Chapter 23: Confrontation
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Half of the eight friends of the past have gone.
Rifted with lawsuits.
Sick and sick.
Nowhere to be found?
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When the four of them got together, they didn't have the excitement of reuniting after a long absence.
Opposite.
They were silent for a long time.
"Wait for me outside! It should be dangerous down there. ”
Yamato Ishida was the first to speak.
The only way he came up with considering the situation of the other three.
But this is clearly ineffective.
Since they chose to come, they naturally wouldn't just wait at the entrance.
And let Yamato go on the adventure alone.
"I don't know if you feel that way?"
Izumi Mitsuko Lang pointed to the entrance of the sewer and said:
"I don't think it's the first time we've been to that world."
"Me too!"
"I seem to be too."
Mimi and Joto Suke also nodded.
Oh, yes!
Yamato thought about his dream again.
There is also a sewer in the dream.
Eerie and terrifying, as if storing the shadow of his childhood.
But whenever I tried to get inside, I kept it out, as if something was deliberately preventing me from touching those shadows.
It's like protecting that secret.
It's more like protecting yourself.
Either way, this place has now been found.
Then you should find an answer to all the puzzles in your heart before.
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The entrance is on Chunhua Street, not far from the back gate of Chuhua University.
It was an abandoned street.
The surrounding houses belong to the demolition area.
It has long been dilapidated.
Very few people come to live here.
Even those wanderers have never settled here.
It was as if the air here always made them smell a disgusting and terrifying smell.
This.
A few people who had just gotten out of the car sniffed it.
"It's carrion and the smell of stinking gutters."
Ishida Yamato thought that many crime scenes had smelled this smell, and it seemed that nine times out of ten he was sure that it was here.
There are many entrances to the sewers.
They chose the nearest one, which was closer to where the car was parked. If something goes wrong, you can avoid it in time.
They are ready for what kind of horror they will encounter when they enter the sewers.
Hideous faces.
Decomposing corpses.
Cracked fangs.
But they didn't expect them to go straight into the pit hidden in the depths of their memories.
Half a football field in the space.
It's a memory they haven't forgotten, but they've long been buried.
A dark blue light shone on them.
They subconsciously wanted to retreat, but they couldn't find the entrance behind them.
The yellow pupils were getting closer and closer in the darkness.
It suddenly receded.
In the large space, I suddenly remembered the sound of the music box.
The sound of clanging bangs.
In the silence, there was a hint of terror that was approaching.
A woman's moans came slowly.
They noticed a hill suddenly appear in front of them.
It was a hill of people.
Every child is under the age of twelve.
It seems that to that monster, a child older than twelve years old, it will not taste good.
Not even one more day, one more hour, one more minute.
They looked at the hill.
They saw a lot of familiar faces in there.
It has long been pale and bloodless.
I don't know when he was killed, and how long it has been since he died......
Yamato Ishida wanted to step forward and take a closer look.
The picture in front of me changed again.
He saw his younger brother Ah Wu.
Standing in front of the Liangshuitan Police Station, facing the accusations of the media, his weak body resisted all kinds of public opinion pressure.
The groping pig hand man who was accidentally injured by him sold all kinds of miserably on the grounds that his family was poor and he could no longer produce labor after being injured.
In the end, it won the direction of the media.
The media began to accuse Ah Wu of destroying a family directly by his impulsive behavior.
He was obviously just acting bravely.
He obviously just wants to protect those who need to be protected.
Can finally ......
He became what the media called a heinous villain.
Ah Wu seems to be in an infinite hell, sinking continuously, but no one is willing to help him.
Ishida Yamato rushed forward desperately.
But he couldn't catch his brother's hand.
Pain and fear began to erode what should have been the most solid strength in the team.
The scariest picture in the world is not what you see, but what you think.
Mitsuko Izumi's calmness shattered these.
He woke up Yamato.
Yamato came back to his senses.
The hill in front of him is still there, but his younger brother Ah He is gone.
Is it a hallucination?
He looked at the yellow pupil in the distance.
The guy was still watching them secretly.
Try to easily defeat them with illusion.
Both Joto Suke and Mimi fell into their respective hallucinations.
Jotosuke saw that the only little friends he had abandoned him.
Mimi sees her accused of being a demon who takes someone else's body.
These illusions are more or less mixed with reality.
"Everyone stay calm, this guy is trying to break down our psychological defenses with illusions."
Izumi Mitsukoro had made enough preparations before he came.
Over the years, he has rarely been seen, though.
But that doesn't mean he's forgotten everything. On the contrary, he is a presence that Yamato Ishida remembers more clearly.
Because he loves research.
Especially for those puzzles in his head, he doesn't put them there and ignore them.
He is not paranoid.
But for these questions about their past.
He chose to be a little paranoid.
In the past, he was the existence of the military advisor in the team, and he had strong analytical and reasoning skills, so he often helped everyone get through a lot of difficulties.
He still is.
"If my investigation is correct, after the hallucinations fail, your next move is ......"
Izumi Mitsuko Lang says:
"Let's see our past selves!"
Ishida Yamato, Joto Suke, and Mimi Taitogawa all looked at Izumi Mitsukoro in shock.
What does this mean?
Izumi Mitsuko Lang says:
"I've been looking into this. Why do you only catch small children? Why do you show up once every seven years? Why would you still want adults to forget the memories of missing children? ”
Like a detective, he asks questions one by one.
Then, begin to tell the answer as he understands it:
"These kids have what you need, so you're going to catch them and maim them."
"But there are things you're afraid of, you're afraid that this matter will be discovered by others, especially those adults who are more determined, so you have to be able to erase their memories!"
"Seven years, although not enough to erase a deep memory, is enough for most people to get out of the pain. At the same time, a new group of children has come into the world, and you have a new prey......"
"Then the new harvest began."
Izumi Mitsuko continued to speak, and his expression began to become solemn:
"A lot of times, I wonder why I can't remember what that vague memory in my head is. It wasn't until I saw Meimei that she woke up to ......"
He stared firmly at the yellow pupils:
"Because the memory in our minds may not belong to us at all!!"