horror fairy tale

By: Jun Shuiyou

"Here is the notebook." Liu took out the notes he carried with him and handed them to Fuji.Fuji frowned slightly, put the notebook by his hand and said in a deep voice: "No matter how many concerns we had before, now there is no doubt that a lot of evidence points to the maid Ono, we can no longer sit still and wait for death."

"Hmm." Atobe, who had been thinking about something with his head down, responded and walked to the wall, stretched out his hand and pulled the rope in the corner. It didn't take long to see the maid Matsumoto trotting over from the end of the corner. The ancient summoning equipment is still preserved in the master room, and it works again when the electronic communication equipment is not available now.

Atobe ordered the maid to call all the people in the villa to gather here. After Matsumoto left in a hurry, Shinobu, who was sitting in the corner with a pale face, suddenly said, "If you want to talk about the feeling of being controlled, I have experienced it too." Thinking of it Enduring what happened last night, everyone's expressions were terrified.Renzu just helped his hair and continued: "Last night, I was with Cilang and Xiangri. I went to the kitchen to get water because I was thirsty. I saw a maid wandering around the ruins from the window and followed me out."

Shinozu said and narrowed his eyes: "It's Xiaoye, I lost my sense of autonomy when I saw her face clearly, there was a voice guiding me to keep going, and then, I felt that I was being cold Surrounded by the sea." Shinozu shuddered subconsciously as if recalling the scene of last night, "I have never felt that the sea is so terrible, dark, deep, surrounded by endless water that will swallow you up, everything All my struggles are futile." Instinctively, I wanted to lift my glasses, only to find that the pair of plain mirrors had been lost in the sea that night. "At this moment, a voice in my mind told me the direction, and it was also a woman's voice. I tried my best to surface the water and vaguely saw the lights of the villa in front of me, when I swam to exhaustion, luckily it appeared..."

"Another woman's voice..." Fujiko raised his index finger to his chin, before he had time to say anything, the well-trained servants of the Atobe family had already gathered at the door of the room, not only the maids who were often seen by everyone, There were also cooks and gardeners gathered together.Atobe glanced at him and said coldly, "Where's Xiao Ye?"

"Master." A maid who looked a little older bowed and said, "Everyone hasn't seen Ono Saki, and I have searched for her room. It looks very messy, as if something has been tidied up in a hurry."

"It seems that there is no need to doubt, she won't just sit there and wait for us to control her." Yukimura who was standing in the room said calmly.

Atobe caressed the tear mole at the corner of his eye, and his eyes fell on his own bedroom door not far from the door.Just now because Tezuka was unstable and inconvenient to move, a group of people gathered in the bedroom of the consul butler, and the consular butler was instead sent to Atobe's bedroom to rest. "Matsumoto, and Yoshino." Atobe ordered two maids who came from the main house together and said: "Go to my uncle's room to take care of uncle, while the others search the entire villa, including the annex building, and immediately control any suspicious persons, especially It's Ono." After Atobe finished speaking, he added, "Two or three people, pay attention to safety."

After Atobe ordered everything, he turned back to face the crowd again, his voice seemed a little dry, and he even abandoned the usual colloquial words: "I know you don't believe the Atobe family, yes, uncle did hide it from the beginning. Some things, but I, I want to find out the truth just like you.” Atobe said and walked back to the house quickly, opened the top drawer of the desk and took out the cowhide notebook, “I had a long talk with my uncle last night, He should have told me everything he knows, it's all in the notebook here, the relic of the former housekeeper Adaro, her diary."

Yukimura, who was the closest, took the diary and began to read it, and Fuji also began to read "Nordic Fairy Tales" copied by Liu.The two notebooks were circulated in silence.

"Nordic Fairy Tales" Liu focused on silently writing the second half of the "Mermaid Chapter" that everyone has read several times, and there are also sporadic mentions of a general outline.The content in it is not the same as the beauty, kindness, and reunion advocated by "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales" that are currently on the market. The blood, witchcraft, and darkness are more like a black magic textbook that was circulated in the European Middle Ages. .

As at the end of "Snow White", the prince saw Snow White sleeping in a crystal coffin, and then turned to the seven dwarfs who had been standing by and whispered: "Exactly seven." Then he swung his sword and killed seven dwarfs. The blood of the dwarves formed an ancient magic circle on the muddy land. The prince kissed the princess awake and returned to the castle for the wedding. The seven dwarves slept in the forest forever.

In "Sleeping Beauty", the prince used a mermaid heart to wake the princess.

The "Mermaid Chapter" is described in more detail by Liu. Everyone has read the first half of the story many times. After falling in love with each other, the prince finally dug out his heart to save his true beloved princess of the neighboring country.

And Liu Buwan's last neat handwriting read - the witch who lost her heart didn't die immediately, the mermaid who lost her heart just lost her body, strength, and kindness of the mermaid.Mermaid souls are eternal!The witch's soul watched helplessly as the beautiful and elegant princess walked into the room holding the prince's hand. The princess sat on the edge of the bed with a smile on her lips and raised her eyes as if she had seen through the witch's soul: "It just so happens that you are the seventh, I came back."

Seeing the excitement here, what is the only line of the princess of the neighboring country who appeared for the first time in this fairy tale, "the seventh" and "I'm back"?

Fuji raised his head, only to find that Yukimura had finished flipping through Adaro's diary and came to him to read the fairy tale that Liu had copied.When Yukimura read it for the first time from Liu's hand before, he only scanned it roughly because of time, and it was far from being as detailed as Fuji now.

Yukimura felt Fuji's movement, then looked away from the last few lines of the [Mermaid Chapter] and turned to look at Fuji's eyes, and moved his mouth silently to make a 'little mermaid' mouth shape.When Yukimura saw the end of the story for the first time, he had no doubt that the princess of the neighboring country was the little mermaid who appeared first.

"The mermaid's revenge..." Fuji murmured while pressing his temples, no, this story is far from that simple.Luckily, Liu also copied the first part of the mermaid story, and he quickly found the text he wanted, "The mermaid witch came to the shore, and the prince who came to walk by the beach loved her beauty." love at first sight.At this time, a guard came to the palace and reported that some of the guards accidentally fell off their horses. The prince just replied indifferently: "That's not important. What's important now is that I want to invite this lady to take a walk by the sea."'

Then the next day, the third day, the fourth day... when the witch and the prince got along, there was always some bad news about casualties, as if the witch was born with a curse of bad luck.It's just that the prince didn't care at all, even if he heard that people were drowning before the cruise, and the dance was because he heard that the kitchen was on fire.

Fuji searched the text from the first line, no, what was wrong, it was only six days since the prince met the witch, and the number of people who died including the witch was only the sixth, why seven...seven...

Bu Er's eyes finally fell on the place near the end, which depicts the mermaid heart of the prince holding the witch in his hand, turning around indifferently, and said coldly: "Seven days ago, when the princess was about to die, the wizard told me that the next day will be Met a girl with a magical mermaid heart, and the princess can last another seven days, sure enough..."

seven days!the seventh!So, the princess is actually the first sacrifice for the resurrection of the little mermaid!

After sorting out his thoughts, Buer felt his whole body go cold, and handed the notebook to the next person, buried his face in his hand, and sank into the soft sofa weakly.

Such a fairy tale makes people feel more frightened the more they look at it.The witch used all her tricks to get false love, the prince tried his best to save her true lover, and the innocent and beautiful little mermaid...

When Adaro's diary was passed to his hands, Bu Er was still immersed in the story, feeling nauseated from his soul, he just flipped through it hastily and propped his head and said: "Many of you are now I have read both notebooks, or someone has only read one, but I think we can draw some conclusions from this. First, some supernatural things beyond our cognition do exist, such as mermaids and magic. Second, , Someone is trying to resurrect something through this 'magic', and the condition for resurrection is..."

"In seven days, seven souls are sacrificed, and one mermaid heart."

Buer, whose words were cut off in the middle, turned his head and looked out the door in surprise, Echizen was looking at the people in the room with cat eyes wide open and his lips tightly pursed, with Oishi and Momoshiro standing behind him.King Ren still leaned against the innocent hand by the door, indicating that he saw that it was one of his own, so he didn't notify everyone.

"Echizen, you're awake!" Kawamura, who was finally relieved to see that his junior was all right, went up to him happily, Echizen dodged Kawamura's hand trying to rub his head and said, "When I woke up I met a maid who was looking for something outside, and I heard that you are all here, so I came here with Vice Minister Oishi and Senior Momoshiro." Echizen paused, and continued without waiting for any enthusiastic reactions from everyone: "Before I fell into a coma, I heard the quarrel between Maid Ono and Mr. Butler."

Echizen looked around the crowd, and imitated the scene at that time with an unwavering tone: "I sneaked into the annex building yesterday afternoon, and heard a sound coming from inside, so I listened for a while. The butler said he didn't want to continue After going down, he can’t hurt others anymore. Then Ono said, “Uncle, there are still two short, and you have to get seven sacrifices and mermaid hearts in seven days, or you have to start all over again!” It was a bit vague at the time I wanted to get closer, but I accidentally bumped into the door and was discovered. I turned around and ran, and when I heard some fighting sounds inside, Ono came out a little late. I could have run away smoothly. " Echizen said and frowned dissatisfiedly, "But when I got out of the annex building, I accidentally tripped over the threshold, hit my head on the ground and probably fainted for a while. Something with a strange aroma covered my mouth and nose. I struggled to pick up a stone and scratched [7], and then vaguely heard the voice of Senior Taocheng. At that time, Senior Taocheng was probably passing by, so I Be saved."

After Echizen's passage, the known artificial pointing to Ono has been confirmed, but there are still more unnatural mysteries shrouded in the hearts of everyone.

Liu took it around and returned to the notebook in his hand, took out a pen and wrote on a new page 'seven days, seven sacrifices, one mermaid heart. '

Next, I will briefly add the following-

【first day】

Haitang's missing people searched for a day without success

【the next day】

Noon Gan and Kaitang were found dead

The housekeeper reported that everyone could not leave the island, and the mobile phone lost signal

Akutagawa disappeared in the afternoon, Hiyoshi and Kuwahara disappeared one after another during the search for Akutagawa

Hiji was burned to death in the hall fireplace

【The third day】

In the morning, Marui was found to have had his heart gouged out and died

The auxiliary building collapsed, the missing Kuwahara reappeared, and Kikumaru died

The housekeeper said that the supplies are enough for seven days

Atobe was attacked at night and was rescued by Yukimura and Fuji

[the fourth day]

Sleep for a day

In the middle of the night, Ono prevented the people who had excavated the ruins from entering the auxiliary building

[the fifth day]

In the evening, Echizen was attacked by Ono and passed out in front of the auxiliary building

Butler found dead in basement of annexe

Ninja was attacked and rescued by Fuji

Tezuka was attacked in the middle of the night

【Sixth day】

Tezuka assaults consular butler in the morning

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The pen in Liu's hand paused, and he concluded: "The people who have been attacked and killed now are Gan, Haitang, Hiyoshi, Marui, Jumaru, and Mr. Butler. There are six people in total, and the time is five and a half days. Then, in the next day and a half In time, if we prevent her from successfully killing people, or preventing her from finding the so-called mermaid heart, this ritual should have failed, are we safe?"

Everyone was silent for a while, one and a half days really sounded very short, but the previous five days were too much, people didn't know how to face the remaining one and a half days.Should he take the initiative to attack and try his best to find Ono who doesn't know what means he has? Contact, will the frenzied Ono start a new round of... seven sacrifices?