Volume 4: Return of the Dead Chapter 0089 Illusion
Under the mocking gazes of the crowd, Wu Qi paid the money and left the restaurant in disgrace. Today was definitely a strange day for him. From the moment he got up, strange things started to happen one after another.
"Is it really a ghost, or am I...crazy?"
Wu Qi grabbed his head tightly. His mind was very confused at the moment. He was wondering if there was something wrong with his mental state. He was also afraid that ghosts really existed in this world. If it was really a revenge from Xiaofeng's ghost, what should he do?
While thinking, he took out his cell phone from his pocket. He planned to ask Zhang Chuan to take a sick leave for him. After all, he couldn't work in his current condition. He also wanted to verify the matter about Cheng Wushuang to make sure that Zhang Chuan did not lie to him.
He found Zhang Chuan's name in the received calls and called back. However, there was no "beep" waiting tone from the phone. On the contrary, the call was connected as soon as he dialed, but the voice... was not Zhang Chuan's at all!
"You will all die! No one can escape!!!"
A series of vicious roars came from the phone, not only piercing Wu Qi's eardrums, but also frightening him so much that he quickly hung up the phone. In just a moment, his slightly dark face completely lost its color.
"No, we can't stay in this city anymore!"
This was an instinctive thought from him, and he no longer cared whether there was a ghost or if there was something wrong with his mind. In short, he wanted to leave this city, and leave as far away as possible!
Swallowing hard, he hailed a taxi and got in as if desperate. After getting in the car, he breathed a sigh of relief, but his nerves were still tense.
He considered calling the police to protect him, but then he gave up the idea because the police would not believe that there were ghosts in the world and would only regard his story as a boring prank. In addition, even if the police really believed him, they would definitely ask why the ghost did not kill others but himself. How would he answer then? Who knows if he would not steal the fish but get himself into trouble?
Looking at the people and scenes outside the window that were constantly receding, Wu Qi's panic gradually turned into sadness. He left a city again, and left with nothing again. He was a complete loser.
“I’m so unwilling!”
Wu Qi's nails dug deeply into his palm. There was no pain, only deep numbness.
"Wait, something seems wrong!"
Wu Qi suddenly raised his head and glanced out the window again. Then he realized that he had not told the driver where he was going, but the driver didn't even ask and just drove him away!
"Hey, why are you driving before I even told you where you're going?"
Hearing this, the driver looked at him puzzledly through the rearview mirror, and then heard him say:
"What? You guys aren't together?"
"We? Could it be..."
Wu Qi began to panic. His frightened eyes involuntarily began to search inside the car. There, there it was!
Everything was just as he thought, there were not only him and the driver in the car, there was also another person. No, to be precise, there was a ghost sitting in the passenger seat.
"Stop the car! I want to get off!"
Wu Qi began to smash the car window desperately. Seeing this, the driver hurriedly stopped the car:
"You are sick, come back... You haven't paid me yet!"
Jumping out of the car, Wu Qi completely ignored the driver's rage and ran away without looking back.
This place was very close to his residence. He had nowhere to go, so he had to go back home first. He had to go back to pack his things. But while running, he suddenly felt like someone was watching him. He quickly turned around and saw a child of about 11 or 12 years old, following him slowly.
The child lowered his head and could not see the man's expression at all, but he was very sure in his heart that the man was Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng's ghost!
"What should I do? It's really chasing me and wants to kill me!"
“Help! Help…!”
Wu Qi desperately tried to escape while shouting for help from the people around him, but everyone looked indifferent. They just stood aside and stared at him coldly. Instead of giving him any help, it made him even more scared.
Finally, he ran to the building where his home was, and despite the exhaustion, he rushed in. The corridor was strangely quiet, and he saw no one while running up. Only the faint footsteps behind him were becoming clearer and clearer.
He took out the key with trembling hands, but his hands were shaking so badly that he failed to insert it into the keyhole several times. Listening to the approaching footsteps, his heart was in his throat.
“Crack!”
With a crisp sound, the door was finally opened by him. He didn't dare to look back, so he went in through the crack of the door and then slammed the door shut. Suddenly, he couldn't hear any sound, and the whole world seemed to stop. He leaned on his knees with both hands and panted heavily.
"I'm back, I'm finally back."
But at this moment, his cell phone rang like a ghost. He took out his phone nervously, and the caller was Zhang Chuan.
He was very hesitant about whether to answer the call. After all, when he called Zhang Chuan earlier, it was that thing that spoke. After hesitating for a moment, he finally chose to answer the call:
"Hello?"
"Open the door! Open the door for me!!!"
The extremely vicious voice suddenly came from the phone again, and at the same time, the door behind him was knocked.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
"ah--!"
Wu Qi screamed and threw the phone in his hand to the ground. Then he fled into the bedroom in a panic. The whole room fell into silence again.
"Hello, is this Wu Qi? What happened over there? Where are you now? Speak!"
Xiao Mo shouted loudly into the phone, but no sound came from the other end except for the previous scream.
"Something seems to have happened to Wu Qi, and the call was hung up."
Xiao Mo shook his head in disappointment. After hearing this, the Decaying Mage asked worriedly:
"So what do we do now?"
Xiao Mo pointed at Zhang Tianyi, who was sitting not far away and using a computer.
"Let's see if he can find out Wu Qi's actual address."
After hearing what Xiao Mo said, Li Shuai leaned over and asked:
"How do you know he's at home? Besides, none of his colleagues know where his home is. It's probably impossible to find it just by searching online. After all, there are many people with the same name, and he's not a local."
"Wu Qi had no friends here when he first came here. It's working hours now. If he's not at work, then he's most likely gone home. Especially after knowing that he's encountered a ghost, he might instinctively want to pack up and run away. So it's very likely that he's at home right now, otherwise he would have been killed.
He had called Zhang Chuan before, but just said "Hello" and hung up. I think he must have had some kind of hallucination, otherwise he wouldn't have thought he was having dinner with a dead person.
If I am not mistaken, then the text that Xinyan Institute foresaw is the current state of the victims. In this way, the content of Xinyan Institute foresaw is connected with the victims. "
The word that Xinyan had a premonition of today was "illusion". Xiao Mo and Zhang Tianyi both suspected that the premonition word was a state that the victims fell into. For example, the previous victim Cheng Wushuang might have regarded something that originally "did not exist" as existing before he died.
But now Cheng Wushuang is dead, so it is hard to say whether the truth is as he guessed. He can only wait for the next victim to help him verify it.
Li Shuai and the corrupt mage were both thoughtful after hearing this. Seeing this, Xiao Mo continued to answer:
"As long as Wu Qi has a temporary residence permit here, it won't be difficult for us to find him. As for people with the same name, that's not a problem. I don't think there are many people named 'Wu Qi' because it's not a good name."
Lao Gao had expected that Xiao Mo and his companions would go to Cheng Wushuang's company to investigate, so he did not go there. At present, all he could do was to try his best to recall the real names of his childhood playmates.
However, after thinking for a whole morning, he still couldn't remember the full name of any of them. He could only vaguely remember that there seemed to be someone named Xu Lei. That person was also a woman. There were two women in the playmates at that time, one was Cheng Wushuang and the other was Xu Lei.
He checked all the identity information of Xu Lei in the city, but none of them matched. Although he had decided to die, it was not that he didn't want to live at all. In fact, he was also thinking hard about countermeasures. He separated from everyone just because he was afraid of getting them into trouble.
At present, he has thought of a solution, which is to contact the people at that time and try to calm Xiaofeng's resentment.
Zhang Tianyi did not think about stopping Wu Qi's death, because doing so would most likely anger the evil ghost. After all, if the evil ghost was only bent on revenge, then they would not be in much danger in this incident, but once they intervened, then the danger would be great.
That's why he didn't tell Xiao Mo and the others that he had found out Wu Qi's address.
"We need to wait and see."
