Episode 2 Chapter 012 False alarm?
Our building has been in turmoil all night, and some residents still don't know what's going on. I wanted to go out and take a look, but given the current situation, I think it's better to stay at home. Besides, after something like this, I guess the police won't want us close.
So I spent the whole night speculating about all kinds of things. The next day, when I just got up, I heard my mother talking about what happened last night. I asked what happened, but my mother told me that someone was playing a prank and threw two dummies into the pool. Because it was late last night, the property management thought they were people and called the police. But when they opened the holes and fished them out, they found that they were just realistic model dummies.
Faced with such a reversal, I was a little slow to react. I was still in a daze after my mother finished speaking. She then repeated that they were just two dummies and asked me not to think too much about it. Then she said on her own that if there were two real corpses, it would be so creepy.
Just two dummies?
My mother said that if I didn’t believe it, I could go to the community and take a look myself. The property management had posted a notice and tied a dummy next to the notice. I could go and take a look to dispel my doubts. I said no way, this kind of thing happens, who would be so bored.
But then again, although this result is a bit dramatic, it is better than having a real body in the water tank. Thinking about it this way, the fear and nausea I felt last night were suddenly much less.
I guess it was curiosity that got to me. After I washed up, I went down to take a look. The notice said it was a prank and asked us not to cause panic. The police were already investigating who was so bored and so on. As for the two mannequins, they were indeed tied to the railings nearby, which was considered evidence to prevent the owner from accusing them of being a hoax by the property management to cover up the news.
I looked at the two models, especially their hair. There was no doubt that they were wigs. As for wigs, I only knew that there were two types: artificial and real. Maybe because I knew they were fake, I was not so scared. I twisted the hair on the mannequins with my hands and felt that it was no different from real human hair, except that it was a little rough. I couldn't tell whether it was real or artificial.
I didn’t think too much about this issue after that. I just basked in the sun for a while and then went upstairs.
I don't know what's wrong, but since I came back last night, I suddenly seem to be particularly afraid of the elevator in our building. What's weird is that there are quite a few people in our building, but why is it that since last night, whenever I take the elevator, I'm the only one there? And as soon as I get in the elevator, I feel a creepy feeling of terror.
Especially since you can see your own shadow in the elevator, I wonder if it is a psychological effect. Whenever I see the shadow inside, I always feel that it is another person. So much so that during the time from the first floor to the eleventh floor, I only dared to stare at my feet. I felt inexplicably guilty.
But if it was a coincidence that the elevator stopped on the seventh floor for no reason last night, then it was a bit strange that the elevator stopped on the seventh floor again this morning. Moreover, the situation was almost exactly the same as last night. The elevator opened by itself when it reached the seventh floor, but there was no one outside.
If I thought last night that someone had pressed the button and walked away, now I felt that things were definitely not that simple. So I walked out of the elevator and came to the corridor. There was no one in front or behind me. I looked at the buttons, but of course it was useless to look at the buttons because when the elevator reached the floor, the buttons went off by themselves.
I looked at both ends of the corridor, and an eerie atmosphere hit me in the face. I shuddered and thought it would be better to stay in this place longer, so I planned to press the elevator button again. However, when I turned around, the elevator did not close, and the elevator door closed and then reopened. I was so focused on the situation in the corridor that I didn't notice what was happening behind me.
To be honest, I was a little panicked at the time, because there was no one else in the elevator except me. Anyone who has taken an elevator knows that the elevator will close automatically after a certain period of time and then go up to the floor you pressed inside. It is not so humane as to wait for you there. Also, there was obviously no one inside and no one pressed the open and close button, so how could it open by itself!
So when I saw this situation, I didn't dare to go in again. I just looked inside the elevator. From my angle, I could basically see everything in the elevator. It was empty inside, but it was this empty feeling that made people feel a wave of inexplicable and strange fear.
I involuntarily took a step back, not daring to go into the elevator, so I walked into the corridor and then went up the stairs.
Perhaps my fear of elevators started from this incident. Since then, even if I went to the eleventh floor, I would take the stairs and never take the elevator again. Because if I no longer took the elevator, I didn’t know if it would stop at the seventh floor again. I didn’t want to try it, nor did I want to go back to that situation.
After returning home, I had completely calmed down and the incident was just ignored. My mother asked me how I thought the show was and I could only say how could there be such a boring person. Besides, even if it was a prank, the water was for daily use. Throwing two dummies in there for no reason might have scared people, but the water would have been polluted and everyone would have eaten it.
The water in the water tank was replaced by the property management staff early in the morning, so they did the job in a timely manner. We have nothing to complain about. Today is the weekend and I have no intention of going out, so I just surfed the Internet in the living room, just browsing around. My mom and dad were watching TV nearby, and they didn't disturb each other.
I specifically searched the news and found that the incident involving Old Man Liu had not been reported, probably because it was suppressed. I searched again about what happened in our community last night, and there was no report either. So I searched for the funeral home again, and went to read the introduction of the funeral home early in the morning.
My mother glanced at it suddenly, then looked at me in confusion and asked why I was looking at a funeral home. Her look was so strange. I said I was just taking a look. My father also said why were we looking at these things at such a young age. He and mom were still strong, and even if they died, they would be buried in their hometown. It was impossible for them to go to that kind of place.
I can only say what are they thinking. Reading this will also increase your knowledge. Speaking of this, I think the tree burial I saw yesterday is very novel, so I told my parents about it. As a result, my mother said that tree burials have been popular in my grandmother's family for a long time, but it was different from what I said. Once my mother started talking, she couldn't stop. She said that the real tree burial was not what I said, but that the body was wrapped up and put on the tree and then left alone.
When I heard the last four words, I was dumbfounded. I didn't care. My mother said it so smoothly. Seeing my surprise, my mother said that it was okay. Tree burial is like this. So the more uninhabited the old forest is, the better the place for tree burial is. No one will disturb you. I didn't continue to ask more questions. Maybe I wasn't thinking about it at the time. In the end, I just said perfunctorily that the two types of tree burials are indeed completely different.
I was chatting with my mother, and then an email came into my mailbox. I opened it, but a large picture popped up immediately. I was caught off guard and was shocked. This large picture was none other than the mannequin I saw just now in the community, but this picture focused on the head, that is, the hair part. The more I looked at the pale fake face, the more I felt it was not what it was.
And this picture is not just one, but many, all of which are close-ups of the head. I felt a little horrified after seeing it, not because of the picture, but because of the email itself. So I looked at the sender's information, it was an unfamiliar email address, and the name of this email address was completely incomprehensible, it felt like letters and numbers were typed randomly on the keyboard , so I frowned.
I patiently dragged the picture to the bottom and found that there were not only pictures in the text, but also text. The content of the text was much more hidden, the font was very small, and there was only a small line.
It says above - I'm at 721.
The 7th floor? This was the thought that immediately popped into my mind, and then the elevator inexplicably stopped on the 7th floor. Could it be that someone on the 7th floor was watching my whereabouts every day, and pressed the button to deliberately scare me when I was riding the elevator alone? Now he sent me the photo of the dummy, is he trying to tell me that he is related to the dummy in the water tank, or that he put it there?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but become alert. If it was really as I thought, then this person was definitely a pervert. Being targeted by such a person was definitely not a good thing.
