Mrs. Shimada and Ms. Yoshinaga looked at each other for a while, then turned to look at Ms. Sakai.
"Ms. Sakai, you just said you had a bad feeling when you entered the hotel?"
Ms. Sakai nodded.
Mrs. Shimada sighed, "You don't feel it until you enter the hotel, but you feel it after entering the mountain, right?"
Miss Sakai was startled.
"What's in the mountain?" Ms. Yoshinaga asked immediately.
Mrs. Shimada pointed in the direction to the right, "There is an abandoned temple on this mountain."
When I heard this, my heart lifted.
"I don't know what the temple was originally used for. After my husband and I bought the land here, we converted the original building into a hotel. The house we are in now is the original building here. . We renovated this place after we bought it. The layout of the rooms inside the house has been changed. I can’t remember what the original internal structure of the house was like. There is nothing strange about the seller or this house." Mrs. Tian's expression was soothing, her straight back became rickety, and her whole person seemed to relax.
She continued: "We renovated the house and opened a hotel. For several years, nothing strange happened. Our life was very peaceful. I was newly married and started a new life here, and I was very busy. My husband was the same. This was originally our couple's room. As you can see, there aren't many things. After the hotel operation got on track and we hired some helpers, the pace of life slowed down. My husband likes to read, and I have Studying illustration. But before the bookcases were full and I couldn’t produce decent works, an accident happened... "
Mrs. Shimada looked in the direction she just pointed, as if through the paper door leading to the yard outside.
"We were all free at that time. We knew it when we bought this place. What we bought was just the land from the middle of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. We don't know who owns the land on the mountain. It may not be a private place. But inside the mountain No one had ever come here. That day, the sun was particularly bright, so we walked out of the hotel and walked into the woods from the back door. There was a trail in the woods, the kind of path that people had walked on. We had never seen it along the trail. . That day, the two of us walked along that road for a long time..." Mrs. Shimada retracted her gaze, lowered her head, and looked at her rough hands. "Just like that, we saw a torii gate and a shrine. They were all dilapidated. It has been abandoned for a long time. All the gods and Buddhas enshrined inside are gone. The shrine is empty and there are no tributes in front. We don’t know what was originally enshrined there or who built it. The end of the road is the shrine. We later Just returned the way we came.”
"Eunuch..." Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law suddenly spoke, her voice changing slightly.
Mrs. Shimada glanced at her, "My husband has become very strange since that day. He seems to be possessed by something. He is always in a trance and sometimes says strange things. He is good and bad. At that time I was found to be pregnant, and I thought his abnormal behavior was because our baby was about to be born. But when my husband was awake, he was very normal. He himself also believed that some of his behavior was because our first child was about to be born. Because of the birth." Mrs. Shimada looked at Ms. Sakai and Ms. Yoshinaga, "After Hikari was born, we became busy again. We were all parents for the first time, and there were no elders around us, so we could only figure out how to take care of the children by ourselves. Ask some old people in the hotel for advice. We were in a hurry for two or three years, but my husband was still good and bad, and we didn't take it seriously. After a few years, Guang gradually grew up, and I have adapted to this kind of life. , but my husband was still like that. We just started to discover the problem. By then, it might have been too late... "
Mrs. Shimada sighed, "He became more abnormal and had more and more unconscious moments. Several times, he ran to the shrine by himself and stood there, doing nothing. We were helpless. It didn't take long. , and he drowned in the hot spring pool. It’s the hot spring pool behind this room.”
Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law turned pale, their eyes wandered, and they subconsciously looked toward the room inside.
"So, there are actually five hot spring pools here?" Ms. Yoshinaga asked calmly.
Mrs. Shimada nodded, "I moved away from here after my husband died. Some things were packed away, but they were not cleaned up in a hurry." She looked around, "After he died, I took the light here with me. I lived there for a while. Here, I felt more and more depressed, and I often woke up in the middle of the night. When we moved to other houses, that feeling disappeared. I always thought that my husband might still stay here. Or maybe... It's something he brought from the shrine, and it's still here."
The grandson-in-law of the Shimada family shivered and hugged Shimada Daiki tightly.
"This place has been closed by me. I have never opened it. Over time, I have forgotten these things." Mrs. Shimada straightened her back again, "I can swear to you, except for my husband, Nothing else happened in the hotel. I heard about Mr. Honda's death and went to see his body. He was different from my husband. My husband died peacefully. He had a struggle. Mr. Police That's what they said. He fell into the water accidentally and couldn't stand up after the fall. And my husband... He didn't look like a drowning person. He didn't struggle at all in the hot spring and died like that... "
"That shrine..." Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law's voice trembled.
"Maybe it's still there. I've sealed the back door a long time ago. This room has also been sealed. Director Otsuka and the others came here twice, but I didn't mention it. I told Director Otsuka that this was also a suite, but the floor The house and the ceiling were damaged and had not been repaired. For safety reasons, the house was sealed and no one was allowed in or out," Mrs. Shimada said.
Ms. Sakai nodded.
Ms. Yoshinaga said: "If this is the case, it may be that Mr. Honda's unexpected death caused some changes." She paused and asked, "Did Mrs. Shimada ever have a cat?"
Mrs. Shimada shook her head, "I know what you want to ask. I have never seen the cat that Dashu saw. There are wild cats on this mountain, but they are all very common cats. Black and white cats like that , never seen it before.”
Ms. Yoshinaga nodded, "Then, the matter should still be related to the shrine. Mrs. Shimada, can you take us to see the back door? There are many people in the crew, and the management is not very strict. Perhaps Mr. Honda's accidental death That’s what it’s about.”
"Are you just going to see the back door? I don't want to go to that shrine. Please forgive me. That place..." Mrs. Shimada's face was a little gloomy.
"I just went to check the back door to see if anyone had gone out. We don't dare to go to a place like that." Ms. Yoshinaga said, "Let's call the director and the others together. There are a few men here. If something really happens, we There are people who can handle it.”
Several people stood up.
My body was pulled, and the woman who was probably eavesdropping outside was leaving.
The body passed through the wall and floated out.
I saw the woman's back.
Instead of going back to her room, she walked in another direction.
When she heard the footsteps behind her disappearing, she stopped and slowly squatted on the ground.
The blank brain restarted at this time.
The woman shivered out of fear and covered her mouth, not daring to make a sound.
She thought about her bathing in the hot springs, and recalled what Ms. Yoshinaga said about "three people dead", and her body couldn't stop shaking.
The Yin Qi on her body floated gently, floated forward, and penetrated into the floor.
I saw something in my peripheral vision, raised my head, and saw the cat appearing at the end of the corridor.