When Dong Xie's car was about to drive to the airport, his mobile phone rang. So Dong Xie turned on the car's Bluetooth headset and answered the phone. The caller was his cousin Yu Li.
"Axie, are you... okay now?"
There happened to be an intersection ahead, which showed a red light. Dong Xie gently stepped on the brakes and said to his cousin: "Well, I'm pretty good. I'm going to Japan to attend a friend's wedding in the next few days."
"Going to Japan?"
"Well, the decision was a bit sudden. I just applied for the visa not long ago. Cousin, you..."
"Ah Xie, I... I actually have something I want to talk to you about. Not long ago, I remember you posted a photo on your WeChat Moments, which was taken by you in Hawaii..."
Dong Xie's expression was startled.
He now really regrets not setting the photo so that only the apartment residents can see it, and he doesn't know how many people saw the supernatural image before he deleted the photo.
"Cousin, that's what I photoshopped!" Dong Xie could only say this, he didn't want to involve his cousin.
But then he felt strange, how long ago it was, and he had deleted the photo a long time ago. His cousin couldn't have just discovered it. Or was it that some relative had seen the photo before and just told his cousin now?
"Ah Xie, that's it. When I traveled before, I went to a temple that was very popular and said to be very efficacious. Well, I thought, why don't you come with me..."
Dong Xie quickly replied: "Cousin, you, you are overthinking, there is no such thing."
"Ah Xie, listen to me. The abbot over there is said to be an eminent monk. To perform a ritual there, you have to make an appointment one month in advance. And the reason why the incense is strong there is because the Bodhisattva there is particularly efficacious. Well,
I think you should... go there once. At that time, the abbot happened to give me a business card, and I contacted the place. The abbot said that he could help you... save that... "
Dong Xie gripped the steering wheel tightly and pursed his lips.
An eminent monk?
Nonsense!
Nowadays, temples are treated like businesses. Monks drive luxury cars when they go out and earn more than ordinary salarymen. If they have any ability to save the souls of the dead, Dong Xie will live broadcast the keyboard swallowing.
"Ah Xie, listen to me. There are some things that you have to believe or not believe at all. Your current situation is a bit bad. I thought your photo was photoshopped at first, but..."
"Ah, cousin, um, the signal here is not very good. I will contact you next time."
At this time, the red light in front of him turned into green. Dong Xie immediately hung up the phone, continued to start the engine, and stepped on the accelerator.
Dong Ning looked over and said, "Is this cousin Yu Li?"
"Yes, she noticed the photos on Moments at that time and said she wanted to find a temple to help me book a ritual to liberate the souls of the dead."
Dong Ning nodded and said: "Cousin Yu Li does care about you, but it has been so long before she thought of this?"
"Perhaps it was her grandmother's death that made her feel very strongly. My cousin is a very emotional person, and she almost had a falling out with her uncle because she wanted to learn Western painting."
At this time, Yu Li was holding a photo and looked at the scene in the photo carefully.
Even though it's broad daylight, I still feel creepy when I see this photo.
This photo has a clear year and date of shooting, and it was an era when color TVs had just begun to phase out black and white TVs. The technology of PS was simply incredibly high-tech.
Even though it was broad daylight, holding this photo in her hand, Yu Li still felt a little trembling.
She carefully put the photo into her wallet, thought about it carefully, took out her mobile phone, and made another call to the abbot. She remembered that the abbot said last time that she could consider selling some consecrated beads to her.
, and it comes with free shipping, both Alipay, WeChat and QuickPass are accepted. As long as it arrives in your account, it will be shipped within two days. If you spend an extra five hundred, you can engrave the name of the donor in front of the Bodhisattva, and you will definitely be protected by the Bodhisattva and stay away from all evil spirits.
On the other side, Dong Xie and Dong Ning entered the airport with their suitcases and took their passports to check in. Dong Ning suddenly said to Dong Xie: "But, brother, we don't believe in domestic temples, and neither does Japanese Shintoism."
It may not be useful."
"I am also a dead horse and a living doctor." Dong Xie thought about it carefully. It may be because when he was collecting novel materials, he watched too many Japanese horror movies, and subconsciously felt that there might be something interesting in this land of Japan.
A capable person.
"I hope...that's the case."
Dong Ning's answer was weak and she obviously didn't hold much hope.
Ever since she first saw the photo of Hawaii, Dong Ning has been worried about it and has trouble sleeping and eating. Is that evil spirit still haunting her brother? If it is still there, is it possible that when the word in blood is executed, it will be the same as the one in the word in blood?
If the evil spirits fight, they will die together? Of course, this is a relatively ideal idea, and no one knows whether it can be realized in practice.
Can the family behind Kitayama Kageryu, who seems to have a certain Shinto background, be able to help them?
"About the Beishan family, what did Beishan Jinglong himself say specifically? Brother?"
"In fact, his knowledge of this is limited, but it seems that this matrilineal family has left some strong childhood shadows on him." Dong Xie thought for a moment and murmured: "Also, it seems that the Beishan family's shrine cannot be said.
It is a pure Shinto shrine.”
"What does it mean?"
"You know the saying that there are eight million gods in Japan? This is an animistic statement. Even the toilets have so-called toilet gods. And Kitayama Jingryu said that even his mother herself has no regard for the family.
There is a certain rejection. His mother was originally arranged by the family to get married, and after marriage, she would also become a shrine maiden at the family shrine."
"Is the miko... just like Kikyo from "Inuyasha"?"
"Probably almost. However, Kitayama Jingryu's statement is that the family does not believe in gods in the conventional sense, but some kind of more evil existence... He can conceive so many horror novels, which seems to be in line with the family.
It was related to the shadow of his childhood. Originally, he didn’t really want to go back to Japan to hold another wedding, but the family members were very insistent.”
"It sounds a bit complicated. Isn't it a family-run cult?"
"No, that's not the case. Their family owns a large amount of real estate, even a considerable amount of real estate in Tokyo."
"I hope I really have some 'ability'."
Dong Xie and Dong Ning were both a little uneasy and had hope, but they were more afraid of despair.
"Brother, actually I read some books written by Beishan Jinglong last night."
"Then what do you think?"
"I always feel that he may have some Oedipus complex. Well, this is my personal guess, but in his novels, the protagonist's mother is always described in great detail, sometimes even taking over the main role. I remember in "
In the book "Dead Bug", the protagonist's mother is the absolute core of the plot for the entire fifty chapters, and the protagonist has no role at all in these fifty chapters. Moreover, the heroine is always submissive to the protagonist's mother, without any personality, and the portrayal is
The level of brilliance is far less than that of the protagonist’s mother.”
"That's... maybe. Maybe he admires his mother very much." Dong Xie's character is that he doesn't like to judge people he doesn't understand behind his back. After all, when he was a student, he was also slandered and slandered behind his back.
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"However, one thing to say is that the horror plot is indeed very well written. Well, maybe you won't accept it, brother, but his creation of the horror atmosphere is really better than yours. Maybe it also has something to do with his character creation skills.
Well. The heroine of "Dead Bug" is one of the few characters in his works who has a certain independent personality."
Among Dong Xie's books, "Dead Worms" is also his favorite among Kitayama Jinglong's books. When Netflix released all 10 episodes of the first season at once, he downloaded them all immediately. However, Netflix is an American company.
, obviously not very good at shooting oriental horror stories. The only thing that stands out is that the characterization of the male and female protagonists basically restored the original work. At that time, Mu Ziyi also performed the heroine quite well, and the stylist was also particularly good, becoming
Mu Ziyi is a very out of the ordinary character.
While waiting to board the plane, Dong Xie sat in the airport terminal, took out his mobile phone, connected to the airport wifi, opened the Renren Video app, and planned to rewatch the first season of "Dead Bugs".
After opening the video, the first scene is of a mother with long hair floating around, wearing plain white mourning clothes and purple clothes, walking in a dark forest. Behind her, there is a group of people scattering paper money and carrying coffins.
Netflix's photography skills are indeed powerful. Paper money is flying, and the camera gradually gets closer to Mu Ziyi's face. The high-definition camera reveals her extremely pale, yet beautiful face under the bright moonlight...
This picture later became the avatars, desktop wallpapers and signatures of countless people. Looking at it again after many years, Dong Xie still felt extremely amazing. He couldn't even imagine that his mother Ziyi once lived in that hell apartment just like him.