Chapter 354 - Believers (II) (1/2)

Chapter 354 Believers (II)

“What’s special about s.h.i.+buya?”

Back to the hotel, Lin Luoran finds that Lin Qingxue and all logistics soldiers disappear. Even a deep sigh can’t sum up Lin Luoran’s helplessness.

Goldie stays in Mount Fuji and calls on the birds to search. The task of Lin Luoran and others is not easy than its.

“s.h.i.+buya is known as one of the three vice capitals of Togyo together with Ikebukuro and s.h.i.+njuku. It was set up in the 18th year of Meiji. The s.h.i.+nagawa Line was built to connect Akabane and s.h.i.+nagawa and then the station called s.h.i.+buya appeared. Actually, it only has about 300 years of history. There is nothing special about it. ”

Yuan Ye reads the information he found. Everyone is inevitably disappointed.

Mr. Lin is a reticent man but now he suddenly asks, “What about places near s.h.i.+buya?”

Near s.h.i.+buya? This is also a good idea. The structure of geographical administrative divisions may sometimes change. Yuan Ye soon finds the details he wants in the database.

“Well, in the Edo period, there was a Komaba (pony ranch) near s.h.i.+buya. It’s a place for generals to hunt falcons with a field of about 160,000 plateaus. In the second year of Kyōhō, that is to say in 1716, Tokugawa Yos.h.i.+mune designated it as a falcon hunting area. After several changes, the vicinity of Komaba had become a major military place. With the increase of soldiers, military facilities, and visitors, s.h.i.+buya Station developed gradually, which is the former s.h.i.+buya. ”

Lin Luoran gets the point immediately, “Wait, who designated this place as a falcon hunting area?”

“Tokugawa Yos.h.i.+mune…”

Lin Luoran arches an eyebrow. “A man named Tokugawa Ieyasu built an extension to the Hongu Sengen Taisha Shrine in Mount Fuji. Check if there is any relations.h.i.+p between the two people.”

Yuan Ye lowers his head and searches. He smiles gently, “Grandmaster, you are right. Tokugawa Ieyasu who expanded Mount Fuji is the first Daimyo (powerful feudal lords in pre-modern Nihon) of Tokugawa shogunate (the last feudal Nihonese military government). Tokugawa Yos.h.i.+mune who designated falcon hunting area in s.h.i.+buya is the eighth Daimyo of Tokugawa shogunate. There are only about a hundred years between their ruling periods. The latter is the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu!”Read latest chapters at l istnovel

Lin Luoran stands up, “I think that is the point. Tokugawa Ieyasu expanded the Sengen Grand Shrine and Tokugawa Yos.h.i.+mune designated falcon hunting area. After more than 300 years, many young people here are missing and all clues point to Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha Shrine. I don’t think coincidence is enough to clearly explain such a situation. ”

Li Xi’er’s eyes light up, “We have been to the Sengen Grand Shrine but found nothing. What if now we find the falcon hunting area…?”

Yuan Ye also smiles, “The falcon hunting area has changed for several times. It then became a place for military training. Now it is the Komaba Park of s.h.i.+buya.”

Wen Guanjing snaps his fingers, “Let’s go right away?”

Lin Luoran nods. Everyone is a little excited. The surface of a conspiracy that leaves everyone clueless may be scratched. It relates to the safety of people they care about. They really don’t want to wait even for one more second.

…

“Officer, it’s a dead end!” A Special Forces guy whispers holding the communicator.

Lin Qingxue and other soldiers walk along the remaining traces for more than twenty minutes. They move very quickly. The unpaved mountain roads are hard to climb for ordinary people but are no obstacles to them who experienced training in the jungle. They have already walked a long way.

The steaming crater of Mount Fuji is ahead. As a dormant active volcano, its smell of sulfur is very strong.

Mount Fuji’s crater is not the highest point of the mountain range. The highest part is a place called “the Sword Edge”. It is tens of meters higher than Mount Fuji’s crater. The mark of human activity disappears under the Sword Edge.

In this season, the snow on the top of the mountain has almost melted so there is stagnant water everywhere. In addition to geothermal heat, it’s stuffy and damp here.

“Search around carefully.” Lin Qingxue orders.

“Yes!”

Members of Special Forces use the special function of the communicator to search around the crater. Only two minutes later, a Special Forces guy discovers something.

“Officer, look!”

This time, the virtual screen not only displays some numbers and a.n.a.lysis, but also shows a few footprints which head for the crater and then disappear suddenly.

“After a.n.a.lysis, these footprints belong to two different people. They are both generally more than 1.75 meters tall and similar in terms of weight, about 65 kilograms. These two people left here about half an hour ago.”

Did they just disappear at the crater half an hour ago? Lin Qingxue ponders. Two people come to the crater in the middle of the night… Committing suicide together and throwing themselves off the crater is impossible. They are tall and thin… Are they the two missing young cultivators of the Lin family?

Lin Qingxue only takes a few seconds to think about it and she decides to go down the crater herself.

They are a logistics unit this time so they have plenty of ropes. But these Special Forces guys object to the plan one after another.

“Officer, let us go down!”

“Officer, I, He Fei, claim to work on this task!”

“Officer…”