Chapter 60 Kisaragi Maru: I dare not open my eyes, I hope it is my hallucination.
Huangquan Town, the abode of great evil.
The hot spring workers were busy back and forth in the tall hall. The wisps of mist from the hot spring lingered around the bathhouse of Da'e Tangju, accompanied by the exquisite electronic lights everywhere, presenting a picture of an ancient night island being modernized with a unique beauty.
On the upper floors and inside the Da'eyuyu, Fanlan's skirts spread out like a starry night, her hair winding on the tatami. She smiled and poured half a cup of Yedao Matcha for each of the two people opposite her.
"Congratulations to everyone, you will get what you want tonight."
"No, no, this is all thanks to the wisdom of Mr. Tangzhu and Miss Fanlan. They can actually achieve this miracle through the special spring soaked in the blood of the [Demon King]..."
The elegant middle-aged man opposite narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand. The lines on his palm were clearly visible and his muscles were extremely strong. It was the arm of a young and middle-aged man.
"Yes, it's a miracle."
Huo Gu spoke with unknown mood. He did not sit on the tatami, but stood at the door, leaning against the door with his arms folded, as if to stay alert at all times.
If someone saw the face of the middle-aged man here, they would be surprised to find that this man was very similar to the chairman of a large real estate company in Yedao. The only difference was that the chairman, who was nearly 70 years old, had been given a critical illness notice by the hospital a month ago due to discomfort caused by old age and was transferred to a private hospital for treatment.
And now...
Huo Gu's gaze stayed on the other person's body. Whether it was the torso exposed under the haori or the young face of no more than forty years old, they all confirmed one fact - the experiment of that mad flesh-and-blood technician, Tang Zhu, was really successful, really... It reversed the time of these greedy guys, turning them from decrepit old men into middle-aged men in their prime.
"That's what time manipulation is all about."
Next to the elegant middle-aged man sat a young man with a unique temperament who looked younger, in his early thirties. He drank a sip of Fanlan's tea and smiled more sincerely.
Huo Gu still remembers that more than ten days ago, this member of the Metropolitan Police Department was still sitting in a wheelchair and unable to move due to his old age and inconvenient legs and feet, but now he looks younger than the entrepreneur next to him.
"I'll stop here for now, my two lords. This will be the last hot spring experience that the master of the hot spring has prepared for you. After this experience, time will truly flow backwards for you, and your bodies will remain in their current state forever until you grow old again."
Fanlan explained competently to the two representatives of the Night Island VIPs in front of him: "But please rest assured, the Devil Apostles value the trust of a business deal the most. When you need a second hot spring experience, we will be by your side."
"Very good after-sales service, not bad, so when do we start?"
The entrepreneur licked his lips excitedly, and Huo Gu sneered in his heart. It turned out that these big shots who funded the devil apostles to conduct research were no different from ordinary people. They were even more ugly than anyone else in front of the youth that was within their reach.
"Yes, yes. When do we start? Although this body has become younger, it still gets tired easily. If I can completely eradicate this fatigue and return to my prime youth, it doesn't matter even if I become a bloody mess before taking a hot spring bath again."
The senior member of the Metropolitan Police Department seemed more excited than the entrepreneur. After all, he held not only wealth but also power.
The pretentious manners of the upper-class people on TV news and the Internet had completely disappeared. The most essential desires of human nature were now nakedly revealed. They stared at Fanlan, like a group of successfully tamed wolves waiting for their breeders to feed them a piece of meat when they were hungry.
Facing the ugly faces of the two men, Fanlan chuckled and slowly covered the corners of his mouth that were raised in sarcasm.
"Don't worry, my two adults. Soon, once Kisaragi has set up the Shinto magic circle at the shrine, we can resonate with the remains of the dead demon king through the dance of the miko, and transform the soul particles of the 'soup ingredients' into the potency of the hot spring, completely strengthening your physical condition."
The observer of the starry night lowered his eyes, and in those unfathomable eyes, there seemed to be a broken and distorted starry night flickering that was unrecognizable to humans.
"It will be fine soon. You will definitely get what you want and continue to shine in all walks of life to illuminate Night Island!"
She spoke every word with a tone that was completely different from her usual polite and distant tone, and even a bit crazy, but the entrepreneur and the congressman were completely immersed in the joy of becoming younger. Huo Gu rolled her eyes and turned to stand in front of the door: "It's all right now, both of you, please follow me."
The congressman and the entrepreneur stood up obediently and followed Huo Gu all the way to the huge hot spring pool that Zuo Ye Bai Ye and others had cleaned. On the way to the blood-red hot spring pool, the skin on the surface of their bodies began to peel off rapidly and turned into fragments that fell to the ground. It was only a few hundred meters. When Huo Gu stopped, the two people following him turned into strange skinless monsters in human form, just like the monsters that Ling Lan and others saw in the sedan chair.
The night was already dark, and the lights in Huangquan Town were turned off again. All the electronic lights were replaced by burning candles in an instant, and the whole town was once again plunged into an unspeakable ghostly atmosphere. The masked soup workers who went out began to line up and walk to every corner of Huangquan Town, just like last night, to pick up the nobles living in the various soup houses and bring them to the Great Evil Soup House for the final "baptism."
After all, the Great Evil Hot Spring has limited rooms, and many powerful people who have signed agreements with the owner of the hot spring can only live in other hot springs. In order to prevent other ordinary tourists from knowing the not-so-glorious deal these people have reached with the devil's apostles to use other people's soul particles to restore their youth, the owner of the hot springs has established a curfew system in Huangquan Town, and also asked the hot spring workers to wear scary ghost masks when receiving important people, to prevent more and more people from knowing this secret out of curiosity.
Huo Gu quietly watched the two guys who were just well-spoken and upper-class people slowly turn into bloody monsters. Behind him, other "monsters" were also attracted by Tang Gong one after another.
"Then let's get started! Adults, this is the last time!"
Kisaragi Maru hurriedly rushed into the open space of the hot spring, climbed onto a higher shelf, and spread his arms with great immersion. It seemed that he had just arranged things at the shrine and rushed over from the shrine.
Countless soup workers were pushed in front of the hot spring by masked soup workers. Ru Yuewan's passionate voice stopped and then became meaningful.
"Next, let the blood of the despicable cleanse the 'holy water' that the nobles are about to bathe in, freeze eternal time on the bodies of the nobles, and begin the awakening soup!"
Huo Gu looked at everything in front of him lazily. What happened next was the same as every night before. The unlucky soup workers who had been working in the hot springs for many years and were contaminated by the hot springs with the devil's blood fell into the purified hot spring pool one after another and were dissolved by the high concentration of the devil's blood. The only difference was that there were more of them this time. He was too lazy to watch such a bloody one-sided killing. He turned around and was about to leave when he saw Kisaragi's face suddenly turned ugly.
Tang Wei, who was escorting Tang Gong with a ghost mask, took out a long stick that he had just taken from a corner of the soup house, and waved it a few times to directly repel the other ghost faces around. Before Ru Yue Wan could shout out his anger, he saw that the young man in the beret had already placed his sword on the bodies of those wooden blood-red monsters, and used the back of the sword to pick away the monsters that were transformed from the powerful and had only the blood-red hot spring water in their eyes from around the huge hot spring one by one.
"What? Did I allow you to wake up the spring?"
You Yu raised the corner of his mouth in an arrogant arc. He smiled with extraordinary confidence and flamboyance, and did not seem like a righteous friend who came to stop the villain's conspiracy.
"Are you crazy?! The damn soup workers should just become soup ingredients...Soup guards! Catch them!"
Ruzuki Maru shouted angrily on the shelf, but unfortunately the Tang guards with ghost masks did not move. He was feeling strange and turned around to look, only to see that the Tang guards with ghost masks had fallen to the ground at some point.
Half of it was tangled up in vines. Ling Lan threw away the mask on her face. The fork in her hand was still stuck in someone's butt. She threw Tang Wei, who was growing together with the mask, aside like picking up weeds on a ridge in a field. She smiled peacefully and kindly, "Ah? Who are you talking about?"
Ruyuemaru suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the position of the other half of the soup guard. He saw that the doll-like blood-eyed girl was casually pushing a soup guard down. Noticing Ruyuemaru's gaze, she even turned her head to look at the other party: "Good food, it broke into pieces with one touch."
Kisaragi Maru: "?!! So arrogant!"
"You are the ones who are arrogant, right? The president has already guessed it."
The blue musical note field enveloped the entire battlefield. Shuise walked out gracefully in the mist and chuckled, "You guys are crazy people who want to destroy the entire Huangquan Town."
"Although those dignitaries are disgusting, you and the devil's apostles are even more disgusting."
You Yu raised his eyebrows and continued to kick those dignitaries roughly away from the hot spring. Although these guys were no good either, since the devil apostle needed them to wake up the soup, You Yu would not let the devil apostle succeed.
He looked at Huo Gu who was trying to sneak away from the scene to report the news, and smiled meaningfully.
"You little brat! Who are you calling disgusting?!"
Huo Gu turned around abruptly and glared at You Yu several times, cursing: "You are the arrogant one, aren't you?! Have you finished your homework and you're yelling here?!"
Shuise: ...I haven’t finished writing it yet.
"How can we compare with you? Although on the surface we are cooperating with the powerful, this time we made such a big scene just to make them regain their youth, but in fact, the concentration of the hot spring here is already terrible. In other words, those soup workers can no longer make the soup awake."
You Yu held down the beret on his head and sneered: "Although I don't know what your fundamental purpose is, it is obvious that the 'materials' for the awakening soup this time are not those soup workers, but these self-righteous and pathetic dignitaries!"
Huo Gu gritted his teeth. He didn't say anything, but just waved his hand. The demon Amy rose from the burning flames in the air and rushed towards Youyu and the others with terrifying heat, but his actions also indirectly confirmed Youyu's thoughts.
How could the devil's apostles regard the powerful as their collaborators? That is simply the higher quality "soup" they pour for themselves.
If the residents of Huangquan Town at the shrine are the "fuel" of the hot springs, then these powerful people are a cup of combustion aid, helping the "hot spring" fire burn higher.
"Damn it! What a piece of shit!"
In the Tanggong group, Youyu heard that a demon player could no longer hold back and blurted out.
"What on earth do these demon apostles who have no credibility at all want to do? We must stop them!"
It was the voice of another demon player hiding in the Tanggong group and trying to find clues. Youyu raised his eyebrows, and he suddenly had an idea.
"Now that we know what they are going to do...how can we endure it? Come on, demon players! Let's fight them together!"
Facing the demon followers made of fire, the dignitaries who were too numerous to handle, and the unconscious soup workers, Youyu rushed onto the shelf, kicked away Ruyuemaru who was still trying to order the soup guards to fall to the ground, and shouted.
Looking at the hesitant demon players, You Yu paused and continued:
"Don't forget to earn points by completing events against demon apostles! What are you waiting for? Don't you want a wish?!"
Youyu's words pointed out the problem and awakened the demon players who were still struggling. The goal of the unofficial demon players was only the last wish. After hearing this, several demon players rushed straight to the fire monsters after hesitating for a moment and began to help knock out the flesh and blood monsters that the powerful people had transformed into and just wanted to jump into the hot spring. Youyu picked up the knight's sword and raised his arms and shouted from a high place, showing a heroic spirit of "one order to thousands of people come out".
"For our wish!!!"
"Aren't you going to go down and take a look? You've been ruined."
The burning flames lit up the window in red. Inside the Heju of Da'e Tangju, Fanlan turned his gaze away from the window and looked behind him.
The Snake-Men-Yu master, who should definitely not be here and should be fighting Izayoi and Saotome Rin, was sitting on the tatami, drinking tea quietly, looking quite relaxed.
"You didn't mean to let them mess up your place, did you?"
Fanlan found it a little unbelievable.
"Don't say that, Fanlan. I'm just being cautious and leaving a way out for myself. If we really fail this time and the witch's soul particles are not enough, we can still find an excuse and say that it was because of these players that we failed. Then we can cheat new funding from those rich and powerful people."
The soup master shook the cup, and his snake-like eyes, which had turned into demonic vertical pupils, stared at the matcha in the cup, and he suddenly laughed.
"But I think I will definitely not fail this time. Even if that guy finds an opportunity to mobilize all the demon players, he can't stop the desires of the human heart."
**
Tang Hongshan, Shrine.
According to the location described by Bai Ye, Yang Yan quickly bypassed the soup workers who were preparing to do something in the shrine and found Bai Ye who was buried in the cave.
The stacked stones were as fragile as cardboard in the face of Yangyan's flames. He easily broke the rubble that blocked Bai Ye and pulled him up from the closed underground. Then they went to the soup group guarded by the giant snake to look for an opportunity to rescue the residents of Huangquan Town who were trapped in the blood cocoon as the "source of soup ingredients" before the soup master realized it.
"Huh! That's great, Bai Ye! I'm so glad you're okay!"
Since rescuing Bai Ye, Yang Yan has said this sentence a hundred times along the way. Even Bai Ye couldn't stand it anymore. He turned around in unbearable pain and covered Yang Yan's mouth with his hand.
"I understand how you feel, but please be quiet for a while!"
How can one person throw so many words out of his mouth? Before meeting Yang Yan, Bai Ye had never imagined that there was actually no limit to the amount of words a human could say at one time.
"Okay, okay. I'll do my best."
Yang Yan glared at Bai Ye with his watery eyes and slid to his knees. Bai Ye was instantly blocked and could not say anything to reprimand him. He could only cough twice and quickly change the subject.
"The hot springs are ahead. Your five senses are far superior to mine. Can you sense the presence of the snake?"
Bai Ye stopped and in front of him was the edge of the hot spring group that the blood butterflies and lily of the valley had reached. He was even only a dozen meters away from the hot spring mouth where the huge blood cocoon was stored.
But the snake still did not appear.
Yang Yan closed his eyes and listened carefully to the subtle sounds around him. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes: "There are no other unusual sounds in the wind, but I smell the smell of death. The bloody smell in the hot spring seems particularly heavy."
Bai Ye raised his eyes and looked at the blood cocoon. He and Yang Yan discovered with grim expressions that the face of the person in the blood cocoon was the familiar young Xuedie.
Blood butterfly 8 years ago.
"The blood butterfly is actually a soup ingredient? Damn it, in my memory she was just a person passing through this town... How could she be here? No, that blood cocoon is rapidly absorbing her soul particles. Damn soup master, at this rate she won't even wait for the Huangquan Town fire and will die here!"
Yang Yan found a relatively sharp stone on the ground, jumped into the knee-deep hot spring pool and began to cut the flesh membrane outside the blood cocoon. Bai Ye hurried over to help, but the next second, a terrible sound came from the other end of the snowfield following the wind in the mountains and forests.
"What fell into the water? This is..."
Due to the difference in terrain, Bai Ye and Yang Yan could clearly see that the voice came from the ghost-faced Tang Wei who was directly under Kisaragi Maru, and behind Tang Wei were countless Tang workers who were moving in unison to an eerie degree.
Bai Ye held his breath, and Yang Yan shook his head wildly to show that he definitely could not defeat so many people.
"rustle---"
The evening mountain breeze was approaching rapidly with increasingly obvious footsteps and shouting. Bai Ye gritted his teeth and prepared to continue what he was doing. No matter what, he had to save the young Saotome Rin first. Even if the person in the blood cocoon was not Saotome Rin, respect for life forced him to save the person in his hand first.
As for the rest, we’ll talk about it later.
The footsteps were still approaching. Bai Ye and Yang Yan were ready for a bloody battle. At the last second when Tang Wei approached, a gentle female voice sounded unexpectedly.
"It should be the fox I raised. Okay, I'll check this side, you guys go check the back mountain."
It was the familiar voice of the witch goddess Michi Chizuru who stopped Youyu and the others from entering the shrine.
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