An infinite journey starting from paradise

Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, the image of the woman being humiliated was deeply imprinted in his mind: her pale body, her swaying breasts, her huge purple-red areola, and her lush private parts constantly spurting out juice. The woman's body trembled violently, and every time she did so, waves of flesh trembled.

"Xiao Shang?" Nanako Sawasaki looked at Naori Kuroya in confusion.

"I'm fine...I'm fine..."

At this moment, Takayama Tougen's voice came from behind them: "Hey, Naori, is Dr. Kuroya in the hospital? There's a Dr. Kuchiki who claims to be your cousin at the police station."

Chapter 153: Domestic Flowers Are Not as Fragrant as Wild Flowers

Maeda Keiko is a beautiful woman, at least in this corner of Ningyo Village, she is definitely a famous beauty.

But being beautiful is not necessarily a good thing. At least in places where the law is out of reach and there is a lack of knowledge and morality, beautiful women are always likely to cause trouble.

Ever since she was fourteen, Keiko Maeda has been coveted by many men in the Ningyo Village. Every night, men would sneak into the Maeda home under the guise of a night visit, seeking sexual favor. Fortunately, Keiko Maeda's parents cherished their daughter and, by guarding her door and window every night, barely managed to preserve her chastity.

But there's no such thing as a thief who steals for a thousand days. This wasn't going to work in the long run. So, when Maeda Keiko was fifteen, her parents arranged a marriage for her, marrying her to the eldest son of a neighbor.

After the marriage, those guys in the village who coveted Maeda Keiko's beauty did restrain themselves a lot, at least they didn't dare to sneak into the couple's bedroom in the middle of the night. But there was still one person who dared to sneak into the house and eavesdrop, and that person was the previous head of the Hinagami family, Hinagami Akizuru.

At that time, Hinagami Akizuru had not yet married and was not the head of the Hinagami family, but this did not prevent him from being a powerful figure in the Humanoid Village: as the eldest son of the Hinagami family, he would eventually become the ruler of the Humanoid Village and become the local tyrant of this isolated village.

No, he should not be called a "local emperor". After all, a local emperor can have three wives and four concubines, but the head of the Hinami family must marry the "Son of Heaven" according to custom. Even if the Son of Heaven dies early, he is not allowed to remarry.

Because of this, Hinagami Akizuru became an extremely lustful scumbag, wanting to touch the maids at home, the wives and daughters of tenant farmers, and even the shrine maidens at the Shikusa Shrine. Naturally, Maeda Keiko, the famous beauty in the village, also became his target.

Robbery?

No. Although the Hinagami family monopolized everything in the village, they still had to maintain their dignity. Blatantly occupying someone else's wife would easily arouse public anger and shake the foundation of the Hinagami family's rule.

Coercion and inducement?

Yes. But you have to be careful about the method and find the right timing. Soon, a perfect opportunity presented itself to Hinagami Akizuru. Maeda Keiko's husband had a conflict with several families in the village. The cause of the conflict was the water source.

In a village where most people rely on farming to support themselves, irrigation water is extremely precious, even affecting whether a family can have enough food to eat for the whole year. Maeda Keiko's family clashed with several other families over the issue of irrigation water.

At this time, the village's ruler, the Hinagami family, naturally needs to step in to mediate.

Hinagami Akizuru naturally wouldn't directly threaten Maeda Keiko with the allocation of water resources to force her to give herself to him. That would be too low-level. What he wanted to do was to slightly favor Maeda Keiko and her husband, and then secretly stir up trouble with the other families.

Sure enough, a few days later, Maeda Keiko's husband was seriously injured in an "accident" while digging vegetables in the mountains. The villagers seized the opportunity to make trouble. Maeda Keiko's parents and in-laws were left struggling to cope, and Maeda Keiko was left overwhelmed and unable to do anything except care for her seriously injured husband...

It was at this time that Hinagami Akizuru took the initiative to contact Maeda Keiko in secret, and then... after some hesitation, everything came to fruition.

That afternoon, during the busy spring season, most people in Ningyo Village were still working in the fields. Maeda Keiko, who stayed home to take care of her husband, heard a cat meowing outside her window and went into the woodshed.

As soon as they entered the room, Hinagami Akizuru, who had been waiting for a long time, dragged Maeda Keiko onto the straw mat that had been laid out earlier, pressed her to the ground, and kept groping between her legs with his hands.

"Wait a minute, I'll take off my skirt first." Keiko Maeda tried to pull away the man's impatient hands.

"What are you taking off? You look better in your clothes. I can't wait to hold you. Come on."

Hinami Akix lifted up Maeda Keiko's skirt, untied his waistband, and rode on Maeda Keiko's body with his bare buttocks. She thought he was going to enter like this, so she closed her eyes and clenched her teeth.

Unexpectedly, Hinagami Akix turned around and put the clanging thing to her mouth, and his head was inserted between Maeda Keiko's legs, pretending to lick it.

"What are you doing?"

"You've never done this with your husband? Come on, lick me!"

Hinami Qiuxian started licking it first: "You are so slutty."

Keiko Maeda kept trembling under the intense stimulation, but she refused to suck it and even refused to open her eyes.

Seeing this, Hinagami Akiko turned over, straddled Maeda Keiko's chest, and forcefully thrust his lips into hers: "Hurry up! Why are you pretending to be serious with me?"

Her lips were hit by something that smelled as fishy as a loaf of fish. She shook her head back and forth, tears welling up in her eyes.

Seeing this, Hinagami Akiko didn't force her anymore. He turned her over, spread her legs, and rode into her ass. As he did so, he hummed with pleasure. Maeda Keiko clenched her teeth, not daring to make a sound. She endured the humiliation of this scumbag while crying.

This was the first time, and it was under duress. Being duressed gradually turned into taking the initiative, not because Maeda Keiko had been fucked into submission, but because Hinagami Akizuru was really not taking advantage of her. He would really provide assistance to Maeda Keiko's family, protecting the farmland and providing water, easing the rent, and even giving her a large sum of money.

With good looks, generous spending, and a big penis, Maeda Keiko quickly chose to change from passively accepting money to actively asking for money. Hinami Akizuru was also happy with this, after all, Maeda Keiko's body is really attractive.

Another day, Hinagami Akix sneaked into Maeda Keiko's house as usual, and Maeda Keiko was waiting for him in the woodshed as usual. They kissed, undressed, licked and sucked, pressed against the wall, and then went in and out.

Hinagami Akizuru seemed to be in a hurry that day, acting extraordinarily violently, and Maeda Keiko also screamed loudly for the first time in her life. She didn't care anymore, because her dead husband was dying anyway, and it was busy farming season, so no one was home or near the neighbors, so no one would hear her.

Just as she was moaning towards me, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye. Was it a human figure?

Maeda Keiko was startled, and the sudden squeeze on Hinagami Akiko only made her work even harder. Panicked, Maeda Keiko quickly looked over there. She saw a young man with a childish face.

"what?!"

"!"

The young man turned around and ran away as if he had seen some incredible and horrifying scene.

"He was seen?! That person was his younger brother Kuroyoru?!"

……

"Hey, Shangzhi, what are you doing looking over there? Wasn't that house abandoned a long time ago?"

Takayama Touxian looked at the dazed Kuroya Naori and asked in confusion.

"No...nothing."

Kuroya Naoori shook his head. What he had seen before must have been an illusion. How could someone do such a thing in a house that was about to collapse? The person doing the work was his long-dead uncle... or the uncle's younger appearance.

"Uncle Takayama, this house was originally a dessert shop, right? It's a pity that it's abandoned. Did the family move out of the village?" asked Kuroya Naoori.

"Dead." Gao Shandongxian said, "This family angered the young idol god. Some died in accidents, some were seriously injured and died. The widow was simply killed by the young idol god."

"Is the young idol god causing trouble?"

"It's old news..." Gao Shandongxian shook his head. "Come to think of it, Xu Hai Wenzhi, the man who brought Zhixin back, is still a relative of this family. It's all old news, let's just forget about it."

"That's it..."

Kuroya Naoori lowered his head, and suddenly, he saw something seemed to be exposed on the land next to the house.

"Oh, right. When I was scared and ran away earlier, I almost tripped. Was it that thing?"

Just as Kuroya Naoori was about to go over and take a look, he was stopped by Takayama Tougen: "Where are you going, kid? Your cousin is still waiting for you at the police station!"

"Oh, oh, right here."

Kuroya Naoori shook his head, but still followed Takayama Touyou's footsteps.

Just as the two walked away, a long-haired girl in a pink kimono and barefoot suddenly appeared out of nowhere next to the house. She squatted down and reached out to dig out the object that Kuroya Naori had accidentally kicked out of the ground: a black and red clay doll.

The girl bowed to the land and buried a clay doll she had just made in it.

"that's it."

Chapter 154 Schrödinger's Man

Getting information from an innocent girl is no more difficult than getting a nice girl pretending to be drunk squatting at the door of a bar and asking her to get a room.

Lin Shangren easily induced Shayue to tell him everything she knew about the Shikusa Shrine. Combined with the information he had previously obtained from Xu Hai Wenzhi and Shikusa Yexiao, he was able to basically confirm the situation of the Shikusa Shrine.

The shrine is managed by the sixty-year-old chief priest, Yoshimitsu Shigeru, and his wife Rioko Shigeru. They have twin daughters, Miya Shigeru and Sayo Shigeru. They serve as shrine maidens, responsible for handling shrine affairs and the villagers' funerals.

The eldest daughter, Shikusa Miya, is married to her husband, Shikusa Kensei, who is a son-in-law. They have one daughter, Shikusa Yexiao. The second daughter, Shikusa Sayo, is unmarried and is responsible for taking care of Satsuki. Satsuki describes her as a rather strict person.

Apart from these, there seems to be no one else in the shrine, and the people in the shrine rarely interact with the villagers. Only during festivals or when a villager dies will the people of the Shigusa family come to the village on their own initiative.

"I don't know the rest. I wasn't allowed to leave the yard before. It's only in the past few days that Lady Xianjing allowed me to go out for a walk. But I get lost when I go out with her, and Aunt Xiaoye scolded me for this before." Sunagi whispered, "This is my first time walking into the village. Aunt Weiye said that after the Tianzhizi Festival, I can leave the shrine freely and go out to play... If possible, I also want to go out to study, just like Yexiu did."

"Uh-huh."

Lin Shangren nodded and put a candy in Shayue's hand.

"This is?"

"Candy, sweet. Try it."

Shayue hesitated as she tried to tear open the wrapper of the toffee, while Lin Shangren fell into deep thought.

"There's a spatial problem within this village. The cause is unknown, but it might be related to a sub-dimensional demon. We have two options: go directly to Hinami's house and deal with Madoka Nami, or investigate further within this village. After all, we still have to solve the murder and dismemberment case of Maeda Keiko from over a decade ago."

Thinking this way, Lin Shangren walked out of the police station's reception room again. He wanted to go out and greet Gao Shandongxian. He activated Shadow Touch, touching Sha Yue's hair from a distance, thus keeping himself in Changcun's space.

After taking only a few steps, Lin Shangren suddenly noticed something unusual. There was something buried in the ground under his feet. Judging from the feedback from the shadow touch, the size and shape of the thing was no different from a human embryo.

Lin Shangren reached into the shadows and fished something out of the ground. A closer look revealed a black and red clay figurine, its shape resembling a fetus in the womb, its facial features sculpted with such lifelike detail that it looked like a dead baby.

When he got the clay figurine, the four beast dice in Lin Shangren's consciousness suddenly reacted. The tetrahedral dice began to spin, and the side with cat-like patterns emitted a strong light.

At the same time, the space around Lin Shangren also changed. To the naked eye, everything seemed normal, but through his shadow touch, he could see many invisible figures around him. His body gradually became ethereal and translucent.

Lin Shangren looked at his ethereal palm, his translucent limbs surrounded by shimmering particles. "What's wrong with me?"

[My Lord, how did you suddenly become a quantum superposition state? ⊙▽⊙]

"what?"

Your current state is very strange. It's like... existing and not existing at the same time, a superposition of existence and nothingness. Others cannot observe you, let alone influence you. But you can observe and influence other existing things. (?ò?ó?)

"I've become Schrödinger's cat, haven't I?"

Lin Shangren realized that it was the strange clay figurine in his hand that triggered the power of the Four Beasts Dice. He also roughly understood the ability of "Schrödinger's Cat": an ultra-promix version of the transparent world. He became a quantum ghost, invisible to others, yet able to see them; incapable of hitting others, yet able to hit them.

In short, he was invincible again.

"But what about these extra shadows? Are they people from other dimensions of this village?"

Lin Shangren rubbed his neck and made a decision: "Let's go and have a look!"

He anchored Shayue's shadow, then locked onto one of the figures that suddenly appeared and teleported over.

"here it is?"

The air was filled with the smell of blood, echoed by the deafening shouts of killing. As soon as Lin Shangren landed, he saw a long knife covered in blood and flesh coming towards him.

"What the hell?!"

Lin Shangren instantly summoned the Seshir long sword to block. Although the Seshir long sword, which had become a quantum ghost together with Lin Shangren, could not be seen by anyone other than Lin Shangren, it still blocked the incoming blade and broke it into two pieces.

"I can't block a hammer, he can't hit me."

The thought of complaining flashed through his mind, and Lin Shangren quickly turned his attention to the man in front of him. The man was wearing a damaged armor and looked like a soldier being mowed down in the game "Warriors of the Three Kingdoms".

"Are these Ashigaru from the Japanese Warring States period? Is this a battlefield?"

Lin Shangren looked around and saw soldiers wearing the same standard armor slaughtering a group of barefoot civilians in linen clothes. Behind Lin Shangren lay a child about four or five years old. The knife that was chopped towards Lin Shangren was intended to kill the child.

"This is a humanoid village from the Warring States Period." Lin Shangren made a judgment.

Lin Shangren recalled the origin of the Ningyo Village mentioned by Xu Hai Wenzhi: During the Warring States Period in Japan, several families who made dolls fled here to avoid disaster and built the Ningyo Village.

Looking at the tragic scene of blood and flesh flying around, Lin Shangren took action.

"Binding."

The shadows within a radius of twenty meters instantly liquefied, and solidified shadow tentacles shot out from the shadow swamp, tightly binding the soldiers who were killing the villagers and fixing them in place.

The sudden change brought a glimmer of hope to the slaughtered villagers. They screamed and fled backwards like crazy. The moment they stepped into the humanoid village of the future, the villagers disappeared on the spot.

The Japanese language during the Warring States Period was very different from the Japanese language of later generations. Lin Shangren could not understand what they were shouting and could only barely hear the words "God bless you".

Lin Shangren quickly immobilized several fleeing villagers and donned Bruce Hearn's mask again. He intended to rematerialize and question the villagers about what was going on. However, Lin Shangren was unable to exit his quantum ghost state.

"Student Xiao Ai?"

[Don't look for me. This ability didn't come from me. How could I possibly know what's going on? ???]

"Gan."

Lin Shangren, in his quantum ghost state, could not be directly observed by others, so he could not directly communicate with the villagers and soldiers from the Warring States Period. He could only write and draw on the ground with a long knife, hoping to communicate with them.

Lin Shangren walked over to a villager who was pinned down and began writing on the ground in front of him. The villager noticed this and was visibly startled.

However, the embarrassing thing is that the literacy level in Japan during the Warring States period was indeed not high. Lower-class villagers and soldiers like these could not recognize a few words at all, let alone communicate.

"Since we can't communicate on the physical level, what about the consciousness level?"

Thinking about it, Lin Shangren activated his mind shadow on the man, hoping to communicate with him through his consciousness. This time he succeeded.

The specific process will not be described here. In short, Lin Shangren learned from several villagers that they were indeed civilians who had fled here because they could not bear the harassment of war. They were led to flee by the wealthy families in the village, the Hinaou family and the Chicao family. The two families were related by marriage and made a living by making dolls to offer to the daimyo.

According to the villagers, the two families claimed to have received divine inspiration from the doll god and led the villagers to flee here. The soldiers chasing them were bandits who had turned bandit and encountered them on the way.

If Lin Shangren had not suddenly appeared, the ancestors of the human-shaped village would most likely have been wiped out.

"Sure enough, not only is space overlapping, but time is also overlapping here. But why didn't I sense so many shadows in different times and spaces before?

Is it because of this thing?"