Episode 6 Chapter 056 Hidden
It was the first time I heard that Old Man Liu had a private notebook, so I asked him what the notebook was. Logically, he would not answer such a question, but he said that it recorded a secret notebook. Then he said that since I asked this, he didn’t give it to me, so in that case, he must have hidden it.
Hearing this, I felt that the person in front of me was not asking me for any notes, but was indirectly telling me that Old Liu had such a notebook, and I should go and look for it. But I kept silent, and asked him why he thought that Old Liu gave me the notes. When I asked this question, the person in front of me was silent. After about ten seconds, he said, because this notebook is related to me, don’t I want to know why I am related to Old Liu?
This is indeed what I have always wanted to know, and it is also the root of this series of events. I think as long as the matter of Old Man Liu is clarified, the things that happened later will also be solved. After seeing my reaction, the man in front of me changed his tone and said to me, but I can't find the notebook this way, and Shi Hu and Shan Lanjin are also looking for it, but they only know that Old Man Liu hid something , but they don't know what it is. When they know it, this notebook has nothing to do with me.
I didn't say anything, wanting to hear what he was going to say next. After he finished speaking, he asked, "Do I really know Shi Hu and Shan Lanjin?" In fact, when asked this question, I really didn't know at all. But this person said, "How about this? He will second me to the funeral home to work. He can provide me with some help."
I said that since he wanted to help me, he could also not come to work at the funeral home, but he said that would be different. I asked why it was different, but he didn't say anything more. He said I would think about it seriously and there was no rush. When I had thought it over, we would still work at the same time and place.
After he finished speaking , I saw him turn around, and then I heard footsteps. While his footsteps were still ringing, I suddenly heard a sound, and the lights in the whole room came on. The lights came on too suddenly, and I thought the person who had just spoken to me was about to be exposed, but I found that I was the only one in the whole room, no one else.
It was Director Gao who turned on the light. He stood at the door in a daze, looking confused, and then asked me why I was here. I was just wondering how the person who was talking to me could disappear so quickly. At the moment the light came on, I clearly heard footsteps.
Director Gao saw that I was just standing there without saying anything and asked me what happened. I just reacted and said that it was nothing, I just saw someone coming in here, so I came to see. Director Gao looked a little strange, he walked to my side and whispered to me that the person wanted to see me. When I heard Director Gao say this, I was stunned for a moment. That person should be the person he said who secretly controlled the funeral home. But what puzzled me was that the appearance of this person just now was deliberately arranged by Director Gao and his team, why did Director Gao seem to be unaware of the appearance of this person?
I suddenly felt a little confused, but I still calmly asked him where he was. Director Gao said he was in the duty room. They thought I had met with an accident. He said I almost scared him to death. So I didn't say anything more after that. It seems that I have to pay close attention to this matter. It seems that some strange people have infiltrated.
When I went to the duty room, there was an old man sitting inside in a wheelchair, looking old and listless. Director Gao reminded me that this was the man. When I walked in, he opened his eyes and looked at me. He didn't ask me where I had been, but just said that this was an uneasy place and that he must have scared me.
I said it was okay, not too scary, he asked me to sit down, and then told Director Gao that he would go down first, and I would take him down later. So Director Gao left first, leaving me and him in the duty room. He told me that the fourth floor was always empty and no one was there all year round, and that asking me to be on duty here was just a cover. In fact, he wanted to meet me, but he couldn't be too ostentatious and alarm the other people, so he used this method.
I had never met him before, so why did he want to see me? It was probably because of Old Man Liu. He pointed to a file bag that had appeared on the table and told me to open it. I opened the file bag and found a thick stack of documents. I asked what it was, but he said I would know after reading it.
When I looked through it, I found that the pile of documents was actually a record of my activities every year, including what I did, where I went, etc., and it started when I was in college. I looked at him in surprise and said, they are investigating me.
This person didn't say anything, saying it wasn't an investigation, he just paid more attention to me, and it wasn't him who did this, it was Liu Wangxing. Was it Old Man Liu? I knew he was following me, but I didn't know he would go to such lengths. I said Old Man Liu and I didn't even know each other, so why would he investigate me for no reason?
For the sake of description, let's call him Old Man Nie. Old Man Nie said that this was the reason why he asked me to come here tonight, because he also wanted to know why Old Man Liu was so concerned about me and investigated me so carefully, even more intensely after that incident. I asked about that incident? Old Man Nie then explained to me that it was the incident of Old Man Liu "coming back to life".
I suddenly realized that this is how Old Man Nie called that incident, as if it was a taboo and he didn't want to mention it directly. But what Old Man Nie said was indeed a taboo, because he felt that since that incident, some things and some people have become different, and since then, things in the funeral home have also become a little abnormal, such as the suicide of Huang Weilun a while ago. This kind of thing has happened frequently since the incident with Old Man Liu. He also wanted to know why Old Man Liu suddenly died and suddenly came back to life, and he came back to life with the death of his entire family.
I felt something was wrong with what Old Man Nie said, so I tried to ask him, did he think that the deaths in the funeral home were caused by Old Man Liu? But Old Man Nie said it was far from that simple. He said that I might not know that Old Man Liu had invested in the construction of the funeral home, so he was one of the people involved, but his capital was less, not as heavy as his.
This was something I had never thought of. I didn't expect that Old Man Liu was also one of the investors. And Old Man Nie said that the idea of carefully burying people with trees in the funeral home was first proposed by Old Man Liu. Secretly, he also made some substantial contributions to the construction and development of the funeral home. It's just that he is a very low-key person, and even his family doesn't know that he has invested in the funeral home.
I said that Old Liu didn't look like a man with so much money, where did he get so much money from? Old Nie said that we should ask Old Liu himself, but now he is dead and his ashes have been stolen. After saying this, Old Nie didn't continue to talk, as if he had a feeling of grief for the dead. He said that he was also buried in the ground up to his neck, and he didn't want to care about these things, but recently he always felt that something bad was happening, and they were all directed at the funeral home.
I didn't quite understand what he said. I felt that every word of Old Man Nie was loaded with meaning, and he was playing guessing games with me. On the surface, he was concerned about the operation of the funeral home, but I always heard something else. So I looked at Old Man Nie and asked him if he thought that all this was directed at him.
As soon as I said this, I saw Old Man Nie suddenly look up at me. He looked at me hurriedly and said, "I saw something." And just when he said this, I seemed to really see something behind him, a layer of shadow between existence and non-existence. You can say it exists, or you can say it doesn't exist, but it seems that something is following him. It was not until this time that I suddenly understood why he wanted to see me. No matter how long his life is left, he always wants to live a little longer. I am afraid that this is what Old Man Nie is thinking at the moment.
So he was afraid, afraid of death, and even more afraid of dying suddenly like Huang Weilun and the others.
I didn't know how to answer him, but he saw the answer from my eyes, and said that it was true, he was looking for me, and I was following him. Since he already knew, I didn't need to hide anything anymore, I said what was following him and made him so scared.
But when I asked him about this, he became very scared and started to tremble all over, as if he was very reluctant to talk about it. Seeing his reaction, I also started to get nervous for some unknown reason.
Then Old Man Nie said to me in a trembling voice: "I slowly began to remember the dreams I had in the past, dreams that I didn't even know existed before. This thing appeared in my dreams. It followed me out of the dreams because of those nightmares!"
I didn't quite understand what he was saying. He seemed mentally ill and was about to lose control. So I told him not to be anxious and to speak slowly. At this moment, I suddenly saw on the surveillance camera behind him that there was a man standing outside the window of the duty room, staring inside motionlessly. This man was the middle-aged man who had been sitting on the sofa in my dream that day.
I turned and looked out the window, but there was nothing there.
