I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 308 Collective Dreaming
Could it be the work of demons?

Dong Ye Yu sensed it carefully, but did not detect any demonic aura. Instead, there was a bit of Shinto aura, which meant that this place was blessed by gods.

With the gods here, no evil spirits should dare to act recklessly.

But if it weren't for the evil ghosts
Dong Yeyu pondered for a moment, perhaps they were too tired from the long journey yesterday?
Sometimes, when the body is too tired and falls into a deep sleep, it is indeed difficult to wake up.

I also experienced this situation when I was a child in my previous life. I was in elementary school in the town. Because I had to clean the house, I didn’t have time to take the school bus, so I thought about walking home.

But the school was quite far from home, nearly twenty kilometers away. I walked from dusk till late at night but still couldn't get home. I even got lost. In the end, my father drove all the way to find me.

After returning home, he fell asleep without even eating, and did not wake up when he went to school the next morning. When I asked my mother later, she said that no matter how she shook him, he could not be woken up, but she had no memory of this happening at all.

Thinking of this, Dong Yeyu pushed them hard again, "Imagawa, Shimada-san, wake up."

The two still didn't respond, they lay flat on their backs and slept peacefully, as peaceful as if they were dead.

However, Arima Norimune on the side suddenly moved, his expression was ferocious, his limbs twisted, and he seemed to have a nightmare.

"Arima, get up, don't sleep anymore!"

Higashino Yu hesitated for a second, then slapped Arima Zezong twice. Two crisp sounds rang out in the quiet room, and two slap marks appeared on Arima Zezong's face. However, even so, he was still not woken up.

strangeness.

Forget it, since we are sure it is not a ghost, then forget it. If you are late for the study tour, don’t blame me for not calling you.

Dong Ye Yu thought so, got up and went out, ready to have breakfast and come back to check. If he couldn't wake them up, he would ask the teacher for leave for them.

After leaving the room, probably because it was too early, there was no one in the corridor, it was very quiet.

Are you all tired? The Reiwa generation is so weak, it seems that the future of the island nation is dark.

It’s good, just sinking into a life of drunkenness and dreams.

Although Dong Yeyu has lived and studied in the island country for many years, he has always considered himself a Shenzhou person and has no sense of belonging to the island country. If Shenzhou calls him at this time, he will probably say without hesitation -

Sir, this way!

After going downstairs, there was no one in sight. The morning sunlight shone through the hotel's automatic glass door, casting a golden light band across the entrance. Miss Fukuda, who had been sitting at the hotel's front desk and deliberately scaring people last night, was now sleeping soundly on the front desk desk.

Without disturbing her, Dong Ye Yu went straight out the door. The climate in the mountains was more pleasant than in the city, especially in the summer mornings. The cool mountain breeze was filled with the fragrance of grass and trees.

Turning around, Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami also walked out of the hotel building. She was wearing the school uniform of Tachibana High School. It seemed that she had forgotten to comb her originally dignified and exquisite princess hairstyle, and the clover knot at the side of her hair was not tied. Her waterfall-like black hair was scattered behind her, facing the sun, and golden light flowed through her hair.

She still looked calm. She stopped and looked around. After discovering Dong Ye Yu, she walked straight towards him.

"Where are the others? Are you the only one awake?" she asked.

"I didn't sleep at all. The spiritual energy of the world is becoming more and more abundant. I have to use this good time to practice and not slack off."

Dong Ye Yu answered with a smile, and then he realized something was wrong. No one from the girls' group woke up?
After thinking for two seconds, he stretched his neck to look at the lobby of the hotel where the girls were staying, but he didn't see Asumi Sanae, and he immediately had a bad feeling.

"Where's Sanae?"

Jinguji Hiiragi frowned and said, "She suddenly fell asleep in the middle of her practice last night. I thought she was tired and ignored her. I found her in a deep sleep after the practice this morning. I couldn't wake her up no matter what I did. I didn't find anyone else awake in the building, and the hotel staff couldn't find her either."

Dong Yeyu immediately understood the seriousness of the situation after hearing this, and said with a serious look: "It's the same here. Arima and the others can't be woken up either."

"But I didn't detect any demonic presence."

"I didn't notice anything wrong."

Jinguji Hiiragi pondered for a few seconds, "Could it be food poisoning or something? Everyone ate at the hotel last night."

"It's possible. Call the emergency number first."

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami shook his head slightly: "I just tried, but couldn't get through."

"? No way?"

Dong Yeyu took out his cell phone and saw that there was no signal.

It was a little too coincidental, too weird. Dong Yeyu put away his phone and thought for two seconds: "Wait for me here."

After saying that, he turned back to the hotel entrance and nudged the sleeping Fukuda Akiho at the front desk, "Ms. Fukuda, please wake up."

Similarly, Akiho Fukuda seemed to be in a deep sleep from which she could not be awakened.

Then, Dong Yeyu stood at the entrance and shouted at the top of his voice: "Is anyone there?!"

The sound was so loud that the glass was shaking and an echo could even be heard in the corridor, but even so, no one answered.

There must be something wrong when something is abnormal. Maybe everyone in the hotel has been poisoned, but there were no mushrooms in the food last night?
Holy crap, would anyone cook mushrooms in miso soup?
But Hiiragi Jing and I had dinner and didn’t realize it was poisonous.

Dong Yeyu walked out of the hall thinking, and Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami suggested: "Why don't we go to the village to check on the other people?"

Dong Yeyu nodded, "Okay. If there are people awake, ask them to come and help. They can contact the outside world or ask about the situation. It will always be helpful to some extent."

"If they are all asleep, we will go to the town and see if we can get in touch with the outside world. If that doesn't work, we will think of other ways."

The two of them discussed it and walked a short distance up the winding mountain road.

The roads here are not asphalt roads, but ordinary cement roads. Some of them have been in disrepair for many years, and there are cracks on the road, with moss growing in the cracks.

On one side of the road is a hillside covered with trees and bushes with a gentle slope. There is a path leading to the mountain. On the other side there is a metal guardrail. Outside the guardrail is a steep cliff, not very high, and below is the riverbed of Tianshui River.

The scenery was just that of a simple mountain road, nothing surprising. Both of them had their own worries in their hearts, so they were not in the mood to chat.

After turning the corner, I suddenly saw a van driving into the drainage ditch. I could see through the car window that the driver in the cab had fainted and was lying motionless on the steering wheel.

The two men walked up and checked. The driver smelled of alcohol and did not seem to be injured. However, like the people in the hotel, he could not be woken up.

Since he couldn't contact the outside world at the moment, Dong Yeyu closed the car door and left the driver here for the time being - a wild boar couldn't open the car door anyway.

After walking about two hundred meters, the two arrived at the first residential yard. It was an old wooden house with a yard, as seen on the island.

There are some strawberries planted in the yard. The large and plump fruits are hidden among the green leaves of the plants. The skin has a glazed texture, sparkling in the sun, which is extremely tempting.

The gate of the yard was locked, apparently because there were wild boars in the mountains. The residents here were accustomed to locking the yard when they were resting to prevent the wild boars from breaking in and hurting people.

"Is anyone there?" Higashino Yu called out loudly outside the gate. Seeing no one responded, he looked at Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami and kicked open the locked gate.

"The door is locked, too."

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami said in a deep voice, turned around and saw that there was no one around, he immediately became alert, and when he looked back again, he was surprised to find that Higashino Yu was sticking his butt out and carefully selecting the strawberry pots.

"Ayu."

"Man is made of iron and rice is made of steel. If you don't have breakfast, you won't have the energy to save the residents here. Just consider it as your reward. Hiiragi Kagami, do you want some? It's super sweet!"

Dong Yeyu stood up with an armful of strawberries, picked one and threw it into his mouth. He bit it gently, and his teeth bit through the plump fruit, and the sweet and sour juice burst into his mouth.

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami looked at him and said nothing, but her expression was a little helpless. It was such a time and she was not in the mood to eat.

"I can tell you're thin-skinned, and thin-skinned people are easily taken advantage of. Next, the picked strawberries won't last long and will go bad, so you have to eat them quickly."

As Higashino Yu spoke, he stuffed a few strawberries into the girl's hands, and stuffed his own mouth with strawberries, like a squirrel, and his voice was unclear.

"Don't feel embarrassed. How can you work for nothing? It looks like this family has also been infected. If it's poisoning, maybe the locals have the same eating habits. But what kind of mushroom is so powerful?"

The strawberries grown by this family are really delicious, they are beautiful, big and sweet. I will go back to learn from them and get some seeds so that I can plant some in my own yard.

Thinking of this, Dongye Yu suddenly thought, if he used spiritual spring water or something like that to water this kind of strawberry, what would it look like?
"For example, Amanita phalloides and Amanita muscaria can cause people to fall into a coma, and if the poisoning lasts for a long time, it can be fatal."

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami explained softly.

"I see. But can't the locals tell the difference between poisonous mushrooms?"

Bang!
Dong Ye Yu kicked the door open while holding Strawberry and walked in.

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami followed behind with a few strawberries in his hand. He felt a little inconvenient and wanted to put the strawberries in his pocket, but was afraid that they would be squeezed. After thinking for a while, he didn't know who to greet.

"Excuse me." She said softly, and saw Dong Ye Yu peeking in front of her with a furtive look, and picked up a strawberry and ate it.

"Is it sweet?" Dong Ye Yu suddenly turned around and asked.

The girl suddenly stopped chewing, her slightly puffy face looked somewhat cute. She opened her eyes wide and met the boy's sincere gaze. After a moment, she lowered her eyebrows, pursed her red lips and nodded.

The two entered the entrance of the resident's house. The corridor was very clean, the wooden floor was waxed, and the sunlight shone in through the glass shoji door in the corridor, sparkling.

"Search separately."

"Shout out loud when you are in danger."

The two men gave each other instructions, then separated and each searched for residents in the house.

There were five people in the family, an elderly couple, a young couple, and a girl who was probably in junior high school. They all fell into a deep sleep like everyone else.

Finally, the two met at the entrance, shook their heads, and turned out to check other residents' houses.

It took about half an hour to walk through the entire small village. Everyone in every household was asleep, no one was awake.

Even dogs are the same. They won't move if you kick them.

However, Higashino Yu did remember some things. He seemed to have wandered here when he was a child - after all, Fukuchiyama was not far from Kyoto. At that time, the farthest he had wandered was to Nagoya, so he had naturally been to Fukuchiyama as well.

After meeting up with Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami, the two walked back.

"I checked their condition and their vital signs are stable," said Higashino Yu.

Jinguji Hiiragi nodded slightly and pondered for two seconds: "After we go back, Ayu, you stay at the inn to protect everyone. I will go to Tianshui Town, which we passed by on the way here, to find someone to come over."

"What if they were poisoned, too?"

"It wouldn't be such a coincidence."

"It's hard to say. Maybe there are local customs, such as eating mushrooms together at a certain time. There are similar customs in Shenzhou. In some places, dog meat is eaten during festivals."

"Dog meat?" The girl was surprised.

Dong Yeyu nodded, "If you can accept it, it's delicious. If you want to eat it, I'll buy a dog in winter and kill it for hot pot."

"Aren't foxes canines?" Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami looked strange.

"Fox monsters are different from foxes. The difference is greater than that between monkeys and humans. Moreover, they only belong to the same family in biological classification. It does not affect their eating habits. Foxes are omnivores and eat everything. I think I wandered around this area when I was a child and picked up garbage to eat."

Dong Yeyu said this with some nostalgia.

Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami was silent for a few seconds. His voice was soft and calm, but one could hear his concern.

"Will there be any problems with your body?"

"It's okay, my stomach doesn't hurt at all." Dong Yeyu's eyes shone with dazzling confidence, and he grinned, his white teeth seeming to sparkle in the sunlight.

The girl was silent, wondering why she would be proud in such a strange place.

At this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the path beside the highway.
"Ouch!"

The two of them looked over quickly and saw an old man wearing Wu clothing and leaning on a cane who seemed to have lost his balance and was sliding down the mountain road quickly. However, he was very agile and swayed left and right without falling.

Higashino Yu and Jinguji Hiiragi Kagami looked at each other and hurried forward.

"Old man, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay. Although I'm old, I won't get into trouble even when I walk."

The old man waved his hand, then looked up at the two young men in front of him, and finally his eyes fell on Dong Yeyu, and he smiled: "Oh~ It's you, I haven't seen you for many years, you have become more handsome."

Does this old man know me?
Dong Yeyu frowned when he heard this and looked at the old man in front of him carefully for a moment.

The old man had a very distinctive look, with a head full of white hair hidden in a brown hat, a slightly long face, drooping eyebrows, and bright and clear eyes, like a child. He had a mustache, but he did not look cunning, and there was a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

"It's you, Old Deng?!"

Dong Yeyu's eyes widened and he remembered it instantly.

At that time, I was just thinking of finding something to eat in Fuchi Mountain when I met this old man, who without saying a word picked up his crutch and started hitting me. The crutch was waving so hard that it made a whistling sound. He chased me for a long distance and was really cruel.

(End of this chapter)