Chapter 13 Not Human(1/2)
Chen Jin felt it was inexplicable. He took Sheng Yao to come to the surveillance, hoping that he could give up those unrealistic ideas and let them go to Changshou Cemetery quickly. What Sheng Yao had to do seemed to go against the rules, and he was to surveillance the girl even more vigorously.
Chen Jin was a little dissatisfied, but before scolding Sheng Yao, he saw the trembling Xiao Wu first.
Xiao Wu was shaking his feet, not because he was sitting or not, nor because the surveillance room was too cold in the middle of the night, and his body was shaking - the surveillance room was turned on. Not only was his body shaking, but his teeth were also fighting, and the upper and lower rows of teeth collided, making a "rattle" sound.
Chen Jin suddenly felt so furious.
Sheng Yao inserted himself into his side and started surveillance.
"Hey, you--" Chen Jin shouted subconsciously, and was attracted by Sheng Yao's calm and serious face. Next to Sheng Yao's face was Xiao Wu's sweat-covered and pale side face.
The two of them are a little different, and their expressions are very different now.
Chen Jin wanted to ask Xiao Wu what he was afraid of, but immediately thought of the question that Xiao Wu asked him on the day he took Xiao Wu to patrol the periphery of the cemetery.
The air conditioner in the monitoring room is an old air conditioner removed from the office building. It is not enough, it is not cold enough in summer, and it is not hot enough in winter. The wind is blowing now, which can only be said to dispel the coolness of the early spring night, but it cannot make people feel hot. Not only that, Chen Jin is getting colder and colder.
He didn't believe in these things. He worked in Changshou Cemetery for so long, and saw a lot of dead bodies and ashes. He heard a lot of ghosts and wolves howlings of the family members of the deceased, but he had never seen a ghost. He would rather believe that there was a lunatic like that sister in the cold joke in this world, nor did he believe that there was...
"Ah!" Xiao Wu suddenly shouted.
This sound, as well as the environment of the surveillance room, reminded Chen Jin of the scene where they watched the surveillance together that night.
After that, Xiao Jin found the clue again, so he only called him and Lao Xu to come and didn't call anyone else. Of course, Xiao Wu never came to see him.
Chen Jin turned his head and looked at the surveillance screen.
There are many surveillance screens, and the large screen in the center directly attracted Chen Jin's attention.
There are rows of tombstones in the traditional tomb area above. At a higher location, you can see a figure standing in the aisle.
The night was hazy, and the figure was like a ball of black fog.
The video continues to play, and the moonlight shines, allowing people to see clearly that the figure is a woman.
The moonlight just poked its head slightly out of the dark clouds and was soon covered again.
A strange black fog figure appeared again in the picture. The black fog flashed suddenly and ran out of the surveillance range.
Chen Jin felt nervous and immediately looked at the time in the upper right corner of the video.
“03:18”.
Three o'clock in the middle of the night!
Chen Jin's face turned pale.
He glared at Sheng Yao, and was furious and was about to curse: "You two young people are really-"
Without swearing, he heard a scream next to him.
"Ghost!" Xiao Wu jumped up, hit the chair, and retreated in horror.
Chen Jin's angry expression became a little weird.
Sheng Yao's face seemed to relax and nervous, slowly calmed down. He turned to look at Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu retreated to the wall, pointed at Sheng Yao tremblingly, and pointed at the surveillance screen.
This is not a dramatic performance habit like Xiao Jin. He is too scared. No matter who sees his current appearance, he will not doubt that he will immediately become incontinent.
"That's a ghost! That woman is a ghost! It's you! It's you who brought it in!" Xiao Wu said hoarsely, "You brought her in! You go away quickly! Don't come back!"
Chen Jin was confused, "Xiao Wu, wait. Don't be so excited."
"Brother Chen! That woman is a ghost! I saw it with my own eyes! Remember what I said! On the Qingming Festival, this man was like a lunatic talking to himself in front of the grave! Many people saw it!" Xiao Wu seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and looked at Chen Jin with bloodshot eyes asking for help, "Then he will come every day, every day! Around him... a little by little... that woman!"
Xiao Wu shouted loudly.
Unspeakable fear arose in Chen Jin's heart.
Xiao Wu hugged his head, squatted down, curled up his body, and said in a crying voice: "I saw it... the woman was little by little... on the first day, she had only one hand, and could only see that hand... He sat there and spoke to the air, with a hand floating beside him. The hand was still gray, not a human hand at all..."
Sheng Yao's mood was unexpectedly calm. He thought of the gray palm print he saw.
The uneven rotten skin has dense green patterns on the edges, which continue to grow outward, like a pen. It starts to draw out with the strange palm print as the source, and draws a young and beautiful girl.
The girl smiled.
The background sound outside the painting is her crisp voice. She said that her name is Bai Xiao, "Bai" in "Daily", and "Xiao" in "Bai Xiaosheng", but there is no "Sheng", but friends all call her "Shengsheng".
So cute.
She also told him that she had practiced the piano. They even met one another. At that time, he played football off the court, and she played the violin in the stands, and acted as a cheerleader in a funny way-oh...no... in that ball game, the cheerleader in the stands was her junior...
They met at the wrong time...
Sadness surged in Sheng Yao's heart.
Chen Jin swallowed, trying to interrupt Xiao Wu's murmuring, but found that he could not make any sound.
The air conditioner was still whistling, and the night wind blew outside the monitoring room caused the "rustling" sound of leaves.
Xiao Wu slowly changed from squatting to sitting down, "Every day after that... that woman... that woman appeared... it was very light at first, like a shadow, like, like translucent, little by little behind..." He kept repeating the three words "bit a little".
The painting in Sheng Yao's eyes changed from the inside to the outside to the outside to the thick coating.
What Chen Jin imagined was another picture.
He could hear the sound of flushing in the toilet again and again. Old movies I watched a long time ago appeared in his mind. Under the tone of the times, the beautiful woman stripped her skin, and the terrifying monster would wear that layer of human flesh like clothes.
"That woman appeared like that..." Xiao Wu choked, "That was definitely not a human! That was not a human! That was a ghost, a ghost! She was in the cemetery... I thought she was gone. I thought she would follow you!" He suddenly raised his head, staring at Sheng Yao with bloodshot eyes, and there was a little resentment in his eyes, as if he was asking why Sheng Yao appeared in their cemetery and why he refused to leave their cemetery.
Sheng Yao had no fear on his face. He looked at Xiao Wu and suddenly laughed.
The laughter made both Xiao Wu and Chen Jin tremble.
Sheng Yao asked with a smile: "Did you read it wrong?"
Xiao Wu's eyes widened even wider, and his eyes seemed to fall out of his sockets.
"How could she be a ghost? I met her on the Qingming Festival. There were a lot of people visiting the graves that day. I also took the bus here in the morning. The cemetery here is allowed to burn paper. The whole grave area is filled with thick smoke and the smoke is very strong. Standing farther away, you can't see people clearly. There are still many crying sounds. I think you must know this situation better than me. I was actually not feeling well at that time. I met her at that time, and she cared about me." Sheng Yao said slowly, "I fell in love with her... at first sight."
"You're talking nonsense! That day, many people saw you talking to yourself alone! You stretched out your hand, you're like this..." Xiao Wu stood up holding the wall, and even looked like he stretched out his hand to pull someone, "You're pulling like this... Everyone else saw it! There was no one there! Everyone else suspected that you had a problem with your brain!"
"I wanted to pull her, but I didn't hold her back. Then I could only shout a few words from afar to her back." Sheng Yao said calmly, "She didn't answer me, didn't tell me the name and contact information, so I had to say that I would wait for her here tomorrow."
Xiao Wu was speechless.
"At that time, the Thirteenth row passed by, and some people burned paper very hard, and they couldn't see people farther away. Are you standing outside the aisle at that time?" Sheng Yao asked again.
Xiao Wu couldn't speak, but the answer was obviously "yes".
"The aisle is very narrow, and there can only be one person standing, and two people have to squeeze on their sides. I was standing in the aisle at that time, probably blocking your view." Sheng Yao smiled and analyzed rationally.
He is a young man, 1.8 meters tall and has an inverted triangle figure, but he is definitely not the A4 waist of a slim girl. Such a young man with a straight back is standing in the aisle between the tombstones, and burning paper and smoke rolling in the distance. It is indeed difficult to see if there is anyone standing in front of him.
"And at that time, there were other people who were visiting the tombs in the Thirteenth row? There were also a lot of people in the front and back rows. The tombstone was very tall and short, most of the body might be blocked by the tombstone." Sheng Yao continued.
Xiao Wu kept shaking his head.
He is a new employee of Changshouyuan and has never worked in the cemetery before. When he was working here the day before, he was scared by the head that suddenly "grown" between the tombstones. The head was Xiao Jin. He screamed in fear at that time, but instead scared Xiao Jin. That night, the security department had dinner together. Xiao Jin talked about this matter vividly. Everyone laughed and patted him on the shoulder and back, encouraging him to be bolder...
However, this is different from the female ghost he saw!
On the Qingming Festival, there was no place in the traditional tomb area that was empty. You could see crowds everywhere and smoke rolling everywhere. But he clearly remembered Sheng Yao's abnormality, and every day after that, the woman gradually became complete from incompleteness.
That's definitely a female ghost!
Xiao Wu became anxious and looked at Chen Jin, but saw that Chen Jin was thinking.
Sheng Yao's smile remained unabated, "I'm sorry. We didn't want to hinder your work. But sometimes... we can't help but feel." When he said the last four words, he still had a smile on his lips, but there was helplessness and sadness in his eyes.
Sheng Yao lowered his head and clenched his fists.
If I hadn't turned my head at that time, I hadn't seen Bai Xiao's tombstone, and I hadn't reached out to hold Bai Xiao...
If he could stay at home peacefully now, watch TV, eat snacks, and wait for his parents to come back...
Sheng Yao closed his eyes.
He looked at Xiao Wu again, and saw that Xiao Wu was full of anxious face, so he turned to Chen Jin and said, "She is still in the cemetery. She may... homeless. I want to find her. Please don't call the police, okay? After calling the police, things may not end well. I believe she has no malice. If any losses are caused to the cemetery, I will compensate according to the price. If you need to explain to the family of the deceased, I can also go to see the family with you."
Chen Jin was a little surprised.
Sheng Yao looked open-minded, decisive and rational in handling things, and at the same time, his attitude was very firm.
Chen Jin hesitated.
This is really non-compliant.
Moreover, a little girl didn't go home in the middle of the night and stayed in their cemetery all day. This was a problem no matter how she thought about it.
"I have his family's contact information here. I'd better tell him." Chen Jin said, "If you want to help find someone, you have to discuss it with his family."
"She has no family anymore." Sheng Yao said.
"There are some. My parents are still here. The tombstone has not been updated." Chen Jin glanced at Sheng Yao, "It's just that 'Sheng Yao', who is still here."
Sheng Yao smiled bitterly in his heart, but it was difficult to expose the lie he had just told, and told Chen Jin and Bai Xiao's identity.
What else Chen Jin wanted to say was interrupted by the noise outside.
Xiao Jinfeng rushed from the employee dormitory to Changshouyuan. After listening to Lao Xu's greeting, he rushed back again. He still had the same short-sleeved and shorts.
To be continued...