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Chapter 1663 Fairy Tale and Reality (Happy New Year to Everyone)

"Grrrrrr!!"

With a weird scream, the head of the last of the seven was twisted off, and the latter's body shook a few times, then collapsed to the ground and turned into dust, once again declaring that the Yangtze River's back waves pushed the front waves, and the front waves died on the beach. After all, the ancient legends are no match for the modern female ghosts, and there are always higher mountains than mountains.

Even Xiaoqian can't beat Sadako.

"call………"

Only then did Duanmu Huai stand up, move his neck and hands and feet, and then he saw other people standing not far away, looking at him anxiously.

"Xiao, Xiao Ai? Are you okay?"

"I am fine."

In response to Chitanda's question, Duanmu Huai waved his hand.

"I've pretty much figured out the rules of this place."

"Hey?"

Everyone was shocked to hear Duanmu Huai's answer. Duanmu Huai did not hide anything and quickly explained his discovery to everyone.

"In other words...the monsters we see in this world are not real ghosts, but monsters formed by people's thoughts?"

Inspector Oyama frowned, touched his chin, and spoke.

"That's right. So the reason they attacked us was not because they had any deep hatred towards us. This was just their setting. Because in the ghost stories, the purpose of these evil spirits' existence is to kill people, so they attacked us."

"how so………"

It has to be said that everyone was stunned when they heard Duanmu Huai's answer. They simply couldn't believe what they heard. Frankly speaking, they would rather believe that these monsters were evil spirits with self-awareness rather than acting according to the program of mass thinking.

"So, we are currently in the world of collective subconsciousness?"

Instead, the hot girl Ueda seemed to understand something, and a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.

"So, we didn't really travel to this world, but were just dreaming?"

"Why do you think so?"

Hearing what the hot girl Ueda said, producer Kuwata frowned in confusion and asked, while the hot girl Ueda smiled embarrassedly.

"It's actually very simple, because my research direction is related to this. You see, in fact, the ancient folklore legends in many places are very close and similar. Even some places that are isolated and have no contact with the outside world have similar legends. For example, there is the ancient legend about Princess Kaguya, and in China there is also the story of Chang'e flying to the moon, and in the local folklore legends of North America and Africa, there are also moon gods. Of course, this is not surprising, but what is strange is that almost all civilizations' myths and legends about the moon are inevitably related to love between men and women."

Speaking of this, hot girl Ueda also became excited.

"For example, everyone knows that Princess Kaguya made things difficult for the man who wanted to marry her, and she ended up returning to the moon. And Chang'e also secretly drank her husband's elixir of immortality and then went to the moon. And in the Maori tribe of New Zealand, there is also a story about a woman who made the moon god unhappy, so he was captured and imprisoned on the moon... Different regions, similar myths and legends, so I have always believed that this may have some connection with the collective subconscious of human beings."

As she was talking, hot girl Ueda seemed to realize that she was a little excited, so she scratched her cheek embarrassedly.

"If that's the case, then this world can be understood. If this is the world of human subconsciousness, then it's not surprising that any monster appears here. And after we tell those stories, it's possible that our consciousness is pulled into the spiritual world."

"Uh...I don't quite understand."

Inspector Ooyama frowned.

"So, we are just dreaming?"

"Well... yes, roughly speaking, that's right."

"So, no one else is dead?"

"I'm not sure about that..."

This time, hot girl Ueda seemed a little embarrassed by teacher Gan Xia's question.

"The influence of the mind on the body is often beyond human imagination. For example, people with anxiety disorders will unconsciously feel symptoms of near-death. Even if the instruments detect that their physical indicators are normal, they will feel difficulty breathing and rapid heartbeat, as if they are really on the verge of death. And our current situation is obviously not just a nightmare..."

"Ultimately, it comes down to whether or not humans are impressed."

Duanmu Huai puffed out his chest and raised his head, looking very proud.

"It seems that the role of Night Girl that I played is still very popular among everyone."

Duanmu Huai was not lying. In fact, when he played the role of Ye Nu again, Duanmu Huai could feel the power gathering on him from all directions. It was also because of this that he could easily defeat the horrific monster of the Seven Imperial Guards.

"No, no, no, that's not being popular, that's a childhood trauma, okay!"

Yanaijian decisively started to complain.

"Everyone here, except Chitanda, has seen that movie. I still remember when my parents took me to see this movie and told me that if I didn't close the doors and windows, the Night Girl would crawl out from under the bed and kill me! You don't know how scared I was during that time! I even stuffed the space under the bed with boxes!"

"yes……………"

Inspector Oyama nodded in agreement.

"I was still a young college student at the time. I was just invited by my friends to test my courage, but... well, I really should ask you for compensation for mental damages."

"Me too."

Teacher Gan Xia raised his hand weakly.

"I should have been careful when Xiaoba tricked me into watching this movie. Do you know how miserable it was when I woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to go to the bathroom, but found that the bedroom door was not closed. I didn't dare to get out of bed and could only stay up all night in bed?!"

"Yes, yes."

Even the producer Kuwata complained. "I had a date with a girl at that time, and I had found a horror movie to watch on the date, just waiting for her to fall into my arms. But what happened? I lost interest in getting a room that night! Even when I walked into the hotel, I felt cold all over when I saw the shadow under the bed. I had no interest at all. I almost thought my life as a man was over..."

"None of my business."

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes and turned a deaf ear to the complaints of several people.

"The story was written by the screenwriter, the movie was shot by the director, and it was reviewed by Toei. I'm just an actor, why are you looking for me? Is it wrong to be dedicated?"

“……………………Is it really that scary?”

Chitanda looked at Yanami, then at Duanmu Huai, and asked curiously, and Yanami nodded vigorously.

"That's right, Eru. You probably don't know this, but even now in video stores, Xiao Ai's movie is at the top of the summer horror movie rental list! Almost every summer vacation, there are parents who rent this movie to scare their children! It's too much!"

"Uh... then I... definitely won't watch it."

Chitanda reaffirmed her determination.

As they were talking, everyone had returned to the Snow House. However, when they saw the Snow House in front of them, they were shocked. The Snow House, which was originally destroyed by the atmospheric monster, had now returned to its original appearance, as if it had not been attacked at all. Everyone pushed open the door and looked inside. They saw that the hall and corridor were clean and bright, without any scratches at all, as if the house that was blown away by the huge whirlwind was not the Snow House.

Not only that………

"Wow, what a nice smell..."

The moment they entered Shirayuki House, they smelled a mouth-watering aroma. Yana's eyes lit up and he ran towards the corridor following the smell.

Could this be...

Following Yanami, the others followed the fragrance to the depth of the corridor and then came to the kitchen door. At this time, the kitchen door was locked, but the rich aroma made people's appetites growl, and Yanami's stomach even made a rumbling sound like a drum.

“What, what is this smell? Let me in, I want to eat it! I want to eat it!!”

At this moment, Yanajian was just like a zombie in a zombie movie, lying on the kitchen door and shouting loudly. Looking at her bloodshot eyes and drooling mouth, even if there was a person inside, Yanajian would probably swallow it in one gulp.

Ok………

Duanmu Huai glanced at Chitanda silently.

“Is it your story?”

"Hey?"

"The one who cooked the clams to repay the favor."

"Ah, um..."

Chitanda looked at the note on the kitchen door that said "Cooking in progress, do not enter" with a complicated expression.

"…Then let's go in and take a look."

Duanmu Huai said this and then kicked open the kitchen door!

"boom!"

As the kitchen door was kicked open, the scene inside was revealed to everyone. In front of the stove, a girl in a kimono was standing there cooking, and her neck was empty. As for the girl's head, it was in the pot, jumping and shaking as the fire boiled, then flying up, and then falling heavily.

"ah-----!"

At this time, the girl's head floating above the soup also saw the people rushing into the kitchen, and she screamed immediately.

"Didn't I tell you not to peek? You broke the agreement!"

As she spoke, the girl scooped up the head floating in the soup and pressed it against her neck. Then a gust of howling wind blew, and when everyone opened their eyes again, the girl had completely disappeared without a trace.

“…………So this is how the soup is made…”

Duanmu Huai complained silently, and Chitanda had already sat down on the ground with her face covered. When she told this story, she probably didn't expect this kind of scene.

As for Yanami...he seemed to be possessed by a ghost and walked towards the pot of soup.

"Hehehe, it smells so good......"

"Please, please wait a moment, Yana-kun-kun!"

Teacher Gan Xia next to her tried her best to hold her back.

"You can't drink this. If you drink it, your life will be over in every sense of the word!"

Even though it's a monster, it's a soup made from human heads!

"Please let me go, Teacher Gan Xia! I'll just drink one sip, just one sip!"

Although theoretically, it's okay to let Yanami drink a sip, but after all, it's cooked with human heads. It would be troublesome if it opens a new door for Yanami.

Especially considering the lower limit of Yanami's recipe, this possibility is very high.

So Duanmu Huai walked over directly and poured all the cooked soup into the sewer in front of Banaijian's grief-stricken eyes.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

Seeing the delicious soup being poured away, Yanaken let out a heart-wrenching scream... Unfortunately, it was too late.

"You'd better not drink this."

Duanmu Huai stared at Yanaijian, who was slumped on the ground as if he had suffered a heavy blow, and sighed silently.

He didn't want Yanai to add cannibalism to his diet in the future, because that would be troublesome.