Episode 9 Chapter 96: Some messy details
Moreover, he said that he and Shi Hu had decided to move to the 12th floor, which was above me. They had already contacted the property management and were finalizing the ownership issue. Of course, they were not going to buy it, but to rent it. I said that the ownership was in the hands of Li Ming, and the property management could not intervene. Shan Ranjin said that I didn't need to worry about this, as they had a solution.
When I heard that they were going to move in, I felt a little more at ease. At least if anything happened, they would be upstairs. Secondly, since they lived upstairs, I wouldn't have to worry about what might be going on upstairs.
In the end, although Shan Lanjin gave me a lot of instructions, he was still worried. He said that he would come to my house and stay for a few days, and Shi Hu could arrange things over there. Speaking of Shi Hu, I asked if the thing that was pestering him was okay. Shan Lanjin said, don't worry, Shi Hu won't do it again, that thing has been controlled, and it has lost its power once it is away from me.
I felt relieved when I heard Shan Lanjin say that, and I didn't think about it anymore. Shan Lanjin said he would go and arrange some other things, and come back in the evening. After the corpse just happened, I did have some things to arrange for me to be alone at home, so I didn't refuse Shan Lanjin's words, so I agreed.
After Shan Lanjin left, I became a little suspicious. I knocked on and measured almost every wall in the house. My purpose was to find out whether there was such a mezzanine in the house. After knocking on and checking the thickness, I found that I was worrying too much. Then I felt a little relieved. Later, I sat on the sofa and played computer. Everything was fine until Shan Lanjin came.
He also brought some official business to deal with. I didn't disturb him because he was busy. He was not the talkative type. At most, having one more person at home made him feel more at ease. But there was one thing that I felt was different from Shan Lanjin, that is, he seemed to be not afraid of anything. He once said that those things would not touch him. He said it in a decisive manner, without any hesitation. I had some doubts about his confidence. What kind of person was he?
Shan Ranjin said I will sleep tonight, and we will go to the place where the paper man is tomorrow morning. He said we should take the bus, so we may get more clues. Shan Ranjin said he slept in the guest bedroom, which was close to the bathroom. I said it was okay for him to sleep there, and he said it was okay. It was then that I realized that the strange behavior of my parents and friends at that time might be because the guest bedroom was too close to the bathroom, and they were disturbed by this thing?
Later, I lay on the bed, but I didn't dare to sleep. I was afraid that I would dream about some messy scenes in the bathroom, and I was afraid that the water delivery man would enter my dream. But in the end, I couldn't stay awake and fell asleep. I did dream, but it didn't have anything to do with the bathroom or the water delivery man. Instead, I dreamed about another person, Chen Shen.
Almost the entire dream was about someone calling me from somewhere. It was a distant call, as if it was guiding me somewhere. I was in the residential complex at the time. To be honest, I had no idea where the voice came from. I was just wandering around the community. Maybe I was influenced by what the security guard said, so when I saw Chen Shen, I saw him dragging a box, and he looked like he had just returned from a trip.
I didn't talk to him because the distance was not enough. I just saw him from a distance. But at that time, I was still holding his wallet, holding it inexplicably. Of course, my thought at that time was that I picked up this wallet in the community, and the situation in the wallet was the same as what I saw in reality, except that the hundred-dollar bills inside had become ghost money.
Of course there were no flaws in the dream, and I had no awareness of it. It was only after I woke up that I realized the difference. This is probably what people often say, that in a dream, anything abnormal and strange can be considered reasonable, but as soon as you wake up you will know that it is just a dream because of its absurdity.
I dreamed about this almost the whole night, and when I woke up, it was already daybreak. I had not woken up in the middle of the night, but when I woke up, I heard a noise in the living room, so I got up and saw that Shan Ranjin was already up, and it seemed to me that he had not slept at all.
He said that it might be a habit. He doesn't sleep much, and getting up on time has become a habit for him. I know this because I stayed at Shi Hu's place for a night and experienced their work and rest schedule. But how can the body support such a short sleep for a long time?
Shan Lanjin said they were used to it and it was still early so I could sleep a little longer. But I had already woken up and was no longer sleepy, so I got up. However, I didn't have so many things to do, so I turned on the computer and browsed around casually. Then I suddenly saw a new email in my mailbox from the same account as last time, so I clicked on it. But when I clicked on it, the photo of the corpse found in the bathroom yesterday popped up.
How could he be so fast? I looked at the time and it was sent yesterday, before we found the body. I calculated the time and it should have been when I went out to find someone to replace the mirror. And there was a line of words under the photo as usual, like a warning - Curiosity kills the cat.
I thought this was a warning, but I didn't even see the email coming in. Until now, the body has been found. When I read the email again, I couldn't help but feel scared. The sentence gradually changed from a warning to a joke, as if it was gloating.
Around 7 o'clock, I received a text message from Director Gao. He asked me if I was feeling better and if I was, I would go to work on Monday. He also asked me if that person wanted to see me. It was something important, and it would be on Monday. The person he was referring to was Old Man Nie, but he didn't say when on Monday. Could it be that he was going to work the night shift again? What important matter could have made Old Man Nie so eager to see me at this critical moment?
Today is Saturday, which means it is the day after tomorrow. At the end of the text message, Director Gao said to delete it after reading it, and not to let others know that I have contacted Old Man Nie, so I made sure that I understood the content of the text message and there was no omission or misunderstanding, and then deleted the content. I just copied the content and put it in a document on my phone in case I need it in the future.
When the time was almost right, Shan Lanjin and I went out to take the No. 158 bus in the afternoon. I didn't have any other feelings about riding this bus before, but this time I felt that everyone on the bus had an abnormal illusion, it felt like I was riding on a ghost bus.
Shan Ranjin became even colder after he got on the bus and didn't want to say a word. One reason was that there were too many people on the bus and they were talking a lot, and another reason was that he just didn't like to talk.
We went all the way to the terminal. After getting off the bus, I saw the specific road and situation. Then I understood what my mother meant when she said that you would naturally see and understand when you arrive. Because after getting off the bus, you can indeed see a single road extending into a deserted direction. Dan Ranjin had been here once and knew the road. This was my first time here, or should I say my second time here, but I didn't have any impression of the first time, so it doesn't count.
This is a sandy road that feels like a dirt road in the countryside. Of course, this is where urban and rural areas meet, and those vacant lots are all requisitioned farmland, which are only used as reserve land for urban expansion.
After walking along this road for about half an hour, we arrived deep into the wasteland. I looked and saw a newly repaired road a few hundred meters to the left. That should be where I was found last time, where we were standing. Shan Lanjin said that if we were not wrong, this should be the place where my mother prayed to the Ghost Guanyin.
But this place is completely barren, without even a single building, let alone a temple or something like that. Shan Ranjin said that this was how they felt when I said I came out of a house last time, because what they saw was also a barren land, but I insisted that there were groves and houses.
Shan Ranjin said that we should go a little further and see if we can find something.
