Episode 6 Chapter 057 Coincidence?
Old Man Nie saw me staring out the window and suddenly said to me, "I saw him, didn't I? I saw him!" I asked, "Him?"
Old man Nie just said that there was a hanged man, a middle-aged man hanging in the air. I remembered the appearance of this middle-aged man, and I seemed to have seen him hanging from the ceiling several times. Could it be that the thing that was entrenched in my house was the same thing that was entangled with Old man Nie? How could he be entangled with both of us at the same time? And it seemed that this hanged middle-aged man had tortured Old man Nie so much that he was so scared. So I became a little curious. How did he torture Old man Nie? Would he use the same method on me?
But Old Man Nie seemed to be very scared of him, and he couldn't say a word. I saw him struggling, and he opened his mouth several times but no sound Finally, he had to give up. I looked at the surveillance camera behind him, and the middle-aged man was standing there. I wondered if the faint shadow I saw behind him just now was him.
After the middle-aged man appeared, Old Man Nie never said a word to me. We remained silent until the middle-aged man disappeared. Old Man Nie told me to take him down because he was a little tired. Although I still had many doubts, I couldn't ask a single word. I suddenly started to get scared, because according to the degree of fear of Old Man Nie, this middle-aged man was not a good person.
We took the elevator down, as we couldn't go down the stairs because Old Man Nie came up in a wheelchair. After we got downstairs, Director Gao said he was here and pushed Old Man Nie out. It seemed that there was a special car waiting outside. I didn't ask too many questions. Jiuzi was waiting on the first floor. While I was waiting, I received another text message, still from the same number. He said in it, "I will think carefully about what he said. It's not easy to work in a funeral home."
I sent him a reply, asking him who he was and what conspiracy he had, but I didn't receive a reply. I didn't put my phone away until Director Gao came back. Director Gao said that I had worked hard tonight, and Old Man Nie asked him to take me home now. I didn't say anything and just let Director Gao do what he wanted. I looked at the time and it was only a little after two in the morning.
I didn't talk during the whole journey. I received another text message in the car. It was from the same number. He said I would know when I got here. I didn't reply. But Director Gao heard the text message and got a little nervous. He asked me if I had told Shi Hu and the others about this. I did n't quite understand why Director Gao was so taboo about Shi Hu and the others, so I told him that it wasn't, and the text message was sent by another friend. He couldn't sleep and wanted to talk to me.
Director Gao was relieved, and finally said nothing. He sent me to the community, and I got on by myself. After he said some polite words to me, he went back. So I went in, but after getting off the car, I felt that every step I took, as if there was someone following me. So I looked back and saw Director Gao's car driving away, but I saw a pair of hands lying on the glass of the passenger compartment, and a figure looming behind the window. I was shocked, because there were only Director Gao and I in the car, and now that I got off the car, there should be only Director Gao .
I wanted to call for Director Gao's car, but in the end I could only watch it slowly drive away. I shuddered and walked upstairs, but every few steps I felt like someone was following me. I turned around and felt a gust of cold wind, and my head felt dizzy. Then I didn't know what was going on.
I think I had a very long dream, and I dreamed of many things. In the dream, I came to a completely unfamiliar place, like an abandoned residential building. The desolate feeling extended from my eyes to my heart. It was so dilapidated that there was no one, not even a ghost. I walked inside, not knowing how I got in, and then I seemed to be going to a place, because I seemed to remember a number, 721.
The scenes in the dream were all absurd and ethereal. I didn't know how I suddenly got from downstairs to the inside of the building, and soon I arrived at the door of 721. The door was open, so I walked in. However, after entering, I saw Old Man Liu and his friends sitting inside eating, including Huang Weilun, Xiao Ma, and Shi Hu. Old Man Liu also enthusiastically asked me if I had eaten before and asked me to sit down and eat with him, so I sat down.
Then I heard someone calling me downstairs. I went to the side of the building to see, and saw Shi Hu standing downstairs calling me, saying that he had something to talk to me about. I asked him why he suddenly ran downstairs when he was not eating upstairs. Then I looked inside the house, but found that the house was empty. All the people who were eating just now suddenly disappeared. I was scared and couldn't figure out what was going on. So I ran desperately outside and ran down the stairs. However, no matter how I ran down, it seemed that the stairs were endless, and I could not reach the bottom of the stairs. Finally, I woke up while running and in fear.
When I woke up, I found myself sleeping on the sofa. I moved, but saw Shi Hu sitting on the sofa on the other side. When he saw me wake up, he just said, "You're awake."
I sat up from the sofa, looked around the house and asked why I was sleeping on the sofa and when he came. Shi Hu said that he called me in the morning but no one answered, he thought it was strange, so he came to check, but when he arrived at my door, the door was open, I was sleeping on the sofa, it seemed I was asleep, he tried to call me, but I didn't respond at all, so he sat there and waited for me to wake up.
I looked at the time, it was almost nine o'clock, I asked Shi Hu when he came, Shi Hu said it was a little after seven o'clock. He said it was the first time he found me sleeping so well. I just felt like I had not woken up completely yet, and my head was dizzy. So I asked Shi Hu if I said anything in my sleep. Shi Hu shook his head and said no, he asked if I had the habit of talking in my sleep again.
I shook my head and said no. Shi Hu said that I got up for a while, walked to the door and stood there for a few seconds, as if I was looking at something, and then went back to sleep on the sofa. I heard that and said, I didn't dream of anything next to my door. Shi Hu asked me if I had a dream, and then I told him about the absurd dream. At the end, I added that it might be because I had been dealing with these people recently, so I dreamed of such things.
But Shi Hu frowned and said, "I have been to that place." I shook my head and said, "Absolutely not. It is a completely unfamiliar place. Whether it exists or not is another matter. After all, it is a place in my dream." But Shi Hu said that the place really exists and is exactly the same as I described. He said, "I have never been there, so how could I dream about it? Do I have the ability to predict the future?"
I was speechless after Shi Hu asked me this, and then I asked him with a guilty conscience if that place really existed. Shi Hu nodded to confirm again, and said that if I didn't believe it, he could take me to see it now. I also wanted to go, but suddenly I remembered that Shi Hu didn't come for this, so I asked him why he wanted to see me.
Shi Hucai said that he and Shan Ranjin had discussed that as a psychic consultant, I didn't need to be with them all the time like I did at work. They just needed to find me when they had questions, so I could have another job. He said they wanted to second me to the funeral home. When I heard Shi Hu say this, I suddenly exclaimed, "What?!"
Shi Hu told me not to worry and to listen to him slowly. He thought I was resisting because I thought working in a funeral home was too weird. However, he didn't know that I immediately thought of what happened last night. Their words were exactly the same as that person's proposal. This surprised me a lot. Why did they have the same idea?
When Shi Hu told me to work at the funeral home, he didn't mean that I really had to deal with the dead. He said that he and Shan Lanjin would use their connections to help me get an easier clerical job, and I could help them find some secrets inside the funeral home, because there are some things that you can't detect unless you're inside. Even for people like them who can come and go freely, it is extremely difficult for them to know any secrets. That's why they came up with this idea.
I said they wanted me to be a spy, an undercover agent, Shi Hu said it was not that far yet, at most I could be an informant, and besides, they wouldn't trust me if I were to be an undercover agent. I thought about it, and Shi Hu said I didn't have to do anything, I just had to work there, and sometimes when you are there, some information will reach your ears unconsciously.
I was struggling violently in my heart, not about whether to go or not, but about what was the relationship between you, Shi Hu, and the man I met last night? Why did he make such a suggestion last night, and immediately Shi Hu came to persuade me to do it? Was it just a coincidence, or were they in the same group, or was that man one of them?
Shi Hu didn't know what I was thinking, and continued to convince me that the funeral home was not as scary as I thought, and that they would take care of me and nothing would happen to me. I looked at Shi Hu with a complicated look in his eyes, and finally asked why they were suddenly interested in the funeral home.
Shi Hucai said that it was the car accident on Guangfu Road that reminded them that the funeral home was not as simple as it seemed from the outside, and that there were some secrets inside that we could not see and could not investigate.
