Grass, this is not right everyday

Jock, who thought he had received the ridicule, had not had time to say a few trash words back, when the space under his feet suddenly cracked, and he was naturally swallowed.

Get sucked in!

This is not the first time Jock has entered Yakumo Zi's gap, but it is definitely the longest time he has stayed in it. Jock even had time to observe the landscape inside this wonderful space.

It seems that there are purple, pink and black weird colors everywhere, as if Jock is falling rapidly in the weightless air, but there are many inexplicable things floating around.

Soon Jock's falling speed slowed down, and then his eyes lit up, and he found that he had left through the gap and was in an indescribable space.

I don't know what method Yakumozi used, but Jock temporarily stopped falling, but firmly stepped on Yakumozi's gap. It's a bit weird to say that Jock is stepping on the edge of the cracked space , theoretically speaking, this thing should not have a physical body, but the touch under the feet is so solid.

"This is the root of Gensokyo." Just as Jock was dazed, Yakumo Zi suddenly spoke and pointed to the distance.

Jock was stunned, looking forward, in front of him was a piece of land that was not particularly wide, and it was easy to recognize that this was Gensokyo from a height, but looking carefully at the bottom of this land, it was not Jock The imaginary integration with the outside is simply separated by a barrier, but supported by something, suspended above the ground out of thin air.

"What is that?" Jock squinted his eyes to barely see it. It seemed to be some kind of tree supporting the entire Gensokyo, but the difference in size between the two was extremely exaggerated. Needle supports a truck.

The "needle" supporting the entire Gensokyo looked like some kind of dry tree or an animal, and it was difficult for Jock to distinguish for a while.

"That's Sakura Dragon." Yakumo Zi explained the name of the needle to Jock, "That is the existence that supports the entire Gensokyo and the Great Barrier. With him, the barren and small land of Gensokyo will be destroyed because of It gradually expanded and became habitable, becoming a small world independent of reality."

"It was just a small piece of land at the beginning, but it has grown countless times now. It grows like a tree and reproduces like a creature. Even compared with ten years ago, the scale of Gensokyo today is still much larger, but It might be difficult for the people who live in it to notice."

Jock squinted his eyes trying to see clearly this animal named Sakura...or plant, he didn't realize how amazing this thing was, let alone why Zi Yakumo wanted to show this to himself.

"So what does this have to do with me? Can it send me directly to some military base?" Jock folded his arms and crouched on the edge of the gap.

"Don't be in such a hurry, listen to me first." After Yakumo Zi finished speaking, she brought Jock closer to Yinglong.

"Sakura Dragon is not a local thing in Japan, but from overseas. Even I have never seen such an existence, and I have never even heard of it. Even a little juice is enough to make the mortals of a country live forever. Infinitely powerful."

"But even with such a powerful Sakura Dragon, it has a weakness - there is a sword named 'Bai Lei', which can hurt Sakura Dragon."

"And once something goes wrong with Sakura Dragon, the Gensokyo growing on it will naturally be unavoidable."

Jock nodded, feeling that he had grasped the point.

"So you want me to help you find that knife, and then you send me to the military base?"

"Oh, of course not. Why do you keep your purpose in mind?"

Yakumo Zi gave Jock a coquettish look, and Jock responded with dead fish eyes.

"What's more, I already knew the whereabouts of that knife."

"Yes, it's in the hands of that Zaomen Nezuko."

113. Today

"...What the hell?" Jock looked at Yakumo Zi's face a little dullly, and she said something that Jock couldn't understand with a serious expression.

"Yes, it's in the hands of that Zaomen Nezuko." Yakumo Zi repeated what she had just said as if the disc had stuck.

The two stared at each other's faces. After a long silence, Yakumo Zi gave up first and continued the stalemate.

"Oh, what's the matter with you, why are you so calm when you hear this kind of news? This is a major matter related to the safety of Gensokyo, and don't you have any idea about this name?" Yakumo Zi pulled out the folding fan and poked lightly Looking at Jock's head.

Jock burned her folding fan with his backhand. He realized that Yakumo Zi seemed to want to say something great, but after saying it, Jock couldn't even figure out where the great point was.

"So?" Jock stared at Zi Yakumo, "The life and death of such a piece of land seems to involve world peace in your mouth, and what's wrong with the name, what's the problem?"

Speaking of any problems, there is actually no problem. The message Yakumo Zi hopes to convey is completely meaningless.

Chief of the Response Section, Kamado Nezuko.Although there are very few people who still know this name, Yakumo Zi thought that Jock, who had a lot of contacts with the response department, could understand what she wanted to say.

To some extent, the life and death of Gensokyo is in the hands of the coping department. Although there is no evidence that worshiping tears can definitely kill Yinglong, even so, it is no problem for Yinglong to suffer a certain degree of damage. What impact did Gensokyo have?

Yakumo Zi is really not interested in experimenting with this kind of thing.

"Really? I thought you were very familiar. Do you really have no memory of the name Zaomen Nezuko?" Yakumozi asked persistently.

"No." Jock denied it bluntly. "There's something wrong with the name. It sounds like boiled vomit."

"Hmm... this is the name of the section chief of the response department." Yakumo Zi replied truthfully after hesitating for a while, "Could it be that you have never known what other people's names are?"

"An insignificant character like her can't catch my eyes at all." Joker answered Yakumo Zi's question with contempt. In Joker's eyes, the section chief is infinitely close to a tool person. Could someone give a name to a tool? ?

Yakumo Zi shrugged, feeling that it was pointless to stay here any longer, and returned to Yakumo's house with Jock in the gap.

Back in Yakumozi's bedroom, Jock sat down on the quilt that Yakumozi had lifted up before, swaggered and patted the low table beside him and complained loudly: "So, what happened to the things we said before? About The base thing."

Yakumo Zi stretched her waist and rubbed her forehead helplessly: "You haven't forgotten about it, I've made it so clear that the safety of Gensokyo is in the hands of that section chief to some extent." .”

Jock stared at Yakumo Zi's face, pondered for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "You want me to use my masculinity to attack that...uh...rotten beans—"

"Nezuko!" Yakumo Zi interrupted Jock loudly, "And I think a person should have some self-knowledge. Do you think you have such a thing as masculine charm?"

"That's because you haven't seen it before." Jock rolled his eyes, "Don't you give me so many hints that you want me to help you get rid of the knife that threatens Gensokyo."

Oops, blood pressure is up.

Yakumo Zi, who realized that the other party was not listening carefully at all, took a deep breath to calm herself down and prevent the outbreak of some difficult-to-cure cardiovascular diseases.

"In short, I don't want conflicts with government departments, no matter which government it is!" Zi Yakumo calmed down after taking a deep breath, "And, fortunately, who is in the hands of this dangerous thing, if it is someone else I really need to worry."

"Huh? Why, I don't think she's that powerful." Jock was a little surprised that the scheming Yakumo Zi in front of him thought it was a kind of luck to hand over the handle to others.

Yakumo Zi took out the hot tea from the gap, the teacup from who knows where, it looked tattered.

She took a sip before opening her mouth again: "Well, that Nezuko, although she has been immersed in past failures, is also the whole country... no, maybe it is one of the few existences in the world who can treat non-humans and humans equally. .”

"The contact between humans and non-humans is already very common, but the relationship has not been improved by adding understanding. In the eyes of most people, the policy of isolating non-humans from humans is already extremely pleasing to non-humans, let alone those who Radical policies that attract more attention and are more popular. In such an environment, it can be said that many people are lucky to have someone like Nezuko.”

Jock nodded, seeming to understand Yakumo Zi's thoughts.

"So you think it's good for you to hand over your handle to an official who can treat non-human beings equally and increase her power of speech?" Joker thought he should have guessed the truth.

"You can also say that." Yakumo Zi said frankly, "This is only one of the reasons. The tear of worship was already in her hands before we met, and I didn't take the initiative to give it to her."

Jock nodded silently. From this point of view, seeing the section chief at Yakumo Zi last time is nothing special. As she said, if the government department knows nothing about Gensokyo, then Too strange.

Especially after the time of the vampire siege, most people who had some sympathy for non-humans also began to become hostile. After all, this is a real threat happening around them.

In this place of Gensokyo, if there is no such ally as Response Co., it might be in a very bad situation.

Once a conflict breaks out, should we fight back or not?If you don't fight back, Gensokyo will completely lose the meaning of existence. If you fight back, it will be tantamount to confronting the entire human society.

Needless to say, the two hooligans in the east will not easily sit back and watch the development of the situation. The most fundamental reason is that Japan is too close to them, and the whole body will be affected by one move.

If it develops to any step, it can be regarded as extremely bad. Fortunately, most people can realize that it is not good to do it directly.

"I didn't expect that little one to be quite capable." Jock was slightly moved, and then continued to look at Yakumo Zi, "You said so much, what does it have to do with you not being able to send me?"

"..."

Oops, blood pressure is up again.

"I told you how delicate the current situation is, why do you still ask the original question with a blank face?"

"So after talking for a long time, what does the life and death of Gensokyo have to do with me?"

"...you get out!"

114. Meet

Although the life and death of Gensokyo has little to do with Jock, it is no longer realistic to continue to persuade Yakumo Zi to help send him away.

Leaving Gensokyo and returning to the outside world, the plan stalled again.

This time, Joke was more annoyed than ever why he couldn't learn to fly. As long as he had flying skills, it was not a problem to enter the village quietly.

He left Gensokyo feeling depressed, not knowing why Yakumo Zi was angry, after all, he was only telling an objective fact, and the life and death of Gensokyo really had little to do with him.

After saying this, Zi Yakumo jumped up like a wild cat whose tail had been stepped on, and drove Jock out of Gensokyo.

"Damn it." Jock cursed, wandering aimlessly on the streets of Nara.

Jock had asked everyone he thought could help, and the results were frustrating.Originally thought that Yakumo Zi could help, but in the end, he just learned a bunch of inexplicable things and made no progress at all.

Wandering around aimlessly in the street, thinking about where to go next and what method to use.

Just when Jock's mind was filled with various thoughts, a man suddenly appeared in front of Jock.

Stop and look straight ahead.The man in front of him was dressed in black feathers, with a sword hanging from his waist. He looked like an old man in his 50s or [-]s.

But this is just a look, and Jock is very clear that the man he sees is not even a human being, but a non-human race that is closer to a monster.

"Who are you?" Jock always felt that the man in front of him looked familiar, but he couldn't remember it.

"I'm Kidomaru, I'm just a little monster who serves Lord Hagoromo." The man in black haori bowed respectfully, "I hope you don't mind my abruptness."

"You fucking can't even speak clearly, what about your emoji?" Joker unscrupulously downgraded the quality of the whole street, "What are you doing here? Say what you have to say."

The respectful expression on Kidomaru's face distorted instantly, but it recovered before Jock noticed it.

"Master Yuyihu told me to come to see you." Kidomaru said respectfully, "My lord hopes to see you as soon as possible, can we set off immediately?"

Feather fox?

Jock pondered for half a second, thinking that this was probably a troublesome matter.

"Climb, crawl, crawl quickly." Jock pushed Kidomaru away, and said impatiently, "What the hell are all coming out to see me, I don't have the time."

Kidomaru, who was pushed away, didn't say anything, frowned slightly, and looked at Jock with some displeasure, but he still calmed down and followed from behind.

"Please don't say it so bluntly. Master Yuyihu has something very important to discuss with you." Kidomaru quickly caught up with Joke.

"Discussion? What are you discussing? Do you want to fulfill her wish to be a mother?" Jock sneered, not caring about Kidomaru's increasingly ugly face, "Still asking me to see her? Climb over and tell me something."

A ten-year-old man who seemed to be of considerable status followed behind a man who looked like he was going to die suddenly at any time. It seemed that the status of the two was extremely unequal. This strange scene somewhat attracted the attention of the surroundings.

Neither Jock nor Kidomaru were the kind of people who would be affected by the sight of their surroundings, but Jock's taunt just now actually aroused a little laughter from around.

Of course it wasn't that Jock said any funny jokes, it was just that he was amused by the combination of the old and the young in front of him, but in Kidomaru's eyes, the laughter was undoubtedly like laughing at the feather fox.

The repeated ridicule, and that unscrupulous, defiant attitude, although he was mentally prepared when he came, Kidomaru was already mentally prepared to keep calm no matter how humiliated he was.

But who would have thought that the object of the other party's humiliation was not Kidomaru himself, but the master who sent him, Yu Yihu himself.

Kidomaru glared at Jock's back, which looked defenseless, but he knew very well that if he made a move now, he would be instantly killed.

One hundred percent, there must be no chance, absolutely certain death.

The source of this premonition was not only because Kidomaru had read Jock's information, but also because his experienced intuition was reminding him how dangerous this approach was.

With his hand on the handle of the knife, Kidomaru looked at Jock's defenseless and slightly thinner back, as if he would be able to cut him down if he just moved.

If he drew his sword and cut him, from which angle would he fight back?

No matter how Kidomaru thought about it, he couldn't figure out how to counterattack instantly from this slack state, but the intuition he had cultivated over the years gave him completely different feedback.

"...Master Yuyihu knows your recent troubles and is willing to help."

In the end, Kidomaru still didn't do anything, but told Jock what Fox Hagoromo had told him.

Let's not talk about how I am, I can't delay the master's task.

"Huh?" Jock stopped and tilted his head to look at Kidomaru behind him, "If you talk nonsense, I'll tear you out of your spine, okay?"

"It's not nonsense, Master Yuyihu is very eager to meet you." Kidomaru readjusted his mood, and made a gesture of invitation to Jock.

"Please, come with me to the residence of Lord Yuyihu now."

"..."

Kyoto, where the feather fox has been living since its resurrection.Or it would be more appropriate to use the word entrenched.

With the recovery of Yuyihu, many monsters who used to be her subordinates gathered one after another, which really made the response department nervous for a while, but then everything returned to calm, at least this legendary big monster also obeyed the human order on the surface .

Jock twisted his neck, the sight around him was too obvious.

Outside the gate in front of Yuyihu's mansion, there are all kinds of non-human beings, most of them are not even willing to make some disguises, just casually exposing their non-human characteristics, if this is seen by the people in the response department outside A fine can range from a fine to a heavy detention.

A group of non-human demonstrators blocked the gate of Yuyihu's house, folded their arms, trying to make themselves look stronger, standing in front of Jock, as if defending their queen.

"Oh." Jock chuckled.

Not only did he not feel threatened when he saw it, but he found it funny, and he laughed unconsciously.

This ridicule caused a little commotion among the non-human beings, but they remained quiet, and no one made any drastic moves.

"That's enough, don't be rude to your lord's guests." Kidomaru appeared at the right time, frowning at the inhumans gathered in front of him.

He didn't doubt that in order to protect the feather fox, these gathered crowds would generously sacrifice their lives, but such a demonstration now would turn things into a bad side.