What would happen if the sun disappeared?
This used to be a far - fetched question. But one day, this question became a reality. The sun truly vanished.
Suddenly, light rain started to fall from the sky. It was the rainy season, so it was normal to have some rain. No one paid much attention. Dark clouds covered the sun, and the sky remained gloomy throughout the day.
The next day, when alarm clocks woke up thousands of households, they saw that it was still pitch - black outside. The sun was nowhere to be seen.
Daoist Qingyun was the first to notice this problem.
What is most active at night?
The answer is the lonely ghosts and spirits in the human world.
"Above the sky, I sense the aura of the Baku. It's not that the sun has disappeared. It's just that the Baku is so huge that it has blocked the sun," Daoist Qingyun frowned and looked up at the sky. His apprentices had been missing for a full half - month since they entered the hospital.
During these half - month, those onmyojis were certain that his youngest apprentice would never return, so they all left one after another.
They left on the tenth day, and on the eleventh day, Meng Chang appeared.
He was sent by the relevant department to offer support. He said that there had been frequent abnormal movements recently, so he was specifically sent here.
This young man was very polite in front of him. But this time, he came in a hurry, even forgetting his idol charm.
It was obvious that the situation was urgent.
"The Baku? What's it doing blocking the sun?" Meng Chang frowned slightly, looking a bit puzzled.
Beasts like the Baku, which are basically harmless, usually live in seclusion. In simple terms, they are extremely lazy. There's no reason for it to come to the human world and block the sun. Isn't that just being full and having nothing better to do?
"This Baku is not right. It doesn't seem to have been raised on nightmares. Bakus raised on nightmares are mostly lazy and reclusive. How did they manage to control it?" Daoist Qingyun was also confused. He stared at the sky, his brows tightly knitted.
Just then, a dainty figure ran up to them. First, she bowed to Daoist Qingyun, then said, "I've come to bring you some news. Do you know why the sky is so dark?"
"Because of the Baku?" Meng Chang replied.
"Yes! It's exactly because of the Baku. Oh, how did you know?"
The person who came was Wei He. She had now joined the relevant department.
She had come in a hurry to bring the news, but unexpectedly, the two of them seemed to be already prepared.
Taking another look at Daoist Qingyun beside Meng Chang, Wei He withdrew her surprised look.
With this great master around, it wasn't too strange that they knew there was a Baku above their heads.
"Forget it. I won't dwell on this. The Baku above our heads is a bit different..."
"This Baku is different from ordinary ones. It wasn't raised on nightmares, right?" Meng Chang interrupted her directly. He had already heard this from Daoist Qingyun before, so there was no need to listen to it again.
"How do you know again?" Wei He was confused and asked.
"Daoist Qingyun has already told me all these. Do you have any other news?"
"Oh, then did Daoist Qingyun tell you what this Baku feeds on?" Wei He asked.
Meng Chang gritted his teeth and didn't interrupt her.
Seeing that there was finally something Meng Chang didn't know, Wei He smiled a little proudly and continued, "This Baku feeds on people's negative emotions."
"People's negative emotions? Can it eat that stuff?" Meng Chang frowned and asked. He had never heard that the Baku was an omnivorous animal.
"Actually, people's negative emotions and nightmares belong to the same system. They are all products derived from people's tense or other negative emotions. Theoretically, if the Baku can devour nightmares, it can also devour people's negative emotions."
"Isn't this a good thing? The fewer people's negative emotions, the better, right?" Meng Chang asked in confusion.
"Indeed, the fewer people's negative emotions, the better it is for the human world. But when the Baku devours too many negative emotions, its personality and function will also change. This Baku feeds on negative emotions. People's maximum is just negative emotions. So this Baku has become a bit too huge due to over - nutrition, and its abilities are also a bit beyond the reasonable scope." Daoist Qingyun frowned tightly and took over the conversation to explain bit by bit.
"This Baku's abilities are a bit close to those of a god," Wei He suddenly put away her smiling face and seriously dropped a bombshell.
After all, a beast is just a beast. No matter what type of beast it is, its thought process is very simple, and it is easily controlled by its instincts. Humans can restrain themselves, but beasts can't.
For example, the Taotie. Even if it knows that the things it does may very likely lead to its own death, it still acts according to its nature.
The news that a beast's abilities are close to those of a god is definitely not good. Even if the Baku only eats some illusory things, its initial way of eating is wrong. Who knows if it will develop other inhumane habits in the future.
"Moreover, this Baku was very likely raised by humans. The Baku's nature is to devour nightmares. Without someone else's deliberate guidance, the Baku would never take the initiative to devour human emotions. Now it seems that only the people from the Holy Church would do such a thing. If it was really the people from the Holy Church who raised this Baku, they must have a way to control it. Then the human world would really become a living hell." Wei He continued worriedly.
Woken up by Wei He, Meng Chang also realized the seriousness of this matter. The Baku has a characteristic, that is, it can vomit what it eats. It is said that those who show disrespect to the Baku will be filled with nightmares by it and haunted by nightmares every night. Correspondingly, the Baku that has devoured negative emotions can also vomit those emotions back.
The size of the Baku is determined by how much it eats. How big must a Baku be to block the sun? Even if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, just imagining it, you know it's a colossal creature. How many emotions must such a huge Baku have swallowed?
If this Baku was raised by the Holy Church and is controlled by them.
Once it vomits out these emotions, it will surely cause quite a stir. After all, the most easily tempted thing in people's hearts is evil thoughts.
"Those onmyojis must be related to the Holy Church. If we want to find out how to deal with this Baku, we can only start with them for now. I should have known better than to let them go," Daoist Qingyun sighed and rubbed his forehead. He had already started to calculate how to arrest those old guys and torture them.
Just then, Wei He finally brought the first piece of good news this time: "Don't be so troubled. If we want to know, we can just go and ask them. They've already been captured."