Hidechiyo looked at someone strangely, and enthusiastically took several different photos from different angles of the Crow Tengu who had met a miserable end.

Although she couldn't understand what he was doing, she vaguely felt that this person had some bad taste. After all, it had been so long, so she naturally knew everything about him.

certainly--

This is just a small episode.

After the Crow Tengu attack, it seemed that the demons had fallen silent and were no longer as lively as before. I wonder if they had all been killed. The three of them continued walking along the mountain road, and the road ahead seemed more rugged and rough.

It's complicated, and probably no one has walked there for a long time, so the mountain trails have become desolate and silent.

Plants began to regain lost ground.

Everywhere becomes vibrant and green.

——It is no exaggeration to say that it is almost impossible to identify the traces of the road, and the group is completely trekking in the dense jungle.

And not far ahead, the vague outline of a village finally appeared.

It looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, the wood has completely rotted, and plants have grown all over the house, so you can only roughly see its former appearance and layout.

However, it can be seen that before being abandoned, the village itself had already suffered a baptism of disaster.

Because many houses and buildings obviously became like this after being turned into ruins, and gradually became like this due to the accumulation of abandonment over time. Even with deep greening, the growth of trees covered the houses, and the ivy vines covered the ruins.

After all, it is impossible to completely cover up the treatment he suffered in the past.

"...Is this also a village destroyed by war?"

Kikyo raised her eyebrows. She carefully sensed her surroundings, but was unable to read any useful information from the environment.

The disaster that this village suffered occurred too long ago. It did not happen recently, nor did it span a year or two. Under such circumstances, even if there was any residual information, it would have been known long ago.

Time has worn it clean.

"That's true, but it can also be said that... there is no way for blessings and misfortunes, they can only be brought about by oneself."

Gu Mo glanced around casually, his eyes penetrated many obstacles, and fixed on a dilapidated shrine on the other side of the village. Hearing the witch's whisper, he answered like this.

"Huh? How to say?!"

The witch immediately raised her eyebrows slightly, looked in his direction, and cast a questioning look.

"Actually, it's like this. This village has ended up like this. It should be regarded as the result of asking for a hammer. After all, they think good people should be pointed at guns..." Gu Mo explained with interest, he had a deep understanding of the plot.

The advantage of foresight in understanding can also be used to look back on past history and confirm what happened in the past.

Therefore, it is natural to understand what happened on this land.

Basically, there is no difference from the plot he learned at the beginning, at most it is more detailed in details.

Specifically——

This village was once the settlement of Otakemaru. Because this man was tall, powerful, and had two horns on his forehead, he was called a "rare man" in awe by the villagers at that time. He was respected and feared, and kept at a distance.

In fact, it may be the most ideal state of getting along.

Just because Otakemaru is very enthusiastic, he always does his part to help the villagers deal with many difficulties and troubles, which is a task that cannot be completed by manpower.

——Over time, he won the goodwill and respect of the villagers, making people no longer awe...

——In other words, the villagers began to think that all this was natural.

I can only say that habits are really terrible things. Stories about favors and feuds have been common since ancient times. After all, human nature is evil. People who remember bad things but not good ones are actually very common. They always help others.

It's easy for people to think that helping him is the right thing to do.

As a result, even if you help him a hundred times, he will not be grateful at all, but as long as you fail to help him once, he will probably hold a grudge.

Because he feels that others should help him, and he already takes it for granted.

Once others do not help him or do not do a good job, it means that he feels that his original interests have been damaged, and naturally he will not have a good look towards the person who has harmed his interests.

It can be said that the rift between the villagers and Otakemaru gradually accumulated because of this. After all, over time, even Otakemaru could not unconditionally fulfill all the villagers' demands. And if the demands were not met, the villagers

Feelings of dissatisfaction and even resentment towards this man gradually fermented and became a common phenomenon.

And when a thief came to rob the village and was directly killed by Otakemaru, the villagers showed no gratitude at all. Instead, they finally broke up with each other, and the murder of the thief became the real trigger of the conflict.

——Although thieves come to the village to rob and kill people, threatening their lives...

——On the other hand, Otakemaru is protecting the village, protecting their property and lives...

However, the villagers, who had long been dissatisfied and resentful towards Otake Maru, still seized this opportunity to use the topic to their advantage and preached the saying that "those who are not from our race must have different hearts"... After all, such unclear trash will be caught in future generations.

There are a lot of them, and it is true that we cannot expect the ignorant villagers of this period to have a high level of ideological awareness.

Maybe he simply thinks that honest people are easy to bully, and he believes that the other person is a good person, so he can point a gun at him.

It's just that the villagers probably didn't think about it, or they didn't think about it at all, that even honest people will always reach the limit of their patience.

"After being treated cruelly by people, Otakemaru finally couldn't bear it any more, and he slaughtered the entire village... Then the official sent a large army to hunt down the ghosts, but the story was slightly different from the stories recorded in later generations, and the details were quite different.

Lots of discrepancies.”

Gu Mo gave a brief introduction and summarized the whole story of the village's disaster.

Although it happened a long, long time ago, it can be regarded as asking for a hammer. Their demise was not because of others, but because they had a way to die. As long as they can't die, they will do it, then who will die if they don't die?

Death? Hard work paid off, they did succeed.

"I see……"

The miko couldn't help but sigh.

Such a tragedy really makes people feel sad, but there is nothing they can do about it, because she has seen a lot of similar things. Sometimes, let alone monsters or ghosts, even though she has power, she is very easy to talk to.

Strangers may also be secretly ostracized by the villagers.

Naturally, nothing like this has ever happened in Maple Village.

But when she was traveling and practicing, she had experienced similar situations in other villages, seen some similar examples, and suffered similar treatment.

Because when a person shows more ability, can do a lot of things, and the easier it is to talk...then others will easily place too many unnecessary or even unnecessary hopes on this person, hoping that the other person will be unconditional.

satisfy all your reasonable or unreasonable requirements.

When they decide that their demands must be met, the nature of the matter has completely changed.

But this tragedy could have been avoided.

"..."

The black-haired girl over there didn't express any opinions. She just turned her eyes seriously and thought about what Gu Mo said. She was not too unfamiliar with the matter of Dayue Maru. The former Guoxin layman caused it

The trouble is not small, and it is said that its essence is Otakemaru's evil thoughts.

She lowered her head and looked at the Chuye Yazhi Sword in her hand, and then looked at the land in front of her.

so--

This ghost-killing weapon was first forged in this place?

The reason why there is such a strange phenomenon now, with bursts of swords and buzzing sounds, is because the magic weapon has a spirit, and you want to come all the way back to your hometown to have a look? This... It's impossible no matter how you think about it, but this

The guy pretended to be mysterious again and said nothing.

Hidechiyo looked at the black-haired young man in white clothes over there, and felt that the other person must have some deep meaning. Maybe even talking about Suzuka Gozen and Otakemaru had some deep meaning.

It's probably hinting at something.

But in the past, he usually told himself directly about anything. Why did he want to be the Riddler this time? Is it better to tell him directly, or... he didn't need to tell himself clearly, because he would tell him immediately.

Will you know?

The black-haired girl was deep in thought. She tried waving the sword of Chuye Ya in her hand a few times, and then walked towards the village.

The source of resonance is not far ahead.

The witch glanced at Gu Mo, then turned around and followed her. The latter smiled slightly, but did not take any action. He glanced at the land calmly, the long history of the past reflected in his eyes, and his consciousness moved towards a single time.

The upstream time and space of the line are constantly going back.

With a historical span of hundreds or even nearly a thousand years, and the fact that he did not have the Time Stone in his hands, he simply relied on his ability to control the time domain to look back, even though he felt a little bit strenuous.

From this era, back to the early Heian period, the length of time spanned and the difficulty of this matter were already too much for his branch spirit to cope with.

But the problem is not big. Without the time stone, he has other help. As he thought, an illusory guardian spirit appeared, circling around him, like a planet orbiting a star. Look carefully.

That is the figure of Kurama Tengu with the attributes of time and space.

At the same time, on the other side of the earth, the moon is also slowly rotating.

The god-like calculation machine's power fluctuated slightly, and then it directly completed the calculation of an important process. The support of the clone body of the real machine god was as powerful as ever.

Gu Mo located the exact time point almost in the blink of an eye. He looked in the direction ahead. The moment he noticed that the power of time and space was blooming and releasing inexplicable weird fluctuations, he also directly initiated his own time travel.

As if being rubbed by an eraser, the outline faded and disappeared into the air.

…………

…

It's like walking through the long river of time, but going upstream instead of downstream.

The feeling of history and era roaring towards him, as if the whole world was coming towards him, made Gu Mo find a trace of the feeling he had when he was a mortal and riding a roller coaster for a long time.

The surrounding environment was changing rapidly, and only his eyesight could clearly see these blurry pictures. It was like thousands or tens of thousands of pictures flashed in one second. They overlapped and appeared to be transformed into a blur.

A chaotic scene, flashing with colorful black and colorful white...

Time and space were alternating, and eventually, like a speeding train entering a station, it slowly slowed down and finally stopped.
Chapter completed!