Chapter 45: Hair (11)
Among the two, it was Zhou Ping who couldn't hold back and opened his mouth; "What do you want me to talk to?"
He didn't directly ask about the fear in his heart, but took a detour and first mentioned what Zhang Xinqian had just said.
He was very nervous, for fear that Zhang Xinqian would see something. She may have seen it, or perhaps heard the contents of the phone call, and then she became so calm and less anxious.
Zhou Ping's heart was in a mess, thinking like this, and he was even more restless.
Zhang Xinqian is not as scheming as he thought. She didn't speak first, just because she didn't know where to start.
She was originally bent on running out to find someone. She was excited when she saw the new submissions from "@ζͺθ°εΌι»" and the news newsletters published by "@ιΆζΆζ°ι»". She called 110 to inquire about it, but the operator politely declined; She called every hotel she could find in the city, from stammering on the first phone call to expertly lying on the last phone call, and finally found the hotel where the accident occurred. She went down the hotel to the police station in charge of the incident, and when she arrived at the door of the police station, she was blocked again, and she could only ask people everywhere at the door.
When Zhou Ping came out of the police station, she actually just started asking. If Zhou Ping had come out one step earlier, he might not have met her; If Zhou Ping came out later, she might have been driven away by the police.
Zhang Xinqian took a deep breath and looked at Zhou Ping, who was pretending to be calm.
"What I said before is true. I met two people...... The first time I encountered this kind of thing was on Monday, and on Monday night, I went to the ATM to deposit money......" Zhang Xinqian said this, paused, and her body trembled slightly.
This fear stems from memories of the past, but also from fear of the future.
"I, I saw a pair of eyes in the ATM, in the opening where the money was placed." Zhang Xinqian still held back the fear in her heart, and recalled, "Those eyes are big and bright. Inside the dark machine, there is only one pair of eyes......"
This description alone is not enough to frighten people.
Zhou Ping listened, and what he imagined in his mind was not the eyes described by Zhang Xinqian, but the eyes of Zhang Shu and Li Haiming, as well as the eyes of his cousin Li Yun in the posthumous photo. He had goosebumps on his body, and the fear he already had seemed to be stimulated and swelled, so that his heart trembled slightly.
"I ran away...... I saw those eyes and ran. Zhang Xinqian lowered her head, "I ran out of there and almost hit someone." The man was lining up outside. I...... Didn't see if he went in......"
Zhou Ping knew that he had gone in.
It may also be that the person Zhang Xinqian met was not his cousin Li Yun, but his cousin Li Yun did enter the compartment of the ATM machine and died there.
No, it's not.
Zhou Ping shook his head and denied: "How do you know that person is dead?" Maybe you're looking at it wrong, you don't have any eyes at all. β
He denied Zhang Xinqian and his imagination just now.
Zhang Xinqian didn't reply. She lowered her head and pulled a stack of papers out of her bag. Opening the folded A4 paper, she picked up the first sheet and placed it on the table.
The upper and lower parts of the A4 paper are screenshots of Weibo.
The signature of the screenshot in the upper part is a blogger called "Strange Stories", and the blogger Zhou Ping in the second half of the content has just seen it, which is "Zero Time News".
"Above is my submission. Here's the next day's news. Zhang Xinqian explained.
Zhou Ping glanced at it and saw "Li" in the news, as well as words such as "hospital" and "sudden death".
He pushed the paper away and said in a deliberately breezy tone, "This doesn't prove anything." β
"I picked up the money near the First People's Hospital." Zhang Xinqian said hard, "It's true! I picked up money around there, and I went there yesterday to ask. The First People's Hospital was called by people passing by that morning, the morning of the news, and found that the person was dead. Later, someone called the police, and a forensic doctor came...... It's there, it's there...... I also asked for the name, and the owner of the nearby store said it was Li Yun. Their family members were crying there and called out their names. I don't know which 'cloud' ......"
Zhang Xinqian's tone was not tough, but very stubborn.
Zhou Ping opened his mouth and found that he couldn't refute it.
It's not that there is no other reason, it's not that he can't think of other reasonable explanations, but he looked at Zhang Xinqian, but there was no way to speak again.
The uneasiness in his heart was growing.
"And the rest of the story, I ...... I...... Meet a person...... I went on a blind date with him. On Wednesday, we watched a movie and had dinner. He...... Just go back and ...... ...... dead," Zhang Xinqian said with difficulty, her eyes red.
She pulled another sheet from the stack of papers and placed it on the table.
"His name is Li Yun. Clouds of clouds. Also surnamed Li. The second ......" Zhang Xinqian pointed to the upper and lower parts of the paper, "On the day of our date, this '@ζͺθ°εΌι»' posted this netizen post, which is a story about birds." He committed suicide when he returned that night. I asked about their family, about my introducer, about his parents, and about going to that neighborhood. He committed suicide by jumping off a building. The window panes of his balcony were knocked off, and the shards of glass were laid on the floor. He jumped down...... It happened to fall on the broken glass. Those broken glass...... Someone deliberately posed for wings...... And his car. His car was abandoned on the side of the road, with blood all over the windows and the corpse of a small bird on it......"
After Zhang Xinqian finished speaking, she exhaled, wanting to suppress the picture she imagined.
She didn't see the death of the blind date with her own eyes, nor did she see the car with the bird's corpse on the windshield and covered in blood.
But when she knew that another person surnamed Li had died strangely, she would have a terrible imagination.
And the reality is that there is no need for her to imagine, the reality is so terrible. Everyone who saw it said it was terrifying and weird.
"I called the next day to find out about him...... He's dead...... I went to ask, and I also went through the content posted by these two accounts. I went to the hospital afterwards and found out that the one who died in the ATM was also named Li Yun. I've always felt ...... I think this thing is very wrong. I saw this zero-hour news updated this morning, and it also mentioned that the deceased was another surnamed Li, so I ...... I was really scared. But I don't think figuring it out, I might ...... There may be no way to let go. Zhang Xinqian clenched her hands into fists and crumpled the paper she had printed.
She looked at Zhou Ping, "I think, I want to ask you." Are you this 'Zhou'? Is that friend you dead also named Li Yun? Also, his death, isn't it...... Does it have anything to do with this? β
Zhang Xinqian took out the A4 paper she was holding at the beginning, unfolded and flattened the crumpled paper, and showed Zhou Ping the contents of the upper part of the paper.
That part had been folded all the time, and Zhang Xinqian was aiming at herself when she took it, but Zhou Ping didn't see it.
He didn't look at it now.
Zhang Xinqian's rhetoric is like a superstitious person attributing all the coincidences around him to something ridiculous.
A day ago, Zhou Ping would definitely smile at Zhang Xinqian, say a few perfunctory words, and leave decisively.
No, a day ago, he wouldn't have followed Zhang Xinqian at all, and he wouldn't have sat down with her to talk.
A day ago, Zhang Xinqian could not have come to him.
A day ago...... Li Yun is still alive......
Zhou Ping's heart went through a short struggle. He lowered his eyes and looked at the crumpled paper.
He saw the screenshot posted by the account called Weird Talk, and he also saw the "hair" that frequently appeared in the screenshot.
He closed his eyes and let out a heavy breath.