"Saeki..."
Lin You repeated the surname repeatedly, and Geng Qinghe's face turned green again.
"Isn't that one?" He struggled without any hope, "Quick, tell me it's not!"
A melodious and prolonged meow shattered his last illusion.
The black cat took a few steps up the wall, watching them with its slender pupils. He jumped into the wall again and disappeared.
Geng Qinghe: "..."
He silently covered his face, Lu Zhenjie patted his shoulder sympathetically.
The old abandoned house, Saeki, and the black cat—
That's right, Kayako didn't run away.
In the era when horror films were just beginning to flourish, she became one of the most famous female ghosts in Japan with a series of classic operations that left a deep psychological shadow on people.
Her husband, Takeo Saeki, killed her just because he suspected her of cheating, as well as his son Toshio and the black cat raised at home. The resentment after Kayako's death lingered in his former home, accumulating deeper and deeper, attacking everyone who stepped into the house indiscriminately.
In other words, regardless of whether you have committed evil or not, if you take a step, you will die.
It doesn't mean that they are safe when they walk out of the Saeki Mansion, this is just the beginning, and Kayako can go anywhere.
Not only her and her son, but also those who have entered this place after being killed by Kayako will also condense this "grudge" together and become her reliable helper.
At that moment, everyone recalled the fear of being dominated by Kayako standing at the head of the bed in the middle of the night.
"I feel the malice."
Jian Mingjia muttered: "Come up and throw it directly into Jiaye's house, I'm afraid it won't cool fast enough."
"There is one more question - how did you throw it away?" The teammate who claimed to be Gu Heng groped around himself, took out a wallet from his pocket, opened it, and saw the ID inside, "The case has been solved, it seems that the It must be an international student from which university."
Lin You also found her residence card. Seeing that the other three people also found out one after another, she felt a little more guessing.
"It's that kind of setting." She said, "The same university and the same club suddenly couldn't think about it together one day, and went to the famous haunted house to test their courage—"
Everyone: "..."
"Generally speaking," Geng Qinghe said dryly, "such a person wouldn't survive half an episode in a horror movie."
Since he was talking about themselves now, the tone sounded particularly sad and sad.
"At worst, just match the name of the copy."
Gu Heng was quite open-minded, he looked around, "Let's think about where to go now - I can't just stand at this door all the time."
That's what it says.
They are still standing outside the gate of Zuobo's house. Although Kayako cannot be avoided anywhere, the danger here is undoubtedly doubled and doubled.
... Lin You always felt that this guy's voice sounded familiar.
It's hard to say where I've heard it before, but when it comes to certain words and sentences, the voice and tone are a little vaguely familiar.
She looked at Gu Heng unabashedly, he, like Lu Zhenjie, had a handsome appearance. After noticing her gaze, the other party smiled at her in a friendly manner.
Lin You looked away.
"This..." Lu Zhenjie hesitated.
He lifted a bunch of keys in his hand.
"I found it with the wallet just now," he explained, "I'm not sure if it's the address registered on the back of this card, why don't you go and see it?"
There was no other way if he didn't go, only Lu Zhenjie found the key on his body among the five people.
Looking at the street sign, "his" home is not far from here, and he managed to find it without even asking the way.
"Yo."
Standing outside the courtyard, Jian Mingjia joked, "Isn't this quite big?"
She joked that it was big, that is, the layout of a Japanese-style single-family villa, but it was about a circle bigger than the Kayako's house they had just left.
"Oh," Lu Zhenjie also sighed pretendingly, "If only I could afford such a big house in reality."
All the jokes stopped at the moment when he inserted the key and opened the door.
There was an eerie tranquility in the air.
"... I need to make a statement."
After a long silence, Lu Zhenjie felt that he needed to clarify his life status to his new teammates, "This is the setting in the game—I am definitely not like this at ordinary times!"
Jian Mingjia: "...it's okay, we understand."
It doesn't feel like a place to live in here at all.
Cardboard boxes, large and small, covered with courier slips were piled up at the door. Plastic bags are lined up along the wall, and the garbage is bulging, and the protrusions are all in the shape of take-out lunch boxes.
Before the door closed, through the light coming in through the crack of the door, Lin You saw that on the top of the pile was a small cardboard box no bigger than two palms put together.
The courier note attached to it was marked as belonging to a video store.
She wiped the cabinet next to her with her fingers, and concluded that the dust accumulation here was only a little better than that at the Kayako's house.
Opening the door in front of others as the owner of the house can be called a public execution in a sense.
It took them a long time to find a place to stay between the express cartons and garbage bags, and they walked into the corridor behind the entrance one by one—although it was still messy, there was at least a little more space for people to walk around.
"The water and electricity are normal."
Tried turning the faucet and power supply along the way, Jian Mingjia reported.
"Uh," Geng Qinghe pressed the switch, watching the chandelier above his head flicker a few times before turning on, "the lighting is also normal."
"everything is normal-"
Gu Heng suggested: "Then why not stay here temporarily?"
Jian Mingjia gasped.
"There's nowhere else to go anyway," she said, "but if you're going to stay .
If you were playing a chase in this house, you might be tripped before you could even run, and your head would be covered in big bags.
No one, including the titular homeowner, disagreed with her.
This detached villa is divided into three floors, the top floor is the attic, and they found a utility room at the end of the corridor on the second floor.
There is a broom and mop inside, and everything is complete, and there are many brands of cleaning agents. It's a pity that it seems that the original owner has no intention of buying it back, and basically only opened a seal.
Jian Mingjia reckoned it would be enough, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to move outside.
In the next room separated by a wall, Geng Qinghe made a new discovery.
He said "Hey", "What is this?"
Lin You turned around when she heard the sound, and saw him squatting in front of the TV, staring at the machine below.
"Video player," she recognized the machine, "it's not used very much now, it's only collected by enthusiasts."
"Oh..." Geng Qinghe responded, he fiddled twice, and pressed what looked like an exit button.
A box of tapes was slowly pushed out. He watched it for a long time, and suddenly felt that it was a bit difficult for him to speak.
"Sister Yu... come and take a look."
ah
Lin You walked over and watched Geng Qinghe take out the video tape. There is no label on the video tape, and the only clue that can be seen is the packing box on the fuselage.
But the words on the box were all blurred by water.
"Video tape..." Geng Qinghe swallowed, "Isn't it?"
God knows not.
Who is as famous as Kayako
Speaking of videotapes, and then watching the TV—Sadako's name is well-known.
"What did you find?" Hearing their voices, Lu Zhenjie walked into the room.
Geng Qinghe: "This—"
Lin You: "We're discussing whether this is Sadako's video."
Lu Zhenjie: "..."
Lu Zhenjie: "???!!!!!!"
One Kayako is hard enough to fight, but another Sadako makes people doubt life. Especially after hearing that they were found in a video tape machine, his expression became very mysterious for a moment.
"You say," he asked, "...is it possible that 'I' hasn't seen the tape?"
Lin You and Geng Qinghe looked at each other, wondering if they should just say that the possibility was very slim.
I don't know if the act of copying the video tape is effective in this copy.
"Okay, you don't need to talk."
Lu Zhenjie said in a disillusioned tone: "My condolences."
He was appointed as Sadako's first choice to attack, and he was quite popular when he was out.
"It's not necessarily Sadako."
Lin You recalled the delivery slip she saw when she first entered the door, "I saw a box at the door from a video store... maybe it has something to do with it."
"Just wait," she said decisively, "I'll go and have a look."
Apart from sundries, the corridor was full of bottles and cans brought out by Jian Mingjia and the others. Lin You had been very careful, and when she was about to walk up to the stairs, she still brought a heavy bottle with her trousers.
... What the hell? !
But this bottle cap is one of those that the original owner opened and didn't tighten again. The liquid in the plastic bucket poured out, tick-tocking all over the steps along the stairs.
Jian Ming Jia just came over with two bottles of detergent, and was almost stunned when he saw this scene.
"Yuyou you—"
"I'm taking the blame," Lin You said immediately, "but the bottle cap wasn't screwed properly."
Jian Mingjia sighed.
"Okay, I'm going to get the mop now," she said. "This is floor wax—I'm going to throw it away with the garbage at the door—it's not easy to clean up. You wait and be careful."
She turned and left, Lin You pondered for a while, held onto the handrail to find a corner that wasn't wet, and went down the stairs little by little.
It's not safe to clean from above, she went down first, and let Jian Mingjia throw the mop to her later.
The stairs were not close to the utility room, and there were so many things in the middle, it was difficult for her to get out, not to mention Jian Mingjia's frequent trips.
Lin You lingered under the stairs for several minutes, and when she looked up again, she suddenly saw the chandelier flickering.
... ? !
She knows what this means in ghost movies, and after careful calculation, it has been a while since they returned to this house.
About... It's time for Kayako to act.
"Slightly."
Lin You suddenly turned her head, and heard the strange voice above getting closer.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."
There was an uninterrupted sound of bubbling bubbles in the throat, and the female ghost's avatar, whose whole body was lying on the steps, tilted her head and poked her head out from between the handrails of the stairs.
Kayako's limbs are twisted strangely. Her face was pale, with blood splattered all over her face, her eyes looked directly at Lin You, and she climbed down step by step.
When half of her body was pressed on the stairs, she suddenly felt some slippery liquid under her hand.
...
Before he had time to react, his palm slipped, and Jiaye lost his balance.
She couldn't grasp the slippery steps with too much floor wax with her hands at all, so she rushed straight down like a rocket without warning.
until the last step.
Kayako kept his face on the ground, motionless.
I don't want to look up, I don't want to talk.
Lin You: "..."
If she said that she really didn't mean it this time, would anyone believe her