Seeing Yuan Zhisheng praising the Fool so devoutly, Mask was very satisfied.
If it had a body at this time, it would be ready to applaud.
"Not bad, not bad, very promising." Mask's tone was a little proud, "From now on, you will hang out with me. I am the eldest brother, you are the younger brother, and I will protect you!"
"..."
Yuan Zhisheng looked at the mask in his hand in silence, not knowing what to say for a moment.
As the king of the underworld with one hand covering the sky, the current emperor of the eight Sheqi families, the much-anticipated Amaterasu, is now being told by a mask that he will take him as his younger brother...
This feeling is really too wonderful.
Yuan Zhisheng's cheeks twitched slightly, but he didn't refute anything and allowed the mask to talk endlessly.
Anyway, arguing with a mask is a bit too weird.
He only temporarily chose to see a different world as a member of the Secret Church, but he did not really join the Secret Church...
Yuan Zhi sighed vaguely and rubbed his temples with a headache.
Interrupting the mask's words: "Excuse me, do you know a lot of things?"
"Of course." Mask said proudly, "I have the wisdom given by the great destiny sign. I know a lot of secret knowledge, otherwise I would not have been given by the master to have you as my big brother."
This mask has now acquiesced that he is Yuan Zhisheng's eldest brother.
The corner of Yuan Zhisheng's mouth twitched slightly, but he did not refute too much about this matter.
No normal person would quarrel with a mask.
And what he wants to ask now is a question that he cares about very much.
"I want to know..." Yuan Zhisheng's eyes were full of surging emotions, "Is what Kazama Ruri said true? Are the eight Sheqi families really carrying out those horrific experiments behind the scenes?
?」
Yuan Zhisheng's nails were deeply embedded in his flesh, and his voice could not help but tremble: "Is the justice I insist on some illusory and ridiculous thing? I have been cleaning up those ghosts in the execution department,
Are you just being manipulated as a chess piece? How much did dad hide from me?"
As he spoke, Yuan Zhisheng's emotions couldn't help but burst out. In the end, he could hardly restrain his emotions and squeezed out an almost hoarse voice from his throat.
He couldn't figure out what he had always thought and believed in, in the face of the disgusting reality.
Now he would rather believe that Kazama Ruri is lying to him...
But Yuan Zhisheng knows very well in his heart that his current position is on the side of the Secret Church, and Kazama Ruri should not know Yuan Zhisheng as a [demon]. It is precisely because of this that Kazama Ruri has no reason
Lie to him.
Because if these are true, with the ability of the Secret Church, we should be able to find clues. There is no need for Kazama Ruri to tell these lies that can be easily exposed. In addition, now Kazama Ruri still needs to communicate with the Secret Church.
If you are on good terms with him, you should not lie to him.
That is to say...
What Kazama Liuli said is all true.
This made Yuan Zhisheng feel as painful as suffocation.
Because it was for these so-called justices that he personally killed the evil spirit girl Minamoto...
And now, Minamoto Girl, who has climbed back from hell as Kazama Ruri, is shattering his faith bit by bit...
Is this retribution?
"Why are you thinking so much?" Mask's abrupt words instantly brought Yuan Zhisheng back to consciousness, "Instead of asking me about the truth of the matter, why don't you go see it with your own eyes."
Yuan Zhisheng was slightly startled.
The mask said in an old-fashioned tone: "I know, little brother, you must be suffering from shock now, and you must doubt this reality. But whether it is what Kazama said or what I told you, I only heard it from other people's mouths.
I heard it. Even if I say it, you will definitely have some doubts in your heart and don’t want to believe it.”
Yuan Zhisheng remained silent and did not speak.
That's right, even if reason told him that there was no need for others to lie to him. But deep down in his heart, he still didn't want to have any doubts, because in his mind, his father was still a respected patriarch.
.
He still remembered his father's generous hand, which personally brought him to such a grand and complex world...
Yuan Zhisheng was not willing to doubt such a respectable elder.
"Then if that's the case, why not go and see for yourself?"
The mask's voice was very low, but it seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts and hit the depths of Yuan Zhisheng's heart. "You are no longer you, why don't you be an objective person and see things with your own eyes?"
the truth?"
"Otherwise, why do you think the great master would give you the codename [Devil]? Since you are a demon, you must live your life, live a wonderful life, and proceed from your own heart instead of being bound by those fates! Since you don't want to
Believe it, but know that things are not as simple as what you see. So why not go and see for yourself? You must know that you are no longer the person you were in the past, you are a free person now! You should go yourself
judge!"
The words of the mask are deafening.
Yuan Zhisheng woke up in an instant. In an instant, Yuan Zhisheng felt a mess in his head, as if it had been cut open by a sharp knife. The dark clouds that shrouded his heart dispersed in an instant.
, allowing him to see clearly the direction of the road ahead.
This mask is right.
Now he is no longer Minamoto, he does not need to shoulder his fate as the head of the eight Sheqi families, and he is no longer the so-called emperor or the so-called Amaterasu.
Now he is the [Devil] of the Secret Church.
For him, the things done by the Eight Snakes and Qi Family should be just an objective fact. Since he wants to know what the Eight Snakes and Qi Family have done and what Masamune Tachibana is doing behind the scenes, why doesn’t he go
How about seeing it with your own eyes?
Instead of feeling sorry for yourself here and getting entangled in your beliefs about life.
It’s better to just throw away your past self! Then go and see for yourself what all this is about!
Yuan Zhisheng pursed his lips slightly, solemnly took the mask directly in front of him, placed it on the table in front of him, and then bowed 90 degrees towards the mask.
"Thank you so much."
Mask's words cleared away the fog in his heart.
"I decided to go and see for myself what they were doing behind the scenes."
Yuan Zhisheng's eyes were extremely firm and his voice was very calm.
"As expected of my favorite little brother!" Mask was also very happy and very satisfied with Yuan Zhisheng's awakening.
In fact, it doesn't know much about Yuan Zhisheng's past and the various things about the dragon people from the Sheqi Ba family. But it doesn't want its new little brother to fall into a strange depression.
Of course, being an elder brother should set an example for the younger ones and wake them up.
Yuan Zhisheng finally showed a heartfelt smile this time.
The way he looked at the demon mask now changed slightly.
Yuan Zhisheng picked up the devil mask again and put it on his face solemnly. Looking at his hideous and hateful self in the mirror, the corners of his mouth under the mask couldn't help but curve.
"Yes, I am a [Devil] now"
…………
An ordinary off-road vehicle was speeding along the Meishin Expressway. It was raining heavily late at night. The headlights of the vehicle tore through the endless darkness, and walls of water as high as a person were splashed on both sides of the wheels.
There was only one person in the car, sitting in the passenger seat wearing a hideous demon mask.
Logically speaking, if a traffic policeman sees such a weird outfit, he will definitely conduct an inspection.
But the whole journey was very relaxed, and no one noticed that the people in the car were dressed so strangely.
At this moment, where
Even Princess Kaguya would be completely unable to locate this car.
There is nothing special about the car itself. It is just a very ordinary off-road vehicle that Yuan Zhisheng borrowed from Kazama Ruri.
But with the mask in place, the journey went very smoothly.
"Didn't you originally plan to go to Genji Heavy Industries?"
The mask asked in a low voice.
"There is a place that I have to visit." Yuan Zhisheng said in a low tone.
To outsiders, the conversation between one person and one mask looks like one person talking to himself, which is very weird. If others see it, the secret church's risk assessment plan will be more solid.
What Yuan Zhisheng wanted to go on this trip was the mountains.
The headlights briefly illuminated the "Shikatori Shrine" sign. Minamoto drove the off-road vehicle off the highway along an inconspicuous service road and turned onto a winding mountain road. The road was extremely muddy due to the rain, but luckily we set off.
Before, Yuan Zhisheng specially borrowed a car with excellent off-road performance from Kazama Ruri, and drove easily through curves and swollen mountain streams. The road became narrower as we drove further into the mountains, and gravel could be seen everywhere on the road.
, it can be seen that this place is in disrepair and no vehicles have passed here for a long time.
"This place is so run-down." Mask said with emotion, "Does this place really have what you are looking for?"
"Originally there was a shrine here, but the shrine's operating conditions were not good. There were fewer and fewer tourists year after year. The priest who presided over the shrine passed away the year after I left. I couldn't find a suitable person to inherit the shrine, so the shrine fell into decline.
, the people in the town gradually moved away." Yuan Zhisheng's tone was also very calm, "Later, an earthquake destroyed more than half of the old house. The government provided resettlement housing in the south of Kobe, and the remaining people moved.
Went over there."
"It seems that you know this place very well?" Mask said with emotion, "Is it possible that you have lived here before?"
"Yes, this is the place where I grew up," Yuan Zhisheng said softly, "I buried a lot of things here. But now, I want to take a look again and see if my things are still here."
The off-road vehicle stopped by a river with surging whitecaps. This was originally a mountain stream, but intensive rainfall turned the mountain stream into a large river in a few days. The river was full of trees washed down from the mountain.
"We can't drive anymore, let's wade through the water." Yuan Zhisheng said casually, turned off the car, took out a black umbrella, and stepped into the dark rainy night.
It is undoubtedly extremely dangerous to cross a swollen mountain stream in such a dark night, but Yuan Zhisheng no longer cares about it. He rolled up his trousers, put on the rain boots he had prepared, and stepped on
Entering the cold and biting stream, there are black buildings standing in the mountain col on the other side, but there is no trace of light. The crows, soaked by the heavy rain, are awakened by the unexpected visitor, and take off with a "quacking" cry.
Passing through the torii gate that had begun to change color, they finally arrived at the quiet mountain town. Trees and weeds grew wildly. The collapsed buildings during the earthquake looked like giant corpses lying flat on the battlefield, with rotten beams and rafters.
It is the spine and ribs of a giant.
The mask was able to watch all this from Minamoto's childish perspective. They were standing in front of an abandoned school. This cement building was the most fashionable building in the town. It was formed by the old monk-like Shikatori Shrine not far away.
sharp contrast.
Yuan Zhisheng looked at all this with a calm expression, but there were deep complex emotions in his eyes, showing that he was not actually very calm inside.
"I have never brought anyone else here." Yuan Zhisheng suddenly murmured in a low voice, as if he was talking to the mask or to himself, "This small mountain town has buried too many things.
There are so many secrets. No one knows what’s going on here except Dad.”
"Is that so? Then why did you bring me here?" Mask interjected, and then suddenly seemed to remember something, and said nonchalantly, "Oh, I'm just a mask..."
The mask spoke very deliberately in an exaggerated tone. It felt that the current atmosphere was particularly silent and strange, and wanted to liven up the atmosphere in this way.
Yuan Zhisheng twitched the corner of his mouth slightly.
"I have been living in this mountain town since I can remember.
This town is built around the Shikatori Shrine, which is said to have a history of 800 years. Half of the people in the town work for the Shikatori Shrine. The town mainly makes a living by selling souvenirs to tourists who enter the mountain."
Yuan Zhisheng murmured, "My brother and I were just kids who grew up in the mountains. At that time, I didn't know what kind of person I would become in the future. I just loved watching those special things when I was young.
I film dramas, like watching Ultraman, and want to be a righteous hero..."
Yuan Zhisheng took out a photo from his arms.
There is also Shikatori Shrine in the background, but what is more obvious is a light helicopter. Two boys are leaning on the helicopter side by side, wearing white "hunting clothes" sewn from linen.
"This was taken when I and I were studying at Shikatori Shrine. At that time, all the boys in the town had to take turns to study at Shikatori Shrine. The priest said that children who study well can become the next priest in the future."
"Originally, he was very optimistic about Nagoya becoming the next palace minister. But Nagoya died, so there is no one to inherit Shikatori Shrine." Minamoto Chisheng said softly.
"Two children, one could become a palace minister, and the other wanted to be a partner of justice, but in the end... neither of them realized their dreams."