Returning from the abyss

Chapter 262 The Ritual Wedge
Lu Ning would not agree to let others enter the RV when she was not around.

Thanks to the secret scene, after she made such a request, Sugiyama and Inawara had no objections, and the two tried to squeeze out space in the co-pilot.Fortunately, these two people are petite, and the space in the RV is not bad enough.

"It's not a long time from here, but just in case, I hope we can have a limited exchange of the range of problems we can deal with." Lu Ning started the car, glanced at the two co-pilots, "My My main skill lies in medical skills, I am also good at making some poisons, and my marksmanship is okay. But that’s all I can do. The distribution center assigns me a supporting role, so don’t expect me to be able to burst out in a crisis Come strength."

"Understand, understand!" Sugiyama looked very excited, "Asayama told me, he already told you some of our identities and backgrounds, right? But he can't know too much."

"Yes, the two of you are onmyojis. Generally speaking, you can't misunderstand this profession, right?"

"No. But you also know that there are many different branches in the Onmyoji system. My family and Inahara's strength are similar, and the research directions are different. We are respectively good at techniques and formulas."

As Sugiyama said, he stretched his hand to his neck and pulled out a pendant. It was a transparent round crystal ball, half filled with liquid, which flowed slowly with the movement of Sugiyama.

"Under normal circumstances, we don't need you to save us when we encounter danger. It's enough to do a good job of self-protection. The technique I'm good at is the Five Elements Technique, which is enough to deal with most situations, and Inahara..."

"Let me say it myself." Inahara nodded, "Doctor Lu has also seen it before. What I can drive is a 'shiki', but I don't have my own shikigami, and the ones I use are all temporarily condensed. The advantage of the department lies in savings, because as long as the 'style' is done, it can be kept, and if you give me time, it will not be a problem to form a legion."

"But don't count on it now, she is protecting herself at most." Sugiyama poked at her unceremoniously.

Inahara smiled and did not argue.Lu Ning followed and nodded.

Just like herself, the two of them will definitely not tell the truth, the identities issued by the distribution center are enough to put several layers of masks on everyone, but from another perspective, the two of them can definitely do what they said now.

That would be much more convenient.

It took more than ten minutes for Lu Ning to park the car at the lakeside hut, and the three of them got out of the car and walked towards the gate of the hut. When they passed the outer fence, they found that the windows of the restaurant had been restored to their original state.

"Tomorrow is Tuesday." Lu Ning stood still, "The only cleaner in town who will come here must have not been here, so..."

"The legend is true."

Sugiyama held the crystal ball ornament and shook it lightly, the liquid inside gradually turned white.

"One style, silhouette."

Inahara threw the four paper figurines around, and the paper figurines melted as soon as they touched the ground. Then, besides her original shadow, four elongated figures appeared from under Inahara's feet. The four shadows completely ignored light and light. The pattern of the shadow continued to stretch to the restaurant and its surroundings until the head entered the restaurant through the window.

"There is nothing abnormal, everything is as if no one has touched it." Inawara bit his finger subconsciously, "Do you remember when we left?"

"I wish I could restore those logs too." Sugiyama opened the door, glanced at the yard, and frowned.

"The grill that Carl left here is gone, but there's something we can look at."

Lu Ning jumped over the fence and jumped into the front yard, walking towards the swimming pool in the corner.

After Robert showed her the water bottle that night, he left it by the pool. After so many things happened, he didn't recycle it.

But now, the glass bottle is still there, but the water inside has become clearer.

Strangely, no matter how much Lu Ning picked up the bottle and shook it, the water remained clear, and the substances that made the water dirty did not "precipitate", but disappeared directly.

Or……

Lu Ning looked at the still muddy pool.

Back to the original place?
After checking this, Sugiyama and Inawara ran to the tool room familiarly, Lu Ning followed, and soon came to the entrance of the basement again.

It was a simple cover covered with a dirty blanket, and when Sugiyama and Inawara were about to lift the blanket, they stopped at the same time.

"Have you been here before?" Lu Ning glanced at the blanket and the dusty ground with no other traces around it.

"Do you think it's restoration?"

Sugiyama asked Inahara.

"Don't know, but it's never a good thing."

There was a little cold sweat on Inahara's head.

Among the various puzzles in the scene, the time dilemma is always the top five in the tricky list.

And the second-order people have more or less experienced some, obviously Sugiyama and Inawara's experience in this aspect is not very good.

"Don't worry too much about it now." Lu Ning moved the blanket aside with her feet, and then opened the basement with the two of them, "If it's restoration, you can still use it."

The three of them walked down the basement.Since they had already been here once, it was much faster to find those pieces of wood again. Sugiyama and Inawara quickly dug out pieces of wood from the debris pile in the basement, and piled them in front of the stairs.Lu Ning didn't have the ability to search, so she squatted down to check the logs.

From her point of view, the wood looks like a puzzle.

They were not discarded after being destroyed, each fragment was painted and oiled for anti-corrosion treatment, and the cut surface was flat, it should be hidden here after it was cut open on purpose.

But... Even as a demon, Lu Ning couldn't feel any special power on it.

She began to try to stitch the wooden blocks together, according to the grain and some traces on them.It's a pity that those are not words, but other nicks.

It didn't take long before all the wooden blocks were found. Sugiyama and Inawara also joined in the jigsaw puzzle game. The speed of the three of them working together was much faster. Finally, a large puzzle in the shape of a hexagram was completed, and those The scars form a pattern of hexagons and centers.

The person who carved the pattern was crude, and it looked like a stick figure from the outside.The six corners are engraved with a matchstick-like villain, a diamond-shaped eye, a heart held on a thin stick, a key, a tree without leaves, and a severed cross.

Surrounded by six patterns in the middle is a symbol like "♀".

"What is this? Female?" Sugiyama poked the symbol in the middle, a little puzzled, "Could it be a witch?"

"Probably so."

"What are these... what are they around? What special meaning do they have?"

"The ritual of summoning the witch?" Inahara also guessed.

Lu Ning let the two of them think about it, and she began to think about the origin of this wooden board.

The information known to ordinary tourists includes the scene name of the devil and the return of the witch. Although it is not difficult to associate it with the summoning of the witch, no one knows that the devil must perform the witch ritual to make the witch return.The thing on the wooden board is obviously related to the ritual, and the symbol should indeed represent the witch, but it also has another meaning...

If that's the case, then she has to think about what kind of state the witch is in.

But before that, the credibility of the plank must be confirmed.

She took out her notebook, copied three copies of the pattern on the wooden board, and gave it to Sugiyama and Inawara.

"You said before that you felt some strange energy on it?"

"Yes, this board should have undergone special treatment." Sugiyama's fingers moved slowly between the lines, "I can still feel it now, this kind of thing is like Yin Qi, or death Qi? Strange , who on earth disassembled the plank and threw it in such a place where no one can find it for what?"

If it weren't for Sugiyama and Inawara, this board might never see the light of day.

"Maybe it's a emergency response, should we take the wooden block back?" Inahara asked.

"Take, let's see if it will come back by itself." After Sugiyama finished speaking, he looked at Lu Ning with embarrassment, "I mean... is it okay to rub the car?"

"can."

The three of them moved the wooden block out separately and put it on the RV.When Lu Ning closed the car door, she felt something flash past out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head hastily, but what she saw was the quiet forest.

"Hey... was there something just now?"

"What? I didn't pay attention." Sugiyama also looked in the direction where Lu Ging was looking, but found nothing.

Another hallucination?

Lu Ning couldn't help feeling suspicious, if the hallucinations belonged to the witch, then why did she keep looking for herself, a demon who was in the same camp as her?Shouldn't human tourists be disturbed?
She wasn't going to catch up. On the contrary, Sugiyama became a little nervous. Holding the crystal ball in his fingers, he kept a close eye on that direction, and stepped back into the cab step by step.

"No, I may have read it wrong." Lu Ning started the car safely, and Sugiyama felt a little safe when he heard the sound of the engine. However, at this moment, Inahara suddenly asked a question.

"By the way, what did you do with the bodies of Sally and Xue Fengchun that day?"

"Corpse? Of course they brought back—"

Before Sugiyama finished speaking, he suddenly stopped.

What if the corpse is really brought back?Xue Fengchun's body was moved away by Qu Siyuan and Pan Haishu, while Sally's body was driven back by Luo Nan, but... how to cover it up?

The best way is to find a place on the road and bury it, or even throw it away deep in the woods. After all, no matter how good the emotional performance is on the surface, whether the tourists really know each other is still a problem!
A shadow suddenly flickered in front of my eyes, and the dimness at that moment was almost at the limit of human reaction, if it wasn't for a high degree of tension, I wouldn't even be able to detect it.

"Use gold, Yang Lei!"

Sugiyama was already in a state of being on the verge of firing, and when he was so frightened, he immediately threw out the spell in his hand. The golden thunder and lightning shot out directly from the car. Immediately turn off the fire.

"Hey! Don't panic—"

boom!
A mass of black and red mixed matter exploded on the car window. It was a crow. It swooped down at an extremely fast speed and hit the car window desperately, and of course it was crushed to pieces.However, in contrast to this, there were also inconspicuous cracks on the windows.

"Damn it!" Shanshan stretched out his hand to support the roof of the car, and held up the crystal ball with the other hand. The white gradually turned black like ink, "Lu Ning! Let's go! We have to get out of here!"

"I'm starting the ignition!" Lu Ning turned the key several times, perhaps because of the lightning strike just now, the car didn't respond for a long time.

"Star style, break the army."

Inahara stretched out his hand and stuck the two paper figurines on the car window, and the strong wind blew up from the car window, and the two crows that came after them were cut into four pieces by the wind blade in an instant, and then swept in other directions.

"Jin Shengshui—can't it be activated yet? I apologize! But don't make a mistake at this time!" Seeing another crow pounced down from the side, Shanshan hurriedly activated the spell.

"It's just a crow, we can handle it." Inahara is still stable, and he can take the time to comfort Lu Ning, "You just need to concentrate on starting the car."

Blossoms of ice lotus flowers appeared outside the car. These lotus flowers looked intangible, but they condensed into shape the moment the crow passed through, instantly crushing a crow from the inside out.

Fortunately, Lu Ning finally restarted the car.

The RV moved slowly, and the sound of collisions came from behind the car that he had no time to pay attention to. It was hard to imagine what it was like. Lu Ning turned the car and quickly drove to the woods, but there were still crows rushing down from the sky. A lot of flesh and blood on the glass was removed by the wind, but new ones were inevitably stained.

"This is not acceptable! The line of sight will be blocked." Lu Ning kept trying to scrape off the flesh and blood with the wiper, but it only made the car window more blurred.

"Broken window! The two of us cover you to leave!" Inahara made a decisive decision.

"Water—dry the rain!"

Sugiyama reached out and pressed his hand against the car window, and there was a clear cracking sound, the glass and the blood on it were shattered into fine fragments, which scattered forward in the shape of a torrential rain, and all the crows trying to jump down from the front were hit by this blow Immediately after the hit, his whole body was torn apart, and instantly exploded into a new rain of blood.

"These were the birds just now?" Lu Ning regained her unobstructed vision, stepping on the accelerator and throwing off the pursuit of the crows at the fastest speed, "But the birds are pecking...it doesn't seem to be..."

At this time, subconsciously driving, she glanced at the rearview mirror.

Dozens of crows were hovering in the low sky on the road that was getting farther and farther away, and a woman wearing a black fringed robe stood in the middle of the road.Her face was a silver metal mask with only a narrow slit for the eyes.The woman raised her hand, and a crow landed on her wrist, making a hoarse and ugly cry.

Her short pale blonde hair was slowly lifted in the wind by the flapping crows' wings, and then she turned her head.As the car turned a corner, the figure of the woman was completely blocked by the trees.

"Those crows don't seem to be chasing them anymore." Inahara was the first to notice this.

(End of this chapter)