Chapter 41: Trusting the Guidance of Ghosts and Gods (12)
Bai Suchuan was unconscious, so he naturally had no idea that he had already stepped into the gates of hell.
In fact, not long after Jiang Jiu stepped into the teleportation array, he felt dizzy and his vision went dark.
The feeling of having my strength drained away was so strong that I instantly became as weak as if I hadn't eaten for three days.
My legs went limp and I lost consciousness.
Before closing his eyes, he barely saw Tsurumaru Kuninaga rush over and grab his waist...
Well... I hope it can serve as a cushion.
Then he returned to the initial page.
Okay, I'm offline again!
Jiang Jiu glanced at Bai Qichuan's character panel and saw that his stamina had indeed returned to zero. Losing the ability to move was equivalent to temporarily freezing the character.
If a dangerous incident were to be triggered at this time, it would be impossible to even resist the operation mission.
Fortunately, Tsurumaru was holding him, so he shouldn't be left alone to tear the card.
Jiang Jiu is addicted to the game, and is looking forward to going out into the world as a Shinsengumi, so that the inexperienced Shirasuchuan can see the bustling city, and follow the "card collecting" side storyline.
He has envied Sakura for being able to collect Clow Cards since he was in elementary school!
A super realistic card collection game!
The location changes with the map!
Pokémon Go! Is that you?!
In the end, he still underestimated the spiritual energy needed to go to the real world. Because of his [mediocre ability], his physical strength bar was completely exhausted, and it might not even meet the spiritual energy points consumed by the teleportation array.
He guessed that the teleportation array might be able to make up for the missing parts from other places...
Is it vitality? Or the upper limit of physical strength?
Forget it. I don’t want to think about it anymore.
When Shirasu Chuan's stamina is restored to one sixth, he will wake up on his own. We'll see then.
Jiang Jiu turned to the Nine Square Array. It happened that the Nine Square Array woke up yesterday. He could try to let the second brother improve his martial arts value and learn from the third brother to exercise and stop complaining all the time.
When a soldier is away for three days, he should be beaten up.
Isn’t this a sweet dream?
As soon as I logged in...
Huh?
[After testing, the expansion pack [Man and Sword] had an impact on [Curse and Love], causing the character lines to change]
[Should we restart the game from the turning point? 】
【whether】
Jiang Jiu suddenly realized.
Oh, that’s right!
Did Hasebe and his companions come to the world to save history? Was it at the time of the Nine Squares?
Isn't this too coincidental?!
At that time, Shirasuka only noticed that the Government of Time suggested that the Shinsengumi go to the real world, but he did not pay attention to the specific time point, nor did he pay attention to what history it was.
It turns out that the character line of "Curse to Love" intersects here!
"Role line changes?"
[Same as character 1, the body state is adjusted back to the point where the god of mourning changes, and the world line is also changed]
Jiang Jiu remembered the last time he manipulated the Nine Square Formation was when he fell into a coma after an explosion in his domain. Then he woke up mad and had to hold down Fushiguro Megumi to calm down.
There were also big dogs to pet at that time!
If it was Shirasagi, fur lovers would be ecstatic!
As for whether to start again from the turning point?
The main theme of this game is "realism", and you can complete it with one life without saving.
Even completing the game is not an ordinary completion of the game. Instead, after completing all the main storylines, if you are still alive, you can return to your daily life and occasionally follow some ordinary side storylines. There is no more ups and downs in the story.
It's like a hero returning to the countryside, plain and contented, with a sense of returning to nature.
This is the first time that the game has a "restart" option. Jiang Jiu doesn't think that the game will suddenly open the save function to players. There must be something he doesn't understand!
"What does 'start over' mean? Where is the turning point?"
Jiang Jiu had a feeling that this choice would involve some interesting content, so he decided to ask clearly before making a careful choice.
[Return to character 2's coma]
[The route after awakening is different from the previous development]
Huh? He couldn't see Hasebe and the others directly? He thought he could go back to before the "Madness", change the frustrating battle, and violently beat the cursed spirits!
Or maybe he shouldn't go to the juvenile detention center, so he wouldn't need to expand his domain! The second child's eyes wouldn't need to get worse.
Anyway, the third one has been created.
Go back to coma? Wake up again? What's the point?
After Jiu Fang Zhen woke up, he didn't do anything special except digging out his eyeballs and hugging others!
Boring.
【no】
*
The advancing torrent sweeps away everything, and the waves surge across the four-dimensional space and time.
At this moment, the will of time and space shows its preference for special people.
He played with the fate of hundreds of millions of people in the long river of time, but let three lucky people go.
He took back the price and allowed them to have the right to “determine my own destiny”.
However, they have to discover this special thing by themselves...
Jiu Fang Zhen was lying on the bed, bored.
Curling up under the covers was one of his few hobbies.
The quilt must be thick and the sheets must be soft. It should be comfortable and relaxing, and give him a sufficient sense of security.
At this moment, even if the blanket covered his eyes and it was pitch black, he would not feel any pain...
Recently, the Nine Square Array has developed a new habit, not too big or too small.
It might be the aftereffect of the aggravation of the Heaven and Curse Binding again, and he did not want to repeat the process of "falling into darkness - gaining light" for the time being.
He no longer buried his head under the quilt, but liked to rub his cheek against the soft corner of the quilt, and then hug the quilt tightly, with one arm pressed underneath, hugging his waist through the quilt.
He even liked to bury his head in the corner of the quilt and enjoy the feeling of suffocation.
This gave him the illusion that he was hugging someone and being hugged at the same time.
It seemed that this action could reduce his stress level more quickly.
The body temperature warms up the inanimate objects, but it feeds back to him, bringing him more satisfaction...
I really like it...
“Boom—”
What sound?
Jiu Fang Zhen sat up.
"Boom-boom-boom" ah, the sound of the heartbeat was infinitely amplified.
Is the room too quiet? My eardrums are occupied by the beating of my heart.
The black-haired boy began to breathe heavily, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his head.
"Ah-ah..." He covered his violently beating heart and arched his body in pain.
Jiu Fang Zhen knew that his body was probably going back to the day when the field was opened. But why was the wound not healed? Why did he feel pain even though he had no external injuries?
The pain was like someone was pulling at his heart and kneading it into any shape.
His free hand tangled the bed sheet, squeezing the thin fabric into a ball.
After the Nine Squares were dizzy, they saw black stars. When they closed their eyes, they could still see all kinds of brilliant colors.
The sound of his heartbeat could no longer allow him to concentrate. The long-lasting tinnitus replaced all his senses and gave him a splitting headache.
He resisted the urge to unleash his cursed power and wreak havoc, not wanting to turn this little house, which he was so pleased with, into ruins.
Perhaps the pain in other places made him lose his sensitivity to strength, and his fingertips gripped the bed sheets too tightly, so much so that his palms were clenched and his nails were split by mistake.
It hurts so much!
The pain, accompanied by anger, fear, and helplessness, made him grab the clothes on his chest and roll around.
With a thud, the Nine Square Array rolled off the bed and fell heavily to the ground.
My arm seems to be sprained and my fingers hurt.
But it was no use, the pain didn't shift, instead it spread from the chest to the brain!
Where is Ieiri Shoko? Where is the Reversal Master? Come and save him!
His brain, which had just been in a rare calm in his comfort zone without any external pressure, now seemed to be out of his control! Although there was nothing stressful happening around him, his body seemed to secrete hormones on its own, controlling his emotions, disrupting his thinking, making him anxious and angry, and making him manic and restless.
Did the mental state also regress? !
[Pressure value 70%]
There is definitely something wrong! This state! There is definitely something wrong!
The thin boy in a hoodie knelt on the ground and fiercely hit the ground with his head. His fragile head hit the concrete floor violently, leaving a bloody red mark on his forehead.
The dark and ominous curse energy slowly spread out from him, gradually filling the entire room, and had a tendency to spread outwards.
Damn it! Even the only magical power he possesses is out of control?
Is it that God can't stand how useless he is and wants to take back the "gift" between his fingers?
Please! Don't let me feel this way! Don't let me lose control again!
I don't want to expand my territory anymore!
I'd rather die!
The violent collision seemed to cause the taut string in my brain to vibrate up and down. The pain in my flesh finally managed to divert the pain a little.
!
The boy seemed to have tasted the sweetness. He kowtowed his head several times, struggling and twisting his body until he finally knocked himself unconscious.
Fall into【faint】
[Pressure value 100%]
Fall into [mania]
…
[Pressure value 89%]
…
A series of numerical and status changes were frequently refreshed on Jiu Fang Zhen’s personal panel.
The movement in the Nine Square Array room would not have attracted anyone's attention.
Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki were still immersed in the pain of losing their companions three days ago. They turned their grief and anger into motivation and trained hard with their second-year seniors.
Gojo Satoru has not been seen since he showed up at the technical high school two days ago.
Jiu Fang Zhen woke up last night and was understood by everyone, so he can rest for the whole day without training.
Therefore, it stands to reason that Jiu Fang Zhen is the only person in the entire technical college boys' dormitory building.
In the empty building, the rhythmic banging sounds gradually died down, masked by the rustling of tree branches and leaves as the wind swept through them.
Only Goumaki Saki, who occasionally returned to the dormitory downstairs to run errands for Zenin Maki, looked up at the upstairs thoughtfully.
A magical aura...
Is there something wrong with the younger generation?
The spellcaster put down his drink, grabbed his collar and ran upstairs.
…
Everyone in the technical college doesn't know that Jiu Fang Zhen's physical condition has been traced back to the incident in the juvenile detention center three days ago.
The unconscious Kyufangzhen currently has no idea that Yuji Itadori, who leisurely sent him back to the dormitory last night, is now in a "dead" state.
*
Seeing that the Nine Square Array had put itself into a [fainting] state, Jiang Jiu was dumbfounded!
In just a few minutes, he returned to the cold system space again.
This is outrageous!
When he used the stiff brain of the Nine Square Array gangster to think, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the method of using pain to relieve pain!
When I woke up and recalled what had happened using my own logic, I wanted to pinch myself and shake me hard!
Are you okay?
If he had called his colleague, he wouldn't have been lying on the ground unconscious and left to die!
If the dormitory building had collapsed, there would have been no one left to check it out!
Jiang Jiu didn't expect that the so-called "physical state adjustment back to the point where the soul god changes" meant this.
Even the pressure value can be changed!
Should I say that it’s a good thing that the external injury didn’t happen again?
Fortunately, the system only restored the emotions when the "field was expanded", otherwise the injuries I suffered on the day of the battle with the cursed spirit would reappear, and I would have no way to explain it to Naoko Ieiri.
Jiang Jiu believed that the pain felt by Jiu Fang Zhen was just an illusion caused by mental tension.
I made myself bruised and battered...
You are worthy of it!
Jiang Jiu was too lazy to continue complaining, so he climbed out of the holographic warehouse and took care of some work - after all, it was a luxury for a social animal to have time to play games!
When I returned to the game again, the boss's stamina bar had almost recovered.
Now you can choose [Wake up] or [Continue sleeping] option.
Jiang Jiu clicked [Wake Up] without hesitation.
*
The young man on the recliner woke up slowly.
The hazy eyes that had just opened were met with a pair of smiling almond-shaped eyes.
"Are you awake? Have some water."
A pair of big hands handed over a cup.
Bai Qichuan could roughly guess what happened. He must have run out of spiritual power and fainted somewhere, and was rescued by this righteous man.
"Thank you for your help, knight." He stretched his legs and stepped off the recliner, supporting his weak body and bowed.
"Well, it's just a small favor." The young man in the five-striped cassock waved his hand to indicate that it's nothing to worry about.
"Excuse me, Bai." Bai Qichuan took the water handed to him and moistened his mouth politely.
"I see your manners seem to be the same as those of the country across the sea? Are you not from Japan?"
Xia Yujie felt that Shirasuchuan's posture of saluting was very familiar. It was similar to the movements he saw when he was sent to Tang Dynasty a long time ago, and it had its own elegant and ancient charm.
Bai Qichuan's eyes widened. He didn't expect that this person he met for the first time could actually discover this!
"That's true. My homeland is really far away, and I haven't heard about my hometown for a long time. Most of my thoughts and actions have been adapted to the local customs. You have a good eye!"
"Hahaha, I've traveled there too, and I have a fascination for the flower-growing culture, especially the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties. I have done in-depth research on this." As he spoke, Xia Yujie actually translated the language into Chinese!
Baisuchuan was even more surprised!
Since he left his hometown, he had prepared himself mentally to never return. The hometown he missed so much was no longer what it once was. The development of the times eventually made memories become unfamiliar. In order to avoid being reminded of the past, he never thought of going back home.
I didn't expect to meet a Japanese person who could speak my native language in such a strange time and environment! And he seemed to be a scholar who was well versed in ancient culture!
Bai Suchuan had a deep feeling of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land"!
After just a few words, he and Geto Suguru hit it off and even thought of becoming brothers!
Geto Suguru claimed that he was a sorcerer who was ostracized by the sorcery world. He hid in the city under an assumed name. Fortunately, he accidentally found such a safe and peaceful pure land and had a place to live.
He also asked Bai Suchuan not to reveal his name outside.
Being able to gain such trust at the first meeting, Bai Qichuan naturally promised solemnly.
Tsurumaru, who was standing on the edge of the recliner, was of course very happy to see that the Shinsengumi woke up safely.
But the Shinsengumi didn't even look at him once when he opened his eyes! He was always chatting with that sorcerer named Gayu!
Then I changed the language to Chinese, which he couldn’t understand!
They were talking about something, I don't know what they were talking about. So happy!
Tsurumaru Kuninaga was a little jealous.
Just knowing how to speak a few words in Chinese? Is the Shinsengumi so excited? Is it because he feels lonely after not hearing his hometown dialect for a long time? Isn't it enough to have the whole family in Honmaru to accompany him?
Humph! He also wants to learn Chinese secretly and surprise everyone!
Mental note: Join the scare plan.
Unwilling to be ignored, Tsurumaru Kuninaga turned on the vibration mode again.
"Buzz-buzz-pop-"
Successfully overturned the recliner.
…
Tsurumaru: Although it was unexpected, at least the goal of attracting attention was achieved.
Shirasuga turned his gaze towards Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
He weighed his remaining stamina and realized it was not enough to awaken the sword. So he just held the sword in his hand and did not draw it out rashly.
After feeling the body temperature of the Shinsengumi, Tsurumaru stopped acting up and calmed down again.
Seeing the young man's attention shifted to the sword, Xia Youjie naturally mentioned: "Speaking of which, it was because I noticed this magical sword that I found you lying on the river bank. This sword can be said to have saved your life."
Shirasuga realized that Tsurumaru Kuninaga's peculiarity had been exposed to the black-haired young man, so he no longer concealed it.
"Yes. The sword has a spirit. Thank you this time too. Crane." Baisuchuan's fingers brushed across the gorgeous scabbard, like a gentle spring breeze brushing across the cheek, comfortable and cozy, making Fusangshen feel that the other party cherished him.
Shirasuga was careful not to reveal Tsurumaru Kuninaga's full name. After all, the government of the time required it to be kept secret as much as possible so as not to cause a commotion.
"Why did you faint in the suburbs of Tokyo? If you hadn't been rescued in time, you might have been washed away by the river." The black-haired man asked with concern.
"Ah... I'm not in a position to tell you the specific reason," Bai Suchuan replied straightforwardly.
Perhaps because he couldn't answer the other party's doubts, he took the initiative to reveal the purpose of his trip: "But I am looking for swords similar to this one. After investigation by my friends, I suspect that they are scattered in Tokyo and are likely to have drifted into the world of sorcery. Brother Xia Yu just said that he is very familiar with the world of sorcery. I wonder if you have heard of similar swords recently?"
Are there many more swords like this? Xia Yujie thought to himself.
"No." He shook his head regretfully.
"But I have a unique spell. With a little arrangement and the help of the vibration knife in your hand, I can search for similar existences through aura. It's just that I may arrange some of what you call "arrays" on the blade. If Mr. Bai trusts me, I can prepare it at any time."
The black-haired man's tone was very sincere. He offered to help without asking for anything in return. It was obvious that he was genuinely concerned about his friend and was worried that his friend might not trust him.
Bai Suchuan was a little moved.
He could sense that there were seven swords in the real world that were related to him. Probably the six people in the first team plus Tsurumaru. The rest of the second team might have been drained of their spiritual power by him during the teleportation, so they were not able to come to the real world together.
However, he could not directly and accurately find the specific location of the six swords. If it was true as Xia Yujie said, the swords could be easily recovered through mysterious spells.
But he didn't agree immediately.
He has completely trusted Geto Suguru, but matters such as this that require changes to the sword itself are best decided by the Tsukumogami himself.
Although he is the lord of all the tsukumogami in Honmaru and has the power of life and death over all his retainers, Shirusugawa respects everyone equally and never makes important decisions without their permission.
Bai Suchuan pretended to be calm and lied: "To be honest, this sword belongs to a friend of mine, and I can't make a decision on my own. In a few days, my friend will come to find me and help me. Whether to use this spell as you said will be left to him to decide. I wonder if you can wait for a while?"
He decided that once his strength recovered a little, he would summon Tsurumaru Kuninaga to play the role of this "friend" who came out of nothing.
The gentleman seldom lied, and he was surprised that he could come up with such a well-founded excuse in such a short time.
But of course he couldn't notice that the tips of his ears and cheeks were slightly red because of his master's inner guilt.
"Is that so? Of course. I'm glad to be able to help a friend."
Xia Youjie didn't believe a word of Shirasu Chuan's words. But he didn't expose it, and he got another important information.
This sword obviously recognized Shirasuka as its master, but Shirasuka said that the sword had another owner. So, can he assume that this spiritual sword can already transform into a human form?
What a surprise!
There are several identical knives, and the knives can even be disguised as humans!
If he could collect all similar spiritual objects and mark them, no matter they were ultimately transformed into curses or sorcerers, they would all contribute to his plan!
In this era, God is really helping me!
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