"This sencha is a specialty of our restaurant, so please enjoy it slowly. I wonder what kind of rumors the guests need? The proprietress asked Zhang Chen in a very soft voice.

"I wonder what the proprietress knows? Try to rumor about a hundred years ago. ”

Zhang Chen directly said Tomie's name, maybe the other party didn't know anything, and planned to inquire about some weird stories that happened here to see if there was anything similar to Tomie's. After all, Tomie was born here, and some terrible things must have happened on the island of Okinawa back then, and there may even be rumors of what happened to Tomie.

"A hundred years ago, the requests of the guests were really tricky. On our small island of Okinawa, there are very few rumors about ghosts. If it were a hundred years ago, I would have to think about it. ”

"By the way, more than 80 years ago, there was a rumor about a cat-faced old man in Ishigaki City. It is said that there was an old man who lived alone who was so tired of cats for some reason that he even reached the point of resentment. Someone often reported that he heard a terrible cat meow coming from the old man's home in the middle of the night. ”

………… The proprietress was very enthusiastic, and the time went from midnight to two o'clock in the morning, a full two hours, from the proprietress to tell the cat-faced old man, the puffer fish girl, the pinhole man, and so on, but the rumors about blood, or the father torturing his daughter, were never involved.

"I wonder if the guests have found inspiration in it?"

The proprietress asked Zhang Chen tactfully.

"Well, it's a lot of money. Could it be that the proprietress spoke fluent English and bent her knees to open this hot spring hotel in the middle of the mountains. It's really a labor boss lady in the middle of the night, and then I'll digest it slowly, and the boss lady should rest early. ”

Zhang Chen delivered tens of thousands of yen to the proprietress as consumption.

"Although our hot springs are not very old, they actually started gushing back in the 1700s, and they are brown in color and contain boric acid and carotene acid, which are good for the eyes. and some iron, which improves blood circulation. After small talk, guests can go to the backyard to use the hotel's hot springs. ”

The proprietress took the coin in Zhang Chen's hand very implicitly, and after explaining the hot spring to Zhang Chen, she got up and left the room.

Zhang Chen was not interested in hot springs, and fell asleep peacefully on the tatami mats on the clean wooden floor.

I don't know how long it took, and a very faint sound of footsteps came out of the dark corridor from the other side of the entrance. In the moonlight, a figure in a long skirt was reflected on the paper door of the room where Zhang Chen slept, and the black dragged on the ground until it reached the center of the door and stopped.

A finger that looked like black nail polish was stained with a little saliva and pierced the paper door, and the hollow eyesockets without eyeballs were imprinted on the hole in the paper door, looking at Zhang Chen, who was sleeping on the tatami mat inside.

A slight resentful voice echoed in this hot spring inn, which was empty except for Zhang Chen.

Fifty years ago, the proprietress of this hot spring hotel was favored by the local black organization, who knew that the woman would rather die than obey, and even smashed the big man with a vase.

His eyes were gouged out on the spot. Subsequently, dozens of members of the organization gave (shunned) ......

"Whoa!" The paper door slides open.

In front of the empty-eyed woman was a brightly lit room, and Zhang Chen sat by the stove and sipped the still warm sencha.

"One last thing, do you know if you heard rumors of blood or the name 'Tomie' here about a hundred years ago?"

Seeing the other party's terrifying face, Zhang Chen was not nervous at all, but asked as usual.

The proprietress seemed a little surprised by what she was looking for, and then brushed her hands over her cheeks, transforming into the beauty she had before she died.

Tomie ...... I seem to have heard these two words somewhere. It seems to exist in the coastal city of Miyakojima, which is a story that my grandmother told me when I was a child. It is said that there is a woman with a beautiful face who can make men fall in love. But this woman is very strange, always following the man twenty-four hours a day. ”

"To the end. The man who was pestered couldn't bear it anymore and the woman killed or even mutilated and placed her body in a remote suburb so that the woman would never come near her again. However, twenty-four hours have passed before the woman will reappear. Knowing that men go crazy or kill themselves, eat their flesh and then look for the next target. ”

Zhang Chen listened to the proprietress in detail. It is indeed somewhat similar to Tomie, but in Zhang Chen's opinion, there should be no mistake, but this rumor may not be very reliable.

"Anything else?"

The proprietress shook her head and said nothing.

"I didn't get enough sleep to come here overnight, so I'll leave early tomorrow morning. Please understand that there is any disturbance. ”

Zhang Chen's attitude made the expression of the proprietress in front of him change. For fifty years, I lived completely in hatred and anger, just because my body stayed here, and the spirit could not leave this place for more than a kilometer. And the men who let themselves die so miserably back then, the proprietress had to transfer her hatred to the boys who came to her hotel.

"Please rest well, I'm sorry to disturb you."

The woman slowly stepped back and left the room, but stopped as she reached the door of the room, and a gentle voice came out, "Can the guest let me go before leaving?" ”

There was no answer in the room, the lights went out, and Zhang Chen covered himself with the bedding and fell asleep quietly.

In the early morning of the second day, the hot spring hotel on the hillside was in ruins, and at the entrance of the ruins, a woman in a kimono could be vaguely seen, kneeling with a sincere face, and her body turned into a little starlight and disappeared under the light of the morning sun.

…………

Imperial City Shenhou Mansion

'Knock knock! In the early morning, a series of knocks sounded on the door, and Lian Yuxin pushed the wooden door open with sleepy eyes because of the fatigue of the game.

In front of the door of the Shenhou Mansion, a man of medium stature, a somewhat bewitching appearance and a print on his cheek stood at the door with a smile, and even Yuxin couldn't help but be vigilant when he saw this person.

The reason is simple, a wave of evil energy is felt in this person.

"Are you...... The prison director of this competition? Lian Yuxin recalled that when the teams met in front of the bell tower of the game yesterday, this person seemed to be a member of the X team led by Zhang Chen.

"In Xiayu Tea, it's really embarrassing to disturb the door early in the morning. Don't you know that Zhang Chen is in the house? Captain Zhang Chen led our team to successfully enter the challenge, and yesterday I couldn't thank the captain because of something, so I made a special trip to thank him today. ”

Yu Ming said and took out a basket of fruits from her back.

"Senior Brother Zhang Chen has never been in the Shenhou Mansion, and I don't know where he went." Lian Yuxin instinctively repelled this person, so he replied angrily.

"Presumably, the seniors must know, I don't know if I can meet the seniors behind me."

"Master, you can see what you want, unless Master personally informs you, no one else will ......"

"Xin'er must not be rude, let him come to the second floor of the main mansion." Before Lian Yuxin's words were finished, Shenhou's voice sounded in the ears of the two, which made Lian Yuxin very surprised.

"No need to send it, I'd better go in by myself."

Looking at Yu Ming's back, Lian Yuxin frowned, and always felt that this person's arrival had an ominous premonition.

"Shenhou senior, these fruits were originally to thank Zhang Chen, since he is not here, this can be regarded as a gift from Xiaosheng to Shenhou senior, right?"

Yu Ming handed the fruit basket in her hand to the wooden table between herself and Shen Hou.

"Can you tell me where Zhang Chen is now? I have some urgent matters to deal with with him, no...... I said the wrong thing, it was the master who asked me to find Zhang Chen for something. ”

Yu Ming smiled and took an apple in the fruit basket in her hand and took a bite.

"I don't know what to do with Zhang Chen? Can you tell me conveniently? Shen Hou asked with a smile.

"Master said that the two of us have some similarities, and I hope we can find an opportunity to talk about our experiences and grow each other's strength before the final round, after all, this competition involves a lot of things, isn't it?"

"Zhang Chen is now in Dongying, as for where he is in Dongying, the old man does not know."

"Thank you seniors for telling me the truth, since that's the case, I won't bother here too much, farewell!" Yu Ming smiled and left with her fists clenched.

And Shen Hou sat alone in the room with a solemn expression, originally planning to send a message to Zhang Chen to tell him about the situation, but after thinking about it for a while, he still put this matter in his heart and stopped thinking about it.

…………

Zhang Chen took the train to Miyakojima City like an ordinary person.

When the train drove into the city, Zhang Chen had a slight resonance in his body.

"It seems that this place is good, as long as you ask some of the older local residents, you should be able to find Tomie's original home."

Zhang Chen got off the train from the platform in the city center, who knew that when his feet touched the ground, the resonance in his body was even stronger, and this sense of resonance could even play a certain guiding role.

Zhang Chen followed the feeling in his body to walk in the northwest direction, and as the streets disappeared, the originally bustling urban area began to become more and more quiet, and even later it could be described as deserted.

"Here! This is it! ”

Zhang Chen obviously felt that Fu Jiang, who was relatively safe in his body, became manic at this moment.

In front of me, there is a Japanese-style villa with the same architectural form as the house I saw in Kokoya that day.

From the outside, it can be clearly seen that this building is old, and even the surrounding houses have been demolished, except for this villa, which stands alone.

"Let's ...... I'm in. ”

Fu Jiang's somewhat slurred voice suddenly came, this was the first time Zhang Chen had heard Fu Jiang speak since that incident. (To be continued......)