I loaded the ghost talk game

dusk.

A crow in the dim light of the setting sun landed on the wall by the side of the street, tilting its head and staring at the passers-by.

This is a corner convenience store not too far from Hualing High School.

At the same time, it was also the place where Kamiyagawa worked when it was down and out.

Thinking of graduating from high school, I may not have the opportunity to come here again in the future. Taking advantage of the free time to attend the graduation ceremony today, after finishing all the things in the school, Kamiya came here.

At this time, it just so happens that store manager Kawai Ikumi and former colleague Okamura are here.

The two of them were very happy to see Kamiya come into the shop.

Manager Kawai invited Kamiya to eat oden, and the three of them began to chat casually about recent developments.

From the store manager and Okamura, Kamiyagawa heard a little about Masao Nagatomo by the way.

Nagatomo has had the opportunity to join the countermeasure room since the incident at Kisaragi Station last time.

After that, during the transition period of life, I lived in the low-rent apartment that Kamiyagawa lived in before, and even worked part-time at the convenience store of Manager Kawai when I was free.

The store manager and long-time friend Okamura, who is serious about his work, gave good comments.

And I heard from them that Changyou has now ended his part-time job.

Well, it's normal.

Kamiya knows that Nagatomo has already gone to practice with Uncle Yuki, and has also received a fixed salary from the countermeasure room. It is true that he no longer needs to work in a convenience store.

Moreover, because of the existence of a special "back spirit" brought out from the other world, Xiaopingtou performed quite well under Yuki.

Okamura is not on the evening shift today, he has already changed his uniform and put on his regular uniform at this point in time.

The staff responsible for the later period has also come to the store.

Because of the arrival of Kamiyagawa, Okamura did not leave, and stood chatting: "Speaking of Changyou, that guy's girlfriend is so cute. Damn it, I'm so envious. When will I get a girl like that?" friend."

"I advise you not to think about it. Working hard is more practical than anything else."

Kamiya chewed the radish in the oden and poured cold water on him mercilessly.

The store manager Hejing next to him also nodded in cooperation.

"Hey, you don't have to be so unfeeling, right? At this time, shouldn't you cooperate and comfort me and say, 'Come on, you can definitely find it' or something." Okamura muttered dissatisfied.

He had just finished speaking when the phone in his pocket rang.

Because it's not part-time work now, Okamura answered the phone naturally: "Ah, Narita, I know I know... I'm off work, come back later, you guys go first."

"It's those strange friends of yours calling again?" Store Manager Kawai glanced at Okamura helplessly with one hand on his hip.

"What's a strange friend? He's obviously a friend of Tan Ling." Okamura retorted.

"Detect... spirit?"

When Kamiyagawa heard this word, he put down the string of fish balls he had just picked up.

"Yeah, yeah, this circle is quite popular recently. Kamiya-kun, let me tell you, among my friends, there is a very beautiful girl, hehe."

Speaking of this, Okamura seems to be excited all of a sudden.

"Is it hot? Why?"

Okamura shook his head, with a mysterious expression: "Because of what happened to Mengnan before. Such a weird thing happened, don't you think the 'spirit' should be real?"

"Didn't some experts refute the rumors before? It was said that Mengnan was a rare group psychological suggestion event." Store manager Hejing interjected.

"You can't believe what those experts say."

Manager Kawai: "It's better not to get involved in this kind of thing, Okamura. Things like ghosts and ghosts are illusory."

Okamura didn't care about this: "Ah, manager, if you really think that 'spirits' don't exist, why are you so hesitant about such things?"

"Oh, I can't persuade you. Wouldn't it be better to put your interests and energy elsewhere?" Store manager He Jing was even more helpless, and didn't say any more.

Kamiya, on the other hand, has never expressed his opinion on this, but frowned.

Okamura glanced at him, and suddenly thought of something: "By the way, Kamiya-kun, didn't you say that you are going to major in monster studies in college? You must be interested in this kind of thing, right? Look, look at this."

With that said, Okamura turned on the phone and showed it in front of Kamiya.

"I'm studying folklore, folklore."

Kamiyagawa shrugged, but still looked at Okamura's phone screen.

There is a photo on the phone, which looks blurry and out of focus.

The shooting location looks like a somewhat deserted interior corridor.

At first glance there is nothing special.

But if you look closely, it seems that there are some strange things photographed at the end of the corridor.

If you zoom in on the photo, you can see two pale and twisted hands hanging from the ceiling at the end of the corridor.

But because it's too vague, it's not really clear.

It's hard to say whether it's really two hands, or something else.

"Your picture is all covered, right? I can take pictures with a landline better than you." Shengu said this, but his brows were furrowed a little bit, and he followed up, "Where did you take the picture?" ?”

"I didn't take the picture, it was sent by my colleagues. The shooting location was a remote and deserted hut on the side of Takenotsuka in Adachi District. Tonight they asked me to go explore there together."

"Do you have to go at night?"

"Doesn't Tanling always choose night? During the day, everyone has their own things. And the point is not this, it's the girl in my friend, super cute." Okamura showed a yearning expression.

Kamiyagawa couldn't complain anymore.

My heart said that these spirit lovers are really top-notch.

What is the difference between this and organizing a group to deliver food to possible ghost stories?

If you really want to hit the spirit so much, why not come to me directly.

There are all kinds of strange stories around me, and I guarantee that you will never have unnecessary curiosity about such things after taking a look at them for the rest of your life.

Kamiya put down the Oden in his hand, and patted Okamura's thick shoulder: "Come with me."

Although Okamura was puzzled, he followed Kamiyagawa out of the convenience store door and came to the trash can behind the door near the alley.

This place is empty.

The employees of the convenience store used to come here to smoke occasionally.

"What's the matter, so mysterious? You want to smoke too?" Okamura still looked suspicious.

"No." Shen Gu shook his head, "Show me the specific address of the place you are going to explore tonight."

"Ha, I just said that you must be interested." Okamura clicked on a discussion group on Line with great interest, and showed Kamiyagawa a position:

"How about it, do you want to be together later? But let's say it first, Kamiya-kun, you are so good-looking, there is no shortage of girls who like it, that cute girl in the same club, you can't..."

"Okamura."

Kamiyagawa didn't let Okamura talk, and interrupted him with cold eyes.

"Yo."

Beside Kamiya, a red deer with a long horse face and a pair of huge antlers appeared.

"YoYo."

The red deer shook its big horns, and immediately a sense of stupidity and ignorance enveloped Okamura.

The latter couldn't see the red deer at all, and his expression was slightly dull: "Huh?"

"Listen." Kamiya held the [One Thousand Silver Needles · Change] and said, in the palm of his hand, silver threads slid, and one of the fallen pupils emerged, "You are not interested in the matter of exploring spirits at all." interest, and will not participate in such boring activities in the future.”

"Oh, oh, yes. Who would go to such a boring thing..."

Okamura's expression was dazed, and his eyes unconsciously met Red Deer's pupils that were constantly spinning.

"Fine, hold on."

After finishing all this, Kamiyagawa patted Okamura's shoulder again: "Let's go, the store manager is still waiting for us."

Only then did the latter recover from his dizzy state, and was a little confused for a while.

"Eh? I just... eh?"

But sober is sober, what Kamiyagawa said just now has been "planted" into the depths of his mind.

In the state of Red Deer [Stupidity], the effect of [One Thousand Silver Needles·Change] is outstanding, and Shengu is already very skilled in using the small silver sticks. Combination punches.

Let alone ordinary people.

In this case, it is not an exaggeration to directly change the name of [One Thousand Silver Needles] to "Hypnosis Silver Needles".

Okamura may not be able to wake up from the "psychological hint" planted by Kamiyagawa for a long time.

Or, he may always be influenced by the suggestion that this sentence itself does not harm his personal interests, thus avoiding ghost stories.

Kamiyagawa also just thought of it, this kid Okamura seems to have a bit of inexplicable physique, or maybe it's just bad luck.

I still remember that a long time ago when Okamura was working part-time, he just told himself the story of "Mary's urban legend".

On the way home that day, he bumped into Mary head-on.

There are also things about kabuki and the fairy girl, and I got the news from Okamura at the beginning.

It is definitely a good thing for this guy not to get in touch with ghosts and ghosts in the future.

As for Takenotsuka in Adachi District, Kamiyagawa plans to bid farewell to Manager Kawai now and go there.

The photo shown by Okamura was too blurry, so I'm not sure if it's really a ghost photo.

But in case it's true...

"If there is a human hand hanging from the ceiling for no reason, it should be regarded as a strange story of 'abnormal hands'?"

Kamiyagawa was thinking this way.

A long time ago, his ghost hand caregiver, the mother-in-law, told him that she wanted hand specialties or abnormal ghost stories, and used them as materials to make specific oils to further awaken the [Ghost Remnant]. arm】.

If there is indeed such a ghost story in Takenotsuka, I just went to collect the material.

I just don't know if there were any spiritual masters watching there before tonight.

However, although the Tokyo metropolitan area is one of the base camps where spiritual masters are active, the hidden strange stories will not be discovered immediately.

According to the process, it is usually a strange disappearance or homicide that attracts the official spiritual master. Or if someone gives a commission, there will be a folk exorcist dispatched.

"Anyway, go and see first."

...

Tokyo, Adachi Ward.

Among the 23 districts in Tokyo, it is recognized as the district with the worst public security and the largest number of poor people.

The feeling is that the area has a quirky vibe that's not impressive. The crime rate is relatively high, and many Japanese don't like it here.

Takenotsuka is Adachi District, and it is also the northernmost business district in Tokyo. It is called "the Kabukicho of Adachi District".

Because it was already night, the lights in the Takezhizuka business district were already on.

But the street still looks deserted and depressed.

A group of three people, young men and women, two men and one woman, were walking on the block, and two of them were carrying cameras on their backs.

The streets of the business district are crowded with pachinko parlors and special sex toy shops with red lights.

Other than that, there are some Filipino bars.

Inside, the lights were dim, and foreign songs and ditties were playing, which sounded whimpering in the street.

The bars here are different from the ones in Kitasenju on the other side of the Adachi area. It doesn't feel bright and lively, but spooky.

Occasionally, one or two drunk men can be seen sitting at the entrance of the bar, staring at passers-by with sleepy eyes.

This group of young men and women walked past the door of one of the bars, and encountered a shopkeeper with a strange tone of voice, trying to pull them into the shop forcefully.

That is to say, the two boys in the group tried their best to stop them, and the three finally broke free and hurried away in a panic.

The girl among the three seemed to be in her early 20s, her name was Sahashi Kazuha, and she looked like the petite sister next door.

"Really." Sahashi tugged at his crooked sleeves with a full face of resentment, "That's why I don't like Adachi City... Everyone says that even if you live in Saitama Prefecture, which is farther away, it's better than living in it." The Takezuka here is better."

"Let's go quickly, pass through this block, there will be no people on the road in the residential area ahead."

A boy named Narita Ryota among the three replied.

"No one is actually more terrifying, right?"

The remaining boy was called Uchimura Koji, and he interjected casually at this moment: "Then isn't that what we're after?"

"That's right."

After leaving the commercial area, the surrounding scene became even more depressing, as far as the eye could see were low shacks with only sporadic lights on.

"How far is that house?"

"Looking at the map, it's about one kilometer, right?"

"Where are Kasahara and Okamura? Where are they?"

"Kasahara originally lived here in Adachi, so he arrived first." Narita Ryota said while replying to the message on his mobile phone, "Okamura, he didn't reply to me... Ah, Okamura called."

Narita answered the phone, hung up after talking for two minutes, and rolled his big eyes with contempt.

Sahashi: "What's wrong?"

Narita: "That guy from Okamura said he won't come." Things like spirit exploration are meaningless at all. At this point, I should watch the live broadcast of Mary Sauce. You should do the same as me, prepare snacks and stay at home Look at the cute VTuber comfortably, this is life', that guy said on the phone."

"Eh? Haha, he's actually afraid, right?"

"It must be. It's so big, it's useless by accident."

"Forget it, forget it, don't worry about him, and don't call him in the future. That person is really boring! Live with the paper man for the rest of your life."

The three talked while walking.

Not far in front is a low two-story one-family building, standing alone in a secluded place at the end of the street.

The whole house seemed to be completely enveloped in darkness, deserted and dilapidated, and it should have been unoccupied for a long time.

Here is the destination to explore tonight.

The three stopped on the side of the road.

The only street lamp beside them didn't know whether it was old and in disrepair or something, it flickered on and off.

A few unknown spring insects were buzzing and flying, hitting the lampshade from time to time, making dull thumping noises.