Tsukamoto said: "Master told us... He calculated that his life was about to end, and his biggest regret in this life was that he could not eliminate 'it'...
"Although Master sealed 'it' on the spot, this seal is far from the original seal in Mao Shrine...
"The original seal was made by a certain great Onmyoji in ancient times. It is very stable, and every year the villagers hold the Sanshe Festival to consolidate the magic power above with the power of the three Bodhisattvas.
"However, Master's seal is far from achieving that effect. He knows...sooner or later, this seal will be broken by 'it', and then all living beings will be devastated.
"So, Master wants to entrust the task of getting rid of 'it' to us disciples before he passes away. I hope that if we practice diligently, one day we can completely eliminate 'it'."
When he said this, he shook his head and sighed: "Alas... Master passed away the next day after explaining these things. I never expected that... as soon as he died, the senior brothers began to compete for the status and relics he left behind.
, didn’t take Master’s instructions to heart at all…”
"But you are different, right?" Feng Bujue followed suit.
Tsukamoto nodded: "After that, I prepared for two months, picked a sunny day... and came to Chongjiu Elementary School." He paused, "That... happened to be six years ago.
It was summer; since the school had been abandoned for a long time, I entered easily.
"I remember very clearly... on that midsummer noon, all the hairs on my body stood up as soon as I walked into this school. Obviously, even in a sealed state, 'it' can still exert an influence on the surrounding space
.”
"Wait a minute..." Ruoyu interrupted at this time, "Since 'it' has become so powerful that even the Nara Master in its heyday could not destroy it, then you at that time... weren't you here to strike an egg against a stone?"
"I didn't say that I came to destroy it six years ago." Tsukamoto replied, "I just wanted to confirm how strong 'it' is... so that I can know to what extent I can complete Master's task.
Entrusted."
"Oh~" Feng Bujue heard this and said with a relaxed smile, "So you chose a 'relatively safe' time to come to Chongjiu Elementary School, and you took it for granted that 'it' in the sealed state could not kill you.
How about it. Heh... As a result, that reconnaissance mission..." He said, Otsukamoto tilted his head, "...put you in this situation."
"Alas..." Tsukamoto heard this and sighed again, "Now that things have happened, I don't care what kind of ending I will end up with..." He said solemnly, "It's been six years, I
My body has undoubtedly rotted away, and my soul...has been trapped in this 'yang' illusion, making it difficult to enter reincarnation."
"Why does 'it' just trap you and not do anything else to you?" Feng Bujue's tone when asking this question was a little subtle, as if he was saying, "How come you haven't been tortured to a pulp?"
"Before today, I didn't know why, but..." Tsukamoto's expression changed slightly and he replied, "Just now, I understood." He looked at Brother Jue and Ruoyu respectively, "At this moment,
Your four companions, who are in the illusion of Yin, are gradually unlocking the seal under the guidance of 'It' disguised as 'Tsukamoto Shota'..."
"Oh...that's it." After hearing this very urgent information, Brother Jue seemed as calm as ever. He did not rush to ask how to return to the "Yin" illusion, but chose to get all the information that could be ascertained first.
Clearly, "So, 'it' kept your soul just to pretend to be you?"
"Yes." Tsukamoto replied, "The souls of Onmyoji are different from those of ordinary people. If ordinary people's souls cannot enter reincarnation, they will be lost, decay, die, and even become demonized... But no matter how long the Onmyoji has been dead,
It will not be 'lost', our soul body can not only retain memories, but its appearance will not change much from when we were alive; and 'it' takes advantage of this... by being trapped in 'Yang'
On one side, I create a mirror image of my soul on the 'yin' side, and possess it... to deceive your companions."
"Well...I see." Feng Bujue thought for a few seconds, straightened his thoughts, and then said, "By the way, there is one more thing I haven't figured out... There were seven people who survived that year; and today, there are
There are six of them, so...where did squad leader Watanabe go?"
…………
At the same time, in the "Illusion of Yin".
Xiaotan and the four of them returned to the second floor under the leadership of "Tsukamoto" and entered the principal's office.
"Brother Jue! Are you okay?" As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Tan quickly came to the entrance of the wine cellar and shouted towards the floor.
However... no one responded to him.
"What's going on?" An Yueqin also came over and asked nervously, "Did something happen to them?"
"Your companion...is no longer there." At this moment, Tsukamoto suddenly said.
"You mean..." Gui Xiao looked at Tsukamoto and said, "They have..." He did not say the next words, but waited for Tsukamoto to continue.
Here, Gui Xiao obviously kept an eye on it. His "half sentence" was a good test. From a player's point of view, he could completely confirm the survival of two teammates through the team bar.
status, but the NPC/monster does not know this; therefore, if the guy in front of him who calls himself Onmyoji categorically says that the two people have been killed by "it", then he is obviously lying deliberately.
At this moment, Xiao Tan, Xiao Ling and An Yueqin also realized the intention of Gui Xiao's words, so they all remained silent and watched what happened...
"I only know that they are not out of their minds yet, and they are no longer in the wine cellar." Tsukamoto's answer did not have any flaws.
"Then where did they go?" Xiao Ling asked immediately.
"You ask me, who should I ask?" Tsukamoto replied, "I can only sense that their souls are still in this space, but where exactly they were taken... only 'it' knows."
"Then how should we save them?" Xiaotan asked.
"That's not necessary." Tsukamoto replied coldly, "The six of you are already dead. There's nothing we can do to save you... As long as 'it' still exists, you, and all the ghosts here, can't even think of leaving.
This space." He paused, "The only way to get rid of this fate is to destroy 'it'."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Tan suddenly said: "Eh? When did this drawer..."
It turned out that while Tsukamoto was talking, Xiaotan's eyes caught some changes. When the players went downstairs, the big drawer inside the principal's office desk was still closed, but now... the drawer had moved a little further.
, as if it were unlocked.
"Be careful... it might be a trap." Gui Xiao became very cautious now. For some reason... after he separated from Brother Jue and the others, Gui Xiao had a very strange intuition... This intuition told him repeatedly
Be alert.
"Let me do it." At this time, Tsukamoto took two steps forward and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "You must protect yourselves. To complete the final 'magic circle', at least five people are needed.
"
While talking, he had already opened the drawer.
The situation in the big drawer is the same as the two classrooms that the players explored before, with a total of four items.
Let’s talk about it one by one...
First of all, it is a "plot item that can bring out the script".
[Name: Tassel Belt]
[Type: plot related]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Function: unknown]
[Can the script be brought out: Yes]
[Remarks: Linen products, the buckle is made of sterling silver, the purple coloring and the length of the tassel are both design features.]
This is another wearable gadget, like the others, its purpose is unknown...
Then, the second one
[Name: “its” spleen]
[Type: plot related]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Function: Can be embedded in “it”’s torso. 】
[Can the script be brought out: No]
[Remarks: The pocket-sized organ made of green jade has a faint aura.]
Hmm... no explanation.
Looking at the third item, a piece of paper, it looks like an unfinished letter; the handwriting of the letter shows that the person who wrote it was very nervous at the time, or his hands were shaking due to other physiological reasons; however,
The content on the paper can still be distinguished. "Sato-kun, I don't know whether your mental disorder is temporary or permanent. If it is permanent, then this letter should be regarded as a confession written by me to myself. But if, where
God, you can regain your senses and read this letter. I just want to say sorry to you. All of this is caused by me. I am not a competent principal, or even a decent man;
After my wife passed away, I tried to numb myself with alcohol, but ended up falling into the bad habit of alcoholism. It was this bad habit that brought me to where I am today. Suzuki, Noguchi, you... I don’t know how many other people will suffer from this.
Death, but I can't hold it anymore, please forgive me, forgive me for having to die to escape responsibility in the end, because, 'it'"
The information on the paper just stops here. There is no content after the word "it" (the letter is also written in Japanese, so it is "word" instead of "character"), and there is no punctuation mark or
There are no other traces.
Finally, the fourth item... I think you can guess it [Warehouse Key].
…………
A few minutes later, the players and Tsukamoto arrived in the corridor outside the principal's office.
Tsukamoto did not take the two mission items. He gave them to the players for safekeeping. However, he held the key because... he took the initiative to open the door.
As mentioned before, the door of the warehouse also opens flat. Tsukamoto inserted the key and pushed it, and the door opened.
Surprisingly, there is...light in this room.
There is a light bulb hanging from the ceiling of the "warehouse", and this light bulb... actually emits red light.
The light enveloped the space of less than thirty square meters in front of everyone, like...fire.
What does not suit the name "warehouse" is that this room is completely empty. Not only is there no furniture or sundries, there is not even a window. Except for the light bulb above, there are only walls, and the walls are not even connected.
I can't find a light switch.
However, there are still some abnormalities, such as...the six walls of this warehouse are all made of blackened wooden boards. In addition, there is a formation painted on the floor.
This formation is not the "magic formation" in Western mythology, but something with Eastern characteristics.
Overall, this magic circle is painted with a red liquid, but whether it is blood, paint, or some other substance... it is difficult to tell, because this magic circle looks like it has been painted for a long time, and those...
The liquid has long since dried up.
But I saw that in the middle of the circle, within a circular area the size of a washbasin, there were a bunch of Japanese characters written like ghostly symbols. These words were written in a spiral shape from the inside out, and the system did not translate them; in this mess of words
Outside, a perfect circular circle was drawn, and the vertical and horizontal lines of the four trigrams were extended outside the circle, and in the areas divided by the lines, many mantras were written vertically... Of course, these were also players.
Unintelligible text.
"What's going on with this thing on the ground?" Gui Xiao was the first to ask after seeing those things.
"I drew this six years ago." Tsukamoto continued, "Oh... yes, you don't remember it anymore."
These two lines of dialogue seemed to trigger another flag... Immediately afterwards, Tsukamoto stepped into the door and began a plot narration.
And this "Tsukamoto" story is a different version from the one that Jue Ge and the others met...
"Six years ago, at the invitation of monitor Watanabe, you all returned to Chongjiu Elementary School to attend the so-called class reunion.
"At that time, you naturally had no memory of the '520 Massacre'...
"Because after that incident, the government forcibly isolated you seven survivors and conducted so-called 'psychological treatment'; a year later, when you returned to your parents, you had lost that part of your life."
Memories. After that, your families were arranged by the government to live in far away places. In your impression... there is nothing unusual about your childhood memories. It was just because the school was about to close, so everyone was in the second semester.
I just transferred schools when I was in grade one.
"Later, you all grew up, and when you reached the age of twenty-eight or nine, you all left home and lived alone. Those around you who know your connection with that incident also thought that the nightmare was
The experience has long since been over.
"No one expected that... one summer, during a period when all of you 'happened' to be free, Watanabe, the monitor in your memory... sent you an invitation letter to the class reunion.
"Perhaps it's destiny, or 'its' arrangement... The six of you reunited at the ruins of Chongjiu Elementary School on a cloudy day.
"That day... your squad leader did not show up because he had already been controlled by 'it'. The letter he sent was just to attract the six of you..." (To be continued.)
