my weird life

Chapter 393 The Female Bridge Princess in the Stone (12)

The darkness is like ink, gradually infecting the world outside the courtyard of the 'Inoue House'.

The cherry blossom trees outside the courtyard and the wooden houses not far away were all submerged in the raging darkness.

Even the white paper lanterns hanging on the main entrance of the courtyard and painted with the family crest of the "Inoue family" are surrounded by darkness little by little, and the light emitted by the lanterns is gradually eroded by the darkness.

If you can look down from the top at this time,
You can find that the blackest fog has engulfed the city,
Now it is being surrounded and overturned, the only house that is still bright.

In the thick darkness, the four straw figures wore white paper masks on their faces, bells on their necks, and carried a wooden box soaked in water. They approached Inoue's house slowly with stiff steps.

Every time they get closer to Inoue's house,
The darkness presses forward.

Jingle, jingle...

The sound of small bells loomed in the darkness.

The head of a stone woman with black hair protruding from the soil of the grave turned slightly,

After seeing the back door of Inoue's house in front, the stone head gradually retracted into the soil—together with the thick black hair on top of its head, it returned to the soil.

The flat ground has not produced any weird changes for the time being.

But inside the back door of Inoue's house,

The scarlet lacquer spells nailed on the door, eaves corners, and beams all melted faster at this moment.

The spell gradually twisted, dissolved.

Ribbons of red paint flowed down the cracks of the door.

Like bright red blood.

"Ding dong... ding dong..."

Miss Haruko, who was tossing and turning on the bed, unable to fall asleep, was sitting in front of the desk and practicing calligraphy.

She had just written a word when she heard the faint sound of a bell.

"strangeness……

It's all this time, why is there the sound of bells? "

Haruko was slightly alert in her heart.

put down the brush,

to listen attentively,

The tinny bell sound disappeared again.

She frowned and looked around her bedroom—the bedroom with only one oil lamp lit, which was dimly illuminated by a little light, was completely different from the boudoir in the daytime state.

Haruko stood up,
With an oil lamp to illuminate the surroundings,

Go to the wooden box in the corner of the bedroom,

He opened the wooden box, removed the neatly stacked clothes with a faint fragrance, and took out a wakizashi about thirty centimeters long from the bottom.

Wakizashi's scabbard is painted with red and gold lacquer,

Like the scene of falling leaves at dusk.

Miss Haruko took off her clothes, changed into casual clothes, hung her waist around her waist, and held a sword in her hand—the blade of this sword was covered with scarlet spells, and the blade was shining brightly and extremely sharp.

Then, Haruko took out another lacquer box from the box.

Open the paint box,

There is a stack of white cloth inside.

The cloth smells of ink and cinnabar,

open it,

You can see a beautiful dragon-shaped animal with colorful feathers on the entire half-meter-long square cloth, circling above the black sky.

The picture is full of some indescribable charm,

Embellished with cinnabar, it seems that there is aura circulating in the dragon's body.

And at the bottom of the whole picture, there is a line of Chinese characters written: Baixianghualongtu.

Haruko took out a loose cloak from the box, pasted the 'Baeksang Transformation Dragon Figure' on the inside of the cloak, and fastened the buttons of the cloth one by one into the specially sewn buttonholes on the inside of the cloak.

Putting on her cloak, and holding a wakizawa covered with scarlet spells, she tiptoed to the window,
open the window,

I took a look outside - her residence was surrounded by many houses in the courtyard, and it was located in the center of the courtyard.

From her perspective, she couldn't see the situation outside the courtyard wall at all.

But Haruko still observed that the sky was very dark that night, which was unusual.

Under the dark sky,

A samurai walked through the alleyway between the pavilions and buildings, carrying white paper lanterns in a hurry.

There are also a lot fewer samurai patrolling the house today than usual,
Arranged by the father to do things.

Haruko felt more and more that something was wrong,
However, when she saw the surrounding buildings and the samurai walking through the alleyway under the window, she felt that the premonition in her heart was just an illusion.

close the windows,

She sat cross-legged on the wooden floor,
Quietly pondered for a moment.

In the end, I decided to talk to my father about it.
Even if nothing happens, there is no harm in being more vigilant.

Haruko put the knife back into its sheath, stood up and walked outside.

The samurai who walked by the second floor of the building where she lived turned around the corner of the alley, bypassed several buildings, and when he passed the back door, he saw a wriggling black shadow on the ground.

"what is that?"

The samurai was nervous and drew his sword to defend.

——He is a timid person. He used to patrol the courtyard of the Lord's house with three or five companions, but he thought it was nothing.

Now the companions have been summoned by the Patriarch to do an important matter,
He is the only one left to patrol,
Seeing that he was sober, he was inevitably flustered.

With the knife resting in front of him, the samurai approached the wriggling black shadow with small steps.

approached,
Only then did he realize that it was a mass of black hair fluttering in the wind.

Who would lose their hair here?
wrong!

hair?

Several thoughts flashed through the warrior's mind one after another,

He hasn't had time to react yet.

Only to see the soil under the hair suddenly rise up,
A stone woman's head emerges from under the earth—

The woman turned her head to him, and the corners of her mouth seemed to twitch slightly on her stone face.

The samurai's eyes quickly turned gray, and then his entire face, body, and clothes turned blue-gray, turning into a stone sculpture.

……

It's so dark that I can't see my fingers,
The footsteps of all the warriors became extremely faint in the darkness.

The torches they held, under the erosion of such darkness, will gradually lose their light, and then completely extinguished.

"Old man!"

The warrior following Ah Xiong's left lit the torch again. After observing the situation around him, he immediately asked the tall figure in front of him, "This is not the way home. Where are we going?"

side front,
Axiong's long hair fell to his waist.

Hearing the sound, he turned to look at the samurai, his eyes under the evil mask gleamed with a green light: "Go to Soseki Shrine!"

"at this time?
Going to Soseki Shrine? "The samurai obviously couldn't understand the decision of the 'old man'.

"Someone is manipulating the battle between the Haruno family and the Inoue family behind the scenes.

We cleaned Haruno's house for him,

Now it's his turn to clean Inoue's house.

The only way to avoid the overthrow of the Inoue family is to trace the source of all these conspiracies - Soseki Shrine. In Soseki Shrine, we can see what the people behind are preparing.
And, interrupt his preparations. "

A Xiong made a faint sound and explained a few words for his subordinates.

"The Inoue family—

Are we even going to be overthrown?

How can this be? ! "The samurai lost his voice for a moment,
Led by the elder of the Axiong family, they cleaned up the Haruno family directly. Even Anlu Onmyoji, who was the leader of the Haruno family, was beheaded by all the warriors.

How could I have expected that it was just less than an hour,
The family behind him is reduced to a fate that is about to be overthrown!

As a result,

Samurai can't take it.

A Xiong glanced at him, a mocking smile appeared on his face under the wicked mask, and he didn't say anything to persuade him.

Game of Thrones is always so cruel,

And the person who masters this game has never been the one with power,
Not any one person in the game, but every insignificant 'moment' ignored by most people.

……

The crescent moon with a faint light in the sky has been completely covered by darkness.

Inoue's family courtyard in the dim night was also submerged in darkness.

Those red and gold lacquer incantations engraved on the eaves of the pillars melted, dissipated, and disappeared without a trace under the invasion of the tricky rhyme like the cold winter river!
The warriors patrolling around the courtyard turned into silent stone figurines in the dark,

The family members of the servants were still sleeping in the house, but they had to wake up from their sleep because of the cold rhyme lingering around them, and then saw a clump of black hair 'growing' from the wooden floor,
A woman's head of stone emerges from the blocks raised from the grave,

The woman smiled at them with her head,
So they also turned into cold stone figurines in panic.

Death swept across Inoue's home.

As the 'Girl in the Stone' swims around in the courtyard and between rooms,
There were hundreds of people in Inoue's family courtyard,

All of a sudden more than half died.

The "Girl in the Stone" emerged from the soil and the ground more and more. At first, it was just a head, and then the neck, the chest, and the whole stone body emerged from the ground. .

It no longer sneaks under the dirt,
There seems to be a roller installed under the stone body, so that it can appear in any direction silently,
A strong rhyme emanates from the stone body,

wherever you go,
Shouts of panic and frantic running footsteps sounded one after another.

Some people escaped from it without seeing the smile on its lips;

Some people were stunned by it, until seeing the smile on its mouth, they themselves turned into stones.

Fear and darkness together covered the entire courtyard of Inoue's house.

Those who escaped before the Maiden of the Stone,

After all, they did not survive longer—four straw figures with bells hanging around their necks carried a huge wooden box soaked in water, and smashed the main gate of Inoue's family courtyard.

The wooden box stands at the doorstep,

The box cover was pulled out inch by inch,
It reveals a slender woman with complicated hair and wearing Wu clothes.

This woman's limbs are limp, like a pair of flesh and blood without a skeleton support, behind the 'her', a wooden frame in the shape of a 'big' is bound,

It was because of the binding of the wooden frame that her body was able to stand on the ground.
It won't collapse into a pile of rotten meat directly on the ground.

The frame behind 'her' trembled,

Drive her out of the wooden box,

It shows her flat face without eyes, nose bridge, ears, teeth and tongue.

There seemed to be water flowing in the black eye sockets and mouth.

'She' bowed her head slightly,

The mouth opened wider, and a voice came out of the throat: "Woo-oooo-oooooooooooooooo..."

The empty sound becomes the sound of water submerging and immersing,
A stream of blood-red water spurted from her mouth,
Shaped into a female image with a pointed chin, eyebrows drawn like dots, hollow eyes, and a high nose bridge, the water flow of that female image escaped from her mouth and began to flood the entire courtyard.

(End of this chapter)