The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

a setting change

In the previous chapter 2 of the second volume, such a setting was mentioned, that is, Moon-Watching Sleep and Moon-Watching Ningmeng coexist, but the time of appearance of the two is different. Moon-watching Sleep appears during the day, while Moon-Watching Ningmeng appears at night.This setting has many problems in the follow-up. In fact, Ning Meng's sense of existence is getting weaker and thinner. Most of the night is dominated by Mian's personality, which has some conflicts with the setting.

Therefore, the setting of appearing at different times is now abolished, and Wangyuemian and Wangyue Ningmeng can appear at any time, and they can exchange personalities through the mirror. One personality controls the body, while the other is switched to the mirror, so that More reasonable.And Ning Meng wants Mian to have more experience because of the past, so the main activity is Mian, and Ning Meng will only appear on some occasions when needed.

I will gradually revise some chapters in the previous article that are inconsistent with this setting, please know.

Chapter 27 The Mirror World

Seeing the voice call from that familiar name, Ms. Matsushima didn't immediately press it.

She turned around immediately, wanting to confirm to Wang Yuemian behind her whether there were any evil spirits or abnormalities around her.But what really made her panic and astonished was that the cameras, sensors and other things that were supposed to be floating behind her disappeared without a sound at this moment.She even lowered her head to look at the phone again, and saw that the phone had lost the signal, and it was displayed outside the service area, and she sent a "!!!" to Wang Yuemian but did not get a reply.

Didn't he say that guy can be his bodyguard? Why is he so unreliable! !

Suddenly feeling as if she was thrown into a cage surrounded by demons alone, Teacher Matsushima was full of helplessness, she looked at the phone screen again, gritted her teeth and pressed the voice.

First, there was a slight background noise of "sizzling la la" from the mobile phone, and then, in the noise from time to time, a faint cry of a girl could be vaguely caught.

"Old...teacher...lose $%...teacher...help*@...it hurts...body μ...inside ε...other things...ζ* uncomfortable..."

Some degraded sound quality came from the phone, and the occasional noise covered up the sound of some words, but Mr. Matsushima could barely make out that it was Asagiri's voice.

"Please help#...help me...give the...in the cabinet...□□...to...Xiao Hua..."

The sound is intermittent and a little hard to distinguish.

What are you going to take from the closet?

Teacher Matsushima shone the flashlight into the cabinet, and saw that under the hanging uniform, there was a black leather booklet with a combination lock hanging on the booklet, which looked like an encrypted diary.

Is this what Asagiri asked her to take away?

Matsushima reached into the cabinet with trembling hands, but encountered some obstacles.

In a daze, Teacher Matsushima suddenly found that his hands were blocked by the door of the locker, and Chaogiri's exclusive locker seemed to be tightly closed.

She frowned, swiped the teacher's management card, and the cabinet door popped open, but there was nothing inside, including the stickers and photos she had just seen.

"Ding dong~" Suddenly there was another message on the phone, and Ms. Matsushima rushed to check the message in front of her.

[Mianmeng] What's the matter, teacher, is there anything in that cabinet?

Um?Matsushima-sensei immediately turned her head again, and this time she actually saw the camera lens floating behind her.

"What's going on? Mochizuki, where did you disappear to just now? Also, was the door of this cabinet opened just now?"

[Mianmeng] I haven't gone anywhere, I've been watching Matsushima-sensei behind you, there's a video to prove it!

[Mianmeng] As for the cabinet?It has been closed all the time, Mr. Matsushima, you just stared at that cabinet in a daze, then suddenly went over to open that cabinet, did you find anything?

"This...it's impossible..."

At this time, Hojo-sensei's voice came from a small speaker that had just been installed in the locker room: "Matsushima-sensei, please come back to the preparation room first."

Hearing this, Mr. Matsushima quickly returned to the preparation room, closed the door firmly behind his back, sat down on the chair and panted quickly, obviously only walked a few steps, but seemed to swim back and forth several times.

"What happened to that just now? Why did I seem to see hallucinations! Did you find anything here?"

"It's a little abnormal. When you looked at the locker just now, the values ​​​​of all the sensors around suddenly had a very abnormal peak. At the same time, monitor the screen...you can see for yourself."

On the screen, at the moment when various parameters suddenly became abnormal, Teacher Matsushima's figure became faintly translucent.

【Hey, what's going on? 】The voice of Mochizuki Mian resounded in Hojo Satoru's head.

"Mr. Matsushima, you are saying that the world you just saw for a moment is different, isn't it?"

"Hmm... Asagiri-san said to me just now, let me take something from the closet and give it to Xiaohua? I saw that thing for a moment in the hallucination, but there is nothing in the closet in reality... this What's going on?"

"From what you said, 'the other side', I guess... Maybe it refers to the 'inner world'. Just like the time in Qingfeng High School last time, under the surface world, there is a projected It looks very similar, but it’s actually a very bizarre deep world. Perhaps Mr. Matsushima just triggered something, and was briefly at the junction of the outer world and the inner world?”

"So, how to take out the things inside, do you have to enter that 'inner world'?"

"It should be like this, that's right."

"Then... how to get in?"

"Well, I don't know, after all, I have only encountered the inner world once." Hojo Satoru spread his hands and said, "However, according to what someone explained to us last time, we need to find a boundary between the outer world and the inner world. The relatively weak and ambiguous place, that is, a place similar to an entrance...but I don't quite understand how to operate it..."

"The...'entry' of the world?" Mr. Matsushima muttered to himself.

It seems that where have I heard this word.

Teacher Matsushima faintly recalled a certain scene.

Kannazuki Chaogiri dived into the water like a fish, but did not surface for a long time.

The water in the swimming pool is very clear, and you can see that Kannazuki will plunge into the lowest part of the swimming pool in one breath, then turn over and face up, and slowly stare at the water to let himself float forward, and quietly walk from He stared upwards at the surface of the water, until after more than a minute, when he couldn't continue to hold his breath, he slowly floated up.

"Are you practicing xi holding your breath? Every time I see you after training, you will do this strange movement." Teacher Matsushima asked by the swimming pool, staring at Zhaowu.

"I'm just relaxing." Asagiri replied, "Teacher, don't you think that lying on your back like this and looking up at the water surface will give people a very peaceful and long feeling?"

"No, I've never felt this way before. I suspect it's because you've been holding your breath for too long and your brain lacks oxygen." Teacher Matsushima denied it mercilessly.

"Teacher, you don't understand romance. Think about it. Looking at the water surface from underwater, there will be a bright area directly above your head, and then it will get darker and darker as you go around, and it will sink into a deep blue. Isn't it beautiful? There are even Sometimes I feel that this is like a strange passage, a door that can lead to another world."

"How can there be such a thing, don't be too imaginative."

"But... sometimes, I feel that there is a mirror world on the other side of the water, and over there... there is another person looking at me, no... maybe, there is more than one person."

"If you have time to think about these things, why don't you hurry up and train! You are the most anticipated player in our department now!"

"Oh--"

Matsushima-sensei suddenly came back to reality from the memories.

"Underwater," she murmured, "the entrance...maybe underwater."

"Ok?"

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I am now standing on the diving platform of the pool.

Mr. Matsushima suddenly recalled just now that the entrance to the inner world may be underwater.

It's just that Xiaotong's last experience told me that there must be something down there, and diving into the water is a very dangerous operation.It would be too dangerous for Mr. Matsushima, a living person, to jump into the water directly, so I suggested that I, a ghost who has no entity, has certain combat power, and can interfere with the physical world, should try diving into the water first. This is the safest way of.

So, I took a few small instruments and jumped into the water in one breath. Only a little splash was negligible when the instrument fell into the water. I can score a perfect score of 10 in the diving competition!

I dived into the water, but I didn't find the weird situation like the last time, as if the depth of the swimming pool was endless and bottomless. Everything seemed normal.Then, according to Mr. Matsushima, I turned over and looked at the water.

Under the swimming pool without lights, there is only a round faint blue light above the head, which looks deep and strange.

I have been staring at the bright area, staring at it, but I gradually discovered that it seems to have become a mirror surface that can reflect a portrait, and the person in the mirror is still me, or it should be said that it is another half of me, Ning Meng waved to me on the opposite side and said hello.

Ning Meng and I seem to be separated in two worlds that are mirror images of each other across the water.

It's just that here, in this water, the movements of Ning Meng and I are not mirror images.

"You can actually see Ning Meng, did you find anything over there?"

Ning Meng looked up, down, left, and right, and replied to me: "My side... seems to be different from yours. The water here is very deep, and... the water is so cloudy that I can't see anything clearly... "

"Come to the surface of the water and have a look. I suspect that if you surface from your side, you will be in the other world! If you pass by, go find something in the cabinet just now!"

"it is good."

Ning Meng was slowly "floating" towards the surface of the water on her side, but in the process of floating up, I suddenly saw a green and white hand with a layer of very light and dense fluff, from the Emerging from the muddy water, he suddenly grabbed Ning Meng's shoulder.

"Ning Meng, be careful!"

After being reminded by me, she immediately noticed the foreign object behind her, and launched her thoughts to drive it far above and into the "deeper" waters, but... this is just the beginning, and the green or pale human figures are slowly disappearing. Emerging from the water, one arm after another entangled and grabbed Ning Meng.

These figures... should all be floating corpses. Fortunately, these floating corpses are not too much of a threat to me and Ning Meng. They just can't get close.However, seeing countless floating corpses circling "over my head" like a school of fish, there are many "giant view" corpses among them, which are "hells" that make people spit out three-day overnight meals at a glance Picture scroll" general disgusting level.

I just don't know why here...why there are so many undead swimming in a mere shallow river?Although Asakawa is considered a river, under the normal water level, it is generally only submerged by a person's calf, which is to the extent that it is difficult to drown a person no matter what.

I can't get an answer to this question for the time being. I only saw Ning Meng briefly disappear from the "water surface" above, and the floating corpses scattered away as if they had lost their target. After a while, Ning Meng "entered the water" again , this time, she was holding a booklet with a black cover in her hand.

Chapter 28 Water Burial [edit]

It was time for club activities on the second day. This time, even Ms. Matsushima joined our club activities and sat on the sidelines to listen. The club activity room, which was originally quite large, was surprisingly crowded. a feeling of.

First, Ms. Matsushima told everyone about her big adventure in the swimming pool last night, and then I added my underwater experience. At the end, Youxiang immediately asked excitedly: "So, Did you get that thing Senior Asagiri said? Where is it!"

I spread my hands and said: 【Sorry, I can't get that thing out...】

"Huh? What do you mean you can't get it out?"

【Well, how should I put it...Xiaotong, you should be able to see it, right? 】

I took down a mirror from the locker and put it on the table, and let Xiaotong stand beside me to look at the picture in the mirror.

【see it? ] I point to myself in the mirror.

The me in the mirror, or Ning Meng, is holding a black leather book in her hand. It looks like a diary. There is a four-digit combination lock on the right side of the book, and the lock is firmly fastened. with.

"I see, this is..." Xiaotong asked suspiciously, her eyes turned to my hand in reality, but there was clearly nothing in it.

"What, what, what did you see?!" You Xiang rushed over immediately after hearing the words, but she couldn't even see me, let alone the diary that Ning Meng was holding in the mirror.

Xiaotong roughly described the appearance of the book to other people present, and I further explained: [Although I got this book, it seems to be...intangible and can only exist on the side in the mirror In the world, there is no way to get reality.Xiaohua, have you seen this diary of your sister at home? 】

Kannazuki Xiaohua thought about it seriously, then nodded numbly.

"I... I have indeed seen it. That diary was put in my sister's coffin at that time. Generally speaking, shouldn't the coffin be filled with items that the deceased loved during his lifetime? My sister didn't have many favorite items, So what was put into the coffin at that time... was her usual competition swimsuit and goggles, and then this diary found in the drawer of her desk. In fact, the police still wanted to see the contents inside to judge whether it could be regarded as suicide. Evidence. However, because of the more conclusive evidence of the live video of the suicide process at that time, the contents of this diary are not so necessary. In addition, the diary is locked. Although it can be opened by force, I always feel... Very disrespectful to the dead. In the end, my mother made the decision and put the diary in the coffin and cremated it together. Then, all the ashes were thrown into Asakawa, so this may be the diary that can be seen in the other world of……"

"Wait, wait, throw the ashes into the Asakawa, why do you do that?!" Youxiang was suddenly surprised.

"Huh?" Kannazuki Xiaohua was stunned for a moment, "Oh, you are not familiar with the locals. This is our house. To be precise, it is a custom of the locals around here? It is water burial. The ashes are sprinkled in the water. Because it is said that water is spiritual, the source of life, and burying the dead in water can make their spirits immortal or something."

[Uh, why didn't you say this earlier! ! 】

I immediately thought of the large number of water corpses floating in the water like swimming fish that I saw last night. Are those things born from the local people's ashes of the dead being sprinkled into the river for a long time? !

Xiaohua was taken aback by my reaction, and immediately replied: "This... I thought you all knew about it. Last time, when I came to your club for inspection, it was in the materials you showed me? "

"Huh? Yes, I've seen similar things." Jinghua was the first to react, and she immediately ran to the cabinet where a pile of activity records were placed, and took out one of them.

"A Folklore Survey of Local Water Burial Customs in Asakawa."

This activity record book was not written by me, nor did it seem to be done by Xiyan. In my memory, at least when Ning Meng first found Xiyan and began to investigate the strange talk, she should have never seen this booklet.But... in that year, when graduation was approaching, before Xi Yan mysteriously disappeared, this investigation report seemed to have been placed in the file cabinet in the activity room, and I can't remember exactly when it was put in.

The style of writing is not Xiyan's. Xiyan's interest is only in the ghost stories in the school, and she often focuses on exploring the secrets by herself.On the contrary, this investigation report has investigated the local funeral customs in the Asakawa River Basin in a rather detailed manner. The students of that session of the Folklore Research Society were really doing serious research.

Because the style of writing is difficult and obscure, it is not very pleasing, and in the end it is only a description of local customs, and does not point directly to a strange talk. As a result, I have never read this report seriously. Now I flipped through it casually, but found something weird place.

The water burial method is popular here in Asakawa, which is actually a very abnormal thing.There are some areas around the world that use water burial, but these areas are often lived by big rivers, but Asakawa... Although it will eventually flow into the Tama River and flow into Tokyo Bay, its water volume is not worth mentioning The depth of the water does not seem to be suitable for water burial.

Moreover, the local water burial in Asakawa still has a lot of weirdness.In foreign water burials, stones are tied to the body to make it sink to the bottom of the water, or the body is placed on a small boat covered with a white cloth and let it float with the water.But here, the dead are first cremated into ashes and then sprinkled into the water, which is actually very strange.You know, in most cultures, water burial is to hope that the soul of the deceased will last forever or return to nature, and cremation is a practice in most cultures to burn the soul, so it is a bit contradictory to do the two together .

The time of burial is mostly chosen at night on a specific day.In the interviews, many people also mentioned that the day of burial should be chosen on a day when the moon is shining, preferably at the time of the full moon, and the bones of the deceased should be thrown into the river. People in the water will be warmed by the running water and carried by the river to the land of the gods, where their spirits will be resurrected and immortalized.

This paragraph of description just looks more and more weird. Is our school's swimming pool the place of the gods?So these undead are all resurrected in this water?This is too much.Moreover, the process of the funeral, the details, and the choice of the time of the funeral, the more you look at it, the more familiar it becomes.

Xiaotong and I looked at each other, and we thought of the Tsukiyomi Lake in the Tsukiyomi Shrine of Xiaotong's family, the funeral ceremony "Yuefu" used by the Mikazuki family for generations, and——we met there The undead of the ancient witches seen in the pool.

No matter how you look at it, the "water burial method" spread here is very similar to the degraded version of the "moon burial method" of the Mikayue family, but it lacks some legends about the moon, the god of moon reading, and returning to the moon soil.Could it be that the streams formed by the mountain springs gathered into Yuejiantan, and the shallow water flowing slowly down the mountain from Yuejiantan also became one of the sources of the shallow river?

Xiaotong couldn't help looking at Kannazuki Xiaohua, and asked, "Kannazuki, is your family related to our Mikazuki family...? In your big house, there is a picture of Do you read the murals of the God of Fortune on the moon?"

"Murals? There is no such thing." Kannazuki Xiaohua directly denied, "As for the Mikazuki family... Sorry, I have never heard of this family."

Chapter 29 Diary

"..." The corner of Xiaotong's mouth twitched slightly as he was said to be a family he had never heard of, but he didn't say anything.

But I continued to ask curiously: [What about the Mochizuki family?Is there any relationship between your family and Mochizuki's family?Thinking about it carefully, Kannazuki and Mochizuki seem a bit similar, right?For example, is it all about the moon? 】

"One month, one phase of the moon, what does it look like..." Kannazuki Xiaohua asked strangely, "Why do you think our two families are related? The Kannazuki family is just an ordinary political family in the local area, and they should be related to the Mochizuki family. There is no connection, at least I haven’t heard much about it.”

【Nothing... I just said it casually. 】

Could it be that it was the custom of water burial that made all the dead who were thrown into the water turn into undead and gathered here to start causing trouble?

Is the source of this custom the moon burial of the Sanriyue family?So... what happened to Kannazuki Asagiri's bizarre suicide?

I haven't figured this out yet, but I was suddenly asked by Xiao Tong: "By the way, senior, although that diary can't be brought to reality, can you look at the contents in the mirror?"