A strange child wearing a dead man's shroud stood in front of a two-story wooden house, raising his black and blue arms to ring the doorbell next to the door.
In this quiet and somewhat abnormal city of Kobe, the not-so-loud doorbell seemed a bit hollow, echoing quietly on the streets and spreading far away.
The bell rang again and again without stopping.
It seems like a prank, but in today's city, no one would be bored enough to do such a prank. If so, the head of the household who rang the doorbell would definitely stop it.
However, while the bell kept ringing, the head of the household did not appear.
It seemed that it was an empty house and no one lived in it, or that someone had lived in it before, but now it was dead.
The ghost boy was very patient. He treated the doorbell like a toy and pressed it repeatedly.
Yang Jian, who was standing not far away, saw this scene but did not stop this behavior. His face was calm, and a ghost eye peered at everything in the house.
Ghost eyes could not see through the house shrouded in darkness.
A supernatural force obscured his ghostly vision. After all, this was the ghost realm of the Knocker. Yang Jian didn't know whether it was blocked by the power of the ghost realm or if there was something wrong with the wooden two-story house itself.
Yang Jian did not forcefully peek, nor did he use the ghost realm, because he might leave here, just like when he was in No. 7 Middle School, he used the ghost realm to resist the knocker's ghost realm, and ended up taking it with him
The surviving classmates left the school.
"Don't ring the doorbell. There must be no one inside. Go in and have a look. If you find a ghost, run out immediately."
Yang Jian gave the order and asked the ghost boy to go explore the road while he watched from a distance and did not set foot in dangerous places.
The ghost boy stopped moving and became active again. It wandered around the house for a while, then found an open window and immediately got in. It soon disappeared from sight and entered the dark house.
inside.
"It's right to be careful. The ghost boy is wearing a shroud. It's very difficult for ordinary ghosts to kill him."
Yang Jian continued to choose to wait and see the ghost boy's next reaction.
"I hope your perception can really work, and not because you are afraid of saying such things deliberately, otherwise I will be very angry." Then, he turned back to look at the woman named Mijima.
Keiko translated quickly to ensure that the information was conveyed correctly.
The woman named Mijima said hurriedly: "I didn't lie, what I said is true, and please believe me. I worked very hard to sense the location of the ghost, but it is too dangerous here. I feel like I can be there at any time."
Everyone may die here, because there are more than one dangerous place, and the things in this house are the closest to us."
As she spoke, her expression gradually became frightened.
Obviously, in her opinion, there is a ghost in this house. She felt it when she was walking on the road just now, so she slowed down in fear.
"Is it a ghost if you sense it?"
Yang Jian's eyes moved, his expression was a little serious, and then he continued: "You just need to do your job well, and I will take care of the rest. This is the only purpose of your coming here. No matter whether you are afraid or not, you have to be old."
Do as I say honestly."
Keiko continued to translate: "Miss Mijima, what Mr. Yang said makes sense. We can only get help by showing enough value and getting his recognition. Otherwise, we will definitely be abandoned."
"Come on, Miss Mijima, we can definitely get out of here alive."
She is very considerate. She is obviously an ordinary person, many years younger than this person named Mei Dao, but she comes to comfort others at this time.
"I, I understand, I will try my best to do my job well." Mijima nodded.
"He asked the little ghost to go to the house to investigate the situation. It was a very cautious approach. I just don't know how to control the little ghost... but this ability is really enviable." Nagasawa whispered.
murmured.
The middle-aged man on the side said worriedly: "It must be useful for the president to ask us to come here. If Mijima is only responsible for guiding the location of ghosts, then our task will definitely not be easy. Shouldn't we worry about ourselves more now?
If we really encounter a ghost, we won't be able to escape."
"It's true. Everyone has their time to show their value, but it's just not our turn yet. Let's adjust our mentality and work hard to overcome our fears. Don't end up dying here because of a little mistake. Then it will be
It's a pity, what do you think, senior?" Nagasawa said with a smile.
But it was such a casual conversation. After Keiko heard it, he still translated it to Yang Jian next to him.
Yang Jian ignored it, but frowned and looked at the house in front of him.
The house is not big, and the ghost boy has been in it for a while, but he has not come out yet.
His previous order was to run out immediately if a ghost was found. Since the ghost boy did not come out, does it mean that there is no ghost in the house?
Or is it that the ghost boy did not encounter a ghost?
"Wait another three minutes." Yang Jian looked at the time and counted silently in his mind.
The house is not big, and with the mobility of the ghost boy, he can explore the house in a few minutes.
Three minutes passed quickly.
The house shrouded in darkness seemed particularly peaceful, with nothing unusual happening or any movement coming through.
"Have you not encountered a ghost yet? If that's the case, then don't wait. Let the ghost boy come out and avoid this place. No matter what happens inside this house, at least I can be sure that the ghost knocking on the door is not here."
Yang Jian did not intend to waste any more time, but shouted outside and gave an order for the ghost boy to come out immediately.
New commands can overwrite old commands.
But after Yang Jian finished shouting outside, there was still no movement in the house. The ghost boy seemed to have evaporated and disappeared without any sign of coming out of the house.
"there is a problem......"
Yang Jian's face suddenly darkened.
Mijima's previous perception was correct. There was indeed a huge problem with this house. Let's not talk about whether there were ghosts or not. The fact that the ghost boy never came out after entering was enough to prove its specialness.
"I want to go into the house and have a look. You guys wait here. Nagasawa, come with me." Yang Jian glanced at it, then strode forward.
After Keiko translated, the face of the young man named Nagasawa changed, and finally he shrugged, and had no choice but to follow.
Yang Jian came to the front door of the house. His black and cold dead hand grasped the door handle, and with a slight pull, the door opened.
It was so dark inside that nothing could be seen, and a strong smell of corpses spread across the floor, as if a corpse had been rotting in the house for a long time. The smell made people want to vomit.
"Keep this door, don't let it close, no matter what method you use."
Yang Jian glanced at him; "If I can't do it, I will kill you when I come out. This is an order."
Keiko was slightly startled when she heard this, and then carefully translated to the man named Nagasawa.
"It's really an inconsiderate order, but compared to Mr. Yang risking his own life to go into the house to investigate, this order should be considered a kind of mercy."
Nagasawa smiled; "Then, please rest assured, Mr. Yang, and leave your escape route to me. I promise that I won't let you down."
Yang Jian didn't say anything. He carried his duffel bag and walked into the dark house in front of him with a calm expression.
He wanted to look for the ghost boy and find out what happened to the ghost boy.
We also need to confirm again what kind of situation this house is in. Is the person knocking on the door also inside? If not, why is it like this here?
"This business trip is even more unlucky than the previous ones. This happened right after we started."
Yang Jian felt that his surroundings had been covered in darkness. He could only see the blurry corridors on both sides. His vision was greatly affected. Moreover, he still had ghost eyes. If he closed his ghost eyes, he would probably be blind.
I can only walk by touching the wall.
After he took a few steps, he felt that the surroundings were getting colder and colder. This feeling made him tense up instantly, but then he realized something and suddenly stopped and looked back.
How long can a hallway in a house be?
Based on Yang Jian's previous judgment of the house, it would only be six or seven meters long when it was stretched to death. But now, he turned around and vaguely saw the faint light coming from the door behind him. The distance... was very far.
, as if they were twenty or thirty meters away.
Distance is affected.
Yang Jian's expression changed slightly. He had encountered this situation before, in the world of ghost paintings.
However, he did not retreat because of this, but continued to move forward.
soon.
Yang Jian walked down the aisle and came to the first sliding door, which should be the living room of the house.
There was dried blood on the sliding door. The blood stain showed the trace of a handprint, which should have been left by someone, and the direction of the handprint was outward. In other words, at some time there was a person with blood-stained hands.
The person opened the sliding door and tried to escape from inside.
But the person who escaped must have failed.
Because Yang Jian didn't see any corpses along the way, he just smelled a smell of corpses, which was sealed in the house and seemed particularly strong.
"The living room is very neat and tidy, not messy at all, and the ghost boy is not here either."
Yang Jian came to the living room and took a general look around. He didn't find anything strange, nor did he see the source of the corpse odor, nor did he find the body of the deceased.
"It's very strange. If someone is killed in the living room, it means that the ghost has appeared in the living room before, so it will leave some traces after killing people. However, although there are doubts, it is completely certain.
Well, this house has nothing to do with the knocker."
He knows the killing method of the knocker. As long as you knock on your door, you will die immediately if you are targeted by the ghost, without even a chance to struggle.
It is a fatal attack.
Yang Jian himself didn't know if he could block the old man's three knocks on the door now.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly.
There was a dull sound coming from the ceiling above his head, as if someone had stepped on the floor and passed by. The sound insulation effect of this wooden house was not good, so Yang Jian could hear it clearly.
In addition, judging from the sound of the movement, it should be the weight of an adult, and it is definitely not a ghost child. The ghost child walks barefoot and the sound is very soft.
"Boom, boom!"
The sound continued, and Yang Jian raised his head to look. He was very sure that something passed over his head, and then walked to the next door, and then stopped.
The dark house returned to calm again.
"Is the ghost at that location?" Yang Jian's ghostly eyes stared at that location, as if he had locked onto the source.
"Go upstairs."
Yang Jian felt that the ghost boy might also be upstairs, and its disappearance must be related to the ghosts in this house, but he just wanted to leave with the ghost boy and didn't want to waste too much energy on an unknown ghost.
Immediately, he quickened his pace and went deep into the house.
After walking forward for a while, Yang Jian saw the stairs leading to the second floor.
The stairs were a bit narrow, but they were not dangerous. At least there was no ghost waiting for him on the stairs like last time, so Yang Jian reached the second floor of the house smoothly.
Through the location he just determined, Yang Jian approached the location on the second floor where the movement came from.
soon.
He stood in front of a sliding door. The sliding door was not closed tightly, leaving a gap in the middle. It seemed that the sliding door had been opened just now.