Chapter 2 Visits by Cousin’s Wife
Autumn of 212
It’s already late at night, and the downtown area is quiet. Lin Xueyan has just taken a bath and is rushing home.
Through the park in front, I arrived at my own community. At this time, Lin Xueyan hesitated. At that time, she usually went home at dusk. At that time, there were many people in the park. Today, she came back a little late. The park seemed too quiet, so deep and quiet that people felt vaguely uneasy. But it was so late to walk around the park for an hour. Lin Xueyan could not say how tired she was. I really wanted to lie down in her cot and have a comfortable sleep.
Lin Xueyan bit her teeth and stepped into the side door of the park. At this time, the refreshing grove turned out to be very different from the daytime, which made people feel a strange feeling. The shadows of the trees were like the claws of a monster stretching its arms and swaying. The more I didn’t want to listen to it, the more clearly I heard it. It seemed that someone had a hoarse voice mixed with a vague cough. Lin Xueyan couldn’t help trotting all the way.
Running out of the park, Lin Xueyan stepped into the corridor with her heart beating wildly, as if she had climbed for a long century and finally reached the door of the building.
She breathed a sigh of relief and rummaged through her backpack for the key. At this moment, she sensitively heard a strange sound in the door. She quickly put an ear to the door to listen …
"Yikes …" The door opened unexpectedly, and it was dark and foggy in the room. I couldn’t see clearly that the furniture was some faint shadows, which made Lin Xueyan feel a little overwhelmed. Did she lock the door when she left early and suffered a burglary at home? Lin Xueyan tried to step into the house step by step, looked around and groped for the wall, trying to turn on the light in the living room, but she touched something cold and soft, which shrank back flexibly. She was hesitating whether her fingertips should catch up with the past to find out. Suddenly, there was a shrill scream in her ear, and a cold hand grabbed her. Lin Xueyan’s heart sank to the bottom and she almost collapsed.
"It’s you! Scared me to death. "The light came on, and my wife touched her heart with one hand by the door.
"Cousin!" Lin Xueyan shook her head and fingers and pointed to her wife in a trembling way. "If it’s not so scary, even if it’s not strangled, your fragile heart will stop beating. This is killing me."
My wife conveniently opened the door and said in a lightly chastising tone, "Are you scaring me? I’m asleep on the sofa. If you can’t get out, you just touch it and don’t turn on the light at the door. How can I not be afraid?"
After Lin Xueyan was frightened, some legs were weak and strong. She sat on the shoe rack at the door and patted her chest and asked, "When will you come?"
My wife cut her hair and said, "Your cousin is on a business trip and drives me to work the night shift. I want you to help take care of Ding Ding. I came to see you when Ding Ding was sleepy, so I went to sleep in your bedroom. I leaned on the sofa for a while and didn’t expect to fall asleep."
"Then why didn’t you call me first?" Lin Xueyan took out a bottle of coke from the refrigerator and drank a few mouthfuls of cold feeling, which helped to soothe her pounding heart.
"Hit …" His wife looked at Lin Xueyan doubtfully. "When a man caught his breath and didn’t talk, I wanted to hang up, he suddenly smiled." Speaking of this, his wife stared at Lin Xueyan with a strange light in her eyes and said slowly, "It’s very strange to laugh like … his voice is made of metal …" Lin Xueyan saw the fear in her eyes and suddenly shivered.
"man?" After thinking for a moment, Lin Xueyan took out her mobile phone in her bag. "It was off just now when I took a shower." Then she took it to her wife and showed it to her.
"Yeah, your cell phone didn’t get through. I was calling you to sit in the workshop."
"What time is it?"
"About 6: 30"
Lin Xueyan murmured, "At six o’clock, I went to the studio door bath center to take a bath. Sister-in-law, you have the wrong number."
My wife shook her head and took out her mobile phone to show Lin Xueyan that the dialed number was indeed the number of the plane in the workshop. At this moment, my wife rushed to the sofa and picked up her bag as if suddenly remembering some shells.
"I’ll talk about it later. Oh, it’s my fault that I fell asleep. It’s all late." Then she ran out of the door and told her later, "You careless man should lock the door. You forgot to lock it when I came."
Lin Xueyan fiddled with her semi-dry hair. Just now, I wanted to ask my wife how she got in. It seems that the door was unlocked, but she had already locked it. What happened today? There are so many strange things happening.
Lin Xueyan’s stomach growled a few times. She decided not to think about these messy things to fill her stomach. Besides, she simply made an egg noodle and packed it up. As soon as she got into bed, her little niece slept soundly, and her small body was very soft and soft.
Lin Xueyan took out a pillow-faced horror novel "Abandoned Apartment" and flipped through a few pages. Suddenly, she remembered her wife’s words. Is it true?
Lin Xueyan opened a graphic design workshop on Linjiang Street, mainly because the enterprise made some paper or announced that it also contracted the door light box plaque system, in which there were three sets of assembled brains and some tools for installing plaques. There was nothing of value, even a thief didn’t want to patronize it, so he really went into the thief. Where is such a stupid thief to pick up people’s words? Isn’t that exposing himself?
Lin Xueyan conveniently picked up the cell phone beside her bed and dialed the telephone number in the workshop. The long beep rang for a long time, but no one answered her. She had some laughs. The telephone number must have been crossed. Just as she was about to hang up, her smile solidified. Her face was picked up. She came from the riverside workshop all night, breathless and with a long tail, just like a tuberculosis patient who struggled for the last time before dying, making people breathless.
"Who? Who are you? " Lin Xueyan questioned each other.
"Before … hiss …" The other person smiled. Lin Xueyan finally understood what his wife meant when she said that her voice was made of metal. She smiled intermittently like a metal scratching the ground and tearing at Lin Xueyan’s eardrum with harsh noise. The smile was mechanical and the root of the hole was not human, but it seemed to come from hell …
Lin Xueyan’s hair stood on end, and her mobile phone was thrown to the ground. She plunged into the bed and hugged Ding Ding’s warm body. The back was not covered, but she didn’t have the courage to reach out again.
The clock ticking in the corner, Lin Xueyan finally slowed down. Someone must have entered her workshop, and she was still playing tricks to scare her. Lin Xueyan encouraged herself to hum me. Lin Xueyan is not easy to handle.
Lin Xueyan turned over the bed and found her mobile phone. Fortunately, the phone didn’t break, so she hung up long ago. She dialed her high school classmate Long Xiaofei, saying that Long Xiaofei was a criminal policeman. He was obviously awakened from a dream with a vague drowsiness in his voice. When he heard that Lin Xueyan’s workshop seemed to have entered a stranger, he seemed to wake up. Two people agreed to meet at the door of the workshop in fifteen minutes.
Chapter 3 Late-night Workshop
Lin Xueyan hesitated for a few minutes. Obviously, it was worrying to leave Tintin alone at home, but the workshop had to go and have a look, so she gave Tintin a hug and hoped to go out. Tintin didn’t wake up during this period.
Lin Xueyan hurried upstairs and there was a dance hall outside the door. Although it was midnight, there were still many taxis waiting for ten minutes. After that, she successfully came to the door of the workshop. Lin Xueyan looked around. It was already midnight, and there was no pedestrian in the street. Even the street lights had been extinguished. Occasionally, a few lights flashed in the dark street. Maybe there was a night watchman in any shop.
Lin Xueyan hesitated in front of the shutter door-every window is like a black hole. Who knows if there will be a pair of evil eyes hidden here?
Lin Xueyan took a deep breath and took out the key to open the door. Even when the key clinked together, she was shocked by her cold sweat. She found that her back was soaked, but Long Xiaofei had not come yet.
Lin Xueyan pulled up the shutter door by half, which sounded like a loud noise during the day. At night, her heart beat so hard that she pushed open the glass door inside. She got into the room, and it was dark. She felt for the light to turn on with her familiarity with the room, but her hand suddenly seemed to be frozen, and something stuck in the wet wetland was a bit like touching something when turning on the light at home this evening. It was touched by her, and sure enough, it shrank back. It should be alive and tangible, and it felt like a cold finger and not a human finger. At the moment of retreating, Lin Xueyan’s hand stung strongly, and that thing seemed to bite her. At this time, Lin Xueyan had no courage to chase this strange object with her injured finger in the dark, so she quickly turned on the lamp and found nothing on the wall except a little water stain. Lin Xueyan looked at the pain, and her finger was neither red nor swollen nor changed color, and there was no blood. The pain was still strong.
I’m in a daze in the attic, and I’m sure there’s someone here
Lin Xueyan slowly stepped on the steps step by step. These grandfather’s wooden stairs have been around for many years. They creaked and groaned with a heavy burden. Her sight was slowly flush with the floor. There was a room on her construction site. There were some unfinished plaques and colorful cloth painted around. I didn’t see anything. Did those steps produce an auditory hallucination after fear?
Lin Xueyan stayed there with her thoughts coming. When she felt strange behind her, she couldn’t come. Her arm was caught by a cold hand, and she couldn’t help screaming any more …
"Snow geese, stop! Your heart is about to jump out of your chest." It’s Long Xiaofei’s voice.
Lin Xueyan stopped to cover her chest and gasped. "You scared me to death. Why did you run behind me without making a sound?" At this time, her eyes were already shining with tears involuntarily.
"When I came, I came in when I saw the door left unlocked. I saw a shadow on the stairs. It was breaking into your shop and the bad guys touched it to catch it."
Lin Xueyan gave Long Xiaofei a punch and snorted discontentedly. "I told you to treat me like a bad person!"
Long Xiaofei looked at her with a koo-aid, clutching the painful place. Long Xiaofei’s eyes became a little weird. Lin Xueyan saw his eyes flashing neon outside the window and couldn’t say strange eyes. Lin Xueyan was staring at something behind her. Lin Xueyan wanted to know what his eyes were staring at, but he didn’t dare to look back and feel that his back was a little cold, just like a worm had climbed over.
"Long Xiaofei, don’t scare me. What do you see?" Lin Xueyan trembled unconsciously in a low voice.
"Do you have a cat?" Long Xiaofei said something puzzling, and his eyes were still fixed on the ground not far away.
"I don’t have any cats."
"But there’s a cat there-a strange cat."
"What’s strange about cats?" After saying this, Lin Xueyan finally turned around and saw a small black shadow. The green eyes on the floor were shining with faint light. It didn’t seem to be afraid of people’s green eyes with provocation.
The cat stared at them quietly and did not move. Lin Xueyan was usually afraid of cats, especially in such a dark place. There was a strange luster in the cat’s eyes. Lin Xueyan and the cat looked at each other, which was very familiar and made Lin Xueyan more and more afraid. It seemed to have a pair of eyes that could communicate. Those eyes seemed to tell Lin Xueyan that they had met …
Long Xiaofei slowly walked around Lin Xueyan and took a few steps to catch it, but the cat was very cunning. It escaped with a slight jump, and then it slipped past at the feet of two people and quickly disappeared into the night like a left arrow.
After the search, Lin Xueyan and Long Xiaofei were very disappointed. Let alone people here. Even the cat was like a phantom and disappeared in a flash without leaving a trace.
Lin Xueyan’s building has been inspected and there is no loss. Usually, before work every day, she will take cash to the bank to find more than 100 yuan in the drawer. It is really difficult to find valuable goods from her.
Lin Xueyan awkwardly watched her toss and turn in the middle of the night, and asked her to tell him what happened today in detail. She told him the story without hiding anything, and Long Xiaofei smiled to comfort and said, "Don’t be afraid that I will make things clear."
Lin Xueyan sighed and said gloomily, "Now I’m a little suspicious that something is wrong with my words. The root cause is that the string is strung to someone’s house. It just happens that this person has a quirk of scaring people. It’s all a misunderstanding that no one comes to my workshop."
Long Xiaofei smiled. "I believe someone has been here. Look …"
Lin Xueyan followed Long Xiaofei’s finger and saw that the skylight on the second floor was open.
"It’s a cloudy day today, and it’s likely to rain and pile up so many plaque materials. You won’t forget this window, will you?"
Lin Xueyan nodded. "This is the second floor window, which is not too high from the ground. I will check it carefully before each shift and lock the window inside."
"But this window is open now. Who do you think opened it?" Long Xiaofei pointed to the window and asked her
"Don’t … really someone came in?" Lin Xueyan hesitated in the mind suddenly a tight "can he come in? I haven’t lost anything here. "
"It’s not money to come in. If you have less money, you can take the money in the box. It’s very convenient for you not to take the box chain."
Lin Xueyan couldn’t speak with his mouth open. Did someone really come in? But what’s he doing in here?
Long Xiaofei took her arm. "Let’s be careful and quit. It’s already so late. I’ll take you home. I’ll find someone to investigate a scene one day."
At this time, Lin Xueyan didn’t know what happened at home when Ding Zheng was crying alone.
Chapter 4 Uncle with Many Eyes
Long Xiaofei sent Lin Xueyan to the entrance of the building and hurried back. At this time, it was already more than four o’clock in the morning. When Lin Xueyan thought of sleeping, Tintin looked up at the building and suddenly found that there was a figure shaking on her balcony. It couldn’t be a young Tintin. She was so startled that she quickly ran downstairs and opened the door. When she entered the room, she heard a faint sob in the room.
In the morning light, there was a faint fragrance in the room. Lin Xueyan never had any fragrance, and she didn’t know where the smell came from. She carefully crossed the living room and came to the door of Tintin’s sleeping room. The door was ajar. Because the window was covered with heavy curtains, the room was a little dark. She saw a dark figure sitting with her back to herself. Lin Xueyan’s throat was tight at Tintin’s bedside, and the whole person became nervous.
Lin Xueyan conveniently picked up a beer bottle and put it in the doorway cabinet. He burst in and yelled, "Who is it? Who is there! "
The person sitting beside the bed was motionless. Lin Xueyan bravely lit the light in the room and saw her sister-in-law looking at her in panic. She finally breathed a sigh of relief.
My wife saw that it was Lin Xueyan who glared at her angrily and refused to pay attention to her angrily. Lin Xueyan was so nervous that it was reckless to leave such a child at home alone at night. She really didn’t know how to explain it to her sister-in-law
The atmosphere in the room was awkward. Lin Xueyan looked awkwardly at her sister-in-law and was silent for a while. Finally, she spoke with suppressed anger in her tone. "Xueyan, what the hell are you doing?"
"Sister-in-law me …" Lin Xueyan said that although she didn’t know what happened at home, she still felt that it was serious. Her mouth moved but she couldn’t think of a good sigh to deal with her words.