The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"Can I take a look at it?"

"of course can."

Xiaotong randomly pulled out a book, and found that there was indeed a scene depicting a whale soaring and turning over in the sea of ​​clouds, which seemed very free.

"Maybe my dad wants me to imagine things outside through picture books even if I can't go out? But why do I draw fake things? I thought it was real until the netizens told me. As a result, the netizens knew I have never seen the sea before, so I quickly changed my mind and said that there may be no flying whales in reality, but maybe they will exist in heaven. But now that I am dead, I am still an earthbound spirit, and I have not gone to heaven at all. , which is kind of frustrating.”

Even though the EQ is as low as Tong Xiaotong, he knew that he couldn't deny it casually at this time, so he echoed casually: "However, flying whales are really a super common fantasy element. There are such things in all cultures. Kind of paintings, fairy tales, etc. So, maybe there are flying whales in heaven, right? Then someone saw these flying whales in a dream, and then drew them. After becoming a Buddha, Mika You can definitely see it."

"Do you become a Buddha? Will you really go to heaven after becoming a Buddha?"

Little Hitomi can’t answer this question. The so-called “becoming a Buddha” in Japan is not the same as the meaning of “becoming a Buddha” in Buddhism. Becoming a Buddha does not mean becoming a Buddha. In Japan, the disappearance of the dead is called “becoming a Buddha.” , the basic condition is to end your wish and let go of your obsessions.However, where do the dead souls go after becoming a Buddha? Do they reincarnate, or go to a world without worries, or just disappear completely?

Nobody knows.

However, there is a high probability that the undead will not be able to go to heaven after becoming a Buddha, because these are fundamentally two mythological systems that are incompatible.

But this must not be said to Mika.

How did I tell Mika at that time?The memory is not very deep.

Probably just echoed and comforted her in a very unnutritious manner.

Xiaotong himself almost forgot that he had such a conversation with Mika, probably because the events that happened after that were too shocking, so Xiaotong's brain faded those related memories in order to defend himself.

The only memory that impressed Xiaotong deeply was the scene of Meijiali looking out from the window.

The lake outside the window seen from there, the color of the lake water looks particularly deep blue, just standing by the window and looking at it for a while, there is a feeling that even the soul seems to be sucked into it.

Chapter 31 [Lake]

"Hey, Xiaotong... Xiaotong?!"

"Ah?" Amidst my call, Xiaotong suddenly came back to his senses.

"What are you in a daze for?"

"It just reminds me of some past events."

"Are you thinking about the past again? It feels like you often do this recently. I heard that only people who are old will often start thinking about the past?"

"...Sister, you are so annoying."

"So, what did you think of? Does it have anything to do with this Fujiwara Takashi?"

"Well... In January of this year, Mr. Fujiwara commissioned me to channel his daughter. He wanted to communicate with his daughter again. I went back and forth... about three or four times. The last time I went, It was around February 2th. At that time, Mika said she wanted to go outside to have a look, and then... I couldn’t refuse her, so I let her attach to me and follow me. So from February 9th, I never saw Fujiwara-san again...I really didn't know he committed suicide too...then February 2th, when I took Mika to see Natsumi...that happened...since that day I just dropped out of school...and then entered Holy Trinity High School directly through the relationship of the priest in April."

"Is that so..."

After listening to Xiaotong's narration, my eyes returned to the photos in Mr. Kawakami's diary.

2-12=8002 2-20=8051

2-21 0821 =

4-9 0697 =

怎么说，看到这四个式子，越看越别扭。为什么2-12和2-20要并排写？2-21和4-9却又不在同一行？只是川上记者随手的书写习惯吗？我这个有些轻微强迫症的人真是越看这个格式就越不舒服。

Written like this on purpose, will there be any other meanings in it?

If we replace these formulas with the four suicide reports we just obtained in the newspaper, then it seems that it can be written like this.

February 2 Takashi Fujiwara - February 12 Gallery owner

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February 2 Xia Wei

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April 4 Koalas

Considering that what Mr. Kawakami is pursuing should be the source of the blue whale game.Moreover, he probably believed that the koala was "infected" by Xia Wei from the same school.So... this should be the road map for the game "Blue Whale"?

So next, Xia Wei's death was caused by Takashi Fujiwara?

As a result, this inference is indeed correct. Xia Wei's death originated from Fujiwara Mika, and Fujiwara Mika and Fujiwara Takashi are father and daughter.However, the person who knew that Xia Wei's death was related to Fujiwara Mika... should only be Hitomi, right?How did the Kawakami reporter, who couldn't even get out of the apartment door and couldn't use the Internet, reason to this level? ?

I took a closer look at the reports in the two newspapers and finally found something in common.

The newspaper that reported Xia Wei's death emphasized that she was a close friend of the psychic girl Miri Yuetong.

When reporting the death of Fujiwara Takashi, it was also mentioned that before his death, he seemed to regularly invite Mikazuki Hitomi to perform psychic communication.

Could it be because of Hitomi, Mr. Kawakami connected Xia Wei's death with Mr. Fujiwara's death?

Also, what the hell is the death of the gallery owner...

I then looked at the newspaper that reported the gallery owner's suicide, and a paragraph was underlined with a pen.

"Previously, the well-known painter Takashi Fujiwara donated his last work [Lake] to the gallery. After donating this painting, Mr. Fujiwara drowned in the lake outside his villa, which was judged as suicide by the police. This lake is the prototype of the lake in his painting, which also makes this painting suddenly have a wonderful collection value, and the value has risen sharply, and it has attracted a lot of attention for a while. However, This still failed to save the fate of the gallery’s poor management and being mortgaged. The owner of the gallery, Koichi Tsuchida, committed suicide by jumping off the building of the Anxin Real Estate Building where the gallery is located just a week after he got the painting... and owned this work named "Lake". Fujiwara Takashi and the gallery owner Tsuchida Koichi committed suicide one after another, which also gave this work a bit of an urban legend. It is also reported that after Tsuchida Koichi committed suicide, this painting called "Lake" disappeared. It is suspected that when the owner of the gallery committed suicide and was left unattended, a thief entered the gallery and stole the painting..."

A work titled "Lake"?I saw the description in the newspaper that Mr. Fujiwara who got the painting and the owner of the gallery committed suicide one after another. This reminded me of a concept that Mr. Sifang, the owner of House 99, mentioned to us——

Cursed wonder.

And... I even have some associations with this painting called [Lake].

There was no picture of this painting in the newspaper, so I wanted to take out my phone and search for the painting, but now Officer Usui is still here, it seems a bit uncomfortable to show it openly, and attached it to Xiaotong's ear, I told her my thoughts.

She nodded, took out her mobile phone, and searched for Mr. Fujiwara's painting on the Internet.

Sure enough, it was exactly in line with my guess, this is the painting I saw on Nanako's phone interface.

The twilight glow should be on the undulating lake, and a trestle bridge extends into the lake. The only difference is that in the original painting, there is no one standing on the bridge.

Even I had this kind of thought, could it be...there was someone on the screen?It's just... that person ran away from the painting?

Chapter 32 Information Exchange

I told Xiaotong some of my speculations and conjectures, and Xiaotong combined some of her own observations and fed back to Police Officer Usui.

Now it seems that the source of the blue whale game seems to be inseparable from Fujiwara Takashi and his daughter, and the missing painting named "Lake". Both of the two people who held it died of suicide. , It seems a little bit like a so-called cursed strange thing, and the police officer also said that he will try to investigate the whereabouts of the painting.

On the way back to the shrine, Xiaotong seemed a little depressed.

"Xiaotong, are you here to play flower cards?"

"Don't play."

"What about the dress-up game? I'll choose the clothes you wear."

"Don't play, don't think I didn't see those strange clothes you secretly put in my closet, those are impossible for me to wear!"

"There are also clothes that are not so revealing, such as cat-eared maid outfits..."

"Forgive me for declining."

"Tsk. Why don't you come and play..."

Xiaotong turned around and looked me in the eyes and said: "Senior sister, I am very tired today, let's talk about the game next time, I have a headache now, I want to rest."

"Okay..." I turned my face away, feeling a little uncomfortable, "Every time you encounter something about your former friends, you always look like this, with a downcast face and a gloomy expression, and you still talk to me. Indifferent, really, are the friends of the past who are dead as good as the friends of the present?"

"Sister, you are also a friend who has died!"

"This... I'm different! I should have a deeper relationship than a good friend! It's a level higher than all your previous friends!"

"Sister, you look like a primary school girl."

"You look like a real elementary school girl! Who doesn't have one or two psychological shadows, and I still have shadows from my childhood. I can only ruminate the pain of the past over and over again, but it will make people unable to see this What is more important at this moment. Seriously, you should have graduated from these past things earlier."

"...It's easy to say, and it's not that senior sister you have experienced these things yourself, of course you can't empathize with them. I killed Xia Wei first, and now I found out... this blue whale game may be related to Mika, and Mika also I released it with my own hands, which is equivalent to indirectly killing dozens of people..."

"Stop, stop. Hitomi, your way of thinking always makes people feel a little weird. Why do you want to blame yourself for everything? If this blue whale game is really made by that Meijia, then you have nothing to do with it." What does it matter? Did the police who accidentally let the murderer escape also committed the crime of murder? Shouldn’t the correct thinking here be to bring the criminal back with his own hands to make up for his previous dereliction of duty?”

"Hmph...I'll do it."

"I'm afraid that your friend will stand in front of you in the future and say alas to you. It's not her fault. She also has a deep reason why she has to be like this. Then according to Xiaotong, your character will be different I will soften my heart and say it generously, I forgive you, and then I started to live a life without shame and impatience, happy end~ Only poor senior sister, I am dying alone in the cold wind!"

"It's impossible for this to happen." Xiaotong clenched her fists, "If Mijia is really the mastermind behind the Blue Whale game, then I will definitely help her become a Buddha with my own hands."

I shrugged, "I hope so."

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Throughout the night, Xiaotong didn't seem to be sleeping very well, tossing and turning on the bed, finally fell asleep, but I could still occasionally hear her whispering "Xiawei" or "Meijia" in her sleep, At the same time, his brows were tightly furrowed, his small hands clenched into fists, and he looked like he was having some nightmare again.

Seriously, let's get this shit over with.

I looked at Nanako's phone, trying to see if that [koala] would contact me again, but I didn't wait for any movement.

Tsk, so annoying.I have an urge to tell that [koala] that I have decided to join you, after all, it must be faster to directly break into the interior to obtain information.Although the Blue Whale game is weird and inexplicable, and it even looks a little spiritually polluted, I still have a certain degree of confidence. The first is that I am already a ghost, and it is difficult to die. The second is that I have two people. Grid, even if one is brainwashed, there is another one that can help correct it, and the error tolerance rate is higher.

However, in view of the strange experience of the Kawakami reporter, I thought about it and gave up doing this, and only used the above options as the final measure when I couldn't find any clues.

Now, I want to start with the painting named [Lake]. Whether it was on the screen saver of my mobile phone before, or the picture I saw through the gallery window when I went back to Sakurai last time, it is that painting. Landscape of the lake.To be sure, that painting definitely played a key role in this incident, and maybe it was the culprit that caused the whole incident.

But... how to find this painting?

So, in the morning of the next day, I first came to the 99 grocery store with my little pupil who had obvious dark circles and was still yawning. I wanted to consult the owner of Sifang for some things.

Pushing open the store door, Ichimonji Fubuki was still wearing a stunning clerk costume and said welcome, but there were no other customers in the store as usual except for the fat store manager and the worker knife.

"Can your store really make money?" I couldn't help asking Sifang Qiuzao who was sitting in front of the counter.

Sifang Qiuzao, who smiled so blindly, said nonchalantly: "Of course, the customers in our store are destined people. When they need to do some business, they often appear in front of our small store inadvertently. In addition, the counter business on the surface is only a part of our business. If you are interested, we can also carry out more in-depth business cooperation? For example... loan business or something."

"Excuse me for being insensitive. Hey, fat man, I'm here to ask you something."

"Hehe, Miss Mochizuki, you seem to have forgotten that information is also a kind of commodity. If you want any information, you have to exchange it with information of equal value."

I thought about it and replied, "Yes."

I pushed the two newspapers about Takashi Fujiwara and the death of the gallery owner, and the painting called "Lake" to Akizo Sifang, and asked, "I want to know, do you have the Blue Whale game?" Information about the organizer behind the scenes, or information about the whereabouts of this painting, or information about strange objects or strange stories related to it."

Sifang Qiuzao quickly glanced at the newspaper, "The Blue Whale Game? I haven't heard about it. The whereabouts of this painting? There is no such information. Related strange things or strange stories? There is a very close one, which is not very valuable." Information. Then, let me ask you a question of basically equal value, as long as you can tell me the corresponding information, the transaction will be considered successful."

"You said."

"Please tell me, what you know, about the student of Holy Trinity Girls High School four years ago—'Xi Yan'."

"Xiyan..." I was stunned because I heard this unexpected name in an unexpected population, and then I was full of hesitation. I frowned and asked, "Why do you want to know about Xiyan?" matter?"

Sifang Qiuzao touched his chin and said with a smile: "Are you sure you want to ask me this question? Then you need to pay an additional information to get the equivalent."

"Forget it, I'm not very interested in why Uncle Wei is interested in the youthful and beautiful JK."

"So, can we exchange information?" Sifang Qiuzao opened his eyes slightly and asked seriously.

"It's not something that can't be said. I know very little about Xiyan. Her online name is 'Chaoyan'. Back then, that is, four years ago, she should be a third-year student. I only saw it around five o'clock in the afternoon. I saw her in the Holy Trinity Folklore Research Activity Room. She has long black hair. As for her face... I don’t have much memory, and I can’t even think about it. Since she disappeared mysteriously, my memory of her began It was quickly lost, and now I can barely remember it. She seems to have a cheerful personality, and she has a lot of knowledge about folklore and ghost stories. Some ghost stories in the school are suspected to be from her. The students seem to know her, but then I contacted those seniors from back then, and they didn't remember this person. That's all I know about her. Are you satisfied? "

Sifang Qiuzao slowly closed his eyes which had just been opened.

"Although the amount of information is small, it can be regarded as an exchange of equal value. Then, please listen to the information from my side. There is indeed such a strange story about the lake and suicide. You...have you heard it? Been the Demon of the Pond?"

Chapter 33 The Breeder of the Demon

"The devil of the pond?" I'm really not familiar with this term.

"Yes, isn't there a lot of famous suicide spots in Japan? Such as the sea of ​​trees, capes, Yokohama Bridge, etc. Among them, if there is a relationship with the 'lake', the most famous is the 'Pond Demon' up.

"It is said that one evening, a shopkeeper was going home. When he passed by a pond, he put money and wooden clogs by the pond, jumped into it and drowned. There was still money collected in the purse. People who knew him said Ah, he was very happy to say that morning that he would be able to go home and see his new wife soon, so everyone agreed that he couldn't have committed suicide. And beside this pond, there will always be people passing by the pond like this, suddenly like A person who walked into the pond as if possessed by a demon, and was swallowed by the pond without knowing it. That's why everyone said that he was possessed by the "demon of the pond."

Xiao Tong frowned, "The Pond Demon? It does sound a bit similar to the Blue Whale game. The first deceased, Mika's father... He did walk into the lake and drown himself at the beginning. But... ...The current Blue Whale game is obviously different, right? In the legend told by the store manager just now, the victim walked into the lake unconsciously after approaching the lake. But in our current situation, these suicides should Most of them have never been close to the lake, right? Or, if you just show them the painting of the lake, they will lose their minds and want to die like that? That would be terrible."

"Probably not." Sifang Qiuzao shook his head and denied, "If it is true that even a glance at a degraded copy, transcript or the like can kill a person, then this is definitely the case in the entire history. They are all quite famous big evils. Either it is impossible for such a thing to be unknown, or it must have been sealed up and erased from the record, so it cannot be lost. If it is said to be close to that lake, people can't help but think If you want to go in, take a look at its photos, at most you will feel a little weird, and then add a little bit of world-weary thinking."

"A little bit world-weary?" I couldn't help frowning, "Judging from my friend Sakurai's crazy, completely brainwashed reaction, as if he was being manipulated by something and wanted to die at all costs, that It's not 'a little world-weary', the reality is much more outrageous than what you said, the store manager."

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Then this thing is much scarier than I thought. But, did your friend become like that just by looking at that painting?"

"That's not true. I think there are some pre-ceremony-like things. They are required to complete a 'subject' in the early morning every day. From the start of the game to the final death, it looks like a total of dozens of days. I strongly doubt it , The more projects they do, the more thorough the brainwashing. One reporter showed a strong sense of resistance when he didn’t finish all the projects. My friend didn’t finish the project either, so now I’m not in touch In the case of electronic equipment, she seems to be quite awake. Oh, yes, Nanako, judging from the information on the phone, she has not finished her project, so she also had a strong desire to ask for help at that time."

The Sifang store manager showed great interest, "Interesting, I can listen to it, are there any contents in those 'topics'?"

"According to Sakurai's information, it's basically... self-mutilation, watching a horror movie, standing on a roof, bridge or railroad track for a while, and drawing a whale, if you're ready to be a whale, on your lap Swipe 'yes', post 'I am a blue whale', engrave a whale on your arm, talk to a 'whale' on the Internet, make a wish 'I am a whale'...etc."

Sifang Qiuzao's eyes narrowed, "So, these 'subjects' can be roughly divided into two categories, one is to gradually reduce people's will to live, and people are gradually approaching suicide. The other is related to this whale , in my opinion, the constant emphasis on 'I'm a whale' is, in my opinion, building a connection."

I remembered the golden threads between believers and gods I saw after I became a god, and asked, "Is it like the connection between gods and believers?"