After getting lost in the abandoned village, they gradually became confused and infatuated

Mitsutani Hayabusa decided to go to the shrine to chat with the old woman later to confirm her identity and collect evidence at the same time.

If the old woman is the sister of the imprisoned Mitsugu family mentioned in the document, and the evidence of evil in the shrine is also very conclusive.

Then, Optics Valley Falcon will make those people pay the price.

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It was already two days later that Kotani Hayabusa went to the shrine again and met with the old woman.

Over at the hot spring hotel, Mitsuya Hayabusa did not confess to his companions the information he investigated in the basement that day.

He didn't want the hard-earned warm atmosphere of the hot spring hotel to be washed away by this information.

He just told his companions about the Autumn Festival.

This decision was also unanimously agreed by the companions. Everyone wanted to hold a grand celebration to bring a breath of fresh air and vitality to this lifeless place.

As for the standing god of the sky and the fact that the shrine once betrayed the Mitsutani family and almost killed all the members of the Mitsutani family, only Yamashita Miao and Amane Rei knew about it.

This matter has been classified as a first-level confidential matter for the time being. Only when Kotani Hayabusa feels the time has come will he confess it to everyone.

It was about noon.

Optics Valley Falcon finally met the old woman.

It was still a familiar place. The old woman came to the room leisurely on crutches, and Optics Valley Falcon also made tea and waited for her to take a seat with a smile.

After sitting down, the old woman picked up the tea cup and smelled it gently at the rim of the cup.

"Yes, Not Bad."

"The fragrance is overflowing and refreshing."

After taking a small taste, I was full of praise.

"So, young man, you didn't come to see me, an old lady, just to let me taste tea."

The old woman got straight to the point.

Optics Valley Falcon smiled lightly and replied.

"of course not."

"I'm here just to confirm something with you."

"Are you... from the Guanggu family?"

The movement of the old woman's hand suddenly froze, and her cloudy eyes suddenly lit up.

Looking straight at Guangtani Falcon, his old body stood straight at this moment.

"You...why do you ask that?"

Mitsuya Hayabusa didn't give in, and directly told the old woman what he found out about the Mitsuya family and the shrine that day in the basement.

After listening, the old woman slowly placed the cup on the table.

Looking at the slightly rising water waves above, his expression was complicated, as if he was remembering an old incident.

Then, he sighed heavily.

"I didn't expect you to find these things in that old bastard's basement."

"The Eternal God of Heaven actually secretly colluded with the old village chief for her own benefit... Hahaha, it really refreshed my understanding of her offline."

"I was a scumbag at first, but now it seems that I am even worse than a scumbag."

Apparently, even the old woman didn't know the information on the document.

"So, are you from the Guanggu family?"

"Old man?"

The old woman hesitated.

First of all, the things mentioned in these documents, except for the fact that the village chief secretly colluded with Tian Zhiguo Changli to exile the sacrifice ceremony, everything else was completely consistent with the actual situation she had grasped. consistent.

The shrine maidens indeed betrayed the Mitsuya family.

However, it is not the current batch.

Most of the witches who participated in the betrayal have become sacrifices in the deep well.

The only ones who survived were those from Ise Shrine.

However, the old woman's original plan was to wait for Mitsuya Falcon to go to the castle tower, see everything there, absorb all the power of the Mitsuya family, and then answer his questions bit by bit.

Help him complete his revenge, pull the people of Ise Shrine off the altar and replace them, allowing the Mitsuya family to regain control of the shrine.

But now, he found the key clue in advance in the basement of the village chief's residence.

The old woman didn't know whether she should confess everything to him.

If you confess everything to him at this time, if this stupid boy chooses revenge, can he defeat the people of Ise Shrine before his abilities are fully awakened?

If she doesn't confess, it means that she will completely lose the trust of Kotani Hayabusa. Once he finds the key information in the future, will he purge her altogether?

The old woman is not afraid of death.

What she fears is that she will be regarded as a traitor by the Guanggu family.

Chapter 414 The so-called past

After pondering for a long time.

The old woman finally decided to confess everything to Optics Valley Falcon.

This is completely out of her loyalty to the Optics Valley family.

"I'm not from the Optics Valley family."

After the old woman finished speaking, she fumbled around in her arms and took out an old and yellowed photo from the lining of her ragged clothes.

At first glance, it is full of a sense of age.

The old woman handed this photo to Guanggu Falcon.

In the photo, there are four people in total.

Two short girls sat side by side on chairs.

They were wearing kimonos, the size and style of the kimonos were exactly the same, the only difference was the color.

One is as white as snow, with some ancient and mysterious patterns embroidered with black silk threads, and the other is as deep as night, with the sun, moon and stars embroidered with golden silk threads.

However, their faces were artificially scratched out and their faces could not be seen clearly.

To the left and right of these two girls stood two young women who looked to be in their early 20s.

Unlike the two girls in kimonos, these two women's faces were not scratched and could be seen clearly.

They wear very simple single clothes, but their figures and looks are absolutely beautiful.

Compared to the witches, they are no less impressive.

"This is......"

The old woman looked at this yellowed old photo with a tender look she had never seen before.

"I'm not from the Optics Valley family."

"I used to be the personal maid serving those two adults."

As she spoke, the old woman pointed to the mature woman standing on the far right of the photo.

"This is me."

"And the other maid is the old woman you met in the underground dungeon before."

"As for the two adults sitting in the middle, they are what you said before, recorded in the document...the last bloodline of the Guanggu family."

The old woman laughed to herself.

Her eyes are soft and her tone is calm, just like the grandmother next door downstairs, patiently telling the past to the curious children.

"If you want to talk about it, maybe you have to start talking about it a long time ago."

The old woman looked at the window on one side, her deep eyes seeming to see through the hazy white fog.

"At that time, Jixiang Shrine was not isolated in the white mist like it is now."

"Jixiang Village has not been baptized by disaster. It is so full of vitality. People make wealth by planting happy fruits."

"Countless tourists visit Jixiang Village every day, and the tourism industry is also very developed."

"However, as time went by, people gradually discovered that growing pistachios can be realized very quickly, and they can make a lot of money."

"More and more people believe that instead of developing the tourism industry, which is time-consuming, laborious and not very profitable, it is better to cultivate farmland and plant happy fruits."

"At first, this voice was very weak, but as those who grow happy fruits become richer and richer, the villagers who specialize in tourism become increasingly poor."

"In this small Jixiang Village, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider and wider, and the voice of planting happy fruits is also getting louder."

"In the end, the entire village supported this decision."

The old woman closed her eyes.

It feels like I have returned to that era, walking in a village that looks like a period drama.

Everything that happened at that time is vivid in my mind, just like the next day.

"It's just that if you want to grow happy fruits, you need black water for irrigation."

"And Blackwater... I think you should know it too."

"It is the accessory that is generated after the sacrifice is melted after the sacrifice ceremony."

"If you want to expand the production of happy fruits, you need a large supply of black water. However, the sacrificial rituals of the shrines have fixed times, so the production capacity of black water cannot keep up with the increasing demand."

"As a result, the limited black water is in the hands of a few people."

"As for the villagers who didn't get the black water, they can only watch helplessly as they make a lot of money and become full of resentment."

"People don't suffer from scarcity but from inequality."

"Those who couldn't make money vented all their grievances on the shrine. They thought that the people in the shrine had cooperated with a small group of people and deliberately supplied the rare resource black water to them."

"The shrine is the main culprit of their poverty."

"So, these angry villagers went to the shrine with full of anger, killed a large number of shrine maidens, and even pushed the head of the Guangtani family who was in charge of the shrine at the time into the Gate of Hell."

"Fortunately, at the critical moment, the remaining members of the Optics Valley family led a small group of witches who knew martial arts to rise up and resist, and then the mob was driven out."

"It is precisely because of this riot that the shrine later included martial arts training in every miko's compulsory course."

Optics Valley Falcon poured the old woman another cup of hot tea.

After taking a small sip to moisten her throat, the old woman continued.

"After this riot, the successor of the Optics Valley family at that time was completely disappointed with the humans outside, so he used a secret method to activate the white mist and hide the shrine in the white mist."

"Only those recognized by the shrine can pass through the fog and reach Jixiang Shrine."

White fog?

Secret law?

Guangtani Falcon's whole body became energetic.

Hearing what she said, isn't the white mist covering Jixiang Village caused by the secret method of the Guanggu family?

If that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to leave here if you master the secret method?

Optics Valley Falcon quickly asked.

But unfortunately, the old woman knew nothing about it.

The secrets of the Optics Valley family are passed down from generation to generation through ancient books that are never passed down by the family.

It is impossible for her, an outsider, to understand these secret techniques.

Optics Valley Falcon was a little disappointed, but not too disappointed. He secretly recorded this information and waited for the opportunity to investigate again in the future.

This information is considered one of the most important discoveries.

The old woman took a sip and continued.