The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"Huo Qing'e?" Marisa muttered this unfamiliar name and thought carefully for once: "Is your last name Huo? It doesn't sound like someone from here."

"exactly."

The girl who called herself Huo Qing'e smiled and nodded: "I come from the continent across the sea. As for my profession, according to your words, it should be - an immortal."

"Immortal?"

Reimu and Marisa looked at each other, but they were not surprised. After all, in this unfamiliar land, immortals were not a rare species.

Before Gensokyo was established, there were many forces fighting against each other in this far east land, mainly Buddhism spread from the mainland and the local indigenous god system.

At this time, another emerging force was born, and that was the Taoist priests.

But this is the way they are called in the mainland. After incorporating spells and secret techniques, the name for them in this far east land should be - Onmyoji.

But whether they are onmyojis or Taoist priests, they all have the same piety.

It is not a belief in some actual god or a fictitious belief. They only believe in their own strength and the saint's way.

Cultivating Taoism and becoming immortal is their only pursuit in this world.

Immortal - that is the final manifestation of this almost extravagant pursuit.

And the person in front of him, how should I put it, does not have the lofty attitude of the immortal, but has a vague sense of twisted incongruity, like the smile on the face of a clown, the taste of darkness is too strong.

"Why do immortals come to my shrine?"

Reimu's expression was definitely not friendly, which was very rude for a person meeting for the first time, but she didn't realize it. After all, she didn't care who taught her.

"Shouldn't all immortals stay in heaven?"

Marisa's words eased the atmosphere: "Did something strange happen again?"

"It's a mutation, so to speak."

Huo Qing'e spoke vaguely, and her smiling look only made people feel that her credibility was very low.

"Something happened in the heaven. It seems that an unknown eldest lady ran away from home."

"Ah?" Lingmeng said with a straight face and extremely coldly: "What does that have to do with me? As you can see, no one exists here except us."

"That seems to be the case. This is really troubling. She should be here obviously."

The words were embarrassing, but there was no trace of worry on Huo Qing'e's face. It would be better to say that the smile in her eyes had increased a bit.

Female fox.

Lingmeng cursed secretly in his heart, but kept a calm expression on his face: "Now that you know that young lady is no longer here, you should leave as well, right?"

"That's really rude. Is this how Hakurei Miko treats guests?"

"Then it depends on who the guest is. No, what kind of guest are you?"

"Haha, it's so cold, but forget it."

Faced with Ling Meng's bad attitude, Huo Qing'e showed the demeanor of an immortal and did not care about her. Instead, she said kindly: "In addition to being the eldest lady in the heaven, I have other things to do here. .”

"If you have anything to do, leave quickly and don't bother me."

"But what if I say, this matter is related to you?"

"Huh?" Lingmeng's expression changed slightly, and she looked at Huo Qing'e with an increasingly unkind expression: "Do you want to be expelled, too?"

"Hey, trust me a little bit."

Huo Qing'e touched the non-existent tears at the corner of her eyes and pretended to be on the verge of tears. Under that endearing posture, there was a hint of natural charm.

"I'm really here to talk to you about business," Huo Qing'e lowered her voice and said in a deliberately weak voice: "Don't you want to know the cause of the earthquake?"

"Sure enough, this is man-made!"

Huo Qing'e's words successfully attracted Lingmeng's attention. She asked in a more rude tone than before: "Tell me, who is it that attacked my shrine?"

Only when questioning others can she show her identity as the maintainer of order in Gensokyo. Hakurei Miko's trademark has probably not been carried out since modern times.

It's just that no one is willing to do it.

"Please don't get me wrong, I didn't do this."

The hostility in Ling Meng's eyes was visible, and Huo Qing'e didn't want to touch her brow for no reason. This was a gasoline barrel that could explode at a moment's notice, and its impact would be very wide.

"Then tell me quickly, who is the prisoner?"

"I'm very sorry, Miss Miko, I don't know who the prisoner is, but—"

When Ling Meng was about to become impatient, Huo Qing'e cleverly used the charm of language to suppress the other party's anger: "I know the cause of the earthquake."

".reason?"

"Yes."

Inducing each other little by little, Huo Qing'e, who had gained a foundation of trust, passed the two of them step by step, and stopped about ten steps in front of the shrine.

"Here," Huo Qing'e tapped the incomparably ordinary stone brick under her feet with her toes, and said, "The 'reason' lies in it."

"Here? You didn't lie to me?"

Looking at that ordinary stone brick, Lingmeng couldn't think of any "reason" inside, but Huo Qing'e had no reason to tease her with such boring tricks.

So despite being full of doubts, Reimu and Marisa removed the stone bricks together. It was as troublesome as repairing a house. You ask her why she didn't just smash it with a punch? nonsense! Don’t even look at whose home this is!

The two removed the stone bricks, and under Huo Qing'e's guidance, dug down a short distance.

Click!

The shovel in Reimu's hand let out a mournful cry, and the vibrations from above also made Reimu grit his teeth.

"What is it, so hard?"

The two laboriously dug out part of the side, and then the unknown object was completely exposed to the sun.

"Stone?"

It was a stone tied with a rope.

"This is not an ordinary stone, but a 'necessary stone'."

Huo Qing'e kindly explained to the two of them that her cute look of caring about others was so deceptive that no one saw the slightly raised corners of her mouth.

"This is what caused the earthquake, and only by removing it can we completely eradicate the hidden danger."

"Just take it out?"

"Yes, but unfortunately, the only ones who can pull out and insert the key stone are the Hinaju clan in the heaven, so——"

Huo Qing'e suddenly showed an extremely malicious smile: "Destroy it."

It was night, Takeru looked at the clock on the wall, his brows kept twitching: "Why hasn't Rikka come back yet? Are you really planning to change your profession and become an adventurer? Then teaming up with that idiot Tokomaru is destined to produce a newbie. Is the village cold?”

But just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt like the world was spinning.

"Did you make a mistake? Hey! Come again?!"