I, enter the zero world, change the ending

The ancient capital was speechless.

Zhiyao silently thought that it might be repairable, and immediately asked Xiao Wuhui, "Do you remember where the damaged Imperial Mirror is?"

"This..." Xiao Wuhui hesitated to speak.

Sensing the embarrassment in the tone, Zhiyao decided not to ask for the time being.

Of course, a powerful and dangerous evil spirit like Kuki Tokisada cannot be left alone, so after discussion, the three people and one spirit decided to go to the Abyss of Demons again to confirm the situation.

They walked into the fireside room, took out a metal object similar to a latch and iron wire from the drawer, and the three of them returned to the door of the Demon Abyss through the secret door. After confirming the escape route in case of an accident, Zhiyao opened the door a crack, and then slowly expanded it until it was three fists wide. Then, Xiao Wuhui turned sideways and squeezed in through the crack in the door. After entering, she immediately crawled to the ground and crawled into the shadow away from the light range of the stone lantern, and then continued to move forward carefully until she could barely see the figure of Kuuki Toki.

After some time, Xiao Wuhui crawled back quietly, squeezed out of the crack in the door sideways, pointed inside and nodded. Shenhong understood, so he gently closed the door, inserted all the bolts collected by the three into the lock, and reinforced it with layers of wire. In this way, Kuki Toki was temporarily locked inside.

At least without alarming him, he most likely wouldn't use brute force to break out.

In fact, Zhiyao would rather use a talisman to seal the door, but unfortunately even Xiao Wuhui doesn’t know where to find it.

Next, I can finally focus on other things - opening the door with the missing parts.

On the way there, Zhiyao glanced at the lower left corner of his body and asked Xiao Wuhui a question that he had not thought of asking before.

"You're afraid of the knife's brilliance, aren't you?"

"Ah."

"But why didn't that guy with the long arms react?" Zhiyao still felt a lingering fear when she recalled the danger not long ago. "I'm thinking, maybe I misunderstood something?"

Xiao Wuhui took his hand and said, "The light makes me feel very uncomfortable."

"Uncomfortable?" Zhiyao was stunned. "Shouldn't it be fear?"

"It can also be considered fear. The real reason is that it's uncomfortable, so we are afraid and then instinctively want to stay away." Xiao Wuhui explained as detailed as possible.

After chewing over the above content for a while, Zhiyao finally woke up from his dream.

It turned out that I just felt uncomfortable.

In this light, it is not surprising that different individuals react differently. For example, timid spirits will avoid, while violent spirits will become even more violent due to stimulation.

"It seems I am still too naive."

Walking away from Xiao Wuhui, Zhiyao took out a knife, rubbed the word "Xiu" engraved on the blade, and said with great regret.

"So what? You're not the only one here." Crimson patted his arm gently to encourage him. "Don't forget you said we're a group of adventurers."

"I will also do my best to assist you," Gudu added with a pleasant smile. "I am your eyes, and I will fulfill my due responsibilities."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shenhong glanced at her and snorted in disapproval.

Unconsciously reaching the door, Shen Hong placed the missing parts inside, and the lock immediately unlocked. Pushing the door open and stepping inside, a pungent, fishy smell suddenly filled their nostrils. The three of them simultaneously held their breath and covered their mouths and noses.

Zhiyao shone the flashlight around and found three gullies ahead, with wooden boards as wide as a person's shoulders placed between the gullies.

"It stinks so much, could this be a toilet?" he said to himself.

Shenhong squinted her face at him, her expression of disdain as if she was looking at someone with a mental disability. "You keep your fish in the toilet?"

After Shenhong finished speaking, he pointed the flashlight beam somewhere. Only then did Zhiyao notice the white fish corpse floating on the water.

"I didn't notice it, why do you have to use that tone?" Zhiyao grumbled in dissatisfaction.

In response to this, Shenhong responded with a slight scolding, while Gudu smiled secretly.

"This used to be a fish farm," Xiao Wuhui said, introducing the area to the three of them like a dedicated tour guide. Then, she added, "Since no one has cleaned it all year round and it's dark, the path is now covered in moss and very slippery. Please be careful."

"Okay, okay." Gudu nodded solemnly.

She didn't want to fall into the smelly sewer below. She didn't bring any spare clothes, and there was no place to take a shower in the Himuro residence.

The wooden board was only as wide as a person's shoulders. Zhiyao followed his style and stepped on it first. After repeatedly pressing down, he found that the board was quite strong, so he walked carefully to the other side. After arriving, he turned back and helped take the luggage of the two people opposite, and then extended a hand to help the two people opposite come over.

Soon, Gu Du arrived, and then it was Crimson's turn.

Shenhong was sailing smoothly at first, but who would have thought that when he reached the other side, he didn't see clearly and accidentally stepped on the dense moss, causing his feet to slip and his body to become out of control.

"Yeah!"

As it sways, Crimson is about to fall.

At the critical moment, Zhiyao, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, pulled her back.

It's just that he used too much force, and Shenhong was pulled directly into his arms, and was tightly embraced by his arms that were raised reflexively.

Shenhong, who was still in shock, looked into his eyes and even forgot to struggle. Who would have thought that the next moment, a pale hand suddenly stretched out from the bottom of the water and grabbed her ankle accurately.

Then, watch what happens.

Chapter 25: [Hirasakaba's Corpse]

This time, Shenhong discovered that the person he saw was a woman in red whom he had met several times before. She was in the fish-raising room. Shenhong looked at the woman's facial features from the side and felt that she looked familiar for some reason.

What concerned her more was the black rope marks on the woman's neck or wrist.

At the same time, a long-haired woman in white clothes appeared beside the woman. Then, as the woman in white clothes stretched out a hand, the woman immediately grabbed her throat with both hands. Her painful expression looked as if someone was pinching her there. Gradually, even her eyeballs began to roll upwards instinctively.

Seeing the impact on the mind, Shenhong also felt the panic from the bottom of his heart and the despair that made it almost impossible to breathe.

The next moment, with a flash before his eyes, Shenhong finally welcomed the long-lost fresh air and began to breathe in deep gulps. Even though the air was mixed with an unbearable stench, it did not affect him at all.

"Hey, Hinasaki."

Zhiyao's voice rang in her ears, and Shenhong looked at him with a dull expression.

"are you OK?"

After hearing this, perhaps because the mental impact had not been completely eliminated, Shenhong did not immediately break free from the embrace. Instead, he closed his eyes and leaned his head on the shoulder opposite him.

a long time.

"I saw the woman in red..."

"Huh? You just, could it be that..." Zhiyao couldn't help but be stunned, and suddenly realized that Shenhong had just experienced something.

"Don't be anxious, speak slowly." Gudu raised the corner of his mouth slightly and gently stroked the back of the deep red head.

Shenhong smiled back and slowly broke free from the embrace.

"I've seen that woman in red several times. I've always seen her from behind, but I finally got a clear look at her face just now."

Shen Hong had just finished speaking and was about to continue when Zhi Yao suddenly spoke up, "Is there a woman in Gao Feng's group? Do you know her name?"

In fact, long before Zhiyao said that Gao Feng was a trio, Shenhong wanted to ask him how he knew it, but never asked.

"There is indeed a woman. My brother mentioned her to me. She seems to be Mr. Gaofeng's assistant. Her name is Hirasaka or something." Shenhong answered while searching for clues in her mind.

"Hirasakaba?" Gudu shouted suddenly.

In an instant, Shenhong and Zhiyao both looked at her, their confusion evident in their words. Then, Gudu took out a manual with a red cover from his portable bag.

"I picked this up a while ago. There happened to be a few words called Hirasaka Tomoe in the lower right corner of the cover. I suddenly remembered it after hearing Hinasaki mention Hirasaka."

"This is a portable notebook, right?" Crimson shone the flashlight over there. "Maybe there's some clues recorded in it?"

Then, the three heads gathered together to watch.

The manual mostly records work-related content. The first part was like this, but starting from a certain page it turned into the various things that happened after entering the Himuro residence. One of the pages mentioned that she met a girl in white clothes, and the girl said her name was Kirie.

When Shenhong saw the word "Wu Hui", the image of the woman in white who appeared in the two viewing processes immediately emerged in his mind.

"Sikong, I know what Wuhui looks like." Shenhong said to Zhiyao, and then added, "It was she who killed Mr. Ogata Koji and Ms. Pingbanba."

"Can you give me a brief description?" Gu Du couldn't resist his curiosity.

Shenhong glanced at Xiao Wuhui beside her and said, "If you scale Xiao Wuhui up to our size, it would be roughly like that." Then Shenhong remembered something and continued to ask, "Xiao Wuhui, Sikong said that you and Wuhui have a polar opposite relationship. What's going on?"

Without much hesitation, Xiao Wuhui quickly replied, "I am Wuhui herself."

As soon as these words were spoken, fear began to show in Gudu's eyes, even though Xiao Wuhui looked harmless.

"Xiao Wuhui is different from Wuhui." Zhiyao immediately joined the conversation, "Xiao Wuhui poses no threat at all. I can guarantee this with my life."

"Stop talking for now, take a look at this." Shenhong interrupted the two and pointed to a page of the manual.

The two looked over at the sound. It recorded that one day, Ogata Koji disappeared. Hirasaka Tomoe and Takamine Junsei searched the entire Himuro residence but couldn't find him. A few days later, Hirasaka Tomoe discovered Ogata Koji's body, a torso with no limbs. Later, Hirasaka Tomoe saw ropes around his neck and wrists when he looked in the mirror. Combining this information, Shenhong recalled the photo of Ogata Koji he had seen before, where his limbs were tied with scarlet hemp rope. He also remembered the words "rope breaking, ritual" that appeared in the fragments left by Hirasaka Tomoe.

Confused and curious, Shenhong asked Xiao Wuhui:

"What does the rope breaking mean, and what does the ritual mean?"

Koto was also concerned about the rope that appeared on Hirasaka Tomoe's body, so he and Shenhong looked at Komie.

But for some reason, Xiao Wuhui pursed her lips and remained silent. After a long time, Shenhong turned to Zhiyao and said in a firm tone.

"Sikong, tell me, you must know."

"Let's talk about this another time." Zhiyao declined. "Let's go, let's catch up with Gao Feng first."

Shenhong and the other two nodded, and the three of them prepared to set off. Before leaving, Zhiyao noticed something behind him and looked back, and shone the flashlight around. It would have been fine if he hadn't shone it, but when he shone it, he noticed something floating under the wooden board he had just stepped on. Zhiyao squatted down and looked carefully with his eyes wide open. What caught his eye was the corpse of a woman wearing a red top, floating on the water. He was so scared that he almost jumped up.

If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Hirasaka Tomoe himself.

Trying hard to suppress the physical discomfort brought by seeing the corpse, and seeing that the two girls in front had not noticed the situation here, Zhiyao quickly moved the flashlight away and pretended that she saw nothing. However, when she turned her head, she still noticed that the corpse's fingers moved out of the corner of her eye.

In an instant, his nerves were stretched to the limit like a rubber band, and his heart was beating so fast that it almost bulged out.

What's going on? Is it possible that Hirasaka Bayou isn't dead yet?

But according to the setting, Gaofeng and his three companions must have been killed, and it is unlikely that Wuhui would have missed the opportunity.

So, could it be that the corpse is transforming into a spirit?

This means Hirasaka Tomoe is about to transform into a spirit, and we might have to go to war with her next...

This is not good.

Because of the fucked up terrain and the moss growing everywhere.

Crimson was a ranged mage, so it was fine. But for someone like me who had to fight up close, wouldn't I be covered in the stinking corpse water? And if I slipped, I'd have to go down to the shower.

There was neither a change of clothes nor the facilities to take a shower at Himuro's residence; the mere thought of that situation was chilling.

"Hurry up, hurry up." He urged the two girls without stopping, and kept an eye on the back.

Fortunately, everything went normal afterwards. Until they left the fish pond, there was no spirit attacking from Hirasakaba, and no corpse flew up to bite people. Zhiyao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

……

Outside the fish pond is the backyard of Bingshi Mansion. There is a row of fences on both sides of the forest path. Shenhong and Zhiyao followed the road under the guidance of Gudu and unknowingly came to an open area.

There is a dense bamboo forest on the left side of this place, and a well with an entrance covered with wooden boards on the right side.

Zhiyao inadvertently looked at the well, and a scene from a movie or TV show emerged in her mind.

"Hey, have you two ever seen a horror movie?" he asked the two girls.

"I don't watch many horror movies," Crimson replied bluntly. "I've seen enough of them."

"Me too." Gu Du immediately agreed.

She accidentally recalled a past event and decided to share it with the two. "I used to be able to watch it, but guess what? One time, when I was halfway through, I found a spirit sitting next to me, watching with me. It almost scared me to death."

"Didn't you discuss the plot and filming techniques with him?" Zhiyao was so amused that she laughed non-stop.

"I was so scared that I ran into my parents' room. How could I care about this?" Gu Du sighed helplessly, and then said, "I think it's something you would do."

"Why do you think so?" Zhiyao asked with great interest.

"Because of Xiao Wuhui, you can be friends with Ling..." When Xiao Wuhui was mentioned, Gu Du realized that Xiao Wuhui was not here.

"What's wrong?" Zhiyao noticed her abnormality.

"I don't know where Kirei-chan has gone."

"Maybe something happened?" Shen Hong joined the conversation and tried to calm Zhi Yao down. "She will definitely be back soon. Don't panic."

Zhiyao thought that Xiao Wuhui had lived here for so many years, and there was really no need to worry unless she encountered an enemy like Kuki Tokisada, so she felt relieved and returned to the previous topic.

"Want to know the name of that horror movie?"

"No." Shenhong and Gudu refused in unison.

"Don't worry about it. I'll tell you myself. The movie is called The Ring. There's a powerful female ghost named Yamamura Sadako in it. She happens to live in a well like this one."