Chapter 3

At the end of the thought, I don't know if it's because I've also just been discharged from the hospital not long ago, my head hurt so much that I simply stopped thinking about it.

Car all the way forward, stop and go, from time to time up a few people, and down a few people. There is a stop, but also to my neighborhood.

I live outside the second ring road, a little bit off the road, the house is rented. It's really difficult to buy a house.

There are still a lot of people on the bus here, basically commuters like me. At this stop, many more people came up, making the bus even more crowded.

Everyone pushed and shoved each other to squeeze in, there are also many old people and children were squeezed enough.

I was squeezed next to an old man, an old lady with gray hair. In accordance with the usual, I am also a little bit of public morality, give up your seat or something is also a common thing, but today is really not this energy. I think I don't care there will always be someone up to give up their seat. But after waiting for a long time, no one action.

I this person has a strange problem, such as littering on the street, or like this not to give up the seat for the elderly and so on, I always feel that the people around me are staring at me, in the heart of the people pointing at me. I don't know if I'm considered paranoid or not.

The result of hesitation, or did not hold back, thinking that anyway, I'm almost home, so I stood up and said to the old woman, you to sit here.

However, the old man did not respond, as if he could not hear my voice. The young men standing beside her gave me a puzzled look, making me a little embarrassed.

Seeing me get up, a boy on the side immediately sat up.

My not-so-much sense of justice burst out at once and chided, What are you doing? This is what I let this old man sit on!

He looked at me with dismay and suddenly cursed, stupid!

I was about to get angry, the car suddenly a deceleration, making me unsteady, busy grabbing a handrail against the door.

Raising my head, from my angle, just able to see the projection on the window. I was still full of anger, but suddenly withered.

Because I suddenly realized that in the silhouette printed out by that window, there was no old man standing beside me!

I stood by the door, gripping the handrail tightly, not daring to take a breath. Eyes straight at that projection on the glass. For a long time, only squinted out of the corner of my eye, and swept the old man beside me. Seeing her similarly motionless, also do not look at me, as if into the general.

I don't dare to look more, for fear that she will suddenly notice herself. My heart is full of mixed feelings, only hoping that the bus will stop soon.

But the more I look forward to, I feel that time passes more slowly, this short one-stop distance, giving me the feeling as if the city around a circle so long. In addition to the people next to me feel a little crowded in addition to nothing unusual. I suddenly felt strange, could I be the only one who can see this old man?

I thought about the young man's reaction when I just gave up my seat, as if I did not see an old man standing in front of me.

Could it be that all these horrible things that I have encountered in the past two days for no reason are all directed at me?

I didn't dare to continue thinking about it, my whole body couldn't help but tremble as if I had fallen into an ice hole.

Just at this time, the bus braked sharply again. I felt happy that it had finally stopped!

The door just opened a gap, I pulled my legs and jumped down, I did not expect to stabilize the body, a fall on the ground!

Behind me there was a shout of surprise, and a few mocking laughter. These I do not care, panicked from the ground up, turned his head to look at, but the footsteps did not stop.

But I regretted this glance!

The old woman who had been in the same state of tranquility was now standing behind me, both hands clasped on her stomach, staring blankly at me!

I rolled and ran forward, not knowing how many people's attention I attracted.

I reckon this is the most desperate thing I've done in over twenty years of being alive. When I was in high school, I felt that I was not far from death after running three thousand meters, but this time, I clearly surpassed my previous speed and endurance. It's true that people are capable of exploding their potential in life and death situations. Even though it was only a life and death situation that I recognized.

Normally, it would take about twenty minutes to get from the bus stop to my place, but I didn't realize that it would only take me seven or eight minutes to run all the way.

The house I rented was something like a village in the middle of the city, and although the outside looked shabby, the good thing was that the facilities inside were quite good. Going around into those remote hutongs, I came to the front door. My hands and feet shivering to pull out the key, but the more anxious his mother is the more it can not open the door, I do not know how many times in my heart cursed.

I keep looking back, not see the shadow of the old woman, only to breathe a sigh of relief.

As soon as I entered the door, my whole body was deflated. Although it wasn't as dangerous as the first time Lin Tian and I encountered the hitchhiker's paper man, my spirit had already reached its limit under this continuous stimulation. If there was another one, I guessed I could only just lie on the ground and wait for death.

I ran into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. I don't know when I heard that knives and other things have the function of warding off evil spirits.

It seems that some people who are often ghosted in their beds are said to press the knives under their pillows when they sleep at night, so that similar situations won't happen again.

I usually don't know much about these weird and wonderful things. Now it is completely dead horse, anyway, the means that can be used basically used.

I placed garlic at the entrance of the room and hung mirrors behind the door. I didn't know what the purpose was, but it seemed to be how it was done in the horror movies I used to watch.

After setting everything up, I hunkered down on the bed, my whole body covered tightly with the covers. Placing the knife by my pillow, I could reach it if I reached out.

I was in a constant state of high tension, and any breeze could cause me to panic.

Just stayed under the covers, smothered in sweat and not moving a muscle.

But perhaps because I was so tired from the day, I fell asleep without realizing it.

I had a dream about the day of my mother's funeral.

Before the funeral, a lot of family and friends came to visit. I was kneeling by the coffin, returning their bows one by one.

Then Lin Tian suddenly appeared behind me, he pulled me, I turned my head to look at him, saw him holding a paper figure in his arms, looked at me with a gloomy face, said what are you kneeling for, your mother is not dead!

I just wanted to tell him to stop fooling around, he suddenly pointed to the coffin and said, don't believe you see.

I looked into the coffin and suddenly realized that the lid had disappeared at some point. But my mother was still lying in it, no rotten smell, her face, exactly the same as I remembered.

Lin Tian suddenly added, I'm not asking you to look inside, I'm asking you to look at her.

I only felt inexplicable, slowly raised my head, and suddenly realized that on the other side of the coffin, there was actually another person, like I just did, was probing and looking at the body in the coffin.

Seeing me raise my head, she also slowly raised her face and smiled faintly at me.

I immediately froze, half a day before I shouted out, mom!

My body was violently stunned, and I instantly woke up, only to realize that I was covered in cold sweat. Understand that just now is just a dream, only a long breath of relief.

Which knew that at this time, the cell phone suddenly rang! I was startled once again.

I felt a bit ridiculous with this startled look on my face now, and wiped both hands on my face carelessly, trying to wake myself up a bit and not be so paranoid.

I picked up my cell phone and glanced at the caller ID, it was Lin Tian calling.

I picked it up and asked what was wrong.

Lin Tian said I'm outside your house, knocking for half a day and no response.

I then realized that indeed through the wall, can hear Lin Tian's voice.

I said you wait. Then hung up the phone, looked at the time, I slept all day. There are still more than ten missed calls in the cell phone, it is a colleague in the company called.

I went to open the door for Lin Tian on one side, and thought about what this person called me for. Suddenly it occurred to me that the date of my vacation had already passed, and today was the day I was supposed to go to work!

I cursed to death in my heart, I even forgot about this, I don't know how I'm going to explain this to the unit.

I opened the door and saw Lin Tian standing outside the door, as if he had taken a stimulant, as if he really didn't continue to be hospitalized.

He walked in and asked me what are you doing? The door is about to be shot at me, just hiding in the house without making a sound.

I said what else can I do but sleep. And asked him why are you here?

Lin Tian heatedly smiled and said, my mom told me to come.

I heard, really think the sun came out of the west, shaking his head and refused to believe.

Lin Tian busy explaining that my mother did not know where to find a fortune-teller, the two of us to the people said that the fortune-teller let us go to see her, to us to drive away the evil. My mom let me come to pick you up.

I thought in my heart, according to Lin Tian's fucking style, it should be afraid of Lin Tian and I together with the accident, to exorcise me right!

Even though I was thinking this, I didn't say it out loud. After considering it for a while, I agreed.

The unit didn't bother him, after all, compared to earning money, it's still more important to have a small life.

I simply washed up, the thought of going out, the heart is still not much of a bottom.

Stay at home although boring panic, but also seems to be much safer.

Lin Tian saw that I did not look right, and asked me if something had happened again.

I made a few vague remarks and didn't mention the fact that I ran into another ghost when I was going home yesterday.

To be honest, even though I've been working in this city for over a year, the only person I can really count as a friend is Lin Tian. We've known each other since we were kids, so I'm also worried that if he finds out about my successive ghost encounters, he'll think I'm unclean like his mom and alienate me.

This is more or less selfish. But the matter of bumping into ghosts is different from other things, everyone would be afraid, that's why I was worried when Lin Tian would also turn away from me.

I finished freshening up and put a small knife in my pants pocket, the kind that many people hang on their key chains. More or less, it gave myself a little psychological comfort.

The two of us went out the door, I just saw Lin Tian his father's car parked across the street, thinking could it be that his father could not also be assured that he was alone with me, so he also followed me.

I am puzzled, Lin Tian seems to see through my mind, said, my car last time crashed ah, but not broken I do not dare to drive. Just directly robbed my father's car.

I realized that the car has changed hands, and I can not help but feel that the family has money is good, this car want to change on the change.

Lin Tian stood beside the car, shouted, get in, what are you froze ah!

I just panicked and ran to the passenger seat.

The car started, has been toward the outside of the city, soon out of the third ring. I was a little bored, so I asked Lin Tian about the exorcism.

Lin Tian said, I am not very clear, the person is my mom to find, seems to be in those who engage in feudal superstition circle quite famous. It is said to be a blind old woman, everyone calls her Mrs. Nine.

I said, just listening to the name, I know it is not a serious bird, to some ghost movies in the feeling of the magician.

Lin Tian laughed, said, put before I was dead will not take care of these people, I did not expect ah, this hit the ghost, and finally went on my mom's way. I don't know if I'm unlucky or you're unlucky.

Listen to him say so, I face some embarrassment, may have been Lin Tian his mom scolded me bad luck, more often, the heart naturally think it is my problem.