Chapter 71: Really Crazy
Seeing this scene, Lao He and I widened our eyes and were stunned for a few seconds before we reacted. We rushed over like crazy, one of us held Cai Kun's feet, and the other moved a stool, and we worked together to rescue him.
Fortunately, Cai Kun was only slightly suffocated and did not die. It was obvious that he had just hanged himself. I couldn’t understand why he suddenly hanged himself?
Not long after we took Cai Kun to the lounge, he woke up, opened his eyes, looked at us blankly, and said, "Where is this?"
I said, "This is Building D." He got scared and screamed in fear. He rolled and crawled under the bed, but he fell flat on his face before he took a few steps. Lao He grabbed him and said, "Cai Kun, what are you afraid of?"
Cai Kun glanced at him, his pale cheeks trembling slightly. After a long while, he calmed down and said, "Oh, I remember now. I came to Building D to communicate with those dirty things..."
"How's the communication going?" I walked over and asked.
"Basically there are no clues. Those 'people' kept their mouths shut and just told me not to go into 404, because that's a place only dead people go into." Cai Kun shook his head and suddenly thought of something. His face became nervous. "Oh, by the way, I also met the baby boy in black!"
Lao He and I came over and waited for his next words.
Cai Kun said that he followed the red line from the first floor to the fourth floor, and encountered many strange things along the way, as well as those "dirty things" that should have been dead. Several times, he was in danger and was almost caught by the dirty things. Fortunately, the red line saved him.
I thought to myself, isn’t this experience exactly the same as mine?
Lao He said with a smile: "The so-called red thread leads the soul, which means using the red thread to summon a ghost to lead the way and take you to hell. On the way, the ghost will hold the red thread to protect you, so if there is any danger, it can basically be avoided ."
"What if the red line breaks?" I asked.
"The red line is broken, which proves that this dirty thing is not ordinary and even the ghost messenger is no match for it." Lao He said.
I was shocked. It turned out that 404 was really powerful.
Cai Kun then told us that after he followed the red line to the fourth floor, he had no problems along the way until he reached 404, when things changed ...
As soon as the door of Room 404 opened, he saw a baby boy in black clothes coming out.
In the past, Cai Kun had a good relationship with the baby boy in black, and even gave him a nickname, "Xiao Hei" - to put it bluntly, it was just to protect himself.
This time when the door opened, the baby boy in black looked ferocious. He looked at Cai Kun's face with a dark aura, as if he wanted to come up and strangle him to death.
Cai Kun was very scared at the time and wanted to run, but the red line was grabbed by the baby boy in black, and then he could only watch it crawling towards him.
"I was in despair at that time, thinking Xiao Hei would kill me, but he didn't..." Cai Kun said with a wry smile.
He said the baby boy in black walked up to him and just said one sentence.
"What?" Lao He and I asked almost at the same time.
"It said - I want to be friends with you, but my mother won't let me... Go away, my mother will kill everyone here!" Cai Kun relayed.
Mother?
I was stunned.
How come out of nowhere, another mother appeared?
I asked Cai Kun, are you sure you heard it clearly?
Cai Kun nodded and said it was absolutely true. At that time, it seemed that the evil spirit on the face of the black-clothed baby boy was not angry with him, but very painful and conflicted - it kept telling him to run as far as he could, and even said that it wanted to be friends with him.
After being warned by the black-clothed baby boy, Cai Kun was about to run away when his neck suddenly felt tight, and he was no longer able to recognize what was happening next...
After listening to his story, Lao He and I fell into deep thought.
I sucked my teeth and said, "Why did this black shadow baby boy suddenly attack you when he kept telling you to run away?"
"No, the one who made the move might not be the baby boy in black, maybe someone else!" Old He slapped his thigh and said.
"You mean its mother?"
"This is just my guess." Lao He pinched his chin and said, "In addition, I have a bold idea - the various evil consequences in the past may not be the will of the black-clothed baby boy at all. It was forced - or in other words, it has never killed people. The ones who killed people from beginning to end were just other evil spirits in 404!"
Lao He’s theory was indeed too bold. Cai Kun and I looked at each other in surprise. To be honest, we were both shocked.
If what Lao He said was true, and the ones who killed people were just 404 or other evil spirits, then haven't we all misunderstood the baby boy in black all this time?
Cai Kun nodded, looking thoughtful, and said that when he had been with the baby boy in black before, he did not feel that the baby was aggressive - if he had to say something, the baby's several times of getting angry were all without any warning, as if he was chatting and laughing with you about food and drink, and suddenly got angry.
From this perspective, it seems more likely that the person was being controlled.
Although the harvest tonight was not particularly great and Cai Kun almost lost his life, no matter what, things have finally made some progress.
Cai Kun said that he would come every day for the next few days until the mystery of Building D was solved.
I admire him very much. I asked him, "Aren't you afraid? You were almost killed just now."
"There's no point in running away. I've been running away for half a year and I don't want to run away anymore..." Cai Kun smiled and looked at me, "Maybe you're right. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Since God gave me this pair of eyes, I have to make some use of them."
Lao He gave Cai Kun a thumbs up and said, "Good job, young man. I, Lao He, will make friends with you. I——"
Halfway through his speech, Lao He suddenly looked painful and covered his neck with one hand.
I looked at him in surprise and asked, "Your neck injury hasn't healed yet?"
"Okay...it's okay, but there are some aftereffects. You guys chat, I'll go do something." Lao He frowned and left with an unnatural look on his face.
I know, he must have gone to apply glutinous rice.
Then Cai Kun said goodbye to me and said he would come again tomorrow night.
I patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'll treat you to lunch tomorrow and we can have a couple of drinks."
"Okay." Cai Kun nodded with a smile and left.
Building D suddenly became quiet.
I looked at the time. It was three o'clock in the morning. I returned to the lounge with tired steps, fell down and fell into a deep sleep.
I didn’t sleep well that night. I had three nightmares in a row. First, I dreamed that Cai Kun was strangled to death by a baby boy in black. Then, I dreamed that Jia Jia’s head turned into a ball and rolled around in front of me. The last dream was the scariest. I dreamed that Lao He and I came to the morgue. He suddenly went crazy and ran to eat corpses. No matter how I tried to persuade him, he wouldn’t stop. In the end, he ate all the corpses and pounced on me.
The next day I was woken up by Liu Fuqiang, who said it was time to get off work.
Outside the window, the sunlight shone in dimly, and the birds chirped as if they were bickering.
I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was already past eleven o'clock. I was shocked and asked Cai Kun, "I slept for so long?"
"That's right. No matter how I called you, you couldn't wake up. You were sleeping like a pig." Liu Fuqiang laughed and said, "By the way, you kept shouting in your dream, "Don't bite me, don't bite me." Who were you talking to, the little girl?"
I ignored his dirty joke and stood up from the bed.
After taking a few steps, I felt dizzy and almost fell down.
Liu Fuqiang rushed over to hold me up and said, "What's wrong with you? You've been sleeping for so long but your energy is getting worse and worse?"
"Maybe... it has something to do with the nightmares I had all night." I forced a smile and walked out of the lounge with great difficulty.
I felt extremely uncomfortable, as if I had stayed up late for several days and nights, with a heavy head and light feet.
I walked out of Building D, sat at the door, and took deep breaths of fresh air for a long time. I felt better.
When I went to the bathroom to wash up, I saw Lao He there. He was half squatting and rubbing his neck with glutinous rice.
He rubbed it with great force, and the skin on his neck was rotten except for the glutinous rice, and blood was flowing down.
Lao He gritted his teeth, frowned, and looked very ferocious. He kept muttering, "I won't give in. I won't give in. Don't try to control me..."
Seeing this, I hurriedly said, "Lao He, stop it!"
Lao He seemed not to hear anything and continued to rub his neck, becoming more and more excited.
I couldn't bear it any longer, so I grabbed Lao He's hand and angrily said, "Are you crazy? If you keep rubbing like this, your skin will be rubbed off!"
He shuddered, stopped, raised his head, looked at me with lifeless eyes, and said, "Zhiyong, I...the wound on my neck seems to be getting more and more painful."
"Is sticky rice useless?"
"It should be useful, it should be useful..." Lao He opened his mouth and repeated in confusion.
I told him to go to a dermatologist as soon as possible, hoping it would help, but he didn't say anything and didn't agree.
"Old He?"
"Yes, I will go."
I frowned. Lao He's behavior made me particularly worried.
Ever since he was bitten by the old monster, his mental state has been very bad. He is always muttering to himself and likes to squat in dark places... I suspect this is most likely related to the wound on his neck.
I looked at the time and it was almost twelve o'clock. Thinking about inviting Cai Kun to dinner, I gave Lao He a few more instructions and told him to go to the dermatology department.
After walking outside, I called Cai Kun, but he didn't answer. I called a few more times, but his phone was turned off.
My face turned pale. It's over. Is Cai Kun planning to escape from the battlefield?
I walked out of the hospital, hailed a taxi, and decided to go to his house in person to find him and see what he really meant. If that didn't work, I could only use the name of "madman" to scare him.
When I arrived at Cai Kun's house, I heard the sound of things being thrown and a woman crying through the door. I frowned, wondering if those debt collectors had come to my house again?
I knocked on the door once, but there was still noise and bustle inside. I knocked a few more times and the door finally opened. Cai Kun's wife looked at me with disheveled hair, her eyes were red and there were tears on her face.
"How dare you come here?" Cai Kun's wife said gritting her teeth.
I ignored her and walked into the house. I saw Cai Kun standing on the sofa, shirtless, with women's underwear on his head. He was holding a kitchen knife and grinning foolishly, "Kill the pig! Kill the pig!"
I was furious. Is Cai Kun pretending to be crazy again?
When Cai Kun saw me coming in, his eyes suddenly widened and he exclaimed, "You...you are a pig, I want to kill a pig!"
As he spoke, he jumped off the sofa, raised the knife and rushed towards me.
Cai Kun's wife screamed in fear and wanted to stop Cai Kun, but she didn't dare to go over. I picked up a clothesline from the ground, and in a few seconds, I knocked the kitchen knife out of Cai Kun's hand, and then hit his leg with the pole.
He cried out in pain, fell to the ground, pointed at me and cried, "Don't come over here, don't give me the injection!"
"Cai Kun, are you done yet?" I was completely furious and pulled Cai Kun up like a dead dog. "What about the promise that the greater your ability, the greater your responsibility? What about the promise that you will no longer evade others? Cai Kun, are you talking nonsense?"
Cai Kun burst into tears.
The more I looked at him like this, the more upset I became. I raised my hand and was about to hit him, but suddenly, I felt a slap in the face from Cai Kun's wife.
She looked at me with hatred and shouted at the top of her lungs:
"He's not pretending, he's really crazy!!"
