The Witch's Taste

Chapter 31 The Gaze of the Gods

Looking at the old book on the table, Chen Ziang, Ashiya Yu, and Tsukimiya Suzuna all started their inspirations at the same time.

In the vision of inspiration, the book exudes a certain strong smell of death and decay, which is clearly a huge source of pollution, and even one more glance at the contents in it may lead to a sharp rise in spiritual vision.

Take a look at Naoya Yasui, the high-spirited and famous author who became famous for the series of "Shen Yin" novels, at this moment, he is like a bereaved dog slumped on the sofa, his sanity has almost collapsed.

"Should we call the police?" Ashiya Yu asked Chen Ziang.

Although the main business of the detective agency is to make money, it doesn't dare to make any money.

For something like this that is clearly dangerous to the extreme, of course it is safest to hand it over to the Public Security Department for handling.

"Forget it." Chen Ziang shook his head, "They are so busy now, it's better not to make trouble for them."

"Really? Oh, pretend I didn't ask." Ashiya Yu quickly realized.

The strongest operator of the sixth class has been kicked out, and the rest are chickens and dogs, how can we fight?
"Hmph." Yuegong Suzuna let out a sarcastic sneer from the side.

"Then I'll leave this book to you." Ashiya Yu laughed, "Just treat it as me calling the police."

"Mr. Yasui, where did you find this book?" Chen Ziang asked for confirmation.

Yasui Naoya didn't speak, just closed his eyes tightly, took out the mobile phone from his trouser pocket, and threw it to him.

Chen Ziang picked up the phone, the screen was not locked, and it opened with a swipe. Inside was a memo interface filled with text - the author seemed to be using the memo software that comes with the phone to record his writing process and creative inspiration :

"On April 4th, I got this book from the depths of the abandoned mine. The content of the book is more interesting than I expected. Although it seems that most of them are the ravings of madmen and mental patients, as long as they are combined with smooth logic With a little adaptation, it is very suitable as the background setting of my new book."

Nothing was recorded later, Chen Ziang quickly flipped forward, and soon found the specific location of the "abandoned mine":

"On March 3, there is still no clue about the new book."

"A reader who called herself 'Miss Xichuan' recommended a suitable target for me to collect materials—Lingyi Town."

(Miss Nishikawa? Could it be that witch Mie Nishikawa?)

"This remote town, like other industrial towns outside of the Extreme North City, prospered at first because of the discovery of metal mines, and eventually declined because of the exhaustion of shallow mine sources. Now it has been completely abandoned."

"But what is different is that before Lingyi Town was completely abandoned by the residents, a strange folk shrine once sprang up."

"The shrine maiden claimed that as long as the bones were sacrificed to the so-called 'god of the mine', the exhausted mine deposits could be regenerated. For some reason, the local residents believed their nonsense and dug up the graves of their ancestors one after another. The bones were taken out and dedicated to the shrine."

"Later, every family was even proud of the dead. Once there was an old man who was about to die in the family, they would happily dress him up and invite guests to celebrate the event. The light is sent to the shrine, dedicated to the strange and spooky 'mine spirit'."

"I personally think that this story is just a microcosm of countless cases of townspeople in decline who want to organize themselves to save themselves, but even among the various folklore of our island people's ancient 800 million gods, this story belongs to the The kind that can make people feel creepy after thinking about it, I hope my trip to investigate and collect materials will go well this time.”

"Lingyi Town." Yuegong Lingna searched for this place name on her mobile phone, and whispered to Chen Ziang, "It's more than 1200 kilometers away from Jibei City, it's so far away!"

"It's not easy to start the car at work." Chen Ziang thought for a moment, then said, "I'll give this book to Hoikaze first, and see what she can research."

He picked up the paper bag that Naoya Yasui brought over by the sofa, and repacked the old books on the table.

When the two were about to leave, they heard Yasui Naoya who was curled up on the sofa, and suddenly said hoarsely:

"When you got that book, He was already watching you."

"Understood." Chen Ziang said coldly, "Thank you for reminding me."

The two took the subway to the Public Security Department of Jibei City, took the elevator down to the big information warehouse, and soon Rio Hokaze received the news.

"I heard that you have been suspended?" Leading the two of them to the door of the office, she turned to look at Tsukimiya Suzuna beside her, "Why don't you come to see me instead of going on a date with your little girlfriend?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Chen Ziang raised the paper bag in his hand, "Otherwise I'll give it to someone else."

Rio Hokakaze's eyes lit up, apparently inspired by the source of pollution inside, picked up the paper bag and turned away without saying a word, closing the office door by the way.

"What shall we do now?" Tsukimiya Suzuna asked.

"Stay here." Chen Ziang replied, "Go over to remind her from time to time, otherwise she will study forever and won't inform us of the research results next year."

The two sat down on the bench outside Rio Hokaze's office, Tsukimiya Suzuna asked again:
"So we're going to this...Lingyi Town?"

"If this book really came from there, then we have to go there." Chen Ziang replied, "Because you can't guarantee that there are no other mysterious things there, which will be picked up by explorers like Yasui Naoya who are not afraid of death. Walk."

"But it's so far away." Tsukimiya Suzuna hugged her legs, "I've grown so big, I haven't been out of Jibei City yet."

"Actually, neither do I." Chen Ziang laughed, "I heard that there are ten towns and nine empty towns outside Jibei City, and only the elderly stay in the villages, towns and villages, and there are basically no young people left."

"Is it because young people like to come to Jibei City?" Tsukimiya Suzuna asked.

"It's not all." Chen Ziang gave her a popular science, "You know that our Gaotianyuan star region is actually a mining planet, right?"

"More than 100 years ago, Gao Tianyuan was still a remote planet unsuitable for human habitation. It was cold, dead, and barren... Only the north pole area of ​​the planet, which is the scope of Jibei City today, was used by interstellar pirates because of its extremely rich geothermal resources and suitable climate temperature. They occupy as lairs."

"Later, the imperial scientific research ship discovered that there were some kind of rich mineral resources under the surface here, so they sent a fleet to wipe out the pirates, designated it as the empire's mining production planet, and then began to colonize here on a large scale."

"Then in the past 30 years, the minerals that are easy to mine on the surface have almost been exhausted, and the cost of mining deep mines is too high, and there is no competitive advantage including interstellar freight, so the mining tycoons are constantly laying off employees and reducing the size of the workforce. .”

"In the townships in the central industrial belt, most of them are composed of miner families. The large-scale layoffs caused these families to lose their source of livelihood and had to relocate to the extreme north city to find low-level jobs. This is the main reason for the shrinking township population... "

"Don't take history lessons there." Rio Hokaze suddenly pushed the door open and stuffed a box of special materials into his hand, "Your book has a big problem, so you have to send it back to where it belongs. where you are."

"It's a big problem?" Chen Ziang asked in surprise.

This was the first time he heard such an evaluation from Honokaze Rio.

"Yes." Riu Hookaze said succinctly, "There is a god's gaze on it."

(End of this chapter)