Chapter 308 The Final Puzzle

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

The sky gradually darkens and the lights come on.

Fu Qinghai was walking alone on the overpass.

"well..."

A sigh came out of his mouth.

He had just walked out of the school gate, looking at the endless stream of orange-light cars flowing under the bridge, and the hustle and bustle of the city echoed in his ears.

Fu Qinghai took out a pile of scraps of paper business cards from his pocket, on which were written "Aoyama Paranormal Agency" in Japanese.

This is his new identity.

The original plan was to use this identity to contact and gain the trust of the male and female protagonists in the movie - Nakamura Yumi, Okazaki Soji, Yamashita Hiroshi and others, who were also victims of the vengeful spirit incident. However, as the investigation unfolded, the fact that Fu Qinghai was a half-baked person was gradually exposed, and the male and female protagonists no longer believed that he could exorcise demons...

Unfortunately, Fu Qinghai has been investigating for such a long time with great fanfare, but still has not attracted the attention of the vengeful spirits, and has not received any strange calls or MMS messages so far.

Fu Qinghai was playing with the old flip phone in his hand, an antique brand that had almost disappeared, Sony Ericsson, and he was looking forward to the legendary...

"Ghost Call".

"The Grudge" is the work of Takashi Miike. Not only has it had many sequels like "The Grudge" and "Child's Play", but the adaptation rights have also been exported to many countries.

So according to the logic of the Order-Maintaining Alliance, the Ghost Call Universe can become a reincarnation world.

Takashi Miike is a famous Japanese gangster film master, but many Chinese audiences may be more familiar with the comic-adapted films he directed - the "Crows Zero" series.

The reason why Fu Qinghai chose to act alone was because of the action plan formulated by Zhang Yuning.

Just like Thai horror and supernatural movies particularly like to portray Kumantong and black magic, Japanese horror and supernatural movies also have a very distinctive setting - earthbound spirits.

Earthbound spirit: After a creature dies, the soul's range of movement is restricted to a certain area, and the soul is bound to that area.

Kawamata Kayako is the most typical earthbound spirit, possessing a haunted villa and killing all the previous residents of the house.

The demon Valak, who was trapped in the monastery at the beginning of the movie, also felt a bit like an earthbound spirit.

The corpse was buried in Huangshan Village. The villagers were killed after drinking the water from the pond where the corpse was found. Chu Renmei was actually also considered a ground-bound ghost.

Possessing a human being or a house seems to be the most basic skill of these evil spirits and demons.

This is why, every time before Zhang Yuning activates her ability, she needs to find a house and attach the power of Kayako and Valak to it in advance, forming a haunted house, so as to maximize the power of the vengeful spirits and demons.

But nothing is absolute.

There are also some vengeful spirits in Japanese horror and supernatural movies. Not only are they not bound by geographical regions, they can also spread their evil karma through other methods similar to memetic pollution: Kayako's diary, Sadako's videotape... and the vengeful spirit in "The Devil Calls" - Mimiko Mizunuma's cell phone.

To facilitate the investigation of the fake detective Fu Qinghai.

Zhang Yuning explained to him the life story of Mimiko.

Mimiko and Kayako have very similar life experiences, and their misery is full of their own faults.

Kayako herself is somewhat of a psychopath, and she has a crush on her college classmate Shunsuke Kobayashi.

Mimiko died of an asthma attack because her mother ignored her due to her abuse of her younger sister.

Unlike the evil ghost Chu Renmei in China, he did not commit any faults during his lifetime and died completely unjustly.

In the settings of Japanese vengeful spirits, it seems that they like to show the character flaws or some kind of faults of the vengeful spirit during its lifetime.

As for why we have to act separately...

"Buzz buzz buzz…"

Fu Qinghai was thinking when his cell phone suddenly vibrated.

He quickly took out his cell phone from his pocket and took a look.

Screen display:

Caller: Qingshan.

Caller ID: 03-3581-0101.

The caller's name is my own, and the number is my own... calling myself?

A prank? Or a telecom scam?

No, none of them!

Fu Qinghai's pupils jumped, thinking:

Mizunuma Mimiko, you're here at last.

His fingers gently pressed the answer button and the hands-free button, and Fu Qinghai's own voice rang out in the microphone, with the same voice and tone:

"Yumi, please believe me. I'm a professional paranormal detective. I can definitely... Crack, my throat, damn it, help, help me... Crack!"

There was a crisp sound of a broken throat.

"Beep, beep…"

Then the call was hung up.

This call was extremely strange.

Looking at the time of the call, it was exactly three days later.

July 13th 18:29:31.

In other words, the vengeful spirit Mizunuma Mimiko had already foreseen the time and manner of Fu Qinghai's death three days later, and issued a naked death declaration to him.

This is "The Call."

Fu Qinghai stood there holding his cell phone, thinking for a moment, and a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Yuning's name and voice did not appear in the incoming call.

What does this mean?

It means that the other party doesn't know Zhang Yuning's existence at all!

If Fu Qinghai had called out "A Ning" or something like that on the phone, then Fu Qinghai might still be a little scared at this moment, because this might mean that even if Zhang Yuning was there, he, Fu Qinghai, would still die.

But no.

This shows that things are still uncertain.

Unlike Kawamata Kayako who killed quietly, Mizunuma Mimiko killed in a very high-profile manner.

In the movie, every time she killed someone, she would inform the victim of the time and manner of death in advance. Later, the TV station even invited an Onmyoji to broadcast the act live, and in front of thousands of viewers, Mimiko beat the Onmyoji away.

The most crucial point: Mimiko is not an earthbound spirit.

Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning can no longer go to a haunted house to look for vengeful spirits and demons as they did before. Mimiko relies on her mobile phone to post death notices, sometimes as messages in voicemails, sometimes as picture messages, coming and going without a trace. Fu Qinghai can only act as bait, while Zhang Yuning hides in the dark, waiting for the vengeful spirits to come to them.

Mimiko would randomly select the next murder target from the victim's mobile phone address book, so Fu Qinghai pretended to be a psychic detective and gave his business cards to the protagonists in prison, asking them to save his phone number in order to increase the probability of Mimiko finding them.

This is the action plan formulated by Zhang Yuning.

The vengeful spirit of Mimiko Mizunuma is indeed very powerful.

I'm calling to tell you in advance that you're going to die.

No matter how he tried to escape or hide, and even invited an onmyoji to exorcise the evil spirits, he still couldn't escape death in the end...

This kind of killing that involves the reversed cause and effect of future prophecies, as time approaches, the kind of oppressive feeling that makes people gradually collapse psychologically...

However, the famous nitpicker Fu Qinghai was thinking:

"You said I would die in three days. I don't have to wait until three days. I will kill myself now. Doesn't that mean your death prediction failed?"

Fu Qinghai called Zhang Yuning:

"Coming, in three days."

"Okay, wait for me here, I'll be right over."

After hanging up the phone, Fu Qinghai casually took out a red ball-shaped candy from his pocket, unwrapped it and threw it into his mouth.

This is a kind of maltose, which is said to be specially used to relieve the sudden symptoms of asthma patients. Every victim of the death call has a piece of this candy in his mouth after death.

Mimiko Mizunuma died of an asthma attack.

Fu Qinghai was openly provoking him.

Holding the railing with both hands and holding a candy ball in his mouth, Fu Qinghai looked at the high-rise buildings and neon night scene in the distance. Suddenly, his mobile phone in his pocket made a "ding dong" sound. He took it out and looked:

"I changed my mind."

A strange text message with no beginning or end.

Who changed their mind?

Before Fu Qinghai could react, a huge force suddenly pulled his ankle, and then he suddenly felt a pushing force from behind, and he broke through the guardrail and fell off the overpass.

A bus happened to pass by below.

A figure suddenly fell down, and the bus driver's eyes widened, but he had no time to step on the brakes in an instant.

"Bang--"

With a loud bang, the driver slammed on the brakes and the bus suddenly stopped, knocking all the passengers at the back to the ground.

If there is someone with the ability to see ghosts standing on the overpass, he or she will see a terrifying female ghost floating quietly, giving a sinister and weird smile to the car accident scene.

But soon, her smile disappeared.

"Crunch—"

The front of the bus was dented, the metal cover was twisted and broken, and the engine, pulleys and drive shaft inside were in a mess. With a sharp noise of twisted metal, the bus slowly lifted up, and a man in tattered clothes crawled out from under the bus. He wiped the blood off his face, and Fu Qinghai stood up, twisted his neck, and said:

"The force is a little weak, Master."

The female ghost screamed and swooped down.

By the way, he deliberately showed a distorted and terrifying face, trying to intimidate Fu Qinghai like he intimidated other mortals, but he didn't expect that the man raised his hand and gave him a hook punch.

"Bang!" The black gas dissipated and the spirit exploded.

The female ghost flew back directly.

Go back to where you came from.

The female ghost was hit so hard by the golden brass knuckles that her face was almost distorted. Soon her figure disappeared again, circled in the air, and swooped down again.

Fu Qinghai couldn't see her, but there was no sign of nervousness on his face. He slowly took out the cigarette box and began to shake it, and a sound of friction on the floor began to spread.

The female ghost suddenly stopped, her body swayed, and she covered her ears and let out an inhuman scream.

However, the screaming beetles can only paralyze the evil spirits and demons, but cannot kill them completely. Fu Qinghai waved his fist around, but he didn't know where the female ghost was. Her hatred and resentment were so persistent that she actually insisted on drilling into Fu Qinghai's body despite the noise of the screaming beetles.

Fu Qinghai suddenly froze.

At this time, the area was gradually filled with a crowd of onlookers. Everyone looked at this man in confusion. He was standing in the middle of the road and performing a show without props, sometimes throwing an uppercut and sometimes shaking a cigarette box. The crowd kept their distance and no one dared to step forward, for fear that this guy who was hit by a car and became stupid would blackmail them.

"Ka…kaka."

Fu Qinghai moved.

His neck began to turn stiffly and his limbs began to twitch incoordination, as if he was doing a robot dance... Fu Qinghai's willpower was very strong and he naturally refused to surrender. He was trying hard to fight for control of Mimiko's body.

Suddenly, his right hand seemed to break free from some kind of restraint, and he suddenly pulled out a black sword from behind. Then, he stabbed the sword into his waist and abdomen with his backhand.

"Puff!"

The blade sank deeply.

"ah!"

The crowd of onlookers exclaimed.

In modern society, there are people who actually perform seppuku in the streets!

Masaka (could it be)...

The Showa spirit and the Showa men are all back!

A Japanese man suddenly burst into tears.

As Fu Qinghai used the Wagang sword to injure himself, the female ghost living in his body suddenly screamed in pain and flew out of Fu Qinghai's body with torn wounds on her spirit.

As early as in the village of Biertan in Romania, Fu Qinghai knew that the Wagang sword could not directly attack spirits, but it could indirectly harm spirits by attacking people possessed by spirits.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

There was a roar of anger.

A tall woman in black pushed aside the crowd and came to the scene of the accident. She saw Fu Qinghai had just pulled the steel sword out of his abdomen, bringing out a puff of blood. Then the wound immediately began to heal automatically... She was furious. Black smoke gushed out of her body. A cold wind blew up, and the sound of ghosts crying was heard. The center of the road instantly turned into a hellish scene.

"What! One Hundred...One Hundred Demons Night Parade!"

The Japanese old man who was moved to tears by the Showa men who committed seppuku in the street suddenly shouted in horror.

Zhang Yuning looked at the dark night sky with a ferocious expression, waved her hand to summon a group of ghosts, and forcibly pulled the ghost of Mizunuma Mimiko into her body.

...

Elm Street, Los Angeles, USA.

Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning walked side by side.

"Does your wound still hurt?"

Zhang Yuning turned her head and asked.

Fu Qinghai touched his abdomen and said,

"I have lost the feeling for a long time."

"We clearly agreed to return the contract within three days, but she still regretted it at the last minute. This new female ghost has no sense of contract. I will punish her severely."

Zhang Yuning turned her head and said lightly.

Fu Qinghai laughed and didn't take it too seriously.

He has the three-piece exorcist set of the Wagang sword, the golden brass knuckles and the screaming beetle, but his disadvantage is that he does not have the Yin-Yang vision.

It's not just the science fiction/fantasy universe that talks about lineage. There's also a kind of classic lineage in the horror movie universe.

In the West, it is called "medium" or "psychic", in the East, it is called "yin and yang eyes", and Stephen King calls it "The Shining"...

In fact, they are all the same thing.

The only ability this bloodline has is the ability to see ghosts.

It is a standard ability for the protagonist in supernatural horror movies.

Constantine has the Yin-Yang eyes, Ichigo Kurosaki has the Yin-Yang eyes, Takashi Natsume also has the Yin-Yang eyes... and Zhang Yuning was also given this talent by the reincarnation world.

So she actually has bloodline.

Let's rank the ghosts in Zhang Yuning's body:

1. Kayako.

She is undoubtedly the Ghost King. She can even create a cursed space in the Grudge Universe, traveling across time and space to commit crimes, killing people quickly and efficiently without any delay.

2. Pazuzu.

An ancient demon who is completely immune to the Bible, holy water and the cross. Ordinary exorcism methods are useless to him.

3. Mimiko.

A rare evil ghost that is not an earthbound spirit. It has deep resentment and is extremely ferocious. Most Onmyojis cannot resist it. It can also kill people across long distances through electronic communication technology, which greatly enriches Zhang Yuning's means of attack.

4. Valak.

Solomon's seventy-two demons rank sixty-second. They are mutually restrained with Christianity and can be harmed by traditional exorcism methods. They can create illusions to guide dreams and transform into the snake of hell.

5. The people of Chu are beautiful.

Alias ​​"Auntie Mei", special abilities: teleportation, creating illusions, spreading curses through water sources, and... singing (Cantonese opera Huadan only).

6. Kim In-sook.

An ordinary Korean female ghost who is just here to make up the numbers. She is a pen fairy, the weakest one, with no special abilities. Her only advantage is that she is pretty.

At this point, the three DVDs and a ballpoint pen that Zhang Yuning bought from the "Old Man Lin's DVD and Video Rental" shop with Fu Qinghai's money have all come in handy - with the help of the reincarnation beacons, they have arrived at their corresponding reincarnation worlds.

Finally, there was only one steel needle left.

and a burnt red and green striped sweater.

The tattered sweater had been thrown into the trash can by Fu Qinghai, because at this moment, the two of them had arrived at the reincarnation world to which it belonged - the Nightmare on Elm Street universe.

The reincarnation world to which the steel needle belongs is the Dark Tower Universe in the "Hellraiser" series. With the warning from Old Man Lin, Zhang Yuning has no plans to go there in the short term.

So the last piece of the puzzle in the map.

Freddy on Elm Street.

It's also right in front of us.

Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning came to a small town on the edge of the rural Los Angeles, the legendary Elm Street, but found that it was surrounded by police cars. Policemen in black LAPD uniforms could be seen everywhere. They were setting up cordons, with red and blue police lights flashing, and the scene was in order.

"A case is being investigated inside. This street is closed to traffic."

A policeman stopped Fu Qinghai and the other man.

Fu Qinghai frowned slightly and looked down at the policeman. The other party also raised his head and looked at him fearlessly.

Fu Qinghai asked, "Reincarnationist?"

The police were stunned when they heard this.

After so many reincarnations, Fu Qinghai's vision had long been honed. Through the familiar temperament of the man in front of him, he could tell at a glance:

He is a player, not a real policeman.

Seeing that his identity had been exposed, the "policeman" no longer concealed himself, and came over, covering his mouth and whispered:

"It's at a critical stage in there. We'll soon be able to seal Freddy off completely. You two just wait for the victory without doing anything. Don't go in and cause trouble."

"Seal Freddy completely? How do you do that?"

Fu Qinghai asked curiously.

The policeman felt that the other party might not leave if he didn't explain something, so he looked around and said in a low voice:

"We brought the special drug from the Inception universe - Automatic Dream Element, as well as several dream-making machines. As long as they can successfully bring Freddy into the last layer of the dream world, the 'Lost Realm', and make the local native who is responsible for dreaming stay in the Lost Realm forever and unable to wake up, Freddy will be completely trapped in the Lost Realm!"

Fu Qinghai was shocked when he heard this.

Is it possible?

...

(End of this chapter)