Chapter 22: The Strange Old Man
Looking at the eyes that were constantly approaching me in front of me, I felt a palpitation for no reason, coupled with the strange and lonely aura around me, just when I panicked, a slightly rapid cough came from the originally empty room that seemed to be a bedroom. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I suddenly remembered my grandmother, whom I hadn't visited for a long time, and sighed silently in my heart, and then looked up at the door next to the square table. After a long time, a crumpled hand appeared on the side of the door frame, and he was still trembling slightly when he grabbed the door frame.
I sighed and walked slowly, and after a while, an old man with gray hair and a bent waist appeared in front of me, and I hurried over to help the old man sit on the wooden bench next to the square table. Then the old man sighed lightly and said, "Young man, why did you come here, this is not the place you should be!" ”
I smiled and asked, "Old man, why are you here alone?" What about your children, don't they come to see you? Wouldn't you be too lonely? "Maybe it's because I haven't visited my grandmother for a long time, I suddenly feel uncomfortable, and my grandmother is about the same as this old man, and she is a lot of years old and keeps the ancestral house alone.
"Hehe, young man, it seems that your heart is not bad." The old man seemed to smile happily, and then he coughed lightly a few times and said: "Alas, I used to want to raise my children, so that they can start a family as soon as possible, and they can have a stable person to take care of me in the future, but now they are too busy, and when they get home, they can't say a few words, it's a phone call and a text message, and they can't talk a few words with their grandchildren, so they just hold a mobile phone together and go to fight something, alas~"
After the old man finished speaking, he coughed sharply again, and then spit out a large pool of yellow sticky, and suddenly a foul smell came up. I just frowned and instinctively wanted to retreat, but the old man seemed to be embarrassed and said: "Alas, when you are old, you are useless, and you always cause trouble to others, young man, you better go, I am a bad old man, I am a stinky and broken mouth, you should go back early so as not to add to the blockage in your heart." ”
His words suddenly made my nose sour, thinking about my dislike of the elderly, but when I was just born, the whole family "served" me, it was really a handful of and a handful of urine when I was raised, they never complained, maybe only if you are really a parent will have this kind of awareness, otherwise how can someone feel that they will never be able to repay the kindness of their parents in this life.
Thinking of this, I tried to restrain my desire to move, and then said to the old man: "It's okay, we have all been pulled up like this, and now it's just a reincarnation, and we juniors will take good care of you." My words seemed to surprise the old man, and he looked up in astonishment.
It was a wrinkled face, the years had relentlessly drawn furrows on his face, his pale hair was loosely draped on the top of his head, his eyes were squinted at me, his dull eyes revealed a complicated expression, his left eye was empty only a dark hole, and I suddenly realized that the eye I had seen before should be the old man's left eye.
I walked to the door and picked up the eyeball, then walked back and handed it to the old man and asked, "Did you drop it?" The old man took the eyeball and stuffed it into his left eye, and then he asked, "Young man, are you not afraid of me like this?" ”
"Afraid, how can you not be afraid?" I quietly looked at the old man's face and responded, "But what I'm more afraid of is that if I throw you away like this, I can't help my conscience!" If a person lives without a conscience and does not know how to be grateful, then what is the difference between the living and the dead? It's better to find a pit and bury yourself early. ”
The old man seemed surprised by my words, and then he lowered his head as if to wipe away his tears, and then he looked up again and said, "Actually, I am already a dead man!" Then he looked around and continued, "You can see that it doesn't look like it's inhabited, but I died in that room." ”
The old man pointed to the door facing the square table and continued: "There is the kitchen and bathroom room of my house, I called my children that day, but they didn't have time to reunite, seeing that the Double Ninth Festival is coming, but I feel lonely and don't want to disturb them, and then I somehow locked the kitchen door and opened the valve of the gas pipe. ”
"Huh? You mean you were inexplicably led to suicide? Did your children find any suspicious traces? I felt a little strange and asked casually.
The old man sighed faintly again: "Alas, there are some complaints about them, after all, I am just a little lonely, it turns out that people are really afraid of lonely creatures, so they will desperately use all kinds of friendship to maintain, but family affection is important, but in today's society, the younger generation needs to face too many problems, sometimes it's not that they don't want to, they really don't have time to take care of their parents, and they can only regret it when they lose it!" It's just that I can't figure out why I suddenly have a suicidal move. ”
"By the way, young man, how did you find here?" The old man suddenly asked.
"Actually, it's quite strange to say, I came up to see the sound of rolling marbles upstairs, but it stands to reason that I live on the top floor, but it's amazing that you will appear upstairs in me." I don't shy away from saying it.
The old man's brows tightened when he heard this, and after a while, he asked, "Did you come up and see just my house or an alley?" ”
"It's just your house, and you can't see the rest of the place?" I'm a little curious.
"It seems that the rumors are true, young man, tell me the specific position you are in." The old man asked very carefully about the current year and the detailed address of the lot, and after listening to my answer, he said to me: "Young man, go quickly, there must be an evil ghost living here, and this evil ghost wants to take advantage of your filial piety to keep you here, the last time I appeared, there was also a young man, the young man and I talked for a while and found that the door could not be opened, and then he seemed to disappear quickly, and then I felt myself cold and then became confused." ”
"It's okay old man, my life is very long, I just want to see who wants my life! I'll talk to you for a moment. With that, I sat down on the wooden bench to the old man's right and chatted with the old man about his daily life.
The time passed quickly, and the old man suddenly got up and said to me, "It's not early, I should go to bed." I watched suspiciously as the old man slowly walked to the bedroom, and then there was a dead silence all over me. After sitting for a while, I got up and walked into the bedroom, which was empty, and then I noticed a detail: everything else in the bedroom was covered with a thick layer of dust, but the bed was extremely clean.
Then I walked out of the bedroom quickly, and when I looked closely, there was a shallow layer of dust on the floor, but the square table and four stools were clean, and the top light bulb seemed to be a little dusty, but it was much cleaner than the bedroom.
After a short time, I heard the sound of the marbles rolling down again, and then an eyeball slowly rolled to my feet, and I simply crossed my hands and hugged my chest, looking coldly. Sure enough, after a while, the crumpled hand reappeared by the door frame.
After waiting for a while, an old man with a slight redness all over his body walked out tremblingly, if it weren't for the blue purple lips and the dropped left eye, the old man would have looked normal. Then he stared at me and asked, "Young man, do you see an eye?" I'm getting older, and I'm not used to missing an eyeball. ”
I didn't say anything, just coldly pointed to the eyeball that rolled down at my feet, he looked over and then said: "Oh, thank you so much, by the way, young man, can you please help me pick it up, I'm too old to bend over." ”
I picked up the eyeball and handed it over, he leaned over and motioned for me to help him install the eyeball, so I continued to do so, who expected that as soon as I put the eyeball into the old man's eye socket, the blood rushed out of his eye socket like a river bursting the embankment, and the eyeball was instantly rushed out and hit the square table leg, and shattered to the ground with a bang.
"Ahh You little bunny, you have such a ruthless heart! You see that I am old and weak, sick and disabled and easy to bully, right, murder! Help me! God, you are so blind, let this wolf-hearted and dog-hearted beast act so freely and recklessly, you damn it! The old man clutched his left eye and screamed, blood gurgling down his fingers.
"The acting is good, but it's nothing to look at, if there's nothing new, I'll leave." As I spoke, I made a gesture and walked to the door.
"You're ruthless!" The old man said through gritted teeth. I gave him a blank look and then naturally clapped my hands in response: "It's okay, it should be average compared to you, if I guessed correctly, the one who died before should have been calculated by your routine, first disguised himself with his kind side to let people down their vigilance, and then tricked others into checking the injury in the name of injury. ”
The old man stood up and stared at me with cold eyes, and then he suddenly raised his head to the sky and roared, and soon a strong whirlwind blew on the ground, and the whirlwind slowly wrapped the old man's body and slowly floated into the air.
"The dark shadow I saw when I came out that night must have been you." I suddenly remembered the first time I felt a cool breeze above my head when I went to check on the Blood Curse at night, and the strange paw prints I saw later.
"I didn't expect that the senior brother said that you would be unusually calm in the face of the crisis, not only are you not as impulsive as the young people in front of you, but you can also analyze and associate so calmly, it seems that you are really a little underestimated, but even so it is only a little difficult to deal with, why did the senior brother tell me to be careful of you, and said that you have unlimited room to rise, if I am alone with you, maybe I will be killed by you!" The red skin on the old man's body gradually fell off.
"I also went to see the relevant information to make myself like this, in order to match the appearance of gas poisoning, I even deliberately disguised the corpse spots as pink, but unfortunately, in the end, it was still in vain, I knew that I would have changed to a more terrifying one," the old man's words became more and more sharp, as if slowly turning into a woman's voice.
"Since this outward confusion has no effect on you, then let's see the high and low under our fists!" The opposite side was completely enveloped in a whirlwind, and only a cold voice could be heard.