Chapter 709 – Demon Shrine
The knight pulled the locator device out of his pocket and glanced around, his eyes finally landing on the side pillar of the torii, where a palm-sized pixelated wind signal transmitter was silently attached to it, the indicator flickering with a dim light.
The knight removed the signaling transmitter, a puzzled frown filling his brow.
”What’s wrong?” Wu Xiangnan walked over to his side, saw the device in his palm, and asked, “Is this the ‘Paratrooper’s’ signal transmitting device?”
”That’s right ……”
The knight spoke with some hesitation, “But since the signal transmitter has been placed, it’s only logical that the ‘paratroopers’ would be waiting here for us to rendezvous ……”
”But there’s no one in this neighborhood.” Wu Xiangnan continued, crouching down and carefully observing the green stone slabs under his feet, “And there are no traces of fighting, of chasing away …… Did he leave on his own?”
”It shouldn’t be, the ‘paratrooper’ couldn’t have left at such a critical time, if we didn’t have him leading the way, if we wanted to figure out the form of the ‘human circle’, it would take a lot of time and energy, and there is also the risk of exposing the risk, it’s impossible for him to just leave us behind.”
”You mean …… something happened to the ‘paratrooper’?”
The knight didn’t say anything, he gazed quietly at the signal transmitting equipment in his hand for an unknown amount of time, and looked up at the verdant road ahead.
”Let’s look around here first and see if there are any other clues.”
The three of them followed this lapis lazuli path, straight ahead, the dark gray walls seemed endless, the further they went, the deeper the grayness of the walls became, and the temperature was rapidly decreasing.
This bizarre change simply could not escape the perception of the three people of Calan, Wu Xiangnan stopped his steps, he frowned at the surrounding walls, “Something is not right here ……”
Calan raised his head and sniffed in the air, unconsciously gripping the black box in his hand.
”It’s the scent of ‘Mystery’.” Caran said with certainty, “It’s strong, and there’s more than one of them, but the …… flavor doesn’t seem to be quite the same as the usual ‘Mysterious’?”
In these two years of drifting life, the number of ‘Mysteries’ that Calan had fought had accumulated to astronomical figures, and even with just a wisp of odor permeating the air, she was able to keenly sense the existence of the ‘Mysteries’, their general location, and even the strength of their strength.
”It’s not right, huh?” The puzzled look in the knight’s eyes deepened, “The ‘Circle of Man’ was built by the gods, how could there be a ‘mysterious’ presence? These things simply can’t enter the ‘Circle of Man’. ……
Could it be that this is still not the ‘Circle of Man’?”
After hesitating for a moment, the knight stretched out his hand and held it in the air, a snow-white wave rolled between his palms, and his brows furrowed.
”The Forbidden Ruins can be used normally, is this really not the ‘Circle of Man’?” He pondered for a moment and thought of a certain possibility, “I see, we are still in the ‘gap’.”
”Still in the ‘gap’?” Garland asked in confusion, “Didn’t we just go through the ‘gap’?”
”The size of the gap varies from one ‘manosphere’ to the next… Generally speaking, the larger the size of a ‘manosphere’, the larger the ‘gap’ is likely to be… If this space where we are now is really a gap in Japan’s ‘human circle’ then …… then the size of this ‘human circle’ should be in a very terrifying magnitude! ”
The knight continued seriously, “So far, the largest ‘manosphere’ we have seen is the Egyptian Sphinx, which held nearly ten million people in captivity, and judging from the size of this ‘gap’, its ‘manosphere’ size, it might be bigger than Egypt.
If that’s the case, then this ‘human circle’ we are in may be the largest and most heartless ‘human circle’ in the world at present.”
Hearing these words, both Calan and Wu Xiangnan fell into silence.
Calan couldn’t help but worry.
Such a dangerous place …… Seven Nights wouldn’t have anything happen to them, right?
Jia Lan’s hand holding the black box became tighter, a color of determination flashed in her eyes as she quickly walked forward along the verdant stone road, her dark blue Han robe dancing in the wind, the red rope tying her black hair, swaying gently with her footsteps.
Feeling the change in Jia Lan s temperament, Wu Xiangnan and the knight exchanged glances, both seeing bewilderment in each other s eyes.
What s wrong with this girl ……?
Ignoring the gradually decreasing temperature around her, as well as the gloomy aura spreading out, Jia Lan directly walked to the end of this long green stone slab path, the dark gray wall came to an abrupt end, and what appeared in front of her eyes was an expansive shrine site.
On top of this site, situated one after another dark stone statues, most of these stone statues are strange, there is a long-haired woman with two mouths, there is a short and ugly child with a green lotus leaf, there is a treacherous teenager with a horn on his head, and there is a delicate young girl with light blue hair ……
The bodies of these stone statues were full of cracks and moss, staggered east to west on top of the ruins, their expressions were stiff and bizarre, and their movements were very uncoordinated, and these stone statues placed together in front of them gave people some inexplicable shivers.
”Stone statues?” The knight followed behind Caran and walked to this site, looking around and up, licking his lips as if he had already pressed down on the instinct to blow up shrines engraved in the bones of the Upper Evil Society, “Is it the gods enshrined in this shrine?”
”Nope.” Wu Xiangnan walked over to one of the juvenile stone statues and scrutinized it for a while before his expression suddenly changed, “These are not statues of gods …… These are statues of demons.”
He stood up, his face gloomy and incomparable, “From the appearance, this stone statue is very much like the Zashiki child in the Japanese demon legend, the young girl with long light blue hair next to her should be the Snow Maiden, and the child in the back should be the River Child ……
This shrine, what is enshrined is not a Japanese god at all, but a Japanese demon.”
”A shrine dedicated to demons?” The knight was greatly puzzled, “How could such a thing exist? Who made these stone statues?”
”Not who made them.”
Standing in front of the statue of the snow maiden, Caran, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke, “The ‘mysterious’ aura I just smelled originated from here, and they’re not stone statues …… they’re Japanese natives that were petrified and trapped in this place ‘Mystery’!
They …… are alive.”
As the Vigilante believed, “Mysteries”, the vast majority of them came from legends and wild tales from all over the world, and these stone statues in front of them were figurations of native Japanese legends.
”Alive?”
Hearing these words, Wu Xiangnan and the knight’s faces changed at the same time.
Things didn’t seem to be the same as what they had imagined.
Here was a gap leading to the “human circle”, but a shrine dedicated to demons was built, and all the stone statues of demons in it were alive……. This matter itself was extremely bizarre, even the knight who had experienced a lot in the mists began to be a bit Puzzled.
What exactly is this …… place?