Chapter Eighty-Three: Reaching a Dead End
Ken Nishimoto fell to his knees in pain. He scratched at the floor beneath him, feeling breathless and dizzy, like someone had his heart holding. I don't know if it's fear or addiction that is grabbing his heart now.
After a long pause, Ken Nishimoto snorted from the ground. He ran into the kitchen, pulled a sharp knife out of it, and roared as he searched his room.
"Come out! Come out! Ken Nishimoto roared frantically, swinging the knife up and down in his hand, almost slashing at the nearby wall.
"Don't hide, come out quickly!" He trembled violently, and there was some crying in his roar. Years ago, he had laughed at Hirata Kazuaki for his cowardice and incompetence, but now he has become a comical clown, unleashing his fears like a frightened bird.
What to do? What am I going to do?! After searching to no avail, Ken Nishimoto was half-spread on the ground, his eyes wandering back and forth helplessly, unable to find a place to fall.
He is a superstitious person, especially after seeing the ghost of Keiji Aso. So he didn't have any doubts about the legend of the Phantom of the Strange Thief that made people repent. Ken Nishimoto even felt that his desire was going to be stolen in the next moment, so he went to the police station and turned himself in.
He feared ghosts, but he feared the punishment of the law even more. Ken Nishimoto would rather continue to be tortured in this way than be judged by the law.
"I have to find a way to not be repented of like this! By the way, go find Kuroiwa and Kawashima! That's right, just do it, we are grasshoppers on a rope! If I get caught, they'll suffer too! ”
"Just call them and tell them...... Wait, what if they treat me like they did to Keiji Aso? ”
Although Ken Nishimoto's spirit was on the verge of collapse, he still retained some sanity in the face of the fateful choice of life and death, realizing that if he informed his accomplices of the warning letter, he would probably be killed.
For a moment, he hesitated between the two options, and coupled with the double torture of fear and drug addiction, Ken Nishimoto almost fainted.
Lai Qixiao, who was snooping on the side, was a little anxious. He saw Ken Nishimoto's hesitation, and felt that he needed to intervene and break Ken Nishimoto's last sanity.
Lai Qixiao took out the bow-tie voice changer, and after making a slight adjustment, carefully let his voice come out of the crack.
"Nishimoto ......"
Lai Qixiao didn't say anything else, just called Ken Nishimoto's name in a just right voice. The voice he used was none other than Keiji Aso's. As a once world-famous pianist, Keiji Aso's performance video is not difficult to find, and Laiqixiao has prepared his sound settings in advance according to the video, just in case of emergency.
Ken Nishimoto, who was already in a panic, suddenly heard Keiji Aso's voice and suddenly collapsed directly to the ground. Although the imitation of the videotape is not particularly perfect, it is enough to scare the current Nishimoto Ken.
Frightened, Ken Nishimoto grabbed the knife in his hand again, looking left and right, his sensitive and fragile nerves were about to burst at the slightest mistake.
Seeing that the effect was good, Lai Qixiao continued to pretend to be a ghost. He then rhythmically shouted Ken Nishimoto's name, and at the same time controlled the cold to lower the room temperature, oppressing and torturing Ken Nishimoto's spirit both physically and mentally.
The purpose of coming to Qixiao was to make Ken Nishimoto completely collapse, not to directly scare him unconscious. When he felt that the time was almost right, he immediately stopped his voice and stopped intimidating.
Ken Nishimoto, who has experienced all kinds of strange events in a row, finally collapsed completely. He dropped his knife, howled and rushed out of the house, running out of the night with no fingers in sight.
Lai Qixiao quietly followed, and found that Ken Nishimoto had fled to a phone booth on the side of the road at this time, and dialed Kuroiwa Tatsuji in a trembling manner.
"Hey, who is it?" Kuroiwa Chenji on the other end of the phone spoke in a somewhat unhappy tone. Now that it was past the early hours of the morning, he was about to rest after a long day, but suddenly received this strange call.
"It's me, Nishimoto!" Ken Nishimoto said in a hurried voice, "Kuroiwa, help me!" Aren't you the village chief? Hurry up and find a way to get me out of Moonshadow Island as soon as possible! ”
"What's going on again? Why are you more abnormal than when we first met? ”
"I、I was at home just now, and I heard Keiji Aso's voice! It must be his ghost, he must have come to me for revenge! Damn, I can't stay here! You must send me out quickly, and if I stay here any longer, I will definitely be killed like Turtle Mountain!" ”
"You're not going to do drugs again, are you?" Kuroiwa Tatsuji didn't believe Ken Nishimoto's crazy words at all, "This must be a hallucination caused by you, if nothing else, don't bother me!" ”
As soon as he heard the idea of hanging up the phone on the other side, Ken Nishimoto immediately became agitated. He was completely irrational, and he no longer concealed it, and directly told the whole story of the notice letter:
"Listen, Black Rock, you must send me off the island! I'm telling you, in addition to Keiji Aso's ghost, I also received a teaser letter from the Phantom of the Monster Thief! He found out about my drug trafficking, and now he's going to make me repent! ”
"You have a share of all the sins I have committed! If I repent, you and Kawashima will have to be arrested by the police! So hurry up and find a ship and send me out of Moonshadow Island! If you don't hurry, it's too late! ”
Kuroiwa Tatsuji, who was on the other side of the phone, was silent for a moment, and then said solemnly:
"How was that advance letter written?"
Ken Nishimoto didn't think much about it, and retold the contents of the teaser letter. Then there was a long silence, and Kuroiwa Tatsuji, who had been thinking for a long time, spoke:
"I see. Nishimoto, you go to the docks now, and I'll arrange for someone to take you out of the island later. I'll give you a little money, and remember not to have any contact with people after you leave. ”
"I see, I'll go to the docks now! Thank you, Black Rock! ”
With that, Ken Nishimoto hung up the phone, impatiently rushed out of the phone booth, and rushed in the direction of the dock.
Although Lai Qixiao, who watched everything, could only hear Ken Nishimoto's voice, he could roughly judge the content of the conversation between the two. He knew that Ken Nishimoto would probably come back from this trip, and these ruthless drug dealers would never allow an unstable factor like him to continue to exist.
Lai Qi Xiaotou left without looking back, not planning to witness Ken Nishimoto's death. This is just the retribution that this scumbag deserves, and that's how he killed Keiji Aso, who grew up with him, twelve years ago.
Perhaps, this is the real "curse of Keiji Aso".