Chapter 56 Wonder: It seems that we all have a connection with the Ten Commandments.
Tanghongshan, hot spring behind the shrine.
"What happened?"
The blood butterfly swung its knife to disperse the mist in front of the blood cocoon, and the person trapped inside rose and fell with the flowing spring water.
"Bai Ye and Yang Yan are in trouble. I can see from the team status bar that Bai Ye is in a dangerous state now."
Linglan spoke very quickly, but when she looked up, she was suddenly stunned.
The person who was used as "soup ingredient" and floated in the liquid in the blood cocoon looked exactly like Saotome Rin.
He was just younger, looking only about seven or eight years old, and had obviously lost consciousness. Only the faint rise and fall of his chest told Linglan that he was still alive.
"This... Could it be that Rin is also a witness to the Yomiuri incident in reality?"
Xuedie nodded. Linglan couldn't tell what she was thinking, but she knew that she was probably not as calm as she appeared to be.
"She and Yang Yan were both ingredients for the soup at the time, and they almost turned into dried bones in the hot spring."
Xuedie looked at the other slightly pulsating blood cocoons and tightened her grip on the knife handle again: "However, compared to Bai Ye, what we should worry about now is ourselves."
Linglan was even more puzzled. She couldn't understand why Xuedie trusted Bai Ye so much. After all, apart from his special skill of being immune to soul particles, that guy was really just an ordinary high school student. In fact, because of the side effects of the soul tag, his body was worse than that of an ordinary person. He would start to breathe rapidly after running a few steps.
"No matter how you look at it, Bai Ye is the one who needs to be worried, right? I don't know what the earthquake-like noise just now is..."
Linglan gritted her teeth and said, "I will help you rescue all the people here from the blood cocoon first. You are more familiar with this place than I am. You can help me show the way later. We can be considered to be helping each other--"
"boom--"
Before Linglan could finish her words, there was a loud shaking sound. The water in countless hot spring pools was shaken to overflow from the edge of the pool by the terrible vibration. A huge shadow appeared from behind the rock wall, and two figures ran frantically from the other end, but they could only barely maintain a short distance between themselves and the giant behind them and could not escape at all.
The outlines of those two people... always seem a little familiar?
When Suzuran looked closely, she found that the face was more than familiar; it was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar. The one who was struggling to survive under the might of the huge monster behind him was none other than Kagero, who was supposed to be with Byakuya, and Saotome Rin, who disappeared right before Suzuran's eyes.
"Sister Linglan! Blood Butterfly! Run! We can't fight that thing! Go!"
Yang Yan saw Ling Lan and Xue Die standing by the spring through the mist that was swept away by the monster behind him. Yang Yan, who always believed in "just charge and it's over", showed such a firm determination to escape for the first time. Ling Lan said disdainfully: "What scared you like this? Let me have a fight--"
When she looked up, she saw a huge monster sticking its head out from under the rock wall. The giant snake's body seemed to be made entirely of energy, but the sense of oppression was stronger than any entity. The spotted scales on its head looked like blood vessels and flesh in the human body, and there were obvious burn marks on it, like magma, which made people feel physically uncomfortable when they saw it.
According to the calculation based on the huge head that is several meters long, the overall length of the giant beast is definitely more than tens of meters.
"It won't work now, hurry up and go!"
Linglan followed suit, picked up the fork and flew. She picked up Saotome Rin, who was staggering and almost falling on the ground. The two of them sat on the forks and rushed in the opposite direction of the giant snake under the winding movement of the ghost orchid. It goes without saying that Yangyan was the main attacker and his body speed was very fast. Xuedie slid backwards and even avoided the giant snake's tail.
"What on earth is that?"
Linglan noticed that the other three people didn't show any obvious surprise on their faces, so she asked.
"Tanghong Mountain is the place where the Demon King Eden's Serpent fell. That thing was made by a demon apostle who called himself Tangzhu and the Demon King's blood that remained deep in the mountain. The object of the imitation... was one of the four demon kings who unified the world a thousand years ago."
Although Saotome Rin was trembling because of her extremely fast escape just now, her tone was very steady. She no longer pretended to be an ordinary high school student who was accidentally involved in the devil's game, and she directly blurted out the secret that even the Squid Detective Agency did not know.
"God damn it! The place where the devil fell?! No wonder the oppression of that thing is so terrible, it can no longer be described as a demon-level existence--"
Lily of the Valley gritted her teeth and continued to increase the speed of the fork. The blood butterfly turned into a group of flickering butterflies flashing in the air. Even the main attacker of S4 did not want to fight against a monster of that level.
Fortunately, the giant snake seemed to have a certain sense of territory. After several people ran desperately out of the coverage area of several hot spring pools on the back mountain of the shrine, the earth-shaking roar had disappeared. Suzuran and Saotome Rin looked back from high in the sky, only to see a deep cave suddenly appearing beside the hot spring pool forest. It was obviously the passage that the giant snake monster had just drilled out and returned to the underground.
"It's actually a guard type, or it was called away by someone else..."
Suzuran heaved a sigh of relief and jumped off the fork with Saotome Rin. Butterfly Group and Yangyan landed beside them. For the first time, the calm face of the Blood Butterfly puppet showed a solemn emotion. She looked in the direction of the giant snake for a long time: "Why is it so fast this time?"
"Because the demon apostles are starting over again, they will definitely avoid the places where they failed last time, and then... speed up all the processes."
Saotome Rin jumped off the fork with such agility that she didn't look like an ordinary person at all, but no one present had the time to care about that.
"Are you also an eyewitness to the disaster ten years ago?" Yang Yan looked at Xue Die with some suspicion. In his memory, there has never been such a person in Huangquan Town.
"Yes, but not like you."
Blood Butterfly nodded, and Linglan clapped her hands, interrupting their conversation: "Although I need to know what you are hiding, but not now. Judging from the snake, the vibration just now was caused by this thing? By the way, Yangyan, Lin, haven't you been working with Bai Ye? Have you seen him? He is in a very bad state now, and Mai Li is not talking. We don't know what happened to him."
Lily of the Valley's expression looked somewhat horrified.
"Bai Ye... tried to save us, but was trapped in the rock cave created by the appearance of the snake by the falling rocks."
Saotome Rin gritted her teeth and said, "Even for us who experienced all this eight years ago, we don't know what state he is in now. I can only say that at least the snake didn't stay with him..."
When Bai Ye was mentioned, Yang Yan seemed to have lost his soul. It was only when Saotome Rin patted his shoulder with a grim expression that he came to his senses.
"It's all my fault. If I had jumped farther, he wouldn't have made that choice, and he wouldn't have been dragged by the snake into the bottomless underground cave..."
"It's no use saying these things now."
Linglan was calmer than anyone else. She looked at the team status panel and saw that Bai Ye's status was in a transition period between normal and being eliminated. "The snake is guarding there. What we need to do now is to find a way to bypass the snake and rescue Bai Ye from underground as soon as possible."
Even if we believe that Bai Ye will be fine, being trapped in the underground cave is not something Bai Ye can hold on to even if he wants to.
They have to speed everything up.
"Now, please tell me everything you know. Otherwise, the demon apostle will be far ahead of us."
Linglan turned around and looked at the three people in front of her, each of whom had a secret, with a serious tone.
"Let me speak first."
Yang Yan sighed and took a step forward resignedly.
The story of Huangquan Town is both complicated and simple. The place where the devil fell thousands of years ago destined this Tanghong Mountain to be extraordinary. The early townspeople who were active in the depths of Tanghong Mountain discovered a blood-red hot spring soaked in the devil's blood, and believed that this was the location of the Huangquan Kingdom in Shinto mythology, so they named their human settlement Huangquan Town.
These blood-red hot springs, irrigated with the blood of the devil, have unique therapeutic effects. They can relieve human aging and maintain the health of human organs. They have also brought considerable income to the residents of Huangquan Town deep in Tanghong Mountain. However, for some greedy people, it is not enough.
Huangquan Town was under the control of the Mountain Group at that time. Decades ago, the head of the Mountain Group received a letter of surrender from a high-tech talent who called himself a hot spring expert "Tang Zhu". The other party claimed that he had rich research experience in hot spring resources in the surface world and could help the head of the group improve the hot spring water system and make the special effects of the hot spring more prominent.
The head of the Mountain Group wanted to refuse, but "Master Tang" did not come alone. He had many letters from big names in the upper society of Ye Island with him, so he did not give the former head of the Mountain Group any chance to refuse.
The owner of the hot spring said, "Don't worry. As a biologist, my only wish is that the hot springs here can help more people, whether it is to increase everyone's income here or to help those who are trapped by aging get rid of their pain."
So the patriarch nodded and allowed Master Tang to start his research. After spending more time with him, he realized that Master Tang was indeed a man of outstanding talent and even had good swordsmanship. The patriarch even hired Master Tang as a tutor for his only daughter.
Everything seemed normal, as if Tang Zhu was really just a scientific researcher funded by the upper class and with great ideals, but...
Until eight years ago, Huangquan Town, which was originally just a hot spring tourist town, began to feel strange. The unprecedented curfew became a time of vigilance for every household, more and more people began to disappear, and unknown wild animals appeared. However, these did not stop tourists from all over the world from coming to the hot spring town to enjoy the hot springs, just because of the blood-red "Huangquan" that is unique in the world and can prolong life.
The head of the mountain group shared his doubts with the "soup master", but he only said in return: "You worry too much."
Are you really worrying too much?
The patriarch did not think so, so he chose to personally explore the truth hidden behind Huangquan Town and his "good friend" Lord Tang, but found that the truth was too heavy for him to accept.
The owner of the hot spring, with whom he had a pleasant conversation, was actually a demon apostle, who had successfully found a way to improve and increase the effects of the hot spring, thus achieving true eternal youth and longevity.
That is to use humans as "soup ingredients" and use the flesh and blood of specially processed people to increase the concentration of spring water.
Those beings just wrapped in the blood cocoons are the chosen soup ingredients, and some greedy people in the upper class have been providing the source of "soup ingredients" for the soup master's crazy idea.
In collapse and despair, the patriarch told everything to the soup workers who were deceived. The soup workers were shocked and fought with the soup master's ghost-faced soup guards. In the chaos, the patriarch chose to burn the evil soup residence, the origin of evil, and died together with the soup master. However, most of the antique buildings in Huangquan Town were wooden structures, and the flames quickly spread to the entire town. The whole Huangquan Town was turned into a burning ruin, and all the information about it was blocked by the Sun Police Department that hurriedly arrived. With the intervention of some powerful people in the upper class, the sinful Huangquan Town disappeared from everyone's eyes and became an urban legend that few people knew about.
After the Huangquan Town incident, the Metropolitan Police Department moved the shrine that was burned down to the current location of Tanghong Taisha, and promoted it as a new tourist resource attraction of Tanghong Mountain. The special tram line that brought them here was also secretly built by the soup owner. It was a special line used to illegally transport soup ingredients, so there is no record of it on the Internet.
"Yangyan, Xuedie, and I were all part of the group that escaped from the chaotic fire. I posted on the Internet just to tell Yangyan and Xuedie that the tram route had started and that the Demon Apostle should have entered the game."
Saotome Rin sighed. The silver-haired girl standing there reminded Suzuran of the red maple standing proudly on Izayoi's special haori.
"Let me introduce myself again. My name is Saotome Rin, and I'm the daughter of the former head of the Yamagumi family, and the student of the soup owner who is the source of all the sorrow in this town. I'm here now to stop the conspiracy of the devil apostles once again."
**
Tang Hongshan, Shinto Torii.
The shrine-managing maiden who called herself Shinto Chizuru still insisted on her words and was unwilling to give up the way behind her. A huge vibration came from the mountain wall behind the shrine, and the crane monster roared. Even the few people on the mountain road saw the giant snake monster roaring.
"Miss Miko, excuse me for asking, is this also part of the ritual you mentioned?"
Shuise's face looked very unhappy, but he still remained polite.
"Yes~"
Unexpectedly, Shinto Chizuru had no psychological burden at all and spoke without hesitation: "You really know the folk customs of Huangquan Town. The huge snake was also pretended by our shrine staff."
"you--"
Shuise was annoyed by this attitude. He was about to deny it, but Youyu behind him suddenly grabbed his arm.
"Well, since you insist, Miss Miko, we won't bother you for now."
Youyu dragged Izayoi and Mizuiro back, and only let go of their hands after they were out of Shinto Chizuru's suspicious gaze.
"Detective, what do you want to do? She is indeed very strong, but she shouldn't abandon her weapon and run away, right? This is totally against the principles of a samurai..."
Izayoi endured it all the way, and once he was sure he was out of the miko's sight, he started to attack.
"No, it's not me. You may not believe it, but I just heard a voice that can't possibly be here."
You Yu took a deep breath: "I have retreated out of her sight as you said, you should show up too, right?"
"Well done, Detective. I like your ability to stick to your guns."
A voice that absolutely could not possibly happen sounded, and Mizuiro and Izayoi both widened their eyes. The next second, that familiar figure fell from the branches of the tall maple tree, and Wonder landed beside them gracefully and lightly like a starry sky crow.
"Why can you freely travel between the devil's games?"
Shuise had fallen into a state of numbness and was asking questions entirely on instinct.
"A miracle, my friend."
Wonder just pulled his hood and snapped his fingers, and a rotating red and blue pixel door appeared behind him. At the other end of the pixel door was the hotel where the scabbard of the mountain group was stolen in the prosperous center of the Night Island city circle.
"I actually just came here to find clues about the knife that matches the scabbard, but I didn't expect to meet you all again..."
The thief's gorgeous voice echoed among the grim-faced detectives and high-ranking members of the Yamagumi. His voice was casual and free, but it made people feel angry for no reason.
"acquaintance."
The Phantom Thief's blue eyes with red pupils sparkled in the reflection of the snow: "It seems that we are both destined to have the Ten Commandments Token."
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