Confused, Rin took Lianlian and wandered around the Warring States Period, but for more than a month he couldn't find any trace of those girls, and even the legends about them were few and far between.
Could it be that four hundred years have caused the stories of those powerful monsters to completely disappear into the dust of history?
Rin sighed endlessly, and finally he suddenly thought of something, slapped his head, and set off towards the former residence of Saigyouji.
It is not known whether the current residents of the former residence are descendants or other people, but at least the house has been preserved. What is particularly eye-catching is the cherry blossoms that are in full bloom during the blooming season.
He brought Lianlian to the yard and looked at this enchanting cherry tree which looked no different from an ordinary cherry tree. He reached out to touch its trunk, but could not sense any unusual scent.
This means... this demon cherry has turned into an ordinary tree. The real demon cherry is likely to have returned to the underworld because of Youyouzi's death.
Rin, feeling somewhat discouraged, sat down, leaned against the tree trunk and looked at the sky. At this moment, he had no idea how to find Zi and Kaguya, or even where to go.
Over the past month, he had been constantly checking out rumors, but there was no news about monsters or Gensokyo Academy. It seemed as if everything that had happened had disappeared with the wind.
Lianlian, who had been following him obediently, rubbed her head against him in a flattering manner, which made Lin feel a little better. He stood up and hugged Lianlian: "It's okay, this time we will specifically look for those places that are rarely visited. Even if we have to turn the entire 11th district upside down, we must find Sister Murasaki, Kaguya... and Xiaowu."
Holding Lianlian in his arms, Lin suddenly slapped his head: "No, Sister Zi and Kaguya are both thoughtful people, how could they leave without leaving me a message?"
Think about it from the perspective of the girl in Gensokyo. Even if she suspected that Rin had traveled back to the future, it was just a guess. According to Zi's character of planning ahead for every detail, she would have left a message for herself even if there was a slight possibility.
If he thought about it carefully, whether it was the flower fields, the Taketori residence, the Yokai mountain, the ghost market, the Yokai market, or even the Saigyouji house where he was now, he had never searched carefully. He just checked to see if the people from before were there and then left.
Thinking of this, Rin narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the cherry tree in front of him, took a few steps back, the air flow under his feet rose and spun violently, and finally turned into a drill bit to dig directly open the place where Youyouzi was buried.
It's not that he disrespects Youyouko, but he has discussed with Zi that with Youyouko's resurrection in the underworld, her bones must have been transferred under Yaoying's body, and there is absolutely nothing that can be dug out here.
While controlling the airflow to drill a hole, Lin carefully observed the thrown soil. When a green stone bead was lifted up by the airflow, he held the bead in his hand.
Looking carefully at the stone bead in front of him, Lin suddenly remembered that this was the soul bead that once carried the memory of Youyouzi, and he was overjoyed.
The Soul-Reading Orb had been in Zi's hands before, so it was impossible for it to be buried underground for no reason. After thinking about it, it should be a signal left by Zi.
After a bit of investigation, I found that there was nothing special about the Soul Orb itself, so the secret should not be inside it, so I continued to dig deeper, and finally dug out a stone tablet.
The handwriting on it seemed to be left by Yuyuko, indicating that she and Yukari already had news about Gensokyo Academy. In order to prevent the secret from being seen by anyone other than Rin, they broke the map into several pieces and hid them in the main places Rin had been to.
The airflow crushed the stone tablet directly, and pulled out a sheepskin map. Lin held the map and stood beside the pit in silence. After a long while, he exhaled: "Mmmm, do you think you are playing a treasure hunt game? Who came up with this stupid idea? Hey! You have played too many puzzle games on mobile phones!"
Rin, feeling very annoyed, rubbed his brows. After thinking it over, he could only continue playing the game that these girls had come up with.
"Forget it. I'll just assume that you guys are really worried about others discovering your secret instead of deliberately making trouble for me."
Picking up Lianlian again, Rin flew towards the old site of the Taketori Residence. Standing high in the sky and looking down, he felt puzzled by the closely connected houses. After walking around for a while, he still couldn't find any clues.
I had no choice but to open the map and find the right direction to fly to the next destination.
"Alas?"
He traveled all over Area 11 hundreds of years ago, and marked places like the Monster Mountain to avoid getting lost. So even if the map is not the same as it is today, he can still find the location based on the signs.
Now Rin actually discovered that there was a blue dot on the map near him, and he had not noticed this blue dot before. After thinking about it, he realized that it could only be that Kaguya accidentally clicked on it when she was playing with his phone before.
After comparing the directions, he found that it was the bedroom where he and Kaguya had lived together for a long time.
Rin found the place where the blue dot was. It was a tree at this time. She was about to dig it up, but then she thought that if it was a game, the same puzzle would not be arranged. So she jumped onto the trunk and looked around. Sure enough, she found an amulet tied to the trunk with a rope.
I took off the amulet and took a look at it. There was a bamboo painting on it. It was most likely left by Kaguya. It was bulging, and when I opened it I found a piece of sheepskin.
"Okay! The second piece is done, Lianlian, let's go!"
……
After much hard work, Lin finally found the final map under a ghost statue. He excitedly put the map together, and then...
"Huh? MMP? Which girl made this? Are you teasing me on purpose?!"
It was just a scaled-down version of the MC map, which looked like a future Gensokyo. In short, it was full of mosaics, which made Lin very depressed.
I turned the map over and found only a few words on the back: "Lake Biwa Aichi River".
Lin breathed a sigh of relief. Now the location was obvious. This should mean that they were near the Aichi Branch River of Lake Biwa, right?
Lin glanced at Lianlian who was dozing off on the rock, put the map away, and after thinking it over, decided to find Zi and the others first, then they could go find sleep based on the strength of numbers.
Recently, Lianlian has been following him everywhere, sleeping in the open air, and is very well-behaved, which makes Lin feel like he has a pet that can't talk or understand human language but is extremely loyal.
"Lianlian, let's go. I'll take you to find a place to rest first."
Rin brought Lianlian back to Nara Castle and found an inn. He planned to rest and play with Lianlian here for three days before continuing on his journey.
By the way, Lianlian is completely free... No one can see this little girl except Lin. Even if Lianlian meets children on the road and plays with them for a while out of curiosity, no one will notice the extra person.
How should I put it? At least in the future, when I take Lianlian to any tourist attraction or buffet restaurant, I won’t have to measure her height to decide whether to get half-price discount, right?
District 11 has undergone tremendous changes over the past few hundred years, which is mainly reflected in the fact that even in times of war, there are still many open-air shops and stores in the city, and the most important thing is that roadside snacks are everywhere.
Lin, who hadn't tasted street snacks for a long time, was a little craving for them. In the evening, he took Lianlian out to eat from North Street to South Street, and bought her many small toys along the way.
Lin, holding many small strings, led Lianlian and followed the crowd to a terrace. There were many small tables around and mats on the ground. There seemed to be a shadow play being performed in the center.
This was a trick that came from the Ming Dynasty. The residents here also liked to watch it. Soon they knelt down by the table in groups of three or four to appreciate it. Lin also curiously found a place to sit down with Lianlian.
The shadow play at this time was the story of Minamoto no Raikou and his Four Heavenly Kings slaying demons. Not long after Rin sat down, he heard the plot of Watanabe Tsuna cutting off one of Ibaraki Douji's arms, and he spat out a mouthful of tea.
"Shit, didn't I remind Baozixianren to stay away from the guy named Watanabe Tsuna when I left? What's going on?"
What Rin couldn't understand the most was how could a human cut off the arm of Baozi Sage, who was so powerful. After thinking about it, he decided that he had to meet Ibaraki Hanasu to find out the truth.
"Hey, have you heard that there are monsters in Wakakusa Mountain recently?"
"Well, it's still unclear whether it's a monster or not. I heard it was a woman practicing."
"No, no... It looks like a monster. I heard from my uncle's wife's cousin's neighbor's uncle that he saw one in the mountains. It was said that flames could come out of its body!"
The people at the next table started chatting, telling stories about monsters in the mountains. Lin felt that he might know the monster being described. It was this intuition that made him want to go to the mountains to take a look.
After all, even if he didn't know him, a monster that could transform into a human form should more or less know the news about the Monster Sage, so it wouldn't be a disadvantage for him to run away.
After watching the shadow play for a while, Lin was not interested in the exaggerated scenes that boasted about killing his ghost and monster friends. He turned around and left with Lianlian who had been leaning on her.
I don’t know if it’s because they have been together for a long time, but now even if he doesn’t keep looking at Lianlian, he can still notice her as long as she is not too far away.
Now that I think about it... I just can't understand why this idiot Xiaowu always loses his sister easily.
After taking Lianlian back to the inn to rest for a night, the next day, Rin took Lianlian into the mountains under the pretext of going on an outing, regardless of whether Lianlian could understand him or not.
Mount Wakakusa is not very big. Not long after entering the mountain, we found traces of burnt trees. Going further, we encountered wet ground and could clearly see human footprints. After comparing the soles of the feet, it was definitely a girl.
After searching around in the mountains, I finally found a very simple house made of wood in a valley. It looked like it had been built not long ago.
Standing on the hillside, Lin could feel a strong aura in the house, which was vaguely familiar. He jumped down the hillside, but before he could get close, the door was kicked open and a silver-haired girl walked out of the room.
"What little minions dare to disturb Lao..."
The silver-haired girl fell silent halfway through her words. Her dark red eyes lit up and she looked at the boy in front of her with a burning light. Her mouth was so wide open that one could fit a... uh, a pigeon egg. Not only that, tears gradually accumulated in her eyes.
"Meihong..."
Rin's face was full of surprise, and he ran to the silver-haired girl with Lianlian. When old friends meet, they should talk to each other, but when he saw the girl's face was shattered and her body was in tatters, Rin couldn't say a word.
"Rin! That's great... You... You are not dead after all."
"Meihong...your hair..."
Fujiwara Mokou's appearance at this moment was the one that Rin knew in the future. Her features were still full of heroic spirit. She reached out and grabbed a handful of her own silver hair, smiling slightly: "Nothing... I just accidentally merged with an immortal bird. By the way, Rin! Where have you been all this time? Oh... I found that woman named Kaguya before, and she clearly said that you were dead!"
"Huh?!" Lin pointed at her nose and suddenly gritted her teeth, "Does this woman really want to be a widow? Come on, go into the house first, I'll tell you in detail. I didn't have time before, so by the way, you can also tell me what you went through."
They hadn't seen each other for many years, but when they met today, there was no sense of strangeness at all, and the sincere feelings between close friends had not diminished at all. The two sat in the room and chatted for a long time. Rin, who learned the truth, couldn't help feeling sentimental and guilty.
It turns out that after traveling through time in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Meihong thought she was dead because of a button, so she took the medicine left by herself... or to be more precise, the medicine left by Kaguya, and became immortal. Because she could no longer stay among humans, Meihong practiced while looking for Kaguya's whereabouts.
Later, during the Lunar War, he learned that Rin and Yakumo Yukari participated in the Lunar War and did not die. He was extremely happy and kept waiting for Rin to come back.
As a result, Rin was not among the people who came back. Meihong found Kaguya, and Kaguya told her that Rin had died on the moon. Meihong also learned from other monsters that Rin went to the moon to save Kaguya, so she thought that Kaguya killed Rin. Full of hatred, Meihong and Kaguya fought. They were defeated at first, so they had to leave to continue their practice.
About fifty or sixty years ago, in a battle with the Phoenix, he was in a life-and-death situation. He merged with the Phoenix and gained power. He was ready to consolidate his power and continue to settle accounts with Kaguya.
After figuring out the whole story, Rin couldn't help but sigh: "Kaguya...can't she stop causing trouble?! Meihong...sorry for the hard work."
"..."
She lowered her head and scratched her face. In fact, there was one thing she didn't tell Lin. If it weren't for the remaining desire to avenge her best friend, she would have been in so much pain that she wanted to die but couldn't.
"It's okay... As long as you're still alive, but... Kaguya Houraisan is such a liar... I was just kidding, but I'm sorry, Rin, I must avenge you."
On one side is his best friend, and on the other side is his wife, what else can Rin say? He waved his hand with a headache: "Okay, I won't stop you. You won't die anyway. Just get used to the offal soup."
While lamenting that the course of history was indeed difficult to change, Lin told Meihong about his recent events. The two of them exchanged glances and chatted for the entire day.
Knowing that the topic was barely over until the evening, Meihong laughed and patted Lin's shoulder: "Don't worry, this time I... your friend will accompany you to look for it, and you will find it soon."
As long as you see Kaguya quarreling and never use violence...
Lin complained silently, and thinking about how she could hide her vulgarity while speaking, it gave him a headache: "Well, you can talk however you want. I don't mind even if you say I'm your boss. We're good friends, good friends!"
Ever since he knew that Meihong had been running around for him, Lin had completely accepted this good friend in his heart and patted her on the shoulder in return.
Meihong's eyes sparkled: "That's great. I was worried that I would be disliked for such a trivial matter."
Lin knew that Meihong must have suffered a lot, gradually becoming strong and developing this habit of swearing. The feeling of guilt was always lingering. Now he understood that he was really the cause of his pure masculinity.
After looking up and down at Meihong's clothes which were tattered with several holes but very clean, Lin took out his cell phone and started searching. Finally, he found a shirt and brand new overalls to give to Meihong, plus a red and white bow and a pair of leather shoes.
"Hurry up and change. Since we are traveling together, let's get dressed."
Meihong took the clothes in a daze, with a hint of sadness on her face for some reason. After Lin stood outside the door, she sighed and started to change her clothes.
"Come to think of it... I think I've worn a skirt before..."
Not knowing whether she was sad about her lost girlhood or sentimental about her first love which had gone long ago, Meihong changed her clothes in a trance, tied her bow and put on her shoes, stood up and subconsciously put her hands in her pockets. This smooth feeling made her eyes light up and she was particularly satisfied with her new clothes.
Because of the previous experiences with Zi, Lan, Lianlian and Xiaowu, Lin had no concerns about the girl of today wearing clothes from the future. She just felt a little sorry that the clothes would probably be covered with patches in the future.
"Meihong, do you want to leave now or rest for a night before leaving?"
"The undead don't need to rest, leave now."
Meihong had decided to build a house here on a whim and didn't bring any luggage. The bare-butt commander had nothing, which showed how hard his life was.
Lin nodded, walked towards Lianlian who was standing at the door carving words with a knife, stretched out her hand, and then pulled Lianlian up while Meihong was confused.
Only then did Meihong discover Lianlian's existence, and felt that her Firebird Eyes were probably really blind.
Chapter 72: Zi, Kaguya, I’m back to take care of the children!
Looking at the river in front of him, Rin decided it was time to talk to Kame.
This is the Aichi River. In a few hundred years it may become a nationally famous river, but for now, it only takes about ten minutes to reach the end by flying along the river bank.
There were villages and farmlands on both sides of the river, and there was nothing noteworthy. Lin was extremely fed up with this damn puzzle game, and Meihong was also an irritable firebird, so the two of them flew back and forth on the river, rushing around.
The two of them were getting impatient, and Lianlian was even more irritable. Finally, she couldn't help herself and reached out to grab Lin's face and pulled it, forcing him to stop and prepare to coax her baby Lianlian.
At this time, they were at the river bank. Meihong herself didn't like water very much, so she stayed a little higher. She was standing next to Lin, with her arms around her, looking around.
She was about to urge him, but suddenly she realized something was wrong and frowned: "Rin... over there."
After finally coaxing Lianlian to avoid being harmed, Lin looked in the direction of Meihong's finger. The red pillars of the Tottori Shrine could be vaguely seen among the mountains and forests, as well as a faint fluctuation of a strange aura.
"Let's go down and have a look."
The three of them flew to the stairs of the shrine, and as they went up, the inexplicable aura became stronger and stronger, but it was not a demonic aura. If one had to describe it, it might be similar to the aura of gods.
The shrine has been abandoned for a long time, and no one knows what deity it is enshrined in. The surrounding area is overgrown with weeds, and even the main house is in tatters, but the mysterious atmosphere is very strong.
Lin looked around and finally came to a huge stone surrounded by a talisman. He turned to look at Meihong and said, "It feels similar to entering the ghost tribe's residence. This should be the place."
So Rin stretched out his hand, mobilized the "qi" and pushed it into the stone. Meihong also followed Rin's example and put her hand on the stone, infusing it with the power of the phoenix.
The talismans surrounding the stone began to flutter, and a circle of blue light instantly surrounded Lin, Meihong, and Lianlian. After it disappeared, the three of them fell directly downwards without their feet touching the ground.
Steadying himself in mid-air, Lin looked down while holding Lianlian in his arms, and was shocked to find that he was floating on the river.
This... should be Sister Murasaki's new gathering place? Or is it the first model of Gensokyo?
Lin slowly landed on the ground and turned on his phone. Sure enough, the map was blank and could not be read. He walked along the river bank with Lianlian and Meihong, looking left and right curiously.
After walking for a few minutes, Lin stopped, looked at the green hat floating on the river, took out a silver coin and threw it at the hat.
The bullseye was hit, and bubbles appeared on the water around the hat. Then a head floated up and looked at Rin with a smile.
"Human boy, you lost this silver coin..."
The girl took out another game coin from her pocket: "It's still this super alloy durable conductive coin that can support the use of super-electromagnetic guns and magnetic storms in various fields."
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