The living Sadako Yamamura

Objectively speaking, not everyone can understand the meaning of "Saeki House".

But if we add a female ghost whose real name was Kayako Kawamata, whose husband in life was Takeo Saeki, things suddenly become much clearer!

Ju-On!

It is also a well-known supernatural film, a horror movie that many people have only heard of but have never actually watched!

In other words, this group of young students, who had nothing to do after school, easily achieved the terrifying feat of "watching a mysterious videotape at Mrs. Kayako's house that was enough to make one's heart race, face flush, and blood boil!"

You son of a bitch!!!

Tang Yuyang once again deeply felt how much these young students, beneath their seemingly glamorous exteriors, needed the baptism of cramming education! People cannot, or at least should not—but, at this point, it's pointless to dwell on it now.

He glanced coldly at the students, his expression a mix of pity and disdain.

As the saying goes, "the more debts you have, the less burden you carry," and the crowd, already numb to the situation, didn't even show much additional reaction.

After all, they had clearly met the prerequisite of stepping into the Ju-On House, which was the seemingly inconspicuous house behind them, and thus being targeted by that earthbound, vengeful spirit.

There's no point in taking any chances.

These classic supernatural horror films follow an internal logic similar to a specific the Ring mechanism. The trigger for The Ring is watching the cursed videotape, while the trigger for Ju-On is entering the corresponding haunted house.

Once the conditions are met, there's no escaping it. That vengeful ghost, filled with resentment, will never let any prey that falls into the "murder conditions" escape!

Whether it was a misperception or not, at this moment, Tang Yuyang felt that the chill in his body and mind was becoming more and more obvious.

Especially when he turned around and carefully looked at the old house behind him, which he hadn't felt much about before, now seemed to have suddenly become lifeless after the fact.

After looking around, the Third Tier internal cultivator silently turned his gaze to the doorway of the house in front of him.

The old nameplate next to the door is covered with scratches of varying depths and shows signs of decay at the edges. It is obvious that the owner's name can no longer be clearly identified.

----Well, it's almost as if someone deliberately damaged this nameplate!

Even when Tang Yuyang saw the nameplate of the mansion, it seemed as if it were a hallucination, or perhaps there was still a trace of cold air, like invisible worms crawling on the surface of exposed flesh, gradually seeping into the skin like needles.

But this is probably not an illusion.

Even when he tried to concentrate, that faint warm current within his body reappeared, quickly dispelling some of the external "coldness" along with the gradually increasing fatigue.

Very good, it seems that Inner Breath can indeed counteract that influence.

This kind of subtle, Spiritual Perception of danger is something that ordinary people would often find difficult to perceive; it is precisely individuals with an energy system like them who can experience it to some extent.

That's why these young students dared to blindly rush in, courting certain death!

Ignorance is bliss!

Glancing at these "pig heads," the girl who had been carrying the camera earlier was now cowering and crying, offering a hefty "ransom," clearly from a well-off family. Another guy with grayish-yellow hair, still looking defiant after being beaten up, was yelling something like, "Bastard, let me go and we'll fight one-on-one!" with a bruised and swollen face.

He chuckled coldly. For this self-important, arrogant middle school student, some users simply went up and slapped him a few more times.

He smoothly pulled out the tactical dagger, and when the opponent looked frightened and screamed like a slaughtering pig, he forcefully pulled out a hand and quickly drew a bloody word "miserable" on the back of his hand!

It looks terrible, but it's actually just a minor injury to the surface of the skin.

These are all users from China. They don't have the habit of killing indiscriminately. They just kill these young guys who aren't quite right in the head and are easily impulsive at that age.

Anyway—the truly tragic part is yet to come!

"Old Yong, everyone, find something to gag them, take them with you, and remember the location of this house. We need to get out of here first."

"Yes, indeed. This place should be close to the year 2000. The gunshots were so obvious earlier; they'll definitely attract the police."

The man with piercing eyes named Yong Qi was considerably older and more experienced than Tang Yuyang, and he chimed in with a few words of agreement.

As a duo of two Third Tier officials, they quickly and naturally gained a voice in this temporary team after revealing their identities.

After initially confirming that the Main God had not provided much for them, and after searching their bodies, they only found a set of identification documents from the Japanese branch of National Security company and some cash.

At this moment, while giving instructions, Tang Yuyang also had to suppress his body's instinctive reactions, lest the abnormal chilling sensation quickly deplete his internal Inner Breath and leave him powerless to act in a crisis.

The Third Tier is not the Fourth Tier. Even though it has gained some superhuman abilities, its energy system has not yet transformed into a truly complete cycle. Therefore, neither its "capacity" nor its "energy return" speed is sufficient to support such extravagant behavior by the human body.

Letting them go is definitely out of the question right now. Aside from the fact that these few Little Wang are the unwitting culprits who have caused everyone's misfortune, just letting them out and then telling outsiders, even the local police, that a group of strange people in combat suits and equipment appeared in the old house?

It will only cause trouble.

Not to mention that these students are certainly on the Ju-On's death list as well, and keeping them in hand is simply a consideration for when they might need to be used to "divide the risk"—

In the True Body Mission, everyone understands their own situation and won't be so concerned with pointless acts of kindness.

Just looking at these guys trespassing into an old mansion, wantonly bullying a comatose female student, and even preparing to film it, likely to use it as leverage later, or even post it online for amusement—you can feel the "depth" of these young people.

Oh.

While she was thinking rapidly, perhaps because she had been carried and jostled around, or perhaps because the male student's pig-like screams were too piercing, the female student lying on the ground also stirred slightly, seemingly finally waking up.

The young girl, with bloodstains on her head and looking rather timid, was horrified to discover that her clothes were disheveled and that half of her top buttons were undone. Facing a group of various "armed men," she probably almost thought she was being sexually assaulted!

But none of that matters!

The key is action. Judging from the shirking and shouts of her classmates after she awoke, this bullied girl's name must be— Sadako Yamamura?

At first glance, Tang Yuyang thought there was something wrong with his ears.

And after confirming that everything is correct.

Looking at this young girl with disheveled black hair, whose head was temporarily bandaged and gauze-covered by a female user in a gesture of goodwill.

Almost everyone's gaze had become strange.

"So, these scoundrels bully you like this all the time?"

He casually slapped the cheek of the boy next to him, but this young student, who had been used as a seat by the disguised "armed terrorist" and was now forced to smile in fear, could only do so.

They watched this scene with equal fear.

When asked a question by the smiling, yet seemingly ruthless, middle-aged man with piercing eyes, the female student named Sadako Yamamura simply nodded cautiously without saying a word.

A typical autistic, self-conscious, and avoidant personality type, this individual is prone to discomfort and resistance to all unfamiliar external elements, and is often seen in individuals who have long lacked care or suffered setbacks.

Thanks to the cramming-style education and training during his training at the base, Tang Yuyang, who originally came from a working-class background, quickly gained a vague understanding after observing from the sidelines.

The situation is not looking good.

Having quickly completed their disguise and change of clothes, the group was now in a room, like a horde of "Yakuza," with some people on guard while others were taking the "humanoids" out of the bags and interrogating them.

In contrast, the girl in front of them was the only "exception" who received relatively friendly treatment.

Nothing more than her name says it all.

A girl with the same name as the real protagonist of "The Ring" appears in a place where strange videotapes are playing.

This coincidence is clearly not something that can be easily explained by mere coincidence.

Sadako Yamamura, one of the most classic ghosts in film history, is best known for her iconic terrifying image of crawling out of the television screen with her long, flowing hair!

Sadako Yamamura, an 18-year-old junior high school girl, is a withdrawn and bullied "negative figure" who has long been ostracized and bullied by her classmates. She is too timid to refuse and is called in as a "test of courage".

Upon arriving at their destination, sensing an unsettling atmosphere emanating from the old house, they tried to dissuade their classmate from entering. However, that idiot with dyed blond hair impatiently knocked him unconscious and dragged him inside.

These Japanese junior high school students, nearing the turn of the millennium, are truly brimming with martial spirit.

Despite their seemingly calm expressions, everyone still had their hands on their weapons, not daring to relax too much, for fear that a Ghost Shadow might suddenly emerge from the corner.

With his ears perked up, Yong Qi naturally heard every word of the conversation between himself and his classmate "Sadako Yamamura".

Those present reacted with varying expressions.

Something's not right about this world, not even this girl in front of me.

"She was able to sense that something was wrong with that Ju-On house? That's not a normal person's ability, is it?"

Amidst the hushed conversation, everyone turned their attention to the female user who had previously bandaged the head wound of this "living" Sadako Yamamura, taking the opportunity to verify her body temperature, heart rate, and other factors, and even secretly hiding a corresponding blood sample.

Among the enhancements received, this one barely corresponds to a certain level—a First Tier [Psychic] ability. The middle-aged woman named Du Cuiying nodded, "She is indeed alive. At least from her physical signs, there shouldn't be any problems. I used to be a nurse at a nursing school, so I know that."

"But I'm not sure about her mental state. I can only vaguely sense the emotional reactions of ordinary people, but this Sadako —she seems very closed off to me? I can hardly sense any of her inner mental signals."

After careful consideration, Du Cuiying found a relatively fitting adjective, and without holding back, she reminded everyone...

The sentence, "It is indeed too vague—but in any case, it doesn't seem like she's experiencing extremely negative emotions, but she's probably not an ordinary person either."

He wiped the light sweat from his brow.

As someone who could barely be considered to have a mental enhancement among the group, this person, who had already tried his best to activate the ability "Psychic," did not say aloud what—the other party's mental power fluctuations, which were subtly imbued with a sense of "autism," were clearly as innocent as a young girl, yet like a hidden reef beneath the sea, carrying a silent and vast potential.

A naturally gifted psychic with untapped abilities! And an extremely powerful one at that!

Aside from the possibility of it being a "vengeful ghost," this was the only reasonable explanation the middle-aged woman could think of. Naturally, she wasn't certain of her guess, only cautiously mentioning, "Regardless, if we did indeed choose the one-star difficulty level back then..."

"I think this girl might indeed be the key to breaking this deadlock for us."

Nobody's a fool.

A True Body Mission that is theoretically one-star difficulty, if it starts with two supernatural and fatal mechanisms locking you in, and there are no external factors that can interfere with this—this obviously does not conform to the rules for assessing the difficulty of the Main God's mission!

The previous discussions and speculations suggested that it would require a conflict between two "mechanisms," namely, "the incoming call foreshadows the death and the death will inevitably be confirmed by the end of the seventh day" and "Kayako takes the life midway." This undoubtedly seems to violate the rules, or rather, it suggests that the supernatural mechanisms are "competing for prey" to survive in the cracks.

If Kayako killed someone prematurely, how can the clearly defined manner of death in the prematurely rang "death call" in the Ring be completed by the end of the seventh day?

That's the subtle point.

Objectively speaking, even if it seems theoretically feasible, such a conjecture that requires full utilization of unknown supernatural rules is obviously a bit too "difficult".

After the girl regained consciousness, during the time spent close to her, Tang Yuyang, with his intuitive Inner Breath energy perception, could vaguely sense that the "chilling" aura emanating from the group had inexplicably diminished considerably.

This discovery is why everyone, disregarding the host's objections, shamelessly insisted on following this seemingly self-conscious, rabbit-like black-haired girl, whose eyes beneath her bangs seemed to speak volumes, back to the small house where she lived.

There's no other way; face is worthless when it comes to life.

Naturally, no one dared to be too forceful, since no one dared to push this seemingly ordinary girl too far, but at the same time, they couldn't rashly give up on this faint "lifeline."

So at this moment, among the users who had changed into ordinary clothes, the middle-aged man Yong Qi, who was more experienced in conversation, took the initiative to step forward and put a stack of brightly colored Fukuzawa Yukichi bills in front of him as "rental fees," and openly tried to get closer to the girl in question.

The others kept a slight distance to avoid putting too much pressure on the homeowner, and could only squeeze together in the rather cramped room, keeping watch while also checking the situation.

It seems that only the young girl lives in this house, which can be seen from the small size of the house, the single shoe in the entrance hall, and the relatively few furnishings.

As Tang Yuyang looked around, he noticed a stone statue on a relatively high spot on one side of the living room. It looked quite old, with the carvings showing signs of aging and becoming less clear.

The image, which emerged from the stone, appears to be a thin old man with a protruding back, sitting cross-legged on a rock seat, holding Kong beads in his right hand and a vajra, which resembles a long staff, in his left.

Upon closer inspection, two more strange, menacing figures stand on either side, one in front of the other, and are even more indistinct.

For some reason, this statue, which was clearly not particularly exquisite, gave him a subtle sense of excitement.

It's like a touch—a blend of the eerie and the warm?

It was so fast it felt like an illusion; even Tang Yuyang himself couldn't truly grasp this faint sense of speed.

However, a user next to him, who introduced himself as Tao Guangsheng, seemed to recognize the statue. "I've been to Japan before. This image should be En no Gyōja no En no Ozunu figure in Japanese Onmyōdō of Yin and Yang), who is also the ancestor of Abe no Seimei."

"As for the two spirits beside him, they must be the demons he commands, Front and Rear Demons."

En no Ozunu, that name does ring a bell.

As if stimulated by certain keywords from the source, Tang Yuyang quickly unearthed some vague things from his memories.

If I remember correctly, according to the movie and novel, Sadako Yamamura's mother once retrieved a statue of En no Ozunu from the beach, and from then on, she gained superpowers.

Later, her daughter was the same way.