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"The Ape House? Oh, you mean there." On the way, Xue Ji met an old man with a beard hanging down to the ground. He first asked her if she was from the island. She said no, she was just a tourist. The old man asked again: "Is it really a tourist? Could it be that they are here for archaeology?"

Xue Ji was slightly surprised, and the old man waved his hand: "I don't care what interests you foreigners have in this dilapidated island, as long as you don't do things you shouldn't do, understand? Although the monk and the mayor are both It's gone, but you have to be careful."

……not understand.

What do you mean by what not to do?Be careful of what?

However, it is inconvenient to ask here. Xue Ji learned the lesson from Granny Meijin and decided to be a qualified tourist. When she talked about the Monkey House, the old man suddenly realized: "So that's how you were attracted by that strange talk. Come here. The little girl is very courageous."

Xue Ji then listened to a story that was indeed a strange story.

This story is different from "Hana Ichibun", it looks like it came out of Junji Ito's theater.It probably means that some strange things happened on the island before, which attracted a religious studies scholar—but it was actually a monk.Although he is a monk, he has nothing to do with the monks on the island. Although the monk on the island also "helped" his parents to abandon the boy, he at least shaved his head and looked kindly like a monk (but he was said to have died It's very unsettling, it scared the Qingshui detective to throw up), the monk who came to "investigate" didn't shave his head, but a boring ball head, with slender eyebrows and eyes like a fox, people on the island saw He spread rumors to each other that "it's not what a serious person should look like".

Xue Ji: "..."

I don't know why, this description of appearance reminds her of a person?And he was the guy who framed her... hard-hard-hard, fist hard-hard.

After the "monk" came to the island, he first visited around. He was particularly interested in ghost legends. He didn't know what method he used to force some villagers to tell the story of throwing boys and selling girls. He seemed to be very merciful. Listening, the corners of his mouth kept rising.

"Monkeys, they always do this kind of thing...Fortunately, I don't expect the morality of monkeys."

He said so.

Many people have heard it.

So everyone was very angry, but under the anger, they were even more at a loss. This guy didn't say anything wrong, these things did happen on the island.

However, even if there was nothing wrong with what he said, they couldn't let him spread the word about it.

In particular, he started to investigate the matter about Mr. Tachibana...

Presumably, Mr. Tachibana's incident made the residents of the island even more panicked.

So everyone looked at the monk. In the past, when such foreigners came to the island, the monk judged them.

The monk sent two thugs to follow the new monk. They "are the monk's right and left hands, just like the hungry ghosts under the Buddha's seat", "the monk said to kill, and they went to kill."

However, monks seldom kill people, and people on the island seldom kill people. They just abandon and buy and sell, but those they abandon and buy and sell are not considered human beings.Because here, children are not counted as human beings, and children who cannot live without adults have no choice but to live too long.

The eyes of the old man with the long white beard could hardly be opened. When he was talking about these things, his face was indescribably numb. His language was so simple that Xue Ji had to use his brain to understand it.

Anyway, the monk sent two thugs to kill another monk, and the thugs followed to an old torii gate.It was a red torii, which later became the "House of the Monkeys".The torii lived in a very remote forest, and the two thugs felt that the advantage was great, so the two thugs went up.

Then there was a distorted scream that could be heard by everyone nearby.

It is said that the tragic death of those two people has reached the level that is indescribable in human language. The twisted body, the dirty blood splashed everywhere, fell on the torii gate, and it looks like a few big characters "Apes and Monkeys" Home".

Afterwards, these big characters would not disappear no matter how much they were scrubbed, people on the island were panicked, and few people would go there except tourists.

The old man said, "Be careful if you want to go there. It's a cursed place."

Xue Ji thanked him and continued to walk forward. When he turned his head again, he found that the old man had disappeared.

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The torii gate is indeed in a forest, in the same direction as the Elephant Trunk Cliff. Xue Ji walked all the way inside. For a moment, she seemed to feel the breath of Wujo teacher, but it disappeared quickly. Here She is the only living person.

She felt a dead silence.

I don't know when it started, even the sound of birdsong disappeared, and the surrounding trees seemed to be fake.They grow very tall, with branches and leaves covering the sky and the sun, forming a great pressure.

When I first arrived on this island, the suppressed feeling of shock reappeared.

She didn't tell Mr. Dazai and Mr. Gojo about this matter. She didn't like this island, not because of any flamboyant stories, nor because a curse spirit was brewed on this island and a tragedy happened.The reason she doesn't like Ivory Island is that she feels a familiar emotion here. The island's xenophobia and mutual exclusion among people remind her of a certain past.

A certain paragraph has been deeply hidden in her memory, and if she doesn't try hard to recall it, it won't pop up suddenly.

She does still get emotional.

Xue Ji thought so.

The sky is getting darker and darker, it is clearly morning, but it is as dark as when night rises after dusk has passed.But there was no moon in the sky, and the clouds were dirty. As she was walking, she heard a girl's voice.

"Are you from the island? It looks strange."

The voice was timid and immature. Xue Ji saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl holding a strange doll in her hand. She had a sickly pale and weak appearance. Looking at Xue Ji's eyes full of curiosity: "Sister, I have never seen you on the island before."

Xue Ji: "Because I'm a tourist. By the way, how did you get here? Did you get lost?"

The girl whispered, "I'm lost, woo, I can't get out anyway."

It looks really pitiful, running to such a place alone, without parents around, no wonder he always looks timid.Xue Ji said: "If you are afraid, you can hold my sister's hand. However, I have to go to a scenic spot called 'Ape House' to investigate first. I can't send you out first."

"Well," the girl whispered, "my name is Anna, what's my sister's name?"

Anna?She doesn't look like a mixed race... But there are also Japanese who like to give their children foreign names. It is said that Aunt Tomoko thought of naming Jousuke's cousin "Oriental David" (Cousin Jousuke is very young) At that time, he showed a western-style high nose and deep eyes, as beautiful as David in the art book), but grandpa insisted against it, it seems that the people in Morioh Town loved art back then, and there were boring guys painting on the street David, of course, the other party copied the famous statue of David. Not only did some parts not express as implicitly as the original statue, but they were exaggerated wildly, which attracted the attention of the authorities and made Grandpa very angry.And at that time, because of the need to catch those street bastards, my grandfather couldn’t go home for two weeks to have a good dinner. Under all kinds of hatred, the old man could no longer remain open-minded, so he told Auntie Tomoko: “If you give the child such a What a stupid name! I'll just..."

Auntie Tomoko: "What about you?"

Grandpa: "...I'll apply to go to the discipline team in Duwang Town! I won't go home until those little bastards are caught!"

Perhaps because of Grandpa’s determination, although Aunt Tomoko was still unwilling to change her mind, the group of gangsters were persuaded. They cried, made trouble and hanged themselves, begging Aunt Tomoko to give up Dongfang David and at least choose Dongfang John or Dongfang Mike.

Aunt Tomoko: "..."

So, this incident came to an end like this. Aunt Tomoko occasionally talked about this past, and Cousin Jousuke would always show a rather terrified expression, as if he was full of fear for Dongfang David, Dongfang John, or Dongfang Mike. .

At that time, Xue Ji only thought... Sure enough, Aunt Tomoko is very trendy, but fortunately her Masako is not so trendy.

Otherwise, she might bear the name "Oriental Lucy" and not know how to introduce herself to anyone she meets.

After all, in Japan, especially on campus, a person may become a "minority" for various reasons, such as name, height, make-up or no make-up, gregarious or not gregarious, all may become targeted The reason is that if parents are careful enough, they will help their children avoid this difficulty at least in terms of name and dress.

Unfortunately, when many people grow up, they forget what they encountered when they were children.

Xueji took Anna by the hand, and the two of them quickly walked to a dilapidated torii gate. On the ground was a larger stone than Angelo Stone, on which were written four powerful characters: "House of Apes".

Anna said: "...Big Brother originally wanted to write 'House of Monkeys', but he thought it looked a bit uneducated, so he changed it to Apes."

This is true, the Chinese characters for the word ape are quite difficult to write. If Xue Ji is asked to write silently, he may not be able to write it.

But this really shows the importance of culture. If the "Ape House" here is a pseudonym instead of Chinese characters, the atmosphere may immediately become a kindergarten literacy scene.

Xue Ji was lost in thought.

It was Anna who dragged her out of the self-examination. Anna said: "Big sister, big brother is also someone who came in from outside. Does big sister know him?"

Sure enough, they are children from the small island. Perhaps in Anna's view, the outside world is as small as the small island, and everyone knows each other.But Xue Ji still shook his head: "I don't know, the outside world is very big, do you want Anna to go and see it together?"

"Anna can't go," the girl whispered, "Big Brother said, Anna can only stay here... Maybe, after the island disappears, Anna can go out to play with Big Brother."

The girl said innocent but scary words: "But Anna doesn't want the island to disappear, Anna wants the island to stay here forever."

"Sister also came to look for Anna, right? Don't worry, Anna is a good boy. It is also the dream of the people on the island to keep the island as it is now. They put Anna in the canoe for this dream."

Xue Ji suddenly shuddered: "Anna, you..."

What is your relationship with "Annabelle"?

She didn't need to ask anymore.Anna raised the strange doll in her hand: "I am Anna, and she is Annabelle."

"Sister, come and say hello to her?"

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The author has something to say:

Ana is now a ghost.

In the state of a ghost before, I met the real person who came to "investigate" - Xia Youjie

Xia Youjie wrote Chinese characters that Xue Jimo couldn't write with a stroke of his brush, he deserves to be the one!