I Created Myth Of Old Ruler

2021-09-01

  Chapter 103. 102. Torii, Corridor remote.

The gurgling stream meanders from the depths of the forest. Under the dim shadow of the tree, I don’t know what is spying on the human world. Insect Cry and the sounds of certain creatures form the forest. The main theme, but sometimes, silence engulfed everything.

Lu Yi looked at the night sky. Under the faint mist, there were almost no constellations in sight. There were only a few stars shining stubbornly.

The moon is hidden in a deeper cloud, and Lu Yi can't even tell if this world's monthly pass is round.

A festival is being held on the island. A street is full of lanterns, and there are various vendors on the street. There are apple candy, goldfish, and masks. The mysterious music echoes in the street. But I can’t see the person playing.

Lu Yi walks through it, passing by many men and women in kimonos. The happiness is theirs, he has nothing.

It’s just that Lu Yi noticed that these people, except for those artists who indulge in joy, children, girls, and old people who look like locals have a kind of indifference in their eyes, just like a performance that matches the atmosphere. , Poor acting skills can't make up for the essential indifference.

He came to the end of this street, a small road moved towards the bamboo forest extension, it can be seen that this is the road up the mountain.

At night, the Wajima Shrine does not seem to be open to the public, and no one goes up and down the mountain.

Lu Yi saw that at the foot of the mountain, under Red's torii, Hongye was standing there.

She is still in a kimono with arrow feathers, a long cyan dress, and boots, but a fox mask is hung next to her head, adding a sense of innocence.

"The bamboo forest at night is very dangerous, especially now."

Seeing Lu Yi, Hong Ye didn’t greet him, she just turned her head and went up the mountain with a lantern in her hand. The dim light illuminates the road, which is disturbing.

The road up the mountain is slightly bumpy, and the bamboo forest next to it is sparse and quiet.

"Weird, why is there no sound in the bamboo forest?"

It is the midsummer of the island, but there is no sound in the forest. The streets of the festival are gone, and the entire world is silent. Among.

"Don't fall into the shadows, walk in the light of the lantern."

Hongye reminded him to raise the lantern slightly.

Lu Yi saw that those bamboos seemed to have become denser.

This reminded him of the grassland in the wild in the deserted city, the vegetation that has life and grows savagely.

Can’t help but feel a little cordial.

When the two walked halfway up the mountain, they saw a series of torii gates.

This kind of building, which is said to be the gate connecting the two worlds, is everywhere on the mountain road afterwards, forming a tunnel, making the road more gloomy.

Walking into the torii, Lu Yi seemed to hear a voice behind him.

He looked back, and in the dark nether shadow, he seemed to see Red's skirt and white socks stepping on the clogs for a moment.

"That is."

Lu Yi couldn't help stopping, the red leaf light in front of him was a little bit away from him about one inch.

The trouser legs seemed to be pulled by something, Lu Yi bowed his head.

A pale hand retracted into the shadow.

He felt the darkness around him getting deeper.

There is music in my ears.

Shamisen, shakuhachi, and island-style melancholic music are mixed with chanting-like whispers.

"Pray to the gods, in this world and this life, the flesh is sad, and the dream is gone."

Like whispering in the ear, Lu Yi felt a scalp hair Ma, at the moment when the whispering disappeared, he hurriedly turned his head.

But there is only darkness around.

In Lu Yi's vision, only the road under his feet and the torii on the road are left. All he can see is only within reach, and beyond, it is quiet and dark.

"Hongye?"

Lu Yi tried to yell, but even the voice melted into the darkness, and there was no response.

Looking around all around, he can only roughly see the direction of the mountain.

Outside the darkness that covers the road, I don't know what is there.

"Anyway, it shouldn't be dead yet?"

Lu Yi climbed up, the torii moved towards the field of view, and away from the field of view, these dilapidated buildings seemed to be contaminated After removing the dirt, Lu Yi didn't know what it was and how it splashed the dirt up.

In the endless darkness and silence, Lu Yi walked about three hundred heartbeats, only to find that he was still between the torii gates.

"Is it a ghost hit the wall again?"

Lu Yi thought, squatted down, picked up a stone and made a five-pointed star on the torii gate, and then continued to go forward.

Each step, when the darkness lights up because of the close distance, Lu Yi has to tighten his nerves, worrying that something strange may come out of the shadow.

It's like walking at night when I was a child, and it was dark outside the lights. Every step was cautiously, for fear that something hideous and horrible would suddenly appear on the road.

He was going to continue walking three hundred heartbeats, but when the count reached two hundred and thirty-three, Lu Yi stopped.

On the torii gate beside him, he saw the five-pointed star mark he had just left.

And, under the five-pointed star, there is another mark.

That is a symbol that seems to be drawn easily, but is full of weird meaning.

". Someone is also on this road, and he has found my mark, is it red leaves? Or is there something else."

Lu Yi thought, He thought for a while and decided to go down.

Just as he turned his head down and took a step forward, with the vision in front of him lit up, Lu Yi saw a person standing next to the torii gate in front.

The man was wearing a red and white witch costume. The clothes were untainted by even a speck of dust. The black hair fell softly behind his head. The look pale made Lu Yi think of the hangings he saw during the day. Jingliuri dolls in the sky.

She stared at Lu Yi with resentment in her eyes.

"You got me here?"

Lu Yi stopped and asked.

The other party didn't say a word, but took two steps back slowly, immersed in the darkness.

Lu Yi did not rush away from this road full of torii gates. Although it seems that there will only be a cycle here, it is obviously not a good choice to go out.

He continued to go down for more than a hundred heartbeats.

Then I saw that there seemed to be a mark on the torii gate on the side.

That is Lu Yi's own five-pointed star.

However, Lu Yi originally marked the location of the five-pointed star, which should be facing down the mountain road, but now, the five-pointed star is facing the mountain road.

"Did the torii gate have changed, or are these all hallucinations?"

Lu Yi took a step and looked towards the back of the torii gate.

The mottled and peeling red paint surface is horrible to see scratches. Those scratches are not sharp claw, but are made by human hands scratching over and over again, under the peeling red paint surface , Is a more intense blood color!    It is conceivable that there may be a maiden who is really lost on this road. She has experienced this repeated reincarnation over and over again, and finally her sanity collapsed and she was completely crazy. She scratched these torii gates with her fingers, and finally left the road. Did not come back here.

The darkness of all around became more intense. The midsummer night's temperature made Lu Yi sweat all over. The sweat soaked the clothes and stuck it with the skin, which was unpleasant.

Lu Yi suppressed his divergent thinking, and took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, a strange feeling came from under my feet. It seemed that I had stepped on a hard and prominent object. It was definitely not a stone, but something with a curvature and a crisp texture.

Lu Yi looked down.

There is a mask there.

*A   new month, ask for a monthly ticket, recommend a ticket!

(End of this chapter)