Chapter (4), the true finale
It's Christmas solstice again, and the streets and alleys are filled with a strong modified version of Oriental Christmas.
Slightly more normal couples will most likely give each other peace fruits, exchange Christmas gifts, and walk hand in hand on the street to enjoy the world of two.
Even if it's not normal, at least a bouquet of roses will be prepared, and other requests for in-depth communication will be made after the meeting.
Anyway, the boys who want to empty the gloves of the white wolf are almost all deserving of single dogs, but the pair who wandered by the glass window.
The man not only relied on the woman's push the whole time without touching his feet, but also held the mobile phone in his hand, ignoring the woman at all, and talking to himself on the mobile phone vigorously, as if he was live broadcasting.
"Don't you want to see me date Xishi? See, I was crippled by the old man of the West in the demon world to save you, and my legs have been broken for a month and I haven't been healed, even if I rely on the power of mermaid flesh, I can't get rid of it, and my feet can't touch the ground at all. ”
Gounod propped up his phone with a selfie stick and tried to capture a panoramic view of the street.
Xi Shi also took the opportunity to wave at the camera: "Jiuya! Remember me? I'm Xishi! I'm dating Brother Gounod, and I'll tell you, he's so picky that he doesn't even want to give me a gift when he goes out, and he still eats the peace fruit I bought for twenty yuan myself. ”
"Push me forward, I'll take a picture of the Christmas tree for Jiuya."
Gounod urges Sishi to push himself forward, and Sishi hurriedly does so, looking for the best place to photograph the huge Christmas tree.
"Jiuya, have you seen it, this is the biggest and most shining Christmas tree in Z City this year, your Jiang family has a lot of problems, never a Western festival, today I am dating, you follow, even if you don't look at it, you have to watch it!"
Gounod continued to talk to himself, this is a video call, not a live broadcast, and although the phone is connected, the small box in the upper right corner is a black screen, except for a small red dot, half a figure is not visible at all.
Gounod and Sishi were still happily introducing their surroundings, not caring if there would be a response on the other end of the phone.
On the other end of the phone, it was pitch black in the hotel at the end of the folk street, and Lu Zhao was using a video recorder to take pictures of the pictures uploaded on his mobile phone, muttering for fear of affecting the introduction of Gono and Western poems.
"Wednesday, December 25, 2024, the 44th day you secretly left, you didn't expect it to snow today, but it's a pity that it's too small, and the ground is not covered and melted, I heard Guno say that the snow cherry blossoms are coming soon, it's just a few days, there is a short error, wait for her to come, let her give you a piece of snow, I will record it and wait for you to come back and see."
At this time, the voice of Gounod saying goodbye came from the mobile phone, he was coming back, and on the way back, he took Xishi's car, and there was no beautiful scenery, so he hung up first.
Lu Zhao continued to hold the video recorder, picked up the mobile phone and looked at the battery, there was still twenty percent, the pendant on the mobile phone was still McDull, after Lu Zhao was discharged from the hospital, he saw the pendant in the suggestion box, and hung it back for Jiuya.
"Your phone is running out of battery, I'll charge it for you, many people come to chat with you every day, Gounod has all of them for you, and when he goes out, it's my turn to occupy the VCR for a while." Lu Zhao said as he dragged the charger with one hand and plugged the charging port into the phone.
"Today is the fifth day of my discharge, I am still adapting to the wound healing in the heart position, the wound will only hurt when I think of you, I have not forgotten what happened with you in the past few days, it is amazing, the multiple personalities are suddenly better, and a pair of eyes are attached, and now I can really see your world clearly, and see the signboard of your hotel."
Lu Zhao said and walked to the window on the second floor with the camera, and the scaffolding for decoration was tied to the window, Lu Zhao continued to shoot and said:
"[Forget Worries Inn] The red flower on the other side is very beautiful, Gounod said that this is the flower of the netherworld, the ghost will forget the sorrow when he sees it, I have been watching it for five days, every night I take advantage of the convenience of patrolling the streets on duty, I still can't forget you when I sit downstairs and stare at it, probably I am not a ghost yet, and my eyes need to practice more until the day I can see you."
Lu Zhao paused and continued: "See this scaffolding? Yan Wu's money, saying that you mean to seal the window on the second floor, Gono quarreled with Yan Wu for this, and finally the two of them compromised, a wall was erected in the middle of the window, and the big window was divided into two, and the window was so small that it couldn't get out, you can rest assured. ”
"Also, you received two more wedding invitations today, I will help you put them on the counter, Gono said that there is an invitation from Qin Ling, who you are looking forward to, and will get married on January 1 next year, and I don't know if you can catch up, Gounod said that if you can't catch up, let them make up another ...... for you."
At this time, the sound of a motorcycle came from downstairs, followed by a series of footsteps rushing upstairs, interrupting Lu Zhao's self-talk.
"Hey, have you told Jiuya enough? It's time to change me, it's eight o'clock, it's Christmas, and it's late and I don't even have a seat. ”
Yang Shiyi ran up to the second floor and went straight to Lu Zhao, took the video recorder, connected the power bank in his backpack, and ran downstairs with it.
"Jiuya, you said to run, just run, the first thing I can do when I leave the animal control center is to come here to make up for your celebration banquet, I have booked the restaurant, don't dislike it, don't pick it, just in Zhenxiyuan, I eat you deserve to watch, who let you run."
Shiyi got on the motorcycle, and was still chattering before starting:
"Hao Fan, do you remember, he said that he could spit bats in his mouth, and he reported himself as big news, but when he performed in public on the spot, he was pierced by Zheng Lusa, which was really heart-piercing, Lao Zheng was directly detained, but Hao Fan couldn't spit out anything, and it became a big joke in Z City."
Lu Zhao watched Yang Shiyi leave, walked to the bronze mirror debris suspended on the ground and continued: "I'm going to patrol the streets, I'll take you home after work, let you see Xiong Jiuya, I have completed the adoption procedures, and my mother likes their brothers and sisters." ”
Lu Zhao cautiously walked downstairs against the wall, avoiding the jars on the ground that had been used for decoration to hold materials, and made sure that he hadn't touched anything before leaving the hotel and walking towards the police booth at the corner of the street.
I didn't notice that near the east gate of the cemetery in the distance, there were three thieves looking around towards the hotel.
"Big brother...... I'm afraid...... Along the way, we either ran into bats or snakes in the grass, so let's come back during the day......"
The person who walked at the end of the little brother reached out and tugged at the clothes of the eldest brother in front of him, for fear that they would leave him behind.
"Daytime? During the day, the black-faced telephone pole downstairs had to stop us out. ”
When Dou Beilou heard that during the day, he stretched out his hand and slapped his little brother's head, saying as if he was not afraid, if there were no people downstairs during the day, who would want to come secretly at night.
"Boss, after all, this neighborhood is a cemetery that is strange and infiltrating, not only the junior is afraid, but I am also afraid, you are the cousin-in-law of the owner of this building, you go in openly, and any telephone pole has to give way to you."
The other little brother grabbed Dou Beilou's arm, glanced left and right, and there was no one at the end of the street, so he was relieved to boldly encourage Dou Beilou to enter openly.
"It's because I happened to hear my wife say that this cousin is missing, and no one dares to inherit this strange building, so I sneaked a look to determine the authenticity, in case no one really took some treasures and sold them for money."
"But...... We haven't taken anything yet, otherwise we will go in openly tonight, which is considered to be stepping on the spot, and then sneak in tomorrow to get it. Xiao San was too scared, so he gave Dou Beilou another trick.
"It makes sense, let's step on it first, don't take anything, if we are caught, there is no physical evidence, let's just come to walk around."
After Dou Beilou convinced himself, he swaggered and looked like a big money, and swaggered into the hotel.
"Boss, why are there so many jars on this floor?" Xiao San asked curiously.
"Don't you see the scaffolding at the door? This must be in the renovation, the first floor is a broken courier company, nothing to see, let's go directly to the second floor. Dou Beilou didn't wander too much, grabbing the handrail of the stairs and going upstairs.
"Ahh Xiao San suddenly screamed and disappeared.
"What is it called! Got a ghost? Dou Beilou turned his head to look for Xiao San, but he couldn't even find Xiao Er, the handrail of the stairs was broken, and the probe looked down from the fracture, and there were only two jars lying on the ground in the corridor, and there was no one at all.
"Don't scare me, you two, although this place is called a strange building, there can't really be a ghost! You two come out for me! ”
The whole building was empty, only the sound of Dou Beilou echoed, and there was no one else at all.
Dou Beilou immediately thought of turning on the lights, he rushed to the second floor as fast as he could, fumbling for the switch on the wall, and the mobile phone screen in the counter behind him suddenly lit up, and the mobile phone sent out the sound of text messages.
"Damn, the person is gone, what kind of battery is still on the phone."
Dou Beilou was scared out of a cold sweat, and cursed loudly to give himself courage, but fortunately he touched the switch, and the hotel instantly lit up.
It's still the same as when I came last time, but the bronze mirror is missing, and the furnishings and displays haven't changed.
Because of the light, Dou Beilou became bold, ran directly to the counter and rummaged through valuable things, completely forgetting that the little brother who came with him was missing.
At this time, the mobile phone on the counter rang again, and Dou Beilou glanced down at the screen.
The mobile phone screen showed a text message, but the content of the text message made Dou Beilou throw the banknote in his hand in fright.
'Cousin-in-law, you haven't seen you for a long time! ’
"It's not...... It's not that this is also an evil sect, it should be just a coincidence. ”
Dou Bei just wanted to run, but he didn't find anything abnormal, and there was no one in the hotel except himself, so he had the courage to continue to pick up banknotes.
"Jingle bell~" The phone rang again.
Dou Beilou looked over again, saw the words on the screen clearly, frowned and didn't believe it, so he walked to the shelves in the counter.
On the second floor of the shelf, under the bucket of instant noodles in the middle, I found a key and tried to use the key to open a dark compartment at the bottom of the counter, and there was really a gold bar inside.
Dou Beilou was identifying the authenticity of the gold bar, and the mobile phone rang again, and Dou Beilou saw the line of words and threw down the gold bar and shouted:
"Ahh Ghost! There are ghosts! ”
Dou Beilou ran downstairs in a panic, kicked the wreckage of the bronze mirror, and kicked an iron ring out of the wreckage.
The iron hoop rolled down the stairs and was stepped on by him, his foot slipped, and Dou Beilou rolled down the stairs......
There was one more jar downstairs, crashing into the other jars, making a crisp crashing sound.
The lights on the second floor suddenly went out, and the whole building returned to calm, as if no one had ever entered, only the mobile phone screen on the counter was still on, and a line of words appeared on the screen:
'Believe it, I'm right behind you!' ’