Why is My Second Dimension Weird?

A priest in the middle holds a bronze staff in both hands, and the ringing sound comes from the impact of the copper ring on the head of the staff.

The priests on both sides each carried a paper lantern, and the lanterns emitted a strange faint blue fire light, which made it difficult to see whether it was real or not.

Eight unkempt, tattered coolies carried a one-meter-square box and followed behind the three priests.

The surface of the box was painted with gold powder and other paints in strange patterns, and the opening was sealed with a paper amulet.The paper talisman is full of blood-red mysterious characters, which looks like it was written with blood as paint.

When this strange team appeared, all the black figures in the village spontaneously gathered behind this strange team, forming a larger team.

This weird team seemed to be walking in the depths of a mountain forest.

Erina and Asakami Fujino were also awakened by the noise.

Erina squeezed a few fireballs casually, and looked at Xu Ming with a hint of excitement in her eyes, as if she was ready to pick up the fireballs and aim at this strange team for a while to bombard them as soon as he gave an order.

Xu Ming did not order to launch an attack, but turned on his spirit vision to observe carefully.

This team made him feel very strange.

Sure enough, under the spiritual vision, everything is clear at a glance.

Whether it's those human-shaped shadows, box-carrying coolies, or priests, the negative energy emitted from them is not much, far from being 'weird'.

Xu Ming suddenly had a glimmer of understanding in his heart.

This strange team is probably an afterimage left in Xuexia Village.

Perhaps it was because the disaster happened so suddenly that most of the villagers didn't react at all, and they were burned to death by the flames of the abyss.

Their souls may not even be aware that their bodies are dead.

I am afraid that in the past hundred years, Xuexia Village has staged such a scene on the eve of the disaster at a certain time.

Day after day, year after year.

Enduring to the point of chilling.

The faint blue light led the team gradually into the Lost Forest.

Not long after, Xu Ming could vaguely see that the blue fire light slowly climbed up Yanluo Mountain, and walked towards the depths of the mountain until it disappeared.

"Xu Ming, what should we do next?"

Seeing that these ghosts had disappeared, Arita Haruyuki regained his dexterity in speaking.

Xu Ming spread his hands with a smile on his face.

"What should I do? Let's mix it cold~"

"Eh?"

Little Piggy stretched out his pig's trotters and picked his head, with a dazed expression on his face.

"These guys are just afterimages of the past. As long as they don't bump into them stupidly, they don't pose much threat at all."

Xu Ming patiently explained.

"But……"

Haruyuki Arita looked at the distance and hesitated to speak.

I have to say that acting out such a performance at night is indeed a bit intrusive.

"Go back to sleep, there are more important things to do tomorrow, it won't work if you don't keep your spirits up."

Under Xu Ming's call, everyone gave up the idea of ​​asking the truth.

But before going back to sleep.

Xu Ming looked at the huge and lofty mountain in the distance, thoughtfully.

This incomparably mysterious Yanluo Mountain still emits an ominous red light even under the night curtain...

The next day, the sun had just risen, and Xu Ming was already up.

After eating the breakfast made by Erina, Xu Ming collected the shikigami into the Hyakki Night Walk, and then headed towards Yanluo Mountain alone.

Under the sunlight, shikigami, like 'weird', will greatly reduce their combat effectiveness.

At this time, it is more convenient for him to act alone.

On the way to Yanluo Mountain, there is a large dense forest named 'Lost Forest'.

The name sounds very intimidating.

However, after Xu Ming entered the forest, he felt nothing special except that the trees here were particularly dense and the forest was very quiet.

Moreover, the Yukinoshita clan often went up and down the mountain from here, and they had already made signs in the forest.

Every ten meters or so, a copper rod was inserted into the ground.

The continuous copper rods form a path in the forest, pointing passers-by to Yanluo Mountain.

It only took about half an hour for Xu Ming to walk out of the Lost Forest and arrive at the foot of Yanluo Mountain.

A narrow plank road paved with stone slabs appeared in front of Xu Ming.

This should be the plank road leading to the Yamanaka Shrine.

After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the edges and corners of the stone slabs have been smoothed, many of them were broken into several pieces, and some were simply washed away.

At this time, the sun was hanging high above the head, which was the most lazy moment of 'Weird', and the time to go up the mountain was just right.

Xu Ming immediately walked up the mountain.

The stone slabs have already become potholes after wind and rain, and many slabs are covered with moss, which is very slippery.

At this time, Xu Ming didn't dare to be careless, and walked carefully along the stone slab to Yanluo Mountain.

Two hours later, Xu Ming finally climbed halfway up the mountain out of breath.

The terrain here suddenly became flat.

A quaint shrine stands quietly under the cliff.

There is not much difference in appearance and style between this shrine and all the shrines Xu Ming has seen.

It's just that compared to the thriving Suwa Taisha Shrine, this Chiyan Shrine is full of the atmosphere of twilight, like an old man who is dying, or the sunset of the western mountain.

The decoration on the top of the shrine is dilapidated, with missing or broken tiles.

The red paint on the pillars had faded, and one of the pillars was broken in two.

The copper bell hanging under the eaves was covered with green rust, and the surface of the rope was covered with burrs, and there were gaps in some places, as if it might break at any time.

It has not been maintained for a hundred years, and it is already a miracle that the Chiyan Shrine did not collapse directly after experiencing wind and rain.

Xu Ming stood where he was, and after trying to calm down his breathing, he took out his stick from his backpack, took out his cell phone, and then walked cautiously towards the shrine.

The inside of the shrine was quiet, only the harsh noise made by Xu Ming's feet stepping on the wooden floor.

Inside the shrine.

A statue of a strange goddess is enshrined on a pedestal deep within the temple.

What surprised Xu Ming was that the statue had no head.

I don't know if it was deliberately destroyed, or if this god was originally like this.

Although headless gods are rare in the Celestial Dynasty, in Japan, a country that claims to have 800 million gods, there are all kinds of weird gods, and it is nothing to be mere headless.

Apart from being a little curious, Xu Ming had no other thoughts.

It's just that in the depths of the dark shrine, there is a headless god statue, which looks a bit creepy.

Xu Ming walked slowly to stand in front of the statue.

Kagura bells, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings are placed on the table in front of the statue.

Xu Ming noticed that the top of the kagura bell was missing a bell, which seemed to be the one given to him by Snow Mother and guided him to Xingyun Island.

There are also a lot of bloody paper symbols on the pillars around the temple.

There are rows of shelves on the walls on both sides, and the shelves are filled with hexagonal paper tubes, which look a bit like lanterns.

Xu Ming went around the table and came to the statue.

He soon discovered that there was a stone pillar in each of the three directions of the statue, and a stone plate was carved on the top of the stone pillar, which seemed to be used to put something.

Xu Ming turned around and picked up the ancient books on the table, trying to find clues in the ancient books.

Sure enough, after reading a large paragraph of exaggerated words praising (praising) Yan Luoshan, there is a paragraph written at the back of the ancient book——

To open the gate of Luosheng, go to Mingyan Palace.

You need to find all three tributes in Mitu Forest, Ancestor Sacrifice Field, and Huangquan Cave, and offer them in front of the god.

Xu Ming had just finished reading when a system prompt sounded in his head.

Ding!

—— Before the first ray of sunlight rises at dawn, please go to the three locations of Mitu Forest, Ancestor Sacrifice, and Huangquan Cave to find the offerings for the ceremony and return them to the statue of the Goddess of Fire and Disaster before you can open it to the underworld The gate of Yan Palace.

——Note: Only after midnight will these three locations reveal their true colors and sacrifices will appear.

Xu Ming sighed, it seemed impossible to find clues to complete the mission during the day by taking advantage of it.

He turned on the phone again and called up the map.

Among them, Lost Forest is on the way from the village to Yanluo Mountain.

The Ancestral Shrine is located in the valley next to the shrine.

These two locations are marked on the map, but where is the 'Cave of the Underworld', but not on the map.

It seems to have to find another way.For a whole day, Xu Ming didn't go anywhere, just stayed on Yanluo Mountain, checking everywhere.

All kinds of clues indicated that Xue Xia was taken captive to Xingyun Island, on Yanluo Mountain.

Xu Ming's intuition told him that most of Yukino under the snow was in that Mingyan Palace.

From the map, it can be seen that the location of Mingyan Palace is the center of Yanluo Mountain, which is near the crater.

However, the strange thing is that Xu Ming wandered around Yanluo Mountain for most of the day, but he couldn't find the way to Mingyan Palace.

After passing halfway up the mountain, the slope of the mountain suddenly became very steep, and Xu Ming never found the mountain road built by the Xueshita clan.