Su Wu looked at the thread of cause and effect in his hand that was drifting away like fishy smoke to the distant village. As his thoughts were turning, the spinning cause and effect talisman instantly showed divine light, trying to reflect the witch's thread that he had forcibly taken away.
More causes and effects lingering on the arm——
Under the rotation of the divine light of the Karma Talisman, the Karma and Karma wrapped around the witch's arms were densely packed and scattered in Su Wu's field of vision!
There are so many entanglements of cause and effect that are simply being cut off and confused!
Su Wu's idea of using the talisman of cause and effect to reveal more useful clues naturally came to nothing.
He saw the swollen arm in his hand suddenly rotting away, then he dropped it and looked around in a blink of an eye.
Tao Zu and Hong Renkun were already standing at the edge of the forest with Xiaohe.
On the ground in front of you.
Inside the chest and abdomen of the corpse that he cut open with a short knife, there was only a highly decomposed skull, without the swollen woman's head.
Su Wu raised his eyes and glanced at the distant village that was causally connected with the 'Witch Arm', then stepped out of the forest and walked towards Tao Zu, Jianzhen and a group of local Dongliu Islanders who were surrounding them.
The raging fire spontaneously ignited behind him without fire, burning all the swollen corpses on the ground to prevent the strange charm contained in the corpses from hurting innocent people again.
"Have you found anything?" Tao Zu asked Su Wu with great interest, "Just when there was a strange charm coming out of the body of the corpse you opened up just now, your figure also disappeared without a trace.
.
I thought you had walked into some underworld world, so I used the 'Breath of the Underworld' to trace your traces, but I didn't find your traces in the underworld ravine. Instead, you seemed to be following the ray of light.
It’s like Juyun has entered an unknown world.”
"It should be that we have entered another level of Dongliu Island that is influenced by cause and effect." Su Wu nodded and responded to Tao Zu's words, "I did make some discoveries."
He then passed on some of his previous discoveries to his companions through his mind.
Then he asked Jianzhen: "This shrine maiden must be the 'Tshuzhao shrine maid'? She seems to have mastered the 'Ten Destruction Swords'.
Why did she transform into the face of 'Haruko', and what is her connection with Haruko?"
"Haruko Inoue built the 'Zhuzhao Shrine'. After the completion of the shrine, she disappeared." Jianzhen clasped his hands and replied to Su Wu, "She also searched everywhere to find the 'Ten Destruction Swords'
clues."
Su Wu frowned when he heard this.
Previously, Jianzhen claimed that "Haruko Inoue" existed in the "Rashomon", but now it was also claimed that Haruko had disappeared, and Su Wu saw the "Woodmaid with Candlelight" transformed into Haruko's face... Now the mystery is getting worse.
The more people came, the more Su Wu felt that if he wanted to solve the final mystery, 'Qingzi' was also one of the key factors.
"You said before that Qingzi was in Rashomon." Su Wu said as he stared at Jianzhen.
Jianzhen lowered his head and said, "Qingzi is in Rashomon."
Su Wu frowned even more: "Now it is said that Qingzi disappeared after the Zhuzhao Shrine was built - don't try to play riddles with me, what happened to Qingzi in the end?
If you don’t know, just say you don’t know, don’t use your words to deceive me and raise doubts!”
As he spoke, Su Wu's eyebrows opened quietly, and a fire hole appeared behind his head. The 'Nagarjuna Great Sun God' was coiled around a brain-shaped existence that seemed to be nothingness but not nothingness, and stretched out its branches.
, the dense branches shrouded Jianzhen's head, and the rays of the sun poured down, judging every word Jianzhen said at the moment!
"Qingzi is missing." Jianzhen replied to Su Wu. He felt the branches of the soul above his head trembling violently, so he lowered his eyes and said a few more words, "Qingzi is also in Rashomon. Rashomon."
The 'beauty' in the door was released by me into the human world and has disappeared without a trace.
Haruko’s ‘thoughts’ placed on various artifacts were collected by me and gathered in Rashomon, becoming the new ‘beauty’ inside.
But the real Haruko has lost all traces at this time.
The reason why the poor monk collected the "thoughts" she left on various beloved things is to save them for later and use them to lure you to the Tang Dynasty.
——The Haruko you saw in that temple earlier is Haruko’s legacy.
After she saw you, she disappeared."
After hearing what Jian Zhen said, Su Wu's expression softened slightly. The branches of the soul that enveloped Jian Zhen's head slowly closed up and disappeared behind his head. He then asked: "Since you knew these things earlier, why didn't you do it earlier?
speak out?"
"Earlier, the poor monk didn't know the real situation." Jianzhen said, "But now, back on Dongliu Island, the poor monk collected the charm scattered on the corpse and gradually recovered part of his memory."
Su Wu no longer has any entanglement with Jianzhen.
He looked at the restless and bewildered Dongliu Islanders and said, "I have discovered some clues related to the mass death of your fellow villagers.
Now I need you to come with me and go to that village to have a look."
As he spoke, Su Wu pointed to the distant village where the cause and effect of the witch was implicated.
Many islanders nodded. They didn't know what clues Su Wu had found, but since Su Wu said so, they believed it - and they didn't dare to ask Su Wu for specific details.
The leading white-haired old man stepped forward, saluted Su Wu and said, "Sir, there is only one village in the direction you are pointing, called 'Haijin Village'.
There is the only surviving woman in Haijin Village.
We sent someone to take care of the woman at her home.
You said earlier that you wanted to take a look at the surviving woman, and now is the right time - it's getting late, do you want to eat some food first? We have prepared venison..."
"No need." Su Wu shook his head, "I don't have the heart to eat now.
Let’s go over and see the situation first before we talk!”
"yes……"
When Su Wu heard what the white-haired old man said, he had a feeling in his heart that the only surviving woman in Haijin Village might have something to do with the cause and effect of the 'Wizard Maid with the Candlelight'.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, she may be the person pointed by the cause and effect who was forcibly pulled over by Su Wu.
After he responded to the white-haired old man, he glanced at Hong Renkun.
Hong Renkun's look at Su Wu suddenly became clear. He faced the many islanders and nodded: "Go to sleep!"
When the islanders heard Hong Renkun's words, they all became drowsy, staggered around, and fell asleep on the spot.
And when they fell asleep, Tao Zu had already activated the 'breath of darkness', absorbing everyone present into it, and disappeared in an instant!
The fishy smell in the air was greatly reduced because several swollen corpses placed in the forest were burned to ashes. As the breeze blew, the fishy smell became lighter and weaker.
On the slope beside the forest, there was a sound of hurried footsteps.
The sound of footsteps got closer and closer, and then stopped suddenly at a certain moment. With a cry of surprise, a young man wearing ragged clothes rolled down the slope.
He lay down in the mud and screamed "Ouch, ouch" several times before slowly getting up from the mud.
The young man did not bother to clean up the mud on his body and limped towards Haijin Village in the distance.
The young man seemed to have been running for a long time before he came here.
He kept panting, and his breath did not calm down for a long time.
This young man is "Yujiro", the groom of "Samurai Koichiro", and his home is in Kaijin Village. Previously, he left here with Samurai Koichiro, found an opportunity along the way, and escaped back on his own - in the village of his hometown
A tragic mass death incident occurred. Even if he could not see his parents and brothers for the last time, he should at least collect their bodies and send them on their last journey.
Moreover, he heard that there was a woman in the village who was lucky enough to survive.
Although it is unlikely that the woman who survived was his mother, what if?
…
The light in the simple thatched house was dim.
There are mud puddles everywhere on the floor of the unpaved house.
The stench of feces and the smell of rotting sea fish flowed together in this small room, making it extremely uncomfortable.
On the only 'bed' in the hut, which was supported by stones and made up of several wooden boards, there lay a woman with a dirty face. The woman hummed hoarsely: "Water... water..."
Someone who was looking after her brought the water bowl in front of her, but she shook her head and shook it away. She shouted again: "I want fish soup, I want fish soup..."
"This is fish soup..." The young man holding the water bowl felt aggrieved.
He was ordered by the village chief to take care of the only survivor in Haijin Village. However, it was too difficult to take care of him. The other party kept shouting "water" and "fish soup", but he sent them both water and fish soup.
But the other party refused to drink and knocked over the water.
"water……"
The woman closed her eyes and her voice became much hoarse.
The young man smelled the stench in this room that was many times stronger than elsewhere, and hurried out of the room with the bowl of fish soup.
As soon as they walked out of the house, the woman inside shouted even louder: "Fish soup, fish soup!"
He listened to the shouts in the room and sighed helplessly. When he was at a loss, he saw a group of people walking towards him in a hurry. Those people were surrounded by several 'giants' that the young man had never seen before. The young man's
My eyes fell on those 'giants', and I couldn't look away for a while.
The voices of the people around him fell into his ears one after another at this time: "This is the residence of 'Mrs. Tsuichiro'.
There were originally four people in their family.
In addition to her, there are her husband and two sons.
When the accident happened last night, her husband and eldest son went fishing in the sea despite heavy rain - but they died on the boat, exactly like the other deceased people..."
"Where is her second son?"
"The second son... seems to be working as a slave in the house of a certain Numata master.
We saw him before..."
"Huh?" Su Wu heard the answers from the people around him. He stopped, looked at the man with small eyes who was talking, and asked him, "Have you seen the second son of the Tsuichiro family before?"
"...Yes..." The small-eyed man suddenly became frightened under Su Wu's gaze, but he did not dare to lie, so he told Su Wu the situation at that time, "Yongjiro came here with you, he
We were following a samurai-sama, but we didn’t dare to talk to him at the time, for fear of being scolded by the adults - we had heard Mrs. Tsuichiro mention before that her son worked as a domestic servant at the samurai-sama’s house in Numata and worked every day.
I can eat very full..."
"The only servant among the people traveling with us is the groom." Hong Renkun said at this time, "No wonder I saw that he looked uneasy at the time. I guess he knew something was going on at home.
Things are happening, so I can’t sit still.”
"Let's find him here too." Su Wu nodded and said.
Hong Renkun said 'hmm': "I'll just go find him."
After speaking, the square-faced middle-aged man disappeared directly on the spot. Many islanders present were not surprised when they saw this scene - when Hong Renkun disappeared, the idea of 'Hong Renkun disappeared' also disappeared from their minds.
impression.
Su Wu then raised his eyes and looked at the thatched house in front of him.
Outside the house, a wooden wall was woven with sticks and vines. There was a young man standing inside the fence holding a rough pottery bowl, looking up at Su Wu.
Not far outside the fence, there is a well.
The villagers should get their daily drinking water from this well.
Surrounded by everyone, Su Wu stepped into the fence, and an even stronger rotten stench lingered in the muddy courtyard.
Su Wu saw that the ray of cause and effect that he intercepted was traveling towards the only thatched house in the courtyard.
He followed the thread of cause and effect into the thatched house. When he passed by the young man, he glanced at the water bowl he was holding.
The water bowl was filled with turbid fish soup, still steaming out.
In the room, a woman with a dirty face was lying on a wooden bed. She was shouting towards the door: "Water - water -"
At this time, Su Wu stepped into the house, his figure blocking the sunlight coming in from outside.
When the old woman on the bed saw his figure, she suddenly stopped shouting and slowly turned her head to face the wall.
The smell of feces and putrefaction mixed together and flowed here.
The thread of cause and effect from the witch's body is now wrapped around the old woman on the bed.
The rest of the people followed him into the house, and they all frowned under the impact of the filthy stench in the house.
"Fish soup... fish soup..."
Mrs. Tsuichiro was facing the wall on the bed, and her shouts became very soft.