Kikyo and I are of one mind

"It's impossible." Maitreya shook his head and said, "Earth gods and elf gods are different. They don't really want to eat people, but simply need the fear, anger, sadness, helplessness and other emotions that people feel when they live sacrifices to their own kind, which is the so-called [fear]. So even on the day of the live sacrifice, the so-called Harvest God probably won't appear, because he doesn't need to get tribute."

"No way, no way, don't you really plan to stay in this bamboo forest for the rest of your life?" Inuyasha looked at Mitreya suspiciously, and for a moment, everyone remembered the "joke" Feng Xue said before.

Maitreya noticed Shan Shan's contemptuous gaze, and immediately hurriedly explained, but Kagome noticed Feng Xue's bored look, and immediately asked:

"Mr. Feng Xue, is there anything you can do?"

"Yeah." Feng Xue bit Pocky, raised her eyebrows and said:

"My method is more radical, and you may not be able to accept it, so just follow your ideas. If you can't do it, I will do it again."

"..." Kagome and Qibao obviously didn't understand the so-called radical method, but Shan Shan and Maitreya immediately thought of something, and they didn't bother to flirt, and immediately started a serious discussion.

"Are you really planning to kill everyone in this village?" Kikyo's voice came to Feng Xue's mind, but Feng Xue said with a smile:

"Can't you feel my thoughts?"

"I can't do it now." Kikyo said seriously, but Feng Xue raised the corners of her mouth, "So I could feel it before? So you know what I'm thinking?"

As the saying goes, as long as you are not shy yourself, the shy one will become someone else. Ever since Feng Xue realized this problem, he has always been embarrassed to speak up. Until recently, after Kikyo threw out the big killer of "marriage", he suddenly became shy. Figured out.

It's just that Kikyo's chaotic mood swings didn't last long, and was forcibly stabilized by some force, and then Feng Xue heard her extremely serious and indifferent voice:

"Isn't now the time to talk about this?"

"That's when to say something? Didn't you say that the precognitive dream can't interfere?"

Feng Xue said with a playful smile, but Kikyo's mood became more and more serious:

"I can't interfere, but you can tell me."

"Don't be so serious. Speaking of which, have you ever seen me kill innocent people indiscriminately? Even monsters?" Feng Xue's tone became a little aggrieved, and Kikyo's mood immediately showed signs of softening, but the next moment, Feng Xue suddenly Turn the subject:

"But, you can guess, what is my radical strategy?"

Today's Riddler Controversy: Feng Xue's Victory!

ps1: About "this era", this is a line mentioned several times in the original book. For example, when meeting Naifa Yura, Inuyasha said, "It is not surprising that one or two combs in this era become monsters".It's like when chatting in reality, some people will say "this year". Are we all people from other times?So Coral has no problem saying this.

Chapter 152 The Story of the Bamboo Forest

"You said that Mr. Feng Xue would kill everyone in the village?" Just as Feng Xue found a fairly complete room and began to sleep, Kagome finally couldn't help asking.

"That's not certain, after all, that guy is Naraku's body!" Kagome found that Inuyasha had always had a strong hostility towards Feng Xue, even though he knew that he was not Naraku, this hostility still did not disappear.

After all, she was almost sure that Inuyasha could smell the difference between Naraku and Feng Xue, but every time he met Feng Xue, he would still yell at Naraku and pounce on her.

So she ignored Inuyasha's answer at all, but turned her gaze to Mitreya.

Although this mage is quite unreliable when it comes to women, at least on this occasion, he will not talk nonsense.

only……

"If you only consider defeating the God of Earth, killing all those who believe in him is indeed the simplest and most direct method. Back then, the Emperor of Heaven defeated the Lord of the Great Country (Earth Spider) by killing his subjects, causing his power to decline, and finally forcibly naturalized."

"How come..." Mitreya's words made Kagome's heart sink to the bottom, and a strong sense of mission boiled in her chest.

Although she also wanted to leave here, she couldn't make the decision to sacrifice hundreds of people for this anyway, and she couldn't deceive herself with the excuse of "Feng Xue is the murderer, it's none of my business".

She gritted her teeth, looked at the mage and said:

"Mitreya, do you have a way to prevent others from eavesdropping?"

"Of course, my charm is stuck in this hotel!" Mitreya pointed to the wall, and at some point, a charm had been pasted there.

"You are quite reliable at a time like this!" Qibao patted Maitreya's shoulder like a little adult, but fortunately Mitreya was sitting, otherwise he might only be able to pat his knee.

"In this case, we will go to talk to that villager tomorrow... But, um, we need to find a way to hold the village chief, and not let him know that we went to that villager."

Although no one has said it clearly, Kagome is undoubtedly the core of the core of the protagonist group. After she made a decision, the others did not intend to refute. Even the arrogant Er Gouzi just stood with her chest hugged. On the other side, rather than trying to play prestige, it is more like saying the line "whoever agrees, whoever opposes" in a threatening tone.

……

In the early morning, although it was already dawn, the sky looked very gloomy, with a thick layer of dark clouds blocking the sky above the village. Looking at the sky, Shan Shan frowned slightly and said:

"It looks like it's going to rain..."

"I hope it won't cause any changes." Maitreya shook his head, took out a few talisman papers and handed them to Kagome:

"Put this on the wall of the room, and you won't be able to hear the conversations in the room from outside. Coral and I are going to chat with the village chief. You guys should move faster."

"Understood." Kagome nodded vigorously. In her heart, what she bears now is the lives of hundreds of people in the village!

She didn't know Feng Xue's character, but she clearly understood the strength of the other party. After all, Inuyasha, the strongest fighter in the team, had no room to fight back in front of him. If he really wanted to kill the villagers, people like herself would definitely not be able to stop him.

"They're leaving." Kikyo's voice rang in Feng Xue's mind, but Feng Xue was lying lazily on the soft quilt, watching the animation downloaded on her phone while stuffing potato chips into her mouth No matter how you look at it, it looks like a dead house with nothing to do.

However, with his breathing, ripples centered on him and spread towards the entire village.

Although he didn't step out of the door, as early as the moment he entered the village, the village had no secrets for him.

……

"Didn't I tell you to go away quickly?" The villager with a bad attitude saw Kagome and Inuyasha yesterday, and immediately drank it sternly. Hearing the words, Inuyasha was about to go mad immediately, but Kagome stopped him with threatening eyes Inuyasha's behavior, and then said to the villagers:

"You may have misunderstood us, can you talk about it?"

Although the man wanted to continue cursing, but Inuyasha's fist was too hard.

So, after a while, Kagome successfully pasted the talisman on the wall of the villager's house.

"This talisman can isolate the sound, so you can say anything with confidence." Kagome said to the man gently, the man was silent for a moment, and finally said:

"It's too late, you can't leave the village now."

"Can you tell us more about it?"

Hearing Kagome's questioning, the man sighed, pointed to himself and said:

"How old do you think I am?"

"???" Kagome and Inuyasha were stunned at the same time, some couldn't understand why the other party would ask this question, but Kagome still replied:

"About 20 years old?"

"Heh..." The man let out a chuckle, shook his head and said:

"I'm 83 years old this year."

"What?" Kagome was taken aback, then looked at Inuyasha, and suddenly said:

"Are you a half-demon too?"

"That's not true! This guy smells completely human! And he smells like he's only in his 20s, don't be fooled by him!" Inuyasha immediately denied, but the man shook his head without any intention of explaining, and Yes continued:

"This bamboo forest has a magical legend from a long time ago. It is said that this is the place where Taketori Hime was born, and has magical powers that can protect people living in the bamboo forest.

When there was a war outside, some people believed the legend and fled into this bamboo forest, but how could those nobles let them go, so they sent an army to catch Ding, but they could only go around in circles outside the bamboo forest, not only did not find anyone , but also lost a few soldiers.

I heard this story in the barracks when I was a teenager, a young man who was forcibly pushed into battle, then terrified the first time I went into battle, deserted, and had nowhere to go But go, I believed the legend and fled into this forest.

At that time, the village was much smaller than it is now, with a total of only five or sixty people. Although life was difficult, at least it was better than fighting outside..."

The man was talking about his past, but Inuyasha showed an impatient look, staring and saying:

"Who cares how you got here! Get to the point!"

"..." The man looked up at Inuyasha, didn't say much, just continued:

"At that time, there were no raw ghosts in the forest, but there was a very magical power. Only those who were willing to live here could come to the village, but on the other hand, once they took root in the village, they could never leave the village."

Chapter 153 The Story of the Bamboo Forest Part [-]

"Can't leave?" Kagome repeated the man's words, and the man nodded and said:

"Yes, this bamboo forest seems to have some kind of magical power. Once you live here for a certain period of time, your body's growth will slow down, and as long as you walk into that bamboo forest, you will inevitably lose your way, and most of them will lose their way. After returning to the village not long after, only a very small number of them never heard from again, and no one knew whether they left or starved to death in the bamboo forest."

"But didn't the village chief say that you used to go out and invite demon extermination masters to destroy raw swallow ghosts?" Kagome immediately discovered the loophole in the other party's words. The man had a bitter smile on his face when he heard the words—

"As I said before, there was a war going on outside at that time, and people came here to take refuge from time to time. As more and more people lived there, the bamboo forest gradually grew larger, and the open space in the middle of the bamboo forest also expanded by itself. Although it was impossible to leave the bamboo forest, there was enough land, and there were no excessive taxes, and it also had a lifespan far exceeding that of ordinary people. At that time, everyone regarded this as a gift from the gods in the bamboo forest.

But the good times didn't last long. Thirty or forty years ago, the population of the village was close to 40, which was almost a small town. But it was at that time that the Raw Swallowing Ghost appeared.

They captured more than a dozen villagers, and those who dared to resist would be swallowed alive by them. Later, those ghosts would appear once a year, and they would capture some people every time.

Some people couldn't bear this kind of waiting to die, so they gathered some people to fight to the death, maybe because the number of raw ghosts was relatively small at that time, that group of people actually rushed out of the bamboo forest..."

"Then those people were worried about the village, so they invited the demon master back?" Kagome showed admiration on his face, but the man shook his head:

"They came back, but not voluntarily, but ... the 'blessing' on them became a 'curse'."

"curse?"

"That's right, the curse, after leaving the bamboo forest, the stagnant time returns to everyone. Everyone cares about aging at a rate of tens or hundreds of times. Generally speaking, except for children under the age of 12, everyone often needs more than a dozen It takes one year to age, but those who went out only stayed outside for more than half a month, as if they were ten years older, and no one wanted to die if they could live, so they returned to the village again."

Speaking of this, the man paused slightly, as if he was recalling the scene of that year, and then he spoke again when the dog could hardly bear it:

"Later, Swallowing Ghosts still came to the village every year to arrest people. Later, someone said, since they can go out, then it would be good to invite demon masters and mages to come and destroy Swallowing Ghosts? It's just that the mages invited them, but Swallowing Ghosts But ghosts are killing more and more, and the difficulty of rushing out is getting higher and higher. Every time I go to invite a mage, the person who goes out is much older. Kujie (the village head) is five years younger than me, but because of I've been out three times, but it looks like I'm two rounds older than me..."

"Then what happened later? I heard from Shunsuke that the Raw Swallowing Ghosts won't come into the village now?" Kagome's favorability for the village chief immediately rose when she heard the man's words, but the man was shaken after hearing his question. shook his head and said:

"I won't come into the village anymore, because the sorcerer that Kujie invited out for the third time devoured the ghost instead."

"Ah, this?" Kagome immediately thought of such an epic story as "the mage used his own life to set up a barrier for the village", but what the man said next surprised her——

"In the year the Master died, the Swallowing Ghost did not enter the village. We thought that the Sorcerer had left behind him, but in the second year, the Swallowing Ghost kidnapped more than a dozen people again. Kujie and Several people discussed it, and felt that the sorcerer 'fed' the raw swallowing ghosts, so in the third year, they dedicated a newcomer to the raw swallowing ghosts, and sure enough, the raw swallowing ghosts did not enter the village that year. Since then From then on, every year in our village, we would choose someone to sacrifice to the Raw Tun Ghost, and the Raw Tun Ghost never came in again, and the harvest in the village started to improve. Slowly, the Raw Tun Ghost became the messenger of the God of Harvest, And the day of offering living sacrifices to the Harvest God has become a fixed 'festival', but maybe the bamboo forest has become too big now, fewer and fewer outsiders come to the village, and the village has to sacrifice themselves people in exchange for the safety of the majority..."

"So the one locked in the warehouse is this year's sacrifice?" Inuyasha hammered the ground angrily, making a big hole in the bamboo floor.

Hearing his words, the man shook his head:

"It was originally intended to sacrifice Ichiro, but now, isn't there you?"

"Damn it! We won't sit still!" Inuyasha roared loudly, but the man leaned back indifferently——

"No matter what you say, it's useless. You have already lived in the village for one night. The Harvest God has already set his sights on you. Unless you can kill hundreds of raw swallowing ghosts, you will definitely not be able to leave. If you don't leave, you can only be sacrificed, or you can sacrifice other people in the village."

"We are different from you!" Inuyasha roared loudly as if he had been insulted, completely unable to see that just a few months ago, he still had the face of "how many people die is none of my business".

It's just that his proclamation didn't make the man show any extra emotions. From his story, we can see that although he has some kindness, he is not actually a responsible person. This point is still maintained from his 20 You can tell by how old you are.

Seeing that no more useful information could be obtained, Kagome stood up and bowed politely:

"Thank you for letting me know."

"It's nothing, I just don't want to be the next person to be sacrificed." The man waved his hand, like an NPC who has completed the task, and said nothing more.

Kagome tugged at Inuyasha's sleeve, and the two left the man's room.

……

"These 24 bamboo figures are called the 24 Generals of the Bamboo Forest, and they are the patron saints of our village. Every year at the Harvest Festival, we place them in a circle around the village to protect the village from being attacked by raw swallowing ghosts..." The village head talked about the customs of the village, and Maitreya and Shan Shan also played their roles as fans, largely satisfying the village head's desire to talk.

It's just a pain for Maitreya, if he was facing a young girl, it might not be too difficult for him to search his guts to find some topics, but facing this bad old man Kujie, his ink would have been exhausted long ago.

Fortunately, at this moment, Qibao suddenly hopped over, tugged at the hem of his clothes, and said very cutely:

"Mitreya, I'm so hungry, Kagome should have finished the meal, shall we go back to eat?"

Chapter 154 The Power of Wind Point

"The situation is like this." After returning to the room, Kagome repeated the story she had heard before, and the room fell into a brief silence, as if she couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere, Qibao finally spoke first:

"So we can't directly find the God of Harvest? Then destroy it?"

"It's difficult. Sometimes this kind of land god doesn't even have its own image, because for human beings, once the gods have a specific form, the sense of awe will be much less. In order to maximize the [awe], they will not appear unless it is a last resort." Maitreya obviously has a say in this regard.

"Then kill all those ghosts! Aren't they going to treat us as living sacrifices? Then come as many as you want!"

Inuyasha spoke fierce lines, as if he couldn't remember how he was besieged before.

But Maitreya nodded in agreement at this moment, he tightened the rosary on his right hand and said:

"Those Swallowing Ghosts don't have evil or miasma, so they can be dealt with with wind points."

Feng Xue was not optimistic about the protagonist group's plan, but he didn't say much. On the contrary, he was very interested in Maitreya's wind cave.

When he read the original work in his previous life, he wondered why Naraku would leave such a curse that could kill himself on Mibu (grandfather Maitreya, who suppressed Shen Jiuye by himself) who was already too strong.

However, Maitreya has never used this ability since he met the protagonist group, and it is impossible for him to directly say "let me see" or something.

Maitreya and Inuyasha made a plan, Coral and Kagome began to discuss the details, Feng Xue frowned when she heard their overly naive plan, Qibao seemed to have sensed something, and immediately ran over, saying familiarly :