Chapter 17: Amnesia can mask all problems
I grabbed my stunner in my sleeping bag.
I knew it would be ridiculous for me to try to use a stunner made in some small underground factory if she was the Grim Reaper. What I did was just an instinctive move.
She seemed to be staring at me in the dark, still not speaking.
I broke the silence: "Why don't you speak?" β
She finally spoke up: "You're not the first ...... to say that"
I said, "What do you mean?" β
Her tone was a little sad: "I have long felt that I am often possessed by something......"
I'm a little confused.
She continued, "Can I start from the beginning? β
I said, "Say it." β
She said, "I'm from Tianjin." When I was 20 years old, my hair suddenly turned gray, and my dad took me to see a lot of doctors, Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and I couldn't cure it. Let's talk about genetics, my parents are not less white-headed. Moreover, I have never been short of nutrition since I was a child. Ever since my hair turned gray, my brain has always had amnesia and it's so bad that I often don't know what I've done......"
I listened quietly.
She continued: "For example, I was sitting in front of my computer at home surfing the Internet, and suddenly I had amnesia, and when I woke up, I was still sitting in front of my computer at home, and I didn't even know what was going on. Later, after listening to my family, I realized that I had been missing for many days and had come back on my own......"
I said, "You mean, your body was borrowed by someone else?" β
"I think so," she said. Once, one of my high school classmates called me and said she had seen me at Dadonghai Beach in Sanya. Then she confronted me and asked me why she ran over to talk to me and ignored her. She said that the day was when I had amnesia! She also said that there was a tall and skinny boy walking with me at the time, and he looked intimate, like a couple. She thought I had lied to the boy and that it was inconvenient for her to recognize her, so she didn't say anything more and walked away in confusion...... Listening to her words, I felt terrible, because I had never been to Sanya, and I never remembered meeting any tall and thin boys! β
I began to believe in her.
She added: "Then I thought of a way, and when I was sober, I put a note in my pocket and wrote a memo to remind myself to write a diary ......."
I don't know why, I suddenly got nervous.
What did she do when she lost her memory? As long as she knows how to keep a diary, then everything will be revealed.
"Sure enough, every time I had amnesia and came to my senses again, I would have an extra notebook with what I had done," she said. A few years later, I had saved up seven or eight journals, and I always carried them with me. There was another me, and when I suddenly lost my memory, I would only know where I came from by reading them...... Do you understand? β
I said, "Understood." β
"Once, I was missing for 5 months, and when I woke up, I found that all my diaries were burned and my belly was ...... bigger," she said
Sometimes I'm so stupid that I can't even think of a connection between a burned diary and a big belly.
She stopped talking.
I asked, "Why?" β
"It was likely that I slept with a guy and was pregnant," she said. I'm sure I wrote about this experience in my journal as well. He found those diaries of mine and knew that I had amnesia, and in order to be irresponsible, he burned them and destroyed all my memories of him. β
I said, "What about the kids?" β
She said: "Miscarriage, dead." β
After a pause, she added: "The reason why I always carry that globe with me and draw a mark everywhere I go is because I am afraid that I will forget which places I have been there and which places I have not." β
When she saw that I didn't speak, she asked, "Why don't you speak?" Don't believe me? β
Looking back on what she said, I always felt that there was something wrong with the logic, but I couldn't find it.
I said, "I'm wondering if you're having amnesia right now......
She immediately said, "Of course not, I'm sober." I saw the news of your disappearance in Lop Nur on the Internet, and then I flew to Xinjiang and signed up as a volunteer. β
Her hair has been explained, her presence in many people's lives has been explained, even the weird globe she carries with her......
I suddenly said, "Why are you called An Chunhong?" β
She said, "Huh? Any questions? β
I said, "I wonder why your parents chose these three characters when there are so many Chinese characters in China......
She smiled: "Then why are you called Zhou Dedong?" β
I said, "It's different." Do you know the legend about An Chunhong? β
"I don't know," she said. The name is very vulgar, and there should be a lot of people calling it. β
I said: "There have been several major disasters since the last century, and each time there has been a survivor, and amazingly, those survivors are all named An Chunhong. β
After that, I waited for her reaction.
She happily said, "It seems that this name is very lucky!" Well, that master really has a magic eye......"
I said, "What Master?" β
She said, "In the past, I didn't have that name, but it was given to me by my master. β
MasterβI seemed to have caught some clue at once, and immediately asked her, "Where did you meet this Master?" β
"When my hair turned gray, I was sad," she said. One morning, I was walking outside the community and saw an old nun, and she said to me, "Little donor, your name is An Chunhong." She just said that, and walked over. I don't know why, I believed her so much that I changed my name when I got home. β
I said, "Your original surname is Ann?" β
"No," she said. β
Then she said, "Later, I often went to the temple to burn incense. Two years ago, I traveled to Thailand and worshipped a master at Wat Arun in Bangkok, and he asked for a Buddhist plaque for me and opened the light to me, which is the Buddhist plaque that I wore around my neck. The Buddha card is divided into positive and negative cards. The genuine card is the best, it is made under the guidance of the Buddha and blessed by the monks. The yin card is different, it is designed by Azan - that is, the mage - himself, and then launches elements such as ghosts, demons, and immortals, and makes them, and this kind of yin card is often used to achieve some unbright purposes, such as confusing the opposite sex, such as obtaining money, etc., which is very unpopular in Thailand. The makers of the yin cards are divided into white-robed Azan and black-robed Azan against. The white-robed Azan has the meaning of Jigong, which belongs to the nature of half immortal and half demon. Black-robed Azan is usually a monk who has betrayed his faith or violated the heavy vows of Buddhism, and they practice far away from the city in the mountains and old forests, and when they make Yin cards, they often use the corpses of abandoned babies or animal organs, which are extremely powerful......"
I really don't want to hear it.
When a woman reaches the age of thirty or forty, she often becomes chattering, opening her mouth "Master" and closing her mouth "Master", which is basically a characteristic of age. Once, I had dinner with a high-ranking official, and he brought a woman and talked about her amulet card endlessly, and I withdrew halfway through......
However, I trust this An Chunhong more and more.
I saw in her some of the traits of her peers.
I'm most afraid that she's featureless.
When An Chunhong and I went to bed, it was already past 1 o'clock in the morning.
It was a very cold night.
I tucked my head back into my sleeping bag, not wanting to waste the little heat I was exhaling, my whole body still shivering. I suspect I'm still suffering from heat stroke.
An Chunhong fell asleep, and she actually made a slight snoring sound. Girls sleep quietly, which is also a characteristic of age?
I didn't think about anything, and soon fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept, I heard An Chunhong suddenly scream, and I opened my eyes suddenly: "What's wrong!" β
In the darkness, I heard Bai Sha speak: "It's me." β
White Sands is back!
An Chunhong asked in a panic: "Who are you!" β
Bai Sha asked rhetorically, "Who are you?" β
I said, "It's all my own." β
Then, I turned on the emergency light, and An Chunhong and Bai Sha looked at each other.
I said to An Chunhong: "He is our teammate, and he went out last night because of something. You're sleeping in his sleeping bag. Then, I said to Bai Sha, "She is looking for our volunteer, her name is An Chunhong." β
Bai Sha's face showed a hint of immodest smile, and said to An Chunhong, "I'm sorry." I touched Mr. Zhou after I came in, I didn't want to alarm him, I wanted to sneak into the sleeping bag and lie down, but I didn't expect it to press on you......"
An Chunhong touched her heart and let out a long sigh of relief.
I looked at my phone, it was past 7 o'clock in the morning, and it was still dark outside.
I asked Baisha, "...... you How did you get back? β
Bai Sha said, "You don't want me to come back? β
I said, "I hope you have left Lop Nur." β
Bai Sha said: "Thanks to you with your car lights on, otherwise I would not have found this lake." β
I looked at his clothes, there were black and red blood stains on them, and I whispered to him, "Are you okay?" β
He looked at his clothes sensitively and said, "It's okay." It's not mine. β
I said, "You killed them?" β
He said, "Yes, two." β
I was stunned: "Two! Are you sure? β
He looked me in the eye and said, "You think I'm bragging?" β
I said, "Are you...... How? β
Bai Sha took out an old-fashioned folding razor from his pocket and shook it a few times in his hand, the razor opened and closed, "clicking", revealing a cold murderous aura. I didn't know he had this murder weapon with him all along.
He calmly said, "Use it." β
Then, he took out a very clean towel from his pocket: "Add it." β
I don't understand, how do you combine a razor and a towel?
He carefully wiped the blade of the razor with a towel and pocketed it.
I said, "Can you tell me about your methods?" β
Since he can kill two humans, it would be easy for him to kill me if he wanted to. I had to know how he did it in order to have a precaution.
"It's simple," he said, "assassination. β
I said, "How?" β
He said: "I entered the tomb first and familiarized myself with the environment. When they returned, and fell asleep during the night, I went into the first humanoid burial chamber, covered his mouth with a towel in one hand, and slit his throat with a knife in the other, and soon died. β
I said, "Others can't hear me?" β
He said, "There is an old saying that an inch is long and a ruler is short, you should know, right?" β
I said, "Of course I do, but I don't know what you mean by that." β
He said, "I have something special, too. β
I said, "For example? β
"I can become a shadow," he said. β
I was shocked: "How did you become a shadow?" β
He smiled: "Mr. Zhou, don't stare so big your eyes, in fact, there is nothing magical, as long as a person is silenced, he will become a shadow." β
I said, "You...... How to silence it? β
He said, "I'll show you how." β
I stared at him closely.
He began to move slowly in the tent, faster and faster. He walked sideways and circled like a crab, his face always facing me, without any expression, like a dead man.
He was wearing ordinary sneakers, and there was sand under his feet, but there was no sound, like stepping on cotton, really like a shadow!
I understood why he always overheard our conversations and we didn't even notice it.
Finally, he stopped in front of me and smiled triumphantly.
I said, "How do you have this ability?" β
He said: "It's very simple, why do rats walk silently? Because everybody hits it. I'm a fugitive and I have to hide myself. β
I said, "Linghu Mountain is also dead?" β
Bai Sha said: "He ran away with two other humans. β
I said, "Trouble is coming......
Bai Sha didn't seem to care about any trouble, and he said, "I'll tell you a secret. β
I said, "What secret?" β
Bai Sha said: "You said that there is no leader for humans, and they all listen to the oldest, but in fact, it is a scam. β
I said, "Who is their chief?" β
Bai Sha said: "Linghu Mountain." β