Chapter Fifty-Eight: Under the Machine

The waiting time was relatively light, almost seven o'clock in the evening. We went to the appointment to have dinner with the boss. This boss really treats me as a friend, not only did he not have the slightest instruction not to hurt the machine in the store or anything like that. On the contrary, we should be bold and not afraid.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening when we left the hotel, and neither of us had a drink this time. I took the key and said goodbye to the boss at the entrance of the community, opened the roller shutter door of the laundry, I got in with Bai Kai, and put the door down again. The room was pitch black.

I knew where the switch was, but the white switch prevented me from turning on the light. I went to the washing machine in the dark, and I didn't have time to be surprised that he had memorized the layout of the store during the day, so I quickly followed.

Walking to the washing machine, Bai Kai asked me to pull out my clothes and pants in a plastic bag. He asked about the dry cleaning process beforehand, and it would take some time. We didn't have time to soak it in dry cleaning oil, so we just dipped it and threw it in the machine. The only thing left in the room was the sound of machines running.

I pricked up my ears and listened, and it didn't seem to be the strange movement that my boss said. Outside the roller shutter door, I could begin to hear people passing by, as if they had gone out for a walk after dinner. This is the only way back to the community, and I thought to myself that fortunately, there is no square dance aunt nearby, otherwise I would not have heard anything in this house.

The laundry process was left to rest for the time being, and we waited until the whole laundry process was over and the machine stopped. I couldn't wait to open the hatch to see. There was no strange smell on the clothes. I gave Bai Kai a look at each other in the dark, I was looking at him, and he seemed to be looking at me too.

I said, isn't the time right? But the boss definitely doesn't usually do laundry at this time. It should be daylight.

Bai Kai said no, the two of us are not ordinary people, maybe you look too ugly and scare the ghosts.

Bai Kai carefully lit the lighter, and the firelight shone slightly on everything around him. Bai Kaidao, Xiao Que, why don't I look at you here, and you stick your head in and take a look? There are some things that you can't touch, but you can see.

Fuck me! I'm out of clothes, damn you still need someone now? I shook my head violently and said, "Well, you put your head in, and I'll watch you from behind, and if something pulls you in, piggyback on your scum."

Bai Kai smiled, lit a cigarette, and said that we would have to wait a little longer.

After waiting like this, as Bai Kai lit the lighter from time to time, the time soon rubbed to more than eleven o'clock. During this time, I was bored, and it happened that there was no topic to talk about that night, and neither of us said a word. I just rummaged through the store, and I didn't move the money anyway. There are a lot of brand-name clothes in the store, the styles look very new, I touched a few pieces, the material is actually the same, and I lost interest in an instant, and sat down again.

Bai Kai looked at his watch and said let's try again, got up and threw my clothes in and washed them again.

This time there is no difference from the last time, I am a little annoyed to hear the sound of the machine, people are in the dark for a long time, it will always affect the mood. Fortunately, the number of people passing by outside began to increase again, and it was still the same as before, three by two. I was a little relieved to hear it, and just as I sighed, it suddenly dawned on me that something didn't seem right. This place is unlike any other, and I couldn't be more familiar with it. I'm staying here, and it's already 12 o'clock, so where is anyone going for a walk and coming back at this time? Besides, even if there were, there wouldn't be so many people!?

I couldn't help but go to the door and listen carefully, and found that the voices were a little noisy, but I couldn't hear a single conversation! My scalp started to go numb now, and I quickly retrieved my shoulder.

Bai Kai, something is wrong outside. Why are so many people passing by? I didn't dare to make too much noise for fear of hearing it from outside.

Hush... Bai Kai stretched out his hand to ask me not to make a sound, lit the lighter, and motioned with his eyes for me to hide behind the washing machine. Then the lighter went out.

Bai Kai's reaction proves that my worries are not unnecessary. I immediately flashed to the back of the washing machine and crouched down. This machine is big enough and in a corner to hide me. If it weren't for a carpet search, no one would have found me. I thought to myself, but what if it's not someone looking for me?

Not long after I squatted, Bai Kai also squeezed next to me. This machine is big, but it is really reluctant to hide two people. I was also weak-hearted, for fear that even any part of the corners of my body would leak out, so I had to curl up together strangely.

I could feel the machine vibrating slightly, but after another minute, I suddenly felt as if the temperature in the room had suddenly cooled.

My hairs stand on end, it's a familiar feeling, I don't know what the hell is in the room!

I touched Bai Kai with my hand, and suddenly I heard someone crying in the room, on the other side of the machine we were leaning on.

The cry was not loud, but it was unusually miserable, intermittent. Sometimes it's real, and then it's very silent for a second. It's hard to imagine what kind of expression the other side is.

Before I could be surprised, I heard a thud, and someone slapped the washing machine, then the second, and then the third, and the fourth. In succession.

I almost rushed out from behind the washing machine, the sound was very similar to hearing a bird or a bat accidentally hit the window of the house when I was a child, but how could there be such a bird in this house, for me, there was only one possibility, someone was slapping the glass on the hatch with his palm.

Bai Kai rushed out first, without waiting for me to react in a hurry. Then the lights came on throughout the store. Those movements, as the lights turned on, suddenly stopped. I felt that Bai Kai had done too quickly this time, so I walked out and saw Bai Kai staring at the machine. There was no one around, and there was no trace on the hatch.

I don't dare to be careless, and whisper to Bai Kai, what about filth?

Scared away by me, Bai Kai pointed to the rolling shutter door and said, it's a bit interesting. Now call that boss out, there's something strange about it.

I didn't dare to slack off, so I took out my phone and called the boss. The other party obviously hadn't slept yet, and he picked it up as soon as it sounded, and when I explained the situation, he rushed over quickly, and he didn't wear any clothes.

Bai Kai lit a flue, and you two come over and move the machine out of the way. Roll up the sleeves of your shirt and use your back to top it.

Seeing this, the boss and I also exerted force from one direction, and the three of us slowly pushed the machine away. This thing looks bigger, but it's actually heavier, and it's very hard, and it hurts my shoulders.

When the machine was removed, there was a lot of dust on the ground, and it was scattered in all directions. Bai Kai leaned down to blow the ash away, and saw something hidden in the dust, more than ten centimeters long and two or three centimeters wide. When you look closely, you realize that this is a big centipede!

It's just that I don't know when the centipede died, and it's almost dried into a shell.

Bai Kai flicked the centipede with his fingers, and the centipede's corpse was easily removed. Bai Kaidao, this thing is the problem. Just look at it, don't think about soaking in wine.

I couldn't help laughing, thinking to myself, damn who was holding something disgusting to make wine and drink. Just stop and open again, this centipede already has spirituality at a glance, which is the kind you say has been cultivated for a long time. It is estimated that he was unsuccessful in the catastrophe, so he ran here to recuperate from his injuries, but he still died.

Can this thing hook up with filth? I didn't dare to touch the centipede, for fear of being poisonous, I squatted down to take a closer look. The whole centipede is already jet black, which is completely different from the simple black red or yellow in the past.

Yes, that's it. This spiritual thing is more unwilling to die than filth. Once you have spirituality, to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to being able to think. Bai Kai took a deep breath of the flue, it was trying to hook up with the wild ghost to worship. That's why the yin in this room is abnormal. But it didn't expect this wild ghost to be even more stupid, seeing that the yin atmosphere here was abnormal, and there were clothes and pants in this washing machine going back and forth. I thought I had found the entrance to reincarnation, and I drilled into it with all my might. The smell is what is left of the filth.

I grew my mouth and stuffed a cigarette into my mouth, and the boss couldn't smoke, so he could only look at the two of us dumbfounded, feeling that he couldn't stand anymore.