After receiving Nangong Nazuki's request, Ellie left the school during the break, leaving Nagisa and the others in the care of Yukina, while she took the train to the twelfth artificial island.

On the train, Ellie also took this opportunity to investigate the information about Artificial Island No. 12.

According to intelligence, Artificial Island No. 12 was built by a conglomerate called the Kirijo Consortium, and was mainly used for psychological research and mental treatment. Therefore, this artificial island is less expensive than other artificial islands.

It has a lot of modern flavor, and its main theme is "healing the soul in the countryside and nature".

However, ten years ago, an accident occurred at the research institute of the Kirijou Consortium, causing a large number of casualties. After that, the entire research institute was closed, and the entire artificial island was in a semi-abandoned state. Because there were no more developers, so now

Artificial Island No. 12 feels more like the rural area of ​​Genkami Island. At present, Artificial Island No. 12 has long lost its original function and is mainly responsible for agricultural work such as crop cultivation.

This time the co-investigation report came from the Iwatodai branch of the 12th Artificial Island. According to the information passed on, there have been three consecutive murders so far. The victims were a TV host and a convenience store employee.

A working girl and the director of the 12th Artificial Island.

There were no witnesses to any of the three cases, and the police did not find any traces of the criminals at the scene. There was also no trace of magic, curses, superpowers or other breath sensors left. However, the miserable death of the deceased did not look like a suicide no matter how you looked at it, so

The Iwatodai branch made a request to the artificial island management association for assistance in the investigation, hoping that magic attack experts could come to investigate.

As for the "late night TV" ghost story, according to intelligence, it appeared after the first victim TV host disappeared. According to discussions on websites and forums, everyone at the time believed that it was because the female host refused to rest in peace.

Such supernatural events will occur.

As for the second convenience store working girl who died, she was interviewed by a TV host before her death. According to the information from the classmates of the person involved, some of them saw the working girl on TV, and then she disappeared the next day.

There was no trace, and the body was found after a rainy night on the second day after the disappearance.

At present, the third deceased, the director of the 12th Artificial Island, was found after investigation that he had an improper underground relationship with the first deceased. In other words, as far as the current situation is concerned, the strange story of "Late Night TV" mainly revolves around the female host

developed by people.

Of course, if that's the case, then it wouldn't be surprising. Similar content would appear in many urban ghost stories. For example, someone died unjustly, and then some strange situation occurred, and it wouldn't be surprising to find a few scapegoats.

But this time, since professionals have been sent to investigate, there is still no sign of curse or magic... This is very strange.

"Um………?"

Just when Ellie was checking the information, she suddenly noticed a flash of blue light in the corner of her eyes. Ellie raised her head and looked to the left, and saw a butterfly with blue wings flying everywhere in the carriage.

, it flapped its wings and flew from one side of the carriage to the other, and then gradually disappeared.

"………………"

Looking at the blue butterfly, Ellie squinted her eyes, thought for a moment, and then withdrew her gaze again.

At the same time, the train announcement sounded in her ears.

"I am very sorry to all passengers. Due to route reasons, the driving time has been greatly disrupted, which has caused inconvenience to all passengers. I would like to express my sincere apologies again..."

It was already late at night when Ellie arrived at the tram stop on Artificial Island No. 12.

"I really didn't expect that this rare tram ride would be late. I wouldn't have taken it if I had known it."

After getting off the tram, Ellie stretched out and complained. Because this case was more troublesome and she needed to investigate some information, Ellie chose to take the tram instead of traveling on a projector broom like usual. After all, she didn't want to watch.

It would be embarrassing if the cell phone hit a telephone pole.

There seemed to be very few people coming and going on artificial island No. 12 on weekdays, and there were only twos and threes of people on the tram late at night. They walked out of the tram and walked hurriedly towards the exit of the station. Ellie looked around.

After a while, we came to the security room of the station.

"Hello, I am Xiao Aili, the magic attack master. I have something to ask."

"Ah, hello, Miss Magic Attacker."

Seeing Ellie flashing her license in front of her, the guard who was on duty in the security room immediately became cautious - for people from "countryside" like them, magicians are just like FBI agents.

, is an existence that only appears in movies and legends.

"What do you want to ask about?"

"Have you heard this rumor about 'Late Night TV'?"

"Ah, this matter..."

Hearing this, the guard also clapped his hands.

"Of course, people outside may not know it, but 'Late Night TV' is very famous here. To be honest, I have seen it before."

"oh?"

Hearing this, Ellie squinted her eyes and glanced at the small TV in the duty room - this is why she asked the tram station guard. Compared with ordinary people, this kind of occupation that often works night shifts is obviously more dangerous.

Maybe watch late night TV.

"Can you tell me more specifically?"

As she spoke, Ai Li took out her voice recorder, and the latter nodded.

"Well, no problem. I remember it very clearly. It was a rainy night. I was working the night shift at the time. My favorite TV series "Goemon" was playing on the TV. Then halfway through,

It seemed that there was a sudden power outage due to thunder. At that time, I suspected that the circuit breaker had tripped. Just when I was about to check the status of the circuit breaker, the TV suddenly came on..."

Recalling the scene at that time, the guard seemed a little nervous and uneasy.

"I didn't think much about it at that time. I thought it was a call...but at that time...the content on the TV was very strange..."

"What exactly is it?"

"Uh... I can't quite tell."

The guard shook his head.

"To be honest, the TV picture was very blurry at the time. It looked like it was shot in heavy fog. I could only see a figure dancing in it. It looked funny and a bit exaggerated... Then I thought

There was a power outage when I woke up, and it was impossible to turn on the TV..."

"Then what?"

"That's it for the first night."

Facing Aili's questioning, the guard shook his head.

"Then on the second rainy night, out of curiosity, I turned off the TV as the urban legend said, and then waited until around two o'clock in the night, the TV turned on again. This time I could clearly see the figure inside.

She is a girl, not very old, probably a high school student. She seems to be performing some kind of show..."

"programme?"

"Yeah, it was a bit like a variety show. I saw there was a stage and an audience and so on, and then she yelled there, and then the show ended...Then the next day, I heard that the woman

The child died..."

The guard looked livid when he said this. If it were in the outside world, this kind of thing would probably have been laughed off, but precisely because it was in the Demon Zone, it had enough credibility.

"Everyone said that the late-night TV was a curse placed on the female host of the TV station. Because she was dumped by the director, she committed suicide out of resentment, and then used late-night TV to take revenge on everyone..."

"That is to say, you can only see the weird program if the TV is powered off. You can't see it if the TV is on, right?"

"That's right."

"very good."

Ai Li lowered her head, sorted out the records, and then looked at the guard again and asked.

"Then I have one more question..."

However, Ai Li stopped before she finished speaking.

Because at this moment, what was in front of Ellie was no longer the burly guard just now, but a dark hexagonal coffin, which stood upright on the ground, motionless.

"………………"

Only then did Ai Li realize that the electrical appliances around her seemed to have stopped moving. She glanced at her phone and saw that the time displayed on it was twelve o'clock exactly at midnight.

The bright moonlight shines in from the window, painting the entire room a gloomy green color. If you look carefully, you can see blood seeping out of the corners and gaps around it. It feels like a very scary place.

Like a haunted house.

what happened?

Ellie took two steps back and looked at the coffin in front of her carefully. Then she turned and walked out of the guard room. At this moment, there was no one in sight in the station. When she walked to the exit, Ellie found that the street in front of her was also empty.

One person, on the contrary, there were only two or three black coffins standing on the street, which looked quite intrusive.

"Judging from what happened just now, have the people on this artificial island turned into coffins?"

Ellie walked up to a black coffin and took a closer look.

"The guard didn't tell me that something like this would happen, and the information I searched didn't show anything similar. In other words, the person who turned into a coffin didn't have any perception of this and had no memory. With this

Why was this mutation not mentioned in the previous report? Is it because the branch members didn’t feel it either?”

While muttering to herself, Ellie raised her head and looked at the night sky in front of her.

Under the night, a huge moon jumped up. Under the moonlight, the entire Artificial Island No. 12 seemed to be shrouded by some unknown curse, emitting an aura of death similar to that of a cemetery. Not only that

, Ellie can also feel that there is some kind of crazy and violent atmosphere hidden in this darkness.
Chapter completed!