Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 369
Open your eyes, it's a new day...

not always.

There is only one color of sky in Huangquan, and it is difficult to distinguish between morning and evening, Sogu wants to know the exact time.

After moving his hands, he found that he could lift his arms, and he took out the phone from his pocket.

"..."

The screen is dark and cannot be turned on.

Even after doing nothing, the phone drained all of its power in standby mode after so many days.

Turning his head, Hongzi's mobile phone was placed beside him.

Hongzi, who has been awake all this time, consciously turned off the phone early to save the battery, so as not to stay in the underworld without knowing the time.

She was also lying beside him at this time, her eyes were closed, her breathing was calm, and she hadn't woken up yet.

The two lay here like corpses for two days, except getting up to look for steamed buns and eating steamed buns, most of the time they did nothing, just lay down;

He would talk to her when he was awake, and she would stand by when he was sinking, slowly waiting for his body to return to normal.

I don't know if it's because of good luck, or because of something else. Although there are spirit bodies passing by from time to time, they turn a blind eye to the two people behind the broken wall, and at most they just look at them a few times.

After all, the spirits in Huangquan are all kinds of strange things, and it is not surprising to do anything.

It is precisely because of this that they can stay here forever.

Hongzi has no strength to restrain a chicken, and he is almost unable to move. The seven divine powers on his body have been silenced after the Thunder God escaped. If they really encountered any malicious spirits, the two of them could only wait for death. .

Turning his head to look at Hongzi for a while, Soya moved his arms, picked up her mobile phone with some difficulty, opened it and checked the time.

"Six o'clock in the morning..."

There is still about 60.00% of the phone's battery left, there is no signal here, and naturally no news can be received, Soya quickly turned off the phone again.

Putting the phone back, looking at the void above his head, he stared blankly again.

Today is the eighth day of falling into the underworld.

About an hour or two later, Hongzi also woke up.

After waking up, she dared to get closer to him, although even if he crushed Zonggu in his sleep, he would not say anything.

"Good morning...is it morning?"

Hongzi picked up the phone and was about to turn it on to check the time. Sogu said that it was around seven or eight o'clock, but she didn't turn it on, but looked at her face on the screen.

"I haven't washed my face or hair for eight days..."

"I was two years..."

"—oh, I don't want to hear it."

Putting down the phone, she said again, "Do you want to sit up?"

"Well... I seem to be able to get up by myself."

As Soya said, he slowly straightened his waist and supported the ground with his arms on both sides. Although there was still some pain, he managed to sit up by himself.

"Look...why are you crying?"

"Eh……"

Hongzi sat by and watched, stunned for a moment, wiped his eyes, only to find that his fingertips were a little wet.

"No, that... I just feel a little touched."

She quickly wiped it twice, and then said: "Great. In two days, Soya will be back to normal."

"Probably not so soon, but not too long."

His legs were weak, and he still couldn't stand up. He moved to the side and leaned against the broken wall.

"Do you want to eat?"

"Ah."

Hongzi went to the side and brought two steamed buns, sharing one with him.

He can feed himself now, without her tearing it off piece by piece to feed.

"what about the taste?"

"Excellent." Sogu opened his eyes and said nonsense, "The hand sweat soaked in the fragrance of a young girl is like nectar from heaven. It makes people want to lick it completely before they are willing to eat it."

"……abnormal."

He took a bite, "This will make me less resistant to eating."

Hongzi muttered again, "It's even more perverted", and took a bite too.

Huang Quan's steamed buns are not made of starch, and they won't have any taste after chewing them ten thousand times. They are so boring that she can't find anything similar to them.

"What does soil taste like..."

"It's the smell of earth."

"Where's the sand?"

"The smell of sand."

"What kind of taste is this steamed bun?"

"If I have to say it, it's the smell of the air."

It was just tasteless.

After eating the tasteless breakfast, Soya lay down, and Hongzi walked around a little.

She didn't dare to run too far, and quickly returned to his side with a pile of steamed buns in her arms.

"what are you doing."

"No, that... I'm thinking, if there are no new steamed buns suddenly, what should Soya and I eat... So I want to save some first."

"Unless Huangquan is destroyed, this day will never appear."

Zongya looked at her and the steamed buns in her arms, "And I can't keep it."

"why?"

"Just like the wild vegetables in the countryside, if you pick them and don't eat them, they will wither. The food in the Yellow Spring is the same... It's just that it doesn't 'wither' in form, but returns to the source, that is, it is re-decomposed into the power of the Yellow Spring. Time also faster."

"yes……"

Hongzi piled the steamed buns on the ground, then lay down beside him, staring at them all the time.

"Aren't you tired of staring like this?"

"tired."

"Then change it to a way that you can feel it as soon as it changes."

"what……"

Soya pointed to the ground under each other's heads, "As a pillow."

Hongzi hesitated, "Isn't it good to treat food like this..."

"I don't really understand what you are talking about, the person who put a pile of steamed buns on the ground."

She curled her lips, and then acted, using steamed buns to pile up a double-layer pillow for Soya and herself.

"It's quite soft... There's an inexplicable sense of guilt."

"It's all made by Hongzi, it has nothing to do with me."

She turned her head and glared at him, "Then let the gods punish me."

"..."

Hearing her mention of the gods, Soya fell silent for a while.

Although he recovered quickly, Hongzi still noticed the change in his mood.

"what happened?"

He wanted to say nothing at first, but he stopped trying to hide it when he spoke: "I'm just waiting for the gods to save me and Hongzi."

"..."

Hongzi was also silent for a while, "Master Yuedu?"

"No, it's Tsukiyomi-sama's mother."

"Master Yueyue's mother... doesn't he have a mother?" Ever since she found out about Yueyue's actual identity, she privately researched the part of the myth that was related to him—although it took only a few minutes to finish the research.

"There is a mother in name." Soya said, "That is Lord Izanami."

"The god who created Japan?"

"Well. She is also the master of this ghost country in the underworld."

"yes……"

Looking at the void above his head, Hongzi let out a long breath.

"Please come and save Soya and me, Izanami-sama."

Soya didn't say anything more, and she also fell silent.

When waiting at a loss, emotions are always ups and downs, and the turning point is often just a careless word, or a trivial thought that pops up suddenly.

At a high place, the two can talk and laugh as they did when they were still alive, turning a blind eye to the current embarrassment;
Falling into the trough, they didn't want to speak for a long time, each harboring the darkest negative thoughts, secretly sad.

Time flows silently and quietly, without any trace.

Picking up the phone that was turned off, Soya paused for a while, then put it down again.

"Aren't you going to open it?"

"It's not necessary." He looked at Hongzi who was downcast, "Are you all right?"

"..."

She didn't speak, just shook her head.

"I want to hold you."

Raising her eyes to look at him, Hongzi moved her body and lay down with him.

Just the simple movement of turning up sideways made Soya grin his teeth in pain, and it took him a long time to recover.

"Are you ok……"

Hongzi stared at his face for a while, saw him shaking his head, then slowly hugged his body, and pressed his face to his chest.

"Songya."

"Ah."

"Are we really alive?"

"Maybe."

The severe pain made his voice weak and firm.

"Pain makes me feel alive."

Hongzi hugged him even tighter, "Only by holding Zonggu like this, can I believe that everything in front of me is real, not a dream."

"At least I'm real." Sogu lowered his head and stroked her back.

The two hugged each other tightly, embracing each other in silence, until the steamed buns under their heads suddenly dissipated and they knocked to the ground together.

"pain……"

Hongzi rubbed her head, then sat up immediately, and touched the place where the steamed bun disappeared.

"It's really gone." She grabbed the air in front of her, "It's completely gone."

"It's not completely disappeared..." Although he couldn't see or touch it, Sogu could feel the power of the underworld around his head suddenly become stronger.

"It's 'grown' out there again." Hongzi looked at a nearby section of the wall, where the steamed buns that she had taken away had reappeared.

"All in all, don't worry about running out of food," Soya said.

"Okay. Any more pillows?"

"Forget it, it hurts to hit the head suddenly."

Hongzi stopped collecting steamed buns and lay down beside him again.

"Soya seems to be awake for a lot longer today."

"Well, my head is not so dizzy. I also want to be with Hongzi."

"Isn't it forced?"

"Do not worry."

But Soya's sobriety lasted all day.

It wasn't until about ten o'clock in the "night" that he felt a little drowsy as usual.

"Soya's body is gradually returning to normal..."

"Ah."

With the extreme state he was in when he hunted down the Eight Thunder Gods seven or eight days ago, Soya felt that it was not surprising that he died on the spot, but he still survived. This is no longer explained by his strong will to survive.

It's probably because of this special physique, he thought, and the power of the underworld that nourishes his body all the time is also indispensable.

On the brink of death, he has accepted the fact that he is not a normal person.

And now, he is not the only living citizen of Huangquan Kingdom - there is one more Hongzi.

Perhaps this is not entirely a bad thing, Soya thought again.

At least in the Underworld, they will never starve to death. Even if they are injured a little, they can quickly recover with the nourishment of the power of the Underworld.

But they won't stay in the underworld forever.

As his body recovered a bit, Soya's confidence also rose.

Even if Emperor Ju didn't come to the rescue in the end, he still has many things he hasn't tried, so he might not be able to escape.

"I will definitely find a way to get Hongzi out of here."

"Eh... well, I trust Soya."

"When we return to the human world, Hongzi will wear Kirino's amulet, so that the daughter of the underworld will not be able to detect your existence."

"Where's Soya?"

He opened his hand, and a dark green hook jade appeared in the palm of his hand, "I have this."

After being in a coma for five days and regaining consciousness, he found that the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu's effect of shielding spiritual perception had also recovered.

Reminiscent of Chao Wuling's previous mention that the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu needed the power of the underworld to drive it, he couldn't help guessing that maybe it was because the power of the underworld in the gouyu was exhausted that it suddenly failed.

It's just that the timing is too coincidental...

It can't be Yuedu or Ju Tianzi who secretly turned off Bachi Qiong Gouyu's effect of shielding spiritual perception, right?

This idea suddenly popped up in his mind, Soya shook his head again, thinking it was impossible.

He couldn't think of a reason why they did it.

"Eight-foot Qiong Gouyu..."

Hongzi picked up the Gouyu, played with it for a while, and then took out the Mirror of Sutras from his pocket.

"I can't believe it, two of the real three artifacts are in my hands."

Zonggu looked at the two things in her hand and said, "If you're lucky, you might be able to see the third artifact in the underworld."

"Amazon Cloud Sword?"

"Well, the Tiancongyun sword was also left in the underworld." He paused, and brought hope to the matter that was just mentioned casually, "It would be great if I could really pick it up."

When she was in a coma, Hongzi only cared about carrying him, and the samurai sword that had been broken twice was nowhere to be seen.

He never felt safe without a weapon at his side.

Gotta get a weapon with me...

However, this is something that he can only consider after his body has fully recovered.

Putting down the Gouyu and the bronze mirror, Hongzi stood up, stood behind the broken wall and looked into the distance.

"Even if I don't hold the Mirror of Sutra, I can see the spirit body now."

"..."

She lowered her head, "Is it because I ate Huang Quan's food?"

"Ah."

"Is it the same after going out?"

Soya thought for a while, then nodded.

"Then I'm considered a spiritual sense person now?" Hongzi asked again.

"It's not the same thing. Hongzi just becomes 'visible'."

"Ok."

It's the same if you see too many spirit bodies. Most of them don't look much different from ordinary people. It's just that the fierce ones become more intense, and the negative ones become more negative.After standing for a while, she sat down again.

Putting away the bronze mirror, Hongzi asked, "Does Sogu want to lie down?"

Soya nodded, and then said: "I can lie down by myself."

"Oh."

Hongzi was happy for him, but also a little disappointed in her heart: as his body gradually recovered, he became less dependent on her.

She certainly hoped that he could get rid of the pain as soon as possible, but selfishness was unavoidable.

Although she always talked about what to do after leaving here, in her heart, she thought more about another extreme possibility: what would she do if she couldn't get out for the rest of her life?
Do you want to stay in the underworld until you are seventy or eighty, until you die of old age?
The place is desolate and there is nothing. The only thing to be thankful for is that he is still with me——no Akane, no Sugawara-senpai, and no Bell, just him and her.

She can only rely on him, similarly, the only person he can rely on and touch is her.

But is that all she wants?
In this world, her parents, sister and best friend are waiting for her, and her life has just begun...

"what happened?"

"fine……"

Soya moved his body and lay down beside him.

Hongzi also lay down beside him, looking at the void.

"I'm thinking...what if Soya and I can't get out."

"Don't talk about such topics that make people sleepless."

"If you can't sleep, you can't sleep. Anyway, there is plenty of time now."

"I will do everything possible to bring Hongzi and me back to the human world." Soya said.

"Yeah." Tilting her head, she leaned on his shoulder, "I believe in Soya. I just...just think about it."

"If you really can't leave..."

He also followed her words of "thinking about it casually", "In the remaining decades, I will probably take Hongzi and travel as far as possible in Huangquan."

"Will you marry me?"

"Of course." Soya smiled, "Although there is no church or shrine here, Hongzi will become my only wife. We will give birth to countless children, covering the entire underworld."

"..."

She blushed a little, and because of his nonsense in the second half of the sentence, she raised her hand to pinch him, but when she fell, she just grabbed his arm.

"Two are enough...a boy and a girl."

"Sorry, I'm not ready to be a father. I'm only a high school student myself."

"Here he is, the kind of man in late-night dramas who always gives up. He's handsome, playful, and irresponsible. Everything fits Soya's image."

Soya smiled.

"I won't give up Hongzi."

She was silent for a while, then let out a long breath, and turned her head to the other side.

"It's just because Soya has nothing to choose now, so he chooses me. If he can return to the human world, Soya will still choose Sugawara-senpai."

"Of course I will choose Kyoko." Soya said, "But I will not let go of Hongko either."

"Speaking like this again..."

He held her hand, "Because I've been thinking about it seriously since the day I told Hongzi."

"..."

"I am this kind of man who obeys his desires and is insatiable, but even if he knows that I am such a person, Hongzi still can't give up on me, can he?"

She didn't speak.

"I can't give up anyone between you and Qian."

Hearing that he mentioned Akane Kirino, Hongzi immediately pursed her lips and turned her back to him.

"I'm sleepy."

There was only the sound of him taking a deep breath.

With her back turned silent, she lay down for more than half an hour, but she still didn't feel sleepy at all.

Turning around again, he closed his eyes and seemed to have fallen asleep.

After watching him for a while, Hongzi slowly approached him again, leaning on his shoulder.

"Obviously I don't know if I can see them again... Can't you lie to me before you go back?"

"I don't want to deceive Hongzi."

"..."

Soya opened his eyes, supported his trembling arms, and sat up.

"It's not good for both of us to deceive ourselves at this time." He paused, "What's more, I will definitely take Hongzi out of here."

Even if he went to "eat people", he would take her out of Huangquan.

(End of this chapter)