I loaded the ghost talk game

"You said, not long ago, you saw a stranger woman tied with this red string, who was led by Shanbai into Shanbai's residence?"

"Abba!"

The little old man nodded vigorously.

"Then when did she leave Shanbau Residence?"

"Abba whimpering."

The little old man squatted on the ground to write and draw.

"After going in, she left by herself not too long ago? Are you sure she came out by herself?"

"..."

Kamiyagawa had a general understanding of the situation of the human cat in front of him when he was still a stranger.

After thinking for a moment, he waved a word to cut off the red rope of blue-gray flesh and blood embedded in its wrist.

"Being brought to Shanbai Residence, he left within a short while. After that, in less than a day, he precisely appeared here in the Pig King Cave, which is quite far away from Shanbai Residence, and turned into a human. This development does sound a bit problematic."

Shen Gu bent down and picked up the small piece of neatly cut, blood-stained red rope.

"Big man, いつか big man になる, なんて思う日々を几つ重ねた..."

At this time, his mobile phone rang suddenly.

The caller ID is [Changyou Zhengnan].

"Hello?"

Kamiyagawa connected the call without thinking too much.

"Mr. Shengu, I can call you now!" On the other end of the phone, Xiaoping's voice was a little excited.

"Hmm...you are trapped in another world now, it's really not that easy to call me."

"That, your master, Lord Thunder God, he..."

"I already know. Master has met with you and sent you to Shan Ba's territory. It is not so easy to bring you out. Master asked you to wait."

"I'll wait. I mean, Kamiya-kun, I have something to tell you and Lord Thor." Changyou lowered his voice a little.

"Tell me, I'll tell you the story."

"It's about Yamaba... We met a girl who called herself Renshi, she said..."

Masao Changtomo truthfully told the information he got from Lianshi on the phone.

Kamiyagawa also has an impression of the name "Lianshi".

He has checked a lot of information related to Kisaragi Station on the Internet recently, and he can confirm that the famous strange story of "The Kisaragi Train to Another World" was originally uploaded by a netizen who called himself "Lianshi" in the form of a live broadcast of his own experience. of.

However, is the "Lianshi" that Changyou and the others met reliable?

Kamiyagawa remains skeptical about this.

"However... that Renshi said that there is a certain connection between Yamabashi and King Zhusa, and every once in a while he will send two strangers to the King Pig's cave as 'sacrifices'..."

Kamiya held up the small piece of red rope that he had just picked up before his eyes.

The end of the blood-stained rope swayed slightly in the wind.

"It's necessary to talk to Shanba."

...

"Those people are moving, what should we do?"

"Just do it right?"

"Well, where's Changyou little brother?"

"Shh...he seemed to be in touch with the apprentice of Lord Thunder God just now."

"Look over there, he's back."

"Okay, be quiet, the sacrifice is about to begin."

An open space behind Shanbaju.

All living people who maintain a certain level of sanity in the residence gather here.

Today is Yamabashi's memorial day.

Shanbao has no other requirements for the living people living in her place, the only instruction is that a sacrifice must be held every week.

Participation is compulsory for all living and sane persons.

Of course, it also included the five Changyou Masao who had been specially instructed by "Master Thor" to take care of them.

The grass and trees in this clearing are withered and decayed, and the black volcanic soil is exposed.

In the center of the open space, there is a Fuji mound.

The so-called Fujizuka can be almost regarded as a large bonsai that restores the style of Mount Fuji.

A Tsukayama imitating the upper half of Mt. Fuji was built, and lava brought from Mt. Fuji was sprinkled on the surface of the entire mountain to present the original appearance of Mt. Fuji.

Then, a "climbing path" will be set up on the "mountain body", and a shrine will be set up on the "top of the mountain", trying to completely simulate the real Mount Fuji.

The Fujizuka behind Yamabazu is about five meters high.

The Jingu Imperial Palace on the top of the mountain is actually the shrine of Yamabashi. The nomination is—

[Asama Omikami Ogosho from God]

"The mountain god shows mercy, bestows great kindness on the light, so that the plague will recede quickly, chase away the demon atmosphere and hide, the people will be grateful, and will never forget it..."

Among the worshiping crowd, several people seemed to be experienced in this matter, and took the lead in reciting the sacrificial text.

Nagatomo Masao and the others looked at each other and chose to follow suit.

And for some reason, they learned the worship ritual very quickly.

After simply participating for a short while, the process of the sacrifice seemed to be planted in their minds, and it seemed natural to do it.

A large group of strangers kept chanting sutras, paced back and forth around the Fuji Tomb, climbed up and down, and worshiped.

The way of offering sacrifices is simple and unsophisticated, but unexpectedly solemn.

Yamabashi was not at the sacrificial place at this time.

On the top of the Fuji Tomb, in the small shrine, amidst the sound of chanting scriptures, the bells of the shina rope kept shaking, and the red door opened.

It was dark behind the door, and it was hard to see what was there, but it seemed to be drawing some kind of power from these worshipers...

In the depths of the forest on both sides of the clearing, Tumaru, the members of the hearse group, and the little old man were lurking and watching.

They did not interfere with the ceremony, and kept watching the whole process.

...

When Kamiyagawa, who was wearing a [Ogre's Leather Clothes] and held the unsheathed letter, arrived at the Yamabashi residence, the strangers were still offering sacrifices in the open space behind the house.

Only those people with too many broken souls are left in the residence.

They are still slumped in the aisles like mud, stupid and numb.

Because there are subordinates watching, Kamiya is aware of the sacrifice that is going on.

But he doesn't care about the fact that Shanbau forcibly obtains faith from the living people who are stranded in Shanbau residence.

Kamiyagawa went straight through the corridor on the first floor and arrived at Yamabashi's kitchen.

The heavy door opened automatically.

Shanba's hoarse and unpleasant voice sounded from inside: "My lord, you have kept me waiting for a long time."

Kamiyagawa walked straight into the kitchen with a letter in his hand, and saw Yamaba, who was as fat as a mountain of meat, sitting in front of the kitchen stove, with a pair of small eyes staring at the fire.

The smell of burnt barbecue continued to radiate from the stove.

"My lord, the barbecue is coming out of the oven, do you want to try it together?" Shan Mu turned his head and grinned, showing his yellow teeth.

"No."

"That's really a pity."

"King Inoza has been killed by me."

"I know it. My lord's strength and methods are indeed incomparable, and my old lady, I am also fulfilling my promise to take the initiative to protect the strangers in the residence."

Grandma Shan said this very frankly, and while speaking, he used a bloody stove hook to hook the charred black barbecue in the stove.

There was an agreement between Kamiyagawa and Yamabashi.

That verbal contract, even in the form of side missions, was reflected in the text of "Ghost Story"——

[The Yamaba in Aokigahara is willing to protect the strangers in your residence as much as possible for you. In contrast, you must kill the Inoza King in the North Pig King's Cave for her. ]

After the pig king is killed, this task is also displayed as completed.

Kamiyagawa didn't know how "Ghost Story" was loaded into his mobile phone, but judging from his growth experience of nearly a year.

This is a special system that digitizes the inner world and presents it in the form of a game. It has a very high personality, and even a god like Gao Tianyuan can come here as a reward.

On the point of side missions, it is impossible for Yamaba to fool the system.

In other words, she really intends to protect the strangers in the residence as much as possible.

Having a system to endorse Yamaba is also an important reason why Kamiyagawa did not choose to evacuate Nagatomo Masao and others directly from the Yamaba residence, and was willing to come and talk to Yamaba.

"You said shelter, is that how you protect?" Shen Guchuan took out the small piece of blood-stained red rope and threw it to Shanba, with an unhappy tone, "As far as I know, the stranger who carried this piece of red rope , before I killed King Zhusa, I was brought into Shanbau Residence by you. And now, she has turned into a human near the King Pig's cave, is there no explanation for this?"

"Huhu—it seems that some people have underestimated the eyeliner you have placed near my residence. Such a small thing can be noticed by them."

"I didn't come to hear you praise my subordinates."

At this point, Shanba’s attitude is still very calm, and he is still in the mood to take a large amount off the greasy and burnt barbecue with his stubby hands and stuff it into his mouth. While eating, his mouth is full of oil, while saying:

"My old lady, I am indeed protecting those strangers. To be honest, there is an agreement between me and King Inosa."

Kamiyagawa didn't answer.

The expression on the face covered by the fur coat was slightly dull.

It seems that Changyou got the right information from the girl who called herself "Lianshi".

"I have made a promise with the Pig King that we will not invade each other. It will not set foot in my mountain village, and I will not go to its cave. Those strangers who are scattered and lost in the sea of ​​trees, I can take them away when I meet them. It can be eaten without interfering with each other."

"The only condition is that every year I have to choose two strangers from the strangers who stay in my residence, who haven't lost their sanity too much, and are enough for King Zhuza to eat it several times."

"As long as two a year, it can ensure that other people who stay in Shanbau are safe and sound. Sir, don't you think this is a very good deal? You can understand this as my offering to the pig king with a slight concession, but It's just symbolic."

"After all, Pig King doesn't want to really fight with me, and I don't want to fight with him. If we fight, we will only lose. Both sides of the sea of ​​trees will be happy."

It seems that Yamaba is not at all averse to talking about the "transaction content" between her and King Inosa.

After hearing this, Kamiyagawa just remained silent.

He didn't expect that the deal between Zhu Wang and Shan Mu would be like this.

"Huhu——" Shanba swallowed the greasy barbecue in his mouth, and grinned again, "My lord looks very surprised. I thought you would say that I have no right to decide who stays in my residence Who lives and who dies."

"But in fact, why don't I think so? After all, if I don't make a peace treaty with the Pig King, but choose to go to war with it, it is absolutely impossible for there to be so many living people in Shanbau. Even, if the Pig King broke through Shanbau Huh, huh—my lord, when you come to Aokigahara, there are only a handful of living people you can see."

"I protected them and left most of them alive."

Kamiyagawa didn't reply, just gently stroked the handle of Ichimonji's knife with his fingertips unconsciously.

"So the day before I crusade King Zhusa, you sent a living person to King Pig?"

"Because the time I agreed with the Pig King has arrived. I'm not sure, my lord, you will definitely win against the Pig King, right?"

Sacrificing a small number of people in exchange for the survival of the majority sounds like the classic "trolley problem".

And the "trolley problem" is unsolvable even in the current real world.

No matter what you do, you will be subject to "moral judgment" to a certain extent.

In the other world where there is no morality at all, it is even more impossible for Kamiya to enforce justice against Yamabashi.

"But you choose to let most people survive, just to gain faith from them."

Kamiyagawa finally let go of the hand that was holding the handle of the Ichimonji knife.

"That's right!"

Shanba nodded, the fat on his body swayed, and a strange light flashed in those small eyes that were almost covered by the horizontal flesh on his face:

"I have never said that I am noble to those living people. They are profitable to me, so I choose to let most people live. And I don't care much about the life and death of individual living people, So I can reach a peace agreement with the pig king. I don’t want to fight that wild boar for the sake of a few strangers. My old woman, it’s a strange story in the final analysis. My lord, ordinary strange stories don’t understand as well as you Dayi is all about cannibalism."

In a sense, Yamabashi is indeed a neutral person in the other world.

Even chaotic neutrality is neutral.

Kamiyagawa: "Why did you kill Pig Sasa?"

"Huhu——because the wild boar is getting more and more insatiable, and it wants to increase the number of newborns I give it every year. If I give up once, there will be a second and a third time in the future. As time goes by, Shan Mu There are not too many living people left in Ju. Now that I have the opportunity to use your hand to get rid of the pig king, I will naturally give it a try."

"The abacus is good. Even if I didn't kill the Pig King, but seriously injured it, you can go to the Pig King's Cave to pick peaches later. Just reap the benefits of the fisherman and become the most powerful strange story in the sea of ​​trees."

"Hoo hoo."

Shan Lao grinned with yellow teeth, neither admitting nor denying it.

Kamiyagawa didn't go deep into this topic, and continued to ask another question: "Why are you so obsessed with faith?"

"My lord's words are a little strange. If I want to consolidate my tiny godhead, I can't do it without faith. Oh, but you said that you are persistent... This place in Aokigahara is the same as the one you used to stay in. The place may be a little different. This place has already fallen, and after having a certain godhead, without faith as an anchor, it is easy to become an evil god. Since your lord has eliminated King Zhusa, you must have seen it."

"The sea of ​​trees has fallen? Because it was the former mountain god? It seems that when we met for the first time, you really hid a lot of information from me."

"Hoohoo - just like you didn't trust me at the time, my lord, I can't trust you completely as soon as we meet, right? And, even if I didn't say it, don't you already know this, my lord? "

"Heh." Kamiyagawa sneered, "Has trust been established between us now? Tell me, is there an area such as the source of the fallen tree sea? If so, where is it?"

"I really admire what your lord is going to do, even though I can't figure out why you did it." Shan Lao's small eyes blinked, "But since you can get rid of the pig king unscathed, let's explore the depraved The source may really not be too difficult for you."

"Just tell me where it is."

"At Fuji Mountain Pass, my lord." Yamaba said with a smile.

Mount Fuji.

The map of Aokigahara is very large, and it does include Mt. Fuji in the other world.

And Kamiyagawa has not tried to climb it yet.

If the source of the fall of the sea of ​​trees is in the crater, then it is very likely that the fall of the mountain is also there.

Kamiyagawa: "One more thing. You know, one of the purposes of my coming to Aokigahara is to take out the strangers trapped here. Since you want their beliefs, you should try to stop me ?”

"How come, my lord. If you can take them out, just do it. There is no conflict of interest between us. Anyway, when we return to their world, those strangers will still worship me. If their It would be even better if the behavior can infect and drive more people.”

"oh?"

Yamabashi seems to have an ability.

To a certain extent, she can drive a sane and weak existence, or she can plant some shallow consciousness in the mind of such an object.

Let them do something less resistive instinctively.

Sending strangers to Pig King was done in this way.

Yamaba didn't need to follow.

Kamiyagawa also knows a little bit about this.

After all, the little old man had reported that the housewife with the red string had left Shanbau by herself.

After confirming this, Kamiyagawa didn't stay in the Yamabasa kitchen any longer.

Kick the door and leave.

"Stay here for a while longer, don't you really want to eat barbecue? Huhu——"

"No."

Between him and Shan Ba, there is nothing to say for the time being.

Next, Kamiyagawa plans to take a rest and reorganize the team, and try to head towards Mt. Fuji in the other world.

Changyou Masao and others can only be temporarily placed here at Shanba.

[Aokigahara] The map has been pushed to the present, and the main mission has made some progress.

But there is no good clue about the branch line of [Kisaragi Station].

The only guess at the moment is that Changyou and the others met, the mysterious girl who called herself "Lianshi" might have some clues about her.

Regarding Lianshi, Shen Guchuan had explained to Xiaopingtou when he called just now that if he meets her again, he must be more careful.

And also communicated with the younger brothers who were watching outside Shanbauju, focusing on this girl, and if she appeared in Shanbauju again, she would report it as soon as possible.

And he himself is going to push the main line first.

"I hope that in the process of doing the main line, I can get some clues about the branch line by the way."

Updated 5000 words, I owe some updates piecemeal

Why don't you treat it as if I added a thousand words in the future when it's 5,000 words?

If things go on like this, it will be added.