Urban Oddities: Soul Contract

Chapter 14 Mr. Zhu

"Ming Hai, mom bought you something nice, and I'll bring it to you in a few days."

On the phone, my mother's voice came.

She cherishes this only bloodline very much, she is reluctant to eat or use anything good, and leaves it all to her son, wishing she could hold him in her hand and protect her.

"Mom, what did you buy?" Huo Minghai was very happy when he heard that she was coming over. Now that he had some savings, he was thinking of taking her to eat.

"Look." The mother's voice sounded from behind.

Huo Minghai turned his head. His mother was sitting there on the empty sofa. She took out a jade pendant from her pocket. The black and red jade was carved into the shape of a lock. Huo Minghai recognized that it was an old man from the ghost market. The out-of-print Kunlun Blood Jade sold by Grandma.

Mother explained: "Kunlun Blood Jade is not an extraordinary thing, and it can block evil spirits when carried. There are only a few pieces in the world."

Exactly the same as the old lady said.

Huo Minghai hung the blood jade around his neck obediently, and his mother showed a gratified smile.

"Mom, is this important?" Huo Minghai played with the blood jade.

"Why is it not important? I just want my son to be safe and sound!" She took Huo Minghai's hand and patted it, then turned over his hand, and there was a line missing in the palm.

The lifeline is so short that it can almost be regarded as non-existent.

but……

"It seems... a bit longer?" She raised her son's palm to her eyes, trying to identify it.

She held and looked at this palm countless times, and the missing lifeline became a thorn in her heart.

Huo Minghai also looked at the palm, wondering if it was an illusion, it always felt like it was extended a little bit?

"Mom... why am I missing a stripe?"

She touched her son's head and said with a smile: "Some people even have a stripe, it's natural."

Huo Minghai felt that the matter was not that simple, and he was struggling with what to say, when it suddenly became foggy, and there was a gust of wind mixed with sand and dust, Huo Minghai closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he stood in front of a mural , the mother has disappeared.

bell bell bell...

The bell rang suddenly, and Huo Minghai dazedly grabbed Du Jiajun's hand, put it to his ear, and gave a feed.

Du Jiajun gently pinched him.

Huo Minghai opened his eyes, retracted his claws like an electric shock, took out the phone from under the pillow, pressed it to stop, and retracted into the quilt again with a blushing face.

"Come on, just touch it if you like it?" A certain tease teased him.

Huo Minghai popped his head out from under the quilt, and glared at him: "It's better to touch me than to touch you!"

A funny man discovered the New World: "Your eyelashes are so long, are they fake?"

"If you don't believe me, touch it?"

"Can you pull one?"

"..." Huo Minghai felt that he was becoming a fool when he was talking to a certain fool, so he turned over and continued to sleep. After an unknown amount of time, a certain fool pushed him.

"what?"

"Wake up."

"The alarm clock hasn't rung yet!"

Huo Minghai saw the big numbers on the phone, and when he saw the time clearly, Huo Minghai jumped up.

"Strange, my alarm clock didn't go off?!"

"I closed it."

"……"stare.

"..." Touching the eyelashes lightly.

Is it long?Where is it?

Huo Minghai also touched it, feeling very ordinary?

One fell off, fell into the palm of his hand, and just stuck to the position of the lifeline. He blew away his eyelashes and stared at the lifeline, wondering if it was an illusion, as if... it really grew a little bit?

Going to the company, Huo Minghai found a new name on the bulletin board.

Sender: Hua Tuo.Sender: Huo Minghai.

"Be careful, there are fragile items inside." Su Mu warned.

"This Hua Tuo, is that Hua Tuo?" Seeing Su Mu's bewildered look, Huo Minghai explained, "It's that miracle doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty."

"I don't know." Su Mu spread his hands, he is very unfamiliar with human history.

Hua Tuo's package was sent to Zhu Lang, and the place where Mr. Zhu lived happened to be near Su Mu's house. Huo Minghai went there once, and when he went there after many days, he found that the houses in this area had been overthrown and surrounded by a Circle the baffle, the subway work begins.

The house was demolished, and there was no house number to look at. Huo Minghai walked along the baffle, and finally found a villa. When he saw it, there were more than 400 house numbers.

"Building 299?" The woman passing by shook her head, "I don't know."

"Building 299? Go to the left in that direction." The child licking the lollipop pointed forward.

"Building 299? You're looking for the wrong one. This is building 399. 299 is in that direction." The old man pointed in the direction Huo Minghai came from.

"Building 299?" The person from the subway construction team pointed behind him, "It's inside."

Behind the baffle is a large potholed land, where cranes and various equipment are in operation.

"Is Mr. Zhu Lang here?"

"Zhu Lang? Is there no such person?" The construction team member tilted his head, "Did you make a mistake?"

The baffle door was closed, and the construction team entered. Huo Minghai had no choice but to call the phone number on the list. The phone number was a landline. Huo Minghai could only pray that Zhu Lang would be at home. He rang a few times and was connected quickly.

"Mr. Julang?"

"What?" The people over there were stunned.

"Are you Mr. Julang?"

"Not."

"Then this phone..."

"This is the office phone number of the subway construction team." The person over there told him, "Hey, what are you doing outside?! Why is it so noisy?!"

The latter sentence was obviously addressed to the people around him, and the phone hung up amidst the noise.

Huo Minghai held the package and looked at each word. After making sure that there were no typos, he turned on his mobile phone to check the map. The street was right here, but the sad thing was that the specific house number was not marked on the map.

On the parcel slip, only the word Hua Tuo was written in the column of the sender, without even an address or a phone number.

The phone rang, and when Huo Minghai saw that the call was a phone, he immediately became excited, wondering if it was Zhu Lang who called?

"Has my package arrived yet?" the girl's voice.

"On the way, soon."

"Can it be delivered in the morning? I'm going on a business trip soon, can you hurry up?"

Huo Minghai asked the other party's name, took the call and drove in another direction.

"Building 299, we can only deliver it last." Chu Ganjiang sat on the package and looked at the construction site that was getting farther and farther away.

Huo Minghai smiled wryly, whether Hua Tuo's package could be delivered is still a problem.

In the evening, with the last package left, Huo Minghai returned to the construction site and asked around, all the old neighbors pointed in one direction.

"Building 299 was enclosed and demolished. How can anyone live there?"

Huo Minghai was discouraged, turned the car around, and Chu Ganjiang suddenly patted him.

"Look."

The little door of the baffle was cracked open.

Huo Minghai pushed the door wider and looked around. It was the first time he saw a subway construction site. The site was very large, piled with mud, and many large holes were dug.

Chu Gan sneaked into the door sneakily, hid by the wall, and hooked his hands at Huo Minghai.

Huo Minghai is so sweaty, is he a thief?

Chu Gan pointed to the wall and made a gesture of listening.

The places where the construction team lived were all temporary dwellings, and the walls were not thick. Huo Minghai put his ears on the wall and heard soft voices.

"Hey? Brother, it's been a long time. Oh, look at what you said, can't I call you if I have nothing to do?"

I don't know what was said over there, which caused the man to laugh, chatted and turned to the topic.

"Brother, we found some local goods, and I would like you to come over and appraise them."

After a while, the voice became anxious: "Hey, brother, I mean it, how dare I lie to you."

It seemed that something was asked on the phone, but the voice didn't hide it, and said it outright.

The caller was called He Liujin, who had never read any books. He usually worked as a coolie. After going to several construction sites, he joined the subway construction team.

He Liujin's job is very simple, just transporting the soil from the excavated tunnel.

The accident happened this morning.

The excavation team dug down a wall in the tunnel. He Liujin was very nervous at the time. He was a miner in his hometown and was deeply touched by the collapse of the tunnel. But this time, he quickly recovered and found something unusual. place.

The scope of the wall collapsed was not large, and the light could not shine in. It was dark, and the cold air with a musty smell burst out. When He Liujin saw it, the hole was actually empty!

"Fuck, is it the tomb?"

"Ah! Report it quickly!" The young team members hurriedly ran out.

"Don't worry." A team member pulled him and raised his chin towards the entrance of the cave, "How about we go and have a look first?"

There are lights.Flashlight, yes.Hard hat, yes.Digging tools, of course.

Although it is not as good as a professional tomb robber gang, at least there are ready-made tools now, right?

The excavation team is eager to try. The tunnel here is at the end, and there are other excavation teams working ahead. No one will pay attention to this direction. Anyway, this land will be excavated sooner or later. Go in and have a look. What's the problem?

Besides, if I can find anything good...

Everyone was thinking little things in their hearts, and sneaked into the hole in the wall without saying anything. The hole was very dry, and the oxygen was not enough in a sealed environment all the year round. The excavation team stood at the hole for a while, waiting for the air convection to be almost the same. Only then continue to walk in.

The light in the stone room was very dim, and I took a flashlight to illuminate the circle, and found some broken clay jars in the corner.

He Liujin knew the people on the road, and knew how to distinguish a little. He touched the pot and shook his head: "It's just an ordinary clay pot."

"I don't know which dynasty it is from?" The torch light swept around, the stone room was simple and monotonous, except for the broken pots, there were only murals on the wall, and the murals were also very simple, as if they were carved by a child. He Liujin After I have been to Dunhuang and seen the murals in Mogao Grottoes and West Thousand Buddha Caves, I have dismissed such unpopular things at all.

The members of the excavation team didn't understand these things either. They guessed wildly in front of the murals, and suddenly there was a whisper from the corner.

"Come on! There is a way!"

Around a screen wall, a dark passage appeared.

The passage is very narrow and bottomless, as if something will come out at any time, the younger brother is timid, so he shines with a flashlight and dare not go in.

The leader of the excavation team was from the Northeast with a bold personality. He took the lead and went in with a flashlight. As soon as he took the lead, others followed one after another. Soon, only He Liujin and the second brother were left.

"I... I will wait for you here." The second brother shrank his neck.

He Liujin patted him, said a few words of comfort, and then walked into the aisle.

The passage extends down a slope. He Liujin estimated that it is at least 80 meters above the ground, which is equivalent to the interchange station of two subways. However, the vertical depth is much deeper than the burial chamber.

"Hey, there are patterns on both sides, what do you mean?"

The flashlight swept across, and both sides of the passage were covered with scratches of unknown meaning. He Liujin looked at it, and found that it was neither text nor decoration, as if someone had carved it while walking with a small knife.

The boss walked quickly, and He Liujin wanted to remind him to pay attention to the mechanism, but as he went deeper, He Liujin's hanging heart was relieved.

Safe journey, no danger at all.

Look, those movies and novels are written so miraculously that they are all lies!

At the end of the passage is another stone room. This stone room is obviously much larger. There are murals on the wall, but the murals have been cut with scratches.

"Could someone come in? Scrape on the wall with a knife?" The boss touched the bumpy wall, puzzled, and tapped it with a hammer. Unexpectedly, the wall was very thin. Dong, the boss looked at it, and laughed out loud.

On the other side of the wall, there are ventilation ducts laid!

"It seems that this tomb cannot be kept."

Digging the subway is for the benefit of the people. Everything has been planned so that there will be no diversion for the sake of a small tomb.

There is still a passage in the depths of the tomb, but they dare not go any further, the air is already very turbid, if the boss hadn't knocked out a vent by mistake, they might all have fainted from stuffiness.

"Look what's good here?" He Liujin said, secretly putting a delicate wine cup into his arms.

Clay jars, clay pots, clay plates... either missing a hole, or split in half, the complete workmanship is very simple, and there are a few pairs of carbonized fabrics, which are worthless at first glance.

"Oh, there's nothing good." The boss picked up a clay pot and shook it in disappointment. He froze for a moment, then shook it again, his expression changed from disappointment to surprise, "There's something in it!"

"Possibly a sealed bar?"

"liquor?"

"That's right, besides gold, silver and jewellery, there are also some food and wine."

You don't have to think about the food, but the wine...

Shake it, there is the sound of full water coming from inside, go up and smell it, there is a faint smell of wine on the clay jar.

"Damn, good stuff!" The boss likes to drink the most, and when he smells the wine, his eyes light up with excitement.

"Don't worry, take it out for testing first." He Liujin was very cautious, "I don't know which dynasty this tomb belongs to. Even if it is good wine, who knows what will happen now."

The boss counted and said with a smile: "It's just right, let's take one each!"

"Take one for each person?"

"That's right, hey, little brother, don't stand there, come and get some wine!"

The boss greeted He Liujin behind him, and He Liujin looked back, and there was a tall figure standing in the passageway, and the flashlight shone through, but the man disappeared.

Although the second brother is tall, he is very timid. The boss is still joking about what medicine he took wrong, and he actually took the lead to explore the way?

He Liujin's scalp was about to explode at that time, he knew in his heart that the second brother was not there at all, that timid guy was waiting outside!

Several people held up one can each, and there were two more cans on the ground. The leader called He Liujin and the second brother to come and get them.

After the flashlight was removed, He Liujin caught sight from the corner of his eye, and the figure of "Little Brother" appeared at the entrance of the passage again.

There seemed to be something ominous in the tomb, but no one noticed it. He Liujin took a jar of wine and secretly moved towards the exit, ready to be the first to escape at any time.

"Hey, is this a gun?"

The flashlight shone through, and an old long gun was lying on the ground. The red tassel had been carbonized, and it turned to ashes when touched.

"The person who lives here is probably a general."

There were also some armor pieces scattered around the spear, the armor cloth was carbonized, and only the armor pieces remained.

The spear was very heavy, and the team members held the spear and poked the carbonized cloth. At this moment, some movement came from the depths of the tomb.

"what sound?"

"Hush—" the boss gestured.

Everyone fell silent, only He Liujin ran into the aisle quickly, and returned along the way he came. Before he had run a few steps, there was the sound of cracking pots, and a group of people ran on the road. He Liujin was behind him.

"Fuck! What is this?! Run! Run!!!" the boss yelled.

In a panic, He Liujin fell down, the clay jar shattered, and the smell of wine spilled all over the floor. As soon as He Liujin hit the ground, he immediately got up, not daring to look back, and kept running outside. Brother heard something wrong, and just poked his head in when he was hit by He Liujin.

"Go! Go! There's something inside!" He Liujin pulled the second brother away and fled. Everyone yelled and got out of the hole in the wall. Several team members were terrified and sent to the hospital. The boss also fainted after going out, and the incident reached the office. For the sake of safety, the construction was suspended, and the people in the office reported the materials.

When He Liujin said this, his voice kept trembling. He seemed to be asked to take pictures on the other end of the phone. He Liujin agreed to take pictures and sent them over. A few minutes later, Huo Minghai heard He Liujin's exclamation of disappointment.

"Only a few thousand dollars? Brother... a few thousand dollars is my monthly salary. This wine cup is so beautiful, how can it be sold for one hundred and eighty thousand?"

After a while of silence, He Liujin begged again: "Brother, can you make it higher? I risked my life to get it! Hey, brother, don't be angry, okay, just a few thousand... "

The voice became lower and lower, and Huo Minghai heard a snap. After He Liujin hung up the phone, he dropped the phone on the table.

"Wow, dug the subway and dug up a tomb?" Chu Ganjiang listened with gusto.

"I really want to see it." Huo Minghai thought about it.

"As long as the construction of the subway continues, this tomb will be gone." A voice said.

"That's right, I don't know which unlucky person lives in the tomb with such bad luck." General Chu nodded.

"Hehe...unlucky...hehe..."

General Chu: "...Huh?"

Huo Minghai: "...Huh?"

Turning around, a tall old man in overalls was smiling at them.

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