I sat down and lit a cigarette.
"Okay, you guys sit over there too, against the wall."
Gao Yong sat down next to me and asked me in a low voice.
"Did you see anything? I saw you staring at that spot."
"The police are really good. They can tell what a person has seen just by looking at their eyes."
"What did you see?"
"Do I want to see it?"
Gao Yong nodded.
"I don't believe that things that cannot be seen by human eyes do not exist."
“Many things exist that cannot be seen by the eyes.”
Gao Yong thought for a long time and nodded.
"Then hold my hand. When you see it, don't scream or react too much. It's okay to react."
"Can you tell me what it is in advance?"
"A ghost, a thing you don't believe in, remember, is one of seven women without hair, and all their hair is here with me."
"You took the hair of those seven people, with their scalps still on? You are disgusting."
Gao Yong was actually scared. I grabbed his hand and he was shaking.
"Are you scared?"
"Yes, I admit that I have never seen anything like this happen, so I am scared."
This is a very normal thing, a normal human reaction.
Gao Yong suddenly grabbed me tightly. I think he must have seen the ghost. The ghost was squatting in the corner. She was very quiet and seemed to be waiting for some opportunity.
She just stared at me and didn't look at anyone else.
I let go of his hand and he was already sweating profusely.
I slowly stood up and walked towards the ghost. She was very scared and hugged herself. I walked over to her and squatted down.
"Don't be afraid. I can see you and hear you. If you have any problem, just tell me and I will help you."
The ghost kept looking at me like that. She didn’t believe me. That look told me that all of this would have to be resolved slowly.
"Don't be afraid. I'm a refiner. I can help you solve this problem. I know you died unjustly. You can't solve the problem by doing this, but I can help you."
"We want to get out of here."
Yes, they can't leave here and can only stay here.
"I can help you."
"But we can't get out. We are incomplete corpses. We can't go out and we can't reincarnate."
"I can do it. Open the door and we'll go out. I'll do what I promised you."
She hesitated for a long time, opened the door, we went out, and the door closed again.
That day, the three girls woke up and felt very weak.
I must do what I promised.
I went back to He Dana's house and saw Liu Shougui sitting in the yard, looking at something and thinking about something. I coughed and he woke up.
"Has the 351 issue been resolved?"
"It's just a part of it. It's in bigger trouble."
I told you the whole story.
"Show me your hair."
I took out my hair. I was instructed by some god or ghost to do this. It seemed as if some voice from the unknown told me to do this.
"It seems that these seven women died tragically. They were all young and beautiful. It seems that the person who interrogated them was a pervert. This was something they never expected. They wanted to capture a few girls to replace them."
"So how do we do this?"
"It's very troublesome. You shouldn't have agreed to this."
"But there was no other good solution at the time, so I had to agree first."
"It's really troublesome. You also took all this hair."
"I don't know why I took it at that time. Was it impulsive?"
I know that I'm in big trouble again this time, but no matter what, things have already happened.
"There is a way to solve these problems, which is to restore their scalps and hair. The makeup artists can do this, but it will take two days to go to the basement. After the work is done, their hands will also be restored and fake bones will be made. This is the only way. The other thing is to find the people who interrogated them back then."
"It would be difficult to find the person who interrogated them back then without this."
"They will tell me. I can find a way, but it's hard to say whether there are any alive."
It seems that this matter is really troublesome. No matter what, things have come to this and we have to do it.
This kind of situation keeps happening at the No. 351 Senior High School. It seems that this century-old place is not a good place after all.
"We'll go into the basement tomorrow, but there are risks. As for what it is, we'll talk about it when the time comes."
The next day, I knocked on the iron door and it opened. It was the ghost.
"I'll help you."
Entering the torture chamber, Liu Shougui said.
"It was really terrible. There were dozens of torture instruments. I had never heard of them, let alone seen them. But the prison was so terrible at that time."
"Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, such a situation occurred at that time, and it was not uncommon."
“Let’s get started!”
Liu Shougui prepared some blood and the coffin nails dripped on it. The "creaking" sound was really unbearable for me.
After the coffin lid was opened, Liu Shougui said.
"Three on your side, four on my side."
This job is indeed not easy. It would be good if I can complete two in one day.
This makeup is very difficult, especially the prosthetic hand part, which has to be replaced with other bones, which is very troublesome, and the eyes of the corpse also need to be covered.
I never thought of doing this kind of work in my life. I would never believe that I could do it. When I came to the crematorium, it was for my father to find some things about his life. I never thought that I would be left here in this life. Actually, when I think about it, I think there is nothing wrong with it. Every day is a new life. You never know what will happen next time. It is much better than those monotonous jobs.
I complete one task a day. I can’t do this kind of work at night.
We sat down to drink and eat.
“This is not an easy job.”
After I finished speaking, Liu Shougui said.
"There are more difficult things than this. I have encountered them several times, and you may encounter them in the future."
"Yes, look at this torture device. I have never seen it before. If you put it on, it would be worse than death."
"Who came up with all this? It must have been pretty scary here at the time."
I thought about it and shuddered.
That day, I thought something would happen at night, but nothing happened. We spent a very quiet night. Maybe they knew we were there to help them, so they were very honest.
The next day, I continued to put on makeup. Today, things went much more smoothly and Liu Shougui also worked faster.
We finished everything before dark, it took two whole days, Liu Shougui said as he took one look at my makeup.
"generally."
I know it's average, but when I look at Liu Shougui's makeup, I realize that I'm still far from that.
"You go out first, I'll talk to them for a while."
I went out and sat at the gate, which was actually open.
Liu Shougui took more than half an hour to come out. When we came out, it was dark.
"Just go out and eat."
After entering the private room, Liu Shougui asked for paper and pen and wrote something. I didn't read it. He ordered food and wine.
Liu Shougui finished writing in more than ten minutes.
"I'm afraid I can't remember it. Take it and find these people. I have something to do in the next two days."
I took a look at the list. There were four people in total. Their names, addresses, and ages were all there. It seemed that Liu Shougui had communicated with these ghosts. I never expected that these four people were so cruel.
The next day, I went to the police station and found a friend to check the situation of these four people. Three of them were dead and only one was alive.
This person lived in the bungalow area of Huashan. I went to look for him, but he had moved away. This was another troublesome thing. I didn't even know where he had moved to. He was already over 80 years old.
I couldn’t find it, so I called Liu Shougui.
"Well, wait until I finish my work in the next two days. As for the death report, you have to find the grave and see it to confirm it."
I was stunned for a moment. How could this be false? The person was not dead, but was reported dead? This was possible.
It took me three days to check for the other three people, and sure enough, one of them had no grave or tomb. Moreover, the neighbors said they didn't know and that he had moved away. So, that person did not die.
When I got home, Liu Shougui had already returned and Liu Yang had also finished get off work and had prepared dinner.
"Indeed, there is a person who has no grave, but we are not sure if he is dead."
"Let's talk about this after dinner."
They drank until after nine o'clock that night, but Liu Shougui didn't seem to be in a hurry.
Liu Yang went to rest, and Liu Shougui let me into his room.
There were four black objects on the table, like black Go pieces, divided into four corners.
Liu Shougui took out something that looked like a spoon from a bag.
"This is used to change one's fate. It's a Yin science for finding one's fate, just like the I Ching, a great mystery of China."
When the spoon turned, two of the seeds jumped a little, very lightly, but noticeably.
"These two people are alive, there is nothing wrong with that."
"How do I find it?"
"Of course there is a way. We'll go there tomorrow."
Liu Shougui didn't say what the solution was, but there must be a solution.
The next day, I went to the unit first, made some arrangements, and then came out.
I went home and picked up Liu Shougui, and he said after getting in the car.
"I'm in command."
I drove and he directed us to the suburbs, which was a village. We entered the village and stopped in front of a house.
“That’s the one.”
"How did you find it?"
"There is a kind of Yin learning called the line. Once you learn it, you will be able to see a line in front of you. If you follow the line, you will arrive."
"How do you learn?"
"When the time comes, just read He Dana's diary. You'll know more about it than I do."
The gate of the yard was open, so we went in. There was an old man sitting in the yard with white hair and beard. Just as we were about to speak, a man came out of the house.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Looking for your father."
"Sorry, get out right away."
The man got anxious and pushed us out.
Liu Shougui said.
"We are here to help you. If we don't help you, your family's situation will be worse."
The man was stunned and hesitated for a long time.
"Well, please come in."
We entered the house, but the old man sitting in the yard didn't react at all.
After sitting down, the man said.
"My family had been unlucky for a long time. Finally, we moved to the suburbs. We lost our house, my wife, and my children. My old father is blind. I don't know what unlucky things happened to our family."
"We need to talk to your old father about this."
"That's fine. If you can help us, I'll thank you and burn incense for you every day."
We tried to communicate with the old man, but at first he was unwilling and didn't speak. We thought he was deaf.
"He's not deaf at all."
We asked his son to prepare the dishes and sent him away.
The old man spoke.
"Alas, it's all my fault. I was too young and ignorant at the time, and I hurt others!"
"Is it about the torture chamber in the basement?"
The old man was obviously stunned.
"You know, there is a background, so I might as well tell you. My son doesn't even know. No matter what, I am living in vain now. I want to redeem my sins and let my son live well. He has suffered too much with me."
"Tell me more about it."
"Back then, there were four of us. I was the youngest, young and ignorant, so I was taken in. At first I didn't want to fight, so they beat me and tortured me. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I did it. I scalped my scalp. The girl looked at me, looked at me, and I will never forget it in my life. I will never forget it..."
The old man covered his face and started crying. (To be continued)