After that, Shizuku also contacted Hinasaki Shinku and learned that she had caught up with Tsukimori Sonaka, but Tsukimori Sonaka's emotions were extremely unstable now, so she planned to comfort her before coming back. Shizuku nodded and agreed without asking any questions.
Although some unpleasant things happened, after turning the Longyue Pavilion upside down, everyone finally found some clues and figured out some things about Longyue Island.
It has to be said that the situation on this island was really beyond the expectations of Shizuku and others.
According to the experience of Shizuku, Hinasaki Shinku, Amakura Mio and Kurosawa Rei, their first guess was that there was a Gate to the Underworld on Oborozuki Island, and the people of Oborozuki Island prepared some kind of ritual to seal the Gate to the Underworld, and then the ritual failed, and then the whole island was destroyed - but this was not the case.
According to the information, no one on Longyue Island knows anything about the Yellow Spring Gate, and there is indeed no Yellow Spring Gate on Longyue Island. However, based on everything that happened on the island, it can be seen that there should be a Yellow Spring Gate here, but if as expected, that Yellow Spring Gate should be located in the deep sea and be closed.
Then the question is, what is the purpose of the ceremony on Longyue Island?
The answer is... they are here to open the gate to the underworld.
To be honest, when people got this answer, their first reaction was "Isn't this courting death?"
However, the residents of Longyue Island clearly think differently from others.
The reason is that although the gate to the underworld here is closed, it is not completely closed.
To put it bluntly, this place is actually very similar to the "Sleeping House" of the Kuze family. Although the Gate to the Underworld is closed, the miasma is still leaking out. Although it has not reached the point of total destruction like other places, it has also caused problems.
That is - Moon Phantom Disease.
This is a disease that only occurs in the island of Misty Moon and its surrounding areas. In simple terms, the soul of the patient will be attracted by the moon and go to another world. Then, the patients can come back if they are lucky enough, but not if they are not. Then their bodies will be occupied by other evil spirits. Or their souls will be broken and they will become crazy, or all kinds of strange things will happen.
The most important thing is that when Tsukiyomizu disease develops to the final stage, the patient's face will become distorted, and it will look as if natural gas is spraying from their face all the time. Because this scene looks like flowers blooming in the air, this phenomenon is also called "Sakihana".
However, the most terrifying thing is that this is a human-to-human transmission phenomenon (pay attention).
People with Sakihana on their faces will die soon after, and anyone who sees them will be infected and develop Sakihana, and then they will be seen by others, and the infection will spread... and then they will die. Therefore, in order to prevent Sakihana from developing, all patients will have their faces shaved off after they die.
Of course, this is only a temporary solution and it can only be used to make up for the loss afterwards, which is obviously not a cure for the disease.
When a problem arises, it must be solved. The method used by Oborozuki Island to solve the problem is to initiate a ceremony called "Return Welcoming". The ritual method is the same as "Oborozuki Kagura", with five masked "Kagura" shrine maidens holding musical instruments and performing, while a masked "Kagura" shrine maiden dances in the middle.
The purpose of this ritual is to attract all the evil spirits and ghosts that are exiled, gather them together, and then build a passage with the "vessel" priestess as the core, open the gate of the underworld, and send these evil spirits back to the underworld. The "Moon Guardian Song" played by the "playing" priestess is used to suppress the resentment of the resentful spirits and let them ascend to heaven in peace. In this way, the broken souls that haunt the patients with the Moon Phantom Disease will disappear, and the patients will be able to return to normal.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the other three families are facing the threat of a nuclear explosion where either the explosion occurs or the entire family dies, while Oborozuki Island is facing radiation pollution caused by a nuclear leak - so the corresponding measures are naturally completely different.
At least this ceremony looks much more humane than the previous ones. If everything goes well, no one will die.
Well, if everything goes well.
But reality is never what you want.
So they still screwed up.
Although it is not known whether it was due to the failure to pay tolls or the congestion caused by the National Day holiday, the result was that at the welcoming ceremony for the return of the dead, the souls that were attracted were not able to enter the underworld as expected, which caused them to become furious and then explode on the spot - a real explosion.
Then, the shrine maiden at that time also developed the Sakihana form and infected other people. Then their Sakihana forms were seen by other people again and continued to spread - this almost caused the complete destruction of Oborozuki Island for a time, but fortunately, they survived in the end.
After that, the Return Welcoming Ceremony was abandoned until modern times. In order to open up the island and develop tourism, the people here took out the originally sealed Return Welcoming Ceremony and simplified it into "Oborozuki Kagura". Of course, this ceremony does not have the real effect of "Return Welcoming", it is simply a show for others to see.
But no matter what, the problem is not solved.
The Moon Phantom Disease still exists, which makes the residents of Oborozuki Island very distressed, including the owner of Oborozuki House and the director of the hospital, Haibara. Especially after his daughter Haibara Sakuya also suffered from the Moon Phantom Disease, Director Haibara has been trying to use the power of ancient rituals and modern technology to treat this disease.
But in the end it was clearly a failure.
Don't ask me how I know this. Just look at this island where all the people are dead and you'll know it clearly.
After checking these materials and information, the memories of Mizunotsuki Ryuka and the other three were restored. They were indeed patients with Tsukiyomizu disease. Not only that, Aso Misaki also recalled that when she was hospitalized, she had a very important friend, that is, Haibara Sakuya. At that time, she and Haibara Sakuya had a very good relationship, but in the end the nurse forbade the two to meet again.
Now the problem has been basically investigated. That is, the five girls including Mizunotsuki Ryuka who left Longyue Island at that time all suffered from the Moon Phantom Disease. At that time, they did not seem to be completely cured. The two people who died before died because of the recurrence of the Moon Phantom Disease. The biggest problem at present is how to treat the Moon Phantom Disease and eliminate the threat here.
"What are we going to do, Miss Kasugano?"
Kurosawa Rei stared at Shizuku and asked. If it was somewhere else, Shizuku would have directly sealed the Yellow Spring Gate. But the Yellow Spring Gate here is in the deep sea, not on the island. Now what they are facing is just something like the residue of nuclear radiation pollution, which is very troublesome.
"Um……"
Hearing Kurosawa Rei's question, Shizuku thought for a moment.
"We can consider using the welcoming ceremony of the return of the savior from Longyue Island to solve this problem."
"Why?"
"Just like the Gui Lai Ying, gather all the resentful spirits together, then open the road to the underworld and send them in. Then I will destroy the entire underworld gate directly from the outside."
Having said that, Shizuku snapped her fingers.
"Well, it's very simple, right?"
"But... the ceremony requires five priestesses to play the Moon Guardian Song, and one priestess to dance. What should we do?"
Amakura Mio asked doubtfully.
"We don't know the music for the Moon Guardian Song, we can't play it, and no one knows how to dance?"
“Well…”
Hearing Amakura Mio's question, Shizuku blinked and was about to say something when suddenly the terminal next to her rang. Then Shizuku picked up the terminal and opened it, and then Hinasaki's deep and urgent voice came from it.
"Shizuku-sister, we have a problem here!"
"……Why?"
Shizuku was stunned when she heard the voice coming from Hinasaki Shinku.
Can this also flip over?
[Time goes back half an hour ago]
“Aaaaaaaaaah!!!”
With a shrill scream, a ghost of a little girl in a black dress fell to the ground, and then her body turned into a little light and was sucked into the lens created by the divine mirror in Hinasaki Shinku's hand. It was not until this time that Shizuku breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Tsukimori Sonaka behind her.
"It's alright, Miss Yuanxiang."
"Thank you, thank you... Miss Crimson..."
Until this time, Tsukimori Sonaka, who was curled up beside her, stood up tremblingly and thanked Hinasaki Shinku. Just now, she had a big fight with Aso Misaki and ran to the ward area here. Then she was found by Hinasaki Shinku. After Hinasaki Shinku comforted her, Tsukimori Sonaka gradually calmed down. Then the two planned to go back and meet up with others. At the same time, Tsukimori Sonaka also planned to confess her feelings to Aso Misaki.
But at this moment, a little girl's ghost suddenly appeared and attacked Tsukimori Sonaka. Her name was Ayako, and Tsukimori Sonaka seemed to be quite afraid of this girl, so Hinasaki Shinku also stood up, used the Imperial Mirror mobile phone in her hand to deal with the other party, and finally sealed her.
"Okay, relax a little. I have sealed the vengeful spirit and it will never come out again."
Hinasaki Shinku knew why Tsukimori Sonoka was afraid of the girl named Ayako. When she found Tsukimori Sonoka before, it was in her childhood hospital ward. At that time, Hinasaki Shinku also read the diary written by Tsukimori Sonoka at that time. It was obvious in the diary that Tsukimori Sonoka, who lived here as a child, was always bullied by Ayako. Not only that, the girl named Ayako also killed the canary that Yuanxiang's mother gave her as a gift. This obviously caused a great deal of stimulation to Tsukimori Sonoka when she was a child. No wonder she was so afraid of this vengeful spirit.
But it is obvious that there is more than just the girl named Ayako who is abnormal here.
While patting Tsukimori Enka and signaling her to calm down, Hinasaki Shinku looked at another ward where a female patient named Sendou Kaoru lived. According to the diary, she loved her sister Sendou Kaoru so much that she didn't want her sister to leave her.
In order to keep her sister by her side forever, Qian Tangyi pushed her off the balcony when she was not paying attention, breaking her legs. Qian Tangxin was in great pain after learning that her sister loved her deeply. She knew that if she accepted her sister's words, it would mean that she would live in darkness forever. And no matter where she hid, Qian Tangyi would find her, so she finally chose to commit suicide, trying to wake up her sister in this way.
But the result was that Qiandou Yi made a doll of his sister afterwards, put it in a wheelchair, and went out with her sister all day long...
After watching all this, Hinasaki broke out in a cold sweat. The first thought in her mind was... Fortunately, the Amakura sisters didn't see this...
So she took advantage of Tsukimori Enka's inattention and hid the diary. If Tiancang Jian saw this thing, who knows what she would do.
By the way, Hinasaki Shinku still remembers that Shizuku once said something like "Who would write a diary?" regarding the information left behind by the victims of these incidents. At that time, she thought it was biased, but now it seems... it really makes sense.
"Alright, let's get out of here quickly and reunite with Shizuku-nee and the others."
As she spoke, Hinasaki Shinku grabbed Tsukimori Sonaka's hand and prepared to leave.
However, at this moment, suddenly, the situation changed.
Everything around me suddenly turned black and white, like the images on a black and white TV. At the same time, strange music came from the speakers.
"This is?"
"Miss Crimson, over there..."
When Hinasaki Shinku was stunned, she saw Tsukimori Sonaka holding her hand tightly and tremblingly pointing to the opposite side. Then Hinasaki Shinku turned her head and saw a long-haired woman in a kimono slowly coming out of the wall. Her face was distorted and completely invisible. At this moment, this long-haired woman was approaching the two step by step.
“Don’t look at me…don’t look at me!!”
“Leave it to me!”
Seeing the long-haired woman approaching, Hinasaki Shinku hurriedly raised her phone and pressed the flashlight button. Soon, holy light shot out from the flashlight and shone on the long-haired woman. While being illuminated by the holy light, the long-haired woman screamed and hurriedly stepped back. But Hinasaki Shinku obviously would not miss this opportunity. She raised her phone and took a series of photos. In the blink of an eye, the long-haired woman screamed, then stepped back and disappeared into the air.
However, Hinasaki Shinkuren did not relax her vigilance because according to the characteristics of the Imperial Mirror phone, if the vengeful spirit she photographed was sealed, it should be directly transformed into a light spot and absorbed by the phone lens. On the phone screen, she could also see the sealed spirit.
However, although the female ghost disappeared, nothing appeared on the screen of his mobile phone!
Sure enough, at this moment, the female ghost with a distorted face appeared again and rushed towards the two of them again.
"Let's go!"
After repelling the female ghost again and again, Hinasaki Shinku quickly realized that this was obviously not a monster she could deal with, so she hurriedly turned around and pulled Tsukimori Sonaka quickly out of the ward area. At the same time, Hinasaki Shinku pressed a button to make a call and contacted Shizuku.
"Shizuku-sister, we have a problem here!"