Real Cthulhu Running Game

Baihe City!

Liu Xing and others stood up in unison and looked at Sawada Yayin who was holding a mobile phone.

Seeing this situation, Sawada Yaon did not show off and said directly: "After Yin En told me about Shirakawa City, I found a friend I met in Nagoya to investigate the whereabouts of Shirakawa City, and then one of my A friend discovered Shirakawa Castle in a small town near Nara; that town, like most small towns in the island country today, is sparsely populated and has a lot of vacant houses, and the owners of these houses are basically missing for various reasons. They will never come back, so many people with ulterior motives or just naive minds choose to store their things in these abandoned houses.”

"My friend is a catering businessman and has opened many hotels and restaurants in Nara, so he often buys raw materials in large quantities in order to make the purchase price cheaper. If these raw materials are placed in professional refrigerated warehouses, they will It cost a lot of money. After all, commercial electricity is much more expensive than residential electricity, so he thought of going to that small town to 'rent' a few empty houses and fill them with refrigerators and freezers, so he used them every few days. Tiandu will drive to deliver raw materials, and that’s why we can see Baihe City.”

"Of course, I initially chose to ask for his help because of the wide coverage of the restaurants and hotels he opened. I didn't expect that I would discover the traces of Baihe City because of his little cleverness. This is really true. It's a bit funny; back to the topic, Baihecheng should have been hiding in an empty house at the time, and seeing that he was dressed very ordinary at the time, and was talking and laughing with ordinary townspeople nearby, my friend suspected that he was planning to I can live my whole life incognito in this small town, but I think it’s impossible for White River City to be so honest.”

"Wait a minute, Miss Zetian, the town near Nara you mentioned is not Duhe Town, right?" Shi Zixuan suddenly asked.

Shi Zixuan glanced at the phone again, nodded and said: "The memory is Duhe Town. How do you know this town, Shi Zixuan? This town should not be famous, and there is nothing in that town. Secret Church.”

Shi Zixuan sighed, shook his head and said: "Didn't I give you a call yesterday, saying that I was stopped due to a landslide on the way to Nagoya, and I had just passed through Duhe Town at that time. And even though it was said to be a landslide, I could feel something was wrong at the scene."

Liu Xing frowned. He did not expect that the two seemingly unrelated things, "White River City Appearance" and "Landslide Blocking Road", would actually be connected because of this little-known place in Duhe Town.

"In this case, could it be that the people from Duwang Town found Baihe City in Duhe Town, so they had some conflicts that caused the landslide? But I remember Wang Haiyang's ability is to control flames. Baihe City is now He should have inherited Wang Haiyang's ability, so if this is the case, it shouldn't be a landslide, but a fire." Li Hanxing said with a frown.

Liu Xing nodded, took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Mai Yuqiang, asking if they were continuing to trace the whereabouts of Baihe City.

Although it was already late at night, Mai Yuqiang sent a text message back as soon as possible, telling Liu Xing that although the Duwang Town Protection Association had been disbanded, there were still many people chasing after leaving Duwang Town. The whereabouts of Baihe City, and they exchange the information they obtain in a discussion group every day, so judging from the information sent out in the discussion group so far, no one has found the exact whereabouts of Baihe City. They only know that Baihe City should have already Left Nagoya.

It seems that Shirakawa Castle did not conflict with the original members of the Morio Town Preservation Association.

Liu Xing put down his cell phone and said, "I just asked someone to confirm that it was not the people from Duwang Town who discovered Baihe City, but if nothing else happens, the so-called landslide this time should still be related to Baihe City. It has a great relationship, so Miss Zetian, has your friend found out any information about White River City?"

Sawada Yaon nodded and continued: "My friend discovered the figure of Baihe City three days ago, but on the first day, he did not really confirm that the person was Baihe City, so he did not They dared to give me this news rashly, and I didn’t tell them the exact situation of Baihe City when I asked them for help. They only knew that Baihe City was being investigated by many forces because of trouble. In addition, my friend He is just an ordinary person, so after discovering Shirakawa Castle on the first day, he didn’t dare to do anything more and just pretended that nothing was wrong and returned to Nara.”

"On the next day, that is, the morning of the landslide, my friend came to Duhe Town again, pretending to want to 'rent' a few more houses and talked to the locals, and asked Baihe insinuatingly. What is the origin of the city? Because there are a lot of people like my friend in Duhe Town. The most important thing is that they are going to 'rent' a house and not break in, so when 'renting' a house, you need to be friendly with the surrounding neighbors. Let’s chat, so my friend found nearby residents and asked Baihe City if they were the same people as him.”

"Those residents didn't think much and told the identity of Baihe City in Duhe Town. To put it simply, Baihe City used the name of the grandson of a family who had already moved away from Duhe Town. His identity was quite convincing, and he could even show the family's previous family photo, so people around him recognized his identity. Then Baihe City moved into that family's original house and claimed that he was I am a light novel writer, and I came back this time just to find a quiet place to write."

"Then, Baihe City began to chat with the surrounding residents under the pretext of collecting folk songs, asking them about the history of Duhe Town, especially the folklore. Well, I know this is the key point, so I asked my friend to also I went to collect the folklore of Duhe Town, and he has now sent it to me. First of all, there are some very common folklore, which can even be said to exist in every town, so these can be ignored for the time being. They are not worth it. After mentioning it, there is only one piece of folklore that may be related to landslides. Although it seems unreliable, but combined with the so-called landslide that happened yesterday, it is basically certain that this folklore is probably true. .”

"The content of this folklore is actually quite simple. That is, during the Warring States Period hundreds of years ago, or to be precise, a few days before the Honnoji BBQ, the villagers of Duhe Town saw several strangers appearing in the Near the village, although these strangers are all dressed up like ordinary farmers, the leader of these people has a fair face and outstanding temperament, while the others are all tall and alert, and most importantly, there are people behind them. Carrying a long strip of baggage, it looked like it was probably a samurai sword, so the villagers knew that this group of people was probably a big shot and his men in disguise, and they were already very surprised by this. Weird."

"The reason why these villagers are surprised is because there is a hermit living in a hermitage on a mountain near Duhe Town. Although the villagers do not know the identity of this hermit, they know that the famous and wealthy businessmen around them will They come here from time to time to meet with the hermit and ask the hermit to give them guidance. Among them are Miyoshi Nagakei, the head of the Miyoshi family who was known as the strongest family in the island country and controlled the Kinki area, and the last hope of the Ashikaga Shogunate. Ashikaga Yoshiki, known as the swordsman general, and many other big figures came to see this hermit; however, the relationship between this hermit and Oda Nobunaga was not good, because before Oda Nobunaga went to Honnoji Temple I once asked someone to invite this hermit to come out of the mountain and go to Honnoji Temple to meet him, but the hermit directly chose to refuse and asked Oda Nobunaga to come to Duhe Town to meet him in person."

"Everyone should also know that Oda Nobunaga was about to become the lord of the island country at that time, so his temper was already very strong. Therefore, he was very angry at the hermit's ignorance of promotion. He felt that the hermit should give him this Face, not to mention that the envoy he sent to invite the hermit to come out was an important minister under him; by coincidence, the important minister responsible for inviting the hermit to come out was Akechi Mitsuhide, so Akechi Mitsuhide was killed by Oda after returning without success. Nobunaga took the opportunity to scold him, which may be one of the reasons why Mitsuhide Akechi attacked Oda Nobunaga; at the same time, after learning that Oda Nobunaga was angry about this, the people who came to visit the hermit Although there are obviously fewer of them, the villagers know that these people are hermits who came to see them in disguise."

"So at the beginning, the villagers didn't take it seriously. As a result, the group went down the mountain and left not long after. However, less than an hour after the group left, the next group of people who came to visit the hermit ran away. After they came down, they claimed that the hermit had disappeared. Only then did the villagers recall a detail, that is, there seemed to be one more person when the group left. In addition, the person's behavior was normal, so the villagers I subconsciously ignored this person. Now it seems that that person should be the hermit. From then on, there was no news about the hermit. At the same time, one day later, Akechi Mitsuhide led his men to burn Honnoji Temple. The rest of the history for you You should also know, so I won’t go into details here.”

Hearing this, Yin En said subconsciously: "In that case, the person who took away the hermit must be Akechi Mitsuhide, and it was the hermit who persuaded Akechi Mitsuhide to betray Oda Nobunaga and lead troops to burn Honnōji Temple? "

"Yes, the folklore in Duhe Town believes that the hermit has the ability to predict the future, so when Mitsuhide Akechi went to see the hermit for the first time, the hermit told Akechi Mitsuhide about the burning of Honnoji Temple. However, the hermit did not mention that after Oda Nobunaga, he was the protagonist of the burning of Honnōji Temple, so Akechi Mitsuhide did not bother to take the hermit away, and ran directly back to Oda Nobunaga to return his life. Of course, Oda Nobunaga was I didn’t believe that something would happen to me when I was about to reach the peak of my life, so I cursed Akechi Mitsuhide.”

"After being scolded, Akechi Mitsuhide became more and more angry after leading the troops to leave, so he disguised himself and went to find trouble with the hermit. As a result, he was persuaded by the hermit again in the end, and the hermit even He was preparing to assist him to replace Oda Nobunaga, so the burning of Honnōji Temple occurred only after this; this is the earliest version of the folklore of Duhe Town. In subsequent versions, it is also mentioned that after the hermit disappeared, Someone went to the hermit's hut on the mountain and found the hermit's prophecy book, which mentioned that Mitsuhide Akechi would be defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and that after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the island country would be owned by Tokugawa Ieyasu."

Sawada Yayin shrugged and said with a smile: "Obviously, the first version of the folk legend in Duhe Town is very likely to be true. There was indeed an outsider living in seclusion in Duhe Town at that time, and this The world-famous master also played a lot of roles in the incident of burning Honnoji Temple, and he may even be the leader; however, the subsequent versions are constantly adding fuel and jealousy, which is not credible, but there is a key point here - the place where the hermit once lived. Although the thatched cottage has long since disappeared like its owner, the hermit most likely left some things on the mountain, perhaps near the original site of the thatched cottage, so Baihe City was built for these things. I went to Duhe Town and got these things, but it caused a landslide."

Reasonable and convincing.

"So Baihe City should have left Duhe Town by now, right?" Zhang Jingxu asked.

Sawada Yaon sighed and replied: "In all likelihood, my friend also met Baihecheng the next day and confirmed that Baihecheng was the person I asked to find. But Baihe City happened to go back home at that time, so my friend brought a few people to arrest him first, so that he could exchange favors with me. Unexpectedly, Baihe City stayed at home for a whole day and there was no one. As soon as I left home, my friend realized something was wrong, so he went to investigate and found that White River City had disappeared, so he called me just now."

As soon as Sawada Yayin finished speaking, Master Zixuan slapped his thigh and said with some depression: "I should have gone to investigate when there was a traffic jam, and maybe I could catch up to Baihe City, because when I got there, the mountain The landslide happened less than ten minutes ago, so maybe Baihe City had just found what it wanted."

"So, where will White River City go next?"

Yin En frowned, looked at Sawada Yaon and said, "Yon, can you find out what else the hermit did after he left with Akechi Mitsuhide?"