"Nice to meet you, my name is Monowaki Saori."
The elegant woman introduced herself to the two.
"Lin Yi."
"Suzuki Sonoko."
Lin Yi and Sonoko responded.
After the initial introduction, the other party took the initiative to start chatting, and it could be seen that her communication skills were very good.
However, after hearing the other party's name, Lin Yi felt a little familiar.
But he couldn't remember it for a while. After all, Detective Conan started serialization in 1994 and continued until 2019, lasting a full 25 years.
A large number of female supporting characters appeared during this period, and even Lin Yi, as a fan, couldn't possibly recognize everyone.
He was familiar with her name, but he didn't have an impression, so she was probably a female supporting character without much plot.
So Lin Yi didn't take it too seriously.
"We came from Tokyo."
"My friend and I came from America Island…"
"America Island?"
"Yes, it's a very beautiful island over there, a great place for tourism and vacation."
"…"
As soon as he heard the name America Island, Lin Yi immediately remembered who the other party was.
This deviated somewhat from what he had imagined; he hadn't expected the other party to be a female supporting character with some significant scenes.
Lin Yi couldn't help but take a few more glances at her. The fact that she hadn't had her incident yet meant that the bad deeds she and the others committed two or three years ago hadn't been exposed.
Once exposed, she, along with the other two, would be dead.
Thinking of their fate, Lin Yi felt a little sentimental, but sentimentality was just sentimentality.
He was not one to act without benefit and had no intention of changing their destiny.
There were three reasons.
First, one should bear the consequences of their own wrongdoings.
Second, believing in immortality was foolish, especially for someone who had studied for so many years. Such hopelessly unintelligent people were not worth saving.
Third, she wasn't pretty enough.
The last point was also the most important.
If she were pretty enough… everything would be negotiable. Who told this 'who' to be so realistic?
Although the other party was a female supporting character destined to receive her 'lunchbox' (die), she still had to be a tool for a while before that happened.
A tool to trigger Sonoko's yandere (lovestruck and possessive) state.
Lin Yi, as always, joined in their conversation: "American Island? I've heard of that place. Doesn't it hold a Dugong Festival every few years?"
"Yes."
Sawari Menewaki couldn't help but look at Lin Yi. She didn't expect him to have heard of their local traditions at such a young age, and said with a hint of surprise, "It's an annual Dugong Festival… I didn't expect you to have heard of it."
"A friend mentioned it. I was quite impressed by the fact that there's a centenarian on the island, so I remembered it," Lin Yi said.
"The centenarian on the island is 130 years old, very long-lived!" Sawari Menewaki said, her eyes gleaming with a hint of fervent light, "It's said that she became so long-lived because she ate mermaid flesh!"
"Really?" Sonoko said with some curiosity, "Then I must find some time to make a special trip to American Island next time."
The conversation made time pass quickly.
Finally, it was their turn.
"The three of you, please follow me."
A nurse with bloodstained clothes and an expressionless face came over and led the three into the haunted house, which was the 'Cursed General Hospital'.
As soon as they entered, the line of sight immediately became dark, everything was gloomy, almost no light could be seen, and a chilling atmosphere inexplicably appeared around them.
Sonoko and Sawari, who were still talking, suddenly fell silent.
Lin Yi clearly felt Sonoko holding his hand even tighter, while Sawari Menewaki also shrank behind him, grabbing his clothes.
Was it that scary?
It was just a little gloomy, a little chilly, and had a bit of background… Okay, Lin Yi admitted that he felt something too.
Japan had some inexplicable talent in creating 'ghosts'. Ghost houses, ghost movies, and 'ghost fathers' were all their creations.
The nurse led them into a dark room and sat down to watch a video of the rules.
First, it told you that if you couldn't stand the fear, you shouldn't participate. And during the haunted house experience, if you couldn't stand it, you could leave through the emergency exit.
Then, it began to introduce the background of this Thriller Labyrinth.
The general idea was that this Cursed General Hospital used to be a black market hospital that secretly sold patients' organs until something happened one day. The hospital began to be haunted, and family members, patients, nurses, and doctors often heard strange noises, screams that were horrific.
People often disappeared in this Cursed General Hospital. After the police intervened, they still didn't find any problems, but it had a huge impact, so no one gradually came to this hospital anymore. Gradually, it was abandoned and became what it is today.
After the background introduction, it came to the theme:
"This is not a video that has nothing to do with you. Everything in the video may be related to you. This is a story about 5 young people..."
The video continued to play like this, with no narration, only text and miserable screams.
Five young people appeared. After they entered the hospital, they naturally encountered the ghosts here. Some were eaten, some were bitten, and the wounds of those who were bitten festered quickly, and she also became a man-eating ghost, hurting those who used to be her friends who came in with her like a ghost.
Then, the last person who hadn't been eaten was surrounded by all the ghosts in the house and eventually disappeared.
That was the content of the video. The whole film was grainy, very blurry, and had no color.
At the end of the video, visitors were reminded not to touch the ghosts lying on the bed!
Seeing the last sentence, Lin Yi couldn't help but laugh.
One could imagine how many times the ghosts lying on the bed had been touched by tourists to have such resentment.
After all, both men and women had places that couldn't be touched.
But tourists, in a state of fear, couldn't care so much, and would touch them a couple of times to see if they were real or fake.
Under such circumstances, the staff could only hold back when some places that shouldn't be touched were touched, and had no place to complain.
Lin Yi guessed that they really couldn't stand being touched like this, so they strongly requested that sentence be added to the end of the video.
Lin Yi didn't expect that the last sentence directly scared away a lot of the fear in his heart.
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