So this is what death feels like?
It was pitch-black, and the surroundings were cold to the touch. It was impossible to breathe, as if he was drowning …
Wait, drowning?
"Cough, cough..."
The girl suddenly broke the surface of the water and coughed.
Then she looked at the scene around her in surprise — it was the river after she was brought to the Mythological Era by the parrot.
Then she did not bother to climb ashore. She just lifted the hem of her clothes.
There was her smooth and white lower abdomen. There were no internal organs and blood flowing out after being cut in half. There were no white bones. Her body was still intact.
"... Is that a dream?" The girl put down her clothes and muttered in disbelief.
"Unfortunately, it is not."
Debater, who had turned into a parrot, answered her. Its voice sounded a little helpless. "You were indeed killed by that otherworldly visitor."
"Then what the hell is going on?!"
Wu Yejin was emotional and shouted at the parrot with an expression that looked like she was about to collapse.
But it was not her fault. Anyone who was killed inexplicably would not be able to calm down.
"Well, before I answer your question, are you sure you don't want to come up from the river? You will catch a cold. "
"This kind of thing is not... Achoo!"
As if to confirm the parrot's guess, the girl was interrupted by a sneeze.
She bit her lip with a slightly red face and reluctantly walked ashore. Then she sat down and began to wring her clothes.
"Let's start from the beginning... Didn't I say before that the reason why we can return to this era is because of the power of the five otherworldly gods? So in fact, there are five powers in this celestial jewel. The first power brought us to this era, and then to fulfill your wish, we need to reserve another power for you to return to the original era. In addition, there are two more powers. These two powers are given to you as' insurance '... Once you die, the insurance will be triggered and you will return to a specific point in time. "
The parrot sighed rather humanly. "I didn't tell you at first because I was afraid that you would be careless if you knew about this mechanism. But who knew that even if you didn't know about this insurance, you would still die."
"It's because that guy is so violent! Speaking of which, this quest was basically impossible to complete! Let those guys who don't even blink when they kill follow us … Or rather, even if I could, I don't want to move with those murderers! "
Wu Ye grumbled in frustration.
"In short, you should try to be cautious when you talk to him this time …" The parrot didn't argue with her about whether it was Xu Shenxing or the world that was wrong. It just suggested.
"No!" The girl firmly refused. "I don't want to communicate with that kind of guy!"
When Wu Ye thought about how his opponent was a cold-blooded murderer who would kill anyone he sensed that something was wrong, he felt the terror of having his heart clenched and his blood frozen.
She stood up and walked in the opposite direction of where the otherworldly visitors were about to land. "Anyway, there must be other ways to correct the deviation of history!"
"Hey, I said, now is not the time to throw a tantrum …"
The parrot hurriedly followed her and tried to persuade her. "If we don't find him now, we will lose track of him later. It will be much more troublesome to find him again."
Unfortunately, its persuasion failed to move the girl. In the end, the two of them walked all the way and left the woodland where the river was located. They came to a wide area at the foot of the mountain.
Wu Yejin found traces of human beings here. There were large fields full of grain and various crisscrossed paths. In the distance, she could see human villages mainly made of thatched huts. Perhaps it was close to noon, she could vaguely see smoke rising in spirals.
"Do you want to go and take a rest?"
The parrot, who had given up on persuading the girl to find the otherworldly visitors, flew to the side and asked Wu Ye.
Wu Ye hesitated.
Japanese people were more civilized than the rest. There were many strange customs in various places. Whether they would welcome her or not aside, it would be bad luck if she was treated as a monster and killed.
While she was hesitating, an old voice came from the paddy field not far away.
"Miss, what business do you have here?"
Wu Yejin hurriedly looked in that direction and found that the speaker was an old man who was nearly seventy years old. He was wearing ragged clothes full of patches and had a sickle in his hand. He seemed to be harvesting crops.
"Miss … Are you talking about me?" Wu Ye blinked and asked.
"Of course, we farmers' women are not as delicate as you. Although the clothes are strange, they are very beautiful. I have never seen that kind of cloth before. It must be a precious cloth that only exists in Heian Kyoku (Heian Kyoku seems to be a name that appeared in the Nara period, but let's treat it as ancient times)."
The old man bent over and said cheerfully.
"Actually, we are on the way to Hupo Chuan."
Seeing that the old man didn't seem to have any evil intentions, Wu Yejin also told him her destination. "Grandpa, have you heard of it?"
Hupo Chuan was the name of the place told to her by the parrot.
According to the parrot, there was only one way to go from the human world to Takamagahara, and that was to go from the beginning of the rainbow to the divine kingdom on the rainbow bridge.
However, the beginning of the rainbow was not fixed. It would change every few hundred years and was managed by the local dragon god. This time, the one who managed the beginning of the rainbow was the Dragon God of Hupo Chuan.
"Hupo Chuan … I'm sorry, I don't know, but there are merchants in the village who have been to Heian Kyoku. Maybe they know."
The old man thought for a moment, and then replied slowly. "How about this, if you don't mind, I will go with you to the village to ask."
"Eh, how can I …" The girl waved her hand and refused. "And won't this hinder your work?"
"It's okay, it's okay." The old man laughed heartily. "These things are harvested at any time, but it's not every day that I can help you ask for directions."
As he spoke, he seemed to be in low spirits. "Also, when I look at you, I think of my daughter who passed away … I'm sorry for my rudeness. I don't mean anything bad. I hope you don't mind."
"It's okay." Since the old man had said so, Wu Yejin would be unreasonable if she continued to refuse. So she could only smile bitterly and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."
— — Dividing Line — —
After arriving at the village, the girl found that the villagers were unexpectedly kind and hospitable. When they heard that it was her first time here, they all greeted her.
A few children surrounded her and asked her all kinds of questions. Even the talented parrot suffered, and several of its long tail feathers were pulled out during the chaos.
She also asked the traveling merchant who claimed to have been to Heian Kyoku about the approximate location of Hupo Chuan. However, the merchant's somewhat shameless promotion was a little difficult for her to bear. Fortunately, before her patience ran out, the old man waved his walking stick to help her out.
Although it was the first time she saw such a village, Wu Yejin felt that she did not dislike this lively place full of vitality.
"I'm sorry, it's been a while since outsiders came to the village, so those guys are a little overboard."
The old man brought Wu Yejin to his house and said that he wanted to treat her to a meal.
"It's okay, I'm happy to be welcomed by all of you," the girl replied with a smile.
At this time, the parrot was resting one of its wings on the wall and facing Wu Yejin with its bare tail. It seemed that the lack of tail feathers made it depressed.
The old man did not live alone. There was an old woman and a young girl in the house.
After knowing that the little girl was the old man's daughter, Wu Yejin could not help but sigh at the lack of entertainment at night in ancient times.
At first, the little girl was a little afraid of strangers. She hid behind the old man and only revealed half of her small face to carefully look at Wu Ye. However, Wu Ye's casual movement would scare her and she would hide behind the old man.
In the end, Wu Yejin could only helplessly grab the talented parrot and ignore his struggles. She treated him like a toy and let the girl play with him. Only then could she be considered to have a good relationship with the little girl.
After hugging the little girl in her arms, Wu Yejin had the urge to shout, "Primary school students are amazing!" Even though her heart was tied to the Imperial Concubine, she still had the urge to shout, "Primary school students are amazing!"
Calm down, lolicons and lolicons are not the same.
The girl's rationality warned her in her mind.
… Wait, these two don't seem to have any conflict.
The thing that interrupted Wu Yejin's train of thought and prevented her from going astray was the stew that the old woman brought over.
It seemed that there were no good seasonings in this era. However, a little coarse salt, the taste of the ingredients, and the old woman's superb control of the fire were enough to make the whole dish delicious.
The only pity was that although the main dish was rice, the taste was very strange. It was not quite the same as the white rice of modern times. Moreover, it was mixed with small stones and the like …
After the meal, Wu Yejin was brought to the field by the little girl to play with her. They caught butterflies and frogs and so on. This made the girl feel as if she had returned to her childhood.
Originally, the parrot would have jumped out to stop the girl from wasting time like this. However, before the meal, the little girl played with it until it was satisfied. The whole afternoon, it lay in the corner and rested.
After dark, unlike in the city, in this era where there was no light pollution, one could clearly see the stars in the sky. Lying on the soft grass and looking up at the sky, the magnificent Milky Way and the crazy fun she had in the afternoon eased the depression in the girl's heart.
After playing for the whole afternoon, the little girl was so tired that she fell asleep on the grass. Wu Ye could only smile bitterly and carry the girl back to the village.
The old couple was still awake. They were cooling off at the door while waiting for them to come back.
When they saw Wu Yejin appear with the little girl on her back, their wrinkled faces showed happy and kind smiles.
At night, although there was only a hard mattress to sleep on, Wu Ye was sure that she would fall asleep very quickly.
"Hey, are you okay?" The debatable genius who had recovered from the whole afternoon of facing the wall jumped to the wood she used as a pillow and asked.
"What's the problem?" The girl asked in a daze.
"Work, work, have you forgotten why we came to this era?"
The parrot scratched the girl's hair with its claws. But, the half-asleep girl swatted the parrot away as if she was swatting away a mosquito.
"Don't worry, I'm fine now … I'll be able to work from tomorrow onwards."
"I can't relax at all! You sound like an author with terminal procrastination disorder! "
The parrot flapped its wings and flew out of the fire pit. Fortunately, the fire in the pit had been extinguished. Otherwise, the black color on its body would not be just from being stained with soot, but from being burned.
"How do I put it? After seeing grandpa and his family, I finally have a sense of what I want to do." Viola Cinnabar forced herself to open her sore eyes, and she looked up at the roof of the thatched hut with a gentle expression. "If we fail, people like Grandpa and the others will also be affected … I want to save them, save our world …"
"You're only realizing it now?"
"Of course, I was brought to this era by you. I was killed by that hedgehog murderer before I was mentally prepared. I'm lucky that I didn't have a mental breakdown …"
"So, from the very beginning, you … Moxi, Moxi, are you still listening?"
"Huff, huff …"
"You're already asleep … Geez, from tomorrow onwards, you have to work harder."
The parrot sighed helplessly. Then, like an ordinary bird, it snuggled up to the girl's head, tucked its head into its wing nest, and fell asleep as well.
— Parting Line —
"… Wake up …"
"… Hurry … Come …"
"… Wake up! … "
The Five-leaf Pansy was awakened by a violent shake.
She opened her eyes and saw that it was the little girl who woke her up.
The old woman sat by the side with a frown. Grandpa was nowhere to be seen.
The girl rubbed her eyes and asked in a daze, "What's wrong?"
"Miss, it's better for you to leave this place as soon as possible." The old woman forced a stiff smile.
"Huhuhu … Ebisu, don't do this kind of thing …"
The parrot was still talking in its sleep. Judging from the tone of its voice, it seemed that it was still dreaming.
"It's …" Wu Ye yawned and looked out the window. The sky was still dark. "What? It's still early in the morning."
"Big sister, run away!"
However, the little girl's serious expression made Wu Ye's sleepiness disappear.
She vaguely felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"Lord Mountain God is coming to collect the sacrifice." The little girl's expression was a little fearful and desolate, which made Quinquefolia's heart ache a little. "If Big Sister doesn't run away quickly, she will definitely be chosen as a sacrifice by Lord Mountain God."
"Mountain deity? Sacrifice? "
Wu Yejin's brain could not wrap itself around the situation.
Could it be that some places had an evil custom of sacrificing people?
"In the past, they would give us a lot of advance notice. I don't know why, but there's suddenly a signal for sacrifice today." The old woman added with a worried expression.
"Signal? What's that?" Wu Ye was still puzzled.
At that moment, she seemed to hear a rumbling sound in the distance.
"This is the signal. If we don't hand over the sacrifice …"
Before the old woman could finish, the old man rushed in with a panicked expression.
"This is bad, old woman. Pack up and run! I don't know why the mountain deity is angry. It'll be too late if we don't run now! "
As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew the roof of the straw house and half of the house into the air.
Then, the girl saw the true face of the 'mountain deity'.
She could see it even if it was thousands of meters away. There was no other reason other than the fact that it was too huge.
It was a giant beast with eight heads and eight tails. If one were to use the mountain range as a reference, it would be even taller than the mountain range. The rumbling sound was only the sound of it crawling across the ground, crushing the towering trees and crushing the boulders into powder!
It had eight snake-like heads, each of which was larger than a truck. Its sixteen eyes were blood-red, and it was spitting out its scarlet tongue. The saliva that dripped from the corner of its mouth would cause white smoke to rise from the ground.
Its eight tails were stronger than steel. When it swung its tails from the foot of the mountain, a large piece of the mountain would be blown off by it.
Just standing in front of such a terrifying giant beast made one lose all desire to run away.
"It's Yamata no Orochi! Damn it, Amaterasu Omikami didn't mention this at all! "
At this point, the parrot finally woke up.
It cursed angrily, then suddenly flapped its wings. Its body, which was only slightly bigger than a chicken, instantly became a giant with a wingspan of more than five meters. Of course, for Yamata no Orochi, it was just the difference between a grain of sand and a grain of rice.
The parrot's claws firmly grasped Wu Yejin's shoulder. Then, it flapped its wings and flew up with her.
When facing Xu Shenxing, the other party's sword was faster than the members of the Thunderbolt, so Bancai Tian didn't have time to stop it. But in this situation, it naturally couldn't sit back and watch Wu Yejin die here.
"Wait, what about the old man and the others?"
Wu Ye immediately came back to his senses and asked.
"… It's better if you don't look down."
The parrot was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice.
Not long after the appearance of Yamata no Orochi, the mountain flood broke out.
Even if the people in the village started to run, they still couldn't outrun the mountain flood. The villagers who greeted the girl during the day were swept into the muddy yellow giant waves and died without a doubt.
"Wait, that little girl …" Quintana lowered her head and saw the little girl lying on top of a cabinet. It was one of the few pieces of wooden furniture in the old man's house. She was soaking wet and shivering.
"Bancai Tian, can you take another person? That little girl's weight shouldn't be a problem. "Wu Yejin asked loudly.
"I'll try …"
In this regard, the parrot could only try to do its best.
"Big sister?" The little girl saw Wu Yejin and the others approaching her and couldn't help but reach out her hand.
"Don't be afraid, I'll take you away from here …" Wu Ye also reached out to the girl.
However, just as they lowered their altitude and were about to rescue the little girl, a huge snake head poked out of the giant waves and swallowed the little girl and the cabinet at lightning speed!
The parrot was startled and immediately flew up, increasing its altitude to more than a kilometer, barely entering the safe zone.
"Ah …" Wu Ye looked at the severed arm in her hand, and a sorrowful cry escaped from her throat. Even she didn't know what it meant.
"Why? Why did this happen? The old man and the little girl … What did they do wrong? Why did this happen to them? "
After a while, the girl held the half arm and burst into tears.
The parrot sighed and said nothing.
Yamata no Orochi was wreaking havoc below them, and there were no living people in a radius of several miles.
Just as Bancai Tian was about to leave with Wu Yejin, the girl suddenly asked in a low voice.
"Hey, I remember you said at the beginning that the one who killed Yamata no Orochi was not the mythical Susanoo, but the visitor from another world who pretended to be Susanoo, right?"
"Yes, that's right. Are you going to find him now to avenge the villagers? "
"No, it's too late. I want to save them!"
"But they're all dead … Wait, don't … Don't be impulsive, you only have one chance to resurrect …"
Before the parrot could finish, the girl broke free from its claws and fell from a height of thousands of meters toward Yamata no Orochi. There was no fear on her face. She just clenched her fists and screamed at the top of her lungs.
"But before that, you despicable monster, eat my fist first!!!"
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