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Chapter 763 We are craftsmen

It is better to offer sacrifices to the gods as early as possible.

Moreover, according to the elders of the Ozaki family, the sacrificial ceremony should be performed at night.

In other words, now is the right time.

The elders of the Ozaki family finished eating the gold on the table, and they seemed a little reluctant to leave. But in order to get down to business, they stood up from their seats and decided to lead Ryuichi to the place of sacrifice.

The place is located in the mountains to the north of the village.

The mountains at night were shrouded in a light mist, and the mountain ranges undulated under the pale moonlight.

Entering the mountains, Ozaki Ryuichi gradually lost sight of the outline of the village where the old house was located. The scattered lights that represented human society were left behind, and were soon submerged in the silence unique to the undeveloped deep forest.

The vegetation on both sides of the mountain road became thicker and denser as the trek progressed, layer upon layer, like a huge, inescapable cage that trapped the Ozaki people.

The lights cast by several flashlights swayed back and forth in the darkness, and the path in the mountains seemed to have life and consciousness, winding through the cage formed by branches and leaves.

Above this maze of trees are towering steep mountains and cliffs. Small patches of shrubs cover the exposed rocks like hair, rustling in the night breeze, making these steep mountains look like part of some mysterious, sneaky, and extremely huge creature.

Continue walking towards the mountains.

There is no longer any path under my feet that can be called a "road".

As far as Ryuichi Ozaki could remember, he had never entered the pristine forest to the north of his hometown.

It seems that even the people in the village are reluctant to go deeper into this area.

But for some reason, after entering this deep mountain, he vaguely felt a sense of familiarity.

The elders in his family seemed to be fully aware of the environment here. Even his elderly grandfather moved abnormally swiftly in the mountains.

"Squeak."

In hidden places around the route taken by the Ozaki family, some mountain rats followed them or spread out to explore the surrounding areas.

These are the rats released by the beauty.

The rats' activities probably went unnoticed by the elders of the Ozaki family.

But as a beautiful Onmyoji, Ozaki Ryuichi naturally knew it.

At this time, he actually couldn't completely trust his family, and in comparison, the presence of those mice made him feel more at ease.

In such a deep mountain and dense forest, electronic equipment has become unreliable. In Ozaki Ryuichi's imagination, if something unexpected happens during this ritual, he will try to use the rats to bypass the elders at home and directly contact the outside world.

The mountains and forests can also be considered the territory of rats.

They certainly can.

After several hours of trekking and climbing in the mountains, it was already past midnight.

Ozaki and his party arrived at their destination.

This is the bottom of a steep cliff. The surrounding mountains are like impenetrable high walls, blocking and crushing them. It is majestic and wild, with only a palm-sized piece of sky left above everyone's heads.

In the mountain in front of everyone was a huge dark cave with an irregular oval entrance. Standing at the entrance, it was impossible to get a glimpse of the specific environment inside.

"This is it, Long Yi. The cave is very big, and the deepest part is the residence of Jinshan Bigu God. Just keep going down and you will find it. Next you have to go in by yourself."

"You have to complete the ritual before dawn. Well... there's still plenty of time. Don't forget the ritual process we told you about. It's not difficult."

It was obvious that the elders had no intention of entering this cave with Long Yi.

Under the watchful eyes of his elders, Long Yi walked into the cave. The moment he stepped into this dark and mysterious place, he had almost no hesitation.

If he had agreed to the commission to perform the divine sacrifice in the beginning, it was out of selfishness and a half-hearted attempt to preserve the considerable wealth of the family.

So when he really arrived at the cave of the so-called "Residence of the God of Gold Mountain", what drove and tempted Ozaki Ryuichi to think and act was something else.

An irrational instinct.

It was as if something was calling him from inside a deep cave with no end in sight.

Like invisible slimy tentacles, they coiled around his chest, teasing and stirring his heart.

After sinking into the darkness, Ozaki Ryuichi walked to a distance where he could no longer see the beam of the flashlight behind him. He called out the beauty and gave a final, relatively rational explanation:

"Have some of your rats leave the mountain. If we haven't left the cave before dawn, or if we lose contact with the outside world... find a way to tell the Countermeasures Room what happened here."

……

"Boss, this compass..."

In the ghost car, Takayama Mai, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around again and showed the [Dosing Needle] to Kamiya Kawa.

It can be seen that the needle on the ancient compass finally stops swinging back and forth, but points stably to a fixed direction.

This time, this thing finally has the function of guiding people in the absolute sense.

"Continue to move in the direction indicated by the [Dowsing Needle] and speed up as much as possible."

Kamiya couldn't judge whether this final change was a good thing or a bad thing, so he could only give this order first.

"Leave it to me, boss!"

Oishi Shunma was about to step on the accelerator to speed up, but he stopped immediately.

Although I don't know what will happen tonight, I always feel that the situation is very urgent.

So Dashi turned his head and looked at the last row of ghost cars——

In the back seat, Xiao Yuan Zao was holding his head, sitting quietly with an innocent look on his face.

That's right.

Tonight, the hearse team’s strongest driver, Xiao Yuan, also came out with us.

"How about you come and open it earlier?"

With Xiao Yuan Zaowei replaced in the driver's seat and the direction of the route already clear, the ghost car launched directly from the spot.

While rushing at lightning speed, Kamiya and others confirmed the direction again.

Now we can draw conclusions.

Roughly speaking, the location pointed by the [Dowsing Needle] should be the Gifu Prefecture area around Nagoya.

As soon as the ghost car entered Gifu Prefecture, Kamiya received a call from Kensuke Yusuke.

With Wu's help, this call was extremely stable.

On the phone, Uncle Yusei passed an urgent message to Kamiya -

Just tonight, strange things happened simultaneously in the Chukyo Industrial Zone and the Hanshin Industrial Zone.

Almost at the same time, a large number of residents in these two locations began to gnaw on any metal materials they saw without any warning.

Humans gnawing on metal, chewing it and swallowing it. It is a scene that is hard to describe unless you see it with your own eyes.

Because the scale of this strange incident was large and covered two large industrial areas, the Countermeasures Room immediately dispatched surrounding personnel to intervene.

Kensuke Yukihiro himself is currently on his way to the Hanshin Industrial Zone.

According to the descriptions of the exorcists who were already at the scene, they did not sense any obvious evil spirit fluctuations around the group of people greedily gnawing on metal.

Moreover, some of the out-of-control people would chant the name of a god while swallowing metal.

The Golden Mountain God.

In addition, according to the description of the exorcists who were already at the scene, the metals that the out-of-control creatures gnawed seemed to be mainly silver, copper, iron, tin, and related alloys.

But there is one metal that is absolutely excluded.

gold.

They don't seem to swallow any gold within sight.

It is not yet known whether this behavioral trend has any specific meaning.

"I see."

Kamiyagawa picked up the zashiki in his arms and placed it on the empty seat next to him.

He then looked out the window at the rapidly changing scenery. As a wild god, he could clearly feel that just now, in the dark and cloudy night sky, a heavy cyclone that ordinary people could not see gathered and roared towards the direction of Gifu Prefecture.

That is a huge "spirit", or a power similar to the power of faith and incense.

Kamiyagawa: "I should be heading to the source of this incident now."

Uncle Jiecheng did not ask Kamiya on the phone why he had been so coincidentally involved in tonight's emergency. He even felt relieved when he knew that Kamiya was handling the matter.

"Be careful and stay in touch."

Jiecheng finally said this and hung up the phone.

He's probably also very busy right now.

"Gold Mountain Bigu God... What is the situation with this god?"

Kamiya put away his phone, his expression slightly serious.

As it stands, the large number of out-of-control people in the two industrial zones, who were chewing metal and chanting the names of gods, should have produced a large number of "spirits" belonging to the Kinzan Biko God.

Kamiyagawa didn't know how Konzan Bikoshin managed to do this.

The only thing that can be confirmed now is that something big must have happened in Gifu Prefecture.

……

Ozaki Ryuichi held up a flashlight and walked a long way in the dark cave.

Beauty and the rats always accompany him.

The underground environment is very suitable for the beauty and the rats she controls to display their expertise.

The scale of the cave was far beyond his expectations. As the slope continued to descend, the outline of the cave continued to change, but no matter how it changed, there was no tendency to narrow.

The passage is always wide and always goes downwards.

The slope of the ground remains at a relatively steep angle, giving people the feeling that it will extend all the way to the unknown depths of the earth.

We went down like this for more than an hour.

Beauty suddenly gave a warning, and the mountain rats crawling throughout the underground passages also began to chirp and squeak anxiously.

With the help of the flashlight, Ryuichi Ozaki found himself walking into a large and flat underground space.

It has a very regular, almost circular outline, like a large circular square.

It doesn't look like a space formed by nature at all.

Stalactites and large areas of exposed gravel grew everywhere in the cave, all of which were cast into unpredictable long black shadows by the flashlight's ever-changing bright beam of light.

The haze constantly twisting on the rock wall makes the already mysterious and deep underground space even more sneaky and ominous.

"Long Yi, there is something... up there, but I can't feel anything specific."

The beauty beside him whispered a reminder.

Ozaki Ryuichi raised his head and held up the flashlight.

There are many cracks of varying sizes on the high rock walls of the underground square.

Some are very narrow, only a few centimeters wide, while others are wide enough to allow almost an adult to pass through.

The cracks on the rock wall spread everywhere, looking shocking and extremely hideous. It was like the gaping mouth of some huge monster, or like a wound violently torn in the underground rock by a god.

The height of this underground space is immeasurable. All we know is that the top cannot be reached by the light of a flashlight.

This made Ozaki Ryuichi feel uneasy and frightened, especially after hearing the reminder from the beauty.

He didn't know whether there was some strange existence lurking somewhere higher up where he couldn't see, staring down at him.

In the end, Long Yi just took a deep breath, and the damp and turbid air from underground filled his lungs.

"This is an extremely wide space. This should be the residence of the Golden Mountain Bigu God deep in the cave that Dad and the others mentioned."

Ozaki Ryuichi thought so.

According to the elders in the family, after arriving at this space, Long Yi will see some "potentially terrifying" existences.

But there is no need to panic.

Those are the messengers of the Golden Mountain Bi Gu God.

The elders all claimed that Long Yi would never be harmed by the gods' messengers.

All that is left is to follow the fixed worship process and swallow a piece of gold handed over by the messenger, and the sacrifice will be completed.

The Ozaki family generals once again established contact with the Kanayama Bikogami.

Enjoy the endless wealth bestowed by this generous god.

"Should I really swallow the gold? Become like Dad and the others?"

On this point, Ozaki Ryuichi seems to have not yet made up his mind.

Just as he was hesitating, the beauty beside him suddenly pulled him.

In an instant, the strange feeling of familiarity that he had felt in the mountains and at the entrance of the cave once again flooded into Ryuichi Ozaki's heart.

This time it's going to be more intense.

And Ryuichi Ozaki could clearly feel that at the highest point of this underground space, there was an extremely noble and great existence calling him.

The call that seemed to resonate with the soul was irresistible and even made Long Yi feel a little relieved.

“Have I been here before?”

He just had this doubt in his mind.

But, that doesn't make sense.

As far as Ryuichi Ozaki could remember, he had never explored such a strange place.

Before he could think about this question any further, a sticky sound and the screams of rats were heard from the surrounding rock walls.

Gudoo - Gudoo -

Some turbid, sticky, indescribable gelatinous substance, mixed with glittering metal, secreted from the hideous cracks in the surrounding rock walls.

Ryuichi Ozaki smelled a sour stench.

The gummy mucus with shiny metal that kept gushing out from the rock wall felt like disgusting vomit to him.

Before he could react to what was happening, the mucus fell to the ground.

The mucus continued to surge, stretch, and rise upward, and the various metals contained in it collided with each other.

In the end, a series of human-like outlines were formed.

Ozaki Ryuichi saw the human-shaped slime in front of him stand up, first turning into a one-eyed old monk, then twisting into a woman holding a hammer, and then changing into other shapes...

The sour stench in the air could no longer be smelled at this time.

Instead there was the smell of fire and iron, and a dark, faint odor similar to that of burning incense.

"What's this?"

Ozaki Ryuichi took a step back, and then he heard the constantly changing human figures in the slime saying the same thing in different tones:
"We are, artisans."

The sounds overlapped and echoed in the vast underground space.