The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

If he hadn't taken the initiative to talk to me inexplicably, I might not have noticed the abnormality in him.I saw him now back at his booth next to the approach, boldly selling his Mitarai dumplings to the tourists around him, just looking at his appearance, he is completely no different from an ordinary human being.

According to legend, civet cats are famous all over the world for their transformation skills.Looking at it this way, it seems that it is not just a rumor. I even began to wonder how many of the people I passed by in this capital were transformed from civet cats.

I went back to find Hitomi and the others who entered the shrine, and saw that they were seeking answers to the signatures in front of a priestess.However, I saw from a distance that the witch seemed to be shaking her head from side to side, and it seemed that the result was not ideal.

I floated over and asked Xiaotong, "How is it?"

Xiao Tong also shook her head, moved a little further away and whispered: "The witch said that she has never seen the contents of this signature. The first two sentences are easy to understand. The moon is covered by floating clouds, and a hundred ghosts travel at night." , which obviously indicates something bad. But the last two sentences...'Fenglei is hard to find, or find it from the same path', this may be a solution to the problem, and you have to go back to the road to find 'Fenglei' ', but... what is 'Fenglei'? And why are you looking for 'Fenglei'? This is very confusing. My mother-in-law thinks wholeheartedly that 'Fenglei' is synonymous with the person she is looking for. After all, this It is also the lottery that she asked the gods about marriage."

I also have a hard time deciphering the signature, so I can only spread my hands.Immediately, I mentioned to Xiaotong the guy I just met who was suspected to be a civet cat.

"You said... a guy like a raccoon cat, please come to the Yuling Shrine to 'discuss the big plan' tonight, senior?" Who, he only invited you when he heard that Tengu was looking for Senpai, right? Therefore, Tanuki and Tengu are most likely to be opposites. He probably thinks that Senpai and you are also Tengu’s enemy, so he asked you to be a helper right? Senior sister, are you going?"

"Of course. At least I think I can get a lot of information about the Tengu from him! Isn't the person we're looking for the mother-in-law's destiny to be a Tengu with a high probability?"

"But, Yuling Shrine... This doesn't sound like a good place. It's a shrine built to appease and worship resentful souls, so I chose to meet there specially... I always feel a little weird."

"At most, there are a few more undead, and it's not like I haven't seen them before, so there's nothing to be afraid of, I'm here~" I patted my chest, trying to show my reliability.

In the end, Xiaotong nodded and said: "Okay, then I will go with you, senior sister. As for the troublesome Youxiang... let's not take her with me. After all, there may be risks, so let's act secretly."

So it was a happy decision.In the following time, because my mother-in-law cared about the phrase "or find it from the same place", she insisted on searching carefully along the way back to Mount Anma at first, but we briefly explained to her what we had experienced before and what we are doing now. The fact that she was wanted by the Tengu temporarily dispelled her idea.

Because we didn't have any special destination until the evening, so we went to watch some famous spiritual places in Kyoto during the day following the meaning of fragrance.

For example, under the three bridges.

Under the Sanjo Bridge, although it is now a good place for citizens to enjoy the cool weather, it is also the most lively section of the Kamo River, but it was a bloody execution ground back then. Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s nephew, Toyotomi Hideji’s family of 39 people, was in chaos back then. Buried under the bridge.It is said that the resentful souls of the warriors who were killed in those years still linger here, refusing to rest in peace.

However, if you come to see it during the day, it is just an ordinary bridge with nothing special about it.

"Under the bridge!" Youxiang insisted on pulling us up the bridge piles under the bridge, "Under the bridge is the place where the beheadings were displayed and the corpses were thrown away. I think there must be ghosts under the bridge!"

She opened the Guai Tan GO APP on her mobile phone, and moved the mobile phone left and right intently, trying to find out the wraith around her.

But Xiaotong and I have already frowned, even my spiritual body can feel that the temperature under the bridge has dropped significantly, and there seems to be a black shadow looming on the water surface under the shadow of the bridge deck.There must be something here, don't you see Granny Chun and she doesn't want to come here at all?

When Youxiang pointed the camera of her mobile phone at a huge bridge pillar, she suddenly said in surprise: "It has appeared!"

It was displayed on the screen of the mobile phone that there was indeed a headless undead in armor and holding a samurai sword appearing behind the bridge pillar. Youxiang immediately ran over excitedly, but just halfway around, Youxiang stopped suddenly , immediately retreated two steps, and let out a short scream.

"Dead...dead!!"

Xiaotong and I ran over immediately after hearing the sound, and saw that there was indeed a person lying down in the shadow behind the bridge pillar, but...he was not dead yet, and he was hugging his body tightly with his arms, curled up into a Tuan, shivering in the heat of the summer evening, and his cell phone fell aside.

Xiao Tong stretched out her hand to check the man's breath, then pressed on his wrist as if to test his pulse, and then said, "You Xiang, call an ambulance quickly."

"Oh well!"

I asked Xiao Tong: "What's the situation? Is he possessed by a spirit?"

"...I don't know, this has to be..."

Xiaotong didn't finish her sentence, suddenly her face was covered with a layer of shadow, as if something blocked the light.

I suddenly turned my head to the side, and saw an armored warrior appearing close to us at some point, he raised his long knife high above his head, and then slashed down violently.

I pulled Xiaotong and jumped back a certain distance in an instant. The samurai's knife swung in the air, but he didn't seem to have any regrets, and disappeared in a puff of black smoke in the next second.

At this moment, I saw that the screen of the phone that fell on the ground turned on at some point, and the screen was actually the screen of Guaitan GO, and on the screen, there was a man in armor standing impressively. The spirit of the warrior.

From his black and empty helmet, I seemed to feel that a line of sight penetrated the phone screen and looked at us.

Chapter 34

An ambulance with a piercing sound arrived quickly and took away the unconscious boy who had fallen to the ground.

But I, Hitomi and Youxiang stayed where I was, inspecting the long and narrow area under the Sanjo Bridge.

Xiaotong observed the scene carefully, and concluded: "This place... is very dark, it must not have been formed recently, it should be like the legend, there are warriors' wraiths that have been lingering here for a long time."

【However... what about that wraith?It seems that I have not seen it. 】

Yes, although the bridge is still abnormally cold and there is some kind of resentment left, but the shadow of the resentment is completely invisible.

I can't help but make a guess that I think is a bit outrageous: [I just saw the fallen guy's phone light up, and the screen is the image of the samurai spirit Shikigami captured in the game Kaitan GO, maybe ...That game can really capture ghost stories, right? 】

Xiaotong turned on the phone, looked at the shikigami Tanuki in his game interface, who didn't seem to have any self-awareness, and said a little uncertainly: "But... it shouldn't be so easy to catch shikigami..."

Youxiang seemed to have suddenly recalled something, and suddenly thumped her palm and said, "Hey, I seem to remember, when I was searching for strategies on the Guitan GO forum yesterday, I seemed to see someone say, He was going to catch the warrior spirit at the Sanjo Bridge all night, this should be the guy just now!"

"All in all, no matter whether this game can really catch ghost stories or not, this game still has big problems. And... Tanuki Club..." Xiaotong paused at this point, and made a joke to me.

I immediately understood what Xiaotong meant. Based on the guy I met this morning who was suspected to be a raccoon cat, this game might really be something made by a raccoon cat. From the point of view that the tengus are strong and the tengus are weak, it is possible that this game is made by the civet cats to target the tengus? !

In short, it is estimated that there will be no more gains here, and then we accompanied Youxiang to many so-called supernatural places.

Kyoto is indeed full of "ghost" places, because in history, as the capital, the city is full of bloody footprints such as conquests and assassinations. Now the streets full of vitality may have been places where corpses were exposed to the public in the past. Now girls pray The temple of marriage may also have been built in the past to seal resentful spirits.Scan these places with Guitan GO, and you can find many strange stories and evil spirits that can be grabbed.But in reality, Xiaotong and I can actually find some traces of strange talks.

For example, it is still on the banks of the Kamogawa River, from Sanjo Bridge to Shijo Bridge. This is a famous place for couples to date. No matter day or night, there are couples sitting on the river bank. However, come here But the couples in the house will invariably abide by a "equal distance rule". If you estimate carefully, the length is about three meters.It is said that if you sit too far away, the lovers who died here in the past will take the opportunity to sit in the middle, and if you sit too close, the heads of women who were killed here in the past will float on the water...

Youxiang was alone, digging into the gap between the two couples, under the angry eyes of the two people, proudly crossed his waist and stared at everyone. In the eyes of others, he might not be a guy with a sick mind who wants to break the rules.Youxiang originally wanted to pull Xiaotong to do this together, but Xiaotong was too thin-skinned, so she sternly refused.But even watching from the sidelines, Xiao Tong was a little too substituting for You Xiang's role, with an embarrassing expression of wanting to dig a hole and bury herself.

Youxiang took out her mobile phone, turned on Guai Tan GO and pointed it at the river, and she saw almost immediately, in the running water on the screen, there were several hideous faces and blood-stained heads floating down the river.But under the waters in reality, I actually saw a woman's face slowly emerging underwater.

【Be careful! 】I pulled Youxiang's back collar with my thoughts, and she was instantly brought over to the grass, and the woman's face under the water also slowly disappeared.

Youxiang's strange behavior made the couples on both sides a little panicked, and they began to wonder if she was really bewitched, and the couple hastily decided to leave.But Youxiang turned to me happily and asked, "Sister, did something really appear just now?"

Well, this act of talking to the air scared the other couple away too.

However, this really confirmed that this game... is really inseparable from these dirty things.However, I just don't know if this game is simply able to detect the location of these ghost stories and display them, or... there are some deeper intentions.

In the middle of the night, while everyone else was asleep in the RV, Xiaotong and I...sneaked out of the car.

The destination is - Yuling Shrine.

On the way past, Xiaotong explained to me why she felt a little uneasy when she heard the name of Yuling Shrine during the day.There was a period of time in history when natural disasters were frequent and plagues were prevalent. At that time, the "religion of spirits" was very popular. People believed that natural disasters and epidemics were caused by resentful spirits. Therefore, many shrines and shrines were built to appease those spirits. wraith.

However, when I actually arrived at the Yuling Shrine, I began to feel that the so-called Yulinghui in the past to appease the wraiths probably was of no use at all.

This is a very remote and very small shrine. There is a stone torii in front of the main entrance, but there are no lights in the shrine, and the moon cannot be seen tonight, so the shrine is almost dark and nothing can be seen. .And when you close your eyes and try to observe the inside of the shrine carefully, an illusion will suddenly appear in your eyes, as if hundreds of thousands of eyes suddenly opened and blinked in the darkness.

Xiaotong took a deep breath and stepped into the torii gate.

Walking a few steps forward, stepping up the steps, the stone lanterns on the left and right sides suddenly lit up flames automatically, and after taking a few steps up, the murmurs echoed in the air and began to grow louder and louder. loudly.

When we got to the top level, we saw the middle-aged man we met this morning standing in front of the worship hall of the shrine.

"Welcome, welcome everyone." The middle-aged man greeted us warmly, "I'm sorry to use this method to meet you, after all, it's not convenient to talk about more private things there this morning. Can you meet the appointment Come here, my little place is really full of splendor."

"Let's make a long story short, what do you want to discuss with us?" I said straight to the point, "Could it be... something related to the game "Ghost Talk GO" you made?"

"Oh..." The middle-aged man couldn't help squinting his eyes, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to know more about our affairs, yes, that's true, I hope to meet a few of you, I just want to discuss with you, are you willing to cooperate with our civet cat club and authorize your image to us so that we can use it in the game? This...is a win-win thing~"

Chapter 35 New Era

"To authorize my image to you, that is, to make it a shikigami that can be captured? This doesn't sound like a good thing. What benefits can I get?" I couldn't help but questioned.

"Of course there are quite a lot of benefits, um... Miss, although I don't know what your real body is, you must be a great monster to be wanted by the Tengu city. You must also know that we, as Youkai or ghost stories, the source of power is the fear or belief that humans have in us, right?"

"Of course I know this. So, what you mean is that this game you made...can bring together human fears or beliefs?"

"That's right." The middle-aged man squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "Fear and faith are the source of our strength. Then first of all, make it in the form of an AR game, so that monsters and ghost stories can only be seen in specific places. Encountered, in this case, human beings will not take the initiative to come to the door and be frightened, as long as they cause a little trouble, it will make their nerves tense, making them feel that there is really something around them;

"Then, the image and strength of the weirdness in the game itself can gather the beliefs of those players. As long as the intensity is high enough, or invite those well-known voice actors to make a sound as a gimmick, or make the image a little more colorful, Players will shout strange words such as "civet cats will always drop gods" and "the belief of Xuenv's life";

"Finally, it will be convenient to travel when joining our game. Every human who has your avatar in the game is equivalent to being possessed by you. You can choose one of them as a container to possess Mobile, which is a boon for some geo-restricted weirdness."

"Oh huh?"

"What's more, if you are really a big monster, we can even organize an event, design you as a big boss who comes to invade, let the players in the whole city attack you together, and let your power and terror come to the fore. All players will be impressed, and then there will be a plot to explain to you why you have to do so, and then add you to the usable characters, but the chance of getting it is set to be super small, or simply It is set so that krypton gold must be obtained through the card pool, or only a few fragments can be collected to obtain the complete shikigami routine, so that the player's expectation and yearning for you will reach the peak, which will generate a terrible wish, so you Are you afraid that it will not increase your strength?"

The civet cat in front of him blew wildly, and the only real player present, Xiao Tong, almost couldn't restrain himself and said "animal" in a low voice after hearing this.

I secretly signaled Xiaotong to lower my voice with my hand, and then asked the civet cat in front of me: "So, you want to use this game to deal with tengu, right?"

"Heh, the tengus have been holding this city secretly... It's been too long, and they are still as high as ever, stubborn. In the past, because my appearance was not scary enough, I was always regarded as a 'weak' ' is synonymous with "simple" and "cute" by those weak humans?! And those tengus, who just go out occasionally to take away a person walking in the mountains and forests, can bring great fear to humans. But now, the times are different! The tengus are still thinking of continuing to harvest fear in that ancient way, how arrogant and stupid. Now, it's time for all our weirdos to unite and treat these people who treat us as worthless The guy has pulled down the throne!"

"Wow, that's amazing~ It sounds really great~" I read it emotionally, but then changed my tone and asked a question, "But ah, I still have such a question. Today, I see A human fell under the three bridges, and it seemed that he was attacked by the spirit of the warrior. It seemed that the situation was not good. You used this game to lead the human to the place of the spirit, so have you considered that there will be an accident? Maybe?"

"Oh? This..." The middle-aged man rolled his eyes, as if he had just noticed Xiaotong's existence at this time, he coughed dryly, and then said, "It turns out that you are so concerned about the safety of human beings. Well, because after we cooperate with more weird people, there will always be some guys who don’t obey the rules. After all, you also know that most weird people are not harmless in human legends. Is it meeting the expectations of human beings? There is nothing we can do about this kind of thing. In fact, only one or two such innocuous things happen once in a while, so that the legends and horrors we wait for will last longer among human beings. It's been circulating in China, isn't it? And... I don't want to offend this lady human over here, I just want to say, are humans so kind? Compared to dealing with tengu, many of the weirdos we recruit are more effective for dealing with The onmyojis here are more interested."

The surrounding wind suddenly became louder, and the wind seemed to be mixed with the voices of many words, as if many monsters were echoing in unison at the moment, and I also noticed that under the reflection of the two stone lanterns in front of the shrine, , Xiaotong's shadow also changed at this moment, and her shadow was gradually elongated, and gradually turned into a beast-like appearance.

I hurriedly pulled Xiaotong back a step, but Xiaotong turned her head to look at me with a dazed expression, not knowing what happened.

"Oh, it seems that the partner who came with you is very willing. Do you want to join us?" The middle-aged man said to the gradually forming black shadow.

Then, we saw that group of black shadows slowly emerging from the ground, and then it broke free from the shadow of Xiaotong with all its strength, and jumped to the side of the middle-aged man.

"Ah! It's that black ball!" I recognized it instantly. This is the black ball I had seen at Tsukiyomi Shrine before. I couldn't find it in the shrine before. It turned out that it was hidden in Xiaotong. In the shadows, and actually followed us to Kyoto? !

I saw that black ball began to stretch its body, from a fuzzy black mist to a slender cat-shaped black shadow, moreover, an obvious bifurcation could be observed at the end of its tail.

"Is it a cat's larva? This disgusting smell must have been captured by an onmyoji to make a shikigami, but it seems that it hasn't been fully produced. And... there is even a little bit of a faint god's breath , Did you steal the incense from the gods? This is really rare..." The middle-aged man wondered.

There was a crack in the cat-shaped black shadow's face, as if it opened its mouth and let out a silent howl.The middle-aged man responded as if he understood: "Of course, of course, we welcome all partners who want to join us. The concept of the Tanuki Trading Company is tolerance and win-win. The era of humans and tengus has passed. Next is ours." The raccoons... are our weird times!"

After saying this, he suddenly turned his head to me and said, "Then, what about your side? Do you intend to create a beautiful new era with our civet cats?"

Chapter 36 Historic Cooperation

"Sounds good~" I clapped my hands and exclaimed.

"So, do you agree to cooperate with us?" Uncle Tanuki's smile became brighter and brighter.

"Before that, I still have a little doubt."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Add our image to this game, then our image in the game, according to what you said just now, 'incarnation', will this avatar...will affect our body?"

Uncle Civet Cat narrowed his eyes slightly, "I don't quite understand what you mean."

"It's like saying that Tengu definitely didn't cooperate with you, but you made the image of Tengu in the game and made it very weak. Does this mean that you can use this game avatar to subconsciously weaken it? What about people's impression of Tengu's strength? In other words, if my image is added to the game, will you suddenly update a version one day saying, "This character is too strong in this version, for the sake of the game For balance, we weakened her a bit, and at the same time, in order to coordinate with the game world view, we rewrote the story background of the character', will such a thing happen?"

"Well... For our collaborators, it is naturally impossible for such a thing to happen. We will try our best to make settings based on our own opinions~"

"However, it doesn't mean you don't have this ability, right?"

Uncle Civet Cat's complexion suddenly darkened.

"I always feel that Miss, you seem to be looking for faults. From this point of view, you don't want to cooperate with us?"

"No, no, uncle, you misunderstood, I really want to cooperate with you! This matter still looks very interesting, and I want to mix everything that is interesting. What I want to say is, since It's cooperation, so it can't be that I foolishly hand over a knife that can stab myself into your hands, in exchange for a little money that you can take back at any time, right? What do you think? Cooperate with you, and at the same time, you also open some game production rights or source code to me? Let me join the game production team. The game planning is definitely not bad~”

"Um... this..." My proposal definitely exceeded Uncle Tanuki's expectations, and I guess I haven't seen any strange stories that are more familiar with modern information technology?I saw him looking at me blankly, he was obviously doing high-speed calculations in his mind, weighing the pros and cons of this matter, and after thinking about it for a long time, he said with a embarrassed face, "This...it is very difficult for us to recruit people internally. Strict, otherwise, we will first hire you as a non-staff game planner, have the right to submit plans, and after a period of assessment, you will be transferred to a full-time employee, how about this?"

"Yes." I agreed wholeheartedly.

"If you don't want to...huh? Can you??" Uncle Tanuki was inexplicably confused.

"What, is there a problem?"

"No, no, no. Then... dare to ask your real name? To make your image into the game, you need your real name and your deeds."

"Fubuki, Mikazuki Fubuki, this is the maiden from my shrine~ After all, swords always need to be used." I put my hands on Xiaotong's shoulder and said nonsense.

"Hmm, the Imperial Sword?"

"Why, don't you believe it?"

I casually waved a hand knife at the tree next to me, and a branch of that tree fell in response.

Uncle Tanuki hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, of course not. I just understand why you protect human beings so much. Then, since neither of us has any opinions, can we celebrate our cooperation?"

He held out a hand to me.

I reached out and shook hands with him, still saying: "For the weird strength and prosperity~"

"For...for the weird strength and prosperity!" The uncle continued my words with a skeptical expression on his face, probably wondering why I was better at talking nonsense than him.

This moment is simply the signing of a major agreement at the historical level. I think there should be some spotlights flashing towards us no matter what, and we should take pictures to commemorate it?However, the witnesses only had the little pupil who turned his head away and couldn't bear to look at it, the shadow of a black cat who was full of vigilance, and some ghosts who were faintly visible, which was really a bit shabby.

After a cordial and friendly handshake, I quickly withdrew my hand, then pointed to the black ball and said, "So, can I start my first game plan? About the one that steals the shrine Incense cat, I have some things I want to communicate with it~"

Hei Tuantuan exploded like a hedgehog in an instant, and his precautions were beyond words.

"Hey, is that Max?" Xiaotong slowly stretched out a hand to the black cat, probably trying to comfort it, and at the same time said in a gentle tone, "Max, I'm Xiaotong, I I used to feed you when I was a kid, remember?"

Just as Xiaotong's hand approached, I saw the black shadow stretch out a right paw and swiped vigorously, leaving three paw prints on the ground of the stone shrine. Between the shadows, there is nothing more clear than rejection.