Everything in front of me was so real. A witch passed by me and walked in one direction. I looked around and rubbed my eyes vigorously.
No matter how unbelievable I am, the reality is in front of me, and I have to believe it.
"Yuri-chan!"
The witch's cry led me over, I quickly got up from the ground and chased after it.
I saw that witch walked to another witch, and when I saw the face of that witch, I froze in place.
The girl's face overlapped with the girl's face in the yellowed photo.
She is Kurosawa Yuri!
I was taken aback and didn't know if I could be seen by these people, so I hid behind a pillar just in case.
It seems that I was really brought to Kurosawa Yuri's period by an unknown force.
At this moment I should be in the shrine at that time.
However, what gave me a headache was their conversation.
I don't speak Japanese. If Kurosawa Yuri wants to send me some information through this method, even if I see it, I won't be able to receive accurate information.
Because I don't understand!
This is embarrassing!
I stood behind the pillar and didn't care what happened, just listened first to see what they were talking about.
Just when I was still worried about the language barrier, the red jade bracelet on my hand lit up. Even though I still heard unfamiliar Japanese, when these conversations reached my brain, there seemed to be another voice, Helping me interpret.
"Yuri-chan, the priest is looking for you."
Kurosawa Yuri was kneeling in the room, folding her witch clothes with her hands. She slowly raised her head, and when she saw the person coming, she had a faint smile on her face, and two lovely dimples bloomed at the corners of her lips.
But before her smile fully bloomed, the words of the visitor made the smile on her face froze instantly.
"Maki-chan... what is the priest asking me for?"
An uneasy expression appeared on her face, while the witch who came to notify shook her head naively: "I don't know, you'd better go quickly, I think the priest's face is not very good, he should be looking for you urgently."
Yuri's face became even uglier, but under Maki's urging, she got up and left the room in a hurry.
The priest asked Yuri for something, and it seemed to be very late, and there must be no good things at night.
Just when I was about to follow Yuri away quietly, Maki at the door seemed to have spotted me, and looked at me, which shocked me!
When I noticed that she just glanced at me casually and then walked away like nothing had happened, I knew I couldn't be seen by them.
That's right, if you can see me, it means that my entity has traveled through history, which means that every move I make, any small behavior, will cause changes in history, and in the end it will be like a butterfly effect. The world is changed because of my change.
The rules absolutely do not allow me to act against the sky.
I watched Maki leave, but the pity in her dark eyes attracted me.
Sure enough, something went wrong.
Through a door, I clearly heard the conversation between the two inside the door.
"Yuri, the ceremony is about to start, how are you preparing?"
After that, there was a long silence. After a long time, Yuri suddenly cried out: "Master Priest, why me, why did you choose me..."
The sound of sobbing came, and I felt uncomfortable when I heard her crying.
"This is God's instruction. I called you here today to inform you that you have no room to refuse."
As soon as the priest's decisive words fell, there was the sound of the door being closed. Apparently, he left after saying this harsh word aggressively, leaving Kurosawa Yuri coldly in the room alone.
Suddenly, I heard hurried footsteps coming from the other end of the door, and hurried to the side, only to see the door was quickly opened, Yuri covered his face, and ran out of the room, crying while running.
It seems that this should be the reason why Kurosawa Yuri escaped.
She did not hesitate to travel long distances, away from her motherland and homeland, and came to neighboring countries, probably to avoid this disaster.
As for the "God's instruction" that the priest said, it is likely that Kurosawa Yuri will be used as a human pillar to perform a sacrificial ceremony at some kind of grand ceremony.
I think my reasoning and guessing must be correct!
It seems that now, as long as I follow Kurosawa Yuri closely, everything that happened in Riyue Mountain will be revealed.
I trotted behind Yuri, and when I knew that these people couldn't see me, I became a lot more courageous.
Yuri finally cried and ran to a forest behind the shrine. It was already dark, only a few fires along the road slightly illuminated the entrance of the forest, and she was huddled in a tree in the shadows down, hugging his knees and weeping.
I know her ending, and I even more know the tragic ending of those girls who are pillars. Her crying is full of despair and depression, so I can't help but want to go forward to comfort her.
Just as I was slowly approaching her step by step, a mother-in-law who came out from behind the shrine interrupted my movements.
The mother-in-law was wearing cloth clothes, carrying a lantern, moving her legs that were not very bright, and ran out anxiously, looking around for something.
"Yuri-chan! Yuri-chan!"
With her hoarse voice, she anxiously called Kurosawa Yuri's name, but Yuri, who was indulging in grief, did not reply to her.
After a while, she found Kurosawa Yuri under the tree, walked over quickly, put the lantern aside, bent down and hugged her.
"Son, why are you here?"
Only then did Yuli raise her head, and seeing the mother-in-law in front of her, tears flowed down her eyes. She hugged the gray-haired mother-in-law tightly, and cried, "Mother-in-law, why is it me... woo Woohoo..."
There was a distressed expression on the mother-in-law's face, but more of it was helplessness and grief.
She hugged Yuri who was crying into tears, but she couldn't hold back herself, and shed two lines of tears.
"My child, this is all fate."
When I heard this, I frowned and felt very upset.
I really hate to use "fate" to talk about it. Apart from a kind of self-comfort and self-deception, it is of no help to those who are going to suffer.
It will only make them more desperate and make them give up on themselves.
"Son, do you want to know why?"
The mother-in-law spoke softly, and when Yuri Kurosawa heard her words, her crying became much quieter in an instant.
It seems that this old man knows something important!
I was excited and thought, maybe everything she said next was the secret of Riyue Mountain!
Yuri nodded, and the sadness in the mother-in-law's eyes became more intense.
"Your mother was also a human pillar at the beginning, and she was finally sacrificed to the gods here..."
Bang!
I seemed to hear a huge thunder strike directly on Kurosawa Yuri's head. She opened her eyes wide, and the tears on her face hadn't completely dried up, but she couldn't stand anymore, and her legs softened. With a plop, he knelt and sat on the ground, staring blankly ahead.
"Impossible! This is impossible! Mother-in-law! You told me that my mother died of illness! You said it!"
She hugged her head and shouted, her voice was so shrill and sharp that it hurt my eardrums.
Her jet-black hair fluttered in the air, swaying constantly, like a devil's claws in the night.
The mother-in-law immediately hugged her and told everything.
"I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you mother and daughter, I really tried my best... But now, not only did I fail to keep your mother, I even lost you and me."
She wiped her tears, recalled the past, and said slowly: "Before you were born, your mother was the most famous maiden in this shrine. The shrine is guarded, and the people in the mountains live a peaceful life."
"She has been committed to saving those priestesses who are used as human pillars, and because of her high status in the shrine, she has not been reduced to a sacrifice."
Yuri's crying gradually weakened, and her mother-in-law patted her back to comfort her.
"But, that summer, everything changed."
She let go of her hands, freeing Yuri from her embrace.
"Farmers in the mountains have failed to harvest any grains, and their houses have become extremely fragile due to the heavy rain in summer. A large number of houses have collapsed. What's even more strange is that all the buildings were damaged due to various reasons shortly after they were built."
"The mountain people have no rations for survival and no shelter for life, so they attribute all this to the gods and go to the shrine to pray for blessings."
I listened quietly, and carefully recorded every word and every sentence of her, and the voice in my head translated their conversation to me.
"However, even so, their lives have not improved in the slightest, but have become more difficult. Even after dedicating a pillar of life, the status quo has not changed."
Yuri immediately grabbed her mother-in-law's clothes, and said excitedly: "So, just because of this, you gave my mother away? Why! Let us witches take this responsibility?"
The mother-in-law talked about the emotion, wiped her tears with her hands, and said helplessly: "Your mother doesn't want to, but your mother loves this place, and she knows that someone must be a human pillar and sink into the lake behind the mountain." Here, give your strength."
She grabbed Yuri's shoulders with both hands, and said word by word: "You have to know that all the witches in Riyue Mountain have spiritual power, and your mother is the best of all witches, so she must do this. Otherwise, more innocent witches will be sacrificed in vain."
Yuri stared blankly at her mother-in-law, unable to say a word, she was so stupid.
"After your mother became a human pillar and dedicated herself, the phenomenon of the gods of Riyue Mountain disappeared. In the days that followed, the weather was good, the fields became richer, the food began to be sufficient, and the houses people built were stronger."
I sort of figured out the whole ins and outs. That is to say, if Kurosawa Yuri's mother has strong spiritual power, then her child must have inherited her physique.
I looked up and looked at the dark hills, feeling uneasy.
Now the lord priest wants Yuri to be a human pillar. It seems that the peaceful life maintained by Yuri's mother has been broken, and the haunting of the gods in their mouths has begun again.