January 13, 12:30 p.m

"Ahh It's really raining heavily," Shiyin Sonozaki looked out of the window, and the continuous torrential rain blurred all the scenery, and even the abandoned house trembled because of the rain

"It's only noon, right? But it's no different from the night outside," Ryunomiya Rina sat in the corner and yawned slightly, "Even people feel sleepy"

"It's rare that camping can happen to hit this kind of weather," Sonozaki Meine also sighed a little, "It's really bad"

"Don't say that, it's just that the climate is impermanent," Shizunobu Muroi smiled and defended them, "What do Mengmeng-san and Nana-san think?" ”

"It's okay, the rain will stop sooner or later anyway" Mengmeng also smiled softly to signal that it was okay

"Well, whatever, it's not like I haven't walked through the moor anyway," Nana said she could see as well

"Where's Chong?" Muroi Shizunobu turned his head and asked Xiang Chong

“…… The rain may fall until tonight, and we will be on the road early tomorrow morning" Chong ignored him and reminded him like this, "Teacher, your wife had better contact now, I don't know what the signal will become at night."

"I see, thanks for the reminder," Shizunobu Muroi smiled and pulled his phone out of his pocket, then went to the corner and dialed a number behind everyone's back

"Are you alright? … Well... Okay, stay there and don't move, I'll take the students over early tomorrow morning..."That's all he can hear in Chong's ears, and the latter words were said by Shizunobu Muroi in a low voice, maybe it's a whisper between the two husbands and wives that is not good in front of outsiders

"So let's settle lunch first, do you have any cooked food with you" Keiichi Maehara took out a large bag of things from his backpack, "I have beef jerky and potato chips here"

"Rena brought cookies, so I didn't get wet."

"Ah, Shiyin and I brought out braised pork, it's better to eat it at night, okay?"

"I'm in charge of bringing the ingredients, so I don't have anything to eat."

"You look at these things, I don't know what can be eaten directly" Nana directly put her and Mengmeng's backpacks in front of everyone, "By the way, what about you?" ”

"It's all tents, flashlights, mosquito repellents, compasses, and boilers and stuff like that" Chong threw the orthodox field backpack over with one hand, "Don't forget that I came out with this thing on my back in the morning, and there is no possibility of food with an expiration date in it"

But it's useless to take it out now, just compress biscuits and dried meat, which can replenish the body, who knows if they will take advantage of the excitement to eat up the food in one go and then be hungry enough to eat themselves for a few days

"Then let's distribute what we can eat first, first of all, these braised pork will be eaten at night, and at noon, we will divide the snacks brought by Keiichi first" Sonozaki Meiyin took the initiative to take the identity of the person in charge, "I'll take a look... Split the chips and chocolates first."

(Is it really good to have a snack as a meal...) Wouldn't it be nice to bring some bento boxes with you, or do you want to enjoy the lively atmosphere where everyone is divided up?

"Teacher, I brought tea here, do you want to drink it" Shizunobu Muroi took out a large plastic bottle from his shoulder bag, "It's my own green tea"

"Ah, I want a copy / I want it here too" Maybe it was the Japanese custom that drove the two outsiders, so Mengmeng and Nana also said they wanted a drink

"Do you want it?"

"I'm sorry, I don't like to drink green tea, I brought a can of black tea out in the morning" Chong shook his head and pointed to the teapot in his backpack pocket, "And can you give me that box of rice balls, I'll just eat that"

"Don't look out of place with us," said Sonozaki Meine, who honestly handed over the rice balls

"Gratitude" Then Chong continued to look at the rain outside the window, and by the way, he also gave Bai Ya a rice ball while others were not paying attention

"Thank you" Bai Ya thanked her and took a small sip, she also needed food to replenish her body

(This rain is so weird...... Explain in advance that none of the weather forecasts said that it would rain today, Chong only happened to see far away so he noticed that there were already signs of dark clouds in the sky to remind everyone so, and according to the basic routine of horror movies, this rain should have happened as soon as it passed

（… If it's just him, who cares what the day is like, but it's because there are so many people that he will be more worried, and Chong can't order others to listen to him even in an emergency, and at that time it may just be enough to keep himself

"Isn't there too much to think about lately?" shook his head and left the ghostly thoughts in his head behind, it was just a heavy rain, there was no need to really think about it, you must know that sometimes some aliens grow up by eating human fear and suspicion

"Chong, let's play poker" Keiichi Maehara suddenly walked over and patted Chong's shoulder, "The girls seem to be planning to chat, let's play"

"Count me in, the three of us are just enough men," Shizunobu Muroi said with a smile and raised his hand

"Yes," Chong nodded, and turned around, "Do you want to come to the sticker if it's impossible to gamble?"

"Hey! I didn't expect it to be Chong You who took the initiative to mention yì, then I'm welcome," Keiichi Maehara said with great interest

"Haha, when the time comes, you must be merciful" Muroi Shizushin also took the initiative to shuffle the cards after laughing bitterly, "Then come on, I won't take the initiative to surrender~!" ”

"Feel free" So the three men gathered around the gate where the rain was loud and began to play poker, while the rest of the girls sat around and chatted about the world, and for a while the weather outside seemed to have nothing to do with them

Two hours later

"Speaking of which, Minister" Shiyin Sonozaki suddenly tilted her head from the crowd and looked at Chong, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Huh?" Chong, whose face was covered with a note, caused a burst of laughter when he turned around, what are you doing, isn't it normal to lose a few poker games after playing for so long

"Poof... Ha, it's just a rumor about the new city that came out a few days ago," Yuon Sonozaki said with tears in the corners of her eyes after barely stopping her laughter, "I think you probably have heard a little bit."

"Huh? What urban legend? Furute Rika and Ryunomiya Rina and the others immediately became interested

"New urban rumors...?" Chongyi was a little unsure of what Sonozaki Shion was talking about, and what would they be able to hear? "The one with the ghost fire?"

"No, it's the one that looks in the mirror in the middle of the night," Sonozaki Shiyin shook her head and asked with some interest, "Minister, tell me what you know, let me hear it."

"Oh, oh, is there a ghost story link" Keiichi Maehara also looked very interested after tearing off all the notes on his face, "Let's talk about it"

"Rumors that someone came home from the road in the middle of the night and looked down to find their face printed on the concrete floor, and then the next day that person mysteriously disappeared?" Chong said a little disappreciatively, "That's fake news, there is no such evil way to disappear, and the final investigation result is that the man just accidentally fell into the well that night, and the next day he said that he was missing, but in fact he was hospitalized with a broken bone."

"If the ministers say that, it won't be interesting......" Shiyin Sonozaki suddenly deflated, "What, I was quite interested"

"But this rumor has a blueprint," Chong saw her like this, and said again in the spirit of storytelling, "It happened in early December, it was said to be an urban rumor, but it sounds like it may have accidentally bumped into a ghost"

"The ghost? That's really interesting," Mengmeng also put on a look of intending to listen, "Let's talk about it~ Just enough to pass the time"

"On the night of December 1st, a woman set off from the door of her house to work at the place of work for the night shift, which was a tavern in the city, and the woman's occupation was a bartender," Chong told the story in great detail, "When I was about to leave work that day, a man in a brown trench coat appeared in the monitor, asked for a glass of unknown wine, left a stack of money and left, and then all the lights in the tavern went black, proving that the woman got off work and walked on the way home"

"Uh-huh, what's next?" Nana didn't know why she brought up the spirit of the twelve

"Then around the second corner, the man reappeared on the street monitor, exactly like the one in the tavern just now," Chong said this, perhaps because he was afraid that they would not understand, so he added an additional explanation: "Exactly the same means that he took the same wine, talked to the woman for a while, and left with the same pile of money as in the tavern."

"And then the woman died the next day?" Shion Sonozaki thinks this story is too old-fashioned

"The same way of death, the same cause of death, the same face, the same time" Chong added a sentence to the ending of this arbitrarily determined story

"The woman who looks exactly the same died in the tavern and on that street respectively" Combined with Shang Chong's always indifferent face, everyone present at the end of this real story couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat

"What do you mean that a woman who looks exactly the same died in the tavern and on that street......?" Nana swallowed quietly, although she is an alien, it is impossible for people from aliens to commit crimes so mysteriously, so why bother with more work to solve things that can be solved with just one bullet

"It means that two people died after the night, and the two people looked exactly the same, not twins, and they were not deliberately disguised," Chong shrugged and explained, "The sudden appearance of an extra corpse made the family members very frightened, so the matter ended hastily with direct cremation, and by the way, I don't know if this is true."

"Hmm... It's really scary to think about it, just like what it says in that doppelganger," Shizunobu Muroi said after thinking for a while

"It's a little different from Haruka Fatiao's "Doppelganger", this kind of urban rumor doesn't have any philosophy in it" Chong only remembered the stack of notes on his face at this time, so he reached out and tore off the notes and said, "It's not so much that there are two people who look the same, but that everything related to her is re-enacted, maybe she did die in that tavern or that street that night, and then because of the so-called looking in the mirror, two people died in the end."

"Don't analyze this rumor so thoroughly," Sonozaki Meiyin touched her body with her hand with some fear, "It's scary"

"There's no need to be afraid of any so-called ghosts in this kind of world, anyway, the society we live in has never been ordinary" Chong still doesn't think about it even after walking through that world full of monsters, what's the use of being afraid? What's the use of not believing? What exists in zài will not disappear lightly, and what does not exist in zài may be born crying because of one's own thoughts

-- Ghosts and awe are never enough

-- Humanity has a growing sense of fear

"--" Thunder swept across the sky, the night gradually deepened, and people gradually fell asleep......