"Excuse me, Guide-Sakamoto." Qin and Qingchong led him and Hinasaki Fukawa to the man at the foot of the mountain and thanked him.

By this time, the two had already left Kurosawa's antique coffee and temporarily settled in a family in the village.

"Where, that's what I'm supposed to do." Sakamoto waved his hand and said politely, "Do you think you still need me to do something, if not, I won't disturb the two of you to rest." ”

"No more. I'm sorry Mr. Sakamoto, so go back and rest early. Qin Heqing shook his head and said.

"Then, look at the ...... money," Sakamoto whispered with a little embarrassment.

"Oh, by the way, I haven't settled the balance yet. How much money to come? Qin Heqing was stunned, and then said with a puzzled face.

"Thirty thousand."

Qin Heqing didn't hesitate, nodded and turned around and entered the house, pretending to take out 30,000 yuan from his backpack and hand it to the other party.

The guide is the same thing as the intermediary, and it pays attention to ability and integrity, so as long as Sakamoto doesn't want to mix in this industry in the future, he will never dare to deceive himself in this kind of thing.

What's more, Hinasaki Fukayu is just a little absent-minded, but it's not that his IQ is not on the line, so he can ask everything afterwards and go back and let Sadako teach him a lesson......

For this kind of black work, it is completely difficult to kill a super evil spirit.

Even if she is now Ayukawa, this former excellent teacher.

Not to mention that it's only 30,000 yuan, even if you are deceived, you won't be able to hurt your bones, and there is really no need to calculate so much.

Then Sakamoto happily took the final payment, and Qin Heqing talked nonsense for a few more words, and then happily said goodbye and left, and took a commuter bus back to the city of Aomori.

At the same time, Qin and Qing also returned to the residence and saw Hinsaki Fukaha, who was a little absent.

"Are you okay?" Qin Heqing stood in front of her, looking down at Hinsaki Fukayudao, who was holding a photo of an old woman in his hand.

"I'm fine." Hinsaki Fukaha put away the photo and shook her head.

"You're sure." Qin Heqing raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Or do you want me to cry to you?" Hinsaki Fukaha looked up at him and asked rhetorically.

"Just because you can talk back to me means you really don't have a problem. Nacheng, you stay here and rest, I'll go out to find out the news. Qin Heqing nodded and smiled at Hinasaki Fukayu.

"I'll go with you, too." Hinasaki Fukaha got up and said when she heard this.

"Forget it, it's just to inquire about the rumors of the Rishang Mountain, and it's not a meticulous investigation, and I don't need you as a master to appear." After a pause, he added, "What's more, your physical strength is still so poor." So you'd better stay here and rest, lest you run out of energy to go up the mountain with me when I find out the news and get ready to act. ”

"Okay."

Then Qin Heqing didn't talk nonsense, leaving Ayukawa to take care of Shen Yu in the room, and he took Yue'er to move towards the house of the old man in the village mentioned in the mouth of the owner of the house.

As a local elder, I think I will know better than the local young people about the ancient legends and the origin of various secrets.

So it didn't take long for Qin Heqing to take the invisible Yue'er to the house of a long-lived old man in a corner of the village, and accompanied by the latter's descendants, he saw the old lady who was over eighty years old, but still deaf and confused - Mrs. Hanako Kawabe.

"Is there a legend about Mt. Hinata? That's a lot. ”

Then the old lady opened the conversation box and told Qin Heqing all kinds of legends and allusions that were true or false, rumors or real things, and let him gradually have a general understanding of the situation on the mountain.

For example, there is nothing special about the mountain itself, and there are not even a few wild legends such as the so-called mountain spirits, ghosts, and mountain gods, just a simple mountain.

So why did it evolve into what it is today?

In fact, this is also due to the belief that spreads in the villages around Mt. Hijo - the supernatural worship of water!

As the residents of the island country surrounded by the sea, they are born with awe and worship of the sea, so they instinctively have more than ordinary imagination in their perception of water-

That is to think that the water is connected to the Yellow Spring, which is the passage for the soul to return.

Therefore, under the influence of this, the residents around Mt. Hisami, who have maintained their primitive worship of water, have also given special significance to Mt. Hijo and the streams in the mountains.

For example, only the souls of those who die near or in the water can be saved.

For example, only a child who has been baptized by the water flowing from the mountain can live a long and healthy life, and will not be affected by the soul of the previous life, and become a true new person.

Therefore, some residents in the surrounding area and even further afield regard this place as the best place to learn about the world-

That is, the holy place of suicide!

A large number of people often dive into the mountains and end their lives by streams, lakes, or on land near water, in the hope that the spiritual water from the mountains will take them to hell and give them a chance to be reborn in the afterlife.

But it is also because of this belief and behavior that there is a strange change in the mountains of Rishang -

The boundary between yin and yang began to blur, and the water of the yellow spring, which is famous as the night spring, began to emerge, gradually infecting and changing the overall atmosphere of Rishang Mountain.

Until the night spring overflowing event called the Great Calamity occurred.

The inhabitants of the mountain, who confirmed that the water as a spirit body could indeed connect to the Yellow Spring and lead to the Night Spring, established a shrine on the mountain, and selected shrine maidens with excellent spiritual powers to enter the shrine in a special way, and held a ceremony to reseal the Night Spring.

“…… Therefore, those hidden girls did not actually disappear, but were chosen as successors by the spirits of the witches, and sealed as 'pillars' to protect us living people from being affected by the Night Spring and becoming the people of the Yellow Spring......"

……

"I'm sorry for hearing something inexplicable." In the evening, the daughter-in-law of the old lady Kawabe, who sent Qin Heqing out of the house, apologized apologetically.

"Inexplicable...... For me, it was the opposite, and those words gave me a clear idea of the situation in Hisakamiyama, so Mrs. Kawabe, you don't have to be like this, but thank you for not minding my presumptuous visit and interruption. Qin Heqing turned to look at the country lady, and the angry lady Kawabe chuckled lightly.

"Where, we should be you......"

In short, after some politeness, Qin Heqing left the old lady's house in Kawabe and returned to the private house where he was temporarily borrowed.

"I see, no wonder I always feel that the sun is very strange here, it turns out to be an enchantment. But what is the Night Spring? On the way back, Yue'er muttered a little confused.

And for the special words such as the witch and the big pillar, which obviously belong to the Shinto and Onmyoji systems, Yue'er understands it very clearly.

"Didn't the old lady of Kawabe say that it is the water of the Yellow Spring."

"If it's like what she said, the problems on the mountain that day will be a big problem." Yue'er rolled her eyes at him, and sighed, "The Yellow Spring is connected to the underworld, and it shouldn't have appeared in the present world, but now it has appeared...... You should understand what this means. ”

"You mean, the underworld?" Qin Heqing frowned.