The underground garage was as cold and gloomy as ever, and when the elevator door opened, Brother Chao and I gasped at the same time.

It's not because I saw something scary, but Chen Haobei's hand holding our arms suddenly clenched super tightly, which hurt us both.

Brother Chao and I almost dragged Chen Haobei out of the elevator, and the goods kept trembling, and his little eyes were full of fear.

Brother Chao said a little helplessly: "Brother Hao, why don't you go up and wait for the two of us first?" Chen Haobei said: "Okay, then you two go up with me." I said, "Then who will call you a soul?" ”

Chen Haobei obviously didn't have enough brains, and he didn't even propose such a simple and perfect solution as one person accompanying him and one person being responsible for calling his soul.

Brother Chao and I didn't bother to talk to him, and dragged him out of the small aisle outside the elevator and asked, "Brother Hao, recall, where is the specific location?" ”

Chen Haobei didn't speak, but the subconscious turn of his eyes had already given me the answer, Brother Chao glanced at me, and the two of us dragged Chen Haobei and walked in the direction he just looked.

Chen Haobei struggled for a while, retreated for a while, and clamored to pee for a while, but Brother Chao and I ignored him, and silently followed his instructions to take him to a corner.

This is a very dark corner, I don't know if it was unreasonable when it was built, this corner does not see any meaning of existence, nor is it a passage, it is just a normal wall suddenly recessed, about two meters wide, three meters deep.

Chen Haobei didn't dare to get too close, standing alone at a distance of four or five meters from the corner of the wall and looking at the two of us, Brother Chao and I walked to the corner and looked inside, it was empty, there was no dust on the ground, and I couldn't see whether there were any footprints or other traces.

Glancing at Brother Chao, I turned my head and asked Chen Haobei: "Brother Hao, is it here?" Chen Haobei nodded vigorously, I turned my head and said to Brother Chao: "Since you are here, Daxian, then please call Brother Hao a soul in person." ”

Brother Chao said to me indifferently: "Ah, put everything on the ground, let's be together, do you think I can burn paper and knock a shovel at the same time with my arm?" ”

Saying that, Brother Chao also raised his plaster arm to show off in front of my eyes, I squatted on the ground and took out the yellow paper from the bag and said, "Then you are responsible for knocking on the shovel and shouting lines, and I am responsible for setting the fire." ”

Brother Chao asked Chen Haobei again to confirm the specific direction, and then he squatted around the corner with a shovel, according to what Chen Haobei said, this is where he was that day.

When everything was ready, I grabbed a lighter in one hand and a few pieces of yellow paper in the other and asked, "Can you start?" Brother Chao said "um", I nodded, and lit the yellow paper in my hand with a lighter.

"Hammer..."

"Come back, the soul... Come back, soul..."

"Hammer..."

"Chen Haobei, come back... Chen Haobei, come back..."

At first, I whispered to the rhythm of Brother Chao and muttered "medicine and medicine to make trouble", but gradually I found that Brother Chao's voice seemed to be different from usual, or different from the tone he usually spoke.

There was a hint of mystery in the melodiousness, combined with the sound of a shovel and the smell of burning yellow paper, and somehow I felt as if I had gone back thousands of years to when the monkeys first became humans, and a group of people who could not yet be called human were dancing around the campfire, celebrating the success of hunting today...

The brain almost entered a state of emptiness, and after a long time, the sound of the soul stopped, the sound of the shovel also stopped, and I still squatted on the ground and stared at the paper ashes in front of me, unable to recover for a while.

"Hey, hey!" Brother Chao suddenly startled me with a voice, and when I came back to my senses, I just wanted to speak, but I saw that Brother Chao had already made a gesture to silence, and then he whispered in my ear: "The soul is not over yet, don't call the name other than Chen Haobei, get up." ”

After speaking, Brother Chao stood up by himself first, holding the bottle of mineral water he bought with yellow paper in his hand.

I also stood up according to his instructions, and suddenly the sky swirled, it was the feeling of insufficient blood supply to the brain after squatting for a long time, I used to do this often, but it was not as serious as this time.

When I came back to my senses, the first thing that came into my brain was the sound of my heartbeat, which was beating very slowly, but with a lot of force, and every blow felt like it was about to explode at any moment.

Then there was the sound of heavy breathing, or my own, and it was only then that my consciousness really began to gradually return.

When I opened my eyes, one of my hands was on Chao's shoulder, and he looked at me with a look of assumption, as if I was completely unexpected.

I whispered, "How long have I been dizzy?" How's it going? Brother Chao said: "It's less than half a minute, he's still standing there, that." ”

As he spoke, Brother Chao gestured behind me with his chin, and I reluctantly turned my head to look, Chen Haobei was motionless at the moment, and he couldn't even see any breath of life on his face, like an ugly sculpture that cut corners during production.

I turned my head and asked Brother Chao a little skeptically, "It's only been less than half a minute?" Brother Chao nodded and didn't explain anything, and asked me directly: "Can you move if you try?" I can move and hurry to the last step. I asked, "What?" ”

Brother Chao held up the mineral water and said, "I can't unscrew it with one hand, you pour a circle of water on the paper ash on the ground, which can be regarded as announcing the 'ownership' of this pile of ashes, and we can prepare to withdraw." ”

I took the mineral water with an "oh" sound, it was heavy, it seemed that the physical strength had not fully recovered, but it was not a problem to wring a mineral water.

Opening the cap, I walked around the paper ash, and at the same time drew a circle around the paper ash with mineral water, and the bottle of water was just poured out.

When I was done, I looked up at Brother Chao, who nodded and said, "Okay." With that, he threw the shovel into the center of the paper ash.

"Bang dang", much louder than the sound of him knocking on the wall with a shovel just now, even though my eyes have been watching this scene, I am still a little startled by this sound, looking at the paper ashes raised in front of me, I heard Chen Haobei in the distance "ah" scream.

But after this shout, I turned my head and saw that the look in his eyes was back, and it seemed to be a little different from the previous look like he had lost his soul, and I asked with a little surprise: "Brother Hao?" How have you been doing lately? ”

Chen Haobei looked at me in confusion, then at Brother Chao, and then asked me: "One thousand, we..."

I looked at Brother Chao, and Brother Chao whispered, "It's done, the normal reaction is like this, he has to slow down to remember this paragraph." ”

Brother Chao's words not only put my mind at ease, but also made me admire Brother Chao a little, I smiled and said: "Zhang Daxian, it's okay, you, there are two times." ”

Brother Chao said disdainfully: "Cut, where is this?" Another day, my brother will change your life against the sky. I teased: "It's really saying that you're fat, you're panting, let's go, send the handle home." ”

After speaking, Brother Chao and I walked towards Chen Haobei, and the two of us stayed by this cargo as usual, after all, he had not fully recovered.

At the moment when we turned around at the same time, except for Chen Haobei's sluggish lack of reaction to the person who appeared in front of him at some point, Brother Chao and I both subconsciously let out an "ah".

About ten meters away, there was a man standing in front of us, silent, motionless.

Under the bright but sparsely distributed lights of the garage, I could only see his large-brimmed hat and uniform from such a distance, the cold-faced crow-beaked security guard at the entrance of the community.

The brimmed hat blocked the light so perfectly that I couldn't see his face at all, but my instinct told me that it must be him, and I had never seen anyone else in uniform so awkward.

I whispered: "It's okay, Brother Chao, it's the doorman of the community, maybe he heard the movement or smelled the smoke and came down to check, don't worry about him, let's go ours." ”

Brother Chao said, "Do you think we have soiled the garage?" Then I'll tell him, just leave the paper ash overnight, and we'll clean it up at dawn tomorrow. I shook my head and said, "I'll say it anyway, I've dealt with him a few times." ”

Brother Chao didn't agree or refuse, he just walked with me, and Chen Haobei followed behind us stupidly.

As soon as I approached the doorman, I frowned, how did this man look? It's not ugly to say that it's ugly, but it's disgusting to look at him, as if it hurts to look at him more.

When I got closer, I could see the expression on his face, this expression... How to put it, it's like a very good person looking at a bunch of imbeciles, and his eyes are full of contempt.

Looking at his face, I was not interested in talking to him well, so I walked up to him and asked, "What's the matter, uncle?" The doorman looked at me and then looked at Chen Haobei and said, "I'm fine, obviously there is something wrong with this child." ”

I said, "It's okay, then we'll go first, you keep going." After saying that, I motioned to Brother Chao to leave quickly.

Brother Chao seemed to be a little embarrassed, after all, he didn't live in this community, he said to the doorman very politely: "Hello uncle, we just had something to do, and we stained the garage in your community, and we'll clean it up by ourselves tomorrow morning, I'm sorry." ”

Chen Haobei suddenly interjected: "It's because I'm going to call my soul that I got a piece of paper ashes, I'll clean it up tomorrow." The strange and ugly smile on the doorman's face intensified, and he repeated: "Calling a soul? ”

After saying that, I laughed out loud, and the tone and attitude were as if we were doing something very childish and ridiculous.

His smile made me blush a little, because I thought it was a bit of a fool at first.

I didn't have time to think about it, I dragged Brother Chao and Chen Haobei and left, and went straight to the elevator entrance downstairs of Chen Haobei's unit.

The elevator was on the first floor, and it came down quickly, and we went upstairs into the elevator and went straight to Chen Haobei's house.

In the elevator, I also complained that Brother Chao shouldn't be too polite to the doorman, Brother Chao didn't say anything more, Chen Haobei was still a little confused, until he entered his door, he regained some consciousness a little after sneezing six times in a row.

Looking at the mess in the house, Chen Haobei prepared to clean up with a sad face.

This surprised me a little, could it be that this soul also called his personality changed by the way? He didn't love cleanliness so much before. Until I heard him mutter, "How can you be worthy of my daughter-in-law if you are so dirty?" "I realized that he was indeed recovering.

Chen Haobei was still a little scared, and still wanted me to accompany him tonight, but it seemed that he would no longer lose control of his emotions.

I was a little surprised by Brother Chao's ability, but in order to avoid him being too stinky fart, I didn't show this surprise again.

When Brother Chao wanted to go back, I said that I would go downstairs to see him off Chen Haobei didn't stop him, he dared to stay at home alone.

Brother Chao doesn't need to be polite, he has Xiaoxi with him, he definitely doesn't want to stay and sleep with me, and after sending him to the side of the road to get in the car, I will prepare to go back to Chen Haobei's house.

Suddenly, the mobile phone rang, and when I took it out, I saw that it was Chen Zhonghai, who had not been in contact for a long time.

This man contacted me... It doesn't seem like there's some other reason, right? Thinking of this, I picked up the phone and said, "Hey? Hello, Brother Chen? Chen Zhonghai's baritone voice came from the opposite side: "It's me, a thousand, didn't disturb your rest, right?" ”

When I answered the phone just now, the time displayed on the mobile phone screen was less than nine o'clock, this person was really polite, and I also said politely to him: "No, Brother Chen, what time is it?" What's wrong Brother Chen, what's the matter? ”

Chen Zhonghai said: "Well, it's a little something, about my brother-in-law, are you busy now?" I reflexively said, "I'm not busy." ”

The other side continued: "Oh, that's it, a thousand, my brother-in-law is awake, I have something to confirm with you, I don't like to talk about these things on the phone, can you come to my unit now?" You tell me the address and I'll send a car to pick you up. ”

Send a car... This guy can really pretend, I was a little speechless and asked, "Are you in a hurry?" Chen Zhonghai said: "Well, my sister said that she wanted to solve it as soon as possible. ”

I was a little uncomfortable, alas, they were all poor people, and I thought of this and said, "Okay, then I'll call my friend, who is in a car with your brother-in-law, and we'll go to you." ”

Unexpectedly, Chen Zhonghai refused: "Not a thousand, I am looking for you just to avoid your friend first, he seems to have said something very important about that car accident..."