I accidentally died yesterday [comprehensive]

Ah Zi has her own bedroom, a small one next to Xue Ze.

Heichuan tucked the baby in his robe so that no one could see him, and carefully avoided pedestrians, so he managed to run over.

At that time Ah Zi was sewing clothes in the room, when Heichuan called out at the door, Ah Zi looked up in surprise, "Why did you come here?"

"It's a little kid thing."

Kurokawa took the child out, his movements were not very gentle, but it was a very quiet child, even though he was subjected to such rough actions, he did not cry out.

The child was placed in the swaddle, Ah Zi touched his face with a lovely touch.

"Hah--"

The child let out a small sigh.

AhZi's heart was about to melt, she touched the child's little hand, tucked it up, turned around and asked, "Is this... your child?

"

Why did everyone think it was his child?

Did he have a virtuous face like a new husband?

But at this time, I couldn't find a reason to refute Ah Zi, and just said along the way: "It's a fate with me."

"It's something you can say." Ah Zi smiled lightly.

In addition to the children, Heichuan also kept the money he had saved in the past few days, part of which came from the caravan's remuneration, and part of it was the offerings of the city lord, all of which were heavy copper coins.

He left the copper money, "I want to leave the child here and let you take care of it for a while."

"Also, I would like to ask you for a piece of meat."

He measured the size.

But I didn't expect Ah Zi to pay close attention to the child's affairs, "Then when will you come to pick him up?"

"when it is time to leave."

Kurokawa replied.

After saying this, he remembered that this thing was a baby made of "meat", and said to Ah Zi, "If there is any abnormality in this child, just throw him into the well."

"what?"

"What are you talking about?"

……

"His mother is a monster."

After the Zen master left, Xue Ze returned to the bedroom, saw the child next to Ah Zi, and the two talked about it.

Xue Ze sat beside him and looked in the mirror sleepily, "It's the remaining child of the Zen master and the monster."

She turned her head, her black eyebrows raised slightly, "Is it very similar to the story in Monogatari?"

"But for a Zen master, no matter what happens to him, it's not surprising."

"Although I said that, but also..."

Ah Zi hugged the child in her arms, at a loss, it turned out to be a monster's child...

But my father had a cruel heart.

Thinking of the other party's exhortation, Ah Zi always felt strange, was she worried that the lives of mortals would be harmed by monsters, or did she believe in the ability of monsters' sons to never die.

AhZi remembered Zen Master's order again, saying that he needed a piece of meat.

Since the Heian period, the belief in worshiping Buddha has become widespread, and everyone rarely slaughters livestock—of course not counting when they are extremely hungry.

Wanting such a piece of meat is a difficult thing.

"Does the Zen master want it?"

Hearing this, Xue Ze looked at AZi, "Since it is the Zen master's order, you just do as he said, the Hojo family has given up attacking here, won't there be hunters coming and going in the castle town?"

"It should be fine to ask around."

"and also--"

Xue Ze stared at the child again.

"I don't want to see him."

"Let's foster him at your parents' house first, and get anything you need from my dowry."

Seeing Xue Ze's appearance, Ah Zi sighed inwardly, and exited the Japanese room after making a slight salute.

Miss seems to care too much about the Zen master...

This is what worries her the most.

Walking on the corridor, Ah Zi hugged the baby tightly, and looked at the child's face kindly. She has taken care of the child, of course she knows that the child has been a rambunctious little monster since he was a child, and he can run around the house effortlessly all day long. run away.

The crying sound of wah-wah was like shaking the sky.

But this child is different. From the time the Zen master sent him to the present, he only showed tiny breathing sounds, as if he might melt into the air at any time.

Don't cry, don't make trouble.

The cuteness I've never seen before.

Is this the child of the Zen master and the monster?

2.

The intelligence of his adoptive father Donghai Lin Kuantai still needs to be further verified. For example, what major event happened at that time that made all the high-level people silent, and even made the two political opponents who have been hostile for a long time shake hands and make peace?

Donghai Lin Zhongwu wanted to know, but he could only find out all this by himself.

There is one more thing.

News came from Penglai Island that since he was revived with a jade branch from Penglai, this fetish has been in a state of depression.

Until the last Red Moon event.

The Penglai jade branch is completely dead... No, it is too derogatory to describe this fetish by using the state of decay of the plant. It is more accurate to say that something has disappeared.

That unique divine light completely disappeared.

Only becomes a pure jade product.

Very beautiful.

But just a beautiful piece of crap.

Donghai Lin Zhongwu has not reported this matter to his adoptive father, and he believes that he has the ability to solve it.

After reviewing many reports, he found that the raw material for making the elixir was not the plant air of Penglai Yuzhi and the vitality air of monsters, but something more pure.

If we use the Taoist saying that "one life is two, two begets three, and three begets all things", that is, the plant air of Penglai jade branches and the vitality air of monsters belong to "two", and the combination of the two will become The original and pure "one".

Only "one" is the real ingredient of the elixir of life.

The Elixir of Immortality.

Donghai Lin Zhongwu knocked on the table.

There really is such a thing in the world.

He closed his eyes, lost in thought.

Not long after, the assistant knocked on the door, indicating that he had arrived at Penglai Island.

When the submarine passed through the Dragon Triangle, it was not attacked by many tentacles as usual. It seemed that with the disappearance of Penglai Yuzhi's divinity, the tentacles also lost their endless power and ability to reproduce.

Dong Hailin knew that in the Edo period, the tentacles around Horai Island were just a small circle around the island. Later in the Meiji period, with the restart of the project, it gradually became a very large area.

The Meiji Era project revived...

Dong Hailin got off the submarine and followed Dr. Kobayashi to the research base in the center of Penglai Island.

Dr. Kobayashi was almost the same as before, she looked like she couldn't wake up, she walked in front, hurriedly, it seemed that if it wasn't for maintaining basic politeness, she might even drag Donghai Lin Zhongwu to run.

"Since the status of Penglai Yuzhi has problems, the research project has been in a stalemate for a while."

"The reason why Penglai Jade Branch is Penglai Jade Branch is because it is unique and irreplaceable."

Dr. Kobayashi almost choked up when he said this: "I always thought that what I was facing was a miracle that could not be broken in a lifetime."

She wiped away her tears, and led Donghai Lin Zhongwu and his party to a culture medium, where a beautiful branch and leaves were slowly unfolding, exuding the light of jade.

"But this one is different."

She pointed to the branch numbered 029 carefully and said, "This is a man-made miracle."

Dr. Kobayashi straightened his hair, rubbed his face, then put on a serious face and looked at Donghai Lin Zhongwu, "I know there is a god in this world."

She raised her finger and pointed upwards.

"However, do you think this era is still an era controlled by gods?"

"Or, where do you think the boundary between divine arts and science lies?"

"A long time ago, when people prayed for power, they prayed to the gods. Whether they got power or not depended on the gods' response."

"The god is in a good mood or not."

"Whether you look good or not, or other trivial reasons are all added in to get an uncertain result."

"But science is different. It represents a prescribed paradigm, a standard process and several established and standardized materials."

"There are no uncertain factors. Even a person like me can repeat the experiment again and again while dancing, singing, and twisting his ass."

"Don't pray to the gods."

"It's all up to us."

"That's science."

"Where did you get it?"

Lin Zhongwu of Donghai asked suddenly.

"Which area did you collect the original strain of the experimental subject from?"

Dr. Kobayashi opened the map and drew a circle on an area, "This plant fell here."

"Under the feet of a young man—I don't know which family he is, but he actually appeared there. Not to mention whether it is dangerous or not, he has at least caused damage to the original ecology of this area."

"young people……"

Donghai Lin Zhongwu read three words slowly.

Dr. Kobayashi nodded, "That's right, a young man of about this height, a young face I've never seen before, found at his feet."

"Which day?"

Dong Hailin asked again.

"What day did you and the president come at the same time?"

It was the day when Dong Hailin came back from the dead.

Donghai Lin Zhongwu closed his eyes, opened them again, and nodded: "I see."

"Now let's continue talking about the longevity medicine."

"Ok."

"Please also forgive me for using some metaphysical terms to describe the elixir of longevity."

"When we detected 029, we found a mysterious energy in it."

"We have studied this energy for many years, and it is called 'Qi'."

"But what is different from before is that we have obtained a further understanding through the study of 029 because of the original detection and records for comparison."

"The qi in the 029 experiment can be divided into 'yang qi', which is the yang qi described in many classical books as the 'clean and upright qi in the sky', while the qi distributed in the monster's body is roughly defined as 'yin qi'. That is, 'sinking turbid air'."

"The combination of the two is the original 'Qi'."

"It is the origin of the world, the ubiquitous 'Qi' hidden between the heavens and the earth and all things."

"I see."

"Please continue your research."

Donghai Lin Zhongwu said.

"I know."

Dr. Kobayashi returned the gift.

Before leaving, Donghai Lin Zhongwu suddenly asked, "What do you think, the yin and yang energy have different functions?"

"Huh? This one?"

Dr. Kobayashi replied.

"Yang Qi seems to make people strong, free from all diseases, and even heal wounds quickly - just like the power of Penglai jade branches, while Yin Qi makes people feel peaceful all over the body, and even represents something more mysterious. and the power of darkness."

Donghai Lin Zhongwu nodded slightly, and left Penglai Island, untiing him to visit the descendants of those famous officials.

Some of these people are still working hard in the political arena, while others have fallen into the countryside. Although the news of political changes was strictly blocked at that time, Donghai Lin Zhongwu thought that it was possible to talk about this matter in his later years. The secret leaked out a point or two.

"Are you asking about your grandfather?"

"But I know very little about my grandfather."

"He doesn't like to talk about it, but he will say it in his later years—there is such a monster."

"Yes Yes."

"I don't really know what the so-called 'monster' means, and my grandfather didn't go into details."

"It should be one of his political enemies."

"That's why it has the name of a monster."

"But my grandfather held a slightly more modest position in what was then the Department of Homeland Security."

"Presumably other officials with a long family history should know more details."

"I didn't expect President Dong Hailin to come here in person..."

"I don't know if I may take the liberty to ask, do you have the willingness to invest locally today? Last year we added a new round of reforms and plans..."

……

"About the changes at the end of the shogunate...it seems to have been heard a little bit, but that period of time was too chaotic, with all kinds of truths entangled, and many future generations added and changed arbitrarily, which only created the fog of history."

"It looks like they're dealing with a guy, if I ask you."

"Yes, it should be a person in power in a high position in the shogunate."

"That was an era of force. There were bloodless coups like now. The so-called countermeasures are naturally full of murder and conspiracy."

"At that time, I kept shouting words like Tianzhu, Tianzhu, and so on. I must have thought that destroying a person's body was the only correct thing."

"What about this person... I really don't know."

"Grandpa never mentioned the man's name exactly."

"It seems to be, a great character."

"Grandfather has been saying that without this person, there would be no such turbulent historical pioneers at that time hahahaha, does this sound strange?"

"Obviously all the famous people and their exploits are well written in the history books, but this kind of 'people in the dark' just popped up again, like a legendary novel."

"Besides, at that time, the Banbai faction and the Gongwu Fuyi faction were incompatible."

"A person in power in the shogunate is an important leader of the shogunate faction. It's strange how to say it."

"It may be that my grandfather's mental state is not good in old age, so he confused a lot of things."

"You should only hear it, but don't take it to heart."

……

"Donghai Lin Zhongwu?"

"Why did you come here."

"Go, I don't want to see neither you nor your adoptive father."

"You have deprived me of my power, do you still want to come here to make fun of me?"

"Oh……"

"No wonder you found me here."

"It turned out that they wanted to plot something behind your adoptive father's back."

"Hahaha, you finally found out that Donghai Lin Kuantai is an old man who has stayed in the seat for too long, so you decide to pull him down?"

"I wish you the best of luck with this."

"What? You asked me about that mysterious figure at the end of the curtain—hahahaha, you actually asked me about the existence of this person, shouldn't you know better than me?"

"Tianzhaoyuan is under your command!"

"Ask your adoptive father!"

"If you really want to know the answer, you don't hesitate to tear yourself apart!"

……

"Hiakigo in the East China Sea."

"I didn't expect you to come here."

"Why, do you want to surrender to us?"

"Oh... it's asking about things in Penglai Island."

"It's a prisoner."

"Who is being imprisoned?"

"Your adoptive father knows."

"Gui Xiaotaro handed over this responsibility to him personally."

"And... don't you think he lived too long?"

……

Donghai Lin Zhongwu finished a circle.

The matter went back to Donghai Lin Kuantai again.

Does he want to know the answer?

So what if you know?

This is a boring answer about Mitsumi Kurokawa, and it has no effect on him at all... Whether he knows it or not, he is the adopted son of Kanta Tokai, and he can comfortably inherit this position.

Donghai Lin Zhongwu tugged at the collar and told the driver that he was going to the central area.

To meet his adoptive father.

He walked into the central area as usual, even calmer than usual, and headed for the headquarters building.

He began to imagine what kind of punishment he would face when he asked this question.

Tokai Hayashi Kanta is a headstrong person, he never likes others to go against his will, so that Tokai Hayashi Wu recalled the scene in the child care facility in Tokyo when he was a child, and often thought that the good-natured Tokai Hayashi Kanta had a good time fantasy.

The adoptive father would chastise him, demote him from the company, or dissolve the relationship between the two of them.

It doesn't matter.

Because all of this was originally given by that person.

Donghai Lin Zhongwu knocked on the door, respectful as usual: "Father."

"what happened?"

Mrs. Donghai Lin Kuan turned her chair and looked directly at him, "After inquiring around, I finally found me."

"Yes."

"I want to ask about the relationship between the former Penglai Island researcher Kurokawa Mito and Kurokawa Mitsumi."

"Must ask?"

"Must ask."

"Then...you can only choose one of these two."

Donghai Lin Kuantai pointed at him, "Secret, or the surname Donghai Lin."

Donghai Lin Zhongwu took a step forward, put the honor representing the president of Donghai Pharmaceutical on the table, and then stood up straight, "Thank you for your care and concern for me over the past ten years."

"I also thank you for your education and training in me."

"Even if I leave the Donghai Group, I won't be devastated. It's just a different way to stand at the same level as you."

Dong Hailin Kanta sighed, "Because it's Kurokawa, did you come up with the answer?"

"I--"

Don't stop Donghai Lin Zhongwu just as he was about to answer, "Needless to say, you have been like this since you were a child."

"Every time I talk about him, it's like being overwhelmed."

"What, did he step on your tail?"

"Or, do you feel that everything you have is his charity - you can't stand this kind of mercy, you must find his life gate, and then take revenge on him severely?"

"No, it's not."

"……Yes."

Donghai Lin Zhongwu raised his eyes, "Everything about me is based on the charity of a man named Kurokawa Misami."

"He could have chosen me, he could have chosen anyone but me, and my only advantage at the time was that I caused him enough trouble."

He smiled.

"Is this God's dice?"

"Or is he my God?"

"I want to know everything about him."

Donghai Lin Kuantai stood up slightly, holding the small badge.

"Okay, I accept your decision."

"Now you can change your name to your old name."

"In exchange, I can also tell you the truth."

"Penglai Island was never established for the so-called elixir of life."

"But to kill an undead man completely."

"You have heard of his identity."

"He is the teacher of Katsura Kotaro, Takasugi Shinsuke, Sakamoto Tatsuma and Sakata Gintoki. He has also educated countless famous ministers and passed on the idea of ​​fighting barbarians. He is also a man who almost destroyed the world."

"And Kurokawa."

"It's a product of the immortality experiment."

"It is the birth of undead blood and undead flesh."

Say it all.

Donghai Lin Kuantai closed his eyes and waved his hand to signal Donghai Lin Zhongwu to leave.

Donghai Lin Zhongwu bowed, as if saying goodbye as before, and left the building that had nothing to do with him.

3.

Heichuan happily returned to the yard with the venison in his hands.

Monk Dayou was pretending to be sitting in front of the treasure chest and casting a spell. Seeing the meat in Heichuan's hand, Dayou frowned and asked, "...you turned that child back again?"

...how did it change?

...Could it be smashed back?

"I asked Ah Zi to exchange it with money."

Kurokawa's tone was full of rejoicing.

"After putting this piece of venison in, and covering it with a white cloth, it's as if nothing happened."

then……

Then they can go up the mountain to roast venison.

"What about the child?"

Monk Dayou asked again.

"Leave it to Ah Zi."

Kurokawa replied.

"Just take it with you when you leave."

"This..."

Monk Dayou was silent for a while, "Do you think this child will become like a human being if he lives in a human child?"

"Adapt to this world, be familiar with this world."

"Become a real human being."

"is it?"

"It should be possible."

In any case, Kurokawa felt that the child might not grow up to be a normal person by his side.

...or normal monsters.

Kurokawa put the venison in the box.

The air was filled with the smell of blood.

"The smell is too strong."

Kurokawa said.

The bloody smell of that piece of meat was not that heavy.

"Just follow the method I taught you."

Monk Otomo was referring to the last time after Heichuan controlled the black mist a little between life and death, when the two were alone, Monk Otomo borrowed the secret method of the Shingon School, just like a practitioner who understands the power of mountain spirits, to help Heichuan Feel your own black mist.

Now Kurokawa has been able to drive that kind of power a little bit.

But not as flashy as near death.

About the size of a shadow about the height of a person.

Kurokawa nodded, manipulating his own shadow—the power of the black mist attached to the shadow, and swallowed the venison.

Heichuan breathed a sigh of relief, well, finally put the venison in the refrigerator.

The reason for doing this is... the black mist seems to be due to the existence of ghosts, and the temperature is quite low...

When the day before the sacrifice was approaching, the preoccupied city lord came here and asked Heichuan and Monk Otomo to open the treasure chest.

Kurokawa and Otomo looked at each other knowingly, then opened the lid, and under the white cloth was frozen venison.

As the city lord approached a little, he felt an icy coolness.

He sighed: "Sure enough, it's a fetish... It can still maintain this kind of coolness in this kind of weather."

Then he nodded to the two masters, "Then, I will trouble you tomorrow."

With two masters here, he must be able to deliver the elixir to the daimyo.

nod nod.

Kurokawa couldn't help nodding.

The day of worship is coming soon.

The city lord attaches great importance to this ceremony.

They dispatched many warriors in armor and many flags embroidered with silk thread, as if trying to imitate the scene of the emperor burning the elixir thousands of years ago.

This made Kurokawa and Otomo monk two people riding a tiger.

At the beginning, it was just a lie to let the piece of meat return to the forest, but unexpectedly, the meat turned into a child.

And now the two of them will take the venison to Mount Fuji and open a wild BBQ.

However, Monk Dayou has been subduing demons and eliminating demons for many years, so he still has the ability to adapt on the spot.

They came to the place planned by Monk Dayou.

Surrounded by countless dense forests.

The dark forest tops look like a witch's hat, and the white mist floats in the forest, like a fairyland.

Under the command of Otomo, colorful flags were planted all over the place, fluttering in the cold wind.

"call--"

Monk Dayou took a deep breath.

"Open the altar—"

A long drink.

The four musicians played in unison, and the mighty and heavy music climbed into the air, accompanied by the white mist, moving in the forest, with the roaring power of the mountains and forests.

Standing aside, Hei Chuan lifted up the frozen venison and placed it on the altar. There was a fire under the altar, and it was already burning.

The city lord and important ministers stood on one side, staring nervously at this scene.

I saw that piece of meat was placed on the altar, and the moist crimson color gradually became lighter, gradually approaching the snow-like white color, and then turned pink again.

A strange fragrance wafted from the Ganoderma lucidum.

Follow the nasal cavity into the throat.

The city lord and all the ministers looked flustered.

——Sure enough, it is Ganoderma lucidum, such a magical taste.

That's, it just feels a bit like meat...

The Otomo monk below the altar is obviously chanting scriptures and praying for blessings, but he is actually chanting a mantra to summon mountain spirits.

The time has come.

He made a secret effort, and a white mist overturned here, as if the sky was about to collapse, pressing over the forest tops, crossing the tree trunks, and covering the dojo straightly.

Surround the altar, including the surrounding officers, soldiers and nobles.

Everyone panicked for a while, and then the city lord shouted: "Zen Master——"

"What are your orders!"

The voice of monk Dayou came from the white mist.

"My prayers have reached the gods and Buddhas in heaven."

"It's a pity that the gods and Buddhas believe that this thing belongs to the sky after all, and it cannot be obtained by the world-my lord, you have no destiny with this thing!"

The city lord was struck by lightning.

He froze in place and couldn't move.

Wait until the fog clears.

I saw that the two Zen masters had disappeared, and only a small piece of black charcoal remained on the altar.

The city lord walked over and picked up the small piece of charcoal on the altar.

The fingers tightened slightly, clicked, and broke into two halves.

God medicine——

Gone!

At this time, Kurokawa, who had already run away, asked Otomo.

"What do you do with the venison?"

Monk Dayou said, "It's burned."

Kurokawa nodded.

Then there is no problem.

But... it seems, what else is left behind?