Volume 4: Return of the Dead Chapter 0082: Fear
Cheng Wushuang drove very fast, so fast that she was terrified all the way. Not only did she almost hit someone, but she also accidentally ran two red lights. But there was nothing she could do about it, because she was very scared and just wanted to escape as quickly as possible, the farther the better.
When she woke up in the morning, she found a pair of children's shoes covered in mud by the door. She thought it was brought back by her husband, but surprisingly, it was not. Then, she threw the shoes into the trash can, but when she entered the company to work, she inexplicably heard that a child followed her to the company.
After that, her clean coat was covered with mud stains for no reason. This was impossible for her, who was a bit of a germaphobe. Besides, she had no chance to get stained with those dirty things.
Finally, she met her childhood friend whom she hadn't seen for a long time in the elevator. The other party also said that he had seen the child. When she was about to drive away, the pair of shoes that should have been in the trash can appeared in her closed car again!
Today, everything was filled with a sense of weirdness that made her feel terrified, or more precisely, a creepy shudder.
"squeak--!"
He stepped hard on the brakes, and the car moved a few meters away due to inertia. Cheng Wushuang unbuckled the seat belt and leaned on the steering wheel, panting.
After a brief relief, she frantically took out her cell phone and called her husband Xiaofeng.
"What's the matter? I'm in a meeting at the company. I'll talk to you later."
Hearing that her husband was busy, Cheng Wushuang subconsciously wanted to hang up the phone, but the fear in her heart told her not to do so.
"Don't hang up yet. I'm very scared now. I think I've seen a ghost."
Cheng Wushuang said this almost while crying, but her husband did not believe it.
"You saw a ghost? Are you okay? There are no ghosts in this world."
"Remember the shoes I asked you about this morning? I lost them at work, and then they appeared in my car. My colleagues also said that a child followed me, but I didn't see any child at all! This is a ghost!"
Cheng Wushuang finished speaking fearfully, but laughter came from the other end of the phone:
"Haha, how could you not see through such an obvious prank? The shoes must have been put into your car by someone secretly. Have you compared the pair of shoes that appeared in your car with the pair that you threw away? Are you sure they are the same pair of shoes? Also, you forgot what day it is today. Today is Halloween, so they must be trying to scare you!"
"Ghost Festival?"
"Yeah, isn't it popular to scare people on this day now?"
Cheng Wushuang suddenly stopped talking. She didn't know if the two pairs of shoes were the same pair, because she threw them away subconsciously when she saw them. In addition, if today is Ghost Festival, then the company employees would create a non-existent child, which might also make sense.
Although Wuqi was her childhood friend, they had not been in touch for so many years and had no feelings for each other. It was understandable that she would lie to herself. Her car keys were usually placed on her desk, and Secretary Zhang could easily get them if she was interested, so this could also be explained. The only thing that could not be explained was how the pair of shoes at home appeared.
"Xiao Shuang?"
After hearing no sound from her for a long time, Xiao Feng asked anxiously:
"Hello? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I was thinking that what happened this morning might really be a prank. But..."
"There's no buts. Just think in the dumbest way possible. If there really are ghosts in this world, why can't I or others encounter them, but only you can? You haven't done anything bad, and you haven't hurt anyone. Even if ghosts come to you, they can't come to you. Am I right?"
Hearing her husband's words, Cheng Wushuang was stunned for a few seconds, and then replied:
"Of course I haven't done anything bad!"
"Then no ghost will come looking for you, don't worry. Well, I'm going to the meeting, this meeting is very important."
After her husband finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Cheng Wushuang stared at the phone in her hand in a daze for a few seconds. After her husband's reminder just now, some of her memories became loose.
Just as she was in a daze, someone suddenly knocked on her car window. Hearing the sound, she quickly came to her senses and saw that the person who had just knocked on her car window was a policeman.
"Are you here to talk about the traffic violation I just made?"
Cheng Wushuang opened the car door and walked out. As soon as she got out, she apologized to the police:
"I'm sorry, I was really in a hurry, so I ran a red light. It's my fault, I admit it..."
Before she could finish, the two policemen interrupted her:
"This matter is not our responsibility. We were informed by someone that you pushed a child out of the car. Am I right?"
"Push the child out of the car?"
Cheng Wushuang spread his hands in confusion, thinking that the police had found the wrong person:
"Police comrade, did you get the wrong person? How could I do such a thing!"
The two policemen simply ignored Cheng Wushuang's sophistry and just listened to them:
"There are so many beasts in human form nowadays. There are countless cases of elder abuse and child abuse. Which one of them looks like a criminal? So if you have anything to say, wait until we get back together before you say it!"
"What are you talking about! I didn't push the child at all, you got the wrong person!"
"If we really made a mistake, we will apologize to you and let you go."
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Just like that, with a lot of confusion and complaints, Cheng Wushuang and the two policemen returned to the police station in the area.
"Deputy, we have brought back the suspect who pushed the child. He is this corporate executive."
The police said with a hint of sarcasm, and it was obvious that they had handled similar cases more than once.
Hearing the police's words, Cheng Wushuang replied with displeasure:
"What do you mean by a suspect who pushed a child? Tell me clearly, which child did I push?"
"You pushed your son out of the car! I really don't know why you, as a mother, can be so cruel. No matter how angry you are, you can't push your child out of the car and walk away by yourself. What if something happens?
Sometimes I really doubt whether you young people are so cold-hearted. You can be so cruel to your own children!"
"Yes, Deputy Chief. When we found her, she still refused to admit it. She showed no remorse at all."
Two policemen echoed in the group.
"What on earth are you talking about?"
Cheng Wushuang was confused. When did she push the child out of the car? When did she have a son?
Seeing that Cheng Wushuang still refused to admit his mistake, the deputy director immediately called up the surveillance video of that time. When Cheng Wushuang saw himself in the video, his heart sank.
Oh my god, what did she see? She was carrying a child on her back. She opened the door and the child on her back got in. Not long after, she also got in. But soon, she opened the door again and pushed the child out of the car!
"How can it be……"
She couldn't believe that the person in the video was herself, because she remembered clearly that she had just thrown away a pair of shoes!
Child! There really is a child following me! This is not a prank at all!
Seeing that she didn't say anything, the deputy director thought she had agreed, so he didn't say anything more. He came to her side as if holding something in his hand, and then extended his hand forward:
"Your child is very obedient. He has been begging for you just now. He is not seriously injured, so let's just let it go. However, this will not happen again! Also, go back and give this little guy a good bath and change him into clean clothes. You are not a good mother like this! You can leave now!"
Cheng Wushuang looked at the deputy director in front of her as if she had seen a ghost, and then she saw the deputy director coming over to pull her, no, he was pulling the air in front of her:
"This is not a good habit. Don't always try to climb on top of adults!"
"ah--!"
Finally, the fear that had been suppressed in her heart broke out completely. Cheng Wushuang let out a shrill scream, and her frightened eyes began to wander around here!
"I don't have a child! That's not my child, I can't see him! He doesn't exist, he doesn't exist!!!"
Cheng Wushuang didn't know how came back. She only remembered that the police suspected she was mentally ill and were worried about letting her bring the child back. But somehow, the police changed their minds in the end and let her go. Of course, she also left with the child who didn't exist at all!
The ironclad facts were already before her: she had really encountered a ghost, and a ghost was targeting her!
She had no idea why the ghost followed her and what it was going to do to her. In short, she was very scared. She always felt that there was a pair of eyes hidden here that she couldn't see, maybe under the bed, maybe behind her, or maybe... hiding on her body!
On the way home, she called her husband several times and told him what happened next. At first, her husband didn't believe her and was a little angry about her interruption, but after he realized that she was wrong, he promised to come back early to accompany her and asked her to lock the doors and windows.
She knew that she couldn't see it with her eyes, but the camera could capture it, so she took pictures of the surroundings with her mobile phone on the way back. What comforted her was that it didn't appear next to her.
The first thing she did when she came back was to close all the windows in the house and lock all the doors. Then she checked every corner of the house again and again until she was sure that the pair of shoes had not sneaked in .
But even so, she was still terrified, always feeling that something was wrong at home. But she didn't dare to think too much, she just wanted her husband to come back soon, or just find someone to talk to her, but who should she find?
