The old lady's eyes gradually dimmed, and she knew that she would not live long.
"Junko! Junko!"
The old lady from before rushed forward crying and fell beside the seriously injured old lady, wailing bitterly.
"elder sister……"
The old lady in kimono uttered the last word in a weak voice, then tilted her head and died.
"Junko!"
Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian exchanged a glance. What was going on? It was the old lady named Chiyo who had stopped them from rescuing her sister. Why was she now so grief-stricken?
Shen Yuan took a step forward and calmly blocked the eye contact between the two.
Xiao Tangqiu: "...Um, Captain, what do you think is going on?"
Shen Yuan snorted coldly: "I don't know."
The old lady cried bitterly for a while, and finally stopped crying. She climbed up with a numb expression and looked back at Xiao Tangqiu and others: "Outsiders, your actions just now have angered the mountain god! The mountain god will not let you go!"
Her eyes were cloudy and her whole body was shaky. She seemed to be more than ten years older than before.
"Mountain God?" Xiao Tangqiu frowned. "Are you talking about the wolf?"
The old lady said with a terrified expression, "That was the messenger of the mountain god. If you kill the messenger of the mountain god, the mountain god will punish you!"
"Mountain God? Is there a god in this place? But wait, isn't this called the Hundred Ghosts Village?" Tang Mianmian was puzzled. Besides, wasn't their dungeon called the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade? What did the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade have to do with gods?
Xiao Tangqiu frowned. "Japanese gods are not the same as our gods, especially mountain gods. However, they do seem to have the custom of treating wolves as mountain gods and protectors."
"You're treating the wolf as a mountain god. Are you offering sacrifices now?" Tang Mianmian quickly recalled the routines of previous horror games and asked in astonishment, "...Are you all sacrifices to the mountain god?"
The old lady looked at Tang Mianmian with a numb expression and did not answer.
Xiao Tangqiu interrupted, "I'm afraid it's not that simple! What did you mean by 'For Ichiro, just bear with it'?"
The old lady kept her mouth tightly shut, obviously unwilling to answer.
Duan Hongzhen snorted, "If she doesn't want to talk, forget it. Let's take her down the mountain and visit her home. Her home should be nearby, right?"
When she heard the words "go down the mountain," the old lady's eyes widened and her veins bulged: "No! I won't go down the mountain! I will never go down the mountain!"
Duan Hongzhen raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Why?"
The old lady closed her mouth again, like a clam whose mouth could not be opened no matter how hard you tried.
Xiao Tangqiu frowned. What on earth was going on? What was the hidden story behind this?
"Since you're silent, that means you agree," Duan Hongzhen, who wasn't one to reason with others, spread his hands. "Then it's happily settled. This mountain isn't very safe. It's too dangerous for an old lady like you, who's almost buried, to stay here. Since we're so helpful, of course we have to escort you down the mountain safely!"
The old lady immediately started screaming hysterically, "No! I won't go down the mountain! I want to stay here and keep the mountain god company!"
Duan Hongzhen smiled and said, "That's not up to you."
As he spoke, he lifted the old lady onto his shoulder with one hand.
The old lady struggled desperately: "Let me go! Put me down! I want to stay on the mountain! I will never come down the mountain!"
Yu Fuling frowned slightly: "Duan Hongzhen, change your posture! Do you think you are carrying rice?"
Duan Hongzhen said, "What else can we do? Princess carry her? If I carry her on my back, she'll just run away."
Yu Fuling: "...Forget it, then you should just carry it."
"Let me go! For Taro! I must stay!" The old lady screamed miserably.
Duan Hongzhen carried her slowly down the mountain and said, "Stay still."
"Taro! Taro, save me!" The old lady turned to call for help again, but at this time there was no one else on the mountain except them, let alone the "Taro" she was calling.
"What is going on?" Tang Mianmian couldn't help but ask Xiao Tangqiu.
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head and was about to discuss something with Tang Mianmian, but suddenly he noticed Shen Yuan's gaze and choked.
Wait, what's with that look a wife gives her husband when she catches him having an affair with his mistress?!
Xiao Tangqiu's mouth twitched, and he complained madly in his heart, but at this moment, Shen Yuan's eyes suddenly turned cold: "The body is gone."
Several people were stunned at the same time. They turned around and saw that it was true - the body of the old woman who had died in a miserable state had disappeared without a trace.
The body disappeared!
Although they had encountered this situation many times before, the body disappeared without their knowledge every time, and usually disappeared the next day. But this time the body disappeared right under their noses!
Xiao Tangqiu couldn't help but feel a chill on his back. The wild wolf had been cut in half by Yu Fuling, and they didn't see the second wolf... Could there really be a mountain god on this mountain?
However, compared to the mountain god, this man-eating behavior is more like a mountain ghost!
For the rest of the journey, Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian were both silent. Although it was not the first time they saw someone die in front of them, they still felt uncomfortable seeing a living life pass away with their own eyes, especially since the other party was an elderly lady. The shrill screams seemed to still linger in their ears.
The old lady carried on Duan Hongzhen's shoulders seemed to be tired of shouting and gradually stopped shouting and struggling. Her expression gradually became numb, and finally she walked like a dead tree.
After going down the mountain, they met the newcomers again. To their surprise, none of them chose to leave. All 13 of them were waiting for them at the foot of the mountain.
But come to think of it, in such a strange and unpredictable place, it seems to be dangerous no matter where you go, so it’s better to stay here and not go anywhere.
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