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"Yukino, let's go find the source together!"

"Eh?"

"Come on, don't you want to go see what the source you mentioned looks like? If you're afraid of the cold, I can lend you my hat, gloves and scarf!"

As she spoke, Uesugi Yoshiko began to untie her scarf.

"Stop!" Hoshino Yukino held Uesugi Yoshiko's hand, "I'm not afraid of the cold. The source is just my guess. It may not exist at all!"

"It would be a waste of time for us to look for the source. We should just..."

"Don't talk!" Uesugi Yoshiko interrupted Hoshino Yukino's explanation, "Is the difference in snow thickness real? The answer is yes and no!"

"……Yes."

"So if there is a source, I mean if, do you want to go and see it? Answer yes and no!"

"……think."

"That's it. If it's real and you want to go see it, then why are you hesitating? Even if you don't find anything, isn't it nice to see the snow scenery?"

After saying that, Uesugi Yoshiko pulled Hoshino Yukino and walked forward. Following the increasingly thick snow layer, they would eventually reach the end.

Looking at her good friend who was pulling her forward without any explanation, Hoshino Yukino smiled helplessly and thought, forget it, just treat it as an outing for fun.

Anyway, today is the weekend and they don’t have much homework, and this is the first snow of winter, so they might as well come out and enjoy the snow scenery.

As they continued to move forward, the chill from the snow became colder and colder. Hoshino Yukino had already wrapped herself around her friend's scarf and continued to move forward hand in hand with her friend.

"Hey, Yukino, that old man looks so weird."

A strange middle-aged man appeared on the road ahead. He was wearing only a thin layer of clothes and seemed unable to feel the coldness of the snow.

He had an antique samurai sword slung around his waist, and looked like a wandering ronin from the Meiji period, with some gray hair on his temples.

His face was pale and bloodless, and his lips were blue and purple, like a corpse that had been left in the freezer for several days.

At this moment, the strange man was walking forward without stopping.

"Don't talk, let's go our own way."

Hoshino Yukino tightened her arms around her friend, and kept walking at the same pace.

In just a few seconds, the man had walked in front of Hoshino Yukino and the others, and his strides were very fast.

At the moment of their intersection, Hoshino Yukino suddenly tensed up, but the man seemed to have no intention of stopping and continued on his way.

"Whoo~"

After heaving a sigh of relief, Hoshino Yukino felt a little weak in the knees. For some reason, the moment she passed the man, she seemed to feel a moment of fear.

But the feeling of fear disappeared very quickly. It appeared for no reason and disappeared for no reason either.

"So...so scary!"

Uesugi Yoshiko, who had been silent the whole time, said this sentence with a trembling voice, and her tone was filled with deep fear.

"What is that? It feels like a demon."

Chapter 130: Frozen Village

"You feel it too, Yukino, as if you are a demon in human skin."

Looking back, the man had already walked ten meters away. Then Uesugi Yoshiko whispered in Hoshino Yukino's ear.

“I almost thought I was going to die.”

"Don't say that, you're just scaring yourself." Although Hoshino Yukino was also very scared, she still calmed herself and comforted Uesugi Yoshiko.

"Maybe it was the wind that just blew, which is why we felt the cold. That was just an ordinary person, how could it be an evil ghost? You are just scaring yourself."

"But……"

"Okay, stop talking!" Hoshino Yukino pinched Uesugi Yoshiko's left cheek and pulled it slightly.

"Pain Pain!"

Seeing Uesugi Yoshiko crying out in pain, Hoshino Yukino snorted before letting go: "Humph! I told you to keep talking. If you keep talking, don't blame me for using my hands."

As she spoke, Hoshino Yukino raised her hands and stretched them towards Uesugi Yoshiko's face.

"Uh-huh...I won't say it."

Yoshiko Uesugi covered her mouth with her hands, shook her head frantically and backed away.

Seeing her friend's terrified look, Hoshino Yukino smiled softly, stepped forward and took the other's arm: "Okay, okay, I was just kidding, let's keep going, we've come this far, I don't want to give up just like that."

Seeing this, Uesugi Yoshiko secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. The other side of her face was saved. If Yukino continued to act like this, her face might become round.

"Hey, Yukino, can you please promise me something?"

"uh-huh?"

"Can you please stop pulling my face?"

"No."

"How can this be...this is too much!"

The boring time slipped away in the noisy sounds. After an unknown amount of time, a cold light suddenly flashed before their eyes.

The frozen leaves, like colored ice sculptures, reflect the sunlight from the sky through the ice on their bodies.

"What... is that?" Hoshino Yukino walked forward in disbelief, looking at the frozen leaves reflecting the sunlight, "Why are they frozen? No matter how cold it is, it can't be frozen like this!"

"In the end what happened?"

Just as Hoshino Yukino was touching the frozen leaf, Uesugi Yoshiko, who was walking in front of her, suddenly spoke.

"Yukino, come here quickly and look over there!"

The voice was filled with disbelief.

Walking forward, Hoshino Yukino looked in the direction her friend pointed, and was immediately blinded by a large area of ​​bright reflection.

After finding the right angle, Hoshino Yukino opened her half-closed eyes.

A village appeared in front of me, but unlike ordinary villages, this village was frozen and completely wrapped in ice.

It is like an ice castle in a fairy tale, but this village does not have the beauty in the fairy tale, but only has a deep sense of strangeness and weirdness.

The dead silence and coldness, the frozen ice spreading to the seashore, there is no life at all, only the quiet death.

"What...what is this? What should we do?"

Even the carefree and brainless Uesugi Yoshiko revealed fear in her words at this moment.

After all, the impact of this scene completely exceeded the limit of what they could accept in their hearts.

"It seems... there is only one way."

Hoshino Yukino frowned and rubbed her chin with the second knuckles of her right thumb and index finger. There was only one solution to this situation.

………………

Akito Sakai walked forward with big strides, a samurai sword slung around his waist, without hiding his thoughts at all.

After he buried his wife, his heart was also buried in the ground along with his wife.

At this moment, he was like a walking corpse without a soul. He stopped thinking and only one thought supported his actions.

The enemy who directly caused the death of him and his wife has been eliminated by him, and the indirect enemy also died in the ice and snow.

Now, he has only one thought in his mind, to kill those clay statues of gods and kill all the priests in the shrine!

He didn't know whether gods existed or not, but since demons were real, then gods should be real as well.

The gods high above look at the world with indifference. Even if someone uses the name of gods to do unscrupulous things, gods will not appear.

However, the demons that disturb the world give the suffering people the power of revenge.

Akito Sakai didn't know whether he could find the gods, but he could find the shrines and priests, and he could use his current power to kill all those who pretended to serve the gods.

Perhaps, this would force out the gods and then kill them. If the gods did not appear, it would mean that he had not killed enough and had not done enough.

With this thought in mind, Akito Sakai set out on the journey to find the shrine.

Because he was already dead, he was extremely insensitive to changes in weather and did not need to eat to maintain his body's mobility.

Although the body will heal after being injured, this is not the body's own healing ability, but the vitality stored in the magic sword stimulates the lifeless cells to continue dividing to heal the injured wounds.

The living dead, this is the most appropriate word to describe Akito Sakai.

Walking in a daze, Akito Sakai had already arrived at the street market of Akkeshi Town.

Because he was dressed strangely and had a samurai sword on his waist, he looked like a neurotic weirdo.

Therefore, people on the roadside stayed away from Akito Sakai, even if they were passing by, they were several meters away.

Akito Sakai doesn't care about these things, or rather, he no longer has anything to care about.

“Wooo ...

The sound of police cars was heard from the front street. Soon, a series of black and white police cars appeared in front of him and passed by Akito Sakai.

Under normal circumstances, if the police see a guy with a controlled knife on the side of the road, they will definitely get out of the car without hesitation and have a good chat with the guy with the controlled knife about life.

But now the police officers in the police car had more important issues to deal with and completely ignored the strange Akito Sakai.

In the front police car, Sato Hayato was sitting in the passenger seat, frowning as he looked at the photos on his phone.

The photo shows a village frozen in ice. Judging from the angle of the photo, it should have been taken on the mountain.

The police officer who was driving saw Sato Hayato frowning and asked distractedly, "Inspector Sato, do you suspect that this photo is fake?"

Hearing this, Sato Hayato shook his head: "No, there is no sign of modification in these photos, and by comparing all the photos received, we can conclude that these photos are real."

"It's just that the things revealed in these photos are too magical to be believed."

After saying that, Sato Hayato seemed to have thought of something and said again: "By the way, I have told you so many times that you don't need to use honorifics with me. I am not an old-fashioned person who doesn't care about these things."

"Yes, Inspector Sato!"

"Don't be so serious, just drive your car and don't be distracted!"

After saying that, Sato Hayato opened his phone again and looked at the photos sent by the person who called the police.

The frozen village had no sign of life at all. If the photos hadn't been too real, Sato Hayato would have thought it was a prank call.

But the confident statement of the person who called the police and the photos that served as key evidence all revealed one thing: this was not a prank.

After coming to this conclusion, Sato Hayato hurriedly gathered people and prepared to go and take a look at the frozen village.

This could be another supernatural phenomenon.

Nowadays, the secret of the supernatural existence is only unknown to the common people in the middle and lower classes. In the eyes of the upper class, the existence of the supernatural is not a secret at all.

People in government agencies and the police system also have the right to know this secret. After all, when supernatural phenomena occur, the first authority to deal with them is definitely the local police station.

After confirming that the supernatural phenomena are not caused by humans, they must pass them up one level after another, and then people at higher levels will confirm such phenomena.

After layers of screening, there will be a professional supernatural department to handle such cases and search for possible supernatural beings.

And now, the police station where Sato Hayato and his colleagues work is the first level of identification to determine whether this supernatural case is true.

More than ten minutes later, the police car stopped on a road. They had arrived at the location mentioned by the caller. They could not drive the rest of the way and could only walk.

The person who called the police also said they would wait here for the police to arrive.

After getting off the bus, Sato Hayato saw two girls standing on the side of the road. They were the people who called the police. They also stated their identities during the call: they were students of a local school.

Without hesitation, Sato Hayato walked towards the person who called the police, hoping to get more accurate information.

"You are the ones who called the police, right? Are you sure the photos you took were what you saw with your own eyes?"

Listening to the police's questions, Hoshino Yukino nodded: "We saw those with our own eyes. We can lead the way now."

That’s right, the last resort that Hoshino Yukino mentioned is to call the police. After all, the police can solve most problems. Even if the police can’t solve them, they will try their best to come up with solutions.

In a word, if you get into trouble, just call the police and you're done.

"Please organize the team. You can walk to the strange frozen village from this road."

After saying this, Hoshino Yukino took a step back, indicating that she was ready to lead the way at any time.

Seeing this, Sato Hayato hummed and walked towards the police car parked on the side, ready to organize a team to explore the frozen village.