The rain showed no signs of stopping. In the continuous drizzle, a red-robed ronin held a vermilion oil-paper umbrella, gazing into the distance.
The rain tried its best to wash away the faint plum blossom scent on him, but it was ultimately in vain.
That plum blossom scent always surrounded him, isolating all gloom and filth.
According to Gorou's wishes, he only needed to wait in the military camp. The rest could be left to the resistance members to handle.
But Bai Luo's main purpose for coming this time was to use the lingering resentment of Orobashi to activate a system quest, so he naturally wouldn't just sit obediently in his room.
Gorou couldn't dissuade him and had to personally accompany him to investigate.
Fortunately, the Shogunate had been focused on fighting a war of public opinion with them recently and had basically no intention of making a move. This gave Gorou enough time to accompany Bai Luo on his investigation.
"This is the Musoujin Gorge."
Standing in front of this long and magnificent rift valley, Gorou said in a low voice.
The Musoujin Gorge is a forbidden area on Yashiori Island.
This magnificent sight was not created by nature, but a spectacle created when the Raiden Shogun slew the giant serpent demon god. It was named after the Raiden Shogun's ultimate martial art, the [Musou no Hitotachi].
Just standing here and looking, it was hard to imagine how the Raiden Shogun had delivered this one slash.
Gorou rarely came here. Because looking at this Musoujin Gorge, he was afraid he would lose the courage to fight against the Shogunate.
For a general of an army, this was fatal.
Fortunately, that Raiden Shogun did not seem to have her sights on mortals like them, but only sent her subordinate, the Kujou Clan, to quell the rebellion.
Otherwise... Gorou wasn't sure how long their resistance could last under that Shogun's blade.
A day? Half a day?
Perhaps just a moment.
"The power of the Tatarigami in the Musoujin Gorge is the strongest on the entire Yashiori Island. Although the will and dreams of His Highness the Great God of Watatsumi were severed, his lingering resentment still continues to fester in this gorge. Not to mention ordinary people, even Vision holders cannot stay here for long."
Just as Gorou said, the Musoujin Gorge had almost become a forbidden zone for life.
Besides plants, only some madmen affected by the Tatarigami wandered inside.
After the ward suppressing the Tatarigami was destroyed, the power of the Tatarigami in the Musoujin Gorge became even stronger. The originally azure seawater that had poured in had turned into poisonous water that shimmered with a gloomy fluorescence.
Bai Luo looked at the poisonous water thoughtfully, took out a Sunsettia from his pocket, cut it open, and threw it down.
With a plop, the cut Sunsettia fell into the water.
At first, there was no reaction on the surface of the water, but a few seconds later, the water surface actually began to boil like boiling water.
"Splash—"
The place where Bai Luo had thrown the Sunsettia was like a drop of oil in water. The seawater, emitting a gloomy light, rushed to the sides, leaving behind a circle of azure seawater about one meter in diameter in the middle.
That one-meter area had actually become the only pure land in this Musoujin Gorge.
Bai Luo: "..."
Gorou was also a little dumbfounded when he saw this scene. He had just said that this place was a forbidden zone for life, but this Tatarigami was defeated by a small Sunsettia?
It's too useless, isn't it?
He also had a Sunsettia, which he had brought from the military camp in the morning.
He imitated Bai Luo, cut it open, and threw it into the poisonous water of the Musoujin Gorge.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
The Sunsettia entered the water, only splashing some water and ripples, but it did not create a piece of pure land like the one Bai Luo had thrown.
What was even stranger was that the poisonous water that had been splashed into the range of Bai Luo's Sunsettia seemed to be alive, rushing to the surroundings. The ones in the middle that felt they couldn't escape even directly evaporated on the spot.
But whether it was a voluntary evaporation or an evaporation caused by the influence of the Sunsettia was unknown.
"Ahem... I used some secret techniques."
Bai Luo casually retracted his hand and explained with some difficulty, but this explanation seemed pale and weak no matter how you looked at it.
Because he had really just cut a Sunsettia and then thrown it down.
"I see. As expected of Mr. Himura!"
But Gorou did not doubt Bai Luo's words.
Who was Bai Luo? He was the one who had once slain a god with his blade and was revered by the world with the title of Battousai.
The fact that he could change the power of the evil miasma with a single Sunsettia did not seem unacceptable.
Perhaps when he was cutting the Sunsettia, that so-called sword intent had already attached itself to the Sunsettia.
In conclusion, it was one sentence—Mr. Himura is truly a remarkable person.
"You wait here. I'll go down and take a look."
The fact that the Sunsettia could be immune to the Tatarigami did not mean that Bai Luo was also immune. He wanted to go down and test whether the Tatarigami had any effect on him.
"Understood. Please be careful, Mr. Himura."
Having witnessed the power of Bai Luo's Sunsettia, Gorou was no longer worried that the Tatarigami would affect him.
However, he still specially sent people to guard the various points of entry and exit to the Musoujin Gorge to facilitate the rescue of Bai Luo who had gone down.
After confirming that everything was in order, Bai Luo took a deep breath and entered the Musoujin Gorge.
In the early days, when the ward suppressing the Tatarigami had not been destroyed, although the Musoujin Gorge was also dangerous, it was not to the point where people couldn't go down.
So at that time, the people of the resistance had built a plank road and stairs to facilitate the collection of the specialty of the Musoujin Gorge, the so-called Naku Weed. Although some of these things were later destroyed by the madmen affected by the Tatarigami below, it did not affect Bai Luo.
"Creak—"
It seemed that even the wooden plank road had been affected by the Tatarigami. Standing on it, it would make creaking sounds from time to time. Fortunately, the craftsmanship of the resistance was not bad, and this thing did not collapse in the end.
"Zzzzt..."
As soon as he stood on the plank road, Bai Luo vaguely heard a strange sound. It sounded like...
Bai Luo: "..."
Isn't this the damn sound of a Geiger counter? Is it necessary to be so exaggerated?
The so-called Geiger counter is complicated to explain, but it can also be summed up in one sentence.
This thing is used to receive radiation signals. The stronger the radiation, the more frequent the sound of this thing.
When the Geiger counter clicks, your parents have raised you in vain. This saying is not a joke. If not for the fact that he felt he was not affected, Bai Luo would have definitely turned around and left.
It was too terrifying.
It was just unclear whether the sound of this so-called Geiger counter was the Tatarigami's own sound or from the system.
No matter which one it was, it was right to be careful.
After several minutes of effort, Bai Luo finally stepped on solid ground.
Unlike what he had imagined, there was also vegetation in this Musoujin Gorge, but these plants themselves looked wrong. Except for the Naku Weed that Bai Luo was very familiar with, the others were all flowers of unknown varieties.
These flowers emitted a faint, gloomy light, which was very different from the flowers in the Chinju Forest.
The flowers in the Chinju Forest gave people a dreamlike feeling, as if they were in a legendary fairy tale world.
But the gloomy light of the Musoujin Gorge gave people a dangerous feeling, as if just touching it would lead to eternal damnation.
The Geiger-counter-like sound was still ringing, but Bai Luo himself was not affected by the power of this so-called Tatarigami.
Not only was he unaffected, but he also felt better than ever.
In other words, the power of the evil miasma should not be able to affect him.
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