Chapter 1296 A bowl of fish soup (22)

Chapter 1296 A bowl of fish soup (22)

Su Wu stared at the thread of cause and effect in his hand that was drifting away like fishy smoke to the distant village. As his thoughts turned, the spinning cause and effect talisman instantly showed its 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 watched the swollen arm in his hand suddenly rot, 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, burning all the swollen corpses on the ground to prevent the strange charm contained in the corpses from hurting innocent people again.

"Did you find anything?" Tao Zu asked Su Wu with great interest, "Just when there was a strange charm flowing out of the body of the corpse you opened up just now, your figure also disappeared without a trace. .

I thought you had wandered into some underworld, so I used the 'Breath of the Underworld' to trace your traces, but I didn't find your traces in the underworld ravine. Juiyun seems to have entered an unknown world. "

"It should be that he has 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 Xiang Jianzhen asked: "This witch must be the 'Tshuzhao maiden'? 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.

Jianzhen had previously claimed that 'Haruko Inoue' existed in 'Rashomon', but now it was also claimed that Haruko had disappeared, and Su Wu saw the 'Wizard Maid with Candlelight' transformed into Haruko's face... The mystery now becomes more and more complex. The more time he came, the more Su Wu felt that if he wanted to solve the final mystery, 'Haruko' 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, just to 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 suddenly, so he lowered his eyes and said a few more words, "Qingzi is also in Rashomon. Rashomon." The 'Beauty's Creepy' 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, turning into a new ‘beauty’ inside.

But the real Haruko has disappeared 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 struggles with Jianzhen.

He looked at the anxious 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 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 see the surviving woman, now is a good 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 feel like eating now.

Let's go over and see the situation first!"

"Yes..."

After listening to what the white-haired old man said, Su Wu felt that the only surviving woman in Haijin Village might have something to do with the cause and effect of the "Zhu Zhao Wu Maiden".

She might even be the person that Su Wu forcibly pulled over.

After responding to the white-haired old man, he glanced at Hong Renkun.

Hong Renkun immediately understood Su Wu's eyes, and he nodded to the many islanders: "Go to sleep! "

When the islanders heard Hong Renkun's words, they all fell into a daze and fell asleep on the spot.

While they were sleeping, Tao Zu had already activated the 'Breath of the Dark', absorbing all the people present into it, and disappeared from the spot in an instant!

The stench in the air suddenly decreased a lot because the swollen corpses placed in the forest were burned to ashes. As the breeze blew, the stench became weaker and weaker.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps on the slope beside the forest.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and then at a certain moment they stopped suddenly. With a scream, a young man in ragged clothes rolled down the slope.

He lay on the mud. In the mud, he cried out "ouch ouch" several times, and then slowly climbed up from the mud.

The young man did not bother to clean the mud on his body, and limped towards the distant Haijin Village.

The young man seemed to have run 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 was the groom "Yongjiro" of the "Samurai Koichiro" mansion, and his home was in Haijin Village. He had left here with Samurai Koichiro before, and found an opportunity halfway and fled back on his own - a tragic large-scale death incident occurred in his hometown village. Even if he could not see his parents and brothers for the last time, he should at least collect their bodies and send them to the grave. The last journey.

Moreover, he heard that there was a woman in the village who had survived by chance.

Although it was unlikely that the woman who survived was his mother, what if?

…

The light was dim in the simple thatched house.

There were mud pits everywhere on the floor of the house without bricks and stones.

The stench of feces and rotting sea fish mixed in this small house, making people feel very uncomfortable.

On the only "bed" in the hut, which was supported by stones and several wooden boards, there lay a woman with a dirty face. The woman hummed hoarsely: "Water... Water..."

Someone who was taking care of her brought the water bowl to her, but she shook her head and broke away. , she shouted again: "I want fish soup, I want fish soup..."

"This is fish soup..." The young man holding the water bowl felt a little wronged.

He was ordered by the village chief to take care of the only survivor in Haijin Village, but it was too difficult to take care of him. The other party kept shouting "water" and "fish soup", but he sent both water and fish soup to him, but the other party refused to drink and spilled the water.

"Water..."

The woman closed her eyes and her voice became much hoarse.

The young man sniffed the stench in this room, which was many times stronger than other places, and hurried out of the house with the bowl of fish soup.

As soon as he walked out of the house, the woman inside shouted even louder: "Fish soup, fish soup! "

He listened to the shouts in the house and sighed helplessly. Just when he was at a loss, he saw a group of people hurriedly coming. Those people surrounded several "giants" that the young man had never seen before. The young man's eyes fell on those "giants" and he couldn't take his eyes 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 in the heavy rain-but they died on the boat, and their deaths were exactly the same as those of the other victims..."

"Where is her second son?"

"The second son...seems to be a servant in the house of a certain adult in Numata.

We saw him before..."

"Huh?" Su Wu heard the answers from the people around him, he stopped, looked at the small-eyed man who was talking, and asked him, "Have you seen the second son of Tsuichiro's family before? "

"...Yes..." The small-eyed man was frightened when Su Wu looked at him, but he didn't dare to lie, so he told Su Wu what happened at that time, "Yongjiro came with you, he followed a samurai, but we didn't dare to talk to him at that time, for fear of being scolded by the adults - we heard from Mrs. Tsuichiro before that her son worked as a servant in the samurai's house in Numata, and he could eat well every day..."

"Among the people traveling with us, the only servant was the groom." Hong Renkun spoke at this time, "No wonder I saw that he looked uneasy at that time, I think he knew something happened in his family, so he was restless. "

"Let's get him here too." Su Wu nodded and said.

Hong Renkun said, "Hmm," "I'll go get him."

After speaking, the square-faced middle-aged man disappeared on the spot, and the many islanders present were not surprised by this scene - when Hong Renkun disappeared, the impression of 'Hong Renkun' disappearing' in their minds was also eliminated.

Su Wu then looked up at the thatched house in front of him.

Outside the house, a wooden wall was woven with sticks and vines. A young man stood inside the fence holding a rough pottery bowl and looked up at Su Wu.

Not far outside the fence, there was a well.

The villagers should get their daily drinking water from this well.

Surrounded by the crowd, Su Wu stepped into the fence, and a stronger rotten stench lingered in the muddy courtyard.

Su Wu saw that the ray of cause and effect that he had intercepted was drifting into the only thatched house in the yard.

He followed the thread of cause and effect into the thatched house, and when he passed by the young man, he looked into the water bowl he was holding.

The water bowl was filled with turbid fish soup, and there were wisps of hot steam.

In the house, a woman with a dirty face was lying on the wooden bed, and she was shouting towards the door: "Water-water-"

At this time, Su Wu stepped into the house, and his figure blocked the sunlight from outside.

When the old woman on the bed saw him, she suddenly stopped shouting, slowly turned her head and faced the wall.

The smell of feces and rotten smell mixed together and flowed here.

The thread of cause and effect from the witch was now entangled with the old woman on the bed.

The others followed into the house, and they all frowned under the impact of the filthy stench in the house.

"Fish soup...fish soup..."

Mrs. Tsuichiro on the bed faced the wall, and her shouting became very light.