Human dimension reduction

Boom boom boom boom boom boom

Knock knock, knock knock,

The cherry tree in front of the door is in bud,

Machiya girls brush their hair,

People's hearts, evil spirits can be born in them.

—————"Untitled Short Song"

Kyoto Prefecture in the [-]th century is really a place beyond words. The continuous townhouses are like cobwebs, and the narrow and damp alleys are illuminated by the long round lanterns hanging under the low eaves. Turning lazily, there is greasy moss growing between the bluestone slabs. Of course, such a closed place is for low-class townspeople and filthy people. Ugly.

All the townspeople living here dream of being able to move to Edo Castle one day. Ever since the Great Shogun established the shogunate in Edo and transferred the national center there, Edo has surpassed Heianjing for thousands of years from an unknown place. It has become an important place for the country, and a large number of people rushed to Edo to find ways to make money. Compared with the stagnant Kyoto, Edo Castle is obviously much younger.

The operation team who broke up and sneaked into the black hole opened their eyes and saw a building with an ancient island style. There are 15 people in this team, which can be regarded as the pilot team. One of the team members awakened with a special ability to send text messages to the outside world, but every time You can only use this ability once per entering a black hole.

Zhou Jianqing led this team because he wanted to collect as much information as possible first, so that the outside world could make targeted preparations.

Qiao Zhou followed them forward. Most of the strategy team members in the team knew the island language, not through special learning, but their own skills honed in long-term games and animations.

The place where they landed was not bad. It happened to be the outskirts of Kyoto. At night, where the grass was overgrown, the towering old trees were rustling, and it felt like there would be something weird in the dark that would poke out its head and smile at them. Be a little timid. Both legs have started to feel weak.

"Say, speaking of it... this game mode... will it be supernatural and terrifying?" A boy in the strategy team grabbed his companion's sleeve tightly, his face turning pale and green: "...island country, island country is doing this Isn’t a set special? What Hanako Sadako Kayako…”

As he spoke, his voice faded away, because everyone around him turned their heads and glared at him.

"There's a dilapidated house in front, let's set up a stronghold there." Zhou Jianqing pointed to the blurry darkness ahead, turned his head to look behind him, most of the people in the team were confused by the two words just now, Even the tough guys in the action team, who didn't blink at the sight of blood, stiffened their expressions.

"It's disturbing the morale of the army, bro," Zhou Jianqing sighed, "If you don't know anything, you can scare yourself, what did Marx say, we are firm materialist fighters, don't deal with these hypocrisy, come on, come on, Let’s recite the core values ​​of socialism together to strengthen our courage, and if we can’t do it, we will sing the national anthem.”

A group of people walked through the weed-covered ruins and came to the dilapidated house where Zhou Jianqing pointed, all showing strange expressions.

It's really a broken house, and there is no discount at all.

Probably the house of a wealthy family, a typical island-style building. I don’t know how many years it has been abandoned. A circle of walls has collapsed and dilapidated. The wooden doors and windows are almost rotten. Only the general structure of the house can barely be seen. .

Everyone quickly assigned tasks to clean up the ruins to make room for sleeping. Qiao Zhou went out to throw away the cleaned up garbage. Seeing him coming back, Zhou Jianqing subconsciously smiled at him. After laughing, he felt a little strange.

...what's so strange...

He frowned and looked at Qiao Zhou for a few more times, and got the innocent questioning look from the other party: "Ah, it's nothing, I just want to say be careful when you go out, maybe there will be wild animals around."

Qiao Zhou thanked him gently, and walked in with the bag containing the simple tent, and in his normal vision, the whole world seemed to be divided into three equal parts: one part was the busy people in front of him; In one corner of the scarlet royal robe on the tree branch, the young king is leaning against the ancient tree and looking at the moon in a daze; while the other part is shuttling through the world of strange and cold colors, where the light blue lantern casts a shadow of nothingness, where no one can see , the undertaker walks in the shadow of Kyoto.

There is a curfew in Kyoto, but most of these orders are only for the townspeople. The powerful ministers and samurai hang around in the flower street to revel, and the sound of shamisen stretches like silk, mixed with the earnest sound of women reciting waka.

Lan Yin walked through a house that had already entered the topic without changing his expression. The instinct from his body gave him a strange feeling——the skill of the undertaker, which was useless because there were no ghosts in the previous world, is now in this world. The world has recovered.

So... is this world really a supernatural horror game?

Thinking of this, he politely avoided a well-dressed wandering girl, and stepped onto the central avenue of Hanami Koji with a lantern.

In his line of sight, the whole of Kyoto was shrouded in a cloud of black-gray resentment. The smiling wandering girls passed by the weeping ghosts, and the white-faced resentful ghosts whimpered. and followed closely behind those men who knew nothing.

"Abandoned... Abandoned... You agreed to take me away! My lord..."

A similar voice resounded in a dimension that humans could not hear. Scarlet tears flowed from the eyes of the complaining ghosts who could not get a response, and their expressions became venomous: "Ah, ah, I curse you, I curse you!"

The mortician turned his eyes expressionlessly, and stopped watching the drama of the heartless man and the infatuated woman, and walked straight to the only direction in the capital that was not so filthy.

******

In Da Nei at night, the imperial palace guarded by the onmyojis of Yinyangliao was silent. The palace built in the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties in neighboring countries cast long shadows under the light of the moon, covering the ground of the courtyard covered with fine white stones.

"It's scary...so scary..."

In the dark where no one can hear, there are shrill and small voices trembling and moaning.

"It's scary... I'm going to be eaten, eaten..."

In this country that claims to have 800 million gods, monsters emerge in endlessly, mixed in the darkness, and aliens and humans coexist. Even in the Ouchi guarded by onmyoji, there are countless weak monsters living in fear. .

But, but...

"terrible……"

It wasn't a clear sound, more like the fearful whispers of monsters.

"Humans... are too scary..."

In the onmyoji, the onmyoji who was still on duty closed the calendar book, and the sound of hurried footsteps was getting closer and closer as he tried hard to suppress the panic. Qi Yin said: "Who is on duty tonight? Prince Zhang Zinei is entangled in filth again and can't sleep, please come with me."

After he almost finished saying this set of words, he belatedly saw the young man at the table, his eyes slightly widened: "Ah...it's Lord Abe!"

The young man whose surname was called stood up. He was wearing a white safari suit and quinoa-colored hoodie. Under the black hat, his eyes were long and narrow and smiling, as if he had a fox-like cunning in him, and he was looking forward to life because of his gentleness. Hui, like flowing clouds or mist... He himself gives the impression that he is such an unpredictable and curious existence.

In fact, his name is known to everyone in this country. The man named Abe Seimei, even in the past, is one of the most proud cultural business cards of this country.

But just like the grotesqueness of this world, Abe Seimei, who was supposed to be born in the world of Emperor Daigo, appeared in the Edo period, and blended into this era together with many distorted characters and events, but no one noticed the abnormality.

And outsiders who can detect abnormalities...

Busy hiding himself to save his life.

"The Zhai Palace is entangled in filth again? Didn't the enchantment set up by Yinyangliao last time have any effect?" Abe Seimei came out from behind the table lightly and quickly, walking like a white crane floating on the water in the clouds , comes with a leisurely and graceful elegance.

A talented person will shine no matter where he is, even if he appears in the wrong era, his name will shine like a sun in Kyoto.

"Oh... I really don't know how to say it," the servant frowned, his brows curled together bitterly, "after Yinyangliao set up the barrier, Prince Nei An reappeared after less than six days of sleep The symptoms of the nightmare, she told us not to mobilize people for her, but the imperial palace is about to enter the capital, and His Majesty asked the inner prince to leave for the Ise Shrine as soon as possible..."

The servant was probably also in a daze, and even told the onmyoji beside him about important government affairs, and when he realized what he had said, he immediately showed a look of embarrassment and embarrassment: "Ah, please clear up this matter." My lord, don't spread it outside, it's all our own inappropriate words in private..."

He dared to plead so relaxedly, which shows that Abe Seimei's character is also gentle and peaceful. Sure enough, the Great Onmyoji looked at him and suddenly laughed: "Did you say something just now? I was a little distracted. How is Zhai Gong now? "

The servant breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head gratefully, and reminded with the intention of repaying his gratitude: "Your Majesty has always loved Prince Zhang Zinei, and now it is even more... If His Majesty does not have a prince of the right age, I am afraid that Prince Zhang Zinei will be His Majesty." I have been a queen. However, the inner prince has been weak and sick in recent years, and is always surrounded by filth, and His Majesty is already very dissatisfied with Yinyang Liao."

Abe Seimei listened silently, with a tepid smile all the time on the corner of his mouth, even if he heard about Yinyangliao, he seemed indifferent.

The emperor's eldest daughter, Prince Zhang Zinai, was favored by more than talk. The emperor had lived in Qingliang Temple since she was born, and was raised by the emperor himself. When she reached the age of marriage, she allowed her daughter to choose her husband. Expressing his reluctance to marry prematurely, the Emperor indulged in his daughter's wish. For this reason, she was also appointed as Saio of Ise Jingu Shrine. He temporarily refused the marriage by serving the gods. If a suitable candidate is found, the emperor will let her step down as Saio.

This purposeful act of serving the gods will obviously arouse the dissatisfaction of pious people, but who said that Zhang Zi was raised by the emperor?He even asked Zhang Zi to take office at Ise Shrine in place of a noble woman of the same status, just to make Zhang Zi fully prepared...

Who knows what a coincidence, this Prince Zhang Zinei, who is loved by thousands of people, fell ill for some reason, and the illness lasted for more than a year. Urged, and also said the ominous words "Do we want our father and daughter to never see each other again for the rest of their lives?"

If it weren't for the fact that the general of Edo was about to enter Beijing, and he suspected that he wanted to marry Prince Zhang Zinai, the emperor would not rush to send her to Ise Shrine.

The powerful imperial palace, and the declining royal family...

Abe Seimei still smiled slightly, followed the servant through the corridors, and finally knelt down in a corridor.

The lights in the house are not dazzling, the light of the oil lamp is shaking slightly, the shoji door has been opened, and the fine bamboo curtain that separates the inside and the outside blocks the peeping eyes of outsiders. There are elegant hand-painted flowers on the bamboo curtain, and two luxuriously dressed maids are on the left Standing on the edge of the curtain, one can still vaguely see the swaying figures and colorful robes inside.

Abe Seimei's back was straight, his hands were pressed on his knees, and his eyes fell respectfully three inches in front of the bamboo curtain, until the servant whispered to the maid about the identity of the visitor. Presumably the name Abe Seimei had been circulated in the palace for a long time, The maid looked at Abe Seimei curiously, and then went back to pass a message to the hostess.

"It's Abe Seimei-sama..." A soft female voice came from inside the curtain. Prince Zhang Zinei is twenty-one years old, and he is no longer young enough to be called a girl, but his tone still has a girlish softness , "I have heard about Master Qingming's reputation for a long time, and he is indeed young and promising. Zhang Zi is extremely ashamed to trouble you to come so late."

Being praised by a girl younger than him for being young and promising, Abe Seimei's face remained unchanged, and he replied softly: "Ji Jun's praise, I checked the surrounding enchantment when I came here, and there is no damage or weakening. Where is Ji Jun? Feeling unwell?"

As soon as this question came out, the curtain fell into a long silence, and the figures in the curtain shook for a while. The maid bent down to listen to Prince Nei's words, then straightened up after a long while, and relayed word by word: "Prince Zhang Zinei said, sleep well at night." Afterwards, I felt extremely heavy on my body, being pressed by something heavy, unable to wake up, and there were often scary things in my dreams, but I couldn’t remember anything after waking up from the dream, but I could remember that there were always strange whispering sounds in the dream, like many A lot of people were talking around me."

Among the old-fashioned and complicated rules of the royal family, there is a tradition that noble female family members are not allowed to meet or have direct conversations with outsiders. Presumably the sentence just now is a rare waywardness of Zhang Zi.

Abe Seimei patiently listened to the maid's recitation of this passage, pondered for a while, and nodded: "It must be that Ji Jun was too worried during his illness and was haunted by nightmares. I left a spell for Ji Jun to expel the nightmare. Please relax your mind, don't let yourself be more in mourning and melancholy."

There was another moment of silence in the curtain, and the maid replied: "Prince Zhang Zinei said that Sir Qingming's ability is trustworthy, please be more considerate."

Immediately, someone fetched a suitable pen, ink and paper, and Abe Seimei drew a complicated pattern on the talisman paper, pasted it on his lips, murmured two mantras, and then pointed at them, and the dark yellow talisman With a swipe of paper, it pasted the shoji door, and instantly blended into it and disappeared.

Seeing this hand, everyone gasped, and their eyes on Abe Seimei also became reverent.

The servant took the onmyoji who had completed the task and left Prince Nei's residence. The candles behind him were slowly extinguished. The onmyoji, who was on his way home alone, suddenly stopped and looked in a certain direction from a distance.

"Unfamiliar sorcerer's aura...very powerful but does not mean to hide oneself...where did the sorcerer come from?"