The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

However, this snake god doesn't seem to know how to speak, and he hangs on the tree in the shape of an aunt, and he doesn't pay attention to you.

I even tried to attack "Auntie" with telekinetic power, but it was empty.

My telekinetic power is a purely physical attack, but this snake god, or the body of my aunt, is completely incorporeal, just like an illusion that does not exist in the world, my attack has no effect.

Seeing that the communication with the snake god was at a loss, he did not expect to gain some information from another direction.

Before, Youxiang sent samples of snake scales to the professor who studied biology for investigation, and the results sent by the professor were sent to Youxiang's mobile phone left in Xiaotong's room, and I noticed it.

The email reads like this -

[Ms. Huashanyuan, hello, regarding the sample you sent, I have compared the biological characteristics in detail, and roughly judged that the scales should belong to a kind of albino Jin snake, which is a bit like the Iwakuni white snake. It may be There is now the only wild population of albino snakes in the world.The only thing that makes it hard for me to believe is that this scale is too big, far larger than normal scales. I have been struggling with whether such a conclusion is problematic after making a judgment.Because if it is scaled up according to the scale, the diameter of the snake's body may be 1 to 1.5 meters, and the entire body length may reach 40 meters.God, is there such a creature in this world?How can such a large snake survive?Its food intake may destroy the balance of a small ecological circle.I heard that the white snake is a very rare snake animal. In the past, the white snake has always been regarded as the reincarnation of gods or living Buddhas, and is often regarded as an object of worship and belief.If there is such a big snake, maybe it is really a snake god.Please be sure to tell you where you found this scale. This may be a major discovery in the history of biology! 】

In this email, I quickly intercepted a keyword, "Iwakuni White Snake", which seems to be a wild snake in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.But... Yamaguchi Prefecture?It's so far away. I don't know if there will be a shrine dedicated to this kind of white snake in the local area?

After a simple search, I found that there really is a White Snake Shrine in the local area!

So, I immediately went to Xiaotong, and suggested that I should go to the local area to investigate and find out the details of the snake god.However, to my surprise, Xiaotong rejected my proposal.

"We don't have time." Xiao Tong said, frowning. "The festival is about to start. We don't have time to go to a place where it takes half a day to take a tram. Even if you go, can you be sure that it is the place my mother went to? What is the probability? I can't find it either. Now that Youxiang is still missing, it is impossible for us to spend at least a day or two to go to a place where we may not get anything!"

Hmm... how should I put it, what Xiao Tong said is completely correct, it is indeed the truth.

However, seeing her busily preparing for the ceremony, for some reason, I always feel a little lonely.

Chapter 47 Humanoid Vehicles

On this summer afternoon, I "sat" in front of the steps of the shrine's worship hall, looking up at the clouds floating in the sky, and watching the busy people going back and forth in the shrine.

In the past two days, Tsukiyomi Shrine has become much more lively.In addition to those who searched for the incense in Huashanyuan and those who prepared the festival, sporadic worshipers have begun to appear one after another, and there is an increasing trend.

Among them, the vast majority are young people, mainly middle school students to college students.This is mainly because these visitors are all fans of the Vtuber "See you on a moon night" and were attracted by her online promotion.However, most of them came here because they wanted to see if there were any virtual idols here, and by the way, they wanted to dig out the people in "Meeting on a Moonlit Night".And seeing that this place seems to be a very ordinary remote shrine without any extension of Vtuber culture, most of them were quite disappointed.

Because of the help of the Hanayamain family, local merchants who had been cooperating with Tsukiyomi Shrine in the past also began to join in the preparations for the festival under the influence of money.And for care, or maybe also a kind of surveillance?Huashanyuan's family also sent a nurse to take care of Mikayue Daoman who was still in a coma in the hospital, so the ancient knife came back very happily to join the team preparing for the festival, and made unremitting efforts to clean himself up.

But for me, things got a little boring.

"Oh..." I couldn't help sighing.

"I'm sorry, I just heard you sighing, miss. May I ask... is there anything bothering you?"

"It feels like... other people are busy, but I'm a little out of touch with them." I replied subconsciously.

The moment I said these words, I suddenly realized that I am not using the tablet at this moment, but communicating with people through dialogue!However, in this shrine, besides Xiaotong and Monk Yixin, who else can see and hear me? !

I suddenly turned my head to look at the source of the voice, but I found that it was an elderly woman, probably in her 60s, wearing plain gray cloth clothes, and she looked like a very ordinary worshiper. guest.

I couldn't help being surprised: "Huh? Oppa-chan, why can you see me?!"

The old woman immediately raised her eyebrows and said displeasedly: "What are you talking about! I'm not so old that I can't even see clearly!"

Strange, judging from this conversation, the old lady doesn't seem to realize that I'm a ghost, just an ordinary person with inspiration?

"Are you a student from the neighborhood, come to the shrine to work as a maiden?" asked the meddling Ouba-chan.

"Ah no, my friend is the miko here."

The overzealous mother-in-law actually began to babble and lecture: "You said that you feel alienated from others, so why don't you offer to help? It's no use just sitting here and sighing, lazy people are no good People will love it!"

"The main reason is that now one of my friends is doing her best for another friend of hers. Well... Although it's not good to say this, but I always feel a little bit jealous when I look at it, so... it feels like There’s not much motivation to do anything.”

"So that's the case." The old lady nodded, and then continued, "I guess, your friend's friend encountered some kind of trouble, so your friend tried his best to help her?"

"That's true."

"That's it, so I thought, if you encounter any difficulties, your friend will also come to help you, won't you?"

I thought about it, nodded and said, "It seems, really? She wanted to help me once before, but she messed up by herself, and in the end I rescued her. Sometimes she is that The kind of person who cares too much about his friends, and sometimes ignores himself."

The mother-in-law giggled, "It's Hitomi, right? That child seems to have such a troublesome personality, but it also shows that she is a friend worth making, so we should cherish such a friend. Alas, That’s great, it makes my mother-in-law miss me a little bit when I was young, and my mother-in-law also worked as a temporary assistant maiden in this shrine when I was young."

"Hey, have you ever been a mother-in-law?"

"Of course, I live at the foot of this mountain after all. It was very fashionable for girls at that time to come to the shrine to work part-time during summer vacation. I was the same age as the full-time priestess of the Mikazuki family at that time, and our relationship at that time was the same as you are now. I really miss her, but it’s a pity that she went too early, she seemed to have died of illness in her 30s, and she always boasted that she was blessed by the gods, but it turned out that she was not as good as an old woman like me.”

"Huh? Is that so?" Feeling something was wrong, I pretended to ask casually, "Grandmother, by the way, in this shrine, the age of the full-time priestesses of the Mikazuki main family when they died...is it generally the same age?" Smaller?"

"Bah, bah, what bastard are you talking about, kid?"

"Ah, don't get me wrong, I'm just making statistics objectively. I suspect...there may be some genetic disease in Sanriyue's family. I want to suggest that Xiaotong should go for a checkup."

"Is that so? If you think about it this way, it's true... As far as I know, the three generations of shrine maidens... were indeed quite young when they died."

"Is that really the case..." Several generations of witches have relatively short lifespans, and it seems that this cannot be explained only by the fact that Aunt Lianne of this generation brought in an evil god.

I thought about it, and asked my mother-in-law, "But... mother-in-law, logically speaking, the professional maidens of the shrine are under the watchful eye and protection of the gods, why are they relatively short-lived... Could it be?" The god of this shrine...doesn't exist? Or..."

"Hey, stop! Child, how can you have such disrespectful thoughts towards the gods!" The mother-in-law immediately interrupted me, "Of course the gods exist. As for why the witches here don't live long, maybe it's just that the gods are too You like them, so you let them become angels after death? You can’t blame the gods just because the gods didn’t give you good luck. Even if the life is not that long, my friend has always lived in the present moment. Even if she passed away, she should have returned to the gods and ancestors, protecting the descendants of the family."

Maybe this is true, maybe that priestess is among the living dead on the other side of the shrine.

It can be seen that my mother-in-law really believes in the gods very devoutly. I can look at it, and a thin golden thread extends from her body. The thin thread floats towards the shrine. Looking in that direction, it should be the moon See the direction of the pool.

I really wanted to know if the thin thread was really connected to Aunt Liannai, but I was dazed, but the thread disappeared immediately.

After listening to my mother-in-law's lecture and watching her go down the mountain, I immediately went to find Xiao Tong.

"Little Hitomi, I still want to investigate the White Snake Shrine in Yamaguchi Prefecture. I have a hunch that this matter is more complicated than we thought!"

Xiaotong sighed, "Senior sister, I can't leave now. Besides, even if you find out the origin of the snake god, how will it help the current situation? Now is not the time to play folklore investigation games anymore. .”

Damn it, that faint feeling of unhappiness came up again, was Xiaotong this kind of role before?

I immediately said with a bit of anger: "Okay, then I will go by myself. Anyway, I don't have to be attached to your body to move, just find a humanoid vehicle to take me there. I see that stupid The knife is fine."

"What?" Yizi Fubuxue, who happened to pass by, fell into confusion.

Chapter 48

Before Fuxue figured out the ins and outs, I forcibly requisitioned it as my means of transportation.

Just tell her that this is a key trip to clear her reputation, and she will immediately agree without thinking.

But what I didn't expect was that the spirit body could actually attach to Fu Sangshen. What is this?The weirdest of weirdness?Weird plus?

Forget it, don't get entangled in the appellation, since Xiaotong said that time is running out, so let's hurry up.

From Hachioji City to Iwakuni City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, the shortest straight-line distance is 660 kilometers, which is almost half the length of Honshu Island.If you take the tram back and forth slowly, it will take almost 16 hours to get there!Even by plane, it will take more than 4 hours including the time to the airport.

So, before dawn the next day, I drove Fubuki and set off anxiously. Just at 10 o'clock in the morning, I was already standing in front of the torii gate of Iwakuni White Snake Shrine.

This shrine really embodies the breath of white snakes everywhere. The stone piers and stone lanterns are carved with white snakes. The water outlet of the water house is the head of a white snake, and the color of the torii is indeed pure white. .There is even a place where white snakes are kept at the entrance of the shrine, and two white snakes can even be seen mating shamelessly there.

However, it is different.Both the architecture and layout of the shrine are different from the shrine I once saw in Xiaotong's dream.

In that shrine, there are not so many snake-related decorations in the shrine. What is the most impressive thing?

By the way, it is rope and paper pendant.

The shrine seems to be surrounded by Shimenawa rope, and white paper hangings are hung everywhere.

These things give people the feeling... a kind of seal, and people are afraid of the things in the shrine.Judging from the girl's words in the dream, her parents did not let her approach the shrine, apparently because it was dangerous.

But here, the white snake is actually worshiped as the god of wealth and business prosperity.

It feels...it shouldn't be here.

It was only at this time that I realized my recklessness. It was too impulsive to find this place based on the clue of "White Snake".Maybe Xiao Tong was right, and going out to investigate like this is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and it is not easy to find clues in a short period of time.

At this time, Fuxue didn't know what was going on in my heart. She was looking around excitedly, and then she said to me without controlling her volume: "Miss Ghost, what should we do now? Go find that white snake god and kick him at the door. Are you going to cut him? I’m so excited, I haven’t cut a snake yet! What should I shout when I perform my special attack? Represent the moon to destroy you?”

"Hey, keep your voice down! Didn't you see that the priest over there has already cast a bad look at us!"

Moreover, what the hell is the nirvana?Do you really have that kind of thing?

"Huh? I thought we were just here to find trouble? Why don't we just cut off the plaque on it openly, and the White Snake God will come out?"

"Slow down your voice!"

It's over, it's too late.Because of Handao's undisguised question, the priest had already walked towards us frowning.

"Miss? I seem to have heard something interesting just now, can I invite you to come over and talk?" the priest said.

"It's over, Miss Ghost, we were discovered just after we entered the enemy camp, what should we do? Should we kill him?"

"Shut up. What I say next, you repeat what I say."

"okay."

The priest looked at Fuxue with strange eyes and muttered to himself for a long time before waiting for a normal reply——

"Hi, I'm a folk novelist. I'm collecting materials now. I want to know more about the belief of the white snake. May I ask you, are there any other shrines that worship the white snake?"

"This... should not be there. There are Jixiang Shrine and Emisu Shrine nearby, but they are definitely not dedicated to white snakes..."

"Hmm... there isn't one around here, the torii is also white, with thick shimenawa hanging on it, and a shrine with paper hangings everywhere? Oh... there was one in the past, maybe it was a shrine from a long time ago It's..."

A strange look appeared on the face of the priest, and he explained: "There are many shrines where the torii gates are white. White is the color of the gods, representing purity and holiness. In fact, the torii gates of early Shintoism are all white, and The red torii is the product of the integration of gods and Buddhas. As for Shimenawa and paper hanging... most shrines will have..."

The priest seemed to be explaining to us, but his expression always seemed strange.

So I asked Fubuki to take out the yoke embroidered with the word "Enkiri" that I carried with me, and then asked: "Then, let me ask more bluntly, is there any such yoke for sale around here?" Where's the shrine you're guarding?"

The priest sighed, and said: "I knew which school you were looking for. Let me advise you, if you just want to cut off your relationship with someone, there is no need to use this method at all. If you make a wish, you will get backlash, that is a black shrine. Moreover, that shrine has been abandoned for many years, even if you make a wish, you will not get a reply."

Although the priest's words sound a bit inexplicable, there is no doubt that we have found the right place!

"Black temple?" I was emphatically suspicious of this word, which sounded a little ominous.

"Well, it is an unrecognized shrine. It was declared a cult when the "Jizheng unification" was implemented in the Meiji period to organize and integrate the various shrines. This shrine used to not only use human sacrifices for bloody sacrifices, but also in that shrine Pray, even if the wish comes true, I will definitely suffer bad consequences. So it is better not to have anything to do with that place. In the past, there was a big local family who sacrificed to that god, and the family suffered instead. until it is destroyed..."

"Huh? Wait, can you tell me more about that incident just now?"

The first half of what the priest said is not much different from what I heard from Xiaotong. The god enshrined in the unknown black temple is the snake spirit that the local people have passed down and believed in since ancient times.Perhaps because snakes eat rats that harm food, people believe that snake spirits will bless the harvest.But people also believe that the snake spirit is moody and will feed on humans when it is unhappy. Therefore, while wishing for a good harvest, they are also afraid of becoming his belly.During a severe drought, a local noble family with a lot of land decided to use the blood of a pure girl as a sacrifice to pray to the snake spirit for a good harvest in the coming year in order to pray for a good harvest.

However, I didn't hear the ending of this matter from Xiaotong.According to the priest, the wish was indeed fulfilled, and the next year was a bumper harvest year, but the noble family... It is said that almost all of them were eaten by the snake spirit during the sacrifice.

This is a scene that Xiaotong didn't see in the dream.This makes me feel... the guy who calls himself "Tsukiyomi", although he can't say that he is lying to Xiaotong, but at least...he is hiding something.

Chapter 49

After repeatedly assuring the priest that we were really novel writers here to collect materials, and not to make any suspicious prayers, he finally told us the location of the black shrine, or it should be said that the former site would be more appropriate, Because that shrine was completely abandoned many years ago.

Iwakuni is mountainous, and the shrine is also on the mountain.According to the directions given to us by the priest, after driving Fubuxue for a long distance, we saw the white torii gate from a distance.

As we got closer and closer, I could gradually confirm that this was the place I had seen in Xiaotong's dream.

It's just... what I saw in my dream was an almost pure white torii gate. Now that I looked closer, I found that there were black marks all over the original white bamboo trees on the torii gate, and the mottled traces of time had already covered the whole Torii.

When we walked into the shrine, the space in the shrine was quite small, with only a small main hall, which was too simple compared to Tsukiyomi Shrine.

I was standing in front of the main hall, which was the perspective I was in in Xiaotong's dream. There was no such thing as an offering box in a general shrine, and there was only a closed shrine.Above the shrine, a thick Shimenawa rope hangs.

"Sure enough, it looks like the shrine of the haunting god." Fubuki pointed to the Shimenawa rope above, "According to my knowledge, this thing was originally used as a boundary between the gods and the outside world, and it played a role similar to an enchantment. The use of such a thick rope here must be to suppress and seal the things inside, right?"

We walked around the main hall, only to find that the entire main hall has no doors or windows, and it is really strange that there is no entrance that can be entered.

"Is there anything in the shrine?" I opened the shrine curiously, only to find that there was nothing but a rotten hemp rope that looked like a snake, but... I seem to have a little impression of this thing. .

"Otherwise, why don't we just punch a hole in this wall panel and see what's inside?" Chuuxue suggested.

"Good idea, let's do it."

We found a big stone, held it up with my thoughts, and then accelerated and smashed it towards the wooden wall on the side of the main hall.

We only heard a loud noise, and we destroyed a big hole in the fragile wooden wall in an instant.

"Ah..." Fuxue thought belatedly at this time, "Wait a minute, in case there is really an evil spirit in this, will we make him angry if we do this?"

"Are you thinking about this kind of problem after you start?"

"Didn't you also think about it?!"

"No, I did this after I had planned to anger the gods, and I was ready to run away at any time."

"Then you are even worse!"

"you flatter me."

After the sawdust and a lot of dust in front of us gradually dissipated, we finally saw the contents of the main hall of the shrine clearly.

In fact, this is an unusually monotonous room, with no idols, no murals, and only a huge white snake slough that almost covers the floor.