Volume 2 Rashomon of Yomi Hirasaka Chapter 8 Study hard
Once you step into Lingfang Bookstore, the fog outside will no longer disturb this pure land.
Perhaps everything was used as a place to store books, except for the green lawn and gravel road behind the gate, and a few steps ahead were endless wooden buildings. It was like a copy and paste of some inferior game, with almost identical Japanese cardboard pavilions extending endlessly backwards, as if time had been frozen forever.
Sitting next to the Eternal Pavilion was an old man with his eyes slightly closed, as if he had fallen asleep. Behind him, for some reason, there was a luxurious-looking floor-to-ceiling mirror. He was swaying back and forth, leisurely enjoying his life in this building in the mist.
Li Lin was not in a hurry and just stood there waiting.
"…Hello, passenger."
After a while, the old man sitting on the lounge chair slowly opened his eyes and glanced at Li Lin with half-open eyes.
"Copying books and records in this bookshop is free...Paper and pens are provided inside...But don't take the books out...If you want to know the secret history, go left...In the middle of the mythological records...To control the ghosts and gods, go right..."
"good."
Li Lin nodded, glanced at the mirror next to the old man, turned and walked into the study.
With Li Lin's eyes, he could naturally see it very clearly. In the mirror behind the old man, the moment the old man closed his eyes, a figure flashed through the mirror.
With his dynamic vision, it is impossible for him to miss such a thing. However, what made Li Lin feel something was wrong was that the figure that flashed by looked 80% to 90% similar to the old man. It was more like the old man who was a few decades younger.
This is quite interesting.
I feel like doing something a little more active.
Li Lin casually threw a candy ball into the corner of the bookstore and walked into the bookstore wrapped in clothes.
After entering the pavilion, there were three divergent intersections in front of him. Fortunately, there was nothing messy at this time. After Li Lin identified the sign hanging above, he walked along the corridor of secret history.
Strictly speaking, the time to come to Hirasaka is decided by Li Lin himself. If he feels that the environment here is good, it is okay to decide the outcome. It is completely different from the urgent spirit and environmental situation in the fog city. So even in the face of the provocation of those monsters, or the internal structure and customs of Hirasaka, Li Lin still maintained the greatest restraint.
After all, stability can create the greatest value. If it is unstable, where would he get the books to copy?
After opening a few familiar partition doors, layers of overlapping small bookshelves appeared in front of Li Lin.
It was not like the huge bookshelves in the West that had an inexplicable sense of oppression from top to bottom. Most of the books in Lingfang Bookstore were placed on a small table with a few thin papers or bamboo slips. There were only a few dozen small bookshelves in a room. In the middle was a piece of white paper, an inkstone and a few brushes. Basically, all the relevant preparations were done, and it looked quite careful. I just didn't know why there was a mirror on the opposite side.
“…”
I have a bad feeling.
Looking at the mirror, Li Lin raised his eyebrows, picked up a book at random and sat on the tatami to read it.
As expected, within a few minutes, Li Lin felt that his consciousness was being called. He didn't know when he stood up in the mirror and was looking at Li Lin outside the mirror with a toothy smile.
The familiar face was full of strangeness, and one could feel that the person in this figure was not a good person . A cold mist that penetrated the heart gradually rose up around him. After watching the performance of the monster in the mirror, Li Lin thought about it carefully, showed a tentative expression, and said seriously:
"Can you please stop disturbing me? I need to make a report. Can you go find someone else?"
“…”
The monster in the mirror laughed loudly after hearing what Li Lin said, and then took off his head and sprayed it all over the room. The head that fell off was still looking at Li Lin outside the mirror with a smile, and it looked like it didn't care.
Perhaps for this kind of monster living in the mirror world, teasing mortals and travelers is their job. And judging from this performance, there must have been a lot of deaths in Hirasaka. No wonder there are so many witches and gods in this place. There is no production without demand. Even in a bookstore, there can be a murderous and seductive mirror monster. You can basically know how much ugliness is hidden inside.
But Li Lin felt that it had found the wrong person.
You really found the wrong person.
"I already said I don't want to cause any trouble..."
Listening to the temptation coming from the mirror, Li Lin sighed and closed the book in his hand.
"I haven't done anything all this time, and I don't want to make anything too big, but if you want to die, I can't do anything about it... Sallys, eat it."
"Yes, I've been waiting for a long time."
A light laugh was heard in the warp.
The boundary between reality and illusion was distorted with this command. Anyone on the ground looking at the bookstore would feel an inexplicable burning sensation, like an invisible flame burning.
The world closed in an instant.
The sugar balls that fell to the ground slowly collapsed inwards, and brilliant marks took shape one after another. The huge and unimaginable spiritual power built a simple temple with the scattered sugar balls as the base. Before the monster in the mirror could react, the spiritual power that far exceeded his level by hundreds of people instantly devoured his essence, leaving no trace of his existence.
Even the barrier didn't have time to react, it just flickered with a few blank stars. As soon as the huge purifying power rose up, the evil spirit disappeared with the mirror monster. The speed of disappearance was as if it had never existed. Many shikigami and the purifying power circled in the sky, looking around in a daze, and then after a long while, they reluctantly returned to the place where they served.
After shining, those sugar balls turned into ashes and disappeared when blown by the wind.
"So there are really a lot of good things in Fog City... The things that are taken from the nobles are really powerful."
Symbolic beacons, simple temple construction, resonance connection, great demon mantra, exile rune, this is obviously a combination of punches.
But I can finally read quietly.
Feeling the satisfaction and happiness coming from Sallys after the simple temple was destroyed, Li Lin shook his head and continued to open the book in his hand, reading it quietly.
