Why is my anime art style so weird?

"So ruthless!?"

All I did was glance at you from a distance, and you're going to hunt me down like this?!

Xu Ming only now realized that female ghosts were even more unreasonable creatures than women.

As the two were talking, the singing outside the door became clearer and clearer.

Xu Ming felt as if the voice was alive, constantly pouring into his brain from his ears, turning his brain into mush.

He became drowsy and his cognitive abilities declined sharply.

"Junior, you must hold on! If you open the door, your soul will be captured by her and put into a doll, never to be reincarnated!"

"Isshiki Satoshi called out anxiously."

Upon hearing Isshiki Satoshi's voice, Xu Ming's eyes cleared.

He immediately took out his phone, bracing himself against the blaring music, and swiped to open the music streaming app as fast as he could. He selected over a dozen songs with incredibly catchy melodies and turned the phone's speaker volume up to the maximum.

The moment he pressed play, cheerful music burst from the phone's speaker.

The light and cheerful melody makes you want to sway along.

Soon, classical Japanese songs drifted in from outside the door, mingling with modern pop music playing from a mobile phone—two completely different styles.

What was revealed was chaos, utter chaos.

However, it was precisely this chaotic, noise-like mix of music that instantly brought Xu Ming back to normal.

Xu Ming felt that his mind was completely clear, and apart from a little noise in his ears, everything else was fine.

Xu Ming looked up and found Isshiki Satoshi staring at him with a strange expression.

"Junior, you..."

"Isshiki-senpai, is there a problem?"

Isshiki Satoshi's lips twitched slightly.

"No, it's nothing, you're great."

Xu Ming saw Isshiki Satoshi's dilemma but was somewhat unimpressed.

No matter what method is used, as long as it can stop the headless woman's hypnotic voice outside the door, it's a good method!

The headless woman outside the door seemed surprised by Xu Ming's unexpected move, and paused for a moment while singing.

However, the song soon started again, and the sound became increasingly sharp and high-pitched.

Xu Ming felt as if an electric drill was drilling into his brain.

"Junior! Hang in there! The blood moon will set in an hour!"

Isshiki Satoshi encouraged him.

"I understand! I will try my best!"

Xu Ming shouted loudly.

It wasn't that he intentionally wanted to shout so loudly, but the singing outside the door was incredibly captivating; as long as you focused your attention on the song, you would be instantly mesmerized.

It's like an invisible swamp created by music, silently drawing the listener in so slowly that they can't escape.

Left with no other choice, Xu Ming had to resort to this method to force himself to shift his attention.

Seeing that Xu Ming inside the room had not yet been hypnotized, the singing outside the door became increasingly shrill.

If the ears were enjoying themselves before, now it feels like someone is scrubbing a blackboard with a steel brush.

The resentment and anger in the song surged like a volcano about to erupt.

Xu Ming couldn't help but cover his ears with his hands, and even disregarding the dust and bacteria, he tore the bed sheet into small pieces and stuffed them into his ears, and covered his head with a pillow.

Or they might pick up objects from the room, such as a lamp or an empty bottle, and bang them on the floor, making all sorts of noise.

At this moment, Xu Ming seemed to have gone mad.

His only goal was to distract himself and resist the hypnotic noises from outside the door!

Chapter Seventeen: The Mastermind

As time passed, the headless female ghost outside the door seemed to sense that the blood moon was about to set and became increasingly anxious.

At this moment, what was outside the door was no longer a beautiful and melodious waka song, but a scream, a piercing scream that could shatter windowpanes!

"Ah~!!"

"Ahhh!!!"

Even through a door, Xu Ming felt like he was going crazy.

No matter what Xu Ming tried to cover his ears with, it was no use.

The terrifying sound was like countless invisible insects trying to burrow into the pores of his skin.

The phone volume was already turned up to the maximum, and Xu Ming had smashed the floor to pieces.

However, Xu Ming still felt that his body was gradually losing control, and his brain was like a cold with a fever, feeling dizzy and gradually losing his ability to think.

"Good luck, junior!"

"The blood moon will set in two or three minutes!"

"Keep going, you're almost there!"

The encouraging voices of Isshiki Satoshi kept coming to his ears, but they sounded so distant, as if they were shouting at him from across a mountain.

This can't go on...

Just then, the scene he had seen earlier flashed through Xu Ming's mind.

Almost completely hypnotized, Tadokoro Megumi stabbed herself in the thigh with a shard of glass and then fled outside...

Intense pain may temporarily reverse the effects of hypnosis!

A resolute glint flashed in Xu Ming's eyes.

At this point, only he himself can verify it!

Without hesitation, Xu Ming picked up the fruit knife from the ground and slashed his palm.

Fresh blood gushed from his palm.

Xu Ming immediately felt a sharp pain coming from his palm, and his previously drowsy mind suddenly became clear.

I don't know where I got the courage from.

Xu Ming picked up the desk lamp at his feet and threw it toward the door.

Bah!

With a loud crash, the desk lamp slammed heavily against the door and shattered into pieces.

The screams outside the door suddenly stopped.

"It's so noisy! Why aren't you sleeping at this hour?!"

Xu Ming shouted angrily.

A short while later, a terrifying, chilling aura pierced through the door.

"ah!!!!"

It was obvious that Xu Ming's actions had enraged the female ghost outside the door.

However, before she could shout a few more times, the bloody light outside the window faded, and the night sky turned dark again.

The blood-red moon disappeared without anyone noticing.

The screams outside the door stopped abruptly, like a duck being choked.

Xu Ming slumped against the wall and slowly slid down to the floor.

He survived.

At this moment, Isshiki Satoshi looked out the window and said:

"It's almost dawn, junior, if you have any questions, please ask them."

Xu Ming's eyes lit up. Understanding the truth of the incident would not only increase the completion rate of the bizarre event and improve the reward, but also help him understand the subsequent events and avoid danger.

It's pretty much certain that something terrible must have happened at the Totsuki Tea House.

What happened at Polaris Dormitory was just the beginning, or rather, a preliminary task.

So Xu Ming quickly perked up and asked:

"Senior Isshiki, do these monsters only move around during the Blood Moon?"

Isshiki Satoshi nodded, then shook his head.

"As soon as it gets dark, the monsters hidden in the darkness will awaken and begin to move around in the Far Moon Tea House. However, after midnight, when the blood moon rises, they will become even more powerful and terrifying under the moonlight."

"they?"

Xu Ming keenly noticed the details in Isshiki's words.

"Yes, just them. I'm not quite like them."

Isshiki Satoshi gave an affirmative answer.

"Isshiki-senpai seems to know everything that happened at the Totsuki Tea House? Then do you know what's going on with that headless female ghost outside?"

Upon hearing Xu Ming's question, Isshiki Satoshi remained silent for a moment, then suddenly sighed.

"The anomaly that occurred at Totsuki was due to some kind of evil ritual being performed within the Totsuki Tea House. As for her... I know her too."

Xu Ming immediately perked up his ears.

"She is from the Kingdom of Ki..."

A trace of sadness appeared on Isshiki Satoshi's face.

Nene Kinokuni, formerly the sixth seat of the Elite Ten, grew up in an ancient Japanese family. She is best known for her traditional Japanese cuisine, such as soba noodles and kaiseki. She possesses the dual attributes of a bespectacled girl and a Yamato Nadeshiko (ideal Japanese woman), and is also Isshiki Satoshi's childhood friend.

Xu Ming's eyes narrowed instantly. The information he had previously found showed that Ji Zhiguo Ningning was also among the missing persons. He hadn't expected that she had already transformed into a monster.

Since someone is performing an evil ritual at the Totsuki Tea House, the missing people are most likely dead.