Soul Painter

After a month of military control.

Martial law in Kyoto is finally showing signs of relaxing.

The first is that the access of residents is no longer restricted, but passes are still checked.

Secondly, various commercial places are also gradually opened, including farmers' markets, restaurants and shrines, and entertainment gathering places have to wait for the next order.

But it is said that Ginza, Tokyo has become lively again, and reports of "the people of Dongying welcome the restoration of social order and stability" can already be seen on major TV stations in Dongying.

Under this premise, Gao Fan's pass card also came in handy.

This afternoon, after Wu Haoxue took away his pass from Gao Fan, he hurried out the door.

Gao Fan was originally on the small balcony, sketching the pedestrians on the street, watching Wu Haoxue go out, and to Wu Haoxue's instruction of "Don't go out at home", he agreed perfunctorily, and waited for the door to close, Gao Fan followed immediately.

Now, Gao Fan walks on the streets of Kyoto, and feels more deeply than on the balcony. The order in Kyoto, at least among the people, seems to have been fully restored. Even to celebrate the rare freedom after a month of military control, some people are celebrating in traditional costumes .

"This kid runs really fast..." Gao Fan was caught in the crowd and lost Wu Haoxue's shadow.

People flowed in one direction, and Gao Fan didn't know where they were going. He couldn't speak the language and couldn't ask. Since Wu Haoxue had disappeared, he just followed him for a stroll.

So Gao Fan followed and arrived at a shrine.

Buddhism is widely spread in Dongying, but it is not the local belief of Dongying. The local belief of Dongying residents is Shintoism, and the specific objects of worship are the emperor and various natural phenomena. The so-called eight million gods come from this.

Shrines are set up to enshrine these gods. Probably due to the large number of gods, there are generally no specific worship objects. Throwing some money and shaking the rope is considered to have made a wish to the gods.

The "flow direction" of the crowd is the shrine. The shrine is on the mountain. When passing the "torii gate" at the entrance, which is similar to the domestic torii, Gao Fan wanted to stop and take a closer look, but was pushed by the crowd and continued to move forward. Go, and then pass the torii in a few steps, and you can only see the back of the 'Torii'.

Where are they going?

Gao Fan was deeply puzzled. Although the people around him were whispering, Gao Fan couldn't understand a word. In this weird atmosphere, he was clearly in a human society, but he seemed to be in a foreign land.

Climbing up the steps in the direction of the shrine, the voices of the surrounding crowd became weaker and weaker. After walking up to hundreds of steps, halfway through, there was no sound. Everyone was silent, just bowed their heads and prayed and walked up silently.

The situation became more and more strange. Although they couldn't understand what they were talking about, Gao Fan still had some sense in his mind, so they stopped talking now, which made Gao Fan's heart shudder even more.

Although it is afternoon at this moment, the sun in December is strong, but the 100-year-old forest covers the sun like an umbrella. Walking on the road to the shrine makes Gao Fan feel a bit cold. Make him feel warm.

After walking the stone steps up the mountain, they came to the shrine, where the crowd was crowded. Gao Fan stood behind and could only see the spiers of a few halls. At this moment, someone finally spoke. Of course, Gao Fan still couldn't understand.

He lifted his toes and glanced at the source of the voice, and saw a witch in a white dress and a red dress, standing in front of everyone and talking, the voice was made by her, her voice was very gentle, and her appearance was also beautiful , the whole person seemed to be shining in the quiet and dark shrine.

Although he couldn't understand what the shrine maiden was saying, Gao Fan saw that after the maiden finished speaking, all the Dongying people who went up the mountain began to go to the maiden one by one to receive blessings.

It should be a blessing, right? They will lick the water in the witch's palm, and the water is taken from the pool next to the witch. After drinking, the people will put money into the money box next to the witch, so isn't this a huge profit? Use fake talismans to fool people and don't betray them anymore?

The flow of people was crowded forward, and they licked the water in the palm of the witch in an orderly manner. Everyone who drank it looked very satisfied, and it was very happy to throw money, all of which were ten thousand yuan bills. After drinking the water, it seemed The task of the shrine has been completed, turned around and went down the mountain.

Therefore, this water must not be a fun thing.

There might be pollution.

Gao Fan has seen the pollution of pro-fan before, it is powder-like, but this is the first time he has seen this kind of water-like pollution. Is it the leader of the demon army from the mainland of Japan? From the Prime Minister?

But it was too late to look back.

Now the team is moving forward in an orderly manner, and Gao Fan is already very close to the witch. If he turns around and walks away at this moment, the target will be too conspicuous. Looking at the silent and respectful atmosphere of the people around, it is possible to be knocked down and beaten on the spot of.

Just when Gao Fan was hesitating whether he should run away, there was a commotion in the front line.

Kyoto is an international city, so there are naturally foreigners living here. A few meters in front of Gao Fan, about seven or eight people away, there is a blond-haired foreigner and a small Japanese woman, who seems to be his wife or daughter-in-law. friend.

Waiting for his wife to drink water, the tall blond foreigner refused the matter. He said something in Japanese loudly, looking very angry, and Gao Fan could understand it when he switched to English again.

The foreigner said, 'What the hell is this! Are you crazy? Will it turn into a holy spirit if you drink it? What a joke! '

Seeing the foreign man's refusal, the witch girl got angry. She scowled and yelled something, which seemed to be a threat.

The Dongying woman who was with the foreign man immediately showed a very scared expression. She held the foreign man's hand and begged bitterly, but Gao Fan still didn't understand, but in the end, the foreign man still chose to lower his head and drink from the hand of the witch. What raw material is water.

Even if the foreign man bent down, he looked taller among the Dongpu people. The witch looked at his figure, and suddenly showed a strange smile. Immediately afterwards, the foreign man shot violently, as if he had been shot. Gotta bounce.

"Ahaaaa...!" He screamed, but it died down immediately.

Not shut up.

Instead of a mouth.

When Gao Fan saw the scene in front of him, his brain buzzed.

Even after experiencing so many unimaginable pollution incidents and mysterious experiences, what he saw still made his scalp tingle and his back feel cold.

He saw that the foreign man's mouth had grown flesh, as if another layer of skin had grown, and the foreign man lost his mouth and voice in an instant.

During this process, the foreign man pulled his mouth desperately, and pulled out a colloidal granulation-like thing, but this ball of 'pollution' was extremely viscous, and even if it was pulled into strips, it was stubbornly entrenched on the foreign man's face. Going down, even more terrifying pictures are still happening.

The foreign man's nose, his eyes, and his ears were all grown to death by this new layer of flesh, and even his hair was swallowed.

In less than a minute, the foreign man has turned into a bone frame wrapped in pure flesh skin, without any holes in his face, and his head is extremely smooth, like a human-shaped drum, bouncing on the ground, struggling, and then Suffocation, death.

Vomit... Gao Fan just felt sick for a while.

But the people around, those Dongying people, looked at this scene, but their eyes seemed to have light. They were overjoyed and grabbed the human-shaped leather drum with their hands, as if every time they touched it, they would feel happy.

The witch said something to the foreign man's companion, the Japanese female companion.

Although the face of this Dongying woman was sad, she was somewhat proud. She knelt there, gently stroking the foreign man who had completely lost his human form with her hands, humming some song.

Faced with this situation, Gao Fan only wanted to say: What the Fuck! ! !