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But we still have to worry about it.

Could this be such a big deal?

It's getting dark early...

Zuo Zizheng felt uncomfortable all over. Not everyone was prepared for the arrival of night, especially the employees of their Magic Strategy Bureau. They had worked hard for a long time and finally found clues about the snake. Now they were waiting for the patrol officers to arrive, and then it suddenly got dark. Anyone would be nervous.

I can only sigh that now is a turbulent time, and these evil spirits are very good at choosing the time, and I'm afraid they will all come out at once.

The only good news is that no dimensional rifts have been detected so far, and the new equipment has not detected any traces of monsters. The operation has been perfect so far, with no casualties and significant gains.

"Here we are--"

A lively and cheerful little girl's voice came from behind.

When Masato Saki turned around, he saw Hika Aika and Yumeno Chiharu in their positions. He looked back but did not see his old partner Rena Asakura and his immediate boss and old lover Nobuyuki Uesugi.

He asked, "Where are the other two?"

Rixia Aihua said: "Maybe there is something that hasn't happened yet, but having us here is enough."

Zuo Zizhengren didn't think too much about it. Having the inspector was enough. He picked up the walkie-talkie and began to give instructions to the members exploring the house. Along the way, he explained to Hika Aika and Yumeno Chiharu who had arrived.

"We didn't find much in the mountains. According to previous information, they might want to build a temporary laboratory in Chuanshan, but the mountains have been ruled out as a possible location. There have been no major development projects in Chuanshan in the past thirty years, and it is even more impossible to hollow out the mountain to build a hidden laboratory. It would be impossible to conceal the movement, and there would definitely be traces if there was any movement."

Today, helicopters were hovering over Chuanshan, and a team went into the mountains to search. There were also specialists responsible for investigating in Chuanshan County. The search in the mountains yielded nothing, but the investigators in Chuanshan County were surprised to discover something while investigating past events.

“The information we saw was from 1994. It just so happened that this manor was built around here between 1994 and 1996. The older generation in the county was very impressed.”

Meng Ye Qianqing looked at the marble path along the way. This dilapidated manor had a strong European style. It was remote but built with great taste. It would be hard not to be impressed by this piece of land in the countryside.

According to the information obtained from the investigation, the owner of this manor seems to be a middle-aged doctor. He also opened a small clinic in Chuanshan County. With the identity of a doctor, even outsiders can quickly integrate into Chuanshan County. He has accumulated good popularity in the county and shows great interest in some past events of Chuanshan County.

"Since the doctor settled in Chuanshan County, there have been more vehicles on the road here, many of whom are visiting him at his manor,"

As he was talking about it, he mentioned an interesting story. There was a section of road that was difficult to travel on at the beginning, but after the doctor came, the road was quickly repaired. Some people joked that it might have something to do with the doctor. He thought the road here was not repaired well enough, so he funded the repair of half of the road.

A lot of things related to the doctor were talked about, and finally they got to the point, which was a basement they investigated in this manor.

"The legendary basement where all the truth is buried!" Rixia Aihua's eyes sparkled.

The group walked with light footsteps through the weed-covered path outside the manor and entered the house. There was a door hidden in the shadows on the second floor underground. It was almost impossible to detect if you didn't look for it deliberately.

Pushing the door open, the musty and dusty smell hit me in the face. The space here was wide open, with a wooden table in the center of the field of vision, and some old books and utensils in the corner. It was too messy to see them all. However, some staff from the Magic Strategy Bureau had already entered the second underground floor. Rixia Aihua walked straight to the wooden table, casually moved the chair in front of it away, and bent down to take out a notebook from the drawer.

It seems to be a diary.

Yumeno Chiharu was called over by Rixia Aika.

"Isn't this considered disrupting work?"

"I'm the inspector."

Moon Rabbit landed on the table and nodded in approval: "As an inspector, Aihua has a lot of authority. This is part of her job."

The tedious and complicated experimental data had nothing to do with Rixia Aihua's interests. Mengye Chiqing stared at the girl's back. She was reading the diary with great interest, and turned around and handed the diary to Mengye Chiqing.

"Here, this guy wrote something quite interesting."

Yumeno Chiharu turned the diary back to the first page. The owner of the diary was named Ishii Takashi.

"Is this the same person as the diary I saw before?"

"Yeah, it looks like it's him."

Meng Ye Qianqing frowned slightly and gently turned the pages. This diary was nearly thirty years old and the pages felt wrinkled and hard.

This diary records Ishii Takashi's arrival in Kawayama Prefecture in 1994 as a doctor and his investigation into the anomalies there.

[When we started investigating the anomaly in Kawayama Prefecture, the shrine came into our sight. 】

[In such a remote place, the permanent population is maintained at around 5,000, but on such a small piece of land there are two shrines, one on a mountain and the other on a lake. ]

【We launched an investigation into the shrine.】

“They learned the history from the people of Kawayama County.”

"history?"

"Yes, history."

This manor has been abandoned for a long time, and the water and electricity supply have been cut off long ago. Rixia Aihua stared at the bright lights in the room and slowly chatted with Meng Ye Chiqing.

She smiled and said, "History is very important. Many things are buried in history. If you are able to find them and match them one by one, you are very close to the truth."

The Snake Organization had just arrived, and in addition to building a temporary base and laboratory, they spent their days investigating the history and customs of Chuanshan County, and many legends were recorded in their diaries.

This place is not big, and many legends focus on the mountains and the lake. Occasionally there are ghosts and monsters, but they are just embellishments of the legends of the mountains and the lake. Many folk customs derived from them have been passed down to this day, demonstrating the weight of history.

【Guangze has a long history, so long that it is unbelievable. 】

【Two thousand two hundred years? Tracing back to around 200 BC, it was still nearly 500 years before the Yamato era. At that time, the ancestors on the island were still in the Yayoi era, living a primitive life, and they might not even have farming techniques. Why are there such detailed records?】

[The Haneda family, which manages Hirosawa Shrine, has a shrine maiden named "Haneda Ho" in every generation, which is a point worth noting. 】

【I decided to visit Hirosawa Shrine. 】

Starting with the anomalies in Kawayama County, Snake developed a strong interest in this place. After focusing on sorting out a lot of information similar to folk rumors, he even transformed from a scientific researcher to a historian and folklorist driven by interest, looking for traces of history in these deep mountains and forests, and looking forward to finding more information from the ancient Hirosawa Shrine.

"Guangze?"

Yumeno Chiharu recalled the shrine she visited this morning and became curious.

The following diary records the process of the meeting and communication between Ishii Takashi and Haneda Suo, and also expresses Ishii Takashi's disappointment with Hirosawa Shrine.

I thought it should be the most ancient shrine with the most information available, but it seemed as if its inheritance was interrupted in the middle. The entire shrine relies on a young shrine maiden in her early twenties, Haneda Sui, to maintain its daily operations. The place is remote and there are only a few people who visit it. It is natural that it has gradually become desolate and dilapidated.

That shrine maiden really lived a plain and simple life like a hermit, and it even felt like that shrine maiden could stay in that shrine for the rest of her life and rot away, just like an old nun who had seen through the world.

You can read the disdain and resentment.

This Ishii Takashi seems to be a very pioneering person. He is still active in the front line in his forties. He is particularly disdainful of the shrine maiden who is in her early twenties but looks down on her. This mental state appears in an old man in his eighties or nineties, but how can you lie down in your early twenties? You are just a poor creature destroyed by the pedantic tradition.

【The inheritance of Guangze Shrine is broken. 】

Rixia Aihua was watching from behind and secretly covered her mouth when she saw this.

They shifted their attention to Kawayama Shrine. The rise of Kawayama Shrine was much later than that of Hirosawa Shrine, but compared to modern times it is still an old story from long ago. However, unlike the tragic decline of Hirosawa Shrine, Kawayama Shrine is very popular and has preserved a lot of information.

Snake collected a lot of information from the Kawayama Shrine with conspiracy and overt plotting, and figured out an outline through repeated attempts.

【The god of the mountains and rivers. 】

【The gods worshipped in this place are the nearby mountains and rivers themselves. 】

[The residents nearby are very pious, and no wonder they are so pious, this mountain god really exists. ]

There is a small comment: when Kawayama Shrine protects the world, the desolation of Hirosawa Shrine is inevitable.

[We wanted to build a laboratory in the mountain, but it collapsed. We tried to test the mountain in various ways, but the only exception was that various coincidences of nature followed one after another, and the mountain drove us away.]

【This mountain is alive. 】

[They call this mountain god after the gods of the mountains. The mountain is a concrete entity, made up of flowers, grass, fish, insects, birds, animals, trees, streams, rocks, caves... This mountain came alive in a certain era and has been silently protecting the people until today.]

[It may not have been so obvious before, but the re-entry of Warcraft after 1966 gave it a stage. 】

[We suspect that the appearance and disappearance of the dimensional rifts detected previously are closely related to it.]

The diary records officially turned to the research on Chuanshan, and the timeline of the notes began to lengthen, with intervals of several days or even weeks. In three months, they once again observed the dimensional rift and truly observed the demise of the monster.

【The mountains and rivers are protecting people. 】

[The flowers, plants, and trees all came alive, and ordinary birds of prey suddenly exploded at speeds far beyond imagination. We observed magic in all these phenomena and were particularly excited.]

[More importantly, we discovered that the mountain is eating.]

[The corpses and cores of the monsters killed by Chuanshan will disappear without a trace. It is an incredible scene, but we can understand that the mountain is eating. The God of Chuanshan is consciously hunting monsters. It may be able to grow through the magic power of monsters...]

The long journey has begun.

Ishii Takashi arrived in Kawayama Prefecture in 1994. This diary, which is more of a personal nature, is not as rigorous as his experimental diary. It generally records important events that he thinks he should remember to remind himself in the future. The timeline jumps several times until 1996.

As the evidence from observations became more and more sufficient, and the combination of monsters and life in the laboratory also made new progress, people's ambitions were not satisfied with this, and they decided to test the God of Rivers and Mountains.

[We have witnessed that Kawayama is in a tough battle. According to the standards of the Fairy Kingdom, the enemy is defined as a Void Monster, corresponding to Soul Silver.]

[The frequency of dimensional cracks is too low. We are preparing for the next experiment, starting with the eating habits of the God of Rivers and Mountains after each battle.]

【We prepared a monster for it. 】

The cultivated monsters were transported to Chuanshan. At first, they did not attract the attention of the God of Chuanshan. Until the monster destroyed the mountain forest like crazy, the mountain came alive and defeated the inferior monster, leaving only minced meat on the ground.

[It hesitated and did not eat the monster immediately.]

[Does a monster have no core? But there is magic in its flesh and blood...]

[It finally chose to eat, and there was nothing unusual.]

After repeatedly sending in magical beasts, the God of Chuanshan went from being hesitant and tentative at first to gradually getting used to these strange enemies.

Fight, defeat, and eat like cleaning up a battlefield.

[Chuanshan noticed us, but it may be because it has been accepting offerings from believers for many years, it has no ill will towards humans. We are not in danger, but we are driven further away. It is already difficult to approach Chuanshan, but fortunately there are still residents of Chuanshan County who can help us. It is enough to spend some money to drive them to do things. ]

[It is not a solution to have no reaction like this. The investment of resources must have a real return. Observation of matter has proven that it is meaningless. The composition of Chuanshan is no different from other mountains. We need to find a way to contact the spirit of the mountain.]

[Masuda proposed a new idea. There may be no essential difference between demons and monsters. They are both savage beasts. We can try to change the angle and release humans combined with monsters... This technology is not mature. The longest record of new humans from implantation to death is only 31 hours, and they will die in the pain of collapse.]

[Wait, through the revelation of the Fairy Kingdom, the so-called "power of the heart" occupies a very important position in the system... To be honest, this inexplicable statement is very disappointing, but it's worth a try. ]

The moon rabbit landed on Meng Ye Qianqing's shoulder. With just one glance, the rabbit's face immediately showed shock.

"Are these people crazy? Don't they want to die?"

"You clearly know the core meaning of the power of the heart, but you still dare to fill it with a heart full of pain?"

The rabbit fairy was so angry that she gnashed her teeth. The fairy was also annoyed by this kind of smart-aleck fool! Everyone else was just shouting about it, why are you the only one who is so active?

I’ll kill you, you guy who doesn’t treasure his life!

【Under our guidance, the mountains and rivers seem to have changed. 】

Change is welcome, but it also makes people more curious about how far this change will go.

The number of experimental subjects input became more and more surging, until one night the turning point came quietly.

【That night, all of us who participated in this operation had a dream.】

[After waking up from the dream, we communicated within our group and verified one by one that we were sure that the people we saw in the dream were all experimental subjects for the new human experiment.]

[The people it eats are still alive in their tormented souls.]

【Kawayama has gone crazy.】

【It's coming toward us.】

……

[We realize that we may be dying, but we also realize that there is a way forward that may work.]

【Rivers and mountains welcome everyone who comes. 】

【We may be able to replace those boring souls. 】

【We will take over Kawayama Shrine. 】

This is the last page.

Meng Ye Qianqing felt a genuine chill.

Rixia Aihua closed the folk customs book she was reading, and turned around to see Mengye Qianqing leaving the basement and heading straight out of the manor.

Outside the manor, Meng Ye Qianqing looked into the distance in confusion, her sight focused on the vague outlines of the distant mountains. The distant mountains under the night sky were like silhouettes, and the undulating outlines seemed even darker, as if they were the back of a sleeping giant, revealing an indescribable majesty and indifference.

Dots of lights can be seen sparsely at the foot of the mountain, but they can hardly dispel the dullness and gloom around them.

Chiharu Yumeno lowered her eyes and ran her finger over the ID of 129.3. His signature was changed to "Night" at some point. She saw that the signal above was not very good, and she walked forward on purpose, but her senior never sent her a message.

She covered her heart and closed her eyes. A vague perception seemed to connect her and Uesugi Nobuyuki. She suddenly opened her eyes and looked into the distance. Uesugi Nobuyuki was in the mountains.

next moment--

Explosive light!

The night sky seemed to be torn apart, emitting a light brighter than the stars, even making people mistakenly think that dawn had arrived early.

When Meng Ye Qianqing heard the surprised cries of the people from the Magic Strategy Bureau, she ran around hurriedly, and the scene suddenly fell into chaos.