Chapter 432 Independent Version Puppet
After flying a few rounds with Koizumi Hongzi and failing to squeeze out any more magic power, Jiang Xia let out a sigh.
This witch looks like she has been squeezed to the limit.
However, today's harvest is already rich enough...
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia brought Koizumi Hongzi down, planning to find a place to put her down and come back to find her after she recovered.
While slowly falling, Koizumi Hongzi, who felt like she had lost all hope in life, heard her ears twitch and heard the servant's magical message.
"Lord Hongzi, I just found some related legends about the Tengu." The sound of flipping through newspapers came from the servants' end. Just now, after Koizumi Hongzi saw the Mist Tengu, she felt curious about this unprecedented monster, so she sent someone to investigate, and now she finally found the result.
The servant obviously knew nothing about Koizumi Hongzi's current situation. He looked at the newspaper intently, helping the witch to investigate the feasibility and difficulty of raising a mist tengu:
"The legend of the Mist Tengu has always been popular in the Banwanshan area, but it really became well-known two years ago. Two years ago, a young monk in the Shanni Temple over there hanged himself. A while ago, their abbot also hanged himself.
"The two hanged themselves on the roof of the confinement room. No one knows how they climbed up there without leaving any traces. It looked as if someone had flown them there. In addition, when the young monk died, a huge gap was knocked open on the wall of the confinement room... These characteristics are completely consistent with the man-eating habits of the local 'Mist Tengu'."
"...Eating people?"
...And it sounds like two people have died because of this?
Koizumi Hongzi's heart skipped a beat, and she could not maintain the dead-lying state for a moment - although she had already experienced impressive fear and fatigue when being tossed around in the air, this instinctive fear of weightlessness and a certain kind of terrifying fear were not exactly the same thing.
The servant heard the words that Koizumi Hongzi repeated in a low voice and responded:
"That's right. Legend has it that the Mist Tengu will sneak into the village like fog in the middle of the night, break through the walls, kidnap the food they like, and then hang the carcasses of their prey high up to be eaten - by the way, I heard that they like young and beautiful girls the most.
“But don’t worry, Lady Hongzi, your noble and pure magic power is enough to suppress this monster.
"However, if you want to raise it, you must prepare a cage that is difficult to break, so that it does not run out and endanger the residents around it. In addition, you may also need to prepare human flesh as food, but this is illegal, so..."
“…”
Koizumi Hongzi originally wanted to secretly ask the servant for help, but was blocked by the words "noble and pure magic power" and was unable to speak for a while.
When she finally finished her struggle and gritted her teeth, ready to throw away her pride to save her life, she saw Mist Tengu glance at her ear as if he knew something.
Soon after, Koizumi Hongzi discovered that she could no longer hear the noisy and unpleasant voices of the servants.
Her pupils shrank slightly - it seemed that it was not an illusion, this monster actually seemed to have a way to block her magic!
...Why did the ancient books at home never record the existence of living monsters in the world? Why did they never mention this terrible natural enemy? ?
Koizumi Hongzi thought of the news the servant had just brought, especially the words like "human flesh" and "prey", and then thought about her own situation, and felt an uncontrollable fear.
At the same time, she also had a new understanding of why Mist Tengu had just tossed her around to play with him.
——Since Mist Tengu likes to hang the carcasses of its prey high up to eat, then just now, Mist Tengu threw her down from above, perhaps intending to aim and stab her onto some very high object.
It was just because she would always instinctively use her magic to float in the air, causing the trajectory to deviate. Mist Tengu felt that he had not thrown it accurately, so he brought her up again in dissatisfaction and threw her again...
...In this case, even if I can't use magic to float away, I should at least try to change the direction of my fall. I can't just wait to die like this!
The unknown makes people afraid and dare not resist.
But once she figured out the other party's behavior pattern, Koizumi Akako's remaining desire to survive was squeezed out again.
She held her breath and waited for the next time the Mist Tengu threw her. This time, she would not remain in the floating state, but would only allow herself to shift a little for a short period of time. In this way, the Mist Tengu, who had to hang his prey on the tree to eat, would not kill her immediately... By delaying time, the servants might notice something was wrong and come to rescue her!
After coming up with a rough countermeasure, Koizumi Hongzi gritted her teeth, forced herself to calm down, and prepared for the next wave of attacks.
However, unlike what she expected, Mist Tengu did not take her high into the sky again, but descended all the way, finally coming to the woods and landing on a tall tree.
Koizumi Hongzi looked at the eerie tree with branches and twigs. In her mind, the servant's popular science kept echoing - Mist Tengu liked to hang the carcasses of their prey high up and keep them for later consumption...
High up...
Save for later consumption...
Scenes of fresh, bloody human flesh hanging on a tree and herself being disemboweled flashed through her mind. She rolled her eyes upwards, exhausted from the reality, and fell into a coma.
“…”
Jiang Xia landed on the tree and patted Koizumi Hongzi.
When he found that she seemed to be really fainted, he descended to the ground again.
There seemed to be some kind of connection between Koizumi Hongzi and her servant. Jiang Xia pulled the magic line on Koizumi Hongzi's body, and after a while, the servant would come to pick her up.
He put the man down and left with a rich harvest.
…
Late at night, Beika Town.
Jiang Xia opened his eyes in the quilt and coughed twice, pressing the mark on his chest.
I felt a little choked after eating so many energy cores at once.
But he didn't feel tired of eating it at all. He didn't know when Koizumi Hongzi would recover. He was already thinking about making an appointment for the next visit...
Jiang Xia, like Koizumi Hongzi just now, lay there for a while and slowly digested the energy core he had just stored.
After digesting it, he threw back the covers and sat up, letting a large amount of shikigami flow out from the tattoo on his heart.
The shikigami quickly gathered in the center of the room, piling up into clay puppets.
Jiang Xia picked up the nearest ghost and threw it in.
The next second, a slender figure in black took shape in front of him—the woman who appeared out of thin air was wearing a solemn black long dress, a black wide-brimmed sun hat on her head with a low brim, and the hem of her skirt was embellished with dark silver edges.
——Miyano Akemi.
Or rather, Miss Anonymous.
(End of this chapter)
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