I loaded the ghost talk game

A kabuki puppet steps into a mine with a candle in hand.

With the help of the puppet's various feelings, Kamiyagawa, who stayed outside and manipulated, could almost be immersed in the scene.

The inside of the pit is dark and damp. With the help of candlelight, you can see that the surrounding walls and ground are yellow or brown rocks, and the surface is covered with thick dust and mud.

In such an environment, if you actually enter it, you will feel difficult to breathe in a short time.

But the puppet is a dead thing after all, although it can sense the smell for Shengu, it does not need to breathe itself.

Continue to walk in.

The candle light that was protected by the puppet became a little weaker.

It may be because the environment in the mine is humid, or it may be because the air inside may not be smooth.

The actual area of ​​the mine that Shengu and others dug up tonight seems to be very large. After walking for a while, a fork in the road appeared in the puppet's sight.

The two mine roads are pitch-black, and the weak candlelight can't clearly illuminate what's inside, and they don't know where the two roads lead to.

On the wet ground at the fork in the road, the aged and decayed iron and wood are basically invisible.

It is estimated that some miners use equipment and tools.

The veins on the walls indicate where the miners had previously dug. Through these veins, it is possible to see the broken rock that has accumulated around it.

Kamiyagawa manipulated the puppet and chose a path at will to continue going deep.

The environment of the whole mine is very quiet.

Only the subtle footsteps of the puppet sounded from time to time. In such a mysterious and quiet environment, the slightest sound would appear extremely abrupt.

Pat, clack.

There were footsteps again.

But it doesn't seem to come from the feet of Kabuki puppets.

"Um?"

Kamiyagawa sensed it a little bit, and made the puppet stop and stand still.

Pat, clack.

Sure enough, the sound was still ringing.

And not just footsteps. There is also the sound of metal hitting solid rock.

"Clang-ding-"

These noises are very weak, suppressed by more profound echoes, so it is impossible to tell where they are coming from.

This kind of environmental situation made Kamiyagawa unable to help but recall the experience of exploring the dog-sounding tunnel alone a long time ago.

Depressed, tense and silent.

A little noisy sound will be infinitely enlarged, stimulating people's sensitive nerves in the dark.

"There is really something in this mine."

Because he was exploring with substitute props, Kamiyagawa didn't have any worries, and he didn't feel nervous, but became excited.

If there are no abnormalities in this mine, wouldn't it be in vain?

"There seems to be the sound of mining."

Kamiyagawa controls the Kabuki puppet to move forward.

The noise inside the mine was tinkling, and the noise that could not tell the specific location seemed to be louder, but before walking too far, the candle in the puppet's hand, which was originally extremely weak, went out with a "pop".

It can be judged from this that there is probably no oxygen in the place where the channel is slightly deeper.

In the darkness, with the help of the puppet's sense of hearing, Kamiya heard dense and dry human voices suddenly coming from around:

"Keep digging, and digging...until there are more shiny stones..."

...

"It's not easy." Kamiya Chuan at the entrance of the cave put down the kabuki puppet in his hand, "I haven't really seen Shikijiro yet... The condition of this mine seems not suitable for in-depth exploration."

However, it is now certain that Shikijiro may really exist in the depths of the mine that has been abandoned for an unknown period of time.

Think for a moment.

Kamiyagawa took out two more props from the [Mirage Bag].

[Drowned girl's top hair] and a small requiem candle.

He wrapped the [Drowned Woman's Top Heart Hair] around his wrists. Apart from providing underwater mobility, this item can also enhance the ability to hold breath, which can come in handy in mines that lack oxygen.

Then Shengu walked into the mine without going too deep, and stopped about ten meters away from the entrance of the cave, and lit a small requiem candle.

"If there are Shijiro in the depths, I don't know if they will be attracted by the candle flame of the requiem candle."

Kamiyagawa placed the requiem candle on the ground, took off his coat and fanned himself.

Try to let the candle flame from the small requiem candle diffuse into the cave.

After all, the requiem candle is an extraordinary prop made of soul crystals, and it can be lit for a long time without ghosts.

Kamiyagawa waited like this for about half an hour.

In the dark passage ahead, there were sparse voices.

The sound of pattering footsteps, and the friction sound of metal hitting the rock wall lightly.

"coming?"

Kamiyagawa's spirit lifted.

It seems that it is really feasible to use the scent of candle flames to trap.

He condensed his pupils, and quickly saw what came out of the cave——

The skinny human figure is haggard and stiff, covered with mud and dust, wearing only a dirty loincloth, and dragging a mining pick in his hand.

It looks like Shikijiro is right.

There are many Shikijiro who were attracted by the breath of the requiem candle from the cave, and each of them has a dull and numb expression, but maybe they are attracted by the breath of the candle, and they have a vague greedy look.

These Shikijiro's heads are all shaved, bald, and the hair at the back of the head is tied into a bun.

Their hairdos are not the samurai Tsukiyo head.

It is different from the Yuedai head. The status of the ancient Japanese miners was low, and they could not wear the same hairstyle as the samurai. Their hair style should be called "Bai Duo Kui", "Huanhui" and the like.

Kamiya has done little research in this area.

But judging from the hair style alone, these Shikijiro should all be transformed by the ancient miners of Betongzi Mountain.

It may be the undead of the miners who died in the mining disaster, or even the undead, but the resentment and obsession of the miners for hundreds of years.

"...twenty...twenty-three, twenty-four."

Kamiyagawa counted, and there were twenty-four Shikijiro who were attracted by the requiem candle.

They don't seem to have any sanity, and they don't care about the existence of this big living person, Kamiyagawa.

Surrounded by the small requiem candle lit on the ground, they huddled together, bent down to inhale greedily, and the misty white candle flame intruded into their nostrils, and the stimulation brought by them made Shijiro groan dryly from his haggard throat from time to time Voice.

Kamiya did not stop these Shikijiro from sharing the candlelight, and stood by the side silently for a while before slowly taking out the [Hanged Man's Reins].

Karakala.

The hemp rope stretched out, stretched continuously and made a soft sound, and bound the twenty-four Shikijiro's one by one.

These weak little ghosts didn't resist, and let the ropes shuttle around their waists.

"Come with me. Those who don't work can't eat. If you eat candlelight, you have to work."

Kamiyagawa picked up the small requiem candle on the ground, and without pulling the [reins of the hanged dead], twenty-four Shikijiro strung together took the initiative to follow him out of the mine.

In the forest outside the abandoned mine, Kamiya summoned Kisaragi.

The common style, somewhat dilapidated Ruyue platform appeared in the mist, standing abruptly in the woods.

The rails extend in front of the platform.

The Kisaragi train roared from the end of the railroad tracks, rolling over the trees, and the bright headlights were dazzling.

Bang——

The train pulls in and the doors open.

Kamiyagawa led a group of twenty-four Shikijiro into the car, and the burning requiem candle was also left in the car.

He himself got down again before the door closed.

Living people who enter the inner world on the Kisaragi train will be shrouded in ghosts, even the owner of the train.

"Hashimi" who created Kisaragi Station Urban Ghost Story in the first place is, in a sense, the previous owner of the ghost train.

The train keys that Kamiya currently holds are all obtained from her.

But after "Lianshi" entered the other world, all traces of existence in reality were also erased, even her own name was forgotten by herself.

Bang clang -- clang clang --

Kamiyagawa jumped off the platform and watched the train crash into the dark space deep in the dense forest and disappear.

The Kisaragi platform beside her also disappeared.

This train is going to Aokigahara.

Kamiyagawa had already changed Kisaragi Station on the map of Aokigahara to the entrance of the Aokihara Mine.

In addition, seven people were arranged to meet the imperial court there.

The Seven Gozen itself is a demon, unable to leave the inner world, but after becoming a slave of Kamiya, they can shuttle out by relying on the Kisaragi Station built by the master in each map that has been conquered.

After leaving the live fish hotel, the seven of them together also have a C-level upstream strength.

Similar to the current Prajna and Nightmare Eaters, it is more than enough to contact new employees in a car.

Moreover, for the Yuqian who couldn't even get out of the live fish hotel before, going out to work is simply a reward for letting go.

They are a pleasure to do.

"It went even better than expected."

Kamiyagawa patted the dust off his body, originally satisfied, but at a certain moment, some thoughts suddenly rose in his heart.

how to say--

Betsukoko Mountain, the copper mountain with the largest output in the Edo period, made the Sumitomo family rich and powerful, and rose to become a chaebol in the Shikoku region.

But for the accumulation of bloody wealth of these rich people, for hundreds of years, those who have been mining copper underground without seeing the sun, do not know how many people died of collapse.

Those who are nourished by earth and gold, can't live or die, are trapped in the mine without seeing the sun, and become wandering corpses.

When the feudal nobles sang with wine, they couldn't hear the indistinct mournful voices of those miners in the mine under the silk and bamboo.

Thus, Shikijiro's weird talk was born.

"Shikijiro's weird tales are the result of miners' ghosts or resentment. He opened mines for the feudal nobles during his lifetime, but after becoming weird tales, I was dragged to Aokigahara to mine..."

Is it too much to do this by yourself?

"Ah, what are you thinking. I'm not a good person in the first place when it comes to ghost stories."

Shijiro himself has no sanity, trapped in this abandoned mine, and is also knocking on the wall with a pickaxe all day long.

Knocking is not knocking where it is, and it is the same when it is changed to Aokigahara.

"Besides, I don't know exactly how many Shikijiro there are in this mine. The twenty-four that I took away will be attracted by the breath of candle flames, which shows that they have a desire for requiem candles. Afterwards, each time they pick a section The mine of time, I will regularly go to the Qingmuyuan mine pit to light a candle and share food with them."

They asked for something, and God Valley gave it.

If the salary is paid regularly, then this is regarded as labor employment.

So, get a part-time job, Shikijiro!

Exchange your labor for the requiem candle in my hand!

Everything made sense.

"If in the future, Shikijiro absorbs enough candle flames to be promoted to F-rank, I don't mind providing them with Weeping Blood Candles in the form of salary. Anyway, the F-rank monsters at hand are too bloody to use. After that, after Shikijiro is promoted, there is a high probability that the efficiency of mining will also become higher, a win-win situation.”

"If they can gain some sanity through this...it doesn't matter. After gaining some brains, they will be more aware of how precious the requiem candle in my hand is to them."

"Then they have to thank me."

"I'm not the same as those feudal nobles. Providing such a generous salary is completely a conscientious boss who provides Shikijiro with jobs and a smooth promotion path so that they can realize their self-worth."

"Also, can the surplus value of exploiting ghost stories be counted as capitalists? I don't think so unilaterally."

Kamiyagawa is indeed the kind of person who is not prone to guilt.

If you feel that what you do is worthy of your heart, you will not have a psychological burden, and you will not create any psychological burden for yourself. The main goal is to have a flexible moral bottom line and a clear mind.

After hiring a batch of Shikijiro, Kamiya did not leave immediately.

In fact, he had a feeling just now that there was something wrong with this mine, so he was always on guard against it.

"By the way, the breath of the Shikijiro I recruited away is different from the breath coming out of the cave."

The aura of strange talk on Shijiro's body is too weak.

Moreover, it was different from the aura that Kamiyagawa felt standing outside before the hole was dug open.

"Little old man?"

Kamiya looked at the scout at his feet.

"Whoop, whoop."

The little old man shook his head, gestured and said something.

After a brief communication, Kamiyagawa roughly understood that the strange atmosphere that attracted the little old man to the entrance of this cave at first seemed to really not belong to Shijiro. Even a little old man can't feel the aura of Shikijiro from a distance.

There is something else in this hole.

There is something stronger than Shikijiro that really attracts the little old man from afar.

Kamiyagawa narrowed his eyes and took another look at the dark hole.

At the position where the candle was lit just now, there is still a small amount of candle flame, permeating the ceiling of the cave.

And in the next moment.

call out--

A gust of dust-laden wind rolled out of the hole.

Squeeze away the breath of the requiem candle without leaving any trace.

"Woohoo!"

The little old man sensed something was wrong, and immediately turned into a ghostly aura, and got into the copper mallard bird hanging on the master's waist.

"This rumor... I knew that tonight's business was not over yet."

Kamiyagawa stood still in place, bowed slightly, his black pupils glistening.

His left hand has been pressing on the scabbard at his waist, and at this time he pushed his thumb towards the handle of the knife.

Clang.

With a slight buzzing sound, the bright indigo-colored katana came out of its sheath an inch.

Kamiya heard clearly just now.

The whistling dust whistling out of the cave was mixed with the sharp sound of a whip whipping in the air.

It seems that it is not only Shijiro who are attracted by the requiem candles in the mine.