I have to admit, there's some truth to the saying that three cobblers together can outdo a Zhuge Liang.
It wasn't until Chitanda pointed it out that Duanmu Huai remembered. Indeed, ghost stories were one of the things teenagers loved most. Looking at the box office figures for the horror films he had acted in, these kids had contributed more than half the revenue.
Moreover, Japanese ghost stories were very different from those of other places.
They told you how to solve the problem.
Chinese ghost stories generally ended with someone going to a temple or finding a Taoist priest to resolve the issue.
Most Western ghost stories left it to an exorcist or a priest.
Japanese ghost stories were the only ones that were different. They were rooted in everyday life, and their solutions were equally mundane.
Take the famous story of the Slit-Mouthed Woman, for example. Everyone knew that a masked woman would ask you, "Am I pretty?" If you answered yes, she would rip open your mouth and say, "Then become just like me." If you answered no, she would kill you.
But in fact, that rumor came with a solution: spray the Slit-Mouthed Woman with medical alcohol, and she would flee in panic.
The reason was that the Slit-Mouthed Woman had become that way after a botched cosmetic surgery. Thus, when she smelled medical alcohol, she would remember what had happened and run away in fear.
There were many similar ghost stories in Japan. They basically all followed the same pattern: first, they told you a ghost story, then they told you how to drive it away if you encountered it, and finally, they explained why that method worked.
If this was a collection of a group consciousness, then... things became interesting.
Assuming these ghost stories