However, if that were all, it wouldn't cause Xiangbei to react so strongly. After all, it's possible that the time machine could travel to other Gensokyos and cause some movement that Yakumo Yukari would notice. For example, when Yakumo Hong first came to Gensokyo, wasn't she directly visited by Yakumo Yukari?
But the one who appeared in Yakumo Yukari was not standing, but lying down.
Not even alive, dead.
Volume 4: Player Genocide Line: Chapter 195: Prison Purple
When people are killed, they die.
If a monster is killed, it will die.
However, compared to humans, monsters are obviously more tenacious. What is usually fatal to humans may be just a minor injury to monsters that can be recovered after a few days of recuperation.
Even if the chest is pierced by a sword, as long as no vital organs are damaged, even a monster with weak physical fitness like the Jue monster can recover from the wound within a few days, not to mention monsters with strong vitality like the ghost clan. They are simply indestructible cockroaches, comparable to little Saint Seiya.
However, if the injury is to the head, even if you are a ghost, you can only report to hell.
This is especially true for monsters in the gaps, which are not known for their vitality or physical fitness.
Yakumo Yukari lying on the ground had lost her life, her left eye was empty, and her face was covered in blood. Even though she was dead, a look of shock could be seen on her stiff face. It seemed that before she died, she had encountered an unexpected incident that was shocking enough to shock her.
Her clothes were gone, except for the white hat with a bow on her head, which was now stained with blood. The Taoist robe that could almost be considered a symbol of her identity was also gone, and even her underwear disappeared. Her white body was revealed before his eyes.
Just looking at such a miserable death, even seeing Yakumo Yukari's naked body, Xiangbei didn't feel even a trace of emotion.
Yakumo Yukari was killed by something that pierced her eyes and skull, directly tearing her brain apart. The blood oozing from her eye sockets dyed the ground red and also stained her body with blood, making her look extremely miserable.
"Fuck."
Xiangbei opened his mouth and uttered these two words.
What are you doing?
Yakumo Yukari... is dead?
"Zizi... detecting unknown timeline... Zizizizi... system error... system error... system error..."
"errorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerror......"
"System restarting... System testing... Testing complete... Mission rewriting... Host, please stay where you are and wait patiently."
"Ding—buzz buzz buzz..."
In addition to the shocking situation in front of him, even the system started to restart suddenly, which made Xiangbei feel the extreme seriousness of the situation.
When trying to contact the system, they only got the prompt "System restarting, do not disturb". At the same time, the two residents in Xiangbei's body were also furious.
"Yakumo Yukari is dead?!" Rika looked incredulous.
Although Rika has almost no good feelings towards Yakumo Yukari because she was the one who killed Xiaohong, it was Yakumo Yukari who relied on Yuyuko's ability to allow her to be resurrected as a ghost.
So when Rika saw Yakumo Yukari's body, in addition to shock and a sense of relief, she also felt a bit of complicated emotions.
Compared to Rika, Huo seemed calmer, but he couldn't hide the shock on his face.
"Calm down. Yakumo Yukari is a famous youkai, and there are no signs of fighting around. Although the corpse looks very similar to Yakumo Yukari, it may not be Yakumo Yukari herself."
What he said was indeed true. As a sage of monsters, Yakumo Yukari was also a well-known monster with great strength. If someone wanted to kill her, then apart from anything else, the small woods here would definitely be flattened. There would definitely be no trace of a battle at all.
Even if there is someone who can kill Yakumo Yukari with one strike, it can only be someone like the Dragon God who masters the laws. But Yakumo Yukari has no grudge against them, so why would they come to kill her for no reason?
What's more, they traveled back to the past timeline, and Yakumo Yukari's death never happened in the past!
In response, Xiangbei just shook his head slightly.
"No, this person is Yakumo Yukari... My six eyes can see it."
The six eyes have the ability to see through the innate abilities of others. After being strengthened with the upgraded penalty kick, this function has also been improved.
Even though it was a corpse, he could see through her innate abilities through his six eyes. However, a powerful innate ability like the power of realm could not be analyzed and seen through in an instant, so he observed it for a long time before he could see through and confirm the identity of the corpse.
What's going on? Shouldn't the time machine be able to take them back to a point in the past? But how could the past Yakumo Yukari be dead?
Even if some local plots have changed because of the interaction between the players of Gensokyo and the little gods of Gensokyo, the two guys in my body who know the story from hundreds of years ago know nothing about it, so there is a problem.
Hiss, it’s a bit scary when I think about it…
"Then, could there be something wrong with this time machine, like it's damaged somewhere?" Rika asked again.
"That's impossible. I've always kept the time machine in the shadow, and I checked it before leaving. There's nothing damaged... Uh?"
After walking around the time machine and just about to refute Rika's words, Xiangbei suddenly saw a scratch on the right side of the time machine. The scratch was very large, as if it had been scratched by a giant beast dozens of meters tall, but it did not cause a deep mark.
"No, where did this scratch come from?"
Touching the torn iron sheet, Xiangbei looked confused.
He clearly remembered that he had checked the time machine carefully before starting it, and there was no problem at all, but now he found such a big claw mark.
It was impossible that Xiangbei was seeing things, because when Xiangbei was checking, the two pairs of eyes in his body were also watching, and given the obviousness of the scratches, it was impossible that he was seeing things wrong.
The only possibility was that when they activated the time machine, it was tampered with by some entity, causing the location they traveled to deviate slightly from the originally set coordinates...
Who on earth could do such a thing?
Xiangbei has an answer in his heart, but he can't confirm it, especially when there is no evidence at present.
"Never mind. I just hope this time machine isn't broken, or can be repaired. Otherwise..."
With a sigh, Xiangbei put the time machine back into the shadow, continued to look at Yakumo Yukari's body, raised his hand and set up a barrier around it to shield the environment.
The system is still restarting, and it may take some time.
Before the system restarts, let's investigate the cause of Yakumo Yukari's death... Who killed her?
Returning to Yakumo Yukari's body, Xiangbei squatted down and was about to use some strange tools to examine the cause of her death in depth, but found that she seemed to move.
Um? not dead?
Xiangbei looked carefully again and saw that Yakumo Yukari's body was still lying quietly on the ground, without any movement.
It's been cold for a long time. Even if there was any movement, it was probably just a nervous reaction... Maybe I saw it wrong.
Although he thought so, Xiangbei still stopped and stared at Yakumo Yukari's body.
After a moment, Xiangbei discovered that Yakumo Yukari had indeed moved again!
However, it was not her body that was moving, but... the weak soul hidden in Yakumo Yukari's body, which was about to dissipate, that was moving!
Volume 4: Player Genocide Line: Chapter 196: Prison
All things have spirits. In a magical world like Gensokyo, even a stone has the potential to gain spirituality and turn into a monster.
But before it became a monster, it was just an ordinary stone, without any spirituality, thoughts or soul.
Plants have some spirituality, but they have no thoughts and no souls.
Animals, humans, and monsters all have spirituality, thoughts, and souls.
When a living being dies, its soul will separate from the body in the tenth second and float around its own body, or be attracted by nearby objects that can attract souls, such as red spider lilies, and attach to them.
However, this only applies to the souls of animals or humans. After the death of humans and animals, the souls will float away from the body, and then be taken away by the god of death, and then sent to the underworld to be judged by the King of Hell, and punished or reincarnated according to the sins committed in life.
But monsters don’t. Although monsters also have souls, they are different from the souls of humans and animals. When monsters die, their souls will float out of their bodies, but they cannot last for a long time like the souls of humans and animals. They will turn into nothingness in a very short time and float away between heaven and earth.
In other words, after a monster dies, its soul is completely shattered and it cannot be reincarnated like humans or animals.
These were all what Xiangbei learned from the records in his book on the demon world, including the various habits of monsters and species characteristics.
Although realm monsters are special, they also belong to the monster species. After death, their souls will disappear completely after leaving the body... But unexpectedly, Yakumo Yukari's soul still exists?
Although it was faint, it still existed in Yakumo Yukari's body. But how did this happen? After the death of any living being, the soul would leave the body. As long as the time reached the tenth second, no matter whether it was human, animal or monster, it could not stop this process.
And looking at the dried blood on Yakumo Yukari's body, she must have been dead for at least several hours. Her soul should have been gone long ago, yet it still remained...
Oh I see.
Looking towards the north carefully, he found that a weak force was maintaining Yakumo Yukari's soul, allowing it to still exist in her body so as not to completely "die", while also preventing it from completely dissipating.
Xiangbei was somewhat familiar with this power... the power of realm, which he had used many times before when Huo attacked him.
Yakumo Yukari's realm power is quite special. Although it is not as strong as the law, it is as mysterious as her own World Slash. In terms of comprehensiveness, it is even much stronger than her own World Slash.
The realm of fast and slow, the realm of cold and hot, the realm of waves and particles, the realm of humans and monsters, and... the realm of life and death.
In the original story of Gensokyo players, Yakumo Yukari used the power of realm to save Inkasas, used the realm of life and death on her, and reversed her death.
Xiangbei speculated that at the moment before Yakumo Yukari's death, she used the realm of life and death on herself, but because the incident happened suddenly, the move was not fully performed, so the final result was only able to barely keep her soul in her body and not dissipate.
But it just didn't completely dissipate. Yakumo Yukari's soul looked very weak, and the realm power that maintained the soul's existence seemed to be coming to an end and would soon lose its effectiveness.
Without further hesitation, Xiangbei placed one hand on Yakumo Yukari's chest and grabbed her right little finger with the other hand. He manipulated the soul and stored it in the little finger, then pulled it off.
It's not that her soul can't be pulled out directly, but Yakumo Yukari's soul is already very weak. If the operation is not done properly, there is a risk of her soul being torn apart. It is safer to use the body as a carrier of the soul to control it.
Then, Xiangbei swallowed the thumb with dried blood in one gulp.
"?"
"I go!"
Looking at Yakumo Yukari beside him, Huo couldn't help but swear.
"This...Xiangbei, why did you squeeze her in here?"
"If you don't stuff her in now, she will be sent away. Anyway, I already have you as residents in my body, so what's the harm in adding one more?" Xiangbei didn't care about it.
"Besides, isn't the most important thing right now to ask her what happened? There's no need to worry about these little things."
"...Well, you're right." Huo nodded and agreed with Xiangbei's words.
Then she turned to look at Yakumo Yukari and asked with a bad expression.
"Yakumo Yukari, I want to ask you, how did you die?"
Yakumo Yukari: “…”
"Talk, are you deaf? Or is it because it happened so suddenly that you're too shocked to react?"
Yakumo Yukari: “…”
disaster:"?"
Rika walked forward and waved her hand in front of Yakumo Yukari, but Yakumo Yukari's eyes were dull and she didn't react at all to Huo's words or Rika's actions.
"Xiangbei," Rika said to Xiangbei, "Yakumo Yukari seems to have gone mad. Based on my experience... her soul is already damaged, even more broken than mine. Apart from being able to maintain her existence, she can basically do nothing."
"It's OK."
Although he had expected this when he saw Yakumo Yukari's weak soul, Xiangbei still felt a sense of regret.
The system hasn't been loaded yet, and I don't know how long it will take... Judging from the bloodstains, Yakumo Yukari has been dead here for some time. If we delay any longer, someone might come to check, and it will be troublesome if we are discovered.
As expected, it’s better to find a place to stabilize first and wait for the system to load before taking any action.
The shadow under his feet spread forward, reaching under Yakumo Yukari's body and swallowing it.
The body also needs to be dealt with properly.
Looking at Yakumo Yukari's body completely sinking into the shadows, Xiangbei suddenly felt that her death was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
"Forget it, let's think about it later. Let's clean up the scene first."
After cleaning up the bloodstains at the scene with a cannon, it quickly flew away from the scene to the north and headed towards the distant forest.
Although Yakumo Yukari's death was indeed very unexpected, the surrounding environment is indeed very similar to Gensokyo.
Flying into the forest, Xiangbei recognized at a glance that this was the magical forest from a hundred years ago... After all, he had spent a lot of effort to repair the forest, so even though a hundred years had passed, he could still recognize it.
It just so happens that the magic forest is filled with miasma all day long, and all kinds of monsters and fairies live here. If we find a secluded place and dig three and fill one, no one will be able to find us.
Just as Xiangbei was thinking, a figure came into his sight.
But this figure was not standing, but lying down.
Not even alive, dead.
And this way of dying may be even more miserable than Yakumo Yukari's.
Falling from the sky, looking at the headless female corpse that had dyed the ground red in front of him, Xiangbei sighed heavily.
"grass."
Following the line of sight to the north, he saw the body of the girl on the ground. The familiar shrine maiden costume made Huo's pupils shrink and he screamed.
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