I looked back at the white mask I had taken from the old house at the witch's hut, the material was very special, very thin, it felt like an eggshell, but the texture was very hard, and the face painted on it was very delicate, and the details were carefully outlined.

It looks like it's from the master's hand.

In the afternoon, I made dozens of calls to Yuxuan, but the result was still prompted to turn off, I couldn't sit still, looking at more than ten hours to go to work, so I drove the Audi all the way to Pingfu Village, passing by here and found that the police had dealt with the matter of the old man in the coat.

I cautiously walked into Song Gong's house, and found that Yuxuan was really here, I asked her why she didn't turn on her phone, and she said that the mobile phone charger was lost, and it was too late to buy it.

I told her and Song Gong about the situation in the photos before, and told her not to go outside at night.

But she told me that the picture had happened more than a decade ago, and that she had already died once.

I said, "My heart is with you now, and to be on the safe side, be careful."

Yuxuan snorted, nodded and behaved very obediently, saying that she would not go out.

Then I helped Song Gong move the agate stone in, I thought that Song Gong would not send so many valuable things, but Yuxuan told me that these are fakes, and they can only be sold outside for a little ordinary price.

I took out the mask and asked Song Gong what kind of material it was, Song Gong was immediately surprised when he saw it, and he was afraid that he would be mistaken, so he took the mask over, stood outside the room, and looked at it seriously under the sun.

This went back and forth, and after a while, Song Gong made a few gestures in front of me and Yuxuan.

Yuxuan told me that this mask is not for the living! but to the dead!

I was amazed and said why?

Then Song Gong made a few more gestures, and Yu Xuan translated: Because the mask was directly on the person's bones, not on the face.

Song Gong nodded, meaning that what Yu Xuan said was very right.

I was dumbfounded!

There is such a mask in the world that is worn on bones, not on the face, so at that time, the face mask man did not let me see his face, is it because his mask is a bone behind it instead of a face?

That's not right, I've seen his mask up close, and he has eyes, but they're black and not white.

Then Song Gong gestured a few more times, and Yuxuan told me that we had to stay together these days because there might be danger outside.

I said yes.

In the evening, I drove my Audi to Fuquan City, and returned to the witch's hut, and I left her in my room, in fact, I did not want to leave her for a moment, I just wanted to hold her in the palm of my hand forever.

Now I find that when I go to work and get out of the car, I always take a lot of ghosts, they give money and leave, and they don't hurt me under normal circumstances, and I don't think some ghosts are as terrible as they think, if you don't care about him, they will ignore you at all.

Maybe they didn't know anything before this, maybe they didn't know that they were dead, and they still thought they were alive, living their old days, commuting to and from work as before.

When I went downstairs to Bihua Property Co., Ltd., I found that the lights were still on on the roof, I thought that there should be people working overtime in this company now, remembering that Yuxuan was working here, I lit a cigarette, was smoking, and the appearance of Uncle Ma Coat appeared again.

When I bought him alcohol to drink and cigarettes, but now he is dead, and I remember that at that time I was in the hospital with Jinghui, because Jinghui told me that he was not a good person, so I didn't go to him again.

Actually, I've only met this old man twice, and the last time I saw him die, but since he was one of the four dead, then he must have a fate with us, otherwise why would I be so sad to see him die?

I didn't expect this person to be one of the four of us, at the beginning I thought it was Jinghui, thinking, I realized something, maybe some things are like this, like the totem of ancient India, the mouth bites the tongue, indicating that some things, once it is over, it means that there is a new beginning.

I think the same is true of the old man in the coat, who is dead now, but he will have to wait for someone at the crematorium in a week, and he didn't say who he was waiting for.

Perhaps the death of the old man in the horse coat is a beginning rather than an end.

Seeing that some time had passed, I was ready to drive again, but I never thought that at this moment, I suddenly saw a man wearing a Peking Opera mask sitting there from the rearview mirror, stretching out his hand on my shoulder!

It's him! Facebook Man!

Did the mask come out?

I nodded and took the mask out to him, and then I asked, "Is it okay to take off your mask so that you can see me?"

"Why do you want to look at me?"

I hesitated for a moment, but eventually said, "Because I want to see if you have any muscle tissue on your face!" ”

When I said that, the man laughed and told you, boy, do you know why rats die? It was because he stole the oil in the tank, but he didn't know that rat poison was put in the oil in order to poison it! Don't be so curious, it won't do you any good!

I didn't start the car, threw away the cigarette butt and went out the window, quickly turned to him and said, "Then we can make a deal!" If I help you once, you will help me once, so can you take a look? That's fairest! ”

"Hehe, I saved you so many times before, and now you still want to trade with me, then okay, I'll promise you when you see you're a child!"

I immediately asked the question of the ghostly eye and asked the face man, "So have you ever seen a ghost's eye?" It's an eyeball, sealed in a glass ball! If you knew, tell me carefully! ”

When the Facebook man heard me say this, he was shocked, and said in a lost voice: You have actually seen ghost eyes? The face man's reaction began to become huge after asking what he just said, he became excited, his body trembled, and he couldn't help but ask me to stop, and then he went to my co-pilot and twisted me and said: Where have you seen ghost eyes, tell me quickly.

He was so excited that it scared me a little, and I remembered it in my head, and said: "I saw it in the basement of an old house before liberation, and I originally put it in my clothes when I saw it, but I didn't think about it and then disappeared."

The face man let go of his hand Although he was in the taxi, I saw that he was very restless, as if he was about to leave his seat, and after a while, he said in a loud voice: I will go with you to get the old house tonight, and you will lead the way. Let's go into the basement and explore.

I was pleasantly surprised, but my face was worried: there was a master of using silver needles in the basement, and it would be dangerous for us to go together!

"Humph! Don't raise your hand in front of me, what is not powerful, when I go, it will be different! After speaking, the face man ignored me, directly raised the clothes on his body, and threw me a sentence in the wind: After midnight, I will wait for you at Zhongshan Automobile Corporation!

Strength is extraordinary, you can play how you like, as long as you can bear love. This sentence is simply a wise saying!

I think this guy is too good, if I have his help, when the time comes to go to the old mansion and make a move, then the ghost uncle may not be his opponent, it is best to lose both, then I can sit in it and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Now that I have an extra bodyguard by my side, I can't help but feel a lot more confident, plus I have determined that the face man and the ghost man are not the same person, and no one in the world will be unhappy with me!

In the evening, when I returned to the witch's hut, I saw that Yuxuan was still sitting in the room, as if she was reading a book, so I went to her and said, "Don't go out at night, and I have to go outside to do something, do you want to eat or what do you want?" Shall I stop by and buy it for you? ”

"No need, remember to come back early!" She replied while reading the book, but did not raise her head.

I stroked her hair with my hand and kissed her fair face before leaving the witch's hut.

Driving his own Audi, carrying the face man who was going to go to the old house with me, on the way this guy said to me: You kid, your head is spinning very fast!

I was stunned at first, why did he suddenly say such a thing, as if he saw my mental activity, did he know that I was using him?

I didn't speak, he continued: The curse on this dilapidated taxi is very terrible, it is a curse with a finger lantern, the power of nearly a hundred years, ordinary people can't resist it, and anyone who drives this car will die.

I laughed: Then why am I still alive and well?

The Facebook man said contemptuously: Then where is your heart? What about your soul? You have nothing left now, just a shell, the living dead, you know? You don't look any different from other people, just because you still have faith left, and if all of this is gone, you're going to die!

I was shocked, I really met a master today, this guy actually knows everything!

It's just that the taxi I drove, those who used to carry it were not people, but ghosts, until today, none of them are alive, it is possible to drive this taxi for so long, it is only on a fantasy route, but I didn't notice it at all!!

When we went to the old house before liberation, he frowned and said to me, "This house has a bad smell." ”

When I asked him what evil qi was, he told me, "People are still alive, but they have resentment, and if they don't go away after death, they become evil spirits."

Walking to the front of the old house, looking through the courtyard, the old house was still lit by candlelight, I asked: The last time I came here, I saw candlelight under the lantern and finger shadows on the ground, but why didn't I see it this time?

The man didn't speak, stared at the old mansion for a long time, and then slowly said to me: The last time you entered here, you inadvertently triggered the hundred-year curse, and now this place is dangerous and abnormal, it's better to be careful!

And have you all been found once in this old mansion? The Facebook man said to me.

"Not once, we're found every time we come here!"

"Yes!" The other man nodded, and stood still.

I nodded, not daring to speak, only to see him standing straight in front of the gate of the old mansion, without the slightest intention of going in, could it be that this guy regretted coming here?

This book was first published in Reading Books