Episode 8 Chapter 84 Follow
But during the time I was unconscious, everything seemed blank and quiet, and I didn't have any dreams or anything. It was as if everything suddenly disappeared, and then I woke up again, with only my memory remaining on Shan Rankin's car.
When I woke up, there was a police officer looking after me. He looked about the same age as me. He said his name was Fan Zhidong and that Shan Ranjin had asked him to look after me while he had some important matters to attend to.
I looked around and saw that I had an independent ward. I wanted to sit up, and Fan Zhidong stood up and helped me up. He told me not to move around. My head was hit. It wasn't a big injury, but I had some concussion. I needed to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation and treatment. It turned out to be a concussion. No wonder I always felt a little groggy. Fan Zhidong and I were not familiar with each other, so there was nothing to talk about. So I asked him what was going on at the scene.
Fan Zhidong said: "The scene has been sealed off."
I asked, "What's going on? It's so serious?"
Fan Zhidong said, "During the time you were unconscious, our colleagues at the scene dug out several bodies from the wasteland. So far, there are more than ten bodies. Deputy Shan got the news and asked me to look after you. He has already gone to the scene."
I recalled the scene of seeing those people squatting on the grass, and I couldn't help but feel a chill down my spine. What I saw were not people, but ghosts. So I continued to ask, "Have you figured out how they died and why they were buried there?"
Fan Zhidong whispered to me, "Originally, this matter cannot be told, but since you are the person involved and also Shan Fu's helper, it doesn't matter if you know it. No one knows where those bodies were buried. This matter has to be investigated. With so many lives involved, it must be a big case. Just wait and see."
As I listened to Fan Zhidong's description, I felt that this matter was not so simple from the beginning. My head was less dizzy now, and I sorted out what happened before and after. First, my car was inexplicably driven away by "someone" , and then Qiao Jie drove past there. I remember that Qiao Jie suddenly disappeared because of the voice in the car where the body was placed, and I remembered that voice was the same as the person who later led me to the back of the bushes, and this person happened to be the person who was "hit to death" by my car last time.
It seemed that his appearance scared Qiao Jie away and saved my life. He asked me to go with him to meet someone. Who was that person? I was just one step away at that time, but I didn't see who it was. When I thought of this, I turned over and found that my clothes and pants had been changed into hospital clothes. So I asked Fan Zhidong where my mobile phone was. Fan Zhidong said that I should not use my mobile phone at this time. It is important to rest assured and take care of it.
I didn't argue with him, so I told him to call Shan Lanjin and I had something important to tell him. When Fan Zhidong heard me say this, he immediately called Shan Lanjin with his own mobile phone. After the call was connected, he gave me the phone. I told Shan Lanjin to go and dig about ten meters in front of the stone bridge to see if there was anything. I thought there was a crucial clue there that might be able to solve the case.
Shan Lanjin said he knew and hung up the phone. I returned the phone to Fan Zhidong, who then told me to lie down here and not move while he went to get a kettle of boiling water. I told him to go ahead, so he went out with the kettle. As soon as Fan Zhidong left, I saw another person walk in. It was none other than Master Nan.
He sat down in front of the ward, and I said, "Why are you here?"
Master Nan did not answer or say anything else, but took out a photo and showed it to me, asking me if I had seen this person at the place where the accident happened. I took the photo and it seemed that this person was one of those sitting on the wasteland. Master Nan told me that this person's name was Yang Bowen, and his body was now frozen in the freezer of the funeral home. He was one of the unclaimed bodies that had not been cremated.
After saying that, he stood up and left. I said, "Master Nan, please explain it more clearly."
But Master Nan said, "That police officer is coming back."
Then he quickly left the ward, and sure enough, Fan Zhidong came back in half a minute. During this time, I put the photo under the pillow to prevent Fan Zhidong from seeing it. He didn't say much to me after he came in. He just played with his mobile phone. I closed my eyes to rest, and although I was resting, my brain was not idle for a minute.
I felt like something like a net was falling towards me, but I didn't notice it at all from the beginning. Old Man Liu was like the center of the net. A dense net was woven with him as the center, and it had already reached my head, but I couldn't see where the edge of the net was.
I asked Fan Zhidong how long I would stay here, and Fan Zhidong said, "The doctor said I need to be observed for at least two or three days, because the head is not a sensitive part and we can't be careless. I will just rest assured and don't think about anything else during this period."
It seems that I have to spend the night here. I didn't have any other thoughts after hearing this. As the saying goes, we might as well make the best of it. But when I looked towards the door, I seemed to see a shadow-like thing behind the door, which scared me. I thought to myself, is there something following me? Something might happen again.
Sure enough, at about 2 a.m., I suddenly heard a burst of noise coming from outside, both outside the ward and downstairs. Fan Zhidong was also awakened. I didn't want to get up because I was afraid of getting a headache, so I asked Fan Zhidong what happened and why he was so panicked. Fan Zhidong went to the window to see, but when he walked to the window, I suddenly saw a person standing in front of him, and Fan Zhidong just walked through, and the person disappeared.
I was startled and immediately shouted, "Officer Fan, don't go near the window."
Fan Zhidong was frightened by my sudden exclamation. He turned around and looked at me and asked what happened. I told him to be careful and not to get too close to the window, or he might fall down. Fan Zhidong smiled and said no, I was too worried. Then he stuck his head out to look down. I looked at him worriedly, afraid that he might fall down suddenly.
Fortunately, I was just overthinking it. After looking for a while, he came back and said that it seemed like someone had jumped off the building and there were a lot of people gathered below. I told him that he was a police officer and asked him to go down and take a look. I could take care of things here myself and he didn't need to worry about me.
Fan Zhidong nodded, and then called the police station. They said they had received the report from the hospital and were on their way. After Fan Zhidong left, I was alone in the ward. The door of the ward was open, but I kept staring at the back of the door because I always felt there was something behind it.
About half an hour later, I saw the door close a little by itself, revealing some of the scenery behind the door, but there was nothing behind the door, empty. But my nerves were even more tense, I felt like something came out from behind the door, and I seemed to hear light footsteps coming towards me.
Then I heard the bed I was lying on creaking, as if something was walking on it, and I clearly felt the quilt beside my legs being pressed down. I stared at that place and saw that the quilt was indeed dented, which meant that someone was sitting there, but I couldn't see who it was.
I was lying on the hospital bed, not daring to move. Just when I was feeling a little nervous, someone suddenly came in. At first I thought it was Fan Zhidong, but when I looked again I found out it was Shi Hu.
My attention shifted to him and I asked him, "Why are you here?"
Shi Hu sat down on the chair. I looked at the place where the quilt had just dented, and it seemed that the thing suddenly disappeared. Shi Hu asked me if I felt better. I said it was okay and I would be fine after a rest. I asked him if he came here in the middle of the night because of the person jumping from the building downstairs, but Shi Hu shook his head and said no.
I asked why, Shi Hu said Shan Lanjin hadn't told me yet, today they dug up something in the wasteland where I had the car accident, I asked what it was, Shi Hu said in the vacant land on the other side of the bridge, they dug up the same ghost Guanyin as the one behind my house. I was stunned, and asked Shi Hu where they dug up the ghost Guanyin?
Shi Hu nodded in confirmation and asked me if I had been there before.
