As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Xuan simply hung up the communication, leaving Ye Zi standing there with a thoughtful look on his face.

(Well, Chu Xuan came to me suddenly... Could it be that after the investigation came out, he needed a thug? Then...)

"As usual, I have to dress up~"

After letting out a chuckle, Ye Zi took out a set of prepared clothes from the "Qingquan" bracelet and walked towards the bathroom. A minute later, she reappeared in the room, her body already covered with blood.

It's a brand new outfit.

She was seen wearing a black coat, gray plaid skirt and black knee-high socks, which made her "absolute domain" even fairer. At her feet were a pair of pure black leather boots.

In addition, Ye Zi also put on a black cloak. The gray hood covered her forehead and temples, but it could not hide her beautiful face... Dressed in such pure dark colors, she looked like

Like a winter fairy coming out of the colorless world.

"Well, it's a pity that I don't know how to use a sickle, otherwise it would be more perfect."

After looking at his outfit, Ye Zi nodded with satisfaction: This outfit has a special attack on spirits at first glance.

After leaving a note for the others and stating her whereabouts, she quietly left the room and walked downstairs along the fire escape: when she left the shelter of the Buddhist scriptures, she could clearly feel,

The long-lost coldness stared at her again.

Fortunately, Kayako did not attack immediately, and Ye Zi was able to reach the ground floor safely, and walked out of the lobby in exactly five minutes - not more than a second, not less than a second, and saw Li Yuyi

Chu Xuan next to a black Toyota Century.

"boarding."

Facing Ye Zi who greeted him with a smile, Chu Xuan's reaction was as cold as ever: he didn't waste time on greetings, he just nodded slightly, greeted Ye Zi, then opened the car door and sat down.

Arriving at the driver's seat.

(I have a bad premonition. I always feel that...the destination of this trip may be a bit bad?)

Despite all the slander, out of trust in Chu Xuan, Ye Zi still "got on the pirate ship" and sat obediently in the passenger seat. Then, the black luxury car drove towards the end of the road and disappeared.

In the endless darkness of night.

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"If my prediction is correct, you...should have found the mastermind behind the curse."

In the next few dozen minutes, there was always a suffocating silence in the carriage, and after Ye Zi stared at Chu Xuan's attractive poker face for a long time, he finally couldn't help but speak and broke.

This silence.

"Yeah." Chu Xuan didn't look sideways, still focusing on driving. He simply responded and motioned for Ye Zi to continue.

"First of all, the wording in the mission issued by the Lord God this time is a bit intriguing... it is 'Destroy the Grudge', not 'Destroy the Kayako'."

"The so-called grievance is a general term for the phenomenon of 'the dead who have been wronged turn into ghosts'. Kayako is a curse, and grievance is not just Kayako... In the series of movies alone, there have been black girls and white old women.

These two major grievances. And in the past few decades, hundreds of people have died in vain in Japan... There are probably more grievances hidden in every corner outside the plot, which may be powerful or weak.

"

"Not to mention that we simply can't find them one by one and eliminate them. Even if we succeed in doing it, we can't say we've eliminated the curse. As long as there are still people who die unjustly, new evil ghosts will continue to come.

The earth was born.”

"However, since the Lord God reminds us that the phenomenon of 'curse' can be eliminated, it means that it is not part of the laws of nature, but a distorted rule formed by acquired...or coincidence, or man-made."

"Or call it another name, Meme... Grudge Meme!"

"Secondly, the background related to Kayako's mother revealed in the American version of The Grudge contains many strange parts: her mother mastered onmyoji and made a living by helping people remove spirits, but her method of removing spirits

, but he sealed the evil spirit that was forced out into the body of his daughter, Kayako."

"Both my first reaction and the information collected in the past few days show that there is no such evil magic in the orthodox Yin and Yang Tao. This approach is more like...

He uses his own daughter as a container and evil spirits as insects to raise poison!"

"So, I tend to believe that there is probably a mastermind behind the formation of the phenomenon of 'grudge'."

"Of course, the chance of it being Kayako's mother is not high. After all, in the original plot, she was killed by Kayako who came to her door, and she didn't even have the slightest ability to fight back... If a villain can do this, it would be too cheap.

a little."

"It is more likely that the exorcism techniques she mastered were deliberately designed, twisted, and then taught to her."

"The above is my reasoning."

"Yes, basically correct." After listening to Ye Zi's analysis quietly, Chu Xuan nodded, confirming her idea. And after receiving Chu Xuan's approval, Ye Zi didn't show it on his face, but he seemed to get it in his heart.

The students who were praised by the teacher were just as proud.

Then, while driving the vehicle, Chu Xuan briefly recounted his investigations in the past two days: Unlike the plot of the American version of The Grudge, Kayako's mother, Kawamata Nakagawa, passed away very early, so he visited Kayako.

Coconut's sister, Naoko Kawamata, asked her about her mother's background, especially her inheritance of Onmyoji. She also visited major hidden sects including Shugendo, and learned a lot about extraordinary sects.

History and secrets; finally, he invaded the Japanese government's database and used clues in the "table world" to revise or verify some of his reasoning.

Based on the clues obtained in the past two days, he also successfully identified the hiding place of the mastermind: the mountain gate of Qianyin Sect, an onmyoji sect that declined a hundred years ago!

In Japanese mythology, the "Senibiki Stone" is a stone that was ordered by the Father God Izanagi to be placed in the Underworld at Hirazaka to suppress the passage between the Underworld and the human world and isolate the world of life and death.

The Qianyin Sect, just as its name suggests, inherits a magical artifact called the "Qianyin Stone": although no one knows whether this magical artifact is the authentic one from the myth, its magic is

The real deal... Its ability is mainly reflected in "suppression", which has a strong restraint effect on evil spirits.

The former Qianyin Sect was dedicated to exorcising evil spirits and was an out-and-out righteous sect. However, ordinary evil spirits were completely powerless to fight back when faced with the suppression of the Qianyin Stone. However, according to records, the evil spirits at that time were

Spirits, at most, can only make people possessed by evil spirits. They are not as terrifying as the ghosts of recent decades, who can kill people at every turn.

It was not until the 1920s that the Senyin Sect was passed down to the seventeenth generation leader, Fujiwara Ryuu, but it fell into disrepair inexplicably, and even the magical weapon, the Senyin Stone, was missing.

"According to various clues, Kayako's mother was a student of Fujiwara Ryu. She has been learning from him since she was a child since the early 1950s."

(Twenty or thirty years after the righteous sect disappeared inexplicably, the sect leader suddenly appeared to teach evil methods, even with milk... Ahem, just think about it with your brain, and you will know how big the problem is.)

However, when he said this, Chu Xuan's tone obviously did not change at all, but Ye Zi felt a chill inexplicably: If Chu Xuan is usually cold, it just gives people a feeling of "difficult to deal with"

.But at this moment, the chill emanating from his aura made Ye Zi's sixth sense sense the extreme danger!

Chu Xuan's next words made Ye Zi understand the origin of this feeling. At the same time, her pupils shrank, her face was cold and serious, and an extremely strong killing intent burst out from her body!

"According to Kawamata Naoko's testimony, her mother once said that... while studying with Fujiwara Ryu, he inadvertently mentioned that he had been serving in the military before 1945 and stayed in China for more than ten years.
Chapter completed!