Chapter 1401 is just the prologue (Starry Sky finally has a vehicle!)

"But, didn't you find the bodies of the two girls in the end?"

After pouring a cup of tea for Duanmu Huai, Sha Jiuye asked with some uneasiness.

"No, their bodies were eaten clean by the monster, not even bones were left. After that, I went to the air-raid shelter again, but I didn't find anything. Only the mobile phone was preserved, perhaps because of luck. The others were either eaten or destroyed."

Duanmu Huai shook his head. He could see the ending of the last two girls through his mobile phone, so he didn't have any idea. To be honest, the sports girl was really unlucky. She was simply involved in the stupid behavior of her friends. But the literary girl was seeking her own death, and Duanmu Huai didn't feel any sympathy for her.

"It's so pitiful... If there is a body, you can still worship it."

"If not, then at least the family can hold the idea that the other party is still alive in the world, which is not a bad thing."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders, picked up the teacup and drank a sip of tea. The body of the monster had completely melted and disappeared, so naturally there was no evidence left. So Duanmu Huai just told the principal that the monster that invaded the campus had been expelled. Of course, the principal was also half-believing and half-doubting. So…

“Is my brother leaving?”

“The principal asked me to substitute for a semester at least.”

Duanmu Huai sighed silently, but it didn’t matter, because the other party was paying him.

And Duanmu Huai didn’t plan to leave, because strictly speaking, this matter was not over yet.

Or, in Duanmu Huai’s view, it was just the beginning.

The reason is very simple. After killing the monster, Duanmu Huai did not get the old essence.

From the previous retrospection, Duanmu Huai has determined that the monster is more like being attracted or summoned. If we use the game as an analogy, then it is more like a summoned monster, not a real BOSS. So Duanmu Huai also plans to stay in school for a while and see what happens. Otherwise, if he said it was okay and left, something happened in the school again, wouldn’t that be a slap in his face?

Although more things should be traced back through the magic circle on the ceiling, when Duanmu Huai traced it, the magic circle was automatically destroyed. This is very similar to the situation in March City when Duanmu Huai used shadow copies of believers and then caused them to self-destruct. This means that behind the magic circle there must be an Old One who is almost the same as the King in Yellow, so Duanmu Huai cannot get information from it.

In other words, there must be something wrong with this place, but as for what the problem is... Duanmu Huai has not figured it out yet.

"Woo... Woo..."

Just then, the phone rang, Duanmu Huai picked up the phone and answered it, and then the voice of Shionji Yuko came from it.

"Found it!"

"What did you find?"

"According to what you said, I checked the historical records of Qianyuan Academy and found that there was indeed a mass disappearance 60 years ago!"

"Collective disappearance?"

"Yes, because it was too long ago, I can only extract information from the Internet and some tabloids, and I can't guarantee the credibility. But some newspapers did report the collective disappearance of students from Qianyuan Academy at that time. One of the tabloid magazines described the matter about the supernatural photos!"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai took his mobile phone... and then rushed directly to the second floor and opened the door.

"Show me, where is it?"

"Wow!"

Shionji Yuko, who was sitting on the bed, was also startled by Duanmu Huai who suddenly rushed in, and immediately turned around and stared at him with dissatisfaction.

"Why did you suddenly break into the lady's room!"

"We are obviously under the same roof, and you actually want to contact each other by mobile phone. This is sick!"

Duanmu Huai glared at Shionji Yuko. This girl is really a dead NEET and has almost never left the house. She sleeps here and eats here. If Sha Jiuye hadn't forced her to, she wouldn't even bother to take a shower or change clothes. It's as if she's going to live in this room forever. Just now, she had to contact Duanmu Huai through her mobile phone even though she was shouting from the second floor.

Those who don't know would think they are thousands of miles apart!

Duanmu Huai doesn't tolerate this dead girl's bad habits.

"Come, let me see, where are you talking about?"

Duanmu Huai walked directly to the bed of Ziyuan Temple Youzi, and the latter glared at Duanmu Huai with hatred, and turned his head away helplessly.

"Here... The owner of this website is interested in collecting tabloids. Later, because the Internet was developed, he posted all the content he collected on the Internet, and he did have a certain degree of fame."

This is also normal, just like some people's hobby is collecting cigarette butts. In the past, no one understood it, and they could only collect them in drawers to comfort themselves. But now is the Internet age, you can post these photos on the Internet, and then communicate with like-minded people.

The screen of Shionji Yuko quickly brought up the contents of the magazine. Although the paper was a little yellowed due to its age, the contents were still clear.

Duanmu Huai read it once and immediately understood why Shionji Yuko would quickly lock on to this content.

Because the description of this content was almost exactly the same as what he had encountered before.

According to the description in the magazine, the interviewee was a friend of the missing person, who told the reporter that those students were members of a mysterious club in the school before they disappeared. Their hobby is supernatural events, and before they disappeared, these people had taken some supernatural photos.

The reason that prompted them to take the photo was the supernatural album in the magazine.

It was not like now. Although it has entered the age of science, superstitions are still very popular. For example, qigong, psychics, etc. were also very popular at the time and were called supernatural sciences. There were even scholars who specialized in studying these (I don’t know if they were). Liars or fools), thinking that things like the soul or Feng Shui can be explained scientifically. Therefore, at that time, paranormal research was not regarded as some weird hobby in society, and because of its characteristics, it attracted many people to discuss it.

The same was true for the Supernatural Research Society of Sengen Academy at that time. They believed that the location of Sengen Academy might be a place where mysterious power could easily gather in some kind of feng shui, so photos like this should be able to be taken here. So they used a certain method and finally took a supernatural photo.

Then after that, they disappeared.

Because Sengen Academy was an aristocratic girls' school, the atmosphere at that time was even more conservative than it is now, and the people who went to that school were all upper class and wealthy children. Therefore, the disappearance of these students really aroused heated discussion in the world, and the police also A task force was set up to investigate from all angles, but to no avail.

The reason why we know this is because in order to emphasize the specificity of the disappearance, the tabloid also published a report on the investigation of the case at that time. It should be to prove to readers that "the police have not found any clues despite all their efforts, so this must be some kind of incredible supernatural event."

In the end, this matter became an unsolved case because there was no result, and the media reported it as a "Shenyin Incident", and finally went unsolved.

I have to say that the whole story is exactly the same as the previous situation. Is history really a cycle?

After all, if the current situation continues, the police here will also list it as an unsolved case because there are no clues and no body can be found.

"So, the photos that the girl saw were actually taken by students of this school sixty years ago, and those students disappeared after taking the photos... Now she also imitated those seniors and took photos, and then also Missing... No, was he eaten by a monster? "

Seeing this, Sha Jiuye murmured to himself, while Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"This is actually quite normal."

After all, in Mary's world, Duanmu Huai encountered a similar thing when facing a cultist. The other party summoned a creature from another world to deal with him. As a result, the latter turned around and ate the summoner after being summoned - ——If you don’t prepare a sacrifice, then you will be the unlucky one. What’s so surprising?

Those students were all laymen, and they probably never thought about preparing any sacrifices, so it was natural for them to be eaten by the summoned objects after they were summoned.

In this way, we can understand why nothing happened in the school after that - after all, the summoned creature patted its butt and turned back to its hometown without receiving an order after eating. So unless someone summons himself next time, it will definitely not appear.

In fact, so was the monster. If Duanmuhuai hadn't found it so quickly in the past few days, it might have disappeared on its own in two days.

As for why the monster didn't disappear immediately this time, Duanmu Huai probably didn't eat enough.

After all, there were five people missing before, but this time there were only two.

For the monster's size, two shouldn't be enough.

If Duanmuhuai and Mianmuzuotiao had been eaten at that time, maybe the monster would go home and sleep contentedly. Then there will be rumors in the school that "someone mysteriously disappeared, and the person investigating the matter also disappeared mysteriously", and it will eventually develop into some kind of horror story.

Well, in fact, it's just that the monster went home to sleep after eating enough.

"What about the magazine?"

The source of the two consecutive incidents is a paranormal topic published in a paranormal magazine. It is difficult not to think more about it. Although similar things are actually not uncommon, many TV programs will also collect the audience's paranormal experiences and then film the more interesting ones. The series is broadcast on television.

In fact, Duanmuhuai also suspected that the students who disappeared 60 years ago might have obtained the same magic book, but unfortunately too much time passed, and the traceback to the air-raid shelter itself could not be successful because of the magic circle.

As for the things inside—if they were older than sixty years, they would have been thrown into the trash can.

"There's nothing wrong with the magazine itself, it's just an ordinary supernatural magazine."

Shionji Yuko spread her hands helplessly.

"I investigated its distribution, publication, and planning...it's all normal. At least it seems to be just a third-rate supernatural magazine."

"What about Sengen Academy itself?"

"The prestigious private school has been very famous since its establishment... Your sister went to school there, so she should know better than me. After all, I have never been to the school. Of course, there will be occasional suicides or disappearances, but in a hundred years Judging from the scale, it’s not too unusual.”

Similar things actually happen in every school. After all, students are inherently emotionally unstable, especially during adolescence. It is not impossible for schools to commit suicide or cause incidents for some reasons. From this perspective, the incidents that occurred in Qianyuan Academy can even be said to be rare compared to other schools. After all, it is a school for young ladies with strict discipline.

"So the clues are broken again?"

"That's right for now, and the commission you received is not to investigate this, right? Hasn't the monster been destroyed by you? Isn't that enough?"

From the perspective of Yuko Shionji, it is indeed the case. Duanmu Huai is also the same. If he hadn't obtained the essence of the old days, he would have thought that the matter was over.

"Anyway, I will stay in school for another semester... Forget it, let's see what happens."

Duanmu Huai is not the kind of investigator who will get to the bottom of things. His attitude is that if he can't find it, he won't find it. Anyway, the other party will jump out by himself in the end.

Just like the King in Yellow, since there is no way to stop their conspiracy, then wait until they succeed and then come out to beat them up, so that the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind.

Aren't many adventure and mystery movies like this? The protagonist goes through untold hardships, passes through the mechanism, avoids monsters, solves puzzles, and finally obtains the treasure hidden in the tomb. Then when he climbs out of the tomb with the treasure, the people led by the villain directly point a gun at him, and then the other party easily takes the treasure away.

No need to decrypt, no need to take risks, simple, rough, direct and easy.

Duanmu Huai also likes this approach.

Of course, what Duanmu Huai doesn't like is that the villain obviously got the things in the movie, but didn't kill the protagonist. If it were Duanmu Huai, he would just smash the other party's head and throw the body into the ravine.

Well, it seems that he is not the protagonist in this way?

"Then do you still want to continue investigating? I investigated all of this as you said, but I didn't find any clues related to the Cosmic Light Foundation."

"………………No, let's talk about it next time."

Duanmu Huai thought about it and made a decisive decision, and Shionji Yuko also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, let's do it then... By the way, it seems someone is looking for you."

As she spoke, Shionji Yuko pointed at the screen.

Duanmu Huai turned around and saw the figure of Yotsuya Miko appearing on the screen.