Chapter 262 Hyakusuke Shrine
In an instant, the beast in the cloud covered Xu Yang's whole body, forming a dense armor. He jumped back, and his sharp claws brushed over his right shoulder, grabbing a large piece of meat, dripping with blood.
Falosa slashed down with the blade of magic power, swiftly and violently like chopping a fish. Before being hurt by the magic blade, the phase demon disappeared from the original place and appeared in the middle of the steps, wandering in place, spying on the actions of a man and a woman.
At this time, a cry came from behind the torii gate. The voice came from above the mountain road and near the entrance of the shrine. A man shouted, like some kind of incantation, and the phase demon disappeared from the spot immediately, and he didn't know where he was going.
Xu Yang used the lights on the shuttle to observe his wounds, the pain fell on his shoulders like a branding iron, and quickly spread along the nerves, as if hundreds of needles flowed along the blood vessels, pricking everywhere. He didn't dare to move his right arm, for fear of disturbing the wound, the nano-robot acted autonomously, repaired the damaged part, covered the wound with the intact armor, and then scrambled to jump down, blocking the blood flow with his body while constantly repairing the flesh and blood tissue .
"Are you okay?" Faroza shook the blade of magic power, looked straight ahead, and looked at the mysterious man at the entrance of the shrine, "Need magic power?"
"Small injury." Xu Yang activated the first aid function. On the back of the armor, the injection close to the skin quickly injected the treatment needle, and a cool and numb feeling came. He improved the pain suppression function of the digital mind and weakened the nerve conduction. Tong Tong, "Go ahead."
His eyes captured the whole process of the phase demon's attack, and he could clearly recall it. When it launched a claw attack, the part of the claw appeared from nothingness, and briefly appeared in reality. It looked like a black lizard with scales in appearance. Finely arranged. When it was attacking, the magic blade that Faroza showed obviously frightened it, so that it did not go all out, otherwise Xu Yang's entire arm would be removed with one blow.
The phase demon was summoned away by the mysterious man at the gate of the shrine, and the existence of the other party seemed particularly weird.
Xu Yang observed carefully, and in the darkness stood a middle-aged man in his 40s. His face was covered with wrinkles, and his weird smile was faintly discernible. He was wearing a bamboo hat, holding a long tin staff in his right hand, and wearing a lavender Gebu monk robe. Wearing leggings and straw sandals, he looks like a simple shrine monk.
"This place is too dangerous." Xu Yang said loudly, "Why aren't you attacked by the phase demon?"
"They are the signboards of the Baiyou Shrine," the mysterious man said with a smile, "I am sorry for hurting you by mistake! I am Yoshihito Matsuyama, the abbot of the shrine. The two of you have come from a long way, and the boat and car are exhausting... Hehe... Why don't you go to the gate of the mountain to tell the story ?”
Falosa and Xu Yang communicated with each other with eyes, and they almost connected with each other.
"Let's go, I can destroy as many as there are." Faroza whispered, "I won't hurt you again."
"Don't startle the snake." Xu Yang returned to the shuttle, "I don't know how many similar phase demons exist inside."
Falosa followed closely behind on foot, and Xu Yang drove the shuttle away from the ground all the way to the entrance of the shrine, and landed in the parking lot outside the wall, where there was also an off-road vehicle covered with green military armor plates, There was no one there, and the doors were open on all sides.
According to Xu Yang's observation, about 8 crew members got off the armored vehicle and never returned to the vehicle.
Where did they go? Xu Yang stopped the Anonymous, turned off the engine, locked all the systems, packed the supplies into a suitcase, left the shuttle with the suitcase in his left hand, and carefully approached the abbot of the shrine.
Abbot Matsuyama Yoshihiro still greeted them with a smile, and when Faroza also walked to the door, Matsuyama Yoshihiro smiled even wider, as if the previous attack had never happened.
"Come in, come in." He took Xu Yang and Faroza into the shrine.
Xu Yang wears a grimace mask, a black poncho and a windproof jacket. Faroza wore a black veil and a long-sleeved black robe. They walked together, and it was no exaggeration to say that they were ghosts at both ends, but Matsuyama Yoshihito looked calm, as if he was not frightened by them at all.
As soon as you enter, you can see a wide courtyard with a withered cherry tree in the center, wooden benches around it, red paper lanterns hanging everywhere, rocky walkways connecting the surrounding rooms, and the walls of the rooms are covered with plaster. The house has been in disrepair for a long time, with holes on all sides, and when the strong wind blows in at night, they whistle like the windpipes used by monsters. The tree is full of wooden prayer cards, but because the flowers are all withered and gone, these small empty brown-gray cards look particularly weird. It is so dilapidated that it is hard to imagine that the other end of Nakayama is the magnificent Changying Shrine.
"Mr. Abbot, there is a spring in the back mountain." Faroza cut to the chase, "There is a small Buddha statue near that spring, and we want to remove it."
"Only the right incantation can move that Buddha statue." Yoshihito Matsuyama led them across the courtyard, the end of his tin stick thumping on the ground.
Xu Yang noticed the gazes in the surrounding rooms. He followed his gaze and looked back, seeing nervous men and women.
They had already fallen asleep before, and when they heard the movement, they got up from the wing room where they lived. These people walked to the window and stared at Xu Yang and Falosa through the paper window. They dared not open the window or door to come out, as if entering The courtyard will encounter any danger, but just stay in his room silently, without saying a word.
There are phase demons, abbots, company armored vehicles, and living people in the shrine. Xu Yang thought secretly. What kind of weird place have you entered this time? He tried to move his right shoulder, but the pain subsided, and the nanobots on the armor had stitched up the wound.
"I know the spell." Through collecting information and deciphering the ancient secret text, Farosha has a general understanding of the secrets. "Just take us there."
Xu Yang heard the sound of vibrating music and the voice of a woman talking loudly, which came from the side room in the inner courtyard of the shrine, and Faroza also heard the movement.
"What is that for?" Faroza looked towards the place where the sound of music came out.
"Several broadcasters are live broadcasting," Matsuyama Yoshihiro said in a friendly tone, "They went up the mountain to visit the shrine, and then decided to stay here and keep shooting videos. They can drive the shrine's economy, and they can also solve the sales of many small souvenirs and tickets , hee... more and more pilgrims and visitors will come up the mountain.”
"Is there anyone willing to come to such a crappy place?" Faroza mocked.
"Heh." Yoshito Matsuyama smiled, but didn't argue too much.
The noise of babbling and rhythmic shouting continued to sound from the side room, which had reached an unbearable level, and even the crows and insects at night were covered.
Mosquitoes swirled beside the paper lanterns, and there were low stone lampposts on both sides of the road at night. Xu Yang and Falosa followed the abbot through the entire shrine and came to the back mountain area.
Here, the mountain spring meanders down and merges into a hollow, and the huge cracks are full of brilliance, as if pouring a pool of colored paints, which is dazzling. All the colors and lights are isolated behind the cracks, as if in the middle There is an extremely thin barrier, which happens to block all these light and shadows on the other side. The barrier keeps shaking and can be broken by blowing bullets.
About 10 men and women stood beside the crack, yelling and pointing at it, their actions and words were quite embarrassing, some were cursing, some were screaming, and some were exaggerating compliments , obviously not out of heart.
"Tell them to go away." Faroza frowned.
"These are loyal visitors to the shrine." Matsuyama Yoshihiro said kindly, "The shrine has not been this lively for a long time."
"They should have the freedom to leave." Xu Yang said.
"Once they leave, the shrine will become as deserted as before." Matsuyama Yoshihiro said with a smile.
A huge phase demon appeared at the top of the shrine. Its size was twice as large as the one encountered on the mountain road before. It was almost as burly as the whole room, and its appearance was even more hideous.
It disappeared from the spot like smoke, and Faroza held the magic blade tightly, and saw it appear at the other end of the crack in an instant, pushing a man into the crack, and he disappeared without a trace in an instant, while the others stood The people next to the crack forced their composure, and performed the lively scene unselfishly.
Xu Yang checked the environment and saw two people wearing the uniforms of the security company, with riot sticks and pistols on their waists, steel helmets, and large shields on their backs. At this time, they could only pretend to be calm like other ordinary men and women. With the existence of phase demons, no matter how mischievous this shrine is, it will be difficult to solve it.
"Where is the other end of the crack?" Faroza asked.
"Nan Miyajima, didn't you two come here for this?" Yoshihito Matsuyama clasped his hands together, "However, Nan Miyajima has completely sunk into another world, a domain belonging to Enma."
"Yan Mo?" Farosha hadn't heard of it yet, "Is it a local monster in the archipelago?"
"The most powerful one, Enma, has been sealed on Nangong Island," Matsuyama Yoshihiro explained, "Baiyou Shrine and Changying Shrine originally worked together to control Enma, but the Sakura Miko of Changying Shrine left her. Responsibilities...leave us here struggling."
"... Tongye Lianshi didn't tell us about Yan Mo." Xu Yang said.
"Of course, Yan Mo is a terrifying beast in Nangongjima, a taboo monster." Matsuyama Yoshihito chuckled, "The Sakura Miko was taken away by the fox monster and got everything she wanted, leaving the Baiyou Shrine behind." gradually decayed."
Fox monster? Xu Yang thought secretly. Another new concept.
Another phase demon crawled out from the crack, and it moved in the air by teleportation, completely unhindered, and the phase demons came out in a file, and more and more phase demons appeared near the back mountain. The men and women beside the crack also fell silent, trembling with fear.
"You hand over people to phase demons and let them be your killers?" Xu Yang observed.
"I need you guys." Yoshito Matsuyama hit the ground with his tin stick, "Be obedient!"
"Are you treating us like fish belly?" Xu Yang looked around, the phase demon was looming, and there was no shape at all.
"There is also a peaceful way," Matsuyama Yoshihiro explained with a smile, "If the two of you are willing to stay in the shrine and play the role of tourists like everyone else, of course you can live for a while longer. You know, Baiyou Shrine It’s been a long, long time since it’s been this lively.”
"No one can negotiate terms with me." Faroza injected more magic power into the magic blade.
Instantly.
"Roar!" The largest phase demon instantly appeared above the heads of Xu Yang and Farosha, and pressed down on them. The other phase demons also moved quickly, ready to tear them to pieces.
"Run!" Seeing the start of the battle, the people at the edge of the crack fled.
Falosa grasped the blade of magic power tightly, and slashed around. The magic power was released concentratedly, like a pillar of flame, bursting out in an instant, illuminating half of the night sky, and the long blade swirled in the air. Even though the phase demon was in a state of nothingness, it still It will be killed by the scattered magic power, and the largest phase demon will be the most injured, and its size will shrink rapidly, as if its own mass has been evaporated in the confrontation, leaking like a balloon.
"This, this..." Matsuyama Yoshihiro saw that the roaring giant phase demon was instantly vaporized, and quickly shrank under the slash of the magic blade. His expression suddenly changed, and he could no longer maintain his smile, and turned into YouQi was annoyed, "—how dare you—"
Falosa swung the knife with her right hand, and the approaching phase demon disappeared like an ice cube meeting a high-temperature steel blade.
"Roar!" Countless phase demons launched a joint attack.
Her body was hit, but it recovered in an instant. The trauma seen by human eyes seemed to be an illusion, and it seemed that all the attacks fell on her phantom, and it was impossible to cause substantial damage to her.
Xu Yang stepped back a little to see how Rosa swung her weapon violently. She naturally doesn't have any sword skills, nor does she have powerful moves, but just like wielding a god-killing weapon, her attack power is strong enough, and her defense power is also impressive enough, that is to say, with the law of recovery, she can make countless mistakes times, as long as it hits once, the opponent will be torn apart.
"It's your turn." Falosa killed the blind phase demon, and pointed the magic blade at the abbot Matsuyama Yoshihiro.