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"Why is it getting cold again?"

Those who were waiting for the ceremony to begin at the foot of the mountain shrank their bodies, tightened their clothes, and breathed out a breath of cold air.

The moon in the sky still emits cool moonlight, and the surrounding stars dot the dark night sky, without a trace of clouds or mist.

In order to ensure good weather for tomorrow's festival, the National Meteorological Bureau launched rain-proof shells into the surrounding sky early on, using the shells to carry out an artificial rainfall and eliminate the dark clouds that might have brought rain in advance.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, there will be no rain for the entire 31 days of the first lunar month, but clear skies and gentle breezes.

"Phew, it's almost midnight now. The ceremony to invite the gods will probably start in another five or six hours. I can't sleep!"

The person who was waiting looked at the time and found that there were still five or six hours left. He immediately slapped his face to wake himself up. It is easy to get sleepy when waiting all night.

There are many people like him around him. Some people even started exercising on the spot, which can not only reduce sleepiness but also warm up the body.

And in the air that they could not see, wronged souls suddenly emerged from the ground and flew towards the sea of ​​forests.

These wronged souls were all people who died here for various reasons. Their remaining resentment was sensed by Oshima Sho and they were drawn over there.

The area with the most wronged souls is a ruin that is currently being rebuilt. Huge claw marks and knife marks are still left on the concrete floor. Although the reconstruction plan has been started a long time ago, the progress is very slow.

Not only do we have to blow up the dangerous buildings, but we also have to clear the mess on the ground, but the most important thing is the obstruction of the indigenous people.

The surviving indigenous people would naturally look for valuable items that were still left. Even if they picked up something slightly valuable, they would feel they had made a profit.

After all, they have nothing left. Even if the government compensates them, what they have lost can never be recovered.

As for the dead, there were both indigenous people who refused to leave because of their stubbornness and poor people who lost their families and everything and were looking for relief.

After all, that earth-shattering supernatural battle was not as exciting as it seemed. The consequences left behind by the battle were always a disaster for some people.

Under the cover of night, the invisible souls wandered towards the forest, leaving behind only the shivering sounds of the people around them due to the sudden cold.

The cold wind blows, but the moonlight remains.

"Furu Te Shen Zi, how about you perform a Kagura dance at the beginning of the festival?"

The inner hall of Sengen Taisha Shrine is closed at dusk on New Year's Eve to prepare for the festival, and reopens on the morning of the New Year to hold the festival.

It is now around midnight, and there are only a few hours left before the festival begins. For this reason, almost all clergymen have not gone to sleep, but have been rehearsing the opening of the ceremony over and over again.

If you really can't hold on, there is Furudate Reimu's blue energy as an essential medicine to refresh your mind. A circulation through the body will instantly make you feel a hundred times more energetic.

"Okay, I'm ready." Furude Reimu replied to the priest in front of her. Because it was a ceremony to invite the gods, they had to dance to the goddess of mercy.

There are four representative types of Kagura dance, namely Miko Kagura, Izumo Kagura, Ise Kagura and Shishi Kagura.

The shrine maiden music is the dance performed by the shrine maidens in the ceremony of inviting gods. The shrine maidens are required to hold props such as fans, bells or sacred branches, wear a celestial crown, and dress in white and red. They perform a cleansing dance before entering the body of the gods to persuade the gods to come.

This is a typical prayer-style Kagura, which is divided into two types: morning Kagura (held in the morning) and evening Kagura (held in the evening).

Since it is a ceremony to invite gods, it is natural to dance Kagura music to the shrine maidens. Moreover, Reimu Furude is a full-time shrine maiden who specializes in Kagura dance and is already familiar with this process.

Although this is the first time I have asked a real god to come and possess me.

Time passed slowly in this tense atmosphere, and there was about an hour left before the sunrise.

The sun that rises at the beginning of the new year is called the "first sunrise". Legend has it that the God of the Year will arrive at the same time as the sunrise, so people will go to places with a wide view to worship the first sunrise of the year.

According to astronomical calculations, six o'clock in the morning is the first sunrise, which is also the moment when the ceremony begins.

There was already a faint glow in the sky, but the vendors at the foot of the mountain had already started doing business, even though they hadn't closed their stalls since yesterday.

But we still took a break in the middle.

About half an hour before the first sunrise, the gates of Sengen Taisha Shrine opened. In an instant, people who had been waiting for a long time squeezed in and took a seat for themselves in the vacant space.

There are so many people around that those who can't squeeze in can only look at this side from afar. Now, the eyes of the whole world are on here.

Aichi, Nagano, Yamanashi, and Kanagawa all have their eyes on neighboring Shizuoka. If Yamanashi and Kanagawa were not separating Tokyo, Tokyo might have joined in.

The locals in Tokyo, who have always considered themselves superior, now hate why the Sengen Taisha Shrine is not in their area but in Shizuoka.

A ray of sunlight broke through the darkness, shining on the tender and juicy cherry blossom petals, spreading a patch of sunlight with a hint of pink.

The sun rises in the east.

The Land of the Rising Sun welcomed the first ray of sunshine of the new year, but a faint cloud appeared on the horizon. It was not as colorful as the morning glow, but faintly revealed a gray color.

But no one noticed the gray color, and instead focused their attention on the deity-summoning ceremony at the Sengen Taisha Shrine.

Reimu Furude is dressed in an intricate and gorgeous shrine maiden costume, a Hakuchihaya cloak, a Maeten crown on her head, a cherry blossom hairpin in her hair, red-buttoned straw sandals on her feet, and a Kagura bell in one hand and a cherry blossom branch in the other.

The chief priest standing behind the shrine maiden leads the orchestra and the recruits (people who apply to serve in Kagura), and they will dance with the shrine maiden as soon as they receive the order.

"Ding ding~"

The divine bell rang softly.

The color of heaven and earth changes.

Chapter 211: Wild Skeleton

The fifteen bells of the Kagura bell jingled, and the five-colored ribbons connected to the handle danced in the air along with the figure.

The five-color belt has five colors: green, yellow, red, white and blue, representing five elements respectively. It is about six feet long and dances in the air like a human.

"Ding ding~"

The crisp sound of bells echoed around, and Furude Reimu's figure danced along with the accompanying Kagura. This scene was even more brilliant and moving under the pink sunlight.

There was no other sound around. It seemed that the only sounds in the world were the little shrine maiden's bell, her light figure, and the sacred music that sounded along with the rhythm of the dance.

The singing and dancing in front of me seemed to make the sunlight ashamed and gradually lost its own brilliance. No, it was not just seem, the sunlight was really gradually dimming.

Watching the people participating in the ceremony, they finally discovered the changes between heaven and earth. The sun that was gradually rising in the sky was actually being blocked by the sudden appearance of black clouds.

Although it is slow, it seems that in a few minutes the sky will be completely covered by dark clouds.

"What's going on? Is it going to rain?"

"That shouldn't be the case. After all, there were no clouds in the sky just now. How come dark clouds suddenly appeared?"

"It's good to have rain. Let's see if the gods can disperse the dark clouds. I'm actually looking forward to a sudden downpour to see what the shrines holding festivals will do."

The people who were watching the ceremony began to whisper when they saw the clouds appearing in the sky. Although their voices were small, they still reached the ears of the priests who were organizing the ceremony.

“Damn it, what’s going on?!” Priest Terajima Yusuke looked at the dark clouds in the sky and said with an unpleasant expression, “We’ve clearly discussed it, why are there still dark clouds!”

A week before the festival, Sengen Taisha had clearly communicated with the government and asked the Weather Bureau to disperse the dark clouds in the area, and they would provide assistance to the government in the future.

As long as the power of their shrine is needed, they will definitely not stand idly by. Of course, the government will also have to help them.

But looking at the current situation, the government has obviously not done it well, or has not done it at all!

If the people at the Meteorological Bureau heard this idea, they would definitely cry out that it was injustice, as they would not know what was going on.

At this moment, the people at the Meteorological Bureau were more anxious than the priests. The cloud map from the weather satellite clearly showed that there were no dark clouds in that area. Where on earth did the black fog come from?

Almost everyone thought it was a dark cloud that appeared suddenly and didn't think of other directions.

And just as everyone expected, this "dark cloud" spread rapidly, blocking the morning glow on the horizon and the faint light in the sky.

The Kagura dance continued, and the changing color of the sky and earth seemed unable to stop the little priestess from dancing.

"Oh!"

A sound like a thunderclap suddenly rang out from the woods at the foot of the mountain. Everyone who was watching the Kagura dance was startled and their attention was attracted by the sound.

From the depths of the green forest, a towering black pillar emitting black miasma suddenly shot up into the sky.

There seemed to be a strong wind blowing between heaven and earth, sweeping up the miasma that swept across the entire forest. The lush green forest quickly turned gray and black, and withered leaves flew up in the wind.

Everyone who was shocked by this scene suddenly realized that the miasma seemed to have the possibility of drifting out of the forest. They felt a chill on their backs and were extremely terrified.

Although I don’t know what the black mist is, it is definitely not a good thing. Just looking at it makes a chill run straight to my head.

At some point, the Kagura dance that was still being performed stopped, and Furude Reimu looked at the black column of miasma that connected the sky and the ground with a chill in her heart.

In her perception, it was a despairing and cold aura, which came from the same source as the vengeful ghosts she had eliminated before, but compared with the evil ghosts and the black pillars, they were like fireflies and the bright moon.

The dark clouds in the sky suddenly rolled up and formed a huge vortex, and the source of the vortex was exactly where the black column of miasma connected to the sky.

"Woo~"

The sound of the strong wind was like the desperate screams of wronged souls and evil ghosts. People near the forest turned pale and the miasma filled the air.

"Run away!"

Someone shouted, and when they saw that the miasma was about to infect them, everyone hurriedly pushed and shoved to escape the area.

With the rough and continuous pushing, someone will eventually fall to the ground, resulting in a tragic trampling accident.

As expected, some thin people were pushed to the ground and found it difficult to get up. In an instant, the miasma swept in and spread upwards.

"Ahhhh!!!"

"Help!!!"

The unfortunate fellow who was contaminated by the miasma instantly let out a shrill scream, as if he was being tortured endlessly.

The exposed skin was contaminated by the miasma and rotted into bloody rotten flesh within seconds. After a few seconds, the screams stopped abruptly.

Because those unfortunate guys who were trampled have turned into a pile of dry bones wearing clothes. All their skin, hair, flesh, blood and internal organs have rotted into ashes, leaving only the dry bones.

And in the air invisible to people, a wronged soul with a face full of resentment suddenly emerged from the dry bones. It glanced with hatred at the crowd still fleeing in the distance, and flew towards the black column of miasma without looking back.

When the fleeing people saw someone being contaminated by the black mist and turned into dry bones, they suddenly became crazy and hysterical. No one wanted to die, so they could only escape as much as possible!

In an instant, the crowd near the forest rushed outside frantically, fearing that they would fall behind.

All the people on the island, and even all the people in the world, who were paying attention to this place, took a deep breath. Was this the evil demon that had appeared in the world?

"Hurry up and let God appear to solve the problem! Don't you have God here?"

"Kamisa, please save us!"

"My Camisa!!!"

The crowd surrounding the Sengen Taisha Shrine became excited in an instant, and they all started to demand why the gods were not allowed to appear and solve the problem!

It’s obvious that an evil demon has appeared in the world, why hasn’t your great god Asama appeared yet!

The priests gradually retreated under the approaching crowd. This should have been the opening of the ceremony to invite the gods, why did they encounter such a situation!

But the necessary changes would not stop. The black column of miasma suddenly grew larger under the gaze of everyone, and the vortex of dark clouds in the sky suddenly rolled back down.

"Snapped!"

In the suddenly changing black column of miasma, a huge skeleton arm suddenly appeared from it and smashed the expanding black column of miasma with one punch.

The fragments of the black pillar flew around like glass fragments, and disintegrated into ordinary black mist in the air. At the original location of the black pillar, a huge black skeleton stood on the ground.

The skeleton was pitch black all over, with three heads and six arms. Its six sharp black claws were burning with materialized black miasma, and its six eye sockets were emitting bloody light.

On the back of the huge skeleton grew a pair of black bone wings that looked like ribs, and on them hung a large piece of silvery-white spider web, as if there were howling wronged souls and evil spirits wandering around.

It has a thick tail that looks like a spine dragging behind it. A light sweep can destroy a large area of ​​forest, leaving behind a large area of ​​withered traces.

The only things that appeared to be unusual were the two equally black bone legs, which were so thin that it seemed as if a few cuts would be enough to knock the huge skeleton to the ground, and then they could attack the skull that seemed to be its weak point on the ground.

A huge skeleton appeared in the world, and the world changed silently.

"God..."

"Save us..."

Chapter 212 The sky and the earth are eclipsed

"Isn't this a god-inviting ceremony? Could this be the god Asama-sama!!!"

Far away in the Public Security Investigation Agency in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, Miura Hidenari spoke angrily, with two swear words in one sentence, which shows his current mood.

"What on earth is Sengen Taisha doing? Have they fallen into evil?!"

The appearance of the giant skeleton surprised the Public Security Investigation Bureau, which had been keeping their eyes on that side. This was a direction they had never expected.

Originally, they were waiting for the descent of the god with both caution and expectation, ready to witness the reappearance of the great god Asama, but...

Why would such a huge skeleton that looks like a demon appear during the ritual of inviting gods? Any change has a reason, and such a thing cannot appear out of thin air.

"Is there something that stimulated the appearance of the skeleton? Or did this skeleton appear to prevent the gods from appearing in the world?"

A minister who was also present speculated that it was hard not to think of this reason as it appeared at the opening moment of the ceremony to invite the gods.