Chapter 61: The Otherworld (1)
Lin Chen called the phone, "Hey, why are you like a little girl, just make a little joke, you are really angry, and you hung up the phone." ”
"No! I don't know how it broke. ”
"That's it!" Lin Chen thought for a moment, "My phone has always been very weird, sometimes when I was talking, I suddenly cut it off!" Sometimes a call comes in and no one speaks! Sometimes, there are some particularly strange sounds! I've even heard a soft-voiced woman say on the phone, "Go play!" Probably an issue with my phone! Well, as for what you said about the big crane hanging the concrete plate over your head, the wire rope is broken, fat man, I think, you may just be hallucinating! You think, if this happens, you won't be able to run! I've had this hallucination several times! It's so real every time! Don't be too nervous and scare yourself! ”
"Maybe, but I can see it so clearly, how can there be such an illusion in broad daylight?"
In fact, this question also puzzled Lin Chen.
Lin Chen stopped talking, for many days, this sense of depression occupied every cell in his body, and he said words that even he couldn't fully believe to comfort the fat man, but he was actually comforting himself.
Xu Aqi on the side didn't know what the fat man said to Lin Chen again, but seeing the solemn expression on Lin Chen's face, he guessed that something must have happened.
She bit her lip tightly and looked at Lin Chen uneasily.
Lin Chen lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then said into the phone: "Well, I don't know how to say it, I don't want you to be afraid, but I still want to say it!" What happened to me was even more incredible, my girlfriend and I were sentenced to death by a fortune teller, saying that we would not live for three years, and just a few days ago, I also had hallucinations in the talent market, which was very scary! Also, after that, a little boy and I were almost hit by a car! ”
"No, it won't! Horror movie! You scare me, how does this look like a real-life version of the Grim Reaper is coming! You scare me! On the phone, the fat man breathed heavily.
"Don't be afraid, if you do come, it's useless to be afraid! Sooner or later, people are going to die. While you're still alive and still have a breath, it's time to toss it! ”
"Toss?"
"Oh, let's put it that way! It's just delicious and fun!! In this way, I'll teach you, make a table for yourself, EXCEL, you kid can use it, right? On the table, you write, what do you want to do most in this world now? Make a list of 10 items, and list 1, 2, 3, 4... Yes! What do you want to eat the most? Also, who would you most like to meet? If you do these things quickly, you will have no regrets in the future! One day in a certain year, a certain month, when you are gone, you can say to yourself, 'This world is nothing more than that!' Uncle, I'll go too! "By the way, when you are idle, you can choose a good place for yourself!"
Lin Chen said calmly.
"Don't! You've lived enough, I haven't! ”
"I'm not kidding you, I mean it! Why do I feel more and more that the world is impermanent! Look, Ye Jiangchuan won't have an accident! Fatty, you have nothing to do, go to the incense, it's always good to have a little spiritual sustenance! With a little spiritual sustenance, I won't be so scared when I meet you! ”
"Lin Chen, what are you talking about! It's as if I'm going to see Marx soon! You're talking like that! ”
"Hmmm! I'm just talking about it casually! I've been through so much lately that I've had to think about it a little more! We are friends, and we are also comrades-in-arms in the trenches, so I have what to say! If you mind, just ignore it! ”
As he was talking, Lin Chen saw an old lady, leaning on a cane, greeting Lin Chen head-on, staggering past him.
Lin Chen had a strange feeling, he looked at Xu Aqi with his mouth open, and hurriedly said to the fat man on the phone: "I have something to do here, I'll call you later!" With that, he hung up the phone and followed the old lady.
The appearance of the old lady and the posture of walking are very similar to the old woman holding the baby that Lin Chen once saw at the construction site, Xu Aqi said that she had also seen the old woman who disappeared by the wall of the building, but this time, she did not hold the child, Lin Chen felt that it should be her.
This time, Lin Chen saw clearly, the old lady had a dark face, dry and thin, two small cheekbones bulging very high, like a raised tomb, and her thin lips were held up by her teeth, so that she couldn't close them, always showing Sensen's white teeth, a little scary.
She had many white eyes, small black eyeballs, and gray sideburns, but she could be neatly combed behind her ears, and formed a round bun, and her body was so thin that it seemed as if a gust of wind could blow it away.
"That's her!"
As he said this, the hustle and bustle around him instantly fell silent, and suddenly it was so quiet that even the sound of sparrows streaking across the air was very clear.
Lin Chen keenly heard Xu Aqi's anxious breathing on the side, he turned his face sideways, looked at Xu Aqi who was frozen in place on the side, looked at each other, Xu Aqi nodded slightly, grabbed Lin Chen's sleeve with his hand, and said quietly: "The last time I saw the disappeared old lady holding a child in front of the building, she was her!" ”
"The weird old lady I saw on the mound is also her! Let's go, let's keep up with her! Get it out! ”
The street was bustling, Lin Chen quickened his pace, and Xu Aqi trotted behind. The sound of their footsteps alarmed the old woman, who, as if she knew that someone was chasing her, walked faster and faster, and sped past the crowd of people and the speeding cars. The crutch in her hand was obviously just an ornament, and the old woman no longer had to carry it, so she carried it like a fly.
This speed of walking is like that of an old woman!
Lin Chen was getting harder and harder, and he was already running.
He just wanted to figure out why she looked at him like that that day, why did she look at Xu Aqi with such eyes, who was she?
He was terrified and curious.
No one wants to cause trouble, but this old lady is so weird and gloomy that Lin Chen even wonders if she will be a trafficker who specializes in stealing other people's children, because the child who had a cinnabar mole like him and was once held in her arms also seemed abnormal, and now he didn't know where to go.
Lin Chen followed the old woman across the street, turned around the supermarket, and disappeared in the crowd of people.
"The old lady is gone!"
Lin Chen crossed his hands on his hips, turned his face sideways in frustration, and said to Xu Aqi, who was snoring and panting behind him.
Xu Aqi said: "This old lady seems to know that we are following her!" Run faster than a rabbit! It's incredible! ”
"Hmmm! It's gone in the blink of an eye! Let's go back! ”
After that, Lin Chen pulled Xu Aqi and was about to walk back, but when he turned around, he suddenly found that the old lady was staring at them faintly not far behind him.
That cold gaze made the two of them shudder!
After less than a minute of stalemate, the old lady turned and ran.
"Hey, hey! You wait! ”
Lin Chen suddenly shouted.
The old lady completely ignored Lin Chen's shouting, and in front of her was an apartment building, and she rushed into the apartment building.
Lin Chen and Xu Aqi also followed.
There was a long hallway in the apartment building, and the old lady pushed open the door to the upper floor at the end of the hallway and ran up wildly. By the time Lin Chen arrived at the door, the old lady had probably disappeared for a few seconds, and with great difficulty opening the door with an automatic device, Lin Chen quickly rushed up, and when Xu Aqi arrived, it was just before the door was closed.
"Bang!"
The door slammed shut behind Xu Aqi, and in front of her was a long corridor with no one in front of her. She had no choice but to walk forward along the corridor and whispered Lin Chen's name twice.
There was no response, which made Xu Aqi a little nervous.
On one side of the hallway are the unit doors of the apartment, all closed, and on the other side there are several small windows.
"Lin Chen!"
She screamed again.
There seemed to be movement over there, Xu Aqi stopped, through a small window, Xu Aqi saw Lin Chen leaning out of the iron fence on the platform of the stairs opposite, saw her, beckoned to her, and pointed to the side, as if to say, she is there!
At the finger point, Xu Aqi saw a shadow, rushed down the stairs opposite, and disappeared in a flash in the corner of the wall.
From Lin Chen's gestures, Xu Aqi understood that Lin Chen meant that he was blocking over there, letting Xu Aqi intercept here, and there was no time to delay, the two of them hurriedly went downstairs, and when they finally rushed out of the apartment building one after the other, no one saw the figure of the old lady again.
Lin Chen felt very strange!
Two young people couldn't stop an old lady and let her slip away under their noses!
Lin Chen and Xu Aqi walked aimlessly for a while, and then lost their direction.
Lin Chen finally stopped, panting for breath with his hands on the canopy, squinting and looking around, Xu Aqi was also tired, panting heavily.
"Is this a old lady? Is there such a walking old lady? It's almost time to win a medal at the Olympics! ”
"Yes! Where did it go? Is the world evaporating?"
Xu Aqi turned around in a circle, but still didn't see the old lady, so she simply sat on the curb of the road, raised her head, and frowned.
"When I was in school, our school was measured to run 800 meters, and I was... Run a lap, walk a lap... One more lap, one more lap... Don't blame me for being squeamish, I really can't run! My leg is like lead, and when I get to the finish line, people will be out of class early."
"Huh! I'm embarrassed! Lin Chen smiled.
"Don't laugh! The students in the next class have all gathered, and I feel so embarrassed. Only the PE teacher had the patience to wait for me and give me a symbolic grade. I hate long-distance running, and I never passed. Which of the Education Bureau's lacked dog mongrels arranged such a class, and it was held every semester, can people have the same physique? Every time I finished running, my throat and eyes were smoking, and I was so tired that I almost vomited blood, and I couldn't slow down for several days. But today... Lin Chen, hey, tell me, am I overperforming! I didn't catch the old lady, but I still had a sense of accomplishment, really! I broke through myself, I ran for so long, more than 800 meters, and no one gave me a prize!"
Xu Aqi gasped and said, "After running for so long, I don't feel tired!" ”