COSER, summoned by the strongest

2006年2月8日23点14分,一名叫莲实的上班族女性在论坛上发布了一个帖子，说自己乘坐私铁，到达了一个从未见过的车站——“如月车站”。

The five passengers on the private railway were all asleep and could not be woken up no matter what. She went to the conductor's room to seek help, but found that the conductor's room was completely covered, and she could not see anything inside. No one came forward to answer her call.

Lianshi decided to get out of the car.

Although the netizens on the forum tried their best to dissuade him, Lianshi was unwilling to sit still and insisted on getting out of the car.

At 2006:2 on February 9, 0, Lianshi posted that Kisaragi station was empty, there was no timetable, and there was no return vehicle. She called the police for help, but was hung up as a prank call and told her parents They called for help, but their parents who were far away in Osaka had no idea where Kisaragi Station was.

At 0:36, Lianshi decided to walk out of the station, go outside and take a taxi home.

Netizens expressed their support and asked her to go home quickly.

At 01:14, Lianshi walked along the railway for a long time without seeing anyone. She heard the faint sound of bells and drums behind her, as if some kind of festival was being held.She decided to leave quickly.

At 01:31, Lianshi accidentally fell down on the way out and was bleeding and injured. Fortunately, she met a kind man who was willing to take her home. She had no other choice, so she got into the car of a stranger.

At 02:06, Lianshi sent the last message: The car kept driving up the mountain, but the driver kept silent. I was very disturbed and decided to find an opportunity to escape.

Since then, there has been no news from Lianshi.

The post on the forum finally became popular, and the incident spread to every corner of the Internet overnight. The next day, the police finally dispatched and began to search for the missing woman on the way home from get off work.

A week later, Lianshi's whereabouts were still unknown, and the situation continued to escalate. Under pressure, the police had to transfer the "Kisaragi Station" incident to the Conjurer Association. The conjurer Xia Youjie is in charge of the "Moon Station" incident, and must investigate the truth.

……

In the subway station late at night, three figures appeared.

Al, who was wearing a red scarf, complained softly, "It's so cold."

Gojo Wu yawned lazily: "That white-collar worker named Lianshi took the subway at this station?"

"Correct."

Xia Youjie, the partner who had read the mission information carefully, replied: "This is the place. She should take the last subway. Since it is a private subway, the one that passes at 11:30 in the evening is the last one."

The state-run subway in Tokyo starts running around 04:30 in the morning and ends around 12:30 in the evening. The running time of private subways is slightly different. For example, the subway on this line ends earlier than most state-run subways.

While they were talking, the last subway slowly stopped in front of them.

Al looked up at the timetable on the electronic screen, "This is the last trip."

As an Internet surfing enthusiast, he was very interested in the Kisaragi station incident, so he took the initiative to join the job for the first time.

Gojo Satoru put his hands in his pockets, and said leisurely: "So, try not to take the last subway, the last bus, or the last Shinkansen... just like the last toilet in the school is most likely to be used by people. Like a curse, avoid it."

Xia Youjie said helplessly, "Stop making sarcastic remarks and get in the car."

He walked into the subway first, followed by Al, and Gojo Satoru followed unhurriedly at the end. After a while, the doors of the subway closed automatically, and the deserted last subway left slowly.

Al looked around, and besides them in the carriage they were in, there was only one drunk man sleeping soundly, and the whole carriage was full of the strong smell of alcohol emanating from him.

Xia Youjie sat down at a random place, opened the file, and said:

"Lianshi's home is at the next stop. Normally, she only needs to take the subway for 4 minutes to get off at the next stop. But on the day of the accident, the subway took 10 minutes to stop."

Al asked, "And ended up at Kisaragi Station?"

"Yes."

The blond-haired and blue-eyed boy counted the network map on the top of the carriage. He confirmed the names of the stations one by one. He counted until the last station, but he still couldn't find the so-called Kisaragi station.

Sure enough, just like the investigation results of "Window", there is no place called "Kisaragi Station" in Tokyo at all.

"Tell me, if what Lianshi said in the post is true, then what kind of place is Kisaragi Station?"

A place that doesn't exist, but does exist.

Gojo Satoru held the pull ring on the subway, and replied, "Maybe it's the domain of a certain curse spirit."

"field?"

"It's similar to an enchantment. It's a special space built by mantra. There are many kinds of domains. This one... Let's put it this way, I open the classroom door and see the classroom. But when you open the same classroom door After that, you saw the forest. Kisaragi Station is probably the same thing, anyway, it is a very special space.”

Al instantly understood, "Isn't it a bit like the inner world and outer world in "Silent Hill"?"

"Oh, almost." Gojo Satoru smiled, "However, generally those who can expand the domain are spell spirits above the first level."

Xia Youjie agreed: "Yes, the enemy this time is at least level [-], maybe it's a special level. The higher-ups entrusted us with this mission because they also considered the level of the curse spirit. However, if 'Kisaragi Station' really It is the birth domain of the curse spirit, and it has been opening somewhere waiting for the prey to walk in by itself, so to enter this enchantment, you must strictly follow its steps."

Strictly follow the steps of the mantra?

Al thought for a while, "Does it mean that you need to meet certain conditions to enter? For example, the time of the subway?"

"That's right." Xia Youjie smiled and said, "It's really smart."

Al: "..."

Their recent atmosphere has subtly changed into a strange state of "you are my son" and "no, you are my son". It’s because he can’t help but put on a parental filter—it doesn’t matter which vest he wears, because Al himself thinks that way in his heart, so no matter what vest he changes, his attitude will not change much.

Coincidentally, the high school students thought the same way.

Forget about the purple long-haired Al, the blond Al is definitely the persona of his own stupid son, how could he turn himself into a father?

Four minutes later, the subway arrived at the next station safely, and two young couples wrapped in down jackets talked and laughed and got on the train.

The curly-haired girl whispered to her boyfriend, "That's great, there are other people besides us."

The boy said helplessly: "I told you not to be afraid, with me here, what do you have to be afraid of?"

They said a few more words in a low voice, and hugged each other sweetly. The trio of high school students: "..."

"Not good."

"Not good."

"Not good."

The subway stopped at a very normal station, and two passengers who couldn't be more normal came up, which is not very good.

Sure enough, they sat safe and sound until the last stop, and the three had to get out of the car until the staff stepped into the carriage and started mopping the floor.

A gust of cold wind blew past, announcing the end of today's investigation.

Al murmured: "This is a big crisis. If you can't reach Kisaragi Station at all, you won't be able to conduct any investigation."

This feeling is like punching Cotton after making all the preparations—well, he didn’t make all the preparations, he just volunteered to join the team at the last second before Wutiao Xiayou’s departure .

Xia Youjie thought hard and said: "It seems that the condition for entering the realm is not only the 'last train'... Also, if it is so easy to enter the birth realm of the curse spirit, it is impossible for the missing person to be only one Lianshi. Maybe we We should let the subway company cooperate with our work, for example, let the subway that Lianshi takes run the same route at the same time."

Aldao: "The day of the accident was midnight on February 2006, 2, right? I remember that day was Wednesday, but today is Thursday. Perhaps the domain of the magic spirit is only open on Wednesdays every week."

Gojo Satoru diverged his thinking and said: "If you say that, it is also possible that it will open on the 8th of every month, or it will be a little longer, and it will be open once a year, so the next time it will open is on February 2 next year. Number."

Al suddenly realized: "Then be bolder, the magic spirit is open every ten years, so we should wait ten years before coming back."

Xia Youjie: "..."

Why don't you just open once every 100 years?He just set a small goal of living another 100 years.

It sounds so bad.

The next day, the third day, the fourth day after that... The high school students reported to the station without any hindrance, and with the cooperation of the private railway company, the last subway they took perfectly reproduced the day of Lianshi's accident The program, time, subway, carriage, etc. are exactly the same.

Unfortunately, they never made it to Kisaragi Station.

On this day, they searched through the mission materials in the reference room of the college, trying to find some similar cases, Xia Youjie suddenly stopped, "Speaking of which, should we visit Miss Lianshi's residence? Maybe we can There are some unexpected gains."

Al and Gojo Satoru turned their heads to look at him at the same time, and Al nodded his eyes: "Jie-chan, compared to that, I think it's better for you to sleep."

Xia Youjie had quite obvious dark circles under his eyes, obviously he hadn't had a good rest.

Xia Youjie shook his head: "No, let's start now. Kisaragi station is always a hidden danger, and it must be resolved as soon as possible, so as to prevent more ordinary people from losing their lives."

Renshi is from Osaka, and her parents live in her hometown in Osaka. When she was working in Tokyo, she rented a house with her high school classmates. When the three of Al found an apartment, the roommate was preparing to move.

"...Yes, because the rent is very expensive, I can only find a new roommate to rent a house."

She smiled wryly, feeling a little heavy.

After all, the missing Lianshi is her high school classmate and roommate, and she has been very affectionate for so many years.

"She... has been missing for two weeks, so it's probably too bad for her."

Two weeks have passed, and people have long given up any hope of Lianshi's survival.

The roommate said: "Most of Lianshi's belongings were taken away by her parents. After I move out, the rest of the things will be thrown away..."

She opened Lianshi's room, and the room was really empty, only things like desk lamps and the like were not valuable or meaningful.

Gojo Satoru glanced at it, then shook his head.

"No trace of the curse."

Al asked: "Sister, did Miss Lianshi contact you before she disappeared?"

"Have."

The roommate took out his mobile phone, "We chatted during the day, but when she said that the subway she took was a bit strange, I fell asleep. Because I didn't respond, she probably posted on the forum."

Al took the phone, scrolled up a few pages, and suddenly noticed a strange photo.

"what is this?"

"Is this?" the roommate recalled: "It seems to be something picked up on their company's construction site. It looks like a human finger. She thought it was very novel and sent it to me. It looks disgusting."

—Look, does it look like something cursed? [picture]

"..."

indeed!

Gojo Wu and Xia Youjie also came over to take a look. In the photo was a strip-shaped object wrapped with talisman paper, with a black fingernail faintly protruding from it.

The young conjurers were slightly taken aback.

Although they have never seen this name before... But such a shape, it looks like a curse, not to mention that it is wrapped with a very orthodox talisman paper!

Xia Youjie quickly asked, "Where is this thing now?!"

The roommate thought for a while, "I heard that everyone felt uneasy, so Lianshi suggested to put the things back in their original places, probably throwing them on the mountain behind the construction site."

They asked her for her detailed address, and called Noctuma Zhengdao, and sure enough, they learned that about half a month ago, there was a collapse on the construction site.

Two workers died and many workers were injured. The incident was classified as an accident, but in fact, the conjuration community took back one of Su Nuo's fingers from the construction site.

Of course the three of Al knew about the incident at the construction site half a month ago, because the recycled Su Nuo finger is now in the high school. What they didn't expect was that these two incidents could be linked.

Xia Youjie pondered, "In other words, Lianshi went on a business trip to the construction site during the day before the accident, and even touched Su Nuo's fingers."

Wujo enlightened: "She will arrive at Kisaragi Station, most likely because she is contaminated with the breath of the cursed object."

Al asked them, "Shall we go back to High School?"

"Ah."

"Walk."

That night, with the special permission of the old principal, they met the legendary Su Nuo finger for the first time.

Su Nuo, the king of curses thousands of years ago, is said to have four arms, four eyes, and a cruel and bloodthirsty personality. After his death, his twenty fingers turned into special cursed objects, scattered all over Japan.

The things that can be called super-level spell objects have the biggest thing in common that they cannot be destroyed by external forces. Because of this, Su Nuo's fingers can be preserved for thousands of years.

I heard that the construction site was originally a school, but when the school was demolished, a shrine that was enshrined in the underground of the school was accidentally found, and the finger was found from the shrine.

The old principal said: "When the conjurers arrived, the construction site was full of curse spirits attracted by Su Nuo's fingers, and the accidents on the construction site were also caused by the curse spirits."

Ye Mozheng said solemnly: "Do you want to take it to the subway?"

"Yes." Xia Youjie replied, "Perhaps this finger is the key to entering the field."

The old headmaster was silent for a long time, but still shook his head: "Su Nuo's finger has an unusual meaning. If you want to carry this thing on a mission, you must get the approval of the high-level."

Ye Mozheng said: "I can apply to the higher-ups, but with their cautious and cautious character, nine out of ten they will not agree."

Xia Youjie frowned slightly.

Al suggested: "Master, as long as you get the breath of the cursed object, it's fine? You don't have to bring it with you."

"Yes."

Gojo Satoru squeezed that finger, and tapped on Al's forehead with a bit of disgust, and then on Xia Youjie's forehead. Through his six eyes, he clearly saw that the foreheads of Al and Xia Youjie were stained with soap. Nuo's mantra.

Oh, and he got it on his hands too.

The three high school students thanked the old principal and class teacher, checked the time, and took the auxiliary supervisor's car to the station as usual.

The Al three were full of expectations, but to their disappointment, they still did not arrive at Kisaragi Station that night.

They got off at the next stop, and after a while, the assistant supervisor also drove to the next stop. Seeing them standing together silently, he couldn't help comforting him: "I also failed today...it's okay, At least the passengers on the subway during this time are safe and sound!"

Al nodded approvingly.

"You're right, Mr. Ota."

Wednesday.

11:30 in the evening.

Gojo Satoru and Xia Youjie appeared at the station again, and Al, who had turned into a spiritual child, said with emotion: "We are really tenacious."

The indomitable spirit of the conjurers is really worth learning and learning for an otaku like him.

Gojo Satoru yawned and asked him, "Al, will it be a little warmer than usual when the reishi is transformed?"

"Objectively speaking, no." Al replied solemnly, "But reishinization will give me considerable psychological comfort."

Gojo Satoru didn't understand: "Speaking of which, why are Heroic Spirits so sensitive to changes in temperature?"

Al thought for a while, and replied seriously: "Probably because I'm a fragile otaku."

"..." Gojo Wu complimented him sincerely, "I like you for that."

They got into the car while talking, the car was still the same car, but today there were three passengers, two fell asleep leaning on their seats, and the other was very drunk and was lying on a chair and sleeping soundly.

... The most unchanging scenery in the car is indeed these drunks.

At this time, the aura of the spell on the high school students still hasn't dissipated.

Xia Youjie found a seat at random and sat down. He didn't seem to have much hope, and he wasn't very interested. He didn't talk much tonight. When the subway started slowly, Xia Youjie leaned against the window and closed the window. Eye.

The carriage was as quiet as usual, and Gojo Satoru lowered his head and played with his phone for a while, then suddenly glanced at the car window as if consciously.

His eyes behind the sunglasses stared straight out of the dark window for a while, then he looked down at Xia Youjie who was asleep.

Xia Youjie was like having obsessive-compulsive disorder. He had trouble sleeping and eating without resolving the incident. He hadn't had a good rest recently, and he unexpectedly fell asleep in the carriage.

At this point, 4 minutes have passed.

The subway has not yet reached the next station.

Wujo Wu's eyes behind the sunglasses became brighter and brighter, like a beast waking up from a doze, and his whole body became eager to try.

He excitedly said, "Al, don't undo the spiritualization."

"receive."

Al was of course aware of the unusual atmosphere.

"Only one person is awake".

——This may be the key to entering the field of birth!

"...Jie-chan, Jie-chan..."

"Master!"

"Jay..."

"Jay, wake up."

Xia Youjie woke up suddenly, "Ah...sorry, have you arrived yet?"

He stood up reflexively, but found that the door of the carriage was open, and it was pitch black outside, which seemed to be an unusual scene. Gojo Satoru, who was sitting next to him, was even more motionless, and had no intention of getting up and getting out of the carriage.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy had already condensed into a human form, and was waking up the other people in the carriage one by one, but none of the other three people in the carriage showed any signs of waking up.

Xia Youjie widened his eyes, "This is—"

Gojo Satoru turned to look at him, and smiled, "Kisaragi Station, we're here."

Xia Youjie: "!!!"

During the time he fell asleep, the subway drove non-stop for 10 minutes, and finally stopped in this dark station.

Al walked back and told them: "I can't wake up the others, Masters, do you want to go to the driver's room?"

"Okay." Gojo Satoru finally stood up and turned his wrist: "Let's go."

They walked through several empty carriages and came to the commander's room. It was exactly as Lianshi's post said, the glass was tightly pasted with yellow tape, and the situation inside could not be seen at all.

Al knocked on the glass, "Is anyone there?"

Of course there was no response.

So Berserker turned his head and asked the two hosts, "Do you want to open it?"

Gojo Wu and Xia Youjie looked at each other and nodded.

Al held the door handle that was locked from the inside, performed a miracle on the spot, and directly removed the entire door.

"..."

With a click, they finally saw the situation of the commander's cabin—there was no commander's cabin at the other end of the door.

There is only darkness in front of you.

Gojo Satoru whistled, and said with great interest: "This is the right taste!"

The taste of horror movies, isn't it coming!

Al was not surprised by this development. He asked, "Do you want to get off? If you want to get off, it's best to get off from our compartment. But what about the passengers in the car?"

Wujo Wusi pondered, "Well, passengers, let's put the passengers here."

Xia Youjie agreed: "The five passengers who were in the same carriage as Ms. Lianshi woke up and found that they had slept all the way to the terminal, and then they went back home. It wasn't until the police came to ask that they were missing in the carriage. Alone. It should be fine to leave it alone."

As long as you don't get off the bus, wait patiently for the subway to start again, or simply fall asleep on the subway, you can leave the realm of the curse spirit alive.

Lianshi's problem is probably that she chose to get off the car.

Just in case, though, they took pictures of the three passengers before getting out of the car.

Kisaragi Station is empty, exuding a cold and damp smell. The various facilities of the station are very old. It looks like an old station from 30 or [-] years ago. The timetable is also empty, and the signboards for directions have also been born. The writing on it was blurred, and the street lamps on both sides were even worse. Seven out of ten street lamps were broken. The whole station looked very eerie.

This is Kisaragi Station.

They stared at the stop sign for a while, Xia Youjie said, "In Miss Lianshi's post, there are two points that I am very concerned about."

He fell asleep for 10 minutes, and he successfully invaded the domain of the curse spirit, and now he is very energetic.

"One is the mysterious man she met after walking out along the railway, and the other is the sound of bells and taiko drums she heard when she left."

Meeting the strange man happened after going out, and the sound of the taiko drum that seemed to be holding a festival was obviously from the opposite direction.

He suggested: "My suggestion is to divide the troops into two groups. One team stays and waits for the sound of taiko drums and bells, and the other team leaves along Miss Lianshi's route to see if they can bump into that man. I..."

Gojo Satoru said first: "It's fine. I'm enough alone. Jie, Al, you guys go find the whereabouts of Lianshi. I stay here to see what's going on with the festival."

Xia Youjie frowned and said: "No, Wu. The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. In the current situation, it is better not to be alone. My suggestion is that you two should be in a group, and I should be in a group. Anyway, there are more people on my side." The curse spirit will be my teammate."

Al objected: "No, I don't trust any of you acting alone."

Gojo Wu and Xia Youjie both paused, and then Al said calmly: "You two, stay here and wait for the bells and taiko drums to sound. I'll go out and have a look."

Gojo Wu was dissatisfied and said, "What do you mean? Do you think Lao Tzu is weaker than you?"

The blond boy shook his head.

"It's not a question of who is strong and who is weak. I am a heroic spirit, and you are human beings. I can enter places that you cannot enter, and touch things that you cannot, so I am enough alone."

He didn't wait for them to refute, and said: "Besides, we still have a team channel to exchange news. In the worst case, Jie-chan can use the command spell to forcibly pull me to your side. Right?"

"..."

In the end, Gojo Satoru and Xia Youjie also agreed to such a grouping.

Al walked out of the station along the route of Lianshi, and after the only street lights disappeared, only a bright moon in the sky illuminated the road under his feet.

The railway seems to never go to the end, and it has been extended to the distance.

Al walked alone for about an hour. During this time, Xia Youjie told him through the team channel: "The festival has appeared."

"receive."

There is no more text after that.

Al walked for a while, and suddenly saw a car parked in front of him.

An orange-haired boy in a black windbreaker and black hat leaned against the car door, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.

Al paused for a long time before he asked in confusion, "...Zhongye?"

The orange-haired boy turned his head to look at him, with a calm expression, and a familiar clear voice rang in his ears: "How many times have I told you, don't always come to Yokohama to look for me, did you never listen to it?"

Al opened his mouth, but didn't say a word.

The boy frowned and said, "What kind of outfit are you wearing, and what new role are you cosplaying? I told you, don't use your supernatural powers in Yokohama, tsk, forget it, you won't listen to me anyway..." Car, I'll take you back."

"..."

The orange-haired boy opened the driver's seat and sat in. He said angrily, "Don't come here again, this is not the world you should step into."

Al was still standing there.

The orange-haired boy waited for him patiently for a few seconds, and then said smoothly, "Get in the car, hurry up!"

Al: "..."

It's right.