Volume 4 Ghost Street Chapter 2, The Strange Story of the Alley of Candle Night Talk - Phantom Bell
Accidents happen suddenly.
The sandstorm struck the city south of the Yangtze River at noon, leaving people unprepared.
Stone Spring hurried through a sandstorm to make his way through a small alley in the city to his original destination for the day.
The arrival of the sandstorm made him think about canceling the date, but in the end, he decided to go.
This time the agreement is his half-year effort, if this agreement goes well, his half-year effort will bear fruit, which will bring him a considerable amount of income.
Now, as long as you cross this alley to the agreed place, you don't know if the other party will come or not.
On both sides of the alley were buildings, blocking some of the dust, but the wind was stronger through the hall, whistling through the alley.
Shi Quan was walking against the wind, and at this moment, an old newspaper was blown by the wind and hit him in the face.
Shi Quan paused for a moment, he reached out and tore off the newspaper that had fallen on his face, clenched it into a ball fiercely, and threw it behind him, spitting out a mouthful of yellow sand.
Then, as he was about to step forward, a sharp pain struck him, from his head to every part of his body.
His last memory was of hearing the sound of glass shattering.
Shi Quan felt as if he was walking in a long, dark corridor, and it was so dark that he seemed to be able to hear some sounds, but not really.
How long have you been walking in this walkway?
He didn't know, and he didn't want to know. He's not in a hurry, even if it's going on like this.
As he was walking, he suddenly saw a man walking across from him. He couldn't help but wonder that in such a dark corridor, he could actually see someone walking on the other side.
When the man came close to him, he stopped.
So Shi Quan also stopped, and he and the man stood opposite each other.
"Who are you? How did you end up here? The man asked him, "I've been here for a long time, and I've never seen a single person, and you're the first person I've ever met." β
At this moment, a fear suddenly appeared in Shi Quan's heart, "What kind of place is this?" β
"I don't know, a quiet place, a place that can never be walked out!" The man laughed.
Shi Quan listened to the words and watched the man's smile, as if a thin skeleton was cracking its mouth, revealing an empty hole.
Shi Quan shuddered as he heard the man say again, "All right, now I have you as my companion!" β
Shi Quan couldn't take it anymore, he couldn't help but turn around, and ran out with no life, and he heard the man call him from behind, chase him, and ask him to be the man's company.
Finally the man's voice calling out to him faded away.
Shiquan kept running, but the dark aisle seemed to have no end.
Where is the exit?
Shi Quan began to scream.
Then he heard some clear voices, as if to say, "He seems to have moved, really!" I saw his feet move. β
Shi Quan carefully recognized that it seemed to be his father's voice.
"Dad!" Shi Quan shouted.
"Huh? It's true. His mouth was moving just now! An unfamiliar female voice, "Wait, I'll call the doctor." β
Shi Quan's head is a little confused, call a doctor? What do you call a doctor? He should call the fire department so that he can open the damn walkway and let him out. As he thought so, he suddenly noticed a bright light at the end of the aisle, a faint white light.
Without hesitation, Shi Quan walked towards the light.
Soon, he walked to the bright light, and there was a hazy and vague feeling in the bright light, what he couldn't see clearly, no matter what, it was better to go out than to be bored here.
As soon as Shi Quan stepped into the light, he lost consciousness.
It was an unknown amount of time before he heard the voice again.
He tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyelids were heavy, and he felt as if he hadn't woken up.
"His eyes moved!"
Then a hand lifted his left eyelid and shone a flashlight into his eyes. The light made him uncomfortable, and he shook his eyelids with all his might.
The hand retracted.
Shi Quan opened his eyes at this time.
It was snow-white all around, and in front of him stood a medical staff in a white lab coat.
"What's wrong with me?" Ishizumi struggled to figure out what had happened, and finally his memory went back to the noon of the sandstorm.
Later, Shi Quan's father told him that he had been hit in the head by a piece of glass that had fallen from the upper floor, and that he was found in a deep coma when he was taken to the hospital.
He was in a coma in the hospital for eight days.
Eight days later he woke up with no sequelae, and the doctors said it was a miracle, no, or a miracle.
The first thing Shi Quan did after he fully recovered was to go to the company to find his boss, he had an accident at work, and the company should have an explanation for this, but I heard from my father that no one from the company visited him during his hospitalization.
I sat and waited in the company for an afternoon, but I didn't even see the ghost of my boss.
The secretary, Miss Zhang, said: "Don't wait, no one knows when he will come back, it's better to wait for him to come back and I'll tell him that you have been here, and let him call you back." β
Shi Quan understood that this was just a clichΓ©, and his boss didn't have the time to call him back!
So Shi Quan picked up the company's phone and dialed his boss's mobile phone.
After the boss's mobile phone was dialed, it rang five times before Shi Quan heard the sound of answering the phone.
The moment the phone was connected, Shi Quan felt a blank in his mind for no reason, as if all his memories had been drained. After the blank period, a strange picture appeared in his mind when he heard his boss's soft reprimand.
"Didn't I tell you not to call my phone? Can't I go back and talk about big things? β
"Mr. Liu, it's me." Shi Quan was in a trance, but he hadn't forgotten his purpose for finding his boss.
"Oh, it's Shiquan?" The boss changed his voice and his face at the same time, and he was smiling all over his face. "Are you alright? Nothing, right? Hey, young people really have to be careful when they go out! β
Shi Quan concentrated, and he "saw" his boss as if he was in a hotel: "Then, Mr. Liu, I think you know that my accident is also for work, so the cost of my hospitalization ......"
The boss frowned slightly, "Yes, yes, the cost of your hospitalization must have been settled, didn't our company buy an insurance for everyone?" You tell Zhang Mi to find your share and find the insurance company. β
As soon as Shi Quan opened his mouth to say something, he suddenly "saw" a woman walking behind Mr. Liu, the woman hugged Mr. Liu's waist from behind his back, and stretched out her head from the side of Mr. Liu's left arm.
"Oh, by the way, I have something to tell you, the contract you were negotiating before the accident, Didi had already gone to negotiate, and I heard the doctor talk about you at that time...... You see, we can't afford to delay our work! β
"!" Shi Quan "saw" Didi Jiao smiled and touched the fat pig (Mr. Liu) on the stomach with his hand, and the fat pig slapped Didi's buttocks.
"By the way, I'm about to meet a big customer, you ask Zhang Mi to listen to the phone, I'll tell her about your affairs and let her solve it for you!" Before Shi Quan put down the phone and went to call Zhang Mi, he "saw" that Didi had fallen into the arms of the fat pig.
Shi Quan put down the phone, and suddenly returned to reality from an indescribable illusion.
He asked Zhang Mi to answer the phone, and he saw Zhang Mi nodding his head and saying, "I know, I know, well, okay!" β
Zhang Mi put down the phone, and she said to Shi Quan: "Mr. Liu said, your medical expenses should be covered by the insurance company, and I will find out the insurance policy for you later." In addition, you have lived in the hospital for so long, and you have several big customers in your hands who are in a hurry to contact have been handed over to Didi. It's hard to say what you're going to do when you have an accident, but since you said that you made an appointment with a customer, the company trusts you, and you should do it as before. During your hospitalization, of course, the company cannot pay you. β
Shi Quan looked at Zhang Mi's open and closed mouth, and couldn't help but be full of anger, he clenched his fists.
"Okay, wait a minute, I'll get you the insurance policy!"
"I'm sorry for you!" Shi Quan held back his anger, he knew that he shouldn't turn his face with the company at this time, it was unwise.
After a while, Zhang Mi came in with an insurance, "This insurance is for you, you sign a receipt." β
"Huh? Didn't the company help me negotiate with the insurance company? Shi Quan looked at Zhang Mi puzzled.
"Mr. Liu said, you can't prove that you are going out to work, and it is supposed that the company should not take care of you, but the company is sympathetic to you, so it gives you the insurance policy and lets you negotiate with the insurance company yourself."
Shi Quan was furious in his heart, he pressed it hard, took the insurance policy, typed the receipt, and turned to go out.
The next day, Shi Quan called the insurance company.
When the phone on the other end of the insurance company was connected, the strange phenomenon that Shi Quan had experienced appeared again.
At the moment when the phone was connected, Shi Quan's mind went blank for a while, and the moment he heard the other party's voice, he strangely "saw" the scene in the insurance company.
Shi Quan told the insurance company about himself, and he "saw" a young woman sitting across from the person who answered his phone, with an insurance policy in front of her, and the person who answered the phone motioned for the woman to sign the insurance policy.
The woman looked at the insurance policy carefully.
"Oh, that's right. If you do what you say, then of course our company will pay you all the hospitalization costs! β
The woman reading the insurance policy listened intently to the man talking on the phone.
The person who answered the phone glanced at the woman opposite and continued: "Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with this matter, it is better to come to our company in the afternoon, we will go through the procedures for you, and then talk about the compensation in detail, are you optimistic?" β
Ishizumi listened to this, and his instinct told him that it was not for him, but for the woman across from the person who answered the phone.
Sure enough, he arrived at Shiquan: "Okay, then I'll come over in the afternoon and talk to you in detail!" Shi Quan saw that "the woman took the pen and signed the insurance policy."
Hanging up the phone, Shi Quan's heart was full of strange feelings, how could this be? He was able to answer the phone at the same time as the other party answered the phone in his mind.
Was his head hallucinating? He had already injured his brain in the process of being injured and unconscious?
No, he can't wait for the agreed time with the doctor for a follow-up, he will have to go to the hospital tomorrow for a follow-up.
The afternoon of detailed talks with the insurance company did not go well, and it was not as he heard on the phone.
After he finished registering, the insurance company replied to him: "Okay, we have registered you, but we still have to send someone to do a detailed investigation on this matter." We'll let you know when we're done. β
"So, how long will the investigation take?"
"It's hard to say, it depends on whether the investigation goes smoothly or not."
Shi Quan looked at the stiff face, and really wanted to give her a big ear shaving.
After Shi Quan left his contact number, he reluctantly walked out of the insurance company.
Shi Quan walked down the street, thinking about this unfortunate encounter.
That day, if it hadn't been for a newspaper blown in his face by the wind, and he stopped because of it, the piece of glass would not have fallen on his head. Then he didn't have to lose his client, and he spent all the money he and his old father had spent on hospitalization, but there was no way to compensate.
In this way, now that he has won the big customer, not the cheap Didi, his income has risen in a straight line.
When Shi Quan thought like this, he suddenly remembered that since he woke up from a coma, his girlfriend Xiaoli had neither called him nor come to see him.
What is Xiaoli doing? Shi Quan was a little annoyed.
Shi Quan took out his mobile phone and dialed Xiaoli's mobile phone.
"Hello?" After Shi Quan's brain went blank for a while, he heard Xiao Li's still sweet voice.
"Stone Spring? What's the matter with you? Shi Quan was suffocated, he couldn't speak, and then he "saw" Xiaoli walking down the street, her arm in the crook of another person's arm, and that person was his best friend Zhenhai.
"Xiaoli, where are you?"
"Oh, I...... What am I busy with, what's the matter with you? Xiao Li's tone was extremely cold.
"Why didn't you come to see me when I had an accident?" Shi Quan "saw" Xiaoli and Zhenhai exchanging glances, he had an indescribable nest in his heart, he wanted to get angry, "What are you doing all this time?" Do you want to find someone else when I have an accident? β
"What's your tantrum?" Xiaoli also raised her voice, "You don't care what I do!" You can't care if I find someone else! In that case, let's talk about it too, don't bother you in the future! β
Shi Quan "saw" Zhenhai holding Xiaoli with one hand, with an approving smile on his face.
Then, Xiaoli's mobile phone hung up with a "snap", and Shi Quan heard the number occupation sound of "beep, beep ......" from his mobile phone.
Shi Quan cut off the phone in some desperation.
How could he "see" these sights? Maybe Xiaoli wasn't with Zhenhai at all, but she was really busy? Of course, talking like this broke her heart, and she must have been angry.
Shi Quan dialed Xiaoli's mobile phone again, and he heard a female voice with a stereotypical computer: "The mobile phone you dialed has been turned off!" β
Shi Quan hung up his phone in frustration, he thought, he must go to the hospital tomorrow for a check-up.
Shi Quan went to the ward where he was hospitalized and saw doctors and nurses running towards a ward with an ambulance.
"Someone is dying!" He thought to himself, but he couldn't manage it so much, he was going to find the director of this ward, who was the attending doctor when he was hospitalized.
He went to the director's office, the door was open, but there was no one inside.
"Who are you looking for?" A passing nurse asked him.
"I'm looking for Director Chang."
"He's resuscitating a patient, you wait." The nurse said and hurried away.
Shi Quan followed the nurse to the aisle of the ward, and he saw that the ward was full of people.
I was about to walk over to take a look, but I saw that the medical staff in the ward had all walked out, the ambulance and oxygen cylinders had also been pushed out, and there was a howl of crying and grabbing the ground in the ward.
It's over, another life is over.
Director Chang, who came out of the ward, saw Shi Quan at a glance, and Shi Quan also stepped forward and said to Director Chang with a smile: "Director Chang, I am here for a review." β
"Oh." Director Chang took the cigarette handed by Shi Quan, walked to the office with Shi Quan, and said to Shi Quan as he walked, "The person who died just now was originally like you, who was unconscious after being hit by a car and lying in bed for more than three years. Well, now it's dead! β
Shi Quan felt a little sad in his heart.
After the inspection, Director Chang said to Shi Quan: "Congratulations! Everything you checked is completely normal! β
Shi Quan was both happy and a little puzzled in his heart, so how could he explain everything he saw when he listened to the phone?
Seeing that Director Chang was fine, Shi Quan was busy smoking a cigarette, pretending to be chatting, and told Director Chang that he had a friend, and when he heard the phone, he seemed to "see" what the person on the other end of the phone was doing.
Director Chang laughed, "It must be that your friend is too nervous and has a certain degree of visual hallucination. β
"So what should he do?" Shi Quan asked cautiously.
"Tell him to go to the neurology department for a check-up!"
Shi Quan said goodbye to Director Chang and walked in the corridor of the ward.
At this moment, there was a cry of "huh" behind him and the sound of a flat car pushing. Shi Quan knew that it might be the dead man who was going to be sent to the morgue.
He stood sideways on the edge of the aisle, watching the flat cart push over behind him.
When the flat cart was pushed past Shi Quan's side, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the white cloth sheet on the flat cart was blown up, revealing the face of the dead man.
The person pushing the cart hurriedly stopped the car and asked the family to cover the white slip.
Shi Quan couldn't help but glance at the car.
He saw a pale face, the flesh of which was sunken like a skeleton. For a moment, Shi Quan seemed to see that face and suddenly laughed, as if a thin skeleton was cracking its mouth, revealing an empty hole.
Shi Quan was startled, oh my God, wasn't this the same dream he had when he was in a coma, when he was walking in the dark aisle, the person who asked Shi Quan to be his companion on the other side?
In a trance, the face was already covered with a white sheet, and the flat car continued to push forward.
At this time, Shi Quan's mobile phone rang.
Shi Quan answered the phone, but it was his friend Xiao Xie calling.
"Shi Quan, how are you doing?" Xiao Xie asked with concern.
"Hey, it's hard to put into words!" Shi Quan sighed, he "saw" Xiao Xie walking on the streets of the city.
"Don't be so depressed, it'll all pass!"
Shi Quan "saw" that Xiao Xie was walking to the middle of the road, as if he was about to cross the road. Shi Quan suddenly felt a little bad, and he opened his mouth and shouted: "Xiao Xie......"
"Huh?" Shi Quan saw a 0.6 pickup truck turn out of Xiao Xie's left intersection and rush straight towards Xiao Xie.
After the sound of "ah......", the scene in front of Shi Quan's eyes disappeared, and the sound of "beep, beep" came from the mobile phone.
Shi Quan hurriedly dialed Xiao Xie's mobile phone again, but it was always a "beep" sound.
Shi Quan felt an indescribable fear in his heart.
Two hours later, Shi Quan received a call from Zhenhai, and Zhenhai only hurriedly said two words: "Xiao Xie was hit by a car and died, let's go to his house now, you can come too!" β
When I arrived at Xiao Xie's house, I heard his parents crying in a low voice, saying that Xiao Xie was hit and killed by a pickup truck that suddenly turned around while crossing the street, and he was still talking to someone on the phone.
Shi Quan's heart suddenly fell into the ice cave.
After finishing Xiao Xie's funeral, Shiquan and they came out of the funeral home.
The friends immediately dispersed, leaving only Shi Quan standing there blankly.
Shi Quan walked all the way, and his mind was full of Xiao Xie when he was on the phone, and he "saw" Xiao Xie. Could it be that everything he sees on the phone every time he talks is true?
Shi Quan was a little unconvinced.
But how to explain Xiao Xie's matter?
Shi Quan suddenly had a strange thought, whether everything he "saw" when he was talking on the phone was true, in fact, it was easy to know, as long as he called himself, then he didn't know if everything he saw when he listened to the phone was true?
Thinking like this, Shi Quan saw a public phone booth on the side of the road.
Shi Quan walked into the public phone booth, took off the phone, inserted the IC card, and dialed his mobile phone number.
Shi Quan held the public phone in his left hand, and took out his mobile phone with his right hand that rang non-stop "jingle bells".
Holding the mobile phone to his ear, Shi Quan suddenly had a strange feeling again, he couldn't help but stay there, not knowing whether it was better to answer the mobile phone or not to answer the mobile phone.
It was as if he pressed the answer of his mobile phone, and he pressed his own unknown fate.
I don't know how long it took, but the phone was still ringing.
Shi Quan's fingers moved subconsciously and pressed the answer Jian: "Hey? β
It's a weird feeling, it's really weird, and he's saying "hey" to his phone and he's hearing himself saying "hey" on the payphone.
The blank space passed very quickly.
Shi Quan held his breath and concentrated.
But instead of "seeing" himself standing in a telephone booth, he "saw" a highway where there were not many cars, but each one speeding by at breakneck speed.
Shi Quan was somewhat disappointed that he didn't "see" anything as he imagined.
Just as he was about to hang up the phone, the scene on the highway suddenly changed.
A little girl suddenly jumped onto the road out of nowhere, and a huge container truck was speeding up, so close to the little girl that she was about to be crushed under the wheels.
"Ahh Worried about the little girl's fate, Ishizumi heard his own voice from the pay phone strangely.
The driver of the container truck must have been in the same mood as Shi Quan, because Shi Quan "saw" the container truck swerving on the highway and rushing towards the sidewalk on the side of the road.
There is a public phone booth on the sidewalk with people in the booth.
Shi Quan's face suddenly turned pale, and the payphone and mobile phone in his hand fell from his hand.
He only had time to look back.
At that glance, he saw, really saw, a huge container truck rushing towards the phone booth he was in.
The next day, there was a news item in the city's newspaper: "There was a car accident on a section of the city's transit road. A teenage girl suddenly rushed onto the highway for some reason, and a large container truck traveling at high speed on the highway swerved and rushed onto the sidewalk on the side of the highway before it had time to brake. I knocked a public phone booth on the sidewalk into a wall on the side of the road, and there was a caller in the public phone booth who was squeezed to death in the phone booth! β