Soul Painter

After a month of military control.

The martial law in Kyoto is finally showing signs of easing.

The first is that residents' access is no longer restricted, but passes are still being checked.

Followed by the gradual opening of various commercial places, including farmers markets, restaurants and shrines, entertainment gathering places have to wait for the next order.

But it is said that Ginza, Tokyo has become lively again, and reports that "the people of Dongying welcome the stable restoration of social order" can be seen on major TV stations in Dongying.

Under this premise, the pass of Gaofan's painting also came in handy.

This afternoon, after Wu Haoxue took his pass from Gao Fan, he hurried out the door.

Gao Fan was originally on the small balcony, sketching the pedestrians on the street, watching Wu Haoxue go out, and following Wu Haoxue's instruction 'don't go out at home', he agreed perfunctorily, and waited for the door to close. Gao Fan immediately followed.

Now, when Gao Fan walks on the streets of Kyoto, he feels more deeply than on the balcony. The order in Kyoto, at least among the people, seems to have been completely restored. Even in order to celebrate the rare freedom after a month of military rule, there are still people wearing traditional costumes. .

"This kid runs really fast..." Gao Fan was caught in the crowd and lost the shadow of Wu's eagerness to learn.

The flow of people flocked in one direction, and Gao Fan didn't know where they were going. He couldn't speak the language, and he couldn't ask questions. Since Wu Haoxue's trace had been lost, he could just follow him for a walk.

So Gao Fan followed, and he came to a shrine.

Buddhism is widely spread in Eastern Ying, but it is not the local belief of Eastern Ying. The local belief of Eastern Ying residents is Shintoism, and the specific objects of worship are gods and various natural phenomena. The so-called eight million gods come from this.

The shrine is set up to worship these gods, probably because there are too many gods, so there is generally no specific object of worship, throwing some money, shaking the rope, even making a wish to the gods.

The 'flow' of the crowd is the shrine. The shrine is on the mountain. When passing through the 'torii gate' at the entrance, which is a mountain gate similar to a domestic archway, Gao Fan wanted to stop and take a closer look, but was pushed by the crowd and continued to move forward. Walk, and a few steps past the torii gate, you can only see the back of the 'torrii'.

Where are they going?

Gao Fan was deeply puzzled. Although the people around him were whispering, but Gao Fan couldn't understand a word. In this strange atmosphere, he was clearly in human society, but he seemed to be in a foreign world.

Walking up the steps towards the shrine, the voices of the surrounding people became weaker and weaker. After walking up a few hundred steps, halfway through, there was no sound.

The situation became even more bizarre. When they were talking, although they didn't understand, Gao Fan still had a bit of a clue in his heart.

Although it is the afternoon and the sun in December is strong, the forest trees of 100 years cover the sun like umbrellas, and walking on the road to the shrine makes Gao Fan feel a little gloomy and cold. Make him feel warm.

After walking up the stone steps, we came to the shrine. There was a lot of people moving. Gao Fan was standing behind, and he could only see the spires of a few halls. At this time, someone finally spoke. Of course, Gao Fan still couldn't understand.

He lifted his toes and glanced at the place where the voice came from. He saw a witch in a white dress and a red dress, who was standing in front of everyone and talking. The voice was from her. Her voice was very gentle and her appearance was beautiful. , The whole person seems to glow in the quiet and dark shrine.

Although he could not understand what the shrine maiden was saying, Gao Fan saw that after the shrine maiden finished speaking, all the people of Dongying who went up the mountain began to walk to the maiden one after another to receive blessings.

Should be a blessing, right? They would lick the water in the witch's palm, and the water was taken from the pool beside the witch, and after drinking the water, the people would put money into the money box beside the witch, so wouldn't this be a huge profit? Use fake talisman water to fool people and not back them?

The crowd crowded forward, licking the water in the hands of the witch in an orderly manner. Everyone who drank it was full of satisfaction, and it was especially happy to throw money. The mission of the shrine has been completed, and I turned around and went down the mountain.

So, this water is definitely not a good thing.

There might be pollution.

The pollution of the profan, Gao Fan has seen it, it is in the form of powder. At this moment, this kind of pollution of the water is the first time I have seen it. Is it the leader of the demon army from the mainland of Dongying? From the Prime Minister?

But it was too late to look back.

Now the team is moving forward in an orderly manner, and Gao Fan is already very close to the witch. If he turns around and walks away, the target will be too conspicuous. Looking at the silent and solemn atmosphere of the surrounding people, it is possible to be knocked down and beaten on the spot. of.

Just when Gao Fan was hesitating whether he should leave, there was a sudden commotion in the team ahead.

Kyoto is an international city. Naturally, foreigners also live here. A few meters in front of Gao Fan, there are about seven or eight people. There is a foreigner with golden hair and a small Dongying woman, who seems to be his wife or daughter. friend.

After waiting for his wife to drink water, the tall blond foreigner refused to do it. He said something aloud in Japanese, looking very angry, and when he changed it to English, Gao Fan could understand it.

The foreigner said, 'What the **** is this! Are you crazy? Will you become the Holy Spirit if you drink it? What a joke! ’

Seeing that the foreign man refused, the witch girl got angry, and she screamed something with a straight face, which seemed to be a threat.

The Dongying woman who was with the foreign man immediately showed a very frightened expression. She took the foreign man's hand and pleaded bitterly. What is the raw material of water.

Even if the foreign man bent down, he looked taller among the Dongying people. The witch looked at his figure, and suddenly showed a strange smile. Then, the foreign man seemed to be shot by a gun. Gotta bounce.

"Ahaaaa...!" he screamed, but then fell silent.

Not shut up.

but no mouth.

Gao Fan saw the scene in front of him, and his brain buzzed.

Even though he has experienced so many unbelievable pollution incidents and mysterious experiences, what he saw in front of him still made his scalp numb and his back cold.

He saw flesh growing on the foreign man's mouth, as if another layer of skin grew, and the foreign man lost his mouth and voice in an instant.

In the process, the foreign man desperately pulled his mouth and pulled out a colloidal granulation-like thing, but the 'pollution' was extremely sticky, and even if it was pulled into strips, it was stubbornly stubborn. Stuck on the face of the foreign man, and then came down, even more terrifying pictures are still happening.

The foreign man's nose, his eyes, and his ears were all grown to death by this new layer of flesh, and even the hair was swallowed in.

In less than a minute, the foreign man has turned into a bone frame wrapped in pure flesh skin, without any holes in his face, his head is extremely smooth, like a human-shaped leather drum, bouncing on the ground, struggling, and then. Asphyxiation, death.

Vomit... Gao Fan only felt a burst of nausea.

But the people around, the people of Dongying, looked at this scene, but their eyes seemed to be light. They were so overjoyed that they grabbed this human-shaped skin drum with their hands, as if every time they touched it, they would feel a little joy.

The witch said something to the foreign man's companion, the Eastern Ying female companion.

Although this Dongying woman's face was sad, her demeanor was somewhat proud. She knelt there, gently stroked the foreign man who had completely lost his human form, and hummed a song.

Faced with this situation, Gao Fan just wanted to say: What the Fuck! !