The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"Well, generally, the children of most other families take a picture of wearing a kimono and going to the shrine to pay homage during the Seven-Five-Three Festival. However, the rules of the Mochizuki family seem to be a bit special. Their family does not go to the shrine, but let the children Worship this mural, and then take a photo. Could it be that there is something strange about this photo?"

"No, there's nothing weird about it. I'm just curious because... well... I have a mural that looks similar at home."

Chapter 52 What I Want To Do

Concealing the shock in his heart, Xiaotong turned the page lightly pretending nothing happened, and continued to look down.

Then there was Mochizuki Ningmeng in elementary school and even middle school, which was different from the one Xiaotong is familiar with now. At that time, Ningmeng was a tomboy with neat short hair and always dressed like a tomboy. The expression feels alienated just by standing there.

Although not the same as her current look, it fits nicely with those photos in the forum post.It seems that Ning Meng is undoubtedly the "Lingmeng" mentioned in that post.

In the photos that followed, Ning Meng's appearance became closer and closer to the current image, more and more gentle, always with a decent smile, and looked more and more in line with the personality of a young lady.

Perhaps, this is what my uncle said, wearing a mask called "perfection".

However, to Xiao Tong's surprise, no matter in the photos of Mochizuki Ning Meng when she was a child, or in her recent photos, Xiao Tong could not find the slightest trace of a spirit body in the background.

Did the spirit just happen to be out of frame, or was that spirit the type that couldn't be caught on camera?

Taking photos of ghosts is itself a very low probability event. Even if you can't see a ghost, you can't say for sure that it doesn't exist.

Xiaotong suppressed her disappointment temporarily, and then asked Mochizuki Masahiko about another matter: "Uncle, the summer three years ago should have been when Mochizuki-senpai was in the third grade of middle school, and the specific time was July 7th. Before and after, did Mochizuki-senpai do anything strange?"

Three years ago, on July 7th, it was the day when "Chaoyan" and "Reimu" went to the dance classroom to live broadcast the adventure on the forum.

"July 7 three years ago..." Mochizuki Masahiko seemed very surprised by the precise date given by Hitomi. He tried hard to recall what happened on that day, or during that period of time, but found that I can't think of anything myself.

"I... I don't remember much... July three years ago, it should be when Ning Meng was on her summer vacation... She spent most of the summer vacation at home reading some books, drawing pictures, or Use the computer to surf the Internet, and maybe go out to play? Sorry, I really don’t know about this. After all, I am busy with work, and I am basically not at home during the day. Sometimes I have to go out at night because of urgent matters... In my impression... It seems that she did not What strange change?"

"On the night of July 7th, Mochizuki-senpai may have sneaked into Holy Trinity School with another senior sister to investigate a strange story, but in the end only Mochizuki-senpai came back alone. It is said that she was sent to the hospital because of coma in the early morning Went to the hospital and then woke up the next morning and left the hospital by himself."

"This..." Mochizuki Masahiko squeezed his left hand with his right hand, and said with a little dejection, "I... I don't know that such a thing happened. It might be the few days when I was not at home at night. In my In my memory...three years ago...Ning Meng stayed at home normally during that summer vacation...well...it was the summer vacation four years ago, she often went to the Holy Trinity school..."

"The summer vacation four years ago?" Xiaotong asked repeatedly in doubt.

"Well, yes. At that time, Ning Meng was in the second grade of middle school. Because I was busy with work, I often didn't have time to take care of Ning Meng, so she took the initiative to tell me that she wanted to go to Holy Trinity, a boarding school. Girls' high school. After confirming that she was planning to go to this school, Ning Meng said that she wanted to go to the school to understand the environment first. The school is not completely closed during the summer vacation. They will also continue activities and training in the school, so as long as they get the permission, they can still enter and leave the school freely. And that school is the alma mater of the inner child Yuriko, and the inner child has a lot of affection for this school, so the Mochizuki family seems to have a lot of love for Holy Trinity With investment, my wife is also one of the school directors. I got a travel permit from the school in the name of my wife, so that Ning Meng can go in and out of the campus during the summer vacation and visit freely. Later Ning Meng said that she was in the school early I joined a club and got along very well with a senior, she went to school almost every day during the summer vacation."

That's it, Xiaotong nodded. This is the reason why Mochizuki-senpai at the time was able to enter and leave the school freely even though she was not a student at the time when the school had strict control over outsiders.Thinking about it this way, the time Ning Meng sneaked into the school three years ago, maybe the school couldn't find out Ning Meng's identity, but just found out about the school manager... I thought it was just a child's game of courage anyway. , did not cause any loss, so I suppressed the news.

But... no damage was done?So what about that senior sister Xiyan's "Shen Yin"?

No, wait a minute, Xiaotong recalled a detail, at the end of that psychic dream, senior sister Xiyan said, "Seniors in the third grade are very busy".But this time actually happened four years ago, so when she actually sneaked into the dance classroom, this senior sister Xiyan should have already graduated!

OG who has graduated sneaked into his alma mater in the middle of the night with a school girl who has not yet entered school?It seems to make sense, but I always feel that something is weird.

But recalling that all the surveillance along the way in the school only captured Ning Meng alone, and the camera equipment floating in the air, as if being carried by an invisible person, Xiao Tong couldn't help but start to have such a thought in his mind.

What if Ning Meng was really the only one who sneaked into the campus at that time?

In fact, it is not impossible to levitate and move objects without manpower. Mochizuki Ningmeng has had such visions around her since she was a child, and the "Senior Mochizuki" in the mirror has already become a child. Hitomi has demonstrated this ability twice.

Xiaotong faintly felt that he was about to grasp something, only a little bit.

Xiaotong stood up and said to Mochizuki Masahiko: "Uncle, I want to go to the room of the senior sister upstairs to have a look, is that okay?"

After getting his uncle's permission, Xiaotong went upstairs and pushed Mochizuki Ningmeng's room away again.

It was still the frigid arrangement that I had seen before, Xiaotong said sorry in her heart, and began to rummage through the bookshelves and drawers to see if there were any helpful clues, such as diaries and the like.

It's frustrating that after searching for a long time, I didn't find anything of value.Wangyue Ningmeng didn't seem to keep a diary, nor did she hide anything meaningful in some hidden corners. It looked like an ordinary and simple room.

Xiaotong finally turned his gaze to the computer in the room.

During the summer vacation three years ago, Mochizuki Ningmeng mainly stayed at her home, and her main activities were reading books, painting, and using the computer to surf the Internet.Hmm...so is there any information on the computer?

Xiaotong pressed the power button. Fortunately, the computer did not have a power-on password, but the clean desktop, which looked like a newly installed system, made Xiaotong wonder if he could really find anything.

After thinking about it, she opened her browser and entered the URL of her school forum.

After entering the forum, it was displayed that he was not logged in. Xiaotong clicked on the login interface, and the mouse paused on the input box of the user name, and two previously used user names were listed in the drop-down form.

One is [Chaoyan], which Xiaotong was not surprised by, and the other is [Pleasure Ghost], which she did not expect at all.

The login password is not automatically saved on the webpage, but it is no longer needed for Xiaotong.

She glanced blankly at the ID of [Haunter], immediately picked up her phone and searched for the post by [Haunter] (see Chapter 28 for details).

It was this post that told the story of Lihua and Linghua. Lihua was jealous of her sister Linghua, and pushed her sister downstairs and broke her leg, which made it difficult for Linghua to continue dancing in the future. Linghua, who was full of resentment, committed suicide in front of the mirror and turned into a mirror. The evil spirits in the house found the younger sister, exchanged with the younger sister, invaded the body of the pear blossom, and sealed the pear blossom in the mirror forever.

However, Xiaotong already knows that Youxiang has not been able to find the names of Pear Flower and Bell Flower in the school's student roster over the years. This is a fabricated story.

And then look at the posts made by the ID [朝颜] in the year before it completely stopped its activities (see Chapter 34 for details).

[No.13 steps], most of the comments under the post are disbelieving comments, saying that they have never encountered it before.

[The piano playing in the middle of the night], some commented that they seemed to really hear the sound of a piano playing at night.

[Human model in the biology laboratory], it seems that many people have witnessed this thing, and this is one of the courage test items reserved in the school.

【Mirror in the dance classroom】may have directly led to Mochizuki Ningmeng's death.

With the chronological order of the posts, the horror of the ghost stories increases step by step.

It was almost as if some kind of experiment was being carried out.

Xiao Tong leaned against the back of the chair and slowly closed her eyes.

The voice that I heard in my dream yesterday sounded in my head again——

"First, strange stories need to be feared...

"Secondly, ghost stories need to contain the unknown...

"Third, the emotion of fear needs to be directed to a specific thing or name...

"...Ning Mengjiang, you know these things, what exactly do you want to do?"

So, Mochizuki-senpai, is this what you want to do?

Do it yourself, create a brand new ghost story from scratch?

Chapter 53 Imagining Friends

If it is assumed that all the ghost stories in the dance classroom three years ago were planned by Mochizuki Reimu, and the purpose was to create a ghost story, then everything seems to be easy to explain.

Ning Meng was the only one in the surveillance video or the photos posted on the forum, and the senior sister "Chaoyan" disappeared mysteriously. The reason was that only Mochizuki Ningmeng entered the campus that day, and that "Chaoyan" The senior sister has actually graduated from school, so there is no way to find anyone missing in the school!

And Ning Meng probably specially chose her father to do this one day when she was away from home all night because of something to do. She sneaked into the school to take photos and posted them on the forum, then pretended to be unconscious, and sneaked away in the hospital. He pretended nothing happened in front of his father.

[Chaoyan] This account was registered six years ago. It should be the old account of that senior sister Xiyan. Maybe Ning Meng is going to use it after graduating from school. However, the account of [Haunter] is probably Mochizuki-senpai registered by herself after enrolling, and the time was indeed just right.

There seems to be no problem with this reasoning, but there is still something that makes Xiaotong feel extremely puzzled.

That was Mochizuki Ningmeng's motivation, why would she want to create a brand new strange story by herself?

Just looking for fun and fun?This is clearly not the case from psychic dreams.

So, want to use the power of ghost stories to do something?

Indeed, ghost talks are things that cannot be explained by common sense, and things that cannot be done under a normal and scientific worldview.

Xiaotong once again recalled the second of the three elements of ghost stories, "Secondly, ghost stories need to contain the unknown, that is, mysterious and unexplainable elements... This mysterious part is often the manifestation of the ghost story's ability..."

So, where is the mystery of the ghost story "Mirror in the Dance Classroom"?

First of all, the reflection in the mirror was not consistent with my own performance, and then... According to the post posted by [The Whisperer], the dead Bell Flower and Pear Flower in the mirror switched places, and Bell Flower occupied the body of Pear Blossom, while Pear Blossom was enclosed in the mirror...

The ability Ning Mengmeng wants to obtain is... exchange?

The painting "Dream and Sleep" originally described by Uncle Mochizuki flashed through Xiaotong's mind. Mochizuki outside the mirror stared at Mochizuki in the mirror with closed eyes. Did she want the self in the mirror to replace herself?

Thinking of this, Xiaotong began to reflect on whether he was thinking too much or not.

After all, this operation is too strange.

If Ning Meng saw himself in the mirror as a long-dead undead, wouldn't it be instinctive for the undead to erode the consciousness of the living and seize other people's bodies?If Ning Meng just didn't want to live anymore and wanted to give her body to her ghost friend, why would it be so complicated if she just let her possess her body?

In other words, the "moon-watching" in the mirror is not a ghost?

What would that be?

Mochizuki Masahiko leaned against the door of the room, watching Xiaotong rummaging around in the room, his lips moved slightly, but he didn't stop him in the end.Then he saw Xiaotong turned on the computer and browsed the webpage, then took out his mobile phone and looked at it for a long time, and finally closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the chair, falling into long contemplation.

After waiting for a while, he asked, "Have you encountered any problems?"

Xiaotong lowered her head and said, "I don't understand what Mochizuki-sister wants to do."

Mochizuki Masahiko hesitated for a moment, opened and closed his lips a few times, and finally asked aloud: "Student Miriyue... Can you tell me what kind of person you see Ning Meng is like?"

"Hmm... The Nemu I know may not have the same personality as the deity. She always gives people a feeling of heartlessness. Although she is a ghost, her thoughts are always super positive, and there are always all kinds of strange things. Thoughtful, not at all fussy, a little mischievous, sometimes it makes people feel quite disturbed, but overall it makes people feel...she is a very interesting person to get along with."

Mochizuki Masahiko listened to Xiaotong's description, and couldn't help but smile, "It really doesn't sound like Ning Meng's character now, but... it's a bit like Ning Meng's appearance when she was a child."

"Senior sister... when I was a child?"

"Yeah, Ning Meng was like this when I was a child. Since when did the little guy who always brought us happiness disappear from our eyes? It's our fault..."

Although Mochizuki Masahiko was smiling, tears slowly fell from the corners of his eyes. He took off his glasses and wiped his eyes with his right hand, then sighed and said, "Perhaps, after death, people won't have so many disguises. Instead, she will show her truest side."

If Xiaotong realized something, she raised her head and said to Mochizuki Masahiko: "Uncle, can you tell me something about Mochizuki-senpai's childhood?"

"Okay." Having said that, Mochizuki Masahiko took out a small iron box from the bottom of the bookshelf, "Let me show you the paintings Ning Meng drew when she was a child, although some are a bit weird... But they are actually very cute..."

Xiaotong looked at the stack of drawing paper that Uncle Mochizuki took out from the iron box, and while looking at the painting, he listened to Uncle Mochizuki telling the interesting story that happened when Ning Meng was painting this painting.

Most of those paintings were drawn with thick crayons, and the brushstrokes were immature, far from being comparable to the paintings she drew later, but these paintings made people feel happy just looking at them.

Most of the pictures are a little girl playing with various things, such as desks, stoves, kettles, hangers, puppets, small trains, etc... Most of these things have grown hands and feet, Then they showed happy smiling faces together, either holding hands happily together, or chasing and playing.

"Children seem to feel that everything, even inanimate things, can be talked and communicated. And Ning Meng is a child with a super rich imagination, so for Ning Meng at that time, the things on her screen These things should be her friends."

"Friend..." Xiaotong repeated the word unconsciously, and then asked Mochizuki Masahiko another question, "Uncle, if my sister has an obsession before she dies, it must be something that must be obtained, or it must be A certain thing to be accomplished, what do you think this obsession might be?"

Mochizuki Masahiko said with a wry smile: "I don't know what Ning Meng is now. However, if it was her when she was a child, she must want friends. She has no one to hang out with in that big house, my wife She was given heavy schoolwork, and she was not allowed to go out at will, so she always wanted to have friends with whom she could play, and once she even asked me if I could have a younger sister with my mother to play with her Well. But when she grows up, she may change her mind, I heard... she is still very popular at school."

Does Mochizuki-senpai lack friends in school?

Intuitively, there must be no lack of it, but there are a large number of her admirers and fans in school.If fans can't be considered friends, then the people in the student union should also be her friends, right?Sakurai Miki-senpai likes her so much, albeit a little too much?Saeki Koko seems to have a good relationship with her too?

However, Hitomi recalled what Saiki-senpai had said.

"She is very gentle to everyone, but in fact she is not gentle to everyone..."

"Maybe the only thing she likes is herself... She always carries a mirror with her, and she often uses it to take a picture of herself when she has nothing to do..."

Hmm... Could it be that Mochizuki-senpai wants to recreate herself as her friend because of her narcissism?Mochizuki [Alter]?Mochizuki [Lily]?

Maybe it's really possible.

Because when Xiaotong continues to look back at the paintings that Mochizuki-senpai drew when she was young, she will find that most of the paintings behind are the daily life of two very similar little girls playing together.

"This is..." Xiaotong pointed to those paintings and asked.

"Because we didn't give Ning Meng a younger sister, but a younger brother who she thought was not cute at all. I asked her why she drew two herself. She said that was her younger sister. I laughed. I asked her where she got her younger sister, but she insisted that she had a younger sister..."

Mochizuki Masahiko's tone became weaker as he spoke, as if he had realized something, he continued to ask: "Is this... related to what Ning Meng encountered later?"

"Probably."

Xiaotong realized that she might be wrong, she always thought that the friend that Mochizuki-senpai mentioned was some ghost in that mansion.But now it seems that it is very likely that she is actually an imaginary friend because she is too lonely?And when I grow up, because I can gradually distinguish between fantasy and reality, that friend disappears.So... Mochizuki-senpai wants to wake up that sleeping friend?

This seems to explain why the ghost can still exist as a spirit body even though it doesn't seem to have any obsessions.

Because, she is Mochizuki Ningmeng's obsession itself!

This is crazy.

No no no, wait a minute, is that really the case?

But...if the ghost friend is imagined, then...how did the ghost phenomenon appear? !

Uh, wait, I seem to have seen it somewhere, and other possible reasons for the phenomenon of Sao Ling...

Where are you coming from?It seems that I just saw it recently...

Xiaotong picked up the phone and stared at the ID [Haunter] on the screen for a long time.

She remembered where she had seen it.

Among the large pile of past records in the club activity room of the Folklore Research Institute, there are several booklets that Wang Yuemian clearly pointed out that the handwriting matches her handwriting.

Among them, one is "The Origin of Strange Talk".

And the other book is called "Discussion on the Causes of the "Sao Ling Phenomenon"".