104 "Interiors" of apartments
"Apartment group, please answer when you hear it."
The special communication channel for Lesson 9 in Mochizuki Ayano's headset is a special base station built nearby alone, which is difficult for ordinary resentful spirits to interfere with.
"Rustle...... Here is a group of apartments...... Rustling...... Monitor...... Woman ......"
The agent's cacophony voice was heard in the headset, and communication was cut off.
Mochizuki Ayano immediately walked to the window and looked at the other side.
From her position, it stands to reason that she can see each other with the agent in the apartment opposite.
If you can see it, you can also communicate easily through the internal gestures in Lesson 9.
But at this moment, when she looked out of the window, she could see nothing but a thick white fog.
"Risa Sauce, open the door and let me come in and see you......"
Outside the door, the emotionless voice of "Little Bird Swim True Bow" sounded again.
Hearing this voice, Gu Yuansha's face was close to collapse, and he immediately hid behind the sofa and hugged the pillow.
"This apartment ...... Something seems to have changed. It's not a way to drag it down, let's break through head-on! ”
Sensing the strangeness of the space around her, Mochizuki Ayano no longer hesitated, and boldly stood in front of the door, looking into the cat's eye.
Beyond the cat's eye, it is occupied by a bloodshot eyeball.
Just through the cat's eyes, he and Mochizuki Aya looked at each other fearlessly.
Her blue pupils instantly turned golden.
Hundred Eyes Pupil Technique: Inflammation.
There was a terrible wail from behind the door.
Mochizuki Ayano opened the door with a very decisive "bang".
Within the scope of her pupil technique, the kind of "open door killing" in horror movies does not exist.
In front of the door, an earthbound spirit vanished in the golden flames, leaving only a fluttering resentment.
"Is it just Earthbinding?"
The corridor, which had been bright, became dark and deep.
Ayano Mochizuki lit the headlamp of his tactical helmet.
Electromagnetic things such as signals and currents can easily be interfered with by wraiths, but her tactical helmet is specially made and will not be affected by external magnetic fields.
The round helmet was on her head, as cute as the little girl next door preparing to go out for a bicycle ride.
Under the light, compared with when the two of them came before, the originally clean and tidy corridor now seemed to have undergone a hundred years of vicissitudes and became dilapidated, the walls were densely covered with peeling wall skin and cracked cracks, and the floor was also full of dark red mud.
"This ...... Where is this...... It's not like that outside my house......"
Seeing the strange scene outside the door, Gu Lisha's voice was already crying.
"This ...... Is this what this apartment really looks like? ”
Mochizuki Ling Nai looked at the scene in front of him and muttered in his mouth.
There are no visions that can confuse her left eye.
All this can only show that with the flickering of the light, he and the others came to the "inner floor" of the apartment.
"Let's go."
Without bothering to take his luggage, the little bird Yu Zhengong pulled up the ancient principle sand, walked out of the door, and walked towards the stairwell.
The two of them protected the ancient principle sand in the middle one after another, and slowly walked to the elevator room.
Although the exterior has been turned upside down and made like hell, the structure of the apartment is still the same as before.
The two of them were about to press the route and go down the stairwell directly opposite the elevator.
"Huh".
The elevator door behind the three of them opened quietly.
This time, the elevator was very empty, and it seemed that a place had been deliberately vacated.
Only the woman, dressed in a red professional suit, stood respectfully in front of the button, looking at the three of them with a blank face.
"The elevator goes down."
"Let's go."
Mochizuki Ayano decisively pulled the two into the stairwell.
In this weird situation, a fool would take the elevator.
She didn't mean to communicate with the woman or take the initiative.
Because this earthbound spirit seems to be just repeating the actions of his previous life.
Regardless of whether the resentful spirit is still weird, rashly following the other party's routine, there is a high probability that you will suffer.
At present, there is no other movement on the woman, it should be that the three of them have not triggered this strange killing rule.
The empty stairwell, like the hallway, was a dilapidated and abandoned scene, with murky droplets of water dripping from above and rusty handrails.
Originally, when they came up, they only expelled the earthbound spirits that stood in the way of going upstairs.
But now, the remnants of the Earth Bound Spirits are gone.
"Is this really the apartment I live in, and why is it like this?"
Looking at the completely unfamiliar environment, Gu Lisha's legs went limp.
Just as the three of them hesitated, a slow, heavy footstep, accompanied by countless noisy wails, came from the bottom of the stairs.
"Leave ......," several voices murmured low and hoarse.
Mochizuki Ayano looked down from the staircase, and several groundbound spirits that were originally dead and motionless walked from downstairs to upstairs in a numb posture, some of which had broken hands and feet, and even climbed them.
"Calm down, there must be some pattern in this, and you can't miss a single detail."
Mochizuki Ayano's left pupil flashed slightly, and countless images quickly replayed through her eyes.
Countless photographs and archives emerge in the void around her, centered on her.
It was information about the former occupant of the apartment who had been confirmed dead, as well as all the images of the Earthbound spirits seen in the elevator and in the stairwell.
"The first one from the right is Junzo Koizumi, a former resident of 104, who died of accidental electrocution...... The second is Yumi Mori, a former resident of 401, who died by hanging...... The third was a 104-resident Koyama Hayabusa, who died trying to save his roommate who was electrocuted......"
The miserable white faces with different deaths corresponded to the case materials she had seen before.
At this moment, a figure walking in the front had already come to the stairs below the three of them.
"Shall we run up?"
Frightened, Gu Lisha immediately subconsciously stepped onto the escalator leading to the rooftop.
"Wait...... Can't go up. ”
Mochizuki Ayano remembered the terrifying scene she had seen in the apartment opposite, and hurried to catch up with her.
The door to the rooftop was closed, and behind the gate, there were countless "popping" sounds, shaking the wallpaper and falling as if something was impatient.
By the time she pulled the ancient sand downstairs, the little bird You Zhengong had already held the rune paper and dispersed the nearest earthbound spirit.
Mochizuki Ayano was armed with two silenced pistols, pulled the safe, and opened fire without hesitation at the Jibini who was approaching downstairs.
With a few muffled sounds, the spiritual bullets collided with each other accurately, and sparks erupted on the Earthbound Spirits, often two or three bullets could disperse several Earthbound Spirits.
"These earthbound spirits are just resentful spirits formed by dying and being imprisoned here because of this apartment, and they are not very powerful......
Swapping out the bullets, Mochizuki Ayano turned back to the two and said.
It was the first time in their lives that Kotori Yu Zhengong and Gu Lisha had seen someone shoot at such a close distance, and they were covering their ears with their hands a little uncomfortably at the moment.
The roof leaked and rained overnight, and just as Mochizuki Ayano shot the earthbound spirit below, the door of the rooftop suddenly opened.
Several Earthbound Spirits were used towards the three of them like a flood.
The rune paper sandwiched between her fingertips by the little bird Yu Zhengong had already been soaked with sweat, but it did not affect her movements.
I saw her fists being handed out at high speed, and the spiritual power that continued to explode drove away the groundbound spirits in front of her one by one.
At the same time as shooting the Earth Binding Spirit, Mochizuki Ayano had already compared the Earth Binding Spirit encountered in the elevator and upstairs with the case information.
"By the way, have you hired an elevator operator for this apartment over the years?"
Taking advantage of her respite, she asked aloud to Gu Lisha.
The only thing that has no information is the woman in red who controls the elevator in the elevator.
"I ...... I've lived here for so many years and this apartment ...... I've never heard of hiring an elevator operator......" Remembering the woman with a strange expression in the elevator, Gu Lisha said in a trembling voice.
In Japan, where labor costs are getting higher and higher, how can the property of such a six-story old-fashioned apartment be willing to hire an elevator operator.
"Didn't you...... Let's go downstairs first. Birdie Witch, please cover me behind me to shoot, so that you can also avoid being accidentally injured by a stray bullet that rebounds. “
After a deep groan, Mochizuki Ayano felt as if she had grasped some key.
In the dark stairwell, the dull sound of gunfire constantly sounded, accompanied by a metal storm woven by bullets and the light of spiritual power.