Chapter 2: Midnight Spirit

At two o'clock in the morning, most of the residents of Nanshui Garden, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, have already fallen asleep, and a swaying figure appeared on the roof of the top floor like a ghost, located in Unit 3, Building 48, which is located in the innermost part of the garden near the foot of Xiaonan Mountain.

Nanshui Garden is a community developed by S City Nanshui Housing Development Company in recent years, covering an area of more than 1,600 acres, with a construction area of 1.5 million square meters, a green area of 160,000 square meters, and a total of more than 8,800 households.

Although the location of Nanshui Garden is relatively close to the suburbs, due to the good development of its first and second phases, it has become a large-scale community that has been developed in all aspects, so the houses in the third phase have been sold out as soon as they are built, but at this time, because it has not been long since the delivery of the houses, there are not many people living in the third phase.

At this time, the figure that appeared out of thin air on the roof of the top floor, although it looked very strange, but the night was quieter, and no one cared how he appeared.

Through the dim streetlights of Nanshui Garden, it was barely clear that it was a man, topless and wearing a pair of sports shorts, because it was too far away to see what he looked like.

The man was crouching down and doing something upright, and in a few minutes he raised one hand again, waving it in the air as if he were chopping something.

After a while, the man finished chopping, and made a gesture of grabbing something with one hand and pretending with the other, when suddenly there were several dog barks in the distance, and the man was obviously taken aback, and the movement stopped, and he stood there straight.

After a while, he seemed to come to his senses, looked around to make sure that no one was paying attention to him, and hurried away from the roof.

At dawn, Nanshui Garden was full of people, and the residents were energetic and energetic after a night's rest.

As the day passed, it was time to rest again, the lights in the Nanshui Garden house went out one after another, and people fell asleep again.

Just as the clock was pointing to two o'clock, the figure from last night appeared again, and he repeated the same set of actions from yesterday.

This time there was no sound to affect him, and the dog in the distance stopped barking, but after he had finished packing his things, he made the gesture of carrying them into some kind of cabinet, and after a while, he took out the bag from this cabinet again, as if it were boiling on the fire.

I don't know what he's doing, but his movements are not as smooth as normal people's, but instead show a mechanical repetition feeling, as if he is in a state of hypnotization or sleepwalking, but fortunately, even if there are residents in the neighborhood, they are in a deep sleep, but no one notices his irregularity.

The man suddenly stopped, his head tilted to the right like a robot, stopped for a moment and then put it back in place, and suddenly he trembled violently, and the man resumed his normal movements, and disappeared from the roof again in a panic.

The time pointed to nine o'clock, and in an ordinary office in S City, a man was sitting in a daze, and on the computer screen in front of him, some web pages were opened and presented in front of him.

"Sleepwalking, also known as sleepwalking or nocturnal wandering, is a specific sleep disorder. Such people often get up suddenly from a deep sleep, walk on the ground, and perform various actions such as tidying up things, eating, dressing, muttering, and even running outside.

At this point, the patient is expressionless, glazed, clumsy, mechanical, and goes to bed again after a few minutes or an hour of seizure. When I woke up the next day, I couldn't remember the seizure.

Sleepwalking behavior is generally monotonous and limited, and does not cause serious consequences; Dreams are extremely rare, and most often occur when the sleep process is abruptly interrupted (medically known as "sleep disturbance").

Excessive fatigue, chronic sleep deprivation, unfamiliar sleep environment, mental stimulation or unpleasant experience before bedtime, excessive alcohol consumption or overeating, etc., are all predisposing factors.

During a seizure, a sleepwalker suddenly jumps out of sleep and picks up an instrument to harm another person, often resulting in death. Due to the special time and place of the attack, most of the victims are people who sleep with them, such as spouses and colleagues. ”

These contents are all searched out by this man and are viewing, but his attention doesn't seem to be here, but he doesn't know where his mind is running, and he is in a daze.

"Director Wang......" There was a call outside, he agreed in a panic, closed all the computer web pages, and ran out.

After a while, the man returned to the office and searched the Internet again, this time what should he do if he had sleepwalking? I saw that all kinds of answers came out on the webpage.

He watched patiently and intently, and from time to time he was still holding a pen and writing something on a piece of paper, and as the minutes ticked by, the man forgot that the office door was still wide open.

A woman with a lot of information walked outside the door, she reached out and knocked twice on the door of this office, and at the same time called out in her mouth: "Director Wang......"

The man in the room didn't hear it at all, and continued to copy, and the woman walked straight in, walked to his side, and put all the materials on his desk.

The man was taken aback, his panicked look was clear, he wanted to cover up the web he was browsing, and he wanted to cover up the half-copied note, and in the chaos, he tore all the information sent by the woman to the ground.

The woman looked at him strangely, looked at the materials on the ground helplessly, muttered two sentences, and then squatted down to pick up the materials scattered all over the ground.

Director Wang's face turned red, and while closing the web page, he quickly stuffed the note he copied into the drawer, and then leaned down, wanting to help the woman clean up.

At this time, the woman had already picked up almost everything, and there was still the last piece of information, which happened to be stepped on at the feet of Director Wang.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Cai, I didn't notice you coming in, I'm sorry." Director Wang apologized to her and raised his foot and let her snatch the document from under his feet.

The woman secretly pursed her lips, buried her head and said vaguely, "It's nothing." ”

After standing up, she put the materials back on the director's desk and politely took her leave.

Although she had been squatting and cleaning up just now, Director Wang's every move fell into her eyes, and she secretly muttered in her heart after she went out: "I don't know what happened to Director Wang today?" What did you see? It's so flustered......"

Behind her, Director Wang breathed a sigh of relief, followed her up, and gently closed the door of his office, isolating himself from everyone.

The woman quickly returned to her seat, and with her memory, she also searched the web page she had just accidentally seen Director Wang browsing, and after reading it for a long time, she curiously muttered to herself: "Sleepwalking? Who gets sleepwalking? ”

The office was quiet again, everyone went to dinner, and Director Wang's door was still tightly closed, only to hear him call inside.

A peaceful day passed, this Director Wang finished a day's work, ready to go home from work, he looked at something in the office with a calm look, but did not find it, so he opened the door and walked out to the parking lot of the unit.

When passing through the office hall, he deliberately glanced in the direction of the woman who came to deliver the materials in the morning, and just saw that the woman was also looking at him, Director Wang smiled indifferently at her, without any stop, and walked out of the hall.

After a busy day's work, the woman had already forgotten about the morning, and when she saw the director, she thought about it again, but she shook her head secretly and quickly deleted the incident from her memory.

A Beverly car drove out of the parking lot of this unit, drove steadily on the road, and when passing a stationery store, Director Wang got out of the car and bought a box of thumbtacks, got in the car again and continued to drive the car.

It was still Nanshui Garden, and when it was the middle of the night, the clock rang, indicating that it was already two o'clock in the morning, and in a house in Unit 3, Building 48, Shanlan Garden, a man's scream suddenly came, and this scream was heard far away in the silent midnight.

However, not many people lived in the other nearby residences, so the scream, as scary as it sounded, quickly disappeared into the darkness of the night and did not attract much attention.

Immediately after, the lights of the house came on, and through the thin gauzy curtains hanging from the windows, the figure of a man was nervously busy.

This man seemed to be Director Wang, and he chuckled smugly as he found a few band-aids to bandage his feet, as if he had done a very successful thing.

He was sitting on a large double bed, and at his feet something was reflecting a small light in the light.

Director Wang quickly bandaged his feet, then stood up carefully, and after paying attention to avoiding those shiny little things, he squatted down and picked them up.

Looking closely, it turned out to be a sharp and round pushpin, and I saw him picking it up while muttering in his mouth: "It turns out that Mark. Twain's prank was really good, and my sleepwalking was awakened. ”

After picking up all the thumbtacks on the ground and putting them up, Director Wang lay back on the bed again, this time he quickly fell asleep, time ticked by, and he slept so soundly.

For several nights in the room, there was a scream of him being pierced by a thumbtack, and his feet were already in tatters, but this method seemed to be very effective, and after a few days, he was never heard again.

Obviously, Director Wang's sleepwalking syndrome was cured by his own indiscriminate methods, and no matter how he fell asleep at night, his sleepwalking syndrome never had an attack again.

Everything was calm again, as if nothing had ever happened here......