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Chapter 43 The Curse of the Videotape (Please continue reading)
Hearing the sudden ringing of the bell, Lu Ming's heart tightened.

No way, we just entered the dungeon, and before we even had a chance to catch our breath, the attack from the vengeful ghosts has already begun?

Lu Ming walked over but didn't answer the phone immediately, even though he knew he would still be cursed as much as he was supposed to be, even if he didn't answer.

After a while, the ringing stopped, and Lu Ming thought it was over, but the noisy phone rang again.

Will Sadako call twice in a row?

Lu Ming was suspicious, but he answered the phone. This old-fashioned landline wasn't very good quality, and it made a piercing noise the moment the call connected.

However, soon, a youthful and lively female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"What are you doing? I'm getting ready for bed."

"..."

After a difficult conversation, Lu Ming finally understood his current situation.

He is currently a male high school student from an island nation, fluent in Japanese, and has a girlfriend named Tomoko.

The person calling now is Tomoko.

Lu Ming and Zhi Zi, along with another high school couple, had planned a trip together some time ago. Now that the trip was over, they had all gone home.

It seems like an ordinary life, even one that can be described as free and wonderful.

But Lu Ming didn't think so.

Because this Tomoko is the very beginning of the entire Ring plot.

A group of high school students stayed at a hostel while traveling, and unfortunately, they watched a videotape with the curse of Sadako.

Tomoko was the first victim.

"It's not that simple after all. I'm already under a curse, but I don't know how many days of the curse I've been under."

Lu Ming shook his head, not too surprised by the result.

He had previously come across posts about Sadako on a forum.

Q: I'm in an island nation, just got off the plane, and I've been cursed by Sadako. How can I survive for seven days?

A: Just exploit the bug. On the sixth day after being cursed, watch the videotape again, and the survival time will be refreshed.

In Lu Ming's view, this solution was as absurd as being bitten by a five-step snake after taking four steps and then surviving.

Silent all night.

The next day, Lu Ming left his apartment. It was pretty much the same as the island nation he remembered. At this time, men in suits carrying briefcases walked back and forth on the road, looking lifeless and without any vitality.

It was the 1990s, and the entire island nation had been hit hard by the bubble economy of the previous years and had never recovered. During the morning rush hour, there were groups of lifeless zombies, and after get off work, drunk office workers would lie on the roadside at will.

Just as Lu Ming was about to do something, he suddenly noticed a police car parked in front of him. Several police officers got out of the car and politely said to him, "Sir, you are Ms. Tomoko's boyfriend, right? Ms. Tomoko has been murdered. We found records that she made her last phone call to you last night. Please cooperate with our investigation."

As expected, Tomoko was killed as the original plot unfolded. If nothing unexpected happens, the couple should have also been murdered last night.

But what Lu Ming couldn't understand was that he hadn't been attacked by Sadako's spirit.

Lu Ming had no memory of that period, so he didn't know what exactly happened that night.

Did he not participate in watching the videotape for some special reason at the time?
Or is there some other arrangement?
If it's the former, then he can only actively watch the videotape and enter the state of being cursed by Sadako.

After undergoing the usual brief investigation, Lu Ming left the police station. He was then interviewed by reporter Reiko Asakawa.

Coincidentally, Lu Ming's girlfriend in this world, Zhizi, is actually the niece of Asakawa Reiko. Asakawa Reiko also has a son with her ex-husband named Youyi, who is born with a psychic constitution.

Lu Ming didn't have time to waste with Asakawa Reiko, so he directly declined the interview.

The main reason is that Reiko Asakawa is such a foolish and selfish woman.

Reiko Asakawa's ex-husband was named Ryuji Takagawa, who also possessed a psychic constitution. Yoichi's constitution was inherited from his father.

This Takagawa Ryuji is a real man; he's always the first to step up when things get tough. But he's incredibly unlucky to have married Asakawa Reiko.

Reiko Asakawa knew that Tomoko's death involved supernatural events, but she still went to dangerous places for the sake of media attention, and even dragged her ex-husband Ryuji Takagawa into the matter, causing Ryuji Takagawa to also be cursed by Sadako.

In the end, Ryuji Takagawa died, and Reiko Asakawa escaped because she spread the curse, but her son Yoichi was dragged by Tomoko's ghost to watch Sadako's videotape and was cursed.

In order to ensure her son Yoichi's survival, Asakawa Reiko went so far as to make her father sacrifice himself, passing on the curse to him – a truly outrageous act of filial piety.

Reiko Asakawa even went so far as to say, "Anyway, the old man is getting on in years and doesn't have many more years to live, so why not leave the chance of survival to the children?"

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Lu Ming now has two choices.

Either confirm that you are not cursed by Sadako and then completely give up, waiting until the dungeon is about to end before watching the cursed videotape, then you can be considered to have successfully cleared the dungeon.

Or they could take a risk, watch the videotapes, and use supernatural means to nip the curse of this world in the bud, complete the extra mission, and leave this world ahead of time.

Lu Ming understood that from the moment he became a Ghost Tamer, there was no turning back.

Being too timid and afraid to try anything is tantamount to slow suicide.

After making up his mind, Lu Ming found out about the hostel where they had stayed during their trip and discovered that there was an entire wall of videotapes on the wall.

He borrowed the videotape he had been watching and then ran away.

Yes, Lu Ming shamelessly took the videotape.

He originally intended to destroy the videotape, but he figured that would be pointless.

The so-called videotape was merely a medium through which Sadako spread her curse.

This medium can be copied and regenerated, and even if it is destroyed, it does not mean that Sadako's curse has been solved at its root.

After figuring this out, Lu Ming had no choice but to insert the videotape into the DVD player next to the TV and watch the eerie video on his own.

Many tiny, snow-like spots flashed across the television screen.

The first shot shows a long-haired woman doing her makeup in front of a mirror, and at the end, a blurry-faced woman in white flashes by.

The second screen shows a bunch of jumping text with a headline about a volcanic eruption.

In the third scene, a figure with a white cloth covering her head appears. The figure approaches the camera in the blink of an eye, and a close-up shot is taken. You can see the character "贞" (zhen, meaning chastity) written in her pure black pupils.

When the last scene was played, Lu Ming realized something was wrong.

The television screen had undergone a strange change; countless tiny white dots began to move, as if something terrifying was about to happen.

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