The urn room in the crematorium was pried open, which is quite an amazing thing. It seems that this person died yesterday.
I thought of the two guys downstairs.
Two people came to me and begged me for help, carrying a lot of things. They asked me to forgive them and help them.
"What did you do?"
"We have been good friends since childhood, and we made a bet some time ago."
I knew that these two guys were in trouble, but I didn't expect that when they told me what happened, I was stunned. This was something I never expected. The two of them made a bet to steal a person's ashes in the urn room of the crematorium, and one of them did it just for a drink.
I looked at these two people. They had been tortured to the point where they had lost all their energy and their faces were pale.
"Did you steal from that urn?"
"I remember the approximate location. It was dark. I was really scared at the time, so I grabbed a handful and ran away."
"Where are the ashes?"
"After catching it, they threw it into the river."
"Then tomorrow!"
The next day, I was resting and these two guys came early.
They gave me money, but I refused to take it. I took them to the urn of the crematorium and asked the boy to find the urn.
It took the boy a long time to confirm that it was an old man's urn. It can be seen from the photo that the urn was placed closest to the door.
I know that this urn has been stored for a long time, since I arrived. I asked the administrator to check the storage time of this urn and the family members.
The urn has been kept for more than twelve years, and it will be thirteen years soon. The family has renewed the subscription, but it has not been taken away for burial, which is quite strange. This is the oldest resident, and he has lived here for nearly thirteen years.
I shook my head at the fact that this guy moved the ashes like this, and went to the director's office. The director was also horrified when he heard about it. He had to inform the family of this matter. This was his responsibility. Although the family would not know, but...
Everyone is afraid of something like this happening to them. That is a terrible thing, so no one dares not to do things well.
The director meant to call the police, so the two men knelt down. What do you think should be done if they called the police
"It depends on whether the family members forgive you or not. Besides, the family members will also cause trouble for us. You will have to take on whatever trouble they cause."
The two of them agreed to any condition at this moment, as long as that thing didn't happen again and they didn't lose sleep again.
When I turned around to leave, the director called me and I understood what he meant.
"I can't control this matter."
When I left, the two men were stunned.
I went to Liu Shougui's place and mentioned this matter while we were drinking. Liu Shougui laughed after hearing it.
"These two idiots are looking for death."
Liu Shougui did not mention his wife that day. I wanted to ask why he did not bury his wife but put her in a cold storage so that she would never be reincarnated. However, I did not ask because he may have his reasons.
That day, just after dark, it came in, sat opposite me and looked at me, said Liu Shougui.
"Ke Mingzhe, the chemist and makeup artist at the city crematorium."
That one doesn't talk, eats, and then leaves.
"It can't speak, but it can understand what we say."
That thing is definitely not a person, but it moves like a person. It is a very strange thing.
"Perhaps you are wondering, what is this?"
"Yeah, I'm nervous."
“I made this myself, hahahaha…”
Liu Shougui was happy.
You built it yourself? You must be kidding.
"You can't tell what this is. Actually, it's just something I made. I'm guarding the tower here, feeling lonely and without any friends. Except for my daughter who comes to visit me, I live in memories day by day. I had nothing to do, so I made this thing."
"How did you do that?"
Liu Shougui hesitated, but he still said it.
"This is a secret that cannot be told, forever."
I nodded. When he said this, I didn't want to know anymore. Keeping a secret is a painful thing, but I was still curious and just wanted to know.
"There are 206 urns left here. Those without owners, those that haven't been claimed for years, are ownerless urns. I didn't expect there would be so many left. But it's not surprising. There are thousands of urns. Some have no descendants, and some don't want to take them back. There are many reasons. I also want to find their relatives, but isn't that a job? No one wants them anymore.
I am here watching over them and talking to them. Actually, the field could have allowed me to not stay here, but they don't know where to arrange me, or they have forgotten about me. This is also good. I will retire soon, but I know that even after retirement, I will not leave here. Maybe there will be an urn for me here in the future. They are all my friends.
What Liu Shougui said was a bit scary. Two hundred and six urns and a twenty-three-story columbarium are just left unused like this. Maybe one day they will be put to use.
"You should actually go home and live a normal life with your daughter."
"Is this abnormal of mine? What's abnormal?"
Liu Shougui was a little unhappy.
"I'm sorry, Uncle Liu, that's not what I meant."
"I'd better call it Shadow. It's my shadow, a lonely shadow that follows me. I suddenly had a strange idea that year, which was to take out a piece of bone from each urn. The strangest thing is that there are 206 urns here, which is exactly the same as the 206 human bones. That's why I had this idea. Putting out a little man may have unexpected effects. In this way, I don't have to go up to the tower to see them every day, because I know that one day I will be very old and can't walk or climb anymore. When I miss them, I don't have to go up anymore."
What a weird, strange idea. Here, you will always have some weird, unimaginable ideas, and weird thoughts keep coming up.
I always have some strange thoughts. When I am not here, I don’t have these strange thoughts. Maybe the environment will make a person have different ideas. Maybe it is like this.
Liu Shougui’s idea was a bit surprising to me. I’m afraid I don’t have such an idea now, but maybe I will have it in the future, or even stranger ideas.
"I thought this method was absurd at first, but it actually made me feel that it was feasible because of the coincidence that gave me this idea. The 206 urns were exactly the same as the bones on the human peak. This idea also shocked me, and then it became stronger and stronger. After I had this idea, it became stronger day by day, and finally I did it."
I know that Liu Shougui can't control himself, or rather, he is controlled by this idea, or he is controlled by something.
"So I started taking bones, taking one piece from each urn, and then I picked out the one I thought was the most beautiful, and then I put it on the table, on that table over there. In three days, I picked out 206 bones. I looked at them and felt so familiar and perfect. I thought something would happen, that they would be unhappy and would come to make trouble with me at night, but they didn't come to make trouble with me. They were surprisingly quiet. Maybe if they came to make trouble with me, I would put them back one by one, because I marked each bone, and they all had names, which I also marked, so there would be no mistakes. You also know what the consequences of making a mistake are."
Liu Shougui stood up and looked outside. At this time, the weather was already cold and there were no leaves on the trees.
"Are you here in winter too?"
"Yes, I have never left. It is very quiet here. I like the quietness here. You should go home."
I wanted to listen to it that day, so I didn't leave.
Liu Shougui continued to tell me, it seemed that he really wanted to talk about this matter, and I also wanted to listen.
"So, I put the 206 bones together, piece by piece, into a human figure, half a meter in size. I didn't expect anything, I just put it on the table like that. I didn't know what would happen. Maybe it would stay like this forever. I put it on the table and didn't move it. I looked at it every day and talked to it. Until one day, I cut my hand and blood dripped onto the bones. I didn't care. You know, it's not good to drip blood on the bones of the dead. Strange things will happen. A few days later, I suddenly heard a strange sound, like talking, mumbling. It was too quiet here, there was no such sound at all. It suddenly appeared. I was a little surprised. I didn't move. I lay down and listened carefully. The location was right at that position on the table. I was a little scared that day."
I sat on the chair holding a cup, not looking at Liu Shougui, but looking outside.
"When I woke up the next morning, I saw that the bones were connected. I thought that the blood might have connected them. It was a moment that surprised me, but also a moment that excited me. Maybe they could become something. After I had this thought, I would get a few drops of blood every day and drip them on the bones. This also scared me. Those were the bones of 206 people. I didn't know whether they were good or evil, and I didn't know what would happen."
At night, the stars in the sky are very bright and the night is very quiet.
"And so, a total of one hundred days passed. On the morning of the one hundredth day, I saw the skeleton sitting on a chair. I was stunned and my hair stood up. I didn't expect it to sit up like a human, but it did. I called it and it turned to look at me. I found that it had grown flesh, which is what you see now, but it did not become a human. It just looked different. I found clothes for it to wear. Later, it accompanied me. It couldn't speak, but it could understand what I said. It ate and drank like me, and even did things for me. It seemed that it understood me. When I was annoyed, he left and I didn't know where he went. When I was lonely, he appeared. Just like that, we have lived together for almost ten years. He is my old friend."
I was stunned. This kind of thing could happen. What was this? I didn't know.
The next day, when I left, I found that he had followed me for a while, which made me a little confused. I found that he was not friendly to me. I could tell that he seemed to be stealing his master.
I think he listened to Liu Shougui because he was raised with Liu Shougui's blood.
I entered the office and the manager came in.
"The family member has been found. He is the old man's great-grandson. He is very upset about this incident and said he does not forgive those two people or us. He has already called the police."
"What did the police say?"
"There is no such example. They have already reported it to the higher-ups and are waiting for the results. However, the two guys have been locked up temporarily."
"Then let the police handle it."
"It's just that the family members asked us to find the bones. We have to find them, but the bones were thrown into the river. The moat is too big and there is no way to find them, not to mention that they are just a handful of ashes."
"Then pay compensation. There is no other choice."
“The family just wants the ashes.”
“This is a matter for your leadership.”
"That's right, but I want to talk about another thing. Something happened at the crematorium last night. The old man who was guarding the crematorium died. It was very strange."
I was stunned. The gatekeeper was dead, but it was so peaceful.
"He's in the morgue, number two, in the separate room."
I didn't say anything. It seemed like this was a very troublesome matter. The gatekeeper was in good health, so how could he die? It was really strange.
"How did he die? Of illness?"
"The police came, and the doctor came, too, and said it was a heart attack."
I think the old man's heart is not very good, but it is not that serious. Did he see something? (To be continued)