It turned out that Jieyou left Guangzhao's house that night when both friends were asleep and unknowing.

He even went back to the place where his locomotive had turned off and got back on his bike.

The car somehow and the fault seems to have been eliminated again.

Jieyou's mother saw her son's car parked in the yard this morning, and said that her son had gone home, so she went to see him in the room.

But when he entered the room, he saw the body of his son.

Jieyou died in his bed, where he lay with his eyes wide open, his mouth open, his cheeks stained with tears, and the corners of his mouth filled with blood. Before he died, he seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying, he was overly frightened, his expression was distorted, and his lips were pale.

His hands stretched out, pointing towards the ceiling.

The unnatural posture was not like a stretch of his own hand, but rather a posture formed by someone pulling his arm hard.

That look is exactly the same as when Chiaki and the others found Jieyou in the field last night.

Chiaki and Hiroshi rushed to Jieyou's house.

They didn't see their friend's body directly, and some of the things that followed were only heard.

It is said that when Jieyou died, his two arms had been dislocated and deformed, but he still maintained that posture of straight forward, and there was no way to press his arms down no matter what.

In addition, funerals in Japan are usually held at temples or by a monk.

Although cremation is now widespread, the body of the deceased is usually placed in a coffin for three to four days, depending on the funeral rites and customs in the Akita countryside.

Ke Jieyou's death posture is too strange, because his hands can't be put down no matter what.

It seems to say that if the stiff and dislocated arms are not sawed off, the normal coffin will not be able to accommodate it.

Therefore, it is necessary to make a special coffin.

And the day after Jieyu's death, a coffin appeared in his home.

It wasn't ordered by any of the family members, and their custom coffin hadn't been made at that time.

It seemed to appear out of nowhere, and no one knew where it came from, but it was already in a prominent position in the hall when they noticed it.

It was not a normal coffin, and although it was no different in length from an ordinary coffin, it was nearly two meters tall and wide, and there was no decoration on the outside.

And that weird special coffin is completely consistent with the bizarre death of Jieyou.

It's as if someone had predicted his death in advance and made it for him.

Of course, the Jieyou family didn't dare to keep the coffin that appeared out of thin air, and finally sent it to the temple to be burned.

After that, I heard some things mentioned by the old people near Guangzhao's house.

It is said to be a story handed down by the parents or grandparents of those elderly people, and it is impossible to verify whether it is true or false.

It's only because Jieyou died mysteriously that people remembered it again-

According to legend, the location where the Jieyu locomotive broke down that night was called the Coffin Slope before the Meiji era, or even earlier.

There are craftsmen who make coffins in the area of Iwaki Mountain.

At that time, these coffin craftsmen had a relatively low social status, so the coffins they made and sold were also very cheap.

Because of their low social status, the lives of these craftsmen are naturally not much better, and it is common for them to be bullied.

And for such a difficult job, there is only one way to really make a lot of money, and that is to make special custom coffins.

Because of the relatively short size of the Japanese in the old days, the coffins in the local area were generally of a specific size, and the coffins were not too large overall.

If a tall person, such as a person with a height of more than 1.7 meters, dies, the coffin made of fixed size cannot hold the body of the deceased, so it needs to be custom-made.

However, at that time, the "tall and strong men" above 1.7 meters belonged to a rare special group.

So the order itself for a custom coffin is very small.

It is rumored that there was once a female craftsman in Coffin Slope, and she was very good at making coffins, and during the time she was active, orders for custom coffins in the area of Iwaki Mountain and even in the surrounding area were accepted by her family.

As a result, she is the best living of all the coffin makers.

But this woman is a little eccentric.

Because the production of custom coffins must be made after the death of the deceased and the family members come to the door to entrust the deceased's figure. And it was necessary to make special coffins before the corpses decomposed.

Due to the background of manual work at that time, the work was actually quite difficult.

But the female craftsman is always able to deliver the finished product that the customer needs very quickly. It is because of this that she is able to take on almost all the special coffin orders.

But over time, the fellow craftsmen of the coffin slope couldn't help but be suspicious of women.

The speed at which she made the coffin was so fast that it was a little abnormal.

The positive rating is 100 percent, and not once is it delivered after the deceased has decomposed, even in the hot summer.

And the coffin made is very sophisticated, definitely not like it can be made in a short period of time.

Once doubts arise, in that era, what followed was obvious.

It is good to say that it is jealousy, or jealousy.

Whatever the psychology, in short, the woman was killed by her peers.

Around the time of a Kanden festival, the woman was beaten by other craftsmen with coffin-making tools and thrown into a field for hastily buried.

The woman who was a coffin maker made countless fine coffins for others during her lifetime, but after her death, no one made a coffin for her, so she buried it at random.

After killing the woman, the craftsmen broke into the house and tried to find out why she was able to make a custom coffin so quickly and well.

Is there a special method, or a special tool?

In the woman's home, they found some fixed-size coffins, as well as a few custom-made coffins that had been made in advance, and were special ownerless.

In addition to this, a strange altar was found that no one had ever seen.

Soon after the woman's death, people from the surrounding area who were still unaware came to the coffin slope to find her to order a coffin.

The local craftsman compared the body data of the deceased in the new order with the custom coffins in the woman's house, which did not yet have an owner, and found a coffin that matched perfectly.

In this way, the local craftsmen connected the strange altars found in the woman's house, as well as all kinds of strange things.

It is believed that the woman somehow chose a specific object in the surrounding area, killed people with curses and other things, and made a coffin in advance to obtain a high order.

In the end, the woman's home was burned down by the craftsmen.

This is the end of the story.

……

Chiaki Miyake gave a general account of what he had experienced before.

Of course, it didn't go into such detail, but it just briefly told the bizarre death of Jieyou, as well as the strange death, and the rumors of the coffin craftsman.

in order to gain the trust of his brother.

Yasuta Miyake was silent for a long time before finally speaking: "So, you mean that the reason why the locomotive stalled that night and died mysteriously later was because he met the evil spirit of the female craftsman?" ”

"Yes, yes, big brother...... Moreover, that thing is not limited to Akita. Chiaki's voice trembled, "When I returned to Tokyo, I felt like it was following me, it was right next to me, and it even followed me to my house. So I didn't dare to go home, so I had to ......"

"That's ......"

Kang Tai didn't know what to say.

So, is that why my brother is behaving abnormally these days?

I always feel a little strange about something, but I can't say it.

But looking at his brother's appearance, it doesn't seem to be a lie, and he is not a person who likes to make such bad jokes.

He looked genuinely frightened.

"And then, you said that because I had been to your house, the evil spirit of that craftsman was likely haunted me?"

"Yes, big brother, I'm not sure, but it's really possible."

"Ah...... Tut. Yasuta Miyake sighed, then stood up from the tatami mat, "I don't know if what you said is true, but if you feel at ease if you have to go to the shrine, then let's go together tonight." ”

"Great, great, big brother, then we'll ...... now" Because of the words of the elder brother, Chizhang became a little happy, but the expression of joy quickly froze on his face and became extremely strange.

"What's wrong with you?"

Yasuta Miyake, who was getting dressed and getting his car keys, looked at his younger brother.

"Possibly, probably...... Sorry, big brother. ”

"What are you talking about?"

At this time-

Bang bang bang!

There was a knock at the door outside the entrance.

The sound was mixed with the wind and rain outside, but it was extraordinarily clear.

"Who?"

Yasuya Miyake is too puzzled, who has come to the door?

"Don't go over, big brother!" Qian Zhang hurriedly got up and called his brother, his expression became gloomy, his thin white lips couldn't help trembling, but then he barely squeezed out a very strange smile, "Big brother, do you know? ”

"Know...... What? ”

Chiaki Miyake: "It's the first one I wrote, which was light and made me famous." Ha, do you know why I wrote it? ”

Kang Tai's eyes widened, looking at his younger brother in confusion.

He didn't understand why his brother was suddenly talking about this.

Moreover, what is the "Stick Brave List", Kang Tai has always been very reluctant to mention this.

Because this is the beginning of the dazzling and ordinary transformation between him and his brother, and the beginning of their brotherly relationship slowly estranged.

Kang Tai knew that he was a very despicable brother, and he had no way to accept the great success of his originally incompetent brother, and there was no way to accept his ordinariness by comparing it to him.

He was jealous of his brother.

So, he's always been reluctant to talk about it.

Why bring it up?

Or at this time?

Then he heard his younger brother speak again, and in a trembling tone, he said something he didn't expect: "I wrote that because of my eldest brother." ”

"Me?"

"Yes, because the way my eldest brother wields a baseball bat on the court is really super handsome, I always thought that my eldest brother was a hero when I was a child, and in fact, it is the same now."

"You guy...... What are you talking about all of a sudden? ”

Strange things one after another.

The knocking at the door continued.

Bang bang bang!

Immediately afterwards, a human voice sounded outside: "Brother Kang, are you at home?" ”

The sound was familiar.

And when Kang Tai remembered the owner of this voice, he couldn't help but feel a chill on his back and his hair stood upside down.

This is, Jieyu's voice.

Jieyou is a friend of his younger brother, and Yasuta has seen him a few times, so he can barely remember his voice.

But isn't he dead?

Bang bang bang!

"Brother Kang, I'm Jieyou. You listen to me, I saw it, I saw Chiaki walk into your house. Are you still there? I don't know what he told you, but don't believe him, run away, Chiaki will die in Akita! ”

"What...... Meaning? ”

Yasuta Miyake was amazed.

What happened tonight was completely beyond his knowledge.

And at this moment, with a beep, the electric lights in the house suddenly flickered, and the light was uncertain, as if it was about to disappear into the darkness at any time.

Yasuta Miyake turned his head and looked at his brother beside him.

Under the dazzling and dark environment, he saw his brother's appearance.

Chiaki stood there, standing under the light and dark tubes, his eyes wide open, and the whites of his eyes were completely occupied by blood.

His mouth was open, his cheeks were stained with tears, and the corners of his pale mouth were stained with blood.

In an eerie posture, the arms twisted and stiffened forward, as if they were about to break away from the shoulder joint, making a bone-clicking sound.

Standing upright in such an extremely strange posture, the mouth that was so open that it almost fell off its jaw muttered:

"Big brother, I wrote ...... for you"

……

A little earlier.

An apartment building in Minato Ward.

Kamiyagawa held the hilt of a letter and walked up the stairs to the fourth floor.

It's still raining heavily, but the voice-activated lights in the hallway are steady.

Walking to the door of Chiaki Miyake on the fourth floor, he stared at it.

That's right, the remnants of the strange talk came from here.

"Ahh

Adjusting his body with the breath of Aya, Kamiya raised his foot and kicked it towards the handle of the security door.

There was a loud bang.

The slightly deformed iron door was slammed open.

Such a loud noise alarmed the neighbors on the side, and someone from the apartment next to it probed out.

Kamiya just waved the countermeasure room document in his hand indifferently over there: "The Metropolitan Police Department handles the case." ”

Then he walked into the big open apartment.

Chiaki Miyake's apartment was dark and the temperature was low.

After looking around for a while with the knife in hand, Kamiya walked to the master bedroom.

Here he saw a strange large box.

It was like a coffin, the same length as a normal coffin, but close to two meters wide and high.

Kamiyagawa did not hesitate, bowed slightly, and stepped forward to push the lid open.

In this peculiar coffin lay a man, lying in an extremely strange posture, his hands deformed and straight up.

Chiaki Miyake.

When he came over, Kamiya had seen a group photo of their studio from Mr. Tsukada, so he recognized the face in the coffin.

Kamiya didn't know how long Miyake had been dead, and he wasn't a professional in this area after all.

It is estimated that more than three days have passed, and corpse spots have appeared on the surface of the body.

Probably because the temperature here is extremely low, there is no obvious smell for the time being.

But I still remember that Mr. Tsukada said that the day before yesterday, Chiaki Miyake called to reject the invitation to join the reorganization of the Tokuma studio.

At that time, was he still alive?