Episode 3 Chapter 030 Clues
The phone screen kept flashing and vibrating but no one dared to move it as it was placed on the coffee table. I just stared at his friend's profile picture. Only then did Xiao Ma say that he had not had time to change his profile picture.
Finally, the phone screen went dark, and Xiao Ma immediately picked up the phone and was about to delete the caller profile picture. I came back to my senses from my surprise and tried to ask Xiao Ma if his friend knew Old Man Liu?
Xiao Ma looked at me in confusion and asked me why I asked that. I said if they didn't know each other, how could he be related to Old Man Liu? This statement was somewhat far-fetched, but Xiao Ma didn't suspect anything. He said he shouldn't know him, as he and he had been friends for so many years, and he had never seen him interact with Old Man Liu, and he didn't have any reaction after Old Man Liu died.
So I tried to ask him again, did he know Old Man Liu's daughter? When I said this, Xiao Ma was suddenly stunned, and asked me if Old Man Liu had a daughter. I saw that Xiao Ma seemed to know nothing about what happened three years ago, so I laughed it off and said I was just talking casually. Xiao Ma thought about it and didn't continue to ask.
We sat like this for a while, and then my phone rang. I thought it was Shi Hu calling, but when I took out my phone, it was a completely unfamiliar number. I frowned. Lately, I feel scared when I receive such unfamiliar calls. I picked up the phone, and the person on the other end of the phone first reported my name. I asked him who he was, and he said he was a courier and had a package for me, and asked me to pick it up downstairs.
I asked them what the package was, since I hadn't had any express deliveries recently. He said he didn't know and that I could check it myself after I came down to get it. So I hung up the phone and told Xiao Ma that he was at home and I would be back soon. Xiao Ma responded casually and was still fiddling with his phone. I didn't know what he was doing.
So I went downstairs, but it took a long time to walk down the stairs. I signed and it looked like it was packed in a box, quite heavy. I looked at the address, it was a local address, which reminded me of the key to 721, so a dark cloud passed through my heart, fearing that it was something similar.
I didn't take it apart downstairs, but carried it upstairs directly. When I returned to the door of my house on the 11th floor, I found that the door was open. I didn't pay attention to it and thought that Xiao Ma opened it because he was bored, so I walked in. However, when I entered the living room, Xiao Ma was not there.
I placed the package on the sofa suspiciously, and called Xiao Ma from inside the house, but no one answered me. I saw his phone on the coffee table, and it stands to reason that he should have just left temporarily. I searched the house but he was not there, and I felt something was wrong. The door was open, which made me feel something was wrong, but where could he go?
Just when I was getting worried, he suddenly came back. I saw him coming back from outside and asked him what happened and why he had a nightmare out of nowhere. Xiao Ma said that someone knocked on the door just now and he thought I came back, but when he opened the door, there was no one outside, so he went out to take a look and then went upstairs.
I asked him why he ran upstairs. Xiao Ma said he heard someone calling me from the stairs, so he went upstairs to take a look, and happened to meet the person living upstairs from me. He said he thought it was me and had recognized the wrong person.
I realized where Xiao Ma had gone, so I patiently asked him and said that he went to the twelfth floor and met the residents upstairs from me. Xiao Ma said yes. I didn't dare to tell him that no one lived upstairs. I just looked at Xiao Ma and found that his expression was a little dull. He was not as smart as just now. This was easy to recognize. Although he was scared before, he didn't have this dull expression.
Xiao Ma walked to the coffee table and took his cell phone, then told me that he was going back first. I said that didn’t he need Deng Shihu to come back, and Xiao Ma said that he was fine and wouldn’t wait any longer. Since he said that, I didn’t know what to say, so I said I would take him back.
When we got to the door, Xiao Ma suddenly turned around and said to me, "There's a pair of feet behind my bathroom door, like there's someone there, I'd better go take a look." I was shocked by what Xiao Ma said, so I told him to wait a moment while I went to take a look. I thought I was pretty brave, so I went to the bathroom to take a look. When I got to the bathroom door and looked behind it, I really saw a pair of feet. I was so scared that I didn't dare to go forward.
I stepped back a little, wondering what to do. Finally, I took the arm bar and shouted towards the bathroom, asking who was inside, but no one answered me. So I walked into the bathroom little by little and slowly opened the door. But when I opened the door, I found that it was just a false alarm, or just a prank, because there was no one behind the door, just a pair of shoes.
I came out of the bathroom, and when I got outside, Xiao Ma was gone. I went to the window and looked down, but I didn't see him, so I called him, but the phone rang from the corridor. I walked outside, followed the ringing sound to the corridor, and saw Xiao Ma's phone on the stairs, flashing, but he was gone.
I walked over and picked up his phone. He had set an avatar for me, but when I saw the incoming call avatar, I felt my hands start to tremble, because I had seen this avatar before, in the room 721, the sketch of me, and now it is my incoming call avatar in Xiaoma's phone.
I just felt like I couldn't breathe. I was sure that Xiao Ma was still here and had not left. Maybe as he just said, he went to the twelfth floor. At this moment, Shi Hu was coming up from downstairs in a hurry. Seeing me standing in the corridor in a daze, he asked me what happened and why my phone call was not going through.
When I got home, I told Shi Hu what had just happened. Shi Hu thought the same as I did. He said that something was wrong with Xiao Ma, so he suggested going to the twelfth floor to see what was going on.
I naturally went up with Shi Hu, probably because I lived on the twelfth floor and rarely went upstairs. Besides, I didn't know anyone up there, so there was no point in running up there for no reason. We arrived at the twelfth floor, which was the apartment above me, and saw that the door was open.
At this time, Shi Hu secretly pulled me and motioned me to look behind the door. The gap in the living room door was not as big as that of the bathroom, but I could still vaguely see a pair of shoes standing behind the door. I looked at Shi Hu, and his meaning was very clear. There was someone standing behind the door. Then Shi Hu made a gesture to me, meaning that he should go in and see what was going on. I should stand outside and not move.
Shi Hu went in carefully. I stood outside and watched him motionlessly. I saw Shi Hu open the door. I thought the situation here would be the same as what I saw in the bathroom, just a pair of shoes playing tricks. As I thought, Shi Hu didn't move after opening the door, then turned around and told me that it was just a pair of shoes.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind me asking why we were here. I turned around and saw it was Lu Fei. He was also surprised to see me and asked what I was doing on the twelfth floor. Then he saw Shi Hu in the room and was a little puzzled, asking what this was...
So I said that I heard a loud knocking noise on the floor from above, so I came up to check it out. My friend was there too, so we came up together. Lu Fei listened and looked inside the house, as if he was looking at something, but soon said that the property management was doing a water and electricity maintenance.
I saw that the room was in a mess and the furniture had been moved out long ago. Lu Fei continued to say that it would be done soon, which made me feel embarrassed for making such a fuss. Shi Hu came out of the room and said to Lu Fei that since that was the case, they would go downstairs first.
After that, we returned home. This matter seemed strange to me. Shi Hu said that Ma Yippin was inside, but we didn't know what he was doing. We couldn't go in for the time being. Let's wait and see what they are going to do.
At this time, he saw the package on the sofa and asked me what it was. I said I didn't know, it was just delivered to me by courier. I found a pair of scissors and cut off the outer package of the courier. There was a paper box inside. I opened the paper box, and when I saw what was inside, I didn't know how to continue.
Because if I am not mistaken, this is probably a really bad thing, and Shi Hu identified it more accurately. He said it was an urn, and someone sent me a box of ashes by express delivery!
