The disappeared person
"Excuse me, are you the police?" A faint voice sounded from deep within the art gallery, interrupting the conversation at the door.
Zhu Fujingguang, who was planning to make something to eat for everyone, stopped taking things out of his backpack. He turned around and saw two heads floating in the dark, with a look of slight fear on their faces.
Is there really someone here? Shi Yuyueling looked at Wangyue with a strange expression, and met Wangyue's equally puzzled expression. No way, it can't be, it's a rainy day, with dark clouds, strong winds and heavy rain. This kind of weather is prone to crimes.
The door of the art gallery fell into an eerie silence for a few seconds. The people standing at the door looked at each other in confusion, especially those who knew about the horror legend on the Internet.
"We are not police officers, we are just travelers who came here to take shelter from the rain. We planned to travel today but we didn't check the weather forecast, so we got stuck in the rain." Zhu Fujingguang put down what he was holding, stood up and talked to the two people over there.
Looking closely, those are not two floating human heads, but two people standing in the dark. Because the light is too weak on a rainy day, it looks like two human heads floating at first glance.
"Are you also tourists? Why do you want to find the police? Is there anything we can help you with?" Hagiwara Kenji asked the two companions kindly.
"Hey, something seems amiss." Qi Ning slowly retreated to the side of Wangyue and Shiyu Yueling, his eyes fixed on the two people over there, and silently added: "The person standing next to that lady has not said anything nonsense or moved. Bingbing, can you feel anything?"
Matsuda Jinpei and Fūya Rei followed Qi Ning's gaze and saw that the person who had been communicating with them was indeed the one standing on the left. The one on the right remained motionless and silent from beginning to end, as if there was no sound of breathing.
This made Qi Ning feel a little cold on his back, and he couldn't help but retreat to his sisters to seek a sense of security.
With the naked eye, one could indeed see someone standing next to the lady, but the only breathing sounds in the room were theirs and the lady they were communicating with, not the person next to her.
Wangyue shook her head. She didn't feel the existence of any spirits that she could control. There were only a very small number of spirits in the world that could last forever. Most human spirits dissipated very quickly after death, leaving no trace.
Qi Ning looked at the silent Shi Yu Yue Ling and found that she had actually pulled out her staff and held it in her hand. She looked more frightened than anyone else. Although she didn't say it on her face, she was actually sticking close to Jōgu Rei, her spirits tense.
"We?" The young lady was a little confused, her face pale. She clasped her hands together and asked in a low voice, "Why do you use the subject 'we'? Am I not the only stranger here?"
Silence, deathly silence, everyone realized that she didn't know there was someone beside her. Natalie hugged Idahang's arm tightly, avoiding looking over there.
"Sorry, please stand where you are and don't move." Zhu Fujingguang imagined a possibility, exchanged glances with Hagiwara Kenji next to him, and continued to communicate with the lady who suddenly appeared here in a very natural tone.
"Ma'am, are you trapped here alone? The fact that you called the police means you're not alone. Something must have happened, so you're waiting for the police."
As Zhu Fujingguang expressed his guess, the young lady over there breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed, and walked a few steps outside.
While Morifushi Kagemitsu was attracting her attention, Hagiwara Kenji quietly approached from the side. He was surprised to find that as the lady took a few steps outside, the figure standing next to her disappeared, so he turned around and shook his head at his companions.
It was indeed gone, and Shi Yu Yue Ling and the others could no longer see that shadow.
"I'm sorry, my name is Kurosawa Misaki. I came to visit Shiomi today with my husband and a few friends. We didn't expect it to rain so hard, and the power went out, leaving the place in complete darkness. Because this place is so big, Xiu got separated from us. We couldn't find him no matter how hard we tried, and the rain wouldn't stop anytime soon. He had the key to the room where we kept our things. We had no choice but to call the police and wait for them to come and help us look for him."
Misaki Kurosawa, who was wearing an elegant little dress, said that as she walked out of the darkness, her beauty charm also emanated, causing the four women in the team, who were not picky about food or meat, to open their mouths in surprise.
To die under the peony flowers, even as a ghost I will be a romantic man. Never mind, let’s just get close to the beauty first.
Qi Ning walked out first and took the initiative to talk to Kurosawa Misaki: "How many of you are here? Isn't this place abandoned? The door was locked when we came. We had to pry the lock open before we could get in. At first we thought there was no one inside."
"Including Shiomi who's been here the whole time, there are five of us in total. My husband, Kurosawa Osamu, is missing now, so there are only four of us gathered here. We arrived here yesterday and decided to stay here for a while, so we took a long-distance taxi to get here. It's normal for the door to be locked, because Shiomi has been hiding in the deepest part and won't come out, so we locked the door as usual."
Kurosawa Misaki replied that she hadn't realized anything was wrong yet. There were more people here and she relaxed.
"But that's not right." Natalie also noticed something amiss in the conversation between Qi Ning and Kurosawa Misaki, and asked in confusion: "When Ms. Kurosawa came in, the door should have been locked from the inside, but we came in from the outside, so when we came in, the lock we pried open was locked outwards."
The smile on Kurosawa Misaki's face became a little forced, because she remembered clearly that they locked the door from the inside when they came, so why was it suddenly locked from the outside?
"Could it be that Mr. Kurosawa locked the door when he left?" Ya Yu Lin guessed. Now that Kurosawa Osamu is missing and the door lock has been tampered with, judging from the connection between the past and the present, it can only be that the missing Kurosawa Osamu did something about it.
"When did Mr. Kurosawa disappear? When was the last time you saw him?" Fūya Rei asked. Although Yaba Lin's guess was reasonable, it was mostly guesswork and could not be concluded now.
"The lock core of that lock is full of water, which means that the lock has been locked for a long time before we came." Shi Yu Yue Ling huddled beside Jiang Gu Ling, his entire shadow blocked by Jiang Gu Ling, and only his head was visible when he spoke.
"It's not necessarily the case that Xiu was three hours ago." After recalling the past, Kurosawa Misaki gave everyone a definite answer.
Three hours ago, three hours ago, when Furuya Ling and the others had just driven to the place chosen by Yu Yueling, it hadn't rained yet. If Kurosawa Osamu really disappeared at that time, then it might have been him who tampered with the lock.
"But the roads here are one-way, there is only one. If he really did it and then left here, why didn't we meet anyone along the way?" Matsuda Jinpei pointed out the unreasonableness of this speculation.
"That means Mr. Kurosawa must still be here." Hagiwara Kenji came to the answer. He guessed that there might be another entrance and exit here, allowing people to lock the door from the outside and then go back inside.
"Maybe he's hiding in the mountains?" Ya Yulin muttered softly, but in such heavy rain, only a fool would hide outside.
"Then let's go out and look for her!" Shi Yu Yue Ling suddenly stood up and dared to stand out from behind Jiang Gu Ling.
Huh? Qi Ning looked at her in surprise. In such heavy rain, she went out to look for someone? When did she become so enthusiastic?
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