Urban Oddities: Soul Contract

Chapter 18 Virtual Image

A cloud blocked the moonlight, and the surroundings were as dark as ink, and several figures sneaked into the mountain den.

A little boy tripped over a stone, and when he was about to fall, a chubby arm stretched out from the side to support him.

"Fatty, why don't we light the lamp?"

The lantern in my hand was carried all the way, but no one lit it.

The little fat man waved his hand: "I can't order it. The last time Ajie was caught holding a lantern, his butt almost bloomed. Ajie, don't you think so?"

Ajie hummed timidly.

The boys fell silent, and the little fat guy was the leader. He was afraid that they would get lost, so he asked them to hold hands one by one. Half an hour later, they came to a cave. The entrance of the cave was covered with paper talismans. all over the place.

The little fat man didn't rush in, but carefully counted the number of people. When he counted to seven, the little fat man tilted his head and counted again from the beginning to the end.

"Strange, one is missing?"

I couldn't see who was missing, and when the little fat man was hesitating whether to light the lantern, the clouds in the sky moved, and the cold light of the moon fell, and a little boy was hiding in the bushes not far away.

"That... forget it?" The dark cave looked like a monster's mouth, and the little boy was a little scared.

The little fat man was so angry and funny, he took him out and pushed him to the team.

"Eight people, it's all together, those who don't want to go wait here for us to come out, don't run around." The little fat man deliberately squinted at the coward, who blushed and aimed at the others for help, all the partners were full of energy , followed the little fat man into the cave,

Along with the darkness came a gust of cold air.

"Wow, it's so cold."

"Can I light a lantern?"

"Go further in."

The sound of footsteps and voices gradually faded away, and the coward stood alone outside the cave. The wind blew through the rocks and made a humming sound.

"Okay, let's light the lights."

The little fat man removed the lantern paper, lit the candles, and the dark cave suddenly became bright.

Adults usually forbid children to come and play, saying that there are monsters in the cave, and the young ones are frightened, but as they grow older, the children gradually discover the unusualness of the cave.

Turning the corner, there is a spiral downward staircase with a stone room at the end, and there is actually a passage leading to nowhere deep in the stone room.

"I'm so scared." The coward looked left and right, for fear that a big monster would suddenly appear somewhere.

"What are you afraid of!" The little fat man straightened his chest, "Adults often come here! There is nothing to be afraid of!"

"Well, that's right, so are my parents."

"Today they still carry suckling pig or something."

"Ah, really? I thought I was going to worship the mountain god, so I came to this place?"

The leading little fat man told them not to tell the adults what happened tonight. When everyone gathered in a circle to swear an oath, a little boy stood aside in a daze.

"Hey, come here quickly." The little fat man greeted.

The little boy moved, and he stopped in front of the mural, as if seeing something shocking, froze for a moment, then turned around, and walked deep into the stone chamber as if attracted.

"Hey! With the brigade, don't wander around!" The little fat man tugged at him.

The little boy held up the candlestick, illuminating the little fat man's face.

"Huo Huo, what are you doing?" The little fat man squinted his eyes because of the light, but the little boy said something strange.

"who are you?"

"What?"

"Who are you... do we... know each other?" Huo Minghai turned his head and glanced at the friends one by one, his serious eyes didn't look like he was joking.

"My God, you must have burnt out your brain, right?!" Touching the other person's forehead, it was really hot, and the little fat man couldn't laugh or cry, "Huo Huo, do you still remember where you live?"

Huo Minghai only thought of the apartment he lived in now, so he reported the address in a daze.

"Then what's my name?" The little fat man pointed to his nose, and when he saw Huo Minghai shaking his head, the little fat man looked very frustrated, "I'm Chen Daxin! There are three golds in my name, and so much gold in my life! Let's poke through the bird's nest Hornet's Nest, you forgot to bring you fruit yesterday?"

"Chen Daxin...the name has three golds, and the life has as many golds..."

Chen Daxin...Chen Daxin...

As if wanting to engrave the name into his mind, Huo Minghai murmured until he was woken up by the alarm clock.

Huo Minghai turned over and slapped Du Jiajun's face with his palm...

"Oh, I look like an alarm clock."

With a slap on his face, Du Jiajun calmly handed the sandwich to Huo Minghai.

Huo Minghai knew he was wrong, and nodded cheekily: "It's still a smart alarm clock!"

Du Jiajun: "Oh?"

Huo Minghai took a bite of the sandwich, and said vaguely, "It's much more useful than an alarm clock. It wakes up at regular intervals, and it also comes with a cooking function..." As he spoke, he burst into tears.

"Then you have found a treasure, do you need to be so happy?" Du Jiajun took a tissue to wipe his tears.

Huo Minghai sniffled: "Is there no salad dressing?"

"No." Du Jiajun squeezed mustard into the slice of bread, and began to eat it with lettuce and ham sausage.

The big spider stared at Huo Minghai, who was pear-blossoming and rainy, and couldn't figure it out, how could he be so excited after having breakfast?Huo Minghai handed it the rest of the sandwich. The big spider glanced at it, raised its claws, and cut the sandwich into pieces with a few swipes.

"Look, it also dislikes it!"

"It wasn't meant to be eaten."

Huo Minghai wiped away his tears: "I don't even eat pigs!"

Du Jiajun nodded: "So it's pigs that don't eat."

Pig: "...Huh?"

Du Jiajun smiled, poured a cup of coffee for Huo Minghai, and said in a relaxed tone, "Who is Chen Daxin?"

Huo Minghai was a little surprised.

"You kept calling him in your dream." Du Jiajun raised his eyes to look at Huo Minghai, Huo Minghai felt uncomfortable being stared at by him, so he had to talk about the dream again.

But it's not the right time to wake up from the dream. If you continue to move forward, what will you see in the depths of the stone chamber?

"That Chen Daxin...you really don't know him?"

"do not know."

"What about the cave?"

Huo Minghai shook his head. He only knew that he was from a small village, but he had no memory of the village.

It's useless to think about it now, anyway, my mother said to come over on the weekend, and it's not too late to ask.

After breakfast, Huo Minghai picked up his backpack and was about to open the door when his calf was suddenly entangled with something and pulled off with great force, Huo Minghai slammed into Du Jiajun's arms with a wow.

"Zhu Lang, what are you doing?" Huo Minghai blushed and frantically pulled the thread, but the big spider held him tight.

Du Jiajun felt strange, and deliberately put his hand on the doorknob, and the silk thread wrapped around and pulled his hand back.

The eight eyes of the big spider reflected the gate brightly.

Is it...

Du Jiajun's heart moved, and he stuck to the door panel, carefully facing the cat's eyes.

"Is there anything outside?" Huo Minghai finally realized something was wrong. Du Jiajun looked at it quietly for a while, shook his head, and moved away to signal him to look for himself. Huo Minghai leaned over to look into the cat's eyes, but the outside was a strange white color Something, when Huo Minghai was wondering what it was, the white thing suddenly pointed its black pupils at him.

"Ah!!!" Backing up a few steps suddenly, Huo Minghai tripped over the big spider's claws and sat down on its head.

When Du Jiajun saw that something was wrong, he immediately became nervous. He leaned over and looked at the cat's eyes. After a long while, he turned around and asked Huo Minghai, "What did you see?"

Huo Minghai was sweating profusely, and asked, "What did you see?"

"Corridor." Du Jiajun looked at the cat's eyes again, "There is nothing."

Huo Minghai said in a hoarse voice, "There is... someone outside the door."

"Someone?"

"Someone is also looking into the cat's eyes..."

The super bodyguard Chu Ganjiang directly opened the door and rushed out, looked left and right, walked around, but saw no one.

"He's gone?" Du Jiajun looked at the big spider.

The big spider shook its head, and after knocking Huo Minghai off the ground, it crawled to the air conditioner to let the air blow.

The sun was very good, but Huo Minghai felt cold all over.

After leaving the apartment, the feeling of being stared at is always with me.

"Hi, you have a package, please come and get it." Huo Minghai put away the phone, holding the package in a daze.

Under the shade of the tree, a man walked towards Huo Minghai. Huo Minghai didn't pay attention at first, but as the distance got closer, the feeling of being watched became stronger and stronger.

Who is he?

Huo Minghai looked at him from a distance, the man was tall and thin, wearing a peaked cap with the brim pressed down very low, he looked like a ruffian who was not doing his job properly.

"Your friend?" The translucent General Chu was also staring at the man in the hat.

"I don't know." Huo Minghai wondered.

The security door opened.

"Hey, where's my package?"

The person who came was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses. Although he was young, he had a Chu Moxie aura at first glance. Chu Gan will look straight at people, and wait until the person leaves before he reluctantly looks away. .

"It's very similar to your brother." Huo Minghai clicked his tongue, "The glasses are the same style."

General Chu snorted disdainfully: "What's wrong with the same style? Compared with my brother, he's still tender!"

There was the sound of sneezing in the corridor.

In just a few minutes, the man in the peaked cap had disappeared. Huo Minghai started the car and went to the next place without thinking too much. When he passed a station, he suddenly looked up, and there was a man wearing a peaked cap among the crowd on the platform.

The phone rang, Huo Minghai stopped the car on the side of the road, connected, and a man's voice came.

"Are you... Zizi... Huo... Minghai...?"

The other party's signal is not good, and the noise is very heavy.

Generally, the callers are the ones asking about the package. Huo Minghai is used to it, so he replied: "I am."

There was an oh over there, and instead of asking about the package, they kept silent.

"That..." Huo Minghai really hadn't encountered such a situation, the guest was silent, so he couldn't be so exhausted all the time, right?So he tentatively asked, "Has my package arrived?"

other side:"……"

Huo Minghai realized that he had made a mistake, and corrected him in time: "Uh, no, has your package arrived yet?"

other side:"……"

Seeing that the other party was still silent, Huo Minghai could only answer by himself: "We're almost there."

Unable to explain why, Huo Minghai looked up at the station again. The man in the peaked cap was holding the phone, with half of his face covered by the brim of the cap.

At the same time, the man on the phone spoke.

"Hey... hey... found... you... Zizi..."

The ominous and terrifying atmosphere made Huo Minghai's scalp tingle, and he cut off the call immediately. Unexpectedly, within a few seconds, the phone rang again. Huo Minghai didn't even look at it, just hung up, rang again, hung up again, rang again, finally, Huo Minghai couldn't help but pick it up, before the other party started cursing.

"Damn! Dare to hang up on my mother's phone, tired of work?!"

When Huo Minghai heard it, he had hung up on the customer's phone, but it was a terrible situation, so he immediately apologized repeatedly.

"I hang up the phone three times once, how courageous you are!" The other side was unyielding.

Huo Minghai thought to himself, will this girl count? There are three times, wouldn't she answer the call the third time? She's still my old lady. Girls nowadays are so harsh?

Thinking in my heart, I unconsciously said: "My old lady..."

Old lady: "What are you calling me?"

"Uh... Your Majesty calm down, I know I was wrong!"

"Pfft!" A certain sword spirit turned his face away.

The girl was also amused, and when Huo Minghai sent the package over, she saw that the little brother from the slave family was quite handsome, and she was softly pestering him for a group photo.

Later, the photo of the little brother from the Nu family became popular on Weibo again. Du Jiajun found out and saved it silently...

Lunch is eaten in a western restaurant.

General Chu couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped the newspaper on the table: "I've read the newspaper for the second time. Do you want to eat it or not?"

Huo Minghai came back to his senses, took two mouthfuls of spaghetti, and said vaguely: "Eat, you continue to read."

So Chu Gan continued to read it for the third time. Just as he put down the newspaper, a new newspaper was handed to him.

"Where do you get so many newspapers?"

Huo Minghai pointed to the newspaper rack: "Read whatever you want."

General Chu: "..."

Huo Minghai tilted his head and looked out the window with the noodles in his mouth.

Chu Ganjiang followed his line of sight to see a man in a peaked cap sitting on the edge of the flower bed.

"It's him again?" General Chu felt that something was wrong. The frequency of encounters was too coincidental, wasn't it?

Huo Minghai clicked on Weibo while eating, Su Mu posted some small games, Huo Minghai clicked in to play, and while he was playing, he turned his head to look sideways, wondering if it was an illusion, the man in the peaked cap seemed to be getting closer, He is now sitting on a chair by the side of the road, only ten steps away from the western restaurant.

leave him alone... leave him alone...

The sudden ringing of the phone startled Huo Minghai, and the caller ID was Du Jiajun.

"Are you okay?" Du Jiajun asked.

"Well...it's okay..." Huo Minghai looked out the window, and the man in the peaked cap had disappeared.

Huo Minghai heaved a sigh of relief, however, there was a moment of palpitation that made him turn his head. At some point behind him, there was a man sitting behind him. The western restaurant was full of high-backed chairs. That man was blocked, only half of his hat was exposed.

"Ming Hai?" Huo Minghai's silence made Du Jiajun nervous.

Huo Minghai adjusted his breathing, and said softly about the man in the hat.

"I...received a call this morning...I don't know if it's him, but...when I listened to the call, he just happened to..."

Du Jiajun thought for a while and said, "Do you still have that record?"

"Yes, but the incoming call is empty."

"Try calling that number back?"

"Ah?" Huo Minghai was taken aback.

The person sitting behind is the man in the hat, so if you call back the number...

After finding the call record, Huo Minghai shook his hands and pressed the call back.

The next second, a bell rang suddenly.

Huo Minghai pricked up his ears to listen carefully, the bell came from behind.

It really is him?

Chu Gan stood up abruptly, turned around and stared at the man, the man was startled by him, and said angrily, "What are you doing?"

A woman's high-pitched voice came from the mobile phone he was holding, as if she was cursing something, the man in the hat humbly apologized that he didn't scold her, and coaxed her to buy clothes.

With tattoos on his arms, nose rings, and several strings of large silver chains around his neck, he is even more ruffian than a ruffian.

But the man in the hat was not the one he met by chance.

Huo Minghai rode his bicycle restlessly. At the bus stop across the road, a man wearing a peaked cap was waiting for the bus.

Huo Minghai turned a corner and drove into another street. At the bus stop across the road, there was also a man wearing a peaked cap waiting for the bus.

How is this going?

"If he doesn't make trouble, we don't care about it, just treat it as air." General Chu said.

"Yeah." Huo Minghai didn't look sideways, and passed the bus station again. This time, the man in the hat appeared on the side of the road, turning his head to look at them.

After arriving at the complex, the delivery was successfully completed, and Huo Minghai went to the elevator room. Fortunately, the elevator stopped at this floor.

On the nineteenth floor, someone got into the elevator, and a man in a peaked cap stood by the window of the elevator room.

On the seventeenth floor, someone got into the elevator, and the man in the peaked cap seemed to be getting closer.

On the thirteenth floor, someone got into the elevator, and the man in the peaked cap was already standing outside the elevator door.

The elevator continued to sink, and when it stopped on the tenth floor, the residents rushed out, and there were no men in peaked caps outside.

Why did everyone leave before we reached the first floor?Huo Minghai was puzzled.

The elevator doors closed, humming and sinking.

A few minutes later, Huo Minghai sweated on his forehead: "The elevator seems... to have been down for a long time, huh?"

Looking up at the indicator light, it shows that it is the tenth floor, and then jumped to the nineteenth floor, the thirteenth floor, the twenty-fifth floor...

The slight weightlessness told Huo Minghai that the elevator was always sinking.

In the mirror wall of the elevator, there is a reflection of a man wearing a peaked cap.

Chu Gan will disappear at some point.

"You... who the hell are you..." Huo Minghai couldn't breathe smoothly, and Huo Minghai panted heavily.

The man tilted his head and let out a hey laugh.

"Got you."

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