Infinite Metaverse

University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

It's getting late, and the lanterns are starting to turn on.

Fu Qinghai walked alone on the overpass.

"well……"

A sigh came from his mouth.

He had just walked out of the school gate, looking at the orange-lit traffic flowing under the bridge, the noise and bustle of the city echoing in his ears.

Fu Qinghai took out a bunch of scattered paper business cards from his pocket, with "Qingshan Supernatural Firm" written on them in Japanese.

This is his new identity.

It was originally planned to use this identity to contact and win the trust of the male and female protagonists in the movie - Nakamura Yumi, Okazaki Kai, Yamashita Hiro and others. Several of them were also victims of the ghost incident. However, as the investigation unfolded, it was discovered that Fu Qinghai was a The fact that he was half-baked was gradually revealed, and the male and female protagonists no longer believed that he could exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits...

Unfortunately, Fu Qinghai has been investigating with great fanfare for so long, but he still hasn't attracted the attention of the resentful spirit. So far, he has not received any strange calls or MMS messages.

Fu Qinghai played with the old-fashioned flip phone in his hand, an antique brand that had almost disappeared, Sony Ericsson, and was looking forward to the legendary...

"Ghost Calls".

"The Caller" is the work of Miike Takashi. Not only has it produced many sequels like "The Grudge" and "The Return of the Ghost", but the adaptation copyright has also been exported to many countries.

Therefore, according to the logic of the Order Alliance, the Ghost Calling Universe can become a reincarnation world.

Miike Takashi is a famous Japanese gangster film master, but many Chinese audiences may be more familiar with the comic book movies directed by him - the "High School" series.

The reason why Fu Qinghai chose to act alone was because of the action plan formulated by Zhang Yuning.

Just like Thai horror and supernatural movies, which especially like to show Gumantong and head-dropping techniques, Japanese horror and supernatural movies also have a distinctive setting - the earthbound spirit.

Earth-bound spirit: After the death of a creature, the range of soul activities is restricted by region, and it is an undead spirit that is bound to that place.

Kawamaka Coconut is the most typical earthbound spirit, possessing a haunted villa and killing all the previous residents of the house.

The demon Varak, who was trapped in the monastery at the beginning of the movie, also feels a bit like an earthbound spirit.

The bones were buried in Huangshan Village, and the villagers were killed after drinking the water from the Corpse Pond. Chu Renmei was actually considered an earthbound spirit.

Possessing a human being or a house seems to be the most basic skill of these evil spirits and demons.

This is why, every time before Zhang Yuning activates her abilities, she needs to find a house and attach the power of Kayako and Valak to it in advance to form a haunted house, so that the power of the resentful spirits and demons can be maximized.

But nothing is absolute.

There are also some ghosts in Japanese horror and supernatural movies. Not only are they not bound by geography, they can also spread their evil karma through other methods that are similar to memetic contamination: Kayako's diary, Sadako's video tape... and "Ghost Calls" The resentful spirit inside - Mizunuma Mimiko's mobile phone.

In order to facilitate the investigation of the fake detective Fu Qinghai.

Zhang Yuning helped him popularize Mimiko's life.

Mimiko and Kayako have quite similar life experiences, and their misery contains their own fault——

Kayako's own personality is somewhat psychopathic, and she has a weird crush on her college classmate Shunsuke Kobayashi.

Mimiko died of an asthma attack because her mother deliberately neglected her because she abused her younger sister.

Unlike the Chinese ghost Chu Renmei, she did not commit any mistakes during her lifetime and died completely unjustly.

In the setting of Japanese ghosts, they seem to like to show the character flaws or some kind of faults of the ghosts during their lifetime.

As for why we need to split up...

"Buzz buzz..."

While Fu Qinghai was thinking, his phone suddenly vibrated.

He quickly took out his cell phone from his pocket and looked at it.

screen display:

Caller: Qingshan.

Caller number: 03-3581-0101.

The caller's name is his, and the caller's number is also his number...are you calling yourself?

mischief? Or telecommunications fraud?

No, none of that!

Fu Qinghai's pupils jumped and he thought:

Mimiko Minuma, you are here.

His fingers gently pressed the answer button and the hands-free button, and Fu Qinghai's own voice sounded from the microphone, with exactly the same voice and the same tone:

"Yumi, please believe me. I am a professional supernatural detective. I can definitely... Oh, my throat, damn, help, save me... Kacha!"

There was a crisp sound of a broken pipe.

"Dududu..."

Then the call was hung up.

This call was extremely strange.

Looking at the call time again, it was exactly three days later.

July 13, 18:29:31.

In other words, the resentful spirit Mimiko Minuma had foreseen the time and manner of Fu Qinghai's death three days later, and issued a naked death declaration to him.

This is "Ghost Call".

Fu Qinghai stood there holding his cell phone, thinking for a moment, and then a smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth.

In the incoming call, neither Zhang Yuning's name nor Zhang Yuning's voice appeared.

This shows what?

It means that the other party doesn't know Zhang Yuning's existence at all!

If Fu Qinghai shouted something like "A Ning" on the phone, Fu Qinghai might still be a little frightened at this moment, because this might mean that even if Zhang Yuning is here, he, Fu Qinghai, still cannot escape death. .

but none.

It shows that there are still variables.

Unlike Kawamagako who kills in a low-key manner, Mimiko Minunuma kills in a very high-profile manner.

In the movie, every time she kills someone, she will inform the victim in advance of the time and method of death. Later, the TV station even specially invited the onmyoji to live broadcast the practice. In front of thousands of viewers, Mimiko beat the onmyoji away.

The most important point: Mimiko is not an earthbound spirit.

Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning can no longer go to a haunted house to proactively search for ghosts and demons like they did before. Mimiko relies on her mobile phone to issue death notices, sometimes through messages in voicemails, sometimes through picture messages. Without a trace, Fu Qinghai could only act as bait, while Zhang Yuning hid in the dark, waiting for the resentful spirit to come to his door.

Mimiko would randomly select the next murder target from the victim's mobile phone address book, so Fu Qinghai pretended to be a supernatural detective and gave his business cards to the imprisoned protagonists and told them to save their phone numbers. , just to increase the probability that Mimiko will find him.

This is the action plan formulated by Zhang Yuning.

The vengeful spirit of Mizunuma Mimiko is indeed very powerful.

I called you in advance to tell you that you were going to die.

No matter how much he ran away or hid, or even invited an onmyoji to exorcise evil spirits, he still couldn't escape death in the end...

This kind of reversal of cause and effect killing involving future prophecies, as time approaches, the oppressive feeling that makes people gradually collapse psychologically...

However, what the famous gangster Fu Qinghai was thinking in his heart was:

"You said I would die in three days. I don't have to wait until three days later. I will commit suicide now. Does that mean your death prediction was a failure?"

Fu Qinghai called Zhang Yuning:

"Coming, in three days."

"Okay, wait for me right where you are, I'll come over now."

After hanging up the phone, Fu Qinghai took out a red ball-shaped candy from his pocket, unwrapped it and threw it into his mouth.

This is a kind of maltose that is said to be specially used to relieve sudden symptoms of asthma patients. Every victim of a death call has one of this candy in his mouth after death.

Mimiko Minuma died of an asthma attack during her lifetime.

Fu Qinghai was openly provoking.

With his hands on the railing and a candy ball in his mouth, Fu Qinghai looked at the high-rise buildings and the neon night scene in the distance. Suddenly, his cell phone dinged in his pocket and he took it out:

"I changed my mind."

A strange text message with no beginning or end.

Who changed his mind?

Before Fu Qinghai could react, a huge force suddenly pulled his ankle, and then he suddenly felt a push from behind, causing his whole body to break through the guardrail and fall off the overpass.

A bus happened to be passing by below.

A figure suddenly fell down. The bus driver's eyes widened and he had no time to step on the brakes.

"boom--"

There was a loud noise, the driver slammed on the brakes, the bus suddenly stopped, and all the passengers behind were knocked to and fro.

On the overpass, if anyone with yin and yang eyes stands here, they can see a terrifying female ghost floating quietly, smiling eerily at the scene of the car accident.

But soon, her smile disappeared.

"Crunch——"

A large piece of the front of the bus was dented, the metal skin was twisted and broken, and the engine, pulleys and drive shafts inside were in a mess. With a sharp noise of metal twisting, the bus slowly lifted up, revealing a man in tattered clothes. Fu Qinghai climbed out from under the car and wiped the blood from his face. Fu Qinghai stood up and twisted his neck and said:

"The strength is a bit weak, Master."

The female ghost screamed and swooped down.

By the way, he deliberately showed a twisted and scary face, trying to intimidate Fu Qinghai like he would intimidate other mortals, but he didn't expect that the man would raise his hand and deliver an uppercut.

"Bang!" The black energy spread out and the spirit body exploded.

The female ghost flew back directly.

Where did it come from and where did it go back.

The female ghost's face was almost knocked off her face by the golden finger tiger's blow. She quickly disappeared again, circled in mid-air, and swooped down again.

Fu Qinghai could not see her presence, but there was no nervousness on his face. He slowly took out the cigarette box and started shaking it, and a sound of rubbing against the floor began to spread.

The female ghost suddenly stopped, her figure shook, she covered her ears and let out an inhuman scream.

However, the screaming beetle can only paralyze the evil spirits and demons, but cannot completely kill them. Fu Qinghai waved a fist in the surroundings, but he did not know where the female ghost was. Her hatred and resentment were quite persistent, and she actually held the fist against her head. The noise of a beetle penetrated into Fu Qinghai's body.

Fu Qinghai suddenly froze.

At this time, a crowd of onlookers gradually gathered around. Everyone looked at this man inexplicably, standing in the middle of the road performing a non-physical performance, sometimes uppercutting and sometimes shaking cigarette boxes. The crowd kept their distance, and no one dared to come forward. I'm afraid that this guy who was hit by a car and was stunned will blackmail me.

"Ka...ka ka."

Fu Qinghai moved.

His neck began to turn stiffly, and his limbs began to twitch uncoordinatedly, as if he was performing a mechanical dance... Fu Qinghai's willpower was very tenacious, and he naturally refused to give in. He was trying hard to compete with Mimiko for control of his body.

Suddenly, his right hand seemed to break free from some kind of restraint, and he suddenly pulled out a long black sword from behind, and then he stabbed the sword violently into his waist and abdomen.

"Pfft!"

The blade of the sword sank deeply.

"ah!"

The crowd of onlookers let out a cry of surprise.

In modern society, some people actually perform seppuku in the street!

Masaka (is it)...

The spirit of Showa and the men of Showa are all back!

A Japanese man burst into tears.

As Fu Qinghai used the corrugated steel sword to mutilate himself, the female ghost in his body suddenly screamed in pain and flew out of Fu Qinghai's body with the torn wounds of the spirit body.

As early as in the village of Biertan in Romania, Fu Qinghai knew that the steel sword could not directly attack the spirit body, but it could indirectly harm the spirit body by attacking the person possessed by the spirit body.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

An angry shout came.

A tall woman in black pushed aside the onlookers and came to the scene of the car accident. She saw that Fu Qinghai had just pulled out the Wagang sword from his abdomen, bringing out a pool of blood. Then the wound immediately began to heal automatically... She became furious. Black smoke spewed out from all around, the sinister wind blew up, ghosts cried, and the middle of the road instantly turned into an underworld scene.

"Nani! One hundred... one hundred ghosts walking in the night!

The old Japanese man who was moved to tears just now because the Showa man committed seppuku in the street suddenly shouted in horror.

Zhang Yuning looked at the dark night sky with a ferocious expression, waved her hand to summon a group of ghosts, and forcefully dragged the ghost of Mimiko Minunuma into her body.

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Elm Street, Los Angeles, USA.

Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning walked side by side.

"Does it still hurt, your wound?"

Zhang Yuning turned around and asked.

Fu Qinghai touched his abdomen and said:

"I no longer feel anything."

"I made my promise three days later, but I still regretted it temporarily. This new female ghost has no spirit of contract. I will punish her well."

Zhang Yuning turned her head and said calmly.

Fu Qinghai laughed and didn't pay much attention.

He has a three-piece set of exorcisms including a corrugated steel sword, a golden finger tiger and a screaming beetle, but the only disadvantage is that it is not the yin and yang eyes.

It’s not just science fiction/fantasy universes that talk about lineage. There is also a classic lineage in the horror movie universe.

In the West, they are called "psychics" or "psychics", in the East, they are called "Yin Yang Eyes", and Stephen King is called "The Shining"...

In fact, they are all the same thing.

The only ability of this bloodline is to see ghosts.

It is a standard ability for the protagonists in supernatural horror movies.

Constantine has a yin-yang eye, Kurosaki Ichigo has a yin-yang eye, Natsume Takashi also has a yin-yang eye... and Zhang Yuning was also given this talent by the world of reincarnation.

So she actually has blood.

Rank the ghosts in Zhang Yuning’s body:

1. Coconut.

There is no doubt that she is the King of Ghosts. She can even create a cursed space in the cursed universe, commit crimes across time and space, and kill people neatly and neatly without any sloppiness.

2. Pazuzu.

An ancient demon who is completely immune to Bibles, holy water and crosses, and ordinary exorcism methods have no effect on him.

3. Mimiko.

Rare evil spirits that are not earth-bound spirits have deep resentment and are extremely ferocious, which ordinary onmyojis cannot resist. They can kill people across long distances through electronic communication technology, which greatly enriches Zhang Yuning's offensive methods.

4. Valak.

The Seventy-Two Pillars of Solomon are ranked 62nd. They are in mutual restraint with Christianity. They will be harmed by traditional exorcism methods. They can create illusions to guide dreams and incarnate as snakes in hell.

5. Chu people are beautiful.

Nicknamed "Mei Aunt", her special abilities include: teleportation, creating hallucinations, spreading curses through water sources, and... singing (only Cantonese Opera Hua Dan).

6. Kim In-sook.

An ordinary Korean female ghost who just made up the numbers, with the status of pen fairy, the weakest in strength, no special abilities, and the only advantage is that she is pretty.

At this point, Zhang Yuning spent Fu Qinghai's money to buy three DVDs and a ballpoint pen from the "Old Lin CD and Video Rental" store, and they have all been put to use - in conjunction with the reincarnation beacon, they came to their respective reincarnation worlds.

In the end there was only one steel needle left.

and a burnt sweater with red and green stripes.

That tattered sweater had been thrown into the trash can by Fu Qinghai, because at this moment, the two of them had arrived at the reincarnation world where it belonged - the Nightmare on Elm Street universe.

The world of reincarnation to which the steel needle belongs - the Dark Tower Universe of the "Death Chaser" series, with Old Man Lin's warning in mind, Zhang Yuning does not plan to go there in the short term.

Then the last piece of the puzzle.

Freddy on Elm Street.

It's also close.

Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning came to a small fringe town in the large rural Los Angeles, the legendary Elm Street, only to find that the place had been surrounded by police cars. Police officers in black LAPD uniforms could be seen everywhere. They were cordoning off red lines. Blue police lights flashed, and the scene was in order.

"A case is being handled inside, and this street is closed to traffic."

A policeman stopped the two of them, Fu Qinghai.

Fu Qinghai frowned slightly and looked down at the policeman. The policeman also raised his head and looked at him fearlessly.

Fu Qinghai said: "Reincarnation person?"

The police were stunned when they heard this.

After experiencing so many reincarnations, Fu Qinghai's vision has long been sharpened. Through the familiar temperament of the person in front of him, he could tell at a glance:

He is a player, not a real police officer.

Seeing that his identity was revealed, the "policeman" no longer concealed himself, came over, covered his mouth and whispered:

"It's at a critical stage inside. We will seal Freddy completely soon. You two just wait and win, and don't go in and cause trouble."

"Seal Freddy completely? How to do it?"

Fu Qinghai asked curiously.

The policeman felt that the other party might not leave unless he explained something, so he looked around and said in a low voice:

"We have brought over the special drug from the Inception universe - Autonominol, as well as several dream-making machines. As long as they successfully bring Freddy into the last level of the 'Lost Realm' in the dream, let that The local natives responsible for dreaming will always stay in the Lost Realm and cannot wake up, so Freddy will be completely trapped in the Lost Realm!"

Fu Qinghai was shocked when he heard this.

It can still be like this! ?

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