Chapter 418: The Crow Witch
Although it is called playing, now is not the time to play. Although Xia Yu knew that he had come to the story of the priestess of Nuya, he didn't know the specific time point.
After all, the story takes place in a small place and cannot be learned through newspapers or the Internet.
In fact, all the stories in the Zero Series take place in small places, and the dangers that arise have been contained by the local people at a painful cost before they can expand and spread to harm the world.
It is also because of this that most people do not know that the world of ghosts and monsters is real, and only those with spiritual powers can get a glimpse of it.
"Let's go, let's go to Huangquan to block the door."
After silently scanning the entire Japan with his spiritual sense, Xia Yu withdrew his spiritual sense, took Xiu's hand, and then opened the portal.
Just now, he found the place where the story of the Witch of the Crow took place, the sun was rising on the mountain.
Mt. Higami is a famous mountain in Japan. There is a huge lake on the top of the mountain, named Higan Lake. Deep in the lake, there is a night spring.
Yequan is the water of the Yellow Spring. Therefore, Rishang Mountain has been regarded as a sacred mountain and revered since ancient times, and there is a unique belief in it.
However, the water of the Night Spring will overflow, and one day, the Night Spring suddenly overflowed, and then the Night Spring Wetness disaster occurred.
Because the Night Spring is the water of the underworld, the overflowing Night Spring will erode the real world, causing this place to merge with the hidden world, and the souls of the dead cannot rest in peace.
In order to suppress the source of the Night Spring - Kurosawa, three priestesses with powerful spiritual powers dedicated their bodies and threw themselves into the Night Spring as human pillars to suppress Kurosawa.
The three pillars eventually lost their spirits and their bodies merged into the night spring and disappeared.
From then on, in order to prevent the Night Spring from overflowing again, whenever the old Jinzhu collapsed, a new miko would be selected as the Jinzhu to suppress Kurosawa.
This tradition continued until around 1890, when a tragic massacre occurred in which all the priestesses on the mountain were killed.
But a powerful witch still tries to prevent the eruption of Night Spring with her own strength. However, the moment of collapse will eventually come.
Since then, time has come to around the 1990s.
Because of the massacre of the shrine maidens, there was no shrine maiden to succeed Hikageyama, and the inheritance was cut off. The seal of Hikageyama became increasingly unstable as it could not be replenished with human pillars.
And the witch who single-handedly stopped the Night Spring from erupting was now on the verge of collapse.
In order to delay the disaster, the spirit of the mountain priestess has been luring people to Mt. Higami and using them as sacrifices to suppress Kurosawa, but to little avail, and Kurosawa's seal gradually collapses.
It was against this backdrop that the year 2007 came.
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Sun rises over the mountains and city streets.
Although Rishang Mountain has become an area where the secluded and present worlds blend together, there are still many residents living below.
And because of the legend of ghosts, the government has also developed Rishang Mountain, hoping to turn it into a tourist attraction by leveraging the fame of ghosts.
However, due to various reasons, the development of Rishang Mountain was eventually interrupted, and the original plan to use it as a tourist attraction was abandoned.
At this moment, the space at the edge of the street suddenly cracked, and two people in strange clothes appeared here.
Faced with this bizarre scene, the people around had no reaction at all, as if they didn't see it.
"Tsk, I didn't expect to be able to smell the aura of Hades here. People who dare to live here are really brave."
Xia Yu, who came directly to the vicinity of Rishang Mountain through the portal, felt the breath of the underworld around him and couldn't help but complain.
Although these auras cannot affect the living, ordinary people cannot feel the aura of the underworld.
After Xia Yu took another look at the Sunrise Mountain where the Yellow Spring was leaking out, he took Xiu's hand and walked towards a coffee shop.
As they passed by, the flames transformed their clothes into modern clothes.
The name of the cafe is "Antique Cafe Kurosawa" and the female owner is called Kurosawa Mika.
In the game's setting, Kurosawa Mika is the descendant of the shrine maidens who once lived near Mt. Higami, and therefore possesses a meager amount of spiritual power.
At the same time, she took the "projector" left by an old woman, and obtained the "shadow seeing" ability to find lost items from the old woman's oral tradition and various documents.
Shadow Vision is a special power passed down in the area around Mt. Rishang, which can be used to track missing people and objects.
As long as you hold the "fragrance" left by disappeared people and objects in your hands, you can sense images from the past, which are afterimages.
The afterimage is a shadow formed by the remaining thoughts of the search target and its past appearance. If the person using the shadow-seeing ability is powerful, it is possible to directly see the target's appearance.
As for the so-called "sending incense", it is an item used as a clue when exercising "shadow vision", which retains the thoughts of the search object.
Generally, the "fragrance" sent is usually items that the person carries with them on a daily basis, or body parts such as hair, stationery and diaries filled with thoughts and feelings, photos of the person being taken, etc.
The stronger the thoughts attached to it, the clearer the afterimage the user sees.
In addition to running the cafe business, the owner of the cafe, Mika Kurosawa, also undertakes the work of finding lost items and tracking missing people.
Although Mika Kurosawa is not a major character in the game, her cafe is the base camp that brings together all the major characters.
Therefore, just go to the cafe and you can find out where the plot is going.
Coffee shop.
Xia Yu pulled Xiu, who had a calm expression, in. Although it was their first time in modern times, under Xia Yu's influence, it was not Xiu's first time to come into contact with everything in modern times.
After all, the interior of the Osaka Castle in the Nioh II world had already been modernized, and she had long been accustomed to it.
“…I’ll check it myself.”
Just as the two of them stepped through the gate, a short-haired girl said this expressionlessly, and then walked out of the gate with a lonely look.
When passing by the girl, Xia Yu raised his eyebrows slightly. He felt the smell of death from the girl .
This is a girl who failed in suicide but is still determined to die.
“Ah… that…”
At the counter in the store, the girl with long chestnut hair wanted to say something, but the girl with short hair had already left.
Seeing this, the long-haired girl had to withdraw her hand. It was not until then that she noticed Xia Yu and the other man who had just stepped into the door.
"Welcome... Welcome!"
The long-haired girl had a hint of sadness in the corners of her eyes, and she looked a little gloomy, but she still forced herself to cheer up and greeted the guests who came in.
"Well, two cups of coffee first."
Seeing that the heroine of this work was not Fang Xili, Xia Yu did not rush forward, but sat down at the dining table nearby.
Even though you are here to save these girls, if you reveal your purpose without saying anything, you are a fool and a bootlicker.
The right thing to do is to immerse yourself in the story, have heart-to-heart talks with the girls, and save them in times of crisis.
