As we all know, winding zero is a human being

A group of low houses built along the mountain and across the river seem to be the mouth of a giant beast, leading the creatures in the dark away with dots of lights.

It was only after returning to the town that Ling realized that the roads in this medium-sized town were very intricate. If there were no crows to guide the way, they would hardly be able to tell the direction that Sato was chasing.

But the ghost who planned the escape route seemed to be very familiar with this town.

Zero asked casually: "Do you know where that ghost came from?"

Thinking about how casually he used ghosts who don't know the details to do this experiment, it was because his mood fluctuated too much at the time, and he was a bit arbitrary.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki shook his head, his lake blue pupils were still staring at Zero naturally: "Shouldn't you know better than us?"

"...To be clear, I just arrived in this town this afternoon." Zero felt that he should use a more mature and kind attitude to face Yiyong at this time, and he must not think too much.

Otherwise, you may be easily pissed off when the other party has no other intentions.

Sure enough, Yoshiyuki didn't think there was any problem and thought about it: "Sakura and I originally guessed that he was not a ghost who has always lived here. This town doesn't seem to have been attacked by ghosts."

Thinking that he hadn't had a good look at the town, Zero decided to trust the judgment of the more experienced ones: "Then how do you explain that he is so familiar with the roads here?"

Among other things, the roads in this town that were not built according to conventional logic made him really want to ask the engineers or designers at that time what they were thinking?

The tight wooden walls and the jagged fences on both sides of the roadway seem to have been repaired many times in the wear and tear of time, but the stone bricks of the same color that can last a little longer are laid as the ground according to a somewhat exquisite pattern, which is covered by the night. The servant artificially created an illusion of length.

Due to the topography, the height difference of the town with its mountains and waters is still a bit complicated, but after turning a street and seeing the tower towering on the opposite bank, after a while, Zero seems to understand that the former owner of this place built the city. The intention to build it like this.

This is obviously due to the unique mechanism of self-protection of towns and cities in important places of war. Although Edo has been considered unified and stable since the Warring States period, it is not without rebellions led by ambitious vassal kings everywhere who want to cause trouble .

But understanding the source of the town's road conditions couldn't solve the problem at hand. They increased their speed and chased after them. Under the guidance of the crow, they finally blocked the ghost at a right-angled corner without a fork.

Sato was startled when he saw Yiyong, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zero, who deliberately slowed down and landed behind Yiyong: "Be careful, this may not be a dead end...he I am familiar with this place."

Ling Wang looked at the stern smile on the ghost's face and refused to comment.

Behind the wall seems to be the oldest residence in this town. The once glorious house has been abandoned for some reason, and the overgrown weeds have a gloomy atmosphere of a haunted house.

After chasing the ghost who had nowhere to go, it seemed that his speed had slowed down due to exhaustion of physical strength, but he didn't notice this, until he tried to kick the stones against the base of the wall with his feet. .

Without exception, all ghosts will have much better physical fitness than ordinary people, and it is no problem to kick away a not-so-heavy stone.

After all, their sundial knives can split rocks straight in two, so let science take a break off the set.

"The strength is waning, the speed is waning."

Listening to the ghost talking to himself, it's hard not to think that this is the effect of the blue Bana flower.

But if the blue Bana flower does not have the effect of making ghosts resist sunlight as he guessed...or if the way to achieve this purpose is not based on his ideas, then this will be a great joy.

If the cyan Higanka cannot fulfill Guiwu Tsuji's long-cherished wish, what will happen next?

The ancestor of ghosts who knew the news would definitely go crazy, even though he was already crazy.

For this reason, he stepped forward to stop Sato and Yiyong again, just to gain some time to at least wait until the sun came out to confirm his thoughts: "He has no idea of ​​​​resistance, so it's better to have nothing to do and listen to what he thinks." story to tell?"

"...the night will be long and dreamy." Sato frowned and didn't really want to agree.

Giyuu's attitude was even more straightforward. Ukiyo-nami-e appeared on the Hikari sword he was holding tightly, and the three people present knew what it was: "Water Breath · Wu ZhiType · Gan God's mercy—"

Taking care of the ghost's feelings and using a gentle and painless slash is worthy of praise, but can you give him a chance to stop being so brave? !

I don't know why this pair of aspiring young people from the ghost killing team were attracted to me, but I didn't want to die. The ghost finally moved away from the stone with great effort. Drilled through the exposed wall hole.

Sato took a look at Zero, then stretched out his hand and grabbed the collar of Qu Yiyong who was still chasing him: "We don't need to climb the dog hole, we can fuck."

Yoshiyuki Tomioka: "."

Before the words were finished, Ling just wanted to laugh, and then he heard Sato say harsh words to him: "As for you...you must explain everything to me later!"

Said Usagi always looks more serious than Giyu because of the scar on his cheek, so he is not easy to get close to.

But if you get along with him a little bit, you will know that the young man's heart is as soft as his hair color. When he was in Sawu Mountain, he couldn't resist the request of righteousness, bravery and reputation that was so sincere and simple that it was hard to refuse, and put himself also like to eat Give him more hot pot.

And it's probably not the case now.

The three of them climbed over the courtyard wall with withered creepers one after the other, Ling was caught in the middle and the second one was pushed by Yiyong.

As soon as they landed firmly, they heard Gui Youyou's sigh from not far away:

"What a beautiful place..."

They followed his line of sight, and under the pale moonlight, there was thin snow stained on it, and the shadowy potholes looked irregular.

It was a withered pond.

The honest man Tomioka Yoshiyuki glanced at it: "Do you like bare things?"

"It's obviously a pool of lotus flowers, and it's just as beautiful as before!" The ghost became excited, and for a moment it seemed that even the limp momentum had increased a bit, "There is also a peach forest over there. Beyond that is the cherry blossom forest - can't you all see it?! The flowers are all blooming!"

From his shining eyes, the three of them seemed to be infected as well, as if they also saw the beautiful thing that was shining in different seasons.

Very good, Ling made a note in his heart, the cyan flower can also make ghosts hallucinate.

It seems that the things recorded stroke by stroke are not very good words to describe. Isn't this kind of blue Bana flower that the ancestor of ghosts have missed for thousands of years really not a poison against ghosts?

Sato, who didn't speak frankly, really showed a sad expression, and his deep empathy made him discover some clues from the minutiae: "When you were still a human, were you the owner of this land?"

"What do you mean when you are still human?"

The ghost showed a puzzled look, he was chanting, and finally stopped before he was about to fall into the muddy pond in front of him.

He suddenly started to smile, not smile, not cry, the pupils forming a vertical line slowly enlarged, as if he was looking back at the past through time.

He seemed to have finally filled in the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle, and suddenly sat down slumped.

From what he said next, the three of them also pieced together the original appearance of the whole story.

The predecessor of this town was just an inconspicuous small town under the rule of the shogunate, and the man who inherited this territory was not mediocre. In the early years of Edo, when famine and natural disasters were baptized by turns, he was still able to control this territory. The land is well-organized, and the golden ears of rice grow fuller and brighter than any other field.

This is the comfort he brings, and it is also the bane of his celibacy and becoming a ghost wandering around for hundreds of years.

The villages on the edge of the territory were plundered by bandits, and just as he was leading his troops to suppress the bandits, there was a news report that the neighboring feudal lord was dissatisfied with the unorthodox governance of the shogunate and rebelled. Seeking to occupy the route above.

It's hard to say why they want to attack his city whose name might not be found on the map.

To put it cruelly, this is one of those stories that can't even be recorded in the thin history books.

"I have no strength, so I can't expel those soldiers disguised as bandits, and I can't rush back to my city to live and die with them when they flee."

His blood ghost technique was born here. In fact, the phantom that Satu cut was also his real body. Once the phantom disappears, his power will be weakened by one point.

Correspondingly, wherever the phantom went, it was as if he had arrived in person.

"I gladly accept the power that lord bestowed upon me." The ghost's eyes did not show any regret at this time, so Yoshiyuki Saito didn't say a word about it.

They all know that it is followed by a but.

"However, when I was able to regain my clear consciousness, I had... eaten a family in the village where I sent the appeal letter." He didn't know what expression to make at this time, " I lied to you before, but I actually ate people."

Tomioka Yoshiyuki stroked the handle of the knife, but this time there was no need for anyone to stop him, because he didn't make another shot.

The ghost raised his head and glanced at them. For some reason, he swallowed the fact that he met a beautiful doctor who also helped him as a ghost doctor, so he never ate anyone again.

There's not much to say, is there? He didn't come here to seek sympathy.

"Thank you very much." The ghost slowly walked towards Zero who had been on standby and trying to shrink his sense of existence from just now. His smile seemed to be as relaxed as before, and his words changed at the end. I couldn't be more sincere, "Those foods are delicious, and let me find the taste of my hometown."

Satoshi looked at Zero with a self-closing look, but still held back and didn't directly ask what they were talking about.

The night was still very dark, and it was still far away from dawn, but in the time that should have belonged to the ghost, the ghost finally sat in front of the dried up pond and slowly closed its eyes.

Sato and Yiyong looked at each other in blank dismay, and neither of them stepped forward recklessly until he was about to turn into ashes and disappear completely.

Yiyong looked at Ling: "The food you gave him poisoned him to death?"

zero:"……"

Well, it's not impossible to say that, but it doesn't have to be so direct.

No, Sato said silently in his heart, he has seen the toxin used by Butterfly Ninja that can poison and kill ghosts, even with this way of killing ghosts, festering and corruption will soon appear on the bodies of those poisoned ghosts , and just like being killed by the sun wheel knife and sunlight, there will be no existence left in the end.

The ghost in front of him seemed to have finally returned to his hometown in the long river. He was sitting on the land of his hometown, still holding the withered grass roots in his hands.

Perhaps in his eyes, it wasn't something that would break if rubbed hard.

Like a human being, he is approaching the end of his life.