Chapter 5: Implications
I followed the old man out of the morgue, and the old man said to himself while locking the door: "This light bulb has just been replaced for a few days, why is it broken again? ”
I remembered the sudden flickering of the white lamp in the morgue when the ghost appeared, and I was very disturbed, and I wanted to tell the old man, but I knew that he would not believe it. Besides, I obviously saw the ghost peel off Zhang Ke's face and replace Zhang Ke's body, but I checked it carefully just now, and there was no trace of Zhang Ke's face on that corpse. This means that what I just saw may not be true, and if this is the case, then the flickering white lamp I saw may not be real.
I followed the old man out of the basement and outside the hospital, and I said goodbye to him and walked out into the street.
It was a small street outside the hospital, and it seemed very calm, except for the occasional small car, there were almost no pedestrians, and it seemed to be really late. I remembered that the old man had just said that it was already a little sooner, and I didn't believe it, but I remember that when I found the old man and begged him to let me go to the morgue to see Zhang Ke's body, it was about seven o'clock. How could I have spent more than five hours in the morgue, I really can't believe it.
I pulled out my phone in my pants bag to see the time. However, the phone case and board were gone, and my heart suddenly became nervous again. Because I remembered, just when I was in a stalemate with the ghost, my phone suddenly had a message coming in and a noise sounded and alarmed it, and I pulled off the phone's battery in a hurry.
Now, the phone's battery is indeed gone, and I must have pulled it off and dropped it under the morgue.
If the appearance of the ghost is just my hallucination, why is it true that I pulled the phone battery?
The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became, and naturally I didn't dare to go back to find my phone battery, so I hurriedly quickened my pace, trying to get out of this secluded side street as soon as possible.
At this time, the snow has stopped after a day's fall, and there is already a lot of snow on the ground, and walking on the snow makes a "whoosh" sound, as if someone is following behind you.
I didn't dare to look back, so I rushed out of the side street, and when I came to the street outside, I was not so afraid, there were many citizens enjoying the nightlife on the street, and there were many open shops on both sides of the road.
Looking at these living people, my uneasy mind gradually calmed down, I went to a nearby bubble tea shop to buy a cup of hot milk tea, took a sip, felt a lot warmer in my body, and then flagged down a taxi or two to go back to my accommodation.
Many of the students in my technical school are from the suburbs of Chongqing, and these children either have poor grades and cannot be admitted to university, or they have poor family conditions and come to study a skill that can make a living after studying. There is no mandatory requirement for everyone to live on campus, and the school is very loosely managed. On the one hand, I couldn't integrate into this school because of the shadow of failing the college entrance examination, and on the other hand, the accommodation conditions of the school were too poor, and my aunt was afraid that she would wronged me, so she rented me a single apartment near the school.
About half an hour later, I went back to my apartment and looked at the clock, and it was already half past one. Now I believe I did spend about five hours in the morgue, and I didn't dare think about it, so I took a hot shower and snuggled up in bed.
But I was not sleepy at all, and I could not help but think about what I had seen in the morgue, and though I would now rather believe that it was indeed a hallucination, I really could not understand how I could have such a strange hallucination
Anyway, I didn't feel sleepy, so I put my laptop on the bed, turned on the computer and looked up the Internet to see under what circumstances people are prone to hallucinations.
I've browsed a lot of relevant pages, and there are all kinds of opinions, and I can't agree with them, so I have to give up.
I accidentally clicked on the photo album on the desktop, which contained a large number of photos of my life with Zhang Ke in the past, and I couldn't help but feel sad in my heart, so I looked down one by one.
My eyes stayed on a photo of Zhang Ke holding a basketball, Zhang Ke had a scar about three inches long on his right wrist, which I could see clearly in the photo, it was when we climbed a mountain in our first year of high school, I accidentally slipped and fell between the trees on the edge of the cliff, he was cut by a branch in order to save me, and went to the hospital for more than a dozen stitches, and left an obvious scar.
I couldn't help but cry again, my eyes blurred as I looked at the photo, and suddenly, the scar on Zhang Ke's right wrist became clearer and clearer, and it was slowly magnified closer to my eyes like the lens of a camera zooming in. Soon a close-up of an enlarged scar appeared in front of my eyes.
My eyes widened in shock, and I stared at the scar intently. Suddenly, the scar began to burst out of blood, as if it had just been scratched, and the blood was getting more and more and spreading rapidly.
I was startled, and I shuddered, and suddenly there was a flower in front of my eyes, and the picture full of blood disappeared suddenly. I hurriedly wiped my eyes blurred by tears, and when I looked at it again, the photo in the laptop returned to its original appearance, and the scar on Zhang Ke's right wrist was obvious but not abnormal.
Damn, am I hallucinating again?
I suddenly felt a tingling in my back, and I felt that Zhang Ke was looking at me strangely in the photo, and that smile revealed a sad expression.
I hurriedly closed the album, closed the computer, and didn't dare to look at it again, my heart pounding.
I didn't dare to think about it anymore, I didn't dare to turn off the lights, get under the covers, cover my head and force myself to sleep.
I don't know how long it took, but in a hazy way, I saw Zhang Ke walking towards me with a smile, smacking me lightly in the chest, and said, "You kid is so uninteresting, you ignored me for half a year, I thought you really refused to pay attention to me forever." ”
I lowered my head embarrassedly and said in a very soft voice, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have felt inferior in front of you." ”
Zhang Ke said: "That's it, who is with whom between us, the university is actually nothing good, it's not the same thing as what I used to think, it feels like it's just a mess, it's very boring, you can't go if you don't go up." You don't know how boring I've been in the past six months, but I really miss you. It's good that we can be together again. It's so cold, let's go, let's go eat Malatang and have a few drinks to warm up. ”
Zhang Ke put his right hand on my shoulder as he spoke, this is his habitual action, and I walked out with him shoulder to shoulder.
However, as I walked, I suddenly had a strange feeling that this person was not Zhang Ke. I grabbed his right hand, which was right on my shoulder, and pulled it down to see that the wrist was white and smooth, and there was no scar at all.
I was so frightened that I pushed the man away and looked at him in horror, but his face was indeed Zhang Ke's appearance.
"What's wrong with you, it's like you've seen a ghost. The man asked, looking at me puzzled.
I said in horror: "You are not Zhang Ke, who are you and why do you look exactly like him"
The person who looked exactly like Zhang Ke suddenly changed his face and said, "Yes, I'm not Zhang Ke, I'm just wearing Zhang Ke's face." ”
As he spoke, the man suddenly reached out and grabbed his face, and at once he grabbed his own face, revealing a bloody face.
I screamed out in fright, struggled violently, woke up, rolled over and sat up, looked at the white lights, and realized that I had just had a nightmare