Chapter 4: The Dawn of the Willows (1)

How fast can a ghost run?

Shen Jun didn't know before. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut in my imagination, it seems that ghosts can do anything, and they can appear in front of whomever they want.

But now he found out that this was not the case. Except that ghosts can't breathe and can be invisible, they are similar to humans in other aspects. Two legs can't outrun a motorcycle.

Shen Jun saw that after chasing for a while, the motorcycle would be gone, and in a hurry, he didn't want to think about it, so he flew and jumped into a minivan that was speeding in the same direction. He was more fond of sports when he was a student, but now he is a ghost, and his skills are more agile than before, grabbing the railing behind the carriage with both hands, and easily climbing into the wagon.

After the truck drove forward for three minutes, Shen Jun saw the motorcycle in front of him turn into a small alley on the left, so he jumped out of the truck and chased into the alley.

The road in the alley was narrow and uneven, and the two robbers slowed down because they thought that no one was chasing them.

Just as he was about to cross the alley and drive onto another street, the robber sitting in the back suddenly screamed and fell from the back seat to the ground!

The robber who was driving was taken aback, thinking that he was not sitting still, and hurriedly stopped the car.

"Stop yelling, get in the car!"

But as if he had not heard him, his companion continued to scream and shout on the ground, and at the same time kicked his feet into the air! The two hands were even more strange, desperately protecting his head and face, as if someone had ridden on him and hit him.

The robber who was driving the car was shocked and suspicious when he saw this, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

The robber who grabbed the bag did not answer, made some muffled sounds in his mouth, and at the same time used his hands to "stuck" his neck!

"Xiaomao, you...... What the hell is going on?!" The robber who was driving was so surprised that he stayed for a moment before he got off the motorcycle and ran over to help him.

But as soon as he walked to Xiao Mao's side, his stomach felt like he had been kicked violently, and he screamed in pain and squatted on the ground.

And Xiao Mao is even more miserable, both eyes are about to bulge out, of course he understands best, there is an invisible thing riding on him and jamming his neck!

He struggled desperately, but to no avail, the unseen thing was so powerful that his neck seemed to be caught in a terrible iron hoop, and no matter how much he resisted, there was no sign of loosening. He was terrified and wanted to ask for mercy, but he couldn't say a word!

Although the robber who was driving the car was also in pain, he still didn't realize that there was a ghost, and thought that he had accidentally kicked him by his companion. While slowly standing up, he scolded: "Xiaomao, you...... What the hell is going on?!"

Although he was in pain and angry, he was afraid that his companion would be caught and affect himself, so he slowly stepped forward in pain and tried to rescue, but just two steps forward, he was kicked to the ground again!

Because he was on guard this time, the injury was not as serious as just now, and he could see clearly that it wasn't Xiao Mao's leg that kicked him at all!

He was stunned for a moment before finally realizing what was going on!

He turned pale with fright, and he couldn't care about his companions, so he ran to the motorcycle in pain and tried to escape for his life. But it was too late, his companion Xiao Mao had already been stuck alive by Shen Jun, and before his hands could touch the motorcycle, Shen Jun's two hands were stuck on his neck again!

The robber trembled with fright, and while desperately trying to pull away from the terrible ghost hand, he kicked the other party with his foot.

Although his body is stronger than Xiao Mao, because of the injury just now, and he also understands that something stuck in his throat, he originally had a lot of strength, but at this time, he can only exert two points of strength at most, and he only struggled for more than ten seconds, and then he died!

Although the place where they had an accident was not far from the entrance of the alley, and they could even see the street outside the alley, because the light in the alley was dim, no one noticed the terrible thing that had just happened. It wasn't until after the second robber died that a young woman led her daughter into the alley, and when she saw the two young men fall to the ground, she screamed in fright and hurriedly ran out of the alley with her daughter.

Shen Jun took advantage of the opportunity that the young woman had not yet called someone, and quickly picked up Xia Haiyan's small satchel that the robber had dropped on the ground, turned around and ran out of the alley.

After exiting the alley, he walked along the road he had come from for a while, and did not stop until he reached a bus waiting area. After a short while, a bus came, and he followed the other guests onto the bus.

But when he returned to the place where he broke up with Xia Haiyan just now, Xia Haiyan had already left.

"It seems that the only way to wait for her to go to the morning shift tomorrow is to return the bag to her. He sighed and was about to walk back to the company, when a question suddenly came to mind: "No, she is already a little suspicious, if I return the bag to her while she goes to work, I am afraid that it will scare her!"

He stopped, thought for a while, and decided to return the bag to Zhu Xu. "It's weird, but it's better than scaring her to her face. ”

After making up his mind, he went to Zhu Xu's house. Because Zhu Xu invited him to her house for dinner last time and told him the address, he found Zhu Xu's home without asking anyone.

Thinking that he was killed last time because he was going to Zhu Xu's house, he felt a little sad in his heart, and thought hatefully: "****** robbers, Lao Tzu will kill one when he sees one in the future!"

Although he didn't know the cause of his death, he suspected that he was killed by the robbers, so he hated the robbers extremely much, even if it wasn't Xia Haiyan who was robbed just now, he would have chased after him and killed the robbers.

After arriving at the floor where Zhu Xu's house was located, because there were two families, he couldn't remember whether Zhu Xu was talking about the left house or the right house, he was afraid that it was wrong, so he hesitated for a moment before trying to ring the doorbell on the left.

When the door opened, he saw a strange middle-aged man. Just thinking that he had struck the wrong door, he suddenly heard the voice of a middle-aged woman in the house: "Who is coming?"

The middle-aged man said strangely: "No one!"

The middle-aged woman was surprised, "Nobody, who was ringing the doorbell just now?"

Shen Jun saw that the other party was really Zhu Xu, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and after they closed the door, he gently put Xia Haiyan's bag on the ground at the door, and then rang the doorbell twice.

After a while, the door opened again, this time it was Zhu Xu and her husband who appeared behind the door together, and they were surprised to see that there was no one outside the door, but there was a women's leather bag on the ground.

The two looked at each other in surprise, and Zhu Xu suddenly said, "Ah, isn't this Haiyan's bag?!"

The middle-aged man said strangely: "You are not mistaken, right?"

Zhu Xu didn't answer her husband, turned around excitedly, and shouted loudly into the house: "Haiyan! Haiyan! Come and see! Your bag has been sent back!"

"Really?!" Xia Haiyan's voice came from the room that was both surprised and excited.

Seeing Xia Haiyan running to the door like a child in excitement, Shen Jun's heart swelled with warmth.

"Oh my God, it's really my bag!Auntie, who sent it?!"

"I don't know, we didn't see anyone!"

Chapter 4 is bright

Suddenly summer went to autumn, and months passed in the blink of an eye. Although Xia Haiyan had never seen Shen Jun in person, she already had a good impression of him, and knew that he was working in the same city, so she not only agreed to his request, sent him a photo of herself, but also told him some things she didn't want to tell people.

After the death of the two robbers, the police once suspected that the person who helped her recover the satchel was the murderer, and even investigated her interpersonal relationships, but because they could not find the suspect, they never looked for her again after checking for a while.

She also told him that she was very dissatisfied with her current job, felt that the salary was too low, and wanted to find another job, but she couldn't find a suitable one for a while.

Xia Haiyan wanted Shen Jun to send her a photo as well, but Shen Jun politely refused her request on the grounds that he didn't like photography, didn't have a digital camera, and was too troublesome to scan.

Of course, Xia Haiyan did not think that he was a ghost, speculated that he was not good-looking, or that he already had a girlfriend, and even guessed that he was married—because he knew that the two of them worked in the same city, but never asked to meet—and when he refused to send photos, he did not mention the matter again.

In addition to QQ chatting, the two also exchanged phone numbers with each other, and sometimes they also chatted directly on the phone, and one night, Shen Jun was so happy that he sang a song to her on the phone. After he sang it, he asked her to give her a song back, but Xia Haiyan refused with a smile. He said that it was not fair, and Xia Haiyan said: I sent you a photo, but you didn't send me a photo, and I also think it's unfair! Unless you send me a photo to show me the true face of your Lushan, I will sing you a song.

If it were any other man, he would definitely agree to this condition. But Shen Jun couldn't do it. Originally, he could have downloaded a photo of a handsome guy on the Internet and pretended to send it to her, but he didn't want to cast another man's shadow in her heart, so he didn't do it.

Shen Jun felt that the other party had a good impression of him, if he was not a ghost, if he asked her to meet, she might agree, her heart was sweet and sad, and she gritted her teeth with hatred for the murderer who killed her.

But the case of his own murder, like the case of him killing two robbers, has become an unsolved case. Not only was there no news about him, but people gradually forgot about him.

In the past few months, there have been some changes in the company's internal personnel, Liu Dan, Sun Jing, and Zhang Houfu have been transferred to other departments, and the director has also been replaced by Lin Lin. Three new employees who have just joined the company have become the new owners of this office.

The three new employees didn't know Shen Jun, so naturally they wouldn't talk about him. Shen Jun felt more and more that he didn't belong to this office, if it weren't for the purpose of contacting Xia Haiyan, he would have left here a long time ago. He's just a lonely ghost, he can access the Internet anywhere, and although he can't go in and out of other offices freely at night, he can go to an Internet café to surf the Internet, and he doesn't necessarily have to stay here. He's just getting used to it, so he has no plans to leave here yet.

Shen Jun thought that he and her would be like two parallel lines—although they were very close, they would never intersect and intersect. But things turned out in a way that he didn't expect.

On this day, as usual, when he was bored reading a newspaper on the coffee table in the office, a postman from the post office suddenly walked in, took an express mail and asked a new clerk: "Who is Shen Jun?"

At that time, there were only two new employees in the office, none of whom knew Shen Jun, and after curiously reading the name on the express, they said that there was no such person in the company. One of them picked up the phone and called the director Lin Lin, asking if there was a person in the company before, Shen Jun. Lin Lin was outside, although she was a little curious, but it was impossible to run back to the company for this matter, so she told the courier on the phone that Shen Jun had worked here before, but he had been dead for more than three months.

The delivery man thanked the two new staff members and left the office.

After he took the elevator downstairs, he went to a small shop opposite the company to have breakfast, and found a strange thing, the express that could not be handed over was gone!

He thought he was careless and forgot to take the express mail with him, and after breakfast, he went back to the office just now to inquire, but the two new staff members said they didn't see it. The courier himself was also very strange, he remembered that when he entered the elevator, he obviously put the express in his bag, and he couldn't figure out how he could lose it.

Of course, he would not have thought that at this moment, Shen Jun, the recipient of the express mail, was standing by a window sill on the twenty-fourth floor that had not been renovated, and was checking the contents of the express mail.

The sender of this express is named Huang Jian, a college classmate of Shen Jun. Shen Jun felt a little strange in his heart, his relationship with Huang Jian was very ordinary, how could he suddenly think of sending a letter to himself?

"Could it be that you're getting married, so you're sending invitations everywhere?"

Looking at the other party's address, it was XX Company in L County, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. People nowadays are really, they don't have much contact on weekdays, but after encountering this kind of thing, even if they are not in a city, even if the friendship is not very deep, they will send invitations!

It's not so much an invitation to the meeting, but a request to send him money!

As he thought so, he tore open the seal of the shipment, but the contents were not his guess.

There is only one photo in the shipment.

He was slightly startled, took out the photo and looked at it, and looked for the letter paper in it, but there was really none.

"I already have one of this photo, what kind of neurosis he has, and he sent me a special photo!"

There are nine people in this photo, all of whom are his college classmates. He clearly remembers that this photo was taken together in a forest near the Forbidden City when they went to Beijing to play together on the eve of graduating from college.

He looked at the photo for a few seconds, then looked at the back of the photo in turn, only to realize that there were a few lines written on it:

Wang Yue: On November 2008, he died in a car accident;

Li Jiangtao: On February 17, 2009, he also died in a car accident;

Zhang Xiaofu: On May 28, 2009, she suddenly died at home due to acute myocardial infarction;

Lin Ruoru: On August 12, 2009, she hanged herself at home, and the cause of her suicide is unknown;

Are you still alive? If you are alive, please contact me! My current phone number is: 138********

The handwriting is ugly, and if he doesn't know the other person, he will definitely think that the person who wrote is a schoolboy.

Although he is not very good with Huang Jian, he has read his handwriting, so he knows that his handwriting is ugly. But he still saw that the words were worse than what he usually wrote, and he could even see what he looked like when he wrote through them.

He must have been writing these words with a sense of horror!

Of course he could understand his feelings. Four of my college classmates died just over a year after they graduated! Moreover, all four of them are the people in this photo!

Why was he so afraid? Did he know something?

He looked at the words in disbelief, and from time to time he looked back at the dead in the photograph.

As a result, he quickly discovered the real reason for Huang Jian's terror:

Above the photo, from left to right: Wang Yue, Li Jiangtao, Zhang Xiaofu, Lin Ruoru, Shen Jun, Huang Jian......

God, what's going on? Why did all the people on the left die? And the order of death exactly matches the order of their position on the photo! -- Only himself and Lin Ruoru "swapped" the order.

Of course, he is also dead, so there is actually one line missing from it:

Shen Jun: On July 16, 2009, he was killed for no apparent reason;

He was in a daze for a while, and then found a pattern:

The person in this photo, basically, every three months, someone dies!

However, he was the only exception, who, according to the "law", should have died in November, but he was killed on July 16. In other words, he should have died after Lin Ruoru, but he "robbed" to die before her!

Why is that?

He couldn't figure it out, so he put the question aside for the time being. He thought again: "According to the 'law' of the order of death, Huang Jian is next, no wonder he is frightened and anxious to get in touch with me." ”

"It turns out that my death was not an accident! Before me, three classmates had already died, and after me, another classmate died 'inexplicably'!"

He had always guessed that he had been killed by a robber, but now he realized that things could be much more complicated and terrifying than he thought!

"Could it be that our death is somehow related to the experience of going to Beijing to play?"

He nervously recalled the trip to Beijing, but when he thought about it, he couldn't think of who they had offended.

Although he is dead, it doesn't make much sense to find out the truth, but he still decided to find out the true cause of his death.