Chapter 7: The People Who Disappeared Overnight
When Chen Zhi saw Mr. Guo's photo, he was very surprised and immediately asked, "Do you know him?" ”
"Hmm" Master Leopard nodded, and actually smiled at Chen Zhi. Turning around and leaving the hall, the man in black behind him followed. Only the old man and Chen Zhi stared at each other, and the old man said, "Little brother, come with me, I'll show you something." ”
The old man led Chen Zhi into an equally well-decorated study, where there was a solid wood workbench with a magnifying glass on it; Microscopes and other tools, and Mr. Guo's Omega watch is placed on the table.
The old man sat on a chair, put on reading glasses, unscrewed the back cover of the watch with a very delicate screwdriver, raised his head and asked Chen Zhi: "Look, do you know the words here?" ”
Chen Zhi looked down, and after the back cover of the watch was opened, a delicate gear was revealed inside, and some small dots were densely engraved on the gear. The old man handed the magnifying glass to Chen Zhi, and Chen Zhi used the magnifying glass to see that those small dots were actually dense words.
"I don't know," Chen Zhi said coldly. "I'm just an ordinary person, if it's yours, I don't want it, I can't care about any secrets you have, I have old people at home, I can't mix these things, I'll go back." Chen Zhi turned around and was about to leave.
"Don't be in a hurry to leave," the old man stopped him with a smile on his face, "this watch is yours, you can take it back, it's useless for us to keep it." My surname is Kim, they all call me Old Somersault, I will contact you in a few days. The old man handed the watch to Chen Zhi and shouted outside: "Third son, send him back"
Chen Zhi left the villa in a car, and what gave him off was the young man named Sanzi, wearing a black coat, who was very serious and didn't say a word along the way. When the car stopped downstairs, the neighbors looked at Chen Zhi who was sent back by the Land Rover in surprise, and discussed that Chen Zhi might have developed, and the dog hid in the crowd and stared at it with small eyes, but did not dare to step forward.
In the next few days, Chen Zhi called to look for a job as usual, but he was absent-minded, and he had an intuition that told him that this matter was not over.
Sure enough, within a few days, Old somersault called Chen Zhi and asked him to meet at the Escape Pavilion, saying that he had something important to discuss. The black Land Rover was parked downstairs again, and the third son in the black coat was smoking outside.
The difference this time is that the third son has a very good attitude towards Chen Zhi, and even took the initiative to hand him cigarettes.
When Chen Zhi entered the hall of the Escape Pavilion again, he found that the leopard master and his fierce subordinates were gone, and only the old somersault was left sitting there alone.
"My boss has gone to the field, he is very busy, and he will come to me if he has something to do in the future" Old somersault always had kindness on his face when he spoke.
"What does your boss do?" Chen Zhi asked.
Old somersault handed Chen Zhi a cigarette and said, "You don't need to know this, but if you need any help in the Northeast region, the boss can provide it to you." I heard you're looking for a job, right? Old somersault asked, lighting a cigarette.
"How do you know? By the way, you're agents. Chen Zhi thought to himself and nodded.
The old somersault continued: "I will give you a job, not cheap, some dangers, but we will ensure that your family will have no worries about food and clothing from now on, are you willing?" ”
"Can I say no?" Chen Zhi asked rhetorically, and as soon as the words came out, he saw the third son of the driver coming over, reaching out and pulling out a gun again.
"Don't, don't, don't" Chen Zhi was fed up, he was scared to death every day.
"Go pour the tea," the old somersault said to the third son. The third son turned and left.
"At least I want to know what you're asking me to do? I don't do anything to kill people," Chen Zhi said in shock.
"Don't worry, I don't need you to kill people" Old somersault seemed to think it was funny, "In the past few days, I have investigated the youth forge factory, and there is a problem with that factory. There is one thing that is very similar to yours. The old somersault extinguished the cigarette and began to tell Chen Zhi what he had investigated in the past two days.
The old somersault they found out that the young forging factory was very old, and it was established in this city together with A Steel when the founding of the People's Republic of China, mainly responsible for the forging and processing of precision metals, but it is not clear what it does. The staff inside is very mysterious, and they are all directly transferred in from the state. Later, for unknown reasons, it went out of business in 99. The workers inside have long since left the local area for various reasons and are now unreachable. But I contacted an old man named Xu Zhigang, who used to work as a waiter there.
This Xu Zhigang is now over 70 years old, he drinks dizzily every day, sees people scolding people, sees dogs beating dogs, talks nonsense all day long, and no one believes what he says. When the old somersault found him, he didn't say anything at first, stared at the crazy and cursed, and then estimated what the old somersault used, this Xu Zhigang suddenly cried, and then told him an unbelievable thing.
At that time, Xu Zhigang was a temporary worker in the Youth Forge Factory, and his main job was to record the daily situation in the duty room and take care of the factory door at night. Xu Zhigang likes this job very much, and the factory director is very kind to him. He gradually discovered that the workers in the factory were all high-quality intellectuals, and they worked in a closed manner, eating and living in the factory, producing day and night, and they didn't know what they were forging.
Xu Zhigang has a bad habit and is willing to gamble twice. On that day, a batch of important parts were to be imported into the factory, and the whole factory staff had to work overtime at night. Just in time, there was a mahjong game called him, three missing one, Xu Zhigang was itching. In fact, Xu Zhigang basically had nothing to do when he was on the night shift, and he was responsible for sitting stupidly in the duty room. The workers were so busy that no one paid any attention to him.
Xu Zhigang went to ask for the best buddy Lao Wang, repeatedly asked him to be on duty for a night shift, and bought a bottle of Lao Baigan for him. Before leaving, he saw Lao Wang pour Lao Baigan into the usual military kettle, and told him to come back early when he was finished, so that he could go home and sleep. Xu Zhigang thought, even if others saw Lao Wang taking over, they wouldn't say anything, first, there was really no work in the duty room at night, and second, these workers were usually very friendly to him.
Xu Zhigang's gamble did not go well, and after losing two laps in a row, Xu Zhigang was very disappointed, and went back drunk in a tavern. As soon as I entered the gate of the factory, I felt that the whole factory was unusually quiet, not to mention that the voice of people could not be heard, not even the sound of a dog barking.
Xu Zhigang walked into the factory and saw that there was no one, all of them were gone, even Lao Wang was gone, and the entire factory was empty, inexplicably terrifying. The military kettle with the wine was on the table, and he walked over and picked it up and shook it, but found that he had barely drunk it. Xu Zhigang was very puzzled in his heart, because he knew that the workers in this factory would not leave easily, and where did Lao Wang go? It was as if all of them disappeared overnight.
Xu Zhigang was very drunk, and he went home to sleep without thinking too much. In the middle of the night, when he was sleeping soundly on the bed, he felt that the quilt was always falling under his feet, as if someone was pulling down his quilt, Xu Zhigang rubbed his eyes quite angrily and sat up and looked at his feet. At that moment, he was terrified.
He saw that Lao Wang was crawling at the end of the bed and pulling his quilt hard, Lao Wang was covered in blood, the white bones on his hands were exposed, his head was deformed as if he had been bitten by a big animal, his chin was gone, and his gloomy teeth were exposed. Lao Wang cried in a strange voice: "I died for you!" ”
Xu Zhigang was suddenly frightened awake, it turned out to be a dream, and the sky was already bright.
At breakfast, Xu Zhigang told his wife about it with palpitations, and his wife laughed at him for drinking stupidly and asked her to go back to work quickly.
Xu Zhigang returned to the Youth Forge in a daze, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw that all the workers were working normally inside, and there were many of them. Xu Zhigang felt that he might have thought too much and wanted to ask where they had been last night, but found that no one greeted him, and even Xiao Wang, who usually laughed, ignored him. Xu Zhigang was very puzzled, thinking, could it be that Lao Wang's substitute was discovered last night?
He walked to his duty room and found that Lao Wang's wine jug had not been taken. Alcohol was not allowed in the factory, so he quickly put the flask in the drawer, and at that moment, he noticed something, there was blood in a corner under the table.
Xu Zhigang touched the bloodstains, but they were still sticky and not dry. His head shook violently, he felt that something was wrong, something might have happened last night. He pretended to wander around the factory and found a lot of strange things.
The position in which the workers are standing is different, Xu Zhigang has been working here for so long, he knows where the workers are standing with his eyes closed, and now most of the positions the workers are standing in the wrong position, and the methods of the workers are also different. Although Xu Zhigang is uneducated, he also knows what the original workers are developing, and the current workers seem to be doing a few actions repeatedly with expressionless faces, as if they are imitating the original work scene together.
Xu Zhigang returned to the duty room in a daze, and when it was time to eat at noon, he found that no one went to the canteen to eat. He didn't dare to make a sound, the factory was scary, only the sound of the machine turning. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon, when the workers suddenly stood up collectively and walked in a row to the back canteen.
When I arrived at the canteen, the workers sat neatly, and there were many large plastic basins on the table, Xu Zhigang looked into the basin and was immediately frightened crazy, the basin was actually full of bloody raw pork, with large pieces of bones in the basin. At this time, all the workers rushed to the basin and grabbed a piece of raw meat, put it in their mouths and bit it, and the bones in the meat creaked and crunched, and the workers devoured it like animals.
Xu Zhigang's frightened three souls and seven spirits were gone, and he almost shouted, but he was a field soldier when he was young, and he had some courage in his body, so he gritted his teeth and held on. Xu Zhigang stiffened for a long time and didn't dare to move, at this time he found that all the workers' heads were turned to him, their eyes flashed with doubt and weirdness, and what made his hair stand on end the most was that in the far corner, Lao Wang was sitting there, looking at him with the same eyes.
Xu Zhigang is a very clear person, he immediately understood, all the workers are dead, and now I don't know what kind of monster it is, if he behaves differently from these monsters now, then he will immediately become the meat in that pot, and there is not even scum left after being gnawed by these monsters.
Xu Zhigang picked up a piece of raw pork, the flesh was bloody, and there was bone marrow in the bones, and his stomach suddenly churned. With a heartbeat, he bit the meat into his mouth, chewed it loudly, and suddenly his mouth was full of blood, and the acid water in his stomach had reached his throat. The monsters didn't seem to suspect it, and turned their heads away. After eating the raw meat, Xu Zhigang saw some of them, took off their hair, and applied something like glue on it. He saw that the top of their exposed heads was blood-red, as if they had been skinned.