my weird life.

Chapter 392 The Praying Mantis Catch the Cicada, The Oriole Follows (22)

The dense, deliberately suppressed footsteps outside surrounded the entire courtyard where Anlu was.

Su Wu stood under the cherry tree,

Eyes move slightly.

The figure is invisible.

Even his own breath is restrained, and will not be perceived by others.

The moment he disappeared, the main gate of the courtyard was knocked open.

A tall figure, wearing a leather armor, stepped into the courtyard first.

Behind him, one by one warriors pulled out their swords and filed into the courtyard, lined up along the courtyard wall, and surrounded the entire courtyard in a short period of time with a tacit understanding.

The tall figure raised the torch,

The firelight reflected the sinister mask on his face.

Su Wu couldn't see his face.

But the identity of the leader has already been guessed.

Exactly 'father'.

Previously, 'Father' left a note to Su Wu, claiming that he had something to do tonight, and later Su Wu talked with Ms. Haruko, vaguely judging that what 'Father' was going to do might have something to do with Anlu's backstory.

Now it seems that

He was right in his judgment.

Su Wu stood on the branch of the cherry blossom tree, leaning against the flower branch with the knife in his arms, and the intangible shape of mind swayed back and forth with the wind blowing the flower branch.

He silently gazed at the courtyard under the tree.

Watch this great show.

"Anlu!
There's no need to hide anymore, it's useless to hide,

Come out! "'Father' wears three sabers around his waist, two long and one short - one is a sword, one is a tachi, and one is a wakizasa.

He snapped his wrist and drew his knife,

Under the moonlight and firelight,

The light of the knife is like flowing water.

'Father' walked straight to the courtyard,
Behind him were four warriors guarding his flanks, following him as he marched silently.

Whoa!
The tall figure had just stepped into the nave with his forefoot. The next moment, a pair of pale arms emerged from above his head, holding a sharp awl, and piercing the heavenly cap above his head with the wind!
'Father' didn't even look at the pale arms above his head,

With one swing of the knife,

That 'hand shikigami' was cut into fly ashes and dissipated!
"Using shikigami is, after all, just a path.

Anlu—" The tall man spoke in a low voice, and after saying a word, his voice calling Anlu suddenly rose, and at the same time, he turned into a black shadow and passed through the middle hall suddenly!

Attack in a certain direction!

"Fate!"

"Hurry up as a law!"

"All Demons Conquer"

"Slay demons and bind evil!"

Anlu's panicked voices sounded again and again,
Every time he drank a command spell, a puff of smoke exploded in the dark hall,

From that smoke, various shikigami appeared!

The poisonous snakes and centipedes in the jar climb freely;
The two-headed boa constrictor wrapped around the beam;
And, a woman with a swollen body, a stinking black water dripping from her clothes, and a huge belly!

Once these shikigami appeared, they immediately used various methods to try to stop Abu's father and kill him!
however,
Facing many shikigami, Abu's father's eyes were as calm as water under the sinister mask.

He stood where he was, stretched out his hand and made a gesture,
He signaled the warriors protecting him to retreat.

Withdraw three or five steps behind the men,

At the moment when many shikigami surrounded him, his free left hand drew out the Taidao on his right waist, and crossed the two swords in front of him with both hands - a strong charm was released from him!

His hair began to grow wildly,
Spread across both arms like water plants, intertwined with twin knives,

The pitch-black treacherous hair turned into a giant python, twirling and rushing forward—the staggered twin knives entangled in the hair also turned, like a knife wheel, rolling up all the surrounding shikigami!
Swish swish!
Many shikigami were cut into pieces by the knife wheel!
Turn into green smoke and dissipate!

tread!
Abu's father's hair, which had spread like a python of hair, retracted suddenly, and one of his feet got out of the wrapping of his hair, and he stepped in the direction Anlu was escaping. The tricky rhyme eroded deep marks on the wooden floor.

The hair retracted to the position where Abu's father's legs were bent, and then stopped moving.

He retracted the sword,

The knife was pressed against Anlu Onmyoji's Adam's apple, and there was still a strange charm in his eyes, which turned his eyes into a dark green color.

"Anlu,
Toshio Inoue invited me to come over and ask you a question—why did you, and the Haruno family behind you, attack the priest of Soseki Shrine?

Don't play tricks with me,
We were at Haruno's just now.

There is no one alive there now..."

"Guo Shou's family has already been exterminated?" An Lu muttered to himself, and fell limp to the ground.

The samurai from the Inoue family surrounded him silently,

Only then did Anlu notice that most of these warriors' black clothes were stained with blood.

The hem of the shirt of the traveling warrior was still dripping with stinky drops of blood!
He suddenly understood,
In front of this tall man who looks like a Tang Dynasty man,

Absolutely no lie.

"I, I want to talk to Mr. Inoue!

Who are you?A lowly warrior is not qualified to hear such confidential matters! "At this moment, Anlu still wanted to play tricks in an attempt to delay for some time.

however,
The tall man - Abu's father shook his head,
With a sudden stroke of the knife in his hand,
The knife flashed--

Anlu propped himself up on the floor, so that his left hand would be chopped off in half, so that his body would not collapse.
Blood shot!

He screamed again and again,
There was a crying voice in the screams!

"I'll count to three. If you don't answer after three, you won't want the palm of your right hand." Abu's father said lightly.

"three!"

Anlu Onmyoji pressed the palm of his left hand and immediately stopped crying.

"two!"

Seeing the tall and sinister man holding up the knife again, the old Onmyoji was startled, and immediately replied quickly: "I said—why did the priest of Soseki Shrine die?
I have no idea!I really don't know why! "

"Ok?"

Abu's father frowned and stared at the old onmyoji.

The old onmyoji spoke again and again, telling the truth about everything he knew: "Miss Haruko took her two servants to the shrine today, and I met them there, and I helped them divination their future fate...

did not expect,
When it was the turn of the servant who was as tall as you,
I divined his future fate,
but caused the paper to burn,

Even Qiao Ji's coffin showed signs of charring!
What a fate this man must have had!

that time,
The priest also died suddenly.

He was originally a man in his prime, but when he died, he looked like an old man in his dying years!
At that time, I felt strange, so I searched everywhere in the shrine,
It was found that someone tampered with the "offering table"...

The Ishinaka Goddess Mei and Hashihime Kami who originally offered 'Masakaki Keeha' as the first sacrifice, this time the life of the 'priest' was the first sacrifice...Someone secretly targeted the priest,

But that person can tamper with the "sacrifice list" that reaches the "god",
This kind of ability is not comparable to that of an onmyoji like me who is not in the top six..."

An Lu's face became very pale as he spoke.
He wrapped the broken palm with the hem of his clothes,

Through the sinister mask on the face of the tall samurai, you can see the dignified eyes of the other party.

"I, that's all I know..." Anlu said cautiously.

Abu's father looked solemnly.

Staring at An Lu: "Are you sure it wasn't you, or the Chuno family?"

"no no!

Although the Haruno family has the ambition to return to Hoki and regain control of Hoki state affairs, they absolutely dare not make a move on the Soseki Shrine priest family that has been passed down for hundreds of years!
They also hope to win the support of the priest family! "Anlu said hastily.

Xiong shook his head,
Sighing: "That's troublesome.

The Inoue family is going to be in big trouble. "

He straightened up and shouted to the many warriors in the courtyard: "Return to the defense immediately!"

All the warriors responded one after another,
As he walked out of the nave, they all gathered around him, rushed out of the courtyard like a stream of water, and disappeared into the street.

In the nave,
Anlu's decapitated body fell down.

The branches of the cherry tree trembled slightly,
Su Wu floated down from the tree,
Approach the nave.

Picking through Anlu's body and the nave for a while,
Found several shikigami spells.

All the shikigami are crushed and cultivated with the 'big red lotus womb'.

He raised his head, looked at the bleak moonlight outside, and said in a low voice, "Is the Inoue family going to be in big trouble?"

"The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows?"

The shape of Su Wu's mind disappeared from the spot.

His speed was far faster than that group of warriors.

……

In the succinctly furnished room, there is only a pair of beds on the wooden floor.
In the corner was a low table and a wooden box for clothes.

on the walls of the house,
There are a few pieces of calligraphy with immature handwriting but pretending to be bold.

'a man of his words. '

"Tian Xingjian, the gentleman strives for self-improvement; the terrain is Kun, the gentleman carries things with virtue. '

'The way of a gentleman is to cultivate one's morality through quietness, and to cultivate one's virtue through thrift. If you are not indifferent, you will not be able to show your ambitions, and if you are not peaceful, you will not be able to reach far. '

'A gentleman hides his weapon in his body and waits for the time to move it. '

The calligraphy on the wall undoubtedly shows that the owner of this room requires himself with the virtue of a gentleman, and he hopes to become a "gentleman".

at this time,

The owner of the room is huddled in the bed, and a fur 'quilt' on the bed is constantly rolling,

After a long time,
A small head poked out from under the fur quilt.

She looks sweet and beautiful,
It seems that it does not match the copybooks in the room,
People suspect that she is not the original owner of this room.

Actually,
She is the owner of this room.

The copybooks all over the wall are also from her hands.

This girl is, of course, 'Miss Haruko'.

Haruko stared at the dark beams with her dark eyes,

"Why can't you sleep?"

She mumbled,
Tossing and turning on the bed again,
Close your eyes and try various methods, trying to make yourself fall asleep.

But without exception,

All attempts failed.

She still can't sleep.

There is always a sense of panic of 'what will happen tonight' in my heart.

At the end,
Haruko simply didn't try to fall asleep anymore, got up from the bed, walked to the short table, and lit the oil lamp on the table.

She put on her clothes and sat by the short table, picked up a brush, and began to practice calligraphy on the paper.

at the same time,

The darkness that was originally blocked outside the courtyard, thick as ink,

Propelled by an invisible force at this time,

Start hitting the courtyard wall.

In that thick darkness,

There were four straw men carrying a wooden box, a large area of ​​the wooden box was soaked in water, but one corner was burnt to charcoal black,
the other direction.

at the side gate of the courtyard,

Some jet-black hair 'grows' from the ground.

Under the black hair, a stone woman's head gradually appeared.

(End of this chapter)