You say this is a love game?

"Goo!"

The tiger thrush transformed by Yajima Mai was flying in the sky. She looked down and saw that the swarm of rats was quickly engulfed by lightning, while Mizutani Makoto's figure shuttled through the swarm of rats and soon broke through the streets.

"Ok?"

There is movement!

Mai Yajima narrowed her eyes slightly and her gaze fell on a peach tree not far from the street.

In the ruins, the peach tree was actually full of peach blossoms, and the branches were trembling slightly, as if it had just woken up from sleep.

Chapter 167: The happy shrine maiden’s family who cultivates the land in the main house of Gensokyo.

How long has she been sleeping?

Under the roots of the tree, the almost dead earth suddenly regained a faint vitality. The clean spiritual energy awakened the Peach Blossom Demon from its long slumber, and it hungrily absorbed the vitality of the land.

Compared with the previous hidden place, the spiritual energy in this land seems particularly weak, but the peach blossom monster has never been a picky monster. As a flower spirit or tree spirit, no one understands the importance of perseverance and accumulating small amounts to achieve great results better than them.

She drives the roots of revival deep into the earth.

As the spiritual energy was absorbed, the consciousness became clearer.

"who am I?"

Peach Blossom Demon.

"Where am I?"

Hidden.

"What happened before? Why did I fall into a deep sleep?"

It seems like a disaster that has swept the world...

The Peach Blossom Demon was thinking.

It seemed that she had slept for too long, and some fragments of memory had become blurred along with her dull thinking. She tried her best to recall them, but could only get a vague impression.

"I've only recovered a little bit."

"I need to recover more strength..."

The scorching wind blew slowly, the gorgeous crowns of the peach blossoms shook slowly, and the petals fell like snow.

Hidden among the branches and leaves, a pair of peach blossom eyes quietly opened.

A blurry face emerged on the bark of the peach tree, and the pair of eyes that looked like a woman's allowed her to see the scene clearly.

"...?"

tragic.

The entire street has long lost its original appearance.

The ground was charred and cracked, and the air was filled with a strong smell of burning and blood.

Dozens of demon rats were lying dead all over the ground, with broken limbs scattered everywhere. Before their blood could even drip, it was evaporated into mist by the thunder.

The old rat man who looked like an old man stood up and ran for his life.

But the next moment, a ray of scorching lightning tore over from not far away, and a skillful big cassock slash with the force of thunder directly split half of the old rat's body into two halves!

The flesh and blood at the broken part had not yet spurted out before it was burned into charcoal by the lightning and fire.

Thunder go!

Mizutani Makoto has suddenly realized the [Mind's Eye]. Now he combines his Mind's Eye with his Thunder Walk. His "intuition" makes his Thunder Walk never miss. Now he swings his sword instinctively, and the sword's momentum is even more accurate than if he had carefully calculated it!

【Mind's Eye】:301/500 (Beginner)

“Jie…Jie…”

A small harvest was had.

Among these old rats, the adult rats have about 70-90 souls, while the souls provided by a few elderly rats are generally 90+. In just ten minutes of slaughter, Makoto Mizutani accumulated nearly 3200 souls.

It’s so cool.

This is quite different from the previous swimming pool.

The souls of each monster in the swimming pool are too few, but the old rats can provide a lot of souls. After these more than forty old rats came down, Mizutani Makoto's soul took off directly.

"strangeness."

"They actually still have corpses left?"

"If they were cracks, they should have turned into sand and scattered..."

Makoto Mizutani bent down and picked and chose in the slaughterhouse he had created with his own hands.

At this time, he discovered something very strange.

The monsters here are just like the monsters in the real world. They don't explode into materials when they die, and he has to come here personally to peel their skin and pull out their tendons...

"Forty-seven old rats."

"We dug out more than twenty spirit cores, and all the old rats' spirit cores exploded. What's this?"

Just like Tu Bi back then.

After he dug out the spirit cores of these monsters, the flesh and blood of these monsters suddenly collapsed. Some turned into blood on the ground, while others turned into materials.

【Old rat fur】*6.

【Wood】*11.

【Stone】*9.

Oh, it’s hidden here!

The explosion rate is pretty good.

The little god of fortune was floating in the air, adding luck to her beloved son.

With the arrival of the Little Goddess of Fortune and her mid-position, her ability of [Attracting Luck] has also increased, and the value has changed from the original "Luck +3" to "Luck +6", which is a small improvement.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Mizutani Makoto did not put away his sword.

His eyes glanced at the peach trees in full bloom not far away.

This faint glance scared the Peach Blossom Demon so much that her brain went blank.

Where did this killer come from?!

The scorching lightning on the Chidori Maru that Mizutani Makoto had not yet put away was almost shocking the Peach Blossom Demon's perception. She was not an evil monster. On the contrary, as a tree demon, her vitality was extremely strong, and her development direction was also quite decent, so she was not afraid of thunder.

But she didn't say she wasn't afraid of fire!

This fire bomb has a double special attack. Even if you avoid one disaster, there will be another one!

The peach blossom demon subconsciously wanted to move its roots and run away, but Mizutani Makoto had already walked over here with Chidori Maru in his hand. The two-meter-long large sword scratched cracks on the ground, and the charred knife marks extended all the way to the front of the peach blossom demon.

Can't run away.

Then it's okay for her to pretend to be dead, right?

But under the tree canopy, the blurry face of the woman happened to be looking directly into the eyes of the God of Death. This situation of having nowhere to hide made the Peach Blossom Demon fall silent.

"..."

"Spare the monster! I'm a good monster!"

Before being chopped down by the killer god, the Peach Blossom Demon loudly stated her position.

Peach Blossom Demon.

It is not a special kind of monster. Its essence is the "flower spirits and tree spirits" that appear in legends of various countries, that is, monsters such as tree spirits and tree demons.

If we must give her a name, it can probably be classified as a "wood spirit".

Mizutani Makoto sat under the peach tree and listened to the peach blossom demon hurriedly explain her origins.

"I am a peach blossom demon born in the hidden world."

"I was planted by a child. After more than sixty years, I finally found my 'self' in Yinli. And after more than a hundred years, I became a very powerful youkai. Before, before... I seemed to be responsible for protecting Yinli's safety?"

“Hey, hey, hey…”

Mizutani Makoto nodded.

This cold attitude made Peach Blossom Demon's dry laugh become somewhat powerless.

Her sleep was too long.

Due to being on standby for too long, the Peach Blossom Demon even forgot some of her memories, and her strength was naturally greatly reduced. Now she is just a flower spirit or tree spirit with a paper-like status. If she really wants to fight against Mizutani Makoto in front of her, she will be courting death.

The Peach Blossom Demon was feeling extremely nervous, but Mizutani Makoto was actually not thinking about killing anyone.

"NPC."

It’s the familiar NPC segment again.

Now, Mizutani Makoto has a guess - Tongzi would not lie to him. Tongzi said that this place is not a crevice, so it cannot be a crevice.

The death of the demon rats just now also fully confirmed this point.

He actually thought that this peach blossom demon should be trustworthy.

"Goo?"

Yes, we have dear Miss Nue on hand.

In addition to being a quasi-god Pokémon, Mai Yajima also has a powerful auxiliary mechanism, which is the ability to judge a person's "good and evil."

Mizutani Makoto was still thinking at first, with the previous case of Lao Hei, could Taohua Yao be another bad NPC who was ready to backstab him?

But with Mai Yajima's judgment, it's very different.

Of course, Mai Yajima can only judge the other party's basic good and evil camp, but she is not at the level of reading minds... How to negotiate and how to judge specifically still depends on Mizutani Makoto himself.

And Mizutani Makoto's thoughts gradually became clear:

"The indigenous inhabitants of this hidden place still need to be distinguished."

"As long as the indigenous residents who can communicate are not evil, I will definitely communicate with them more... This is also a very good dungeon clue."

"As for the indigenous people who can't communicate... the worst that can happen is we can set up a Thanksgiving Day in the future."

It's about clearing land.

Sometimes, those unreasonable indigenous people can really be a nuisance.

There's nothing wrong with just "processing" it a little bit and then taking it out to express gratitude when necessary.

As soon as he thought of this, Mizutani Makoto put away Chidorimaru and sat down on the ground.

"I just came in from the outside world."

"I heard from others that this is the legendary Yinli... Yinli should be a harmonious paradise. Why is it so dilapidated now? What happened here?"

Mizutani Makoto's doubts made Peach Blossom Demon feel dazed.

"What should I call you?"

She asked cautiously at first.

"Mizutani Makoto, just call me Mizutani."

Mizutani Makoto nodded slightly.

Peach Blossom Demon: "Master Mizutani, I don't have a special name. You can just call me Peach Blossom Demon."

She stumbled over what she could remember.

"This hidden place is actually a paradise that appeared to escape the war."

In East Asia, no matter whether it is Yinli or Gensokyo, the cultural source of stories related to these "paradise" is basically the "Peach Blossom Spring" of the old Chinese, with some elements like Lan Ke Ren sewn in.

The idea that this place appeared to escape the war is consistent with Makoto Mizutani's guess about this place.

"So, this place is actually man-made?"

"Seems to be……"

The Peach Blossom Demon pondered for a long time before slowly answering, "My memory isn't particularly clear, so I can't provide you with many clues, Master Mizutani. However, there are some words that are relatively clear in my memory, and I think they might be more helpful to you, Master Mizutani."