Horror simulator, if you survive till tomorrow, you win

Runma Saeki held Ito Jun's right hand, and looked at Ito Jun seriously with her shining blue eyes.

"Yes, I did, Saetsuki, you can trust me."

Ito Jun breathed a sigh of relief and said happily.

Runma Saeki seemed still a little drowsy. Ito Jun helped her sit steadily, then quickly walked to the place where she twisted and turned and disappeared, and picked up the mirror stone.

Ito Jun stood up and his pupils shrank. In the distance, a square thing like a scarecrow stood on the grassland.

Moreover, it feels like it's getting closer and closer.

"Saetsuki, here comes another one. Should we take a detour or continue?"

Ito Jun retreated to the side of Runma Saetsuki and said in a deep voice.

"We've already got a lot of experimental samples, so there's no need to get entangled with them."

Runma Saetsuki shook her head and pulled Ito Jun into the bushes, away from the twisting path that blocked the way.

"I have an idea about the Mirror Stone."

While walking on the road, Jun Ito played with two mirror stones and presented his discovery.

"Oh?"

“The camera can take supernatural photos.”

"Most of them are fake. I have also tried to take pictures of the other world, but I have failed. By the way, you also brought a camera, you can try it."

Runma Saeki said without turning her head. She walked steadily in the grass, alert to her surroundings.

Ito Jun didn't try, and since Saetsuki said so, it must be right.

"What I mean is that we can use mirror stones to replace part of the camera's structure, and observe strange things through twisted perspectives through the phenomenon of refraction."

"…It's an idea, let's try it now?"

Runma Saeki stopped and gave some approval to Ito Jun's guess.

Ito Jun deftly disassembled the camera into a pile of crude parts.

There was no gunpowder, so he removed the gun parts before coming.

"Well……"

Runma Saetsuki seemed to be hesitant to speak, but finally opened her mouth to speak.

"I have two cameras. You can use one when you go back."

It's no wonder that Runma Saeki said this. Compared with a normal camera, Ito Jun's modified camera is so simple and crude that Runma Saeki is very skeptical whether this camera can take pictures.

Maybe the cameras from 1600 were better than this one.

"Normal cameras are difficult to disassemble and piece together. Moreover, I think cameras are not easy to use. If possible, I would like to install the mirror stone into a military night vision goggles and wear it directly on my face. This is more convenient."

The camera was too eye-catching, and the Oil-Paper Umbrella Monster destroyed the camera accurately because his movements of using the camera were too obvious.

As he spoke, Ito Jun put the two mirror stones and the camera together. It felt a little unstable, but it seemed to be usable.

"If you find a problem, give up your knowledge immediately. Do you hear me?"

Runma Saeki hesitated for a moment, grabbed Ito Jun's wrist tightly, and gave a serious warning.

"Of course, I won't joke with my life."

Ito Jun smiled and said firmly.

Holding the camera in front of him, Ito Jun looked straight ahead and twisted his body.

The next moment, Ito Jun felt himself thrown into a wonderful world.

It moves as if gliding on the semicircular water surface, and around it can be seen creatures shaped like white balls connected to each other by thin thread-like tissues wriggling.

The surface of the water was milky white, while the area below was as dark as a well.

When Ito Jun looked at that place, he was dragged into the depths of the well in one breath.

Bursts of electric current erupted in the darkness, and this continuous electric current formed a unique pattern.

White...scarecrow...water surface...snake scales...telescope...When the above concepts emerged in his consciousness, Ito Jun's mouth opened, and he could feel it weaving into some kind of words without his permission.

At this point, Ito Jun finally understood.

That curved surface of water is his eyeball.

He was observing himself by twisting his perspective.

Ito Jun pulled his consciousness out almost frantically, and after squeezing the words out of his mouth, the sound came into his ears.

"shot!"

"boom!"

Runma Saeki pulled the trigger without thinking, and the bullet hit the twisting body, successfully causing damage.

Chapter 47 Cognitive Psychologists

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Chapter 48: Positive

"Why, then, is this so?"

Ito Jun asked curiously.

"Perhaps this is a natural phenomenon. Where there is light, there is darkness. Where there is order, there is chaos. Where there is uprightness, there is distortion. Where there is fearlessness, there is fear. This is the natural law of the world."

Sakura said seriously as she sat cross-legged in her computer chair, cupping her hot cocoa in her hands.

"Since there is a bright, orderly, and fearless outer world, it is understandable that there is a dark, chaotic, twisted, and terrifying inner world."

"I once proposed such a hypothesis that the various phenomena in the inner world seem to be intended to scare people. Now that I think about it, it may be the opposite. Their purpose is not to scare people... but when they come into contact with the inner world, they will inevitably cause fear to humans. It is purely because the memory of the weirdness in the brain is the way to connect to the inner world, which is a channel completely opposite to the surface world..."

Sakura sees the otherworld as a natural phenomenon, a materialized imaginary world that takes shape because of its connection to human thought and knowledge.

Judging from the current situation, there is no more accurate guess.

Half an hour later, when Ito Jun and Runma Saeki were leaving the villa, Sakura suddenly called him.

"Hey, wait a minute, I have something to tell you."

Ito Jun looked at Sakura, then at Runma Saetsuki.

"I'll go first, you guys chat."

Runma Saeki smiled tolerantly, nodded to Sakura, and walked out the door.

Sakura watched Runma Saetsuki walk away from the door before she waved to Ito Jun.

"Aren't you friends? What are you hiding from her?"

Ito Jun walked over.

"Because we are friends, I don't want to teach her a lesson in front of others."

Sakura showed an unhappy expression.

"Do you want to persuade me not to go into the other world again?"

"You won't listen even if I advise you, right? Although you look ordinary, you must have some other strengths to be favored by Saeki. But after all, you are just a high school student who doesn't know the world. You can be coaxed into being very obedient by Saeki in a few seconds. Speaking of Saeki, she is like this. She always seduces anyone who approaches her and then uses them. She is a natural alpha female."

Sakura angrily spoke ill of Runma Saetsuki.

Ito Jun expressed reservations about her words.

His personal emotions were too strong, which made him feel that this was an elementary school student who was extremely unhappy because he saw his good friend had someone else with him.

As for not going to the other world... Actually, in Ito Jun's opinion, the other world can be visited or not, as he already has a way to defeat the oil-paper umbrella monster.

However, in comparison, Ito Jun feels that the inner world is safer than the outer world.

At least, so far, the monsters encountered in the inner world are much less dangerous than those encountered in the surface world.

Between the endless prairie and the complex city, the former is more likely to avoid danger.

"The other world is more dangerous than you think. You may not think so, because I have returned safely more than once, and the weird things I encountered were also twists and turns that I could escape as long as I didn't look at them. Twisting and turning... Speaking of which, twisting and turning is also a very dangerous kind of thing in urban ghost stories, because there is no way to eliminate it in ghost stories, but the fact that you won't get into trouble if you don't look at it allows people who know about it to avoid danger."

Sakura sat down on the chair again and crossed her legs together.

Looking at it this way, it's really a small one.

"But, sooner or later, they will go crazy. Even those who are familiar with ghost stories will develop mental abnormalities after entering the other world many times. Going crazy or disappearing are the mildest symptoms. There are many cases of drastic physical changes... Humph! A high school student like you probably won't take it seriously unless you suffer a lot, right?"

Sakura glanced at Ito Jun with annoyance.

"From a cognitive psychologist's perspective, excluding the possibility of entering the other world, I can only give you a limited amount of advice. Just try to keep your mental state as stable as possible."

"Mental stability?"

"No matter what the attack method is, the first step of the monsters interfering with humans is to make people feel fear. For example, when going to the haunted house in the amusement park, some people can walk in without a care, while others will be so scared that they can't even move. The monsters are much scarier than the haunted house. If you can't even move, there's no need to think about resisting or escaping."

"Then you can rest assured. I'm very brave."

Although Jun Ito had only average courage at first, his courage increased by at least twice after he bought fear tolerance from Sanzugawa Shopping Center.

"Idiot, do you think that's all? Fear is not the only factor that causes madness. Anxiety, anger, hatred, lust, jealousy, mania, violence... Weirdness is best at making negative emotions extreme."

"..."

Ito Jun was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that his negative emotions had gotten out of control more than once.

Come to think of it, it’s been less than a week since he traveled here!

"what should I do?"

“It’s simple, just make sure you have a positive and proactive attitude.”

Sakura's simple words made Ito Jun look bitter.

Positive and proactive attitude? To put it simply, he still can't resist the temptation of Tomie Kawakami.

"I've said it, whether you listen or not is up to you."

Sakura slid the wheels of her chair and turned her gaze to the other side.

It was already six o'clock in the evening when he returned to his residence. Before that, Ito Jun found a factory that manufactured night vision goggles and spent a lot of money to assemble the two mirror stones into the night vision goggles.

"Observer, gun, bomb, knife...what else do you need?"

Ito Jun talked to himself, pushed the door open and entered the foyer, then heard someone talking inside the house.

“…Leave it to me.”

"Be careful, don't die."

"What a scary thing to say. Can he eat me?"

"maybe."

"That doesn't matter, we can eat each other~~"

"His mental state is unstable, and he actually eats when he's mad... You're back."

Ito Jun walked through the entrance and saw the fortune teller talking to a girl.

The girl looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a sweet appearance, and a completely different style from the fortune teller.

"By the way, I have to say this. I'm back."

Ito Jun didn't want to pay attention to the fortune teller at first, but thinking of Sakura's advice, he said a set line in the way ordinary people go home.

The fortune teller opened her eyes wide in surprise. She didn't expect Ito Jun to speak to her in such a kind voice.

Is it such a big change after going out? I always feel...

"So handsome!"

The girl stared at Ito Jun with glowing eyes, with both lust and appetite in her eyes.