"It can only be endured and endured, or leave."
Hearing this, Seiji frowned.
"It took me a long time to get here, and I can't leave until I find my target." He said, "How much time is left?"
"I can't say for sure... If the speed of the collapse is maintained at the current level, you may be able to survive until you completely collapse here, but if the speed of the collapse accelerates, you may not last long."
"What will happen if this place completely collapses?"
"It's going to be what it should be."
"What should it look like?"
"I don't even know."
"How this place was formed, you don't know, do you?"
"Yes."
What a useless imperial soul! Seiji wanted to complain like that, but he just thought about it.
To be reasonable, Huang Quan is already very powerful, without her, he might not be able to get here at all.
Now it is equivalent to adding a countdown, the longer he stays here, the more he will be affected by the debuff, until this place collapses or he can't hold on. To complete the mission, you have to find the target before the countdown ends.
But how to find it
Seiji thought for a while, but couldn't think of a good solution.
You can only look around the town first.
In fact, as long as he has enough patience, he can read the file again and again to see the whole town, which is the so-called carpet search.
After using spells to hide himself, Seiji walked out of the alley, walked along the street, and looked around.
…
Kotaro hears scary rumors while selling charcoal.
The carpenter Shibata's family died.
Adults and children are all dead and eaten by ghosts!
In addition to them, several farm families living outside the town were eaten by ghosts... At least dozens of people have died! !
Hearing this kind of news, Kotaro felt scared, thinking of his family members, he became even more worried.
It is said that ghosts will not appear during the day, but he is still a little terrified, afraid that he will see something bad when he returns home.
The charcoal sold well, and it didn't take long for it to be sold out, much earlier than expected, Kotaro hurried home.
He walked more and more hurriedly, and then he almost ran all the way back home.
Mother, younger sister, younger brother... The faces of relatives circled in his mind, and Kotaro panted heavily through the foggy mountain road, and finally saw his own house.
The door is actually open!
In this weather, normal people would not open their doors.
Seeing this scene, the charcoal seller suddenly felt uneasy.
Close to the door, smell a strange smell.
"Mom..." Before he finished speaking, he was stunned by the scene inside.
Bloody colors, torn clothes, figures lying on the ground...
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh——" the painful cry resounded through the mountains.
Mother and brother... died.
Kotaro was unwilling to accept this fact, but the cruel scene was in front of him. He shouted and cried in great pain, but he couldn't change it, it was irreparable.
Only the sister is still alive.
She bled profusely and was very weak and dying.
As the older brother, although Kotaro hadn't fully accepted the reality, his body started to move on his own. He hurriedly bandaged his sister's wound, and then ran down the mountain with her on his back!
Go to the pharmacist for treatment, and make sure to save your sister's life.
"Don't die, Fuyumi, don't die..."
Kotaro kept calling his sister's name, tears streaming down his face.
Running quickly on the snowy and foggy mountain road with a person on his back, his feet slipped without accident and fell heavily.
"Fuyumi..." Kotaro didn't even have the time to cry out in pain, he got up to check on his sister's condition.
But saw the latter raised his head, opened his eyes, and the inside was scarlet!
"Aww!!"
The girl let out an inhuman roar, and the canine teeth protruded from her mouth, becoming long and sharp, like a wild beast!
"Winter... beauty?" Kotaro was stunned.
He saw his sister put her limbs on the ground, her palms grew bigger, her nails grew longer, and became like claws, and then she rushed over! !
"Oh!"
Kotaro was instinctively terrified, and his body reacted automatically to avoid it, but was hit hard by Fuyumi and overwhelmed to the ground.
Seeing the opponent's fangs approaching him, the charcoal seller had a premonition of death.
"Don't... Fuyumi... don't..." He desperately resisted, and the strength he had cultivated through years of hard work played a role, pushing the girl away.
"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-" pierced his brother's body with sharp claws.
"Ahh—Fuyumi—" Kotaro was in so much pain, he pushed his sister away with all his strength with both hands, and then kicked her away with all his strength!
But Fuyumi rushed over again immediately.
The charcoal seller was almost exhausted. Looking at his sister's ghostly face, he couldn't think, only pain, sorrow and despair.
The moment when he saw his younger sister for the first time flashed through his mind. The day she was just born was also in such a snowy day. The little baby girl was held in the arms of her mother, and her father was next to him and said gently that you will be an elder brother from today, and you have to take care of her. good sister...
Dad... I'm sorry...
Kotaro closed his eyes.
The next moment, there was a sound of a touch, and he who was waiting for death suddenly felt light on his body.
Open your eyes and see a samurai-sama!
Wearing white haori, black culottes, holding a long knife, with long hair tied into a ponytail, his face is so handsome that it is difficult to distinguish gender.
This is the second time Kotaro has seen such a handsome person in his life.
This handsome samurai was slowly drawing his sword out of its sheath, and where his cold gaze was directed, was a girl who had fallen a few meters away.
"Aww!!!" Fuyumi yelled, got up and charged fiercely.
The handsome samurai's figure flashed, and he stepped at high speed and turned around to the girl's side and rear. The long knife was unsheathed at the same time and stabbed her in the back, nailing her to the ground hard!
Fuyumi screamed in pain and frantically waved her claws.
The handsome samurai's eyes were indifferent, and he was about to move the long knife with both hands to execute her.
"Wait... wait!!!" Kotaro shouted after witnessing this scene.
"Don't... my lord... please don't kill her... she is my sister..." the charcoal seller knelt on the ground and begged with tears, "my only family member who survived... only her... mother... brother... are all dead... please You don't..."
He was incoherent, just begging desperately, hoping that the samurai would let his sister live.
The handsome samurai turned to look at him.
"She has become a ghost, there is no way to save her."
"No... no... there is salvation... there must be salvation... I will not let her eat people... I will watch her, stop her from eating people, and then find a way to save her..." Kotaro tried his best to move and was not very dexterous tongue said.
Whether there is really a way, whether it can be done, and how to keep his sister who has turned into a monster, he didn't even think about it, he didn't think about it at all... At this moment, there is only one thing he understands: if he doesn't convince this warrior, his sister will die!
Don't want Fuyumi to die, even if she has become a ghost.
"Please... Please..." The humble charcoal seller cried to the noble and powerful samurai, begging on the ground.
The ghost girl who was nailed to the ground was still struggling.
The handsome samurai looked away from the ghost girl and looked at her brother.
"Don't leave life and death to others." He said in a low voice, "If you want to stop me from killing her, kill me."
(end of this chapter)