Chapter 8: A Call in the Middle of the Night
The videos stored on my phone are incredible, and I can't think of any words to describe them.
The background of the video is the cemetery in the village, and the time should be dusk, and the sun has almost completely set, leaving only a little dull afterglow.
It was this dull afterglow that made some of the amazing details in the video fall into my eyes.
In the video, I saw the grave where my father was buried. Because my father died in a strange way, I buried him without much fanfare, and no one but me could identify my father's grave from the messy grave.
However, in front of my father's grave in the video, there is a person standing, and I can only see the back of this person for the time being, limited by the shooting angle.
It's this person's back that makes me feel creepy.
I felt very familiar with him, very familiar, that familiarity, bursting from the deepest part of my heart.
Who is he?
It's impossible to determine when this video was taken, but it's already happening, but as I looked at the video, a cold sweat broke out on my spine.
The man, who seemed inexplicably familiar to me, stood in front of my father's grave for a moment, then began digging with a shovel. You don't have to ask to know that he must be trying to dig up his father's grave.
What the hell is he going to do?
My eyes were glued to the phone screen without blinking, taking in all the details of the video. The more I looked at it like this, the more I was shocked.
Just when I was at a loss, the person on the screen might have been a little tired from digging, straightened up and turned his head slightly.
At this moment, the surprise that spread in my heart completely exploded.
I wouldn't be mistaken, let alone dazzled, at this moment, I clearly saw the person in the video who was digging my father's grave, and it was ...... Myself.
Is this possible?
My mind suddenly had a temporary blockage, my mind was confused, and I even began to remember whether I was sleepwalking or not.
The person in the video turned his head again and glanced around, and the perspective was so clear that his face was completely presented in front of the camera.
I may misidentify someone else, but will I misidentify myself? From the most normal point of view, this video, or the person in the video, is likely to be suspected of forgery and disguise, but I don't know what's going on, my hunch tells me that this video is real, and the person in the video is also real.
The video is short, and when the father's grave is dug up, the footage stops. When the picture stopped, the man happened to turn back again.
It was as if the two of us were looking at each other across a screen.
I flipped through the video and watched it a few more times, and I don't know who the person was in the video or who the person in the video was.
The only clue that can be found is this mobile phone, who asked Silly Hai to hand it to me. I asked Silly Hai, but as soon as I saw the other party's two barrels of snot and stupid eyes, I gave up the idea of asking.
At the back of my father's grave, there was a hole that had been clearly dug out, and the body in the grave was indeed missing. For me, this is my deceased father, but for other people, it's just a corpse, and the people in the video, what's the use of digging up my father's body? And what is the purpose?
I was very distressed and irritated, and so many unbelievable things happened one after another, but the most important thing was that I couldn't find a clue at all.
However, after being irritable for a while, I gradually calmed down again. If these things are like an abscess, then, without me looking for it, it will one day pop up on its own.
"Silly Hai, go home." I sighed softly, the person who handed me the phone must have planned everything, let Silly Hai be a middleman, and couldn't ask anything useful.
I gave Silly Hai a little change, and he left happily. I stood by the grave for a while, and then left the village. I feel that all I have done in the past two years has been useless, Old Man Liu, and the truth of this matter, I can't find it, at least for the time being.
I returned to Huayang and re-managed the small shop in Qikongqiao, during this time I have been running from place to place, the business is completely deserted, I have to live and eat, and the business will continue.
After a busy day in the store, I closed the store and went home in the evening, and I was already sleepy. In fact, I haven't had a good rest for so many days, and my body is tired, so I hurriedly ate dinner and fell asleep.
I was afraid of dreaming, because the old man Liu and the one-eyed monkey in the dream always gave me a creepy feeling. However, today I slept soundly, slept for a few hours in one go, and was woken up by urine.
I hadn't slept so soundly in a long time, so I groped my way to the bathroom and turned on the light. When the convenience was over, I was going to go back to my bedroom to sleep, but the moment I turned around, my sleepiness disappeared without a trace.
I was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, and I saw Old Man Liu crouching in the mirror, and behind him, was the brown one-eyed monkey. One person, a monkey, squatted with their heads hooked and bent over in that strange posture, looking at me in the mirror with their eyelids raised.
"It's time to hit the road." Old man Liu rolled his eyelids and looked at me in the mirror. Not only could I see his eyes, but I could also hear his voice faintly echoing in the bathroom.
"What?"
"It's time for you to hit the road...... Old Man Liu's voice became clearer and clearer, and I could almost be sure that it was not an illusion. He and the one-eyed monkey crouched in the mirror one after the other, just like the black and white impermanence of the legendary midnight seducing souls.
No matter how bold I was, I was stunned at this time, and I didn't have time to react, so I subconsciously threw a punch into the mirror.
With a bang, the mirror was smashed, there was a sharp pain in the fist, and the flesh cut by the glass began to bleed. The severe pain made me completely wake up from my ignorance and drowsiness, and the mirror was torn apart, but at this time, when I looked at it again, what was reflected in the broken mirror was my figure, Old Man Liu, and the one-eyed monkey were gone.
I gasped for air, my heart pounding. According to common sense, what I saw in the mirror was absolutely an illusion, a nothingness. But Old Man Liu's voice was so real.
It's time to hit the road......
No matter how much I tried to convince myself, there was always a feeling in the deepest part of my heart.
I feel that Old Man Liu and the one-eyed monkey were in the mirror just now.
From this day on, I was under more mental stress than before. I wonder if there is really something wrong with my nervous system, no matter when and where, I can often see Old Man Liu with the one-eyed monkey.
This unspeakable mental pressure made me lose a lot of hair, my biological clock began to be disordered, and my face was haggard. The worst thing is that I hold on to these things alone, and I can't tell anyone, not even the blind San'er.
Every night, I would hold on to not sleep, and when my brain was awake, the chance of seeing Old Man Liu would be lower. As painful and boring as it was to get through one long night after another, I couldn't think of any other way.
That night, as usual, I stayed up all night with a spirit that was already on the verge of collapse. It was about three o'clock in the morning when I suddenly heard a rustling sound in the closet in my bedroom. I had all the hairs on my body and rolled over and got out of bed.
The closet door was closed, and when I rolled over and got up, the rustling sound seemed to disappear. I picked up the dumbbells on the bedside table and walked to the closet.
I could hear the silent pins in the bedroom, holding the dumbbell in one hand, and slowly grabbing the cabinet door with the other, and pulling it violently.
There was nothing in the closet except for neatly folded clothes, and I frowned and recalled, recalling the sound I had just heard, whether it had ever come out.
Airplanes......
At this time, the mobile phone on the bedside rang, and I was already highly nervous, and the sudden vibration of the mobile phone startled me.
A local number was displayed on the phone, but it was unfamiliar and I hadn't seen it before. At three o'clock in the middle of the night, who will call? I thought about it for a moment and pressed the answer button anyway.
"Hello? Who is it? ”
"Hello, hello." A woman's voice came from the other end of the phone, just listening to the voice, you can tell that the other party is a very young girl: "I'm sorry, it's so late, take the liberty to bother, but ...... But I'm guessing you haven't slept yet, that's why I called you. ”
"Who the hell are you?"
"You don't know me, and I don't know you, I just want to ask if you've been ...... lately Do you often see an old man surnamed Liu...... And one more...... A monkey? ”