The Mystery of Fangshi Edo

The sound of someone approaching with a plastic bag came from behind.

'Xia Youjie' paused for a moment, and turned around to see Fang Shi Yangming standing not far behind him, holding a bag from a convenience store, which contained several puddings and other sweets.

"Eat pudding?"

"?"

"Because there is no refrigerator, it will break if you don't eat it."

The young man with brown hair didn't seem to notice the surprised expression on the other side. He sat down on a relatively flat stone beside him, took out a can of pudding and opened it himself.

"Hmm...it really isn't as good as refrigerated."

"Curse spirits also like to eat human food?"

"Hua Yu and the others refused to eat it, but I'm quite interested," Fang Shi Yangming said, "It's nothing. In terms of strangeness, I can't compare to a human being like you who eats curse spirits."

'Xia Youjie' smiled: "Did you see it?"

Just now, he devoured a few second-level to first-level curse spirits with the magic spell operation to replenish the previously consumed combat power.

Looking at the calm-looking super mantra, 'Xia Youjie' took out a box of chocolate milk from the plastic bag, poked the straw on it, and asked seemingly unintentionally, "How do you feel?"

"Feelings..."

Fang Shi Yangming closed his eyes and thought.

That's right, those who plan to make the curse spirit a new human being may feel more or less unhappy with this behavior.

But as long as the fear and malice of human beings don't stop, the curse spirit won't really disappear, so this can't be regarded as death, at most it's just a long exit.

...It has been like this since ancient times.

So unlike the super magic spirits who have strong companionship, human wolves don't care about these.

So when he opened his eyes again, there was only peace in his light-colored eyes.

"Is it tasty?"

'Xia Youjie' who was drinking a drink seemed to have heard some unexpected joke and almost choked on it. After he calmed down, he frowned and smiled strangely, and asked him, "Curse spirits also want to eat curse spirits?"

"It's not that I really want to eat, but I've always been interested in hunting for exotic food."

"This is not a delicacy, and I will disappoint you." He shrugged, "You are different from other curse spirits."

Fang Shi Yangming didn't answer, but instead said: "The plan to deal with Gojo Wu has already started, I will set off when it gets dark, it should be very lively, do you want to come together?"

"No, I can't appear in front of the conjurer for the time being." 'Xia Youjie' said this, and looked at him, "Do you know why?"

"I probably know a little bit," the young man narrowed his eyes, "how can you not hide your surprises?"

"Then wait for your good news."

"Don't talk too much." Fang Shi Yangming said, got up and left, "If you fail, you should know how to do the following things, right?"

"what do you mean?"

"—at least, to make this damn world a little more interesting."

'Xia Youjie' froze for a moment, and when he turned his head again, the man had disappeared.

……

Fang Shi Yangming knew that he was gradually breaking away from the category of 'human'.

It's not about physical changes, but mentality.

"Maybe it's because of too little contact with normal people?"

But even if he said that, he couldn't easily return to his normal life.

Leaving the place where the curse spirit was entrenched, Fangshi Yangming drove his motorcycle all the way to the place where the Salvation Ranch was located.With Shinna Myojin's protection, even if you are on a rugged and remote mountain road, you don't have to worry about any accidents.

Although you are clear about your goals, in many cases, people may not necessarily follow the established route.

So on this road with no signposts, how far can I go...

No, wait a minute, why do you think this way? Is it because I have been with those abnormal guys for a long time?

"Tsk, it's better to have a life without street signs..."

Maybe the pressure has been a bit too much recently, so I need to find time to relax.

"Fang Shi."

When he was distracted, he heard a voice suddenly sounded beside him. Fang Shi Yangming turned his head slightly and found that it was Ji Guoyansheng in ghost state.

"The crows are watching over there," said the warrior. "Do you want to...remove it?"

"Ah, no need, thank you." The young man showed a somewhat surprised expression, "How did you find out?"

Although it is not surprising that Ji Guoyan Sheng could sense the power of the spell, but his motorcycle is very fast, even if a crow stops on the nearby tree, it will only take a moment.

"My former enemy... also used crows."

He answered briefly, and his figure gradually disappeared again.

"And... 'the man' is nearby."

It's incredible that he still kindly reminds himself.Fang Shi Yangming vaguely felt an emotion similar to being touched, but now is not the time to care about it.

"I see." Facing the empty place, he said softly, "Don't come out for a while, don't fight him, and leave everything to me."

The motorcycle gradually slowed down, and finally passed a place that looked like a log cabin. He stopped and pulled the car aside.

The journey was too long, and my legs felt numb.

After taking a deep breath of mountain air, the young man stepped into this uninhabited mountain forest that had been deserted for an unknown amount of time.

"...Although I have been psychologically prepared, this scene is really miserable."

Not long after walking, a huge ruin appeared in front of my eyes.

Under the moonlight, mossy rubble and unrecognizable building fragments can be seen everywhere, and the place close to the center is completely destroyed, not even a trace of "life". The waste piled up into a hill, no one cares about it.

A typhoon may not be so bad.

But even so, Fang Shi Yangming was still convinced that this was the 'Salvation Ranch' he was looking for.

If you want to ask why, it is probably the man standing in the middle of the ruins looking at the scenery, whose figure is too difficult to ignore.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

He first took the initiative to say hello, and then saw Gojo Satoru turn around, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "You are really tenacious, I didn't expect you to live to this day."

"Haha, that, no matter how I say it, I've been judged as a super-level curse spirit, and it's not that easy to get out."

As Fang Shi Yangming said, a small curse spirit appeared beside him, and it slowly floated towards Wujo Wu, while the latter just stood there casually with his hands in his pockets, without any response.

The curse spirit moved forward for a while, and stopped suddenly at a place very close to Gojo Satoru.

"What is this for?" asked the silver-haired conjurer.

"Although I have heard information about your ability, I still want to test it."

"Then hurry up, I'll give you 3 minutes to think."

Gojo Satoru waved his hand casually as he spoke, expelling the small curse spirit.

"It turns out that before approaching you, you must first approach one-half of you, and before approaching one-half, you must approach one-quarter of you... From this infinite analogy, it is equal to an infinite trend at each point. Nearly static." Fang Shi Yangming thought while pinching his chin, "This is Zeno's reductio absurdum about denying the movement, I remember that his original intention of proposing this was to oppose Parmenides, but it has been falsified later... But you can even blur the boundary between absolute and relative, your ability is too beyond common sense."

"I welcome a few more compliments, maybe it can make your death a little easier."

The young man didn't care about his cruel words, and continued: "I guess, Protagoras?"

If the law of 'man is the measure of all things' can work in the magic world, does that mean that 'consciousness' can play an important role in ability?

"It can only be said to be marginal." The silver-haired teacher wearing a blindfold was noncommittal, "But it also depends on talent, hard work, and luck... Although I don't want to admit it, the last one is also very important."

After getting the answer, Fang Shi Yangming nodded, and began to joke again: "Then if I stick to Heraclitus' theory, can I define the measure of all things?"

"It's more likely to become an eternal living fire?" Gojo Satoru also grinned, "The kind that uses Yanquan."

"It sounds good. In the end, it will burn the world into darkness like lighting a book of sand," Fang Shi Yangming began to diverge his thoughts, "Human beings are forced to emigrate to Antarctica, and the re-enactment of the mass extinction will be highly praised! It sounds exciting."

"I can only think about it, I can send you to outer space before you burn the first piece of paper."

"makes sense……"

……

"Those two people have been talking about riddles since just now."

In the high school, the singer frowned as she received the sound and picture from the special spell that had been placed in advance on the other side.

"I don't understand anything other than money, so just don't listen," Miss Ming said with a smile, "My brain will rot."

……

"So what's the reason you asked me to come here?" Gojo Satoru looked around, "I'm the strongest anyway, if I can't even get rid of a special curse spirit that I deliberately provoked, human beings will be finished."

"It's true, but I don't have the ability to eliminate you, so I prefer another form than fighting you directly."

"Ok?"

"Just like a writer creates a script with a few characters, we use the many images of the decomposed self to continuously build new combinations," Fang Shi Yangming said, putting one hand on his chest, smiling, and bowing to the crows in the night sky Bow, "These groups are constantly performing new plays and changing new scenes, so that the play always has new and fascinating tension. Please watch it!" [*Note]

"What... uh!"

In the high school, Ming Ming suddenly frowned. She was lazily resting her face with one hand, but now she sat up straight because she was too shocked.

Speaking of which, from just now, I felt that the vision from the crow was very dark.

Although it was night, the moonlight was just right today, so it wouldn't be so dark to such an unnatural degree.

Then, through the crow's upward-moving eyes, she saw the thing—

Silently appearing among the mountains behind Fang Shi Yangming... No, or that thing is almost as big as the mountains themselves.

Across the mountains, piercing the clouds.

It is not enough to describe it as 'huge'. It is a monster several thousand meters high made up of countless twisted arm-like limbs and something similar to a 'head'. If you have to say it, its posture is more similar to 'spider'.

A spider that existed there instead of the sky itself.

The strange color of blue and gray all over his body, he didn't know when he stood quietly among the mountains and rivers, covering the sky and the sun, but he didn't make a single sound...

"Evil God..."

No doubt anyone who saw it thought so, and only so.

That is the fear from the root, the fear of facing the doomsday, even more unbearable than death.

"If you are watching, cut off the communication immediately, Miss Ming." Gojo Satoru's voice came from the other side, "It's just a nightmare, don't think too much about it."

Sweat dripped from Mingming's forehead, she took a deep breath to force herself to calm down, and then silently disconnected from the crow's visual connection.

There is no doubt that as long as you look at it for a few seconds, your heart will explode.

That kind of monster.

The kind of monster that can flatten forests and mountains with just a flick of a finger...

She sighed, sat back in the chair, stared at the ceiling in a daze.

"What's wrong?" An Geji asked worriedly, not understanding the situation.

"It's nothing, I'm just thinking." Miss Ming forced a smile, "How much commission should I ask for later?"

……

"Ha ha……"

"a ha ha ha!!"

Above the sky, the joyful laughter could not reach anyone's ears, but the woman connected to the monster was still laughing.

She laughed almost frantically, cupping her cheeks with both hands, as if intoxicated.Long silver-white hair hangs down, draped over her back that is full of weird scarlet lines and twisted together with the monster.

"Ah, even if it was a short and illusory goodbye, the bond that I have reconnected with you is really..." After finally seeing the dreamland spider again, Li Huazi almost shed tears at the end of Huimo Come on, "I'm just extremely sorry, it's a pity that this is not the time to celebrate."

At least the agreement must be fulfilled first, so that the earth spider regenerated by Miya can stay by her side for a long time.

Her expression froze, and she looked at the small things below.After searching carefully for a while, I finally found a ruin in the depths of a certain forest.

"Then, let's start as you wish...Master Anonymous."

Muttering like this, the miko made a gesture of devout prayer.

"Just let me watch here, to give you an infinite dream..."

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Note: Fangshi Yangming's two sentences are quoted from Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf"

Also, the soil spider didn't come back to life, it's just for bluffing.