Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1480 1152. Traceback

"It's just to remove the [filth]." The old man, who should be one of the parents' generation, raised his hand and first wiped the cold sweat with his sleeves that had turned black and shiny, and then subconsciously retorted, "Is it so troublesome?"

He and his son are both urban farmers, and they have long been accustomed to bargaining before discussing things.

They still thought that Wuming was just here to increase the price of the task.

But the demon hunter had already waved his hands impatiently: "I said it long ago, it's not a matter of adding money, it's that the [filth] in your house is very troublesome, not ordinary stuff!"

The old man was choked and turned his face away.

But Lan En looked carefully, and when he turned his face, he still curled his lips and rolled his eyes, and it seemed that he still didn't believe it.

But whether he believed it or not, the head of a farming family would only be a strong laborer, that is, the strong male owner of this house.

"You often hear the cry of a baby under the non-existent floor, right?" Wuming asked him first. "You told me before that there was a miscarriage in the family. So you suspect that this is the entanglement of [Residual Filth]."

The man nodded honestly and dully, while the woman beside him looked miserable.

"But we have already paid a wandering monk in the temple to perform the ritual." The man continued, "But I just don't know why [Residual Filth] still appears. It's been three years!"

The woman beside him didn't say anything, but just hugged the little boy in her arms.

The boy looked five years old, and should be the brother of the miscarried child.

"Ren Zi No. 20." Lan En suddenly interrupted and reported the house number, "Do you know this family? Or have you had contact recently?"

"Ren Zi No. 20?" The male owner of the house thought about it and looked confused, "Two streets away from here? No, I don't pass by there when I work, and I haven't even been to that street."

"Where are the other people in the family?"

Under Lan En's subsequent questioning, everyone looked at each other in confusion, and then shook their heads.

"Never had any contact?" Wuming frowned and sighed in distress.

She supported her knees and stood up from her sitting position, ready to find another direction to investigate.

None of this family had a complicated background, so she didn't think it was possible for this family to deceive her.

[Residual Filth] When it comes to finding someone to deal with this kind of thing, few fools will choose to avoid the topic. Such people should have been exterminated in ancient times.

The family looked uneasy. It seemed that they had become uneasy after hearing Wuming say that this matter was not simple.

But just when Wuming wanted to pull Lan En and walk out of the door, the demon hunter pressed her shoulder instead.

Lan En seemed to be unintentional, and gently patted the thin wooden wall of the room with her palm, which could at least block the wind.

"Your family is not next to the one at No. 20 Renzi, and they are not even on the same line horizontally or vertically."

"But let me be frank, that family was found dead yesterday."

Lan En looked at the family. Except for the children who didn't quite understand, their expressions were first shocked, and then full of fear.

Looking at their expressions, Lan En added fuel to the fire at the right time.

"That person was not killed by the summoned monsters and evil spirits, but was directly killed by the influence of [filth].

"Since you are sure that you have nothing to do with that family and have never had any contact with them. I can only guess whether it is your land.?"

Lan En didn't finish his words, and like Wuming just now, he tapped his toes lightly on the ground.

But the same action refers to completely different things.

Generally speaking, it is extremely bad to leave [filth] that can infect others in a house and cause death.

The influence of the [filth] that can spread out is not limited to a house, but the entire land.

"How, how is it possible?!"

The employer's whole body seemed to be limp, and he sat on the ground with his eyes empty.

Even as a farmer, he subconsciously couldn't believe that there was such [filth]!

As for his father, he showed his resistance to this statement directly.

"The whole land is polluted?" He showed the common behavior of the Japanese when facing emergencies, that is, he began to shout and refuse to accept reality.

It seemed that as long as he shouted, the cruel reality would be driven away by his shouting.

"This is in Iwamura Castle! Here are the sacrificial vessels from Kashima Shrine! Every few months, the Lord of the Castle will bring out the sacrificial vessels and parade them around the city!"

"This is also the main transportation route of Mino Province. All the wandering monks, priests, and Shugendo who are traveling and practicing, who have to stop here? Whenever they come, the Lord of the Castle will ask them to patrol the city to ensure safety!"

The Shugendo mentioned by the old man is the "ascetic monk" in Japan. Combining the characteristics of Chinese Buddhism and local Shintoism, they improve themselves through asceticism. People also call them "Yamabushi".

It means: people who live in seclusion in the mountains.

If it is really a serious Shugendo, then whether it is martial arts or the mastery and understanding of religious rituals and scriptures. The ability is undoubtedly stronger than that of ordinary priests or monks.

Detecting and dealing with [Residual Filth] is simply a matter of hand.

"Yelling and yelling can't change the reality." Lan En spread his hands calmly, "You have remnants in your house, don't you? Otherwise, why would you hire a demon hunter?"

"But how could [remnants] stay for so long?" The old woman who had been keeping her head down and saying nothing just now also raised her head and said.

"It's been ten years since we moved here. Not to mention the castle town, there hasn't been any tragedy in this city. How could [remnants] stay on the land for more than ten years?"

The same sentence: If [remnants] don't dissipate on their own as time goes by, then where in the world haven't people died? No lives have died?

This is completely inconsistent with common sense and logic.

"I've already said that this [remnant] itself is not normal." Lan En repeated helplessly, and then he seemed to remember something, and his eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at his employer's family.

"You just said that you moved here ten years ago?"

"Yes, yes."

"Then this place, or the castle town of Iwamura Castle," Lan En pointed his hand in a circle, "Are there many people like you who moved here?"

"You. Don't know anything?" The employer looked at his family and asked tentatively.

"What do you know?" Wuming complained, "We are all foreign monster hunters who travel around. Who knows what happened in your city?"

The employer quickly got up from the ground and whispered to the two of them.

"It was, it was Lord Saito Toshimasa who forced the Toki clan to flee! At that time, many people were killed in many cities in Mino! If there were no vacancies, we would still be living in the wild village!"

Saito Toshimasa is Saito Dosan, the current lord of Mino.

Dosan is based on his Buddhist name after becoming a monk, 'Dosan Rudao'.

A correct version can be found in the 16-9 book forum!

Saito Dosan ascended to the throne of the country by repeatedly overthrowing the superiors. Before him, the "Mino Guardian" officially recognized by the imperial court was the Toki clan.

Overthrowing the superiors is a coup d'état, and Saito Dosan's success shows that he is indeed capable.

However, no matter how capable he is, it is inevitable to clean up the original entangled forces during the coup.

Obviously, a large number of powerful families were killed in this Iwamura Castle.

But for such a big move, it is even more impossible to underestimate the handling of [remnants].

In Japan, even if you want to become a demon because of grievances and resentment, you have to have a certain status.

The resentment of the common people is insignificant. Only a noble family like the Heike family and a noble bloodline like the Emperor Sutoku can leave resentment that cannot be dispelled and can only be appeased.

And those powerful families are obviously not so noble.

After killing, use Buddhism and spells to dispel the resentment and that's it.

Lan En's eyes narrowed slightly, and he felt that he seemed to have grasped a line of thought.

"That is to say, you are not completely locals."

"If you say so," the employer whispered, "then there are actually not many locals in this town after all these years of coming and going."

"Then there are indeed a few indigenous families left, right?" Lan En asked quickly, "The longer you live in this city, the better. Tell me about the families you know."

The employer's family looked at each other, and finally the four adults, especially the old man and the old woman, put together several families and told Lan En and the others their addresses.

Then the two people, who were already very quick in action, immediately began to visit one family after another.

Although Wuming was simple, he was not stupid.

When Lan En asked the latter part, she basically knew what the focus of his question was.

——If this [filth] really has far-reaching influence and is something that has been deposited for a long time, then if you want to find the truth, you must go back in time.

However, as the two of them visited and questioned each family, Wuming did not feel the sense of relief that the clouds had been cleared.

On the contrary, the demon hunter who originally felt a little troubled now felt that his heart began to feel cold!

"Aju's family? Oh, they are not here for a long time. I heard that they moved to a village outside the city, but it's strange. Their house was obviously handed over to a very good relative, but there has been no news for seven or eight years."

"Sanchuan's family? Does anyone still remember their family? Let me tell you, they are in big trouble. I heard that they ran into something dirty when they went out to chop wood, and Sanchuan hanged himself after he came back! Later, the widowed mother and orphan remarried. When? About five years ago, there was a monk chanting in front of this house for an afternoon."

The neighborhood relationship in the castle town is not that you can see each other every day. Everyone is busy making a living. If there is no intersection in life, people who don’t know each other will never know each other in their lifetime.

People who have met before may not meet again after more than ten years.

So after visiting and counting the various ‘indigenous residents of Iwamura City’ extracted from the employer’s family’s memory, it turned out that 80% of them have been wiped out!

Although the number of indigenous residents is not large after the coup. But if the number of people who were wiped out is counted, it is definitely a big event that will alarm Ando Morinari and even Saito Dosan!

First of all, the awfulness of the whole family being wiped out, and secondly, their death methods are more or less all tainted with the ‘uncleanness’ of mysticism.

But such a huge number of families, all of them stained with filth, were exterminated over a period of more than ten years because the population was scattered throughout the city.

So the huge number of victims was scattered, and no one was alert!

Until the last indigenous family was asked, it was a family that had moved out of the city to live in a hut in order to take care of the farmland.

From them, Lan En and Wu Ming learned that five years ago, from the castle town Bingzi to Renzi district, it was actually the land of a wealthy family.

And when the wealthy family held a family wedding five years ago, the bride loosened the belt of her kimono and hanged herself that night.

I heard that it was because of her corrupt style, and she was discovered that night, so she had no face to live.