[Comprehensive] Monster soup house

"Lin Sheng"

"Lin Sheng?"

Ibaraki seemed to be a little bit unable to react, why did the person who had been warmed up by himself suddenly start to become colder?

He wanted to say "stop playing, it's not funny at all", but he knew very well that this is definitely not a temperature that ordinary humans can fake, and he can't even feel his breathing and heartbeat...

The room in the main house was very dark, and only two figures could be seen vaguely.

When Hoshikuma-douji felt that Ibaraki-douji's demonic aura was wrong, and rushed over in the snow, a frightening black flame was burning in the main house because of his out-of-control demonic aura.

"Ibaraki, what the hell happened...?"

The monster in the center of the black flame ignored him, or couldn't see him at all, just knelt on the animal skin and kept calling the name of the person in his arms.

Xingxiong Doji finally discovered the abnormality, he only felt Ibaraki Doji's monster aura, and he didn't have Lin Sheng's aura at all...

But, isn't it good when we eat together at night?

*****

Hoshikuma Doji sent Ibaraki and Lin Sheng back to the soup house overnight, and he sent them back himself. Now Ibaraki's evil spirit is too unstable, and ordinary monsters probably can't get close to him.

It was the first time he saw Ibaraki like that, and he was panicked.

"Lin Sheng is so cold, what should I do?" Xingxiong boy knew that Ibaraki was not actually asking him.

His eye sockets were very red, and something overflowed from them, but he didn't notice it, he just kept calling Lin Sheng's name, like a sad beast.

The hoarse call was blown away by the strong wind in the snowy night, Xingxiong Boy couldn't bear it, but he didn't know what to say.

As a monster, life and death are commonplace for him, but death is very strange. Monsters never care too much about the life and death of others, because they have a long enough life span to ignore them.

Could it be that he was told that Lin Sheng was actually fine?But even if Ibaraki didn't let anyone get close to Lin Sheng, he could still feel that Lin Sheng had no breath at all, like a dead body.

He did not die, but it was no different from death.

It was also the first time for Xingxiong boy to encounter such a weird situation. He didn't know what happened to Lin Sheng, so he could only pray that Lin Sheng, as the owner of the fountain of life, could recover. Otherwise, he didn't know that Ibaraki would change. what it looks like.

If Lin Sheng really died, then the underworld should suffer.

When they returned to the soup house, the evening business was coming to an end.

The floor heating in the study had already been turned on, and Lin Sheng was tightly wrapped and held in Ibaraki's arms, trying to keep warming his body.

Ibaraki knew that Lin Sheng was hiding something from him. Lin Sheng's weakness was too abnormal, so he found out about the pollution of the spring water in his own way.

It's just about the mysterious spring water, except that he was accidentally brought into the space that Lin Sheng saw consciously, he actually didn't know anything, including other people. One of the reasons he kept it from them.

But Lin Sheng was in danger after all to help Abe Seimei and this Kyoto, and Abe Seimei also promised him that he would find Hei Seimei at all costs.

But Ibaraki has always had a bad feeling, even though he tried his best to think in a good direction, he hated his own powerlessness, so he stayed by Lin Sheng's side as much as possible.

But he didn't expect that "bad" came so suddenly, without warning, so he couldn't catch it.

Not only Ibaraki, Seimei was also caught off guard at this time.

He could feel Ibaraki-douji's worry and resentment.

For Ibaraki Doji, Kyoto as a city of human beings is meaningless. If Lin Sheng and the entire human being in Kyoto are on the same scale, Seimei has no doubt that he will directly choose Lin Sheng, even if his life is ruined.

He sometimes envies the wanton and unscrupulous monsters, but he also knows that he will never be able to get rid of the responsibility on his shoulders, when he, as a human being, makes a choice.

But it didn't make him feel any better. He put his friend in danger even though he knew it was risky.

Fortunately, when he found the record about the Fountain of Life in the book, Seimei Hei finally appeared. Because of Yamata no Orochi, Seimei Hei knew much more about the Fountain of Life than he did.

Qingming and Boya found Hei Qingming in the underworld, and his destination was the forbidden area of ​​the underworld.

When Qingming and Boya found him through black and white ghost envoys, Hei Qingming said flatly: "I'm just fulfilling my promise."

But even through Lin Sheng, the fountain of life can only be seen but not touched for them. This is the limit, so the only way is to use the same mysterious and powerful source of spring water as a medium.

And Seimei had a hunch that, as the fountain of the dead corresponding to the fountain of life, it definitely knew much more about the fountain of life than they did.

Ever since Lin Sheng unsealed the spring of Wangchuan, the spring has been hidden, and Yan Mo's eye can only see that it is sleeping, but he doesn't know how to wake it up. At this time, Hei Qingming is guarding there.

Now that the situation is so urgent, Lin Sheng can only be brought there.

Qingming recruited ghosts to make black ghosts and whites, and let them open the way to the underworld. The ferryman was already waiting for them on the bank of Wangchuan.

Lin Sheng is the benefactor of the underworld, and everything in the underworld will be opened for him, and Yan Mo also put aside the trial of Hei Qingming's crimes for the time being.

The boat was very long, and Lin Sheng was lying on the stern wrapped in a quilt. On the bank was the blood-colored manjusawa, in the river was the turbid water of the dead, and on the back was the never-setting red sun. Watching them guarding Lin Sheng's side, this kind of scene like sending off spirits was particularly dazzling, making Qingming feel a little pain in his eyes.

Lin Sheng must not be lost. He should have continued to be the owner of his soup house leisurely, happily hugging the foxes, flirting with them, and staying with Ibaraki. The price of saving should not have been borne by him alone.

No one on board spoke, and time seemed to be frozen.

Black and white ghost envoys cannot enter the forbidden area of ​​the underworld, and the same is true for judges.

They stopped by the river bank just like last time, quietly waiting for their return.

The familiar cold feeling hit again, and they once again set foot on this forest with only endless night.Hei Qingming had been waiting for them a long time ago, so when they arrived, bunches of faint blue will-o'-the-wisps ignited on the bank of the tributaries of the Forgotten River, and the end was the source where all the tributaries of the Forgotten River converged.

There is no sound here, everything is silent, there are no living things here, only ghosts that can take life.

Hoshikuma Doji came here for the first time, even though he is a monster who is used to seeing big scenes, but the moment he stepped in here, he still felt like his hair was going numb, it really was a ghostly place.

Ibaraki-douji is like a bomb now, and Lin Sheng is the fuse, which may explode anytime and anywhere. The reason why the onmyoji named Abe Seimei invited him to go with him is nothing more than to use him as a shackle that can restrain Ibaraki-douji.

Hei Qingming had already been waiting for them at the place where the rivers met. When Qingming and the others brought Lin Sheng here, he was half kneeling, putting his hands on the calm river water.

"How's it going?" Sunny asked.

Hei Qingming shook his head, just about to say "no response", but when they brought Lin Sheng closer, the originally quiet river suddenly began to surge, and then a black vortex formed under Hei Qingming's feet.

Suddenly, Ibaraki felt some power calling him, leading him to bring Lin Sheng closer to the river.He followed and walked over, and when he was about to step onto the river, an old sigh suddenly came from under the formation arranged by Hei Qingming.

"My young friend, I feel your breath."

Ibaraki walked to the center of the river, obeyed that force and put Lin Sheng on it, the thick fur quilt was lifted, and under the will-o'-the-wisp softly curled up around Lin Sheng's wrist, appeared beside him A human form formed from the water of the river.

Ibaraki looked at the figure, "Can you save him?"

The figure shook his head, "I can't."

Its words startled everyone, Qingming's hands trembled, and the fan came down with a "snap".

"I can't save him, the only one who can save him is himself." The figure continued.

"Can it still be saved?"

Ibaraki's voice was extremely cold without any tone, such abnormal calm made Hoshikuma Doji frown, such Ibaraki, only at that time...

"His consciousness is not in the body now, and the connection between them is very weak, and there is almost no life. We all know that the separation of body and soul means death. If I feel right, the fountain of life in his body is polluted and Start to dry up, the spring water is like the life of the master, and dry up means death."

Wang Chuan's words gave Ibaraki a glimpse of life, "What should I do?"

Wang Chuan continued: "His body became weak due to the pollution and depletion of the spring water, and the connection with his consciousness became weaker and weaker. When the two were separated, or his physical body really died, his consciousness in the fountain of life would never return. .”

"So, just let his body come back to life, right?"

Wang Chuan shook his head, "This is just a stopgap measure,"

Ibaraki nodded, "I see."

He turned around and stretched out his hand to gently stroke Lin Sheng's cheek. The cold temperature seemed to have thorns, which made him very painful. Ibaraki lowered his head, kissed Lin Sheng's cold lips, and said softly: "Wait until I come back." .”

"You only have one day in the human world."

As Wang Chuan said, he held Lin Sheng's left hand, and the place where the two of them touched emitted a soft light.

When Lin Sheng helped it purify the pollution that time, it gave some of its power to Lin Sheng, and now the accumulated power should temporarily maintain the traction of Lin Sheng's consciousness and body.

Seeing Ibaraki-douji's disappearing back, Hoshikuma-douji was a little confused, "This is the underworld, even if you die, just let Yan Mo retrieve Lin Sheng's soul, right?"

Wang Chuan shook his head slowly, as if sighing, "He's different."

A person who can't even see through Yan Mo's eyes doesn't belong here at all.

*****

When Lin Sheng woke up with spatial awareness, he found that he couldn't move.

Together with the spring that was about to dry up, he was frozen together.

The voice of spatial consciousness came from the mind: "The pollution and depletion of the spring water have reached the final critical point, and your body can no longer support it. This is the last way to keep 'you' temporarily."

Lin Sheng asked: "Then what will happen to my body?"

Spatial consciousness didn't answer, but Lin Sheng had probably thought of it, he couldn't imagine how Ibaraki saw him the next day.

My heart hurts, I have already agreed, but I don't even have such a little time? !

Lin Sheng didn't know how to describe his mood at this time. Fucking and despair were mixed together, and being with the ice hole that couldn't move now made him want to cry and curse at others.

"I know you are not reconciled," a voice that is different from spatial awareness suddenly entered his mind, indistinguishable, like soft spring water flowing into the cochlea, "So, does Lin Sheng want to continue living?"

Isn't that nonsense? !so……

"who are you?"

The voice said: "You are my master."

"Are you the fountain of life?" This was the first time Lin Sheng heard its voice.

That voice is the default.

The Fountain of Life and every heir will be completely integrated so that they are completely inseparable, bound by life and death.The reason why it didn't allow Lin Sheng's consciousness to fully merge into the spring water was because he hoped that this human being would still have a chance to escape.

He was supposed to spend the rest of his life quietly in that prosperous and peaceful era, but because he was summoned to appear here, he had to bear the fountain of life and the Kusanagi sword, and became their container.

So its spring water is purifying by itself, but obviously it can't do it anymore. It underestimated Yamata no Orochi, and Yamata no Orochi wanted to destroy it, together with Lin Sheng who became its master, and Kusanagi sword.

"My master, you feel it too. Pollution finally made me exhausted." It's not 'us', it's me, "Do you want to go back? Go back to the place where you first existed, the era without disputes."

"Go back?" Lin Sheng froze for a moment, he hadn't thought of this question for a long time.

"Yes, go back, so that you can get rid of me who cannot leave this era, return to the original point, and your body will be restored."

Lin Sheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Then what if I want to stay?"

The voice was silent for a while, and said softly, "Then you will be completely integrated with me, maybe you can get away with purifying successfully, maybe just die of exhaustion like this, but no matter what, you will never be able to escape from this era."

Lin Sheng wanted to move his hands, but found that even his fingertips were frozen, so he asked instead: "Tell me, what should I do?"

"Have you decided yet?"

Lin Sheng smiled bitterly. In fact, the moment he wanted to make a choice, the answer he most wanted was already clear in his heart.

So be it, since you don't want to be separated, let's fight for once

The polluted spring can no longer purify itself, nor can it flow out of the spring. This is their last chance, a struggle between two equally weak consciousnesses.

The freezing was released, and the consciousness was once again connected to the body. The feeling of fully merging into the spring water was not good. The pain of the spring water was suffocating, and the already weak body became even more crumbling due to the fusion. Lin Sheng almost couldn't feel his body. up.

At this moment, a familiar force spread out from his hands, and the blood threads that entangled him slowly receded to the surroundings, and then he heard an old voice, it was the spring of Wangchuan.

The power of the fountain of the dead world has suppressed the spread of pollution, but this is not enough, he needs more power.

Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Ibaraki—

At this moment, Lin Sheng's mind was full of him, Lin Sheng didn't know if it was an auditory hallucination in the chaos, he seemed to hear Ibaraki's voice——

"I've been waiting for Lin Sheng for a long time, and I'm back."

His consciousness far away in space could not answer, but he could vaguely feel something flowing into his mouth, like the smell of blood...