Chapter 43: The Meeting
"Uhm ……"
Just then, the grandmother wearing a respirator seemed to awaken.
Uncle immediately walked up, ambled over, and whispered, "Mom, you're awake? What are you going to say?"
Grandma looked as if she was trying to say something, but couldn't hear very well.
Although Grandma was resuscitated, her body was still very weak, and no one knew when she would spill out. Uncle immediately squatted down and tried to listen carefully to Grandma's voice.
Dong Xie's position was such that he couldn't hear what Grandma was saying at all. It took a long time for the uncle to straighten up and look at Dong Xie's other, older uncle, saying, "Mom, she's still mentioning Ayan's name."
Ah Yan, was Dong Xie's mother. Thinking of his grandmother being so hung up on his long-dead mother when she was dying, Dong Xie couldn't help but feel a sourness in his heart.
"But mom, she also said strange words, I don't know if I misheard …… her as if she said …… turtle?"
Dong Xie froze, and for a moment he couldn't make sense of it.
What does turtle mean?
At this time, Grandma continued to fall into a deep sleep again.
Dong Xie pondered, really not understanding what mother and the tortoise had to do with each other?
It was noon, and Dong Xie was feeling hungry, when his cousin arrived. Uncle said that he had asked his cousin Yu Li to take himself to lunch first, and that they planned to eat later.
Cousin was a bank employee, so it was hard to take time off work. She had always envied her cousin for being able to freelance at home full time by writing, and still have a monthly fee of over ten thousand dollars. Along the way, she also asked from time to time how Dong Xie was doing with his recent new book.
Dong Xie, on the other hand, laughed bitterly, he had already cut off his work for 2 weeks. Now that he is not short of money, he will send out a eunuch statement in a few days.
At this time, he opened WeChat and saw Ah Ning's message, as well as the countless residents in the apartment's WeChat group who had asked to add him as a friend. Countless people wanted to ask him about the specific details of the bloodletter mission.
"Cousin, do you believe that evil spirits exist in this world?"
"Believe!"
Cousin's answer was greatly unexpected by Dong Xie, who had thought that she would definitely reply that she didn't believe. Cousin, on the other hand, said, "This is the era of the Internet information explosion, and many things are not absolute. I have been brushing Zhihu recently, why don't I recommend a few articles in this area for you to see?"
"Well …… no need ……"
"A evil."
"Hmm?"
"Do you really intend to live with that bloodless sister of yours for the rest of your life?"
Dong Xie was stunned for a moment and asked busily, "How did you know ……"
"There is no impervious wall. I just think, are you really prepared to live your whole life with Ning like this? Do you really think that this secret can always ……"
"Ning is my sister. This ……"
"Ah Evil, cousin I've also been in love. Normally we only see each other once or twice a year, but I've observed the way you look at Ah Ning. Those aren't the eyes of a brother looking at his sister."
Dong Xie was speechless for a moment.
"I ……" He then shook his head, "Sister, don't ever tell Ah Ning. Never say anything to her. I don't want …… to make our lives change."
Perhaps they would die soon.
Then, Dong Xie did not wish to change anything.
……
Time passed quickly. The following days, the apartment began a meeting to study this bloodletter.
"What?"
Dong Xie looked at Qin Ziyuan in front of her in surprise, "Is that what happened?"
Qin Ziyuan replied, "You guys have so much money, don't you know how to use it? I paid someone to contact that landlord's son and gave him a large sum of money. Then, he said everything true."
"Say …… what he said?"
"Someone did die on the 4th floor in the past. Only he hid it. The one who died was an old man who died long ago of his partner. When he died, it happened to be in the early morning of December 1, 2009, in the study of his own home, he was smashed to death when he accidentally knocked over a bookshelf. But because he lived alone and it was winter, the body decomposed slowly, and it was not until the stench filled the air outside that people called the police. The old man's son didn't care about him at all, so he bought a cat for the old man. And that year coincided with the H1N1 avian flu pandemic, and the old man was seen coughing badly before he died, so later on, some people said in a false sense that he had died of avian flu. That's why the 4th floor was cordoned off."
Dong Xie then realized that the stench of the study, and the cracks in the bookshelves ……
Recalling the loud noise from the 4th floor that he heard on the 5th floor at the time, he suddenly realized that could it be that this was the loud noise made by the bookshelf falling down 10 years ago? The horror novels he authored also had this trope from time to time, with people making the same sound on the same date of death many years in the past after their death!
"The tragedy of the empty nesters." Mo Yuan was quite saddened by this, "Is that why old people turn into evil spirits?"
Dong Xie, however, was still puzzled, "But it still doesn't explain the fact that at that time, the evil spirit's hand suddenly retracted. It's too unreasonable!"
"Maybe you triggered some second life path?" Mo Yuan, on the other hand, said, "There was a person named Bian Xing Chen in the previous Blood Character Records, who just got lucky and triggered the life path unintentionally. You should fall into a similar situation."
"Maybe it's because Zhao Long had just died at that time?" Dong Ning, on the other hand, said from the side, "Maybe the evil spirits opening the door are just scaring us."
"No, it won't," Mo Yuan shook his head, "At that time, the evil spirit took two hours between killings before making a move …… It doesn't feel like it was because of Zhao Long's death."
For a while, the meeting began to have a heated discussion on this issue. Of course, with so many residents it was impossible to come one by one, and each floor elected a few representatives to come over, record the meeting, and go back to convey the minutes of the meeting on each floor. Someone specializes in recording the meetings on a laptop and then printing them out for distribution to the floors. These records will also be left for future new residents to improve their survival rate.
Dong Xie could feel that he was now being called a "dark horse" or even a "koi" by many people, and the number of people who came to get close to him, add him on WeChat, and invite him to a dinner party was higher than the number of people who came. After all, not every time the word of blood and this time as cut off contact with the apartment, many people want to carry out the word of blood instructions, someone to guide.
Later on in the meeting, they began to discuss the new Bloodletter mission that Mo Yuan and the others were about to carry out.
"This mission is asking for protection of a few specific people."
Mo Yuan himself had already recorded and created a PPT of the Blood Character mission, and then played the PPT in the room with the lights off.In particular, the four people designated for protection were currently only known by their looks, and even their names were unknown.
Dong Qi hurriedly asked, "That …… protective mission then, if the four people die, will the mission fail causing the shadow curse to be unleashed?"
Mo Yuan, on the other hand, analyzed, "The bloodletter quest literally means to protect those four people from all falling into hell. From that perspective, it should be correct."
At this time ……
Dong Xie's grandmother was in the hospital room.
Uncle Dong Xie, who was accompanying the night, heard his mother begin to speak again.
"Mom?"
He then continued to hear his mother say, "Ayan …… Ayan …… Turtle …… Turtle… …"
"Why is it a turtle again?"
The skeptical uncle, completely missing the fact that the turtle was the third sound, not the first!