The Mystery of Fangshi Edo

When the other side of the kitchen door came back to his senses, he found that he was in the darkness, and he couldn't even judge up, down, left, and right.

He looked around, but no matter where he turned his gaze, he couldn't see anything.

where am I?

anyone here?Is anyone alive?

... Am I still alive?

He tried his best to convey his voice, but after opening his mouth, the words were easily melted into the darkness within close proximity.

The other side of the kitchen door has always been a calm person, but when encountering this situation, he couldn't help but panic.

At the moment when he felt fear, a figure seemed to appear in front of him.

"Big brother, you are here."

A silhouette of a child appeared in front of his eyes, with doll hair combed, and only darkness on his face.

Before the other party could respond and say something, the child held out his hand—a hand that was also black, like a shadow.

"Come on, it's hard to find your way here, I'll take you out."

The child's voice was very innocent, but there was no kindness on the other side.

The children of Zaomen's family all have good hearing, and he is no exception, but he immediately noticed that there was something deeper buried in the child's words.

So he didn't hand out his hand, but asked, "Where are you taking me?"

"Huh?" The child tilted his head, "Big brother, are you doubting me? I just want to play with you, so I came to pick you up in person."

With a urging innocent tone, and some children's slurred speech, no matter how you look at it, you are just an ordinary child, but the thick darkness cannot be ignored.

In just a split second, the other party came to a conclusion.

"I can't go with you."

The moment he finished speaking, another voice came from somewhere behind him.

"Awake……"

"Wake up...the other side..."

It was a gentle female voice, coming from far away, with some ancient and warm feeling.The other party turned his head and saw a gap with light.So he left the child behind him and walked towards the place where the light came in.

"Hey, why do people always come to grab me?" The child's voice came from behind vaguely, "But forget it, anyway, soon, you will all..."

After that, Bi Fang didn't hear clearly, he just felt that the light in front of him became more and more dazzling, and then——

On the face, it hurts.

"Brother!" Zaomen Tanyan saw his brother opened his eyes, his face finally changed from worry to joy, and asked, "Are you all right? Is there any injury?"

Bifang rubbed his own face, and looked at Tanyan with doubtful eyes.

"Uh, it's said that pulling one's face can stimulate people to wake up..."

Mr. Fangshi next to him told him.

But before he could confess the culprit, Fang Shi Yangming opened his mouth.

"You can wake up, thanks to Ms. Lihualuoxiang Naihu in the opposite car." The young man looked a little serious, "Well, anyway, now is not the time for small talk, let's solve the troubles in this car first."

Hearing this, he realized that he was still on the train.

Tanhiko looked around, and then asked, "Where is Mr. Tanjiro?"

"...He went to the opposite car."

Although Yushiro had warned in advance that the ghosts would not be able to leave once they got to the cart of hell, Tanjiro went to Kano without hesitation and helped her chop up more and more evil spirits over there, and kill the ghosts of the living. The car was given to someone else.

"His judgment is correct. We don't need too much combat power here. It is enough to have Mr. Yan Sheng as a deterrent," Fang Shi Yangming said, "Tan Yanjun and I will find the car in this car of the living." Clues, and then, Hikashi-kun, please stay with Ms. Kanae, she may not notice the situation around her when she is concentrating. Time is urgent, I will act first, and Tanhiko-kun will explain the situation to your brother."

"I see."

Tanhiko Kamado said, looked at his brother, and told him about the current situation.

"Anyway, that's pretty much it, although I haven't figured it out myself..."

"Tan Yan." Bi Fang suddenly interrupted him.

"Huh? Is there anything unclear?"

"No, it's just that I won't wake you up 28 times in the future." The boy stood up, patted the dust off his body, and there were still red marks on his face from the pulling, "I'll just pull your face. "

"Uh...sorry."

……

Fang Shi Yangming walked in the turbulent carriage.

The reason why he can not be controlled and let the soul stay in the body is purely because he was protected by the raccoon dog in advance. Now he is theoretically a servant of Shinna Myojin, so as long as the rule of non-interference between the gods is still there, the other party There is no way to do anything to him.

On the other hand, with the assistance of Tanjiro, the evil spirits in the hell cart were quickly suppressed.

Those things are different from the ogre in the past, they look more human-like, and more nihilistic, but they seem to be endless—or, in other words, they cannot 'kill' these already dead things in the physical sense, they can only temporarily reduce its number.

Chachawan hid under the seat of the car, and came out when the scene was almost stable. It looked at the box that was sealed by layers of spells that Kanaihu was watching just now, and seemed to want to do something, but Kanae, who was connected to his line of sight, But shook his head.

According to her knowledge of folklore, this thing is probably the thing that finally controls the existence of the train, and it needs to be opened last, otherwise the people on that car will not be able to come back.

"Miss Kanae." After arranging the Zaomen family brothers, Fang Shi Yangming walked to her side, "Where is the wedge on the opposite train?"

"On the opposite car... only two have been found so far, one is under the seat in the middle row of the third car, and the other is in the corner of the ceiling of the first car."

"I'll go to the corresponding place to have a look."

"Well, please be careful."

……

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, the situation was worse than he had imagined.

Fang Shi Yangming looked around while moving towards the third compartment.

Although the car is still driving, it has actually reached a place similar to a different space. On one side is a gray, unreal street, and on the other side is a dilapidated abnormal vehicle carrying the souls of the living.

"It's a bit similar to the station Miss Ma Gong mentioned earlier."

Coupled with the reaction of Shinna Myoshin, it can basically be judged that it is the same god.However, the person who only hid Ma Gongjiuzi last time, but this time intends to take away the entire car, is the level of strength different?Or have other intentions?

He thought about it, and soon found an inconspicuous charm under a seat in the third car-it was not on the floor, but stuck to the bottom of the seat, so it was not found by the cleaning staff.

After telling the situation to Tan Yan who came here, the child nimbly moved to the first compartment, and within tens of seconds, he found the exact same charm.

"what is this?"

"I don't know either," Fang Shi Yangming replied, "but at least one thing should be explained, the current state of this car is not accidental."

Who has tampered here in advance, most likely with the intention of sacrificing a whole carload of people.

If he guessed correctly, it was probably that 'Xia Youjie'.

It's a little troublesome, but with the excuse of 'the human pillar is involved', it should be able to fool me.When he was thinking like this, he suddenly noticed that in the opposite car, a boy with light blue short hair was prying something on the wall of the second car.

Then there was a bang, and the opposite car door fell down.

Hurry up.

Fang Shi Yangming quickly found the corresponding place in the second compartment, and tore off the spell that was blocked behind the poster. At that moment, his back suddenly felt cold.

Turning around, I saw that the vehicle of hell was surrounded by a thick black mist that suddenly rose, and the souls of the living inside rushed towards the normal vehicle one by one.

"Hurry up! This is the only chance for ghosts to return to the present world."

After Yushiro finished speaking to Kanao and Tanjirou, he picked up Chachawan and came to the final valve.

"Meet you again, Uncle Ghost." A voice sounded from behind him, "Hmm...or should I call you now, Grandpa Ghost?"

Can't go wrong.

This voice is...!

The sharp ghost claws stabbed at the back suddenly, but missed.

Tanjiro and Kano, who had already returned to the car of the living and were settling the passengers who were lying in the car, noticed the situation there and wanted to go to help, but were stopped by Yushiro.

"If you don't want to be dragged into hell and become an evil spirit, don't come here!"

"Haha, it seems that you have found a lot of things over the years. You have worked so hard." The black child put his hands behind his back and let out a happy laugh. "The child who works hard should be rewarded. By the way, take your beloved woman How about becoming your ghost, so that she can always be by your side..."

Yushiro gritted his teeth, almost bleeding from his palms. The guy in front of him could always irritate him at the fastest speed, but he hadn't spent the past hundred years in vain. He already had the will to fight.

"You did it." He said in a positive tone, "You brought Tanjirou and the others back to the present world, and you got those reincarnations who should have lived a happy life into trouble...it's just stupid You'll regret it sooner or later."

The child just looked at him silently, and after a while, he spoke again.

"That's right, you look like you're soaked in hatred now... Mmm! I've changed my mind."

As he said that, he turned his dark face to Tanjirou and Kanao who were in the car of the living.

"I'm going to take those two souls away now, so as to plant even worse seeds in your heart... Haha, tell me, what kind of flowers will it bloom?"

"You bastard...!"

Just a second before Yushiro couldn't help attacking, something was one step ahead of him, the dark moon shadow flashed past, and the black shadow was broken into pieces of ashes like a balloon that exploded.

However, it took only a split second to regenerate.

"you are?"

The black child's tone was a little surprised, but before he could continue, Ji Guoyansheng, who jumped onto the hell car, cut off his head with another knife.

"Don't waste your time, although I can't transform you into an evil spirit, you can't do anything about me." The child's tone contained a bit of blame, "Really, it's obviously a chosen stubborn soul, How did it change so much?"

"It's you... who are using me?"

"Ugh."

The child didn't seem to want to communicate with him very much, and then disappeared in front of Ji Guoyansheng.

Fang Shi Yangming, who had been observing the opposite side, blinked, because at a very close distance from him, the child's dark face appeared upside down.

"Is it you who influenced the spirit of that evil spirit? ... Hehe, it's really interesting."

Staring into Fang Shi Yangming's eyes, the black child seemed to have discovered some new land, and his tone was full of excitement.

The young man asked him, "Are you going to kill me?"

"Kill you? That's too boring." The child said, "I said, what's the point of being the servant of the incompetent mountain god? Follow me, I will let you experience unprecedented 'fun'!"

"Really?...But unfortunately, I don't really want to leave Shinna Myoshin at the moment, she is more interesting than you think."

"Then when can I think about it?"

"At least let's talk about it in the next life."

During the gap between their exchanges, Yushiro had already opened the final valve, and with the sound of landing on the car when he and Ji Kuniwakatsu jumped back into the car of the living, the dark face of the evil god suddenly cracked a similar The 'smiley face' thing.

——“I can’t wait that long.”

After he finished speaking meaningfully, he disappeared into the dark fog along with the cart of hell on the opposite side.

Fang Shi Yangming didn’t have much expression on his face. In fact, he just felt that the scene just now was very suitable for writing in the new storyline, and his divergent thinking has already begun to conceive how to make the protagonist encounter various strange events on the tram. In the end, there was another reversal, and I found that I was actually dead...

Keke, this is going too far.

Anyway, am I being let go?

He breathed a sigh of relief and watched the surrounding scenery change for a while.

Finally arrived.

……

The tram was hidden for nearly three hours, but almost the next second after the police arrived, people from the Conjurer Organization also rushed over after receiving the news. Among other things, they are very good at hiding abnormal events .

So this incident was quickly covered up as an accident. The passengers on board only thought that they had slept and were fine. After basic questioning, they were sent home.

After the two brothers from the Zaomen family turned on their mobile phones, they found more than a dozen missed calls from their parents. They hurried home and left a number for Fang Shiyangming before leaving.

Fang Shi Yangming saved Zaomen's number, and was about to leave when someone stopped him.

When I turned my head, it was Kanae, not surprisingly.

At that time, the situation was urgent and she had no time to think about it, but after the matter calmed down, the doubts accumulated in her heart were like a hill pressing down on her heart.

"Excuse me, were you the one who put the information about the Ghost Slayer Squad and the 'Pillar' into my book?" She asked straight to the point.

"Yes." Fang Shi Yangming nodded quickly.

"Is that related to my...previous life?" Although she felt unbelievable in her heart, Kanae reluctantly accepted it, "How much do you know, can you tell me?"

"Before then, I want to make sure you are ready."

"Prepare?"

"Your past life was not easy, and it can even be said to be full of suffering. If you think about it easily, it may directly affect your current concepts, and you will involuntarily shoulder some heavy responsibilities." Fang Shiyangming's light-colored eyes directly Looking into her eyes, "Also, if you don't want to remember, no one will blame you. Those who care about you will want you to do it instead."

The woman froze for a moment, then spoke softly.

"Then if I don't think about it, who will bear these responsibilities?"

"..."

That's amazing, should I say that he is indeed a former Pillar Squadron?It feels really sharp.

He couldn't help laughing. Just as he was about to answer, he suddenly heard an anxious voice from the side.

"Wait a moment!"

As the voice came to her ears, the figure of Li Hualuo Kanahu suddenly appeared, blocking in front of Kanae.

She looked at Fang Shi Yangming vigilantly, with an expression on her face almost as if she was facing an enemy, and even put one hand on the handle of the Rilun Saber.

"Kanahu!" Tanjiro also came over, put one hand on Kanahu's shoulder, and worried, "What's wrong with you?"

"..."

It seemed that she realized that she was going too far, Kanao took a step back, looked at Fangishi Yangming, who was obviously only human, and then looked at Tanjirou, after a while, her expression finally eased a little.

She first apologized, and then asked: "Can you guarantee that you have no intention of using or harming my sister?"

Fang Shi Yangming thought about it, and replied: "This is for her and other people you care about."

If Huazhu did not become a human pillar, then Xiazhu would be the replacement. Then the reincarnation that is still in its infancy would definitely not be able to support the side effects of memory awakening. Presumably after becoming a human pillar, it would not even have the chance to grow up.

...In such a situation, if you can avoid it, try to avoid it as much as possible. To be honest, he doesn't want to see anyone die.

Seeing the sincerity in his eyes, Kanai finally gave in.

"Since this is the case, I will not interfere with my sister's choice."

……

After that, Tanjiro asked her why she was so nervous at the time.

"It's just an illusion." Chanahu replied with her head down, "When I saw his smiling face, for a moment I remembered the ghost I had dealt with before."

The one who ate sister Shinobu, killed sister Kanae, was poisoned, and died under the knife of her and Inosuke, would occasionally show that smile.

Empty, as if there was nothing.

"It's true that the man's breath is very strange." Tanjiro touched his chin, "Sometimes he's an ordinary person, and another moment he's like something else... But overall, I think he can be trusted!"

"Ah."

Kanae smiled and nodded.

Indeed, if you think about it carefully, you can easily realize the difference between Shangxian II and Fang Shi Yangming.

The feeling at that time was just an illusion, so don't pay too much attention to it.

……

On the same day, a little later.

"You finally came."

In the setting sun, a young man in a hood walked into the shadows of the house.

An elderly man sat there long ago, with a shogi board in front of him.

"I'm late, sorry." Yushiro said, took off his hood, and sat in front of Teriyashiki Teriya.

Oni's good hearing allows him to easily catch the subtle words of Huilizai without being conveyed by others. The two sat quietly in the room and started another game.

"Among friends, don't say such outrageous things." Huilizai said with a smile, "My time is running out, and I have nothing to worry about now, except... oh."

"Why are you suddenly starting to say frustrated words?" Yushiro looked at him suspiciously.

"It's not about being frustrated," Teriya said, "There is nothing more normal than birth and death in this world. If one day, Yushiro gets tired and wants to leave, that's normal."

Then, he shook his head slightly.

"But you have a lump in your heart, but I can't do anything about it. I'm really guilty. Now that things seem to be progressing, I'm relieved."

Yushiro froze for a moment, the hand holding the chess pieces stopped in mid-air.

"What's wrong? Go ahead."

"……Um."

Turns out he knew all along.

The last ghost in the world thought silently, sighing in his heart.

It's me who should be guilty.