Dong Ning took a breath of cold air. She no longer hesitated, immediately turned around and said, "Run away!"
At this time, she was afraid that the door behind her would suddenly be opened, and she might not be able to escape!
Immediately afterwards, Dong Ning and Zhong Fen ran downstairs.
While running, she would turn around every few steps, always in shock.
After running out of the building, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She turned back to look at the building and said, "I saw it just now."
"The person holding the umbrella?" Zhong Fentou had already guessed something.
"yes"
Dong Ning recalled the scene just now and said: "That person was holding an umbrella in the room, and it was a red umbrella!"
Both of them fell into silence, then quickened their pace and left the street.
"What does the red umbrella mean?"
This is a question Dong Ning is thinking about.
"First of all, all the people holding umbrellas I have seen so far are not the same person."
"Are you sure? Miss Dong?" Zhongfenfen's face became very pale and he asked: "Um, does that mean there is more than one ghost?"
Dong Ning nodded: "Whether it's the clothes or the height, it's definitely not the same person. Well, let's just assume it's a ghost. Why are all these ghosts holding a red umbrella?"
"Yes, yes, what's the mystery behind this?"
"If there is only one ghost, maybe it can be explained. For example, people hold an umbrella when they die, so they keep holding an umbrella after becoming a ghost."
All the dead ghosts were holding red umbrellas, which is hard to understand.
Moreover, why can it be seen directly with the naked eye sometimes, but sometimes it can only be seen through the gaps between fingers?
What is the rationale for this?
"I always feel that there is something mysterious about that red umbrella." Dong Ning thought for a long time, but was still puzzled, "But why exactly?"
At least, it's impossible for these people to all be holding a red umbrella when they die, right?
So what is the specific function of this red umbrella? Is this red umbrella some kind of tool used by evil spirits to seduce souls?
"Speaking of which, we have seen red umbrellas everywhere in this town more than once, including that Internet cafe." Dong Ning thought of this, holding her chin and began to think: "Then why are there some discarded red umbrellas?
?”
"Yes, this is indeed strange."
"I have a hypothesis. Perhaps that red umbrella is the true form of the evil spirit!"
The body of the evil spirit?
"In Japan, there is a very detailed culture of monsters." Dong Ning stretched out two fingers as she spoke: "There is a kind of monster called Tang Umbrella Monk, which is a monster with an umbrella as its body. There is also a kind of monster called Bone Umbrella.
monster"
"Wait a minute," Zhong listened and found it very confusing: "Didn't you lose your memory? How do you know this? Isn't this common sense?"
Dong Ning was stunned and said: "Well, it doesn't count. But it should be the knowledge reserve before I lost my memory. After we lose our memory, our inherent knowledge reserve will not be lost."
"When it comes to Japanese monsters, the only ones I have an impression of are kappa and tengu. What you said, I have no impression of at all. Wait, do you mean we are facing monsters, not ghosts?"
Compared with ghosts, monsters sound much easier to accept. A major feature of China's monster culture is that most of the depictions of monsters are actually highly humane. Especially in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, the female monsters all have a strong sense of human nature.
Fragrant colors often carry the identity of being a fragrant figure for countless scholars who come to Beijing to take exams, and the scary attribute is greatly weakened.
"Actually, there is no difference." Dong Ning actually doesn't care about ghosts and monsters. "Assuming that the umbrella is the body of the evil spirit, then the person holding the umbrella may be controlled by the umbrella."
"Controlled by an umbrella?"
"This is just my hypothesis. Otherwise, how can we explain those red umbrellas?"
She even has an idea.
"You said, if we pick up the red umbrella that fell on the ground and open it, will we also become ghosts?"
Hearing this hypothesis, Zhongfen was immediately startled.
"Isn't it? So scary?"
"For people in this small town, they would rather leave temporarily on a critical day. There are even restaurants offering promotions in the morning, and some people even almost delayed their departure because of work."
After hearing Dong Ning's words, Zhong Fen suddenly understood.
"You mean, their sense of crisis is not very strong?"
"They have some means to ensure that they will not be attacked by evil spirits even after dark. And this means is how we can survive past midnight. So what is this way of survival? First of all, it will definitely not be particularly easy.
, otherwise not so many people would choose to leave temporarily, and so many shops would be closed, which would definitely cause huge economic losses. Secondly, everyone knows this method, so we will definitely know this during the day before we lose our memory. Then
, we will definitely find a way to carry out this restraint measure before losing memory."
"But we lost our memory"
What is the way out?
Zhong Fen thought for a while and said, "Could it be related to the shadow? Maybe there is some way to break the shadow curse before midnight."
"Then what can we do? No shadows appear? The closer we get to the town, the fewer houses there are and there are not many shadow areas. Our shadows will appear as soon as the moon comes out. At that time, we had no way at all."
"Maybe there are other ways." Zhong looked at the shadow at his feet and said, "Maybe there are other conditions for triggering the shadow curse."
"Actually, there is another very critical issue."
"Well what's the problem?"
"Why do we lose our memories?"
Hearing this, Zhongfen was stunned.
Under the moonlight, Dong Ning's face shined particularly brightly, and she stretched out a finger and said: "When we lost our memory and woke up, it was not dark yet, right? This doesn't look like what we will suffer after dark.
curse."
"Maybe the curse will be triggered when it gets dark?"
"Then why do all the records we try our best to leave on our bodies disappear? No matter whether it is written on paper, written on the skin, or recorded in the disk, the most critical information is never obtained. This is obviously a cursed power
Deprived. Assuming that this curse will cause the townspeople to lose their memory, and then the shadow will prevent them from leaving, then no one will stay in this town. From the analysis of these places, it is very likely that the memory loss is caused by a few of us.
special treatment.”
Special treatment?
I had vague speculations like this before I got my head split in the middle, but I always felt something was wrong.
"Speaking of which, the thing that puzzles me the most is why we didn't leave the town before dark? The place where we woke up is far from the edge of the town. Is it because we are folklore researchers?"
Zhong Fentou has never been able to understand this point.
In fact, Dong Ning herself doesn’t believe in folklore research or Area 51.
"Before we came here, we knew there would be problems in this town. However, we didn't know what the specific problems were. But we were given some kind of special treatment. Before dark, we lost our memories and appeared in this small town.
The location in the center of the town. This means that even if we learn from the people of the town how to survive the curse, we still have no way to implement it."
This is Dong Ning's current view.
"Well" Zhongfen still felt confused, "Then why do we have such special treatment?"
After a long time, Dong Ning looked at the shadow under her feet.
"Do you think it's possible that the shadow's curse and the town's curse don't come from the same source?"
"Ah?" Zhongfeng didn't understand what Dong Ning meant: "Not the same one?"
"I also thought that the shadow curse was one of the inherent curses of this town. But if this is another curse, it can explain why we didn't leave before dark. Before we came to this town, the shadow was affected by
Another curse. The curse that brought us here and the loss of our memories."
"I'm getting more and more confused." Now I just feel extremely brain-burning, and I'm actually divided into two different curses?
"Yes, and it is a more terrifying and powerful curse"