Grass, this is not right everyday

As the ancient capital of the Nara period, there are really many monuments and shrines here. Not only are there many buildings, but there are also many foreign tourists.

At the end of the day, apart from being dazzled by all kinds of buildings, I only remember some inexplicable souvenirs,

"Damn it, I haven't seen a single word related to 'Borai' all day long." Joker gritted his teeth and walked in Nara City where the night had fallen, "Whether it's a monk or a priestess, I have asked, and there is no knew."

Although his body is fine, after visiting the sights for a day, Jock's spirit is really exhausted.

"Hey, let's go find something to eat first? I'm hungry after walking around with you all day." Xiao Ren poked his head out from the shadow, "Go and eat something first, I want something sweet!"

"It's so noisy to you slave, you haven't been able to help you at the end of the day!" Joker became angry and pushed Xiao Ren back into his shadow, ignoring her request for food.

But seriously, Jock did intend to get something to eat, too.

The closest thing to Jock is an Italian restaurant, opened in a city that doesn't match the Italian style at all.

Jock was about to go, remembering Shinobu's request for some sweets just now, he immediately turned his head and walked towards the izakaya further away.

"You don't even want to have a bite of sweets tonight!" Jock growled viciously at his own shadow.

"How can you hate me so much..." Xiaoren sighed, lamenting what kind of master he had met.

After being glared at by Jock, Xiao Ren leaned against Jock's shadow and had nothing to say, spread his hands, and mouthed something like "What can you get for bullying me."

Pushing open the door of the izakaya, at this time the alcoholics have already gathered in the izakaya to drink.

Jock, who looked a bit like a high school student, walked in and immediately caught the owner's attention.

"I don't provide alcoholic drinks to minors here." The owner handed two beers to the bar.

"Do I look like a minor?" Jock came to the bar skillfully, and wiped the greasy bar in disgust.

The shopkeeper's expression was still skeptical, but he still provided drinks and food as Jock requested.

Chewing the food in his mouth viciously, Jock's appearance of eating and drinking attracted the attention of other alcoholics in the store.

"Hahaha... Hiccup~ Brother, you're not in a good mood? You just have to drink Ning Ting to get drunk at a time like this!"

Someone sat beside Jock, hiccupped, and continued to drink with a smile.

"Do we know each other?" Jock looked at the alcoholic next to him, "I don't remember inviting you."

"Hahahahaha, don't be so indifferent... Hiccup~ so indifferent~"

Jock ignored the harassment of the alcoholic around him, continued to swallow food, and fed some to Shinobu from time to time.

"Damn it, if I don't find Boli tomorrow, it will be your death date." Joker chewed the meat viciously, as if he was chewing Oshino Baa's heart.

The alcoholic sitting next to Jock seemed to have an unexpected sense of hearing. He actually heard Jock cursing Oshino bleating to himself.

"Borre? I think I've heard this name before~" the alcoholic hiccupped and said, "It seems... like a shrine?"

Ok? !

Jock immediately looked at the alcoholic next to him. He looked thin with a gaudy beret and round glasses.

"Hey, Ota. Have you started talking nonsense yet?" The shop owner said to the alcoholic beside him while serving food to Jock, "Have you drunk a lot today? It's almost enough."

"Shut up!" Jock immediately stopped the owner's behavior, "What good wine do you have here, hurry up and serve it up."

"I said, I won't give minors—"

boom!

Jock let the bullet explain instead of himself, and the still smoking muzzle proved that what happened just now was not an illusion.

"Why don't you hide you in the refrigerator first and then I'll find you myself?" Jock said viciously to the owner.

Talking about letting the owner get the wine...or maybe calling the police, but it doesn't matter.

Jock was right at Ota, trying to get him to sober up, but the guy was probably so alcoholic that it was hard to get sober.

"Hey, hey, don't sleep, stay awake!" Joke was afraid that this Ota would accidentally drink to another world, so he hurriedly asked, "Hurry up, where is the Hakurei Shrine?"

Seeming to be a little uncomfortable being shaken by Jock, Ota frowned, pushed Jock away unhappily, and did not open his brows until he took another gulp of wine into his stomach.

"Um...um, Hakurei Shrine." Ota hiccupped and drew a map in the air that no one could understand.

"In... Hiccup~ on the west side of Nara, further north in the mountains, you can find it after passing through the temple and inside... find a very broken shrine..."

After speaking, Ota passed out completely.

But Jock did have enough information.

"Go west from Nara, and then go through the temple?" Joker silently wrote down the information, left all the cash in his wallet, and pushed open the store door.

24. Temple

The night is already deep. After September, the night is not as hot as August, and the cool breeze blowing is cooler and more suitable for sleeping.

Jock was driving on the road, the already dim street lights were covered by the light rain and became even more blurred, only Jock's headlights were shining unwaveringly.

One of his headlights has been damaged at some point, and it flickers from time to time. Only the high beam on the left really works.

"Where is it? Where is there a temple near here?" Jock flipped through the PAD and the map he bought irritably, hoping that he could find something that could be barely connected with the temple nearby.

It's a pity that no matter whether it's Google Maps or the newly bought travel map, there is no such thing as a temple in the west of Nara and then north, and the guy named Ota said "go through the temple and then go inside". It has also become an impossible task.

Jock stepped on the gas pedal, wondering if his total journey was about to reach Kyoto.

Along the way, I repeatedly corrected the route, trying to find a clue.Ignored the traffic rules and crossed the wrong way around. Maybe it was raining, but no traffic police came out to stop him.

The rain washed the windows, and the damaged wipers scraped on the windshield with an unpleasant sound, which made Jock's already irritable nerves more tormented.

"Is this car broken? It's too exaggerated. Maybe it should be sent for inspection." Joker turned the steering wheel again and searched in the opposite direction, talking to himself.

With the cooperation of Google Maps and the travel site, you can clearly know the terrain and buildings nearby. If there is a place similar to a Buddhist temple in Europe, you can certainly see it.

You can still see some historic sites on the way here, but there are only simple mountains and forests here.

"Go west first and then go north. Is it because I don't have enough to go west or not enough to go north?" Joker looked at the map irritably, knowing that he should bring Ota along with him.

The night is dark, not only is there no moon to help observe, but also it becomes more difficult to view the road because of the rain.

Jock was hesitating whether he should come back during the day, but thinking that he might... no, definitely not be able to drive unscrupulously on the road to investigate during the day, so Jock once again had the patience to continue observing.

When Jock turned the steering wheel more and more irritablely, and kept searching back and forth for any road signs that suggested temples, he suddenly stepped on the brakes and looked out the window at a blurry path.

As the car approached, Jock determined that this was an artificial road, but it was not marked on the travel map, but Google Maps recorded this path.

The headlights of the car next to the car can see the path stretching all the way up and into the depths of the woods. It is impossible to walk without getting out of the car.

Although it didn't say what was at the end, but if the electronic map is reliable, Jock has a long way to go.

Although it is clear whether this is the path to the temple, but after wandering around here for so long, this is the only route that is not marked on the map, and it is also a route that I have not found before. Maybe I should start looking here?

"Anyway, there are no other clues." Jock glanced at his phone. It was already late at night, and there were still a few hours before dawn.

Maybe something can be found before dawn.

Jock didn't bring an umbrella, and the imperceptible cold wind blew the frozen rain away from Jock's body.

Parked in a roadside rest area with nothing but a cell phone and a weapon.

As soon as you step into the path, even if you don't go too deep, you will soon fall into the darkness where you can't see your fingers.The artificial light behind him was cut off, and the natural light above his head was also covered by dark clouds, and there was no suspicious light for lighting.

This level of darkness would not hinder Jock too much, but in order not to miss something important, he still took out the magic cauldron and barely illuminated the surroundings with the light of the lightsaber.

The trail under the feet looks like someone once deliberately laid a stone road, but it has long been turned into gravel embedded in the soil under the action of rain and nature.

Stepping on the slippery and wet mountain road, Jock struggled to identify where it looked like a road, and where it was just ordinary mud.

The age of this road is too long, and the path in disrepair greatly slows down Jock's progress. Whenever Jock wants to speed up his pace, he will quickly lose traces of the trail, and he has to follow the vague path a little bit. Traces all the way up the mountain.

The winding path came to the end very quickly, and this place was much higher than what Jock had imagined. Jock thought that he was about to reach the end, and secretly made up his mind that if he found nothing here, he would raise the mountain.

"Okay, let me see, it's best to really gain something." Jock quickened his pace ferociously, and decided to end the last sprint as soon as possible.

After bypassing a large piece of thick rhizomes and trunks, Jock's vision suddenly opened up, and a quaint, ancient temple appeared in front of him.

"Okay!" Jock exclaimed excitedly, and rushed forward in three steps at a time.

The temple is almost completely covered by huge trees. The ghost knows how many years the trees have grown here. It is almost impossible to find this place from a high altitude. Even the trail just now left only a few traces near the entrance.

Jock came to the temple, which is not quite the same as the Japanese temple Jock had been to before. Although he went to the temple mainly to find trouble and did not observe it carefully, he can still see the buildings here and the outside from the overall sense. The difference is that this temple is more depressing than the one outside, and it is also more solemn and solemn.

There is not a single plaque or stele nearby to prove the name of this temple, or which god is enshrined.

Jock went around and didn't see any shrines, so he could only enter through the main entrance.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw three huge bronze statues that looked like King Kong with angry eyes. They had maintained the posture for an unknown number of years, making them glaring at Joker who pushed the door and entered.

In addition to the three eye-catching bronze statues, there are only three withered corpses sitting cross-legged on the futon. This is probably the so-called death?

Joker quickly lost interest in the group of dead people and the bronze statue, and was about to bypass the bronze statue and walk inside immediately, when the mummies behind him suddenly spoke.

"Sword...have you brought it?"

"Fuck, you guys are not dead!"

Jock jumped back in shock and looked at the trio of mummies.

"Get the sword... the sword..."

"Sword? What sword?"

The sound that drifted into the ears ended here, the three mummy did not continue to speak, and Jock didn't feel any hostility, so he continued to turn his head, like going deep into the temple.

25. Flowers and Birds

Continuing to go deeper into the temple, there are a lot of Buddha statues that Jock doesn't know. I don't know if it is because it is at night, and the atmosphere is extraordinarily gloomy.

Jock stepped into this wonderful space like a visitor from another world, holding a red lightsaber high in his hand, and the light emitted gave the already terrifying Buddha statue a hint of hellish ferocity.

There are many kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants in the temple, and the magic crucible sword dances in the air at will, making a hissing sound when it collides with spider webs from time to time.

The strange thing is that although the place is full of rotten smell and various insects are not rare, the temple is unexpectedly stable, there is no sign of decay inside the building, and the "age" is everywhere around it. "feeling" seems very uncoordinated.

But this didn't have much to do with Jock. He went all the way to the backyard, and soon passed through the temple and came to another trail.

It's hard to say whether it's better or worse than the previous path, but at least a clear path can be seen here. Among the messy plants, there is another obvious dirt road without any vegetation cover.The bad thing is that besides the general direction, Jock didn't have any reliable signposts, so Jock had to open up the wasteland alone.

Well, although this is the first time for this kind of thing, it doesn't bother Jock.

Stepping on the only path, climbing infinitely close to ninety degrees or simply fucking ninety degrees of difficult slopes.

Jock either stepped into the mud with his feet, or used his hands and feet, or used a large sword and battle ax as a support, and climbed up this incredible slope little by little.

Jock chose the fourth option. He took a few steps back, jumped lightly, and jumped directly onto the slope.

"Who the hell would build a shrine in a place like this?" Jock looked back at the difficult slope behind him, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

When he turned his head and looked at the building in front of him, there was no doubt that it was a shrine.

Joker finally showed a joyful smile, his previous efforts were not in vain, at least Oshino Baa got his life back at this moment.

He was about to raise the magic cauldron and use the light of the great sword to see if this shrine was the Hakurei shrine he was looking for, when he suddenly realized that he could already see the surrounding scenery very clearly.

While Jock was carefully looking for a path up the mountain and wandering around in the temple, the sky had unknowingly lit up.

The birdsong echoed in the forest, and the light rain and the morning light through the shadows of the trees added a hazy beauty to the shrine.

"Hakurei Shrine" still uses Chinese characters, and it is not difficult for Jock to identify it.

"So this is the Hakurei Shrine?" Jock walked into the courtyard of the shrine. Weeds grew stubbornly in the cracks between the bricks, and spent endless years tenaciously crushing these man-made objects.

Joker wondered if the building in front of him would collapse if it was pushed down. The environment here meets the standard of allowing wood to decay, and Joker conservatively estimates that no one has set foot here for at least 20 years. This number will only increase. .

Despite some concerns about the reliability of the shrine, Jock bypassed the cash box and came to the main hall of the shrine.

The shrine was unexpectedly solid, and its internal structure was richer than Jock had imagined. Moreover, it didn't feel wet or decayed to the touch, and it didn't smell any strange odor.

Although the interior of the shrine is small, the internal division is not bad. It can be seen that there are many rooms separated. It used to be a place where worshipers gathered.

"So this is the entrance to Gensokyo, how do I get in now?" Jock spared the shrine a few times, there is not even a well here, let alone other places that can be called passages, "Is this The mountain is Gensokyo? Isn’t that too bad?”

Jock doesn't really believe that this is the nonsense of Gensokyo. According to Oshino Baba and Shinobu, there are many people living in Gensokyo, and this mountain can't accommodate too many people.

"Damn it, it's impossible to find the entrance when the situation is imminent, right?!" Unacceptable, Joker searched around the shrine for any place that could be called an entrance.

But when you think about it carefully, Oshino Baa-baa seems to have never mentioned how to enter Gensokyo. He has always only talked about the location of the Hakurei Shrine, and said that there is a place similar to the entrance.

"A place like an entrance?" Jock frowned and dangled around with the magic cauldron sword. "A place like an entrance means that it is not an entrance in itself, but here you can enter Gensokyo through some method, right?"

Jock stopped his wandering steps and began to look for any suspicious places inside and outside the shrine.