this damn love

After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic intermediary brother, Lian returned to her home to sort out clues.

The first owner of the house was named Saeki Kayako. She married the tenant who rented her house, Saeki Takeo, and gave birth to a son.Later, after Takeo Saeki killed his wife and son, he also committed suicide bizarrely.

The second tenant was a family. The eldest male failed five consecutive judicial examinations. He suffered a mental breakdown and massacred a family of five. Later, his body was found in a closet. The cause of death was a heart attack;

The third was a couple. The man cheated and was hacked to death by the woman. The woman became mentally ill and disappeared from the mental hospital. Her whereabouts are still unknown.

fourth...

In the past ten years, there have been several homicides here. Some police officers suggested tearing down the house and rebuilding it. They found that they died strangely in their own home that night. The cause of death was also a heart attack.

After that, no one dared to mention destroying the haunted house.For the sake of the local reputation, those who knew the homicides that happened there were silent.After a long time, many people only heard the rumors on the Internet, and came to the haunted house half-believed to find out, and more murders were involved.

If you can't get into the haunted house, you can't get the package.Liane chose the second option.

She found the webpage of the courier company before her stepfather was alive on the Internet, and found the area that her stepfather was in charge of at that time.

"The XX district where the haunted house is located, the snapshot...has it."

She found the previous information on the webpage, which showed that Tanaka was in charge of that area a month ago, then it was replaced by Yuichi, and now it is him again.

It seems that the biggest beneficiary of Yuichi's death is Tanaka.

After thinking about it, she called Tanaka's cell phone shown above.

"Du, duo... Hello, Feihang Express Tanaka is honored to serve you. May I ask what you need?"

A man's respectful voice came from the phone.

"It's like this, I want to send a courier." He deliberately squeezed his throat and spoke in a high-pitched and thin voice.

"Okay, please give me your address and I will pick it up." Enthusiastic.

"No. 5, XX Building, XX District." Lian said the address of the area where the haunted house is located, and the other party said, "Okay, I will pick up the package later."

"Huh?" She pretended to be surprised, "Are you Tanaka-san, it didn't seem like you were a while ago."

She deliberately said it like a regular customer, but Tanaka's tone relaxed a lot, and sighed, "A while ago, the company adjusted the scope of the area, and I moved away from this area. Now I am still in charge of this area."

"That's really great," Lian said, "By the way, where's the courier before you? I forgot to pay for the delivery once and said it would be made up the next day, but he never came."

"You can supply it to me when the time comes, and I will pass it on to the company. Something happened to the courier before..." he said vaguely.

Lian asked, "Huh? What happened? By the way, I saw a news report that a courier in XX District went crazy and killed his wife. It shouldn't be that person." Created an image of a gossip woman.

"You've also seen the report." Her familiar chatting attitude made Tanaka relax her vigilance, "It's him, it's really pitiful, it's too miserable to leave behind a daughter who is in high school."

Lian clenched the phone tightly, and the other person's pretentious tone was disgusting. She continued, "Oh my God, I've seen that person. He looks normal. How can you say he's crazy?" She lowered her voice, covering her mouth The microphone said mysteriously, "Did the new courier accidentally enter that haunted house?"

"This," Tanaka's voice became a little nervous, and he smiled dryly, "I'm not sure. I still have a courier to deliver here, sorry."

After hanging up the phone, Lian looked at the information recorded in the note and pondered, "I have worked for seven or eight years, so I must know the local haunted house rumors. The attitude is also very strange..."

She suspected that Tanaka sent the package on purpose, just to let Yuichi enter the house.

She dug out the phone book at home and found Fujiwara, a friend of her stepfather who was also an employee of the courier company.

"Hello, Uncle Fujiwara...I'm Lian, I have something to ask you..."

She asked the other party to check the delivery of Xiongyi on the company computer for that day. Every package will be collected, sorted, and delivered by the courier company, and the computer will record all the processes.

She asked the other party to find out the courier sent to the address of the haunted house, and then found the delivery address through the courier tracking number.

Seeing the shipping address shown above, Lian searched for a map on the web, but found that there was no such location.

"It's a fictitious mailing message." The tip of the pen lightly recorded the white paper full of information, and a complete line converged into a coherent scene in my mind.

False mailing address, secretly throwing the mail to Yuichi while he was busy at work, and coming to pay homage to Yuichi after his unjust death because of his uneasy heart...

Clenching the pen tightly, the sharp tip scratched the fragile paper. Under the dim light, the delicate girl's eyebrows were firm.

Regardless, there is still no direct evidence that Tanaka had anything to do with his father's death.

But she will definitely track it down.

The next day, she went to Sensoji Temple, the most popular temple in the area.

It stands to reason that the most famous shrines in Japan should be their native religions.But for Lian, she still believes in Buddhism in her bones.

Stepping into the gate of the temple, there are many tourists in the temple.Lian, who was full of thoughts, took a quick glance and went straight to the topic.

Standing in the hall surrounded by incense and mist, I heard the monk's murmured blessings, I couldn't understand what he was talking about, but it was very strange, the cold aura all over my body disappeared unconsciously.

It seems that the power of faith is still somewhat useful.

Lian guessed in her heart.

After praying and worshiping in the main hall, she went to light a incense candle for blessing. Taking advantage of the lack of people, she asked the monk next to her for advice, "Master, I have something to bother you."

The old monk with white beard and hair clasped his hands together in a gray robe, looked at her with a slight smile, with a calm and serene expression, "It's okay to be a benefactor."

"Is such that……"

She briefly talked about the disasters caused by the haunted house, carefully paying attention to the other person's expression, and tested the views of the believers in this world on ghosts.

The other party waved his hands again and again after listening halfway, noncommittal, "These are all illusions of the benefactor. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. The benefactor is showing signs."

"Excuse me." Without saying a word, Li An turned and left.

Not everyone in the world is like Warren and Ed who believe in the existence of evil spirits and take exorcism as their duty.

Most people, even monks who have practiced for many years and are determined, still don't believe in these strange things.

Therefore, they can only guarantee that they will not be disturbed by wronged souls, and they cannot help others.

"Kobayakawa-san, where are you now? Okay, I'll visit you."

When she was a child, Lian went to a local shrine with a long history.

Kobayakawa listened to Lian's words, went here and begged the witch to take her in.

When Lian came to visit, Kobayakawa came to greet her in white and scarlet trousers, and her complexion looked much better.

Lian looked at her, "The dead air dissipated a little."

Kobayakawa nodded, "I don't feel as cold as before. But I still have the eerie feeling of being spied on from time to time."

Lian pondered, "It still hasn't fundamentally solved the problem."

Going to the shrine to take refuge temporarily is also a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

If the resentment continues to grow stronger, sooner or later even the shrine will not be able to deter the resentment.

Kobayakawa introduced Lian to the great priestess in charge of the shrine, "Miko-sama."

"Come in." An old voice came from inside.

Kobayakawa left, Lian respectfully opened the door and entered, the two sat opposite each other in the quiet Japanese room.

Lian looked at the big witch, her hair was gray, and the years had carved deep marks on her face, holding a teacup in both hands, with a leisurely demeanor.

Lian asked softly, "Master Miko, do you have a way to eliminate the evil spirits." Straightforward.

"Ka" The bottom of the cup touched the table and made a crisp sound, which was already a loss of composure for the well-groomed great witch.

A trace of sadness appeared on her vicissitudes of life, "A few years ago, something happened here..."

Maidens will choose young women under the age of 25. From ancient times to the present, they are responsible for conveying the metaphors of the gods and dancing Kagura dances during sacrifices.

As for the previous great witch, she was gifted with real psychic powers, and the shrine was a highly regarded successor.

One day she accepted a commission.

--to cleanse a house of dead people.

This shouldn't be a difficult task.

Such purification rituals are already familiar to her.

But no one knows what happened in that uninhabited house.

All I know is that the ending is that the three women who went together committed suicide and the other disappeared. The former great witch with outstanding spiritual power was insane.

"Sorry, we can't help you." After telling the story, the old mother-in-law bowed.

Lian returned a salute, "Excuse me."

When she left the shrine, she was very calm, and she just came with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

In the end, it is better to rely on others than oneself.

After getting ready, she returned to the haunted house again.

The house under the cover of vegetation is quietly dormant, staring at her outside.

Lian pushed open the courtyard door and walked in calmly.

The layout here is similar to her house. After entering, there is a porch, go straight to the corridor to the living room, and turn left to go upstairs.

"Did it drop in the living room?" According to Kobayakawa's narration that day, she first went to the living room to look for the package.

"Squeak" The room was quiet, only the slight sound of stepping on the wooden floor was heard, and there was a smell of dust in the air, and it hadn't been lived for a long time.

Taking a deep breath, she suddenly pushed open the curtain door, and what came into view was a small living room, complete with TV, tea table and sofa.

The direction of the house was strange, the curtains were still drawn tightly in broad daylight, and it was dark. Lian tried to press the light to turn on, but there was no movement at all. Only then did she realize that no one lived here for a long time, and the electricity and water must have been cut off long ago.

She took out her mobile phone, and was not surprised to see that there was no signal on it-it was full before coming in.

She couldn't help smacking her lips, "Tsk, the magnetic field is too strong." The thick yin here completely blocked the signal.

Fortunately, the mobile phone flashlight can be used.After opening it, I shook the living room. The flashlight of the mobile phone has a very small lighting range, and the halo is only a circle, and the light is not too bright. Lian checked carefully and finally found an unopened package in the corner, "I found it!"

She walked quickly, stooped to pick up--

At this moment, he was keenly aware of something flashing behind him.