Chapter 1129: Summer Memories (XVI)

After confirming the "size" of the five bottles of wine, the next steps are relatively simple.

As mentioned above, the rules of the Tower of Hanoi are easy to grasp, and there is no reason why Ruoyu cannot solve it.

In this way, after another three minutes, all five bottles of wine have been moved to the bottom row of the wine rack, and the steps experienced during this period are also theoretically the least.

When the last bottle of wine was returned to its place, a sound of machinery and gears rolling suddenly came from the wall beside Ruoyu.

Seeing this, Feng Bujue immediately stepped forward: "Here... let me stand in front."

In such a place where there may be danger, Brother Jue usually rushes to the front. It's not that he has a great spirit of sacrifice, but he thinks this choice is more efficient and safe.

Squeak——

Just when Brother Jue and Ruoyu exchanged positions, the wall at the end of the wine cellar slowly opened.

Behind the wall, a dark, narrow corridor appeared; the four walls of the corridor looked like uncarved natural stone walls, with a height and width similar to the wine cellar, but... the depth was unknown, and the end could not be seen at a glance, and it was only known that it was winding forward...

"This road... is not right." Ruoyu looked inside for a while, and then said, "The wine cellar below the principal's office should be a space between the first and second floors of the school, but this road..."

"It's okay, this means... from here on, we will enter a subspace-like area." Feng Bujue took over her words and said, "Like these settings in front of us, they are obviously generated independently by the system and have nothing to do with the principal... If it goes as expected, if we continue to move forward, we will be close to the final plot..."

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Let's talk about the other side and look at Xiao Tan and the others.

Since Brother Jue was not present, An Yueqin, who had a flashlight in her hand, consciously began to lead the way.

After leaving the principal's office, the four of them carefully went down to the first floor.

Since the "whoosh" sounded like the sound of a door being opened, their search target was naturally the rooms with doors.

Fortunately, the space in this school was not large. Standing at the staircase and looking around, the players found the abnormality...

At this moment, within their sight, the classrooms that had been opened before were still open, which means... those doors had not changed.

However, the door of the "teacher's office" that should have been closed was opened at some point... without knowing when.

"That... should have been opened by the guy on the playground?" Xiao Tan looked at the door over there and lowered his voice to his teammates around him.

"From the point of view that he opened the door of the 'teacher's office'..." Gui Xiao continued, "Maybe he is a teacher in this school?"

"Maybe." Xiao Ling continued, "But he is definitely not a teacher in Class A of the second year." She explained, "Because he is not among the four adults in the group photo."

"I think... he may be the grown-up monitor Watanabe." An Yueqin turned around and said at this time.

"Well, that's possible." Xiao Tan nodded and continued, "So far, all the NPCs we have seen... or monsters, seem to be the people in the group photo of Class A in the second year."

"No... there is one... I can't be sure." Gui Xiao immediately continued, "It's the guy who was lying on the glass window of the classroom at first and then turned into black mist at the stairs." He paused for half a second and recalled, "I have seen his face... He is not among the four adults in the photo." He looked up at his teammates again and said in a deep voice, "If that guy is the squad leader Watanabe..."

"... Then who is the man on the playground?" Xiao Tan finished his words and fell into deep thought.

"No matter who it is, let's go in first..." An Yueqin took a deep breath and continued, "Huh... Not to mention that there are still two people trapped upstairs, just say that the two flashlights we have on hand will probably not last long, so..."

As she said, she stepped forward and walked towards the office. The other three did not say anything else, but just followed closely.

After a few steps, everyone came to the door of the "teacher's office".

What was waiting for them was…

“Sorry, I’m late.” As soon as the players showed up, the man in the room said this to them.

This man was the mysterious man who had stood on the playground and looked up at the school.

He spoke very quickly, without the ghostly feeling that was unique to ghosts, and he was holding a flashlight in his hand.

All these signs showed that… this guy seemed to be a living person.

“Who are you?” An Yueqin asked, “What are you… doing?”

At this moment, the man was indeed busy with something, but he saw that he had spread out a few sheets of paper on a desk and wrote some strange words on them with a brush that he got from nowhere.

"What?" After hearing An Yueqin's question, the man suddenly stopped what he was doing and looked up at the players suspiciously, "You... can't remember again?"

"What do you mean..." Xiao Tan also heard something from the other party's words, and asked tentatively, "Can't remember again?"

"Ah... it's true." The man seemed to have confirmed something at this time, and he continued, "After all, you have been 'lost' for too long, it is normal to forget."

"Then can you explain it to us?" An Yueqin, who was confused, asked again.

"My name is Tsukamoto Shota, and I am an onmyoji." Tsukamoto lowered his head again and started busy with what he was doing, and continued, "Although it may be rude to say this, I still have to inform you... you guys are here Died six years ago."

"What?" When the four of them heard this sentence, they all had the same reaction.

Previously, Feng Bujue's speculation that the players were actually "ghosts" turned out to be true.

"Don't worry, just listen to me and explain it to you slowly." Tsukamoto's attitude gave people the impression that... he had long been accustomed to similar situations. He continued to draw the talisman skillfully while saying, "This The matter... we have to start from Showa 47, that is, twenty-six years ago..."

The players knew as soon as they heard that the appearance of this NPC probably meant that the truth of the plot was about to be revealed, so they had no intention of interrupting and listened quietly.

"In May of that year, a fire broke out at Chongjiu Elementary School." Tsukamoto's narrative began. "The fire was not too serious, but... it still burned a student to death, and this student, It is your classmate... Suzuki Takayuki." He paused for a second, as if to give the players time to digest the information, and then said, "Suzuki-kun is in the warehouse just one door away from the principal's office. He was burned to death. Before he died, he knocked on the door desperately and called for help, but... unfortunately, the principal Miyamoto was an alcoholic. It happened to be lunch break. Miyamoto, who had no class in the afternoon, got drunk and fell asleep in the principal's office. On fire.

"Miyamoto didn't wake up until the fire truck drove into the school. At that time... Suzuki-kun across the door had already entered a state of shock due to inhaling too much smoke.

"Then, the confused Miyamoto instinctively fled the scene of the fire after seeing the smoke. He had no idea... Even at that time, if he could open the door on the opposite side, he would still have time to rescue Suzuki-kun.

"However, these can only be hypotheses after all... Suzuki-kun was burned to death in the end, and he became a fierce ghost as a result.

"The next day, he killed another classmate in your class - Noguchi Eiji. However, at that time, the case was treated as a general missing persons case. I only found out about this after subsequent investigations. …

"Then, on the third day... it happened to be the day of the Sanja Festival. Although this town is very remote and not famous, it still has a long history; since ancient times, the 'Mao Shrine' here has been There was a self-organized Sanshe Festival, and this custom has been continued.

"But the villagers don't know that this kind of festival that has been carried out by Mao Shrine for thousands of years is not simply to worship 'Amitabha', 'Avalokitesvara' and 'Masthamaprapta Bodhisattva'... but to pray for the three A Bodhisattva helped the villagers suppress 'its' anger."

"It?" When he heard that keyword, Gui Xiao also reacted, "What is 'it'?"

Note: In Tsukamoto's original words (Japanese), the pronunciation of "it" can also be translated as "that child (A-NO-KO)".

"'It' is an evil god who is suppressed in Mao Shrine. No one can remember its name, but it is undoubtedly extremely evil and extremely powerful..." When saying this, Tsukamoto seemed to have thought of something. What, the movements of his hands were slightly stagnant, "Alas..." I don't know why, he sighed, "Later... on the night of the Sanja Festival, Miyamoto sneaked into the shrine, I think... then At that time, he was probably haunted by the evil ghost transformed by Suzuki. He was desperate due to fear... so he ran to the shrine and wanted to pray for God's blessing. But... it was not God who responded to Miyamoto. But... 'it'."

"You mean..." An Yueqin heard this and continued, "Miyamoto released 'it'?"

"Yes, Miyamoto destroyed the appearance of the three Bodhisattvas and tore up the seal that held 'It'." Tsukamoto responded in a deep voice, "And 'It', which regained its freedom, also fulfilled its promise and helped Miyamoto solved Suzuki's evil spirit, but... Miyamoto soon realized that what he had unleashed was far more terrifying than Suzuki's ghost.

"'It' first came to this school located at the foot of the shrine mountain. The next day, your class teacher Mr. Sato met 'it' and became insane because of it.

"Miyamoto didn't hold on for long. Two days later, he committed suicide at home due to excessive fear..."

Up to this point, what Tsukamoto said corresponds one to one with the information that Brother Jue found in the old newspapers.

However, the content in the newspaper ended here, but Tsukamoto's story... was not over yet.

"Unfortunately, 'it' will not stop here. Its killing has just begun..." Tsukamoto continued, "Two days after Miyamoto committed suicide, a murder occurred in this school that shocked the whole of Japan. Called the '520 Massacre'; that day...several teachers and more than a dozen students in this school were killed in extremely cruel ways. When the police arrived at the scene, they saw a scene like hell on earth. , and...seven survivors."

At this point, Tsukamoto seemed to have finished what he was doing. He raised his head and glanced at the players: "Those seven people are all students in Class A of the second year, that is... you."

"Wait a minute..." Xiao Ling replied, "That's not right... there are only six of us."

"To be precise, there are six ghosts." Tsukamoto corrected, "I know this... If you listen to me, you will know why there are six of you left in the end."

"Well..." Xiao Tan seemed to suddenly remember something at this time, and then said, "About that tragedy... You said it was 'it' that killed everyone, but... how did the police close the case?"

"That case... had no results." Tsukamoto replied, "The police finally closed the case with 'the murderer was not found'. They... would rather bear all the social pressure than make public the 'results of their investigation'."

"Why?" Xiao Tan asked again.

"I... seem to have guessed the reason..." At this moment, An Yueqin's expression became a little subtle.

"Oh? What's the reason?" Xiao Ling also asked curiously.

"I think..." An Yueqin looked at Tsukamoto, "It's better for him to tell it..."

"Well..." Tsukamoto let out a breath from his nose and continued, "The truth is hard to accept, because the investigation results of that year showed... that the seven surviving children who were only eight years old were the ones who carried out the massacre."

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At the same time, Feng Bujue and Li Ruoyu were on the same side.

The two walked quickly in the corridor for five or six minutes, and then they saw a light in front of them.

They quickly approached the light source and found that it was the exit of the corridor.

So, the two turned off the flashlights in their hands and walked out of this depressing passage.

When Ruoyu, who was walking behind, stepped out of the corridor, the mirage-like passage behind them disappeared. When they looked back, they could only see a few ordinary country roads.

And the scenery that appeared right in front of them... was actually the gate of Chongjiu Primary School.

"Hehe... Is it some kind of illusion?" Feng Bujue looked at the bright sunshine above his head and the campus bathed in the sun in front of him, and said with a smile.

"That's for sure." Ruoyu continued, "Not to mention the time factor (it's impossible for the day to dawn so soon), from the perspective of space, we are now outside Chongjiu Primary School. If this is not an illusion, then haven't we passed the level?"

"Then..." Jue Ge continued, "Let's go in and take a look?"

"Let's go." Ruoyu responded.

After the two of them said that, they took a step and walked into this "daytime version" of Chongjiu Primary School... (To be continued ~^~)