[Inuyasha] Spider Silk

The troublesome thing started from picking up strange jade fragments.

A few days ago, a vision appeared on the east side of the village. The sky was illuminated by a purple-like light, and the shattered streamer flew rapidly in all directions.Even villagers who were born and raised in the Warring States Period, where demons and ghosts were rampant, could not help being amazed at the strange sight.

Saori didn't pay much attention to this incident at first, she just watched a free fireworks show, until two fighting monsters fell from the sky and smashed the newly repaired fence.

... Hey.

Saori drew out the knife and beat up the two monsters. When cleaning up the mess, she found a small fragment in the twitching flesh.

The rhombus-shaped jade fragments were soaked in dirty blood, exuding an unflattering dark purple light. She wiped off the blood stains with her sleeve, and the light from the fragments was still dirty. It's worth the money.

When the next time the market opens, sell this piece of jade fragments—although it has been planned, but inexplicable monsters will follow one after another, and in the next few days, like insects and ants smelling honey, they will chop it up. Batch after batch came, and Saori was so busy that she had no time to repair the fence.

A centipede with three eyes, a giant earthworm with a bird's skeleton as its head, and a strange flying object with a human face and a snake body. The strange shapes of these creatures are so hot to the eyes.

This may be the magic of nature.

For the sake of convenience, Saori, like the humans in this world, collectively refers to these creatures as "monsters", but she believes that it is the biological evolution of this world rather than unscientific explanations such as monster energy and spiritual power. Something went wrong with Shi, and he forked out a brand new branch.

The so-called monsters in this world are creatures located on this branch.

If you think about it that way, it's not so strange.

As for why the jade fragments she picked up could speak, she couldn't explain it scientifically at the moment, so she could just blame it on the auditory hallucinations caused by the recent lack of sleep.

"Do you want to become stronger, Saori?"

The jade fragments emitted a faint light, and the indistinguishable voice contained a secret temptation.

"No, thank you."

The trees in the primeval forest grow very tall, towering straight into the sky like giant pillars, making the human beings walking below them as insignificant as ants.

Saori carried the bucket and walked on the mountain road, the fragment was not discouraged, and continued to persuade with a pleasant voice: "Go and collect the remaining fragments, the complete jade of the four souls can fulfill any of your wishes."

"No, please."

I don't know how many times this kind of dialogue has been staged.

"You can go back to your time, I know you want to do this." The fragment of the Jade of the Four Souls whispered, "No matter what you want, if you make a wish, it will come true."

"...Oh?" Hearing this, Saori finally raised her eyebrows, "You mean, can you conjure tap water, air conditioner, toilet, and wifi?"

"Then I want to ask you first, do you know what the acceleration of gravity is? How about the refrigeration principle of the air conditioner? Do you know the electromagnetic spectrum? Can you memorize the periodic table of elements? Have you ever learned the relationship between Newton and apples? "

"..."

"...Look, you don't know." Saori shook her head pityingly, "I kept saying how powerful this jade of the four souls is, but I don't know anything about it."

The indistinguishable voice disappeared for a while, and then slowly sounded again.

"...Make a wish on the Jade of the Four Souls."

……

I thought you were holding back to use some big move, but it turned out to be stuck back to the original point!

"Promise to the Jade of the Four Souls..."

Saori: "Shut up, you product of feudal superstition."

"..."

As the sound of water approached, Shazhi pushed aside the branches in front of her, and the river flowing through the cave came into view.

It was afternoon, and the lush trees on the mountain wall covered most of the daylight. The crescent-shaped caves covered the water, and the winding vines hung in the water. Because of the rich minerals, the river here appeared It is a beautiful peacock blue, as clear as flawless jade, and the water near the cave is slightly darker, submerging the gravel on the shore.

Saori bent down and sank the barrel into the river.

The birdsong in the forest disappeared at some point, and the river water covered in the shade of the trees was a bit icy cold. Saori was missing the tap water that she could have in her previous life when she turned on the tap, and a strange fishy smell suddenly poured into her nostrils.

She was not a person with a sensitive sense of smell before, why blood would be described as the smell of rust and salt, she couldn't understand at all, but the more than ten years of living in the Warring States Period changed this, even if the smell mixed in the river water was very faint, She instantly recognized the smell of blood in it.

Upstream something floated down.

The thing was face down, and its long curly black hair covered its back like algae. Seeing that it was about to be washed by the river to the gravel-filled cave, Saori rolled up her skirt and jumped into the river, wading up to her waist In the icy water of the river, the humanoid grabbed the soaked collar before it hit the rocks that sloped from the water.

... seems to be alive, and, is it a man?

The pulling sensation came suddenly, and Saori stabilized her figure without haste, supported the opponent's ribs from behind, and dragged the opponent back to the shore against the force of the water.

Things that were absolutely impossible in the previous life can be easily achieved today.

Saori sighed, and turned over the figure that seemed to be soaked in blood. Before she could finish her last breath, she immediately gasped again.

... Good guy, she is actually a peerless beauty.

The long, black and thick curly hair wetly sticks to the side of the pale face. How can she describe the person caught by her in her barren language... It looks like a beautiful water demon, no, it is a snake demon... No, the water demon is more appropriate, after all, it floats from the river.

In the previous life and this life combined, Saori has never seen such a good-looking person, even if soaked in the water, she turned pale, and a beauty in distress is different from ordinary people, and the appearance of fainting is full of beauty Added magic filters.

Saori carried the other party back home, and before carrying her back, she did not forget her purpose of fetching water, and filled the bucket before walking back.

At sunset, there were no electric lights in the Warring States Period, and lamp oil was very expensive, a luxury that only the upper class could afford. After nightfall, the villages at the foot of the mountain fell into darkness.

When Saori returned to the house, the fire in the fireplace flickered gently, casting shadows on the wall. The figure sleeping by the fire hadn't woken up yet. She worked for a long time before putting him on his back. It is said that the absolutely fatal injury was treated cleanly and wrapped with cloth strips.

She cut off the clothes sticking to the bloody wounds with scissors and threw them into the fire.

……what can we do about it.

Saori rested her chin and sat by the fireplace, thinking seriously.

She seems to have picked up a monster with a good-looking face.

Although it was only for a short moment, when she was treating the opponent's wound, she saw spider-like red burn marks on the opponent's back, beating like a heart with autonomous consciousness. When she wanted to see more When it became clearer, it disappeared into the skin again.

It seemed to be an extraordinarily long and difficult night for the other party.

It seems that there are different creatures biting and entangled with each other inside the body, struggling to digest the power of swallowing. From the perspective of outsiders, it seems to be parasitized by strange things.

Eventually, these internal battles subsided, and the owner of the body won, making the living beings within him a part of himself, or it is possible that an alien creature managed to take over the body.

The "man" lying by the fire opened his eyes, and his expression was nothing like that of a seriously injured and unconscious guy. The irises that fell into the fire seemed to reflect a gloomy red at a certain moment, but in an instant it turned into She looked like an ordinary human being, and if she hadn't been staring at the other person's face, she wouldn't have noticed such tiny details at all.

"...You saved me?"

The other party struggled to sit up, playing the role of a wounded person.

... What should I do, tell the other party that she already knows that he is not human, should I confess that she didn't peek on purpose, will it be a bit embarrassing to say so?Will it leave a bad first impression?

If she reveals his identity, will he run away immediately?

Before Saori could organize her words, the young man sitting by the fire looked at the treated wounds on his body, and gently lowered his eyelids: "Thank you."

His long jet-black hair hangs down, his handsome facial features are stained with frail gloom, and the person sitting by the fireside with a quilt in his arms looks like a nobleman who is not in good health but well-educated, with a human face Very mild and harmless.

By the way, that is the only quilt in this family, and it was bought by Sazhi from the market with hard-earned wild boars. It can keep you warm in winter.

"You're welcome." She coughed lightly and recovered, "My name is Saori."

She paused, and added, "I'm a hunter from around here."

The monster in human skin that she picked up said that he was called Yin Dao, the young master of Renjian City. Because he was suffering from a strange disease, he had sought medical treatment for many years but failed, so he wanted to go to the Buddhist temple to burn incense and pray for blessings in person to show his sincerity Unexpectedly, he was attacked by a monster on the way, and all the retainers who tried their best to protect him were killed, and he was the only one who survived.

I don't know why, but the other party doesn't seem to be lying. It seems that the identity of Yin Dao is real, and being attacked by monsters is also real.

This... is this the so-called acting school?

"...You must be hungry, do you want something to eat?" Saori, who is not good at comforting people, hurriedly stood up, and turned around to get the wooden bowl.

There was a soft sound of something falling to the ground, and Saori looked back, and during the movement, the jade fragments of the four souls that she had been carrying in her sleeves fell out by coincidence, as if she had been waiting for this opportunity.

The moment the dark purple light was revealed, the air in the room seemed to change suddenly, as if an invisible hand pressed it down, and even the fire in the fireplace stopped flickering.

The long-haired young man sat by the fire, and the long shadow behind him was reflected on the wall. At first glance, it looked like a giant spider crawling, with its tentacles and fangs ready to go.

The man who called himself Yin Dao fixed his eyes on the jade fragments.

As if not aware of the sudden change in the atmosphere, Saori bent down to pick up the fragments of the jade of the four souls emitting a dirty light, and passed the things to the other party as if nothing happened.

"Do you like this?"

Saori held the fragment, a little puzzled.

The person on the opposite side shifted their eyes to her face, and an inexplicable chill rose up along the spine.

The cold feeling that seemed to peel her skin and study it was fleeting, Yin Dao's expression was that gentle from the beginning to the end, he shook his head lightly, like all well-educated people in this situation Just like what I will do next, I hide something that almost broke out of the shell a moment ago.

"……Do not……"

He couldn't finish the sentence.

Before it was too late, Saori had already stuffed the jade fragments of the four souls into his hands without hesitation.

She smiled, with an almost doting look on her face, and said softly:

"If you like it, I will give it to you."

The author has something to say:

Naraku:? ?

Fragment of the Jade of the Four Souls: ? ? ?

This is a brainless happy dog ​​blood.

Explain the time setting a little bit. The current plot is that Naraku captured the body of Yindao, and encountered a little difficulty during the fusion, and was picked up by Saori.