She opened her eyes and stood up.
"Crimson and the others have started to move. I should go too."
As she spoke, she walked to the door and opened it. At the same time, a pale woman's face suddenly appeared outside the door. She opened her arms and screamed as she rushed towards the girl in front of her.
Then, the pitch-black greatsword instantly pierced through the woman's body and nailed her to the wall. She disappeared without a trace.
"The evil spirits have started to move too."
Dusk glanced at the dark corridor under the stairs. The corridor that was originally illuminated by lights now looked dim. She could even see shadows floating around.
Because it was connected to the dream, the influence of the Gates of Hell had expanded?
Dusk frowned at this scene. She pondered for a moment, then looked at Bonfire Mistbranch who was sitting beside her.
"I'm going to deal with this trouble. I'll leave Crimson and the others to you. Don't let them be attacked by evil spirits ….. I think this shouldn't be too difficult for you."
"Of course."
Hearing Dusk's order, Bonfire Mistbranch hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"It's just a bunch of vengeful spirits. They're no threat to me at all ….."
"Woo — —!!!"
But before Bonfire Mistbranch could finish her sentence, a sudden noise from outside interrupted her. This made Bonfire Mistbranch jump up in anger.
"Really, it's night time now. Why is Tokyo so noisy at night? What the hell is going on outside!"
"It's nothing, it's just a biker gang gathering."
Yu took a look outside the window and saw several young men in special attack suits riding on motorcycles with flags on them. They whizzed past on the street. Seeing this scene, Bonfire Mistbranch did not hide her disgust at them as if she had seen a fly or a bug.
"Really, that's why I hate humans. What the hell are they doing?"
"Well, it's nothing. You can say it's a characteristic of the times ….."
Dusk rubbed her chin as she looked at the group of young men burning with their youth.
Hmm … .this seems to be a good way to reminisce about the past?
"I'm going to change."
Dusk turned around and walked back to her room. Bonfire Mistbranch watched helplessly as she turned around and left, then sat back down on the chair.
"Really, why do I have to protect a group of humans … How hateful!"
As she spoke, the Misty Branch suddenly stretched out her right hand and clawed hard. The next moment, accompanied by a shrill scream, an evil spirit was instantly torn to pieces by her.
After a while, she walked out of the room, but this time she was wearing a completely different dress than before. Strictly speaking, she only wore a white coat over her clothes.
But to Misty Branch, she looked as if she had seen an alien.
"… What are you wearing?"
Seeing the white coat on the young girl's body, Misty Branch was confused. He was wearing a long white coat that reached his ankles, and there were all sorts of incomprehensible words written on it. For example, "The Best in the Heavens and Earth", "Raging River Gate", "Superior Clamor", "Berserk Angel", "The Strongest in History", "The Bitter Night Dew" and so on …
"Perhaps it's incomprehensible to a pampered young lady like you."
Sensing the doubtful gaze of the Misty Branch, Bi chuckled.
"This is also a kind of romance."
"Romance? I just think it's just scribbling on clothes … "
"That's why the young lady doesn't understand."
Bi didn't mind Misty Branch's reaction at all. After all, Kyoto was a conservative and traditional place. There was no market for bikers in a place like that. In fact, Bi didn't really like bikers, but as a childhood memory of the manga, it was quite interesting to occasionally reminisce about the past.
No matter what, riding a motorcycle was better than being a gangster and hacking people with a watermelon knife.
Speaking of which, she didn't have the conditions to ride a motorcycle when she was reading manga back then, so it wasn't bad to reminisce about her childhood now.
With this thought in mind, she walked to the street and snapped her fingers. Soon, a black Fenrir appeared beside her. Then, she flipped over and rode on it. She gripped the accelerator tightly, and with the roar of the engine, the pitch-black chariot took off and sped along the street.
The situation at the Gate of Netherworld this time was completely different from the previous two times.
Whether it was the Icehouse Mansion or the Village of Gods, although their final ritual failed, it wasn't a complete failure. At least the influence of the Gate of Netherworld was limited to a certain area and didn't affect other places. This could be said to be a blessing in disguise.
But the situation at the Gate of Netherworld this time was obviously different. Compared to the previous two Gates of Netherworld, this one was like a radio station. As long as one was on the right channel, they would be pulled into it. And there was no distance limit. According to Takura Hotaru's report, it seemed that other than Hei Ze Lian, there were other people who were pulled into it, and all of them, without exception, fell into a deep sleep that they couldn't wake up from.
For example, when Hei Ze Lian first entered that dream, she met a woman who was wearing modern clothes just like her. After Hei Ze Lian and Takura Hotaru investigated, they found out that she was the only survivor of an air crash. And when they found the woman living in the real world in the hospital, she was already in a deep sleep …. It was because of this that Takura Hotaru brought Hei Ze Lian to ask for help.
From this, it could be seen that this Gate of Netherworld didn't seem to have any geographical restrictions. Unlike the Icehouse Mansion or the Village of Gods, where only those who went in to die would be unlucky, the Gate of Netherworld would pull people's heads indiscriminately …. Hmm, that didn't seem right. Considering that Hei Ze Lian lost her fiancé, maybe it was because she missed the dead?
In any case, the danger of this Gate of Netherworld was much greater than the previous ones. It had to be solved as soon as possible.
For ordinary people, this might be very troublesome. Even Spiritual Ability users or Exorcists would be scratching their heads. But Hayashi was different. After all, she was a clone of Fangzheng, and the latter also had the power of the Ancient Gods to invade dreams. Although she couldn't directly invade Hei Ze Lian's dream because she was too powerful, she could use this power to lock onto the location of the Gate of Netherworld. As long as Hei Ze Lian and the others didn't wake up, Hayashi could continue tracking until she found the location of the Gate of Netherworld.
Fenrir was speeding along the highway at a speed of over 300 kilometers per hour. Hayashi was sure that she was gradually approaching the location of the Gate of Netherworld. She could feel a chill in the air. It was the unique aura of the Gate of Netherworld.
At the same time, a thick fog suddenly appeared on the road in front of her. In the blink of an eye, the thick fog completely covered the road in front of her, shrouding everything in confusion.
At first glance, it seemed to be just an ordinary fog, but Hayashi knew very well that it wasn't as simple as a fog.
The reason was because ….
Suddenly, from the mist, several spirits wearing witch costumes flew out. They shrieked, spread their arms, and flew over from the sky, pouncing towards Yu.
"What a pity. Little lolis are very cute."
Looking at the specter young girls in witches' costumes, Grizzly sighed, stretched out her right hand, and grabbed Frostmourne.
"Get out of my way!"
"Whoosh —!"
Along with Hayashi's furious roar, a gust of wind erupted in an instant, dispersing the thick fog around her. At the same time, the witch ghosts were directly sucked into Frostmourne and disappeared without a trace.
The moment the thick fog dissipated, what appeared in front of her was no longer the flat asphalt road from before, but a bottomless cliff!
Boom! Boom!
But Hayashi didn't panic. Instead, she stepped on the accelerator again. The roaring black motorcycle accelerated again like a running cheetah, leaping directly from the cliff and falling into the deep valley in front of her. If it were an ordinary motorcycle, it would have fallen to the ground and turned into a pile of scrap iron.
But the power of technology was very powerful.
Just as Fenrir was about to land, the exhaust port behind it suddenly split, then shifted direction and aimed at the ground like a vortex engine, ejecting a strong airflow. Under the impact of the airflow, the originally fast falling motorcycle immediately slowed down and stopped steadily on the ground.
Bi, on the other hand, turned around and glanced ahead. In an abandoned building not far from the valley, a woman with tattoos all over her body was staring at the scene in astonishment. Obviously, she did not expect such an ending at all.
Times have changed, Miss.
Retracting her gaze, Hayashi smiled slightly and drove the motorcycle forward again.
While Hayashi was rushing towards the Gates of Hell, Hidaka Scarlet and the others were also moving towards the depths of the mansion. Along the way, they encountered a lot of Wraiths, but Hidaka Scarlet and Tau Ceti were very familiar with dealing with them. In the beginning, Hei Zeren was still a little restrained. However, under the guidance of the two of them, he soon showed his true colors as a photographer. Using the Spiritual Camera that he picked up, he took pictures of those vengeful spirits inhumanely.
But if she had to say something ….
"I'm so jealous of your camera, Sister Scarlet."
Looking at the mobile phone in Hidaka Scarlet's hand, Tau Ceti couldn't help but sigh. She used the camera she picked up in Aishin Village, while Hei Zeren used the camera she picked up in this mansion. Although both cameras also had the function of expelling evil spirits, they were far inferior to the strange camera in Hidaka Scarlet's hand.
Not only could that camera emit light to expel evil spirits, but it was also much faster at locking onto evil spirits and sealing them than the old projector in their hands.
"It's all thanks to Miss Hei Zeren's help. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to do this."
Hearing Tau Ceti's sigh, Hidaka Scarlet smiled and responded. After all, she was just an ordinary high school student. When she first got the camera, Hidaka Scarlet only used it based on her own experience.
But Hei Zeren was a professional photographer. Compared to Hidaka Scarlet and Tau Ceti, she was already a big shot. Of course, she didn't want to see Hidaka Scarlet waste such a good camera, so along the way, Hei Zeren taught Hidaka many shooting techniques, such as how to capture, how to take continuous shots, how to determine the position of the other party, etc ….
This was quite a rare experience for Hidaka Scarlet. Under Hei Zeren's guidance, she quickly mastered these techniques and put them to good use. Not long ago, they were attacked by several Miko Wraiths in a hall. At that time, Hidaka Scarlet relied on her continuous shots to seal all the Miko Wraiths that were pouncing on her from all directions.
As they went deeper, they indeed discovered the story behind this mansion. Well, as they expected, this mansion was the home of a family called "Hisashi", and there was a Gate of Yellow Springs under their mansion. Just like the Icehouse Mansion and Every God Village, the Hisashi family would also use a ritual to seal the Gate of Yellow Springs.
This ritual was somewhat similar to the one in the Icehouse Mansion. First, they had to choose a Miko, then tattoo her body to absorb all the pain and resentment so that the Gate of Yellow Springs could not be opened. This Miko was called the Tattooed Woman. She would be imprisoned in a cage, and on the day of the ritual, the Tattooed Woman's cage would be placed at the lowest level of the Hisashi family.
Next, four town maids in charge of the ritual would cut all the tendons in the Tattooed Woman's hands and feet, and use four stone pendants to nail the Tattooed Woman's limbs to cut off all her ties with the human world — — in a wuxia novel, this would be equivalent to crippling a person's martial arts.
Finally, the town maids would sing the Requiem Song to ensure that the Tattooed Woman would fall into an endless sleep, thus completing the ritual and sealing the Gate of Yellow Springs.
This ritual was very cruel to Tau Ceti and Hei Zeren. Tau Ceti had only experienced the ritual of Every God Village. Although that ritual was also cruel, it was on a spiritual level. On a physical level, it was simply a person strangling another person to death, which was not a very cruel scene.
Compared to the Tattooed Woman's ritual, where the tendons in her hands and feet were cut, and finally her limbs were nailed, the Every God Village's ritual was quite mild.
On the other hand, Hisashi Kurumi was relatively calm. After all, the pain that the Icehouse Kiki suffered was not much less than that of the Tattooed Woman. It was hard to say whether the Icehouse Mansion's ritual or the Hisashi family's ritual was crueler ….
From this point of view, the Hisashi family's ritual was different from the other two families. The Icehouse Mansion's and Every God Village's ritual was mainly to close the gate and seal it by force. The Hisashi family, on the other hand, chose to unplug the power source — — as long as the Gate of Yellow Springs did not absorb the pain and resentment, it would not have enough energy to open the gate.
But what made Hisashi Kurumi feel a little ironic was that the final failure of the Hisashi family's ritual was almost exactly the same as the Icehouse Kiki's. Hisashi Kurumi, the last Tattooed Woman of the Hisashi family, fell in love with an outsider (Folklore Scholar) just like Kiki. In order to prevent the ritual from failing, the patriarch of the Hisashi family killed the man. This scene was witnessed by Hisashi Kurumi. Because of the death of her beloved, Hisashi Kurumi was deeply pained. In the end, her eyes were also engraved with a tattoo that represented pain.
As a result, the ritual failed, and the pain and resentment absorbed by the tattoo completely erupted. The Gate of Yellow Springs, which had regained its power source, was thus opened ….
Now it seemed that history was indeed interconnected.
"Miss Kurumi, how's Miss Hibiscus?"
Heizawa Lian asked uneasily as they entered the depths of the mansion. Hearing Heizawa Lian's question, Hisashi Kurumi collected her thoughts.
"Sister Hibiscus, she …."
But before Hisashi Kurumi could finish, the entire Hisashi family suddenly trembled. Then, there was a loud crash, as if a demolition officer had knocked on the door.
Hearing this sound, Hisashi Kurumi breathed a sigh of relief.
"…. She's here."
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