[Comprehensive] Traveling through Liaozhai with a hundred ghosts

As for the reason why Natsume came to Tokyo this weekend, it probably started a few days ago.

A few days ago, Natsume sent a message to Fujisaki-senpai, whom he hadn't contacted for a while, intending to ask about his recent situation in the metropolis.

However, it took a day and a night after the message was sent and there was no reply. Although it may be that the other party was busy when he sent the message and missed it, Natsume had a bad feeling, so he thought about it and decided to give it to the other party just in case. I made a phone call, but I made two calls one after another, and the other end was busy and no one answered.

Natsume became more and more worried. Fortunately, when she stayed at Fujisaki's house in Tokyo, she wrote down the phone number of Fujisaki's house, so Natsume simply called Fujisaki's house.

As a result, when he asked about Fujisaki senior, the Fujisaki family said that although their family name was Fujisaki and they had many children, there was no Hiroto Fujisaki.

At first, Natsume thought he had dialed the wrong number, but after reconfirming the phone number, it was still this family, and the other party made it clear that there was no Hiroto Fujisaki at home, nor any relatives by that name, and warned Natsume Stop playing pranks.

After hanging up the phone with a bewildered head, Natsume quickly caught Mr. Kitty to ask for advice.

"The kid must have been unlucky to be hidden by the gods, right?"

Teacher Cat yawned and said unhurriedly.

"God hidden?" Natsume was stunned. He had heard of this term before, and it usually refers to the hiding of human beings by gods or monsters.

Regarding Shenyin, I have to mention the ancient legend that is quite famous in Japanese folk - Taro Urashima.

In ancient times, there was a fisherman named Urashima Taro, who was entertained by the Dragon Palace because he saved the tortoise in the Dragon Palace. He was invited to the Dragon Palace and was favored by the daughter of the Dragon King.

Later Urashima Taro missed his hometown, so he bid farewell to Princess Ryugu. When leaving, Princess Song gave him a box and told him not to open it.

But when Urashima Taro returned to his hometown, he found that the familiar fishing village and villagers had disappeared. After asking the people around him, he found out that he had lived in the Dragon Palace for a few days, and hundreds of years had passed on the ground.

Then Urashima Taro thought of the box the princess gave him, and finally he couldn't hold back his curiosity and opened the box. The moment he opened it, a white smoke came out of the box, and Urashima Taro instantly changed from a boy to an old man over eighty years old. , It turns out that what is stored in the box is his time!

There are many similar stories in China. For example, a woodcutter who went up the mountain to cut firewood saw two old men laying eggs. After stopping to watch for a while, he found that decades had passed when he went down the mountain, and he had already disappeared in the eyes of the local people. population.

This situation is called Shenyin in Japan.

"Well, a kid like this with a pretty face and a body of spiritual power is the most popular with those lonely and empty banshee goddesses." After speaking, Mr. Cat looked at Natsume, and suddenly changed the subject, "Speaking of it, Natsume, you should also pay attention. Humans of your age seem to be married and have children soon, right? Although finding a girlfriend is very important, remember not to flirt with pretty girls when you see them. I may not be able to save you if you are hidden by the gods."

Natsume:"……"

Seeing Mr. Cat scratching his ass while talking, it was obviously a cat, and it was a surprise to let people see the sight of a middle-aged uncle. Natsume couldn't hold back, grabbed his cheeks and pulled him to both sides.

"Meow meow meow——!!!"

Unsurprisingly, Mr. Cat was furious.

However, for Natsume, who had already figured out Mr. Kitty's urination, he quickly diverted Mr. Kitty's attention with the dried fish.

Sure enough, as soon as the dried fish was taken out, Mr. Cat immediately forgot about being pinched in the face, grabbed the dried fish and threw it into his mouth, and complained by the way: "Natsume, when did you bring the dried fish with you?" It’s on me! How could I not have noticed it?”

Xia Muxin said that he brought the vacuum packaging.

Then returning to the topic just now, Natsume was a little worried: "That means Fujisaki may be in danger now?"

"It can make people around you forget about this character. It seems that that guy has provoked a relatively high-level god, tsk, this is a bit troublesome." Teacher Cat smacked his lips and said, "Natsume, I advise you not to worry about this matter." Well, maybe that Fujisaki himself is willing, and you will only get yourself into trouble if you go after it."

"But Fujisaki-senpai!" Natsume seemed to disagree very much, but he also knew that it must be not easy for Mr. Cat to say that, so he asked clearly first, "Mr. Cat would want to stop me, it must be because of this. The matter is very dangerous, right? Then can you explain it clearly to me, I want to understand."

"I can't help it." Teacher Cat said helplessly, "Shenyin means that a person is hidden by a god or a monster. Generally speaking, although a person disappears, the people around him will not forget him, at most it will be suddenly. It’s just that I can’t find this person again for a while. Those who can do this are definitely not small gods like the land gods. The reason why you still remember Fujisaki, Natsume, is probably because you have strong spiritual power.”

Natsume began to listen carefully.

"If it is being hidden by the gods, in fact, a long time ago, the practice of the gods was to eliminate the life span gap between humans and gods who entered into a marriage relationship with the gods. It is well known that human beings have a short life span. If you want to be with a god with a long life span, Of course, this worry must be eliminated. So it seems to be a blessing from heaven to the gods. The gods can bring human beings to live in a special space, where the time on human beings will be stopped, so that the gods can have a relationship with their human partners. Same longevity."

The more he listened, the more Natsume understood the difficulty of the matter. If Fujisaki was really attracted by a high-ranking god, then unless he could get the permission of that god, if he wanted to bring him back to human society, he might be punished by the god. revenge.

Natsume himself wasn't very afraid, but he still had his uncles and aunts. If his behavior caused the family of Aunt Toko, who took him in, to suffer bad luck, he would absolutely not be able to forgive himself.

"..." Taking a deep breath, Natsume accepted the reality and said, "Okay, I understand, I won't go into this muddy water."

"It's good to know, those high-level gods are a group of arrogant and short-tempered guys..." Mr. Cat was very angry when talking about the high-level gods.

"But." Natsume turned around suddenly, "I want to confirm that it would be fine if Fujisaki-senpai was indeed hidden by a god, but if he was abducted by a monster, it is possible that the monster has some special spells, so I still want to make sure."

When Mr. Cat heard that he hadn't completely given up his mind, his hair blew up instantly, but after hearing what Natsume said later, he resigned and said, "I really can't do anything about you, you just tend to have superfluous kindness."

So they quickly decided to go to Tokyo on weekends to find clues.

Tokyo, the capital of modern Japan.

Because of the high population density in the city, and the people living here are faced with enormous pressure from work, money, housing, etc. in modern society, many urbanites tend to have various dark emotions in their hearts, so they also attract many demons lurking here. In the metropolis.

Compared with Yahara in the countryside, Tokyo has more and more powerful youkai.

I went home immediately after school on Friday to catch the train with my luggage, and it was already late when I arrived in Tokyo.

After a night's rest in the hotel, the search for clues began the next day.

The first one to start was of course Fujisaki's house. When Natsume was investigating the surrounding area with Mr. Kitty, he bumped into an acquaintance named Natori Monday.

"Mr. Natori?"

Although Natori wears sunglasses and a hat to hide his appearance to avoid being recognized by fans, but to be blunt, his disguise is obviously to the extent that he is afraid that others will not be able to help it.

"It's Natsume, why did you come to Tokyo?"

After Natori saw Natsume, he greeted him.

Seeing Natori Monday, Natsume was overjoyed. He and Mr. Mao felt that they had no way of getting news just now.

The monster I just found either didn't wink and wanted to pounce on him when he saw him, or was too winky and ran away immediately when he saw him.

Natsume quickly explained Fujisaki's situation to Natori.

Then, he noticed that Natori's expression was a little weird, and said in a subtle tone: "Natsume, do you know about that incident on the Internet for more than half a month?"

"Huh?" Natsume was stunned, and then said, "Sorry, I don't surf the Internet very much."

Natori showed an expression of "I knew it", and then started talking to Natsume about the incident caused by the video of "piece" under the operation of the Hundred Monogatari team more than half a month ago.

"Now the traces on the Internet have been erased, and the memories of the people at the scene were also erased by the beautiful woman who held the sin song. If I hadn't happened to be in Tokyo to participate in the recording of the program and witnessed the process, I probably thought everything was true. It never happened before." Natori Zhou Yi recalled the situation at that time, and still had lingering fears.

"Such a big thing happened..." Natsume, who heard about it for the first time because he seldom surfed the Internet, couldn't help but widen his eyes, and then he quickly thought, "Could Mr. Natori think that Fujisaki-senpai's disappearance and that Is the field related?"

"Although it seems unlikely, it might be... If according to what you said, Fujisaki is also a human with powerful spiritual power like you. Maybe he happened to be at the scene at the time, and something happened that we don't know Natori speculated, seeing Natsume frowning, he quickly smiled heartily, "Don't worry, although the traces are almost cleared now, the Nuliang group that was the center of the vortex was still there at that time. For more details, it is better to pay a visit to the Nuragumi headquarters."

Natsume wanted to nod and followed, but suddenly realized: "Wait! The Nuliang group you mentioned...according to your previous description, it seems to be a monster organization???"

Natori quickly dispelled his doubts: "Don't worry about this. Although most of the Nura group are monsters, they will not attack humans. On the contrary, they maintain the balance between humans and monsters in Tokyo. Teachers also often cooperate with them.”

The author has something to say:

The saying of Shenyin was mentioned in a shoujo manga, the name is forgotten, it seems to be married to a god or something.

In "Hundred Ghosts of the Night", Ritsu's uncle Kai Iijima was hidden by the gods. Kai Iijima was crazy when he was young. He didn't listen to his father's warning to keep a distance from ghosts and gods. Then he ran away from home and went to a mountain village, where he was seen by a female mountain god. Shang got married and then disappeared for 20 years, but he himself did not feel the passage of the world at all, until Ritsu brought him back to human society from that space.

However, although he returned to human society, because of the time stagnation in space, Kai's mind was still in his 20s, but his body was already close to fifty.