Hearing Yin Zhu's question, the cat smiled awkwardly again: "Why would you ask that?"
Yin Zhu rested her chin on her palm, propped her elbows on the dining table, and answered seriously, "The Snow Woman must be a very strong yokai, right? But you seem to really not want her to wake up... Could it be that she will bring some trouble to the world of demons?"
Even if the Snow Beauty, who has been sleeping all this time, were to wake up, she would only bring a sharp drop in temperature, right?
The cat doesn't dislike the snow woman entirely because she's afraid of the cold. When she visited a friend's house before, she met a ghost named the Ice Pillar Woman, but the cat didn't react strangely, indicating that it's not a matter of temperature.
"There will be a little..."
The cat nodded again, as if it had thought of something terrifying, and its tone became more fearful: "You haven't been in the Ghost Realm for long, so you don't know how terrifying the 'Hundred Ghosts War' was back then. The peaceful life we have now is hard-won."
"Oh, is it the time when Nurarihyon disappeared?"
Yin Zhu had already heard about this period from the ghost involved, but the slippery ghost hid well and didn't know exactly what happened. When he came out again, the dynasty had changed.
The cat nodded heavily and said, "That's right. That period was when the Hundred Demons were first sealed in the Demon Realm. The original King of the Hundred Demons, Nurarihyon, mysteriously disappeared, and the other demons each had their own territory. No one was willing to submit to anyone else. Even the Yuki-onna, who usually stayed away from humans, was frantically expanding her territory in the Demon Realm to maintain her status."
Having come this far, Yin Zhu had already guessed what would happen next.
The cat's eyes were filled with fear, and its white fur trembled slightly with its body: "The Yuki-onna is really strong, and she doesn't have much affection for either humans or yokai. Any yokai that enters her territory will quickly turn into an ice sculpture."
Compared to the relatively harmless Ice Pillar Woman, the Snow Woman is obviously much more terrifying, which explains why Nekomata doesn't like her.
"Until one day, the Snow Woman suddenly fell into a deep sleep. No one knew what had happened. The ice and snow melted, and the Demon Realm was completely brought to an end by the appearance of Shuten-dōji." Nekomata was clearly very satisfied with his current life.
"The Snow Woman is such a competitive and strong-willed yokai," Yin Zhu thought to herself, but Neko misunderstood her.
The cat stretched out its huge paw and ruffled Yin Zhu's hair, then told her very seriously, "Don't think that women are gentle and kind creatures. There are plenty of terrifying female ghosts in the ghost realm. Humans are indeed smarter than many animals, but the instinct to fight for resources is also etched into human genes."
Fearing that Yin Zhu was too young to understand, the cat gave another analogy: "Even dogs that have been domesticated by humans have only temporarily lost their competitive nature and depend on humans for survival. They don't fight or compete and just wait to eat what humans leave behind. But once they are returned to the wild, in order to obtain rare food resources to survive, they will still activate the fighting genes deep in their blood."
Yin Zhu nodded repeatedly, realizing that the cat had misunderstood again.
However, since she spoke so seriously, Yin Zhu felt embarrassed to interrupt her and told Mao You: Actually, I was just praising Xue Nu for being strong and energetic.
So, swallowing her words, Yin Zhu obediently listened to Teacher Maoyou's little lesson on animal nature.
Yin Zhu understood everything the cat said.
In order to obtain more resources or to demonstrate their status, living beings will engage in conflicts and wars with their own kind. This is something that not only humans cannot escape, but even ghosts are no exception.
Or perhaps, once they become monsters and are freed from social constraints, they become closer to their primal instincts.
The danger of the Snow Woman lies in her strong aggression. Whether human or demon, anything that can be frozen will be killed in her way. If even a god cannot defeat her, he will probably end up with an ice sculpture.
The cat's good relationships with ghosts in the demon realm are likely because its friend was defeated by the snow woman, so it holds a grudge.
As expected, the cat went on and on about this point: "In short, if the Snow Woman really awakens, then the Demon Realm will once again face the dangerous 'Ice and Snow Rules,' and almost no monster will escape from any place covered by her domain."
The more a person focuses on something, the more they will emphasize it.
The cat was most concerned about the danger that the Yuki-onna would bring, that terrifying realm that froze all ghosts: "In the realms of other ghosts, as long as you follow the rules, you can be safe, but the Yuki-onna's realm... I don't know what the rules are, I only know that it is very eerie there, and no ghost can come out alive."
As soon as he finished speaking, a cool breeze blew into the room, instantly extinguishing the candles on the table.
Yin Zhu quickly reached out his hand, just as he was about to grasp the cat's hand, the cat grabbed Yin Zhu with its left paw and a kappa with its right paw, and dragged them both out of the house.
Almost at the same time, the sound of gongs and drums began to come from the street outside. The lively atmosphere made Yin Zhu almost think that someone was getting married. — By the way, do people in the world of ghosts get married?
The lively sounds grew closer and closer, and even the kappa nervously straightened his appearance.
Finally, the sound stopped at the entrance to Yin Zhu's courtyard. Looking outside, Yin Zhu could see that there was indeed a group of monsters of various shapes standing outside. They were wearing clothes embroidered with floral patterns and carrying a sedan chair.
It's the kind of large bridal sedan chair commonly seen in ancient China.
The sedan chair was enormous, almost filling the entire street outside. A slender, pale hand lifted the dark red curtain, and a beautiful young woman stepped out of the chair, her head bowed. She wore a long dress that appeared to be a modified blend of Japanese and Western styles, adorned with various beautiful flowers.
As the girl lifted her foot, a monster immediately slid to the side of the sedan chair, kneeling on the ground with its upper body sprawled on the floor, forming a perfect wooden stool of demonic flesh, allowing the girl to get out of the sedan chair more easily.
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