Chapter 1401 is just the prologue (Starry Sky finally has a vehicle!)
“But, the bodies of the two girls were not found in the end?”
?Pouring Duanmuhuai a cup of tea, Shajiuye asked uneasily.
"No, their bodies had been eaten clean by the monster, not even the bones were left. After that, I went to the air-raid shelter again to search, but I didn''t find anything. Only the mobile phone, maybe because of luck. Only one was preserved, and the others were either eaten or destroyed.”
Duanmu Huai shook his head. He could see the ending of the two girls through his mobile phone, so he had no idea. Frankly speaking, the sports girl is really unlucky. She was simply involved in the stupid behavior of her friends. But the literary girl is seeking her own death, and Duanmuhuai has no sympathy for her at all.
“It’s so pitiful... If there was a corpse, we could still worship it.”
“If not, then at least it would be a good thing for the family to have the idea that the other person is still alive.”
Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea. The monster''s body had completely melted and disappeared, so naturally there was no evidence left. So Duanmu Huai just told the principal that the monsters that invaded the campus had been expelled. Of course, the principal was dubious about this. so……
“Is my brother leaving?”
“The principal asked me to substitute for at least one semester.”
Duanmu Huai sighed silently, but it didn''t matter, it was the other party who paid the salary anyway.
??And Duanmuhuai has no intention of leaving, because strictly speaking, this matter is not over yet.
In other words, in Duanmuhuai''s view, it''s just the beginning.
The reason is simple. After killing the monster, Duanmuhuai did not get the essence of the past.
From the previous retracement, Duanmu Huai has determined that the monster is more like being attracted or summoned. If we use the game analogy, then it is more like a summoned mob rather than a real BOSS. So Duanmu Huai also planned to stay in the school for a while and see the situation. Otherwise, if you say it’s okay and leave, and something happens to the school on the back, wouldn’t that be a slap in the face?
Although it should be possible to trace more things through the magic circle on the ceiling, the magic circle was automatically destroyed when Duanmuhuai traced it. This is very similar to the situation where Duanmu Huai used shadows to copy believers in March City and then self-destructed them. This means that behind the magic circle there must be an old ruler who is almost the same as the King in Yellow, so Duanmu Huai Huai cannot get information from it.
In other words, there must be a problem here. As for what the problem is... Duanmuhuai hasn''t figured it out yet.
“Woo…Woo…”
?At this moment, the mobile phone rang, Duanmu Huai picked up the phone and connected it, and then the voice of Ziyuanji Yuzi came from inside.
“Found it!”
“What did you find?”
“According to what you said, I checked the historical records of Qianyuan Academy and found that there was indeed a mass disappearance 60 years ago!”
“Mass disappearance?”
"Yes, because it has been so long, I can only extract information from the Internet and some tabloids, which may not necessarily guarantee credibility. However, some newspapers at that time did report the mass disappearance of Qianyuan Academy students. Among them One tabloid magazine wrote about supernatural photos!”
"oh?"
Hearing this, Duanmuhuai took his mobile phone...and rushed to the second floor and opened the door.
“Show me, where is it?”
“Wow!”
?Ziyuanji Youzi, who was sitting on the bed, was startled by Duanmuhuai who suddenly rushed in. She immediately turned her head and glared at him dissatisfied.
“Why did you burst into the lady’s room suddenly?”
“Obviously we are under the same roof, but you still use your mobile phone to communicate, that’s how sick you are!”
?Duanmu Huai glared at Ziyuanji Youzi, this girl is really a NEET, she almost never goes out. She slept here and ate here. If Shajiuye hadn''t forced her to do so, she wouldn''t even bother to take a bath and change clothes. It''s as if I have to live in this room for the rest of my life and never leave. Like just now, she insisted on communicating with Duan Muhuai through her mobile phone when she shouted something from the second floor.
Those who don’t know better think they are thousands of miles apart!
Duanmu Huai is not used to this **** girl''s problems.
“Come, let me see, where are you talking about?”
? Duanmu Huai walked directly to Ziyuan Temple Youzi''s bed, and the latter glared at Duanmu Huai hatefully and turned around helplessly.
“Here… the owner of this website has a hobby of collecting tabloids. Later, as the Internet developed, he posted all the content he collected online, and he did gain a certain degree of popularity.”
?This is also normal, just like some people’s hobby is collecting cigarette shells. In the past, no one understood it, and they could only collect them in a drawer for masturbation. But now in the Internet age, you can post these photos online and communicate with like-minded people.
?Ashionji Yuko’s screen quickly brought up the content of the magazine. Although the paper was a little yellowed due to its age, the content inside was still clear.
?Duanmu Huai read it once and immediately understood why Ziyuanji Youzi quickly locked onto this content.
Because the content of this story is almost exactly the same as what I encountered before.
According to the description in the magazine, the interviewee was a friend of the missing person. The latter told the reporter that the students were members of a mysterious club in the school before they disappeared. Their hobby is supernatural events, and before they disappeared, these people had taken some supernatural photos.
The reason that prompted them to take the photos was the supernatural album in the magazine.
It was not like now. Although it has entered the scientific age, superstition is still very popular. For example, qigong, psychics, etc. were also very popular at the time and were called supernatural sciences. There were even scholars who specialized in studying these (I don’t know if they were). Liars or fools), thinking that things like the soul or Feng Shui can be explained scientifically. Therefore, at that time, paranormal research was not regarded as some weird hobby in society, and because of its characteristics, it attracted many people to discuss it.
The same was true for the Supernatural Research Association of Qianyuan Academy at that time. They believed that the location of Qianyuan Academy might be a place where mysterious power could easily gather in some kind of feng shui, so such photos should be able to be taken here. So they used a certain method and finally took a supernatural photo.
Then after that, they disappeared. Because Sengen Academy was an aristocratic girls'' school, the atmosphere at that time was even more conservative than it is now, and the people who went to that school were all upper class and wealthy children. Therefore, the disappearance of these students really aroused heated discussion in the world, and the police also A task force was set up to investigate from all angles, but to no avail.
The reason why I know this is because the tabloid also published a report on the investigation of the case at that time in order to emphasize the specificity of the disappearance. It should be to prove to readers that "the police have not found any clues despite all their efforts, so this must be some kind of incredible supernatural event."
??However, this matter eventually became an unsolved case because there was no result. The media reported it as the "Shenyin Incident" and eventually went unsolved.
I have to say that the whole story is exactly the same as the previous situation. Is history really a cycle?
After all, if the current situation develops, the police here will also classify it as an unsolved case because they have no clues and cannot find the body.
"So, the photos that the girl saw were actually taken by students of this school sixty years ago, and those students disappeared after taking the photos... Now she also imitated those seniors and took photos, and then disappeared. ...No, he was eaten by a monster?"
Seeing this, Shajiuye murmured to himself, while Duanmuhuai shrugged his shoulders.
“This is actually quite normal.”
After all, in Mary''s world, Duanmu Huai encountered a similar thing when facing a cultist. The other party summoned a creature from another world to deal with him. As a result, the latter turned around and ate the summoner after being summoned - —If you don’t prepare a sacrifice, then you will be the unlucky one. Is it any wonder?
? And those students were all laymen, and I am afraid they had never thought about preparing any sacrifices, so it was natural for them to be eaten by the summoned objects after they were summoned.
?In this way, we can understand why nothing happened in the school after that - after all, the summoned object did not receive an order after eating, so it patted its **** and turned around to go back to its hometown. So unless someone summons himself next time, it will definitely not appear.
Actually, the same goes for that monster. If Duanmuhuai hadn''t found it so quickly in the past few days, it might have disappeared on its own in two days.
As for why the monster didn’t disappear immediately this time, Duanmuhuai probably didn’t eat enough.
After all, there were five people missing before, but this time there were only two.
For the size of the monster, two should not be enough to eat.
??If Duanmuhuai and Mianmuzuo were eaten at that time, maybe the monster would go home and sleep contentedly. Then there will be rumors in the school that "someone mysteriously disappeared, and the person investigating the matter also disappeared mysteriously", and it will eventually develop into some kind of horror story.
?Well, in fact, it’s just that the monster went home to sleep after it was full.
“What about the magazine?”
The source of the two consecutive incidents was a paranormal topic published in a paranormal magazine. It is difficult not to think more about it, although in fact similar things are not uncommon. Many TV programs will also collect the audience''s paranormal experiences and then film the more interesting ones. The series is broadcast on television.
In fact, Duanmuhuai also suspected that the students who disappeared 60 years ago might have obtained the same magic book, but unfortunately too much time had passed, and the trace back to the air-raid shelter itself could not be successful because of the magic circle.
As for the things inside - if they were more than sixty years old, they would have been thrown into the trash can.
“There is nothing wrong with the magazine itself, it is just an ordinary supernatural magazine.”
?Ashionji Yuko spread her hands helplessly.
“I investigated its circulation, publication, and planning...it’s all normal, at least it seems to be just a third-rate supernatural magazine.”
“What about Sengen Academy itself?”
"A prestigious private school, it has been very famous since its establishment... Your sister went to school there, so she should know better than me. After all, I have never been to the school. Of course, there are occasional suicides or disappearances, but in a century''s time Judging by the scale, it’s not too unusual.”
Similar things actually happen in every school. After all, students are inherently emotionally unstable, especially in adolescence. It is not impossible for schools to commit suicide or cause incidents for some reasons. From this point of view, the incidents that happened at Sengen Academy can be said to be very few compared to other schools. After all, it is a school for young ladies with strict control.
“So the clue is broken again?”
"That''s true for now, and the commission you received is not to investigate this, right? Hasn''t that monster been eliminated by you? Isn''t that enough?"
?From the perspective of Shionji Yuko, this is indeed the case, and so does Duanmu Huai. If he had not obtained the essence of the past, he would have thought that the matter was over.
"Anyway, I will stay in school for another semester...forget it, let''s see what happens."
? Duanmu Huai is not the kind of investigator who will get to the bottom of things. His attitude is to stop looking if he can’t find it. The other party will eventually jump out on his own anyway.
?Just like the King in Yellow, since there is no way to stop their conspiracy, then wait until they succeed and then come out and beat them up together, with a mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind.
??Aren’t many adventure and mystery movies like this? The protagonist went through countless hardships, passed through mechanisms, avoided monsters, solved puzzles, and finally obtained the treasure hidden in the tomb. Then when he climbed out of the tomb with the treasure, the person led by the villain directly held a gun against him, and then the other party easily took away the treasure.
No need to decipher, no need to take risks, simple, rough, direct and relaxed.
?Duanmuhuai also likes this approach.
?Of course, what Duanmuhuai doesn’t like is the fact that in the movie, the villain clearly got something but didn’t kill the protagonist. If it were Duanmu Huai, he would just smash the opponent''s head and throw the body into the ravine.
?Hmm, it seems that he is no longer the protagonist?
"Then do we still want to continue the investigation? I followed what you said and investigated all these, but I didn''t find any clues related to the Cosmic Light Foundation."
“…No need, let’s talk about it next time when we have a chance.”
Duanmuhuai thought for a while and made a decisive decision, while Ziyuanji Youzi also breathed a sigh of relief.
“Okay, let’s do that... Then again, someone seems to be looking for you.”
As he spoke, Yuko Shionji pointed at the screen.
Duanmu Huai turned around and saw Yotsuya Miko''s figure appearing on the screen.
(End of this chapter)