Chapter 5: The Master Disappears
In just one night, she woke up three or four times. got up at six o'clock in the morning, and Lu Jia didn't bother to eat breakfast and went straight to Gui Street. The second half of the night is when the lights are brilliant, and the original name of Gui Street is "Ghost Street", and legend has it that because the ghosts have to go into the city to eat at night, so in the daytime, especially at this point, there are basically no people on the street.
Uncle Shi's surname is Hu, and everyone calls him Uncle Hu.
found Uncle Hu's snack bar, and then remembered that she didn't have Uncle Hu's phone, so she banged on the door desperately, and finally saw the bearded Uncle Shi come to open the door unkempt.
Uncle Hu was taken aback when he saw Lu Jia: "Lu girl, why are you here?" ”
"Uncle, my master is ..... Master, he lost it."
Lu Jia said incoherently, seeing that Uncle Hu finally had a sense of security, he held back his fear for several days, and suddenly burst out like a river that opened the floodgates, and cried.
"Lu girl, don't worry, speak slowly"
Uncle Hu let Lu Jia into the house, sat down by the door to find a table and chair for guests, and told Uncle Shi about the strange man's phone number and the disappearance of the master.
"Buying lychees?" Uncle Hu's dark face frowned.
"Uncle Shi, should we call the police? Also What does it mean to buy lychee? Lu Jia wiped her tears and looked at Uncle Hu and asked.
"Well, it's the one who bought lychees...... Call the police, your master will be fine. Lu girl, you didn't have breakfast, Uncle Shi went to make you a fried mein. ”
Uncle Hu diverted the topic, obviously unwilling to continue on this issue. The uncle of the boss and chef will naturally not be bad, but Lu Jia has no appetite at all.
"Uncle Hu, what does my master do besides setting up a stall to tell fortunes?"
"Ahem..... Lu girl, your master is a person who does big things, don't mix with adults and children. Uncle Hu diverted the topic again,
"Lu girl, what have you learned from the things your master taught you so far?"
Lu Jia thought about it for a long time and didn't figure out what she had learned. She doesn't know how to tell fortunes, she hasn't seen what ghosts look like when she catches ghosts or something, Qimen and the like are still half-, and she can't memorize the formula.
Uncle Shi looked at her like this and didn't ask again. At the time of parting, he gave Lu Jia a compass:
"Lu girl, this is Uncle Hu's belongings, don't lose it, you can use it."
"What about my master?"
"Your master is fine, don't worry."
Maybe I didn't sleep well last night, and I was sleepy on the way back by subway from No. 1 store, and I fell asleep in a daze. I don't know if it's because of the cold air conditioner or whatever, she was invaded by the cold and felt that the eyes of the people in the entire subway were weird.
Everyone lowered their heads, and they found that when Lu Jia looked around, they all turned their heads in the direction where Lu Jia was, and the whites of their eyes turned upward. Frightened, she quickly lowered her head and didn't dare to look again. She wanted to suppress her fear, but the more she did, the more she felt those eyes staring at her, and with a gust of cold wind, she couldn't help but shiver and her hairs stood on end.
When you are afraid, time slows down infinitely in your senses. I remember that the subway is obviously one stop every two minutes, and this station seems to have no head, why is it so long? When she was afraid and confused, a boy's voice sounded in her ears: "You've arrived." ”
The voice was not loud, but it clearly broke through her fear, and when she looked up, she saw a delicate-faced man, who looked only in his twenties but had deep eyes that did not match his age. When she looked around again, the subway was back to normal, and she couldn't help but suspect that she had hallucinated just now.
Lu Jia took this opportunity to get off the subway in a hurry, and glanced at the man, who had disappeared from the crowd that had been squeezed into the boarding and disembarking crowd.
In the studio, Qiqi and Zhou Mo were still giggling and playing, and when they saw Lu Jia coming back, Qiqi said hello:
"You're back? Today, the editor is still urging us to write a manuscript......"
"Oh"
When she came back from Uncle Hu, she didn't find any useful information, and she leaned back on the sofa listlessly, not wanting to say a word more.
"The little master looks unenergetic? Come, the apprentice will draw a lot for you. ”
Zhou Mo came over with the sticker, although Lu Jia knew that this kid wanted to make herself happy, but she still couldn't be happy, so she had to draw one for him.
"The little master won the second, third and seventh lots
Signature: There should be a straight out of nothing, the heart is still a relative, the clouds are scattered and the moon is reunited, and the sails are urgent. ”
"What do you mean?" Lu Jia didn't even look at him, absent-mindedly perfunctory.
"Things have not been going well recently, see me unsign for you, show people to 'the clouds are scattered, the bright moon shines on people's mood, carry out the things in their hearts. That said, what you're worried about will take a turn. ”
Don't look at Zhou Mo, this guy is not serious on weekdays, but it is still interesting for him to unsign. But is this "turning point" up or down? "Bah" crow's mouth, hoping that the disappearance of the master will be as he said, safe and sound.
Leaning on the sofa and just about to fall asleep, the phone rang again: "Little girl, is Mr. Jiang back?" The hoarse man's voice again.
Hearing this voice, Lu Jia took a deep breath and plucked up the courage to ask:
"Who are you? In this way, I will also get better and tell my teacher. ”
"Tutor? Hehehe...... Jiang Hao is really interesting. Little girl, don't blame me for not telling you, if Jiang Hao doesn't come back, the person who bought lychees will come to you. If you have any doubts or need help, give me this number when you think it through. ”
"Toot toot...."
Listening to his voice, it was still cold all over, and the "beep" phone call reminded the man who landed that he had hung up the phone. Reason told her that this stranger who was not familiar at all and the strangeness of this thing was better not to touch it, and not to touch this person. Now, the only prayer in Lu Jia's heart is: the master just don't have an accident.
Just now a phone call from the man made her sleepy, picked up the mobile phone and swiped the post bar to divert her emotions, and happened to see a page: the police found the bodies of three people who had disappeared in the city for several days, all described as withered, their eyes were gouged out, and the current situation was miserable...... I took a look at the update date, and it was early this morning.
Seeing this, Lu Jia shuddered inexplicably, thinking that the master hadn't been home for more than two months, and the phone had been turned off for four days, I wonder if the master would be fine?
To her relief, none of the three people in the picture were the same size as the master. People are like this, the more nervous they are, the more they will doubt what they see, and after a while, when she went to look for the post just now to reconfirm whether it was the master, the post had already been deleted.
"Maybe it's fake news." She comforted herself.
In her dream that night, she saw two more hollow blood holes, and when she looked closely, they were the sockets that had been gouged out, and the eyeballs were drooping next to them and still turning out.....
Suddenly woke up and the back was already soaked, and there were traces of the old cat's teeth on her hands, and at this time she saw the strange appearance of the old cat on the floor: Naoji stared at her, "whoosh" and whimpered in a low voice, the hair on his whole body exploded, and he slowly took a few steps back, half-arched, slightly bent his knees, and his limbs were full of strength and ready to attack at any time.
The old cat Mo Xue has grown up with her for 15 years now, and she has never seen it like this, and Mo Xue will not hurt herself for no reason. , she felt the cold wind blowing behind her, no, Mo Xue didn't look at herself, it was.... Behind her.
Lu Jia didn't know what he would see if he turned around at this moment, and the instinct from the depths of his soul told himself: don't look at it.