Chapter 1297 The Dead Dongliu Island (12)

Chapter 1297 The Dead Dongliu Island (12)

The small wooden house was crowded with people.

The villagers looked at Mrs. Tsuichiro lying on the bed, with worried expressions on their faces.

They talked quietly.

"Mrs. Tsuichiro was not like this before... I even bought fish from her before. She is a very kind person..."

“Her family was originally the richest in several surrounding villages.

In the past, every winter, you could see dried fish drying in front of his house... So much has changed in just a few years.

When did Tsuichiro stop catching fish?

A well-known fisherman can no longer catch fish... Those ghosts and gods hiding in the dark really like to play tricks on people..."

"It seems that after Yujiro went to work as a servant in the samurai master's house in Numata, their family gradually stopped catching fish..."

"Their home was originally on the hillside to the west of Haijin Village, backed by a forest. When I passed by Haijin Village before, I saw their house - several wooden houses, right? Later I heard that something happened in their home There was a fire and the house was burned to ashes, so we had to move to our current residence.”

Su Wu extracted a lot of information about the crazy "Mrs. Tsuichiro" in bed from the discussions of the surrounding villagers and common people.

The husband of the woman on the bed, Tsuichiro, was once a fisherman from several surrounding villages. He was highly skilled in fishing. He once supported his family by fishing from the sea, and gradually lived a prosperous life.

But after the second son "Yujiro" went to work as a servant in the samurai family in Numata, the situation of the Tsuichiro family went from bad to worse for some reason. From the situation where they had a lot of fish in the past, it became difficult to catch a fish, so the family situation suddenly declined again. , became what it is now.

To make matters worse for Tsuichiro's family, several houses that his family had renovated when they were wealthy were destroyed by fires and had to be moved to their current residence. Since then, Mrs. Tsuichiro has become ill. , his health deteriorated, and he gradually hid in the house and stopped seeing people.

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

Mrs. Tsuichiro, who was lying in her own feces and urine, was facing the wall, not looking at the people pouring into the house, and still muttering in a low voice.

At this time, the young man who was responsible for looking after Mrs. Jinichiro held a bowl of fish soup and squeezed through the crowd. He muttered to the white-haired islander next to Su Wu: "Grandpa, I have cooked fish soup for her. She didn't want to drink it, so when I gave her water, she knocked it over..."

As he spoke, he brought the fish soup in his hand to the white-haired old man.

The old man lowered his head and sniffed the turbid liquid in the bowl, and presented it to Su Wu: "Sir, you see... Mrs. Tsuichiro has gone crazy now, and it is impossible to ask any useful information from her... "

"Let me give it a try."

Su Wu picked up the bowl of fish soup with a distinct fishy smell and walked to the wooden bed.

He looked at Mrs. Tsuichiro, who was blind-eyed and crazy on the bed. Tao Zu stood beside him with his hands behind his back, also observing the woman on the wooden bed.

Even though the woman at the moment was completely crazy and could no longer answer any of Su Wu's questions, if Su Wu wanted to find any clues from her, he didn't need the other party to say anything - he had many ways to get it from the other party. Find real clues on your body.

"Fish soup." Su Wu looked at the woman lying on her side on the bed, murmuring to the wall, and handed the bowl of fish soup in her hand to her, "The fish soup you want."

When Mrs. Tsuichiro saw Su Wu bringing the fish soup, she suddenly became very excited and raised her arms suddenly, trying to knock over the bowl of fish soup that Su Wu handed over: "It's too fishy, ​​it's not fish soup! No. Fish soup!”

In the current era, using spices in food ingredients is an extremely luxurious thing, and the processing methods for most fish are naturally very crude. Without the cooperation of spices and seasonings, it is difficult to cover up the fishy smell of fish soup. impossible things.

However, Mrs. Tsuichiro seemed extremely unaccustomed to the fishy smell, as if she had drank fish soup without fishy smell. She moved her arms excitedly, about to knock over the fish soup on the spot - Su Wu retracted his palm at this time , handing the water bowl to the young man who followed next to him.

In the water bowl, the turbid fish soup did not even create a ripple!

“How can fish soup not be fishy?

Is fish soup without fishy smell still fish soup? "Su Wu spoke softly to Mrs. Jinichiro. The other party turned over, with a pair of muddy and lifeless eyes on her face covered with filth, staring straight at Su Wu, but it seemed like she was staring at nothing.

Mrs. Tsuichiro murmured to herself again: "Fish soup, fish soup..."

While she was muttering to herself in a low voice, Su Wu's eyebrows suddenly opened, and the 'Nagarjuna Great Sun Spirit' coiled around the brain-like ghostly dream stretched out its branches from behind his head, and dense clumps of The branch of the spirit tree covered Mrs. Tsuichiro's head, so the ceremony also reflected the many causes and effects that Mrs. Tsuichiro was involved in -

Incomparably dense threads of cause and effect exploded from Mrs. Tsuichiro's body!

Su Wu had never seen such dense threads of cause and effect on an ordinary person!

Such a large number of causal threads, like threads dyed red with blood, filled the entire house, squirming crazily. The other end of each blood-red causal thread extended into the 'void', and was In the void beyond these threads of cause and effect, swollen corpses emerged one after another.

Those corpses were dressed in modern clothes. Although their bodies were swollen due to drowning for a long time, they could no longer look like they used to be. But looking at their clothes, one could tell that each of these corpses was a deceased person from modern times!

Countless shadows of the dead were piled up around Mrs. Tsuichiro's bed, layer upon layer, forming a huge mountain of corpses!

But she was clearly an ordinary islander from the ancient Dongliu Island. How could she be related to the many dead people in this world? Su Wu's intuition was that the cause and effect of many modern Dongliu Islanders who died under her "wishes" of the "Miko Tsuzhao" was implicated in the current "Mrs. Tsuichiro"!

Mrs. Tsuichiro is really the ‘key’ to solving all these mysteries!

Wisps of cold and eerie vibes like gangrene drifted out from the surrounding swollen corpses. Su Wu raised his eyes and looked at the pile of countless corpses around him. Those whose bodies were swollen and whose facial features were blurred due to excessive swelling. When he looked at the corpses in a blink of an eye, they suddenly changed their appearance and turned into women with black hair and Wu clothes. The women raised their faces and looked at Su Wu, revealing a face as beautiful and dangerous as a poppy flower. .

"Hehehe..."

Her chuckle lingered in Su Wu's ears.

Su Wu didn't try to catch the black-haired woman in Wu clothes, nor did he try to capture the scattered charms around him - he knew quite well in his heart that he seemed to be no further away from the scattered charms than this witch. So close, he, the witch, and Yun are actually in two different worlds!

The other party is in another world, so there is no way to catch him at this moment!

Fortunately, he already holds the key to 'Mrs. Tsuichiro'.

He raised his eyebrows and slowly closed his eyes, and the 'Nagarjuna Dainigenshen' reflected every messy and disordered thought of 'Mrs. Tsuichiro' - a normal person's arrangement of thoughts would never be as arranged as Mrs. Tsuichiro's. My thoughts are so confused.

Su Wu tried to reflect the past memory fragments that appeared in Mrs. Tsuichiro's thoughts. However, at this time, the beautiful and dangerous face of the miko appeared in every thought of hers, which fundamentally blocked Su Wu's understanding of her thoughts. Explore!

Mrs. Tsuichiro’s sexual desire seems to have sunk into ‘another world’!

Su Wu remained calm and collected his soul.

All the strangeness slowly dissipated.

Tao Zu, who was standing next to him, looked at him at this moment, grinned, and said, "You just seemed to be escaping into the 'another world' just like you were in the forest before.

The world on the other side is not included in the world.

Should it be the cause and effect that the monk said was drawn to another Dongliu Island here? "

"There is a high probability that this should be the case." Su Wu nodded and said with a frown, "The maiden Zhuzhao is hidden on 'another Dongliu Island'. Now that she cannot truly enter that world, there is no way to find her. With her trace, take back the Ten Destruction Swords and the Prison from her hands..."

Jianzhen, who had remained silent, said at this time: "The poor monk said before... We don't have to look for her, she will come to find us.

As a god, the ‘Zhuzhao Great God’ fulfilled her wish, and she must be quite curious about the basic human form of the god...”

Su Wu heard what Jian Zhen said and nodded.

He already somewhat agreed with Jianzhen's words.

The resentment accumulated in the heart of the 'Wizard of the Candlelight' was enough to trigger the Ten Destruction Swords and the Evil Prison. Before she destroyed all living beings on Dongliu Island, her inner emotions had already turned into a terrible resentment. After her death, most of the people on Dongliu Island perished with her. The cause and effect of the deceased was closely connected with her, forming the 'dead world of Dongliu Island'.

Such ‘things’ cannot be judged by common sense at all.

Originally, Su Wu thought that by forcibly grabbing one of her arms and snatching away a trace of her karma, she would be wary of her, causing her to lurk and no longer show her signs - but now he understood that the essence of the 'Wizard of the Candlelight' had turned into After the 'Dead Dongliu Island', he suddenly understood that the dead did not care about their own demise at all.

At the moment, he deliberately left the cause and effect on Mrs. Tsuichiro, and he had the idea of ​​​​playing a "cat and mouse game" with Su Wu.

It's just that who is the cat and who is the mouse has not yet been determined.

"Then let's wait until she takes the initiative to invite us." Su Wu said something, then turned to look at Mrs. Tsuichiro on the bed, "Why did the shrine maid Zhuzhao choose her to be the carrier of cause and effect?

Could she be the distant ancestor of the candle-lighting shrine maid? "

After saying a few words, Su Wu shook his head again and took the initiative to deny his guess: "It shouldn't be that simple..."

Afterwards, Su Wu comforted the local islanders and asked them to disperse.

Su Wu and his party found an empty room opposite Tsuichiro's house and settled temporarily.

At this time, Hong Renkun also brought Tsuichiro's second son, 'Yujiro', to the village. Yujiro, who worked as a groom at the house of 'Samurai Koichiro', visited his mother in tears and took on the burden of taking care of Mrs. Tsuichiro.

However, even when his mother saw him, she just kept asking him for fish soup and water, without any sign of recognizing him.

"Why does your mother keep talking about 'fish soup' and 'water'? Do you know the reason? Yujiro." Su Wu sat in the house and asked the frightened Yujiro.

When Yujiro heard Su Wu's question, he looked hesitant. He seemed to understand something, but also seemed to have some concerns. He refused to speak for a long time.

"What are you worried about?

There is no need to be afraid, no matter it is a monster or a god, I can protect your life from them. If you are afraid of the ghosts and gods lurking in the dark, you don’t have to be afraid now. "Su Wu looked at Yujiro and said again.

There was a calming power in his words.

When Yujiro heard his words, he immediately relaxed a little.

He knelt down to Su Wu and said tremblingly: "Sir, I probably know... the fish soup my mother longed for is not actually fish stew...

Instead, it's a soup made from a baby girl.

My father, mother, and brother have eaten this kind of soup, and they never forget this 'fish soup'! "

"Baby girl?!" When Su Wu heard what Yujiro said, something suddenly sounded!

No wonder Mrs. Tsuichiro is so disgusted with fish soup stewed with real sea fish, saying that the fish soup is too fishy - it turns out that she has indeed tasted fish soup that has no fishy smell!

"what on earth is it?

There was a famine here, so you had to..." Su Wu did not say the rest of the words.

Yujiro, who was kneeling on the ground, tremblingly explained the past events.

"As you said, there was a famine in Haijin and the surrounding villages. People could not catch fish from the sea and could not harvest crops from the fields...

At that time, the mother was giving birth, so she exchanged the baby girl for a similarly newborn child from another family...

But just a baby can't save everyone's life.

So the village chiefs of several villages united and decided to hold a sacrifice to the God of the Sea, hoping that he would reward us with fish. Since that sacrifice, everyone's life has gradually gotten better..."

Su Wu listened to Yujiro's explanation, and the thoughts unfolded like gurgling water. He examined every thought of Yujiro and captured all the details of the past from his memory.

When Yujiro experienced the famine, he was still young and did not know many of the fragments. Many of them imagined the scene through the dictation of his father and brother. The authenticity of those imaginary fragments cannot be determined, so even if Su Wu had heard After hearing Yujiro's narration, we cannot judge the actual situation at that time.

He then found several elders from surrounding villages to learn about what happened back then.

These old men had also experienced famines in the past, and their accounts were exactly the same as Yujiro's.