Regarding the activities of the Ghost Story Club, Zhou Yu did not want to get involved.
At this point, Zhou Yu and Zhang Mumu's relationship was no longer something he could stop, but it was still just an ordinary friendship, so there was no need for excessive contact.
After returning home, he immediately looked through Zhou Yu's mobile phone and diary, and roughly figured out what had happened in the past two months.
To sum up, Zhou Yu was invited by Zhang Mumu to join the supernatural society. Just as the club was about to hold an event at that time, Zhou Yu proposed to borrow an abandoned store near her home - judging from this rare proactive attitude, she really liked Zhang Mumu. This further deepened Zhou Yu's determination to draw a clear line between himself and that terrifying mascot.
As for the "abandoned store" mentioned by Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu didn't need to think too much. There was no doubt that he was referring to the abandoned clothing store that had not been rented out for several months. Although there are more than one closed shop nearby, it is basically the only one that has been abandoned enough for people to come in and out without having to worry about being held accountable.
What's even more unfortunate is that the office worker who rented the same room as Zhou Yu resigned before the Chinese New Year and moved away. The landlord was picky about his tenants and could not find a satisfactory new tenant for a while. Zhou Yu was the only one living alone in the house for the time being.
After learning about this situation, Zhang Mumu, who had probably been left alone by his parents, became even more unscrupulous. Not only did he want to play some horror games nearby, but he also wanted to spend the night at Zhou Yu's house to play together - if Zhou Yu thought correctly, this "play" probably meant watching horror movies.
The event will be held on February 8th, the day after school starts, which is the evening of the day after tomorrow. Because everyone in the club happens to have no morning classes on the 9th, going back later won't have much impact.
All in all, this event was a sure thing, and it was too late for Zhou Yu to refuse.
After figuring this out, he immediately went to the abandoned clothing store, took out the two terrible-looking models, and threw them into the bushes outside the block. After confirming that there were no suspicious signs in the store, he began to think about how to deal with club activities.
The so-called "Four Corners Game", as Chen Wei said, you can find detailed instructions on the Internet.
The method is roughly as follows: In a completely enclosed dark room, four players each occupy a corner. After starting, player A moves forward until he reaches the corner where player B is, and taps player B on the shoulder. Player B also moves forward after being slapped, going to the corner where player C is. Similarly, player C moves to player D's corner.
At the end of this cycle, player D will move to the empty corner originally occupied by A. At this time, the corner is occupied by player D alone. He should not be able to shoot anyone, so he must first cough as a sign. Only after the coughing ends can you continue to move forward and repeat player A's behavior in the previous round.
The position shifting is repeated like this. Theoretically, in each round of movement, one person must walk to an empty corner and make a coughing sound, indicating the end of the round of movement.
So far, this is what would happen under common sense.
The reason why this "game" is regarded as a psychic ritual lies in the subsequent part.
It is said that when the game reaches a certain stage, the coughing sound will no longer appear.
Originally a game played by four people, a cough was inevitable every four moves. Under the premise that all participants abide by the rules, no one came to the empty corner, which means that a fifth participant appeared in the absolutely closed room.
Naturally, the fifth person is the "ghost" who was summoned.
Unlike Ouija board games such as Pen Fairy and Die Fairy, the "Four Corners Game" also has a rather gimmicky feature, that is, there is no formal ending method. As long as there is no coughing sound, it means that the game is not over.
When there are five participants, this is an endless loop with no solution.
Zhou Yu didn't believe it emotionally. Four people were locked in a room and moved around. This kind of activity that sounded like the beauty of the human body didn't interest him at all.
For this type of psychic game, as long as there are multiple people participating, the principles that produce weirdness are similar. Pen Fairy and Die Fairy must be played by two or more people, precisely because the participants will exert unconscious psychological suggestions on each other. The unconscious twitching and trembling of one participant's fingers will be considered by the other party as the manifestation of supernatural force, and then a directional force will be exerted unconsciously.
It was obviously the result of the two people's joint efforts, but when they asked each other, they would always say "I definitely did not cheat."
However, compared to Ouija board games, the design of this four-corner game is more complex, which almost eliminates the possibility of participants "cheating" unconsciously.
But putting four people in the same dark room to repeat mechanical behaviors will undoubtedly encourage one of them to engage in prank-like cheating. As long as the cheater deliberately doesn't cough when he reaches an empty corner, and moves back to his original position after moving on, the person who should cough in the next round will still be the cheater, and he can control the game indefinitely.
When they first started playing the game, the four of them might not have had any thoughts of cheating, but as long as this boring behavior pattern continued, the fear of ghosts and monsters would naturally disappear. It is conceivable that someone among them will definitely think of this method, because this cheating method is too simple. Even if you don't think of it at first, you will naturally understand it as the game progresses.
From Zhou Yu's point of view, he believes that if anything unusual occurs on the day of the game, Chen Wei will be the biggest suspect, followed by Xin Susu.
Because of Zhang Mumu's stable intelligence, let's rule out the possibility of cheating for now.
Originally, it wouldn't be a big deal for Zhou Yu to participate in an event like this. If Zhou Yu was involved, it would be very troublesome to have to forge diaries afterwards to fill in the memory gaps.
However, he has not forgotten what happened two months ago.
The female swordsman who pierced his chest with a sword, and all the weird things related to her, were enough to prove that common sense cannot have a foothold in this world, at least in this city.
In this case, is the female swordsman really the only anomaly in the city?
To prevent unexpected events, Zhou Yu decided to participate in the game personally.
But that's just a temporary deal. In the future, he doesn't plan to have any contact with everyone in the Kaitan Club. There is only one thing that really matters.
He wants to find the swordswoman.
During the two months when he had no memory, Zhou Yu and Zhang Mumu maintained close contact, so it can be inferred that the personality switch did not occur. This must be related to what the female swordsman did to him.
After decorating the abandoned clothing store, he turned on his mobile phone and took a look. It was now eight o'clock in the evening, and there was still time before midnight.
He decided to look for the other person around Osier Road and ask all the questions in his mind. This kind of search operation is completely luck-based, so the sooner you start, the better. If you start too late, you may miss it.
Maybe this time, he will still be attacked by the opponent. But that strange sword didn't seem to kill him, and it didn't even leave any scars. Therefore, Zhou Yu didn't feel worried, he just felt it was strange.
——He saw with his own eyes that the female swordsman chopped people into pieces with that weapon. It was definitely not some pretty laser sword toy. Even when fighting the female swordsman, his hands and feet were cut and bleeding by the blade.
Why did fatal injury alone not work?
After thinking about it, I can only think that it is controlled by the female swordsman. Maybe it was the characteristics of the sword itself, or maybe it was the treatment the other party did after he was unconscious. No matter how much they hated each other intuitively, the other party probably had no intention of killing Zhou Yu, and also let Zhang Mumu go.
Based on this alone, Zhou Yu believes that the other party has the value of communication.
He reached into his pocket, where his switchblade lay silently.
He walked towards the station through the rain on the ground.
