The exact number of human skeletons at the bottom of the well cannot be determined. I only know that there are many, and there may be many buried underground.
In addition, Kamiyagawa also discovered that the human bones were all too small and obviously did not belong to adults. They were probably those of children.
jingle--
At this time, the golden ball bell rang again.
Zashiki figured it out.
Wearing a smiling mask, Kamiyagawa checked the enclosed space at the bottom of the well and, after confirming that there was no danger, released the little God of Fortune.
"ah!"
Zashiki appears again.
Kamiyagawa pointed the flashlight of his cell phone at her.
In the darkness, the lamppost looked dim, falling on the red kimono of the little god of good fortune.
Under such light, Zashiki walked through the bones all over the place as if nothing had happened, and started searching everywhere at the bottom of the well with great interest.
The cute girl with baby head and baby fat is groping for something among the yellow and white bones.
Coupled with the dazzling light beam that is not enough to illuminate the entire space, this picture is really a bit weird.
But Zashiki Warashi itself is also a strange story that contains the power of "death".
It is only natural that there would be such a scene.
"ah!"
After a while, Zashiki seemed to have found something. He excitedly held it with both hands and ran back to Kamiyagawa and handed it out.
In her white and tender hands, there were two plant seeds of completely unidentifiable types.
Under the light, it reflects the green shimmer.
It looks a little weird.
Buzzing.
The phone vibrated.
[Obtain disease source seeds*2!]
[Plague source species (rare material): Strange plant seeds born in the sea of bones in the corpse mountain, which seem to be exuding the miasma of the disease.]
[After taking it, you will suffer from a disease without a source. At the same time, the source of the disease may be a key material for making certain props.]
"This thing looks weird...but this kind of garbage picking up finally makes sense."
Kamiyagawa checked the information on his phone and confirmed the attributes of this green seed.
Then he stuffed the two seeds into the [Mirage Cloth Bag].
Stuffing all kinds of messy things into the backpack is very soulful.
While Kamiya was checking the information on [source species of the disease], Zashiki Warashi went to dig through the garbage in the pile of corpses next to him.
"Yeah~"
This time she gained something new.
It was an old and incomplete book, and the words "Fengwen Local Chronicles" could be vaguely seen written on the cover.
"Is this a local chronicle?"
Kamiyagawa took the book from Zashiki, flicked it with the light of his mobile phone, and flipped through it.
A lot of the content in the book is hard to see clearly, and only a small amount can be discerned.
The identifiable part is almost entirely written in Chinese characters, with very few hiragana characters interspersed in it. It probably belongs to the period when Japan was completely influenced by Chinese characters -
[... In order to give birth to a dog god to protect the area... Another villager used the art of witchcraft to gather hundreds of dog heads and placed them in the well...]
[...It's night, and the dog god kills and kills dozens of babies...the children stop crying at night when they hear the dogs barking...]
[…villagers often suffer from strange diseases, have sharp teeth in their mouths, and sound like dogs barking…]
[...The village regularly offers sacrifices, offering three pairs of boys and girls, and throwing them into the well. This is done every year for peace...]
[...There was a great famine, and villagers exchanged their children for cannibalism, or abandoned babies in wells...]
Kamiya said that after reading this "Local Chronicle" for a while, he felt that this thing should record the historical background of Inuming Village.
From this we can roughly understand the origins of Inugami and Bai'er; as well as the origins of the dog's skull and the child's corpse in the well.
"No matter where you are, cannibalism was always the norm in the feudal era."
Kamiyagawa thought like this and closed the book.
He could read the words between the words in "Local Chronicles". There were only two words written densely throughout the book, "eating people".
Think of this place called Dog Ming.
Sacrifices were offered to the evil dog gods, or children who could not afford to be raised were thrown into wells and turned into white children; old people who were too old to work were abandoned in the mountains and forests and turned into grandma fire.
It's nothing more than that.
"ah!"
As soon as Kamiya put away the "Fengwu Local Chronicle", Zashiki made a new discovery.
She pulled out a child's bones from a pile of scattered bones.
This skeleton is very strange.
It is very complete, even if it is dragged by the seat, it does not fall apart, and the color of the bones is also pure white.
Tikka——
After being pulled out, the child's skeleton suddenly started to move.
The bones of his pale right hand suddenly grabbed Zashiki's left hand!
"Zashiki?" Kamiyakawa saw this and immediately stepped forward.
"Yeah." But the little God of Fortune didn't have much emotion, and waved his hand to his old father as if it were a matter of course.
The next second.
The pale skeleton then dissipated, turning into a misty white air that swirled around the seat, and finally slowly disappeared.
During this process, Kamiyagawa noticed that several white petal patterns appeared on the kimono that was originally completely red.
"This?" The old father looked confused.
But Zashiki Warashi showed a happy expression and trotted back to Kamiya with his short legs.
jingle--
The golden ball bell rings.
Kamiyagawa's body has red air rising, which symbolizes good fortune.
At this time, the phone vibrated.
[Your character gains a new status.]
[Misfortune and misfortune depend on each other·Fuxi (30 seconds duration): Fuxi is where misfortunes lie, misfortunes are where blessings depend on, from the blessing of Zashiki Warashi.]
[Effect: You are being affected by Zashiki Warashi’s blessing, and your good fortune is with you.]
Kamiya looked at the message on his phone. He was surprised at first, and then suddenly realized. He reached out and touched Zashiki Warashi's head: "Can you control the duration of your luck now?"
"ah!"
The little God of Fortune's eyes flashed, and he nodded vigorously, while pointing at the few white spots that appeared on his red kimono, and kept talking.
[Misfortune and fortune depend on each other] This skill's previous duration was completely unknown and random, and was not controlled by Zashiki's will.
But after Fu Bao was surrounded by the white bone aura just now, this skill actually began to become initially controllable!
Kamiyagawa glanced at the fine lines of white petals on Asaza's red kimono:
"I remember there is a saying that a Zashiki boy wearing a white kimono is a symbol of complete auspiciousness."
I understand, the little God of Fortune has found his own special skill.
Kamiyagawa compared the current situation with concepts that he could easily understand.
As for the strange child's skeleton, why it was able to strengthen Zashiki Warashi in a targeted manner. Kamiya, who already has a certain amount of knowledge about ghost stories, guessed this -
There are different opinions on the origin story of Zashiki Warashi.
However, these stories all have one thing in common: Zashiki Warashi are children who died and were transformed in some way.
And in this well where the Inugami was born, there were so many children who died tragically. Perhaps one of them had the conditions to become a Zashiki Warashi by accident.
But because the bottom of the well is the Inugami's lair.
The quasi-Zashiki boy who was in the state of a fertilized egg probably ended up being completely suppressed by the big white dog, and was stillborn in the end.
The bones he left behind were turned into "special martial arts" props, which was a waste of money for his son.
"Perhaps, zashiki will take this opportunity to transform from a red zashiki into a white zashiki." Kamiya thought.
It feels like Fu Bao suddenly has a promising future!