Chapter 576: The Child Takes the Box

Kanoya squatted down and looked at the dark red box up and down: "Master, could this box be the one in Akimichi's house?"

As soon as Xiaolu and Ms. Shiomi arrived at the Akimichi hotel, they went to look for the box that could summon a train in the utility room, but they couldn't find it.

Later, I heard from Akimichi's father that he hadn't had time to deal with it yet.

Originally, both Kanoya and Ms. Shiomi thought that the box disappeared because the train was canceled.

But that doesn't seem to be the case now.

"That's it. After you finish treating the train, I will go... Well, I mean, I will send Obara to take away this box as soon as possible." Kamiya nodded.

"Oh, okay."

Kanoya said in his heart that Sister Ohara stayed with him afterwards, so there was no time to get the box first.

Master must have picked up the box himself.

However, the master seems to want to maintain the setting of "as a master, I really didn't go to Hakkoda myself. You took the train yourself, and you did very well independently."

After all, everything I said before has been said.

Maybe he wanted to appear that he didn't dote on and worry about his apprentice so much?

But this is not another kind of doting.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, Kanoya knew that Kamiya had personally gone to Hakkoda once, and Kamiyakawa also knew that Xiaolu knew this, but for Kamiya's face, the two masters and apprentices tacitly understood it.

"But, Master, is this thing dangerous? Why do you pick up everything at home?" Lu Yeya subconsciously moved a little away from the dark red box, "Oh... I mean, why did you let Sister Ohara take it? Did you pick this up?"

Snapped!

"Ouch!"

Kamiya raised his hand and tapped his apprentice on the head.

"What do you have to be afraid of? You killed all the trains summoned by this box with your own hands."

"Yeah... that's right." Lu Yewu kept squatting and raised his hand to rub his head, "But, Master, what exactly is this box?"

"Get the box."

"Birdbox?"

What's this?

How come the name sounds so cute?

"It's not a bird, it's a [child] [take]."

In Japanese pronunciation, the pronunciation of "Zitu" is similar to that of "小鸟".

And because the word "Ziqi" is too uncommon and not many people know its meaning, most people will think of it as a "bird box" when they hear the name of this box.

Later, rumors spread among the people, and the Zitue Box gradually became known as the "bird box".

As for the true meaning of "Zi Chu", "Zi" refers to "child", and "Zi" means "to kill".

Killing is a kind of evil magic that causes people to die painfully through curses.

That is the art of curse killing.

From this, the meaning of the self-pickup box becomes obvious.

"An evil thing that curses children? So, Akimichi's father opened it and it was fine, but Akimichi opened it and attracted the train?"

Xiaolu probably understood something, and silently moved from the front of the box to behind Kamiya.

She feels that she is now 15 years old and has to go to the pediatrician for medical treatment, so she should still be in the category of a child.

"It can be understood this way. Generally speaking, the curse-killing effect of the Ziqi box will be reflected on women and children, and adult men are relatively difficult to be affected. However, this set of boxes is not complete now. When it is complete and the effect is full At that time, perhaps any living thing within a radius of thousands of miles or even further will be directly cursed by it, and no grass will grow, without exception. "

"Hey! Is it really okay to put such a scary thing in our home?"

"It's incomplete, don't worry. The details were told to me after the appraisal. I brought this box to her before. She said that this set of boxes was once a top-notch curse."

Kanoya:?

Master, if you say this, I will be even more worried, okay?

Kamiyagawa: "But everything that was once contained in this set of boxes is no longer there, and has been opened before - I mean, it was opened long before Akimichi and his daughter. The curse inside has expired, but the remaining The box can still be regarded as a very powerful prop material. After all, it has sealed a top-level curse, and it is still a top-level curse container, so don't worry."

"...Master, you finished what you said in one breath, it's true." Kanoya, who was hiding behind Kamiya, poked his head out again, "But, what does 'what's inside' mean? Anything other than a curse." ?"

"Well, those 'things' that make curses."

Regarding how the sub-box was made, this was naturally what Sister Kaku told Kamiyagawa——

First, the prefabricated box is filled with female animal blood.

It can be any animal, but not human.

And it is best to use larger animals, because in the first step of making the box, it needs to be filled with animal blood and left to stand for a week. During this period, the blood cannot dry up, so the demand for blood is very high.

After completing the first step, the next step is the ceremony and placing the body part of the "indirected" child into the box.

The so-called "Jianyin" should originally be an agricultural term.

It means "to get rid of the weeds".

If a farmer's crop seedlings are too close together, they will compete with each other for nutrients, and the final result will be dead seedlings.

At this time, it is necessary to pull out the poor-growing seedlings inside to ensure that the remaining seedlings can thrive.

The motto for making a child's box refers to "parents killing their children."

In old Japan, especially during times of famine and epidemics, “shunting” often happened among the lower classes.

If the adults in the family could not eat, the children born would have no hope of being raised, and the babies born at this time would most likely be “shunted”.

It is also possible that when the family just gave birth to a child, they could still ensure that the whole family could barely fill their stomachs, but when the child grew up a little, to six or seven years old, and was still unable to participate in labor, something suddenly happened in the family and the conditions for raising the child were lost. At this time, the adults might also choose to “shunting” the child.

In short, it is just like the original meaning of the word “shunting”.

In special times, if the survival of adults who can participate in labor is threatened, then the children who consume “nutrients” in the family will be regarded as “weeds” and become sacrifices to ensure that the labor force can survive.

This kind of thing is hard to imagine in modern times, but it really happened in old Japan.

It even happened somewhat as it should be.

The children who died from “shunting” are the materials needed for the child box.

The child box will be sealed with a part of the child’s body, solidified into a curse.

Generally speaking, the fingers of the dead children are sealed in the box, but the one found in Qiu Dao's house is special. The specific contents are written on the bottom of the box.

In addition, a child's organ is placed in a single box, which is called "one seal".

Two children is "two seals", and according to the number of children, it can be "seven seals".

The more the number, the stronger the curse effect.

However, "seven seals" is not the limit. The top curse masters can store the body organs of eight children in a single box, which is called "eight seals".

"Eight seals" is the strongest box, which can instantly kill not only women and children who are close to the box, but also adult men and other living things. As long as they get close, they will be cursed.

"How many boxes are there in this box?" Shikanoya was a little horrified, but then realized that something was wrong. "Master, you said that the box was a single one, but this is a set?"

"Yes, a set. This set of boxes, big and small, has a total of 77, corresponding to all organs in the human body except the brain. I asked Jue to confirm that among these 77 boxes, there were two octaves, four seven-sealed, six six-sealed, nine five-sealed, eleven four-sealed, thirteen three-sealed, fifteen two-sealed, and seventeen one-sealed."

The seventy-seven boxes each took a part of the human body organ and connected them into a set.

It is estimated that the curse master who made this set of boxes wanted to make a set, so he did not take fingers, but took different body organs.

In the whole set of boxes, there are two of the strongest "octaves".

To make this set of curse boxes, there are as many as 255 children.

"When this box was first made..." Xiaolu's pupils trembled.

"Once the sacrifice is performed, the land will turn red for thousands of miles." Kamiya shook his head. "I checked the information of Hakkoda. In the Obatazawa area outside Hakkoda, there was a residential area nearby in the old records, called Kobinze..."

Kobinze probably means a stream flowing through the cedar forest, so it was named after it.

But today, this area no longer exists, and its name has been removed from the official records of Aomori Prefecture.

According to folk sayings, at the entrance of this mysteriously disappeared area, there is a decayed torii gate and a stone that looks very much like a skull. On the side is written the words "People who enter from here cannot guarantee their lives." After entering, you will see ruined houses everywhere, and there are horrible bloodstains everywhere...

Kamiya took out his mobile phone and turned out a piece of urban legend and handed it to Kanoya.

It is said that three young men and women drove and got lost in the mountains of Aomori Prefecture. In the deep mountains, they encountered an old and mottled torii gate. There were two large stones under the torii gate, one of which looked a bit like a skull.

The young man driving the car suddenly remembered the legend that "the torii with a skull-shaped rock is the entrance to Kosugi Sawa".

Out of curiosity, the two young men and a girl went into Kosugi Sawa to explore.

After walking a hundred meters along the torii, there was an open space and four dilapidated houses in front of the three people. When they walked into one of the houses, they found a lot of brown dried blood on the wall.

The men suddenly felt a chill on their backs.

The girl also screamed: "There is definitely something wrong here, it seems that someone is watching us and laughing!"

After the three people ran out of the house in panic, they felt extremely horrible, as if they were surrounded by many "people". They rushed to the car in a hurry, but they couldn't get out of the cedar forest like a ghost blocking the wall.

It was only about a hundred meters from the torii, so there was no reason to get lost.

Afterwards, the girl who ran slower and got separated from her male friends successfully found the car.

When she inserted the key to start the car and called for help, it failed to start, and the car didn't respond at all.

She was so anxious that she almost cried, and kept trying to start the car. Just then--

Knock! Knock!

The sound of knocking on the glass came from the windshield. She looked up and saw that the windshield and the doors and windows around the car were all slapped by red hands trying to break in through the windows...

"Hmm... Master, I feel like this is more like a made-up story. There is also the "final girl" plot that is often seen in horror stories."

Kanoya handed the phone back to Kamiyagawa.

After all, this girl had gone through the same weird Songze Village alone, and had just escaped from the train, so her psychological quality was not weak.

Compared with this kind of urban legend, the real background of the production of the sub-box made her more emotionally unstable, but it was not because of fear, but because of the way in which this evil cursed object was made, she felt chilled.

"The story does have traces of creation. But people will create horror stories based on Xiao Binze, which means that this place itself is weird. I checked the information in the countermeasure room and found that Xiao Binze did exist, and on the night a hundred years ago It disappeared. It was not due to natural disasters, wars or famines, but it just disappeared in an inexplicable way. No living creatures could come out of that area after that, and even the exorcists at that time could not get close to it. Judging from the information in the countermeasures room, no one knows what happened in that area."

"That is to say, Master, you suspect that this is the way to pick up the box..."

"Well, maybe a hundred years ago, this set of box-retrieving curses killed all living creatures in the Xiaobinze area, turning it into a dead place. As time goes by, the curse sealed in this set of boxes slowly dissipates, and the curse kills all living creatures in the Xiaobinze area. The ability disappeared, and the box left Xiaobinze for some reason and appeared in other areas of Hakkoda."

"Then who put the box into Akimichi's house? Someone wanted to harm their family?"

Kamiya shook his head: "I feel that the box appears more like following the train. The Maki paintings on the box are the same as those on the train wooden carriage. After the curse in this thing dissipated, it was probably possessed by a train. Maybe it was once possessed by a train. It was the spirit of the train ten years ago. Your friend opened the box, activated something, and completely summoned the current train."

"Oh... Then, Master, what do you plan to do with this thing?"

"I will build a shrine for you, the Prajna Master."

"Eh?"

"This set of boxes has been used to seal the most terrifying curse that can instantly wipe out all living beings in an area. Even if the curse inside has expired over a long period of time, the box itself has been in contact with the curse for so long, and it is still a top-notch curse container. Prajna absorbed it. "Fang Xiang's mask has the ability to curse. It has been confirmed that this thing is suitable for being broken down into core materials and used to build a shrine for her."

"Is that so? But Master, why do you want me to say so much?" Xiaolu was confused, "I can't help you build a shrine."

"Why don't you want it? Isn't this your trophy?"

Yes.

Nominally speaking, the train is managed by Kanoya.

This set of pickup boxes once belonged to the train, but now they belong to the deer.

Although Kamiya took the box away first to prevent the countermeasures room in Aomori from making a profit, but...

This is a temporary way for parents to help their children take care of their belongings.