[Comprehensive] Traveling through Liaozhai with a hundred ghosts

Many years have passed unknowingly.

In the vicissitudes of life, with the development of science and technology, not only the human society is changing with each passing day, but even the world of monsters is also affected.

For example, the power grid has been pulled up in the village of Fuchun, and there are electrical appliances and the Internet.

As for the hot spring town outside, since it gradually became famous in the monster world, more and more monsters came here for vacation, tourism, and leisure, which also drove the development of the surrounding areas.

With the development, in addition to the hot spring township, there are several more monster villages around.Later, new hot springs were discovered in the surrounding area, so there are many soup houses scattered in this area.

Although the passenger flow in the hot spring village has been diverted, because most of the large and small soup houses are concentrated here, and there are also shops dealing in other things, it is still the first choice for most monsters.

And after entering the modern industrial age, under the leadership of Xu Hang, the last monster community also laid tracks, connecting the monster villages in this area with the famous soup houses and hot spring towns through trains.

In this way, one day after entering the 21st century.

……

"Ha ha……"

On the community street after school, a brown-haired boy was running fast as if he was being chased by something behind him.

"Huh? Isn't that Natsume?"

Across the street, a boy who also just got out of school noticed Natsume running fast and pointed.

Another boy walking with him looked in the direction of his finger, and said in a familiar tone: "That strange guy, who said he could see monsters, turned out to be talking to the air!"

"Huh?" The boy who spoke first was surprised, "I heard that a transfer student came to your class, and I wanted to play together."

The boy walking together put his hands on the back of his head and said as he walked, "Forget it, that guy often plays and talks to the air beside him all of a sudden, it's too disappointing."

"That's it..." The boy who spoke at the beginning watched Natsume's back gradually disappear into the street. Although he sounds like a strange guy, it should be fun to get along with, right?

……

At this time, in the eyes of outsiders, Natsume, who seemed to be running for an urgent matter without knowing why, was filled with fear.

In his ears, there was a cold female voice behind him that others could not hear.

"Good boy, come here~"

"My sister is playing with you, hehehe..."

"If you run away again, you will be a bad boy."

……

Just run into the shrine quickly!Natsume thought anxiously, but he had only moved here not long ago, and he was not familiar with the roads in this area, so he couldn't think of a shrine nearby.

After all, the child's physical strength is weak, and it didn't take long for Natsume to start running and panting.

He looked back and saw the black figure at the end of the street that was gradually getting closer to him, and instantly dismissed the idea of ​​taking a rest.

If he stopped, he would be overtaken, so Natsume gritted his teeth and continued to run forward.

"You can't run anymore, stop and come to my sister~"

The black figure saw that Natsume's physical strength was almost at its limit, and said with a smile from behind.

Natsume ignored her and continued to run sullenly, but at this moment, he found that the street he was running was almost coming to an end.

At the forked road ahead, one side leads to a bushy back garden of a certain family, and the other side leads to a straight road leading to the main road.

If you go straight, if there is no shrine in front of you, it is useless for him to run outside on the main road. Ordinary people can't see monsters, so they won't believe what he said, and running on the road with a wide view, trying to get rid of that monster is even more uncomfortable. easy.

As for other people's back gardens, although there may be monsters hiding in the bushes, if there are gods or ancestral tablets in people's homes, monsters can't easily enter, and the bushes are also convenient for hiding.

After thinking about it, Natsume immediately climbed over the fence and entered the bush.

The black shadow that had been chasing him suddenly stopped, turning around and leaving as if a little unwilling.

But Natsume, who was looking for a place to hide at this time, didn't notice that the monster had gone. After climbing over the fence and entering the back garden of someone else's house, he hid in the bushes.

Doesn't seem to follow?

Natsume paid attention to the movement around him.

Is it because you can't get into this person's house?But that monster should still be lingering nearby, right?Or hide here for a while, and then go out after it gives up.

But speaking of it, the back garden of this family is really quiet...

Probably because running just now had consumed a lot of physical energy, so after sitting down and having a chance to rest, Natsume, who was still a child, soon became exhausted, and fell asleep unconsciously in the quiet bush.

Then I don't know how long time passed.

"Hey! Little ghost, wake up little ghost!" Natsume felt the trees shaking, and a male voice came from his head. He opened his eyes and looked up, only to see a sinister and unfriendly middle-aged man staring at him impatiently. , "Why are you sleeping in my backyard?"

"Wow—!" Natsume jumped up from the ground in fright, and quickly bent down, "I'm sorry!!!"

From the looks of it, this middle-aged man should be the owner here.

After Natsume apologized, she looked at the man nervously.

But the other party didn't seem to pay much attention to him at all, yawning and muttering to himself: "Let's go, the little ghost with spiritual power still comes here, and he is not afraid of being eaten by monsters."

Huh?Natsume looked up at the man in surprise, but seeing him listlessly dragging his steps back towards the building, he wondered if he heard it wrong just now.

After thinking about it, he still didn't ask, but just silently followed behind the other party.

Soon he came out of the bushes in the back garden and came to the back of the house.

As soon as I came to the courtyard behind the house, I heard footsteps in the house, and suddenly the paper door opened, and a young man who was probably a high school student appeared from behind the door.

After noticing Natsume following behind the middle-aged man, he froze for a moment, and then said to the middle-aged man, "Dad, where did this kid come from?"

"Who knows which family's brat it is!" The middle-aged man replied impatiently, "This brat sneaked into the back garden by himself and fell asleep in it, please don't blame me for this."

"Yes, I'm sorry! I climbed over the fence and came in from the back just now." Natsume quickly apologized again, "It was my fault to break into your house, please forgive me!"

"Eh?! Nothing!" Seeing Natsume's solemn apology, Ritsu Iijima quickly waved his hands and said, "Haha, we didn't mean to blame you, it's just because we found poisonous snakes in the back garden before, so next time you play, can you skip it? Go over the fence and go in."

Summer nodded.

Then Iijima Ritsu asked him again: "By the way, which family are you from? I don't think I've seen you in the neighborhood before."

"My name is Natsume Takashi." As he said that, Natsume recalled the surname of the relative he was staying with now, and after reporting it, Iijima Ritsu said: "Oh, it turned out to be that family, by the way, you want Don't come in and sit down?"

Ritsu Iijima's father had already returned to the house, and Natsume said a little embarrassedly, "Excuse me."

Iijima's house is a standard Japanese-style building. After entering the house, Natsume quickly noticed two small birds squatting on a pillar. one white.

"There's a baby!"

"This kid seems to have spiritual power!"

"?!" Natsume heard voices on the roof. At first, he thought he had heard it wrong, but after careful attention, he found that it seemed to be the two birds talking.

"He noticed us."

"Hey! Young master over there, what's your name?"

Hearing the two birds greet him, and realizing that there are monsters in this house, Natsume suddenly became nervous.

Because he paid too much attention to the two birds over there, Ritsu Iijima stopped in front of him and didn't notice, Natsume bumped into them all at once.

"Sorry!" Natsume said immediately again.

"It's all right." Ritsu said with a smile, and then found that Natsume cared about the two birds on the beam, thinking he was just a child's curiosity about small animals, and said, "Those two are my family's birds, the gray one is called Tail. Black and white are just white tails, they don't peck people, don't worry."

Hearing Ritsu talking about them, Oguro and Oshiro flew down from the beams, one left and one right landing on Ritsu Iijima's shoulders.

"My lord, this kid can hear us!"

"It's a child with the same spiritual power as the young master!"

Natsume subconsciously looked at Ritsu Iijima after hearing what they said, especially the second sentence.

Ritsu Iijima: "..."

Being betrayed by his own shikigami as a teammate, he wanted to pretend that ordinary people don’t know anything, but now that he can’t, Ritsu Iijima sighed and said, “It’s just what you think, I’m the one who can see those things. Actually, you were chased by a monster on the way home from school, right?"

"Can big brother see monsters too!" But at this time, Natsume was more concerned about the fact that someone could see monsters like him.

"Yeah." Seeing Natsume's excited reaction, Iijima Ritsu was stunned, but then he could roughly understand the other party's excitement, "Well... people with spiritual power like us can easily attract monsters, should we It’s often frustrating.”

"Hmm..." Natsume's cheeks flushed slightly because of excitement.

"But the monster chasing you should not have gone far. It just gave up chasing you just because the bush you entered just now is Qinglan's dining hall." Ritsu Iijima scratched his head a little distressed, "It probably didn't give up, it's still there Find a way to get close to you."

Just as he was talking, the doorbell rang.

A woman outside shouted, "Excuse me, is that kid Guizhi at your home? I'm his aunt, and I'm here to pick him up."

"Ah...it came so soon." Ritsu Iijima said in an expected tone.

The author has something to say: soup house√Natsume√

After much deliberation, I decided to cut into the modern chapter from here.

Ritsu Iijima is the protagonist of "Hundred Ghosts at Night". His grandfather Rei Iijima is a person who has spiritual power and can see monsters. He wrote many ghost novels under the pen name of Iijima snail.

At the same time, he also interacts with many monsters.

However, compared to the warmth of the account of friends, Hundred Ghosts at Night is cooler.

For example, Ritsu's grandfather Rei Iijima made a deal with monsters when he was young, and lost 20 years of life.

Also, Ritsu's father died a long time ago, and what is now in his body is the shikigami Qinglan left by Rei Iijima, who is ordered to protect Ritsu until the end of Ritsu's life.

The back garden of Iijima's family is Qinglan's hunting place and also the territory of monsters, so Rei Iijima did not let his family members enter the bushes during his lifetime.However, the nearby monsters basically know that there are big monsters hunting there, and they generally don't go in to give away their heads.

Qinglan was originally a monster who could eat people, but Rei Iijima stated in the contract that he was not allowed to eat people.

By the way, because Ritsu has spiritual power, his grandfather Rei Iijima protected him from being targeted by monsters when he was young, so Ritsu always wore women's clothes when he was young.

When Rei Iijima took him to a fox's banquet when I was young, there was a fox who wanted Ritsu to marry her son when he grew up :)

Another big guy in women's clothing (quietly)