Chapter 8: The Spirit of Words

Thunder and lightning streaked across the sky once more. Dong Qi looked out the car window at the increasingly cloudy sky, vaguely realizing that he was afraid it was going to rain heavily. It was very common that on the day indicated by the Blood Character, there was a thirty to forty percent probability that the weather forecast would be inaccurate. Ironically enough, Dong Xie himself, who created horror novels, often used such a trope. And at this moment, Dong Xie was getting more and more uneasy. It was too dangerous to just bring Ah Ning along with him. The Bloodletter Quest would begin tomorrow afternoon, and that also happened to be the time when Beishan Jinglong's wedding would begin. This wedding was likely to be greatly related to this bloodletter mission! The Singularity Network Spiritual Triumvirate, without exception, were actually all involved in the apartment's bloodletter instructions! And himself, a quasi giant who was almost sealed as a god back then, also entered the apartment. Looking at it this way …… singularity.com psychic writer is simply a high risk occupation. "What's going on with this weather ……" The driver seemed to feel a bit dull, so he turned on the car radio to change the atmosphere. Of course, neither of Dong Xie's siblings could understand Japanese, and could only understand a handful of words. Just then, the duo suddenly heard a few words. "China"…… and "idol". In Japanese, the pronunciation of idol is derived from the English Idol, the same as in China is the harmonic "Aidou", so they all understood it. Dong Ning quickly opened a simultaneous interpretation app on his cell phone, recorded the voice on the radio, and then the software will be automatically converted into Chinese. "中国のアイドル……行方がわからない……" After converting it into Chinese, the content is …… "The whereabouts of several Chinese idols are unknown in recent days, including Tang Tingtian, the male lead of River of Yellow Springs ……" Whereabouts unknown! According to the news, these idols all disappeared after recording the program "Escape! Alien Spirit", a program that went missing after the recording. And all of them have completely vaporized. The news focused on Tang Tingtian because the TV series "River of Blood" in which he starred as the second male lead had been introduced to Japan and renamed "River of Yellow Springs" and gained great popularity in Japan. And when Sun Jia Min entered the apartment, she swore with her finger in the sky that Tang Ting Tian was the real murderer who had killed Li Han Yi. He was discovered by Li Han Yi because he was secretly using drugs, and at that time he pushed Li Han Yi off a cliff because he was also delirious from the drugs. Later when he returned to the cast, his assistant also perjured himself in front of the police to bring an alibi for him. This drama is the first time Li Hanyi and Tang Tingtian cooperated, and the two of them usually work well together, and there is not the slightest motive to kill. Also because of the duo's usual rivalry quite a lot, even from the time Li Hanyi's clothes have detected his fingerprints are also not surprising. To Dong Xie, this matter itself has nothing to do with him. However, when he thought about it carefully, he also felt a little guilty. Back then, he was originally just a melon eating passerby, and he rarely made comments on the internet about things in the entertainment industry, but because of Ah Ning at that time, he also followed her and made a lot of posts on the internet, and even alluded to this incident in his own work. By and large, almost everyone decided that it was because of the intervention of the capital background behind Mother Ziyi that she was able to escape justice. If it wasn't for the attacks of cyber violence, Mother Ziyi wouldn't have been able to come to such a small city as K City for a break, let alone enter an apartment. At this moment, he couldn't help but think of one thing. If, back then, this incident hadn't happened, the person who would marry Beishan Jinglong tomorrow would be Mother Ziyi, not Nine Heavenly Smoke. The group orgy of network violence apportioned people's guilt and stood on the moral high ground to judge others under the banner of justice. No snowflake is innocent in an avalanche, but a snowflake never feels that it is at fault, but that it is the "other snowflakes" that have guided it. However, Dong Xie did not want to think that way, as a snowflake, he naturally had a responsibility. "Ning, I've thought it over carefully, what Sun Jiamin said should be the truth. There's no point in her falsely accusing Tang Tingtian in front of us." Dong Xie muttered to Dong Ning, "She was, originally, the fiancée of Beishan Jinglong." "Brother?" "I want to help Beishan Jinglong escape the killing and maiming of this Bloodletter mission as much as possible, and then tell him the truth about this matter." Dong Ning was silent for a moment. Back then, she had played a very active role in the cyber violence against Mother Ziyi. As the deputy bar owner of the posting bar, as well as an anchor, she had started quite a few topics on the internet. Of course, in terms of influence, she was just one of the countless "snowflakes". "How could so many idols go missing at the same time?" The cab driver sighed, "Too bad. You two guests, you're Chinese, right?" The driver was not sure of the nationality of the duo before, and they both spoke in English. And as soon as he heard them speak Chinese he knew, and some of the major phonetics were learned for the Olympics to welcome guests from all over the world. His Chinese was barely intelligible, though he spoke staccato, and China sounded like the Middle Ages. "Well …… it's ……" Dong Xie really didn't quite eat this Japanese tone Chinese and said in English, "That, you'd better speak English. " Just at this time, suddenly, a jungle appeared ahead. And at the entrance of the jungle, a woman wearing a purple kimono and holding a lantern appeared. "Master driver, stop the car ……." Dong Xie looked at the woman in front of him who was holding a lantern and revealed a suspicious expression. After the cab stopped, the woman wearing a kimono and carrying a lantern slowly walked up. "Are the two of you Mr. Dong Xie and Miss Dong Ning?" She walked up to the car window and said softly. "Yes," Dong Ning exchanged words with her in English, "Is this Ms. Himura Hanabi?" The woman in the kimono had a rather pale face and not much expression on her countenance, like a three-dimensional girl who came out from inside a manga. "Next, I'll take the two of you to the shrine. Also, young master Jing Long has just arrived." "Hm, have to walk in?" "Without me leading the two of you, you will most likely get lost in the sea of trees." Dong Qi looked at the kimono girl in front of him and suddenly felt a little numb. Is this female …… human or …… ghost? Since entering the apartment, Dong Xie had long since gotten used to seeing people who were already dead, walking as well as the living, and talking such absurd things. "I see." Dong Xie took out his wallet and took out the yen bills that he had withdrawn in advance from the apartment's safe deposit box and paid the cab fare. After Dong Xie and Dong Ning got out of the car, he was just about to open his mouth when Himura Hanabi said, "I know that the two of you have a lot of questions to ask, but for the rest of the journey into the Sea of Trees, please try to stay quiet and then follow me closely. Remember …… that since you don't have the Kitayama family bloodline, when you act in the Sea of Trees, no matter what strange things you see or hear, don't react as if you didn't see them. Otherwise, I cannot 100% guarantee the personal safety of the two of you." As soon as these words came out, both Dong Xie and Dong Ning's faces turned ugly. "The two of you will come to our shrine, so I guess, you're no longer atheists, right?" Dong Xie looked at the sea of trees in front of him, and became more and more nervous inside. But by this time, the cab had also driven away. There was no way he was going to let Ning leave anymore, and it was just as very dangerous to leave now. "What will we see? Hear anything?" Dong Qi clenched his teeth and asked, "Can you tell us in advance?" Himura Hanabi, who was holding the lantern, however, said, "Do you two know that there is such a thing as a 'speech spirit' in Japan?" The word 'speech spirit', she purposely said in Chinese. "I have heard of it ……," Dong Xie said in order to collect material for horror novels, many myths and legends in Eurasia he knew by heart. "Our Shinto religion believes in pantheism, and language, too, has spiritual power in it. So mentioning them too much might draw them over. For the specifics, I will explain them specifically to the two of you after entering the shrine." Dong Xie and Dong Ning glanced at each other. At this moment, they both began to worry, was this woman in front of them a living person? However, there was no way to prove this. In this world, only whether or not one could enter the apartment could be the test of whether or not one was an evil spirit. "Then, both of you, please follow me. It's a journey that's not too long, but it's not too short either." Then, without saying anything more, Himura Hanabi directly turned around, carrying the lantern, and headed deeper into the Sea of Trees ……