The mastermind behind this started by creating a strange story

"Never mind those irrelevant reasons. The question now is, what should we do next!" Another minister interrupted the question and pointed his finger at the table, saying what everyone was thinking, "Do we need to intervene in this?"

Even though it was not stated explicitly, everyone present understood the true meaning of the question.

The giant skeleton is obviously related to the ritual of summoning gods. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that. Otherwise, why would the skeleton appear so late at night, but just when the ritual starts?

Moreover, the giant skeleton looked like it had bad intentions. Should the public security contact the Self-Defense Forces and send out land and air forces to suppress it? After all, this was their duty, but...

"This is the accident we need. Even if no one knows the consequences of this accident, isn't there still the Sengen Taisha Shrine?"

"Perhaps the situation at Sengen Taisha Shrine will be resolved in an instant."

………………

Yamanashi Nantoli County, Aokigahara sea of ​​trees.

The giant skeleton was hundreds of meters tall, facing the cherry trees that blocked out the sun in the distance. It ignored the fleeing crowd under its feet and walked towards the cherry trees.

"Oh!"

The skeleton's paw stomped down heavily, stirring up a large cloud of black miasma mixed with dust. The trees collapsed and the miasma suddenly gushed out.

“Run away, ahhhhh!!!”

When the fleeing people saw the black miasma floating over, they fled towards an open place in panic. Those who fell to the ground due to the pushing and shoving were contaminated by the miasma in a moment and turned into dry bones.

The cold winds that rose all around seemed not to want the crowd to escape easily, and suddenly a strong wind blew up, and the cloud-like miasma accelerated in the strong wind, instantly sweeping over the fleeing crowd.

A look of fear remained on their faces, followed by excruciating pain. A strong wind swept through the fleeing crowd, leaving behind a field of dry bones.

And this is only the situation for a small part of the crowd. Because the number of people is too dense, even if the skeleton does not deliberately target the crowd, it still easily harvests wave after wave of lives under the trampling of its huge feet.

Not to mention the miasma that spread all around as the skeletons moved forward.

Within just one minute, corpses were everywhere and countless wronged souls emerged. This time, the souls were not attracted and flew towards the giant skeleton.

Instead, it merged with the miasma that permeated the air and turned into a new vengeful ghost. The new vengeful ghost looked at the living people who were still fleeing with hatred, and there was no other expression on its face except for the hatred that was ready to devour anyone.

"Ow!!!"

In a flash, vengeful ghosts emerged from the dry bones and rushed towards the living to bite them. This was the natural disaster of the undead.

The sky and earth lost their color and looked like Avici.

It was clearly a ceremony to invite the gods and the first day of the new year, but at this moment it felt like being trapped in an endless hell of suffering. Although there was no bloody river, the endless stream of vengeful ghosts and the dead bones everywhere were even worse.

It was like the end of the world. Wherever the giant skeleton passed, endless miasma swept away the surrounding lives, and tall buildings collapsed as they passed.

Endless resentful ghosts emerged and slaughtered the people who escaped the disaster. The more people died, the more resentful ghosts there were.

Aokigahara Forest is located in Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture, while Sengen Taisha Shrine is located in Fujinomiya City in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture.

With the huge size of the skeleton, it would only take a dozen seconds to get there, but for some reason, the skeleton took each step extremely slowly, and while walking, it was also destroying the surrounding towns.

Any town that the skeleton passed through was completely destroyed.

The collapsed buildings submerged the surrounding area like a torrential flood. The earthquake caused by walking caused bottomless cracks to appear in the ground. The earth shook and the mountains split, and dust filled the sky.

Seeing the huge skeleton destroying everything, the crowd at the foot of Mount Fuji fled madly towards the Sengen Taisha Shrine.

Given the huge size of the skeletons, they had no time to escape and would most likely be killed by the black miasma on the way. Even if they managed to escape, the dense swarms of resentful ghosts would still be watching them covetously.

There is no escape, and death is everywhere.

They can only hope that God will appear and save their lives.

Therefore, the crowd gathered at the foot of Mount Fuji all fled towards the cherry trees, and those who were already there pushed and shoved their way deeper into the area.

"God, please show up!"

"Don't you have a god in your shrine? Let the god kill that big skeleton!"

"Fuck you, why!"

At this moment, the light of the rising morning sun disappeared, and there were gusts of cold wind and black fog between heaven and earth, which made people feel despair.

It was like a night parade of one hundred demons, no, a scene even more terrifying than the night parade of one hundred demons. It finally caused the already shaky spirit to collapse. Everyone prayed, shouted, and cursed frantically.

If they were not still hoping for the appearance of the gods, the collapsed crowd would have been unable to resist attacking the priests.

It's all the fault of Sengen Taisha. If Sengen Taisha hadn't been holding this damn festival, how could they have encountered this desperate scene? They wouldn't be praying humbly for the gods to appear here.

The priests, led by Masato Sakurai, were blocking the entrance to the inner hall to prevent the angry crowd from rushing in.

Inside the inner hall, the shrine chief looked at the huge skeleton approaching in the distance with a pale face, his body staggering.

Seeing this scene, Furude Reimu hurried forward and supported Gong Si, who seemed to be about to fall, with her hand. She was about to send blue energy to stabilize Gong Si's mind, but Gong Si suddenly interrupted her!

"Gu Shou, quickly go to the bottom of the miracle site to contact the great god Asama. If the great god Asama doesn't show up, we will be destroyed here!"

"Not only us, but everyone under Mount Fuji will die here. Let's go and ask the goddess Konohanakayahime to help!!"

The palace assistant grasped Furude Reimu's hand, his voice was hoarse, his eyes were bloodshot, his eyes were full of pleading, and his tone was no longer as indifferent as before, but full of anxiety.

"I...I know."

Furude Reimu pulled out her hands, which were slightly painful from being held, and answered in a hoarse voice.

Chapter 213: Despair

"She's out. It's the evil demon she summoned!"

"Shut up, the witch must be trying to save our lives, don't talk nonsense."

"Please save us, Miko-sama!"

Outside the inner hall, the crowd was crowded together, with pleading and miserable looks on their faces, and their chattering was a mixture of insults and pleas.

The expressions of the people present were different, but they all revealed one thing: they did not want to die here.

The giant skeleton destroyed everything in front of it as it walked. In about a minute, it would arrive in front of the Sengen Taisha Shrine.

As everyone was watching, Furude Reimu's heart was pounding, but she still tried her best to speak in a firm tone: "Please rest assured, I will go and ask God Asama to help us now. Please rest assured, we will be saved."

After saying that, Furude Reimu didn't wait for everyone to answer and ran towards the sacred cherry tree alone. The sacred cherry tree was behind the inner hall. Because a festival was being held, there was no one near the sacred cherry tree.

Everyone was afraid to act rashly now, because it was not the last moment yet, and they were still hoping that the gods would appear and save them.

"Da da da~"

The sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the empty corridor. This was the road closest to the sacred cherry tree, and Reimu Furude's heart was in a mess.

Why did it turn out like this... Today is clearly the New Year which is worth celebrating, and today is clearly the first day of the ceremony to invite the gods to offer sacrifices. These two happy events combined make one a bigger and more worthy event to celebrate, so why did it turn out like this!

Furude Reimu felt sad, but she did not stop.

A moment later, Furude Reimu ran to the sacred cherry tree and knelt down to pray. As the goddess Konohanasakuyahime had said, she could hear the sound of prayers through the cherry tree.

"Oh, Konohanakayahime-sama..."

Reimu Furude immersed his mind, circulating the green energy in his body to connect with the giant cherry tree in front of him. That guy said that this was the power of the great god Asama.

If he wasn't lying, then Asama-sama would definitely notice her.

As the prayer continued, Reimu Furude's mind became clearer and clearer, and she could even sense the flow of air around her.

"Yes! Master Asama!"

Reimu Furude, who had her eyes closed, suddenly looked happy. She heard the ethereal voice, distant and cold.

But before the joy could fully emerge on his face, it immediately froze, and after a moment, the expression on his face turned into disbelief.

"Why!!!"

Furude Reimu could no longer keep her tone calm, and became panicked, her voice revealing despair.

"..."

He staggered to his feet, tears of despair flowing uncontrollably from his tear glands, flowing down his cheeks and dripping onto the ground.

With a look of despair on her face, Furude Reimu walked outside in a trance.

The giant skeleton has not yet reached the shrine, but the vengeful ghosts have already arrived here.

In Fujinomiya City, vengeful ghosts roared and devoured all life in front of them. There was wailing everywhere. Life had never been so cheap.

The area around Mount Fuji has fallen, and Aichi, Nagano, Kanagawa, and Tokyo have been implicated. Although the giant skeleton did not go to destroy it, the vengeful ghosts will not follow the skeleton obediently.

The most serious situation is Tokyo. After all, everyone knows the name of Tokyo. Not to mention the living people, even the resentful ghosts are rushing to Tokyo.

Hateful ghosts are not ordinary creatures, so any physical attacks are ineffective against them. When a living person sees a vengeful ghost, they will die and become new vengeful ghosts.

Sengen Taisha Shrine, in front of the inner shrine gate.

Furude Reimu walked out in a trance, looking at the people in front of her with hope on their faces. She couldn't bear to tell them the result, so she turned her head away, not daring to look at the crowd.

The crowd, who had still had hope, saw her like this and the hope on their faces gradually froze.

"What...what happened..."

Hearing the stuttering question, Furude Reimu trembled, turned around, and looked at everyone sadly with tear-stained eyes. She really didn't know how to start.

Seeing the witch with such an expression, the hopes in everyone's hearts gradually sank to the bottom of their hearts.

"Master Shen Zi, why are you just watching? Are you really betraying me?!"

"Why don't you speak? Don't just look at us. Speak!"

"It's over... it's over..."

"Dead, hahahaha, all of you go to hell!!!"

Seeing that the witch didn't react at all, the crowd finally went completely crazy, and all kinds of vulgar words came out of their mouths.

The man who exploded with anger even threw the things in his hands at the witch in front of him, and cursed the gods and everything in the present without restraint.

"Oh!"

A piece of wooden ema suddenly hit Reimu Furude who was standing there in a daze, and a streak of crimson flowed through her hair.

"Protect the Son of God!"

The priests guarding in front of the inner hall saw the crowd suddenly go crazy, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop the angry crowd with their bodies, but the crazy crowd was too numerous and powerful to be stopped at all.

After seeing Furude Reimu suddenly being hit by the flying Ema, the priests finally reacted and realized that no matter what happened now, Furude Reimu must not be allowed to get hurt.

The priest who was staying in the inner hall just came out after hearing the noise, and saw Furude Reimu being injured. In a panic, he pulled Furude Reimu, who was standing there in a daze, into the inner hall.

Until now, the injured Furude Reimu has not reacted.

"What the hell is going on! Are you all crazy?!"

After all the priests returned to the inner hall, they kicked the angry crowd out of the inner hall door, closed the inner hall door, and held the door with their backs before they breathed a sigh of relief.

The priests who stopped the crowd looked very miserable at the moment, naked, with fist marks on their faces, and some even had bruises on their faces.

"Why didn't Asama-sama show up? What on earth happened?!"

The already old palace official seemed to have aged ten years again, with even his back hunched.

"Gu Shou Shen Zi, what happened?"

Perhaps because he saw the final result, or perhaps because he had completely given up hope, Gong Si's tone now returned to its previous indifference, and even carried a hint of despair.

"There's no way..." Furude Reimu answered slowly after hearing the question from the palace chief. The blood from her head flowed into her eyes, irritating them and making them red.

"God Asama said there is no other way. He has to seal Mount Fuji and cannot spare any strength to deal with the demons..."

"..."

After hearing this answer, the clergy in the inner hall were speechless. They wanted to say something but didn't know how to start.

The inner hall fell into deathly silence.

Outside the inner hall, the crowd saw that the shrine priests were helpless, and some of them sat on the ground with despair in their hearts, waiting for death to come.

However, some people refused to believe it and ran outside like crazy, hoping to escape.

Some of them were even worse and ran directly towards the sacred cherry tree behind the inner hall. Without the obstruction of the priests, no one knew what they wanted to do.

There is no greater form of despair than this.

Chapter 214 That’s right!

The resentful ghosts came out in droves, and the evil spirit swept in all directions. No living being could survive within the range of the miasma for more than half a minute.