[Onmyoji] Set a small goal first

All the way to the north, the weather is getting colder and colder, the water is frozen, and the snow is falling.

The paper shikigami was driving an oboro car outside, while Gui Xuliu wrapped himself up in the car like a rice dumpling, discussing a problem with Ibaraki in a serious manner.

"If we hadn't been going the wrong way along the way, we should have arrived at the place, don't you know?"

Ibaraki was not happy anymore, and said coldly: "If you let the oboroche travel in the air instead of on the road, we should have arrived long ago."

They have been out for more than half a month, and they did miss the road a few times in the middle, but Ibaraki firmly believes that it is because the speed of the road is too slow that they have not reached the place yet.Speaking of this, I have to mention Gui Xuliu's fear of heights. She can't persist in flying for a long time, and she will be worried if there is a slight turbulence in the air. If she accidentally sees the scenery outside, it will be a disaster... …

When Ibaraki discovered this for the first time, he almost thought that Gui Xuliu was seriously injured. This guy was completely stiff and trembling, his face was pale, he couldn't breathe, and he was almost passed out.

So, no, most of the time they have to drive on the road.

However, as long as this girl is idle, she will be very talkative, such as now.

"Did you know that ants can use their antennae to tell the direction?" Gui Xuliu said earnestly, which is actually inexplicable and fallacious, "Obviously everyone has horns, but your horns are just a decoration, and you will interfere with my work from time to time. make the right decision.”

Ibaraki replied easily, "Your probability of being right is as low as the probability of a hibernating bear waking up suddenly. Instead of trying this kind of luck, it's better for me to decide the route myself."

Gui Xuliu said angrily: "You don't care if I'm right or not, the key is that you are not as good as an ant! Ants know the way!"

Ibaraki: "But they just take you back to the anthill."

Gui Xuliu: "How do you know that the ant's nest of this ant is not in Hokkaido!"

Ibaraki snorted coldly, without further argument: "It's nonsense."

Gui Xuliu saw that he didn't care about the villain and couldn't help punching this guy. Ibaraki frowned and said, "Hey! I'll fight back next time!"

Gui Xuliu was not afraid at all, and said straightforwardly: "Then I won't tell you what color underwear Shuten-douji wears every day!"

Ibaraki seemed shocked by her shamelessness, didn't know what to answer for a while, and only said angrily: "Why should I know this!"

His flat refusal finally silenced the carriage.

About a minute later, he suddenly asked in a low voice, "Hey, what color does my best friend usually wear?"

"..."

Guixu rolls his eyes to the sky.

Faced with her attitude, Ibaraki was also very unhappy. Didn't he follow his best friend in everything? Maybe his best friend had a deep meaning in wearing underwear of this color!This kind of detail is worth learning for him!

The two were in a state of ignoring each other, until Gui Xuliu saw something strange through the curtain of the car window, so he lifted the curtain and lay down by the window to call Ibaraki to come over to have a look.

"Wait, come and see, what is that?"

Ibaraki followed her gaze and found a petite figure trapped in the middle of the river not far away.The reason why she was said to be trapped is because the local river surface was a filthy black, the figure struggled to swim out of the filthy land and landed but couldn’t, and a woman sitting in a shell on the bank was holding a transparent The string connects herself to the victim, as if trying to save the person.

Guixuliu ordered the car to stop, and walked in that direction with Ibaraki.

At this time, the climate in Hokkaido is cold, but there are also rivers that are not yet ready to be frozen, such as the big river in front of us.A woman in an orange dress sits in a shell with a fish tail, which is not human at first glance.It seemed that she was struggling to maintain the appearance of the transparent silk thread, and the blood color gradually faded from her face, and it could be seen that she was also very uncomfortable.

The woman shouted to the people trapped in the middle of the river: "Hold on, Jinyu Ji!"

Listen to the name, the trapped guy is not human either.It's just that from here, the river water is very viscous and wraps around the trapped person, so the specific appearance of the person cannot be seen at all.

"Do you need help?"

Gui Xuliu knew that Ibaraki would not meddle in such nosy matters, so he took the initiative to ask the fishtail woman.

The fishtail girl was taken aback, her attention was all on Jinyu Ji, and she didn't even notice that someone else was coming.

This monster seems a little silly.

"Ah! Who are you? I, I must rescue my friend now..."

She struggled to say these few words but couldn't hold on any longer, Gui Xuliu didn't make things difficult for her anymore, in this case it's more important to save people first.

Her right eye reflected the filthy source of the river water as something filthy, and the black matter stretched along the river all the way to the source of the river, and she saw the corner of the unicorn frozen on the crystal clear ice on the top of the snow-capped mountain.

Black unicorn.

She suddenly withdrew her gaze, and immediately poured spiritual power into her left eye to stimulate the power of light.

"The filth is endless, and the opportunity is only for a moment. You have to grasp it and pull her out."

Guixu left the way.

Jiaotu was startled for a while before he realized it, and said, "Oh, oh! Okay!"

While Gui Xuliu was speaking, the power of light poured into the polluted black river, and then moved forward with difficulty breaking through the filth, extending all the way to the middle of the river, covering the black water.Gui Xuliu gritted his teeth, the light turned into a sharp blade and instantly split the layers of dirt, revealing the true face of the monster that was swallowed and buried under it.

It was a cute little girl with a rather pleasing appearance. She seemed to have lost her mind and fell into a coma.At the moment when the dirt was forced back, the fishtail woman's string suddenly tightened, pulling the little girl out abruptly, making her out of the predicament.

"Pinyu Ji! How are you doing?"

The fishtail woman caught the little girl and put her in her big shell, and found that Jinyu Ji was fine, but she couldn't wake up for a while, she was relieved, and smiled at Guixu on her pale face. Leave them to thank you.

"Hello, my name is Jiaotu, this is my friend Jinyu Ji, we are all monsters in this area."

The fishtail girl named Jiaotu is very friendly. She gratefully told Gui Xuliu and Ibaraki what happened. Carefully slipped into the water and got entangled in the sewage.

She looked at Gui Xuliu, and said shyly, "Are you Master Onmyoji? Actually, I like human beings very much, and I really want to visit the city, but I'm a monster..."

As she spoke, she became sad again.

Guixuliu has always been resistant to Miss Mengmengda, so he immediately said: "Then you can be my shikigami, so that you can come and go to Kyoto at will, and there will be no onmyoji to embarrass you."

She handed out the contract charm to Jiaotu's ignorant eyes, and then explained that as long as the contract is concluded, she can summon the other party to play when she returns to the capital.Seeing Jiaotu's hesitation, she didn't force it, she just said that she could keep it and think about it.

Ibaraki was not interested in these things, and seemed to be wandering overseas for a long time. In fact, he had a guess about the origin of the sewage, so he immediately interrupted Jiaotu's hesitation and asked directly:

"Where did the sewage come from?"

Jiaotu already regarded the two of them as good people, so he said without hesitation: "I only know that the sewage is related to the polluted water unicorn, but I don't know more. The two adults can ask the owner here, he We call him the Lord of Arakawa."

Gui Xuliu remembered the letter of recommendation that Ootengu had left for her, and it seemed that she was indeed going to meet the Lord of Arakawa.

"There are many rivers and rivers here, all of which flow into the sea, and there are many humans and monsters living there. However, the flood broke out suddenly about six years ago. Don't look at this section of the river, it is actually much better now. The owner here, the adult manages It took several years to control the pollution down to this small area, which is amazing!"

Jiaotu gave them a little praise for the ability of the Arakawa Lord, and it was obvious that this owner should be loved by the monsters here.

However, not all of them are like that.

"Master of Arakawa, hmph, that bastard!"

Gui Xuliu was startled by the sudden loli voice, looked at the speaker, only to find that the little girl who had been rescued woke up, her round face was puffed up, and she looked like she was shaking violently. and began to say to them:

"You are the ones who helped me save me just now, so I will try my best to warn you! This Lord of Arakawa is a big villain, arrogant, self-willed, and extremely rude. He didn't listen to my Jinyu Ji's advice. You still don't recognize my wisdom!"

...This guy is probably a joke.

It's not that Gui Xuliu has never seen such a monster. In a nutshell, it's a group of R-card monsters full of confidence.In fact, Jinyu Ji is not bad, as far as she knows, there are N card monsters who want to challenge Shuten Doji.

Cough, they are all people with dreams.

Usually, Ibaraki would not be able to help but taunt this kind of unconscious little monster. Gui Xuliu stepped on the opponent's feet with great foresight, using pain to prevent him from saying anything that might lead to a violent ending. Come.

"Then do you know where the Lord of Arakawa is? I want to see him."

Gui Xuliu asked Jinyu Ji before Ibaraki spoke unhappily, and the latter said arrogantly: "Of course I know where that guy is, and you can see his palace if you go five miles north, what a luxurious guy." Stop talking, stop talking, I'm going to stay far away from where he is!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she got, she stood up and straightened her dress, then waved to them and hurriedly headed south.From the looks of it, the sewage shouldn't have much effect on her.

"I'm sorry, Jinyu Ji has such a personality."

On the contrary, Jiaotu said apologetically to the two of them.

Isn't it just a child who hasn't grown up? Shantu will talk to himself like this sometimes when he becomes self-willed. Gui Xuliu has seen countless monsters, and he has long been familiar with it.Most of the monsters are very clear-minded, even if they are not children, you can see that such a big person poking next to her is not logical.

Seeing Ibaraki's obviously extremely impatient expression, Gui Xuliu simply said goodbye to Jiaotu, and then returned to the car with a rough logic guy to continue driving north.

On the way, they saw that the water quality of this section of the river was almost completely polluted by evil spirits. Except for the fish and shrimps that died because of this, all the monsters living nearby escaped, but there were also little monsters who could not escape. I met several such aquatic monsters.While on the road, we cleared away some miscellaneous monsters, and it was already evening when we saw the so-called extravagant palace of Lord Arakawa.

"Uh, is this a palace?"

Gui Xuliu, who thought he would see the Crystal Dragon Palace, felt that he must have a brain twitch, so he believed what Jinyu Ji, who was unreliable at first glance, said.

But Crystal Dragon Palace or something, it's a bit of a wrong set...

Ibaraki looked at it seriously, and said, "Indeed, this guy named Lord Arakawa is very extravagant."

Gui Xuliu was dumbfounded, are you sure?

The "palace" in front of me is probably composed of several connected buildings, the material is unknown, surrounded by intricate Arakawa rivers, it seems that there is no luxury at all, such a house poked in the middle is a bit empty and desolate.

If this is all extravagance, then you must have never seen the big farewell of our party comrades. Our department-level cadres are more interesting than this, absolutely.

The lord of Arakawa, at least such a big landlord, should be involved in this job. Gui Xuliu suddenly felt a little bit of distress for this big boss who hadn't masked his face—this must be a good and honest official!