The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"Are you from Kyoto...then why did you come here in Tokyo?"

"Well, haha..." I saw Feng Jiang scratching her head, looking a little embarrassed, and didn't continue.

On the contrary, Lianjiang snorted angrily beside him, and interjected: "It's not that this useless guy, who was addicted to playing steel balls every day, lost hundreds of thousands of yen in three months, and came to find me When the guarantor borrowed some money from the lender, saying that he wanted to pay back the money, he would never play again after that, but he had to work hard to pay back the money, but in the end he threw the borrowed money in and continued to play small steel balls. In the end, it was really not enough Money, we only had to run to Tokyo, but we were almost caught by the gang behind the money lender. If it wasn't for Mr. Fang He... If Butler Fang He happened to pass by, I'm afraid the two of us would have chopped a few sticks It’s about the finger, I’m afraid it’s going to sink directly to Tokyo Bay!”

"Uncle Fanghe passed by? Did he pay back the money for you?" Youxiang asked curiously.

"Ah, this... should be... counted?" Feng Jiang said hesitantly.

"Then you all have to thank Uncle Fang He~"

"Of course, we two brothers have been following Brother Fang He wholeheartedly since then! Even in the later group..."

"Feng!" Lian Jiang glared at Feng Jiang fiercely. Feng Jiang immediately covered her mouth half-covered, and immediately changed her words, "Even if the company went bankrupt later, we have been begging for a living with Big Brother Fang He..."

"I didn't expect you to have such a past..." You Xiang sighed.

However, Xiaotong showed a worried expression, "You... have borrowed money from the underworld in Kyoto before? If you go there, you won't be recognized by them at the side of the road, right?"

"Impossible, impossible," Feng Jiang waved his hand and said with certainty, "That happened many years ago, and we are not the little boys we were back then. Who can recognize our brothers now? Besides, Amakusa Groups are not stones on the side of the road, how can they be so easy to meet?"

"Amakusa group?" Youxiang showed an interested expression, "Is that the name of the underworld gang that came to you to collect debts?"

Feng Jiang nodded, "The Amakusa group is the biggest violent group in Kyoto. They have been rooted in Kyoto for a long time, and their influence there is intricate. They even extended their hands to Tokyo. Brother Fanghe's... company went bankrupt , in addition to the economic crisis that year, it is also inseparable from the fact that the Amakusa group came to Tokyo to stir up wind and rain!"

"It sounds... this Amakusa group seems to be quite energetic, right? The Amakusa group... Amakusa... Amakusa Kuro... um..." Youxiang lowered her head as if thinking about something, and then asked, "You know Who is the boss of this group? Is the surname Amakusa?"

"This..." Feng Jiang and Lian Jiang looked at each other, and Lian Jiang said a little embarrassed, "We don't know about this either. We at this level can't get in touch with the high-level members of the Amakusa group. The people in this group... the periphery There are many younger brothers and thugs, but the number of real high-level people is actually quite small, and they are all quite mysterious... We have not even heard the name of their boss..."

Youxiang pinched her chin and said in thought: "It sounds like this Amakusa group sounds a bit suspicious..."

Xiaotong was afraid that Youxiang would run into trouble with the gangsters in a flash, and said quickly: "In short, they must be some dangerous guys. We can definitely avoid provoking them without provoking them. Besides, even if ordinary people want to run into gangsters, it's very bad." easy, right?"

"That's true."

So, this topic will come to an end for the time being.It only takes more than an hour to fly to Kyoto, and the journey is still a bit boring. I leaned over to Xiaotong and saw that she was tossing her mobile phone.

"What are you doing?"

"Install a game."

"Tsk, you will die if you don't play mobile games! Are mobile games so fun? If you have free time, come and play with me~"

"This game is different! This is the game I've always wanted to play before. I told you before, the game of Tanuki Club!"

"Tanuko Club? Ah, that Tanuki Co., Ltd.? I seem to have heard you say that this company has developed some kind of onmyoji and shikigami game."

"That game has been released a long time ago. What I'm talking about is their new work, which is this, "Ghost Story GO"! I've always wanted to play this game before, but it turned out that this game was only limited to the Kyoto area when it was first tested! There’s no way to play in Tokyo.”

"...This is the first time I've heard of a region-limited game. Why can I only play it in Kyoto??"

"You don't understand, this is an AR game, an augmented reality game, that is to say, it can only be played in combination with the actual scene. This game has the same world view as the previous game. The player also plays an onmyoji, and then Go everywhere to find ghost stories or monsters and subdue them as shikigami. But this game really requires you to go to some supernatural places or legends of monsters in reality to find the corresponding ghost stories or monsters and subdue them. This game just started It's online, so I only matched it with the supernatural places around Kyoto, and I have to wait for adaptation in other places. I can't wait for it to be updated. I don't know if it will be the year of the monkey. Let's try this game."

"Hmm...do I have to go to a real ghost place?" This sounds a bit weird, because a famous ghost place in reality...then it is very likely that there are really weird ones.

I saw Xiaotong installed the game and opened it, and the realistic picture captured by the camera appeared on the screen of the phone.

"It is said that as long as you open this game and look around through the phone screen, you will be able to see if there are ghost stories or monsters that can be captured~Let me take a look~"

Xiaotong pointed the phone camera directly at me, and soon made a disappointed sound.

"... Tsk, I didn't even take a picture of the senior sister's hair. It really seems to be just a game."

"...Do you actually want to catch me as a shikigami?! Hitomi, you've been a little beating lately, huh?"

Chapter 22 Tanuki and Tengu

Kyoto, an ancient capital with a history of more than 1000 years and the source of Japanese culture, is said to be blessed by gods and Buddhas. There are many temples and shrines in the capital, and there are more than a thousand shrines and temples, so Kyoto is also known as the "city of thousands of shrines".

We can also feel this atmosphere when the RV drives into the territory of Kyoto.Quite an ancient building, you can see a torii gate from time to time, and every household, even the bus, will have a shrine or temple's guardian amulet.

Youxiang said to us mysteriously: "Do you know why there are so many shrines and temples in Kyoto? In fact, it is said that in the earliest times, these shrines and temples were used to suppress demons and evil spirits. The original capital was originally planned to be Nagaoka-kyo. However, when the capital was established, diseases, droughts, floods occurred one after another, as well as wars, assassinations, and mutinies. In Heian-kyo, a large number of shrines were built, and all kinds of feng shui knowledge and spells were used to ward off resentful spirits~ Even so, things like Hyakki nocturnal often happen~"

[It is said that it is caused by resentful spirits, but in fact it is due to poor governance. Natural disasters and man-made disasters have killed too many people, so let's put the blame on demons and evil spirits. Maybe this is what gave birth to monsters instead. 】

"Those legendary big monsters may be born in this way, but... there are also such cute monsters." Xiao Tong pointed out the window of the car, and saw a left-handed wine cup in front of the snack shop at the alley. The ledger on the right hand, the portrait of a raccoon cat wearing a bamboo hat, looks naive.

【Civet cats...indeed, it seems that raccoon cats are very common in Kyoto. I have seen several in front of various stores just now.In fact, I have always wondered why civet cats have become a symbol of money and business?I feel that in Kyoto, civet cats have replaced the status of beckoning cats. 】

"Probably because of his honest and pleasing appearance?" Xiaotong guessed casually.

【...I don't think they are lovable. Seeing their chubby appearance reminds me of the profiteer Sifang Qiuzao, and the treacherous smile is exactly the same. 】

"Tsk, senior sister, you are biased." Xiaotong raised her mobile phone to take a picture of another civet cat on the side of the road ahead, but her mobile phone was opening the game called "Guai Tan GO" and hadn't exited yet. Xiaotong was immediately surprised to find that in the outside picture presented by the camera on the screen of the mobile phone, everything else was the same as the reality, except that the civet cat image disappeared from the picture, replaced by a very The real big civet cat, that big civet cat looked up lazily.Just as the vehicle was moving forward and was about to pass the civet cat, Xiaotong quickly pressed the "Spell" button.

An inspiring BGM sounded on the phone, spells covered with mantras flashed past, then fancy light effects lit up, and a message "Congratulations! [Tanuko] has become your shikigami! Please take a piece for it!" Let’s name it~”.

"!! Sister, did you see it just now?!" Xiaotong said in shock, while typing in the name of "Fukuzawa Yukichi" (the person printed on the [-] yen).

[I saw it.In reality it is a statue, but in the game it is a real civet cat. How is this possible? 】

"What, what?" Youxiang immediately came over, "There really aren't civet cats on the streets of Kyoto, are there?!"

"It feels...it shouldn't be? Because from the perspective of our inspired people, the statues on the side of the road are just statues. I think it's probably just identification and replacement through some kind of technology in the game? No wonder this game is limited to Kyoto. I It feels like a lot of work.”

Xiaotong explained it like this, and then looked at the civet cat he had caught with his mobile phone and began to giggle, while showing off to me, "Senior sister, I am very lucky today~ I shipped it as soon as I sent it! I'm getting rid of my African identity!"

[Is it possible that this can't be caught? 】

"Of course it's possible! It's better to say that not being able to catch it is a high probability event! These spells cost money to buy, and different levels of spells correspond to different success rates. I just used the worst spell given at the beginning of the game." It was a success in one shot! Today is my turnaround day! I want to catch it!"

[I feel like I can smell a strong smell of krypton gold... 】

"It looks very interesting, I want to play the next one too!" Youxiang started to download the game beside her.

"Let's go, let's play, this game also supports battles, that is, we can use the shikigami we have caught to PK each other, and we can compete against each other in a while." Xiaotong said to Youxiang Anli very enthusiastically, but when she Seeing that Youxiang played the game well, and after buying a thousand of the highest-level charms, Xiaotong's expression began to turn strange.

"That... Youxiang, this game is not played like this... The arrival of every shikigami needs the guidance of fate to be realized. If you just smash the spell, the relationship with the shikigami will deteriorate. ..."

Youxiang looked at Xiaotong suspiciously, looked at the game carefully, and then suddenly realized: "Oh, there is really a system of friendship with shikigami! But it seems that this can be improved by giving gifts to shikigami, no matter, Let’s buy a hundred copies of each gift first.”

Xiaotong's face completely turned into a dead fish face, and his mouth opened and closed slightly. I leaned closer and listened carefully, and sure enough, I began to recite the bible phrase "Damn rich people" again.

Youxiang, who just downloaded the game, was very excited to scan the street with the phone camera, and asked Xiaotong for advice: "Hitomi, where are we going now? It is said that the location of the shikigami in this game is related to reality? Then Let's go to Fushimi Inari Shrine first! I think we can catch foxes there!"

Xiaotong looked at Youxiang blankly and said, "Youxiang, we are not here to play, but to help mother-in-law investigate the truth! The first stop must be her hometown!"

"Huh? You didn't seem to say that just now."

"The business is more important!" Xiaotong said loudly, and then asked Granny Chun who was sitting with her eyes closed, "By the way, mother-in-law, where exactly is your hometown?"

"That... is in a remote place, in the suburbs north of Kyoto, near Mount Kurama."

"Anma Mountain?" Youxiang was thoughtful, "When you mention Anma Mountain... the first thing that comes to mind is Tengu!"

"Yes." Grandma Chun nodded and said, "The legend of the Tengu is very prosperous in our area. Didn't I mention it before, the old man often said that when the ghosts happened in our place, maybe it was the Tengu. Someone took it away."

Xiaotong said in shock: "Wait a minute, could it be that the mother-in-law's ghost...was really taken away by the Tengu?"

The mother-in-law spread her hands, "I also thought about this direction at the beginning, but who has seen a real tengu? Even an inspired person like me has never seen a tengu in that mountain after searching repeatedly. Tengu... it just exists in the legends of the locals."

"Go there and have a look!" Youxiang said fascinatedly, "Maybe, I can catch a big tengu in the game! When I catch it, I'll come and fight against you, Tong!"

"Go to hell." Xiaotong replied mercilessly with a dark face.

Chapter 23 Kurama Tengu

After yelling at Youxiang, Xiaotong seemed to be thinking of something, and said with some confusion: "But...Grandma, we met in front of Qingfeng High School last time, you Do you still remember? Among the professionals invited by the police to investigate the incident, there was a guy who called himself 'Tengu'? At that time...well, you left beforehand, and that 'Tengu' entered with us I explored the campus. But speaking of it, after leaving the campus, he didn’t know where he went.”

Granny Chun rolled her eyes at Xiao Tong, and said with a little disdain: "Can that kind of bumbling bastard be called a Tengu? Tengu can't just wear a mask with a red face and a long nose! It seems that he is trying his best to play the role of tengu, the clothes and tone, but the essence can be seen through at a glance! The real tengu are a group of high-ranking and extremely arrogant guys. They look down on humans extremely, so, why? Maybe for the little bonus given by the Metropolitan Police Department, he will be hired by humans to help humans solve problems?!"

"Sorry to interrupt." The more I listened to Granny Tsubaki's words, the more strange I finally couldn't help questioning, "Grandma, you said that you have never seen a real tengu. So, how do you know the real tengu?" What's your personality like??"

"Isn't the character of the Tengu just..." The mother-in-law paused in the middle of her words, she stretched out her hand and rubbed her eyebrows vigorously, with a painful expression on her face, and whispered, "Yes, why do I know this? ..."

"Then doesn't this mean that the mother-in-law has really seen a tengu?"

Granny Chun shook her head, "I... I don't know, those things just came to my mind inexplicably, I don't have the impression of hearing these things from anywhere... It feels like I have unconsciously noticed It's the same when danger comes, and the source cannot be found..."

The abnormality of the mother-in-law undoubtedly aggravated our suspicion of "Tengu".And Tengu and Kurama Mountain are indeed like a pair of inseparable phrases. As soon as you arrive at Kurama Station, you can see a huge statue of Tengu with a red face and a long nose.Kurama Tengu is a frequent visitor in various TV dramas and novels, especially the famous big tengu, Kurama Sanseng Masaobo, who is said to be the swordsmanship and military art teacher of Minamoto Yoshitsune.

The old house of Granny Chun’s family is a two-story house at the foot of the mountain. The small house looks very old. After all, it is the house where my mother-in-law lived when she was a child, and her parents passed away many years ago. It should be A vacant room that has been vacant for a long time.We were all worried that after the door was opened, it might not be densely covered with cobwebs and it would be impossible to live in it. However, when the mother-in-law opened the door, we found that the inside was quite clean except for a layer of dust.

Cooperating with her mother-in-law to do a simple cleaning, then Granny Chun found a yellowed booklet from the cabinet. She spread the booklet in front of us and said to us: "This is what I said to our local god. The investigation of hidden incidents. At least when I was young, the incidents of Shenyin were quite frequent. At that time, there were one or two incidents almost every year. Most of the missing people were children under the age of ten. Beautiful people like me There are also a few cases of young girls disappearing..."

You Xiang: "Hey——"

The tic-tac-toe popped out of the mother-in-law's head, "You little brat owes you a beating again, don't you? Wait, I'll find you a photo of me when I was young!"

"Grandma, don't pay attention to her, you can continue."

"Hmph, all in all, the missing people, except for me, have not been found. These incidents were basically identified by the police as children getting lost while playing on the mountain, or abducting young children or beautiful girls. Some local residents also said that on the day the child disappeared, they saw huge birds flying in the sky, or saw black crow feathers falling, but asked him if he had picked up the actual feathers, and he He also said no. The old people here believe in the legend of the tengu, so they often add oil and vinegar when describing it. It is difficult to tell whether what he said he witnessed is true. Anyway, I searched up and down the mountain. For a long time, I haven’t even seen a hair of a tengu.”

Xiaotong carefully flipped through the booklet handed by her mother-in-law. It clearly recorded the names and times of the people who disappeared every year. It spanned more than ten years. It can be seen that her mother-in-law really put a lot of effort into it. to investigate.However, Xiaotong also noticed that the number of Shenyin people became less and less as the years went by, and there were almost no records at all since more than ten years ago.

Xiaotong asked suspiciously: "Grandmother, the number of hidden ghosts recorded later is less and less... Is it because you didn't record it after you went to Tokyo?"

"No, I come back to this hut every year to live for a period of time, and then ask the old people who are still familiar with this place, if there are any other hidden incidents this year. The hidden incidents are indeed becoming less and less. In recent years It really didn't happen at all."

"Ah? Why?" Youxiang even looked a little disappointed.

"Perhaps... it's because the ghost incident mainly happened to children and beautiful girls? Because of the legend of the ghost, families with children moved to other places because they were afraid that their children would disappear, and this place Too biased, young girls must also want to live in a lively and prosperous place. Coupled with the impact of declining birthrates, over time, the locals who stay here are mainly older people. The last two The children who were hidden by the gods for the first time were also the children of tourists who came here to play. It was on the news at that time. Although a local Tengu legend was mentioned, they were mostly questioning the local tourist safety. This kind of thing always happens Things will hit the tourism industry, so at that time, the local residents set up a federation to go up the mountain to find people. They searched almost all over the mountain. Although the child was still not found, since then, the incident of Shenyin It just didn’t happen at all.”

"It's almost like a tengu can also read people's faces. Could it be that the mysterious disappearance incident is a publicity stunt created by the locals to promote tourism?"

"No, how come, mother-in-law, I am not a real example? And the names of the missing children recorded in this booklet are all things that I have confirmed one by one. For example, the one who disappeared 20 years ago is called Matsuoka. Liang's child, his grandfather still lives on the mountain, if you are interested, you can ask him."

Chapter 24

According to my mother-in-law, the road to Mount Anma is not easy.And now it's already afternoon, I'm afraid it will be night after I go up the mountain and come back. Going down the mountain at night...I always feel so unsafe.

But, it seems that Youxiang can't wait for a moment. After all, Anma Mountain is considered a tourist attraction. There are many tourists on the road, and there are two bodyguards following. Hurry to the mountains to see.

The rugged road and the continuous stone steps zigzag upwards. The more you walk up the mountain road, the more you feel that you have penetrated into the primitive mountain forest. The roots of the intertwined trees are crawling on the ground like worms and snakes.You can occasionally see a few small tengu statues along the road.Youxiang opened the Guaitan GO app on her phone, and scanned the tengu images one by one, but the game screen did not show any moving tengu that could be caught.

Youxiang immediately complained unhappily: "Is this game broken? Why can you catch one so easily, Xiaotong? Why haven't I met it for so long!"

"Maybe it's because tengus are rare? You can't just catch them so easily." Xiaotong seemed to be comforting Youxiang, but I always felt that there was a little gloating smile in her eyes.

Grandma Tsubaki did not come up with us. Although she is already considered a weird freak with incredible health among the elderly, she said that she would like to take a good rest after a long journey. She just gave us a hand-drawn rough sketch, There is a crooked line drawn on it, which points us to the address of Matsuoka’s house. By the way, it also shows us some routes worth visiting on Mount Kurama. Along the way, you can go to Yuki Shrine, Kurama Temple, Guishen Shrine, etc. place to play.

Obviously, Matsuoka's house was the closest, and it was only a short walk up the mountain road, so this naturally became our first stop.

"Moxi, Moxi, is anyone there?" Youxiang asked loudly in front of a house that looked like a bed and breakfast.

A thin, dark-skinned old man with no hair poked his head out from the door. He was a little arched, and he was wearing a pair of reading glasses. He raised the frame with his hand, looked at us carefully, and then He said rather coldly, "Do you want to stay?"

"That...Grandma Chun asked us to come, we want to inquire about 'Shen Yin'."

"Tsubaki?" The old man curled his lips, "She's back again? Why did you send some brats over here..."

"that……"

"Really, I come here every year to ask. Tell her directly, this year is the same as the past few years, no one has disappeared! She is also 60 years old, right? It's almost time to get out of this matter It's just that Shenyin has been missing for five years, so don't fill it up endlessly with so many five years!" The old man said angrily.

"That...we heard that your grandson is called Matsuoka Ryo, right...it seems to be the same..."

The old man suddenly gave Youxiang a vicious look, gritted his teeth and said, "It's interesting to inquire about other people's family affairs? But it's really as uneducated as that guy Xiaochun!"

Youxiang was immediately upset when she heard the old man's words, "What do you mean being uneducated! Grandpa, we are helping to investigate and find someone! Don't you want to find your missing grandson?"

"Hmph, it's useless. Don't waste your energy." The old man waved his hand and said with a grim expression, "The people lost in this mountain are all taken away by ghosts and gods. Those who are taken away will not Those who have come back, if you continue to study it in a serious manner, you will only attract revenge from ghosts and gods."

"What kind of strange nonsense is this? Isn't the mother-in-law just back?"

"Oh, I'm back, but I'm not a human, a ghost or a ghost. She always said that she has a destined person, and she must find that person, but she doesn't know whether that thing is a human or a ghost. Isn't that what the so-called "Ghost Wife"? After she came back, she often stared at the place where there was nothing, and when she passed by the people in the town who went up the mountain, she suddenly turned her head and said to him without thinking " Be careful of the moss on the stone steps. As a result, that person slipped and broke his head when he was going down the mountain that day. He can still walk up the mountain with a basket of things on his back. Two or three middle-aged men can’t keep up with her. Now she is sixty The body is as strong as a cow, is this still human?

"People in the town said that she shouldn't have come back in the first place. Maybe she offended the ghosts and gods and was driven back. Didn't everyone who got close to her suffer from bad luck? The one who was close to her in the past My friend, after she came back, she has been helping her to investigate her ghost incident everywhere. As a result, her house caught fire inexplicably in the evening a few days ago. Thanks to the light sleep of the family members, they ran out in time, but The old house and the belongings inside were all burned down, and the family moved out directly. After that, not many people in the town dared to communicate with her. Let me give you some advice, don't follow Tsubaki to meddle in the affairs of the mountains anymore, as for girls of your age, maybe it will be your turn next time to hide from the gods, let's leave soon..."

"Ah?" You Xiang still wanted to ask in detail, but the old lady's angry shout came from the room——

"You old pervert, do you still have the nerve to say this? If you hadn't been hooking up with that woman who was possessed by a ghost back then, would our Xiaoliang have been hidden by the gods like this?! This is a tengu You are taking revenge on our family!"

The old man was also angry, and shouted towards the inside: "What an old pervert! I just felt sorry for Chun at the beginning, and told Chun about the people who have been hidden by the gods in the past few years!"

But the old lady in the room shouted again: "Come on! I see, you have bad intentions! That's a 'ghost wife'! Maybe she was kidnapped by a tengu to become his wife at the festival, how dare you show her love? Poor Xiao Liang of our family! He was harmed by his obsessed old lecherous grandpa! You still have the nerve to say, don’t go to Xiao Liang, for fear of being retaliated by ghosts and gods. Let me tell you, I am here I've seen Xiao Liang two or three times in this mountain. As long as you recite a few more scriptures every day like me, you may be able to ask the gods and Buddhas to show mercy and send Xiao Liang back!"

"What nonsense! You can still see Xiao Liang with your presbyopic eyes? It's been more than 20 years! Do you know what Xiao Liang looks like now? You're just lying to yourself."

"I really saw Xiao Liang! Even if he grows up, I won't admit it wrong, he must still be in this mountain!" The old lady shouted.