[Net King + Patterns] Ugly Fish

A sudden bump woke him up from a light sleep, and the moment he opened his eyes, there was a low-volume complaint in his ears. He listened carefully to the content of those trivial conversations about how unsatisfactory the road conditions were.

Keigo Atobe frowned. His sleepy mind made the two people in the cab more self-forgetful, but he couldn't really open his mouth to make people shut up, so he raised his hand and rubbed his forehead. , Swallowing impatiently.

After listening for a while to talk about the "necessary relationship between concrete pavement and vehicle tires", Atobe Keigo twitched his mouth and silently raised his half body and looked at the scenery outside the car window. He really didn't know that in the Atobe house The driver who has served for more than ten years is so knowledgeable, or should I gossip?

Then what is the suspicious omission behind the phrase "driving the car up and down is bad for the young master's physical and mental health..." Hey? !It's not that a sudden accident in the middle of a car shock will have adverse effects.

Ah bah bah bah!I was thinking about something... Keigo Atobe finally raised his hand to his forehead, touched the veins that were still throbbing violently, and the corners of his eyes twitched a few times.

Sure enough, after hanging out with the embarrassing guy for a long time, he couldn't keep up with it?

Thinking of this, Keigo Atobe rolled his eyes at himself hard in his heart, then turned his angle of view slightly to give the person who was defined as [囧货] in his mind, who was riding in the same car as him.

Atobe Keigo quietly looked at the three Sakurako who were less than half an arm's distance away from him, but still sleeping in such an active environment, ecstasy in a group, for a long time, the corner of his mouth twitched again.

Speaking of which, the bastard Hikichiruna has a saying that is quite insightful——Sanjo Sakurako is roughly equal to a crime magnet, even if she keeps her own place, things will still be involved with her inexplicably.

Originally, Keigo Atobe sneered at that conclusion, but at the moment he didn't dare to be so iron, because the bloody example happened to himself.

Taking Sanjo Sakurako to the Koya Mountains for vacation, regardless of Sanjo Sakurako's little-known plan, Atobe Keigo definitely went with a plan to further warm up the relationship between the two of them... What happened?

In the hotels selected by spending a lot of energy, relevant and irrelevant people actually gathered together, and it ended up being an unexpected ending for Keigo Atobe.

Then now, a sudden accident made Keigo Atobe and his grandfather put aside their disputes and temporarily reached an agreement. The resorts under construction of the Atobe Group suffered casualties one after another. Whether it will affect the reputation of the Atobe family or the subsequent collateral effects will be quite troublesome.

With such an urgent need in front of them, Keigo Atobe and his grandfather naturally couldn't hold on to their differences on the 'conditions for the wife of the next group leader', so they each took a step back.

His grandfather immediately flew back to Tokyo to sit in the Atobe Group to calm people's hearts, and Atobe Keigo went to the resort village under construction to find out the inside story, with the driver and a security guard, and of course, Sanjo Sakura.

Therefore, even if Sanjo Sakurako keeps her own place, accidents will follow.

……

The green flowing outside the car window is embroidered with undulating golden outlines by the gradually rising sunlight. The driving car is sometimes flat and sometimes bumpy, which faintly fits with Keigo Atobe’s mixed mood of depression and treachery. He is silent all the way, three cherry blossoms The son fell asleep all the way.

In the scenery passing by outside the window, the occasionally dotted buildings are completely covered by dense vegetation, and the field of vision is slowly covered by large expanses of greenery.

The speed of the car also gradually slowed down. Through the front windshield of the car, Keigo Atobe found that the wide road became narrow unknowingly, and the conversation in the cab also stopped, as if he was not paying attention. In terms of driving conditions, the branches growing on the side of the road slid across the car body and made screeching noises, and the sound of wheels rolling over gravel made the cabin even more quiet.

"What's the situation?" It seems that the wheel passed a small puddle covered by dead leaves again. After a slight bump, Keigo Atobe heard Sanjo Sakura's sleepy question.

Turning his head, he saw that the group of people in the seat climbed up in a very difficult posture, propping up the chair cushion with one hand and rubbing the top of the head with the other, hissing, as if they had been knocked, and did not wait for him Answering, she turned over and leaned heavily beside him, slid her hand from the top of her head to wipe her face, and said again sullenly, "Not here yet?"

"Soon." Atobe Keigo quietly squinted at the face next to his shoulder, "It's just a turn around this mountain road." He raised the arm between the two and put it on the back of the chair Up, to make room for some guy who likes to unconsciously approach heat sources before he's fully awake.

When the three cherry blossoms squeezed in as he expected, Keigo Atobe raised his eyebrows. He personally said that he welcomes this kind of imitation of an old hen and a chick no matter how many times he comes again.

A few minutes later, as Keigo Atobe said, the vehicle turned a corner, and the scenery outside the window changed drastically.

The dense green suddenly became sparse, and the tall and dense trees were replaced by low plants. There were stone carvings in the gaps between the vines, and the exposed stone carvings were covered with gray-green moss.

"It's desolate—" Sanjo Sakura stretched her neck and looked back for a long time and said suddenly, "Hey——" She didn't turn her head back, but shook the fabric on his shoulder, with a look of surprise Awesome look.

"What?" Atobe Keigo pulled the man down with his backhand and sat down, knocked on the restless head angrily, with a gloomy and alarmist tone, "You will break your neck like this..."

"Oh——" Xu Shi listened to his warning, and the eagerness on Santiao Yingzi's face subsided a little. After a pause of two seconds, she stood up and looked around the car window with great interest, and then said, "Don't you think it's very interesting?" ? You can shoot movies here~"

"What movie?" Once again fixing Sakurako Sanjo who suddenly looked like a child with ADHD, Keigo Atobe raised one eyebrow, somewhat surprised by the impetuousness of this person that was rarely seen in a century.

"Spirited Away, the environment is very similar—it's a pity that the entrance is not an abandoned station." Sanjo Yingko, whose eyes were still twitching while being held down in the seat, returned, "Is the place you want to go under construction? Paradise? If it's...hehehe~"

"Building an amusement park in the deep mountains, do you think that the guy who wrote the plan is out of his mind?" Keigo Atobe rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and was suddenly taken aback, "Spirited Away...what is it?"

"..." After a period of silence that seemed suspicious to Keigo Atobe, Sanjo Sakura smirked twice, and then said something irrelevant, "If you want to build a resort, the road conditions just now It's really bad, hey."

"The mountain pass just now was a shortcut, otherwise you thought we could get there so quickly?" Keigo Atobe, who has long been accustomed to being secretive about someone, continued the topic, "Didn't you read the blueprint? The real road lies elsewhere. At one end, according to our location, we need to cross the entire resort."

"Except for the villas under construction, there are not many original residents in the surrounding villages, but they are..." As he spoke, Keigo Atobe's brows gradually tightened. He thought of the whispers he had vaguely heard when preparing for the project.

There are legends about this area and the resistance of the original residents at the beginning of the construction.

……

Thoughts were taken away unexpectedly, Keigo Atobe fell silent, combined with the accidents that happened one after another, he wondered if he should combine those speculative things with the events that happened.

"What are you thinking?" Santiao Yingzi twittered like a little sparrow beside her ears, "Tell me..."

"Well——I was thinking about the selling points in the plan at that time." After being made such a fuss by her, the faintly floating things in her mind disappeared without a trace, and Jingwu Atobe pursed the corners of his mouth, and after thinking about it, he realized what he knew. Bits and pieces poured out all at once.

"Mountain God."

There are 800 million gods living in the small land of Japan, so that every place has its own legend. This is well known. The area where the resort village under construction by Atobe Group is no exception. When he got the plan I also paid special attention to the selling point that combines local characteristics and commercial atmosphere.

Myths and legends passed down from generation to generation by the Aboriginal people.

"Huh?" Santiao Yingzi's eyes lit up, she was really interested, "You mean, the aborigines have grand sacrificial activities every year?"

"Well—the first month of the new year is called the festival month, and the aborigines would rush back to their hometowns to participate. At the beginning..." It was also listed as a key point in the plan, and then another gimmick was added.

"Treasure?!" Sanjo Sakura raised her voice slightly, "You said that the location of the resort is buried with treasures from the Warring States Period?"

Looking at the slightly dull face in front of him because his mouth was opened into an O shape, Keigo Atobe smiled leisurely, "A certain daimyo from the Warring States Period buried a large amount of gold in a nearby mountain and entrusted it to his loyal warriors. Afterwards, those warriors turned into mountain gods to guard this place, and this is where the sacrifice to the moon came from.”

After finishing speaking, Santiao Yingzi fell silent. After a long while, she narrowed her eyes slightly, and there was a little bit of strangeness between her brows, "Is the so-called sacrifice actually a soul-suppressing?"

"Maybe—who knows." Keigo Atobe shrugged, turned his head, turned his gaze out of the car window, stared at the stone Buddha statues passing intermittently by the side of the road, and unconsciously lowered his voice, "This area is isolated from the world. For too long, if the resort is built, at least it will be a good thing for the Aboriginal people."

Atobe Keigo dare not say how this plan of the Atobe Group will benefit the country and the people. After all, it is about business, but ask yourself, the economic development will definitely help the local people's livelihood, but now there are casualties one after another... such a Come on, the resistance of the aboriginal people will become more intense, right?

"The eyes that peek into the treasure, the patron saint of the mountains and forests knows everything." A strange whisper slipped by his ears, erratic and low.

"What?" Keigo Atobe turned his head abruptly, his heart skipped a beat.

Who was talking just now?

What came into view was Sanjo Sakurako with a puzzled face.

"What?" She stared at him with wide eyes.

After a while, Atobe Keigo closed his eyes, "It's nothing, I heard it wrong." Maybe it was the wind, or maybe it was thinking too much.

……

The rest of the journey was very quiet, Xu saw that he was not in good spirits, Sanjo Sakura no longer frisky after being honest, Atobe Keigo was disturbed by the voice that I didn't know if it was a hallucination before, and then lost interest, the two Just nestle together until we reach our destination in the east of the Koyasan Mountains.

Fate Cut Mountain——As the name suggests, the fate that was cut off.

The name of the mountain is still related to the legend. Before the samurai turned into a mountain god, he bid farewell to his sweetheart. The beautiful princess was left at the foot of the mountain to die, and the marriage was cut off.

"Oh—this is really... a beautiful story~"

Atobe Keigo, who was standing side by side with the person in charge of the local group, heard the sigh of Sanjo Sakura who was behind her. She was walking with a girl. According to the person in charge, Ichimura, the girl was the granddaughter of the local village head, Akiyoshi Hoko. .

The girl smiled with dimples at the corners of her mouth. She was shy and shy. After saying hello, she avoided Sanjo Sakura. For various reasons, Keigo Atobe didn’t want to provoke her, and she didn’t know that Sanjo Sakura did. What, the girl named Suizi gradually became brighter in her conversation on the way to the village where she stayed.

While Atobe Keigo had a preliminary understanding of the situation in the city and village in charge of the project, he was distracted by Sanjo Sakurako behind him.

Strolling on the road paved with bluestone slabs in the village, listening to the low-pitched laughter of two girls behind my ears, especially the light smile of someone who is lighter than usual, gradually, Atobe Keigo felt the lingering in his heart. The shadows faded quite a bit.

Speaking of which, Sanjo Sakurako is actually quite a good dancer, Atobe Keigo thought to himself, along the way, I heard Sanjo Sakurako use all kinds of topics, and abducted an obviously innocent girl to tell all the situations here. .

What's "It's an honor and fear to play the leading role in Jishen Dance"~

What are you saying, "Grandpa is not allowed to go out at night these days"~

What's the "the earthquake before the moon festival, people in the village said that the mountain god was angry" ~ what's the "the guests staying in the village for two consecutive days are very beautiful"...

Huh? !Keigo Atobe, who caught the abnormal words, paused slightly, and then pretended to be nonchalant, quickly glanced at the two girls who were still chattering behind him, and turned his gaze back to the person in charge who was walking side by side.

Upon receiving his silent questioning gaze, the person in charge lowered his voice to almost a whisper, "Occasionally there will be hikers staying in the village, and there are fewer in winter. The few who came these two days are all at the village head's house."

"Huh?" Keigo Atobe raised his eyebrows, "They're all here? Including us later?"

"Yes, it's not good for you, young master, to live with us at the construction site." The person in charge smiled and frowned, "The site you know has been sealed off by the police, and most of the workers are also temporarily on vacation."

……

Hearing the other party's explanation, Atobe Keigo pursed his lips, raised his eyes to look at the half-corner cornice at the end of the road that was half-hidden under the dense shade of trees, and did not continue to say anything.

It was located in the center of the village, the so-called village head's house.

Walking to the destination, Keigo Atobe stopped, raised his head, and was startled when he took a closer look. He didn't pay attention when he was covered by trees just now. Now that he walked closer, he realized that the entrance here is a little different.

"shrine?"

The vermilion cornices, and the Nahogi Kai standing beside the door... Is this a shrine?

"This is the entrance to the side hall, for normal and temporary guests to enter and exit." The girl who caught up behind said in a low voice.

Atobe Keigo glanced at the girl, and then pulled Sanjo Sakura to his side. Before he could say anything, he saw the vermilion door open quietly, and then there was a voice coming from the inside out.

"Can you stop following me, I won't lose you." It was a strange girl's voice, like a mountain spring in late autumn, so clear that it was almost cool.

After finishing speaking, the other party raised his head and met the people outside the door. Perhaps he didn't expect that there were many people waiting outside. The girl was slightly startled, her eyes turned around, her lips parted slightly, as if she was about to say something What, but at this moment another voice sounded from the vermilion door.

"Whispering! How can I not look at you!" The boy's voice was a little escaping and vaguely showing a hint of domineering, "Do you dare to leave me and try?"

Keigo Atobe raised his eyebrows silently, his eyes swept over the girl who was very strange to him without a trace, and then his eyes stopped on the boy who hurried out of the door, but Keigo Atobe knew him, It can even be said that he is familiar with the guy who would never expect to run into him here and now.

"Kanghiyue." Atobe Keigo stared and stood in front of him but turned a blind eye, as if he didn't pay attention to anyone and only focused on the wine-red head of a strange girl, "I remember You went to Europe for spring break."

Looking at the member he named who was obviously stunned by his family who was not worried, Keigo Atobe squinted his eyes, put aside for the time being the account of finding the member to settle the account of lying and avoiding club activities, and turned his attention to people he didn't know. Staring at the girl for a few seconds, a trace of surprise flashed in her gray-purple phoenix eyes.

The girl also stared straight at him, with her chin raised slightly, her pale face reflecting the light pouring down from the corner of the eaves, her eyes flickering brightly and darkly.

It's just... Keigo Atobe can't think of where he has seen such a girl, especially since she still seems to have a lot to do with the members of his family who are not worried.

So, Keigo Atobe shifted his eyes uncertainly to the face of Xiang Hiyake, whose cheeks were flushed like shame and anger, raised his eyebrows and was about to speak, but unexpectedly, Xiang Hiyake's eyes suddenly turned aside , and then he snorted.

"Minister...is that... Hiji?"

……

Startled by Xiang Hiyake's exaggerated expression of "Come and see God", Keigo Atobe couldn't help but look in the direction, waiting to see clearly the two people approaching from the other side of the road. He also froze for a while.

The person who came was indeed Hijiruo, but the other person who was held by his side with extreme protection... Judging from Xiang Hiyue's reaction, he didn't even know him.

The three parties gathered at the entrance of the shrine, and were speechless for a moment.

If the girl next to Xiang Riyue is extremely beautiful, then the girl standing next to Rijiruo can be called glamorous, with narrow and charming phoenix eyes, but sharp eyes, she quietly swept over her At first glance, my heart skipped a beat.

What's going on?Atobe Keigo raised his hand and rubbed his forehead with some headaches, "You..." Just as he started speaking, he was interrupted by Sanjo Sakura who spoke suddenly.

"Sanjo Yingko." Sanjo Yingko took two steps forward and stood in the center, her lowered voice faintly carried the elusive meaning of Dot Mobu Jingwu's elusiveness, "I am Sanjo Yingzi."

The atmosphere at the scene froze for a few seconds, and the girl next to Rijiruo chuckled suddenly, "Akiko Takahashi." While speaking, she also stepped forward, and the shallow light flowed in the phoenix eyes like autumn water, making her The originally glamorous face looked forward to shine; finally, it was the one who was held back by the Hiyake people who said, "Sakurai Cherry."

As if they had finally confirmed something, the moment the girl stepped forward, the three girls seemed to have exchanged some kind of secret in an instant. He looked at everyone with his eyes.

What's going on?Keigo Atobe expressed that he was horrified and confused at the same time.