Chapter 1143: Jumping Back?
Looking at Maeda, who wanted to speak and stopped, Liu Xing knew that there were other secrets in this factory.
However, Liu Xing did not ask directly, but handed Satoshi Hashimoto a "you know" look.
Satoshi Hashimoto immediately understood what Liu Xing meant, and hurriedly said to Maeda: "Maeda, are you hiding something from us?" Why did you suddenly stop talking? Don't you think of me as a brother anymore? ”
Maeda glanced at Satoshi Hashimoto, then sighed and said, "How do you say this, if I tell you, you will be listening to a story, because I don't know if it was me and the others who had a delusion, or if all this really happened; Before I joined this factory, the factory actually issued a travel subsidy to its employees, so many people would choose to drive to the factory by themselves, because it would be more convenient, but because the travel subsidy was issued according to the number of people, many people chose to carpool. ”
"So after I joined the company, I always took the car of a senior named Goro to and from work, and of course there were two passengers besides me, which are the two I am with now; Because the people at the distribution station would bring the empty natural gas tanks back to the factory every day, the factory would arrange several people to work overtime every day, and they would not leave work until the empty tanks sent back from the distribution station were stored in different categories, so one day it was the turn of the four of us to work overtime. ”
"I still remember that it was a summer evening, the four of us and our colleagues on night duty, and the director who lived in the factory had dinner together, and was eating watermelon in the yard to relieve the heat, this watermelon can be regarded as a benefit to us by the factory director, after all, he said that he had prepared the coffin book, and the rest of the money should be spent to enjoy life; It didn't take long for a thunderstorm to suddenly appear, and we took refuge in the nearest factory, but because of this sudden thundershower, the bus at the distribution station was delayed by almost two hours, and the main reason for the delay was a series of car accidents on the main road in Nagoya. ”
"The car accident caused a big traffic jam, and the thunderstorm did not stop, because the rain clouds stayed over Nagoya, so many people chose to go home directly, so the traffic jam became more and more serious; So, after unloading all the empty cans, the people at the delivery station said hello and left, because they were worried that it would be the next day when they got home, so we got on the bus and prepared to go back to Nagoya after packing up the empty cans. ”
"That day, Gorou's car was sent to a repair shop because it needed maintenance, so he drove another car from the family to pick us up, and it turned out that this car caused us to encounter a terrible thing - a ghost hitting the wall! It was still pouring rain and it was dark, so we had a very poor field of vision, but there was only one road from the factory to the highway, so we didn't have to worry about finding the road at the beginning, because there was only one way. ”
"As a result, we really got lost, or we were trapped in a road that could never get out, in short, we drove for half an hour without seeing the highway when we could have walked in five minutes... So we panicked and didn't know what to do, but luckily we were able to get through on our phones, so we got in touch with the factory manager, because he's been here for decades and he must know what's going on. ”
"As a result, the proposal given by the factory director was to wait, and we could leave after the rain stopped, so we could only wait patiently for more than ten minutes, and the thunderstorm finally stopped, and we finally saw the original highway; When we went to see the director the next day, he told us that this had happened many times, and that the reason was that from a scientific point of view, we were obstructed in our field of vision, and we were surrounded by a wasteland with no references, so the car drove into the wasteland, and then went around and around and came back on the road. ”
"But this scientific statement has no credibility for us at all, because Gorou is also an old driver, and his sense of space has always been quite good, so it is unlikely that he will drive the car into the wasteland while driving, not to mention that the wasteland near the factory has not been leveled, and you can definitely feel obvious bumps when you drive it, but more importantly, the factory is brightly lit every night, so it will be very conspicuous even in heavy rain, and we have not seen the factory."
So, the factory director mentioned an unscientific explanation - the patron saint; In addition to taking into account safety and cost factors, another important reason why this factory was located in this kind of place is that the original owner of the factory believed in Feng Shui theory, and after he found a famous Feng Shui master, he chose to build a factory in this place, because the Feng Shui master saw that there was a guardian spirit sitting here, which could ensure that there would be no evil people to do less. ”
"But this Patronus is a bit strange, it will only come out on rainy nights, because heavy rainy nights are the most suitable time for wicked people to make trouble, so during this time period, if you drive a car that has never appeared in the factory before, then you are likely to be pulled into a never-ending road by the Patronus, but the Patronus will not leave you here forever, as long as the rain stops, it will let you go."
"We accepted the factory manager's statement, and we got a similar statement when we asked those old employees, and some of the old employees have experienced this kind of thing firsthand, but Goro, who was in charge of driving at the time, still chose to quit because of excessive mental pressure, which led to frequent mistakes at work, and later I heard that he simply moved to a city on the island of Kyushu, and I don't know how he is doing now."
After listening to Maeda's personal experience, Liu Xing knew that it might rain later.
However, in Nagoya, which is close to the sea, it is normal for it to rain at night, because the water vapor from the ocean is so abundant that when it is cold at night, it is possible to form water droplets, and then it rains.
"Was there anything else going on that night? Like seeing that guardian spirit? Satoshi Hashimoto continued.
Maeda rolled his eyes and said a little speechlessly: "If something else happened that night, you wouldn't be able to see me now, of course, I admit that the atmosphere was still very scary, I was ready to write a suicide note, but I was relieved when I found that the phone was still able to talk normally; If it weren't for the factory director who gave a positive answer, we might have to ask for help from the field... And it was precisely because of this incident, and the next few similar incidents, that the director of the factory decided to purchase several special transport vehicles to ensure that we would not encounter similar things again, and this is exactly what happened. ”
As soon as Maeda's voice fell, Liu Xing and the others came to the place where the air tank was filled with natural gas.
As a representative of Party B who came here to visit, Satoshi Hashimoto took Liu Xing to sit on the chair on the side, "Although these devices are already very safe, we laymen will cause trouble to Maeda and them in the past, so it's better for us to sit here and chat." ”
Then, Satoshi Hashimoto said to Maeda: "Maeda, you have to work a little more quickly today, my brothers are still waiting for this gas to eat on the construction site." ”
Maeda looked at his watch and said with a smile: "Boss, don't worry, I'll do the work for you, and promise to fill these empty cans with natural gas before half past four, and you will definitely be able to catch up with the meal by then, so the two bosses will play with their mobile phones for a while." ”
After speaking, Maeda commanded his two younger brothers to start working, while Liu Xing and Satoshi Hashimoto chatted on the side.
"I've heard about this patronus several times, and the content is basically similar to what Maeda and them experienced, and there were no casualties, but there are still several people like Goro who chose to leave because of psychological pressure, but they are doing well after leaving this sad place, and all of them have returned to normal."
Satoshi Hashimoto looked at Liu Xing and couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Meteor, do you like to listen to stories about this?" I think you're pretty interested. ”
Liu Xing thought about it and felt that there was no need to hide this matter, so he generously admitted, "That's right, I have liked this kind of story very much since I was a child, of course, I don't like the kind of story that is only published in magazines, because it is too fake and boring, so I still prefer this kind of real thing, even if it just sounds more real." ”
Satoshi Hashimoto nodded, and suddenly whispered, "Actually, I also know that mythical creatures are real. ”
Hearing Satoshi Hashimoto say this, Liu Xing's eyes suddenly became a little wrong, and his hand unconsciously touched the pistol on his waist.
Liu Xing didn't think that Satoshi Hashimoto should know about the existence of mythical creatures.
Satoshi Hashimoto saw that Liu Xing had such a big reaction, so he hurriedly explained: "Mr. Meteor, don't be excited, in fact, I also heard about the existence of mythical creatures by chance, and when there was a power outage that day, I also happened to see a ghoul-like creature shuttling in the alley downstairs of my house. ”
Satoshi Hashimoto saw that Liu Xing still did not let his guard down, so he continued: "Here's the thing, once I invited Jeddah to an izakaya for a drink, but we only wanted to have a drink or two drinks, and we met colleagues on a nearby construction site, so we were drunk, so we were sent to the company's break room by those colleagues; As a result, the two of us probably had the same amount of alcohol and drank about the same amount of alcohol, so we woke up and went to the toilet one after another, but we were both dizzy at that time. ”
"Maybe it's because no one has ever asked Jeddah for a drink in all these years, so Gilda, who was happy, pulled me to chat, and the content of the chat was about what happened when he was in the Sawada family, and he suddenly mentioned mythical creatures; At that time, when Gilda came home from school one day, he saw the eldest lady secretly watching a video in the garden, and the content of the video was a ghoul and a deep diver fighting. ”
As a result, it didn't take long for Gilda to find out that the eldest lady had borrowed the fighting styles and small routines of ghouls and deep divers when participating in an irregular fighting match, so Gilda realized that something seemed to be wrong with the situation, so he went to his stepfather to ask about it, and his stepfather still told the truth after thinking about it for a long time, because his stepfather wanted Jeddah to better serve the Sawada family... It's a pity that although Jeddah is a genius in learning, his performance in various sports can be described as unremarkable. ”
Therefore, although Gilda participated in the Sawada family's internal guard screening with the help of his stepfather, and was directly eliminated in the first round, in the end, Gilda's brain was good enough, so Gilda was assigned to study the body structure of certain mythical creatures, in order to find out the reason why these mythical creatures have powerful abilities and their possible weaknesses; When I heard all these things, I immediately thought of this factory, because I once saw a mythical creature in this factory! ”
As soon as Satoshi Hashimoto's words fell, KP Broken Bridge stood up again and said: "Old rules, now please Liu Xing to decide whether you want to believe what Satoshi Hashimoto said." ”
Liu Xing looked at Satoshi Hashimoto with a sincere face, and he didn't know for a while whether he should believe him or not.
After thinking for a while, Liu Xing still chose to believe in Satoshi Hashimoto for the time being.
Because judging from the current situation, Satoshi Hashimoto is either a smart speculator or an undercover agent of the public faction, and the former is more likely, because Satoshi Hashimoto has been joining Sawada Construction for several years, and before the battle of Gongwu, the Sawada family was simply a small transparent, so it is unlikely that other families will send undercover agents to deal with the Sawada family.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that after the start of the Gongmu War, Satoshi Hashimoto will be "persuaded" or "controlled" by the forces of some public factions.
As for the reason given by Satoshi Hashimoto, in Liu Xing's opinion, there is still a certain degree of credibility, because after the contact just now, Liu Xing feels that Sawada Yoshida is really likely to spit out the truth after drinking and tell his only friend the secret in his heart.
What's more, if Satoshi Hashimoto is really an undercover agent of the public faction, then he should not stand up and jump back at this time, because it is difficult not to make people suspicious.