I’m a Witch In Dongying

"That's good."

After several days of busy work from morning to night, today suddenly because of this heavy rain, I had to go back to the house to rest. Several girls were still a little uncomfortable for a while.

In the end, Keiko Kamishiro suggested: "I'm idle anyway, or let's play cards. I've been busy for a few days before, so I just want to relax now."

Hyuga Asuka and Kanako hesitated a little, and turned their heads to look at Bai Shuiqiu, as if they were waiting for her to speak.

Bai Shuiqiu was seen as a little uncomfortable:

"Ahem, you don't have to look at me like that, just play if you want. I'm not so harsh enough to keep you working overtime in this kind of weather..."

"Then, Qiujiang, will you come together too?"

Keiko Jindai sent an invitation.

"Hmm...Is it playing ghost card? I don't know how to play other things?"

In the end, a few girls spread out spies in the living room, then sat on the floor and played the game of drawing ghost cards.

In order to increase the fun of the game, several people decided to put stickers on the loser's face at the suggestion of Keiko Kamishiro.

The game of ghost drawing seems very simple. It is nothing more than drawing the cards to make up the right ones, losing all the cards in turn, and the person who gets the clown card at the end is the loser.

But if you really want to play, it's actually very skillful.

Experienced players can easily determine the location of the ghost card through the opponent's looks, gestures, actions, etc. Or conversely use this technique to confuse one's opponents and send out ghost cards. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of psychological warfare.

For those who are not good at using facial expressions to hide their true inner thoughts, this kind of game is almost a nightmare.

Of course……

This is also the fun of the game.

The reason why many people are keen on this kind of card game is to observe other people’s various beauty and pleasure in the process of drawing cards, especially some people are not aware of the changes in their faces, but think that the other party is just Simple luck and wanting to be shameful, this kind of time is the most interesting.

Bai Shuiqiu doesn’t play this kind of game many times, and she is not very experienced, but she has always had a very light expression. No matter what card she holds in her hand, her face is very calm, and her eyes flicker a little at most. Down, but if it is not for a careful person, it is difficult to see clues from such detailed micro expressions.

However, Hyuga Asuka is different.

The girl's scheming is very shallow, she can't hide her mind at all. Even Bai Shuiqiu can guess from the changes in her expression whether the ghost card is in her hands, not to mention Keiko Kandaro, who is full of ability to observe words and colors.

only……

Obviously, the one with the greatest winning rate should be Keiko Kaminari.

But I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. Every time Bai Shuiqiu had a ghost card in his hand, he would be picked out by the girl just right, and then transferred to Hyuga Asuka or Kanako. In this situation, Keiko Kamashiro never took the ghost card back.

As a result, ghost cards flow between Hyuga Asuka and Kanako most of the time, and occasionally they are drawn back by Shirasuiqiu, and then cycle again.

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After a few games of playing cards, Hyuga Asuka's face was the first to be covered with notes.

Then Kanako.

However, the cheeks of Bai Shuiqiu and Keiko Kandaji were always clean, especially Bai Shuiqiu, she didn't even know what was going on, she just felt that she was lucky, and she was the first to lose all the cards in each round. After playing for a while, Kanako gradually realized something was wrong.

"In other words... Did Keiko and Shirashui-sama colluded in advance? Why do you feel that you two can cleverly deliver ghost cards to me and Asuka every time?"

"Ok?"

Bai Shuiqiu was slightly startled.

And Keiko Kamishiro opened her eyes pretendingly in surprise: "How can this kind of thing be done? I don't have the ability to see through other people's hands. It's just a coincidence."

"Yes?"

Kanako was a little suspicious.

But she just asked casually.

It was just a game anyway, and the mentality of several people was very relaxed.

When Shiraishi, who was the winner, shuffled the cards, Keiko Kandaji and others finished taking the cards one by one, and when they were about to start drawing the opponent's hand, the mobile phone that Shiraishi put on the sofa next to him suddenly buzzed and vibrated.

"Master Baishui, it seems that there is a call from you?"

Hyuga Asuka, who was near the sofa, took off the phone, glanced at it, and quickly handed it to Bai Shuiqiu.

"Wait a minute, I'll answer the phone... Sister Sugita can help me play for a while."

Bai Shuiqiu took the phone, glanced at the caller ID on the screen, slowly got up, and handed the card in his hand to another girl next to him.

The girl surnamed Sugita, one of the two maids brought by Keiko, is now serving as a temporary maiden in Tenme Shrine. Hearing Bai Shuiqiu's instructions, the latter became unresponsive for half a beat before taking the pile of cards from her hand, carefully sitting where she had been, and continuing to play.

the other side.

Bai Shuiqiu walked a few steps to the outside of the living room, stopped in the corridor, and pressed the answer button on the screen.

"Hello? Is that sister Rie? I'm Bai Shuiqiu?"

"it's me."

After the call was connected, Rie Asakura's calm voice came from the microphone.

When he was in Kyoto before, Bai Shuiqiu had always contacted Asakura's family through Buntai. It was not until the day of the Xia Yue Festival that he exchanged mobile phone numbers with Asakura Rie himself, but the two parties have not contacted individually. Now this girl suddenly called such a phone call, which made Bai Shuiqiu faintly anxious.

Over there in Kyoto... something happened again?

Could it be that Doko Ibaraki really came back to look for his broken arm, bumped into the old monster, and then fought in Kyoto City?

Or is it because the Tuomimen's family made some moths?

"...I'm sorry to bother you at this time, but something happened recently in Kyoto. I think it is necessary to inform you."

"Ok?"

Asakura Rie did not have the habit of selling off hers. After a short opening remarks, she said straightforwardly:

"Sister Xiaoqiu, you should remember that the peach forest in Luo Lei Valley is where you and Qing Lu Huo fought with Ibaraki Boy. Yesterday evening, a big peach tree in the middle of the woodland suddenly opened. There are trees full of peach blossoms.

Then in the evening, it took advantage of the downpour and quietly escaped from the valley.

Because a period of time had passed since that thunderstorm night, the guarding power in the Thunder Valley had been slackened, and when it was discovered, it had already disappeared. "

"……what??"

Bai Shuiqiu was stunned for a few seconds, wondering if he had an auditory hallucination: "No, sister Rie, what you just said... is it sure that "Peach Tree" "escaped" from the valley?"

What picture is that?

Bai Shuiqiu subconsciously thought of the picture of a big tree pulling out its roots and running along the rugged mountain road. It felt a little bit of violation.

However, the reply from the microphone was quite affirmative.

"Yes."

Asakura Rie nodded slightly, her tone still light: "This incident was first discovered by the people at Yasaka Shrine. According to the results of subsequent investigations, the flowering peach tree should be more than 400 years old. It is very likely. Some weak spiritual intelligence has been cultivated, and it is in the critical period of becoming a tree monster.

And the peach blossom tree of yesterday evening may be a symbol of its formal cultivation into a demon body. "

"There is still this kind of thing..."

Bai Shuiqiu opened his mouth, and it took a long time before he came back to his senses.

In fact, things like blooming flowers in one night are rare in reality, but there are still many ghost stories in ancient China.

When he was at Kiyomizu Temple, Master Tianyuan once said that as early as the early Tang Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago, there was a camellia tree in the Great Ci'en Temple in Chang'an, because after listening to Master Xuanzang’s lecture, he had an epiphany. The tree full of white flowers bloomed, and the white lilac tea that is now planted on Otowa Mountain.

Of course, compared with monsters such as beasts and birds, it is much more difficult for plants to cultivate into spirits.

And even in strange stories, the combat effectiveness of Dryads and others is generally not very high.

but……

What does it mean for Rie Asakura to call herself specifically for this kind of thing?

Do you want to simply share with yourself interesting things in daily life?

"...Actually, according to the natural environment in Luo Lei Valley, it was originally impossible to give birth to monsters.

Because that valley is always under the shroud of thunderclouds, once it encounters rainy weather, thunder will frequently give birth to the valley, as long as any tree in the forest shows signs of transformation, There will be a lot of thunder and lightning falling from the sky, dispersing their newly formed wisdom.

So the situation like this peach tree is actually very rare.

According to my guess, it may be the battle between you and Qingluhuo in the valley a few days ago, which disturbed the weather that day to a certain extent, and made the thunder and lightning that should have fallen on the head of the peach tree failed smoothly. Fall, so it will take the opportunity to cultivate into a demon body..."

Hearing this, Bai Shuiqiu narrowed his eyes slightly, recalling the seven consecutive thunders he had cut out when he encountered the ghost clan that day.

indeed.

The Thunder Valley is a good area with dense thunderclouds, but it is a bit exaggerated to be able to attract seven thunderbolts with thunder jade in a short period of time. Perhaps, as Rie Asakura said, the thunder and lightning were originally intended to smash the big peach tree that was about to transform, but because of Shirasuiqiu's battle with Ibaraki Doko, the beating helped it avoid the catastrophe.

But……

"This matter should have nothing to do with me? If that big peach tree is really cultivated into a demon body, wouldn't it be handled by the Kyoto Countermeasures Team?"

"related."

Asakura Rie shook his head: "If the tree monster is still in a certain corner of Kyoto city, then it is naturally the business scope of the Kyoto Countermeasures Group. But if it has already left Kyoto, then its destination, It's probably related to you, Sister Xiaoqiu. That's why I made this call.

If there are traces of plant monster activities in Chiba Prefecture in the future, please pay more attention to them. "

"So...Thank you for your reminder, Sister Rie. If that peach tree demon really appears in Chiba Prefecture, I will deal with it in time."

Bai Shuiqiu responded.

Compared with the brutal ghosts and the monsters of beasts, the peach tree demon should not be very cruel, and the threat to humans is limited. But now that Rie Asakura specifically called to say this, she was kind enough to go back and talk to Fujiwara Nanami, so that the police in several cities in the northwestern part of Chiba Prefecture would pay attention.

Speaking of it, she did go to Luolei Valley once before leaving from Kyoto and returned with a few branches from the peach grove.

——That is, those few lightning bolts.

If the Peach Tree Fairy is more grudges, it seems that it can be justified to chase from Kyoto for this matter, but it sounds too stingy...

"correct……"

Bai Shuiqiu seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and said, "My sister Mami and I were investigating the affairs of the Bailianzong recently, but because of insufficient information, it is not possible to determine where their head office is temporarily. Sister Rie, how can you figure this out? ?"

"..."

There was silence on the microphone for a while before I heard Rie Asakura’s voice:

"Sorry, I haven't practiced my hexagram skills to the extent that I can calculate a certain answer with just one phone call. This kind of thing is no longer in the category of divination, but omniscience and omnipotence."

"Oh well."

Bai Shuiqiu nodded in surprise.

Too.

Yasaka Shrine is also aware of a series of things about Lantern Mountain.

Since she can think of using Asakura Rie's arithmetic ability to predict the location of the Great Sage Hakuren, there is no reason why Asakura Asami, a member of the Asakura family and Rie's twin sister, could not think of this. . But until now, Asakura Asami has not been able to determine the details of the two suspicious locations. It can only show that Rie Asakura's arithmetic ability can't do this level.

The illusion of taking shortcuts was shattered.

It seems that in the case of the White Lotus Sect, he can only investigate step by step and slowly.

Bai Shuiqiu ended the call after saying "Call me again if you have something to do".

After thinking for a moment, he dialed Fujiwara Nanami's phone and described the information that I had just heard from Asakura Rie.

"Peach Tree Demon... I see."

Fujiwara Nanami listened carefully to Shirasuiqiu's words, and nodded: "Plant-type monsters are rare. If they do appear in Chiba Prefecture, I will notify you as soon as possible. In addition...

Regarding the matter you mentioned two days ago, I have compiled a list. The four people listed on the list are all psychiatrists who live near Narita City. If you pick one of them , I can arrange for the secret service team to contact them at any time. "

"Is it so fast..."

According to Asakura Asami's suggestion, Shiraizu Shirai suggested to Fujiwara Nanami that he wanted to find two workers to work for Tenme Shrine.

Unexpectedly, in only two days, the secretary made a list, and the work efficiency is really not low.

After thanking him, Bai Shuiqiu hung up the phone and looked up in the rainy courtyard.

"Peach Tree Demon..."

She was actually a little curious about this kind of monster breed that she had never seen before.

But Bai Shuiqiu didn't think that the dryad would really come to Chiba County.

Not to mention that there are many practitioners in Kyoto. It is difficult for a newly transformed monster to escape from their hands. Even if it succeeds, the distance between Kyoto and Chiba Prefecture is hundreds of miles away. Over the mountains, the tree demon wouldn't buy a ticket to ride a car. If you really want to go here, it is estimated that the demon power will be almost consumed.

If it does appear in Chiba Prefecture, then she will settle the matter in the past.