"boom--!"

It was pitch black outside the window, and the wind banged against the glass from time to time. Everyone in the room was a little uneasy. Although typhoons are not unfamiliar to the Japanese, the biggest problem for the people here is not typhoons...

"Okay, that's all for today."

Fang Zheng continued to tutor for a while, and found that everyone had almost no interest in learning, so he could only reluctantly announce that it was over. Hearing his words, the girls seemed to be slightly relieved, and then the world jumped out again.

"Okay, okay, we've been studying for such a long time, I feel like my brain is going to fail. Why don't we relax and play some games? Or watch a movie or something?"

"Okay, okay!"

At this moment, the others seemed to have found a life-saving straw and nodded desperately. However, at this moment, Qiong suddenly stood up.

"Well, let's go to the movies. I happen to have a movie I really want to see."

"Great, Qiong...what movie?"

"You'll know when you see it."

As she spoke, Qiong took out a DVD from the TV cabinet, put it into the player, and then clicked on it. Soon, a new movie screen appeared on the TV. The girls also found a place to sit, leaning on the pillows, eating melon seeds, and looking at the TV in front of them with excitement.

As for Qiong, after pressing the play button, she skillfully returned to Fang Zheng's side and curled up, staring at the TV in front of her. For some reason, Fang Zheng could see that there seemed to be some strange light flashing in her eyes?

The scene begins with a high school girl studying. It is pitch black outside the window, and next to the girl, a fan is turning. The whole room is quiet, and there is no one except the girl.

The music started to become a little weird.

Suddenly, the girl seemed to sense something. She looked up and saw a fly flying around in front of her. This seemed to annoy the girl. She went downstairs, went to the refrigerator, picked up a drink, and drank it all. However, at this moment...

“Ding-ling-ling——!”

Suddenly, the phone rang quickly, scaring the girl. She put down the cup in her hand, walked to the phone and picked up the receiver.

"Hello... Dad? Mom?"

"Salad... salad..."

However, there was only rustling sound coming from the microphone.

The girl hung up the phone anxiously, and then returned to her desk to start reviewing. However, this time, she seemed a little uneasy. Not only that, there seemed to be some voice ringing in the girl's ears...

"Wait, what movie is this?"

At this moment, Shijie had already noticed something was wrong, and he swallowed his saliva with a pale face, tightly grasping the moment around him. When he heard her question, Qiong's mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a strange smile.

"The Ring."

"Ah... that new supernatural movie."

Hearing this, Gui Yanye became excited instead.

"Great, I've always wanted to see this..."

"A horror movie?!"

Setsuna couldn't help but tremble at this moment, and then hugged the pillow tightly in her arms. As for Touma next to her, he didn't say anything, but moved slightly closer to Setsuna.

For a moment, the atmosphere suddenly began to become tense.

"How about a different one?"

Looking at Qiong beside him, Fang Zheng knew that this was definitely her idea. However, to Fang Zheng's surprise, although the girls in front of him were very scared, none of them wanted to stop, especially Gui Yanye. Fang Zheng didn't know that this young lady actually liked watching horror movies so much...

Girls all seem to have this problem. Fang Zheng remembers that when he was in school, horror movies would occasionally be shown in the classroom. At that time, the girls would shout "How scary!", "How disgusting!", "Turn it off!" while covering their faces and peeking through their fingers. But if you really turned it off, they wouldn't be happy...

So women...don't ever expect to figure out what they are thinking.

Since everyone wanted to continue watching, Fang Zheng naturally would not take the initiative to cause trouble for himself. So he also leaned back on the sofa and began to enjoy the movie in front of him.

Before his rebirth, Fang Zheng had watched the movie "The Ring". It should be said that this supernatural film was well-known at the time, and Fang Zheng had naturally seen it. However, perhaps because parallel worlds are always different, although the central plot of the current "The Ring" is no different, there are some changes in other aspects.

For example, originally Sadako's curse was spread through videotapes, but here it is spread through videos, and not only on DVDs, but also on online videos. Because of this, the movie that originally looked like a horror movie becomes more and more like a disaster movie halfway through.

This is really interesting.

As he watched, Fang Zheng seemed to be really immersed in it. After all, the original movie was limited by the medium, so the story itself was not very harmful. After all, in that era, videotapes and video recorders were both quite large objects, and their movement was very limited.

But things are different in the Internet age. The popularity of smart phones and the development of online video websites have caused the spread of "Sadako's Curse" to grow exponentially. Even the most optimistic people will feel a chill down their spine at the thought of this.

Therefore, for Fang Zheng, it was like watching a modern remake of "The Ring", which was quite entertaining.

Of course, the main storyline remains the same, because the male protagonist who watched Sadako's video started looking for Sadako's body in order to save himself. Then they went through untold hardships and finally found Sadako's body in a dry well, then removed it and worshipped it.

But then again, why do all Japanese horror movies seem to follow this process?

Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng couldn't help but be distracted. If he remembered correctly, in Japanese ghost movies, the ones who killed ghosts were usually ordinary people, and they often encountered various problems due to lack of professionalism. However, there were no such things in Hong Kong ghost movies. Catching ghosts was basically the specialty of Taoist priests and monks.

Fang Zheng remembered that in the Hong Kong ghost movies he had watched, many times the masters would come to the protagonist's house and tell him, "I see your eyebrows are dark, I'm afraid you are haunted by ghosts." However, the protagonist did not believe it. It was not until the disaster was imminent that he knew to ask the master to save his life. Generally, the final decisive battle was left to professionals such as the masters, and the protagonist's job was more like a mascot or assistant.

But looking through Japanese ghost movies, there seems to be very few such "professionals". Instead, there are a group of protagonists who can't even recite the sutras, holding the Diamond Sutra in their left hand and a cross in their right hand, and then performing shaman dances... Fang Zheng couldn't understand what the protagonists in these ghost movies were thinking.

Who gave you the courage to do it yourself instead of seeking help from professionals?

Take "The Ring" for example, the protagonist saw the well in the video and thought that Sadako was wrongly killed, so she wanted to tell others where her body was, so she went to find it. Why don't you show it to the monks in the temple and ask them to discuss it for reference?

Hmm... maybe this is the screenwriter's malicious intention?

After all, if professionals take action, it will definitely eliminate the problem once and for all, and there will be no way to produce a sequel, right?

Just as Fang Zheng was daydreaming, the plot on TV had reached its most critical moment. The protagonist paid respect to and buried Sadako's body, and thought everything was fine, so he planned to go home. However, just as he was relaxing in the hotel, the phone rang again.

“Ding-ling-ling——!”

Hearing this, Qiong couldn't help but grab Fang Zheng's arm, and the girls widened their eyes, watching the protagonist swallow his saliva, then walked to the phone and picked up the receiver. However, only a rustling sound came from the receiver, and then...

"boom--!!"

With a thunder, suddenly, the whole room became dark.

"ah--!!!"

The next moment, a scream that almost pierced Fang Zheng's eardrums broke out. Before Fang Zheng could react, he felt Qiong grabbing his arm tightly, and Xue Cai on the other side was so scared that she threw herself into his arms. The world also dragged Setsuna to squeeze beside Fang Zheng. For a moment, Fang Zheng only felt that his body was soft, trembling, and full of good smells...

Only Touma and Katsura were still sitting there. Katsura Kotonoha seemed to have not reacted to what had happened, and Touma seemed to... had he fainted?

"I say, why are you so excited?"

Fang Zheng helplessly stretched out his left hand to take out his cell phone, then turned on the flashlight and shone it around.

"It's just a power outage, that's all. It's normal for a typhoon to cause a power outage."

"call……"

After hearing Fang Zheng's words, the girls seemed to finally come to their senses. They looked at each other, then involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes, there is a power outage..."

"Yeah, that's right, it was just a power outage... I was really scared just now..."

"That's right, the power outage came at a very inopportune time."

As they spoke, the girls smiled somewhat stiffly. However, just when they finally breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly...

“Ding-ling-ling——!”

The urgent ring of the phone suddenly rang, breaking the original silence.

“Eh——!!!”

Hearing the phone ringing, the girls' originally relaxed bodies tensed up again, and Fang Zheng was about to stand up, but before he could get up, he was held down by the others.

"Wait, Kasugano-kun, what are you doing?"

"What...Answer the phone, of course?"

Fang Zheng felt that the world must have gone crazy after watching a horror movie. When the phone rang, he had to answer it.

"But who would call home in this day and age?"

Shanshan, who was hiding behind Fang Zheng, analyzed in a calm but somewhat uneasy voice.

"Generally speaking, normal people would call their cell phones first. They would only call if their cell phones couldn't be reached, right?"

"Yes, that's right..."

At this moment, Qiong also reacted.

"Brother, is there a telephone at home?"

“Eh——!!”

Hearing this, the girls seemed to become even more nervous, while Fang Zheng rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Nonsense, where do you get internet if you don't have a phone? And sometimes I even specially installed a phone to prevent you from not having a phone."

"Yes, that's right..."

After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, the girls seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief, but soon, Qiong became nervous again.

"But, no one knows our home phone number!"

"Hmm... this is really a blind spot."

Facing Qiong's question, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment before he realized it. Indeed, he only had the landline phone at home recorded at school as an emergency contact. Ordinary people... didn't seem to know about it?

After all, most people use mobile phones to communicate nowadays, who still uses landlines?

"Well, maybe it was a wrong number."

Fang Zheng was not as scared as these girls. Are you kidding? The Ring? Even if you had a thousand Sadakos, Fang Zheng would just send you home with a first flame. Even if there really was a ghost, he was not afraid.

Do you really not consider Paladins as cadres?

“…Ring, ring, ring…”

Finally, after a while, the phone stopped ringing, and the girls all breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next moment...

"Ding-ling-ling..."

The phone rang again.

"This... this is not a wrong number."

Setsuna's voice was almost tearful, and Touma and Katsura beside her also began to feel uneasy.

"Forget it, just let me answer the phone and I'll know."

Fang Zheng was also speechless. He first broke free from the restraints of the other people, then walked out of the living room, came to the corridor, and came to the phone that kept ringing.

Then, Fang Zheng picked up the microphone.