Episode 1 Chapter 004 Being Questioned
The more I listened, the more my scalp became numb, so much so that I did not even hear the last few words he said, because I had seen this old man the night before. If you ask me if I know this old man, of course I don't. Apart from my classmates, colleagues and friends at school and work, I don't have much contact with other people here, let alone a lonely old man like this.
It's just that I don't know this old man, but I recognize him, and this recognition makes me a little frightened now, because whenever I pretend or go home late, I will see him standing at the window and looking at the road ahead, and every time I feel like he is staring at me.
His house just happened to face the street, and it was on the third floor. All I had to do was look up and I could see him standing motionless by the window looking down. Several times I felt that I was looking into his eyes. Of course it was dark at night and it was impossible to see so clearly, but the feeling was real.
I thought about it carefully, and I started to have nightmares frequently, and it seemed that it was after I met this old man. The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became. I didn't dare to think about it further. It felt like I had fallen into someone else's conspiracy, so I shook my head and told myself not to think about it. Maybe it was just a coincidence.
But the shock in my heart never went away. Just like what the person next to me said, if the old man had really been dead for half a week, I saw him standing by the window looking at me the night before last when I came home. Could it be that what I saw was a dead person? This fear gradually spread in my body again, and I gradually couldn't control myself. Those words of self-comfort, such as seeing things or others, all seemed so powerless. Instead, the old man's figure became clearer and clearer, that kind of gloomy shadow.
I didn't rush back, but continued to wait there for the old man's body to come down. After all, I was just hoping for luck, thinking that what if it was all a misunderstanding on my part, then I was just scaring myself, so I still wanted to see the old man's body. Maybe I was confused at the time and didn't think that the body was already rotten, so there was no point in looking at it. I couldn't even recognize his face.
The old man's body was so rotten that neither the firefighters nor the medical police could bring themselves to remove it. In the end, they had to find a corpse carrier to carry it. When the body was carried down, it was wrapped tightly in a plastic bag. All that could be seen was the shape of a person. Of course, no matter how tightly it was wrapped, the stench of the corpse was very strong and we could smell it from a distance. No wonder the neighbors across the street couldn't stand it and called the police.
Finally, the old man's body was taken away. I only saw it from a distance for a few times. I felt a little disappointed, but at the same time, my inner fear became even greater. Finally, the onlookers dispersed and I went home angrily. When I entered the door, my mother saw that I looked not good and asked me what happened. I didn't dare to tell her about the old man, so I said nothing was wrong. My mother was skeptical and didn't ask any more questions. She asked me about my leave application. I said that my leader was not there and I would go for it in the afternoon.
Basically, before I had time to ask for leave in the afternoon, the police came to our unit. I was wondering if someone in the unit had committed a crime. The police had come to the unit, but when I heard them calling my name at last, I was stunned. I considered myself a law-abiding citizen and had never done anything illegal. Moreover, all my colleagues looked at me, thinking that I had committed some crime.
As a result, in my nervousness, they asked me about the old man today. It was then that I learned that his name was Liu Wangxing. The police asked me if I knew this person. Naturally, I had never heard of this name, so I shook my head. Then they told me what I saw this morning. Only then did I know that Liu Wangxing was this old man. I was a little surprised.
The police asked me if I knew him, and I said no. They asked me why I was surprised when they knew it was this old man. So I could only tell them that I often saw him when I went home at night. The police frowned when they heard it. Of course, I didn’t dare to say anything too mysterious. And I learned from the police how long Old Man Liu had been dead. Just like what that person gossiped with me, it is now confirmed to be about ten days. After that, the police asked me some other questions, which were mostly related to Old Man Liu. At the end, they said it was okay, and they just came to understand the situation. They told me not to be nervous or think too much about it.
I was still confused when they left. Could the police know that I had met him? So I asked them how they knew that I had met this old man. Then a policeman told me that several photos of me and a resume were found in Old Man Liu's home.
I was even more confused when I heard this. I didn't know what the police were talking about. After I asked them this question, they asked me another question. They asked me if I really had never been to Old Man Liu's house. Of course shook my head and said I had never been there. This was a murder case. If I didn't handle it well, I would become a suspect. This was not a joke.
After the police left, I was even more confused, especially when the police told me not to go anywhere recently, and that if they found anything new, they would contact me for details. In fact, the implication was obvious, and I became a suspect for no reason. Since it has become such a situation, I definitely cannot go back to my hometown. If I go back at this time, I will easily be regarded as a fugitive, which is a big deal . In addition, some people in the unit already knew that I wanted to take leave to go home, and after hearing the last few words from the police, their eyes changed when they looked at me, and I could only bear it. Some things become more and more black the more you explain them, not to mention that some people are just watching the excitement, and the more you explain, the more they will think the excitement is more interesting.
So I couldn't go back to my hometown, and I didn't mention it again. My head was full of these messed up things. This old man was so mysterious, no wonder I had nightmares, and I suddenly remembered what the person who helped me to see the evil spirits said. I have to say that she was so accurate. I did run into a dead person in the southwest. Isn't the community where the old man lives just southwest of my home!
After get off work, I told my mother about this in detail. Otherwise, if I suddenly said I wasn't going back, my mother would go crazy. After hearing this, my mother also said that I couldn't leave at this time. Then she was afraid that I was under too much pressure, and comforted me not to worry, saying that there was a solution to everything, and she said they would think of a solution.
I don't know if it was because I saw the old man's body during the day, but I started having nightmares again at night, and this time the old man really appeared in the nightmare, and I even felt that it was a real situation. Until I woke up, I was thinking whether this was a real thing that happened when I was unconscious or a dream.
Let's just treat it as a dream. In this dream, I was still lying in bed, and I woke up suddenly. There was an indescribable darkness beside me, a pitch-black feeling. Then I felt someone standing beside the bed. I turned my head to look, and I really saw someone standing beside the bed. I saw it clearly. It was none other than the old man. The way he looked at me was exactly the same as the way he looked at me when he stood by the window.
Because it was too real, I couldn't tell whether it was true or not, so the first thing I did after waking up was to look at the place where he had just stood by the bed, to see if he was still there. As a result, he was naturally gone, and I breathed a sigh of relief, but then I seemed to hear some movement in the living room, I seemed to hear whispers, like someone was talking in a low voice.
I looked at the clock and it was 3:33. At this time, I didn’t care how coincidental this number was. I just felt strange. Who would be talking outside in the middle of the night? Could it be my parents?
I felt inexplicably terrified, but curiosity still drove me to get up. In order not to startle the person who was talking, I got up but did not turn on the light. I originally wanted to sneak to the door to see who was talking in the living room and what they were talking about. However, when I sat up from the bed, I found that my shoes were missing again.
Not only that, there were two chairs placed against the wall farther away from the bed. I saw that one of them had been moved to the side of the bed at some point and was now facing the bed, and my shoes were placed right in front of the chair, as if someone was sitting on it.
When I first saw this, I was so scared that I didn't care about the whispers in the living room. I immediately turned on the light and the room was lit up. My fear was relieved a little. I didn't move the chair at all, and my parents couldn't be so bored, so there was only one situation...
I didn’t dare to think about what happened next. What was particularly strange was that my shoes were just in front of the chair. It felt like someone had worn them.
I felt the atmosphere was both depressing and weird, so I temporarily moved the chair back to its original place. I don’t know if it was because I felt uncomfortable, but I didn’t move the shoes. Instead, I got out of bed barefoot. I didn’t do anything else, but took out the camera and turned on the video mode. I still put it in the same place where I recorded last time. I felt I needed to know what happened after I fell asleep.
Although it is unlikely to take any pictures after the second half of the night, this is still a truth. At least it allows me to see what the situation is like after I fall asleep, which can at least give me peace of mind.
