I owe the female honor system a billion

Chapter 187 Qingshui Part Six

"Dong dong."

In the depths of the pitch-black forest, if it wasn't for that Maitreya leading the way, Kaguya thought that he would not be able to find such a hidden cave.

The moon in the sky is like an original plate, revealing a bit of its fat body under the cover of the faint clouds.

After Xu Shi walked for a day, even the energetic young man felt exhausted.He rubbed his eyes, and looked at the monk Maitreya who was holding a stone and gently tapping on the wall in front of him, and behind him, the tall ninja Shino gently brushed away the drop on Kaguya's shoulder.

It was also the gentle movements of the ninja behind him that attracted the boy's attention and made him turn his head to look at her.
"Tired? Really."

Zhen was taken aback for a moment, and retracted his fingers at the same time, "Not tired yet."

Under the dark sky, the bright moon shrouded the quiet face of the ninja. It was the existence of the ninja behind him that made Kaguya dare to walk in the dense forest so late.

He turned his head to look at Maitreya who was squatting on the ground and knocking on the stone wall, and lifted her butt with his feet angrily, "Is this here? Are you kidding us?"

Maitreya put his ears on the stone wall and listened for a while, then turned around and smiled, "Maybe the Son of God fell asleep. It's so late after all."

Kaguya smiled kindly, "You know it's so late."

Maitreya's body trembled, and he quickly made the movements of hitting the stone wall with his hands more frequent, and explained at the same time, "If you're near Qingshui Village, it's easy for Chibei people to find out."

Kaguya turned back noncommittally, glanced at Ninja Makoto beside her, and saw her bright eyes staring at the direction of Qingshui Village from afar, as if she saw something vaguely invisible under the dark night sky. It was the same thing, until she felt the teenager beside her staring at her, then slowly turned her head to look this way.

Is it Qingshui Village?

Huiye also seemed to feel something, a fan in his hand, revealing the four real names of "Fenglin Volcano" on the fan.

He didn't move his eyes, but instead opened his mouth and asked Maitreya, "You just said, who is the Son of God?"

"The Son of God is."

"click"

Just when Maitreya was about to open his mouth to explain, he saw that the stone wall that Maitreya had been knocking on slowly moved, slowly opening a small crack in front of her.At the same time, from the slit, a ray of golden soft light came, hitting the cold ground outside.

"Master Son of God."

Looking through the slits, I saw a girl with her eyes closed and wearing a dark sacrificial gown with unknown names, holding the stone wall built from the inside with her hands, and she appeared in front of everyone.

The moment Maitreya saw the girl, he opened his mouth and called the girl "Master Shenzi".

"Maitreya, are you... anyone else here?"

The girl's eyes were tightly closed, and she seemed to feel something just as she opened her mouth to Maitreya who opened the direction of the stone wall.So she turned her head slightly and looked at Kaguya and Shino behind Mitreya.

Mitreya also turned her head at the same time, and frowned slightly at Kaguya, as if she wanted the cruel boy behind to be kinder, and at the same time she also explained, "The two behind are guests from afar. Going to the country under the snow, I don’t know where there is a way to pass through the valley in front of me.”

There was a flash of surprise on the girl's face with her eyes closed, she stepped back a little, and said to Maitreya and the others, "I know anyway, you guys come in first..."

"excuse me"

Maitreya went in directly with a smile, and walked in front of Hui Ye one step ahead, and followed Mitreya into the back of the stone wall.

Kaguya thought that there should be a relatively wide underground space or something flickering behind the stone wall, but he didn't expect it to be just a small room.

Many small holes were dug on the stone walls around the entire room, and in those small holes, all were filled with milky white candles that were flickering.

The whole room was lit by such candles with no dead ends, making Kaguya who came in feel the warmth and brightness that was not available outside.

At the far end of the room, a small wooden idol was placed on a stone platform.

In front of the stone platform, he knelt gently on a small futon, and turned to face Mitreya and Kaguya.

The girl's eyes are indeed invisible, Kaguya thought in her mind as she looked at the girl in sacrificial clothes who could only face one general direction.

"Master Shenzi, this is what you asked me to find."

With a smile, Mitreya took out from his bosom what he had just brought from the Kiyomizu Shrine with Kaguya and the others.

Kaguya turned his gaze away, and saw a milky white flower slowly pulling out from Maitreya's thick cassock.

The moment the flower appeared, Kaguya felt a pleasant fragrance welling up from the tip of his nose.The branch at the end of the flower has been broken, but the whole flower seems to be still alive, exuding a nice fragrance.

That's what Maitreya took back to the shrine just now.

Shenzi moved her nose slightly, with a little smile on her face, and said to Maitreya, "Ah, thank you for bringing it back." She stretched out her finger in the direction of Maitreya, and Maitreya passed the flower over and placed it on the The girl's hand.

Miko turned around on the futon, placed the flower lightly in front of a wooden idol behind him, then lowered his head slightly, and chanted some words that Kaguya could not understand to the idol, and then spoke to the idol again. Before bowing his head in silence for a moment, he turned his head again.

But this time, she turned her head to look in the direction of Shin and Kaguya.

"Hello, are you going to continue heading north?"

Kaguya glanced at Zhen beside him, nodded and said, "I heard from Maitreya that there is a [God] ahead blocking the road to the north. Is there any other road here that can pass through the valley?"

The Son of God replied,
"Yes. In the village, a tunnel leading to the valley in the north was built before. But the entrance of that tunnel needs to enter the village to get the key to open it." Shenzi said with a sigh, "When the shogunate just appeared, I I was brought here by Maitreya, and I don’t know what the village is like now. If they can’t pass here quickly, everyone will be fine.”

A trace of pain flashed across the girl's expression, as if she was thinking about something.

Hearing that the girl didn't know anything about the situation in the village, Hui Ye turned to look at Maitreya who was sitting on the futon, a little puzzled that the monk didn't say anything to the girl.

At the same time, Maitreya also turned his head, clasped his hands silently, as if trying to get rid of Kaguya and stop talking nonsense.
Hui Ye turned her head speechlessly, and said to the son of God,
"So, if you don't want to go through the valley head-on, you can only enter Qingshui Village to get the key to the secret path, right?"

Shenzi nodded, "Yes. The key is in the room in the middle of the village. The village chief usually puts the key in the box, and it should still be there now."

(End of this chapter)