Listening to the crisp ringing of the phone in my ears, I instantly dropped the newspaper in my hand.

This is the eighth difficult night, could it be a call from Lao Yan's daughter, or the real mastermind behind the scenes has surfaced.

He thought I was completely exhausted or in a hurry to figure it all out, so now was the perfect time to talk to me on the phone.

I didn't dare to delay and quickly picked up the phone, as if time was racing against time, but when the voice of a strange woman suddenly rang on the other end of the phone, I was stunned.

Just as I was about to hang up the phone in a hurry, a sudden sense of familiarity flashed in my heart and my hands hesitated.

"It's... How could this voice be so familiar? ”

I slammed my head on the door, wondering how I could drop the chain at the critical moment, but the familiar sound made me feel terrified.

The reason why I am afraid is because I always feel that the owner of this voice is very similar to the old man, but who is it? I couldn't answer for a while.

That night, I talked to the strange girl on the phone for a long time, and on the morning of the ninth day, when a ray of sunshine bathed my face, I was extremely comfortable.

Immediately followed by Day 10, Day 11, Day 12...

Almost every day for the rest of the day, the girl would call around twelve o'clock in the morning, and the voice was still so familiar.

I started talking to her all over the world, and even started to care a little about her past, until I knew through the exchange.

That night, she originally wanted to call the number of her deceased husband to mourn, because the number is usually empty.

But I never thought that someone would answer the phone today, and I couldn't help but be a little surprised to hear her say this.

If a number is discarded for too long, it will be reclaimed by the phone company and matched with a new subscriber, and I saw similar reports on TV many years ago, so it's not too unusual for this to happen.

It's just that every time the call is nearing the end, her tone becomes very urgent, as if she is afraid that I will find some flaws.

The burning red candle emitted a faint glow, and it was the first number of red candles that burned out, I can't remember exactly, but I found a whole box of brand new red candles under the bed.

Even according to calculations, it will be enough for me to use it for more than half a year, not to mention that I don't believe that the black hand hiding behind the scenes can really have the perseverance to imprison me for so long.

As the 17th day slowly approached, I gradually began to adjust to life without sleep, and at first I was a little worried about whether I would die suddenly.

But according to the current situation, not only will he not die suddenly, but he is likely to break the world record.

"Hey... Are you there.... ”

That night, I picked up her call as usual, and she said in a crying tone that she finally couldn't hold it anymore.

I began to ask her with concern, what was wrong? At first, she was half-secretive and refused to reveal it, and only finally confided in me.

In the city where she lives, there is a bad custom left over from the ages: if her husband dies early, she must keep filial piety for three years.

Now it's the second year, but her in-laws are becoming more and more cold to herself and even scolding, which makes her can't help but start to waver.

But she loved her husband very much, and she didn't want to be accused of being left over from bad habits.

Hearing this, I was immediately furious, thinking to myself what kind of society is now, how can there still be this old idea of feudalism.

Finally, before I hung up, I whispered a few words of comfort to her, only this time I couldn't help but ask her the most common questions.

"You... You, can you tell me... Your name, I... I think the two of us really got along. ”

I finished my heartfelt words, thinking that all I would be greeted with was a phone call that I had hung up in a hurry as usual.

But I didn't expect that this time she seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally couldn't bear my continuous soft grinding and hard bubbles in the past few days and whispered.

"I... My name is Nami, what's your name...".

Listening to her soft words, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, and at this moment I finally knew why the voice on the other end of the phone was so much like one of my old friends?

Because her voice is very similar to Xiao Nan, and I may be a little mentally deranged in the more than ten years since I lost Xiao Nan, I temporarily replaced her in the place of Xiao Nan in my heart.

"You... Is it still there, why don't you talk anymore. ”

The crisp voice on the other end of the phone like a brass bell woke up my nerves little by little.

I hurriedly said yes, but I didn't think that her next sentence would catch me off guard, and I was stunned on the spot.

"Strangers... I may be moving, and I may not be harassing you on the phone in the future, thank you for being with me in the past ten days... Thank you very much. ”

I hung up the phone in a hurry, and my heart seemed to panic all at once.

I only remember that Xiao Nan's sudden departure ten years ago made me feel like this, but I didn't expect that I would relive it today because of such a trivial matter.

Really.

Day 20... Day 21, Day 22... I didn't even wait for the almost usual ringing of the phone.

The sense of dependence and loneliness that had bred from the bottom of my heart almost occupied my entire heart, and I began to panic a little.

I kept dialing back according to the original number, but every time I got the result was an empty number.

Not only that, but I suddenly found that in fact, the landline has been disconnected for the past few days.

Since the connection is disconnected, how did you get her call before?

"Tick-tock... Tick. ”

The cold sweat condensed on the top of his head flowed down his chin and fell to the ground little by little.

At the moment, I really can't figure out the relationship and the strangeness, but my mind keeps flickering about how I should spend the long night without her company tonight.

"Nami... Nami"

I chewed on these two extremely unfamiliar words over and over again, but I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart.

She's Japanese, but... But how is this possible?

The twenty-sixth day passed in a flash, and I finally couldn't hold back the anxious wait in my heart, so I chose to call the unfamiliar phone number again.

"I'm sorry, but the number you dialed was empty....

I was overwhelmed by the familiar voice and the unique tone of the telephone company, and I couldn't help but try it a few times, even though I knew that the phone would not be connected.

It wasn't until the early morning of the 28th day that I woke up from my sleep and looked at the landline phone on the table.

When I was lying flat, I accidentally found a gray telephone line attached to the corner of the wall, and one end was plugged into the landline phone.

The other end seemed to run down the crack in the wall all the way to the bottom of the bed.

With trembling steps, I reached out little by little and pulled the phone line out until the neat line cut at the end landed in the palm of my hand.

"How is this possible..., it doesn't make sense at all."