Damn! I'm surrounded by beautiful women's ghost stories

"More than fifty people died."

The two female students who were questioned by Xia Shu counted on their fingers and said excitedly: "There will definitely be more deaths!"

You two are living devils, right?

However, Xia Shu also understood more about the "ghost call" from them.

The ghost calls suddenly started appearing a month ago. It is said that someone was watching a horror movie while on vacation on the weekend, and then found the old classic horror movie "The Ghost Call". A few days later, he received a horror call and then "committed suicide".

There are also rumors that a otaku wanted to take revenge on society, so he committed suicide and cursed.

There are various opinions.

The really scary thing is that a few hours after his suicide, the deceased's cell phone made a call, and the person who answered the call heard a sharp and terrifying voice of an old woman.

The person who received the call also died the next day.

Then people kept dying, and after their death, they looked up their numbers in the address book, made calls, and cursed the next person.

Fortunately, this kind of horror call is a one-sided relay race, so it is not spread out on a large scale like "The Ring".

"The sharp and scary voice of an old woman is completely different from the voice on Qianhua's phone."

"A ghost is calling, a ghost is calling..."

Anyone who knows a little about horror movies must know "The Untamed", which is known as one of the top ten horror movies in Japan.

But that was a horror movie from twenty years ago. Why are similar situations suddenly appearing now? Is it a criminal imitation by horror movie fanatics, or is there some other reason?

As for the fact that there really are evil spirits killing people, why would the evil spirits imitate movies? Could they have been movie fans before they died?

It is best to start investigating at the source.

……

Asamiya Genji!

The first victim of the "ghost call" incident that was widely circulated on the Internet was the second victim of his junior high school classmate. The two parties had not been in contact for many years, but after Asamiya Genji's death, his mobile phone accidentally called the second victim.

When Natsuki found Asamiya Genji's house, only his grandmother was at home.

She is an old lady with gray hair and a listless spirit.

After learning about Xia Shu's purpose, he did not drive him out, but instead took the initiative to invite him into the house.

"I hope that as a detective, you can investigate this matter and let Genji rest in peace."

A black-and-white photo of Genji Asamiya is placed in the living room of the room, and snacks are placed on a small table in front of the photo.

Judging from the photo, he is a slightly plump boy with poor skin, droopy eyes and a very introverted personality.

According to Asamiya's grandmother, this photo was taken a few years ago, and Asamiya Genji has never had his photo taken since then. All we know is that before his death, he was more decadent and fatter than in the photo.

"There was no ghost call at all!" Grandma Asamiya sighed, "Genji has mental problems. He was bullied in middle school, so he didn't go to school and stayed at home. I had to go out to work to support him, and I rarely had time to care about him. I remember what happened that day very clearly. He didn't come downstairs all day, and he didn't eat the lunch box I put at the door of his room. So I opened the door worriedly and saw his body. He committed suicide... That child will definitely commit suicide one day. In fact, he and I are mentally prepared."

Granny Asamiya burst into tears, her old voice a little sharp: "I don't know why he was bullied when he was alive, and after he died, people kept saying that he was cursed by evil spirits. Can't he be allowed to rest in peace?"

It is difficult for Natsuki to evaluate Grandma Asamiya's thoughts. She is convinced that her grandson will commit suicide one day in the future, and even regards it as a kind of relief.

And the sadness is not because of the death of my grandson.

Instead, he was constantly harassed after his death.

After hearing the voice of Granny Asamiya, he realized that the so-called scary and old voice was not a call from a ghost at all.

Granny Asamiya has severe presbyopia, and there is a high possibility that she dialed the wrong number when she wanted to call for help.

Coincidence begets coincidence.

Or was it simply an evil spirit that committed the crime?

"Yes, I don't believe there are evil spirits in this world either." Natsuki nodded and asked, "Does Genji like watching horror movies?"

"Never look." Granny Asamiya shook her head. "He is very timid. Do you want to go into his room and take a look? Maybe there are things that Mr. Detective can see, but I can't."

"Then I'm sorry to trouble you!"

Such cooperation really makes me feel relieved.

Genji Asamiya's room is no different from that of an ordinary otaku.

There was a poster of the underground idol "Hoshidan Takuko" on the wall. Natsuki had a little impression of this female idol because his previous blind date partner was a fan of the female idol. During the blind date, the other party spent most of the time looking down at her phone and fighting with fans of the rival group.

After meeting at 8 o'clock in the evening, the other party got up and said goodbye and left the blind date.

Fortunately, the blind date was AA, but it still caused Xia Shu to have a stress reaction.

There are a large number of figures, dolls and various comics in Genji Asamiya's cupboard.

Moreover, Xia Shu also found a large number of 18+ galgames under the bed, and they were all girl-related games, with no strange or heavy-mouthed types at all.

From this perspective, the other person doesn't seem like someone who would watch horror movies.

Moreover, Natsuki found a diary. He flipped through it and found that the diary only recorded up to junior high school graduation. In other words, after becoming a hikikomori, Genji Asamiya stopped writing.

"20XX, August, Monday, probably a sunny day. I was bullied by Ying again. She always bullies me and I don't want to go to school."

"In 20XX, September, on Tuesday, it rained. I heard that the rain comes from the Milky Way and can connect the other world with this world, allowing the deceased to return to the human world. Will Dad and Mom come back too?"

"20XX, September, Friday, I don't want to go to school, even though I did nothing wrong!" There was a mottled mark on the paper, like tears.

"..."

"20XX, March, Wednesday. I'm about to graduate. I heard that during graduation season, girls will ask the boys they like for the second button of their uniforms. Will anyone ask me? I must ask grandma to help me loosen the button of my uniform."

"20XX, March, Thursday. Why did Ying, a bastard who likes to bully others, even have all his shirt buttons taken away? This world belongs to sunny and handsome guys like him. People like me are only suitable to hide in dark and narrow rooms. No one can see me. It's good enough if no one can see me."

The self-pity and the recording style that has a bit of a middle school syndrome are definitely something that a thirteen or fourteen year old boy would write.

Natsuki scratched the insole of his shoe with his toes.

So diaries, just like browsing histories, will only make people regretful if they keep them.

When leaving the Asamiya family, Grandma Asamiya hoped to exchange contact information with Natsuki, and sincerely hoped that Natsuki could help investigate the truth so that Asamiya Genji could rest assured.

Xia Shu refused without a second thought.

Please, I'm a detective, I can't do this without payment.

He just said verbally that he would try his best.

Compared to the dead Asamiya Genji, Chika is of course more important, as she is his customer.

……

Xia Shu found a supermarket on the roadside.

I went in to hang out and enjoy the air conditioning, and searched for Genji Asamiya, but didn't find much.

Most of their names come from topics related to "ghost calls".

Then he searched for Hoshidan Takuko.

"Asamiya Genji died a month ago... A month ago, underground idol member Hoshidan Takuko was exposed to be a dad!" He immediately grasped the key point: "If we put aside the weird story of ghost calls, Asamiya Genji was a complete otaku who was obsessed with idols. He couldn't accept the collapse of his idol's image, so he committed suicide."

Compared to the ghost call, Xia Shu would rather believe that this is the truth.

He continued to search for information about Hoshidan Takuko.

Hoshidan Takuko is just an underground idol. She graduated directly after her father's death was exposed. It is said that she has changed into a vtuber and debuted now. This incident is most likely unrelated to the other party.

"Maybe... someone is deliberately guiding us!" Xia Shu guessed in a darker direction.

From an ordinary person's perspective, either someone is imitating a ghost call to kill people, or there really is a ghost story of evil spirits killing people.

But from Xia Shu's perspective, there is a third possibility.

The more frequently a ghost story is mentioned by people, the more its thread will be woven and expanded like knitting a sweater, thus breaking through the boundary between the two worlds and allowing the power of that world to slightly affect the present world.

Just like Xia Shu had not completely dealt with the problem of the woman crawling out of the washing machine, she would crawl out from time to time and even wander around in the laundry room.

On the one hand, he was unable to completely defeat the other party at that time. After all, he had just traveled through time and had no experience. But another reason was probably that people still remembered her and kept discussing her, making her "immortal."

Urban legends can be constantly "refreshed" and can never be killed.

Chapter 5 Arrangement

Xia Shu thought: "Why choose Ghost Call? Because classic horror movies are widely spread, which is much easier to spread than a random ghost story. The other party may go with the flow. If the rumor on the Internet that Asamiya Genji died was not caused by Ghost Call, but The Ring, then the popular urban ghost story now should be Sadako's 7 Days Killing. But if it is really Ghost Call, shouldn't it be Mizunuma Mimiko who appears in it?"

These were just his guesses after all. If he wanted to verify them, he could only continue investigating.

So he began to investigate the information of the student who died the day after receiving the call from Genji Asamiya.

The second student died in an accident. It was said that he fell from the rooftop, while others said it was due to too much study pressure.

But then things started to develop in an abnormal direction.

The third person didn’t take the call seriously and continued shopping with his friends.

Then, he seemed to have seen something particularly terrifying on the street, and in panic he ran onto the road and was hit and killed on the spot by a car traveling at only 20 kilometers per hour.

The fourth one went to the bathroom during a family dinner and screamed. When his family rushed into the bathroom, the other person had already pierced his throat with a toothbrush.

It gets weirder as time goes on.

Searching information only on the Internet is too one-sided, he also needs to visit the homes of the deceased.

Fortunately, the scope of the ghost phone call incident was not large, and it was a distance that he could quickly circle on his motorcycle.

After visiting and investigating for most of the day, Xia Shu reported his progress to Qianhua and said at the end: "Come to the detective agency tonight."

Qianhua replied hastily more than ten minutes later: "I may have to work overtime, and I will probably arrive after 20:00 (sticking out tongue)."

It's not easy to work to earn detective fees even though I'm already exhausted.

However, Xia Shu has no intention of lowering his fees. Although he does not have to worry about rent, business is not available every day and he still needs to eat. Voluntary labor should be left to those who are willing to contribute.

He just takes the money and gets the job done.

Night, 20:13

When Qianhua rushed to the detective agency, she found Xia Shu wearing a strange "armor" and moving his body constantly.

"Mr. Yahiro, what are you doing?"

"Oh," Xia Shu paused, "This might be useful next time."

"What's next?" Qianhua was puzzled.