The next day, Baiju returned with more information.

After she went to school, Shiragiku questioned Miki again, who proudly explained the whole story to Shiragiku. According to Miki Hosokawa, the last victim of the death call was a high school girl from a neighboring city. She received a strange phone call before her death, and then died three days later. At that time, everyone thought she had received a death call.

The cause of her death was a head injury caused by falling objects from a high altitude.

Although the rumors about Miki Hosokawa were full of unclear things, it was not difficult for Shizuku to investigate as long as she knew her specific age and address. Soon, she found out through the files of the Metropolitan Police Department that a student in a neighboring city had died from falling objects not long ago.

So Shizuku quickly drove to the girl's house and began to investigate.

"…No matter what you say, my child is dead."

Sitting at the table, the mother of the dead girl had a sad face - if Shizuku hadn't taken out her Metropolitan Police Department ID, she probably wouldn't have let Shizuku in.

"I know all those messed up rumors. If I had known this, I shouldn't have bought that kid a cell phone... The death call was nothing more than a rumor on the street."

"Please accept my condolences, but I think you should have seen that I came here not to find any news stories like the street gossip tabloids. I just want to know if there was anything particularly unusual when your daughter died?"

"Something particularly unusual?"

When the mother heard Shizuku's question, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"That's right, it's Yoshiko! It's that kid! It's all her fault for talking like crazy about death calling at my daughter's funeral. That's why we can't have peace of mind!"

"Who is Ryoko?"

"She is a good friend of my daughter. She lives nearby and has had a good relationship with my daughter since she was a child. I don't know why she said that at the funeral. It is because of that that such a weird rumor spread..."

"I see."

Hearing this, Shizuku nodded, stood up and bowed.

"Thank you for your cooperation, I'm sorry to bother you..."

While speaking, Shizuku paused.

"It may be a little presumptuous, but could you please give me your daughter's phone? I want to investigate it."

"Of course no problem..."

The mother turned and went upstairs, and a moment later came down with a red flip phone and handed it to Shizuku.

"Please take it away. I never want to see this thing again."

After getting the address of the girl named Yoshiko and the cell phone from the mother, Shizuku turned around and left, returning to the car.

but……

“Is this just an ordinary cell phone?”

Shizuku held the flip phone in her hand in confusion, turning it on and off, and she didn't feel any evil spirits from the phone, nor did she feel anything particularly strange. This gave Shizuku a headache. It turns out that the Japanese ghosts are really keeping up with the times. Sadako can use videotapes, and this one is even more powerful. She actually knows how to harm people through mobile phones...

Could it really be that it is moving back and forth using radio waves as a carrier?

Shizuku shook her head without any clues and drove to Yoshiko's house. From Yoshiko's parents, she learned that the girl had locked herself in her room after her friend died, and she didn't go out of the house, as if she was afraid of something. Her parents prepared three meals a day and placed them at the door, and she didn't even step out of her bedroom.

It's just like staying at home.

However, unlike ordinary hikiko, this girl named Yoshiko did not seem to refuse to meet outsiders, so Shizuku also came to her bedroom, met this girl named Yoshiko, and asked her about the death call.

"I'm not lying, I know that the child was killed by a death call, and I'm the next one!!"

The girl named Yoshiko is a very pretty girl, but perhaps because of too much pressure, her haggard appearance is now similar to Sadako.

"Can you elaborate on that?"

In response to Shizuku's question, Ryoko hesitated for a moment and spoke stutteringly.

"We have all known about the rumor of the death call for a while. I don't know exactly when it came out, but everyone was talking about it at the time. Of course, we just listened to it as ordinary anecdotes. But that day..."

Having said this, Yoshiko seemed to have returned to that day, her face pale.

"…That day, Jiemei and I were walking home from school. On the way home, Jiemei's cell phone suddenly rang. She thought it was her mother asking her to buy groceries on the way home from school. She picked up the phone and yelled, 'Oh, isn't this my cell phone number?'"

"Then what?"

"We all knew about the death call at the time, but no one took it seriously. Out of curiosity, Jiemei still answered the call, and I also leaned over to listen..."

"What does it say?"

In response to Shizuku's question, Yoshiko's expression became even uglier.

"The sounds inside were intermittent. It sounded like a female voice was saying how unlucky it was that it was raining at this time. Then there was a sudden scream from the phone, and then nothing happened."

Having said this, Yoshiko curled up tightly.

"We didn't take it seriously at the time, but three days later, that night, I received a call from Jiemei. We were discussing where to go next, and suddenly Jiemei muttered, 'What bad luck, it's raining at this time...' and before she finished her words, she suddenly screamed..."

“…”

Needless to say, after that, Jiemei was found dead accidentally from having her head smashed by falling objects from a high altitude.

"That is to say, when she was killed, she was talking to you on the phone, and what you and Jiemei heard three days ago was actually what she said to you on the phone three days later?"

“…”

Ryoko nodded desperately.

"If Yumi dies, I will die too... because I heard it too...!!"

No wonder she doesn't dare go out now. It's obvious that she has firmly believed that death is calling.

"So, is there anything special about it? Besides what's inside?"

"The phone is ringing..."

"The phone is ringing?"

"Yes, I remember it very clearly. When Yumi received the death call, the ringtone was not the one we usually use, nor was it the ringtone stored in the phone! The music was very strange, and it still makes my scalp tingle when I think about it now... I don't know what ringtone it was, but I can be sure that it was not our ringtone!!"

"Can you lend me your phone?"

Shizuku took Yoshiko's phone and checked it carefully. As expected, just like the previous phone, there was no evil spirit, vengeful spirit or curse on it.

Hey, is this place really haunted?

After learning the cause and effect of the incident, Shizuku also said goodbye and left. Then she returned to the car and turned on Yumi's phone again. Then she stretched out her finger, pressed a few buttons, and immediately turned on the developer mode of the phone - this thing is of course used for backdoor access. Through the developer mode, Shizuku can investigate the records inside. Sure enough, just as Yoshiko said, at around 10 o'clock that night, Yumi called Yoshiko and the call lasted nearly five minutes.

"I remember the time of death recorded in the archives was also... Oh, I found it."

Shizuku then took the death record and looked through it, and quickly found the time of death. It turned out that the time of death recorded in the file was consistent with the phone call, so it seemed that Yoshiko did not lie.

"……Um?"

But at this moment, Shizuku suddenly noticed a strange sign, that is, after this call ended, there was another call record in Yumi's mobile phone records.

What's going on?

According to the death report, the falling object smashed Jiemei's head and she died almost instantly. So what does this record mean? Did she insist on making a phone call after she died?

Is there such an operation?

Although she was puzzled, Shizuku still found the owner of the number through the address book of Yumi's mobile phone - it was the phone number of Yumi's colleague at the place where she worked, so Shizuku immediately went to the door, but was told...

"Dead?"

Looking at the shop owner in front of her, Shizuku was also stunned, and the owner nodded.

"Yes, it was an accident. It seems that Yamada-kun was crossing the elevated iron bridge at that time. He slipped and fell off the bridge, hitting the back of his head, and then..."

At this point, the boss sighed, and Shizuku narrowed her eyes.

Things seem to be getting a little serious.

After asking the boss for the address of Yamada, Shizuku went to his house again, and got his phone through Yamada's parents. Then Shizuku opened the developer record again and found the communication records. As expected, like Yumi, Yamada's last communication record also had a record of him making another call after the call was disconnected. And this time, the person he called was one of his best friends.

So Shizuku went to his house again - and as expected, he also died unexpectedly.

This is really a death call.

The more Shizuku investigated, the more surprised she was. She had figured out the whole process of the death call. The evil spirit would kill someone in a certain way, and after the victim died, it would randomly find someone in the victim's phone book to call him, and the person who answered the phone would hear his own voice before dying three days later. Then three days later, he would die just as the voice played on the phone, and then after death, the evil spirit would continue to randomly find someone through the victim's phone book...

What the hell is going on with these infinite nesting dolls?

Shizuku now knew that she was in big trouble. This was much more powerful than Sadako's videotape curse. Sadako's videotape at least had traces to follow, but this one was too hidden. Hosokawa Miki probably knew about the death call because Yumi's friend Yoshiko made a scene at her funeral, but in fact, apart from that, the target of the death call was completely random killing, and there was no continuity at all.

For example, Yoshiko was worried that the death call would come to her, but in fact, according to Shizuku's investigation, Yumi's death call was made to her co-worker at her part-time job, and the other party was just an ordinary friend, and they were not even dating. The next few deaths were also like this, and the relationship between them was not deep. There was even an unlucky guy who saved his phone number in another person's phone while selling products, and this was the cause of the disaster.

A true misfortune.

This evil spirit's way of killing people is really very covert, and ordinary people really can't see any problem. In fact, if Shizuku hadn't watched "Hell Teacher" and knew that Miki Hosokawa's mouth was as bright as a god, she would just treat it as an ordinary rumor.

So Shizuku kept following the traces in the address book and searching all the way... However, just when she found the doorstep of the next victim through the address book, Shizuku met someone she had never expected.

"Teacher Nue?"

Looking at Nueno Meisuke, who was wearing a suit and black gloves, Shizuku was stunned.

Nueno Meisuke was also surprised to see Shizuku appear.

"Ms. Kasugano? What are you doing here?"

Shizuku did not answer, but silently looked at the phone in Nueno Meisuke's hand.

Hmm...it seems they came here for the same thing.