Chapter 45: Half

"How did you get in contact with Yayojin?" Silver Feather showed a suspicious look. Ever since Yizhen started having nightmares that were related to Yaitian, she felt that she and Yaitian had some sort of spiritual sensation. Chu Mizhen and Chu Maitian used to be a pair of twin residents of that apartment, and both of these siblings had quite a superb IQ, and at one point, they even both stepped into the tenth Blood Word mission, which was no less than Fang Han. However, during the tenth blood word, the sister and brother were entering a bizarre alien space. Within that alien space, in the end, the elder sister Chu Mizhen successfully returned to the apartment, while the younger brother Chu Maitian was left behind in that alien space. The two siblings shared the curse of the tenth blood word, and this curse also led to Mi Zhen and Mi Tian possessing a telepathic communication that surpasses that of ordinary people. The information that Silver Feather currently had was that although Chu Maitian was now dead, he had undoubtedly become an extremely powerful evil spirit. But despite this, the dead Yaitian still harbored good intentions towards his sister, Yazhen. Therefore, it was very likely that Mi Zhen's nightmare was a dream entrusted to her by her dead brother. "We ……" Dong Ning was a little hesitant for a moment, wondering if she should tell Silver Feather about her experience at that time. Seeing Dong Ning's hesitation, Silver Feather said, "If it has nothing to do with this Bloodletter mission, then you should not talk about it for now. Prioritize things related to this Bloodletter for now." Currently, both Dong Ning and Silver Feather believed that Dong Xie and Silver Night were still alive. As for Mo Yuan, he already had an idea when he was sure that Dong Ning was still alive. I'm afraid that the apartment dwellers intervening in blood characters that had nothing to do with them would actually be protected by the apartment to a certain extent. Otherwise, there was no way to explain that she could have survived until now. Previously, Mo Yuan himself and Dong Qi's precedent, it is also difficult to simply use "evil spirits do not care to kill unrelated residents" to explain. Even Mo Yuan remembers very clearly that he himself was pulled out of the screening room by the evil spirits during the premiere of Earthbound Spirit and still didn't die, a situation that would be hard to imagine for the average occupant. "The key lies in the so-called meat." Then, synthesizing the information obtained so far, Silver Feather analyzed, "It's certain that the Kitayama family must have been consuming this so-called meat for a long time. And this meat, perhaps, is the source of the ability to remove spirits." Dong Ning said with a grave expression, "At the very least, it's certain that that definitely won't be Wagyu beef. There is no doubt about that." Mo Yuan, on the other hand, was also pondering over all the intelligence information that he had integrated from this Bloodletter mission. What made him very shocked was that this blood word mission had actually intervened in a full three old apartment residents …… No, counting that Ninety Nine Green, it should be a full four people. This blood letter mission, it is obvious that the apartment intentionally let the new and old apartment residents produce contact. At this point, there was almost no longer any doubt. "I've already said that I don't know exactly what kind of meat that is." Of the three women Mo Yuan and the others converged on, besides Ke Yin Yu and Dong Ning, there was another person, Kitayama Jinghuang. Although there was some accent, she was nonetheless able to speak Chinese. However, the information she could provide was also quite limited. "Although I am considered a candidate for the next witch, the information I can know is very limited. The only thing I can say for sure is that they have always made me eat that kind of meat, since I was very young." "You said that something similar happened to you when you were a child." Mo Yuan inquired with a serious face, "Is it basically the same as this time?" "It was …… that time, and the reason why it happened was because of Aunt Yukie's death. At that time, my aunt wanted to take me out of Japan and go live abroad, she was tired of the shrine life. However, when we arrived at the airport, she died in a car accident." Dong Ning, on the other hand, added from the side, "As she said,…… those who have eaten meat should never die outside the shrine." At the time when Kitayama Jinghuang first said such words to Dong Ning, she also felt incredulous. "At that time, the Sea of Lost Trees had appeared in the same situation as this time." Kitayama Jinghuang continued, "At that time, we were completely sealed off inside, and it was strictly forbidden to go near the Guru Shrine. That time, many servants died within the shrine. It was also after that that I strictly requested to move away from the shrine to live." "Those who have eaten meat can't die outside the shrine …… or they will become evil spirits?" This was Mo Yuan's first reaction. "That's what I thought initially." Kitayama Jinghuang continued, "I asked many people, including Mrs. Garo. In the end, she told me that I was only half right." Half? "With this statement, there are two possibilities." Mo Yuan stretched out two fingers and said, "The first is that it doesn't mean that it didn't just simply turn into an evil spirit, but something more terrifying of some sort, and the second possibility is ……" "The second possibility is that what caused the Sea of Lost Trees to mutate, as well as the death of a large number of servants within the shrine, is not just dead evil spirits. There's also something inside the Guru Shrine." The second sentence was spoken by Qin Ziyuan. "That's what you're trying to say, isn't it? Mo Yuan?" "Pretty much ……," Mo Yuan looked at Beishan Jinghuang, sizing her up with a suspicious look, and said, "Is that all you know?" Beishan Jinghuang smiled bitterly and said, "It's all come to this, is there any point for me to lie again?" There was definitely something hidden inside the Gushu Bird Pavilion. The creation of the meat must have something to do with it. Those who ate the meat would trigger a mutation once they died in the place outside the shrine. "Then, the key lies in ……," Ke Yin Yu finally made a concluding statement, "How the first mutation ended up being resolved back then, that will also be the life path of this Bloodletter!" As soon as the word "life path" came out, everyone also showed a hint of exhilaration. "Then, Himura Kara, or your maternal grandfather, Kitayama Makinsin, must know the truth, right?" Mo Yuan also agreed with Yin Yu's statement, since the first mutation back then had been resolved, it was possible that it would be resolved this time as well. It was at this time that Dong Ning uttered a rather crucial question. "Then, the creation of the second mutation, without a doubt, means that there are again people who have eaten meat and died outside the shrine." Everyone's faces turned a little ugly. "I always feel that something is not right." Mo Yuan gazed in thought, quickly filtering through every key piece of information, "Your maternal grandfather, deliberately arranging for people in your family to consume this kind of meat was not just limited to witches and their heirs, was it?" "That is correct." "Then the purpose of consuming this meat is not to improve the ability to remove spirits." Mo Yuan said that and looked around. At this moment, there were no abnormalities in the corridor, and only the sound of rain outside could be heard from time to time. For the time being, this place was still very peaceful. Mo Yuan inquired in a very cautious tone, "Is there a causal relationship between eating meat, and removing spirits?" "I'm not sure," Kitayama Jinghuang had thought about this herself, "but no one told me the truth, and my brother is just as ignorant of these hidden secrets of the family. My mother could have become a witch, but she preferred to marry far away in China rather than remain in this shrine." "After eating meat, those who die outside will cause a mutation in this gushikan. If that's the case, it's really unusual that your grandfather actually agreed to you living in downtown Tokyo after Kitayama Yukie's death. Moreover, why didn't your mother pick you up and take you to China?" Kitayama Keiho's complexion showed a forlorn expression. "The only time in my mother's life that she defied my grandfather was her marriage. And that defiance seemed to have exhausted all of her courage, I don't know if my mother was motivated by guilt or fear, but in the end, she listened to my maternal grandfather's arrangement in its entirety when it came to matters related to me. As for my maternal grandfather, why he agreed that I would no longer live within the shrine, I also found it strange, and to this day I don't understand why." Several other people looked at Kitayama Jinghuang, judging whether she had actually spoken the truth, or if the truth was mixed with falsehood. Everyone had their own different thoughts and inferences. "It is certain that all secrets originated from the Gushu Bird Hall. And at that time, Kitayama Yukie passed away, and Kitayama Kyoho, you were the most important witch heir. Under such circumstances, you were actually let loose by your maternal grandfather to live outside the shrine, this is not normal by any stretch of the imagination." Mo Yuan subconsciously looked back again at this time, confirming that there was nothing behind him before he turned back and said, "Unless …… you at that time, you were indeed not able to live inside the shrine." "Why?" Kitayama Jinghuang heard these words and thought carefully …… When the mutation that occurred inside the shrine was resolved, her maternal grandfather immediately sent her outside the shrine. "I don't know." Mo Yuan shook his head, "But there must have been some sort of reason that caused you to not be able to live inside the shrine during that time!" Most likely, it had something to do with that other half of Kitayama Jinghuang that Himura Kara had said she hadn't guessed!