Chapter 63: The Mystery of the Back Spirit

"We'll be able to meet up with that legendary resident Li Yin tomorrow, ah." Dong Xie recalled that bloodstained experience in Japan back then, so much so that it gave him the feeling that it was nothing short of a miracle that he was alive at this very moment. Because of the death of Kitayama Yuichi, the Bloodletter quest was finally able to end, and the evil spirits were re-sealed in the Goujou Pavilion. Mo Yuan and the others, then came straight out of the Wheel-in Dojo Pavilion. At the end of the bloodletter quest, Dong Qi, Mo Yuan and Ginyu agreed to meet again in China, and then Mo Yuan took Dong Qi and Dong Ning back to the apartment. And this time, Dong Xie and Dong Ning siblings knew the new hidden rules of the apartment. But sadly, it wasn't anything new. What Dong Xie learned was that holding the apartment key oath allowed them to enter the apartment on their own initiative, and what Dong Ning knew was that by drawing an inverted cross on the wall and writing the room number of a certain resident, they could cancel the other party's bloodletter quest by canceling one of their own bloodletters, and then canceling one or two more bloodletters (depending on whether or not the other party had performed more than five bloodletters) to bring the other party back to the apartment. All of these hidden rules were known by Pu Shenyu himself in the beginning and left in the bloodletter records. There was no difference between knowing and not knowing. "It really is a return from the dead …… this time ……" Since entering the apartment, the bloodletter mission of this trip to Japan had left too deep an impression on Dong Ning. Several times, it was a brush with death. Dong Xie gazed at her sister in front of her, at that time, she chose to let Kitayama Yuanyi turn into their scapegoat, and was ultimately killed by the evil spirits that constituted the path to life. This was just too cruel, but there was nothing that could be done about it. He only hoped that there wouldn't be such a cruel, genocidal birth path in the future. "If it's the apartment deliberately arranging for us to come into contact with the old residents ……," Dong Ning spoke while holding his cell phone to look at the current movements within the group, "its underlying purpose is likely related to the entrance to hell. " "Do you think so too? Ning?" "Uh-huh. However, I'm most concerned about what Mrs. Kara Himura said to you during this visit to Kitayama Shrine." Evil Spirits of Hawaii …… Dong Xie still remembers the expression on Himura Kara's face at that time. It was obvious that she knew something, but it was also difficult to describe it in words that could be understood by normal people. At the very least, it was certain that that Evil Spirit wasn't following him around at all times like the Back Spirit, and knowing that still gave him a sigh of relief. "Brother, I actually have an idea." "Hmm?" "We may have fallen into a misconception in our thinking." Dong Ning said this and put down his cell phone, his expression becoming solemn: "Did that evil spirit really haunt you in Hawaii?" Dong Qi was first stunned, but then immediately understood Dong Ning's meaning. "That's right …… before I went to Hawaii, I can't remember the last time I took a selfie, let alone sent it to my friends." "So …… you may not have been haunted by evil spirits because you went to Hawaii. Maybe it was earlier ……" "It was …… this way?" "Do you remember that strange thing that happened during our first Bloodletter mission? At that time, we were trapped inside a room, and that evil spirit's hand was reaching in, but it suddenly retracted. At that time, we had thought that we had inadvertently triggered the life path, but the final life path was actually entering inside the elevator." "You …… you this?" "I have an idea. What if the Evil Spirit of Hawaii was already haunting you at that point?" "Could you be saying that the evil spirit was the one that …… No, that can't be true, the evil spirit that haunted the occupant in the blood letter could never have attacked the occupant after the blood letter ended and he entered the apartment. Could it be that earlier, before entering the apartment I was?" Come to think of it, Dong Xie had indeed traveled to quite a few gloomy places in order to collect horror novel subjects. If he was haunted by some evil spirit in the process …… "Ning, do you mean to say that the hand of that old man's evil spirit in the first blood letter at that time retracted because of the effect of that evil spirit that haunted me? Then it wasn't an evil spirit at all, but a guardian spirit, right?" "Well, guardian spirits are naturally not scary, and it's not like you're a substitute messenger, brother." "…… Don't play with the JOJO stunt at a time like this, right?" Dong Xie knew that Dong Ning would always have the personality of being serious for no more than three seconds. Dong Ning then said, "I've seen a Japanese horror movie before, Sadako vs. Gamako, and the plot setting in it gave me some reference." "Sadako …… Gamako? The Japanese are also playing with the movie universe?" Dong Xie really heard about it for the first time, "Don't you usually recommend me when there's a good looking horror movie?" "Well …… because the movie itself is poorly made and not very scary. But the movie is set up with two female protagonists, who are cursed by two major female ghosts, Sadako and Gakko, respectively, and in order to undo the curse, a psychic gives them the idea to fight fire with fire, and the two women choose to go into Gakko's haunted house to watch Sadako's videotape. The psychic's notion was that two evil spirits preying on a common target at the same time would fight first, banking on getting Sadako and Gamago to kill each other." "That sounds very …… farfetched." Dong Xie always felt that it wasn't quite right, "The movie's setup was just to give Sadako and Gako a reason to fight, right? It's not like they're grabbing some important trophy, is it necessary to fight another powerful female ghost just to kill a cursed object? Well, taking a step back, the evil spirit killing in the Bloodletter quest could be seen as a hard indicator of the apartment's layout, but the one …… that appeared behind me in Hawaii wouldn't be affected by the apartment, would it?" "Well, in fact, I've never understood whether the evil spirit follows the condominium's instructions to act, or whether the condominium merely imposes a restriction on its actions. At the end of the day, most of the Evil Spirit killings in the Bloodletter quests aren't the usual horror movie vengeance, which tends to be indiscriminate killings for no reason at all. Perhaps to the evil spirits, killing the cursed target has some sort of special significance present." Dong Xie pondered for a while before still shaking his head. "No, even so it still doesn't make sense. From the first Bloodletter to that time in Hawaii, I've had too much time to stay outside my apartment, but that evil spirit has never even killed me. If it was meant to kill me itself, then why was that?" "Some kind of condition may not have been met. For example, using the Sadako Yamamura mentioned above as an example," Dong Ning said, holding out her index finger, "Sadako Yamamura's condition for killing was that the person who had seen the videotape had not copied it and shown it to someone else within a seven-day period. Then, the evil spirits in Hawaii could be the same situation, requiring a certain condition to be met in order to ……" When Dong Xie heard Dong Ning say this, his face also became grave. "Brother, what I mean is that …… in the future, if there isn't a special reason, it's better not to leave the apartment. In any case, the apartment is absolutely safe." "I don't think …… this evil spirit has nothing to do with the apartment." Dong Xie's opinion, on the other hand, didn't change easily, "If it's really not possible, if I can finally complete the Blood Word ten times, I might be able to use that wish to be informed of the truth about this evil spirit. Even if the wish can't do any harm to the evil spirit, it would be good to at least understand its roots and find a way to undo the spell." If Dong Ning's deduction was valid, then the Hawaiian Evil Spirit would have no connection to Fang Han. But was it really that simple? Dong Xie vaguely felt that it was definitely connected to the entrance to hell. I'm afraid that it wouldn't be long before the third entrance to hell would be opened. If Fang Han hadn't died yet, then it was likely that he would be launching his operation, right? At the same time …… A car pulled up outside the neighborhood where the apartment was located. "Dong Evil is living here now, are you sure?" "There shouldn't be any mistakes, I know his Baidu ID, and I've seen his specific location when he posted on the Baidu bar before, he definitely lives in this neighborhood." "Okay, I know, thank you for driving me, Zhao Qishan." Xie Ruoni looked at the cell door in front of her and said, "Since it's all here, it's impossible for him to avoid me and not meet up. I also don't know his bank account number, and he returned the WeChat transfer. I have to meet with him in person and pay back the money owed for my dad's surgery before ……"