Chapter 1: Mysterious Call

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At 1:45 a.m. on November 8, 2013, I was woken up by a slow mobile phone ringtone.

There was a voice on the phone, and it sounded a little creepy in the middle of the night, and I said, "I'll hang up the phone if I don't talk anymore......"

"Thank you," a choppy voice on the phone asked me, "What day is today?"

The voice was bleak and a little weird, and I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman. Who was kidding me? I was so sleepy that I put my phone on silent and ignored it.

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It was 9:35 a.m. when I woke up in the morning, and this damn phone call, I muttered, causing me to have a nightmare for the night.

In my dream, I was walking on a small road with no people, as if it was a small fork in the road near Aofeng East Road, Xuanzhou District, Xuancheng. I always felt that someone was following me unhurriedly, but whenever I looked back, there was nothing.

There is another meeting this morning, and it seems that it is too late. I obviously set the alarm clock on my phone last night, and my phone is silent and has nothing to do with the alarm clock, why don't you wake me up?

Looking at my phone, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, in fact, it was out of power, I plugged in the power cable, lit a cigarette, and turned around to go to the bathroom.

When I finished washing, the battery was 33%, I pressed the power button, 33 missed calls, all the same number, it turned out that the call in the early morning was turned to silent after I turned it to silent, and it kept calling my phone until the battery ran out. What the heck?

I called back to the company, and it was Ouyang Huan at the front desk who answered the phone, "Huanhuan, there are some things I can't catch up with here, you tell Mr. Li and Mr. Guo that I will definitely arrive at tonight's cocktail party." ”

Ouyang Huan's silver bell-like smile came from the phone: "I know Mr. Cao, you are an old rule, and you can't get to the cocktail party for a meeting." "Ghost girl, do you talk to the leader like this, drink you to death at night!" I hung up the phone, always feeling that something was wrong, but I couldn't say it, that damn phone call in the early morning made me uneasy.

Why don't you go for a pizza and a cup of coffee? I think of it this way, and the Saizeriya across the street doesn't taste as good as Pizza Hut, but it's affordable, and its roasted snails are my favorite. When I put on my coat and went out into the elevator, I realized that I forgot to bring my phone and I was dizzy.

I followed the passengers in the elevator down to the first floor and then pressed the button again to go upstairs, and the old lady in the neighborhood looked at me and smiled strangely.

When I got on the elevator again, I noticed that the mobile phone display light was flashing, and it was another missed call, and it turned out to be the same number in the early morning. I forgot something just now, and it turned out to be a call back. There is no signal in the elevator, out of the elevator, I pressed the call back button, the number you dialed is not in the service area, what the hell?

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At 10:20 a.m. on November 8, 2013, the weather was fine. I'm sitting in the Saizeriya restaurant drinking coffee, waiting for the food to be served while making a phone call, and the phone you're calling is turned off.

Since it was not yet time to eat, there were not many people in the restaurant, and a man in white sat two tables away from me, looking at me with a smile.

At 11:03 p.m. on November 8, 2013, I finished eating the last roasted snail on the plate at Saizeriya's restaurant, and the rich butter and fat snail were still in my mouth, and the mobile phone rang just right. Habitually looked at the caller ID, it was Sima Wei, a classmate in high school, Tie buddy, who was busy with the affairs of the unit during this time, and had not drunk together for more than 20 days.

"Moxi Moxi......" I picked up the phone in the code language of my student days, Moxi Moxi means that no outsider can talk casually.

"Thank you," Sima Wei replied in a steady tone on the other end of the phone, a code word for outsiders around him to ask for business.

I sighed, and then his words said: "Brother Sima is polite, why worry about some trivial things, sister-in-law and Rong Rong are okay?"

I suddenly felt a chill running through my body from the top of my head to my back, and I heard it as if it were in the middle of the morning.

On the phone, Sima Wei asked me in an intermittent voice, "What day is today?"

At this moment, I almost threw away my phone and said loudly: "November 8th, what's wrong with you?"

It may have been that I was speaking a little loudly, and a few of the close customers in the restaurant turned their heads to look at me in dissatisfaction, and I raised my left hand at them to apologize. At this time, I noticed that the man in white who was two tables away from me had left at some point, and now there was a young couple sitting, and the boy was using a fork to fork the pasta to his girlfriend's mouth. It's nice to be young, I think.

"It's your birthday, let's have a drink in the evening?" asked me.

I replied, thinking quickly in my head, I was born on January 18th, and I was eating with Sima Wei this year. That's who is around him, and he wants to take the opportunity to go out at night and use me as a shield.

"Okay, there's a drinking party in my company in the evening, you know all those people, come over together, and then discuss ...... after the show is over," I said to him.

There was a beep in the phone, which was a prompt for the call to come in during the call, and I moved the phone to the front of me, and it was the mysterious early morning caller number.

"I have a phone call in, talk at night, hang up first. "I don't know how long this mysterious call will be heard, think about it, there is no need to wait on the phone, Sima Wei is not an outsider. But when I hung up the phone and answered it again, it was only about ten seconds before the call was hung up.

What the hell, I'm more anxious than me, I called back to the past, and thought about it, no matter who or what the hell is on the other end of the phone, I will scold him first, what are you playing?

"The number you dialed is not in the service area......" The voice on the phone is gentle and moving, but there is no emotion.

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I forgot how I paid the bill, how I got out of the restaurant, how I got into my car, and I couldn't even figure out where I was going the next.

I lit a cigarette, folded my seat halfway back, leaned back in the driver's seat, and subconsciously dialed that number again.

"Laugh at you and I in vain, love to compete for the beauty of the mirror flower, afraid that luck will pass away in a blink of an eye, fascinated by greed, hatred, joy and anger......" The phone was connected, and Zhou Huajian's difficult scriptures sounded in the car, and the singing was lingering. I was startled and remembered that in order to facilitate driving calls, my mobile phone's Bluetooth was matched with the car. Zhou Huajian's song is the theme song of the Hong Kong version of Tianlong Babu, Zhou Huajian laughed and said that he has only sung this song once, because the lyrics are long and white, it is very difficult to sing, and it is the first time I have heard this song as a ringtone. What kind of person is the owner of this call? I thought.

The phone you dialed is busy, please dial again later, the call is not answered, and the other party hangs up ruthlessly. I was unwilling, dial again, this time Zhou Huajian sang the second sentence, the magnetic aftersound was not over, and the phone hung up again.

I almost threw my phone out the window, it's a human or a ghost, why don't I die.

I plucked up the courage and was about to make this call for the third time, but the phone rang first, it was Ouyang Huan at the front desk of the company.

"What's the matter, Huanhuan? "I wasn't angry, so I didn't care about my tone.

"Thank you," Ouyang Huan's silver-bell-like voice on the other end of the phone seemed to be stunned by my unfriendliness, and asked timidly, "What day is today?"

I instantly collapsed when I heard this, why did every phone call I received start with these two sentences since the early hours of this morning?

Ouyang Huan said softly: "Today is my birthday, the salary plan you approved yesterday was announced at the meeting just now, and you added two levels to me, thank you, this is the best birthday gift I received today." ”

It turns out that this matter, I said in my heart, how do I know your birthday today, I still said: "It should be, it should be, this is the result of your hard work on weekdays, I wish you a happy birthday!"

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