously did not have any malicious intentions.

Of course, most of them were not the person he was looking for.

Not long after, a black figure came over through the shadowy tree gap.

It was a black-haired young man wearing a knitted hat. It was easy to tell from his attire that he was not a police officer or a security guard, but more like an idler that could be seen everywhere on the streets during the day.

After seeing Fang Shi Yangming, the man clicked his tongue, looked him up and down for a while, and then said, "What's the matter, you are young, did you quarrel with your partner or was you deceived?"

"what?"

Although he didn't quite understand, the other party seemed to regard him as the kind of guy who came here to commit suicide.

So the young man with dark hair frowned, and said earnestly: "No matter what you are thinking, can you rule out the option of 'I look like an honest person' first?"

Honestly, it hurts.

"Why are you still complaining?" Ino Takuma put his hands in his pockets, suddenly remembered the purpose of his visit, and persuaded, "Okay, since you didn't come here to seek short-sightedness, let's go, as you can see, there is nothing to see here. "

"Then why are you here?"

"...to find something."

"So, there are still good things to see here?"

"This... anyway, didn't you hear me!" Ino suddenly realized that he didn't need to talk to this guy, and started to chase people away, "Go, go, leave!"

So it turned out to be the kind of person who is not bad-minded but whose brain circuits are not very sharp.

"Actually, I was invited to meet here," Fang Shi Yangming said, "If I leave before the other party shows up, what if that person stays here overnight? Isn't it more dangerous then?"

"It makes sense... Oh shit, don't you just send a text message and it's over?"

"Well, unfortunately, I don't have the contact information of the other party." Having said that, Fang Shi Yangming's expression became serious. "The other party contacted me unilaterally, so now I have no other way but to find the other party."

"...You must have been scammed." Ino touched the back of his head, but finally heaved a sigh, "I'm unlucky, I didn't have an auxiliary supervisor to follow such an important task, and I also encountered a strange thing. "

task?

"Could it be that there is something dangerous here?"

"Yes, it's dangerous."

Fang Shi Yangming instantly thought of those monsters in the previous building.

"Wraith of consumerism?"

"That kind of thing can only be found in buildings and cities. This kind of wasteland is usually a curse formed by fear of natural landscapes or animals."

"Oh~ that's what it is."

"...Ah, damn it!"

Ino Takuma belatedly covered his mouth, but it was too late, the brown-haired young man in front of him had already made an expression of "I understand".

"Don't ask! I won't listen to a word of yours!"

If Mr. Qihai knew that he had revealed the matter of the curse spirit to the general public because of his strong desire to speak, even if it could be fooled, the road to recognition would definitely become longer.

"I'll help you find the person you're waiting for! If it doesn't work, I'll call the police for you, okay?"

"Yes! Thank you very much, sorry for your trouble."

Fang Shi Yangming bowed solemnly like a good young man, then turned and walked in the direction he came from.

Of course he wouldn't just leave like this, but it was still necessary to put on a show. If he was really in a hurry, he might be knocked out and thrown outside. He knew in his heart how low his force value was.

After taking a few steps back, he looked around, turned quickly to the side, and continued to go deep into the dense woods.

The exploration continues, let's sort out the information just obtained by the way.

If the person just now is not talking nonsense, there is really some kind of monster in this wasteland, and that monster is "a curse formed by the fear of natural landscapes or animals."

"...The setting of a monster formed by the human heart is not difficult to understand."

The central theme of works such as hot legends, evening expeditions, and fictions are all logical chains such as the negative nature of the human heart producing pollution → pollution infecting nature → nature producing monsters.Even the gods in local beliefs have a setting that depends on the strength of human beliefs to determine their strength.

Then, based on this, let's imagine how big the 'curse' that infects this wasteland is.

"The danger of 'abandoned park' itself, the regret of 'becoming unrecognizable', the belief that 'destruction of nature will be punished'..."

The young man counted in his heart, then turned on the phone and looked at a piece of information inside.

"—and rumors of the 'man-wolf incident'."

If the guess is correct, this is probably the key.

At first it was just someone's prank filming, but as the rumors spread, there really was a 'man-wolf' here... or something.

In the end, it’s all hypotheses. If the young man in the knitting hat was just talking nonsense, if what he saw in the abandoned building was just some kind of scientific experiment that escaped, then all this can be explained by science—normal people should go to the hospital first. This is the right way to think.

Frankly speaking, I think so many messes, in the final analysis, it is because of "fear of the unknown".

But in a certain sense, 'anxiety and fear' is only a thin line away from 'fun', and for Fang Shi Yangming, the things on both sides of the line have long been unknowingly mixed together, and it is difficult to distinguish them.

"There must be something wrong with my brain." He sighed with self-knowledge.

I really want to see something scary.

The last time I just had a face-to-face meeting, I hope I won't miss it this time.

As he walked forward, he suddenly felt a little cold around him.

It's getting foggy.

——This is a normal natural phenomenon in summer, which means that it may rain tomorrow.

Something was moving in the dark.

—probably a bird or a squirrel or something.

Immediately afterwards, from the thicker and thicker fog, a long wolf whimper was faintly heard.

"..."

The common sense he once learned from a reporter from Ma Gong told him that Japanese/Japanese wolves were hunted to extinction in 1905, so at least now, there are no wild wolves in Japan/Japanese mainland.

"Wolf is coming," he murmured.

Then, out of the corner of the eye, he saw something in the darkness and jumped at him.

Fang Shi Yangming quickly dodged to the side, he opened his eyes wide, and saw the thing that appeared under the light of the flashlight - a huge crustacean monster as tall as a man, like a rat woman, but with a human-like appearance head.

Not a wolf, but bad too.

Seeing that the blow missed the air, the monster made a creaking sound, and then rolled itself into a ball.

"Are you sensitive to light like a mouse woman?"

Fang Shi Yangming was wondering when he suddenly saw the thing move, and then, it rushed towards him like a wheel.

The distance was too close, the speed was too fast, and the judgment was wrong.

Although he tried his best to move to the side, it was obviously too late.When a person encounters danger, he will first protect his head. He threw away the flashlight, crossed his hands in front of his head, and closed his eyes tightly to prepare for the impact.

Then he heard a loud "Bang!"

Accompanied by the horrific sound of bones breaking, the rattling and rattling made people feel terrified.

The tea-haired youth who noticed the accident opened his eyes, and saw the torn head of the deformed monster, and the wolf claws smashed deeply into the scattered fragments.

If the mouse woman just now was one person tall, then this thing is almost twice the size, with hard and terrifying claws, three scarlet eyes staring straight at him through the mist, and the rough fur behind it looks like a monster in the moonlight. The looming knife seems to pierce the palm of your hand if you touch it.

--werewolf.

"..."

This time I was really speechless.

The pressure is so strong that I almost forget to breathe.

I have to say, this scene is really familiar.

And Fang Shi Yangming really felt it. After seeing him, the thing revealed a strong 'killing intent' that seemed to pierce the human skin.

It raised its paws towards the young man's head.

Then, come down.

With a "bang", it hit some kind of hard object and was violently spread out.

Fang Shi Yangming looked at a figure standing in front of him, and blinked in surprise.

"Mr. Yansheng?"

Although he already knew that Ji Guoyansheng could leave the house by possessing himself, but didn't this guy not come?

It can't be that they suddenly appeared to save themselves, they don't have such a good relationship yet.

"Why are you here?"

"Finally..." The samurai ghost didn't seem to hear his voice, just stood with a knife, and its six eyes were fixed on the tall wolf in front of it.

"Finally appeared...something worth beheading..."

The author has something to say:

Fangshi Yangming: My precious motorcycle.

Fudo Youxing: Expert.

Works mentioned in this chapter: Tales of Zestiria (including its prequel, Legend of Berserk War), Expedition to Darkness, Fictional Reasoning (I have only watched animation).

Some settings have something in common in the sense of psychology... I won't go into details, it is quite common in Japanese works.

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Me (looking at the content of the Wolf Village game): Fang Shi Yangming is so weak in fights... Although he has a good mind, he usually doesn't get beaten.

Friend: Can this man improve his physical fitness!Then invincible!

Me: Maybe it's just that I'm surrounded by strong fighters in various senses, so I'm weak in comparison?

Friend: Hmm... Calculated purely based on physical fitness, one knotweed Yuren = twenty Fangshi Yangming?

Me: You are too conservative!I guess there are a hundred of them!

Friend: Hahaha, that's what I thought at first too, crowd tactics are useless.

Me: Sending Fang Shi Yangming's army is useless.

Friend: It's so miserable...

Fangshi Yangming!You never thought that one day you would become a combat power calculation unit! (x)

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