The next day, Bai Ju came back with more information.
After she went to school, Bai Ju asked Miki Hosokawa again. The latter proudly explained the whole story to Bai Ju. According to Miki Hosokawa, the last victim of the death call was a female high school student in a neighboring city. She received a strange call before she died, and she 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 a falling object.
Although Miki Hosokawa's rumor was full of ambiguities, as long as she knew the specific age and address, it was not difficult for Miki to investigate. Soon, through the files of the Metropolitan Police Department, she found out that a student in a neighboring city died from a falling object, and it happened not long ago.
So, Miki quickly drove to the girl's house and began to investigate.
"… No matter what you say, my child is already dead."
Sitting at the table, the dead girl's mother had a sorrowful look on her face. If Miki had not taken out her Metropolitan Police ID, she would not have let Miki into the house.
"I know about those messy rumors. If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have bought that child a mobile phone.... What death call, it's just a rumor on the street."
"Please accept my condolences, but I think you should also be able to tell that I am not here to look for news like the tabloids on the streets. I just want to know, when your daughter passed away, did anything special happen?"
"Anything unusual?"
Hearing Miki's question, the mother's eyes flashed.
"That's right, it's Yoshiko! It's that child! It's all her fault for saying something like a death call at my daughter's funeral. That's why we can't rest in peace! "
"Who's Yoshiko?"
"She's my daughter's good friend. She lives nearby and has been very close to my daughter since she was a child. I don't know why she said that kind of thing at the funeral. It's because of that that strange rumor started spreading.... "
"I see."
Hearing this, Miki nodded, stood up and bowed.
"Thank you for your cooperation. I'm sorry to have disturbed you...."
Miki paused for a moment as she spoke.
"It may be a little presumptuous, but can you please give me your daughter's mobile phone? I want to investigate it properly. "
"Of course not …"
The mother turned and went upstairs. A moment later, she came down with a red flip phone and handed it to him.
"Please take it away. I never want to see this thing again."
After getting the address of the girl named Ryoko and the mobile phone from the mother, Satoshi turned around and returned to the car.
However...
"This is just an ordinary mobile phone?"
Bi looked at the flip phone in her hand in confusion. She opened and closed the phone repeatedly. She did not sense any aura of vengeful spirits from the phone, and there was nothing particularly strange about it. This gave me a bit of a headache. As it turned out, Japanese ghosts really kept up with the times. Sadako knew how to use videotapes, and this one was even more formidable. She even knew how to use a mobile phone to harm people ….
Could it really be using radio waves as a carrier to move back and forth?
Mayuzumi, who didn't get any clues, could only shake her head and drive to Yoshiko's house. From Yoshiko's parents, she learned that the girl had been locking herself in her room after her best friend died. She didn't go out at all, as if she was afraid of something. Three meals a day were prepared by her parents and placed at the door. She didn't even step out of her bedroom.
It was as if she was squatting at home.
However, unlike ordinary people who stayed at home, this girl named Yoshiko did not seem to refuse to meet outsiders, so Dusan 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. I'm next!!"
The girl named Yoshiko was a very delicate and pretty girl, but perhaps because of the pressure, her haggard appearance was moving closer to Sadako's.
"Can you elaborate?"
Faced with Satoshi's question, Yoshiko hesitated for a moment before stammering.
"We've all known about the rumor of the death call for some time. I don't know when it came out, but everyone was talking about it at that time. Of course, we just treated it as an ordinary anecdote. But that day … "
Speaking up to this point, Yoshiko seemed to have returned to that day. Her face was pale.
"… That day, Jiemi and I were going home from school. On the way home, Jiemi's mobile phone suddenly rang. She thought it was her mother asking her to buy groceries on the way home from school. She picked up her mobile phone and looked at it. Then she shouted, 'Oh, isn't this my mobile phone number?'"
"And then?"
"At that time, we all knew about the death call, but we didn't take it seriously. Out of curiosity, Jiemi answered the call, and I listened to it …"
"What did it say?"
Hearing Satoshi's question, Yoshiko's expression became more and more unsightly.
"The voice on the phone was intermittent. It seemed to be a woman's voice saying how unlucky it was that it was raining at this time. Then, there was a scream from the phone, and then there was no more sound."
Yoshiko curled up her body tightly.
"We didn't think much of it at the time, but three days later, on that night, I received a call from Jie Mei. We were discussing where to go next. Suddenly, Jie Mei muttered," What bad luck, it's raining at this time.... "But before she could finish her sentence, her words suddenly turned into a scream...."
"… … …"
Needless to say, after that, Jiemi was found to have been accidentally killed by a falling object in the head.
"In other words, when she was killed, she was talking to you on the phone, and what you and Jiemi heard three days ago was actually what she said to you on the phone three days later?"
"… … …"
Yoshiko nodded her head desperately.
"If Jiemi is dead, I'll die too … because I heard it too …!!"
No wonder she dared not go out now. Obviously, she had no doubt about the death call.
"So, is there anything special about it? Apart from the content inside? "
"Phone ringtone … …"
"Phone ringtone?"
"Yes, I remember it very clearly. When Jiemi received the death call, the ringtone she used was not the one we usually use, nor was it the one stored in the phone! The ringtone was very strange. It still makes my scalp tingle when I think about it … I don't know what ringtone it was, but I'm sure it wasn't our phone ringtone!! "
"Can I have a look at your phone?"
Dusk took Yoshiko's phone and checked it carefully. Sure enough, it was the same as the previous phone. There was no evil aura, no vengeful spirit or curse on it.
Heh, could it be that this place is really haunted?
After learning about the cause and effect of the matter, Yu bid farewell and left. Then, she returned to the car and turned on Jie Mei's phone again. Yu stretched out her finger, pressed a few buttons, and then immediately turned on the phone's developer mode — of course, this thing was used for backdoor access. Through the developer mode, she could investigate the records. Sure enough, just as Yoshiko said, Jiemi called Yoshiko at around 10 o 'clock that night. The call lasted for nearly five minutes.
"I remember the time of death recorded in the file is also … Oh, I found it."
Dusk took the death record and flipped through it. Soon, she found the time of death. It turned out that the time of death recorded in the file was consistent with the phone call. It seemed that Yoshiko was not lying.
"… Huh?"
But at that moment, Dusk suddenly noticed a strange sign. After the call ended, there was another call on Jiemi's phone record.
What's going on?
According to the death report, Jiemi's head was smashed by a falling object, and she died on the spot. So what was the meaning of this record? Did she insist on making another call after she died?
Was there such a thing?
Although Dusk was puzzled, he still found the owner of the number through Jiemi's contact list. It was the phone number of Jiemi's colleague at the place where she worked. Dusk immediately went to look for her, only to be told …
"Dead?"
Dusk was dumbfounded when she saw the shop owner in front of her. The shop owner nodded.
"Yes, it was an accident. Yamada-kun seemed to be crossing an overpass at the time. He slipped and fell from the bridge, hit the back of his head, and then …"
The shop owner sighed, and Dusk narrowed her eyes.
Things seemed to be getting out of hand.
After asking the shop owner for Yamada-kun's address, Dusk went to look for him again and obtained Yamada-kun's mobile phone through his parents. Then, Dusk opened the developer's record again and found the contact list. Just like Jiemi, Yamada-kun's last contact list also contained a record of him calling again after the call was cut off. This time, the person he called was one of his best friends.
So, Dusk went to look for Yamada-kun again. As expected, he died unexpectedly.
This was really a death call.
The more Dusk investigated, the more surprised she became. She had now figured out the whole process of the death call. The evil spirit would use some kind of method to kill, and after the victim died, it would randomly find a person from the victim's contact list and call them. The person who picked up the phone would hear the voice of the person before their death three days later. Three days later, they would die just like what was shown on the phone. After they died, the evil spirit would continue to randomly find a person from the victim's contact list …
What the f * ck is this infinite doll?
Dusk understood that they were in big trouble. This was much more powerful than Sadako's videotape curse. At least Sadako's videotape was traceable, but this one was too well hidden. The reason why Hosokawa Miki knew about the death call was probably because Jiemi's good friend, Yoshiko, caused a scene at her funeral. But other than that, the target of the death call was a random murder. There was no continuity at all.
For example, Yoshiko was worried about the death call and went to look for her. But according to Dusk's investigation, Jiemi's death call was to a friend who worked at her workplace. That friend was just an ordinary friend, and they were not even in a relationship. The next few victims were the same. They did not have a deep relationship with each other. One unlucky guy even saved his phone number in another person's phone while promoting a product. That was how he got into trouble.
It was an undeserved disaster.
The way the evil spirit killed people was very subtle. Most people would not be able to tell that there was anything wrong with it. In fact, if Dusk had not watched "Hell's Teacher" and knew that Hosokawa Miki could say whatever she wanted, she would have just treated it as an ordinary rumor.
Thus, Yu followed the traces in the address book all the way … But when she followed the address book to the next victim's house, she met someone she did not expect.
"Ashino sensei?"
Dusk was surprised to see Narusuke Ashino, who was wearing a suit and a black glove.
Narusuke Ashino was also surprised to see her.
"Miss Ashino? What are you doing here? "
Dusk did not answer. Instead, she silently looked at the phone in Narusuke Ashino's hand.
Hmm … looks like they're here for the same thing.
(End of Chapter)
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