Tokyo, but I'm a deceitful fox

Wait, I am...

dying?

Ah... this time... it's really eight duck meats...

Chapter 228 Girl: I just woke up and saw the fox dead (3.7K)

at the same time.

Asuka Tendo opened her eyes and found herself deep in a strange space. Everything was white in front, behind, left, right, up and down, with no end in sight.

She wasn't even sure if there was solid ground under her feet, so she could only take tentative steps and move forward cautiously, bit by bit.

Where is this place?

It’s certainly not the real world.

I was sent to another secret place?

I was attacked by Ruyi Fangzu before... Could it be that I'm already dead? Is this hell? The road to the underworld? That's too monotonous. Why can't I see the Sanzu River...

The girl was silent for a long time, then suddenly her body trembled, she squatted down, and burst into tears.

After crying for a while, she forced herself to take a deep breath, wiped her tears, and stood up.

No, no matter what, let’s take a look around first!

I don't know if I'll see a fox... No, no! If this is the road to Hades, then I can't see a fox! No foxes allowed! No foxes allowed!

The girl patted her chubby face, then picked a direction at random and started walking.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, she saw two figures lying on the ground in front of her.

The one that is close...

Eh? Sakuragi Naoko?

Wait, Naoko Sakuragi is just a character in the dream. If this is the underworld, she shouldn’t be here!

Asuka Tendo pondered for a moment, walked forward and checked the other person's mouth and nose, and after finding that the person was still breathing, she gently woke him up.

"Ms. Naoko, Miss Naoko?"

Sakuragi Naoko opened her eyes dazedly and raised her head: "Asuka? Where is this place? What happened to me? The giant... the sound... the crack in the sky..."

"Well, although I really want to answer you, I don't know the answers to these questions."

Asuka Tendo sighed and helped Naoko Sakuragi stand up.

Just then, another figure lying on the ground not far away spoke.

"I know the answer..."

"Naoko, the girl from the Tendo family, please come closer."

Asuka Tendo and Naoko Sakuragi looked at each other and approached cautiously.

At this time, Asuka Tendo realized that the person on the ground was not a person at all, but only half a person, with only the upper body, and blood was gushing out from the waist down, with intestines flowing out.

Moreover, this person was wearing a samurai costume on his upper body, a white wolf mask on his head, and a broken Big Dipper flag was pressed under his body...

According to the memory before fainting, this image...

Asuka Tendo swallowed her saliva and asked hesitantly, "You...are Lord Tanlang?"

"Yes." The man on the ground said in a tired tone: "I am Tan Lang."

"What's wrong with you? What on earth is..."

Tan Lang sighed and said slowly: "This is not Huangquan, but my consciousness space. I took the initiative to pull you two in because... ahem!"

He coughed twice, a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and then said: "Because I am about to die, I plan to give my last strength to you."

Asuka Tendo was stunned: "How is it possible? You are..."

"Nothing is impossible. After all, I am just a big monster. I have survived the entire spiritual energy decline period in the incomplete small secret realm relying on the support of the Tiantong family. I have reached my limit."

"that……"

At this moment, Sakuragi Naoko spoke: "I'm sorry, I don't want to interrupt you, but I really can't stand it anymore. From Himeno Aoi to now, each of you has been saying something I can't understand. What is going on? I don't understand..."

Although Naoko Sakuragi is an ancient person in a dream, she must be smart since she can form a team.

After seeing this series of changes, she already had some vague guesses in her mind.

"…So, Aoi was right? Everything was fake?"

Tan Lang was silent for a few seconds, then said in a deep voice: "Yes, there is no Awahara City, no Long-haired Ghost King, everything is just a dream of mine."

Naoko Sakuragi widened her eyes, opened and closed her mouth, and was speechless for a moment.

And at this moment, many strange fragments of memory suddenly emerged in her mind.

Although they are all memories of fighting the long-haired ghost in Ayara, there are hundreds of different versions, and there are many different details each time, especially the Onmyojis that are encountered change wave after wave...

"This is……"

Her voice trembled, and she smiled bitterly: "It's fake, it's all fake. My dead father and brother never existed. There is no point in killing the long-haired ghost. I...ha, what should I say..."

Tendo Asuka beside her lowered her head.

She wanted to comfort Sakuragi Naoko, but she didn't know how to start. After all, she realized that her life was just a dream that was replayed over and over again...

Ah, this is such a terrible thing to think about.

"I'm sorry, kid, but you do face a complicated philosophical problem."

At this time, Tan Lang slowly said: "But to say that your existence is completely meaningless is not entirely true. At least, if there is no your will, then I will not exist."

"I don't understand what you mean." Sakuragi Naoko's eyes lost their luster: "I am just a character in your dream. You created me. How can my existence or disappearance affect you in turn?"

Obviously, the leader of the Yukawa clan, a female hero who once fought in battle to kill demons, has now become completely depressed.

Tan Lang shook his head, struggled to raise his hands, and took off the White Wolf mask.

After seeing the true face of Tanlang, Asuka Tendo and Naoko Sakuragi were stunned for a moment.

This face...

Although she is full of wrinkles and has white hair, but looking at her eyebrows, nose and lips, she is clearly the 80-year-old version of Sakuragi Naoko!

Sakuragi Naoko murmured: "Who are you..."

"Don't worry, child, don't worry."

Tan Lang sighed and said, "I will tell you everything now..."

original.

The shikigami Tanlang is not some great monster that was born and raised. One thousand three hundred years ago, at the end of the Nara period, she was just an ordinary human being.

At that time, she lived in the northeast of Honshu Island. She was the daughter of a local samurai family. Her ancestors had followed the Shogun to Hokkaido and had accumulated a large fortune due to their outstanding military achievements.

Logically speaking, with this background, she should have lived a relatively rich life.

However, when she came of age, a demon disaster broke out in Japan. The three major demon tribes, red, blue and white, frequently fought with humans for land, and the fights were bloody. Later, the famous Shuten-doji of the Heian period emerged during this period.

In this disaster, her entire family was killed by the White Ghost Clan, and she was the only one who escaped.

From then on, she swore a vow of revenge, spent all her family wealth, formed a team, and fought against the white ghosts everywhere. Finally, after several years, her entire army was wiped out while defending a city that now had no name.

But her journey did not end there.

In the final battle to defend the city, an Onmyoji fought alongside her, and the two became close friends. After her death, the Onmyoji wanted to resurrect her, but unfortunately he was only half successful and turned her into a half-human, half-corpse monster.

But she had no complaints about it.

The daughter of the Wu family who crawled out of the pile of dead bodies had a very good mentality and was not entangled at all. She was resurrected in the morning, and happily picked up a knife to chop people in the afternoon. She even had an extra bowl of rice soaked in tea in the evening~

Just like that, she went through countless battles, her strength growing continuously until she was stronger than that Onmyoji, until that Onmyoji died, until she watched that Onmyoji's son, grandson, and great-grandson grow up...

"...In the end, I became the Greedy Wolf of your Tendo family."

As Tanlang said this, he looked deeply at Asuka Tendo again, his pupils full of nostalgia.

At this time, Sakuragi Naoko couldn't help but ask:

“Why is your experience so similar to mine?”

Tan Lang smiled and said, "I, an old woman, don't have that much imagination. Since I want to design a dream to test the younger generation of the Tiantong family, I will naturally use my own experience as the prototype."

"That's why you look so much like me. That's why I said that without you I wouldn't exist, because you are essentially the me in my dream, the manifestation of my original intention in the dream..."

"That's why I subconsciously pay too much attention to you and the people around you when I dream. Over time, you have evolved from simple thoughts to independent souls..."

"Heno Aoi is like this, and so are you."

Hearing this, Asuka Tendo inexplicably felt that this was just like a programmer developing a game, and while developing it, he discovered that the characters in the game suddenly had their own emotions.

Here, Tanlang sighed again and said to Sakuragi Naoko sincerely:

"I'm sorry, I was too slow to notice your birth."

"Unfortunately, when Ruyi Fangzhu came to explore the secret realm of Tono a year ago, he ignored it."

"Although his attempt failed, he took the opportunity to seduce Ji Ye Kui and kidnapped her, and then made the plan to sneak into the secret realm now..."

Tan Lang looked at Asuka Tendou again and said, "Luckily you are here. Otherwise, if I had really signed a contract with the wrong person while half asleep, I really don't know what trap I would have fallen into. I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to talk to you..."

Asuka Tendo scratched her head and asked again, "Master Tanlang, are you saying that it is because of Himeno Aoi that the people from Yunhai Casino can easily enter and exit the Tono Secret Realm?"

"Yes."

Tan Lang said: "Because she is the person in the dream, she herself is equivalent to a key that can open the nested structure of the secret realm and the dream. You can understand her as the adsorption protein on the surface of the virus, which can bind to the receptors on the cell membrane and invade human cells..."

huh?

Adsorption protein? Cell membrane? Receptor?

It feels so awkward to hear these words coming out of Lord Tanlang's mouth!

Looking at the girl's expression, Tan Lang raised his eyebrows and said, "Why are you so surprised? Can't an old woman like me keep up with the times? Or do you not understand what I'm saying? Sigh, young people nowadays, how can they only learn Yin-Yang magic and not learn science knowledge..."

Asuka Tendo lowered her head in shame.

I'm sorry. Because of the trials and the work in the countermeasures room, she really didn't study hard in the past two years. I'm sorry...

"Anyway, that's all I wanted to tell you."

Tan Lang sighed, then forced himself to sit up, holding the girl's and Sakuragi Naoko's hands respectively and said:

"What Ruyifangzhu said is right. I am already exhausted... But this is not the fault of the Tendo family. It is purely because of my lack of strength. My life span is almost... 1,300 years, for a big monster, it is not short..."

"Now I have to leave. Before I go, I want to entrust my final strength to you."

She first looked at Asuka Tendo and said, "I can no longer sign a contract with you. I can only transfer my magic power and some memories directly to you. You use them properly."

"Lord Tan Lang..."

Asuka Tendo pursed her lips, her eyes moistened, and finally nodded silently.

Then Tan Lang looked at Sakuragi Naoko and said, "No matter how you came about, you have already been born. To some extent, you are both me and my daughter."

"I will use some of my strength to shape a body for you so that you can go to the real world. As for the meaning of your existence and how to go in the future, it depends on you."

After hearing this, Sakuragi Naoko, although feeling complicated, said solemnly: "Thank you..."

Tan Lang smiled and finally said: "Now, please close your eyes..."

The two girls closed their eyes obediently, and then fell into a deep sleep unknowingly.

I do not know how long it has been.

Asuka Tendo woke up, opened her eyes again, and found that she had left the pure white space and was lying under the starry sky in the real world.

I...came out?

Lord Tanlang left and entrusted his last strength to me? Or was all this just a dream?

She rubbed her head, sat up, and then saw Sakuragi Naoko lying next to her. She immediately confirmed that everything that had just happened was real and not a dream!

The girl let out a long breath, stood up, and was about to take a closer look at the changes in her body and observe her surroundings...

Just then, the murderous light hit the fox's forehead!

Then the fox fell in front of the girl without saying a word, stopped breathing!