I loaded the ghost talk game

It's a little earlier.

At this time, Kamiyagawa had not yet arrived near Hibikiyama, and even Onitsuka Kirihota was still on the plane flying to Osaka.

In the ringing mountain.

The sky seems to be bright but not yet bright.

The mountain forest in the early morning is like the edge of the world. The dark night has not completely receded, and the hazy dawn is coming quietly. There was total silence among the mountains and forests, except for the gentle breeze that quietly shuttled among the treetops, blowing the leaves and making a rustling sound.

The giant trees are towering into the sky, and their dense branches and leaves are intertwined above the head, forming a huge green barrier, blocking everything from the outside world.

In the darkness of the forest, a figure stood.

This man wears a three-color intertwined look of resentment on his face, and his clothes are very strange. He wears a black silk robe, which is knee-length and has a straight shape. The neckline is inlaid with a bright silk as a trim, and the hem is Sew together.

The official uniform of ancient Japanese civil servants, sewn armpit robes.

The faint morning light filtered through the dense leaves, and mottled shadows danced on the ground. The shadow of the man wearing a strange mask blended with the shadows on the ground, but was thicker than the shadows of the trees.

Even though the tree shadows were swayed by the wind, his shadow remained motionless, as if embedded in the ground.

You can see that there are three long black nails nailed on his shadow.

One on the head and two on the left and right arms.

I don’t know how long it took, but the nail hammered into the shadow of my head made a rustling sound and squirmed from the ground, as if it was pulled up by some invisible force.

Then, the remaining two nails began to shake violently.

At this time, the masked man's body finally twisted twice, proving that he was still a living creature for the time being.

"Princess, I didn't expect you to show up here, it's about time you showed up, right?"

He spoke, and his voice rippled in the air, rough and harsh like sandpaper.

There was no response at first in the forest. After about two minutes, a white figure came out from not far away.

That figure looked much more lively than the masked man, and she was a young woman.

Her long hair is covered in front of her face, so her face cannot be seen, but she has a graceful figure under the white clothes. The person who came was holding a hammer and wearing a cast iron ring. Three candles were inserted into the iron ring, burning blue candles, and a bronze mirror hung on his chest to reflect the candlelight. His feet were on single-tooth wooden clogs, and he seemed to be holding something in his mouth, whining and whispering.

"Porphyrin."

The young woman's blood-red lips were slightly open, and the flexible red tongue behind her white teeth was beating, and she actually pushed out a long black nail stained with crystal saliva.

The nail fell from her mouth and was caught with her free hand.

Such an image is somewhat similar to the character "Souichi" in the works of the famous horror cartoonist Mr. Ito.

No, it would be better to say that this woman is the prototype of the "Double One" image.

She is Chou Shi Shen, also known as the daughter of Chou Shi.

"Won't you let me go? Princess."

"You can break free yourself, right? Maybe you have broken free a long time ago and are waiting for me to get closer." Chou Shi Shen gently wiped the saliva on the nails in the palm of his hand with his white fingertips.

"Haha." The masked man said noncommittally, "Why did you save those two girls? Does the princess know them?"

"I don't know, I just don't want you to get what you want. Besides, didn't you just get what you wanted? Whether those two girls are dead or alive has no effect on you."

"You are still the same as before, with too much kindness."

"Haha." This time it was Chou Shishen's turn to smile in return, "Not necessarily. For example, I am no longer the helpless little girl who lost her father, so I am not as easy to deceive as before."

"You seem to be hostile to me."

"Isn't it obvious? It seems that I am too restrained."

"It shouldn't be. Takiji, you should know that I do these things for your father. It was good before and it is good now."

"I probably would have believed you in the past. Also, I am no longer called that name, and I am not a princess. I am now an exorcist." Chou Shishen raised some of the nails in his hand and pointed them. Masked man in the distance.

"Whether you admit it or not, you are Takiyashahime who almost overthrew Kyoto and made the world fearful."

"But the one who controlled everything behind the scenes, almost overthrowing Kyoto, and finally being killed like a lost dog, wasn't it actually you, Lord Xingshi King?"

"hehe."

"hehe."

"Princess, you provoke me, do you still want to fight me?"

"No, I don't want to." Chou Shishen put down the raised nail again, "You took away more of Kibune Myojin's 'curse' from me than I previously expected."

The man known as King Xingshi did not argue anything, but asked in a relaxed tone: "Did you see it?"

"I said, I'm not as easy to deceive as before. When you tricked me into making a fool of myself and visiting the shrine, you had this in mind, right?"

"Takihime, you and I have been sleeping for a thousand years after the last failure, and now we have woken up one after another. Although we have all become weak, now is an opportunity. We are the only ones of our kind in this world, and you should be with me. Your father He is the emperor, and even if he dies, he is still the emperor. We awaken him, use your father's ghost power, and make him the ruler of demons and demons. I will continue to be his Guan Bai, and you are still the princess. Isn't this good? "

"No. You are a lunatic, you were then and you are now. I will not cooperate with you again."

"Takihime, aren't you crazy? Otherwise, why would you be in the time of encountering a demon? Ah - I actually saw the long-lost princess in the organization. The princess still exists in the world because of the power of Kifune Myojin. , I was extremely excited at that time.”

"Of course I have gone crazy a long time ago. I went crazy the moment I listened to your lies and tried to resurrect my father a thousand years ago. However, I have other things to do now. Therefore, I am not interested in your plan of the ghost dynasty. None. By the way, don’t think that because he provided you a lot of help when you encountered the devil, he is on your side. At that time, he probably wanted you to die. "

"I am no longer a living person, Princess. Of course, neither are you. We have the power of gods in us."

"Ah."

Chou Shi Shen shook the hammer in his hand.

God?

Kifune Myojin, a god who dispenses curses.

"Whatever you say, that's it. Keep working hard for your dream of ghost Guan Bai. Goodbye, Guan Bai." Chou Shishen looked at King Xingshi again teasingly.

Then, the white-clothed figure covered in dim candlelight turned around and disappeared into the half-light and half-dark forest.

King Xingshi was the only one left in the forest.

The color of the shadow under him instantly became thicker, and it squirmed in the shade of a tree. The two black nails that were still nailed to the shadow's left and right arms were easily shaken away.

"Princess... I borrowed the power of the gods for you. Why don't you know how to be grateful to me as a loyal minister? However, it doesn't matter without your help. I got it from you, the curse of Kifune Myojin ’, but it’s much more than you imagine now.”

King Xingshi's tone was hoarse and sinister, and the shadow under him twisted like a poisonous snake in the silhouette of the morning light.

…

Kamitani arrived at the police station in Xiangshan.

And successfully saw Onizuka Kiri Hotaru here.

"Who is this again?"

Ms. Sugita, who was in charge here, also came out to greet him, but she only knew that Juqiong’s divine son was coming.

As for the young man who came later, he didn't know who he was.

Before Kamiya could say anything, the little witch snorted softly: "He is a disciple of ghosts and gods."

"Ah, Mr. Kamiya? Are you Mr. Kamiya?"

Ms. Sugita reacted quickly.

Sure enough, the name of Kamigawa, a disciple of ghosts and gods, is already very famous in the spirit exterminator industry.

For Ms. Sugita, the appearance of a group of Yukani Hibiki at the Hibikiyama Echo Festival celebration was enough to frighten her to the presence of the giant Jion god's son.

Unexpectedly, this popular disciple of ghosts and gods would also appear immediately.

This one is even more heavyweight.

Does the matter in Xiangshan require alarming two such figures to appear together?

Ms. Sugita began to realize the seriousness of the matter.

"How's the situation?"

Kamiyagawa nodded towards Ms. Sugita and asked Onizuka.

On the phone just now, he only roughly knew that the resentful spirit Fang Xiang might have appeared in Xiangshan last night.

The little miko handed Kamiya the notes she had just taken, and then roughly told what happened to the Shinagawa sisters.

"Where are the mother and daughter of the Shinagawa family now?"

"They are still in the police station. We don't plan to let them leave for the time being. We have arranged for several other spirit exterminators from Kyoto to stay with them."

"Okay, Uncle Jiecheng has also sent someone over. They will probably arrive at night at the latest. Let's go to Xiangshan first to see if there are any clues."

Kamitani made a prompt decision.

Onizuka did not object to his judgment, and the moment he arrived, he tacitly handed over the leadership to him.

…

Because of what happened last night, the festival site in Xiangshan has been cleared, and a cordon has been set up on the site.

However, the stalls, stages and confetti from last night’s celebration were still left at the scene.

The excitement has gone through riots, leaving only a mess.

After stepping on the colored paper on the ground, Kamiya and Onizuka, led by Ms. Sugita, began to climb up the slender mountain path of Hibikiyama.

"Has anything ever happened in the Xiang Mountain? Maybe it was related to the noise in the valley."

Both Kamiya and Onizuka were experienced spirit exterminators. While heading towards the destination halfway up the mountain, they focused on the key points and talked with Ms. Sugita who was in charge of the local area.

What we have to do now is to peel off the cocoon.

Although the most important target is the one who wears the Wraith Spirit Aspect and is suspected of encountering the Demonic Hour, the first thing we need to understand is why that person appeared at the ceremony of the Echo Festival, and why he wants to escape from the group of valley echoes. What you get.

Anyway, according to what the Shinagawa sisters said, Kamiya and Onizuka both felt the same way——

The masked man seemed to be heading towards the valley.

"Yougu Hibiki... there are some rumors in the Hibiki Mountain area related to the Echo Festival. However, according to the records, it happened a long time ago." Ms. Sugita seemed a little difficult to speak, but the two people did not dare to come down from the top. Hidden in front of the big man, he said, "That's right, the Echo Sacrifice here at Xiangsheng seems to have been accompanied by human sacrifice when it first took shape."

"Living sacrifice?"

"Yes, the rock halfway up Xiangshan Mountain is a place to make wishes to the gods. When famine occurs, there is a lack of food, or a long drought and water shortage, when encountering these things, people only need to climb up here and shout, It can convey wishes to the ears of gods.”

Generally speaking, echo refers to one's own voice, no matter which mountain it is on.

It's a bit forced to think of it as a response from a god.

Therefore, in order for the gods to listen to your wishes, something should be necessary.

Sacrifice.

Ms. Sugita: "When we came from Kyoto last night, our people there temporarily checked some information on Xiangshan. We found some vague and vague ancient records related to sacrifices."

Human sacrifice is a custom that is incomprehensible to modern society.

But in a long, long time ago, when it was still a barbaric era, it might not be so rare.

Maybe it can be vaguely found in old-era materials that have been scattered in many places in Japan.

Ms. Sugita: "Combined with the valley sounds that appeared last night, I think they may be the undead ghost stories of people who were chosen as sacrifices in the old days."

Sounds coming from below the cliff.

The god who grants wishes.

The sacrifice that was pushed off the cliff.

I don’t know if those people who died under the cliff in the old days really believed that their death would bring happiness to other individuals. And their will and will remain at the bottom of the valley. As the months go by this year, more people's "wishes" have fallen...

This is probably the reason why those valley noises were formed.

Onizuka thought about the conversation he had just had with the Shinagawa sisters. Shinagawa sister Misako finally added that she seemed to hear the Yokutan Hibiki climbing up from the cliff. The large number of mouths opened and closed, and they were all whispering repeatedly. : "Please, please..."

Therefore, those valley sounds are probably responding to the wishes of the wish-makers in their own way.

Of course, Onizuka doesn't think those ghost stories about the undead can fulfill people's wishes.

Maybe he was just responding desperately and mechanically.

The three of them continued to climb the stairs, and Ms. Sugita added: "But the custom of living sacrifices must have been abolished a long time ago. The current Echo Festival only retains the part of shouting wishes on the rocks. And , There has never been a valley sound here before."

"It never appeared? Maybe Tatsuki inspired those resentful spirits in some way? Then the plan was accidentally interrupted by the girl named Shinagawa Misako."

Kamiya speculated in his mind.

"Resentment, Achuan." Onizuka thought for a while and gently touched Kamiyakawa with his elbow.

"Um?"

"Misako seems to have a very high level of inspiration. She said she felt a strong sense of resentment in Yutani Hibiki."

If those Yougu Xiang are really the sacrifices from the past, it is normal to carry resentment.

"Resentment..." Kamiya thought again.

Kohata Jiyue, who married into the Kohata family, had a lot of resentment in her body, so much so that she gave birth to a doppelgänger.

In the deep valley under the cliff of Xiangshan Mountain, the souls who died for the wishes of others also carried heavy resentment.

Also, Taira Shomon, one of the four most evil spirits in Japan.

The aspect of the resentful spirit that changes due to the influence of resentment.

All these things that have happened recently are inseparable from "grievance".

What does Chenshi want to do?

Collect grievances?