Prologue: A Rainy Night
The rainstorm had been falling for hours, and at three o'clock in the morning the sky was dark clouds rolling and lightning was thundering. Wang Xu put on a raincoat and took a shovel out of the door, and walked towards the cemetery next to the apartment.
Excavation work began...... Generally, there will be no cars on the roads in the suburbs at this time, and naturally there will be no pedestrians passing by. Of course, in such a rainstorm, even if a circle of onlookers gathered within ten meters of Wang Xu's side, they couldn't see what he was doing, or even whether he was a human or a ghost.
Wang Xu's mood at the moment was extremely depressed, of course, he was not because he wanted to make a fortune by robbing tombs on a whim after reading a few ghost blowing lanterns, but because he was forced to be helpless. In fact, it had only been three days since he moved to the apartment next to the cemetery, and his original idea was ...... It's a matter of course that the rent of the house next to the cemetery is cheap, anyway, I'm a materialist, and I just need to stare at the computer screen to be an otaku, so I'm okay to stand in front of the window and look into the distance and shout out my life ideals or something? The cemetery is the cemetery.
As a result, a strange thing happened on the night he checked in, when he was on the Internet until twelve o'clock, there was a constant heartbeat outside the window, plop, plop...... Echoing unhurriedly. At first, Wang Xu thought that he had been online for too long and had auditory hallucinations, so he turned off the computer and wanted to sleep, but after his head fell, the voice became clearer and clearer, definitely a heartbeat!
Wang Xu only felt that his throat was dry, and cold sweat soaked his whole body, you must know that outside the window is the cemetery, there is nothing else, and the heartbeat cannot be heard at all if it is not heard against someone else's chest, so what is going on now? So the materialist thought of a good way to solve the problem, which was to think about nothing and take sleeping pills......
The next day, Wang Xu, who had a splitting headache, woke up at noon, and he started the work of an otaku again, surfing the Internet, eating, surfing the Internet again, and then having dinner...... Before you know it, it's midnight again. As the voice sounded again, Wang Xu's psychological defense line completely collapsed, so that night, he lay on the bed with his eyes open, and used his mobile phone, Walkman, and old-fashioned radio to record for a long time.
On the morning of the third day, Wang Xu's eyes were bloodshot, he didn't know when the sound stopped, and he couldn't even remember whether he hadn't slept all night, all he knew was that there was only the sound of his own breathing in all the recording equipment. So he turned on his phone and pressed the record button again.
"If I hear this recording and remember that I recorded it, it proves that I am not hallucinating or schizophrenic, and that the recording equipment is functioning."
Then he played the recording twice, let out a long sigh, and went out to buy a shovel......
This cemetery existed before the liberation, and no one managed it at all, and there were even mounds of earth without tombstones. When Wang Xu came back from buying the shovel, he walked to the middle of the cemetery and gritted his teeth and said: "You old immortals, you dare to harass otaku, you are all ready to be awakened!" Lao Tzu tells you that otaku creatures, as long as the door is closed, they will be in a different plane from this universe! Do you understand different planes! If anyone dares to plop again tonight, Lao Tzu will come over and whip the corpse! ”
He was violent, his face was hideous, and he said a set of crooked reasoning that he thought was very deterrent, and he felt very relieved in his heart, but his voice did not fall a thunderbolt in the sky, and he almost didn't scare him down. But after all, he didn't lie down, so he straightened his clothes again, and swaggered back to the house with his hands behind his back, and I don't know who he was doing this for. Anyway, the owner of the watermelon shop across the street was so frightened by him that he almost hit 110 when he saw the new neighbor holding a shovel in the graveyard.
In fact, young people with less social experience like Wang Xu tend to be like this, and they think they can solve everything independently, so he didn't think to ask the neighbors around him at all, he only needs to ask the boss of the watermelon shop opposite to know a lot of things, such as this small cemetery used to be the mansion of a large family in the late Qing Dynasty, and then a nameless fire made it a ruin, and in the thirties, someone built a European-style villa here, which is the predecessor of the apartment where Wang Xu now lives. During the Anti-Japanese War, this building was used by the Japanese army as a temporary combat headquarters for several years, and the cemetery next to it was gradually formed in those years.
If you change to a natural genius, a handsome guy with the spirit of a king, a handsome guy and pig's feet and the like, you may be able to analyze a lot of useful things from this information, but unfortunately Wang Xu is just an ordinary otaku, and the special thing is that he is better than ordinary people......
So on such a rainy night, Wang Xu hysterically shoveled the soil, this rainstorm seemed to help him, the land was already muddy and rotten, originally digging graves This kind of physical work is very difficult work for the slender Wang Xu, but at this time he does not have much effort.
The sound of his heartbeat continued, and the sound was directly transmitted to his head, covering his ears to no avail, and he could still hear it very clearly in the pouring rain. It's just under this mound! There must be something under this mound of dirt that doesn't even have a tombstone! Wang Xu dug frantically, he had forgotten to be afraid, some were just angry, and kept scolding, "Things that don't want to die, buried in the soil and kept plopping, completely ignoring other people's feelings, right, see Lao Tzu killed you." ”
As he said this, the sound suddenly stopped, and then the shovel obviously touched something hard, Wang Xu's first reaction was bones, but when he saw what he dug out, the flashlight in his mouth almost fell.
"Hey...... Hey, hey, hey......" smirked with a flashlight for half a minute, Wang Xu's mood still couldn't calm down, "No matter how you look at this, it's a treasure, it's a fortune and a fortune......"
While talking to himself, he dug out the thing completely, at this time he had already dug a pit more than two meters deep, it was supposed to be exhaustive, but as soon as he saw this wooden box, he suddenly came to his senses again, and his movements were actually a little faster. This box is not big, only the size of a shoebox, but it is surprisingly heavy, and Wang Xu struggled with all his strength to barely bring the box out of the pit. I didn't pay attention to it when I was digging, and before I knew it, the pit had exceeded his height. He climbed all over in mud, but he didn't care, and began to fill it quickly, and by the time he entered the house, he didn't know how long it had been, but he was so tired that he was about to lose his strength.
Wang Xu glanced out the window again, sure that he had left no obvious traces, at this time he didn't care about sweating and muddy, sitting on the sofa and casually copied a piece of cloth to carefully wipe the outside of the wooden box and looked at it, he was sure that the basis for the value of this thing was not because it was dug up from the grave, but he found that the wooden box was buried in the soil and did not rot at all, and there was no scar after being chiseled by a shovel, so the rich imagination of the otaku played a role at this time. What's in a wooden box that can't be made with modern technology? I guess it's some kind of agate jade, gold and silver jewelry, moonlight treasure box and the like......
"You seem to have dug up something terrible."
"yes, it's a good time...... Yes! Who are you!? Why are you in my house!? Wang Xu jumped up in shock, there was a man standing behind him, and he was about to open the wooden box and suddenly spoke to him.
"Since this thing has chosen you, it means that you must be outstanding, this is my business card, come to my office to find me today." The man walked in front of Wang Xu as he spoke, and then leaned over and put the business card on the coffee table, Wang Xu only saw at this time that this person was about thirty years old, with a sloppy hairstyle, his beard was not completely shaved, but his face was as pale as paper, and for a moment Wang Xu even thought in his heart: Maybe I continue to be an otaku, and I will become like this in ten years.
Pushing strange thoughts out of his mind, Wang Xu yelled angrily: "You haven't answered my question yet!" Who the hell are you, I'm going to call the police! But the man didn't seem to hear him at all, and he didn't get angry, but he was as calm as water, and said weakly: "If you haven't found my office before four o'clock this afternoon, then...... Hehe, let's not talk about it, you are careful in everything. ”
The mysterious man walked while talking, and after he finished speaking, he pushed the door out by himself, and his back quickly melted into the torrential rain, Wang Xu was stunned by him for a few seconds, but when he chased it out, it was already in vain, the visibility outside was extremely low, and it was impossible to catch the man.
When Wang Xu returned to the house, he began to persuade himself again, it can be said that he relied on this to not go crazy since he was a child, he convinced himself that the man was just a thief, but he saw himself coming back with a shovel and a box, so he took the opportunity to make a fool of himself so that he could escape and escape. After Wang Xu "figured it out" like this, he picked up the business card on the coffee table and wanted to throw it into the trash, but the next scene he saw made him feel like falling into an ice cave.
The business card reads: Supernatural Detective Agency, Cat Master. And the address column is actually blank!
Wang Xu stared straight at the word "supernatural", and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Just kidding, it must be a joke, heh, hehe...... Do you still tell me to be careful in everything, to be careful, to what extent, to be careful with yourself! Feed! Uncle! You're answering me, bastard! ”
A cup of hot coffee finally calmed Wang Xu down, not because he drank it, but because his hand shook and spilled his crotch. Anyway, it was already here, and it was useless to think about it, so he just took one step at a time, so he locked the doors and windows, took the wooden box to the bedroom, and after taking a deep breath, he opened the wooden box......
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