[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

When Seimei led Reiko out of the light door, the first thing he saw was the one-eyed little monk who was a little anxious walking back and forth.

Seeing that Lingzi was safe and sound, the one-eyed little monk breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great, Master Lingzi, if you don't come out again, I can't help but go in and look for you."

"Who is this?" Qingming, who didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, asked with some doubts.

"This must be Master Qingming. I am the one-eyed monk. I am here because I have something to ask. I want to find a beautiful butterfly." When the word "butterfly" was mentioned, the one-eyed monk showed a gentle expression.

At this time, Qingming, who is in a good mood, will naturally not refuse: "Okay, after you get out of the dream for a while, you can tell me what happened in detail."

Except for the faint light emitted by the Light Gate and the Diamond Sutra, the dream space is still completely dark, making it impossible for people to find a way out.

Qingming turned her hands over, and a Gu worm appeared in her palm.No one knew when Qingming caught the bug, just like how no one saw how Qingming took the hair from the shoulders of the onmyoji before.

He gently put his other hand on the worm, muttering something, and then, the worm flew up again, and flew in a certain direction with purpose.

"Follow." Qingming simply ordered, leading Reiko and the one-eyed monk to the witcher's lair.

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It is a little butterfly, and when it was a caterpillar, it lived with its sisters.We climbed through the green leaves and bright flowers together, peaceful and happy.

Later, the caterpillar spun silk and turned into a cocoon. When the sisters came out of the cocoon again, they turned into beautiful butterflies.The patterned blue wings shine golden in the sun, and the sisters soar freely under the blue sky.

How beautiful!

Since then, it has firmly wanted to be a butterfly.

My sisters said that there was a man named Zhuang Zhou who dreamed of a butterfly, and when he woke up, he didn’t know whether he turned into a butterfly or the butterfly turned into him.Since then, butterflies have been associated with dreams, and butterflies also have the ability to enter dreams.

The abilities of butterfly spirits come from people's dreams, so they also take on the task of controlling dreams.

Every time a certain period comes, the Butterfly Essence will go to the world to practice.When the little one finally became a butterfly, the sisters also began to go to the world one after another.

What is the world like?Is there also the sound of my sister's tambourine?

It waited and waited, waited and waited, the sisters finally came back.But... why are the sisters all bruised and bruised?Is the human world, the human world, really so terrible?

Whenever it asked like that, the sisters laughed without saying a word, and showed gentle and sad expressions.

You'll know when the time comes.

There is always only one answer given by the sisters.

The little butterfly flapped its fragile wings, flew over mountains and rivers, and finally came to the human world with apprehension and uneasiness.

The peaceful and serene sound of wooden fish came from the temple on the mountain, just like my sister's tambourine to soothe people's hearts.Every day when the sound of wooden fish sounds, butterflies will stop by the window and be intoxicated by the sound of wooden fish.

Just after a while, the wooden fish didn't ring anymore.

So the butterfly flew to another place, and tried to enter the human dream.

In the dream of human beings, Butterfly meets an old man who takes good care of the insects. The kind scene reminds him of the scene when he was a larva, and he can't help but get close and depend on him.

then……

It had its wings broken off.

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At this time, Qingming and Reiko followed the Gu insects to a cave full of mucus. White insect eggs were scattered on the mucus, and the larvae kept crawling out of the eggs.

In Reiko's eyes, one could clearly see the broken souls under the mucus—they were the souls of human beings who became food for Gu insects after being lost in dreams.

If Seimei continued to sleep deeply, it would probably become like this.

Seimei noticed the undisguised disgust on Reiko's face, and comforted softly: "Be patient, it will be resolved soon."

Reiko glanced at Qingming: "You can open your spirit vision and have a look."

Qingming did as he did, and when he saw the hell-like scene in front of him, although his expression didn't change, the color of his pupils deepened obviously.

This is an unforgivable monster that must be destroyed.

"Eat, eat quickly, my little cutie! Hahahaha!" An old man's hoarse voice came from deep in the cave.

"Is it because this man is not to your liking? How about changing to this woman? Or don't, it's really picky, but the more like this, the more I like it!"

"Please let these poor people go. Dreams should bring people joy." It was the voice of a weak girl.

The one-eyed monk who had been silently following behind trembled, and said in disbelief: "It is it! That is the butterfly I have been looking for!"

Although the one-eyed little monk has never seen the butterfly spirit turned into a girl, he just knows that it is the voice of the butterfly spirit, just like his own wooden fish voice, a unique voice.

"Then, let's rescue the Butterfly Essence as soon as possible, and then we'll have a big fight!" Reiko said impatiently.

But Qingming stretched out his hand to stop Reiko: "Don't shoot, this is my prey."

After Yamata no Orochi tampered with Qingming, his mental state has not been very stable, which is also the main reason why Qingming fell into the hands of the witch and gu master this time.But no matter what the reason is, it is a shame to be planted in the hands of this kind of monster. Naturally, it has to be washed away.

"Okay." Reiko took a step back and agreed.

The witch and gu master continued to circle around the butterfly spirit with great interest: "Little butterfly, don't be naive, shouldn't things like dreams be the nourishment for my lovely children? Obediently let me raise them well." Is it? I will treat you very, very gently. "

The Butterfly Essence shook its wings that were torn in two and were still bleeding continuously, and its face became even paler: "That's not the case. In the dream world, what bears are the dreams of human beings!"

Things that have not yet been achieved, things that have been lost, and things that are now possessed can all be found in dreams; the pain and numbness that human beings encounter in reality will also be healed and comforted in dreams.

Let the people who lost their parents find that hug again, let the people who lost their legs run freely under the blue sky again, dreams should be such a soothing thing.

"Little Butterfly...Huh? There's something nasty coming in!" The voodoo master, who wanted to continue to persuade the Butterfly Spirit, turned his gaze to the direction where Qingming was hiding, "My little cuties, hurry up and enjoy the big meal!" Bar!"

Following the Gu Master's order, the sound of "swishling" kept coming, and the bugs that didn't know where to hide kept crawling out of the corners, covering the cave with a layer of flowing black carpet.

"Lei Di invites you!" This time, Qingming didn't hold back the slightest, and directly summoned her imperial spirit to flick the tail of the green dragon, sweeping away one piece after another, and was turned into coke by the electric arc, and the air began to permeate. There was a burnt aroma.

"Little cutie, my little cutie..." The voodoo master stamped his feet in distress.

Qingming's icy eyes fixed on the Gu Gu Master, and the Gu Master turned around and ran away with a strong sense of crisis.

Qinglong flew out instantly under Qingming's command, entangled the witch and gu master tightly.

"I was wrong, let me go..." The witch and Gu master who knew that there was no hope of escape began to beg desperately.

Just when Qingming was about to tear the Gu Master into pieces, he hesitated for a moment and turned his attention to Reiko.

When Reiko solves problems related to monsters, she usually doesn't use methods of eliminating or sealing them. Perhaps she doesn't want to see herself kill a witch or voodoo master.

"What do you think I am doing? Do you think I will plead for the witch and Gu master?" Reiko held back the desire to roll her eyes, she is not the Holy Mother.

"Heh!" Qingming chuckled, and then unceremoniously took the life of the witch and Gu master.

With the death of the witch and Gu master, a large number of bugs turned into corpses, leaving only the butterfly spirit lying weakly on the spot.

"Are you okay?" The one-eyed little monk cautiously approached the Butterfly Spirit, looking at it in pain, a little at a loss, "Master Qingming? Master Reiko?"

Qingming checked the broken part of Butterfly's wing, and shook his head: "There is no way to treat it here, you have to go out."

But how to leave this dream?

"This place already belongs to the gap of dreams. Thank you for eliminating the witches and Gu masters. I'll take you out." The butterfly spirit struggled to sit up, but as soon as she moved her wings, there would be a heart-rending pain.

"I'm sorry, I may not have the strength to play the tambourine anymore." Butterfly apologized disappointedly after several failures.

"Is there no other way?" Even with the knowledgeable onmyoji, there are areas where he is not good at - such as dreams.

"If there is a similar voice to guide, maybe you can give it a try." However, the sound similar to a tambourine that Butterfly Jing has heard for so many years is only...

"Wooden fish! Is wooden fish okay?" The one-eyed little monk looked at the butterfly spirit expectantly.

Butterfly nodded: "If it's the wooden fish's voice, it's definitely possible."

I really want to listen to it again, the peaceful and serene sound of wooden fish.

The one-eyed monk put down the stone statue behind him, folded his hands together, and knelt down in front of the stone statue: "Master, can you hit me again?"

He has already found the butterfly, no matter what, he wants to let the butterfly listen to his wooden fish voice again, and then ask: Do you like my wooden fish voice?

Perhaps the devout prayers of the one-eyed little monk played a role, the moss-covered stone statue suddenly burst into golden light, and then turned into a benevolent old monk.

The old monk nodded to the one-eyed young monk, and slightly raised the gavel in his hand.

"Boom"!

The crisp sound of wooden fish came over.

Reiko looked at the stone statue turned into a monk and the one-eyed monk turned into a wooden fish in puzzlement, wondering why such a scene happened.

"Dream." Qingming said two words slowly.

In reality, the old monk who turned into a stone statue can no longer knock on the wooden fish. Even if the one-eyed monk is willing to become a prototype and let others beat it, the sound that comes out of the knocking must not be the same.

Seimei and Reiko's dream is to return to their happy childhood, so the one-eyed monk's dream is to return to the days of being beaten every day by the old monk.

To reappear the impossible is the charm of dreams.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

The wooden fish's voice kept echoing.

"Please close your eyes, listen to the wooden fish's voice, and walk out of this dream with me."

Ah, Reiko saw it.

She saw a small temple on a mountain surrounded by clouds and mist. There were many rooms in the temple. In one of the rooms, there was an old monk sitting in front of the Buddha statue, knocking on the wooden fish and reciting Buddhist scriptures.

A butterfly flapped its wings and landed by the window.

—Little Butterfly, do you like the sound of that wooden fish?

—Yes, I like it very much!