Tokyo: The Player Behind the Scenes

Cutting like that is no different from scraping.

He tried to draw cards, but didn't draw a righteous partner in the first round.

You can't just elbow a rock, can you? That would only kill the enemy by 0.1 while injuring yourself by 1000.

Just when he was at his wit's end, a red spider lily slowly sprouted beneath his feet.

Chapter 138: The Red Spider Lily Blooms

Nobita caught a glimpse of a flower branch slowly raising its head on the ground out of the corner of his eye.

It rises from the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye, with the bulb producing a flower stalk, and the top of the stalk differentiates into an umbel-shaped inflorescence. The petals curl back like dragon claws, and the stamens are slender like flames.

Then, as this red spider lily blooms, another one grows from the ground beside it, stretching out in one direction like a chain.

Nobita sheathed his sword and followed behind the spider lily, walking in the direction indicated, circling half of the rock face.

Finally, the flowers fell like dominoes on a moss-covered earthen wall, and a large number of spider lilies bloomed at the same time, forming a large spider lily pattern. The "guide" that had just led him there was a branch of the flower.

After blooming comes withering.

Petals dripped onto the ground, spreading out in a circle. The red petals quickly turned black, transforming into a downward-sloping entrance to a cave.

"You finally came."

In the pitch-black cave, the extremely ancient voice seemed to have traveled from the distant past, almost distorted.

Want to go in?

Nobita found the key to solving the problem.

Follow your heart

Just like his previous attempt to use cards to find the location of the other side.

They all lead to the same conclusion: follow your heart.

He felt that the card was warning him not to abuse his so-called predictive abilities, to act according to his conscience, and to do his best—thinking of it in a self-deceptive way.

It's more likely that the other side involves game-related matters, which is why the hints have become obscure. He had already verified this before; every time he chose something related to the game, this problem would occur. The fact that Yamagata Prefecture could point him out before was already the limit.

He took out the flashlight he had prepared from his bag and glanced at the cards in his hand.

Aside from the Brave Armor that's guaranteed in the first draw, I only have two common cards, and I haven't been able to get them from the save point.

In other words, if he encounters danger after going down, he might not be able to get out without fighting and accumulating enough cards to draw.

You can't catch snakes without entering their den.

But was the sound coming from the cave really from that giant snake?

It's been over a thousand years, and it's still alive. How can it live so long?

Or is this the snake that hatched from the snake egg in the game?

Nobita entered the cave while thinking about what he might encounter.

The cave wasn't deep, and after walking a short distance, he came to a relatively large space where withered spider lilies appeared at his feet.

This is the cave space filled with spider lilies where you leave the other shore in the game, but now the sunlight is blocked, and it has lost its beauty, leaving only a lifeless and gloomy atmosphere.

If you follow the withered spider lilies further in, you can see a small patch of flowers that are still growing tenaciously.

It seemed this was the end. The flashlight beam was raised and shone on a gray stone wall. Gurgle, the "stone wall" opened its eyes.

Those are the snake's eyes.

Within that small remaining circle of spider lilies, a large, withered snake, its skin dull and rough like stone, lay there silently. It looked as if it had grown a human beard.

"You're late. Five hundred years."

"It seems you didn't succeed, but I've kept my promise, so you should return it to me."

His aged, cloudy, yellowish-black vertical pupils stared at Nobi, filled with longing and a hint of pleading.

Nobi tensed up, his brain racing as he tried to extract useful information from those few words.

Assuming the person it wanted to talk to was that Onmyoji, it means that the Onmyoji did indeed return for revenge and won, forcing the other party to make some kind of agreement, and possibly taking away the "snake egg".

The fact that it was 500 years late suggests that the original timeframe was around 1500.

It is known that the Onmyoji were active in the mid-to-late Heian period, around 1000 AD, so it is likely that the Onmyoji forced this giant serpent to make a five-hundred-year agreement.

But how should he answer?

To be honest?

"I'm not the person you're waiting for." Nobita finally spoke the truth. He didn't have that kind of strength, and he didn't know how much power Orochi still had left. Impersonating an Onmyoji would probably only bring backlash.

The giant snake did not speak immediately, but simply stood up and coiled its body, then stared at him silently.

The memories from the game started attacking him, and he already had the urge to run away.

Prepare to draw your sword. The only "trophy" here that could help him improve his strength is probably this giant snake in front of him.

“You’re lying.” The giant serpent leaned forward, its gaze fixed on the snake, its tongue flicking out. “You carry the scent of my child, however faint, very faint. I’ve waited a thousand years for you, not to hear this joke today.”

Nobita's eyes flickered.

You smell like the other person's child on you?!

impossible!

The only transcendent he could come into contact with was Iwasaki. He had no contact with that mysterious transcendent in white at all, they had completely missed each other. So where could he have picked up some qi? — Wait, if I had to say, there is indeed another one.

Zhu Hai!

But you two look so alike, you're practically unrecognizable, how could it possibly be your child?!

This can no longer be described as a gene mutation, but rather as a gene recombination.

“I have never met your child. I came here only because I heard about the legends of the other side.”

Nobi dared not mention Shukuro.

The serpent's expression slowly changed from serene to twisted and hateful.

Nobita didn't tell the truth, but he still found out the answer.

"It's dead, isn't it? I should have known. The spiritual energy in the human world disappears so quickly, how could his plan possibly succeed? What a joke! I actually believed a human's promise and waited for five hundred years. What an utter joke!!"

"Hahaha, you broke your promise! You broke your promise! I hate it! I shouldn't have chosen to live a life of cowardice. This is the punishment for my weak bones!"

"If that's the case, then with my remaining life, I curse your bloodline, wishing them the agony of being devoured by ten thousand snakes, unable to live, unable to die!!"

The giant serpent let out a maniacal laugh, its voice shrill. Its grayish-white skin cracked, and blood dripped from the cracks onto the ground. From the center of the cracks, a red light rippled outwards, instantly nourishing the withered spider lilies, restoring their vitality, and making them even more eerie and terrifying.

It seemed to be twisting and turning along with the giant snake, as if it were alive.

A long health bar appeared above the giant snake's head, but the amount of health inside was very small and was constantly decreasing, until in the blink of an eye, less than one-fifth remained.

Nobi did not immediately summon his weapon, but instead summoned a longsword and thrust it at the giant snake without saying a word.

The giant snake did not flinch, but stared at him with its eyes filled with sorrow and tears of blood.

"Your hands are stained with my son's blood, but you won't go to hell, because..."

"Hell is coming for you."

"Other Shore, break free!!"

With a mournful cry from the giant serpent, the already flourishing spider lilies began to spread rapidly, emerging from the cave entrance and spreading in all directions within moments.

Wherever it went, even the trees were not spared, with clusters of red spider lilies clinging to them, their crowns transforming into the shape of red spider lilies.

In just a short while, what was originally a small dot from above expanded into a rhombus shape, as if to dye the entire forest crimson.

"Teacher!"

"what happened?"

"Take a picture, take a picture!"

Soon, the spider lilies spread to the ruins of Orochi Village. Not long ago, the student research team that Nobita had passed by saw this peculiar sight and excitedly shouted, taking out their cameras to capture this unprecedented and beautiful scene, which looked like a special effect.

"go!"

But as the teacher looked at the flowers growing more and more outrageously, as if even the trees were being assimilated by them, his expression suddenly turned serious, and he shouted sternly.

"Don't bring anything! Come with me! Stop taking pictures, or they'll be your funeral photos!"

The teacher's shout puzzled the students, but they instinctively obeyed and followed the teacher toward the area that had not yet been invaded by the spider lilies.

The student who had given Nobita a hint wanted to turn back and take a couple more pictures, when he saw—countless scarlet tentacles tearing through the earth's veins, the roots of the spider lily twisting and bulging like living blood vessels, instantly covering their temporary camp completely.

Even the surrounding trees could not escape the clutches of evil, being swallowed up by countless red flowers. Then, with a twisting and twitching motion, each ancient cedar tree, whose age was unknown, was transformed into an oversized spider lily, magnificent yet terrifying to the very soul.

His legs went weak on the spot, and he tripped over a tree branch, staggering and almost falling to the ground. Fortunately, the teacher who had noticed him earlier pulled him back.

"run!"

He didn't have time to scold him, so he could only pull him up and encourage him to keep running.

The student, who had been pale and disoriented, finally found his anchor. His mind was filled with the teacher's word "run," and his strength seemed to return from somewhere. He started moving his legs like a madman and caught up with the group.

Inside the cave, Nobita dodged the attacks from the spider lilies while looking for an opportunity to strike at the main body of the giant snake.

Its health was almost depleted, but it didn't fight back, as if it was saving its strength for where it was needed more.

With Nobita's final strike, the giant snake crashed into the rock wall, dying as it looked at Nobita.

"Ho ho."

Nobita could see that the snake's tail had a strange shape, probably because a section of it had broken off a long time ago and then healed.

Its rear half was also bound by chains, with inscriptions of unknown purpose engraved on them.

"Enjoy this achievement accumulated over a thousand years. This is the other side of the Yellow Springs that you've been looking for."

The giant snake lay among the flowers, staring intently at Nobita, its eyes gradually turning gray and then falling silent.

Then, the spider lilies beneath it seemed to have smelled some supreme delicacy, swarming around it and trying to cover and devour it. The cave also began to shake, and gravel and dust spread and fell.

Brave Lv2→Lv5

After killing the giant snake, Nobita leveled up three times, and his base attributes also became much stronger.

But he wasn't really happy; this was quite different from what he had expected.

He originally thought the story was simple, just a tale of an Onmyoji who escaped from the clutches of a yokai after suffering a loss, with the addition of the Onmyoji's subsequent revenge.

So his initial purpose in coming here was to see if he could find some bargains in the cave, such as materials left behind by the giant snake or items left behind by the Onmyoji.

But now he has not only encountered a giant snake that is still alive, but also been involved with monsters from the previous game, and it also involves some secrets that he cannot know now.

It feels like the more you try to figure out what's going on, the more problems arise.

He picked up his sword and cut down the spider lilies that hadn't withered with the serpent's death but instead swayed even more. He went to the serpent's fallen body, glanced at the inscriptions on the chains, and took out his phone to take a picture.

He split open the snake's head and heart, and found a blood bead that glowed red.

The serpent's body certainly has other value, but he can't obtain it, at least not now.

The shaking of the cave intensified. Nobita stopped being greedy, clutching the save card he had just drawn during the battle, and fled towards the exit while cutting down the spider lilies blocking his path.

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Chapter 139: Decisive Bombing

It is located at the border of Tozawa Village and Ozang Village.

The two children were idly skipping stones across the river.

Their father wore a hat and sat fishing by the river.

"Don't shoot at me! You're scaring all the fish away!"

The man used his paternal authority to transform the embarrassment of not being able to catch fish into pressure, which he then placed on his two children.

The two siblings exchanged a glance and pouted.

They've already run twenty meters away, and they're still complaining. If you can't catch fish, you can't catch fish, why are you being so stubborn?

"I'm so bored, brother, let's go pick mushrooms," the younger sister secretly pointed to the forest.