The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"...Senior sister, please come out, you are so scary. And this is not right, that thing grabbed my foot yesterday, there is no gap to hide in there!"

"Anyway, just look for it first! Guessing like this is definitely useless. Let's take a look at every gap in the room! See if there is a guy who is spying on us!"

So, Xiao Tong and I started to split up and search every crack in the room like a carpet.

The gap between the cabinet and the wall, the gap behind the floor-to-ceiling curtains, the gap in the window, the gap behind the cabinet door in a Japanese-style room, the gap between unstacked books on the bookshelf, and the gap between tatami mats that have not been placed ...

"It seems... nothing was found?" After searching one by one, it was the most regrettable that nothing was found.

Then, my eyes turned to Xiaotong's desk in the room, especially the few drawers on the desk.

"Hey, Hitomi, do you think there is such a possibility, that gap monster is hidden in your drawer, when you don't pay attention, the drawer will be slightly pushed outward, and then the contents inside will be revealed One eye secretly looked at you, and when you turned your attention to it, that drawer secretly closed by itself?"

"........."

Xiaotong stared at the drawer blankly for a while, and then pulled the drawer open with lightning speed!

The drawers are filled with ordinary stationery.

"Pfft..." He couldn't hold back for a while, but was still amused by Xiao Tong's movements.

Xiaotong turned around and gave me a hard look, then said: "I don't think that thing is in my room anymore, let's go, let's go to the quiet room to have a look, didn't you say that you were led there by that thing last time?" ?"

"Row."

The layout of this room called "quiet room" by Xiaotong is quite simple, except for the altar table with sacrifices to the gods, there are almost no other decorations, and it seems that there is nothing to be found. A gap for weirdness.

Xiaotong checked around, and suddenly asked suspiciously: "By the way... senior sister, will you eat the tribute that's on it?"

"...No, I don't know how to eat, why do you ask?"

There are candles, sake, grains, flowers and pine branches on the altar, but who would eat such things!Except for incense!

I saw Xiaotong lifted the sake bottle on the altar table and shook it lightly. Obviously, it was empty.

"There seems to be no shortage of grains or anything, but the wine bottle is already empty, and this one was just replaced after the Moon Festival. Moreover, this situation... has actually happened for a long time. In the past, I wondered why The sake enshrined in this room has to be changed from time to time, and the wine bottle is empty every time it is changed. The family said that it was drunk by the gods. At that time, I did not believe that there were really gods in the shrine. I suspected that someone in the family drank it secretly. Later, when only my dad and I were left in the family, I thought it must be him who drank it... But now... it will take a day or two for that guy to be discharged from the hospital ? Oh, by the way, there is another problem, the joss sticks in this room always burn very fast."

Xiaotong picked up a joss stick placed on the altar table and watched it carefully. Now both of us noticed that on the joss stick, we could see clear small tooth marks and traces of being bitten.

Chapter 13 Marx

I wondered: "Things that can drink and eat joss sticks... what kind of monster is this?"

"I don't know... But now, it seems that there is no trace of that thing here, what should I do now?"

"It shouldn't be a problem to leave it alone, right? It doesn't seem like such a harmful thing?"

"You care about entering my room in the middle of the night and grabbing my feet. This kind of behavior is called harmless? Let's not talk about whether it will hurt people... If this kind of thing happens often, it will also be very harmful to my mental health. Okay!" Xiao Tong clenched her fists and said dissatisfiedly.

"It's... indeed, I rarely do such a thing, it's really a heinous crime! It should be killed! But... how do I find that thing?"

Xiaotong lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly came up with an idea: "Otherwise... we should ask the White Snake God? He must have stayed in our shrine for nearly ten years, right? Is there something He should know?"

"Good idea, let me ask~" I raised my head and shouted into the air, "Moxi Moxi, Xiaobai, are you there?"

A phantom of a small white snake the size of a palm appeared on the altar in front of Xiaotong and me.

Now, the White Snake God has settled down in Tsukiyomi Shrine. After all, in the place where it used to be, the belief in it has completely faded away.And now on the Internet because of the video of the previous Tsukimi Festival, many people who have recently watched the video on the Internet and came to the Tsukiyomi Shrine to pay homage, will also go to the shrine of the White Snake by the way.Some people even asked, what kind of souvenirs are there for White Snake? I feel that if Uncle Sanriyue comes back, maybe it will really happen.

However, it was probably due to the fact that the fight against that tree took too much strength and suffered too much damage. The current white snake has actually gone through another "molting" state, and the current white snake is only as wide as a thumb and as long as a forearm. !Even if you make a wish to Him, the effect of the wish will probably be reduced. Psychologically, it seems to have a little effect, but when you think about it carefully, it seems to be useless to the extent of a placebo!I just want to make people complain. Is this the difference between the NPC in the game when it is a BOSS and after joining our role? !

However, the effect of your wishing in other shrines is almost the same. It is not as abnormal as the immediate effect after making a wish before.

At first, I thought that the other party might be at least hundreds of years old or even older. If he was still as big as the last time we saw him, I'm afraid we would have to respectfully call him "Boss Snake", but look at him Now this pocket-sized appearance, I really can't say it out loud, so I just call him Xiaobai!Anyway, he has no objection!You have no problem, right?

Xiaobai shook his head as if he understood my inner voice.

Xiaotong couldn't call him "Xiaobai" like I did, she bowed slightly to Xiaobai, and then asked: "Master White Snake, do you know if there is something wrong lurking in our shrine?" Something clean?"

The White Snake actually nodded, but it seemed that he could not make a sound. He used the tip of his tail to trace in the air, leaving a faint mark where it passed. , is a word for "cat".

"Cat? Are you talking about Engels? Well, my dear, what we are asking is if there is anything else weird?"

The white snake pointed to the word "cat" in the air with the tip of its tail.

"Huh...does this mean that there is another cat?" I seemed to understand a little bit.

White Snake nodded this time.

Thinking about it this way, it seems true that like to squat in the dark and peep at you, and habitually keep a distance from you, this seems to be the habit of cats.Moreover, it appeared again after Engels appeared in this shrine, and it seemed to have fought with Engels.Does it feel that other cats have invaded their territory?No wonder Engels was so afraid of turning into a cat when he was in this shrine. I thought it was afraid of me, but instead, it could be summoned outside the shrine and I was there, maybe it was The same kind in the shrine of fear.

"Cat...another cat?" Xiaotong's expression was a little strange, she began to talk to herself, "The wine in the quiet room has decreased, and the incense candles are burning fast. This has happened since several years ago The other cat's words... Could it be that..."

She asked again: "Master White Snake, has the other cat been in our shrine for a long time?"

The white snake nodded, and then wrote the number "six" in the air.

"Six years..." Xiaotong repeated the number in a murmur.

"What's the matter, isn't it Hitomi, you used to raise a cat named 'Marx', right? When you named this cat shikigami 'Engels', I had a question to ask, I just forgot about it later. I remember that when you registered your campus forum ID, you named yourself 'Marx' and said it was the name of your cat, but I haven't seen that cat until now?"

Xiaotong sighed and began to explain: "When I was young, a stray wild cat gave birth to a litter near our shrine. To be precise, they cannot be regarded as domestic cats. It should be said that they are the female cats. I have brought several kittens around my shrine as their territory. But I will often feed them with some food. Most of the kittens are timid. You put food, and they will wait for you to leave I will only go to eat when I am far away. But there is a kitten that is different. As long as I put something to eat, it will rush up and rush to finish eating. It will even come to pat you when I can’t find food, suggesting that you should Food is given. So I am familiar with this kitten and named it 'Marx'."

"Little Tong, your taste in naming is really hard to describe...why did you choose such a name!"

"Well... because at that time, I could see the souls of many dead people in the shrine. They didn't return to the lunar soil and the embrace of the gods like the family legend, so I think the gods must not exist. Actually I’m not very familiar with foreigners like Marx and Engels, but I just heard that they were atheists, and because they didn’t like gods at the time, they took such a name casually.”

"So that's the case... Then what happened? What happened six years ago?"

"To be precise, it should be seven years ago. At that time, didn't the members of the Sankayue family die more and more because of the curse. Someone in the family said that maybe the black cats entrenched in the shrine brought bad luck. At that time …It was useless for me to talk, and I could only watch the adults capture the cats in the shrine and throw them far away in the mountains. After that, I never saw Marx again.” Xiao Tong said with some regret.

"The result now is that the cat was thrown out seven years ago, and then a year later, a cat's evil spirit entered the shrine and has been entrenched ever since? It's not easy to become an evil spirit, according to what you said, Hitomi , Don’t you usually need resentment or obsession? So what happened, could it be that the Sankayue family didn’t just throw the cat out, but actually killed the cat?”

"I... I don't know... Yes, probably not..." Xiao Tong lowered her head and muttered to herself in a little panic.

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PS: My cat’s name is really Marx, a stray cat I picked up, and it has several brothers named Engels, Lenin and Hegel by me.

Here's what it looked like as a kid:

This is what it looks like when it reads my code:

Here's what it looks like when it suddenly stares at you at night:

Chapter 14 Professionals

Although it is known that it seems to be a cat evil spirit that is haunting the shrine, it is not known whether it is the cat named "Marx" that Hitomi used to feed for a while.

Hitomi and I spent some time searching the entire shrine, but humans seemed to be no match for cats when playing peek-a-boo, and we couldn't find its trace in the end.

"Actually, there is another way." I suggested, "Isn't Engels afraid of that unidentified cat spirit? He called it out and took it to patrol the entire shrine. Wherever it went, it was so scared that it hid. The cat is evil." The spirit is there!"

Xiaotong looked at the black paper cat in his hand, and saw that the paper cat seemed to be trembling already.

"Forget it, don't persecute Engels anymore. Don't look for it. Anyway, it doesn't seem to be too harmful. Just leave it alone. I just want to catch up on sleep now."

However, Xiaotong's dream of regaining sleep was shattered not long after, because Youxiang's loud voice rang out in the courtyard of the shrine.

"Hitomi! Are you awake?! Let's go to Shinjuku!! Today I got the exact news that Granny Tsubaki's divination shop is opening! I must catch her today!!"

Xiaotong buried her head with a pillow and tightly covered her ears.

With a "wow", Youxiang forcefully opened the sliding door of the room, and broke into the room dignifiedly. Seeing Xiaotong who was still sleeping, she was surprised, "Xiaotong, why are you still sleeping! Today The sunshine is so good, let’s continue the social practice activities of the Folklore Research Institute!”

Xiaotong, who was forced to wake up, showed a painful expression, "...Why can someone stay up late last night and still be so energetic today?"

[Because the recovery ability of a fool is ten times that of an ordinary person. 】

"Sister, I heard it! You are talking bad about me!"

【No, I'm just praising you for having talents that ordinary people don't have. 】

"...Is that so?" Youxiang showed a suspicious expression.

Xiaotong, who sat up with difficulty, sighed, then raised his head and asked Youxiang, "Uncle, is he awake? How is the situation?"

"Wake up is awake, but the spirit is still in a trance. It seems that the memory is a little misplaced, um... What did the doctor say? It seems to be a personality disorder, a personality disorder? It seems to be so, but it is still there. He has memories of the past, but he thinks that he did not do the things in his memory. His personality has always been quite strong, but when he woke up just now, he seemed a little too cautious."

"Then shouldn't you be more with your dad now..."

"Tsk, I don't have any relationship with him. I can count the number of times I've seen him on two hands in the past year. By the way, it seems that Xiao Tong's father is still lying in the hospital. It seems that he hasn't seen him either." You went to see it."

"...It's okay, let's go, let's go to Shinjuku."

"Okay~ let's go~~"

So, Shuangshuang put aside the old father who was still lying in the hospital, and came to Shinjuku again in order to get back the second strange object.

To be honest, I am much more interested in this second item than the first Lucky Cat, the glasses that can see through love at a glance!I don't know what I can see when I wear this!

Since we had agreed with Sifang Qiuzao before that we only need to get back two things, and now that the Lucky Cat has returned it, doesn't that mean that we only need to return one of the remaining two things? !The other one is equivalent to paying us for our hard work!Even if I get it, I won't pay it back!

Moving sex dolls sound weird, and I don't seem to need that much.Therefore, these glasses can be said to be something I must have!

Then, when we showed up at the gate of Granny Tsubaki's divination house, we found that the "CLOSED" sign was hung on it again.

"You Xiang, didn't you say it's open today?"

"No, no, my news must be correct. I sent someone to watch here, wait for me to ask."

After Youxiang made a phone call, she saw two strong men wearing magic mirrors, with bulging arm muscles and tattoos embroidered all over, coming to Youxiang's side. The aura made Xiaotong take a step back involuntarily.

Youxiang introduced enthusiastically: "This is Fengjiang, and this is Lianjiang. They are two professionals in charge of loan collection from the financial department of Huashanyuan Group that I borrowed from Uncle Fanghe. They are already watching here." It's been a morning."

Youxiang said that it could never be the name of those two people, this name made Xiao Tong's upper eyelid twitch, obviously it was just because one had a maple leaf tattoo on his arm and the other had a lotus flower tattoo.

"Youxiang... Come here." Xiao Tong quickly pulled Youxiang aside, and confirmed again and again, "Youxiang... are you sure the person you found is okay??"

"No problem? I asked Uncle Fanghe who is coming, can you still trust Uncle Fanghe's work? And I have seen Fengjiang and Lianjiang before."

"But...that tattoo..."

"Tattoos, what's wrong with the tattoos? Uncle Fang He also has tattoos on his body. I accidentally saw it once before. He has a bottle of ghost Buddha tattooed on his entire back."

"...Well, may I ask Uncle Fanghe's previous occupation?"

"Working as a security guard for a financial company in the commercial street? I seem to have heard him say so, but then the economy was depressed, and many companies in the commercial street went bankrupt. The company that Uncle Fanghe stayed at seemed unable to survive, so He changed his career and was hired by my dad as a housekeeper."

"...I see, I'm sorry."

"?"

Back in front of the two strong men again, Xiaotong looked at the two strong men with some trepidation, and carefully chose his words: "The... two names, are they really called... these two names?" ?”

I saw one of the strong men patted his chest and said: "It's okay! You are Miss's friend, please call us like Miss! Mr. Fang He... Butler Fang He sent us to do things, don't worry! The two of us are staring here. When the business was closed just now, an old woman came out and turned over the sign and wanted to leave. I stopped her and gave her a look, and she hid again! Lianjiang is guarding the exit of the back door, we Make sure she's still inside and hasn't left!"

The back of Xiao Tong's head was sweating, and she couldn't help complaining, "You Xiang, aren't you going too far..."

"Aren't we just collecting debts? The professional approach can't be wrong, right?"

"........."

[I'll go in and have a look first. 】

I went through the wall and took a quick look inside, then came out suspiciously and said to Xiaotong and Youxiang——

[That...is there no one in there? 】

"What?"

Chapter 15 Malicious Omen

The divination hall was the same as last time, it was empty and there was no one there.

Feng Jiang was already explaining to Youxiang in disbelief: "Miss, the two of us have been staring at this divination hall seriously! We have hardly moved our eyes! We guarantee that there is absolutely no other exit from this divination hall." !"

So...is this a case of the disappearing chamber?

What is the principle?Could it be some kind of supernatural power?

I searched around in the divination hall earnestly, trying my best not to let go of any details, and as a result, I saw that there seemed to be a gap in the pattern of the floor, and I sneaked down, and there was another road leading directly to the building below. The secret passage in the basement!

Hey, this is an illegal modification of the building!

After seeing another secret passage, the few of us were speechless.I really can't imagine why a fortune-telling mother-in-law would prepare so many escape routes for herself.Could it be that there are some enemies?What kind of enemies does a divination mother-in-law have?Or is it just to avoid debt?