Human dimension reduction

Layers of monster corpses cling to the wall from the floor to the ceiling. They are like bloody broken sacks, densely packed, crowded and thrown together randomly. This can be called a scene. For the massacre of demons and ghosts, the perpetrators have cruel and ruthless minds and methods, and the killing is purely for the sake of life.

Most of the mirror on the mirror boy's face disappeared, and the traces seemed to be smashed, and the dim and broken powder fell on the mirror boy's hand glisteningly. It probably tried to resist, but obviously failed.

Born out of human jealousy, the ugly daughter of time was still holding a small hammer and nails, her neck was snapped off neatly, her head limply drooped, and she was nailed to the wall in big letters, and the gaps in her limbs were violently stuffed. Other unrepentant monsters, like filling the gaps of items with cotton cloth or straw, have a kind of creepy ferocity everywhere.

The death here is efficient and violent. Abe Seimei saw a large number of corpses of small miscellaneous demons used as "cotton cloth" and "straw", the corpses of tengus, and a nest of fox demons that should be of the same blood. Apart from the killing marks of their lives, the only thing they have in common is the arrow.

The tail feathers are snow-white, and the arrows are black. They are very classic long arrows matched with bows. Every monster has such a long arrow, which penetrates the cracked face of the mirror boy and the neck of the ugly girl. The fox demon, which showed its original appearance, was stuck on the wall.

"Hair?" Abe Seimei took a close look at the long arrow. There was no imprint of its owner left on it, but on the snow-white tail feathers, he saw a thin strand of hair tied to it.

"There is a hair on all the arrows." Lan Yin answered him after looking around roughly.

The Great Onmyoji raised his fingers and suspended above the hair at a distance. The broken end of the hair twisted and rolled like a snake for a moment, releasing a faint black smoke that stretched deeper into the building. And go, like wool guiding the way, the two followed without hesitation.

Corpse, corpse, corpse...

The two walked all the way, and the scene they saw was shocking. Even the painter who is best at imagining the scene of hell would tremble in front of such a scene. Monsters of different types with horrific death shapes were covered by long white tail feathers. The arrows are nailed to the wall, and at first glance, it looks like it was built with monsters.

The thin black smoke stretched straight ahead, and finally attached and greedily sank under a gorgeous gown.

A wooden pillar that runs through the top and bottom stands in front of it, with complex and weird runes painted on it with pitch-black ink. A little girl dressed in gorgeous and luxurious clothes is bound to it, her head is bowed, her jet-black His long hair fell down to cover his face, and his hands were forced to wrap his hands back around the pillar, standing there motionless.

The snake-like smoke just got into the hem of her clothes, and the movement was so fast that Abe Seimei didn't even have time to stop it.

"..."

Lan Yin vaguely heard the big onmyoji beside him swearing in a low voice, this was the first time he heard him swearing, the embalmer turned to look at him curiously, but the other side stood there, as if thinking of something, with an unprecedented expression on his face dignified.

Seeing that he didn't intend to go up to check on the little girl's situation, Lan Yin was a little puzzled. After thinking for a while, she walked over and squatted down, looking at the young girl's face through the cobweb-like gaps in her hair.

Lan Yin's pupils shrank slightly.

The girl was staring at him without blinking her big black eyes. Her full and bright red lips were slightly curved, her nose was straight, her white skin was white and her cheeks were plump. The eyes of outsiders looking at each other look very eerie under such a smile - she has been awake?How long did she look at it?Why is she silent?

This is actually a very clumsy and simple scaring method, but no matter which country or era it is in, it is a tried and tested classic method.

"Don't be afraid, it's a human form." Abe Seimei came behind him at some point, and said softly. He looked at this "little girl" with calm eyes, obviously recognizing the difference between a living person and a doll long ago.

This country has a long history of doll art. This beautiful doll originally appeared as a toy for children. Families with young children will give dolls to children on specific festivals. These exquisitely shaped and gorgeously dressed dolls Accompanied by generations of children growing up, there are still many families who will enshrine the dolls, hoping that it can be used as a substitute for children to ward off diseases and disasters.

Now in front of them is a large girl figure, dressed in a bright red Tang gown. The gown is embroidered with auspicious clouds of mountains and seas with heavy industrial gold and silver thread. The clothes are carefully made, the long hair is glowing with the light that only human hair can have, the skin is as soft and delicate as a living person, the eyelashes are slender, and the pupils are black, as if it will come alive and talk with a smile in the next moment.

An overly realistic doll can easily arouse people's resentment and fear. Abe Seimei gently squeezed Lan Yin's shoulders, pushed him behind him, and bent down to look at this overly delicate and expensive human figure.

In the sight of the Onmyoji, there are countless thin and thin threads intertwined and converged in mid-air, twisted into several thick and strong chains, tightly bound this puppet, and the arrow from Jingboy's body earlier. Like the black air emanating from the arrow's hair, these silk threads came from the arrow that pierced through the monsters. That hair pulled the horrible resentment of the monsters before they died to the doll, and wanted to slaughter them at this one. The culprit seeks pain and resentment in equal measure.

"Arrow is one of the best tools for breaking demons in Shinto, but at the same time, it can also be the best tool for curses. If it is cast with yin and yang, it is a more powerful curse tool than the Nail of the Ugly Girl. , and the human form... has always been used as a substitute."

Abe Haruaki obviously understood what happened here, and introduced it in a calmer tone compared to just now, and then pointed at a circular shape with weird radiating lines and horizontal bars frequently appearing on the pillar while holding the bat fan. The symbol: "Amaterasu Omikami's symbol, and the oldest Shinto emblem of the imperial family."

At this point, Abe Seimei stopped talking. Obviously, he felt that he had revealed enough information, and the rest could only be left to Lan Yin to think on his own. If he continued, it would be against his position and responsibility.

It's just that even if he didn't say anything, Lan Yin, who was on both numbers, got the same information as him.

The human figure obviously represents Akira, and the reason why her body has become so corrupted is absolutely inseparable from the many monsters who died tragically. Ashiya Michimitsu used the hair on the arrows—the source of the hair is naturally needless to say—to make the monsters They used this to convey their hatred to the doll as a substitute, and Zhang Zi didn't escape for some reason.

The only problem is that I don't know what the purpose of this thing that the Emperor ordered Ashiya Doman to make.

However, he can probably guess one thing. People's pursuit of wealth and power is endless. Wealth can be obtained through power. When you have the power to reach the apex, eternal life is an imminent desire.

As for the emperor who obviously has the crown of the king but has lost power, what he wants most is to hold all the power in his hands, or let the shogunate of Edo disappear in smoke.

The emblem representing the royal family was also used, so it is true that this big scene is inseparable from the emperor's desire to reset, right?

It's just a sacrifice of a daughter, which is nothing in the eyes of the emperor, monster?No matter how much that kind of thing dies, it's a good thing, isn't it, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people.The price to be paid is negligible, but the benefits that can be obtained are so large that people are dizzying. This kind of stimulation of income and expenditure is the reason why feudal superstition can exist for a long time.

Starting to engage in cult sacrifices when one's own ability is not good enough is really the idea of ​​a waste.

Abe Seimei walked around the figure a few times and shook his head: "At the moment, we can't untie the chains of these grievances rashly. If we can't find someone to rely on, they will flood the entire Heian-kyo, and the consequences will be uncontrollable."

He stared at the lifeless puppet, with complex emotions in his eyes, as if he saw the weak inner prince snuggling up to the white fox through the gorgeously dressed figure.

"What a remarkable woman..." Onmyoji sighed vaguely, his tone full of respect.

Even if this is an extremely inhuman and cruel sacrifice, and the people who are deeply involved in it are not out of their own will, it seems a bit condescending and unreasonable to have such emotions. Prince's admirable tenacity.

This innocent person who carried the grievances of countless dead monsters on her body should have died a long time ago, but she has struggled to survive until now. It has to be said that it is a miracle. Under the torment, how did the inner prince, who was gentle and fragile at first glance, support until now.

"We still have to solve the problem from the source," the Great Onmyoji bowed slightly to the human figure, faded the frivolous smile, narrowed his long and narrow eyes like a fox slightly, "First of all, we need to figure out how Ashiya Doman was constructed As for the connection between His Royal Highness Zhang Zi and the doll, maybe we can try to destroy this connection, let the human doll serve as a support to restrain the resentment of the monster, and take His Highness Zhang Zi out of it, I have to get close to His Royal Highness Zhang Zi for a while to see."

"Does Lan Jun have any ideas?"

Hearing Abe Seimei's question, Lan Yin hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "No, I'll just do what you said."

— so what are you going to do?

The mortician asked the onmyoji next to him with his eyes, and the other party held the bat fan in his hand and wrapped it around a flower, thoughtfully: "There is a fox shikigami in Ashiya Road, who stays by His Royal Highness Zhang Zi's side all day long..."

so what?The undertaker's eyes became puzzled.

"Ah, it just so happened that I haven't avoided things for a while, this time I'll take half a month's leave."

The Great Onmyoji finalized the plan on his own, and did not see the expressions of the foreign friends around him become extremely exciting for a moment.

Big-fox-raccoon!

Is he going to lose it? !

"However, using this technique of relying on things, my spiritual intelligence will also decrease accordingly according to the things I rely on. Fortunately, the fox is smarter in the first place, otherwise if it becomes a fool, I will have to go to Lan Jun. help me."

"You mean smarter?" Lan Yin asked cautiously.

"Probably a very human...smart fox with some instincts?" Abe Seimei said uncertainly, "In short, I hope that Ashiya Michimi doesn't have the habit of accepting low-intelligence monsters as shikigami."

Lan Yin thought of the big fox who liked to rub Zhang Zi, circled Zhang Zi with its tail, and made it his daily goal to stick to Zhang Zi, and looked at the handsome onmyoji who knew nothing about it, and his expression became sympathetic.

When the first ray of morning light penetrated the clouds over Kyoto, the snow-white fox who accompanied Zhang Zi to sleep in the soft and fragrant quilt opened his eyes with the notice of leave submitted by Abe’s mansion to Yinyang Liao, with a pair of black pupils glowing around. Clear steel blue, it moved its huge body, aware of the temperature and breathing of the human body in its vital abdomen, and subconsciously tensed its muscles.

But soon, the weak and harmless message from the other party made the big fox relax its muscles. It swung its tail and calmly licked its own paw resting on the side of the pillow. There was no discomfort of suddenly becoming a fox, and then he lowered his head more naturally and kissed Zhang Zi's warm cheek with the tip of his nose.

—Wait, what is he doing?

The big fox, who didn't have any psychological burden for licking his paws, raised his head after finishing the latter action. A trace of shock and thought flashed in the beautiful fox's eyes.

Ashiya Michimitsu's fox shikigami, is there something wrong with its instinctive behavior?

Generally speaking, Shikigami's behavior will be more or less influenced by the master, which can't help but make him think too much!

While he was meditating, the human being trapped in the warm and soft belly of the fox woke up in a daze. She seemed very used to being intimately expressed by the fox, and buried her face deeper into the long fur of the fox sleepily. , raised his hand to grab the fox's chin, and murmured softly like a whisper: "Let me sleep for a while, okay?"

With the sound of warm air blowing over the furry ears, the fox shook his head uncomfortably, making a puffing sound that only his ears and head slap each other, and whimpered from his chest .

Ashiya Michiman outside heard the commotion inside, and listened patiently for a while, realizing that Zhang Zi had not woken up, and continued to draw those spells that could never be finished—there were never too many spells, especially him. When his opponent was Abe Seimei, he didn't expect those concealment techniques to hide Abe Seimei for a long time. That cunning onmyoji who claimed to be righteous would never question the Emperor directly, but he would definitely find a way to destroy the formation he made.

But it doesn't matter, as long as Abe Seimei has a little sense, he will not rashly try to destroy the formation. He has combined the doll and Zhang Zi so closely that it can be said that they are indistinguishable from each other. He will be charged with murdering Zhang Zi.

Thinking of this, Ashiya Michimitsu stopped writing, with a gloomy expression on his face, he didn't know Zhang Zi when he set up the formation, if...

The pause was so short that he didn't know what should be followed by this if.