Chapter 213 Late at night, a ghost calls
Late at night is the best time to fall asleep.
Research by experts and scholars has shown that 10 pm to 6 am is the best time to fall asleep, and people are more likely to enter a deep sleep state.
Well, they always say some correct bullshit in the name of research.
A master of theology has stated that between 2 . and 4 ., people are defenseless, fall asleep easily, and are more easily affected by ghostly forces, thus producing or experiencing paranormal phenomena such as nightmares, hallucinations, and seeing ghosts.
Shibuya district, at Hideyoshi Ishida's home.
A cell phone rang suddenly and continued to ring for about 10 minutes. Hideyoshi Ishida, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the ringing.
He opened his sleepy eyes, reached out in the dark and found his phone that was still charging on the bedside table. He swiped to unlock it, and squinted at the caller ID.
An unknown number?
It must be a wrong number.
Ishida Hideyoshi quickly hung up the phone, turned off his cell phone, and went back to sleep.
But after a few minutes, the phone rang again. Ishida Hideyoshi picked up the phone impatiently and saw that it was still the unknown number.
He hung up the phone again, but after a while, the phone ringing woke him up again.
This time, Ishida Hideyoshi's sleepiness was gradually replaced by anger. He slightly propped up his upper body and took out his mobile phone, which still showed an unknown number.
He didn't answer, hung up again, and set his phone to silent and do not disturb mode.
But just a few minutes after lying down, the cell phone rang again.
Ishida Hideyoshi was woken up again. He took out his cell phone and looked at the settings. It was indeed in silent and do not disturb mode. How could this phone call make the phone ring?
This time, he answered the phone, ready to scold the person on the other end for not sleeping in the middle of the night and making harassing calls to disturb people's sleep.
After the call was connected, there was a burst of dead tone and a faint, unstable sound of electric current.
When Ishida Hideyoshi cursed inwardly that the person was a psycho and was about to hang up the phone, he heard the sound of a baby crying on the other end of the line.
This voice is very sad and miserable, and seems to carry the resentment of being abandoned by one's biological parents at birth.
The baby's crying became louder and louder, sharper and more creepy, and in the end even the cell phone in his hand was shaking slightly along with the baby's crying.
Hideyoshi Ishida was startled and quickly hung up the call, then threw the phone slightly away, dropping it on the quilt.
Is this a prank?
Who on earth is so mean as to deliberately play a prank on me?
Your own friends?
No, they don't seem like the type to play such silly jokes.
It must be a bored office worker who just finished work late at night.
Recently, newspapers have been reporting that there are many people in society who are extremely spiritually empty. They try to satisfy their empty hearts by committing some exciting crimes.
While Ishida Hideyoshi was thinking this, his cell phone rang again.
This time, Ishida Hideyoshi took the phone and saw that it was still the unknown number, so he turned off the phone directly.
He thought this would give his ears some peace and quiet, but after a while, the phone turned on automatically and the ringtone rang again.
Ishida Hideyoshi had lost all desire to sleep, and as the ringing tonight seemed strange, he turned on the lights in the room, put his phone away, and let it ring.
I moved to the guest room next door to rest.
He wanted to see how long the bored office worker on the other end of the phone could go on without sleep.
Get away from your phone and fall asleep again.
Ishida Hideyoshi slept till dawn, but in his dream he vaguely saw a group of crying babies, who were making waves of creepy cries.
The next morning, Hideyoshi Ishida returned to his room, picked up his mobile phone and took a look. It showed that he had received nearly 200 unfamiliar calls last night.
The latest call was at 4: .
That's it?
Ishida Hideyoshi sneered disdainfully, thinking that the crazy bastard last night could hold on until this morning.
He put his cell phone into his schoolbag, washed up, and went downstairs to eat, then he told his parents about it.
Everyone thought it was a prank by a bored person and should be ignored.
When he arrived at school, Hideyoshi Ishida talked about the incident with his friends, narrating it in a eerie tone, describing it as a scary ghost story.
"It's not just you. I have a friend who had a similar experience last night. However, the sound he heard on the other end of the phone was a strange woman's scream." said a friend.
"To pull off such a prank, those empty-headed workers who were working overtime late at night were really bored enough."
Ishida Hideyoshi discussed this topic with his friends about the current social phenomena in Japan.
The souls are becoming more and more empty, and many living people are like walking corpses.
Their lives have been stereotyped by society, and the only difference is that they don't bite people. Otherwise, there is not much difference between them and the zombies in the movies.
Late in the night, around 2 o'clock, Ishida Hideyoshi was once again awakened by the ringing of his cell phone.
Ma Hei followed the voice and found his cell phone. He took a look and it was still the unknown number.
He hung up out of habit, but soon, he was woken up by the ringing again. No matter if he turned his phone to silent or do not disturb mode, or turned off his phone, the call would come in and ring.
Ishida Hideyoshi, who finally lost his sleepiness, thought for a while, sneered, answered the phone, listened to the crying sound of a woman coming from the other end of the phone, threw the phone aside, got up and left the room, and went to the next room to rest.
Don’t you like playing pranks?
Then you just wait on the other end of the phone by yourself!
Ishida Hideyoshi had no intention of scolding the person on the other end of the phone. Perhaps the other party just wanted to see him get angry and frustrated.
Just leave him like this and see how long he can last.
When he woke up the next day, Hideyoshi Ishida went to his room, took out his mobile phone from the quilt, and looked at the screen that showed that the call had been hung up.
This call lasted for two hours last night and ended at 4: . The phone was a little hot and the battery was consumed a lot, only % of the power was left.
Ishida Hideyoshi didn't take it too seriously. After washing up, he went downstairs to eat and talked about the matter with his parents again.
He always felt something was strange. Even if it was a harassing call, could the person on the other end of the phone last two hours without hanging up?
Could it be that the person is the same as me?
"Tonight, your mother and I will sleep in your room."
Ishida Hideyoshi's father expressed his opinion.
When he arrived at school, Hideyoshi Ishida shared this incident with his friends again.
"My friend heard the voice of a little girl last night. The little girl kept saying: Brother, save me."
"Does that little girl have a nice voice?" someone asked.
"It was quite nice to hear, but after saying this, there was a series of screams."
Ishida Hideyoshi listened to the discussions silently without participating.
Will he hear that little girl's voice tonight, too?
Late at night, Hideyoshi Ishida fell asleep as usual, and his parents slept on the floor in his room.
It was 2 o'clock in the morning again, and Hideyoshi Ishida's cell phone rang on time again.
This time, Ishida Hideyoshi's father turned on the light in the room and answered the call.
"Brother, save me."
When the pitiful voice of a little girl came from the other end of the phone, Ishida Hideyoshi's heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.
"Little boy, do you need any help?" Ishida Hideyoshi's father replied tentatively.
There was a brief pause on the other end of the line, and then a shrill scream was heard. The sound was very sharp, like the teeth-grinding sound of a needle rubbing against glass.
The screams echoed clearly throughout the room.
Ishida Hideyoshi's father tried to lower the volume, but it was of no use. The screaming from the other end of the phone was still piercing, making his head swell and ache.
After a while, Ishida Hideyoshi's father began to loudly curse the bastard on the other end of the phone, saying that he was a bad person and harassed him in the middle of the night every day, and threatened to call the police!
However, the harassing phone calls still came one after another, and I was not affected at all.
Ishida Hideyoshi's father simply took out the SIM card from the phone, and the room suddenly became much quieter.
Ishida Hideyoshi's parents stayed in his room for a while, and after making sure there were no more phone calls, they went back to their room to rest.
That night, Ishida Hideyoshi slept soundly, but in his dream, a group of little girls appeared asking him for help. They shouted, "Brother, save me."
When he arrived at school at dawn, Hideyoshi Ishida told his story to his friends again.
One of the friends said with red eyes: "My friend died suddenly last night. He was said to have committed suicide by jumping out of the window."
Ishida Hideyoshi felt more and more uneasy. The man had the same experience as himself three nights ago, but he died last night.
So I will die tonight?
impossible?
It must be that I was affected by the harassing phone call recently, which caused me to think too much.
Ishida Hideyoshi was lost in thought and finally waited until school was over. He immediately returned home before it got dark, took out the SIM card from his mobile phone, and locked the phone in the cabinet in the utility room.
When his parents came back, he told them about the rumors about the classmate who had committed suicide by jumping out of the window at school.
At night, Hideyoshi Ishida fell asleep in his parents' room.
It was 2 o'clock late in the morning and Hideyoshi Ishida had not fallen asleep yet, but his parents were sleeping soundly. They went to bed too late last night and had to go to work today, so they went to bed early at around 9 o'clock in the evening.
When the clock in the room pointed to 2 o'clock, Hideyoshi Ishida, who had not yet fallen asleep, did not hear the phone ringing again, and he felt a little relieved.
But soon, Hideyoshi Ishida, who was lying on the floor, felt a gust of cold wind blowing past his ears.
The cold wind was very cold, like a cold poisonous snake that passed through his ear hole, drilled into his body, invaded his heart, and began to bite him.
"Brother, we found you."
A sinister yet mischievous little girl's laughter sounded.
Ishida Hideyoshi wanted to open his mouth, but suddenly felt that his body was out of control!
He could only watch as his body stood up stiffly, walked step by step to the window, opened it, climbed up with difficulty, and then jumped towards the road below.
It was not until the next morning when Ishida Hideyoshi's parents woke up that they discovered that their child had jumped out of the window and committed suicide the previous night.
(End of this chapter)
