Chapter 28 The Only Way Out

Seeing Ogasawara Masayuki's silent appearance, Li Ang waved his hand and said calmly, "And what you call the end is actually sinking yourself into that metal box, being corroded by the Guiquan water along with Fujimura Masumi, and perishing together.

You also have strong emotional bonds with your brother, Fujimura Ryosuke. If it were you to perform the In'nen Festival now, perhaps you could bring everything back on track.

Am I right?"

"..."

Ogasawara Masayuki was silent for a long time, then lowered his head and said with a difficult, hoarse voice, "This is the only way..."

"Not necessarily."

Li Ang smiled slightly and said, "If the In'nen Festival only requires severing emotional bonds, then mutual killing between siblings or father and son is also feasible, right?"

"?!"

Ogasawara Masayuki suddenly raised his head, looking at Li Ang in disbelief.

"According to the Hiratsuka family's method, there are actually many options for survival.

Either take the key and wait for you to die, or kill each other, or kill Fujimura Shuhei above ground—he should still have a key that can open the iron box in the Fujimura family's safe, which most likely contains a tunnel key like yours."

Li Ang shook his head. "But I don't plan to use any of them."

Wang Congshan saw the expression on Li Ang's face and immediately understood what he meant. "You want to..."

"Yeah, come give me a hand."

Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief, his feet firmly planted on the constantly shaking platform. He approached the cliff and gripped the hemp rope that was tied to Fujimura Masumi's coffin with both hands.

Wang Congshan also approached, and the two of them grabbed the hemp rope together, slowly pulling it up.

The metal box wobbled and slowly rose,

The sound of water and the movement of heavy objects could be clearly heard from inside.

As the box moved up,

The black mist in the abyss churned more violently,

Pitch-black, ink-like gaseous particles condensed into blurry human faces filled with resentment, flying and dancing in the abyss, emitting piercing screams and wails.

Thousands of wailing human voices overlapped, directly attacking the mind.

Li Ang urgently applied spiritual energy protection to both of them. Wang Congshan also manipulated the Hub Cube, spitting out two noise-canceling headphones, and hurriedly put them on.

Clang.

The metal box was finally pulled onto the platform. Wang Congshan took a deep breath, flipped her hand, and took out a dinner knife.

She already understood Li Ang's intention.

Since Fujimura Masumi's resentment and love were the only key to maintaining the fragile seal of the Yomi no Kuni (Land of the Dead),

Then taking Fujimura Masumi out of the abyss, breaking the balance, and actively releasing the resentment from Yomi no Kuni,

Could also complete the "end the En刻 Village incident" mentioned in the fourth stage mission—this was itself a multi-option ending.

Hiss.

The sound of the hemp rope being cut was still so clear in the deafening roar of the mountain shaking.

As the hemp rope was completely cut by the dinner knife in Wang Congshan's hand, the resentment in the abyss also boiled and surged, rushing straight to the dome, like a dark sky, covering the high sky.

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The system notification was mechanical and pleasant.

Wang Congshan took a deep breath.

Li Ang twisted his neck, and his body's bones made uncontrollable cracking sounds.

"..."

Ogasawara Masayuki took two steps forward subconsciously, reaching out and pressing his hand on the surface of the metal box that was constantly oozing black sewage, staring blankly at the thousands of evil spirits mixed in the sky full of resentment,

His heart was no longer filled with fear and timidity, but was as calm as water, with some understanding.

He turned his head to look at Li Ang and Wang Congshan, and said softly, "The balance is broken. You should escape quickly, maybe there's still time."

"Escape?"

Li Ang tilted his head and smiled. "Why, shouldn't it be them who are escaping..."

From the sleeves of his clothes, a massive amount of vines extended, deeply rooted into the surrounding soil, growing wantonly, and covering the entire platform in the blink of an eye.

A large amount of plant fiber condensed into towering trees, like thrones, carrying Li Ang upwards, overlooking the abyss.

In the high sky, countless resentful spirits howled and swooped down.

Wang Congshan flipped her hand, and the unrestricted Hub Cube immediately spat out a large number of metal components, forming a layered, cross-firing machine gun turret defense line in the blink of an eye.

Wang Congshan stood behind one of the machine gun turrets, pulling the machine gun trigger.

The ten machine guns connected to the fire control system around her all fired at once,

Pouring thousands of enchanted bullets towards the sky.

Bang bang bang bang!

The rain of enchanted bullets was like a chain of steel spreading death. Wherever it went, the resentful spirits formed from black mist were forced to retreat continuously.

Some of the weaker resentful spirits were even directly shattered on the spot, turning into smoke.

Ogasawara Masayuki raised his head, staring blankly at everything that was happening.

The plant vines spread on the ground traveled and extended like thousands of long snakes. Several of them plunged into his body, transforming his body, and removing the black hair on his body surface.

Other vines absorbed all the black water oozing from the metal box, and pried open a corner of the box, probing into it.

"Yomi?"

Li Ang stepped on the canopy of the tree, overlooking the rapidly rotating black vortex below, and slowly clenched his palm.

His will ran through the entire tree realm.

Tens of thousands of vines, like drills, pierced out of the soil, flying and dancing wildly in the air.

"If Yomi is only at this level, it's really... disappointing..."

Li Ang murmured to himself, grasping the Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan) and injecting spiritual energy into it.

The Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan) cudgel grew in the wind, and after a breath, it had already transformed into a hundred-meter giant pillar.

Li Ang's hands, and tens of thousands of vines, firmly grasped the upper end of the Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan) cudgel,

And thrust it heavily diagonally downwards into the abyss.

Boom!!

The Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan) pierced into the mountain rock, like a sea-stabilizing needle, lying diagonally across the top of the abyss.

Li Ang held the Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan) and took a deep breath.

This perfect-level weapon, in addition to two passive effects and one active effect, also had a characteristic that was not in the item description.

That is, excellent energy conduction efficiency.

Through the Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan), he could vaguely feel the distant, ancient, dark, and gloomy aura coming from the abyss.

For the living, the land of the dead, which was full of terror and despair,

Was now less mysterious and unpredictable in his eyes.

Flesh and blood creatures, dead spirits, were just different forms of life...

The constantly falling mountain rocks did not give Li Ang much time to feel.

He blinked his eyes, manipulating the vines to extend along the surface of the Mind Monkey (Xin Yuan) cudgel, surging towards the diagonally downward abyss rock wall, and piercing into the mountain.

Then, he activated alchemy.

The vines were the extension of his body.

Spiritual energy poured out like a flood. Wherever it passed, the tough mountain rocks quickly collapsed and liquefied, turning into mud and sliding into the abyss.

Ogasawara Masayuki's eyes widened as he watched everything that was happening, his brain seeming to be stuck in a dead stop.

Several vines first broke through the dome rock layer, excavating holes,

Then hooked his waist, bringing him and the metal box,

As well as Wang Congshan,

All to the surface.

The Hiratsuka family's residence above ground was still a scene of a hundred ghosts walking at night, but those monsters also seemed to feel the end was coming, standing in place without moving.

Only Fujimura Shuhei, whose body was covered with black hair, was holding the Jizo Bodhisattva statue, sitting cross-legged in place, constantly murmuring something.

"..."

Ogasawara Masayuki looked up at the top of Mount En, only to see that the high mountain was slowly sinking at a subtle angle. At this moment, he finally understood what was happening.

Li Ang was going to use the entire Mount En to suppress the entrance to Yomi.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

The earth-shattering doomsday scene lasted for several breaths.

The Hiratsuka residence and even the entire En刻 Village had been reduced to architectural ruins. I don't know how many trees were broken and rock layers were fractured. Only this area, because the vines firmly consolidated the soil, did not completely collapse.

Finally, everything subsided.

Poof!

The ground soil suddenly cracked open, and a vine, wrapped around Ogasawara Tetsuya's waist, slowly lifted him up and raised him to the surface.

Ogasawara Masayuki took a step instinctively.

The next second, all the surrounding vines withered at the same time, and Ogasawara Masayuki also reached out and grabbed his son, who was about to faint and fall to the ground.