Seeing Yin Zhu stop in place, the cat immediately noticed: "What's wrong?"
Why did you suddenly stop walking?
Yin Zhu immediately realized that if she were really a child, she would be more straightforward. So after hesitating for a second, she answered directly: "I sensed something special."
This is the setting that Kappa mentioned before.
Children may lie, but they don't get as caught up in the details as adults.
This didn't arouse the cat's suspicion again. She also looked at the stall, then frowned and fanned the air in front of her: "Isn't that [her diary]? Is there some ghost so bored that they collected a whole stack of them? Are they crazy?"
"Can I go take a look?" Yin Zhu looked up at the big cat longingly.
"Just look, we won't buy, okay?" The cat didn't object too strongly, but just said, "We've already spent almost all our money, we can't afford it, and if we want to buy it, we'll have to pay with our bodies."
The cat was referring to the fifth rule of the ghost market:
[5. If the buyer does not have enough currency during the transaction, the seller is obligated to remind the buyer of this. If the buyer insists on continuing the transaction, the seller may choose the buyer's limb as tokens to continue the transaction process.]
Yin Zhu nodded obediently. Once you've done it before, you'll get used to it. This wasn't the first time Yin Zhu had acted like a child, and she did it even better than last time.
A person and a cat arrived at the stall displaying diaries and saw a little boy sitting there, idly flipping through a comic book. It seemed to be a story about a ghost's revenge, and he was so engrossed in it that he almost crawled into the book.
"How much is your diary? I'd like to see if it's genuine."
The cat skillfully chatted with the small stall owner, without rashly touching the goods.
"See? They're all real. I got these from someone else. If you want to buy a few more 'Human Fishing' cards, I'll give you a 50% discount, twenty gold coins each." The little boy waved his hand, indicating that the customer could browse freely.
He wasn't worried about being stolen, after all, he was protected by the rules of the Ghost Market.
"Sister Nekomata, could it possibly be fake?"
Yin Zhu's doubts stemmed from the third rule: [You can set up a stall at the market, or purchase the supplies you need there. When you need to set up a stall, please have all your goods appraised by the Slippery Ghost to obtain a stall permit.]
Since the Slippery Ghost had appraised the supplies, Yin Zhu had naturally assumed that it was equivalent to a "materials supervision bureau" that oversaw the quality of these items, but it turned out that this was not the case.
"Other things are less likely to be fake, but diaries are..." The cat didn't finish its sentence, but the meaning was clear.
Diaries are easy to fake.
Yin Zhu craned her neck to peek at the diary entries. The top page of the diary had already been written up to a month into the future.
[Day 49 Night]
I'm still alive, that's amazing!!!
At first glance, Yin Zhu was startled by the large, bold characters and the huge exclamation mark, and she did suspect that the diary was a forgery.
Although the handwriting looks somewhat similar, the speaking style is completely different from that on the first page.
I almost thought I was going to die, but thankfully Amaterasu blessed me and I received help from the kind Yuki-onna.
The story I made up touched her, so she told me her own story in return.
Because she had missed reading too many pages, Yin Zhu didn't know what the danger mentioned here was, so she could only fill in the blanks in her mind while patiently reading on:
The Snow Woman's real name is Shirayuki Emi, and she was originally a girl living in a snow mountain village.
The villagers all share the surname "Baixue" (White Snow). Living at the foot of the mountain, they are self-sufficient and not wealthy. Therefore, they occasionally trade ice as a primary means of trade.
The village worships the god of the snow mountain, and therefore holds a sacrificial ceremony every year.
[But one day, a strange group of people arrived at the snow mountain village. They claimed to be messengers of the gods, and the village chief treated them with utmost respect, offering them whatever they desired. Thus, Huimei, the most beautiful girl in the village and still human, was sacrificed as a offering.]
Upon seeing this, Yin Zhu sensed something was wrong; it seemed things were about to turn sour. She then looked at the next line:
This group led Hye-mi deep into the mountains, pushed her into a snow pit, and said they wanted her to absorb the essence of the snow to make her even more beautiful. Only those with truly snow-white skin were worthy to be the bride of the Snow Mountain God.
She froze to death.
...Very good, it perfectly aligns with Yin Zhu's green and healthy philosophy.
Yin Zhu has reason to suspect that Xue Nu herself was unwilling to recall her painful past, so she omitted many things, which is why the owner of the diary recorded this part so briefly.
After her death, her spirit wanted to return to her village, but she saw the group bring a second girl, a third girl... She hid and watched the other girls die one by one, unable to save them.
She finally returned to the village, only to be captured by the divine messengers. They were overjoyed, saying that after so many experiments with women, they had finally created a monster, and promised the village chief's son that he could go with them to the big city and become a great samurai. This enraged Huimei, who fought back fiercely, ultimately causing an avalanche that destroyed the entire snow-covered village.
[After that, she relentlessly hunted humans, striking fear into the hearts of all who came to the snowy mountains, until she was besieged by Onmyoji and ultimately sealed away in the demon realm.]
[Can ghosts and monsters really be created by humans?]
Not to mention the owner of the diary, Yin Zhu also wanted to ask this question. However, if the ghost realm is all man-made, then it is not strange that ghosts and monsters can also be created by torturing their own kind.
This was something Yin Zhu was unfamiliar with, while some viewers familiar with Japanese folklore and supernatural tales had already started explaining it to her:
"That's right, the records of the Sakura Kingdom contain the method of making Inugami. Simply put, it's about torturing a dog that trusts you to death, which is even more inhumane than the process of making Yuki-onna."
Are dogs more important than people?
"That's just an analogy. I've already found out, and it's ten times worse than the Snow Woman incident. I really don't know how the Japanese could come up with such a cruel thing."
"The Snow Woman herself may not have given a complete account, and the person who wrote the diary may have further distorted the truth. Perhaps the Snow Woman's experiences were even more extreme than the version we heard... But I don't think it's necessary to compare them. A pile of shit and a pile of shit with soup are both smelly."
"Ugh! I'm eating, don't make such disgusting comparisons!"
"Could it be that the monsters in the dungeon are all man-made?"
"Impossible. Don't think too badly of humans. It must be because no one knows about Snow Mountain Village that they were harmed and no one cared."
If Anzhi saw this comment, she would probably feel a sense of déjà vu.
Harmed by his own kind in a corner where no one notices, he becomes stronger after turning evil, incurring the fear of humanity, and thinking of taking revenge on the whole world... Doesn't this sound a bit like a certain chosen one?
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