Gamers Are Fierce - Chapter 1068

[Chapter 67 Leeches (4K)]

  Dozens of demonized villagers had already climbed halfway up the mountain. As soon as they stood firm, they bent their backs and fired bone spurs in the direction of the two living people.

  ”Go.”

  Li Ang waved his stick, swept away an oncoming bone spur, rushed out the door, and rushed towards the woodland on the left side of the hillside.

  Wang Congshan quickly followed, and the two rushed into the forest and went straight to the Hiratsuka mansion along the mountain road.

  The Hiratsuka mansion is also like a hundred ghosts walking at night. A large number of strange-shaped ghosts crawled out from all corners, roaring and attacking each other, desperate to tear the moving objects within the line of sight to pieces.

  The more Li Ang and Wang Congshan advanced, the greater the resistance they encountered. Just as the two were about to be

  surrounded by a heavy siege, the human-headed lantern suddenly glowed brightly. The ghost that came over created a long shadow behind it, causing the shadow to fight with its body and

  opening a path for the two players.

  Correspondingly, the human head candle burns itself at an extremely fast speed, and most of it is burned in just one breath.

  Li Ang had a clear understanding in his heart, held the lantern high, and led Wang Congshan to run across the front of the Hiratsuka mansion, straight to the atrium.

  As the candles burned out, the two also reached the courtyard.

  The ground of the courtyard was covered with black and red blood, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere.

  The black-haired creature was unscathed, still standing beside the Guiquan Well, muttering to himself, “Ma Cheng Yangyi”,

  it is completely impossible to see that he killed the demons everywhere.

  Wang Congshan took a step forward, took out the mother and child Tibetan wood carving from his pocket, and threw it forward casually.

  The black-haired creature immediately looked up and stared, instinctively wanting to attack, but the moment it saw the mother and child Jizo, it froze suddenly.

  I saw it stretched out its hand to catch the mother and son Jizo wood carving, stood there, whimpered, but gave way to Guiquanjing instead.

  The two players rushed forward without hesitation and jumped into the Well of Returning Spring.

  Climb the gap between the masonry walls of the well with the palm of your hand and descend rapidly step by step.

  The well water below is as black as ink, spinning slowly like a vortex. Human fingers, eyeballs and even seaweed-like hair are faintly mixed in the water.

  Li Ang sank into the well water and felt the direction of the vortex and the strength of the water flow. Only then did he know that the bottom of the well was a horizontal S-shaped trap.

  The so-called well water is actually the water on the bottom of the trap.

  Since it is a water trap, the other end is where there is no water. The

  two players swam a distance along the bottom of the water and swam to the other end of the S-shaped trap. They soon got out of the water and came to a spacious place. Underground platform.

  With the help of the low-light vision ability, the two of them could vaguely see that this area was round as a

  whole

  . It is a cliff leading to the abyss.

  There are torch brackets on the walls on both sides of the entrance to the platform. Li Ang lit the torch with [Burning Finger], and with the light of the torch, he could finally see more clearly

  on the ground of the platform where the two of them were.

  The ground at the entrance of the platform is covered with sleepers and steel blocks, which are a bit like train tracks, but narrower than the rails,

  similar to the minecart tracks in the mining area.

  The rail extends straight forward and connects all the way to the cliff.

  Two iron nails are nailed to the ground on both sides of the end of the rail,

  each of which is tied with a hemp rope, and falls to the bottom of the cliff.

  And a black-haired figure exactly like the one beside Guiquanjing was picking up one of the hemp ropes and preparing to wrap it around his waist.

  Seeing the appearance of Li Ang and Wang Congshan, the figure swayed obviously, speeding up the act of winding the hemp rope.

  ”Don’t move.”

  Wang Congshan shouted, raised the assault rifle and pulled the trigger, the

  enchanted bullet spun and shot, wiping the black-haired figure’s feet, successfully making the opponent stop.

  The two players quickly stepped forward, pulled the figure back from the edge of the cliff, and untied the hemp rope around his waist, but the other party didn’t even struggle to resist.

  Li Ang glanced at the bottom of the cliff, and

  saw the black mist in the abyss churning and churning, ups and downs, as if something terrifying and indescribable was brewing. Just looking at it made his eyes dizzy and his brain tingled.

  Li Ang avoided his line of sight, not looking at the abyss, and

  found that the end of another hemp rope on the edge of the cliff was tied to a metal box, just hanging above the fog, disappearing and appearing from time to time.

  ”Do you want to end all this?”

  Wang Congshan looked at the silent black-haired figure and said the answer she already knew: “Mr. Folklorist   ?

  ”

The ground trembled for a while, but still stood there and said nothing.

  ”You still don’t want to admit it?”

  Wang Congshan sighed and said calmly, “You are the Noh Mask Master of Enke Village, the son of Shuhei Fujimura and Masumi Fujimura,

  and also the father of Tetsuya Ogasawara and Ayaka Ogasawara. Ogasawara will be a professor of folklore at Toyo University at the Yuanke Village Ruins in Gangsen County.” The

  figure raised his head suddenly, the black hair on his face trembling.

  ”I don’t know if you recognize these scissors.”

  Wang Congshan saw that the other party had been silent, and simply took the scissors from Li Ang and waved them in his hand, “We use these scissors from the Hiratsuka family mansion, In addition to the Enke Shrine, the seal of the torii was broken.

  In the shrine that has been abandoned for a long time, I saw a large number of skeletons wearing kimonos, with no obvious injuries on the body surface, and hugging each other.

  However, there is something strange.

  The so-called seal is naturally to block some evil, unknown, and unfortunate things.

  However, there are no ghosts and ghosts in the shrine, only a place of corpses

  .

  So what is the seal of the torii sealing?”

  Wang Congshan paused, seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking, and continued: “Obviously, the seal of the torii is not aimed at the bones in the shrine,

  but The ghosts outside the shrine prevent the ghosts from entering the enchantment.

  The effect of the enchantment is quite good, and it successfully protects everyone in the shrine when disaster strikes.

  Unfortunately, the survivors in the shrine are still all dead. Died of hunger and despair.” The

  figure trembled, and the fluffy and messy hair shook up and down.

  ”Why are you panicking?”

  Wang Congshan tilted her head inexplicably and said calmly, “This disaster in Yuanke Village, which happened in July of Showa 54, has nothing to do with you,

  because in terms of age, you were at that time. Only eight or nine years old.

  The real cause of the disaster is the Hiratsuka family, and your mother, Masumi Fujimura”

  ”It’s not like that!”

  The figure finally spoke. He clenched his fists and breathed heavily, “It’s not like that”

  ”What’s that?”

  Wang Congshan has no mood swings, not because she plays Ayaka Ogasawara, who is the folklorist General Ogasawara in front of him. Zhi’s daughter changed her attitude, but said calmly: “Do you have to tell me?

  Your mother, father, brother, and even everyone in the village died in that disaster because of you.”

  ”It’s not like that. You don’t understand.”

  Ogasawara took a deep breath. Just as he was about to say something, he heard a loud bang, and the

  entire underground space trembled

  . The solid dome had numerous cracks, and

  a lot of dust fell, and the entire underground space seemed to collapse and be destroyed in the next second.

  ”It’s too late,”

  Ogasawara glanced up at him, shaking his arm vigorously, trying to shake Li Ang’s palm away, “You all go away, get out of here, I will end it all.”

  However, Li Ang held his wrist firmly. He didn’t let it go, and in the   midst of a scene like the sky was falling, he said calmly, “There is still a lot of time. We have plenty of time to understand the truth.

  ”

, sighed sadly: “Why did you come to me?”

  Li Ang and Wang Congshan didn’t respond. Ogasawara let out a sigh of relief as if he had accepted his fate, and finally opened his mouth, but first told a seemingly unrelated content.

  ”Myths are a kind of folk literature, and it is a kind of spiritual sustenance of longing or paralysis produced by ancient human beings in order to understand and control nature under difficult living conditions.

  Those myths and stories that can be passed down orally in the long history, usually have their own special features.

  Either it can satisfy the taste of the people,

  or it can play an educational role in daily life, so that it is considered valuable, and it can be passed down for thousands of years, such as filial piety, cherishing family members, and keeping promises.

  Ogasawara paused for a moment and said, “This is the basic knowledge of folklore, and it is also the basis for folklore scholars to conduct folk visits .

  We need to understand the local ancestors through legends and stories, and create the material basis and emotional logic of the stories in ancient times.

  The myth of the origin of Yuanke Village is still well-known in the surrounding areas of Gangsen County.

  Even after the destruction of Yuanke Village, this myth has not completely disappeared.

  Instead, it has become a folklore with the disappearance of Yuanke Village. hot topic in the field.

  You should know this. ”

  Li Ang and Wang Congshan didn’t say a word. They are not from this world. They don’t know this,

  but this does not affect Ogasawara’s continued narration.

  ”In this mythical story, the samurai’s wife gave birth to a leech. Died in childbirth. The samurai offered sacrifices to the god of karma, and with the help of hemp rope, he came to the country of Yellow Springs to live with his wife. There was a misunderstanding between the two sides, and then the misunderstanding was eliminated, and finally reconciled. The

  samurai took the children to live on the edge of the mountain, and every once in a while, they could meet the wife of the country of Huangquan through the hemp rope. ”

  Ogasawara paused for a moment and said, “It seems like a happy story, but there is a key problem. That’s what the samurai couple said they gave birth to, Leech.

  The leech is a child without hands and feet, and it was almost impossible to survive in ancient times.

  At the end of the story, it is only mentioned that the daughters of the warriors grew up and found their husbands, and established a village on Yuanshan, which was later Yuanke Village.

  So, where did the leeches go?

  If the leech was still alive after birth, why did the samurai not ask the god of karma to restore the leech to its original state?

  If the leech also died, why was the existence of the leech not mentioned in the story in the Land of Yellow Springs?

  There is only one answer, and that is leeches, which the samurai himself offered to the god of karma and prayed for help.

  Because of this, he is completely absent in the second half of the story. ”

  This is the biggest problem with this myth,” Ogasawara said. “This myth

  full of chilling evil must have originated in a very distant era.”

  Even some other parts of the story itself are real,

  but because they are too evil and weird,

  they have to be covered up with seemingly normal fairy tales.

  If one speculates on the story itself with the greatest malice in mind, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion that the

  samurai sacrificed his dead leeches to reach the land of yellow springs in order to meet his dead wife again.

  And because of the strange and special nature of Yuanshan itself, the samurai were reluctant to move from this place, so they built a village here, and their ancestors lived there for a long time. ”

  Wait,”

  Li Ang thought for a while, and pointed to the turbid black mist below the cliff, “You mean, the abyss below Yuanke Village is the Land of Yellow Springs?” ” No

  ,”

  Ogasawara glanced at the abyss and said, “This is just the entrance to the Land of Yellow Springs.”

  Just like the metaphor in the mythology,

  Yuanke Village was built above the entrance of Huangquan Kingdom. Only through a certain ritual can the entrance of Huangquan Kingdom be opened,

  and the entrance to Huangquan Kingdom can be opened through a sacred and symbolic connection. The real country of yellow springs. ”

[End of this Chapter]