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Startled by the sound coming from behind, Kangfu turned his head like a frightened mouse, only to see that it was his classmate.
"Sakura!"
If he had met Sakura here an hour ago, he would have been very proud to call Zenta and the other two over to prove that he really knew 'Cardcaptor Sakura', but now he has no such intention at all.
What's more, he had no idea what happened to Zenta and Jiro.
Even, are they still themselves?
"Xiaoying, listen to me. Do you believe... do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?"
“Ah? Eh!!!”
Sakura Kinomoto, 10 years old, is a fourth-year elementary school student. Her favorite subjects are physical education and music, and she hates math.
But among all the dislikes and taboos, there was only one thing she feared the most - she was afraid of ghost stories!
Very, very afraid of ghosts!
Just hearing that one word was enough to make her cover her ears with fear.
"But, but, aren't you a Cardcaptor Girl? You can do Cardcaptor Sakura's magic!" Sakura's overreaction made it difficult for Kangfu to learn how to use it, and he even forgot to panic for a moment.
"You can use magic to fight monsters! Isn't the Dark Key in your bag?"
[The key that hides the power of darkness, Sakura, who made a contract with you, orders you to lift the seal! ]
Then there was the gorgeous magic circle. Kangfu was looking forward to seeing that scene, all kinds of Clow magic cards, and winning every time.
"That's TV, a TV series, just like the stories performed on stage. I can't really perform magic!"
And even if she knows magic, she will still be afraid. The Sakura that I played on TV obviously has the Clow Cards, but she is also afraid of monsters.
Kangfu was stunned for a long while before he gradually understood what Xiaoying meant.
"So, the Kuro magic and all that, are all fake?"
Of course it's fake. I'm already in the fourth grade and will be in the fifth grade next year. It's even weirder to still believe that magic is real, right?
For Kangfu, this simply extinguished the last hope that he had after seeing Sakura. The monsters had appeared, and the monsters that his mother had scared him about since he was a child, which ate children's belly buttons, were real, so why was magic fake? Isn't this too strange?
But no matter what, he couldn't let his sister go into that horrible house alone.
Kangfu tiptoed towards the villa with the nameplate of "Zhoushan". The bronze door was closed, but there was no lock. It could be opened with a slight push. It was as if the owner welcomed anyone to come in at any time. However, looking at the dark courtyard made people feel creepy.
The sky darkens quickly in late autumn, and the afterglow of the setting sun almost can't wait to escape the horizon. The earth is dark. But Kangfu heard footsteps behind him.
"Sakura, you don't know magic, right?"
It was Sakura Kinomoto who followed.
The reason why he asked for help from Sakura was because Kangfu really thought that the other party was the magician Kuro. Wind, flying, cloud, water, sword, shield, all kinds of magic are at his fingertips. Since he knew that magic was fake, Kangfu certainly would not force an ordinary little girl to follow him on an adventure.
"Kanfu, why don't we not go in? It's so scary. We can call the police."
"It's useless. I've already called the TAC team, but they don't believe me at all." After saying this, Kangfu fell silent, because he was indeed not worthy of trust. He also stole the exercise book and key chain that belonged to the girl in front of him.
"sorry."
The apology that I had not said before came out naturally in this environment.
"It's ok."
If apologies are useful, why do we need the police? This is for adults. If you are full of interests, you will lose your sincerity. If apologies can bring benefits, it doesn't matter if you say a hundred or a thousand apologies every day.
But a child's apology will be forgiven as long as it is sincere.
"There wasn't much rewriting to do. I remembered everything I had done before, so I finished it in ten minutes."
Kangfu took her homework book because it had her signature on it. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this. As a primary school student, I certainly don't want my homework book to be lost, but as an actor, I don't think it's unacceptable to have my signature taken away by a fan.
Thinking of this, Sakura took out the 'Darkness Key' from her bag.
"If you really want it that badly, this is for you."
"Eh? But this is your wand."
"I don't need it anymore." Because her mother had come back, she had received the best miracle. If magic could really bring miracles, Kangfu needed it more now.
Chapter 128: The Adventures of the Magical Girl
Oshima House, Tokyo
There are several tall persimmon trees in the orchard of the manor. Usually they are inconspicuous among the trees, just like the most ordinary roadside trees. But in late autumn, they are full of persimmons, like small red lanterns.
At this time, a ladder was set up under the persimmon tree.
Miss Maria stood in front of the ladder, holding it carefully. It can be seen that she used a lot of strength to prevent the ladder from shaking.
Standing on the ladder is Nadeshiko, who is climbing up step by step, preparing to pick persimmons from the top of the tree.
Wearing a skirt is not suitable for climbing high places, as it is easy to expose your body. But since there is only Maria here, it doesn’t matter if there is no opposite sex.
Climbing, running, Nadeshiko likes this feeling very much, but in her memory, she has been in the hospital for a long time, and her body does not allow her to exercise freely. Of course, it is just a memory, belonging to the real "Ndeshiko Amamiya" and not her own memory.
But she, who inherited this memory, also likes the feeling of exhilarating exercise.
"The eldest lady should be back tomorrow. She used to like persimmons very much. Persimmons after frost are especially sweet. Well, I don't know if she still likes them now."
Maria originally wanted to pick the persimmons by herself, but Fuzi strongly recommended herself, so she no longer insisted and instead held the ladder from below.
"I think she'll like it."
Standing high up and looking around, you will feel particularly relaxed. Persimmons are very soft, so you can't throw them away after picking them. Nadeshiko directly cut off a branch full of fruits with pliers and picked them together with the branch, so that they can be preserved longer.
"Be careful and come down slowly."
Nadeshiko responded, holding a persimmon in one hand and holding the ladder with the other hand, and was about to climb down, when suddenly her body trembled. She lost her grip and almost fell from the three-meter-high ladder. Maria quickly fixed the shaking ladder, and Nadeshiko also grabbed it with her other hand in time, thus maintaining her balance.
But because of this, the persimmon fell from my hand and burst on the ground. It was obviously inedible.
"Ah, the persimmons are rotten."
"Is this what you're talking about now? Persimmons and such don't matter. Are you okay?"
Nadeshiko shook her head, climbed down the ladder, and jumped down with three steps left.
"What happened?"
"I don't know either." Nadeshiko said with some confusion, "I always felt like someone touched me."
Of course there was no one else here, but compared to this, Nadeshiko vaguely felt that something was happening. Something related to her, or rather, to someone important to her. This feeling had no other basis, just like she had just clearly felt someone touching her.
It wasn't heavy, just a light touch, and she was so scared that she couldn't stand still.
Kangfu and Xiaoying pushed open the bronze gate and walked into Zhoushan's house. It was very quiet. It was dark, but the lights were off in the house, and it looked like no one lived there.
Walking into the courtyard from the path, there is a lawn on the right, and in the corner of the lawn is the strange swimming pool. Because there are no street lights in the courtyard, the swimming pool in the distance is in the dark, which makes people feel scary when looking at it.
Kangfu was not going to the swimming pool. Whether there were super beasts there was nothing to do with him. He just wanted to find his sister.
There was no one at the swimming pool, so Kangfu led Sakura all the way to the main house.
The main door of the house was also unlocked. It opened with a slight push, making a loud creaking sound as it became rusty due to years of disuse, and the sound echoed throughout the building.
This is a western-style house with a very old feel, perhaps dating back to the Taisho period. After the country's door was opened by foreigners, Japanese and Western cultures kept colliding and blending, and there was a brief period of peace and prosperity, and various social thoughts burst out. As a result, many Western-style buildings were built.
This villa should be one of them. As a witness of the times, it bears the mark of the times.
However, due to years of neglect, this "witness" has long been old and dilapidated, and the house is in a state of disrepair. The ground is covered with dust, and it doesn't look like anyone lives there.
Is this the residence of the 'neighbor of many years' that Zenta, Jiro and the sister mentioned?
Sakura didn't know why she followed him in. She just watched others do something dangerous and wanted to dissuade them but couldn't, so she just followed them all the way into the building. If she had to say she regretted it, she had already regretted it when she stepped into this haunted house.
At this moment in this dark and gloomy environment, she had already begun to think about retreating.
It's not that she hasn't been to a haunted house. When she was filming a TV series before, several episodes were filmed in a dark and eerie environment at night. But at that time, there were directors, stagehands, and many other staff members outside the camera. She also knew that she was acting and everything scary was fake.
But this time is different!
Not to mention her, Kangfu had wanted to leave a long time ago. Everything was too unreasonable. The environment here didn't have the slightest sense of living. Even if she was invited by the so-called neighbors, there was no reason for his sister to enter such a house.
With the faint light from outside shining on the wall, Kangfu suddenly discovered a button on the wall that looked like a light switch.
I didn't have much hope at first, I just pressed it casually, and suddenly there was light all around me.
The light actually came on!
In such a dilapidated house, the lights are still intact. No, before that, there was water and electricity here?
Kangfu and Xiaoying were only elementary school students and had not thought about this. They just felt that the house illuminated by lights made them feel more at ease. Humans are creatures that are afraid of darkness. Even in the light, being able to see the surroundings also means that others can see you.
"Look, there are footprints on the ground!" Kangfu said suddenly.
In the hall illuminated by the lights, one can clearly see some messy footprints on the ground. They are very eye-catching in the thick layer of dust. These footprints are messy, but they are enough to prove that someone has been here recently.
"Listen, there seems to be a sound upstairs."
After being reminded by Sakura, Kangfu vaguely heard that there was indeed a noise upstairs.
The two looked at each other. They had originally planned to leave, but the light gave the two little guys some courage. Courage is sometimes a very valuable thing, but sometimes it may not be.
"I want to go up and take a look." said Kangfu.
His sister might be upstairs, and as long as he found her, he would leave immediately. The rest, whether they were aliens, super beasts, monsters, or ghosts, had nothing to do with him.
To be honest, Sakura didn't want to go up, but she didn't dare to leave alone. Originally, the building was dark, but now that the lights were on, the courtyard outside was completely dark, making people feel that some monster was hiding there.
Kangfu had already walked upstairs. The steps and the ground here were all cement, which was not as dangerous as the ordinary Japanese wooden stairs, because there was a lot of dust accumulated, and it was soft when stepped on. Then Kangfu saw——
The person making the noise in the room on the second floor was someone he knew, but it wasn't his sister.
"Zenta, Jiro?!"
Impossible, they had already gone home. Kangfu saw them leave with his own eyes, and found that they had no belly buttons. After that, he never saw them return to this courtyard.
Zenta and Jiro were lying on the ground, groaning softly, not knowing whether they were sick or injured.
But if the people here are Zenta and Jiro, then who are the two people who just left?
Although it was not the first time that he doubted the truth of all this, Kangfu began to be unable to understand what was happening before his eyes. Things that made no sense happened one after another, as if all the logic of the past ten years since he was born had been overturned.
At this time, the two people who were struggling on the ground propped up their bodies and raised their heads.
Sakura let out a scream. She had never been a bold girl, so it was no surprise that her mind went blank when faced with a scene that only appeared in horror movies.
What appeared before them was indeed a scene from a horror movie - Zenta and Jiro, let's call them by their two names, their entire faces and exposed skin were covered with green fuzz that looked like moss or seaweed, mixed with fish-like scales.