Chapter 65.3 (1/2)

Sure enough, in the next moment, the dark-haired Miko spoke, “I said it before, I am the Miko of the Kisaragi Shrine, Kisaragi.”

Her voice was very cold, like the cold moonlight, “I am not here to clean up zombies. These things are not zombies, they’re wraiths formed from the grudges of the dead.”

“The wraiths formed from the grudges of the dead?” Xiao Tangqiu was stunned. The truth was far from what he had imagined. He thought that the zombie outbreak was the reproduction of fragments of events that really existed at a certain point in time, but those “zombies” were not zombies at all?

Kisaragi nodded and said, “A few years ago, a rare subway accident occurred here. At that time, the subway was traveling from the previous platform to this platform. Due to staff errors, two accidental collisions of the subway occurred…”

“There were countless deaths and injuries in that accident. The passengers died with hatred, their grievances gathered, and eventually formed spirits. So once it reaches the time when the accident happened, a ghost subway would appear here, constantly reproducing the scene from that year.”

Xiao Tangqiu instantly recalled the scene when he just entered this instance. He was sitting on the ghost subway at that time and saw the horror of those passengers who had suddenly turned burned and injured from their normal appearance…

It turned out that the scene he saw was the recurrence of the subway accident that year?

Kisaragi continued, “The grudges of the wraiths are unremitting, and it is easy to cause accidents. As the Miko of the Kisaragi Shrine, I naturally want to curb their grudges and send them to the afterlife… But the grudges from those who died in the accidents is too strong. If the grievances can’t be dispelled all at once before dawn, it will re-consolidate.”

“So it’s like this!” Tang Mianmian suddenly realized, “No wonder you said yesterday that you failed! Because last night we didn’t have time to kill all the zombies!”

Kisaragi spoke lightly, “If I can’t eliminate all the grievances before dawn, it will be in vain. Now that I have finally succeeded in absolving them… The matter here is temporarily over.”

Xiao Tangqiu heard something wrong in her words, “The matter here is temporarily over? Is there something else going on elsewhere?”

Kisaragi gave Xiao Tangqiu a cold look and didn’t speak.

Xiao Tangqiu realized that there was something else to do to trigger the plot, so he looked at Xue Junli.

Xue Junli nodded and changed the way of asking, “Can we follow you? Maybe we can help.”

Kisaragi began to ask, “Are you an exorcist from outside?”

Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly, “From outside?”

Tang Mianmian rubbed his chin, “Exorcist?”

Kisaragi glanced at Xiao Tangqiu and said lightly, “This is Hundred Ghosts Village, and it’s been many years since exorcists have come from outside.”

“Exorcist… This title sounds kind of cool! That’s right! We are the exorcists from outside!” Tang Mianmian proactively claimed this title.

Xiao Tangqiu, “…It’s obviously very .”

After hearing Tang Mianmian’s words, Kisaragi breathed a sigh of relief, and she nodded, “Since you are exorcists from outside, then please come with me.”

Xiao Tangqiu asked, “Where are we going?”

Kisaragi didn’t answer, only turning around and left.

They looked at each other for a moment and could only immediately follow up.

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly said, “&#k2026;I feel like we might have forgotten something.”

Tang Mianmian did not respond for a while, “Ah? Forgot what?”

Xiao Tangqiu thought for a while, and finally remembered what they forgot, “…Where’s that Lu Renjia?”

Tang Mianmian’s mouth twitched, “It seems that he is still on the ghost subway. It is likely that… he met a terrible end.”

Xiao Tangqiu silently mourned for Lu Renjia for a few seconds, praying that he could transmigrate into YY novels next time and embrace beauties, or transmigrate into fantasy novels to conquer the world, or maybe transmigrate to a cultivation novel to counterattack and upgrade himself!

They followed Kisaragi and soon left the long-abandoned platform.

Xiao Tangqiu glanced back at the platform. Under the darkness of the night, the deserted platform looked extraordinarily spooky and strange. But he soon realized that what was spooky and strange was definitely not just the abandoned platform.

They passed through a weedy wasteland and came to the streets of the village.

This Hundred Ghosts Village, which has no relationship with Hundred Ghost Town, is particularly desolate. Xiao Tangqiu originally thought that the platform was desolate because it was abandoned, but even after leaving the platform, it was the same. The streets were empty and deserted, there was not a single pedestrian.

Under the darkness of the night, the streets of this village appeared extremely desolate. There were no leaves on the ground and the street lights were not on. The shops on both sides were locked with dark windows and doors. It seemed that these businesses had been closed for a long time.

Xiao Tangqiu raised his head and looked into the distance. There was no place where the lights were on. The whole town was shrouded in darkness, just like a ghost town… Although there was no wind, he still couldn’t stop a shiver.

However, Kisaragi, who was at the front of the group, was unimpressed, still walking forward on her own. Xiao Tangqiu hesitated but could not help but ask, “Kisaragi, isn’t this village a bit strange?”

Kisaragi continued forward only minding her own, not answering his question.

Xiao Tangqiu sighed. Was it because the conditions have yet to be met so the plot could not be triggered yet?

Kisaragi did not speak at all on the road, and the others clearly noticed something off about the village, becoming 120% vigilant, so no one talked along the way.

Xiao Tangqiu also watched their surroundings with vigilance. Kisaragi took them through one street after another, each just as desolate and deserted as before. All the shops were closed with darkened windows and doors, and even the residents they passed by were dark.

The whole village was silent.

At some point, a bridge appeared in front of them. Kisaragi crossed the bridge and walked towards the opposite side.