Conan and his party finally gave up their plan to go to the cliff and chose to walk along the path of the shrine together. When everyone walked half the distance, Genta, who looked extremely tired, suddenly spotted an artificial man next to him.

The fountain is gushing into a pool.

"Ah!" Yuantai shouted excitedly, and rushed forward under the astonished eyes of Conan and others. "I'm so thirsty!"

"Hey! Stop!" Conan said urgently. "The water in that spring is for washing hands and gargling, not for quenching thirst!"

"This spring is an exception," Sayuki Kubo pulled Conan. "This spring is drinkable."

"Why?" Conan asked in surprise as he watched Genta bury his head in the pool and drink happily. "Isn't there such a rule here?"

"This spring water is not the spring water of the shrine itself," Kubo Sayuki smiled. "According to records, that spring water is specially prepared to quench the thirst of people who come to the shrine to worship. The real water source for worship is outside the main hall door."

"In other words," Mitsuhiko said excitedly. "We can also drink water?"

"Come together!" Tadao had already smiled and invited everyone to come and have a drink together.

I don’t know where the spring water here comes from, but the taste of the water is indeed very delicious, and Conan couldn’t help but show a surprised expression after drinking it. “It’s really delicious... Where did it come from?

"

"I don't know," Tadao gave an answer that surprised Conan. "Some people have put a certain amount of blood into several water systems near here before, and then conducted luminol tests on the springs here, but found nothing."

"If the blood volume is not enough, even Luminol can't do anything..." Conan thought for a while and remained silent. Just when he was about to take a sip of water, he saw a string of words at the bottom of the pool. "?"

"In order to calm the undead sleeping underground, please come to Yuda Beizun." After Tadao saw Conan's gaze, he immediately understood what he was looking at.

"Bie Zun Yutian?" The little guys obviously didn't understand the meaning of this word. "What is that?"

Of course, the pronoun "little guys" automatically eliminates Conan.

"Better Yuda..." Conan sighed. "This is indeed what should appear in the area controlled by Takeda Shingen..."

"What do you mean?" Mitsuhiko asked in confusion. "What exactly is this Yu Tian Bie Zun?"

"This is the name of Emperor Ongami," Conan replied. "The fifteenth emperor who was born in 200, inherited the position of emperor from the deceased Empress Jingu in 270, and then ruled for 40 years...

"

"Then why do they worship the fifteenth emperor?" Ayumi asked puzzled.

"In Shintoism," Kubo Sayuki replied calmly. "Emperor Ongami is the martial god Hachimangami."

"And Hachiman Bodhisattva is the symbol on Takeda Shingen's flag!" At this time, the little ones all knew the answer and shouted in unison.

"Yes," Tadao nodded approvingly. "This shrine is said to be dedicated to Hachiman God and Bishamonten."

"Bishamonten?" Both Conan and Mitsuhiko's expressions were slightly startled, but Conan then showed a look of understanding, but Mitsuhiko did not.

"But..." Mitsuhiko hesitated. "If I remember correctly, isn't Bishamonten... the symbol of Uesugi Kenshin?"

"Bishamonten is the Buddhist god of war, so there's nothing wrong with this." Tadao shrugged. "After all, Takeda Shingen doesn't believe in Buddhism."

"Uh..." Conan frowned and stopped talking.

"Little brother," Kubo Sayuki noticed Conan's hesitation and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Brother Tadao, you are not a Hindu, right?" Conan asked after thinking for a while.

"I'm only slightly interested in Shintoism. I don't understand Hinduism at all. What's wrong?" Tadao raised his eyebrows.

"Bishamonten is indeed the Buddhist god of war," Conan explained. "But Bishamonten is not actually an original product, but a copy transplanted from Hinduism. Bishamonten's original body is Kubera, the Hindu god of wealth.

)."

"God of Wealth?" Before Tadao could react, the little ones were shouting. "Treasure?"

"This is also the best reason to worship Bishamonten here," Conan spread his hands. "There is a high possibility that there is something in this shrine!"

"You really know a lot of things..." Shaxue said with an expression of admiration and disbelief. "You are so knowledgeable!"

"Well..." Conan's expression felt a little swaying. "Our teacher who teaches Japanese history is a fan of the Warring States Period and likes this kind of topic very much..."

"Teacher who teaches Japanese history!?" Sage was dumbfounded. (Japanese history is a subject that can only be studied in high schools, not in junior high schools or elementary schools.)

"Ah!" Conan explained in a panic. "It's "The Major Events in Japanese History" broadcast on TV! I just said it wrong!"

"But..." Conan's words suddenly turned in another direction. "I think there is something weird about the main hall of this shrine."

"Ah - ah -" the cry of a group of crows came from the distance - is it true that there are actually some animals here? But as animals that seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, they prefer to conduct their activities in the jungle, their home field.

————————————Crows naturally don’t crow for no reason. They scream because something disturbs their lurking.

"Squeak——" Kimura and Tanaka's off-road vehicle stopped after the originally wide dirt road in the mountains turned into a narrow path.

"Cut!" Ichiro Kimura put the notebook with a few pages in his hand on the seat, got out of the car - before he was taking a step at a time, so he only read the first part - and observed the terrain ahead. "Like this.

If we don’t, I’m afraid we won’t be able to continue by car, so we can only walk.”

"Thankfully, I listened to you, brother," Tanaka said with a wry smile. "We brought a full set of mountaineering equipment... But what about those two brats? If we kidnap them up the mountain, it will be difficult to control them.

Once they escaped in the dense forest..."

"Then leave the car here and lock it—" Before Kimura could finish speaking, he heard Tanaka's exclamation from behind.

"ah!"

"What?" Kimura was shocked and turned around quickly, only to see Kimura leaning against the window on the left side of the driver's seat with a painful look on his face (this was an imported off-road vehicle, so it was different from a Japanese car), with his whole body curled up.

what happened?

Before Kimura could react, the two figures had already escaped from the passenger door that Kimura opened.
Chapter completed!