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Chapter 1656: Lost Home (There is nothing new to watch recently)

"Big, do you know Mi's family?"

"Mijia?"

Hearing Miyamoto's question, Yana tilted her head in confusion.

"Well, there was a legend like this before. There was a hunter who went up the mountain to hunt, and then he got lost. Then he accidentally came across a house deep in the mountains. It was stormy at the time, so the hunter had to go in to take shelter..."

"The hunter walked into the house and found no one inside. But, strangely, there were snacks and tea prepared in the guest room. The hunter was sleepy and hungry, so he took the snacks and ate them. He thought he would apologize after the owner came back. Then after eating the snacks, the hunter fell asleep in a daze. When he woke up, he found that the whole house was still empty, but there was delicious food in the kitchen. So the hunter ate the food, rested for a while, and then left there after the storm stopped, and then went home..."

"and then?"

Chitanda also looked at Miyamoto curiously. Apparently, this story didn't seem so bloody, which aroused her interest.

"The hunter told everyone about it, but no one believed it, so he went back into the mountains, but never found the house again. I heard that the house would only appear in front of lost people, as if it was specially prepared for them, so everyone called it Lost House."

"But what does this have to do with the White Snow Mansion? Could it be that this place is also......"

"I, I heard that too."

Miyamoto smiled bitterly.

"Listen, I heard that this house suddenly appeared here. No one knows who built it. We only know that when it was discovered, this house has always been like this. At that time, a wealthy businessman took a fancy to this house and moved in with his family. Then, then... the businessman's friends went to visit him, and found out that the businessman's family had died a long time ago... several years ago. But, the businessman's friends clearly met and chatted with him a few days ago."

"…………………"

"The same thing happened to the rich businessman's wife and daughter. Before this, no one thought there was anything wrong with him or them. But after the bodies were found, they were never seen again. After that, similar things happened several times. Someone bought this mansion and lived here. But when his friends came to visit, they found his body that had been dead for many days... And he was working with his friends yesterday..."

"Later, it was spread that everyone who lived in this house would be killed by their other self, and then the other self would pretend to be the original self and work and live outside. Once the body of the original self was discovered, they would also disappear..."

"really weird."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai frowned and began to think.

"If there really are such monsters, they should also be able to deal with the bodies. There is no one living around here. If they just find a place to dig a hole and bury the bodies, they won't be found. After all, it's impossible for someone to dig everywhere when they visit."

"I don't know about this."

Miyamoto shook his head and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his face.

"The legend only says that they found the body, but how they found it, no one has ever said... No, but ghost stories are like this, they can't stand up to scrutiny. Like Miss Duanmu said, if you think about it carefully, there are always loopholes. So, many legends are ambiguous..."

【Friday, September 11, 25: pm】

After that, everyone accepted Mr. Ueno's warm hospitality and had a sumptuous dinner. The food tasted very good. Mr. Ueno introduced that these were all made by Miss Sakura. Yana was seen eating with relish. On the contrary, Chitanda stared at the plates anxiously, as if she was still very uneasy about the ghost story she had heard before.

However, to everyone's surprise, after dinner, Mr. Ueno did not let them go back to the guest room to rest, but took everyone to the reception room on the first floor.

This place has naturally been renovated. Originally, the reception room was supposed to be where the sofa, coffee table and TV were placed, but now all of these have been emptied out, replaced by display cabinets on all four sides of the wall and various strange masks in the cabinets. According to Sakura Jiahui, this room has now been transformed by Mr. Ueno into a mask room, which is used to place masks from legends from all over the world.

I have to say, these things hanging on the wall feel a bit creepy.

However, what Mr. Ueno said next surprised everyone.

"Actually, I invited you all here this time and I have a small request."

Standing in the center between the masks, old Mr. Ueno laughed, looked at everyone and spoke.

"As a commemoration of the opening of the museum, I hope everyone can play 'Hyaku Monogatari' here tonight."

"Hey? Do you want to stay here?"

Producer Kuwata seemed a little surprised and looked around.

"Yes."

Mr. Ueno nodded.

"Everyone should know Hyakumonogatari. It is also very famous in folklore."

"…………"

This is not nonsense. Duanmu Huai knows it. The so-called Hundred Tales is that everyone sits in a room at night and lights a hundred candles. A group of people tell ghost stories, and they blow out one candle when they tell a ghost story. When they finish telling a hundred ghost stories, a monster will appear.

Of course, for Duanmu Huai, this is courting death.

"Of course, I don't want you to really tell a hundred ghost stories."

Mr. Ueno laughed.

"It's very simple. All we have to do is tell a ghost story. It will be a gift to celebrate the opening of the museum. How do you think?"

"That's... not a problem."

If we really have to tell a hundred ghost stories, no one can handle it, not even Duanmu Huai has the patience. But since only one person is telling one, there is no problem.

Soon everyone sat down, including composer Maekura, literature professor Sato, producer Kuwata, Inspector Oyama, Duanmu Huai, Yanami, Chitanda, teacher Ganxia, ​​three students of Mr. Ueno, and Mr. Ueno himself, a total of twelve people.

Everyone sat in a circle. Sakura Jiahui took twelve candles, placed one in front of each person and lit it, then turned off the lights.

"Click."

The light disappeared, and Chitanda trembled suddenly, looking around anxiously. It must be said that this mask room without lights on is really very creepy, especially under the candlelight, you can vaguely see the masks hanging on the wall, the firelight reflected in it, it looks like there are slightly glowing eyes in the eye sockets of these masks, staring at everyone. "Well, let's start with me first."

Sakura Jiahui is also the host now, and she started to tell the first ghost story. This time, she did not tell the story about the restaurant table, but told another urban ghost story, a story about the sound of marbles upstairs. It was about a woman who lived in an apartment building. She could hear the sound of marbles from upstairs every night. Then the woman couldn't sleep well, so she was very unhappy and planned to negotiate with the upstairs, hoping to control her children from playing marbles every night. As a result, the woman disappeared after entering the upstairs neighbor's house. Later, when the police investigated, they found that the upstairs was an empty house, and the woman fell to the floor and died, and her eyes were gone. So, is the sound of marbles coming from upstairs every night the sound of the woman's eyeballs rolling?

Sakura Yoshie seemed to be particularly fond of these ghost stories rooted in modern cities, and she told them vividly, making everyone who listened to her break out in a cold sweat. After telling the first ghost story, Sakura Yoshie blew out the first candle.

Well, as far as Hyakumonogatari is concerned, it’s a good start.

The second to appear is the hot girl Ueda, who is completely opposite to Sakura. She is dressed very fashionably, but she tells ancient ghost stories. This time, Ueda tells a story about a ronin samurai in the Kamakura period who abandoned his first wife in order to get rich and powerful, and chose to marry a lady from a wealthy family. As a result, he was entangled to death by his wife's long black hair.

Ueda’s storytelling was also pretty good, but she always liked to mix in some lines from period dramas while telling the story, which made it more funny than scary, and also eased everyone’s nervousness when they were listening to their first ghost story.

The third person to appear was the fat otaku Miyamoto, who seemed not to want to waste time, so he simply repeated the story of the Insect Village that he had told Duanmu Huai and the others before. He was not good at speaking and spoke haltingly, but no matter how many times he heard this story, he felt it was... quite disgusting.

Then it was the turn of other people to tell their stories, but from this point on, the stories became distorted. In fact, no one knew what exactly was considered a weird story, so they all talked about incredible things.

For example, Inspector Oyama told me about a place where car accidents often happen. When drivers get into car accidents, they always say that they saw a child running in front of their car and turned the car in a hurry. However, the nearby surveillance cameras did not find any children at all. The cars in the surveillance images seemed to have suddenly lost control and rushed down the slope, then crashed into the guardrail next to them.

There is no beginning or end. Inspector Oyama said that the matter seems to have not been resolved yet, but he just heard it from his friend in the traffic class.

The composer Maekura didn't seem to be very good at talking about this kind of thing. He could only casually tell a strange story about a snow woman that he heard in his local area when he was a child. Of course, everyone has heard this strange story. The snow woman fell in love with a human, and then disguised herself as a human to marry the other person and have children. However, the latter broke the agreement due to carelessness and told her about his previous encounter with the snow woman. So the snow woman disguised as a human thought that the man broke the agreement, so she froze him into ice and went back to the mountain.

Everyone also had some discussion about this, and it seems that the ending of the snow woman's story is different in many places. Some say that the snow woman froze the man into an ice sculpture and took him back to the mountains. Others say that the snow woman loved the man and couldn't bear to kill him, so she took her own child back to the snow mountain... In short, although Maekura's ghost story was not very good, it did liven up the atmosphere.

On the contrary, the next strange story told by Professor Sato was quite interesting. He said that there is actually an atmospheric creature in the atmosphere of the world. Usually, this creature hides in the clouds and is huge. When it wants to eat, it will extend its tentacles similar to the condensation of clouds to grab creatures and people to eat. Even some planes disappeared because they were attacked by atmospheric creatures.

This seems to be called pseudoscience. Anyway, Professor Sato's explanation was very convincing and everyone was stunned by the listeners, as if there was really such a thing. It was quite interesting.

Producer Kuwata told a story about a karaoke bar. She said that a female singer in their circle went to a karaoke bar to sing. She was singing alone, but she always felt that someone was outside her door. She even turned around and found someone standing at the door. The female singer was so scared that she went to the staff to protest, but the staff checked the surveillance and didn't see anyone. When the female singer returned to her room, she found that there were drinks and snacks in her private room... Well, she called the police and found out that the karaoke staff was actually a fan of the female singer and deliberately followed her to tease her.

This is the closest to reality in this story...

Yanaijian told a ghost story he heard from his father. It was about a child who was picky about food every time he ate. He only ate delicious food and secretly threw the unpalatable food into the gap under the floor. Later, the child became thinner and thinner, and he could not be full no matter how much he ate. There was a bad smell under the floor. The family opened the floor and found that the food the child ate did not enter his stomach, but all fell under the floor. Later, the child changed his ways and stopped being picky about food, and then he was gradually cured.

Hmm… How should I put it? This is a ghost story with a Yanami flavor. I guess it was made up by Yanami’s parents to trick her into not being picky about food, but it seems that Yanami actually believed it…

Then it was Chitanda's turn to be unlucky. She obviously didn't like this kind of ghost story, so she could only stammer and tell a story she heard from her family when she was a child. It was about a farmer who accidentally found a big river clam and felt it was pitiful that it was eaten so big, so he threw it back into the river. Then a few days later, a girl came to the door and said that the farmer was her savior and wanted to marry him.

The farmer naturally would not easily accept this sudden appearance of a woman. However, the latter said that she was a good cook and was willing to help with cooking, so the farmer agreed to let her stay here temporarily. The girl stayed at the farmer's house and cooked for her every day. The food the girl cooked was very delicious, and the soup was also very fresh. The farmer was really curious, so he asked her how she cooked. The girl only said that her family had a unique secret recipe that was not convenient to pass on, and asked the farmer not to come in and watch when she was cooking.

One day, the farmer was really curious, so he went home early. The girl was cooking at that time, so the farmer quietly opened the kitchen door and looked inside. Then he saw that the girl was putting her head in boiling water to make soup!

It turns out that the girl was a river clam spirit who came to repay her gratitude!

After being discovered by the farmer, the girl left... Well, that's the story.

"………………………"

After listening to Chitanda's story, everyone's expressions were very complicated. In fact, everyone has heard similar stories about cranes repaying their gratitude, but this one about clams repaying their gratitude... is really hard to hold back.

When it was Duanmu Huai's turn, he was too lazy to think, so he just picked up a story about the Cthulhu Old Ones that he and Mary had fought against before. Duanmu Huai felt that his story was just average, but the audience seemed to be very scared... Although from Duanmu Huai's perspective, he didn't think it was that scary.

Teacher Xiao Ganxia talked about a group of wandering gods called Seven Gods. They wore bamboo hats and dressed like wandering monks, but they were Seven Gods. They walked in the mountains in groups of seven. If a new person joined, the old one could ascend to heaven. Therefore, in order to ascend to heaven, the Seven Gods looked for scapegoats everywhere. Once they were found, they would be caught and killed by the Seven Gods, and then become one of the Seven Gods, continuing this horrible and sad cycle.

Teacher Gan Xia was very engaged in the lecture, perhaps because he treated this as a school trip.

The last one to speak was old Mr. Ueno. As expected, he talked about the story of the Baixue Pavilion. Duanmu Huai and others who had already heard the story before were fine, but the others were now pale and speechless.

Who would have thought that this house itself is a mystery?

In fact, by this point, everyone was already feeling a little uneasy. Fortunately, Mr. Ueno did not intend to really tell 100 ghost stories. After finishing this round, he announced that it was over. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went back to their guest rooms to rest.

The guest room was a double room, Duanmu Huai and Yanami shared one, and Chitanda and little Ganxia teacher shared another. As a result, Ganxia teacher fell asleep soon after she went back, but Chitanda, who couldn't sleep because of her snoring, ran over here for help. Duanmu Huai had no choice but to put the two beds together, and then he hugged Yanami on his left and Chitanda on his right, and fell asleep.

Soon, the night passed.

When Duanmu Huai and others woke up, it was already early morning. There was thick fog outside the window and they could not see the situation outside clearly.

"Good morning... Wow, it's so foggy."

Yanaijian walked to the window and looked out, then sighed.

"What are we going to do today?"

"We are attending the opening ceremony as guests today, so hurry up and pack up and go downstairs to have breakfast."

"breakfast!"

Hearing this, Yanaijian immediately perked up.

Soon, Chitanda and Gan Xia also changed their clothes and walked down from the second floor to the restaurant on the first floor. When the four of them arrived at the restaurant, they saw a person sitting at a table not far away. That person was none other than Sakura Kae. At this moment, there was a glass of water in front of her, and Sakura Kae lowered her head and stared at the glass of water without saying a word.

"Ah, good morning, Miss Sakura. What's for breakfast today?"

Yanami greeted Sakura Kae, but the other party did not respond. Seeing this, Yanami was stunned.

"Ms. Sakura?"

“………………You guys stay here.”

Duanmu Huai's eyes flashed, and he grabbed Yanami, motioning her and Chitanda to stay here. Then Duanmu Huai walked in front of Sakura Jiahui, stretched out his hand, grabbed Sakura Jiahui's hair, and lifted her head up!

Then, what came into Duanmu Huai's eyes was a dry, skinny, mummy-like face! And in Sakura Jiahui's eye sockets, two bright red eyeballs rolled out like glass beads and fell into the water cup in front of him with a "plop plop"!

The blood spread from the water, dyeing the entire cup blood red!