Chapter 3: Secrets in the Warehouse
As a modern person, Chen Zhi is an absolute materialist, he does not believe in ghosts and gods, but this time his intuition tells him that this matter is not so simple. He always felt that he should go to the youth forge again, and there was the answer he wanted.
He had already smoked most of the box of cigarettes, and the time on his mobile phone showed that it was only ten minutes before twelve o'clock, and it was dark outside the window.
What the hell is that Teacher Guo looking for me to do? Why didn't anyone remember him, Chen Zhi was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and his persistent curiosity had been tormenting him. Suddenly, a terrifying thought rushed into Chen Zhi's mind, "What if he is already dead?" Was he killed in front of that warehouse fifteen years ago? Then what did I see? Ghost? ”
After extinguishing the last cigarette butt, Chen Zhi made a decision, tonight, go to the warehouse to see what happened, and no longer suffer from this curiosity. Even if the factory hadn't been abandoned, no one would have paid attention to him at night.
Chen Zhi redrew the map on the slip of paper onto a blank piece of paper, the location of the Youth Forge was very remote, but the taxi driver outside should be able to find it. Chen Zhi took his mobile phone and map, packed a portable tool bag with some simple tools in it, changed into a work uniform, pressed the brim of his hat very low and walked out of the house.
It is impossible to go there to take the bus, Chen Zhi stopped a taxi, the driver glanced at Chen Zhi, although he didn't say anything, but his eyes were very vigilant, robbing the taxi driver occasionally happened in this city, and Chen Zhi gave him a very suspicious feeling.
Chen Zhi got in the car and told the driver about the destination, and the driver said that he knew that the factory had been abandoned a long time ago. He could take Chen Zhi there, but he had to pay an extra twenty yuan, and Chen Zhi agreed.
"Little brother, what are you doing running there in the middle of the night? That factory seems to have been abandoned for a long time, that is, me, and others may not dare to take you there. The driver asked tentatively.
"Go get something, I'll come out right away when it's ready, you wait for me a while." Chen Zhi said in a low voice.
"Take something? The factory has been abandoned for a long time, and it is said that it has been haunted inside, what can it be? The driver continued to ask, and Chen Zhi seemed to him to be getting weirder and weirder.
Chen Zhi didn't speak again, looked down at the map in his hand, the taxi driver thought about the extra twenty yuan, gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator and left.
As time passed, the buildings on both sides of the taxi became more and more scarce, and some were mostly abandoned buildings, and for about forty minutes, the taxi stopped at the door of the Youth Forge Factory.
After getting out of the car, Chen Zhi felt that this place was exactly the same as he remembered, but after so long, it was a little more dilapidated, and the words "Youth Forge Factory" at the gate of the factory still existed.
"Little brother, I'll give you twenty minutes, if you don't come out, I'll leave, and besides, you have to give me the money first, you're not afraid of this ghost place, I'm afraid." The driver's voice sounded behind him.
Chen Zhi gave him the fare and mobile phone number when he came, and told him to give him the rest of the money when he came out.
The taxi driver just wanted to say nothing, but found that Chen Zhi had already walked quickly towards the factory, and he didn't dare to say anything more, so he shrunk his neck and stayed in the car.
The gate of the factory was enclosed by an iron railing, which was a typical factory gate in the 60s, but after more than ten years of wind and rain erosion, there was already a gap in the railing, and he was just able to get in.
Inside is a straight cement road, on both sides of the road are a person high weeds, many iron parts are scattered in the weeds, on which has been rusted, in the dark night, they look like a beast with teeth and claws, it looks particularly hideous, from time to time there is a cool breeze blowing, Chen Zhi suddenly felt a tight neck.
According to the map, Chen Zhi quickly determined the direction, there were cement roads all the way, and after a while, he was already standing at the door of the factory in his memory.
The inside of the factory building was terrifyingly dark, the faint moonlight couldn't shine in at all, and there seemed to be a terrifying aura inside, like a smiling ghost waiting for Chen Zhi to throw himself into the net, even Chen Zhi, who didn't believe in ghosts and gods, felt that his legs were weak.
He took out the flashlight from the toolkit, this is a wolf-eye flashlight, it cost him a lot of silver when he bought it, the light of the flashlight is very strong, it can shine dozens of meters away, Chen Zhi strengthened his courage, tightened the toolkit on his back, held a crowbar in his hand, and walked towards the factory.
When I entered the factory, it was dark all of a sudden, as if I had entered another world. Chen Zhi passed by some instrument operating tables, there was a thick layer of ash on them, and there were some miscellaneous tools on them, the inside of the factory was very deep, and he walked more than 200 meters, as if he had walked into the underworld. At this time, he came across a duty room, and his memory of this duty room was very vague.
The door of the duty room was an aging wooden door, covered with dust, Chen Zhi stepped forward and pushed the wooden door with a crowbar, the wooden door was very old and fell down directly, making a loud noise, echoing in the empty warehouse.
Chen Zhi took a flashlight and took a photo, but found nothing abnormal, and the person also walked in, an old-fashioned wooden table, a simple single bed, and a folding stool, and a red notebook on the table.
This is a work diary, he turned the middle page, it read: "Everything is normal in the factory, important parts will be delivered tomorrow, pay attention to receiving." The following date is July 4, 1992. Chen Zhi turned the next page and there were no words.
There is a drawer under the wooden table, and when the drawer is opened, there is a marching kettle, Chen Zhi picked it up and shook it, feeling the sound of water inside, and when he opened the lid, a rich aroma of wine wafted out, probably because of time, the fragrance of this wine is much richer than ordinary wine.
At that time, people were relatively poor, so everyone was more economical, and it was unlikely that this small half pot of liquor would be thrown away casually, but his master did not take it away, Chen Zhi had a question in his heart, did he forget? Still too late to take it?
At the moment, Chen Zhi didn't have time to think about it so much, what he had to do was to find the warehouse as soon as possible, he put the kettle back in its place, walked out of the duty room, and continued to walk towards the depths of the pitch black.
Along the way, he always felt that something was wrong in his heart, as if someone was staring at him in the dark, and he seemed to be walking not the road of the yang world, but the ghost road of the underworld.
He didn't know that he had walked for too long, as if he had forgotten the existence of time, the back door of the factory appeared under his flashlight, this place he had a familiar feeling, walking through this door was the warehouse in his memory.
After Chen Zhi pushed open the back door and went out, the sight he saw made his heart sink, and he saw from a distance that there was a big depression in the warehouse door, and the traces of the impact were still there, so everything he saw at the beginning was true. He felt some sweat in his palms and hurriedly wiped it on his clothes.
The door of the warehouse was a large iron gate that was very common back then, at this time it was already covered with rust, the middle of the gate was recessed, this door had not been repaired, Chen Zhi touched the depression on it, and thought to himself: "With such a degree of impact, how can a person stand in front of him alive the next day?" ”
At this moment, Chen Zhi's brain began to fear and fantasize uncontrollably, there was a gust of wind blowing around, and he felt that there seemed to be a person standing in the weeds in the distance, looking at him, smiling strangely at him, and Mr. Guo seemed to be standing behind the door of this warehouse, covered in blood, staring at him with a hideous face.
The terrifying aura made him drenched in cold sweat, but it was absolutely impossible to retreat at this moment, not to mention that if he left now, he would be tormented by this matter forever in the future.
"Be sure to go in and check it out!" Chen Zhi calmed down in his heart, put the flashlight in his mouth, held the crowbar tightly with both hands, and directly pried the lock on the iron door, the door opened, making a creaking sound, and a gust of wind blew out from inside, making Chen Zhi feel as if he was opening the door to hell.
A strong strange smell mixed with metal came to my face. Chen Zhi turned on the flashlight and scanned it, the warehouse was not big, full of messy iron parts and broken boxes that I don't know how many years old. Chen Zhi stepped on these things and walked inside cautiously, flipped through them, and didn't see anything strange. But he noticed that there was a very awkward place in the room, a large wooden box was placed on the ground in the middle of the warehouse, very isolated, as if it had been placed here on purpose.
The wooden box was full of moldy green hairs, Chen Zhi tried to push it, the box was very heavy, he used all his strength, both hands pressed the front end of the wooden box, and his legs were forced, accompanied by a dull friction sound, the wooden box was slowly pushed away, and the ground below was exposed. He saw that underneath the wooden box was a tin cellar sliding door, with heavy chains and a delicate little lock.
Is there something hidden in this? Chen Zhi's heart began to beat violently, and he kept swallowing saliva, he was very nervous at the moment, he had never been nervous.
This lock is very delicate, after so many years, there is no rust, Chen Zhi spent a lot of effort to smash it open.
He stretched out his hand and pulled open the heavy iron door of the cellar, and a long iron ladder was exposed under the cellar, and it was pitch black under the passage, I don't know how deep, and it looked particularly eerie and terrifying.
Chen Zhi patted his face and calmed down, biting the flashlight on his mouth. Climbed down the iron long ladder, this long ladder is not too long, only ten meters, Chen Zhi took less than five minutes, and it was to the end. When Chen Zhi's feet hit the ground, a huge musty smell came to his face, and he swept it in front with a flashlight, and many of the moldy wall skin peeled off. When he shined his flashlight on the ground, what he saw made every capillary explode in his veins.
There lay a completely dried, hideously twisted corpse with the Omega men's watch on its wrist, the edge of the dial was very conspicuously gold.