Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 791 Heimei Shrine

Liu Xing looked at the closed shops around him, shrugged and said, "It seems we have to go back to the car and get some bread to deal with it later, because there are probably no restaurants open to the public in this town of Zuoshan. "

   Fortunately, Liu Xing and others had already guessed that their group would run around after the official start of the Battle of Gongwu, so Liu Xing and others prepared a lot of ready-to-eat food such as bread and drinking water in the car.

   Of course, we also prepared several sets of weapons and equipment.

   "Then shall we go to the convenience store that is open?" Zhang Wenbing said, pointing to the only open store not far away.

   Liu Xing nodded and said with a smile: "Of course we are going, because we have to ask the boss if he knows the situation of Heiming Shrine."

   After entering the convenience store, Liu Xing found that there were only a few scattered items on the shelves of the convenience store. It seemed that the business of this convenience store was very bad.

   As for the owner of this convenience store, it is an old man who looks to be in his 70s or 80s.

The old man looked at Liu Xing and others, and said in surprise: "But I'm sorry, you should have seen the situation in Zuoshan Town, so there is nothing in my convenience store except for daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Things are sold, after all, there are only a group of old men and women left in Saoshan Town, so other things can no longer be sold in Saoshan Town."

Zhang Jingxu nodded, pretending to be a little disappointed and said: "Okay, then, sir, do you know if there are any restaurants open to the public in Zuoshan Town? We were in a hurry when we came today, so we didn't bring anything to eat in the car. things, and the nearest other city has to drive for more than an hour, we are really hungry and can't stand it."

   After saying that, Zhang Jingxu touched his belly.

   "Oh, do you mean you made a special trip to Zuoshan Town?" The old man said with a shocked expression: "I haven't seen a foreigner make a special trip to our Zuoshan Town for several years."

Zhang Jingxu smiled and said: "Actually, we are a group of travel enthusiasts, and we like to visit the shrines all over the island country, because the shrines in different places have their own characteristics; in recent years, we have transferred the famous shrines in the island country. So we thought about changing our strategy and wanted to visit some abandoned shrines, so we found a shrine in Sayama town that had been abandoned for hundreds of years on the Internet, and decided to take this shrine as our trip to abandoned shrines As the first stop, we really didn't expect that Zuoshan Town was almost turned into a ghost town."

The old man sighed, pointed to a table beside him, and said, "If you don't mind, then I'll order some noodles for you right now, and now I may be the only shop left in Saoshan Town that is still open. , those restaurants have long since closed."

   Liu Xing and others quickly nodded to thank the old man.

   Ten minutes later, the old man brought out five bowls of clear soup noodles to Liu Xing and others.

   Liu Xing took a bowl of noodles, took a bite and said, "Master, your noodles are really good, better than the noodles I ate in Tokyo."

The old man glanced at Liu Xing and scolded with a smile: "You are really good at talking, I don't know what this bowl of noodles tastes like? In addition to a little salt, I added a few green vegetables, it tastes good then Weird."

   Yin En and others also laughed and scolded Liu Xing for flattering.

   Liu Xing saw that the atmosphere was good, so he joked: "By the way, old man, are you not afraid that we are bad people?"

The old man shook his head, patted his pocket and said, "I'm afraid of what you will do, anyway, the things in my convenience store are worthless, and the monthly turnover may not be enough for my living expenses, so you are bad people. I can't take much money from me, it's not even enough for your gas bill to drive to the next city, and I'm not telling you, I was a salesman in Toyama City when I was young, so I just have to look at you, I'll know if you're good people."

   Liu Xing and others smiled and nodded.

In the following conversation, Liu Xing and others learned that the old man's name was Yamada Saburo, a native of Sayama Town. When he was young, he worked as a salesman in Toyama City. After accumulating a lot of capital, he returned to Sayama Town to open a business. I made a living out of this convenience store, and then I stayed there for decades.

As Liu Xing and others have said before, Yamada Saburo witnessed the decline of Sashan Town with his own eyes-for decades, young people in Sashan Town have been going out to study and find employment. The parents who were still in Zuoshan Town called over, so that the age of comments in Zuoshan Town continued to increase, and the birth rate of newborns was getting lower and lower.

  Now Sashan Town has not had a newborn for five years, so the only remaining hospital in Sashan Town has also closed its pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology departments, and all schools in Sashan Town are closed because there are no students.

   Originally, Yamada Saburo’s son asked Yamada Saburo to live in Osaka many times, but Yamada Saburo felt that he was too old and might not live for a few years, so he stayed in Sayama Town.

   After talking about the decline history of Zuoshan Town, Liu Xing took the opportunity to ask: "By the way, old man, do you know the specific situation of the abandoned shrine in Zuoshan Town?"

Yamada Saburo nodded and said seriously: "Of course I know, that shrine can be said to be the only place in Sashan Town that can be regarded as a scenic spot. A few years ago, the mayor wanted to rebuild the shrine to make Sashan Town a tourist attraction. In order to revive the economy of Sayama Town, an accident occurred during the rebuilding of the shrine, and a worker unfortunately fell off a cliff and died, because the shrine was built next to a cliff."

   Then, Yamada Saburo told everything he knew.

This shrine in Sayama Town is called Heimei Shrine, which was built a few years ago. Because the Heimei Shrine was stationed by hundreds of clergymen back then, the scale of the shrine is also considered to be a little famous in the vicinity. Incense can be said to be It is so prosperous that the surrounding little lords are respectful to Heimei Shrine.

   However, it is somewhat strange that the monks of Heimei Shrine hardly communicate with other shrines or temples around, and hardly perform any traditional worship rituals.

In the Warring States period, because the shrines and temples in the island country were quite strange at that time, the monks and clergy were all paramilitary members, and the chairmen of some large temples could even be compared with the local daimyo, because their monk soldiers may be more than some of the daimyo's standing army. many.

   Therefore, monks and soldiers were often seen on the battlefield at that time.

As for the Heimei Shrine at that time, its clerics often became mercenaries of local daimyo. Therefore, in a battle, because of the heavy losses of the troops of the Heimei Shrine, they were stared by a group of bandits who came over. In the end, the Heimei Shrine was attacked by bandits in a dark night, and all the clergymen died on the spot.

   Since then, Kuroaki Shrine has become history.

   But after that, strange and terrible things happened.

  Because the building of Heimei Shrine was not damaged, a nearby temple drew the attention of Heimei Shrine and wanted to take the Heimei Shrine as its own.

  So, they sent several monks to live in Heimei Shrine in the name of "You Fang Monk", intending to slowly turn Heimei Shrine into a new temple.

As a result, the monks who entered the Heimei Shrine did not report the situation at the designated time, so the host of the temple realized that something was wrong, so he immediately sent someone to the Heimei Shrine to check the situation, only to find that the monks disappeared. He disappeared without a trace, but there was no trace of a fight in the Heimei Shrine.

   Since then, all the people who stayed overnight at the Heimei Shrine will disappear mysteriously, so the Heimei Shrine has become a famous place of shrines (many people in the island country believe that some disappearance cases are the gods hiding the missing people).

  Because Yamada Saburo lived in a small village near Heimei Shrine when he was a child, the villagers often reminded children not to go to Heimei Shrine.

But Saburo Yamada and his friends are not so honest, so they often go to Heimei Shrine to play, and at this time, the overall construction of Heimei Shrine is not bad except for a little more dust, so Yamada Saburo and the others often work in the dark Ming Shrine play house, hide and seek.

   As a result, the unexpected happened naturally.

During a hide-and-seek, Yamada Saburo hid behind the statue, and suddenly heard a little friend screaming in the kitchen, and when Yamada Saburo and others arrived, the little friend was already unknown. trace, and has not been seen since.

  It was also after this incident that Yamada Saburo never went to Kurimei Shrine again.

   Hearing this, Liu Xing and others can be sure that no matter whether there are any notes from Abe's youth in Heimei Shrine, there is at least one mythical creature lurking in it for hundreds of years.

   And judging from the current situation, that mythical creature seems to be restricted by some kind of power to the Kuromii Shrine.

   Because mythical creatures generally do not stay in the same place for a long time.

"Hey, if you want to visit Heimei Shrine, it's best for everyone to act together, so that no one will suddenly disappear, and the most important thing is not to spend the night at Heimei Shrine, otherwise you are likely to The ninth is that I will never be able to get out of Heimei Shrine again." Yamada Saburo said seriously.

   At this time, Liu Xing and the others who had already eaten bowl noodles glanced at each other, then got up and said goodbye to Yamada Saburo.

   Of course, Liu Xing and others also gave Yamada Saburo the money, and Yamada Saburo accepted it politely.

   Just when Liu Xing and others were about to leave the convenience store, a tall young man walked into the convenience store.

   No, Liu Xing thinks that this young man should be described as huge.

   Because Liu Xing visually estimated that this young man was about 2.2 meters tall, and his weight may have exceeded 150 kilograms.

  Simply put, this young man looks like an enhanced version of O'Neal.

   Liu Xing looked at this young man's casserole-sized fist and felt that he should be able to kill himself with one punch.

   Because the damage bonus of this punch may be the legendary 2d6. . .

   "How is your grandfather's condition, Rakuten? You should look much better now," Yamada Saburo said with a smile.

   The young man called Lotte also smiled and said, "My grandfather has been discharged from the hospital today, so I'm going to buy something to go back and make something delicious."

Yamada Saburo nodded, as if he suddenly remembered something, he pointed to Liu Xing and others and said, "They plan to go to Heimei Shrine, how about you take them there? After all, the mountain road leading to Heimei Shrine It's pretty complicated."

   Lotte looked back at Liu Xing and others, and said somewhat unexpectedly: "Oh, do you really want to go to Heiming Shrine, that's not a good place."

   Zhang Jingxu repeated the rhetoric he just told Saburo Yamada.

   "I see, then if you don't mind having one more person, I can take you to Heimei Shrine as a guide, and by the way, I can also repay my grandfather's wish." Rakuten said.

   Liu Xing and others looked up at Lotte, feeling a little guilty.

  Because Lotte's body type is very stressful.

At this time, Yamada Saburo also saw the unease of Liu Xing and others, so he patted Lotte's arm and said, "Don't look at Lotte, this kid looks like a bear, but Lotte is a well-known good guy in our Sashan Town. Always help us old guys with things."

   Lotte stretched out a hand and said with a smile, "My grandfather and master always taught me when I was a child that I could help others if I could, because I grew up with the help of others."

Yamada Saburo sighed and said, "Rakuten has been an orphan since he was a child, because his parents were crew members of an ocean-going fishing vessel, so Rakuten was born in the Arctic Ocean, but he was born only ten days ago. In time, the ocean-going fishing boat he was on sank because it hit an iceberg. Fortunately, another boat nearby saw all this, and finally rescued Lotte, and then struggled to feed him with seal milk, and finally He was adopted by his grandfather."

   Lotte nodded and said with a smile, "That's why my name is Seal Lotte."

   Liu Xing thought about it, stepped forward and held Lotte's hand and said, "My name is Zetian Meteor, it's a pleasure to meet you."

   Now that Liu Xing has started, Zhang Jingxu and others also came up to meet Lotte in turn.

   So, Liu Xing and others followed Lotte who had finished shopping to Heimei Shrine.

"Behind my grandfather's house is the mountain road leading to Heimei Shrine, so we will go to Heimei Shrine after I put my things back home, but we may not stay in Heimei Shrine for long, because my master keeps telling me to Leave Heimei Shrine before dark." Lotte said, pointing to a mountain not far away.

   "Master?" Yin En said curiously, "What does your master teach, Lotte?"

  Le Tian lit his arms and said with a smile, "Martial arts."

   (end of this chapter)