Chapter 39: Welcome to the Ancient Mansion
"What drifted past?"
Suddenly there was a vicissitudes of sound at the door, and the two people who were talking to each other made a move, and when they turned their heads to look, they saw Professor Hirota holding his thermos cup and approaching the classroom with a smile.
Xia Jiang laughed a few times, and she was embarrassed to talk about this kind of thing to an old man with a bad heart, so she fooled around and diverted the topic.
After restarting the class, Shiraishi put on a serious look and actually secretly turned on the light screen.
The scene on the initial interface has indeed become this classroom, and next to the stickman representing Shiraishi, there is a stickman with a few strands of long hair painted sitting side by side, with a flashing bubble exclamation mark on his head.
There are a lot of people around, but it's not the best time to take on the task.
But Shiraishi hasn't fully figured out the principle of this kind of task, and he doesn't know if he doesn't take it now, and whether this task will be refreshed by itself after a while.
And judging from the last experience, after receiving it, if he enters the world of consciousness, in the eyes of others, he just "slept".
He was caught sleeping in this lesson, and there was nothing substantial to lose except that his image would fall further.
What's more, there is a precedent next to it - Ayako Suzuki was born with a pair of squinting eyes, Shiraishi has never seen her open them so far, and Professor Hirota has never asked her if she is sleeping or listening to lectures, so he doesn't care much about this question......
Thinking of this, Shiraishi, who had made up his mind, covered up with the action of holding a pen, and secretly poked on the light screen.
Under his expectant and nervous gaze, the bubble slowly expanded into a task box.
Originally, Shiraishi thought that this time would be the same as last time, with a mission to "liberate the resentful wandering spirit".
Unexpectedly, maybe it's the wrong location, or maybe it's simply that there is no geist in that bungalow, this mission, shown as:
【Finding out the truth about the haunted house】
[Countdown to 55:59:59]
[Mission Location: Sugie House, 4-chome 6, Rice Flower Town [Navigation]]
Two and a half days, the time was unexpectedly relaxed.
Shiraishi slackened and leaned back in his chair, and he began to think slowly, thinking that he could go to the library first.
Listening to Xiajiang's statement, since this incident has aroused a small range of public opinion in the local area, it will probably leave traces in the news newspapers.
After all, it is a suspected haunted place, so first grasp as many clues as possible, and then go to investigate, so that you can have the bottom of your heart.
So after class, Shiraishi threw the books and materials into the research room and went straight to the town library.
This library is not far from Nanyang University, and the basement floor preserves a lot of old newspapers.
Five years is not too long. Shiraishi flipped through the expired newspapers for an hour and managed to find a few reports related to Sugie's house.
Except for those supernatural factors that don't know whether they are true or false, the events described in the report are not much different from what Xia Jiang said.
In the end, Shiraishi's harvest was a close-up photo of the bungalow, a photograph of the man's body lying on the ground covered in blood, and a newspaper that recorded the man's life in half of the page—he seemed to be a well-known artist.
The photos are bloody, the text leaks the victim's privacy, and I don't know how this passed the trial.
Muttering about the materials he needed, Shiraishi looked at the time and took the bus to the haunted house.
When I got out of the car, it was already completely dark.
Standing at the high station, you can see a large residential area on the gentle slope in front of you. This residential area is luxurious, but the houses are generally old, and they seem to be more than 60 years old.
The sky was cloudy, and several strangely shaped branches stretched across the sky.
Shiraishi passed by the pitch-black crows perched on the branches of the trees, passed by the old telephone poles that creaked, and finally followed the navigation of the system and found the place he was looking for.
- In front of it is a pair of Gothic iron fence gates, and when it is extended, the walls on both sides are also of the same design. Thin iron spikes stand tall and enclose a wide courtyard and an old three-story house with an attic.
The house is huge, surrounded by ordinary houses, almost like a shrunken castle. The sharp corners of the eaves are full of crows, and the creeper covers the broken bricks and tiles, and the atmosphere is decent and ghostly, living up to its name of "haunted house".
The dim street lamp can only illuminate a corner of the haunted house, but fortunately, the light has no effect on Shiraishi, who can see at night, otherwise he would have to prepare a flashlight in advance.
Shiraishi stared at the fence, a little tangled.
It's not that this design with spikes at the top is impossible to climb, but when you think about the slippery feet when you cross the top...... Shiraishi broke out in a cold sweat and decisively began to look for other entrances.
With such a big yard and such a long wall, he didn't believe that there was no place for people to walk.
And the task hanging in the taskbar is to "find out the truth about the haunted house", and it doesn't directly say to catch ghosts. In addition, in Shiraishi's ancient memory, this haunted house was actually inhabited by someone, so he pondered for a moment and had an idea.
Under the puzzled stares of the occasional passer-by, Shiraishi turned to leave.
After exiting two intersections, he finds a blind spot where the cat has activated its mask.
This skill is refreshed every day.,It can be used for a total of 30 minutes.,Today it's just to explore the way.,Don't use it in vain.。
After the state change, Shiraishi used the Poké Ball to collect his body, dug a hole in the ground, and buried the ball shallowly in the soil.
- It's impossible to bring it in, in case you encounter danger and want to return to the body, but the body is brought with you, isn't that equivalent to buying one get one free, Shiraishi thinks it can't be.
And before, he had already done experiments with fruit knives, hammers, water basins, lighters, etc. This Poké Ball is indestructible, and it shouldn't be dangerous to throw it in the wild for the time being.
As for why he buried it, he was afraid that he would be picked up by a passing bear child and brought home.
If you perform a big change in someone else's house, it is easy to be regarded as a trespasser. If you're unlucky and happen to run into some homicide, it's hard to tell. This kind of trouble can be avoided, and of course it must be avoided.
When he was ready, Shiraishi pressed the mask on his face uncomfortably.
This thing is a symbol of the [mask], and Shiraishi has tried to take it off, and the moment the mask leaves his skin, he directly lifts the mask and returns to his body.
Later, after a series of scratching experiments, he also confirmed that this mask is like the clothes of some anime characters, as long as it is not taken off subjectively, it will not fall off due to handstands, beatings, etc.
Taking advantage of the darkness, the white stone stuck in the shadows and ran back to the haunted house at a speed three or four times faster than when it came.
He still did not choose to climb the courtyard wall, but walked into the gap between the haunted house and the neighbor's yard, and activated the [[Special] Tracking Hound.