A person like Lin Banxia who only has more than 100 yuan in his bank card does not really understand the situation of a driver who does not even want the money and has to run for his life. For him who is about to repay the mortgage, the word poverty is far more terrifying than ghosts and gods. After all, the former is a real threat, and the latter can bring him a generous salary. on his surrogate parents.
The driver ran away and successfully saved more than ten yuan in the fare, but Lin Banxia was in a complicated mood. While reflecting on herself, she called Song Qingluo and asked him where he was now and if anything happened.
Song Qingluo replied lightly, saying that she caught something under the carriage, and she would just let Lin Banxia come back directly.
Lin Banxia snorted and went back slowly.
When they got home, Lin Banxia saw what Song Qingluo was holding—it had a human torso, but no human facial features. It was covered with dense eyes, and at first glance, it looked like a mutated squid. It seems, of course, the appearance of this thing is much more disgusting than squid.
Song Qingluo tied the thing with a rope and left it in the corner of the living room, with Song Qingluo standing beside him on the phone. And Xiaohua Xiaokuo squatted beside this thing and stared at it, Lin Banxia thought they were just looking at it for fun, until he found out that Xiaohua was actually gulping at this thing.
Lin Ban was startled: "Xiaohua—that can't be eaten—" He hurried over and hugged Xiaohua and Xiaoku together, "This thing doesn't look healthy, it will cause diarrhea if you eat it!"
Xiaohua swallowed again, but fortunately, she has always been very good. Listening to Lin Banxia's words, she said hello.
Song Qingluo happened to finish the call over there, and Lin Banxia hurriedly asked, "What is this?"
Song Qingluo said, "It may be the companion of some kind of heresy."
Lin Banxia said, "What did you see in the car? Did it follow us on purpose?"
Song Qingluo pondered: "It's possible, I contacted there, and then check the monitoring to see what's going on."
Lin Banxia nodded, and he carefully observed the appearance of this thing again, and felt that it should indeed be a human change, because there were still some tattered clothes hanging on him, which might have been broken after the change. However, from the outside, it no longer belongs to the category of human beings, but it is more like some strange alien creatures.
The people over there came very quickly. In about ten minutes, someone called Song Qingluo. Song Qingluo carried this thing and went downstairs with Lin Banxia, but she didn't expect to see Shen Junyan.
She was wearing a long dress, leaning next to a tall Land Rover, looking down at the red and beautiful nails, hearing the footsteps of the two, without raising her head, she said, "Just throw things in the trunk, don't put mine The seat is dirty." Song Qingluo threw the things into the trunk: "Did the surveillance call out?"
"Well." Shen Junyan said, "Let's go to the base to see?"
Song Qingluo said, "No, send me the email."
Shen Junyan glanced at Song Qingluo with a half-smile, "Did you go to see Ji Feng last time?"
Song Qingluo said, "What?"
"It's okay." Shen Junyan said, "Just ask casually." She said casually, "He lost a lot of temper today, he still refuses to eat lunch, and he doesn't want to say what's wrong. It's a bit strange there, so he asked me by the way. Ask you two questions."
Oh, Ji Feng actually lost his temper. It seems that Song Qingluo's way of closing the snack shop played a role, resulting in Ji Feng's temporarily unable to eat his favorite sausages and coke.
Lin Banxia's heart that was riddled with bank cards finally got a trace of comfort at this time.
"Go home." Song Qingluo said.
Lin Banxia nodded.
The surveillance video over there was sent very quickly. Lin Banxia and Song Qingluo were in front of the computer and watched as they took a taxi and got on it. Up to here, everything was normal until the taxi was passing a curb and suddenly hit a person. That's right, it was a person. From the monitoring, it should be an ordinary man. Suddenly, he ran out from the roadside, was directly hit by a taxi, and was unfortunately involved in the bottom of the car.
Then the taxi braked sharply, leaving two black brake lines on the ground.
At first glance, this was just an ordinary traffic accident, but the person who was hit disappeared. The driver got out of the car and looked around in confusion, but did not find the person who was hit. So I had to go back to the car and the taxi started again.
It's just that when the taxi passed the next intersection, a slender hand stretched out from the bottom of the car unconsciously and pressed it on the license plate.
Lin Banxia knew what happened next, but he couldn't figure it out: "Why did you suddenly become a companion after being hit?"
Song Qingluo shook her head and said that she didn't know either.
The base attaches great importance to this matter. In the next few days, a few more monitors were sent over, but there was no progress. Song Qingluo and Lin Banxia also returned to the place where they hit the person. Except for a few brake lines that were about to disappear, there was not even a drop of blood on the ground. Those who did it always felt that they were hallucinating.
The investigation reached a dead end for a while, and it was impossible to continue, so it could only be put on hold for the time being.
In the next half month, Song Qingluo became very busy because of this accident. After returning home every day, Lin Banxia almost took Xiaohua and the others to sleep.
Unexpectedly, today was an exception. When I got home, I saw Lin Banxia standing on the balcony full of vicissitudes without sleeping, with a rare cigarette in her mouth and a sad expression on her face.
Song Qingluo was slightly startled, thinking what happened, walked behind Lin Banxia, and called softly, "Banxia?"
Lin Banxia said, "Qing Luo, you're back."
Song Qingluo said, "What's wrong with you?"
Lin Banxia said, "Time is running out."
Song Qingluo: "?!" He remembered what his mother once said to Lin Banxia, and immediately became nervous, "What do you mean?"
Lin Banxia: "...tomorrow, tomorrow..."
Song Qingluo: "Huh?"
Lin Banxia: "The mortgage will be repaid tomorrow."
Song Qingluo; "..."
Lin Banxia: "I've been out of work for half a month, are we unemployed?" He didn't have any jobs for the past half month, so he began to think about whether to re-submit his resume and find another job.
Song Qingluo's expression froze for two seconds: "...This is your time running out?"
Lin Banxia: "Otherwise?"
Song Qingluo didn't say a word, she took out her mobile phone and started to operate. The next moment, Lin Banxia's Alipay made a crisp rustling sound - it was the wonderful music of transferring money into the account.
Lin Banxia took out her mobile phone and looked at the numbers, and was shocked: "So much?? I'll pay you back when I'm paid..."
"What am I doing?" Song Qingluo said, "Let me continue to buy antiques?"
Lin Banxia was right when she thought about it. Song Qingluo couldn't be deceived any more. If the money was put here, Song Qingluo could take it back at any time. However, the problem came again. It's been a long time, the voice is a little low, but Song Qingluo can definitely hear it clearly, he said: "By the way, why are you looking for your mother to buy Peppa Pig's tank?"
Song Qingluo: "..."
Lin Banxia: "Isn't that bad?"
Song Qingluo glanced at Lin Banxia blankly, then moved away more blankly, and said calmly, "What did you eat at night?"
Lin Banxia: "..." You've turned the topic too bluntly.
But Song Qingluo had already behaved like this, and he didn't dare to continue to ask questions, so he could only say obediently: "There is still some porridge in the pot, do you want some?"
Song Qingluo: "Come on."
Lin Bantian really thought that this matter was over.
Until that night, when the two went to bed, someone leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice, "What would you like to eat tonight?"
Before he could answer, he heard Song Qingluo laughing maliciously in his ear: "Would you like porridge?"
Lin Banxia: "!!!"
For the next week, Lin Banxia didn't want to hear the word porridge.
The meteor shower event didn't seem to have had much impact on them. The days went on as usual, but Lin Banxia felt that the frequency of heretics had miraculously decreased. In the past month, I didn't encounter anything that required the two of them to perform tasks. After asking them, I learned that they were all small problems, which were easily solved by other monitors.
The hottest season is gradually over, and autumn is finally here.
Ji Leshui recently got off work early. Since Xiaohua and Xiaokuo were brought by Lin Banxia, the focus of his life has shifted. The first thing he does every day after get off work is to go home and take the children. After all, Lin Banxia and Song Qingluo He was often away from home when he was busy, so he was the only one left to take on the heavy responsibility of taking care of the children.
Today is no exception. Lin Banxia said that he went out to work and might have to come back later. Ji Leshui planned to go to the supermarket to buy something and give the children a good meal.
So before he got home, Ji Leshui went to the supermarket to buy a lot of ingredients, and squeezed into the crowded bus with difficulty, thinking about what to do at night along the way.
He thought about it, and suddenly heard some strange sounds. The sound was as if something was chewing meat. It was moist and sticky, and it sounded very uncomfortable. Because of the previous encounters, Ji Leshui has always been very sensitive to these sounds. His body froze slightly, and his eyes couldn't help, looking towards the source of the sound. But he saw nothing.
The sound of chewing became louder and louder. Seeing that no one around him responded, Ji Leshui swallowed and asked a young boy next to him in a low voice, "Little brother, did you hear anything?"
The boy gave Ji Leshui a strange look: "What sound? No."
Ji Leshui said, "Really didn't hear it?"
The boy's eyes are even more strange, probably because he thinks Ji Leshui is a strange person, he doesn't answer, he turns his head and ignores Ji Leshui.
I don't know if it was because it was too hot in the bus, or because Ji Leshui was too nervous. He was sweating all over his body, and his stomach was aching. But the worst thing was that the sound was getting louder and louder. , and finally turned into a tearing roar, like a beast feasting in the carriage.
There were still a few stops to the destination, but Ji Leshui didn't dare to stay in the car at all. He prayed in his heart, thinking that he would go down at the next stop no matter what.
In just a few minutes, it became like a year. Ji Leshui carried the large and small bags of ingredients and leaned hard to the door, his palms were full of sweat. Out of the corner of his eye, he observed the direction of the sound, and suddenly noticed something.
A man standing behind the carriage suddenly had a large mass of bright red blood in his abdomen, and the white shirt that man was wearing was gradually dyed red. The man didn't feel it at all, and was still chatting with the person next to him, even with a warm smile on his face.
Ji Leshui watched helplessly as the red marks on the man's abdomen became more and more obvious, and along with the sour chewing sound, it gradually spread to the whole body. The voice suddenly became smaller, Ji Leshui didn't react, and saw that something seemed to be squirming under the man's shirt. The benefit was good. A hand that felt twisted opened the shirt and stretched out from the man's abdomen. come out. The man's abdomen turned into an exaggerated big hole, as if the whole person was hollowed out, and only a little flesh was left to support the man's body. However, he was still unaware and continued to chat with the people next to him.
This grotesque and terrifying scene made Ji Leshui go numb, and the people around him didn't react at all.
With a ding, the sound of the bus announcement sounded, and the moment the door opened, Ji Leshui almost rushed out from the inside, ignoring the complaints and scoldings of the people around him, and went crazy to other places. ran away.
He didn't know how far he ran to the side before he stopped panting and raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead.
"Damn, what is that." Ji Leshui muttered bitterly, "Did I read it wrong?" He looked behind him, and the bus just now disappeared.
Ji Leshui really didn't dare to take the bus, thinking that it was close to home anyway, so he just walked back. So carrying the ingredients, he started walking towards the gate of the community. When I was passing by a small supermarket, I suddenly remembered that I had almost eaten the popsicles at home, and planned to go in and buy some. Who knew that when I arrived at the entrance of the supermarket, the goose bumps that I managed to get rid of just now appeared again in an instant—he listened again Arrived, the sound of meat being chewed.
Ji Leshui turned his head stiffly and looked at the security guard standing at the door of the supermarket. He found that the security guard's head was still missing, and the strange black hand stretched out from behind the security guard and grabbed his face. , like something fixed behind him, gnawing at his body.
The security guard didn't notice anything unusual about his body at all. Seeing Ji Leshui standing still with a puzzled expression, he stepped forward and asked, "Sir, what's the matter with you?"
When he spoke, the gnawing sound stopped, and Ji Leshui saw a pair of green eyes sticking out from behind the security guard's body. He had never seen eyes like this, without a face, just suspended in mid-air, his eyes were full of hunger and violence, just being stared at, Ji Leshui's body froze uncontrollably— Like a mouse being stared at by a cat.
When the security guard saw Ji Leshui's face turning pale, it was very strange. As soon as he murmured twice in his heart, he saw the person in front of him turn around and run away, and the speed even caused a gust of wind. He was a little dazed, wondering if there was something wrong with this person...
If it hadn't been through so many strange things before, Ji Leshui would have wondered if he was crazy. This time, he didn't dare to stop half a step, and rushed home in a panic, not even noticing that one of his shoes had slipped away.
Xiaohua Xiaoku was still sitting at home watching Peppa Pig, when he heard someone knock on the door, and then Ji Leshui's head came in from the outside. He was very scared now, but he didn't dare to enter Lin Banxia's house, so he had to shout at the door: "Xiaohua Xiaocao, are you all right?"
Of course Xiaoku and Xiaohua are all right. The two little dogs ran over to Ji Leshui with a look of panic, and Xiaoku rubbed Ji Leshui's hand with his cheek, snorted twice, and asked what was wrong.
"I seem to be crazy." Ji Leshui said, no one else saw it, but he saw it. This is not crazy or something.
Xiaohua suddenly leaned over to Ji Leshui and sniffed, and said timidly, "Brother, you have a smell on your body."
Ji Leshui said, "What does it taste like?"
Xiaohua said: "The smell of fear."
Ji Leshui: "… "
He smiled wryly, he was really… scared.
Lin Banxia came back a little late. He didn't have much to do recently, so he followed Song Qingluo to do some relatively simple tasks.
These jobs are not difficult, and the pay is normal, but they can make some money as a deposit.
Today, Lin Banxia went to pick up a monitor who was in a distressed state. He said that he was picking him up, but in fact, he was sent from his residence to the mental hospital in the base. Although this man is crazy, he is not dangerous, he just kept mumbling that the world is going to be destroyed, and he refused to touch him by the people around him.
Song Qingluo has always been a quick-witted person, so he knocked him unconscious, put him in the car, and dragged him to the mental hospital.
When handing over to the staff of the mental hospital, the man was very respectful, and he addressed Mr. Song and Mr. Lin from beginning to end, but when they were about to separate, he muttered, "Why so many people have come in recently... "
Lin Banxia didn't think much about it, and asked casually, "Is there a lot of people recently?"
"Yeah." The staff member said, "In this month, there will be twenty or thirty."
Lin Banxia said, "What is the normal situation?"
The staff member said: "It's normal, just one or two. It will be a little more in the spring."
Lin Banxia said, "Do the people who come in have any common characteristics?"
The staff smiled bitterly: "Don't all lunatics look like that? Either they shout, or they don't say a word, or they feel that the whole world is going to hurt themselves..."
Lin Banxia thought about it too.
Song Qingluo said, "Let's go."
Lin Banxia followed behind him and joked, "If I go crazy, will you send me to a mental hospital?"
Song Qingluo glanced at him: "You reflex arc, even if the whole world is crazy, you won't be crazy."
Lin Banxia: "... crazy or crazy, just a month later than you."
Song Qingluo smiled.
Lin Banxia glanced at her phone and found that Ji Leshui had sent him a message asking him to go back earlier, saying that he wanted to talk to him about something. Ji Le rarely used such a serious tone when he was at a high level. Lin Banxia noticed something was wrong and said, "Let's go back quickly, something seems to have happened at home."
Song Qingluo said yes.
It was already three o'clock in the morning when I drove home. Fortunately, tomorrow is the weekend and I don't have to go to work. When he was downstairs, Lin Banxia saw the lights in Ji Leshui's room on, and she hadn't slept yet.
"Leshui, what's the matter?" Lin Banxia entered the room and saw Ji Leshui shrunk on the sofa, pitifully hugging the pillow, looking miserably spoiled.
"You're finally back." Ji Leshui snotted and cried, "I don't know what to do if you don't come back!"
Lin Banxia asked curiously, "What happened?"
Ji Leshui said, "I seem to be crazy."
Lin Banxia was at a loss: "What?"
Ji Leshui said: "I saw some terrible things on the bus today... But no one else responded, I was the only one who saw it."
Lin Banxia saw that Ji Leshui's frightened expression didn't seem to be a fake, so he walked to his side and sat down: "Tell me more about it?"
Ji Leshui then told Lin Banxia everything he had seen and heard, including what happened to the security guard at the entrance of the supermarket. Song Qingluo was listening while standing beside him. Serious, and finally crossed his chest with his hands, with a solemn expression: "Did you only see those things today?"
"Yeah." Ji Leshui said, "I've never seen it before... What are those? Do they really exist? Or have I hallucinated?"
Song Qingluo didn't answer, she took out the dice from her pocket and handed it to Ji Leshui: "Come."
This is not the first time Ji Leshui has thrown the dice. He hesitated for a moment, and finally obeyed Song Qingluo's words and threw it gently. Gulugulu, the dice spun and slammed in front of the three of them, and finally stopped slowly, and two bright red numbers were revealed in front of the three of them.
One is a 9, and the other, also a 9, is only one point away from 100.
Lin Banxia's breath was slightly suffocated. She didn't expect Ji Leshui's mental state to be so bad. Ji Leshui was only 95 when he was in hell, but this time, he was actually 99. According to Song Qingluo, Ji Leshui's mental value is obviously in an extremely dangerous situation, and if he stimulates it a little, he may go directly to a mental hospital.
Ji Leshui also knew what the dice meant. Seeing that he was actually 99, he immediately panicked: "Why is it so high?? I'm not as scared as last time."
Song Qingluo said, "I see."
At least this time, Ji Leshui was able to describe the whole incident calmly. When he first met, he was so frightened by the house number that he was going to lose his mind.
"Then why is it 99?" Ji Leshui said.
Song Qingluo said, "It may have something to do with what you encountered."
Ji Leshui: "What is that?"
Song Qingluo shook her head, not wanting to go into detail.
Seeing this, Ji Leshui had no choice but to look to Lin Banxia for help, but Lin Banxia remembered the monitor that he and Song Qingluo had personally sent to the mental hospital during the day. Although he really didn't want to connect the two, he couldn't help deceiving himself with some facts in front of him.
Lin Banxia gave Song Qingluo a wink, Song Qingluo understood and called out, "Little Cave."
Ji Leshui was at a loss, not knowing why Song Qingluo called Xiaokuo.
After a while, Xiao Cao, who was sound asleep in the bedroom, rubbed his eyes and got up from the bed, and walked into the living room with a hum.
"You sleep with Xiao Cave tonight." Song Qingluo said, "It will help ease your mental state."
"Okay..." Ji Leshui didn't try to be brave.
After the two were sure that Ji Leshui had nothing else to do, they returned to the next door.
The author has something to say:
Lin Banxia: If the world is at peace...
Song Qingluo: That's great
Lin Banxia: Was it me or the two of us who lost their jobs?
Song Qingluo: It seems so.
Lin Banxia: 0.0 Then you and I go back to your old business and collect the corpses
Song Qingluo:…