The little girl retreated to the corner, knelt down, huddled in the corner and hugged her legs, covering her face on her knees. As she shivered, her figure became more erratic, like a flickering flame, and her voice was eerie. "Uuuuuuuuah, so scary... people are dead..."
Chi Feichi got through the window and approached the little girl.
"How could this happen..." The little girl's erratic shadow continued to tremble, not noticing that Chi Fei was late in front of her, "Big brother died so miserably, even worse than Rong Zhi, so pitiful... Wuwuwu... …”
Chi Feichi reached out and touched the little girl's head. He found that his palm penetrated through without any resistance, and squatted down again, "Hey, I..."
The little girl looked up at Chi Feichi, suddenly let out a shrill scream, turned around, rolled and ran away through the wall of the shrine.
Chi Feichi: "..."
Ran……
"Ahhhhh!" The shrill and erratic scream floated into the distance, "Ghost!"
Chi Feichi stood up speechlessly, and while walking up the stairs of the shrine, he took out his mobile phone and called Koizumi Hongzi.
The circuits and communication lines of Fifteen Nights City have not yet been laid, but Koizumi Hongzi is tired of playing tricks. After arranging her guards to ambush at the dock, she never returns to Fifteen Nights City. The phone should be able to get through.
Over there, the beep sound lasted for a long time, so I hung up.
Chi Fei called back late.
Once, twice, three times, four times, five times...
When the sixth call was made, the call was connected, and Koizumi Hongzi's roaring voice came, "Ahhh! Bastard, calling me in the middle of the night to disturb people, you are a snake spirit!"
Chi Feichi walked up the stairs, lowered the call volume, and waited for Koizumi Hongzi to finish shouting, then said, "It's me."
There was silence for a while, and Koizumi Hongzi continued to roar, "It's three o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning! If you don't sleep, please don't disturb me, okay? You keep calling, calling, calling, calling... annoying child of nature !”
Chi Feichi still waited for Koizumi Hongzi to finish his roar before saying, "Look at my place with a crystal ball. The village I am in seems to have ghosts."
"Ghost?" Koizumi Hongzi was stunned, "Are you sure? It's not some kind of magic trick, right?"
"Not sure, but I don't think it's magic." Chi Feichi walked up to the attic and walked towards the attic window.
"Wait a moment!"
Koizumi Hongzi's side was silent for a long time before she heard a voice. She said in a strange tone, "Did you do something to that little girl? She was crying and running out of the village."
Chi Feichi: "I just accidentally scared her."
Koizumi Hongzi: "..."
only? Not careful?
The son of nature is indeed evil, even the ghosts were scared to tears.
Chi Feichi opened the attic window and looked at the river in front of the shrine and the jungle in the distance, "Is she really a ghost?"
"Ah, yes, they are indeed dead souls. They have existed for at least ten years," Koizumi Anko paused. "It's strange, how can there be such creatures as ghosts in this world? Well...she seems to be unable to leave the village. , she was bounced back after running to a certain distance, as if there was something invisible blocking her, could it be an earthbound spirit?"
"Do you want to capture it and study it?" Chi Feichi asked.
"That's too cruel," Koizumi Hongzi paused, "I won't tell you whether to catch her or not. I'll report her location to you. You chase her and I'll observe her first."
"OK."
Chi Feichi agreed.
Next, a heartbreaking and cruel thing happened in Guize Township.
Chi Feichi relied on his current excellent physical strength, speed, and flexibility, as well as Koizumi Hongzi's accurate point reporting, to pursue the little girl ghost.
The little girl ghost cried and ran away, becoming invisible from time to time. When she looked back, she found that the figure was still chasing her. As if she could see her, she continued to cry "woo woo woo" and ran away in a panic.
"Big brother is a bad guy, a bad ghost..."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."Big brother bullies others..."
"Someone is coming, a ghost is coming, save Asami..."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...Eiji, where are you? Someone is bullying Asami..."
"Save Asami, wuwuwu..."
At the end, the little girl ghost was probably tired, hovering at the foot of the tree without energy, covering her face and crying until she hiccupped.
"Asami is going to... burp... to be eaten..."
"Okay, okay, okay," Koizumi Hongzi's voice was speechless on the other side of the phone, "Such a poor little girl, you really have the heart to scare her into crying for so long."
Chi Feichi stood in front of the little girl ghost and said in a calm voice, "First, it's the little girl ghost. Second, you didn't hesitate when you reported the point just now. Third, stop talking nonsense and tell me your observations."
"Okay," Koizumi Hongzi imitated Chi Feichi's calm tone and said, "According to my observation, her activity range is only in this village and a circle of forests outside the village. She should be an earthbound spirit. You should have heard of it. Earth-bound spirits, right? In the Yin-Yang theory, these are undead spirits that have grievances and unresolved grudges during their lifetime and are bound to the place of death. They take the earth or a building as their body and are also the prototype of the earth god. Generally, earth-bound spirits are only Of course, I have never seen someone who can move in a certain room or house. I have only seen it in ancient books. An earthbound spirit like her that can move within a village is considered half an earth god. This kind of earthbound spirit was very rare in the past, and the earthbound spirit that can become the god of the earth is different from the resentful spirits trapped in the house. Most of them are cute and kind, and they can transform into kittens, birds and other small animals. Creatures, Onmyojis from the Heian era like to make contracts with them, but it's a pity, probably because this is the end of the Dharma era, she has no power at all. It would be good if her resentment and heart knot can keep herself from dissipating, and neither of us are. People from the Yin and Yang Dao cannot take her away, and she will either not be able to fulfill her dying wish and be trapped here for the rest of her life, or she will disappear after realizing her wish."
Chi Feichi listened to the call and approached the little girl, "Stop crying, I won't eat you."
The little girl raised her head twitchingly, and looked at Chi Feichi pitifully with a pair of red eyes, "Really, really?"
"If I could eat you, I would have eaten you long ago." Chi Feichi said.
The little girl thought about it and found that it was true. She let down her guard a little, "Then...brother, why are you chasing me?"
Chi Feichi lied without blushing, "My companion said that you are here because you have an unfulfilled wish. I want to ask you what your wish is."
"I see, I'm sorry, I thought..." The little girl Ghost looked guilty, "Originally, I wanted to watch Rong Hao grow up, watch him get married and have children. As long as I see him happy, I will be very happy. But he has been very unhappy since last year and has been running out of the village. I couldn't leave with him. I don't know what trouble he got into, and then...then half a year ago..."
The voice of the little girl ghost became smaller and smaller and suddenly stopped.
Chi Feichi looked at the little girl and found that the little girl's figure was not as solid as before, as light as a human-shaped white mist.
"Asami is so sleepy," the little girl ghost raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, her voice became softer, "Brother, I have no strength, I want to sleep first, by the way... My name is Asami, Otozawa Asami, big brother Brother, you..."
Asami Otozawa disappeared.
Chi Feichi: "..."
So, what is the wish?
"It seems that too much energy was consumed before." On the other side of the phone, Koizumi Hongzi was silent for a moment, and her voice suddenly became a little low. "Son of nature, do you really intend to help her realize her wish? Once her wish is realized, she will disappear. Yeah, I...there aren't many special 'monsters' like us."
"I just asked her what her wish was. I still have to ask her what she meant," Chi Feichi calmly analyzed. "I don't know what the real earthbound spirit has been like since ancient times, but she told me in the film and television works The earthbound spirit I saw in the movie is different. She just said the words "it used to be hope". Her wish is likely to change over time. The reason may be that she is conscious, or maybe her resentment or obsession is not enough. Determined, or maybe both, but no matter what the reason is, if one day her wish happens to be fulfilled after changing, she will also dissipate. If you want her not to dissipate, you have to let her not get what she wants most... "
"That seems a bit too cruel." Koizumi Hongzi couldn't help but said.
"No, the point is, if one day she wants to dissipate, she will definitely dissipate," Chi Feichi continued, "So now it's not what you want or what I want, but what she wants, whether or not Until you understand her thoughts, your sorrow and reluctance are unnecessary."
On the other side of the phone, Koizumi Hongzi was speechless and said with half-moon eyes, "Thank you so much. After listening to your analysis, I don't have any worries at all..."
Chi Feichi: "You're welcome."
Koizumi Hongzi: "..."
%#＋@&……
"I'm going to ask Fang Zhou to help me check the information. You can go to sleep."
After Chi Feichi finished speaking, he hung up the phone, opened his mailbox, and sent an email to Sawada Hiroki's registered email address. In less than half a minute, three emails arrived.
One email was about Eiji Nagakura, which didn’t contain much information.
Nagakura Eiji is 20 years old this year. His academic record is only up to high school graduation. He had online real-name registration information a year ago, and then a lot of news reports were cut.
The photo shows a handsome young man with a somewhat immature face.
The content of the report is similar. Half a year ago, Eiji Nagakura rushed into a jewelry store in a nearby town with a gun, shot and killed the guard, then robbed some jewelry and ran away with the jewelry appraiser hostage, but left a lot of things at the scene. Fingerprints, he was wanted by the police not long after, and committed suicide with a gun...
One email was about Asami Otozawa with even less information.
Probably because this place is too traditional, there are very few people using electrical appliances, and the Internet ten years ago was not as popular as it is now. Ark did not collect much information. Only one hospital admission record of Otozawa Asami's information was entered into the Internet.
Asami Otozawa from Onizawa Township was diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis in a Tokyo hospital when she was nine years old.
This is a disease that has no obvious early symptoms and is easily missed. Asami Otozawa was diagnosed very late, and she probably died of the disease less than a year later.
The last email is about the information about Onizawa Township in the past five years. Onizawa Township is still applying for earth heritage, which is a world cultural heritage.
According to the villagers, the buildings here were all left over more than a hundred years ago. They only repaired them and never demolished or rebuilt them.
There is no result yet on whether the application can be approved, but the village has been divided into two factions.
Ark intercepted part of the interview report. One group should be led by Nagakura Yan. Nagakura Yan has been interviewed many times and said that he will work hard to cooperate in completing the application. However, the report records that there seems to be another group of people in the village who oppose the application. It is unclear. To what extent is the conflict specific...
