Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Yae Sakura was stunned, not expecting Li Mo to reply in such a way.

She gripped Sakura Blizzard tightly with her right hand, nodded slightly, and her long bangs covered her eyes.

"If Mo-kun insists, then I'll have to..."

Li Mo was originally prepared for battle, but in the next second, Yae Sakura sheathed Sakura Blizzard, looked left and right, and once again confirmed that no one was peeking nearby.

"Then I'll have to help Mo-kun hide this matter. Father hasn't woken up yet, and the villagers haven't come to worship the gods."

"I will help Mo-kun keep an eye on nearby visitors, so please leave this place quickly and go to a safe place."

Yae Sakura buffered, jumped onto the nearby cargo, and then onto the roof, directing Li Mo's path.

After a moment's hesitation, Li Mo turned back, knocked the two unconscious, and carried them, following Yae Sakura's directions.

Regarding where to hide people in the shrine, Yae Sakura definitely knew better than him.

Sure enough, a lush bamboo forest appeared not far ahead.

What was strange was that there was also a stream inside, but it was a clear, normal stream, not the brilliant, dazzling golden stream outside the cave.

But the style and appearance of the bamboo forest in the shrine were ninety percent similar to the bamboo forest outside.

The same species, the same height, the same growth state...

From the distance, the two were clearly dozens of kilometers apart.

Was there any relationship between the bamboo forest in the shrine and the bamboo forest outside Yae Village in the primeval forest? If not, then for what reason were the two so similar?

This question could not be answered for the time being, so Li Mo had to shelve it.

"I thought you would fight me," Li Mo threw little Chiyo's parents aside and turned to Yae Sakura.

He had felt a faint killing intent just now, and Li Mo didn't have much confidence in his heart.

It wasn't that he was afraid of Yae Sakura, but that he was afraid that the Sakura Blizzard in her hand would turn into Crimson-Dyed Sakura.

If he was cut, something bad would probably happen.

The ghosts on Crimson-Dyed Sakura were more than a hundred thousand. If there was a confrontation of rules, it wouldn't be as simple as a one-on-one.

Li Mo had no confidence. The Misfortune Ghost was at most just one ghost. Even if it was complete, it couldn't fight against hundreds of thousands of rules.

And the ghosts in Yae Village were very strange. The continuous failure of the Bizarre pistol made Li Mo wonder if their rules had been superimposed.

Otherwise, the phenomenon of suddenly recovering after being successfully suppressed could not be explained.

But even the superimposed rules could not withstand the slash of Crimson-Dyed Sakura. One could imagine how complete Crimson-Dyed Sakura was.

Yae Sakura glanced at the Sakura Blizzard she was holding and said in a low voice, "To be honest, I did have the idea of fighting Mo-kun just now."

"Why?" Li Mo asked.

Yae Sakura walked up to the unconscious parents of little Chiyo and held the scabbard over their heads.

"The appearance of demonic beasts will break the balance and make the village strange. They must be dealt with immediately, otherwise more people will become like them, bloodthirsty and primitive."

"As the miko of the shrine, my responsibility is to protect everyone, to protect Yae Village, on which everyone depends."

"So every time a demonic beast appears in the village, I must slay it without hesitation and then use it as a sacrifice for the festival."

Yae Sakura explained frankly.

"So when Mo-kun was about to stop me, I did have the impulse to fight Mo-kun."

"But... I believe in Mo-kun. Because you saved Rin, you are my benefactor. No matter for what reason, I will always owe you a debt of gratitude."

From her words, Li Mo understood Yae Sakura's logic of action, there was no problem.

The problem was where this statement came from.

"So that's how it is. But I have a question. Don't you think it's strange?"

"Why is it that the appearance of demonic beasts breaks the balance, and not that the balance was broken and then demonic beasts appeared?"

"The cause and effect are reversed."

Li Mo stated his own opinion.

Yae Sakura was stunned and shook her head, "I don't quite understand what Mo-kun means."

Li Mo added, "Let me put it in a simpler way. The appearance of demonic beasts will make the village strange, right? But is there a possibility that the village became strange and then demonic beasts appeared?"

"Just like Rin's illness, it's because she is sick that she becomes weak. The two have a direct causal relationship."

Yae Sakura was silent for a long time, carefully thinking about the meaning of Li Mo's words.

After a while, Yae Sakura asked, "Mo-kun means that the village has a problem, which attracted the demonic beasts? But that's not reasonable."

Attracted demonic beasts...

Li Mo finally understood why Yae Sakura didn't understand what he was saying, because she still didn't know that the so-called demonic beasts in front of her were actually outsiders living in Yae Village.

At this moment, Yae Sakura still thought that these demonic beasts came from outside the village.

"You think it's unreasonable because the demonic beasts are a factor that suddenly appeared, while Yae Village has been the same from the beginning, without any changes, so it can't be the root cause of the change."

"Then what if I tell you that these two so-called demonic beasts in your mouth are actually people from the village?"

Yae Sakura: "..."

Yae Sakura fell into a long silence. She squatted down and repeatedly observed the appearance of little Chiyo's parents.

Bloody fangs, thick fur...

Just like the beasts that drank blood in the primeval forest, they didn't look like humans at all.

"Mo-kun, in my opinion, they are demonic beasts. I can't feel any human characteristics."

Li Mo stepped forward and also learned from Yae Sakura to touch the other's body features.

The two were clearly touching the same place, but they had different sensory feedback.

"That's because you have also become strange. Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that my perception has a problem. But compared to the traditional concepts of the village, I believe in my own judgment more."

"It's hard for me to explain the essence of this."

"Just like Rin's illness, I can easily alleviate it, while everyone in the village can only watch her suffer."

"The key is, are you willing to believe me, or are you willing to believe your familiar family, friends, and yourself."

Li Mo stood up and said.

He didn't explain much, because all explanations were unverifiable for the listener.

A senior scholar explaining professional knowledge to a passerby, especially when proposing some unconventional points in the other's common sense cognition.

Just like when describing two people's ideas having no intersection, one would figuratively say that the two people are like two parallel lines. Indeed, most people have known since they were young that two parallel lines will not intersect.

So when Lobachevsky said: when two parallel lines are infinitely extended, they will intersect at infinity, that is, two parallel lines can intersect and the sum of the interior angles of a triangle may not be equal to 180 degrees, it attracted a lot of ridicule and sarcasm.

Questioning was only the most basic.

Because there was no proof of the prerequisite of an absolute plane, even if there was, it would be very difficult, at least in the eyes of the person concerned.

Words were always pale and powerless.

To improve efficiency, there was no need to explain too much to others. It was enough to let them make a choice.

"...I'm sorry, Mo-kun. It's difficult for me to accept this view. I will pretend I didn't see today's events. You only have half a day to observe these two demonic beasts. I will report the situation to Father tonight. But I won't mention your appearance."

Yae Sakura didn't dare to look at Li Mo.

Li Mo had just helped her cure Rin not long ago, but now she had to go against Li Mo's will. She felt an inexplicable guilt in her heart.

"I understand."

This kind of answer was also within Li Mo's expectations.

"Just watch. Maybe you'll change your mind in just half an hour."

Li Mo took out the prepared small knife, on which there was a faint fishy smell.

Washing with clean water could only wash away the bloodstains on it, but the smell of organ blood could not be completely eliminated.

The thermometer was taken out, and the temperature of various parts of little Chiyo's mother's body was measured back and forth.

The average temperature was frighteningly low, and the temperature of the heart was the lowest.

It was similar to Rin's situation, but also different.

Because they had turned into demonic beasts, but Rin hadn't. Why?

Was it because Yae Rin lived in the shrine? Or was it because of something else...

He wasn't sure. He would have a chance to figure it out later. The top priority now was to find a way to get little Chiyo's parents out of this state.

The method was simple.

Forcibly supplement their vitality from the outside world.

Li Mo first used the small knife to cut open little Chiyo's mother's stomach, then cut open the main artery in his own arm, letting the dark blood drip into her body.

Soon, the black blood began to flow in little Chiyo's mother's body. The color gradually became vivid, as if a very pure red agate had been ground into powder and poured into clean water to stir.

Her vitality quickly recovered. In Yae Sakura's astonished gaze, little Chiyo's mother slowly stood up, her eyes hazy, as if she had not yet regained consciousness.

"Mo, Mo-kun... is she Chiyo's mother?" Yae Sakura covered her mouth and looked at this scene in disbelief.

A huge demonic beast, its body gradually shrinking, finally turning into a woman in tattered clothes.

Without being surprised for too long, Yae Sakura wanted to care about Li Mo's injury. After all, she had seen with her own eyes that Li Mo had cut open his arm without mercy.

But when Yae Sakura cast her gaze on it, she found that the wound was rapidly healing.

Li Mo's skin became paler.

"There's still one more."

Li Mo used the same method again. Before the wound healed, he poured the blood into little Chiyo's father's, that is, the unfilial son Grandma Chiyo had mentioned, stomach.

Then two more hand chops, sending them into dreamland.

Witnessing all this, Yae Sakura was very confused. She couldn't understand why the demonic beasts could turn into living people after Li Mo poured his blood into them.

"You saw everything with your own eyes. Whether you believe it or not is your business."

"I just proposed my own opinion."

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be something in the village that is constantly sucking the vitality of the villagers. The absorption of vitality will not immediately be reflected in aging, physical decline, and other aspects, but in their actual lifespan."

"Once the vitality drops to a certain level, the living person will have a deformed change and become the monster in your eyes. When the vitality of a living person completely disappears, it is when they completely become a monster."

"This is what I said. It's not that the appearance of demonic beasts made the village strange, but that the village itself is strange, which led to the appearance of demonic beasts."

"If I'm not mistaken, are there fewer people in the village after every festival? And there won't be any demonic beasts for a short period of time, right?"

Li Mo held the omamori around his neck. It had already turned from white to black, which meant he had seen something others couldn't see, or that he had resisted the cognitive pollution of Yae Village.

This thing was more useful than he had imagined. Cognitive pollution was far more dangerous than a single ghost.

Yae Sakura thought for a few seconds and nodded affirmatively.

Before and after every festival, there would always be news that someone had not returned at night.

When Yae Rin could still move, the two of them had told each other that the village was very dangerous at night, and they should not stay outside.

They didn't understand why some people always broke the rules and died out of curiosity.

At this moment, Yae Sakura looked at the parents of Chiyo on the ground, and something she firmly believed in was destroyed.

"So the sacrifices used in the festival were never demonic beasts or animals, but everyone in the village..."

"Thank you, Mo-kun. I want to go back and tell Rin about this immediately!"

Li Mo thought to himself that Yae Sakura had quickly understood the truth from him, so her trust in him would be higher in the future.

She could be used by him to wield the cursed blade.

After all, from the current point of view, only Yae Sakura could use the cursed blade without a price. If it were him, it might be different.

With the characteristic of Crimson-Dyed Sakura being able to kill ghosts, the danger of this mission would be greatly reduced.

He hoped so.

"Mhm, then let's separate for now. I'll take little Chiyo's parents back. As for that thing that sucks vitality... I'll find a way to find it. Before that, you just act as usual."

"Okay!"

After saying goodbye, Yae Sakura ran back to the shrine in a hurry.

From her anxious expression, she should be going to remind Rin about this matter.

Li Mo placed the thermometer on his heart. It showed that it was close to zero degrees, which meant he had consumed too much vitality and was about to enter the physical state of three deaths.

Even though he had not overused his bizarre power in the state of two deaths.

"The pollution speed is too fast. If I don't hurry up, I'm afraid I will lose all opportunities for fault tolerance."

Four deaths was the limit. Now he was only one step away from three deaths, which meant that Li Mo only had one chance to restart.

As time went on, even this one and only restart would be absorbed by that thing.

At the same time, on the other side, Yae Sakura hurriedly ran back to the shrine. Just as she was about to reach Rin's room, Yae Guji suddenly appeared and blocked her way.

Seeing her father, Yae Sakura suddenly felt a strange feeling for some reason.

But her long-standing habit still made Yae Sakura bow politely and say respectfully, "Father, good morning."

Yae Guji stared at Yae Sakura, squinting his eyes, and looked at the beads of sweat dripping from her temples.

"You seem to be in a hurry. Sakura, you are an honest child. Tell Father, what did you just do?"

Yae Guji walked up to Yae Sakura. His tall body blocked the sunlight shining on Sakura, leaving only a deep gloom.