The target keeps hopping from treetop to treetop like Tarzan.
Hema was originally worried that he would not be able to display the strength of the entry in the woods, but after jumping a few trees, he realized that there was no need to worry.
He held the wooden knife in his mouth, just like Zoro in One Piece, using his free hands and feet to leap between the treetops.
He gradually drew closer to the guy.
Now he can clearly see the details of the man's back.
Messy long white hair, looks like Inuyasha.
Of course, it cannot be concluded that the person chasing the horse with the horse must be a monster based on white hair alone, and may be an albino patient.
Now Hema can only see by the moonlight. Whether the white hair of the guy in front is as white as snow, or the grayish color of an albino patient, he can't tell the difference.
Whatever it is, you'll know what's going on when you catch it.
The distance was getting closer and closer, the other party looked back at the eye and the horse, and then accelerated the speed of jumping between the treetops.
However, the distance is still shortening. Sure enough, this kind of "parkour" Jack Chen is very strong. Maybe only those big men in Assassin's Creed can match him.
Suddenly, the opponent suddenly turned 90 degrees.
He Ma naturally kept up, but after tens of seconds, the target led He Ma out of the forest and galloped across the fields.
After entering the flat ground without obstacles, the speed of the horse and horse has increased significantly.
But the speed of the enemies has also been significantly increased! He and the horse did not speed up as much as the other party, so the speed at which the two approached decreased instead!
Although the approach speed has decreased, the distance is still shortening!
The other looked back again, and then he decided—
Run like a beast on all fours!
The distance between the two immediately began to widen.
"Damn it!" He Ma scolded, "It's not fair to have two feet more than me! You don't talk about martial arts!"
The wooden knife in He Ma's hand, without the scabbard, would not be able to use his only long-range attack move. He picked up a few stones and threw them out.
The action of picking up stones actually slowed down the running speed and further increased the distance.
At this moment, the two passed a hut standing on the side of a country road, the house was lit, and a bicycle was placed at the door.
This car has no lock at all. It may be difficult to change the lock in the countryside, and the folks in the big hometown know each other, so the lock is broken and I am too lazy to continue to install it.
No matter what, he and the horse slammed on the brakes, turned back to the door of the hut, picked up the bicycle and stepped on it.
—If you can run on four legs, can you outrun two wheels
He and his horse galloped down the country road at lightning speed, and the distance to the target quickly narrowed.
The other party may have heard the voice, and when he turned his head to meet Kazuma's eyes, at that moment Hema always felt that he saw the surprised expression on the other party's face.
The next moment, the other party turned and rushed into the paddy field beside the dirt road.
He Ma also slammed the front of the car and rushed to the paddy field.
Naturally, bicycles cannot get off the paddy fields, but they can run on the ridges!
He Ma also saw that the other party wanted to enter the woods again and force himself to give up his bicycle.
After he threw his bicycle and followed the woods and ran for a certain distance, the other party came out of the woods and ran on the flat ground, so he had nothing to do.
"You have such a beautiful idea!"
He Ma redoubled his efforts to step on the pedals, intending to intercept each other on the last ridge before entering the forest!
He did it!
But the other jumped, leaping like a real beast.
Kazuma raised his head and looked at the target passing by, and swung the wooden knife in his hand.
The wooden knife hit the thigh, directly destroying the opponent's air posture, causing it to overturn directly in the field when it landed, rolling several times.
But when he rolled the last lap, he stood up and looked at Kazuma before turning his head and running towards the woods.
He got off the bicycle with the horse, put the bicycle on his shoulders and started to run.
Damn, I have chased this far, no matter what I have to persist until my physical strength is exhausted!
Carrying bicycles on horse shoulders rushed across the last paddy field in front of the forest.
After rushing into the forest, the bicycle on his shoulder caused Kazuma more trouble than he imagined.
The biggest trouble is that you have to carry the cart with one hand with the horse, which can no longer be used.
As a result, he couldn't climb the tree, and couldn't jump and parkour among the treetops like before. This time he could only run on the ground in the woods.
And this forest is a natural forest, the ground is uneven and full of intertwined rhizomes, and the horse and I were almost tripped several times.
He Ma felt that his physical strength was draining rapidly, and he might not be able to catch up for long.
So he decided to put all his eggs in one basket.
He throws the bike at the target like a projectile!
Although the accuracy is not very good, but this time the "projectile" is big, which can make up for the lack of accuracy!
However, the kinetic energy provided by horse throwing is almost constant. After all, the maximum output of the arm muscles and the possible working distance are fixed.
When the kinetic energy is constant, the greater the mass of the object, the lower the speed, simple common sense of physics.
The speed at which the bicycle was thrown was much lower than what He Ma expected, which caused a problem with his predicted position, and he was still lonely.
"Damn it!" He Ma yelled, and threw the wooden knife. This time the wooden knife hit the target, but it was useless.
He chased after him to pick up the wooden knife that fell on the ground, and continued to chase the enemy regardless of his bicycle.
The enemy looked back again, and after realizing that Kazuma was no longer carrying a bicycle, he immediately turned again—obviously he was going out of the forest.
There is nothing he can do with the horse, but he has chased him to this point, so he can only continue to chase with one heart.
The other party came out of the woods and started running on the flat ground with hands and feet again like a beast.
He and the horse also left the woods, this time there were no lights around, and there was not even a street light on the country road on the other side.
He couldn't expect any other means of transportation to pop up on the side of the road that could be used immediately. He Ma could only watch helplessly as each other got farther and farther away, and the silhouette of his figure became smaller and smaller.
Jack Chen, Jack Chen, you really can only display one-tenth of your strength without props and terrain!
Finally, He Ma saw a street light, which was the only street light at the intersection where two rural roads intersected.
He stopped within the light range of the street lamp, panting heavily.
The target stopped far away, resumed his standing posture and turned to look at Hema.
He Ma took off the wooden knife in his mouth and held it in his hand, pointed at the other party and cursed: "You son of a bitch, don't run away if you have the ability, and have a good fight with me!"
As soon as the voice fell, the other party turned and left.
"Fuck it." He Ma cursed.
Then he began to seriously think about two things:
The first thing is, what the hell is the other party
He was very close to the horse just now, and he was sure that the other party didn't have an entry.
Powerful humans generally have entries.
The other party has such non-human mobility and has no entry, so it should be the same as Tamamo, a monster that survived to modern times.
According to Tamamo, all the big monsters that can survive to modern times should be big monsters. In theory, Tamamo should know all the big monsters.
What the hell is going on with this guy
I thought about it with Ma for a long time, but I couldn't figure out why.
So he turned his attention to the second thing: where the fuck am I now
He was now standing under the only streetlight in sight, surrounded by darkness.
It seems impossible to know where you are.
But there's a streetlight here, and a streetlight means there's a wire—
Hema searched briefly, and found that the pole of the power transmission line was not far from the street lamp.
Then he and Ma found that the two intersecting country roads had power transmission lines built along the roads.
He identified it, and found that the poles on the north-south rural road were obviously newer. This should be the power transmission line for the hot spring street—in order to ensure the power consumption for tourism development, the power transmission line must have been renovated.
The chase just now was generally running north, so he and the horse took steps and walked south along the north-south rural road.
About an hour later, He Ma ran into a search party with a flashlight.
"Is it Kiryu and Teacher Ma?" Someone asked loudly when the flashlight came on.
"I am!" Hema replied.
The flashlight was turned off immediately, and several uncles wearing the armbands of the Hot Spring Street Tourism Promotion Association came up to him: "Mr. Kiryu, are you okay? Have you caught up with the voyeur?"
He Ma shook his head.
At this time, he felt extremely thirsty, so he asked the group of people, "Water, is there any water?"
"Yes, yes!" One of the members of the promotion association immediately took out the mineral water from his backpack, unscrewed the bottle cap, and handed it to Hema.
At the same time as the horse was pouring water, another uncle from the promotion association shouted with something like a walkie-talkie: "I am Zuo Cang, and we have found Mr. Kiryu."
After drinking the water, He Ma just wanted to return the remaining half of the mineral water bottle to the original owner, but felt thirsty again.
He immediately remembered that Chi Xifeng said that on the day Watanabe-kun died, she was also very thirsty and drank water constantly.
Could it be that thirst is not caused by psychological factors
But He Ma did sweat a lot, and his thirst may be due to lack of water in his body. Drinking only half a bottle of mineral water is not enough.
He silently kept this in his mind, and then drank the remaining half bottle of mineral water.
"Do you want more?" The man who delivered the water took the empty bottle, and immediately took out an unopened bottle of mineral water and asked, "I see that you sweat a lot, and your bathrobe is completely soaked."
Only then did Kazuma remember that he was still wearing a hotel bathrobe, so he hurriedly looked down.
Sure enough, the pockets of the yukata had already come loose during the run, and now the whole yukata looked more like a horse's cape.
When He Ma was just chasing people, he was running in just a pair of underpants and a cape.
Yes, it is Superman!
No, Superman doesn't need to run, just fly.
Yes, it is Sparta!
He Ma was thinking about it, a van came from a distance and stopped in front of him, and it was Mikako who jumped out first.
"Hema!" Mikako yelled, "I didn't expect that I was the first to greet you! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~"
Qingliu pushed Mikako away and got out of the car: "Don't get in the way, you fat woman! How are you with the horse... Wow!"
Qingliu opened her mouth into an O-shape with the horse and said, "Why are you so surprised? Didn't you just have a swimsuit party? Have you seen the abs?"
Mikako: "This one is different from that one. Are you tired of seeing our swimsuits and horses? But you still feel 'wow' when you see underwear, right?"
This is true.
While talking, Yuzao also got out of the car, she walked up to Kazuma without saying anything, and sniffed something.
Mikako yelled: "Honami, come down quickly, you can eat eggs alone!"
Tamamo ignored Mikako, she moved closer, sniffing carefully like a dog.
He Ma asked, "It's a wolf, right?"
The figure Kazuma saw just now was too much like Inuyasha, and with the wolf howling he heard before, Kazuma came to such an inference.
Tamamo didn't speak, she stretched out her hand, gently pinched Kazuma's bathrobe, and picked up a strand of white hair that was almost invisible.
"Damn it, did you find it by smelling it?" Hema was so surprised that he almost said it out loud, but fortunately he suppressed his voice in the end.
Honami was walking this way with a face of curiosity, but when she saw that she was talking to Ma in such a low voice, she stopped directly and stopped Mikako who was also coming this way.
Tamamo carefully observed the hair.
"It's human hair," she whispered.
"Human? How is that possible? That guy is running like a beast with his hands on the ground." He Ma also responded in a low voice.
"The same goes for humans raised by wild beasts."
He Ma frowned: "Are you serious? Now 2... 1981."
It's so dangerous that I almost said "now in the 21st century".
"Yeah, maybe this is the last generation of humans raised by wild beasts." Yuzao said softly, and then hummed directly, "The buffalo herds leave the grassland without a trace..."
He Ma: "It knows that there are humans coming?"
Mikako: "What the hell? Suddenly singing Canadian folk songs?"
Qingliu looked at her in surprise: "You actually know this song?"
"How about my English department? Our oral English teacher likes the ethnic groups in English-speaking areas and sings folk songs to us."
Kazuma glanced at Mikako, but didn't join the conversation over there. He looked back at Tamamo and whispered, "Come to my room later."
"Will it disturb you and Qingliu?" Yuzao smiled.
"You know it all? No, she's too young."
"Yeah, only the ribs."
"I'm talking about age! Anyway, you come here, I always feel that our matter... huh? It seems that apart from this wild and mysterious character, there is nothing extra to ask for?"
"That's right, I think it's better to ask Grandma Noda tomorrow to see if I can get some new information." Yuzao said.
Kazuma nodded: "The other thing is to question the Divine Lord and see what he said to Watanabe-kun."
"Then, take a good rest tonight. But I think you should take a bath again. Look at your bathrobe, which is full of salt stains after sweat dries."
The Japanese have always had a mysterious tradition of sweating after taking a bath, and the ping-pong table outside the bathhouse is set up for this purpose.
But it is clear that the sweating of Hema has exceeded the range that the Japanese can bear.
By the way, He Ma, as a Chinese, naturally tends to wash off all the sweat and put himself under the blanket.
Especially now, He Ma could smell sweat when he lowered his head, and he would definitely feel uncomfortable lying on the bed without taking a shower.
"Let's go, we're going back." He Ma said and walked to the van first.
Honami: "Are you done talking?"
He Ma nodded: "Yeah."
"So Eggy will be sleeping in your room tonight?"
"No, no." He Ma shook his head.
"Hareu must be here!" Mikako yelled.
"I won't be here! I just lost sleep to chat! But now that I know this dog can be chased and beaten by humans, I can sleep with peace of mind! He will come to see me and beat him to death!"
"Hey, it turns out that Qingliu is afraid of what He Ma just chased after."
"I'm not afraid!"
Mikako hugged Qingliu and was about to rub her cheek: "Qingliu is so cute!"
"Fuck you! Fat woman!" Qingliu put her hands on Mikako's head, preventing her from rubbing against her.
Looking at this scene, Hema suddenly wanted to change places with Qingliu and enjoy the fat woman's hug.
**
The next day, after breakfast with Ma, Danzi and Qingliu, they ran to the hot spring street to find Grandma Noda, only to be told that Grandma Noda had gone to the town early in the morning to meet her old sisters.
She was obviously an old lady who needed to push a wheelchair, but she was quite active.
There is no way, and the horse and his party go to the shrine.
After climbing up the long stone steps, Yuzao looked like he was about to melt from exhaustion: "I've had enough, these stone steps are so long."
Qingliu looked at Yuzao with her hands on her hips: "Are you also the senior sister of the Kiryu Dojo?"
"Actually, you can think of me as the club manager of the dojo." Yuzao said.
"Is that so, after that I can order you to wipe your sweat with water and a towel after I finish my practice?" Qingliu said with her hands on her hips.
He Ma Xin thought "I advise you not to", but he didn't say it, mainly because he really wanted to see Yuzao bullying Qingliu.
At this time, Hiroko, a part-time priestess holding a broom, came behind Kazuma and said, "Mr. Kiryu, Kamito-sama has been waiting for you since morning."
He Ma raised his eyebrows: "Start in the morning?"
"Yeah, usually at this time he has already gone into the mountains to collect herbs, but today he has no intention of leaving at all."
He Ma nodded: "Okay, I'll go there now."
After that, he walked to the agency office.
**
The priest is waiting with Ma in the office of the society.
It is said to be an office, but in fact there is no desk or sofa for receiving guests. It is just a room of six and a half stacks, with a short table and a few cushions.
After all, it is a shrine and cannot be too westernized.
God Lord Ota is sitting on the largest cushion, reading a book.
The sliding door was completely open, so He Ma was not polite, knocked on the door directly, and came in and sat down by himself.
"You are here." The priest put down the book, raised his eyes to look at Hema, then picked up the teapot and tea set that were already on the table, and poured tea for Hema.
He Ma: "Since the Divine Lord is waiting for us here, that means, you know what I'm going to ask, right?"
"I just came to ask what I said to Watanabe-kun that day." Ota put down the teapot, looked at Kazuma, "Did you see clearly what you were chasing yesterday?"
"A man with white hair." He Ma replied in the affirmative.
"That's not a person in the strict sense." The Almighty said, "It may be hard for you to believe what I'm going to say next, after all, modern society is a society where the light of science replaces the grace of God... Mystery also exists in science. Underneath the progress of the continuous fading..."
"Tell me, believe it or not, let me judge." He Ma replied.
The divine master took a deep breath: "Listen, what you chased yesterday should be the heir of the mountain god, a human child adopted by the mountain god."
At this time, Yuzao said, "I've never heard of a mountain god near here. It shouldn't be long before this legend was born, right?"
The divine master looked at Yuzao with astonishment.