Chapter 54: Clues
Since they met, the doctor rarely mentioned his family's affairs, but privately heard some girls who admired him talk about it, saying that his family is a famous medical family in Zhejiang and Hangzhou, and it is famous.
The Taoist priest often mentions his master, the old Taoist priest has traveled all over the world, has a wide range of friends, and has a wide range of knowledge, with them to help me run and investigate, I think there should be some clues.
I myself was not idle, after the Taoist priest and the doctor left, I immediately called the third uncle, this old guy is the deputy director, and he is in charge of these inexplicable things, he has the most resources in his hands, and it is very appropriate to ask him to help.
However, to my surprise, the third uncle was not in the bureau, it was his assistant Xiaolin who answered the phone, and when I asked, I learned that the third uncle went to Qinling two days ago, and it was said that there were some tricky things over there, and the support of the bureau was needed, so the third uncle took someone there.
When talking to me about this, Xiaolin's tone was a little strange, and he stopped talking, and I was anxious at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and after hanging up the phone in a hurry, I had to figure out a way by myself.
The first thing I thought of was to search on the Internet, after typing in the keyword 'burial mountain', I got a lot of results, but most of them were related to the funeral rules.
I still didn't give up, and changed several search engines, and even downloaded several mainstream navigation map software, trying them one by one, wasting a lot of time, but I didn't find any useful clues.
I have to say that this is a helpless and desperate result, and now I can only hope for the Taoist priests and doctors.
On the second night of my return to Chengdu, my worst fears came true.
At about eleven o'clock that night, just as I was about to go to bed, a cold and icy aura suddenly enveloped me, and at the same time, there was a knocking sound outside the window.
When I cautiously leaned forward to check, I was shocked to find that it was foggy outside the window, and the sound of knocking on the window kept ringing, but I saw nothing but the fog.
When I saw this scene, the only thought in my mind was that it was over, but I didn't expect these fogs from the netherworld to chase over, this is a city, no better than my hometown Dingyan Village, I don't know how many people will be killed by me.
I had completely given up on the idea of escaping, and sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the window, waiting for the mist to pour into the room and take me away the next moment......
What I didn't expect, however, was that the knocking on the window continued, but the fog never made it into the room, much to my surprise.
I walked to the window, stared at the fog for a long time, and somehow got the courage to open the window.
Such an act is tantamount to death, but I must understand the doubts in my heart, otherwise even if I can survive, I will be tormented by these doubts to the point that life is worse than death.
As soon as the window opened, a bone-piercing wind blew in, and then the fog began to tumble, as if it wanted to pour into the room. But at this moment, the part of the fog that had just spread into the room suddenly rolled violently, and the outlines of countless faces could be seen emerging from the mist, these faces were exactly the same as the last time I saw them in the mist, only this time, the expression on these faces was no longer madness, but fear!
That's right, it's fear, just like the horror when a person first encounters a ghost, those frightened faces just roll a few times, and then immediately flee out, and finally all of them collapse and disappear halfway, along with the fog that broke into the room.
I watched in amazement, but for some reason, the misty fog outside the window began to shrink into the ground, slowly fading. It was only then that I realized that these ghostly fogs were only around my rented house, and not as large as they were in my hometown.
This discovery made me feel a little reassured, it seems that my grandmother is right, far away from Yeling, even if the ghost fog is chased, it will be weakened, especially in densely populated places, the fog is even more difficult to scale.
It's just that...... What was going on just now, why did the Nether Ghost Fog suddenly collapse and disappear after entering the room? Is there anything else special about this rental property?
I thought about it, and I didn't have a clue, so I had to give up, but this incident reminded me that the ghostly fog can appear at any time and anywhere, so I can only hide in the rented room and try not to go out, so as to minimize the danger and not affect others.
Early the next morning, I told Lin Qiao'er what happened last night, and then the two of them visited several households around the rental house one by one, trying to determine whether the ghost fog last night implicated innocent people.
After some running, our faces became ugly, we visited more than a dozen houses in a row, but without exception, all the doors and windows of these dozen families were locked, no one opened the door, and no one was at home.
You must know that today is a weekend, it is impossible to go to work, to say that it is too far-fetched to travel, it is impossible for more than a dozen families in this specific area to travel at the same time, right?
I immediately confirmed that the people of these dozen or so families must have been implicated by me and swept away by the ghostly fog of last night.
I blamed myself so much, I squatted in the alley with my head in my hands, Lin Qiaoer kept comforting me on the side, but I didn't listen to anything at this time. At this moment, a voice of surprise sounded from behind us: "Hey, isn't this a Qiao'er girl, why are you squatting here?" This is ......"
Hearing the sound, I looked up and saw that it was a slightly rich aunt in her fifties, who was carrying a vegetable basket in her hand, and it seemed that she had just come back from shopping for vegetables.
I recognized it at a glance, and the aunt in front of me was also a resident of the neighborhood, surnamed Wang, and a wife who worked in the hospital. Because the two have no children or daughters under their knees, Lin Qiaoer is well-behaved and likable, so the two often come to the door, and usually send any delicious food here, moving around a lot, and the relationship is also very good.
"Aunt Wang, it's you!" Lin Qiaoer smiled sweetly and hurriedly went to help Aunt Wang carry the vegetable basket.
I was busy and said hello, and at this time Aunt Wang also recognized me and smiled: "It turned out to be Xiaoyi!" Hehe, what's the matter, the little couple has a conflict, it's not good to put aside this quarrel! ”
Aunt Wang's words made me feel scorched, and she hurriedly explained: "Auntie, you misunderstood, we are not ......"
"I understand, I understand, you must say that you are not quarreling, Auntie just saw it, Xiaoyi! You're a boy, you have to let this kind of thing go, Qiao'er is such a good girl, you have to learn to feel sorry for people, you know? ”
"I ......"
"Alright, alright!" Aunt Wang waved her hand, smiled and pulled up Lin Qiao'er, who was snickering on the side, and said, "Let's go, go to Auntie, Auntie will make you something to eat, and bring you mediation by the way!" ”
After that, I couldn't help but pick up Lin Qiao'er and walked towards her house, I looked at the backs of the two of them blankly, sighed sadly, and said in my heart that this is completely indescribable, and this Lin Qiao'er is too, and I don't know how to help explain, etc., looking at her just now, she is clearly very happy, should she ...... Institutions
It couldn't be, she was in a complete coma when I said those words, it shouldn't have been possible to hear them, otherwise she would have reacted......
I shook my head busily, thinking to myself, and suddenly a very bad feeling welled up in my heart.
Since we still need to ask Aunt Wang something to find out about last night's events, we didn't turn down her invitation and had breakfast at her house.
During the casual conversation after dinner, I asked about the locked doors and windows of nearby residents.
When Aunt Wang heard this, she immediately sighed and said that not long ago, a group of people paid a lot of money to buy nearby properties door-to-door, and the price they gave was very attractive, and all the houses with locked doors had been sold.
Lin Qiaoer asked those people what they were doing, why did they buy so many houses? Aunt Wang shook her head, saying that she did not know the identities of the people, who claimed to be a real estate development company that had bought the property for reconstruction. But the strange thing is that they have already bought many small single-family buildings, but there has been no sign of construction, just locked the houses they bought, and then there is no follow-up.
We looked at each other and felt that this was a little strange, but at the moment these things didn't have much to do with us, so we didn't pay much attention to it.
After knowing that the vacant houses in the neighborhood had nothing to do with the ghostly fog, my mood also improved, and I didn't bother to explain what Aunt Wang said, and around noon, we went back to renting a room.
Since Lin Qiao'er woke up, I always felt that her eyes on me were different from before, and it wasn't very obvious before, but now, the tenderness in her eyes when she looked at me was too obvious, so I deliberately avoided her during this time, for fear that she would suddenly break that promise.
After the morning's events, maybe Aunt Wang's words played a catalytic role, she rarely took the initiative to speak in the past few days, she suddenly found some sensitive topics intentionally or unintentionally, and she spoke a lot bolder than before, almost saying the words like and love directly.
In this way, I was finally sure that she had heard those words, and my heart couldn't help but go up and down, as if there was a bomb tied to her side and would explode at any time, which made my heart jump all the time.
That night, the fog appeared again, this time it was not just the knocking on the window, but also the knocking on the door, Lin Qiaoer, who didn't know why, thought there was a guest, and almost opened the door, but fortunately I found it in time, which stopped her.
The fog still can't break through the rented house, but compared to last night, the fog has increased significantly tonight, and the scope is wider.
I know what that means, and even if this rental really can't be breached, there's not much time left for me. Hiding in the house and not going out can certainly save your life, but the fog is getting bigger and bigger, and it will soon affect the innocent, and after a long time, maybe the whole city will be turned into a dead city by the ghost fog.
So, I have to find the burial mountain before the fog spreads to a certain extent, and even if I can't find it, I can't stay here.
I was so impressed by this discovery that I intensified my search, enlisted many friends who work in information technology to help me find it, and also contacted the newspaper to help me publish the news of the search for the burial hill under the pretext of digging up big news.
As soon as the editor-in-chief heard about the big news, he immediately agreed, but just as I was about to hang up the phone, he told me that there was a person who had been waiting for me at the newspaper office for more than half a month, saying that he wanted to talk to me about something and asked me to take the time to meet him. I said in my heart that I can't protect myself now, how can I have the heart to care about those messy guys, so I pushed it off on the grounds that I am not in Chengdu now.
Even if I managed to do this, I still found nothing, and I even began to wonder if this so-called burial mountain really existed, and if it could be the mysterious people in the nightmare who played tricks on me.
For several days, the fog appeared every night, and continued to grow in size, and the anxiety and urgency in my heart became more and more intense, but the news of the burial was still as distant as a mirage.
On the sixth day back in Chengdu, the doctor came back, he looked tired and apologetic, needless to say, I already knew the results.
The Taoist priest still didn't hear from him, so he called him, but the phone was not in the service area, and he didn't know what this guy was doing.
Just when the search for the burial mountain was at an impasse, Lin Qiaoer suddenly surprised us to tell us that she had found news related to the burial mountain.
Finally the news again, we were very excited, busy all over, only to see that she showed me and the doctor an ancient funeral customs of the sticker, it turned out that she has been in a variety of research mysterious areas of the sticker bar during this time, everywhere to leave a post to ask about the burial mountain, not to mention, there is really someone who replied to the post that he knows some information about the burial mountain.
The ID of the person who replied to the post is very interesting, called 'digging through the earth for 200 million years', and the content of the other party's reply is also very concise, the original text is as follows:
You even know that the burial mountain must also be a fellow believer, so let's make an appointment for an interview, how about it?
The doctor and I looked at each other, and we were a little unsure of each other's intentions, in case it was a liar, it would be!
The doctor thought for a while and said to Lin Qiao'er: "In this way, you first ask him where the interview is!" ”
Lin Qiao'er nodded, and immediately replied to the other party according to the doctor's intentions, and two minutes later, the other party replied with a message. To our surprise, he asked us to set a location for the interview: I am in Chengdu recently, if it is convenient for you, you can choose the nearest location, and the details are up to you.
After reading the content of the other party's reply, the doctor's brows relaxed, "There shouldn't be a problem, so let's make an appointment tomorrow, Dongjiang Park!" ”
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At noon the next day, on the shore of Dongjiang Park, I looked around anxiously, and there were only two minutes left before the agreed time, but I still didn't see the figure who 'dug through the earth for 200 million years'.
"You can't be fooled, right?" I asked!
The doctor was quite calm, patted me, and said don't worry, isn't there still two minutes?
I rolled my eyes and said to myself, who would be there just in time? Unless the person has OCD......
Just thinking about it, an old man with gray temples, a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and retro clothes walked up, about fifty or sixty years old, but he was full of spirit and body, and his body was very tough.
When he saw me from afar, he had a very shocked expression on his face, as if he knew me.