Because the project has not yet been officially completed, the water in the water tank is still the water that was filled in when testing the water pressure.
The stagnant water settled in the metal environment and gradually changed, becoming turbid, and many transparent, sticky, and slippery substances grew on the surrounding metal inner walls.
Wu Weiwei thought he was a decent swimmer, but he couldn't hold his breath for long underwater. He grabbed the red line on his waist and pulled it towards himself. Li Hongyu, who was holding his breath and checking the underwater valve in front of him, immediately turned around and looked over.
Wu Weiwei pointed his finger at the water surface, then motioned the other person to look at his bulging cheeks, and shook his head desperately.
Li Hongyu knew that he had reached his limit and nodded to swim upwards.
Wu Weiwei felt relieved and was about to turn around when suddenly his eyes widened and he waved his hands continuously.
Li Hongyu seemed not to understand what he meant and continued walking towards Wu Weiwei.
In a hurry, Wu Weiwei opened his mouth, and the warning sound was immediately blocked by the rushing water and returned to his throat, and the feeling of suffocation came instantly. His hands and feet were weak, and his throat was choked and painful. No matter how he moved his hands, his body continued to sink.
After a brief consideration, Li Hongyu suddenly turned around.
A water ghost was floating behind him. When she saw that someone had seen her, her hair suddenly stretched out. One strand went towards Wu Weiwei, and the other strand attacked Li Hongyu forcefully.
Li Hongyu pulled the copper coin string back from Wu Weiwei, and with his fingertips moving flexibly, the copper coins collided with each other and made a crisp sound in the water. They were tightly connected together to form a copper coin sword.
As the copper coin sword fell, the water ghost's hair broke in the middle. He gripped the hilt tightly and stabbed directly forward.
The copper coins on the copper coin sword are the Five Emperors' coins that can drive away evil spirits, and they are connected in series with red threads specially treated with cinnabar and chicken blood, which are very powerful. The water ghost didn't have the courage to put his hands up to resist and dodged in panic.
Li Hongyu took the opportunity to pick up Wu Weiwei who was about to drown and swam quickly to the surface.
The water ghost was very smart and knew that he was not strong enough during the day, so he tested the opponent's strength a few times and then disappeared. The five-zhu coin seemed to be sensed and did not sink to the bottom of the water, but floated to the surface of the water.
Li Hongyu put the sword back into the scabbard on his back, supported Wu Weiwei with one hand, and climbed up the ladder inside the water barrel.
"You finally got up!" Lu Guangan had climbed onto the water barrel at some point, with an anxious look on his face, a roll of hemp rope and a mobile phone in his hands.
Li Hongyu didn't have time to pay attention to him and carefully laid Wu Weiwei flat on the ground.
Lu Guangan then realized that something was wrong: "Mr. Wu, what happened?! I, I will call an ambulance immediately!"
Li Hongyu seemed not to hear. He reached out and pinched Wu Weiwei's cheeks, forcing him to open his mouth to check if there was any mud or algae in his throat.
With a sigh of relief, he turned the man over and pressed him on his bent knees so that his head would hang down. Then, he pressed Wu Weiwei's back with both hands and pressed down hard -
With a wow sound, Wu Weiwei spat out the water in his mouth and turned over to sit on the ground.
He coughed painfully a few times, and before he could catch his breath, he started shouting, "Ghost girl, the ghost girl is behind you!"
Hearing his loud roar, Li Hongyu put the man back on the ground. After a brief hesitation, he put his hand on Wu Weiwei's frozen neck.
"It's all over. We are safe now." Li Hongyu's tone of voice was always cold, but now it was a little gentle because he wanted to comfort Wu Weiwei who had escaped death.
Wu Weiwei was stunned and looked at Li Hongyu blankly: "I'm not used to you talking like this."
Li Hongyu: “…”
He pulled his hand back, stood up, and looked down at the young man who was still sitting paralyzed: "Can you stand up?"
The voice suddenly dropped eight degrees. Wu Weiwei resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He supported himself with one hand and used the other hand to borrow strength from Lu Guangan and finally stood up.
Perhaps because he had just drowned, his hands and feet were weak. After thinking for a while, he asked Li Hongyu: "Brother, can you lend me some support? My legs are weak."
Li Hongyu turned around and left: "Let's talk about it later."
Lu Guangan finally found an opportunity to speak: "Mr. Li, Mr. Wu is fine now, do we still need this ambulance?"
Li Hongyu said without even turning his head: "Ask him himself."
Lu Guangan looked at Wu Weiwei with an inquiring look: "Mr. Wu?"
"No more." Wu Weiwei cleared his throat and felt a strange taste in his mouth. He pinched his throat and coughed hard a few times.
Several minutes had passed before the three returned to the ground.
Wuxu and Wuxu surrounded them anxiously and asked, "What happened just now?"
Wu Weiwei glanced in the direction of Li Hongyu in confusion. This man had clearly come down before them. "He didn't say anything?"
Wuxu looked over and shook his head, saying, "Since the team leader came down, he has been calling people in the unit."
"I vaguely heard two sentences." Wu Xu interrupted, "It seemed like they were asking if there were any women missing recently."
Wu Weiwei remembered the appearance of the water ghost.
Her skirt was ragged and her face was not clear due to the murky water and light, but from the outline, she should be a young woman.
He turned and looked at Lu Guangan: "Mr. Lu, have there been any strange women on the construction site recently?"
As a boss, Lu Guangan always sits in his office and gives orders, so how could he know about these trivial matters
He hurriedly said, "Mr. Wu, please allow me to make a phone call. There is someone who knows more details than me."
Soon after the call was made, the security guard in charge of monitoring and security at the construction site arrived. Although he worked at the bottom level, he was definitely Lu Guangan's confidant.
Every time there is an important new project, he will be sent to the construction site to be responsible for security issues.
The security guard is not very old, only about thirty years old, but his appearance has been carved by time and looks a bit weathered.
When he saw Lu Guangan, he called out politely, "Boss Lu."
Lu Guangan nodded, took him aside and introduced the people present, saying: "The most feared thing on a construction site is safety issues, so I specially set up a security department to be responsible for on-site monitoring and management. One is to prevent workers from stealing steel bars and reselling them, and the other is to have evidence in case of an accident."
After he finished speaking, he turned to the security guard and asked, "I remember that if outsiders visit the construction site, they need to register first."
"Yes." The security guard nodded.
Lu Guangan looked at Wu Weiwei, "Mr. Wu, you should ask it."
"It's like this, I want to ask, have you ever seen a young woman with long hair and wearing a white dress come to the construction site?" Wu Weiwei looked at the security guard seriously, hoping to hear some clues from him.
"No." The security guard replied very confidently.
Wu Weiwei frowned: "Are you so sure?"
The security guard thought for a moment and then changed his words: "Not within three months at least."
"You remember it so clearly?" Wu Weiwei was surprised.
The security guard smiled and said, "I have a good memory. To be honest, the women who come in and out of our place are either inspectors from the upper companies or family members of the workers on the construction site. If I had really seen the woman you described, I would have an impression of her."
What he said made sense, but Wu Weiwei was still worried. He looked at Lu Guangan and said, "Can I check the surveillance?"
Lu Guangan said: "Of course."
He gestured to the security guard, who immediately made a gesture to lead the way, asking these people to follow him to the temporary office on the right.
Wu Weiwei looked back at Li Hongyu, who had just hung up the phone. He waved to him to catch up quickly.
Except in emergency situations, Li Hongyu usually does things slowly and steadily. To be honest, if he meets an impatient person like Wu Weiwei, he really wants to rush up to him and carry him away.
"Brother, can you please walk faster?" Wu Weiwei rolled his eyes, stomped his feet, and stood there for a while, his legs were covered with mosquito bites.
Li Hongyu quickened his pace as he was told and walked up to Wu Weiwei: "The Special Investigation Department contacted the police and said that there are no young women who meet the requirements among the recent missing persons."
Wu Weiwei said: "Let's go with the security guard to check the surveillance first."
The surveillance room was simply furnished. The security guard dragged the only two stools over and looked at the boss and the two bosses' guests in front of him with embarrassment, not knowing who to invite to sit.
Lu Guangan pushed two stools in front of the display screen and said to the two masters, "Mr. Wu, Mr. Li, please sit down."
Wu Weiwei's legs had been weak, and he sat down without any hesitation.
Lu Guangan said: "The surveillance cameras on the construction site are automatically overwritten once a month, so in order to keep a record, before the overwriting time comes, I will ask the security department to copy the video from the previous month."
Wu Weiwei looked at Li Hongyu: "Shall we watch it side by side?"
Li Hongyu nodded: "No, most people don't turn into evil spirits immediately after death. It takes resentment or hatred to accumulate to a certain level... It takes at least seven days."
Wu Weiwei thought for a moment and asked Lu Guangan: "Do you remember when the sound of water started?"
Lu Guangan didn't know the details, so he turned to look at the security guard. The security guard thought about it carefully and said, "It should be about ten days ago. Wait a minute, I'll go look through the records."
"What records?" Li Hongyu asked.
The security guard said: "I remember it very clearly. A car happened to come and deliver the elevator wire rope that day."
He quickly flipped through the visitor log and found the exact date: June 17th.
Before June 17, the construction site was safe and sound, but accidents began to occur frequently after that.
It seems that this day is the dividing line.
Wu Weiwei said: "Then we will start from June 11th."
Four people each stared at a monitor and it took them a whole morning to finish watching the surveillance.
Just as the security guard said, there was indeed no woman in a white dress.
Li Hongyu suddenly said: "Maybe, she didn't walk in by herself?"
Wu Weiwei answered quickly: "You mean, she was brought into the construction site after she died?!"
Li Hongyu said calmly: "It's just a guess."
Although it is just a guess, it can make all the time reasonable.
If the female ghost's body was really brought in from outside, then her time of death was most likely the 11th, so she made a noise on the seventh day after the evil ghost was formed.
After hearing what they said, the security guard suddenly remembered something.
"On June 11th, around 10 o'clock at night, a truckload of steel wire ropes for elevators suddenly arrived. The goods were unloaded at 11:30." The security guard paused and continued, "But seven days later, yes, exactly seven days later, the truck driver came to deliver steel wire ropes again, saying that the model he brought last time was the wrong one."
"That day, we were unloading and loading goods. The workers were working very hard and everyone was exhausted. After finishing the work, we went back to the shed and prepared to sleep."
He made a thoughtful expression, paused for a moment and said, "It was almost one in the morning. I was alone in the security room, about to take a nap, when I suddenly heard someone scream."
The security guard didn't take it seriously at the time and soon fell asleep on the wire bed.
Early the next morning, he carried his rice bowl to the canteen to get breakfast and heard a group of workers gathered nearby, talking about something like a ghost.
People are always curious about the unknown.
The security guard came closer to the crowd with his lunch bowl in hand and listened carefully. He found out that the haunted scene the workers were talking about happened last night when he took a nap after unloading the wire rope.
"At one in the morning, I heard someone shouting," he asked. "Was it you?"
The person who spoke groaned, "It's not me, it's Guan Chao."
The security guard smiled and said, "You described it so vividly that I thought it was you." He looked around and asked, "Who is Guan Chao?"
Someone pointed for him, "Brother Wang, he is Guan Chao."
Guan Chao is thin, with pale skin and messy hair. Just looking at him makes people feel listless.
The security guard walked up to Guan Chao and patted him on the shoulder. Guan Chao jumped up from the stool, screaming in panic.
"What are you yelling about in broad daylight!" the security guard shouted. Guan Chao seemed to have just come to his senses. He stared at him blankly for a long time, then turned to look at other people, as if he was trying to determine his situation.
The person next to him pushed Guan Chao and said with a smile: "What's wrong with you? You're so jumpy. It's scary."
"It's okay, I..." Guan Chao swallowed, "I was a little distracted just now, and Brother Wang suddenly touched me, which scared me."
Security guard: "With your courage, you must have peed yourself last night."
Guan Chao's expression changed several times in an instant. His hands, hanging by his sides, tightly grasped his trouser legs, and his whole body tensed up.
Everyone present noticed his change in mood. The person who had initially brought up Guan Chao's story was also stunned. He pulled the corner of his lip awkwardly, stretched out his hand to hook Guan Chao's neck, and said with a half-smile: "What's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you that you must have heard it wrong last night?"
Guan Chao shook his head desperately: "No, I didn't hear it wrong, I didn't hear it wrong... No... No..."
His weird look made many people present feel disgusted, and they looked down on him for being as cowardly as a mouse.
The security guard glanced around and looked at the old watch on his wrist: "It's time to go to work. Everyone, please stop gathering here and go away."
Everyone knew that he was the real estate boss's confidant, and no one dared to disobey him. As he spoke, he walked towards the work shed.
The security guard grabbed Guan Chao, who was also trying to leave, and said, "Talk to me."
Guan Chao was originally a very introverted person. He followed the security guard into the office and stood there uncomfortably: "Brother Wang, is there something you want to talk to me about..."
The security guard poured him a glass of water and said, "I'm very interested in your story. I want to hear it from you in person."
Guan Chao's face turned pale and blue, his mouth moved a few times, and his voice was stuck in his throat. It seemed that he wanted to refuse but didn't dare to.
The security guard smiled at him and said, "What I said before is true. When you made the noise last night, I was dozing off and I woke up all of a sudden." He frowned and said, "So tell me, what did you see last night?"
The story that the worker just told was too exaggerated, the one about the female ghost in white clothes walking backwards, it was too exaggerated, he didn't believe it at all.
Guan Chao pursed his lips tightly: "Just now, what Brother Hai said was all true."
"I don't believe it." The security guard pushed the cup forward. "You know, Mr. Lu sent me here not as an ordinary security guard. I need to know everything that happens here. If it is really haunted, I have to report it immediately."
"Do you believe it?" Guan Chao was stunned, unable to believe the security guard's attitude.
You know, after he yelled in the early hours of last night, he was severely scolded when he returned to the shed. In the morning, a big brother who was usually nice to him came to ask if he had a nightmare last night.
Guan Chao told him about his experience.
Unexpectedly, the other party not only did not comfort him, but also said that he was hallucinating. After Guan Chao's repeated confirmation, the other party reluctantly believed it, but turned around and exaggerated it and told it to others as a story.
"The world is so big that nothing is impossible. Why don't you believe it?" The security guard tapped his fingers on the table a few times. "Go ahead."
Guan Chao adjusted his mood, grabbed the cup, tilted his head back and drank all the water in the cup.
"At 1 a.m. last night, I got up to go to the bathroom. When I came out of the bathroom and washed my hands at the tap, I heard a creaking sound..."
The sound was very strange, like the joints were not flexible enough but were trying to continue moving, or like something was rubbing against metal gravity.
Guan Chao got goose bumps all over his body on the spot. Perhaps because he was scared, he even felt a little cold.
Looking around, the construction site, barely illuminated by a few street lamps, looked gloomy.
He quickly looked away and was about to leave when the voice rang out again, louder than before!
Guan Chao was so scared that he screamed, turned around and ran back to the shed.
…
"That's what happened." The security guard spread his hands towards Wu Weiwei. "The next few incidents were similar to what Guan Chao encountered, except that there was a little more faint crying."
Wu Weiwei's thoughts were immersed in the "crunching" sound described by the security guard, "What could make such a sound?"
Li Hongyu: “Not sure.”
Wu Weiwei looked at the security guard: "Brother Wang, have you heard it?"
Lu Guangan also looked at the security guard.
The security guard shook his head: "I haven't heard of it, but I heard from my co-workers that the sound was hesitant."
Wu Weiwei asked him to take him to the place where the crying sounds were heard, but found nothing. He just felt a little sorry for the workers who were working so hard.
More than half of the water pipes running through the main construction site had crying and strange noises coming out of them. Isn't this just torture? The security guard said that it was not so bad at first, and most people thought it was the wind in the middle of the night.
But as time went on, more and more people heard the noise, and those high-sounding rhetoric became precarious. Everyone was filled with fear, especially in the last one or two days, when it got dark, the workers all huddled in the shed, did not come out to the toilet, and all drank mineral water.
"So exaggerated?" Wu Weiwei was stunned.
Li Hongyu didn't show any expression, but just said to Lu Guangan: "We will stay tonight."
Lu Guangan nodded quickly: "I will arrange accommodation right away."
Li Hongyu didn't care about it: "No need to make special arrangements, just see if there are any vacant berths in the shed, and we can just squeeze in."
Lu Guangan said yes, but his relative still went to tidy up the project manager's office and dragged out a steel bed from the corner.
The wire bed is small in size, only one meter wide.
If two people lie down together, they will feel crowded in any other sleeping position unless they lie on their sides.
Just as I was thinking about calling my assistant to buy a new one, there was a knock on the door.
After receiving a response from inside, the security guard took Li Hongyu and Wu Weiwei into the house.
Because it is an office, the conditions in the room are very simple. There is a table, two plastic stools for meetings, and now a steel bed.
"This bed is too small. I'll send someone to buy another one right away." Lu Guangan hurriedly took out his cell phone and pretended to make a call.
"Mr. Lu, there's no need to go through so much trouble." Wu Weiwei held his hand. "What if we finish the job by midnight today? Wouldn't it be a waste to buy a new one?"
Li Hongyu glanced at him and said nothing.
Lu Guangan hesitated. Compared with Wu Weiwei, he was actually more afraid of Li Hongyu. Seeing that the other party did not express his opinion, he could not make up his mind for a moment.
Wu Weiwei also saw what he meant, and he put his hand on Li Hongyu's shoulder, patting him like a good brother, "Hey, little master, don't you want to say something?"
Wuxu and Wuxu raised their hands tremblingly, and Wuxu said, "Team leader, we should stay together tonight."
Lu Guangan slapped his forehead and said, "We need to buy two more beds!"
Once the noise was heard in the middle of the night today, they would have no time to sleep. Wu Weiwei really felt that there was no need to waste the money.
But the man next to him was like a piece of wood, not saying a word.
He gritted his teeth, and without saying a word, he suddenly reached out and pinched the soft flesh on Li Hongyu's waist. Damn, the flesh was hard and tight. He didn't know whether it hurt the other person or not, but his hand did hurt a little.
Just as he was about to stop, Li Hongyu took the lead, grabbed Wu Weiwei's wrist and pushed him against the wall.
"what you do."
"I..." Wu Weiwei was stunned, "I didn't do anything."
Li Hongyu's jaw tightened, and he threw away his hand and warned: "Be honest."
Wu Weiwei looked him up and down suspiciously, and suddenly understood. In order to save face for the other party, he leaned over and said to Li Hongyu's ear: "Do you have ticklish spots on your waist? Are you ticklish?"
Li Hongyu only felt a dampness in his ears. He reached out and pressed Wu Weiwei's shoulders to push him away, "Don't get so close to me."
Wu Weiwei was speechless, muttering to himself: "He was fine before, why did he suddenly become crazy again?"
Boring.
He curled his lips and looked to the side. Wuxu and Lu Guangan were looking at them in surprise.
He frowned: "Is there something on my face?"
“No, no.” Lu Guangan waved his hands and thought for a while. He said, “Mr. Wu, besides you and Mr. Li, these two should also stay. Look at this bed…”
Wuxu hurriedly said politely: "The night is very gloomy, Wuxu and I will go outside to guard as soon as it gets dark."
"This is too tiring. You need to take a break and relax." Lu Guangan tried to persuade them considerately, but when he saw that the two were too stubborn, he had to give up.
There was still half a day left before dark, and in order to prevent them from being too bored, Lu Guangan called the company's car and took them to a high-end restaurant for dinner, and then went on a tour of his own company.
Just as they were about to leave, a sudden commotion caught everyone's attention.
A man in an iron-gray suit and frameless glasses was struggling with a middle-aged man in a T-shirt.
The middle-aged man kept shouting, "Give me the money now, now."
The man in the suit looked embarrassed, impatiently broke free from the other's hand, and shouted: "It is written in black and white on the contract that our payment will be directly paid to the wire sling company. If you want the money, go to them!"
The middle-aged man insisted, "They said they would pay me the transportation fee once you transfer the funds. I can't wait that long. Give it to me now!"
Isn't this unreasonable
Lu Guangan was furious when he heard this. He strode over and said without introducing himself, "Sir, what you are doing is against the rules and has seriously affected the daily work of our employees. Please leave immediately."
The man with glasses was stunned for a moment, then he shouted hurriedly, "Boss Lu."
"Are you Mr. Lu?" The middle-aged man grabbed Lu Guangan's arm and said forcefully, "I know you are the boss of this company. You have so much money, and you don't care about my little bit. Just pay me the money first. I really have something urgent to do."
There are always small disasters and difficulties in life, and the situation will become critical.
Lu Guangan thought for a moment and asked, "I just heard that you are from the wire sling company?"
"Yes, I'm from the machinery company." The middle-aged man knew that the money request was a problem as soon as he saw Lu Guangan's expression, and said anxiously, "I just delivered steel wire rope to your construction site some time ago."
Wu Weiwei remembered what the security guard said, walked over and asked, "Did you pick up the wrong cargo on the 11th, and then you picked up a new batch to deliver to the construction site on the 17th?"