After the same name as the Abyss Lord

Ye Zun was stunned at the door, he didn't expect to see such a normal scene when he came up.

The woman had already walked to the door naturally, and while beckoning him to come in kindly, she bent down and thoughtfully brought him slippers.

With a smile on his mouth, he said: "This child is really, what are you doing in a daze? I haven't seen my mother for so long and I don't know him?"

Ye Zun came back to his senses, paused, and walked in slowly.

The door closed behind him.

Ye Zun didn't know what to say, so he said nothing and looked around.

At a glance, I saw a middle-aged man sitting on the sofa. The man was reading the newspaper in his hand. He looked fat and elegant, with a kind smile on his face, and nodded politely to Ye Zun: "I'm back, let's eat. I know you want to eat." When I came back, your mother specially asked me to go out to buy vegetables early in the morning, all of which you like to eat."

--How is this going?

No matter how scary the scene is, I have been mentally prepared for it, but seeing such an ordinary scene makes people suspect for a moment that it is their own mistake.

Unknowingly, Ye Zun was surrounded by the sofa and sat down.

The food on the table is very rich, especially the pork rib soup in the middle. The soup is bright red and the meat is firm and tender, which makes people salivate and move their index fingers.

Seeing the pork rib soup, Ye Zun's mind flashed a picture of a woman in despair holding a blood-dripping kitchen knife, and he was slightly shocked for a moment.

"Eat quickly, eat more, it's all prepared for you."

The two people at the table have already started eating.

"Father works hard, so eat more." The woman was gentle and considerate, and after serving Ye Zun's food, she also served the man's.

The white rice was fragrant, but Ye Zun didn't dare to take a bite.

"You child, why are you so cautious when you go home, eat quickly." The woman blamed with a smile.

Ye Zun came back to his senses, and in order to cover up, he subconsciously asked, "Where are the rest of the family?"

Now that there was a topic, the woman stopped staring at him and urged him to eat, and said with a smile, "Your brother is at work, and he only comes back occasionally on weekends."

--at work?Isn't Shen Yuan a high school student?How is this going?

"You too, just graduated from university, wouldn't it be good to go home and find a place closer to work?"

——What, in their eyes, Kaoru Nogawa has graduated from university now?

Ye Zun froze for a moment: "How old am I now?"

"Oh, I just remembered. Your 21st birthday is coming soon. Mom must remember to give you a good time this time."

The woman smiled all over her face, revealing the faint lines at the end of her eyes.

Ye Zun stood there in a daze, and the next moment he touched the hair on the back of his head that was barely tied up at the sparrow's tail, and as expected, he caught a bunch of cool hair that was as long as a hand.

——21-year-old Kaoru Nogawa, with inexplicably growing hair... Is the time in this room constantly changing?

Ye Zun's eyes were cautious, looking at the woman, his Adam's apple slipped slightly: "Then, where is my sister?"

The woman froze for a moment, the smile on her face froze slightly, and soon returned to normal, still smiling: "This child, how can you have a sister. What did you hear, do you suspect that we are going to have a second child? Our How can age be regenerated."

Ye Zun was stunned: "No sister?"

——Is the seven or eight-year-old girl he saw at home before really the ghost of Kaoru Nogawa's sister?

——But if it is a ghost, Shen Yuan said that there is a girl in the family, what is going on?

"Isn't there a girl at home?" Ye Zun stared at the woman, his tone restrained and calm, "Where is she now?"

The woman's face was a bit reluctant, and she looked back at the man.

The man's expression was also a little hesitant, and he smoothed things over: "Let's eat."

Ye Zun still looked at the woman: "Mom's only daughter was born to my father, right?"

There was a smile on the woman's face, but reluctantly, she frowned slightly and nodded.

Ye Zun clenched his fingers, looked at the woman who was completely normal, and thought of a possibility:

——Maybe I was wrong. At the beginning, only Nogawa Kaoru knew that her sister was bitten by a ghost. Although her mother took Nogawa Kaoru away, maybe her mother didn’t know about ghosts, so it is possible that her mother took the initiative to pick up her sister who was infected by ghosts. Come live in a new home.

He stared at the woman: "Didn't Mom take my sister to live at home? I've seen her, and she even made breakfast for Dad."

Because of the chaotic timeline in the room, Ye Zun couldn't clearly say it was Monday morning.

The man paused, lowered his head and ate as if nothing had happened.

The woman frowned, and the corners of her mouth were raised, but the smile on her face was almost non-existent. She said nonchalantly, "Don't say it, you don't have a younger sister. You have said it many times. You, too, have graduated from college, and you should find someone to start a family as soon as possible." Get married. Your immunity is not good... Vitamins have been stopped for a long time, should you continue to go to the doctor to prescribe some more."

Ye Zun was a little absurd, and looked at her calmly: "Mom is implying that I have a mental illness?"

——Didn't she set the table and chopsticks specially at the beginning, asking Shen Yuan to save some meat for her younger sister?

The woman ate with her head down: "I didn't say that, let's eat. It's fine to talk about anything, don't mention my sister anymore."

Ye Zun looked at her quietly, swallowed a little in his dry throat, and decided to say straight: "Because my sister died, or because my mother was also bitten by a ghost?"

The man immediately smoothed things over: "What nonsense are you talking about, kid? The salt in the soup is a little weak. Go to the kitchen and get some salt."

The woman stopped and frowned at him, not angry, but looked at him with a strange expression: "I really only have one daughter, do you really want to know where she is?"

The woman's expression was really weird, that strange sense of calm, when Ye Zun looked at her face, the same creepy chill as before opening the undead diary reappeared.

——She clearly knew this expression.Was the girl's ghost really at home all the time?

He took a deep breath, feeling that he wasn't ready yet.

Ye Zun subconsciously stood up, followed the middle-aged man's words and walked to the kitchen to get the salt. During the process, the woman also kept looking at him silently, whether she was angry or not, it was weird. An uneasy look.

It was like, as long as Ye Zun asked again, she would consider revealing the answer to him directly, but her expression said that the answer might not be something Ye Zun could bear.

Ye Zun stood in the kitchen, this was his first time in the kitchen.

Probably because of the daytime, the room was much brighter than he remembered. Although it was a little dark because of the rain outside, the lights were bright, so it didn't seem depressing at all.

The same is true for the kitchen. After entering, you will find that there is another window that leads directly to the outside, which is brighter than any other part of the room.

Ye Zun took the salt shaker and was about to go out when he suddenly stopped.

A series of images flashed through my mind, the image of a woman chopping steak two nights ago, the unpalatable meat in the soup pot, the attractive bone broth outside, and whether it was the little girl in the nightmare or Kaoru Nogawa’s The diary, even the death diary of the girl who issued the card with cherry blossoms, recorded the words.

——People who have been bitten by ghosts will be infected. If they don’t eat people, they will starve to death. After dawn, they will recover to their original state, but the wounds of being eaten will still be exposed at night until they are completely eaten by ghosts.

He tried his best to avoid thinking about the original texture of the meat in the soup pot, but he couldn't stop doubting it.

creak creak.

The small voice seemed to be coming from the refrigerator behind him.

Before rationally making a judgment, his hand was already on the refrigerator door.

The voices of men and women outside the kitchen continued. Just like any normal family, one parent complained that the child was ignorant, while the other tried to persuade them.

——How about it, open it and have a look?

What will you see?

The door of the refrigerator opened very softly, with only a little resistance, and once it was opened, the inside could be seen clearly.

He opened the door of the freezer, and inside were some loose meat packed in bags. The red and white were distinct, and it looked like normal pork.

"It takes that long to get a piece of salt." The woman's voice was a little unhappy.

The middle-aged man smoothed things over: "It's hard for the child to stop talking angry when he comes back. By the way, there is beer in the refrigerator, remember to bring two cans."

"Oh." Ye Zun breathed a sigh of relief, and opened the small refrigerator above.

There was basically nothing there, just some vegetables, leftover cooked food and drinks.

It was true after pulling it apart. It seemed that there were a lot of things, but it was empty. Something was not arranged properly, and the whole thing fell out.

Ye Zun subconsciously stretched out his hand, holding a cabbage-sized, round... human head.

head? !

Ye Zun blinked and his heart stopped beating.

The face of the human head is very familiar, exactly the same as that of the middle-aged man outside who is persuading the hostess.

As if suffocated to death, the eyes are bulging round, I don't know if it is rage or fear, it seems to be staring out.

The lights in the room suddenly went out, and the walls of the entire kitchen rotated in an instant. In a blink of an eye, the warm home turned into an old room like a tomb in a nightmare.

The horizontal kitchen turned into a vertical one, what should have been a wall became a doorway, and the whole room became a long corridor. Ye Zun saw the living room straight from the side.

The men and women in the living room were also looking at him.

Delicious meals on the table turned into various human tissues.

The man ate with relish, and while chewing, he said those warm and persuasive words before.

But his neck was broken to one side, precarious as if it was going to be completely broken, but it was barely stitched together by a centipede-like black thread, but the wound still gushed out streams of thick black blood.

On the distorted head and neck, black eyes stared straight at Ye Zun who was holding the human head in front of the refrigerator, with a strange expression.

The woman was old and numb, no longer the tenderness and happiness she had before, she was as distraught as the previous two nights, she was afraid of something in her bones but didn't even dare to express the timidity that clearly surfaced.

She looked blankly in Ye Zun's direction.

From the waist down, there was nothing but a torn upper body.

The middle-aged man behind her bit off half of her head with one bite, and her right shoulder and arm with two bites. The woman didn't respond, she just smiled absently and looked straight at Ye Zun: "Now, you know Where is my sister?"

After losing most of her body, the woman who was still sitting in the dark living room like a normal person, smiling, was more creepy than the ghost-like middle-aged man behind her.

The field of vision is filled with human heads, black lines, twisted necks, and sprayed blood.

Ye Zun threw the head away from him, and his chest convulsed.

Even though I have never eaten a meal cooked by a woman, I can't help but want to retch when I think that I will almost eat it.

——They all turned into ghosts after all!

escape!Must flee immediately!

He locked the kitchen door first, picked up a kitchen knife and hacked in the middle of the dilapidated window frame, and escaped through the narrow kitchen window.

When he tried to escape, the kitchen door lock was twisted repeatedly from the outside, and countless buzzing ghost voices were saying something.

Pretending to be anger, accusation, concern, doing everything possible to get him to open the door.

"Kun, Kaoru...it's time to eat..."

When he jumped out of the window, the sound disappeared instantly.

Ye Zun jumped out of the window, the height of the third floor is dangerous and needs to be buffered, but he was already on the ground almost as soon as he stepped out of the window.

It was terribly dark all around.

Ye Zun ran for several steps before realizing that this was not outside, he seemed to be still in the living room.

The living room here is more like the living room in last night's nightmare than the one I walked in before.

No matter how long he walks, it is boundless, but if you look closely, it is cramped and narrow, as if he has not walked a few steps in the same place all the time.

——Have I entered the power circulation system of ghosts?

He pressed his beating heart, took a deep breath and made a psychological suggestion: Calm down, calm down, at least the heartbeat will slow down first.

Regardless of jumping like this, before the ghost comes to kill him, he will burst his heart and die.

This has always been very effective. After all, since he decided to go home, he has already made sufficient mental preparations and has certain expectations for everything he will encounter.

Although you still can't help but feel fear when things come to an end, you can overcome them rationally afterwards.

——You cannot enter the power circulation system of ghosts. As long as you are not afraid or afraid, the power of ghosts is not so strong.

——It’s only the fourth day now, theoretically the power of ghosts is not that strong enough to kill me, otherwise they wouldn’t have lied to me just now, and would have done it directly.

His heartbeat slowed down, he was extremely calm, his eyes adapted to the darkness, and there was no abnormal movement here for the time being.

——What does the ghost want to do next?Want to make me more scared?Scared me out of my mind?

Appear suddenly from behind?

Peeping in the darkness on all sides?

The picture of bloody killing?Scary vision?

Fear cannot be imagined to heighten the fear of the unknown.

But anticipating horror in order to numb the sensitivity to horror.

In order to fight against the fear that could not be restrained, he deliberately pulled away part of his mind, trying his best to rethink the clues he had obtained and the reasoning he had made so far.

——Nogawa Kaoru's parents both became ghosts, so looking back now, neither of those two people really lied.

By the Sunday night he entered the game, I'm afraid both of them would have been dead.

When entering the dungeon, the game prompt was [Your name is Kaoru Nogawa, suddenly one night you heard a quarrel, and when you woke up the next day, the world began to become strange.You find that some people around you are ghosts...]

Now that I think about it, the weirdness of the woman chopping the steak back then, and the fishy smell in the room were all too suspicious.

But because of Ye Zun's subconscious fear of the game and his lack of initiative, as well as the seemingly gentle seven-day safety period given by the game, he was paralyzed, making him choose to turn a blind eye to everything suspicious in front of him.

If he had taken the initiative to find a way to enter the master bedroom to have a look that night, would he have discovered the truth earlier?

But if he really went in and saw the dead body in the room, would he really be able to live to the seventh day?

——Oops, I suddenly thought, is the game intentional? In fact, the correct way to clear the level may be not to explore. As long as you don’t discover the truth and don’t realize the ghost, it’s safe?

The momentary panic was quickly calmed down by Ye Zun.

——No, just try not to find out that the ghost will definitely not be able to pass the seventh day. This is undoubtedly waiting for death. As long as the seventh day ghost is directly active, it will undoubtedly die.

However, when searching for clues in the early stage, it is absolutely necessary for safety not to reveal the ghost's identity so quickly.

In the end, we should actively explore the plot of the dungeon, and solve Kaoru Nogawa's death based on the clues we found.

As he moved carefully in the room, looking for the exit vigilantly, he forced himself to calmly rearrange his thoughts.

——It is known that there is a kind of ghost in this world that will choose victims in a certain way: Kaoru Nogawa's sister and the girl with the card issued by Sakura are both victims.

What both of them have in common is that they are girls.

——However, after many years, the ghost came to Kaoru Nogawa's new home again. It is ruled out that the younger sister may have come to avenge the brother and mother who left her to the ghost. Why did the ghost appear in the new home?

It's because there is still a hidden fish in this family who fits the identity of the victim, a girl!

So, the woman just now kept denying the existence of her sister, in fact, to hide and protect that girl?

——Then, there is a question that needs to be answered, how did the ghost enter Kaoru Nogawa's house?

When Nogawa Kaoru was a child, how the ghost entered their house and ate his younger sister is unknown now, but now, how did the ghost enter this new home?

——Wait, since the death time of the two people is not lying, plus the time given by the game, does it mean that the time when the ghost entered this house was actually last weekend?

It was the night when Ye Zun entered the game.

So, the question boils down to, what happened on a weekend night?

As long as you know what happened that night, can you understand how the ghost invaded Nogawa Kaoru's house?Who was the first to be infected by ghosts?Then you can find the ghost's body, as Nogawa Kaoru said in his diary, kill it!

clack.

As if because he finally solved the puzzle, the door of the maze opened automatically.

The exit that could not be found anywhere suddenly opened a gap automatically, which was the familiar door leading to the outside.

Ye Zun only hesitated for a second, then stepped forward and opened the door.

In any case, it was better than staying in this closed tomb-like room, as if a ghost would jump out to eat people at any time.

It was still cloudy and rainy outside the door, and there was constant lightning. It was impossible to see anything three steps away.

This rain completely put an end to anyone's idea of ​​running out to escape, and it was eerily cold and ominous.

Ye Zun also had no intention of going out at all.

He stood in the silent corridor, thought for a while, and remembered the residents on the left who came up the stairs on the third floor.

"Go ask, maybe they heard something."

Ye Zun walked to the left of the corridor.

The sound insulation in the old residential area is very poor, and the slightest sound is very obvious. As long as there are people in the next door, you can definitely hear something.

He stood at the door and knocked three times.

"Hello, excuse me, is there anyone? I am Kaoru Nogawa who lives on the right. I have something to ask."

No one answered, but the door creaked and opened a crack.

"..."

There was a lot of wind and rain, and Ye Zun wasn't sure what the person inside said when he opened the door, it seemed to say please come in, come in, or something.

A few potted flowers were placed at the door of the neighbor, which was full of vitality, and the trash cans at the door were also neatly arranged, giving people a sense of life, which pulled him out of the horrible and suffocating atmosphere.

"Excuse me, I'm coming in."

He was standing at the entrance, because he was still wearing the shoes he changed indoors, so he wasn't too worried about stepping on the floor of the master's house.

Looking at the room at a glance, it is clean and tidy, with romantic thoughts, and one can tell that the hostess is full of zest for life.

There was a sound from inside that seemed to be shaking off the bed sheets to dry, which was associated with excessive wind and rain. It seemed that the rain had soaked the clothes to dry on the balcony, and the owner was busy cleaning them up.

"Sorry for visiting at this time, but I have something very important to ask..."

"Come in and talk." The soft voice sounded like the master was frowning, worried about something, but forced himself to be patient and polite.

Ye Zun carefully closed the door, subconsciously not locking it.

He walked towards the master bedroom, and saw a tall, thin woman in a lace pajamas who was facing him sideways.

Ye Zun turned his eyes away for a moment, pursed his lips slightly, feeling a little embarrassed and impolite.

He didn't expect women to dress so coolly, and it was too impolite for him to be here at this time.

But his problem is very important, there is no way to just leave.

"It's like this," he pretended not to see anything, and quickly asked the question, "I wonder if you heard arguing last weekend night? Something happened to my family because of this, I want to know what happened gone."

There was no answer, and the sound of shaking off the sheets continued, loud and forceful, as if the owner was feeling a little irritable.

"Huh?" Ye Zun waited for a while, wanting to look directly at her expression several times, but hesitant when he thought of the woman's cool clothes.

"It's raining heavily, aren't you cold? Do you want to wear an extra dress?"

After all, with no distractions in mind and a clear conscience, and the matter at hand is very important, Ye Zun still looked at her calmly, allowing himself to only focus on her face above her neck.

The woman is really tall, Ye Zun is 1.8 meters five, but even though there is a little distance, the woman's perspective seems to be looking down on him.

It must be more than 1.9 meters. Is it taller than a priest?

My heart suddenly moved.

Ye Zun was slightly taken aback, and looked at the woman carefully.

The wind rattled in through the open window, making a noise as it blew the curtains, like shaking off annoying rain-soaked sheets.

However, the mistress herself didn't do anything, she just looked down at Ye Zun slightly, without blinking.

Ye Zun took a step back, his face pale unconsciously.

Looking carefully, the woman's fashionable long hair was loose, and a tulle-like silk scarf was wrapped between her hair and her neck.

But, who would wear cool pajamas at home with a silk scarf around their neck?

Looking along the silk scarf, the ceiling is decorated with the same pink and white lace tulle, which is of the same quality and style as the silk scarf around her neck, and has been wrapped around the lamp of the same color above.

The tulle nightdress is as long as the calf, and it naturally hangs tight from the calf to the instep. The neck is too long, making people look tall and tall.

Ye Zun stepped back, holding the door frame with his hands, and stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes.

The hostess was hanged from the lamp in the bedroom.

—she died?Who opened the door for me?

Ye Zun ran towards the door suddenly, he was ready to go out and open the door anytime.

Unlike the weird layout of Nogawa Kaoru's house, this bedroom is not far from the exit of the gate, and he ran there in two or three steps.

Panting sharply, the moment his fingers touched the door, Ye Zun's footsteps stopped.

——I can’t run away, I’m here to find the truth.

——Run away without knowing anything, and on the seventh day, I can only be slaughtered by ghosts!

Ye Zun gripped the doorknob tightly, closed his eyes and opened them again, with firm eyes.

He first fully unlocked the anti-theft lock of the door, and then pulled the door open completely, so that even if there is a strong force, the door will not be locked for a while, so as to prevent himself from being locked inside and unable to escape at critical moments.

Then, Ye Zun began to observe the living room.

The house is very tidy, with the atmosphere of living not long ago. Judging from the state of the hostess' body, she died not long ago.

Thinking of something, Ye Zun stroked his hair again.

——Sure enough, the hair became shorter again.

It seems that the time in this residential building is indeed disordered, but the length of the hair can be used to judge the time before and after.

No wonder I couldn't find a mirror at home. Was it intentional to hide this clue so as to disturb perception?

Judging from the length of his hair being close to before Ye Zun entered the dungeon, the current time is roughly when he just entered the dungeon.

In other words, the current timeline is last weekend, before and after he just entered the instance.

That was the day when all the weirdness started, Nogawa Kaoru heard a quarrel.

——It seems that I was wrong. The site of this dungeon is not only Nogawa Kaoru's home, but also neighbors.This is also an important occasion where clues are hidden.

It suddenly occurred to him that the whole class had turned into a ghost in Class [-], Grade [-].

——That’s right, there are ghosts in the school and even the buses on the road. Why didn’t I think that there was a problem with the neighbors?

He felt that he was beginning to touch the edge of truth.

"Hehehe, it's okay if you really can talk? You've been staying with me until now? Your wife is coming back from shopping at this time."

Suddenly, a woman's charming voice came from the bedroom, and Ye Zun was terrified.

The author has something to say: the foreshadowing is almost done, the clues are basically given, and the ending begins.