The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

This is hair that is even longer than one or two people, and looks like it has been soaked in water for a long time.

[This hair seems to be alive. 】

"Senior sister, what are you talking about without thinking?"

[I just suddenly had a whimsical idea. Could it be that the hair on the top of our heads is not actually a part of our body?It's a parasite that lives on top of our heads for nourishment.Once your physique deteriorates and you can no longer absorb any nutrients from your body, they will move on their own at night when you are asleep, run away secretly, and move to other people with stronger vitality? 】

"...So, senior sister, are you losing your hair? Ghosts lose their hair too?"

【No!I have great hair! !I just discovered that the hair moves by itself!The roof is full of traces of hair crawling around! 】

"what?"

【Xiao Hua, seriously, I feel like the whole house of your house is parasitized by hair. 】

Xiaotong also interjected thoughtfully: "In this way, in the dream in the school dormitory, I seemed to be wrapped into a ball by the hair all over the room..."

【Anyway, be careful with your hair...】

With such a reminder, we opened the door and walked out carefully.

The surroundings of the house are very quiet, abnormally quiet, as it is still considered hot weather, and it is still by the water, there should be a lot of insects and frogs, but... except for our own footsteps, we can hear everything less than.Such an old house has no modern lighting on the verandah. Even with a little moonlight, it is still difficult to see the surroundings. Fortunately, there is a flashlight in the props with incense belts. Give us a little light.

Walking on the veranda, the other side of our hand is the waterway, pond, and water surface.But even though there was moonlight shining, the water surface was deeper than the boardwalk we were walking on now, especially when we took a flashlight to shine on the water surface, we could only see a dark abyss.

I leaned out slightly, trying to see if I could see the moon reflected on the water.

Then, by the moonlight, I saw a face under the water, not my face, but the face of an... ugly man.

As if soaked in water for too long, this face has exaggerated puffiness, eyeballs are turned out, and the overall appearance is a giant view (don't go to Baidu to search for "giant view").His hair was so thick that it seemed a little abnormal, and it was scattered like seaweed, extending to a place deep underwater that could no longer be seen.

This glance startled me a bit, and when I came back to my senses and looked down again, I couldn't see anything.

Chapter 45 Family Crest 【Modify】

【Hey, Hitomi, can you... see anything under the water? 】

"Underwater?" Xiaotong glanced at the water surface suspiciously, "Is there anything underwater? It's too dark and I can't see anything. And... this kind of ornamental pond should be very shallow, right?"

Xiaohua nodded and said, "It's very shallow, probably the deepest part can only reach the calf. When I was young, I often stepped in this water to play..."

[But why, I think the water... can at least cover about the height of a person? 】

"... What did you see, senior?"

[Someone is underwater. 】

"…………real?"

Xiaotong frowned this time, and shone the flashlight on the surface of the water, earnestly trying to see through the surface of the water to see things under the water.

Then, she suddenly took a step back, looked up at me with a horrified expression, and said, "Sister... no, there's more than one... it's better... the densely packed underwater... are all people..."

This time, with the help of the flashlight, I could indeed see clearly.

There are dense figures under the water, as dense and neat as the seedlings inserted in the paddy field, which makes one's scalp tingle.

"Is this... the resentful soul of someone who was buried in water in the past?" Xiao Tong muttered to himself.

I remembered seeing a large number of dead souls underwater in the school swimming pool. According to the flow direction of the shallow river, we thought that those might be the resentful souls of the dead in the water burial ceremony in the past.But, how should I put it... I always feel that there is a decisive difference between the underwater "people" seen here and the ghosts in the swimming pool... Well, where is it?

By the way, first of all, the hair, these underwater people have excessively thick hair.And clothes, the undead I saw in the school swimming pool before, what I saw was their turquoise bodies that had grown green fluff and even moss, and these people in front of them were still wearing clothes!It still looks quite luxurious and simple clothes, a bit like a noble... Eh?

When I was thinking about it, those "people" in the water suddenly raised their heads in unison, opened their empty eyes, and there were circles of ripples on the surface of the water at the same time.

[Oops, run! ] I shouted at Xiaotong and the others.

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw a face emerge from the surface of the water. On the gray face, in the closed eye sockets were two eyeballs that had been completely turned up and only the whites of the eyes were left. The long hair was twisted and tangled like seaweed.

Then, another face, another face.

Puffy faces emerged straight up from the water, their mouths slightly opened and closed, at first it seemed that everyone was muttering to themselves, and soon the shape of their mouths began to unify, and finally they seemed to be completely transformed into one Like a human being, he made a hoarse and piercing sound like fingernails scratching a blackboard with the exact same mouth shape.

"Seed...seed...seed..."

[Come on, get out of here! 】

This weird scene made my scalp tingle, and with a premonition in my heart, I immediately reminded others to speed up and pass through this aisle.

And at this moment, those murmuring faces on the water saw our intention to leave, and one of them jumped out of the water to attack us as if being pulled by something. What an arm covered with flesh, in just a few breaths, that arm came to a place where the distance from Xiaotong's face was almost only a few palm widths away.

Fubuki, who was closest to Xiaotong, punched the water corpse in the face, and knocked it back into the water with brute force, and more arms grew out of the water like lotus roots.

[Blowing snow! 】

I called out to Fuxue, and she understood my meaning in an instant, her figure disappeared under the radiance of the moonlight, leaving only an ancient knife stuck on the wooden ground.

I quickly pulled out the ancient knife, Yiwen Fuxue, and slashed at another water corpse attacking behind me.

The nearest water corpse that jumped out of the water was easily split in two, and the two pieces fell on the corridor with the sound of water.

But... it didn't kill.

I was horrified to see that what flowed out from the section of the severed upper and lower body of this water corpse was not blood, but gray-black sewage. swing.The severed upper body is trying to use its two arms to move itself towards the lower body, and the lower body is also trying to arch forward. The large amount of long black hairs on the cross-sections of the two have begun to tangle together. Sew it back together.

Enduring the nausea, I raised Fuxue, and stabbed the water corpse hard into the head.

Even so, there was still no sign of this thing being killed. It seemed to be in great pain. Its two arms slapped and struggled frantically on the floor, and it could still hear a non-human voice of "It hurts, it hurts!" It hurts" groaning, but... still moving, even wanting to raise his arms to fight back at me.

[Chopped up a strange thing, it stinks, disgusts, smells, disgusts, disgusts, disgusts...]

Seeing that these things seem to be unkillable, Fubuki in my hand has a strong desire not to cut this kind of thing. It has reached the point of going on strike, so I have to hold up Hitomi and Kannazuki with my thoughts He rushed forward quickly, trying to speed up and leave this passage.

Seeing that there is only one corridor left from the old grandmother's house, it is the corridor connecting the two houses, and there are pools for viewing on both sides of the corridor.The first moment I stepped on the wooden plank of this walkway, I saw a series of gray or turquoise arms stretching out from the water, grabbing the floor and railings of the corridor, and even at the next moment, from my ankle There was a disgusting feeling of being grabbed by sticky and slippery hands on both her legs and calves.

I didn't want to look back at the things under my feet at all, so I swung my knife and slashed at the back of my feet. As soon as the pressure on my feet was released, I grabbed Hitomi and Kannazuki, accelerated into the old grandmother's house in one breath, and turned around. Quickly close the door and bolt it.

While Xiao Tong let out a long breath, he also took out the flashlight and shone into the room, trying to see the scene in the room clearly, but I saw dense handprints printed on the window paper behind me in the blink of an eye, but... outside the window Those "things" seemed to be afraid of something, even though it was only a layer of weak wooden doors and windows, they didn't use violence to break the door or window, but judging from those shadows, it seemed that the whole The house is surrounded.

While taking a deep breath, Xiao Tong asked, "Sister, what are those...?"

I turned my head to look at Xiaotong, drew a symbol in the air with my finger, it was a crescent-shaped symbol composed of two arcs and a dot, and asked her a seemingly irrelevant question——

[Xiao Tong, do you recognize this symbol?I seem to have seen this symbol in Tsukiyomi Shrine before. 】

"This... seems to be the family crest used by our Sanriyue family in the past, but... no one has used this thing for a long time, what's wrong?"

[I just saw similar symbols on the clothes of the living corpses in the water...]

"Eh?!"

[And... more than that, I also saw nine circular symbols, the nine moons, which are the family crest of the Mochizuki family... Also, the symbol in the moon hidden cloud, Xiaohua, if I'm not mistaken, this Is it the family crest of the Kannazuki family? 】

"Well... yes, that's right, could it be that..."

【In this way, those underwater... are like the ancestors of our family...】

Chapter 46 Doll 【Modify】

"The ancestors of the family...why were they planted in the water like rice seedlings? And...how did they become like that?"

【Who knows, but it looks like it really has something to do with the Yuedou family, those things... can't be hacked to death.Just like Uncle Sanriyue said, maybe Yue's beliefs are really related to the legendary elixir of immortality!These things outside seem afraid to come in, there must be something weird in this room, hurry up and look for it! 】

Xiaotong scanned the entire room with the beam of the flashlight. This room was as poorly displayed as I saw during the day, and there was almost no space for hiding secrets.

"In the dream, I remember... the figure of Senior Chaowu came here, and then... pointed down with his finger."

Xiaotong walked to a piece of tatami step by step according to the memory, and shone down with a flashlight.

We opened the tatami together, and there was a metal sliding door with a pull ring underneath. I slowly opened the sliding door with my thoughts, and what appeared in front of us was a dark hole, and a metal vertical ladder went straight to the door. Continue down, as if leading into the Nine Nether Abyss.

Hitomi and I looked at each other, and then looked at Kannazuki together.

[Sure enough, what is closely connected with the ancient house is the ancient secret room!Xiaohua, have you ever heard of a secret room here? ! 】

Kanna Yue Xiaohua shook his head blankly.

【So, this secret room must be hiding some ancient secrets of the Kannazuki family and even the Tsukiyomi clan!Maybe it has something to do with this god in the family! 】

"But..." Xiaohua said in confusion, "Shouldn't this place have much to do with ancient secrets? Although our house has been built on this land hundreds of years ago, But in fact, the current house is not that old. This kind of wooden building needs to be renovated and rebuilt every few decades, otherwise it will be corroded too much. So the age of this house, the actual It hasn’t been more than 50 years at most, right? Even if there is a secret room, I think... it should have been left behind for some reason during the last rebuilding..."

[It is also possible that there was a secret room in the basement, and then a house was built on top of it. 】

Xiaotong probed the ground with a flashlight, which is reassuring because the light from the flashlight can still reach the ground, and the depth may not be as deep as I imagined.

"Senior Chaogiri wanted to guide us here, why? Could it be that... she is down here?" Xiaotong said a little uneasy.

[It's useless to think so much, anyway... I really want to go down and have a look, right?I go down first?If it's safe, I'll tell you to come down too. 】

Xiaotong nodded and handed me the flashlight.I floated above this vertical passage, and slowly began to sink into the corridor. The more I descended, the more rotten and damp the smell became.

At first, I was worried that this abyss-like underground would be a dark zombie lair, and then, the more I descended, the bottom was not as dark as I imagined, and there was even light, just a touch of glistening light. pale green light.And when it completely fell to the ground, it was even more shocked by the dreamy scene in front of it.

It was a basement room, flanked by huge bookshelves full of books, and a table that looked like a workbench, signs of someone living and working here.But the first thing anyone who comes down to this room will notice is not these, but the huge transparent glass curtain wall that occupies the entire wall.

Behind the glass curtain wall is water, a large amount of water, and lighting lights seem to be installed above it, illuminating the entire water body from top to bottom. Fluorescence is reflected into the basement room through the glass curtain wall, covering the whole room Under the dark and strange green.In the other layer of water, there are not only many green seaweed-like plants growing at the bottom, but also many ornamental fish swimming freely in the fish tank. What is amazing is that under the slightly transparent skin and flesh of these small fish, there is also With faint fluorescence.Not only was everything not as eerie as I first imagined, but it looked very "vigorous".

Facing this undersea aquarium-like dreamy scene, I lost my mind for a while before I had the energy to observe other things in the room.

The tall bookshelves on both sides are full of various books, and my eyes quickly scanned the names on the books——

"The Moon and the Immortal" by Nikolai Aleksandr Lovech Nevsky.

"Moon Night See の抱てるをち水", author Hideo Arai.

"Manyoshu" "Moon Night See" chapters.

"Investigation on the Ancient Japanese Elixir——Centered on".

Voodoo, Zombies, and Revenant Corpses

"The Lord Is Risen On The Seventh Day"

The Psychic Power of Hair

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It is really clear at a glance what kind of research the owner of this place is doing.

This place is simply a library of folk legends and records of various religions and cultures about the moon, immortality, immortality, resurrection, and returning to the soul.

Because I encountered too many abnormalities about hair just now, I first focused my attention on the book called "The Psychic Power of Hair", took the book off the shelf, opened it, and quickly glanced at the books in it. content.

This book roughly records the legends about hair in various cultures.In most cultures, hair has magical powers.As Fubuki said before, early people believed that the head was sacred and had potential magical powers, and these magical powers were also transmitted to the hair.During the witch hunt period, people believed that most of the witch's magic power was in the hair, and the person with loose hair must be the witch who was casting a spell. When a witch was tortured, people would often shave her hair first, thinking that the witch would be weak helpless.

Therefore, most cultures have special requirements for hair cutting, thinking that hair cutting will disturb the soul of the head, and it is a delicate job with high difficulty and high risk factor.Some cultures believe that hair cannot be cut, and some have to chant spells. In Japan, the emperor's hair can only be cut when he is sleeping, because the soul will leave the body temporarily, and the possibility of harming the soul will be much smaller.

Moreover, even after the hair is cut, it cannot be discarded at will.It is widely believed that the shaved hair still has a mystical connection to the body.Therefore, people usually burn, bury, pick up and store carefully the cut hair, or spit on it (saliva is known to be a protective agent), so as to prevent others from using the hair as a medium to cast a curse on themselves , to perform witchcraft or magic.

At the end of the book, there are even recorded spells about hair in some cultures, such as burying hair in a straw man to cast a curse on people, using hair as a medium to call back the soul of the dead to communicate with it, or using hair to lodge souls to animate dead things and so on.

I didn't have time to look at it in detail, so I just did a quick overview, but the information was enough, and someone in the house was obviously practicing these witchcraft.

My gaze finally turned to the desktop like a workbench. There were a lot of papers and notebooks scattered on the desktop, some of which were filled with mysterious symbols that I couldn't understand, like some kind of formula. It looks like the ratio of certain medicines, and some are some weird stick figures drawn by hand.

For example, one of the pieces of paper I saw showed a balance, with a human being and a snake placed on the left and right trays of the balance, and then two glasses of water were drawn on the two sides, and the words " "Becoming" and "death" were written on the other glass, and each of the two glasses of water was hit with an arrow. That side of the snake.

I didn't quite understand the picture, so I took another piece of paper just below this one.It is the same balance, but this time there are two people being weighed on the balance, one has long hair at the back of his head, and the other has completely shaved his head, but the man with hair has his long hair facing towards the A man without hair floats away.There are also two glasses of water drawn on both sides, the glass marked with "Bian Ruo" points to the man with long hair, and the glass marked with "Death" points to the man without hair, but this time, the balance is heavily tilted toward the man with no hair. side.

I really don't understand the standard of this scale weighing.

Just when I was confused by these messy notes, in this abnormally quiet underground space, two "dong, dong" sounds suddenly sounded, as if knocking on wood.

There seems to be no such thing as a wooden door in this room, right?

I frowned and identified it carefully, and found that the voice was coming from my left hand side. Looking along the source of the sound, I saw a sandalwood box that was placed on the shelf.

I took down the box, the style and color of this wooden box reveal a sense of simplicity, with a clear sense of age, a small seal-like pattern is engraved on the corner of the box, and a frost flower floats on the slanted crescent moon superior.

I recognize this symbol. I have seen this when Ning Meng was forced to learn about the relationships, origins and family lines between major families.This is the family crest of the Shimotsuki family. The Shimotsuki family has been known as the most outstanding handmade doll making family in Japan for at least two or three hundred years. the LOGO.

I opened the box cautiously, and as expected, I met eyes with a small doll.

It was an Ichimatsu doll (traditional Waji doll) in the form of a girl about 20 centimeters high.

(The puppet looks like this, just for reference)

The doll is dressed in a luxurious kimono, standing with a natural demeanor, with long hair loosely scattered behind the head, which seems to be well-cared for.And in that box, there was also a small wooden sign that was obviously corroded by the years, with a short message engraved on it——