The boss was a little suspicious. I didn't say anything and left with Liu Yang. Liu Yang lived with me. I sent her back to Chixian the next morning. I returned to work, it was a little late, and the manager was quite unhappy.
"Ren Qiang is a colleague of ours, but no one is willing to do his makeup."
"It's not that I don't want to, but that's ghost green makeup. I already have makeup on. If I add more makeup, the makeup artist is asking for trouble."
"But, it will be refined tomorrow, and the family members requested makeup."
"This is your business. You don't need to tell me. It's not that I don't wear makeup. You also know what the consequences of putting on makeup are."
"You makeup artists always have a solution."
After work that day, I got in the car and left. I didn't want the manager to come to see me again, so Liu Yang called me and asked me to go to their school because there was something urgent.
I drove over and Liu Yang was already waiting for me at the door. She saw me coming and got into my car.
"Pull aside, I want to tell you something."
When I saw Liu Yang's expression, I knew that this was no small matter.
"Something happened at school, in the specimen room."
"What's up?"
"The security guard said that there were footsteps upstairs at night. The security room is on the first floor and the specimen room is on the second floor. He went to check many times but didn't find anyone. But there were footsteps, and he recorded it. They were real footsteps."
I glanced at Liu Yang.
"Maybe I heard it wrong."
"No, it's been a week. I thought you should know something. Of course, I could tell my father, but he's old and I don't want him to be too tired. I'm sorry to cause you trouble."
"I'm your boyfriend. If you don't bother me, who else are you going to bother?"
Liu Yang blushed and smiled.
"I can't tell anything now. Let's go out for dinner tonight."
Liu Yang went back to pack up, briefly explained the matter to the principal, and then came out.
We ate a special snack in Chixian, river aphids, which are from the river and are quite good.
That day, after we finished eating, we walked around the streets of Chixian. Chixian is not big, but there is a lake. This lake is very big, and it looks like the sea. There are many special things in the lake, which is why Chixian is famous.
After dark, we went over and the vice-principal and the director were waiting for us.
"Excuse me, Master Ke."
I just nodded. The security guards had been withdrawn because of this incident and were replaced by teachers.
I was sitting in the detention room, the vice principal said.
"It's almost time. The footsteps will start ringing at this time, and they will continue all night long."
Sure enough, after a while, footsteps were heard, and they were very loud. I lit a cigarette and smoked it. The footsteps were clearly the sound of people.
"Are you sure there's no one upstairs?"
"No, there are surveillance cameras here. If someone goes up, the footsteps will disappear. When someone is about to reach the second floor, the footsteps will disappear, but nothing can be seen on the surveillance camera. This is the specimen room. There are many valuable specimens in it, so two surveillance cameras were installed."
There were footsteps coming and going, and I looked at the surveillance camera and saw nothing changed.
There are many specimens of tigers, lions, birds, insects and so on in the specimen room.
I watched and thought, and heard the footsteps continue.
"I'll go upstairs, you stay here."
Liu Yang looked at me nervously.
"Is that okay?"
"It's okay, don't worry, you will be able to see me on the surveillance camera in a while."
I went upstairs, and sure enough, the footsteps stopped at the last step.
I approached the specimen room and looked inside through the window. I saw a human skeletal specimen in the corner. It should be made of plastic or some other material and was not under surveillance.
I came down from upstairs and played the surveillance video again. Everything was normal and the vice-principal looked at me.
"How about it?"
"The question is, there is, but I'm not sure right now. I need to go into the specimen room."
They agreed to let me enter the specimen room, took me upstairs, opened the specimen room, and I went in. They stood outside the door. I walked to the skeletal specimen and took a look. I knew that the specimen was actually a real person with bones. This was really evil. Who would make such a specimen? It would be strange if nothing strange happened.
I came out and said that was it for today and we would come back tomorrow.
Their skeptical looks told me that I couldn't solve the problem at all.
Liu Yang and I got in the car and she asked me.
"What's going on? I see you're quite nervous."
"That bone specimen is real human bone."
Liu Yang was stunned.
"This specimen was obtained three years ago. How can it be a real human bone?"
“That’s for sure.”
Liu Yang was sweating. He wiped it off and asked after a long time.
"What should we do then?"
"I don't know what to do right now. It's best not to move. Remember, starting tomorrow, don't go to the second floor. Remember."
Liu Yang nodded.
I returned to the city, and the next day Mao Xiaoli called me and asked me to come over.
I'll go over there, said Mao Xiaoli.
"I feel like there will be an opportunity during this time, don't miss it, this is the last chance."
Mao Xiaoli reminded me, and I knew that if I really missed it, Mao Xiaoli might kill me.
I told her what happened at Liu Yang's school and she was stunned for a moment.
"This is really strange. Really human bones? Not a single one missing?"
"Yes, but you can see that this person died from a knife wound in the brain."
"That's pretty courageous."
"what to do?"
"You can tie it with a black string temporarily, and then find a way. You have to tie it yourself. You are an extremely yin person, and it is useless for others to tie it."
I know, this is troublesome.
I went to Chixian No. 1 Middle School in the afternoon and tied the black thread.
That day, the vice principal called and said that there were no footsteps.
"It's only temporary. I'll find a way."
However, I didn't expect that the vice-principal actually put the skeletal specimen in a bag and moved it to the warehouse.
At night, someone was standing in the middle of the playground doing exercises. The teacher on duty was scared to death. Liu Yang called me and asked me what had happened. I was also curious.
I drove over, picked up Liu Yang and took him to school.
I was stunned to see a man standing in the middle of the playground doing exercises.
"Who moved that skeleton?"
The vice-principal said that he thought everything was fine, so he took him to the warehouse. I really wanted to beat him up.
That person stopped doing exercises and stood still, motionless.
I walked to the center of the playground and slowly approached. It was that skeleton. Yes, it was wearing a school uniform.
The black line was not on his left hand, so it looked like he had broken it himself. I knew this was going to be troublesome.
The bones were returned to the warehouse. I was sweating just watching them. This time we were in trouble.
I called Mao Xiaoli, and she was also stunned. She said that the bones are now autonomous and their abilities are getting stronger day by day. I'm afraid there will be trouble, because if they don't come out during the day, they will come out at night.
"Is there any way?"
"There's no other way. If we don't move, there might be another way."
I told Liu Yang, and we had to go find her father Liu Shougui.
In the columbarium, Liu Shougui was reading a book. We told him what happened and he stared at us blankly for a long time.
"How can you get a real skeleton? It's not an animal."
We didn't say anything, and there was nothing much to say. No one wanted something like this to happen, but it had already happened, so was there anything else we could do?
"Dad, is there any way?"
"Yes, yes. Wait a minute. We'll go there tomorrow night."
The next day, when we went there at night, the skeleton was doing Exercise 1 again, and he did it very standardly. The vice-principal and the director were already dumbfounded, as they would never understand such a thing.
"Xiaozhe, come with me later and see what's going on."
Liu Shougui and I walked over and stood three or four meters away from the skeleton. It didn't seem to sense our presence and was still doing its exercises.
"This bone is at least a hundred years old. I didn't expect it to be so old. Only a bone that is a hundred years old would be like this. I thought it was not that simple. This is not man-made, but a bone that is a hundred years old. I am afraid it will be tossed around."
"What does it want to do?"
"If you leave it alone, it will choose a person as a substitute. He will live that person's life, and then keep on doing this, replacing one person after another. It won't be a problem for several lifetimes, but he will bring harm to people."
"what to do?"
"It's just that these bones are a hundred years old. It's not easy to deal with them. Originally, I asked it to come over so that I could disassemble the bones and bury them. But these are bones that are a hundred years old. I have to think of other ways."
"Burning it?"
"Impossible. This Hundred Years Bone will avoid it. Now it's like it has life, just waiting for the right time. Don't let anyone get close to it now. Don't accept any human energy. There's no big problem for now. I'll go back and think of a solution."
I didn’t expect that Liu Yang called me the next day and said that the bones had disappeared and could not be found.
When I went there, Liu Shougui was also in the warehouse, but the specimen was gone.
After Liu Shougui looked there for a long time, he asked me to drive up.
The three of us were driving around the county town, and Liu Shougui suddenly said.
"Towards the lake, I smell something."
I was stunned. People say that bones have a smell, just like people. I can't smell it, but Liu Shougui can.
There was a small boat not far from the lake, with a person sitting on the bow.
"That's it. Those are bones. We can't go over there. It's very dangerous. He hid here, waiting for an opportunity. Not everyone can be a substitute. He's on the boat. We can never get close to him. There will always be such a long distance between us."
"Who can be his replacement?"
"Everyone has a wave. These waves are different. Each person has a wave. Although they are different, there are similar ones. He is not looking for the wave that is closest to him."
I shook my head. It seemed that this matter was not easy to resolve.
Leaving the lake and going to the columbarium, Liu Shougui sat in a chair thinking about something. I wanted to call Mao Xiaoli to ask again, but I didn't ask. I thought Liu Shougui might have a better idea.
"There is a way, which is to use an urn to lure him. Of course, this urn can only be made for one person, and it should be made with 206 compartments to hold 206 bones. The bones will find themselves, and then I will find a way, but this urn..."
"I'll try."
"But Ji Yihe may not agree. He is a weird person."
"I'll go ask tomorrow."
The next day I went to Ji Yihe's house. When I went in, he asked me to drink with him. A half-finished box was placed on the side.
I told him what happened, but Ji Yihe didn't even look up at me.
"This is a restraining box. If this thing really does something evil, I can help you. However, the world he wants to change is also a normal wheel. This is also his fate. The bones of a hundred years are also cultivated. It would be bad for me to do this. After all, he hasn't harmed anyone yet."
I didn't expect Ji Yihe to say that.
"But he will hurt people. Transferring will hurt people."
"That's a normal transformation. It's a kind of fate. I can't do that. After all, it's a hundred-year-old bone."
I simply cannot accept Master Ji. If this is the case, he can only wait to hurt people. If he doesn't hurt people, then he will just be a replacement. There is nothing I can do about that.
As soon as I came out of Master Ji's house, I called Liu Shougui, but he took a long time to say anything.
"Then I'm afraid I don't have any other tricks. He's in the lake and we can't get close to him. We can only let him take over."
I was sweating, and if it was just like this, I would just leave it alone, hoping that everything would turn out well. But this matter made me feel uncomfortable and awkward. (To be continued)