Episode 2 Chapter 015: Shock
Seeing me like this, my mother said how could I continue to work in this state, and asked me to ask for leave from the company and go back to my hometown. My mother urged me to ask for leave right away and call my leader and tell him that I had to go back to my hometown for an urgent matter. My father also said that this was a matter of life and death and asked me not to be careless.
In the end, I had no choice but to call my leader, but before I had finished talking about my leave, he told me that it was not that he didn't allow me to do so, but that the Public Security Bureau had specifically told him that if I asked for leave, he would not approve it. He said that I could not leave for the time being until the Public Security Bureau notified the unit that the ban was lifted.
I was stunned for a moment. My leader was worried that I would do something and leave on my own, so he said on the other end of the phone that since the Public Security Bureau had issued such a ban, I could not buy a ticket to leave, and even if I could buy one, I would not be able to pass the security check. Then he said that I was only banned from leaving here, and if I left forcibly, I would become a wanted criminal, and at that time I would not be able to clear myself of the crime even if I jumped into the Yellow River.
I was saying that Old Man Liu's body had been cremated, and when I heard the word "wanted criminal", I secretly thought that this matter was so serious. The leader said that if I was arrested, how could I live and continue to work? Then he comforted me on the other end of the phone and said not to think too much, and after this matter was settled, he would allow me to take some leave to go home and recuperate. Don't mention it now, because he can't help me and can't approve it.
I hung up the phone and told my mom about it. My mom and dad got anxious and asked what to do if I wasn't allowed to leave and they couldn't find anyone to help. Finally, they were at their wits' end and my mom said she might as well shamelessly ask the old lady selling paper money about the hermit. We had to see about this matter and couldn't just let it drag on like this.
As for whether it was because I went to 721, as soon as I fell asleep at night and fell a little more asleep, I would hear the sound of someone walking around beside me, and every time I was woken up by the sound of footsteps, but as soon as I woke up, I found that the sound was gone, and every time I woke up, I felt very weak and soon fell into a coma again. It was a sleep that was completely out of my control. But as soon as I fell asleep, I would feel as if a spirit was possessed and talking to me in my ear, and as if pulling my arms and body, but when I woke up, there was nothing.
I went back and forth like this all night long , until I finally woke up suddenly and felt that the uncontrolled sleep had suddenly disappeared. I looked at the digital clock and it was exactly 3:33 in the morning.
After that, I was awake for a long time and couldn't fall asleep. Later, I fell asleep again with difficulty. But as soon as I fell asleep, I started dreaming. This time, the dream was even worse. I kept dreaming that I was in an elevator, going up and down endlessly, but never stopping. Finally, it stopped with difficulty, but it was on the seventh floor. Then the gloomy corridor appeared in the dream again. The dream was more terrifying than the reality, because in the dream, the whole corridor was dim, and there was a sense of deep tranquility.
I stood in the middle , not knowing which way to go, and it was at this moment that I heard someone calling my name. When the third call came, I felt that the voice suddenly became clearer, and then turned into a long lingering sound. It was at this moment that I suddenly woke up.
I can say that I opened my eyes suddenly, and after waking up, I automatically held my breath and listened carefully, because I felt that a voice really called me. Now that I think about it, this voice is completely unfamiliar. I have hardly heard it before. There are only three of us at home, my parents and I. If it wasn’t their voice, whose voice could it be?
Besides, it was impossible for my dad and mom to suddenly run into my room and call me in the middle of the night, so I started to get scared. Then I turned on the light, and there was indeed no one in the room, but I saw that my shoes were placed right in the center of the room at some point. Yes, right in the center, and they were neatly placed there, and they didn't look like they had been taken away or thrown away.
The same situation happened again. The last few times it happened in front of the sofa. Because I was always a little skeptical, I didn't pay much attention. But this time it was different. After I saw the shoes were arranged like this again, I didn't dare to move, but looked around the room carefully.
I tried hard to recall in my mind what the room looked like before I went to bed, and then compared it with what I saw with my eyes at this moment. But after a rough look around, I didn't find anything. I looked especially at the windows, and they were not open like last time, but still tightly closed.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that the window was not opened for no reason, but suddenly I felt something was wrong.
I have the habit of closing the windows when I sleep, but I don't draw the curtains. I have a window sticker on my window, the kind that looks like frosted glass, mainly for the purpose of light transmittance. I just took a quick glance and didn't see it clearly. When I turned my sight back, I suddenly found a dark shadow outside the window, which looked like a person sticking to the window and looking inside.
My scalp suddenly felt numb, so I looked over again, not knowing whether I had seen it wrong or not. Anyway, it was gone when I looked over again. I was so frightened that I felt like I was out of my soul. Finally, out of helplessness, I gritted my teeth and got up. Without touching my shoes, I walked barefoot to the window. I took a deep breath and opened the window. Only the cold wind from outside blew in, and there was nothing else.
But when I looked downstairs, I saw that person standing under the street light again, still looking up. This time I didn't dare to stare at him, so I immediately retracted my head and closed the window.
At the same time, I felt something wrong under my feet, as if I stepped on something, which hurt my feet. So I moved my feet and looked at the floor. There seemed to be some fine sand on the floor. So I bent down and touched it with my hand. It was indeed sand, like the kind on gravel roads. Generally, there is rarely such sand in the city, unless there is a road under construction or a sand road.
And when I bent down, I found that it was not where I was standing, but there was a linear route. So I lay down a little on the ground, and found by the reflection that it was just connected to where the shoes were placed.
When I saw this, I felt something was wrong, so I quickly walked to the shoes and lifted them up. I saw a ball of sand under the shoes, which was covered by the shoes and could not be seen. It was in the shape of a round disk. For a moment, I didn't know what this meant, so I didn't dare to move.
When I saw this strange thing, I looked at the shoes carefully, but didn’t find anything different , so I put the shoes aside and didn’t dare to wear them again.
I looked at the scattered traces of sand again, and when I looked up suddenly, I saw a black shadow lying on the top of the window again. It looked like a person was lying there looking inside. I was so scared that I sat on the ground immediately. This time I saw it clearly, staring at the black shadow without even daring to blink. I saw it crawling up and disappearing with my own eyes, and I was sitting on the ground without recovering.
I was probably frightened and screamed, which soon alerted my mom and dad. When they came in, they saw me sitting on the ground and asked me what happened. I hadn't recovered yet, and I just mumbled that there was something in my room. When they heard it, they immediately squatted down to comfort me and said it was okay, and asked me what I saw.
I pointed at the window and said there was something looking at me. I was completely confused and talking nonsense. Dad opened the window and looked outside. Then he said there was nothing there and told me not to be afraid. Then Dad pulled up the curtains. As soon as he pulled up the curtains, something suddenly fell from above and hit the ground with a "pop". Our attention was attracted by the sound and we saw it was a pair of cloth shoes.
Dad picked up the cloth shoes, then looked at me suspiciously, then looked at mom, and said, "Why is there this thing in my room?"
