Chapter 2 A Man Without a Shadow
"Hello! Welcome! The sensor at the door of the store suddenly sounded, and then a man's voice appeared, "Yo, you are a little cannon in this area today?" ”
I looked up and saw a man in his fifties, with a shiny face and a long scar on the left side of his face, standing in front of the bar, looking around for a moment, and then grabbing a pack of cigarettes.
"Twenty!" I glanced at him with a frown, too lazy to say a word to him, and continued to flip through the book in my hand.
This person's name is Lao Scar, and everyone on the road calls him Scar Master, who is said to be a lender, but I heard Bai Ye say that this person does everything that lacks virtue, and he also carries several lives on his body.
For as long as I can remember, Lao Scar has come to our store to take things from the east and west, Bai Ye smiled every time, and turned around and chattered to me, saying something bad and offending me and letting me hide and so on.
I can't look down on Bai Ye's unproductive pug, and once I really couldn't look at the old scar, he directly smashed our store. Bai Ye was hospitalized for a week because of this, saying what kind of atrial fibrillation is, in my opinion, it is scary.
"What the is two, isn't that old thing there?" Scar grabbed a lighter from the bar again. He exhaled a puff of smoke and looked out of the store from time to time.
"Two pieces!" I said.
"Fuck off! Fucking your face? Old Scar raised his throat and said.
I put the book on my chest, closed my eyes and said, "Scar, you have enough credit in our small shop to open another store." See when you're empty, clear your bills! You are also a figure with a head and a face, spread it out, let the brothers on the road know, Hanqi! In my opinion, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, just today, what do you think? ”
After saying that, he slapped the table and scolded my mother, and then picked me up from the rattan chair, and I went to the hospital to lie down for a week. I've put up with this ruffian for a long time, and it just so happens that Bai Ye is not here today, and no one is stopping me, although I can't beat him, but it's also a pleasure to get over it.
After a long pause, I opened one eye hesitantly, peeked at it, and found that Old Scar was no longer in the store.
I said to myself, "Gone? No way? ”
This old scar has never suffered a loss, when did he learn to communicate and make a silent resistance?
I leaned over and looked through the glass case next to me, and saw Scar squatting under the street lamp in a strange position, not knowing what he was doing.
Damn, this idiot isn't trying to poop and disgust me in front of my store!
On closer inspection, it was a very unnatural posture, he held one hand in the air, the other hand touched the back of the waist, his back was straight, motionless under the street lamp, the more he looked at it, the more strange it became.
I closed the book and sat up slowly, stretched my neck, and shouted at him twice, "Scar? Old scars? ”
Old Scar still didn't react.
I couldn't help but wonder what the hell he was up to, could it be that my little shop was too small for him to stretch his fists and feet, and wanted to lure me out, beat me up and throw me down the road?
The heart said, I can't afford to hide, so I'd better close the door and hide upstairs immediately.
I looked at the old scar as I got up and tried to walk out of the bar. At this time, my eyes inadvertently fell on the feet of the old scar, and I was feeling that something was wrong, and my heart suddenly "clicked".
There is no shadow of the old scar......
My heart lifted suddenly, layers of white sweat continued to emerge on my back, I subconsciously stepped back, and sat down with my lower leg hitting the rattan chair.
Is it the angle of the streetlights, or is it too dark to see clearly...... I blame myself for always watching ghost novels and thriller movies, and the images I have seen before are now like changing movies, and I go over and over again in my head.
I swallowed and stood up to make sure......
"Ahh Dead! Someone is dead here! ”
"Wouldn't it? Dead? ”
"In which piece? Groove ...... It's true! ”
"Someone is dead, call the police!"
A few sudden screams scared me again.
Several men and women in their twenties were talking on the phone in a panic two meters away from the old scar.
A few minutes later, the police car came, and three policemen came down.
They circled around the old scar a few times, then used the walkie-talkie and didn't know what to say, and a policeman was on the phone. They all turned their heads to look at me.
"Did you see anything? Is there any surveillance in the store? "The first policeman walked in, showed his ID, and the other policeman looked around at my shop.
I shook my head, "No, no, I didn't see anything, I didn't have any surveillance, there was nothing valuable in the store, so I haven't installed surveillance...... That, Uncle Policeman, is that guy really dead? I asked, my eyes still involuntarily resting at the feet of the old scar.
"There's a dead person in front of your store, and you don't see anything?" The policeman looked at the time and asked, "At this time, only one of your shops is still open, are you the boss?" What time do you usually open? ”
Damn, are you doubting me!
I immediately replied, "I'm the boss, but I really didn't see anything, really!" I just lay on this chair and squinted, I, I have nothing to do when my store closes early, I live on the second floor of this store, it doesn't matter if it closes late, my business hours are also very flexible...... "I suddenly stammered nervously, thinking that I was done, usually when I raised the bar with Bai Ye, my mouth was so neat as if it was clockwork, and now I stuttered at this juncture......
"Do you know the deceased?" Apparently, the policeman was concerned about my sudden nervousness and uneasiness.
"I know, his name is Lao Scar, and he just took a pack of cigarettes in my store and didn't give money, he is often like this, and everyone around him knows his virtue."
"And then?" The police asked.
I was stunned, "And then what?" ”
"What about after the cigarette?"
"Then he got another lighter......
"And then?"
"Then he suddenly disappeared, and then suddenly appeared there, and then he kept pouting as he is now, and then he heard someone shouting for the dead, and then you guys came......" I looked at the old scar, and then there were several people like forensic doctors, some taking pictures, some extracting traces from the scene...... I looked at it curiously.
The policeman knocked on the bar, frowned, and looked at me puzzled, "What do you mean to suddenly disappear and suddenly appear?" Can you elaborate on what happened? ”
Then I was like a good student doing a semester summary, trying not to miss any details of the story, and trying to show my sincere and well-behaved side......
"Do you know who the deceased associated with during their lifetime?"
I replied, "I don't know, but a live haunter like him, there must be some little devils around him, don't you say?" I only know that the younger brother around him changes frequently, and I can always hear those people call him 'Scar' anyway...... Uncle policeman, ah, it's a vendetta? ”
The policeman didn't reply to me, glanced at the animal encyclopedia I had placed on the counter, and looked at me strangely.
I hurriedly explained, "I have loved small animals since I was a child, and I often feed stray cats and dogs. My small volunteer is to be a veterinarian, but my family disagrees, but I have a gentle and kind personality, harmless to humans and animals, this neighborhood and neighbors know, and the police uncle, you see that I look good-looking, right? ”
I try my best to set up a good character for myself, in fact, this book is often read by Bai Ye, I just use it when I'm bored, I will flip through it casually to pass the time.
"If there is a need in the future, we may ask you about some information, and we hope that you will cooperate at that time." The policeman said before leaving.
I promised, "Okay, no problem, I will actively cooperate!" It is the duty of every citizen to assist the police comrades in handling cases! ”
At this time, the men outside were about to lift the body up, and one of the policemen found a very long knife out of nowhere, which was being put into a transparent bag.
The moment Scar was lifted, his head suddenly turned to me, and when I saw his face, my blood coagulated all over my body.
I froze in place, my legs trembling, I tried to control my disobedient body, I didn't want to look at him for a second longer, but I couldn't take my eyes off the old scar's face no matter what.
It was a miserable white and shriveled face, and a mouth that looked big, as if it had seen something unbelievably terrifying before it died. His eyelids were deeply sunken, and according to the degree of sunkenness, the eyeballs should be gone, and two lines of blood and tears that had not dried hung on his face, very cautious......
Even so, I can still feel that the old scar is staring at me at the moment, unwillingly, angrily staring at me......