158, Ghost Extermination (16) Guardian of the Dawn
"Healed."
The old doctor took back the stethoscope attached to Inosuke's chest, smiled kindly and nodded: "Both of them are cured."
"That means we can continue to carry out the mission." I had the foresight to fasten the hat on my head early, and while adjusting the twine tied around my chin to fix the blackout hat, I tied it into a mess.
The slipknot was retied even worse:
"Speaking of which, I feel very strange. Tanjiro and Inosuke have to stay here because they are injured, but Zenitsu and I don't need to recuperate. Why don't we have any missions these days?"
Zenitsu watched me tie it for a long time with a distorted expression, twitching his eyes and staring at my fingers that didn't obey the instructions of my brain. Finally, he couldn't hold back and slapped away the claws of caterpillars that I tried to tie the bow with, and frowned.
He used his sword-cocooned fingers to help me tie a slip knot flexibly: "It would be better if there was no mission? Glory, do you really want to face ghosts? It's super scary, isn't it?!"
"This is different." I muttered quietly.
A large part of why I hope to kill ghosts is because I have a mission of "killing Shangxian", and another more urgent reason is...
――I finally remembered that I still have a ghostly cheating setting.
That happened two days ago. I happily took Inosuke, the bag carrier, to visit the town. It is relatively close to Asakusa. The town at the foot of the mountain is home to many relatives of high-ranking officials and nobles. In comparison, it is smaller than other towns.
To be more prosperous, the most intuitive manifestation is that there are many jewelry stalls...
Although most of them are girls' decorations, they don't have "women only!" or "men not allowed!" marked on them. Just avoid some colors that are too pink and too obvious, as well as darker and more stable neck and hand accessories.
He's very handsome! You must know that ever since I entered this dungeon, I have been stoic (?) unlike me. I only wore a pair of Huazha brand earrings for so many days, which were strung together with simple silk threads. Compared to
The hairpins, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings that I should normally have... Oh, how rough I have become.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that when returning to the wisteria flower house, Inosuke shouted that he was harder than Tanjiro's head (I think he will never be able to achieve it in his life), and he aggressively bumped into the wisteria planted in the yard.
Flowers and trees, and then the falling wisteria flowers fell all over my head...
It’s hard to imagine what I felt at that time. Being surrounded by hydrogen sulfide was nothing like this. My mind went blank for almost three minutes, and then I crawled out of the tree under the threat of hypoxia, hugging me with lingering fear.
After gasping for a long time while leaning on the railings of the corridor, I pulled out the thing that my mother had tricked me from the dungeon settings that had been forgotten for a long time - the progress of ghost transformation!
Is she really my biological mother? Why do you want to add such a cruel setting to me? It’s already very difficult to kill a Shangxian, right? I haven’t even seen a hair on the Shangxian ghost for so many days.
I can't turn into a 100/100 ghost before I find the winding ghost, right?
From this point of view, I have more needs for the ghost-killing mission. Upgrading the level of the team members is an important matter now. Maybe after reaching a certain level, maybe I will be eligible to contact the news of "Wind String"?
I sighed sadly. Sure enough, the new mode couldn't treat me well. There was no need to expect that the requirements would be relaxed, because it would definitely make up for the difficulty in the other direction - how could I upgrade to this level in such a short period of time?
It’s a level enough to be exposed to the mini-boss! Not only do you have to bring the debuff to fight monsters, but there is also a cheating time limit, and after the debuff is discovered, it is very likely that you will suddenly become famous and be hunted down by friendly team members... I really hope that so-called
The "winding ghost" took the initiative to come to me!
With unrealistic fantasies, I urged Zenitsu, who was reluctant to move, "Zenitsu, hurry up and stop holding on to the pillar. Tanjiro has already walked a long way carrying Nezuko on his back."
Already."
The effect was immediate. Zenitsu's obsession with girls rivaled my obsession with faces. This guy immediately screamed "Nezuko-chan" and chased after him, raising a string of khaki smoke behind him, followed by Inosuke.
After shouting "Wen Yi, do you want to fight?" and Tanjiro trying to stop the fight, we officially left the Wisteria Pattern House.
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"Northeast to the north! Northeast to the north—"
Tanjiro's crow circled around in the sky: "Everyone, go to the northeast! The next place is Nada Spider Mountain! Go to Nada Spider Mountain!"
That Spider Mountain? According to the fact that the names of many mountains are related to their own characteristics, are there many spiders in that mountain?
It sounded like the sound of a spider crawling in my ears, and there was an itchy sensation on my skin that was covered with sticky fine spider silk. I couldn't help but scratch the back of my hand.
"I hate spiders."
"Huh?" Shanyi looked over with a sour look on his face: "Glory, weren't you still looking forward to doing the mission before?"
Me: "But this doesn't conflict with my hating spiders."
I frowned and touched the brim of my hat: "Not just spiders, I also hate centipedes, mosquitoes, flies and metamorphosing insects of the order Blattida."
Zenitsu's eyes were blank for a moment, probably imagining the scene where these kinds of insects that would dominate human settlements even in many years would appear in front of him, and then his face turned green: "Hmm... that's true...
very disgusting……"
Tanjiro turned his head curiously: "What are the metamorphosing insects of the order Blattida?"
I answered him with a deep look on my face and a serious tone: "It's a disgusting insect with extremely terrifying vitality that makes my scalp tingle when I think about it. I don't want to name it."
I hate this kind of bug so much that I don’t even want to name it. I even memorized a very academic name just for this purpose.
Zenitsu: "So what is it?! It sounds so scary! You don't even want to say the name! How scary is that?!"
It was so scary that I woke up and found that I had an acne! I hissed, and painfully said its name in front of three friends who didn’t understand academic terms:
"cockroach."
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Glory's recent heart sounds are a bit strange.
He seemed to be anxious about something, and sometimes his heartbeats were a bit disorganized - but only sometimes. The normal heartbeat of Glory sounded like a very optimistic and cheerful note, even if there were noisy negative emotions, it was like throwing a stone into the air.
In a pond, a few ripples will be quickly smoothed out.
My wife Zenitsu stared at the red back of his head in front of him. After the sky got dark, the red-haired friend took off his "sun protection" hat. I wonder if Honor's sun protection is too good, but his skin has been affected recently.
The white color is a bit abnormal, with a sickly gray air.
The sky was already dark, and the closer we got to the foot of Nada Spider Mountain, the more ominous the feeling became. My wife, Zenitsu, really wanted to stop here and not go to that mountain that exuded a terrifying aura, but whether it was Glory or Tanjiro,
, all looked fearless and marched resolutely towards their destination, not to mention Inosuke, who was even excited with the boar head on his head.
In less than ten minutes' journey, we will be able to enter the area of Natian Spider Mountain. I should have rushed in at once, but due to practical factors, I had to personally stretch out my hand and shout to stop:
"Wait, wait, five minutes, let me rest for five minutes..."
I leaned on my knees and gasped, and my lungs were throbbing with pain. Starting early in the morning, we kept running until the evening...Are these people marathon runners? They
Is your stamina at the level of an animal? You can reach this point without feeling tired, and you don’t even have shortness of breath!
You must know that this is not an easy jog. The sloped dirt road is not only more strenuous than running on a flat gymnasium playground, but these guys can even chat with each other in the middle... This endurance is a bit ridiculous, right?
?
"Glory, isn't your endurance a little weak?" Tanjiro rubbed the tip of his nose with the back of his index finger and looked at me with a worried expression of "You need to exercise."
"Tch, it's true that this red-haired man is too weak." The bag-carrying tool man pointed his wild boar hood at me in a high-spirited manner, and even blew out two puffs of air from the nostrils of the wild boar's head to express his disdain.
"It's obviously something wrong with your physical strength, right?" After catching my breath, I couldn't help but start to retort: "It's not easy to run all the way to this point! Who knows why your endurance is so abnormal!"
Obviously I could beat the three of them in an arm-wrestle, and even if I were asked to perform a crushing tug-of-war, it was not impossible. But what I didn't expect was that I, who had the upper hand in physical fitness, lost completely in terms of endurance on the road...
"Well, I think I know the reason..."
Zenitsu suddenly raised his hand hesitantly, and immediately attracted all the attention. You could see him blinking his big golden eyes with excessive water content, and looked at me hesitantly: "It should be because, Glory
You don’t know any breathing techniques, do you?”
Me: "Hmm? What kind of breathing method can make you a marathon champion per person?"
Zenitsu immediately hung a black thread on his head: "What a marathon, it's just that we will regain our strength during the process of breathing..."
I looked shocked: "What! And it brings back the blue one automatically!"
Zenitsu: "???What Huilan?"
I didn't answer him, but held my chest with a heartbroken expression: "What a pity, why did I only learn how to breathe after half a month of learning?"
Tanjiro scratched his cheek curiously: "Is overbreathing the new breathing method?"
I:"……"
Your question is very thoughtful. What is the breathing method of overbreathing? I also want to know.
"Let's keep going." I suggested with complicated emotions. If this continues, do I have to educate them on what "alkalosis" is? Obviously I should be the one who is a bad student and can remember one "
The term "alkalosis" is very difficult to explain. I really can't explain it clearly.
"Ah, oh, okay." Tanjiro is very good at this. He never asks too many questions and is easily diverted. As soon as I told him to go on, he started to move his legs vigorously without delay at all -
"etc?!"
As soon as he finished boasting, Tanjiro decisively did not take another step. He stood straight on the spot and raised his head with a solemn expression. He twitched his nose and sniffed the air: