While Ayano Mochizuki was indulging in a mess of information, a man in a residential building in Roppongi was looking at the "Place Game Map" in an old laptop in front of him, thinking about something.

It was a handsome man with long bangs and glasses.

The dark circles under the glasses, the pale skin, and the tall and thin body shape give him a compound temperament of intellectuality, melancholy and decadence.

It can be said that it is the complete opposite of the sunny and warm man that has become popular recently, an intellectually melancholy and decadent man.

"These guys...... The response is pretty fast. ”

The man muttered to himself.

Since some time ago, several placed "works" in the game map have been weakened and died out to varying degrees, and he has become more and more sure that just like the gods and ghosts that have been passed down since ancient times, the spirit scavengers and the secret departments of the government are also real.

"The 'Seven Incredibles of Kamakura High School' created by the group has been wiped out in such a short period of time...... It's too traditional a 'work' to be reliable......"

On the pixel map, the black vortices marked with [Bloodstained Well], [Endless Pool], [Demon's Thirteenth Order], [Weeping Library], [Moving Creature Model], [Basketball Bouncing All Night], and [Ghost on the Ceiling] are shrinking and dissipating one by one.

For him, in order to project the "work" on this "game map" through the old laptop in front of him, that is, the ghosts and the weird, and thus project them into reality, he had to follow extremely complex and demanding rules.

It doesn't have to be written by him, but as long as the works that exist in the Urban Legends section and meet the "rules" can be tried to be "placed" in the game map.

However, the "reasonableness" of the "work" must be recognized by the old laptop and the majority of the people before it can appear on the shortlist.

If you make up some "works" that are "unimaginable", "untrustworthy", "too far-fetched" or have no logic at all, such as "you will die if you look at it", "you will go to the palace if you practice it", and "if you don't hold it steadily", it is also equivalent to a castle in the air and cannot be projected into reality.

After all, the essence of these supernatural beings is, in his view, unique beings born from negative emotions in people's hearts, with resentment as energy, and certain rules as instinctive actions.

In order to finally "place" the work onto the in-game map and project it onto reality, he had to pay enough resentment.

The less recognized or the more demanding and powerful the "work", the more resentment it needs to pay.

It's just a matter of placement.

Although the "work" cannot attack him after being placed, he can only judge how to move according to the rules and what he has experienced by confirming his location and the increase or decrease in the amount of resentment.

The only thing he can do is to direct the movement and strengthen the existing "works" by consuming resentment.

And the resentment he can drive is the "work" that has been placed on the game map, accumulated through killing and creating fear in the human heart, and then stored in this old laptop.

At the beginning, the urban legends section, which had been abandoned for many years, was deserted, and he had to painstakingly use the forum administrator account bound to this computer to create it himself, "resurrecting" some antique-level weirdness such as Human-faced Dog and Rift Girl, which have a "high mass base", "strong killing ability", and are easy to cause widespread panic, in order to quickly accumulate resentment.

After all these years of painstaking management, the enthusiasm for the creation of "urban legends" in the forum has become more and more high, and he no longer needs to write it himself, and there are already many works in the "alternative list" in the game map.

And he only needs to select works that meet the "conditions" to provide grievances, place them in the "game map", and use the forum administrator account to pin, refine, recommend and other drainage operations.

After all, the collective creation of netizens is far more whimsical and brain-striking than his own hard thinking.

In other words, from "street writer" to "row recommended editor".

The seemingly old-fashioned "Seven Incredible Universities of Kamakura High School" in front of him is not his own "work".

It is a "contest" jointly created by several netizens in the forum in the form of "relay writing" when they participated in the "first round of the 2CH Urban Legend Essay Contest" held by him last year.

"Hmph, these ordinary resentful spirits are just a guise for these guys to design, let's see if the back hand left behind can bring me some surprises."

Smiling contemptuously, the man with black glasses kept stuffing potato chips into his mouth.

"Whether it is the government or the Divine Stick family, they always want to suppress the truth of this world and keep the people in the dark...... Kamakura High School is the first step for me to lift the fig leaf of Moonshadow Chigusa...... Feel the power of the evil god who has been sleeping for years. ”

On the game map, the dissipating vortex gradually converged and merged into a huge vortex.

Underneath the newly appeared huge vortex, the words [Great Brigade Abyss Snake God] emerged.

In the upper right corner of the webpage, the forum ID of the man named "Moon Shadow Chigusa" is "IBM700".

……

Kamakura High School.

The embarrassed little bird Yumako, found a classroom, changed into a set of sportswear that looked like school-issued, and washed the stains on his face, hands and feet at the outdoor faucet.

After taking another turn around the school, the two of them prepared to leave after confirming that they had found no abnormalities.

"It's such an easy job, and if you come to this old school building at night, you can get hundreds of thousands of yen......

Thinking so, Sosuke Araki looked back at the school building again.

"Wait...... That's ......" stopped, and Sosuke Araki stretched out his hand and pointed somewhere.

The little bird Yuma looked in the direction he pointed.

On the edge of the roof in front of the school building, a man and a woman stand quietly.

The top deck of a school building in Japan is the "absolute domain" of students, and students often do things such as eating bento, smoking, fighting, summoning visitors from other worlds, and multi-person sports.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, most of them are equipped with wire protection nets more than two meters high.

But the two men and women were standing outside the barbed wire fence at the moment.

Intuition tells Sosuke Araki that something bad is about to happen.

He immediately ran back towards the school building at a brisk pace.

The little bird Yuma Bow immediately followed him.

But Sousuke Araki was extremely fast, and he ran into the school building in an instant and disappeared.

In just a minute, Sousuke Araki ran to the top floor.

"Hey, you two guys, it's dangerous to stand there, isn't it good to find a hotel to play slowly?"

He immediately yelled at the two men.

Seeing Sosuke Araki coming, the man and woman turned around, smiled strangely at him, and said in unison in a voice that didn't seem to belong to them, "The return of the ancient gods needs blood and living sacrifices to celebrate. ”

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With the appearance of Moon Shadow Chigusa, the book review area "Urban Legend Essay Linkage Activity" was officially opened.

Readers' various ideas and ideas for urban legends have a chance to be included in "Moon Shadow Chigusa" and appear in the plot after it is released, competing with Sosuke Araki.

At the same time, the included ideas will be noted with the creator's ID.

From this moment on, the book is no longer a work of solitude and loneliness for me.

For more information, please visit the book review section.