Why are there only loser heroines around me?

The director obviously wants to make a second film to make money, and this kind of foreshadowing is impossible to reveal in the first film.

"Can I come to your house and stay? I'm sure the sheriff has arranged a room for you?"

Arthur's eyes were pitiful.

"It's arranged, but there are three of us living here. If you want to come, you can sleep in the same room with me." You Jing said.

He felt that Arthur would most likely agree. It might be a bit crowded to sleep in the same bed with him, but it would still be better than the doghouse outside.

But Arthur suddenly looked at him with a look of "he is very lucky", covering his heart with his hands, as if he was in great pain.

"I'd rather not disturb your world of three, brother. I wish you happiness."

Xiaoju, who was following behind Yana, heard these words as soon as she came over. Her cheeks couldn't stop blushing. Her red face had just calmed down to its normal color, but she didn't expect to hear such explicit words again as soon as she came out.

In comparison, Yanami seemed much calmer and composed. She often heard more outrageous rumors at school, and Arthur's joke just now was just a drop in the bucket for her.

"Arthur, have you seen Kotoko and Hakuba?"

"I haven't seen them." Arthur spread his hands and said, "What happened to them?"

You Jing said, "It has been forgotten by the outside world. You may not know that the situation outside is very complicated right now. Everyone who went to investigate Kingsport Church has disappeared, and...after their disappearance, all traces of their existence in the world will be erased."

Arthur was stunned. "So, I don't exist to the outside world now? Then how do you remember me?"

Ukyo said, "I used a safeword to break through the memory blockade of an unknown entity. Its spiritual domain is very powerful. It took me four safewords to remember you. According to the rating standards of the White House investigators, the alchemical domain that was applied to the minds of several of us is at least level 4. A level 4 domain is already very rare. To be able to apply this domain to so many people at the same time, I dare not imagine how terrifying the existence hiding behind it must be."

"I'm suddenly a little touched. What's going on?" Arthur's eyes were filled with tears, and it was unclear whether he was pretending or was moved by real emotion. "Even though you knew it was so dangerous, you still went into the tiger's den to save me. Brother, there is a custom in China that brothers in need can become sworn brothers. Let's become sworn brothers!"

"You fake China expert! Brothers with similar interests or deep ties can become sworn brothers. Whether they've been through thick and thin isn't the deciding factor." You Jing said, "Forget about the sworn brotherhood. After we get out of here, I just hope you don't forget what you promised me. You said you'd get me the only Bugatti in the world!"

"Hey!" Arthur was a little impatient. "I'm talking about getting you the right to buy it. I don't have that kind of money! Besides, there are a lot of wealthy people interested in that car. There are a lot of people who meet Bugatti's requirements. Who knows, who will get it in the end? I might spend all my life's earnings and still not be able to afford it. That kind of luxury car is better left to rich kids like you."

Halfway through the sentence.

Arthur suddenly noticed that Yanami looked at him with a somewhat confused look.

He scratched his punk-style short hair and couldn't help but say, "Lao Ba, you really don't recognize me?"

Yanami still looked confused. Ukyo was able to regain her memory with the help of a safe word, but Yanami had never set a safe word for herself, so even if Arthur was right in front of her, she would not recognize him.

She just felt that Arthur looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him.

"We're brothers for life and death!" Arthur lamented. "I've assigned you several commissions! Whenever you can't get work, you come to me!"

"Haha~" Yana smiled politely. She really didn't know this happened. Arthur's heart sank.

"So you've also forgotten about our game of truth or dare on the Demonic Train?"

"What's the truth?" Yanai suddenly became nervous. "Are you on the Demonic Train? Isn't it just me, Jing, and those two investigators?"

"Damn it! I'm really one of you!" Arthur said. "I know you used the principle of visual distortion to take a couple's photo with Ukyo, and you were worried that if your phone died, the photo wouldn't be saved!"

"What!" Yanaijian subconsciously looked up at Ukyo, "He's talking nonsense, there's no such thing! I've never taken a couple's photo!"

"嘁~"

Arthur curled his lips. Until now, he had thought that Ukyo and Yanami were in a relationship like an "old married couple", so he didn't understand why Yanami was pretending to be shy. Besides...is a photo something worth being shy about?

Ukyo thought Arthur was talking about the "posthumous photo".

At that time, Yanami said that since they were all going to die, they might as well leave a photo together before they died.

He didn't know what angle the photo was taken from, and he thought such things were unimportant.

Yanami put her hands behind her back, holding her phone tightly in both hands. The photo was her phone wallpaper. She originally wanted to set it as a screen saver, but the screen saver was too conspicuous and she didn't want Ukyo to find it, so she could only use it as a wallpaper. Every time she used her phone in front of Ukyo, she was very careful and tried not to let him see the wallpaper.

She thought that if Youjing was going to ask her about the couple photos, she might as well confess. If Youjing didn't like it, she would just delete it.

But Ukyo didn't ask, he just suddenly changed the subject and started asking about Arthur Kingsport Church, which made Yanami slowly breathe a sigh of relief.

"There's nothing in that shabby church. I've been there."

Arthur waved his hand and said, "Have you read Ramsay Campbell's 'Grave Beasts'? That novel mentions an old church in the small town of Kingsport. And somewhere in the world, hidden from ordinary eyes, is the temple of Yog-Sothoth, located adjacent to that real church. There, a horrifying ritual is performed. That mysterious and bizarre ritual can open a 'door' to another world, allowing ancient demons from other realms to descend into our world."

Yanami had long forgotten all the Cthulhu-related books she had read. Now Cthulhu was a completely unfamiliar concept to her. Even Xiaoju, who always called herself a "supernatural encyclopedia", felt unfamiliar with this story.

This was not important to Arthur. He was just explaining his experiences on this demon-hunting trip. If he encountered something obscure, he would stop and give special explanation.

"Although my original purpose was to remove a photo from a church, I was also very interested in disappearances that occurred in churches, so I went to the church after the original commission was completed."

"It seemed like all the victims were killed at night, so I went there at night as well."

"I spent the entire night in the church, confessing to Jesus about peeping at my sister in the shower as a child. Around 4 or 5 in the morning, when everyone was getting a little sleepy waiting, a drunk Russian-speaking man came in and confessed in Russian that he had just abused his wife at home... Well, this place looks pretty ordinary. I had even looked for a secret door in the first half of the night, but a church is just a church. There are no secret compartments or doors."

"Around six o'clock, I felt there was no point in staying here, so I got up and left. It was foggy outside the church at the time. I didn't think much of it, as it was perfectly normal to have fog in the morning. I walked into the fog, thinking I'd be able to see the town's road soon. But after about half a minute, the fog dissipated, and I did see the road, but it wasn't the road to Kingsport. It was this damn... what the hell was Tristram?"

Yanami corrected the inaccuracies in his story.

"It's the town of Tribit."

"Oh no! It's all the same!" Arthur waved his hand and said, "Anyway, this place shouldn't exist. The people here are all fictional. Whoever was in that movie, there's someone in this town. I guess, except for that American girl Shirley and the other outsiders, everyone here is made of paper!"

Arthur probably just wanted to complain that the people here were fake, and the word "paper man" was an inappropriate metaphor he used.

........

...

Chatted with Arthur for a while.

Ukyo already knew how he got in.

It seems that there really is a so-called gate to another world in the Kingsport Church, so maybe they can get out if they find the church.

This Nibelungen-like place was different from the Nibelungen that Youjing had visited before. On the elevated road on a rainy night, he could get out by simply stepping on the accelerator, but here, he stepped on the accelerator for five hours and was still spinning on the road.

Ukyo saw an old church on a distant mountain and wanted to go over and take a look, but the sheriff had built a small hut there and stopped him.

"Friend, I know you're a great paranormal detective, but you can't go into this place. No matter how good your sense of direction is, you'll get lost if you go in. This town originally had two sheriffs. The other one was my deputy, Johnny. He disappeared into these woods and has not been heard from since."

Ukyo looked towards the church in the distance.

The forest was not dense, and the tree trunks on the periphery had traces of being cut by knives and axes. It seemed that the outsiders had taken wood from the periphery of the dense forest.

Ukyo said, "You can get in from the outside, but you can't go deep?"

"You're very clever, Detective." Inspector Carlo seemed less enthusiastic than he had been at noon. "If you want to go in, I can tie a climbing rope around your waist, but you can't go deeper than ten meters, or the thick fog will completely obscure your figure. By then, even if you have the ability to fly through the sky, you won't be able to return."

The church was right in front of him, but he couldn't get in. Youjing had always been in awe of unfamiliar things, and without sufficient information, he would not take risks rashly.

"Can I ask a question?"

"You said."

"Arthur is my friend. He's currently living in the camp you've set up for outsiders. He told me that he was walking out of Kingsport Church when he encountered a fog. Can I ask where you found him?"

Carlo took a puff of his hookah and pointed to the east side of the town where there was a very simple hut.

"That's where your friend came from. We call this place the 'cooling-off room.' Anyone who makes a mistake will be sent there by the townspeople to cool off for a night. The night your friend came, we left Katarina, who had been stealing food, in the cool-off room. That place is strange. The Grim Reaper won't attack any house except that little house. We heard the sound of the monster gnawing on flesh that night, but when we went out to check the next day, Katarina's body wasn't in the room. Only your friend who calls himself a detective was there."

cabin?

Ukyo came to the east side of the town.

The "calming-down room" Carlo mentioned was even smaller than the one Arthur had built himself.

It was pitch black, and outside I could see several broken wooden boards, about one and a half meters high, and... probably less than four square meters wide.

When Ukyo arrived, Yanami was a little dazed standing in the crowd of young girls. Many local girls in the town were wearing low-shouldered white dresses, with their white legs exposed in the cold late autumn day, their bare feet on the ground, holding hands and circling around the hut, spinning and speaking a language they had never heard of.

Yanaijian was pulled over from the camp by them. These beautiful children who looked like dolls said that she was very "talented" and her appearance met the standards, making her very suitable to join their prayer team. They also taught her to recite an obscure "spell" to her.

"What's going on?" Youjing walked over from a distance.

"I don't know..." Yanaijian spread his hands. "The girls said I was talented, and then they pulled me over. They said they had to circle the hut and pray, so that the Death Gods wouldn't come in at night. They also said... this is a dance to please the Death God leader. If you dance in front of the calming room, the Death God will see it."

Ukyo frowned slightly.

This scene is not in the movie.

"Sister Yanami, come dance with us~" A little girl came over and took Yanami's hand.

"Uh.....I'd rather not."

Yanami pulled her hand back. The child's hand was so cold and strong, not like a child's. However, Yanami's arm strength was greater than hers, and she pulled her hand away easily.

The little girl was obviously a little surprised, and then the corners of her lips curled up strangely, "Yanaimi-sister is really talented~ It's okay, just watch us dance once, and you will automatically join in the next day~"

As they spoke, the girls held hands again.

Each of them is very fair, with skin like fine porcelain and delicate features, which conforms to the public aesthetic of "good-looking". However, when more than a dozen good-looking children get together, wearing the same single-color low-cut white clothes, they look like a few figurines placed together, which is indescribably weird.

Then, their expressions became intoxicated at the same time, and everyone seemed to be immersed in some kind of music that Ukyo and Yana could not hear. They began to twist their waists and hips to the beat of the music, their white skirts flying. Ukyo saw that they were all naked under their skirts.

At this moment, Ukyo realized that this so-called "dance to please the god of death" should be some kind of very feudal, vulgar and rotten dance. If this kind of dance can really please the so-called god of death, doesn't it mean that they have the same aesthetic taste as humans?

Ukyo noticed that Yanami's eyes seemed to be attracted by them, and he began to swing his arms uncontrollably.

He realized that Yanami had no training in resisting mental control, so... even the lowest level of mental field could bewitch her. Ukyo had no choice but to raise his hand and knock her unconscious.

Ukyo wanted to end the ceremony, so he tried to pull one of the girls away, but she seemed to have a magnet on her body, and as soon as she was separated, she was anxious to return to the team.

He had no choice but to pull out the blood-red Desert Eagle from the holster under his armpit and pointed it at the back of a girl's head. The holster was printed with the inscription of Grand Duke Landau, "Give the most cruel killing to the evil ones."

"Let them dance." Shirley's voice came from the distance. He helped Ukyo support the fallen Yanami and said to him, "This dance is the lowest level of 'Level 1 Mind Control Field'. Anyone who has set a safe word in their mind can resist the activation of this dance. Moreover, this dance only works on certain people..."

If you are controlled by this kind of field, you will just dance uncontrollably, there will be no other harm, just tell your girlfriend to stay away from the calming room."

"As you saw just now, these kids are very strong, but your girlfriend's arm strength seems to surpass theirs."

Shirley patted Ukyo Danping's arm, signaling him to put down the gun.

"These children are innocent. They are just affected by some unknown spiritual realm. Do you really want to blow their heads off?"

Ukyo lowered his gun.

"Aiming at the head is my professional habit, but I tilted the muzzle of the gun upwards a few inches. I thought I was going to hit the calming room. I was wondering if the dancing would stop if I destroyed it."

"Not really," Shirley said helplessly. "Sheriff Carlo had a hard time repairing the calming room with wooden boards. The last woman who was sent to the calming room for stealing food was attacked by the Grim Reaper at nightfall. Those monsters destroyed the calming room. If you destroy the calming room again, Sheriff Carlo will have to come and repair it again. He hates tinkering."

"Besides...I did the same thing as you. Even if you shot a bullet through the house, the girls wouldn't stop dancing."

.......

...

Before dinner, Yanami slowly woke up from his coma.

Ukyo took her to the house where Sheriff Carlo was preparing to distribute food.

There is a long table here that can accommodate more than 30 people at the same time. Some people who hold important positions in the town will wait here. Sheriff Carlo will distribute food to them collectively, and what they can eat is the best in the town.

Shirley was also at this table. She was responsible for setting up the sniper rifle on the watchtower. She was the only sniper in the town and held an important position.

Arthur was there too. He was the camp chief of the "outsider camp" and was responsible for managing all outsiders. Although his house was shabby, he was still a big boss in the town.

Now Ukyo, Yanami, and Komari are also at this table. They don't have any positions, and the reason they appear at this table is because they have guns in their hands.

Yanami hugged Ukyo's neck as soon as she woke up from her coma. She seemed to have had a terrible nightmare and subconsciously regarded Ukyo as a "pillow that would give her a sense of security as long as she held it."

Komari was stunned. This seemed to be Yanami's first active attack, a move that would go down in history. She didn't know if it was accidental or intentional. It was too sudden. Sheriff Carlo was saying his prayers before the meal when he suddenly hugged Ukyo, drawing everyone's attention to her back.

Ukyo felt a little pain in his shoulder, and Yanami was biting his shoulder gently with her teeth. This is a subconscious behavior of many girls when they are uneasy. When they feel insecure, they will bite the man who is close to them. This kind of bite is usually not very strong, just to make the person she cares about shift his attention to her. At the same time, this is also a way for some weak girls to act coquettishly.

In a voice that only Ukyo could hear, she whispered, "I dreamed that I was dancing with those girls. Ukyo... teach me how to set a safe word to resist mind control."

Ukyo felt his earlobes getting hot, and he didn't know how to comfort the girl who was having a nightmare.

His body stiffened at this moment. He wanted to raise his hand to pat Yanami's back, but he found that Yanami's body was trembling slightly. She might not be shaking because she was afraid of a nightmare, but because she didn't know there would be so many people around her when she woke up. Being stared at by so many eyes made her shy and very nervous.

Sheriff Carlo ignored the scene.

Just continue to say the prayer before dinner...

"Everyone, you can start now."

Upon hearing this, Yanai's trembling body suddenly stopped.

She turned around as if nothing had happened, staring at the plate in front of her with shining eyes. On it was a very simple dinner, just pork and beans.

But for Yanami, who had been hungry for two meals, it didn’t matter what he ate, as long as there was something to eat!

She picked up her knife and fork and finished the food on her plate before Ukyo could react.

Ukyo laughed silently.

This is Yanami. She is like a puppy. When she is sad, feed her something and she will recover quickly.