Nozaki stepped forward and opened the car door for Zheng Wenjie and said, "Mr. Zheng, this is where the murder video first appeared, in this holiday home."

"This place has been audited by the Shizuoka Prefecture Investigation Team and no problems were found. However, I have investigated and the videotapes are definitely related to this holiday home because I found that the original source of the videotapes was here, and there were four videotapes."

Zheng Wenjie looked up at the holiday home and smelled a demonic aura from a distance. He nodded as if nothing had happened and said, "Then let's rest here for a day."

"Hi! The hot spring baths here are all drained from the hot sea spring water, which is definitely worth a soak in. Mr. Zheng, please." Nozaki bowed his head respectfully and gestured to Zheng Wenjie.

"Sister Makoto...you've been tired after driving all day. Let's go to the hot spring first!" Mitsuki's voice brought Makoto back to his senses. He nodded softly and his eyes involuntarily avoided the woman standing next to Nozaki.

Nozaki didn't think much about it, thinking that Makoto's usually active temperament became quiet because he saw a woman, and followed Mitsuki's words and said, "Yes, this holiday home is built on the dormant volcano Mount Omuro, which has been dormant for thousands of years. The hot springs here are very effective in relieving fatigue."

"Shouldn't there be a lot of tourists here?" Zheng Wenjie looked around and asked, "There aren't many customers right now."

Nozaki smiled awkwardly, and Songzi beside him said, "Because... I reported here."

"what?"

Songzi pulled the corners of her mouth to reveal a smile, looked at Zheng Wenjie and said: "Mr. Zheng, I am a reporter. I think Nozaki-kun should have told you... I am investigating the murder tape, so I reported that the source of the murder tape was this holiday home."

Zheng Wenjie smiled and looked at Songzi with inexplicable surprise: "When you enter the holiday home later, you must sincerely apologize to the host."

"What?" Songzi raised her head and looked at Zheng Wenjie.

Zheng Wenjie did not answer. He smiled politely at Nozaki and Matsuko, and took Mitsuki and Makoto into the brightly lit holiday home in the mountains.

The holiday home is in traditional Japanese style, with snow-white exterior walls separating the inside and outside. Entering the open door, what catches your eye is a flower bed planted within the wall.

A road paved with white stones meandered around the wooden house in front of them. Several people followed the road to the lobby of the holiday home. Looking at the closed door, Nozaki hurriedly took two steps forward and knocked on the door.

As a pleasant apology voice came from far away, a woman's figure was reflected outside the snow-white gauze door through the light. In the eyes of several people, they could see the figure kneeling gracefully by the door, holding the wooden door with both hands and gently pulling it to the side.

"I'm really sorry. I'm sorry for being rude. I didn't expect there would be guests so late at night." The woman who spoke was the owner of the holiday home. Her black hair was softly draped over her snow-white kimono, and her shiny white skin seemed transparent in a trance.

Standing at the bottom of the wooden steps, Nozaki was mesmerized by the sight of the woman, until he came back to his senses when he heard Mitsuki's voice from behind him.

"She's so beautiful!" Miyuki couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. She glanced at Zheng Wenjie out of the corner of her eye and saw that Zheng Wenjie was as usual, happily pulling Makoto forward.

Nozaki came to his senses and quickly bowed his head to apologize: "I'm sorry... I'm sorry to bother you so late, we're here to stay."

The woman nodded repeatedly, stood up, straightened her kimono and stood by the door: "Dear guests, please come in first."

Mitsuki had already pulled Makoto over Nozaki and onto the stairs. While Mitsuki was changing her shoes, she kept looking at the woman.

The woman smiled gently at Mitsuki: "Guests can just call me Xueji. Because of some bad things happening in this holiday home, there haven't been many guests in the past two days, so I gave the employees a holiday."

Yukihime looked at Makoto again: "It's been a long time, Makoto."

Zheng Wenjie and Nozaki Matsuko had also changed their shoes. When they heard these words, Nozaki looked at Makoto with a strange look and then lowered his head.

"Sister Yukihime, how are you doing lately?" Makoto asked with a forced smile.

Xue Ji pursed her lips and tilted her head to look at Makoto in confusion: "Did something happen to Makoto? Everyone, please go inside first."

Miyuki grabbed Makoto's hand and squeezed it a little harder, then sighed inwardly and looked at Zheng Wenjie.

Zheng Wenjie was looking around. The whole holiday home was built with the finest wood. There were flowers and incense burning in the entrance.

"Father, let's eat fish? I heard that there are some rare fish in Izu that can survive in the hot sea." Mitsuki said excitedly and turned to Yukihime.

Xue Ji smiled and nodded, saying, "Everyone, please go in first. Since there are no guests today, we haven't had time to prepare the ingredients."

As she spoke, Xue Ji led everyone through a row of closed rooms and came to the lobby: "Would you all like to sit here and rest first?"

Zheng Wenjie was a little surprised when he saw the completely different combination of the two outside. There were sofas, TVs, and small dining tables in the lobby. There was a billiard table in the corner of the lobby, and even several game consoles lined up side by side.

"Then... Makoto, please help me take care of your friends." Yukihime gently straightened Makoto's coat and said softly.

"Sister Yukihime...you go and get busy." Makoto nodded and said.

"Please do as you please. I'll take my leave now." Xue Ji squatted down and bowed to everyone, then took a few steps back facing everyone before turning around and leaving the hall.

Zheng Wenjie randomly picked a TV, sat on the sofa and said to Nozaki: "Nozaki-kun, let's play that videotape again. This holiday home should not have much to do with the curse in the videotape."

Zheng Wenjie has already seen this holiday home. Apart from a monster, there is no aura like that in the videotape. Instead, the well in the ancestral home of the Inugami family in Tokyo has a very similar aura to the curse in the videotape.

But there are some differences. Without any clues, Zheng Wenjie couldn't figure out the relationship between the two for a while. Perhaps the monster in the well used the videotape as a medium to kill people.

Just like the Polu demon used other people's responses as a medium to kill people, what Zheng Wenjie didn't understand was that the monster in the well had a body, just like the Slit-Mouthed Woman, it could just climb out of the well and take action. Zheng Wenjie didn't understand why he used the videotape as a medium to kill people.

Nozaki agreed and took out the videotape from the briefcase he was carrying. Zheng Wenjie said, "Ms. Makoto, please play this videotape."

"Hmm?" Makoto looked up at Zheng Wenjie and then at the videotape in Nozaki's hand. It was not until Mitsuki pushed her that she looked at Zheng Wenjie in confusion and took the videotape from Nozaki's hand. Nozaki asked in confusion, "Mr. Zheng... Why bother Makoto with such a small matter?"

"It's okay, I just want to take another look." Zheng Wenjie didn't say much, and leaned comfortably on the sofa. While Makoto was playing the videotape, Zheng Wenjie looked at Songzi: "Ms. Songzi, can you tell me what you found in your investigation of the videotape?"

"Of course!" Matsuko nodded affirmatively. She knew herself well. The way Mitsuki looked at her made her realize that she was not welcome. As a reporter with social visibility, if it weren't for her own life and that of her child, she would have turned around and left long ago instead of remaining silent.

Matsuko also learned from Nozaki that Zheng Wenjie was a real exorcist master, so she couldn't help but take Zheng Wenjie very seriously. When she heard Zheng Wenjie's words, her reply became very loud.

"Okay, okay... You're talking so loudly, are you trying to scare me to death first?" Miyuki rubbed her ears and scolded unhappily.

Songzi forced a smile to hide her embarrassment and was about to apologize when Zheng Wenjie interrupted her: "Watch the video tape again first, and then tell me what you found out."

Makoto also sat back next to Mitsuki, and the five of them gathered around the TV to watch. The screen first showed a burst of snow, and then, accompanied by a crackling sound, the picture changed.

In the black and white interface, there was a picture of a long-haired woman in a black kimono combing half of her hair in front of a mirror. Then there was the sound of the woman turning her head and speaking, and then a little girl in a white dress flashed across the screen.

Then there was a blurry newspaper article, which roughly reported a dormant volcano. Then there was a blurry picture of several people lying on the ground, holding their chests and struggling. The next picture that appeared was an eye. The eye in the black and white picture revealed a creepy and weird feeling. Even Mitsuki couldn't help but tense her body slightly. The last picture that appeared was a well.

The well in the Inugami family's ancestral home is different from the well in the surrounding environment. The well in the Inugami family is surrounded by abandoned houses, while the well in the TV is a flat piece of yellow land.

After the videotape was finished playing, Zheng Wenjie looked at Makoto. The videotape curse on Makoto had been transferred to Nozaki.

Zheng Wenjie smiled and thought this was quite interesting. If he wanted to resolve the curse, he could just find someone to play the videotape for him, and the curse would naturally be transferred away.

But the scary thing about this curse is that after being transferred out, you will still be transferred if you watch the videotape again, but this can be used to create a bug.

"Ding-ling-ling..." The phone rang. Meiyue looked at Zheng Wenjie with a smile. She was not afraid and ran to answer the landline excitedly: "What's going on?"

Miyue said it back and forth several times, but there was no response from the phone. Miyue pouted and hung up the phone, then sat back down: "There was a buzzing sound last time, right? There was no sound at all this time."

Zheng Wenjie nodded and turned to look at Songzi, who had not yet recovered from her shock: "Ms. Songzi, please tell me what you have found out."

"Hi." Songzi nodded and recalled the past few days' experiences in her mind and said slowly: "I took this video tape back to the TV station and played it slowly with the equipment. I found that there was sound in this tape. Someone was talking."

"It means: when you hear the sound, the ghost reappears."

"This sentence is the dialect here in Izu! And the Omuro Mountain where we are now is consistent with the dormant volcano mentioned in the newspaper in the video tape."

Nozaki nodded continuously as he listened and finally interrupted, "That's why I suggested investigating here first, as the videotape first appeared in this holiday home."

Matsuko continued, "Then I asked many classmates and seniors for help and found this discontinued newspaper. In addition to promoting Mount Omuro..."

Songzi was silent for a moment, then looked at the black TV screen and continued, "There is also a photo of the woman that appeared in the videotape."

"This woman's name is Yamamura Shizuko. The newspaper said she had amazing super powers, but she died twenty years ago."

"She... committed suicide. At that time, because of this newspaper, Yamamura Shizuko caused a huge sensation throughout Japan, and was eventually invited to Tokyo to participate in a TV show."

"I checked the information from that year on the TV station. It was a doctor from the University of Tokyo who invited Shizuko Yamamura to come to Tokyo to participate in the program. I also found out that this doctor and Shizuko Yamamura were married in Izu and had a child."

Matsuko rubbed her temple and said her own judgment: "I think the source of this curse is Yamamura Shizuko, because she had very powerful superpowers when she was alive."

"She committed suicide because after the show aired, no one believed she had superpowers and thought she was a liar, so many people boycotted her. The TV station recorded it and she couldn't even leave the house."

"Later, in order to resolve the misunderstanding, Yamamura Shizuko's husband, the doctor from the University of Tokyo, invited many researchers from the University of Tokyo to come to the TV station again to test Shizuko's superpowers."

Mitsuki and Makoto were listening intently. Seeing that Matsuko shut up again at this point, Mitsuki couldn't help but ask, "What happened next? If she had super powers, why would she commit suicide?"

Matsuko bit her lip and slowly recounted the notebook of a senior from the TV station she had found: "Before the experiment began, a viewer stood up and yelled at Shizuko for being a liar. Then Shizuko stood up and looked at the viewer. Then the viewer died. He looked as if he had seen something horrible. The investigation at the time also said that he was frightened to death."

Songzi said word by word: "It's exactly the same as when someone who watched the videotape and was cursed died."

"So did she really commit suicide? This should be murder, right?" Mitsuki grabbed Makoto's hand and asked Matsuko in surprise.

Matsuko nodded: "Because there is no actual evidence to prove that Shizuko killed someone, but because the TV station broadcast this video... People all over Japan are no longer saying that Shizuko is a liar, but that she is a murderer... a monster."

Mitsuki opened her mouth in shock when she heard this, and finally her emotions became depressed: "So that's why she committed suicide."

"That's right...and Shizuko committed suicide here, in Omuroyama." Matsuko thought of the curse on herself. Today is already the fourth day, and today is also the second day for her child. She shook her head and stopped thinking about the reason why Shizuko committed suicide.

"Mr. Zheng! Nozaki-kun told me that as long as we find Shizuko's body and resolve her resentment, the curse on us will be lifted after she is liberated. Is this true?"

"You need to see Shizuko's body to know that." Zheng Wenjie tapped the sofa with his index finger and suddenly said, "Ms. Xue Ji, do you know where Yamamura Shizuko's body is?"

Mitsuki, Nozaki and the other two only then realized that Yukihime was standing beside the sofa with a tray in her hands.

"Ms. Yukihime... walks so quietly." Nozaki said as he saw that Yukihime's fair and delicate feet were wearing clogs with heels. There should be a sound of collision when she walked. He couldn't help but swallow his saliva and looked at Yukihime nervously. (End of this chapter)