Curse this wonderful world

34: [The Curse of 34]

Things are really not quite right.

Following the direction where Xia Youjie's curse spirit disappeared, what appeared in front of them was a gravel path hidden among the trees.Collapsed stone lanterns were scattered in twos and threes on both sides of the road for only one person to walk.At the end of the road is a torii with peeling vermilion lacquer.

This feature is really obvious.

Xia Youjie stopped in his tracks. "My mantra disappeared after entering the torii gate."

"I saw this shrine on the map." Fukaha jumped off "Kam Itachi" and drew out the samurai sword behind him. "It was originally a clan shrine that was enshrined in a nearby village, but it was abandoned along with the village's relocation. But our mission location shouldn't be here, right?"

"Hmm. No." Xia Youjie didn't take back the curse spirit. On the contrary, more hideous and distorted "alien" appeared behind him.

The murderer's description of where the body was dumped was vague, but the shrine itself was a clear reference.If it was really around here, he wouldn't have mentioned nothing in his statement.

"I found it wrong?"

"But it doesn't matter, right?" Even if you find the wrong one, you can't leave this one alone.Xia Youjie narrowed his eyes.The shrine, which seems to have been completely abandoned, is hidden in the forest, shaded by thick green, and dimly lit.From here, you can only vaguely see the shadows of buildings and trees behind the torii.Unlike the general standard, it is impossible to guess the size of the entire shrine.But the chaotic mantras emanating from the shrine are enough to explain the problem.

There are definitely curse spirits in this shrine, and they are plural.

"Anyway, since we met." He said, turning his head to look at Shen Yu, "Get this done first?"

"OK!" Shen Yu looked at the firm light in Xia Youjie's eyes, and curled the corners of her mouth happily.

"You left and I right, we will meet at the torii after it's done. Call if you need anything. If you can't get through, get rid of this." He casually threw a rabbit-sized third-level magic spirit to Shen Yu, and Xia Youjie directed the others. Cursing Spirit, "There is no need to put [accounts] in this kind of place. In short, we still have business to do, hurry up and settle the battle quickly."

"Understood." Shen Yu caught "Rabbit" and put it on his shoulder, shaking his mobile phone, "You too, contact me anytime you need."

"Don't worry." The corner of Xia Youjie's mouth curled up, and he reached out to pat her on the head. "I won't be polite to you."

"Then I'll take a step first." Shen Yu also smiled.After plugging in the phone, she took a breath while holding the samurai sword, and ran towards the torii gate.

However, at the moment of passing through the torii gate, a faint twist passed Fukaba's body very quickly.

The black-haired girl opened her eyes wide and slammed on the brakes, but it was still a step too late.The heels of her little leather shoes hit the wooden floor heavily, and there was a crisp and reverberating sound.

Ignoring the "chirp" on the shoulder of the "rabbit" who was screaming - the thing grabbed her shirt so tightly that it was not thrown out - Fukaha's eyes sank, and she stomped her feet again.

"Dong dong."

That's right, it's really a wooden floor.The girl suddenly raised her head. At this moment, she saw a narrow and straight wooden corridor, with a jagged stone wall on the left and closed paper sliding doors on the right.Sharpness appeared in the black pupils, and Shen Yu immediately turned around.Sure enough, the scenery behind her had already changed.It's almost like copying the texture in front of it, and it's the same stone wall corridor and sliding door.

The moment she passed through the torii, the environment around her suddenly turned into a closed room.

There is nothing that can be called a light source as far as the eye can see, but it is not pitch black.On the contrary, everything around presents a kind of uncomfortable drowsy twilight that does not conform to physics, is as cramped and depressing as a horror game screen, but just enough for people to see clearly.With this weird light, she could even clearly see the dim and old ink stains on the paper sliding door—it seemed to be a decorative painting.In the distance, the ends of the corridor at both ends were shrouded in a deep darkness.

The air in the corridor is also completely different from the outside world, cold and stagnant, making people feel like stepping from the outdoors in summer into an old-fashioned cold storage that has not been opened for decades.Shen Yu shivered physiologically, and reached out to take out the phone, but there was no signal.

Born in the field?This was Shen Yu's first reaction, but it was quickly denied by herself.Although they are very similar, if there is a special level that can expand the field, it is impossible for her and Xia Youjie to not notice it outside the torii. The special grade that no one will find out is too mysterious.What's more, she didn't feel that she was shrouded in a spell full of negative emotions. On the contrary, the "distortion" just now and the "strangeness" filling the air at this moment made her feel very familiar.

--what.

Shen Yu's pupils shrank, she knew where this familiarity came from!

The black-haired girl suddenly turned around and slashed at the stone wall on the left.The moment the blade full of magic power touched the wall, the entire stone wall suddenly lit up.From the end engulfed by the darkness to the front that was also immersed in the darkness, countless bright red silk threads emerged from the originally empty wall.The seemingly fragile red threads weave a criss-crossed silk net against the wall.At each node where two silk threads meet, a piece of yellow-brown talisman paper is nailed with sharp and rusty nails.

The visual effect is clear and slender, as if it would break if you pull it, but the silk screen insists on resisting the blade, preventing it from entering an inch.Under the blade, the red thread glowed with a blood-colored dark light.

The corners of Shen Yu's mouth suddenly raised.She exerted force on her wrist, and under the oppression of the magic tool, the red lines all over the wall trembled, and the nearby talisman papers also began to move without wind.As Shen Yu input the mana again, the three talisman papers near the blade suddenly exploded. With a "boom", bright red flames sprang up, burning the talisman paper and the surrounding silk threads into black ash, and did not go out until the talisman paper at the next node.

There was a big hole in the wire mesh that originally covered the entire stone wall, and the resistance under the blade immediately collapsed.Shen Yu retracted her strength, and the knife returned to her side in a flash, and her left hand, not holding the knife, carefully stroked the exposed stone wall in the hollow.

Sure enough, the same "distortion" as when walking through the torii gate disappeared.

It's confirmed, it's an enchantment—and it's an enchantment built with her own spiritual power, not spell power.In this case, there is no need to worry about it.Although pure spiritual power cooperates with rituals to produce various effects, it and the enchantment itself are still harmless and harmless to humans and animals.Then the curse spirit who contacted Xia Xia disappeared behind the torii gate.It seems that the mantra power they felt was not from the physical shrine outside, but from the mantra spirit in this enchantment.Although I don't know why they didn't even isolate the spell power since they were all enchanted.But since the enchantment itself has not been destroyed, the curse spirit inside must not be too strong.

Get rid of all the curse spirits you encounter first, and then if you still can't meet Xia Xia, break the barrier directly.The "rabbit" on her shoulder didn't react abnormally, and Xia Xia should be fine now.

Very good, it's decided!The corner of Shen Yu's mouth curled, and he reached out and pulled the "rabbit" off his shoulder and threw it aside.Ignoring the "chirp" cry of the curse spirit, she suddenly turned around and slashed open the sliding door beside her.

"I kept you waiting." Looking at the ugly "big toad" that narrowly avoided the light of the knife behind the sliding door that collapsed, Fukaba sprinted, avoiding its ejected tongue, and the blade imbued with magic power pierced straight into it. Into the sudden right eye of the curse spirit.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."

"—Then, let's start extermination!"*

Amidst the splattering "blood flowers", the black-haired girl laughed happily.She twisted and swung the knife fiercely with both hands, directly flying the "eyeball" of the curse spirit.

"Hungry—so hungry, so hungry! Hungry, erh, erh—" The sharp "canine teeth" cut through the air like guillotines, and the brown magic spirit the size of a rabbit let out a terrified "chirp" scream.

"Hungry for your head!"

Shen Yu just chopped off the "head" of a curse spirit, and saw this scene when she turned her head.The black-haired girl cursed angrily, smashed open the half-open sliding door with a sliding shovel, rushed directly under the "canine teeth", swung the tip of the knife horizontally and slapped away the "rabbit" who almost killed the mouth of other curse spirits.Immediately, she turned her wrist in the posture of falling to the ground, and the blade directly collided with the fangs in the huge mouth of the "ape head" that descended from the ceiling.

"choke!"

There was an aching sound as the blade and the canines met. "Ape head" - well, it can't be called an ape, in short, it is a hairless, wrinkled skin with protruding eyes, 3/4 of its face is a mouth, and it has four twisted "arms" hanging upside down from the ceiling. Something like an enlarged ape's head—not only didn't retreat, but pressed down violently.It probably felt that the girl who was only half his age was just a small snack. The corners of her mouth suddenly split, her jaw retracted, her huge mouth widened again like a boa constrictor, and the tip of her teeth slipped and staggered away from the blade, obviously planning to kill the girl with a knife swallow.

The viscous "saliva" was about to drip from the huge mouth full of yellow-green blisters.Rao Fukayu couldn't help but lose face.

"Fuck!"

This cliff can't be tolerated!Her hairs stood on end.A strong mantra suddenly burst out from the blade, and a faint blue arc suddenly spread along the blade. From a distance, it seemed that the entire samurai sword suddenly became longer.

"Go to hell!"

Holding the handle of the knife with both hands, Shen Yu tried his best to make a diagonal chop, and then quickly rolled sideways.The next moment, there was a splash that seemed to pierce the water bag.The curse spirit that was split in half along the corner of its mouth fell heavily from the ceiling. With a "bang", "blood water" gushed all over the ground.

"Ha, ha..." After taking a few breaths, Shen Yu, who was still lying on the ground, didn't care that half of her body was splattered with blood, let go of her right hand, and viciously pointed her middle finger in the direction of the curse spirit.

Until now, the "rabbit" who had been cowering in the corner jumped to the side of Shen Yu, and the silly "chirp" kept screaming.

Probably because it was raised by Xia Xia, and it looks a little ugly after a long time.Shen Yu stared at the "rabbit" with three eyes that looked like irregular brown fur balls and a bird's beak [looked] for a few times, and reconfirmed that this thing really had no IQ and only followed her according to the master's instructions. Only then did he reach out to catch the rabbit and pinch its mouth with one hand.

"Don't make noise, let me rest for a while." Feeling the surroundings, at least there are no curse spirits near this room.Fukaha simply relaxed her muscles and flattened her body on the floor.

"...It's so fucking disgusting." Thinking of the mouth just now, she was still a little scared.Don't bring such a despicable ah!If she really got wet with that thing's saliva, wouldn't she have to take a steel wool bath!

But having said that, although the enchantment is not scary, the situation is really not quite right.The physical structure in the barrier will be distorted, so Fukaha didn't intend to walk along the long corridor at the beginning-the darkness at both ends seemed to mean "this road is blocked".In the past five years, she has not been wearing the title of "witch" for nothing.One of Kurosawa Koki's hobbies is to stuff various materials for her to read.I just thought that I wouldn't need it anyway, so Fukaha was basically reading storybooks.But even if it is a storybook, you can learn a lot if you read more.

Therefore, when he got rid of the curse spirit in the first sliding door and found that the sliding doors on all sides of the room could be opened, Fukaha decided to abandon the corridor and follow the curse spirit.Then, she started the process of "opening the sliding door to find the curse spirit, expelling the curse spirit, and then opening other sliding doors to continue searching for the curse spirit".

The original purpose was to exorcise the curse spirits encountered, but Fukaba didn't care much about such a labyrinth cycle.After several repetitions, she found that it was a single-storey building with three floors and six doors with a total of 18 connected rooms.Outside the outermost paper sliding door is an empty atrium paved with white sand.Opposite the atrium is the same long corridor paper door building.

The whole enchantment seems to have copied the rectangular building and the atrium several times side by side, and then made a cover with a black stone wall to buckle it up.And every time she passed through the atrium, the spiritual power she felt became stronger and more vivid, which showed that the center of the enchantment was indeed in the direction of her travel.

It's just that, for an abandoned society in a deep mountain and old forest, the number of spell spirits here is too much.Although none of them are too strong—the strongest one she has encountered so far is only a second-level one, but there is only one village here even before. Where did so many "negative emotions" come from?

Or, in fact, this enchantment has existed for a long time?These spells are the accumulation of NNN years?Fukaha knows nothing about architectural history, and really can't judge from the structure of the house and courtyard.However, this is not impossible.The enchantment is a bit similar to the [tent].What properties you want depends entirely on how the builder sets it up.Shen Yu blinked, maybe the person who set it up did not block the leakage of the magic power on purpose, and wanted to make it a fly trap?

Just like hospitals or schools, shrines and temples are also easy to gather mantras.After all, if there are many people visiting the temple, there will be many distracting thoughts and negative emotions—people who really have no desires and desires will not pray to gods and worship Buddha.Priests and witches themselves are not good at exorcising, so some large societies will set up barriers with cursed objects to attract curse spirits into the barrier and lock them up to prevent them from harming people.Wait until the accumulation reaches a certain level, and then invite a conjurer to exorcise it.

The Toshogu Palace they are going to exterminate next is in this form.

If this is the case, it is probably because the judgment system of the enchantment has been in disrepair for a long time after it has been abandoned for a long time. As long as it encounters a strong mantra, it will not care about the three-seven-two-one suction, so it caused them to fall in?

Well, it's quite possible.

But anyway, since you have encountered it, you can't let it go.That's what the sorcerer of the high school does.Cheering himself up, Fukaha took a deep breath and got up from the floor.

——No way, although the spell power is almost unlimited, but her stamina is limited.She only has such a small height, weight, and muscle mass, and she deliberately didn't use [View] in order to avoid affecting her combat power. She jumped up and down all the way, so it's normal to get tired.

While looking for an excuse, Fukahae sighed while looking at the half-red shirt and skirt.But when she twisted her waist and straightened her back again, a vigorous smile appeared on her face again.

--It doesn't matter!Even if half of my body is covered in blood, I'm still a cute and beautiful girl!

"Have a good rest!" Grabbing "Rabbit" with one hand and putting it on his shoulder, Fukaba held the handle of the samurai sword tightly with one hand, "GOGOGO! Keep going!"

"Chirp!" "Rabbit" uttered a strange cry like a bird, and quickly grabbed the girl's shirt.