[Comprehensive] Traveling through Liaozhai with a hundred ghosts

With the arrival of the host, the banquet will begin soon.

A Yuan kept in mind the words of the fox-faced boy, and did not touch the food on the table, including the tea.At the same time, he secretly paid attention to the situation of the surrounding guests, planning to sneak away quietly while the guests present were all engrossed in the banquet.

However, he couldn't wait until that time.

"Why don't you eat?"

When A Yuan sat quietly on the side, trying to narrow his sense of existence, a female voice suddenly came from beside him, it was the woman he met on the road before.

"Is the food in front of you unpalatable?"

Although the tone of the woman's question was extremely kind, Ah Yuan only felt creepy.

And I don't know if it's an illusion, after the woman asked him this question, the guests who were drinking and drinking together seemed to be silent for a moment, feeling that everyone's eyes were focused on him.

A Yuan swallowed her throat and tensed up all over.

"If you don't like it, we have other food here. What do you want to eat?" The woman asked with a smile.

But in the face of her enthusiastic care, Ah Yuan just felt overwhelmed. He subconsciously searched left and right for the trace of the fox-faced boy, but he soon discovered that he seemed to be unknowingly surrounded by all the people around him. Has become a maid here.

Holding different foods in their hands, they clustered around A Yuan, with sweet smiles on their pretty faces, and asked A Yuan one after another.

"Why don't you eat it?"

"Come and eat!"

"Do you like this?"

……

Faced with such a siege, A Yuan couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat on his forehead, feeling anxious.

Seeing that he remained silent and did not reply, the expressions of the maids gradually became less gentle.

"Are you dissatisfied with the goddess?"

"Why don't you eat the food here?"

"You are so disrespectful, the goddess will be angry!"

……

Ah Yuan felt very anxious, especially after seeing the maids' cold faces, not only their attitudes became unfriendly, but even their appearance... gradually changed from beautiful to distorted.

At this moment, A Yuan, who sensed something was wrong and wanted to get up and escape, accidentally bumped into the bowl at hand. He subconsciously looked down, and found that the bowl that had been filled with delicate food was now filled with maggots and rotting meat. .

Looking up again, there are no beautiful maids in front of them. Their makeup has peeled off, revealing the dark and rotten flesh underneath. Their eyeballs fell to the ground, and maggots drilled out of their eye sockets.

A Yuan stared wide-eyed, only panic was left in his heart, and he didn't care too much. He suddenly lifted the table in front of him and threw it at the maids, then pushed away the other people who hadn't reacted, and ran away .

"If you don't eat the food here, she is alive!"

"The living... stay..."

"Catch her!"

……

Perhaps because he had already seen through the reality of this place, A Yuan, who turned and ran away, found that the beautiful courtyard in his eyes had gradually collapsed, turning into a barren land with only cold and damp soil and dense bones.

To get out of the courtyard before the scene completely collapsed, for some reason, Ah Yuan suddenly felt so.

There were resentful shouts from the ghost girls behind him. Even though he ran away in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to put on his clogs, and the soles of his feet hurt from running barefoot on the gravel ground, A Yuan didn't dare to slow down at all.

Finally, the door leading to the outside appeared in sight, and it was almost... When A Yuan was full of excitement, suddenly, one of his sleeves was grabbed.

It turned out that the female ghosts of Huangquan had already caught up.

A Yuan struggled to pull out his sleeves while continuing to walk towards the door, but he only felt that the strength behind him was getting stronger and his body was getting heavier and heavier.

I saw an arm was already on his shoulder, and the smell of the dead was close at hand. A Yuan closed his eyes, feeling desperate, the weight on his body suddenly lightened.

A Yuan opened his eyes, and saw the fox-faced boy appearing in front of him again at some point.

The fox-faced boy pulled his wrist and said, "Don't look back, run!"

As he spoke, he dragged A Yuan forward, and A Yuan was shocked, and hurriedly took another step.

Behind him, the female ghosts of Huangquan all rushed towards a figure exactly like him.

"Hee hee, stay here."

"Caught you."

"Accompany the goddess with us."

……

The female ghosts of Huangquan laughed and said, but it didn't take long before they realized that something was wrong. The "person" caught by them didn't move. All that was caught was a puppet wearing the same clothes.

Paper dolls, puppets and other human-shaped objects have been used as stand-ins to prevent disasters in Japan since ancient times. When A Yuan was caught by the female ghost of Huangquan just now, the fox-faced boy threw the puppets to make the female ghosts Target transfer.

"Damn! I was cheated!"

"This is a stand-in."

"Where did you go?! Go and chase it back!"

The female ghosts who realized that they had been deceived were very angry, but as long as the target was still in Huangquan, they could quickly locate the whereabouts.

And at this time, A Yuan's side.

When the fox-faced boy dragged him along for an unknown amount of time, A Yuan also started to pant a little.

Looking at the young man running ahead, although Ah Yuan thanked the other party for pulling him out of the hands of the female ghost of Huangquan, he couldn't help but became more suspicious of the other party's identity. Looking at the other party's back in front of him, the sense of familiarity in his heart became stronger.

But soon, Ah Yuan's attention was distracted by another matter.

The voice of the female ghost of Huangquan came from behind again.

"She's up ahead."

"You can't leave here, stay here!"

A Yuan became nervous again, not daring to let go, and ran forward blindly, but there was nothing in front of him except the darkness. When A Yuan began to shake in his heart and doubted whether he could really leave this darkness, a sudden voice was heard in front of him. Hear a familiar voice.

"Xu Yuan—Xu Yuan—"

"Xu Yuan, come back quickly—"

Ah Yuan's spirit was lifted instantly, it was his father's voice!

At the same time, with the appearance of his father's voice, a small white spot of light appeared in the darkness in front of him.

We see the exit!Ah Yuan's mood suddenly became excited, but at this moment, the fox-faced boy who was pulling him to run in front let go of his hand and dodged to the side.

A Yuan just ran past him, and when he passed by, A Yuan looked to the side in surprise, and then found that the boy who took off the fox mask was [-] to [-]% similar to Yu Zaoqian.

Almost immediately, some things need not be said much, and the tacit understanding flowing in the blood makes people think of the answer in their hearts.

The moment of passing by was very short, and A Yuan quickly ran past the boy.

"Don't look back, run straight to the light, your father is waiting for you outside."

The spot of light in front is getting larger, and the voice of the other party is getting smaller and smaller. A Yuan knows that this is because the distance between himself and the other party is getting farther and farther.

A Yuan resisted the urge to turn back, and ran forward without stopping, shouting loudly: "What's your name?"

Even though it was only a few seconds of waiting, Ah Yuan felt as if a century had passed before the ethereal answer finally came.

"My name is Yui."

After getting the answer, A Yuan just ran forward without any worries, the light spot in front enlarged into a beam of light, and behind him were the roars of the female ghosts of Huangquan.

In this life-and-death race, Ah Yuan finally stepped into the light. When he successfully walked into the area illuminated by the white light with one foot, the terrifying existence chasing him seemed to be dispelled instantly. exist.

……

Xu Hang, who had been reciting A Yuan's name silently in the cave, suddenly seemed to feel something, stood up abruptly, and then directly stretched out his hand into the ground somewhere in the cave.

Xu Hang frowned, and finally, he seemed to have tripped over something in the mud, and suddenly pulled back forcefully.

From the soil on the ground, a large living person was pulled out from the bottom just like that.

A Yuan, who successfully escaped back to the present world, was still in a trance for a while, as if he had just woken up from a big dream.

When he saw Xu Hang right in front of him, A Yuan's nerves that had been tense during the race with the female ghost of Huangquan just now finally relaxed completely.

Then, unable to hold back any longer, he threw himself into Xu Hang's arms, and shouted excitedly, "Wow——! Dad!!!"

Seeing that A Yuan was pulled out from the ground, Xu Hang was covered in mud, his hair was messy and his shoes were gone. He thought he had experienced something terrible, so he quickly patted him on the back to comfort A Yuan who was still in shock.

A Yuan finally calmed down a little bit, and after realizing that he was really out of danger completely, he was a little embarrassed when he thought of how he hugged his father just now and screamed, so he quickly crawled out of his arms.

Xu Hang patted his head and said with a smile, "It's fine."

Then Xu Hang saw A Yuan wearing a women's kimono, and asked him about what happened during the hiatus.

After listening to A Yuan's story about his experience during his disappearance, Xu Hang's expression changed slightly, and he immediately said to A Yuan: "Take off the clothes on your body, and also, you don't want to grow long hair in the future."

After finishing speaking, Xu Hang took a knife and cut off A Yuan's braid.

Seeing Xu Hang so serious for the first time, A Yuan didn't doubt him, so he quickly changed his clothes.

Then he saw Xu Hang put the cut hair together with the suit and wrapped it up.

Xu Hang stuffed the packed package into A Yuan's hands, and said to him: "Now you take the package back home and ask your mother to burn it."

A Yuan nodded to express his understanding, but he quickly remembered, didn't Xu Hang go to retreat before?

"Father, that... aren't you in retreat? Why are you here?"

Xu Hang glanced at him, and then Ah Yuan realized that he felt that it was only a one-day experience, but in fact he had been missing for five days in this world.