Chapter 30 Section five
Nomura took the Sakai Line train bound for Yonago from Nakahama Station at 19:40.There were very few passengers in the train, and she didn't want her face to be seen, so she kept her head down.The sky outside the car window has completely darkened, and there is no scenery outside.
She not only lowered her head, but also supported her cheeks with her hands, covering her own face.The purpose of her doing this, of course, is to avoid the sight of the service personnel in the car passing by.
At 20:40, the train entered the platform of Yonago Station.The border trains do not have automatic doors and must be opened manually.As soon as Nomura opened the door of the train, he rushed to the platform, and then trotted up the steps of the overpass.Whenever someone tried to pass her, she would put her head down.
From the overpass, she came to the platform bound for Matsue, ready to take the express train that stopped at every station in Izumo City.The train is already at the platform, and the departure time of this train is 20:7, which is just right.
There were no passengers on this train, and she still lowered her head in the carriage.This train will pass through Matsue and head for Shindo.Nomura planned to change to Kiji at Shindo to go to Kiji.She originally planned to take the train to Izumo City Station and take a taxi to Kiji, but the long journey time might impress the taxi driver, so she finally decided to take the tram as much as possible, and then walk to Happonsugi.
It's just that you have to be able to catch the last train bound for Kiji at Shindo.The time of the last Kiji Line train from Shindo to Kiji is 21:42.She took this bus on the night of April 20th, so she still remembered the time.
When she came out this time, due to a momentary negligence, she didn't bring a timetable with her.I left Tokyo without what I should have brought.When I came out, I was in such a hurry that I didn't even think about the timetable.If you had thought about it earlier, you could have bought a copy at the kiosk at Yonago Station.However, when changing trains, it was so smooth that I honestly didn't have time to buy it.
Arriving at Songjiang Station, she glanced at the clock on the platform, it was 8:50.
It's 8:50, is it enough time to reach Shindo Station before 9:42?
Nomura tried hard to remember.When she was a child, she often came to this area and took this train line countless times.According to previous experience, how long does it take to travel by train from Matsue Station to Shinji Station?Arriving at Shindo should be around the same time as the last train bound for Kiji, right?After arriving at Shinji Station, rush to the platform to change trains, there should be still time, right?
But she thought again: it doesn't matter if it's too late or not.Fortunately, I remember the time of the last train to Kiji, so when the train I take now arrives at Shindo, if there is time, I will get off and take the train of Kiji Line; if it is too late, I will continue to take the train to Izumo City. up.In short, we can wait until Shindo Station to make a decision on this matter.
Fortunately, she caught the train on the Muji Line.The stop-stop train from Yonago Station arrived at Shinji Station at 9:36, and it was six minutes before the last train on the Kiji Line departed for Kiji at 9:42.The transfer to the train went so smoothly, which was even smoother than what had been arranged in advance. This can only be said to be great luck.
The train arrived at the terminal at 22:24.Because it was late at night, few passengers got off with her.Although there were only a few people, when walking towards the ticket gate with these few people, Nomura Cao still lowered his head, dragged his weak feet, looked at the ground with his eyes, but kept an eye on his surroundings, and quickly walked out of the ticket gate.
While paying attention to the situation on the road, she walked unobtrusively.When she got farther and farther away from the street lights and the people around her became thinner and thinner, she naturally quickened her pace; when she felt that the surroundings were pitch black and there was no light from the electric lights, she started to run even more.
Must be fast, must be fast, must be fast... At this time, only these words appeared repeatedly in her mind.However, her body seemed unable to cope with the meaning of these words, and the running leg muscles were protesting against the will in her mind.
Nomura holds a small bag in his hand, which contains the clothes he changed at Nakahama Station.After digging out the head...the head of that hateful woman must have turned into a skeleton...let's put it in this small bag for now!Although it will stain the bag and the clothes, but I can't take care of that much.She didn't think about how to deal with the dug-out head until now. Before that, she was only thinking about hurrying, only thinking about digging out the head quickly, and didn't think about how to deal with it after it was dug out.
It's all about that woman's fault.Heartbreaking thoughts raced through Nomura's mind.At the beginning, I really didn't feel anything about Zhonggu.He was indeed handsome and tall, perhaps one of the rare handsome men in Japan today.In addition, he is also very capable in academics, and he is a single, unmarried man who is the target of women.
But I really don't care about that at all. I only have my own research in my mind, not to mention that I am a foreigner who came to Tokyo alone. I haven't figured out the situation of Tokyo, southeast, northwest, and I don't have the energy to pay attention at all. opposite sex.
That woman is like a crazy pig, no matter what I do, she will come and destroy it.Therefore, when she knew that I was interested in Izumo myths, she, who was originally studying the Yoshimi Hundred Caves in Saitama Prefecture, suddenly began to read "Izumo Country Fudoki", and then looked for loopholes in my thesis.
If she relies on her own ability, that's all.Knowing that she was not my opponent intellectually, she went to Zhongjun to spy on the immature parts of my thesis.No matter in the research room, classroom, in the tavern, or even on the bed, Aoki did everything he could to get the best weapon from Nakamura that could hit me.
When that woman got engaged to Zhongjun, I didn't feel anything at all.It's just that she thought she suppressed my arrogance and made me feel very uncomfortable.I can hardly bear that uncomfortable feeling.
Why did I have the idea of killing that woman?It's hard for me to judge myself.I don't want to attribute this to Zhongjun, and I don't want to think that my motive for killing has anything to do with men.However, perhaps the bacteria is also one of the reasons!
I am for my father.My father lived alone in the countryside of the San'in region, devoted his life to his research, and died silently without receiving any applause.But some people want to use that kind of hateful remarks to attack his research, so I really can't allow that woman to continue to live proudly.Aoki did not seriously study the records of "Kojiki" at all, so he completely denied that the records in it were related to facts, and believed that they were all fictitious fantasies.The one who said this was denying other people's sweat from the most relaxed position and with the most casual words.She criticizes others arrogantly and doesn't take other people's hard research seriously.In order to justify his own remarks, he not only relied on the authority of Nakabu Sadao, but also took his authority as his own.She is a filthy woman who only knows how to use unbearable political sex to justify her own words.
No one can deny that her actions were political.All she has is the beauty of a woman, and she is confident in her looks.In addition to her looks, she is also very confident in her memory, which always helps her pass exams.Regarding memory, her confidence is almost to the point of insanity.But what's so great about memory?This alone does not make an inferior student a good scholar.You can only study and take exams, at best you can only get a good degree, and it does not guarantee that you can become a good scholar.She is also very conceited about her excellent academic qualifications, and often uses her academic qualifications to show that she is superior to others, but she cannot show the creativity that a scholar should have.From the point of view of lack of creativity, I think she is a poor scholar.If she hadn't met Zhongjun, then she would probably have married an excellent bank clerk, and lived a life of satisfying her vanity by comparing the size of the house and the achievements of her husband with other housewives.
She went the wrong way and got lost and broke into the world of scholars.When she found out that the self-esteem of the top student she had always been proud of did not apply to the world of scholars, she must have felt very restless in her heart!She is only good at reading and taking exams, but when she came to the world of scholars, she couldn't find a place to display her expertise, and she didn't know what she could do in this world.She must be very, very disturbed after discovering this!
Arrogant and self-righteous, she finally found a way to prove herself in the world of scholars.She used her appearance to make a man who stood at the top of this research field her captive, and used the man's authority as a shield to transform herself into a fierce critic.
Criticizing others and finding loopholes in others' words are the easiest ways to highlight your own advantages.Also, she has learned to play the piano well since she was a student, she is also good at tennis, and she wears clothes that look exactly like those in fashion magazines.So at any time, she is the focus of everyone's attention.However, I don't know if she has arrived in that world now, can she find clothes that can attract other people's attention?
It would be fine if she only criticized my personal thesis, but what I can't stand is her criticizing my father's hard work with such arrogant remarks.
Father was a man with an old school education.Possibly for this reason, he believed that what was said in the "Gujiji" reflected events that actually happened.This is my father's belief.
Looking back on my father's life, apart from teaching in high school as a teacher, he devoted the rest of his time to research.But that woman's study of "Ancient Matters" has only been two or three years, compared with her father, it seems to be as short as one night, but she denies her father's research in an authoritative tone.It is tolerable, which is unbearable, who in this world can tolerate such a thing!
Even if it's not me, there must be someone else who can't stand her actions and asks her to pay the price!
To me, no, to my father, that woman was like Yamata no Orochi, an evil and ugly monster that should be exterminated.When she got that man, she was like a big snake whose whole body was anesthetized by fine wine. This is the perfect time to destroy her and divide her into several parts.
After cutting her into eight pieces, place the grain next to the body.Because she once mocked her father's statement of "the origin of the five grains", this is my offering to the heavenly father.In addition to putting soybeans and wheat with her body, she also put rice seeds in her eyes, corn in her ears, and small beans in her proud nostrils.According to legend, the eight heads of the Orochi will float to the grounds of Happonsugi Shrine in Kiji Town.So in the end, I buried my head under the stone tablet engraved with the words Happongsugi.
But, those seeds turned into seedlings!
This is of course not entirely unimaginable.However, I think it doesn't matter even if the seeds turn into seedlings and are seen by people nearby, because no one would have thought that there was a human head buried under the stele.
However, the person who discovered those seedlings was Hisako Iwabuchi.The problem is that she wrote an article about what she saw and published it in "Shen You Yue".
Iwabuchi probably thought that I would read "Shen Yu Yue", so that article should be specially written for me to read.I knew she didn't have any intentions, but she just wanted to convey the scene of her hometown to let me know.But that article gave me chills and chills down my spine, which no one can understand.
Iwabuchi is the one who lives there, and of course it is possible to find the seeds turned into seedlings.It's not a problem to see such a strange situation and write about it.The problem is that the article got printed.Once it is printed, it will be seen by the detectives sooner or later. The detectives, especially the Yoshiki detective, will definitely feel that it is an unnatural phenomenon, so they went to Iwabuchi, asked about the location, and then excavated it. The skull was found, and after inspection, it was determined that it was the head of Aoki Kyoko.In order to prevent this from happening, I must dig out that head earlier.
Can the human body also become the nutrient of the plant to make the plant grow abnormally fast?When I think of this, my back keeps getting cold, as if it is about to freeze, and my feet are getting weaker and weaker.
I saw the stone torii of Happongsugi.Beside the path paved with eight fir trees is a dense grove.Outside the stone archway at the entrance, low fences surround the shrine.
It was quiet all around, and there was no one else.Great, Nomura thought.She whipped her tired legs and ran into the shrine.
very quiet.A country shrine in the middle of the night should be like this!However, the atmosphere here is strangely quiet.
The scope of the shrine is not large, and she stood in the center, panting as her shoulders rose and fell.The breath spread out like the ripples of water waves, and then was sucked into the surrounding darkness.
It seemed that there was a high and sharp voice ringing in my ears all the time.Only Aoki's head was buried here, so the sound must be Aoki Kyoko's wailing, right?An uneasy commotion filled the place of absolute silence.
The breath gradually calmed down, and Nomura finally raised his head.The gasp caused by the difficulty of breathing just now seemed to have been completely absorbed by the darkness.
However, the throbbing of the heart still stayed in her body.Only the throbbing of her heart was something she couldn't control.At this moment, the throbbing became more and more intense.
The high-pitched voice seemed to come from the stone tablet erected on the front.The big stone engraved with the three ideograms of "Hachimoto Sugi" stood in front of Nomura Cao like a Vajra Warrior.A month ago, it was also in such a late night, and only this stone tablet watched her do something that she didn't want to be known quietly at her feet.
Green shoots have now grown at the foot of the stone.
Nomura's gaze searched for the foot of the stele.But the surroundings of the stele were too dark. From where she was standing, she couldn't see the ground at all.
Nomura wanted to move forward, only to find that his legs and feet were shaking slightly.Moreover, the soles of the feet seemed to be glued to the ground and could not be moved at all.Her legs were trembling, and when she tried to lift her foot forward, it would convulse like a cramp.The soles of her feet seemed to grow roots deep into the ground, preventing her from moving.
She just stood there, standing motionless in the square space surrounded by Yappongsugi.This is the punishment God gave me!she thought so.God condemned me to let me stand in this square frame forever like a plant.
Then she realized one thing: this small square of land in Izumo Kitsu-machi was not a meaningless space.Yamotosugi grows above the land where the eight heads of the big snake are buried, and feeds on the carrion of the big snake's head, so Kyoko's head was pulled here.It was precisely because of that force that he buried Kyoko's head here.
Now I'm going to dig the head out and take it out of here.But will the land here allow me to do this?
The feeling of dizziness came in waves.Nomura felt scared, and the muscles in his face twisted.She looked up at the sky—in the square black sky surrounded by towering Yappongsugi that pierced into the sky, there were stars shining with icy light.Looking at the stars, my head became even more dizzy.Nomura felt as if the entire sky was spinning, and the laughter of Hachimoto Sugi, who had transformed into Yagami, seemed to be heard in his ears.
She woke up suddenly in the dark, and found that she smelled the smell of soil and felt that she had touched the ground.She found that she was supporting her upper body with her hands just like that time.She had sat for a long time on this same spot with her knees bent.So she pressed her hands hard to the ground, struggling to stand up on her weak feet.
Her foot stepped forward and she was able to walk.Try to take a step forward again, it seems that you can really walk around.But when she wanted to approach the stele, she tripped over something, like a soft cloth or something.Nomura soon found out that it was the small bag she had brought here.
Kneeling on one knee, she opened the bag, reached in, and pulled out the shovel she had bought from a garden supply store in Shibuya, which was at the bottom of the bag.With a shovel in her right hand and a bag with the zipper still open in her left hand, she staggered close to the stele.
Even though he was already very close to the stele, it was still pitch black under his feet.She knelt down to look, but still couldn't see clearly.So she put down the bag, and stretched out the fingers of her right hand towards the ground tremblingly.Empty!Her hand slid across the dark space, touching nothing.
She remembered it so clearly that it was impossible to forget.The place should already have sprouts of three different plants.But her fingertips didn't touch anything.too weird!So she stared.
Although her eyes were used to the darkness, she still couldn't see freely in such darkness, so she kept her eyes closer to the ground.
It was so strange, not only was there no grass on the ground, but there were several thin and deep groove marks as if it had been raked by a rake.Has anyone cleaned this place in a rude way?Or forcibly eradicate all the plants here when weeding?
However, for Nomura, it is the same whether it is sweeping or weeding.Even if the saplings here are shoveled off, Iwabuchi's articles published in "Kamiyuki" will not disappear because of this. Her memory is still deeply rooted in the ground like the roots of plants and will not disappear.The roots, like the seedlings, must be removed together.
As if stabbing a big snake with her weak claws, she stabbed the ground with a small shovel.There was a faint, helpless sound from the ground.It's only been a month, and the ground has become so hard, probably the result of being stepped on by children who came to play nearby!Seedlings can emerge from such hard soil.
Nomura held the shovel backwards and stabbed the ground again and again, ten or twenty times.She suddenly felt that she was not stabbing the ground, but the body of Aoki Kyoko.Although that woman had been killed by him, the hatred in his heart seemed to have not been eliminated.
Even if he really cut her into pieces, it would not be enough to vent his hatred.Although the woman was dead, the resentment in his heart continued unabated.
She didn't start shoveling until the ground became softer.After the shovel penetrates the ground, it scoops up the soil, then stabs and shovels again.The softer the soil below, the easier it is to pierce and shovel up, and the less effort she exerted.
But she didn't dig too much, about fifty centimeters deep, right?Like Susanoo's sword touching Kusanagi's sword, the shovel made a clanging sound.
Nomura focused on digging where the clanking sound came from.She used the tip of the shovel to widen the bottom of the hole and loosen the soil.
Then she put down the shovel and went to dig the hole with her hands.When conducting archaeological field investigations, human bones or clay vessels buried in the soil are often dug out by hand, because they are precious treasures in academic research and cannot be easily damaged.
A skull like a dirty round boulder suddenly appeared at the bottom of the cave under the faint starlight.
My head is so dizzy... She really looks like the century-old daughter of Natsume Soseki!Nomura thought.It's unbelievable that something like this would happen in real life.She felt as if she had sunk to the bottom of a strange dream.When she dug out the heavy skull and put it on her left hand, a strong dizziness suddenly hit her, and the skull in her hand almost fell to the ground.
She closed her eyes, shook her head, and slowly waited for the dizziness to leave her body.
After a while, she slowly opened her eyes, but there was nothing but whiteness in front of her eyes.She lost her eyesight and her eyes hurt like needles.
I'm blind and can't see anything.She closed her eyes tightly, and there was a dark blue block that was almost black on her retina.She opened her eyes again, but there was still a vast expanse of whiteness in front of her eyes.
Faced with the sudden punishment given by God, Nomura's emotions became very chaotic.She had no idea why she suddenly lost her eyesight.She opened and closed her eyes several times, and rubbed her eyelids with the back of her dirty hand, but she still didn't regain her vision.Kyoko Aoki's head finally fell from her left hand, and she didn't know where it rolled.Maybe rolled back into the original hole...
Nomura kept rubbing her eyes, even if the mud got into her eyes, she couldn't care less, she only thought in her heart: Do I have to live like a blind person from now on?
At this moment her hand seemed to be grabbed by someone.A human hand firmly held Nomura's muddy arm.
A strong shiver ran through her body quickly, and the muscles in her shoulders and neck contracted with fear.She didn't know what was wrong, she didn't know what happened.Has something happened to you already?At this moment, she heard strange voices from the gods again.That sound seemed to be laughter, like the laughter of the gods from far away and from high places...
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