Episode 7 Chapter 067: Conspiracy
After saying that, Shi Hu went upstairs. I wanted to call him, but then I changed my mind and thought that Shi Hu was not a rash person. He was in a hurry to go upstairs at this time, so there must be a reason. So I didn't call out the words that were on my lips. Because the fire was too dazzling, I saw that the lights of many residents in this building were lit up one after another, and then I went to the window to look. At this time, there was no one downstairs. If I went out, it would be too conspicuous. So I sat in the car without moving, but just looked at the paper man that was still burning but almost burned out.
As the paper man burned out, the flames finally dissipated, and the lights of the residents upstairs gradually went out. I then got out of the car and walked to the paper man where only a pile of ashes remained. It had been completely burned to ashes and had lost any shape. Only some ashes were still flying in the air because of the night wind. I looked up at my floor, and the two people who had been standing on the windowsill were gone. Only the lights were on, and there was nothing else to see.
I couldn't help but start to worry about Shi Hu as I stood downstairs. I didn't know what was going on upstairs and what he was doing. Soon I saw Shi Hu appear next to the window. He seemed to be talking to someone on the phone and was looking down. I was in a hurry and didn't bring my phone with me, so I could only watch from downstairs. Then Shan Lanjin came out of the corridor. When he saw me standing downstairs, he asked me why I was here and where was Shi Hu.
I pointed upstairs and said that Shi Hu was talking to someone on the phone. Shan Lanjin looked up and asked me what the fire was about. He said that when he saw it, he only saw something burning downstairs. So I told him what had just happened. Shan Lanjin didn't say anything and asked me how long Shi Hu had been upstairs. I said only a little while.
Then Shan Lanjin dialed Shi Hu's number. I was about to say how could the call go through when he was on the phone, but unexpectedly the call went through. Shan Lanjin asked Shi Hu who he was talking to on the phone. Shi Hu asked if we saw someone standing under the street light and he was talking to this person. When I heard Shi Hu say this, I realized that Shi Hu was using my phone. It should be the person standing under the street light who called me again, but I didn't bring my phone with me.
As we were talking, Shan Lanjin and I both unconsciously looked under the street light, but it was empty, with no one there. As we were looking, I suddenly saw two or three people coming towards us, talking as they came. They must be residents returning home late, so we ignored them.
But Shan Lanjin didn't react at all. He kept standing in the middle of the road and didn't show any intention of giving way. When the three men passed by, they stared at Shan Lanjin and me for a while, as if they were curious about what we were doing downstairs so late. I also looked at them, without any expression, and then they just passed by.
But after they passed by, I felt something was not right, so I asked Shan Lanjin if he thought the people who just passed by were dressed strangely. Shan Lanjin had hung up the phone by then, and he looked around and asked me who I was talking about. I was stunned, pointing at the figures and saying that they were them, but Shan Lanjin looked at me and said that there was no one else downstairs except him and me.
As I was speaking, I saw the few people who had passed by suddenly turned around and looked at me. Although they were far away, I could see them clearly. They were all smiling at me. Then I suddenly realized why I thought their clothes were weird, because they were weird to begin with. The clothes they wore were all blue cloth clothes and cloth shoes, especially like the funeral clothes my mother often burned during sacrifices in my hometown.
When I thought of this, I suddenly looked at Shan Lanjin and said, how could there be ghosts in this community? As I was talking, I saw them enter the building in front and then disappeared. Shan Lanjin didn't see it, but when he heard me say this, he asked me to describe the situation in detail. I told him again, especially what they were wearing. Shan Lanjin's face was originally cold, and he frowned and looked even more unapproachable. After thinking for a few minutes, he suddenly looked around and said, "Could it be like this?"
Before I could ask, Shan Lanjin said we should go upstairs to see what Shi Hu had done. It was better not to stand downstairs in the middle of the night. I felt that Shan Lanjin's attitude changed a little too quickly, as if he really knew something. But he didn't say a word to me. It's just that I said before that no matter what he was thinking, you could never tell from his expression. If it was Shi Hu, maybe I could tell something else just now, but now it was Shan Lanjin. I only knew what he was thinking, and nothing else.
When we returned home, the door to the living room was still open, but all the lights were on. It must have been Shi Hu who opened it. When we went in, Shi Hu was standing in the living room, looking out the window. When he heard us come in, he turned around. I saw that he looked a little confused. Shan Lanjin asked him if he had discovered anything, and Shi Hu shook his head.
I closed the door when he came in, so we sat down on the sofa. I then asked, wasn't the ghost Buddha sent to the seventh floor? How come there were paper people running into my room? It seemed a little unreasonable. Then Shi Hu took out something, and I saw it was a paper person cut out of white paper. I asked what this thing was.
Shi Hu said that he found this thing in the pocket of the clothes beside my bed. In other words, the reason why the paper man was able to come in was because of this thing. Someone put this evil-attracting thing in my pocket. I said that the clothes beside the bed were what I wore when I went to work Could it be someone from the funeral home?
Hearing me say this, Shi Hu asked me to think carefully about who approached me in the funeral home today, and think carefully about those details, who is the most suspicious. I said that if we have to say who is the most suspicious, it must be Xu Nuoyi, because I have the most contact with him in a day, but it is not impossible to say that it is someone else. Such a paper figure, as long as it is someone who has contact with me, it will be put in my pocket if I am not careful, so I can't say who it is.
As I was talking, Shan Ranjin suddenly interrupted and said, maybe it wasn't a living person who did it. He looked at me, his eyes were so deep that I couldn't tell the bottom. I said it was either a living person or a dead person, and then I thought of Qiao Jie. I said it could be him, but I didn't have any contact with him in the morning. Could it be that it was at that time? I thought that he died because of Old Man Liu, and it seemed to be related to the paper man on 721.
Since they found the source of the problem, Shi Hu burned the paper man. Then they said I had to go to work tomorrow and go to bed early, and they went back first. Before leaving, Shi Hu reminded me to be careful in the funeral home. It seemed that there were "people" who were unhappy with me when I went to work there. Not only did I bring back something on my first day, but I also brought back something that attracted evil spirits. This was also a reminder for me.
After Shi Hu and the others left, I turned off the lights and returned to the room. This time, I carefully checked the doors and windows to make sure they were all closed tightly before I went back to bed. I checked my phone and didn't see any call records. I also looked under the street light and the man was gone. I remembered that he had never mentioned what he had said to that man on the phone.
I thought that the person under the streetlight hadn't said anything to me, and probably wouldn't say anything important to Shi Hu, so Shi Hu wouldn't mention it either. So I didn't think much about it, but when I looked through the text messages, I found that all the text messages from that number were gone, as if someone had deleted them.
Could it be Shi Hu? But it's unlikely. If he had read my text messages, he wouldn't have done something that would arouse my suspicion. Besides, Shi Hu doesn't seem like someone who would read other people's phone numbers. I still believe him on this point. I was just thinking about the reason when the text message ringtone rang. I picked it up and saw that it was from that number. It said that I should go to the funeral home square at 7:30 tomorrow.
So I sent a message asking who he was, and soon the message came back. I thought the other party finally replied to me, but when I picked up the message, it said something else: Master Nan is in the funeral home, you try to find him.
