There are few opportunities to relax, with smoke and white mist floating into the air. I leaned against the slightly cold stones, the sky was not raining heavily, the hot springs were warm, and there were not many guests in the inn. In front of him floated on the water a wooden tray with a flask on it. I heard Xiao Dong introducing some of the history and customs of Japanese hot springs to Luo Qiong.

Open-air hot springs are rare in Japan, and this is the first time I've been in such a place. The breeze and the cold rain gently fell on my face, and there was a subtle sense of calm.

The night doesn't seem to be so scary, even if it's deep and can't be seen through, but it can make people feel surprisingly peaceful.

"Haha, this hot spring is quite comfortable to soak, by the way, I saw a few Japanese girls walking to the next room before, isn't it very close to us?" Luo Qiong asked with a wicked smile.

Xiao Dong smiled and said, "It's on the other side, not close." ”

"Oh......" The kid was obviously a little disappointed, scratched his head and said, "But I'm really a little hungry, Brother Shan, are you hungry?" ”

"You go out to eat first, I'll soak it for a while, and I'll go out to find you later." I waved my hand, Luo Qiong nodded and walked out with Xiao Dong.

I was the only one left in the pool, as the temperature rose and the water surface bubbled. I closed my eyes, and the sleepiness hit me and I felt like I wanted to fall asleep. I leaned against the stone wall, closed my eyes and prepared to take a nap. But it didn't take long for the sleepiness to grow stronger, so much so that in the end I didn't even want to go out, didn't want to leave, in this peaceful and warm pool.

However, the warm feeling did not last long, and suddenly the cold began to emerge from the soles of my feet, and it drilled into my body slightly. At first, I didn't care, but then the chill grew, and when I opened my eyes, I saw some pure white liquid in the center of the hot spring pool, and I reached out and gently brushed it, and grabbed a handful of ice chips in my hand. Sensing that something was wrong, I hurriedly stepped back, supported a handful of stone pools with my arms, and then jumped out of the pool, shaking my body uncontrollably. The cold wind woke me up completely, and I stared into the pool, only to see that there were more and more ice chips in the pool, and at the same time, the cold was getting stronger and stronger. In the end, even the entire pool was frozen, and my face was gloomy, because the hot spring was the effect of geothermal heat, and it was impossible to freeze the hot spring unless the geothermal heat disappeared. Now that the hot springs are frozen, there is only one possibility, and there must be a cat in this pool.

I frowned, now naked was really cold, my palm flipped, a slap down, the flames came out of my hand, and then I pressed down, and the flames immediately fell into the pool, but as soon as I touched those ice chips, they immediately extinguished. At the same time, the water in the pond was completely frozen, and the cold air began to spread out of the surrounding pool, and it looked like it was about to spread completely.

"Demons? Or is there some spell being cast here? My brows furrowed deeply, and when I was guessing in my heart, a blue shadow suddenly popped out of the frozen pool, which was extremely fast, straight to my heart, if it was replaced by the past, I would definitely not be able to dodge, but fortunately, I have encountered a lot of sneak attacks in the past half a year, and the reaction is not a little faster than in the past. Before the blue shadow came into view, my body had already reacted by itself, jumping to the side, the blue shadow shot at the stone beside me, drilling a hole in the stone, I waved my hand, the golden light broke through the air, hit the center of the pool with a blow, and made a big hole in the middle of the pool, and then shouted coldly: "Come out." ”

A white light shot out of the hole, and then a figure appeared in front of me, slowly reflecting my eyes. It was a woman, but she was dressed in white, and her hair was long enough to cover her face. When I first went to Japan, there was no movie about Midnight Bells, so I didn't have any impression of a woman with this image. Of course, the woman I saw was not a female ghost, and I could tell at a glance whether it was a ghost or not.

The woman stood on the ice, barefoot, her feet were also ice blue, and she was not afraid of the cold air, her hair was blown in the wind to reveal a pair of ice blue eyes.

"Demon?" I don't have any concept of Japanese yokai, I just make judgments based on my own intuition.

She looked at me with resentment in her eyes, pain and hatred in her eyes. Then he raised his hand in front of his mouth and blew on me, and the breath from his mouth blew like a cold wind, spreading around me. The chill grew stronger, and I felt a chill chill surround me.

"Carving insect skills!" I snorted coldly, grabbed my fingers, and the four earthen walls rose from the ground to block the cold on the perimeter, and at the same time the flames ignited the four walls, forming a terrible flame barrier.

"What else do you have, even if you use it, after I take you in a while, I won't necessarily give you a chance to speak." I sneered.

The woman on the other side looked at me, and saw that the cold air could not penetrate the four earthen walls, but she didn't make the next move, just stared at me, and after a while, her body slowly sank, and she disappeared into the hot spring. I saw that she was trying to escape, and was about to rush out when suddenly I heard someone calling me. My whole body was excited, I woke up, and when I looked back, I saw Xiao Dong looking at me with a puzzled expression. The hot spring was steaming, but the chill I had just felt was long gone, and the hot spring didn't freeze, it felt like it was just a dream I had.

"What's wrong?" I asked curiously.

"You fell asleep in the hot spring, this will lose a lot of water, Luo Qiong and I have been waiting for you for a long time, I'll come and see if you haven't come out yet, come out quickly." He said with a smile.

I nodded and said, "You go out first, I'll change my clothes." ”

"Okay, don't fall asleep again." After Xiao Dong went out, I climbed out of the hot spring and looked around. There was no one, there was no sign of cold covering the ground, not even a trace of ice chips were seen, the breeze was gusting, the light rain in the sky had stopped, and there was a faint natural fragrance wafting between the sky and the earth.

I closed my eyes, and after a while, I opened them and said, "It doesn't look like it's a dream......

I reached out and combed my hair, and felt a slightly cold touch on my fingertips, and pinched it a little harder, as if it had crushed a snowflake that had fallen on my head.

After changing my clothes and leaving the hot spring, I met Luo Qiong and Xiao Dong in the restaurant, and after sitting down and drinking a few drinks, I asked, "Xiao Dong, I don't know much about Japanese monsters and mythological history." Among your Japanese yokai, is there a kind of yokai that looks like a woman with long hair, white clothes, and a cold breath that freezes everything? ”

After hearing this, Xiao Dong immediately nodded and said, "Of course there is, you are talking about a very famous monster in Japan, called Snow Girl." ”

"Oh? Tell me about it. I motioned for him to continue.

"The concept of yokai in Japan is different from that of China, most of which are naturally transfigured, and there are some concepts of life evolution. It is the animal or plant that appears to have its own spiritual intelligence, and with the development of spiritual intelligence, it becomes very intelligent, begins to learn to cultivate, and finally reaches the same level as human beings through hundreds or even thousands of years of hard work. Although Xiao Dong's statement is not completely correct, it also points out the principle of Chinese monsters, "But Japan's monsters are different, Japan's monster system is actually born from our Chinese monster system, but it is not similar to our mainstream Chinese monster system, but absorbs some special monster systems." The theory of ghosts is derived from yokai, and most of the yokai in Japan are the product of human resentment, which is very strange, and Snow Girl is one of them. It is said that the original mythical origin of the Snow Maiden was a very beautiful woman who lived in the northern country, but was persecuted by bandits, her parents and lover were killed, and she was also raped and then killed by bandits on a snowy night. After that, the resentment turned into a monster dressed in white and full of cold. She wanders deep in the mountains and haunts in winter. Kill a single man and freeze it. ”

"Oh?" Xiao Dong's statement is very similar to the female monster I just saw in my dream.

In other words, Japanese yokai are directly changed, not cultivated. What about intelligence? I asked again.