Chapter Twenty-Three: There Are Ghosts on the Phone
For chefs, a knife that can cut meat without sticking to slices is a sharp knife, for a samurai, a knife that can pierce armor is a sharp knife, and for a tofu seller, a knife that can cut tofu neatly is a sharp knife...... The object to which the knife has to face is different, and it will achieve different effects, and if it is generalized, it will reduce the value it can handle.
The chandelier was still shaking, a little smaller than before, and the cool air was gently blowing, bringing me a touch of refreshment. I finally realized that the window in the cubicle was open, and that the secret door was not completely closed, and I remember jumping out of that window before.
I secretly wondered in my heart, didn't Miul also leave that place?
At this time, my mobile phone rang, and my mobile phone was placed on the platform two meters away, but my legs with plaster casts were tied with bandages, and it would take some time to untie them, but the mobile phone seemed to be full of life, and it rang urgently, as if desperately urging me to pick it up.
As soon as I gritted my teeth, I couldn't care about much, and the whole person rolled off the bed, and the iron frame that had not been replaced for many years could not bear my weight, and was bent in an instant. We have space to crawl and get the phone on the table.
Mobile phones are a tool for communication and office, but for me, it is just a symbolic thing, after all, I am an adult, if I don't have a mobile phone, I can't get a foothold in the information society. But it's been more than a year since the last call, and the phone bill is paid every month, but the number of calls is very few. The number of memory contacts can be counted on two hands, and this includes cases where someone else makes a mistake.
I guess no one remembers the fact that I have a mobile phone, so I'm sure that this call is definitely a shadow.
I patiently checked the caller ID, it was an unfamiliar number 17877149690 and I slid my hand and answered.
"Heyβis that Mr. Sun?"
The other party said "Hey", his voice was thick, it was the voice of a middle-aged man. I realized that the other party had made a mistake, but I was a high-quality Chinese citizen, and I originally planned to hang up the phone directly, but out of kindness, I still chose to remind the other party: "Bad pen, you made a mistake." β
The other party pretended not to hear, grabbed my words, and then said: "Oh, if you see Mr. Sun, please tell him that the door of his house is not locked, beware of thieves." "I hung up and didn't give me a chance to reply again.
I was depressed for a while, and I finally crawled over, but it was a wrong call. But it didn't hit me too hard, I checked the missed call and wanted to know the shadow's mobile phone number so that I wouldn't miss it later.
The next second I froze, the missed phone number was the same as the caller number just now - it was Miel's mobile phone number.
The mind quickly entered the state of thinking, and a cold sweat came out in an instant, and now there are two situations: first, the caller is indeed wrong, and the first time is not sure, so he quickly hangs up, but the other party is unwilling to give up, and dials the second time in hesitation, so the call takes a little longer, but this situation is very rare for me and can be ruled out. Then there is only the last one, the other party knows my phone number, and deliberately says the wrong thing, which proves that the other party does not want anyone to know his identity, or does not want others to suspect him. It's a sign that I'm not safe here.
The cold wind blows loudly, and the temperature plummets at night in summer, although it is comfortable, but it also means that the doors and windows are not closed......
I felt that this call was not meaningless, and I secretly guessed in my heart, did the other party want to remind me that someone would come?
This is the cubicle, there is a door in the corner, outside the door is the humble clinic, once Ale went out before he had time to close, I saw the scene outside the door through the crack in the door, so I knew where I was. This time there was nothing else to do, I was able to unbandage my feet with peace of mind, and with a gentle break, the cast was removed, and soon I was slowly standing up. The plaster was obviously redundant, but Ale didn't have time to remove it for me.
Move your feet slowly, except that you are not used to it, everything else is fine. I walked to the corner, the door was closed, and it was difficult to open the outside if it wasn't from the inside. However, due to the fact that it has not been renovated for a long time, many of the wall skins have fallen off, and there is a fist-sized hole hidden next to my chest, which I usually notice. I looked out at the scene, but it was so dark that I couldn't see anything, and my eyes didn't feel anything.
This door is closed, but this room is not sealed, and there are many ventilated places, such as windows......
When I thought of the window, my heart trembled, and I didn't expect the window to be closed, so I immediately turned around.
Sure enough, the window was open, but it was very high, at least two meters, and if anyone wanted to come in from the outside, it would take a while. I jumped and jumped, but it was quite easy to close the window. The room suddenly lost the cold wind from before, and the heat and temperature came to my face, and I was a little surprised in my heart.
Wind, wind!
A cold sweat broke out, and at this time I secretly hated that I was stupid, and immediately looked at the door, at this time the room was terriblely quiet, and there was no sound, which was the same before, but it did not make me feel a sense of fear.
It wasn't like the hole in the door didn't lead to the outside, but my eyes didn't feel anything, it just meant that something was blocking it. In the middle of the night, it was impossible for anyone to take something to plug the hole, and it was not necessary to do so, but now it was ......
Bang bang bang - the door was slammed.
My heart beat rhythmically to the sound, my face turned white with fright, and my brain was buzzing. But soon, I regained consciousness, knowing that someone must be outside, and thought of all kinds of things before, although the shadow admitted that he did it, but how could there be such a coincidence, let me run into it, I can only say that someone else deliberately led me into the set, and the shadow was just a needle.
Someone really wants to harm me, then it must be absolute, from the very beginning, from the day I received the news of her death, the day I was brought here, maybe earlier, someone else's plan has already begun to be implemented. It's just that the shadow disrupted the plan, otherwise, I'm not just lying in a hospital bed, but in a coffin. From the mouth of the shadow, it is obvious that I have potential use value, but I haven't discovered it.
Since Mile has confessed to me, it is likely that it has nothing to do with him, but it cannot be ruled out that he will continue the previous tricks. In any case, I have been able to escape from the fire, so I will definitely not accept my fate.
The only thing that can be done is to block the doorway and prevent it from being knocked open. The facility was old, and I doubt it would be able to withstand such a violent impact. There was a bed in the room that I couldn't move, but I could do with a table or chair.
It was stacked in the doorway, and because it was a concrete floor, I couldn't dig a hole to make the chair stronger, but I was able to lean on it against the corner.
The door kept ringing, more and more violently each time, and I could even feel the whole house moving. I had a hard time imagining that it was human, so I took it for granted that someone was banging on the door with a machine. But no matter how much I asked, there was no reply from outside the door.
Sweat dripped down my chin little by little, I was already connected to the door, the door was slamming, and I was no better, from the original chest pain to the whole body pain, which had made me almost numb, I don't know how many times this door would be slammed, and I didn't know if I could hold on until the people outside the door stopped.
I don't know how long it took, but I realized that my body was in pain, but the door was no longer moving. I calmed down my nervous breathing, slowly poked my head over, and looked at the entrance of the cave, at this time, a cool breeze came from the entrance of the cave, and my heart suddenly calmed down, which means that I am still safe.
I was about to turn around and go to bed when the cold wind blew my back cold......
At that moment, I thought of the window, and looked up suddenly, a green humanoid head looked at me with egg-sized eyes, the reason why it is said to be a humanoid head, it is a person's unique facial features, but the color and size of that thing is like a watermelon, I dare not admit that the thing is a human organ, but the mouth full of teeth, has given me too much visual impact.
If it weren't for the fact that I rarely watch ghost movies, I would probably be scared to death here.
Its head is already so big, so the body must follow the proportions, so I'm not worried that it can come in through the window of half of its body. But to my surprise, it didn't seem to have a human body at all, and its body slid in little by little like a snake's body.
Could it be that the monster slammed the door? I was horrified inside, and while I was stunned, I had lost my best chance to kill it, because it had come in completely through the window.
I could see the monster's true face clearly, it was not a human head and a snake body, but hands and feet had sunk into the flesh, there was no clothing to cover it, the skin was yellow-green, because the light was dim, I couldn't see it really, it thought it had no hands and feet, and when it opened its hands and feet, I realized that this was an unprecedented crisis I had encountered.
It opened its bloody jaws and lunged at me, and I was startled, instinctively dodging, but narrowly escaped its teeth. I screamed and crawled around the corner three meters away from it. Now I can be sure that it doesn't move fast, at least not as nimble as me, but the lethality of those hands can definitely slap people to death, and the chair is just falling apart by it.
This time I should be annoyed that the door was blocked by me, and I wanted to escape, except for the door, which was the window, but how difficult it was to crawl out before it caught me, which was the same difficulty as the plan to escape through the door. The best way to think of it now is to face it directly, but this monster is something beyond my cognition, it doesn't seem to be conscious, I don't know if it's a zombie smuggled from a foreign country, if it's a local species, then it's a zombie without a doubt. Although this reason is far-fetched......
It pounced again, and I bent over and dodged again. My phone was moving at this time, but there was no ringtone, I don't remember if I had the alarm, so it should be a text message. I prayed that this time it would not be a text message in arrears, and although it was a fatal situation, I took out my phone and took a look.
The number starts with 17, I was immediately overjoyed, and after dodging again, I opened the text message and read it, there were very few words, which seemed to be convenient for me to read.
"Living people. β
My face was so ugly that I almost smashed my phone at the monster, and the text message was only written with two words, and I didn't know what the shadow was trying to say.
The mind is alive again, and the shadow doesn't really want to kill me, and he doesn't watch me die, so it only means that he wants to tell me something secret, something I don't know, and what I need. At that moment, a plan that didn't count as a plan flashed through my mind. But at this time, I was stunned, and was caught by the monster's backhand, although I didn't catch the skin, but I had already grabbed the clothes, I was horrified, and I hadn't reacted yet, my body was light, and in the next half a second, I had already stuck to the door. I smashed the doorway.
The teeth and cheek bones were broken and broken, and the brains came to my head, my brain was heavy, and my eyes were not easy to make, and I was blurry and confused.
There was a broken chair under my body, and I was out of breath more than I was in, and I staggered to my feet, and there was one more thing in my hand, and the monster saw that I was not dead, and rushed again, this time so fast that it seemed to trample me to death and slam the door out.
Four meters away, half a breath away, I saw a huge human head appear in front of my face, and I was slammed into the door behind me again, only for the monster to stop, clinging to my chest, sandwiching me in the middle.
This time it stopped forever, not moving, one leg of a stool against the door, the other piercing the monster's heart, exposed to the air. Like a sharp knife, it pierced the enemy.
And I couldn't hold on any longer, my whole body lost consciousness, and the things in front of me went from blurry to vanishing......
On the morning of the fifth day, my body changed radically, and instead of having human toes, I had claws! The soles of my feet had become larger, and my leg hair had grown wildly. Not only my feet, but also my hands, and the long, thick black body hair basically covered my arms. Of course, without looking in the mirror, I know what the hell my face has become. People I don't know think I'm a savage when they see me.
The panic only stayed for more than ten minutes, and after confirming the fact of physical changes dozens of times, the whole person became much calmer. After all, facing the electronic clock on the wall for almost a week, and I haven't seen anyone other than Ale, not even small mice, small cockroaches and other animals, there is no way to talk about how embarrassed it is to meet people. To know the ins and outs of the matter, we have to wait for Aler to come, and he is willing to explain.
However, there was little hope, and Ale did not come all day on the fifth day. The nutrient solution has long been infused, and the needle has been removed. I thought I was going to be hungry, but I found out that I wasn't hungry, or that I didn't feel "hungry" anymore.
On the sixth day, I found that not only did I not have the feeling of "hunger", but I was also losing the sense of "pain". It was also on this day that I was freed. Because I don't have the "pain", I can do it brutally.
The medical room I was in was a 50-square-meter hut with medical equipment, and the operating table was separated from the bed by a glass wall, which was not my way out, but it could provide me with a lot of useful things, such as scalpels and forceps. I wanted to get out of it and I had to go through a triple alloy tempered door. I pondered for a moment, and finally realized that this door needs to be correctly recognized before it can be opened. At the same time, he also thought of a plan to go out - when Ale came in, he quickly ran out to subdue Ale the moment the door opened. There are no other firearms, but there are still small scalpels.
However, time passes extremely slowly when you are not sleeping, and every minute and second can torture people crazy. The hope of escape implies the disappointment of the next moment. If I hadn't broken free of the bandage, I would have been lying comfortably in bed and sleeping to death, but there is no "what if" in reality. "Disappointment" and "hope" constantly intersected, tormenting my sober cranial nerves, and I gradually became irritable, often disobedient to the call, inexplicably recalling things I thought I had forgotten a long time ago. I can get angry when I have a small conflict with my classmates, such as accidentally knocking over my newly bought novel book at the same table, or talking and laughing with other men with my crush, and I can't get rid of their hateful expressions in my mind. All kinds of trivial things that are not worth mentioning have now become insulting and degrading and destroying human nature. Anger finally filled my chest, and in a fit of rage, I pounded and slapped my hands against the door, and then my hands and feet began to work together in sync, even banging my head against my teeth. Anyway, I don't feel any pain anymore, no matter how intense the fight is, no matter how long it takes, as long as the bones don't break, the momentum won't slow down. On the contrary, the faster I played, the faster I got angry, the more angry I became, the more crazy I became, and so on.
Is it possible to hit a stone with an egg? A drop of water can still penetrate a stone, and if there are too many eggs, what is the point of a stone! Under my wanton bombardment, this door gradually could not bear to crack a big hole in the crack of the door, and it could allow one person to pass through, which was no less than great news for me. Such a dramatic escape also made me stunned for a long time before I reacted, and the original anger had already run out of the clouds. I couldn't wait to turn into the "dog hole" that I had punched out, and I was filled with emotion.
"Congratulations on your clever escape. Lao Le squatted on the wall behind the door and smoked, and said to me with a look of relief.
"What the hell have you done to my body? Kill you if you don't say it!"
"Don't get excited, with my current bone hardness and agility, it's less than half of yours. You can rest assured that I won't hurt you. β
"You're going to talk nonsense, if the next sentence is clean and, then you'll be wasted! I'll ask you again, my current appearance of being a ghost or a ghost is made by your grandson?"
"Yes. β
"We have no grievances, why are you ......"
"Shhhhh Stop, don't do itβI saidβI'll make it clear now. β
In the end, Aler finally got honest under my obscenity, and put out his cigarette and talked serious nonsense.
"As I said earlier, I belong to one of the three major organizations of the 'Inhumans', the largest and most brutal. I was a member of this organization at a very young age, studying and researching human experiments. Children my age are either experimental specimens or research subjects, and although I am young, I am proficient in medical skills and have helped the organization a lot. Therefore, it can spend more than ten years in peace, which can only be known by the highest level of 'stunning'. Until I discovered a germ, a germ that can strengthen people many times over, at the cost of weakening the heart organs, which is what we call life loss. But this matter has not been taken seriously by the high-level, the reason is very simple, it is difficult for the germ to find a host, it is not so simple as relying on cells to survive, it needs super cells - super cells that can still divide normally even if they are attached to parasitism, so that it can survive and spread throughout the body to function. In the name of a doctor, I went around treating people and traveled to hospitals all over the country. Finally, I noticed you during a smallpox vaccination for my children. But I wasn't very sure, but when I talked to your father and learned that your father didn't give you books to read but had been vaccinated, he asked you to go out to work immediately, so I introduced you to the primary school here and promised to be responsible for all the tuition and miscellaneous fees for a year, and your father reluctantly agreed.
"Luckily, my application to my superiors was approved, and in addition to giving me a large number of medical equipment, there was also a person to protect you, and she came shortly after you entered the school. Watch and protect you as a class teacher. The 'Betrayers' have appeared, who have betrayed the Order and stolen our research, creating a large number of inferior 'Inhumans'. The identity of the original member of the 'Sting' was kept secret, but her identity was exposed and erased by the 'betrayal', and you and I were protected by her, and thus escaped their poisonous hands. The year you graduated, the 'sting' erased your memories of that period of time.
"Originally, if you didn't come back, everything about us would have disappeared from your life! β
After listening to what he said, my heart could not be calmed for a long time, whether I believed him in all his ways was still up for debate, and I could not make any further plans until I knew his purpose for the time being, "Who are those two outsiders? Why were they killed for what they were killed? Why did you pretend to be acting for me? Who wants to burn me? What is your purpose?"
"The real identity of those two outsiders is 'betrayal', and they are also attracted to you. I killed people, and the fate of people like us is to have no vendetta without tolerance, today he kills me, tomorrow he is killed...... If you're dead, you're dead, and no one cares too much. On the contrary, it's you, the one who has half a foot in the forbidden area, and no one knows about you. No one understands you, and at the same time guards against you. As for the two outsiders you said of 'pretending', it was purely my fool's errand, and I killed them when they led you into the cave, and they were two living people. Whoever tells you that they are dead is a 'betrayer', and whoever is the object of our revenge. Actually, you can guess it, who did the fire house incident, I didn't kill you on the spot, but I didn't get instructions from my superiors, and I didn't burn you just to lure me out, that is, we have all been exposed. Even if they are relatives, they can kill them, let alone classmates and friends? You should grasp this well, don't be wiped out by the organization because of an irrelevant person, after all, you have come back, this is a fact!" Lao Le seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and he was always excited, half-kneeling on the ground, full of fate and revenge, like a brainwashing brick family that instigated me to commit crimes.
"So you've turned me into this, this kind of killing machine that doesn't kill people or ghosts?" I felt more tired than I had ever felt before, from head to toe. In the end, the result I was trying to pursue was so cruel!
"'Killing machine'? Yes, you accurately summarized how you should spend the next half of your life - kill for us, work for us," Lao Le stood up and patted my head, not afraid of me at all, "I have already injected Zhao Yuli with medicine, and I won't live long, you go and see her for the last time." Hate me, hate me hard, kill me now, otherwise, you won't be able to experience the thrill of revenge after I die. β
"You're going to die?"
"Yes, I'm dying too. I took revenge on myself and destroyed me with blood on my hands. When I die, someone will come to replace me, and if you listen carefully to them, you won't suffer. Also, when I die, please blow up this basement and destroy all the evil I have done. Even if you are a machine, it is the last and only one I have created, and they are not willing to let you reimburse you quickly no matter what. I've broken all the doors, so if you want to go sightseeing then you can blow it up, but be quicker. β
"Where is Zhao Yuli?"
"Keep walking, there's a lab on the left, and I'm locked there. She may have been tormented by me and went insane, insane, and crazy. β
At this time, Lao Le's nose had begun to bleed, but he didn't care at all, as if he had accepted his fate. And I just watched him die, unmoved. I can't tell you how it feels, maybe like him, he was numb when he accepted his fate.
In the end, he used his last strength to persuade me to live well, and to close my eyes forever. I found a lighter and half a cigarette next to him, lit it, and took a deep puff.
I stepped over his corpse, walked forward, turned left, and sure enough, I saw Zhao Yuli hanging half-naked in the air, her body had many wounds, her clothes were tattered, and her flesh and blood were blurred, if it weren't for her face, I really couldn't imagine that she was Zhao Yuli.
At this time, Zhao Yuli had been awakened by the sound of my footsteps, from the beginning of yelling to moaning in a low voice, during which I was motionless, just sat on the ground, smoking the remaining half of Lao Le's cigarette. The smoke was filling, as if everything had become unreal. Once upon a time, I believed that everything would be fine. Now I still believe it, I walked over slowly, and gently stroked Zhao Yuli's side face at a place close to Zhao Yuli, and said, "Good boy, everything will be fine." Somehow, I was made to cry by my words. As soon as I forced, I broke the chain that bound her, took off my clothes and put them on her, and she didn't run at all, like a cat, and shrunk in my arms.
"I haven't killed anyone...... I haven't hurt anyone...... I didn't ......" She kept whispering this sentence from beginning to end, as if to endorse, or curse, a curse given to her by the man Ale. She was still dictating the words a moment before she died.
I pulled my hand away from her cold face and laid her body flat on the ground. Just left the place. Along the way, I passed many, many rooms like this, some of whom had been dead for a long time, piles of human bones piled up on the side of the aisle, without any disguise. It's more hell than an experimental site. I can finally understand what Lao Le is talking about killing.
And I, too, were cursed......
This basement is connected to the humble clinic, where all the grievances and grievances between Ale and her will end, and where I will start my life differently from others. The button was hanging from the doorway, and there was nothing on it, and it seemed that Ale was not going to leave a suicide note or anything like that.
I pressed the button, and with an explosion, I was blasted into the sky......
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The first time I woke up three days later, in the middle of the grass, because it was too late, I fell asleep again. As soon as the morning dawned, I immediately went down the mountain, and while the villagers were not up, I took a piece of clothing and put it on.
Back at the place of the incident, it has been surrounded by the police, and as far as the eye can see, it is in ruins. Because there are not many people living in it, even the excavator is too lazy to invite. Just by putting on a cordon, doing an on-site investigation is a hasty matter. After all, after a few days, the villagers who love to watch the excitement have long since dispersed, no longer paying attention to this place, and going to do their own work. Except for the seven aunts and eight aunts who still talked about the explosion, no one cared. No one cared that there was one less man named Ale in the village, as if he had never existed in their world. He is the same as her, he is a passerby in the ordinary world, and no one will remember the appearance of the person who walked by him when he went to the street. Even if I touched my shoulder and took the way, I only had one impression later: it seems that there is such a person.
I didn't have any money on me, so I went to the station and ran on the train when the ticket inspector wasn't looking, and even if I was discovered, I could jump out of the train and escape. I was like a monster, I couldn't feel pain, I couldn't feel hunger. Even though my hands and feet have been restored to their original form, I have not escaped the curse that Ale has given me.
A week after the explosion, I no longer felt pain, the reason is that I was almost beaten to death by the chengguan at that time, I set up a roadside stall to sell DVDs, relying on my physical strength, shouting and selling things in front of the chengguan, such a fatal behavior completely angered one of the fat chengguan, he grabbed my head and slammed it to the ground, leaving a lot of blood at that time, I was instantly stunned. He didn't give up, the whole person jumped up, and saw that the momentum was about to trample me to death, except for the gurgling sound of the bones of the body, and the cursing sound of the chengguan, my ears could no longer hear any sound. In the end, it was the other chengguan next to the fat chengguan who persuaded me to rescue me from the tiger's mouth. After one of them kicked the meaning, they hurriedly pulled away the angry fat chengguan.
A few well-meaning citizens came up to me to ask about my injuries and asked if I needed to call an ambulance, and I reluctantly replied no, so they didn't call, just stuffed a few money tickets into my shoes and left. In the evening, I picked up my shoes and went to the shop to buy oden to satisfy my hunger that I hadn't seen for a long time.