Gamers Are Fierce Chapter 69: Fetters

“…”

Ogasawara kept him silent for a moment, then nodded very slowly, and said, “Indeed.

In mid-July of Showa 54, the Enke Village held an Enke Festival according to the usual customs.

Everything, according to the Hiratsuka family’s plan,

But when the blind person chooses the karmic sacrifice candidate, there is a deviation.

My brother, Ryosuke Fujimura, takes my place. “

Li Ang nodded, “I know that,

We surveyed the Fujimura family’s house,

Find out that Ryosuke Fujimura’s original surname is Matsuoka, which is your mother’s surname.

He is your uncle’s son. “

“…that’s right.”

Ogasawara took a deep breath and said, “We were about the same height and weight when we were kids, and we looked very similar.

All villagers and foreign tourists are required to wear energy masks that day,

I have no recollection before, this is my first time to participate in the Fate Festival,

Because of being naughty and playful, I swapped kimonos with Ryosuke to see if others could see our differences.

As a result, no one else, including my mother, noticed anything unusual and watched the shrine performance as usual.

Out of some sense of disappointment, I quietly left the shrine on my own halfway through the performance, just before the effects of the Guiquan Liquor took effect.

Just staggered the time when the Hiratsuka family’s hermits entered the shrine,

My mother, and Ryosuke, who she thought was me, were taken to the well of Guiquan for a karma sacrifice.

In the end, the ritual failed, and Huang Quanguo’s grievances failed to subside, but spewed wantonly, slaughtering everyone in Yuanke Village,

Yuanke Village itself is also involved in the inexplicable area at the junction of Changshi and Huangquan.

It’s all my responsibility, and now, it’s time to correct. “

He lifted one of the twine ropes and said slowly, “I need it, and I’m doomed to die here.

Only if I sink into the abyss will it be possible to get the karma back on track. “

He took a deep look at the two of them and said complicatedly: “When you were eight years old, I went to investigate Yuanke Village, but I fell into it and missed your growth.

I am a selfish, unqualified father.

Take this key, and let’s go, before it’s too late. “

Ogasawara took it out of the black hair on the body and took out a key with a strange shape, “This key can open the trapdoor in the backyard of Fujimura’s house, and through the trapdoor, it can be directly connected to the outside world.” /

Previously the other side of the trapdoor was sealed by the strange force lingering above the edge of the village,

After I finish the karma sacrifice, I should be able to re-seal the yellow spring so that the other side of the trapdoor can be opened. “

Accompanied by Ogasawara’s words, the entire underground space once again began to vibrate and shake, a large amount of yellow sand and dust fell, and the entire space seemed to collapse in the next second.

Under such circumstances, Li Ang didn’t panic at all. As a result, he waved his hand and said, “No hurry.

What I want to know is, didn’t you escape from Yuanke Village in a state of amnesia? Are these things you recalled yourself? “

“Hmm.”

Shoji Ogasawara said: “I have indeed lost all my childhood memories, but I only remember myself walking in the mountains and forests of Gunson County with dirt all over my body,

I was adopted by the Ogasawara family,

Because of some kind of insidious induction and the memory fragments that often haunt me, I eventually became a folklorist in adulthood and came into contact with the news of Yuanke Village.

I…just like you, I walked into the mountains and forests of Gangsen County and entered the ruins of Yuanke Village,

Here I came into contact with things I used to be familiar with, and slowly retrieved my previous memories, collected a lot of clues, and recovered the truth of all the incidents.

But he was also tightly bound by Yuanke Village, unable to escape, and became what he is now, sometimes awake, sometimes confused, and lost his senses.

After I found out that you entered the Yuanke Village, I was afraid that I would hurt you, so I went down to the Guiquan Well and prepared to take the final step to end all this. “

“Is that so?”

Li Ang nodded and said calmly: “I want to know the role of Shuhei Fujimura in this incident.

The vast majority of villagers and tourists have to attend to watch the Fate Ceremony, so why didn’t he stay with your mother and son? “

“…because he’s a face masker.”

Ogasawara explained: “The Fujimura family has always been the Noh-making family in the village.

We are responsible for carving Noh noodles using special wood, trees that are watered with water from the Guiquan Well.

Such a mask itself will be contaminated with the abnormality of the water of the returning spring,

When worn on the face of a Noh performer, it can match the performer’s dance and singing, further amplifying the hallucinogenic power of Guiquanjiu and immersing everyone in it.

On that day, one of the actors had a minor damage to his neng face, so he went backstage for temporary maintenance. “

“I trust you on this point,”

Li Ang nodded: “But I don’t think this is the whole truth.”

“Huh?”

Ogasawara was taken aback for a moment, “What did you say…”

“As you just said, only two people with strong and inseparable emotional bonds can correctly trigger the karma sacrifice and complete the seal of the Land of Yellow Springs.”

Li Ang said: “Why can you guarantee that after you sink into the abyss, you can complete the seal?”

“…because she’s alive.”

Ogasawara was silent for a moment, then pointed to the metal square box hanging on the edge of the cliff, “Due to the deviation of the ritual, my mother has been in a state of neither life nor death, without any perception of the outside world.

For the past few years, I’ve wanted to end it all, but I’ve missed her and my father by the well.

It has been delayed until now.

If you use me as a sacrifice, then you can reactivate the karma sacrifice…”

“Wait.”

Wang Congshan raised her hand and said, “The karma sacrifice requires two people with strong and inseparable emotional bonds, right?

This kind of cruel and evil ritual kills two people every four years,

For a remote and closed village, the manpower consumption is too high, and it is difficult to guarantee that it can make up every four years.

It is for this reason that the Hiratsuka family has to hold a festival with great fanfare, publicize it, invite tourists, and even invite your teacher, the equally well-known folklore scholar, to the mansion.

Those foreign tourists are also candidates for the karma festival, right?

Because of the peculiar myth of Yuanshan, there are many people who have no interest in life and die every year. They go to Yuanshan and disappear from then on.

Even occasional disappearances do not raise much suspicion. “

Seeing Ogasawara nodding and admitting, Wang Congshan continued: “Then the karma festival between Masumi Fujimura and Ryosuke Fujimura should not fail.

According to what you said, it is not mandatory to have a blood relationship, siblings, lovers, and even friends are all valid,

Fujimura Masumi and Fujimura Ryosuke are mother and son~IndoMTL.com~ and Fujimura Masumi also regards Ryosuke as you.

How could it fail? “

“…”

Ogasawara’s words suddenly got stuck and stood silently in place.

“If I’m not mistaken, everything you told us was mostly true, but on key issues, you lied.

And this lie is not to defend oneself, but to defend another person. “

Wang Congshan said lightly: “The real reason for the failure of the karma festival lies in Masumi Fujimura, right?

She knew clearly that the adopted Ryosuke was taken away, not you.

Even after the effects of Guiquan Liquor wore off and memories surged up, I didn’t feel too much pain and regret.

Even, it is possible to guess in a darker and narrower direction that all this comes from her plan. “