Episode 7 Chapter 72 Old Man Liu's Notes
Then I heard the man walking to the next corner. I held my breath and listened, wondering if this man was Qiao Jie. When I finally heard him say his name, I really heard it was him. I felt terrible at that moment. This game kept going on like this, and it didn't stop with Qiao Jie's appearance, until the light in Room 409 suddenly turned on.
The light was indeed turned on suddenly, and I was suddenly surrounded by light. However, the four people who were playing games with me just now had disappeared. I was the only one in the whole room, and there was no one at the door. I didn't even know who turned on the light.
I was standing in the corner at the time, not knowing what to do with the sudden light, but the next moment I understood something, so I walked out without hesitation. When I was in the corridor and about to go down the stairs, the phone rang unscrupulously. The sound was so loud that it could probably be heard on the first floor. I picked up the phone, feeling a lingering fear, and saw that it was Shi Hu calling, so I answered it.
As soon as I picked up the phone, Shi Hu asked me what was wrong with me, why the phone couldn't be connected all night, and where I was. He was downstairs from me. I told him that I was working the night shift at the funeral home, why did he come to my house, what happened or what?
When Shi Hu heard that I was at the funeral home, he asked why I was working the night shift when I just went to work, and whether something had happened. I tried to keep my tone calm and told him no. Maybe Shi Hu really had something urgent to talk to me about, so he didn't argue with me about this issue any more, but asked me when I would be back. I said it would have to be tomorrow morning. Shi Hu said he couldn't wait until then, so he would come to the funeral home to find me.
I had to agree reluctantly, and Shi Hu's impetuousness must be something serious, but he didn't explain it on the phone, so I waited for him in the office of the archives, wondering what it was, which made me feel a little uneasy. I looked at the watch, it was still early, not even 11pm, but I felt like I had been there all night.
Later, I didn't care how the light in Room 409 came on. Anyway, I was lucky to be able to escape from there. The fourth floor is weird and people can't go up there easily. It seems to be true. I have to ask Xu Nuoyi tomorrow to find out what's going on on the fourth floor.
It was already early morning when Shi Hu arrived at the funeral home. When I saw him, he looked a little anxious. I was outside at that time and Shi Hu happened to come over. When he saw me, he asked me to talk in the car. So I sat in his car, and then he looked at me and said, "I burned the wordless letter that Old Liu sent me."
How did Shi Hu know this? It shouldn't be through surveillance, otherwise he would have asked me a long time ago. Since he asked this, he must have known it. So I nodded and said yes, it was burned. Shi Hu's expression changed a little after hearing this. I was basically sure that he came to me in such a hurry because of this matter.
Before I could say anything, Shi Hu continued to say that they had just received news that the letter I burned was the private notes of Old Man Liu that many people had been looking for. That letter was, everyone thought his private notes was a notebook, but who would have thought it was just a piece of paper, and it had been sent to me a long time ago.
I heard about Old Man Liu's personal notes from Old Man Nie. Shi Hu and the others definitely never told me about it. Now that Shi Hu suddenly mentioned it, I realized that they had also been looking for this thing, but they had never told me. The look in Shi Hu's eyes changed a little at that time, and I asked him back, "You are also looking for this thing, but why have I never heard you talk about it?"
Shi Hucai explained to me that the reason they didn't tell me was because the private notebook was top secret and could not be known to anyone. Although I was involved, I could not tell anyone unless it was absolutely necessary, just like now. Shi Hu said that it was okay. Who would have thought that Old Liu would give me the notebook in this way? What's more unexpected is that the notebook is not a notebook, but just a piece of white paper.
Shi Hu asked me why I wanted to burn it and why I suddenly had the idea of destroying it. Shi Hu's thoughts were quick and he immediately thought of the incident in the ruins. He said it was because of the letter he gave me. At that time, he noticed that my expression was not right, as if I had lied to him. I didn't expect that if he didn't ask further, it would lead to the current situation.
I felt that Shi Hu's reaction was a bit too much, so I asked him in confusion whether Old Man Liu's notebook was so important and why they had to find it, and it was top secret. But Shi Hu said he couldn't tell me now. He said that they had been investigating Old Man Liu for so long, and a big reason was because of this notebook, and basically everything was related to this notebook.
When I heard Shi Hu say this, I began to question it, because I had seen the contents on the white paper. Although I couldn't understand it, I didn't think it was a big deal. So I said maybe they had gone in the wrong direction. When Shi Hu heard me say this, he immediately realized something and asked me if I knew what was said on it.
Almost at the same time when Shi Hu asked this question, my phone rang again, so I picked up the phone. This time it was my own number. I answered the call, and Shi Hu stopped talking at the right time, just staring at me motionlessly. When I picked up the phone, the other end said something as if it was an automatic message and hung up the phone. His intention was to sue me something without me having to say anything.
The voice on the other end of the phone said - you must not reveal a single word of the contents of the notes to anyone, otherwise you will die without a burial place. This was not a threat, but a piece of advice, I could tell from the tone of the voice. So after hanging up the phone, I still kept the phone to my ear , but my mind was no longer here, but thinking about this sentence over and over again.
Shi Hu still looked at me steadily. I then put away the phone woodenly and said to Shi Hu, "I haven't read that notebook. The letter you gave me last time in the ruins was empty, but I saw the words. The letter asked me to destroy the letter from Old Liu. I was afraid something might happen, so I burned it. I even had a nightmare because of this."
I don't know if Shi Hu saw that I was lying, but as long as I didn't admit it, he couldn't force me to say it. So I saw Shi Hu's eyes change again and again, and finally he was completely calm, and just said meaningfully: "So that's how it is."
At this moment, I suddenly heard something outside as if a product had fallen from the upstairs, making a very loud muffled sound. Shi Hu and I looked outside immediately after hearing the sound. Finally, Shi Hu opened the car door and went out. I followed him out, but as soon as I came out, I saw something on the ground a few meters away, a black mass. Shi Hu said it was a person, someone jumped from the upstairs.
So he and I went over, but when we went over, I gasped because it was not someone else, but Huang Weilun. I stood there and felt like my body was frozen and I couldn't move. Shi Hu leaned over to check, because when he saw it was Huang Weilun, his face was already very serious.
I looked up at the upstairs. I didn't know where Huang Weilun fell from, so I just looked blindly. But soon I saw a head on the top floor suddenly retracted. The speed was so fast that it looked like an illusion. Of course, I was not sure who that person was, but a name came to my mind, Qiao Jie.
So the four-corner game just now appeared in my mind again. I repeated the names of Li Ming and Liu Chi. I was just talking to myself, but Shi Hu suddenly turned his head and looked at me, asking me who I was talking about just now. So I repeated the two names again and said that they sounded very familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had heard them before.
Shi Hu then said solemnly: "These two people lived on the twelfth floor, the floor above you, but they moved out later because the community was haunted."
Then I suddenly remembered that it was them, the couple that Lu Fei and I mentioned!
