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Chapter 127 Wild Temple
Qin Wenyu followed Nobuyuki Ishida and asked, "Are you going to the village entrance?"
Nobuyuki Ishida didn't look back: "Yes, besides those who dream about female ghosts, there are also people like you who strayed into dreams."
Qin Wenyu nodded thoughtfully, and asked again: "How big is this dream, can I look around?"
This time, Nobuyuki Ishida stopped and looked back at him: "It's best not to, although the daytime is not the time for female ghosts, but this is a dream, and dreams... have no logic."
"Then I will take it as your promise, and I will return to that room before dark."
Qin Wenyu turned and left as if he hadn't heard Nobuyuki Ishida's warning.
Nobuyuki Ishida kept staring at his back until he saw Qin Wenyu and Hanyu Wenxin converging.
After a while, Hanyu Wenxin and Kaoru Hojo, whose heart was completely occupied by uneasiness, also followed him to another direction.
"He's still staring at us, there really is something wrong with this man."
Qin Wenyu said as he walked, as if he could feel Nobuyuki Ishida's gaze.
"What did you ask him just now?"
Hanyu Wenxin asked.
"It's nothing," Qin Wenyu said casually, "I just feel that although he answers every question, he still seems to be hiding something."
"Well, he hasn't said what's in A Fubo's body," Hanyu Wenxin also said, "According to what he said before, he was the only one in the village during the day, so what left the village and controlled A Fubo?"
"Yes, this is also one of the doubts, he can't justify himself." Qin Wenyu nodded.
Kaoru Hojo glanced left and right, stared at Qin Wenyu and asked, "Are there any other doubts?"
Qin Wenyu glanced at her: "Of course, have you ever thought that if this is a dream, are we real bodies, or consciousnesses that have passed through?"
"If it's consciousness, where is our body? Did consciousness separate from the body when we entered Log Village backwards?"
"If it is a body, how does the physical body that exists in the material world enter an illusory dream space and coexist with consciousness?"
Qin Wenyu's series of questions made Kaoru Hojo dizzy.
"Look, you can't even find the most basic doubts. What are you doing here? Adding chaos?"
Qin Wenyu spoke mercilessly because he really didn't know her.
Kaoru Hojo's face turned red and white, and he wanted to refute something but couldn't say anything.
It was Hanyu Wenxin, a good old man, who smoothed things over.
"Forget it, it's over, let's talk about your plan."
He looked at Qin Wenyu.
When Qin Wenyu came over just now, he said that he had some ideas to verify.
Seeing Hanyu Wenxin ask at this time, Qin Wenyu was about to speak, but saw Kaoru Hojo staring at him.
Qin Wenyu gave her a temporary evasive wink, and he didn't know if she didn't understand or didn't want to move. In short, Kaoru Hojo didn't respond.
He simply made a microphone with both hands, put it close to Hanyu Wenxin's ear, and asked in a low voice: "Are all the ghosts in the banquet unable to communicate and have no feelings?"
It turned out that he wanted to ask about the festival, no wonder he avoided Kaoru Hojo in such a sneaky way.
Hanyu Wenxin nodded, leaned into Qin Wenyu's ear, and said, "Yes, there is an iron rule in the sacrificial banquet—all ghosts are just the purest malice condensed."
Hojo Kaoru felt a little aggrieved.
What do you have to talk about behind your back?
Even if I'm not as smart as you, even if I'm just an ordinary person... I don't need to do this to me...
Qin Wenyu on the other side frowned, and this time he didn't lean into his ear to speak, but said directly: "But last time, a ghost suspected to be his sister appeared in Yuichi Yagyu's body, and she rescued her at the last moment." They, what's going on here?"
Hanyu Wenxin recalled that incident, and he said incomprehensively: "It's the first time I've seen such a thing. If I have to say that she has no feelings... The last move is really unexplainable..."
Do ghosts have feelings and can they communicate?
Although there was no answer from Hanyu Wenxin, Qin Wenyu had his own guesses.
At least for the time being, it can be considered that the ghosts in the sacrificial banquet are purely malicious without feelings and cannot communicate, but maybe the ghosts outside the sacrificial banquet may have sporadic self-awareness?
Seeing Qin Wenyu rubbing her chin while walking into the village while thinking, Hanyu Wenxin reminded Kaoru Hojo, who seemed to be in a daze, to follow.
He came to Qin Wenyu's side and asked, "However, why do you ask that?"
Qin Wenyu shook his head and said in a low voice, "I'm still thinking, I just feel something is wrong. If the thing attached to A Fubo is a ghost, why didn't it kill A Fubo?"
"It doesn't have the restriction of sacrificial feasts, it can be possessed by human performances and the like."
"It just occupied A Fubo's body, it didn't kill him, why?"
After listening to his doubts, Hanyu Wenxin gave an explanation: "Even if there is no communication, only pure malicious ghosts will use tricks. If it catches a person, but does not kill him, there is only one possibility. ... it's luring more people who came to save him to kill him."
"It is indeed possible..." Qin Wenyu scratched his head. Although this explanation was logical, he still felt something was wrong.
While talking, the three came to a strange place.
"here is?"
Qin Wenyu looked up at the building in front of her.
"This is the Buddha's Hand Temple!" Kaoru Hojo, who had been keeping his head down and followed silently, suddenly said: "The wild temple during the Warring States Period was later occupied by a group of soldiers and bandits. After the local lord sent troops to destroy them, the temple was abandoned. It was only renovated in modern times and used as a tourist attraction.”
"Is that the temple? But isn't it that the Buddha's Hand Temple is deep in the mountains and forests? Why is it in the village?" Qin Wenyu said suspiciously.
"During the Warring States Period, the Buddha's Hand Temple was indeed located in the mountains and forests. However, as time passed, the log village was expanded again and again. Gradually... the Buddha's Hand Temple, which was not too far away, was incorporated into the village." Kaoru Hojo explained.
"Is that so..."
Qin Wenyu observed the nearby scenery. The scenery of the Buddha's Hand Temple is very ordinary. Except for the Buddhist hall and a few old houses, there is nothing to see at all.
The temple is covered with tiny pebbles, which is a dry landscape.
There is no water feature in dry landscapes, and the "water" is usually represented by sand and stone, while the "mountain" is usually represented by stones. Sometimes textures are drawn on the surface of the sand to express the flow of water.
But this Buddha's Hand Temple is obviously the former.
Qin Wenyu walked into the temple, squatted down, looked carefully, and said, "Look, maybe this is the reason for the mutation in Yuanmu Village."