Chapter 240: "It" (10)
"Alright then, I'll tell you." Lin Yu sorted out the vocabulary and told the world.
He said that on the day of the semester, he met Xu Wei and Yan Zizi in the wasteland, they were building a dam in the wasteland, William told them that his dead brother would turn his head and blink in the photo, and he himself met the mummy, who saw walking on the frozen canal with a balloon floating against the wind.
After finishing speaking, Lin Yu looked at Yan Zijiu, Yan Zijiu shrugged his shoulders and then talked about how he met the leper, he said it very quickly, the words and words were almost stacked together, and after he finished speaking, he took a deep breath.
"What about you?" Wan Qi asked the stars and the moon in the world.
"...... me?"
The four of them suddenly fell silent, like a dead silence after the explosion, waiting for Xingyue to tell her story.
"The rag is washed." Xingyue looked at the stopped washing machine, she opened the washing machine and took out a tangled rag and examined it carefully.
"There's still a little bit of it, but it can still look like cranberry juice." She said.
She opened it for them, and the world breathed a sigh of relief.
Xingyue threw the rag into the cylinder dryer and threw two five-cent coins, and the machine started to run, she walked back and sat between Yan Zizhi and Lin Yu.
The four of them were silent for a moment, watching the rags toss and turn, the dryer humming and sounding so comfortable that it made people a little drowsy, the laundries jammed with wooden wedges, and a woman pushing a shopping cart walked past the open door and glanced at them.
"I see it." Xingyue suddenly spoke: "I didn't want to say it, I just wanted to treat it as a dream or something, or even go crazy." ”
"I feel so bad that I'd rather believe I'm going crazy than I want to see it...... It's true. She choked.
"What do you see?" Wan asked the world, but she wasn't sure if she really wanted to know, it wasn't like listening to ghost stories around a campfire and eating toast while everyone laughed.
The four of them sat in the depressing laundry when she saw several clumps of cotton wool under the washing machine, dust drifting in through the filthy glass windows and dancing in the scorching sun. Everything is normal. Normal, well-and-well, boring, real world.
But she was scared in her heart, because she knew that these were not made up stories or imaginary monsters, and that the monsters they said would appear at any time, and then they would not hesitate to drag them away or kill them directly.
"So, what exactly do you see?" Wan Qi asked the world and lowered his head.
Xingyue said cautiously: "I'm in that park with a water storage tower......"
"I don't like that!" Yan Zizi looked depressed, "If there is a haunted place in Delhi, it must be there." He rudely interrupted Xingyue's words.
"What? Why do you say that? Xingyue said excitedly, they have fully entered the movie role.
"Haven't you heard anything about what's going on there? My mom wouldn't let me go there before the child homicide even started, and you know, she really cared about me. ”
"There have been children who drowned there, three or four, maybe more...... Stanley, you ...... You okay. ”
Xingyue's face was pale, his mouth moved silently, his eyes rolled up, only the lower edge of the iris was still exposed, he stretched out a hand, weakly trying to grasp something, and then landed on his leg.
Xingyue stared at Yan Zi and reflected, "Tell me how much you know about the water storage tower." ”
Yan Zijiu said first, and then Lin Yu and Wan Qian Tianxia also said something.
Located on Kansas Street, about two and a half kilometres west of the town centre and near the southern end of the moor, the Delhi Water Storage Tower was once the only source of drinking water in Delhi, storing up to 6,600 cubic meters of water.
The open-air viewing deck at the top of the tower has always been a popular attraction because of its excellent views over the town and suburbs.
The outside of the water storage tower is covered with asbestos tiles, the white is dazzling, the center is a huge stainless steel column, there is a thick wooden door directly below the landscape platform, the water storage tank platform is entered, the underground is water, it is like a black pool, the pool water is slightly churning, and a few magnesium lamps are bolted on the reflective tin cover, illuminating the accumulated water.
"Where does the water come from?" Lin Yu asked.
The people looked at each other, but no one knew.
"Well, but what does that have to do with those drowning kids?"
They knew a little more about this matter, and it seemed that Lin Yu played Ben knew the most, he said: "Back then, the people who led to the platform were never locked, and one night there were two children...... or one or more children...... When they found that the door on the first floor was not locked, they boldly climbed up, but mistakenly entered the water storage platform instead of the observation deck, and fell in the darkness before they could realize where they were. ”
Wan Qitian said: "I heard a child say that as soon as those children fell into the water, they died, because there was nothing to scratch onto, the walls were too smooth, they swam around in the water, shouting for help, maybe all night, but no one heard, and finally ......"
"I've also heard of a mother who lost her baby and then they shut the place for good, at least that's what I heard." Yan said slowly with introspection.
Yan Zizhi took out a small brown bottle from his pocket, opened it, poured out two white pills, and swallowed them directly.
"What is this?"
"Aspirin, I have a headache." Without much explanation.
Xingyue glanced at the dryer again, watching the rag turn in circles, the rag that was originally entangled in a ball had already scattered, and a few of them floated like a parachute.
"What did you see there?" Wan Qitianxia asked softly, and for a moment they thought that Xingyue would not answer, but she took a deep breath with a trembling and began to talk about what happened to her, but at first they thought that she would not tell any other story at all.
"It was named Memorial Park to commemorate the Civil War, and there were statues before, but it was destroyed by a storm in a certain era, and the government didn't have the funds to repair it, so it was changed to a large stone basin for birds to drink."
The others looked at Xingyue, who seemed to know more than they could.
"I love bird watching, I have an illustrated book, a pair of binoculars and all the essentials." Xingyue showed a pained expression, as if she was recalling something particularly terrible and unspeakable, which even gave her a headache.
"And aspirin?" Xingyue asked Yan for self-reflection.
Yan Zijiu handed her the whole bottle, she poured two, after hesitating for a moment she poured another one, she returned the bottle to Yan Zijiu, swallowed the medicine in one gulp, after taking the medicine, she thought about it, seemed to be organizing her own language, and didn't seem to know where to start, she paused and continued......