Awakening Day Collection

Chapter 54
So it is logical that the vice principal was dismissed.Li Ji was already approaching retirement age, and he had made a lot of money in charge of infrastructure construction over the years. Being dismissed at this time would not have the slightest impact on his retirement life.It's just that after the incident, when people occasionally saw Li Ji, they always saw a sad face. It was presumably because after he stepped down from the position of power, it was difficult to adapt to such a psychological gap.So it is not surprising that the former vice-principal would throw away his usual bright clothes and go to the roadside stalls to drink beer in sloppy clothes.

Li Ji drank four bottles of beer with a plate of marinated edamame and a plate of fried escargot, and smoked several cigarettes. After paying the bill, he staggered on his bicycle with a full belch.It's one way the school's leaders like to project their incorruptibility, even though Li Ji drives an open-top BMW 640i when he's not at work.

These days, Li Ji often quarreled with his vanity-filled wife about the matter of dismissal. The quarrels were so extreme that they finally moved out of the house in a fit of anger and found an unassigned room in the newly built apartment for young teachers in the school. Staying in the room I went out temporarily, avoiding the endless nagging of my wife, is also a way to keep my ears clean.

It was dark at this time, and the slightly drunk old man rode his bicycle, staggered out of the west gate of the school, and rode along a small path to the teacher's apartment.After riding for a short time, a hard object suddenly flew by the side of the road and hit the tire. Li Ji was taken aback. The bicycle lost its balance and fell heavily to the ground.Before he got up, a few black figures suddenly surrounded him, and they couldn't help but cover his mouth, which still smelled of alcohol, with a rag.

Moments later, this strange group of kidnappers and abductees has arrived at a nearby construction site.It was late at night, and there were no other people in the construction site, which seemed to be suitable for the crime to happen.

"You...what are you going to do?" As soon as the gag was taken away, Li Ji said angrily, "Is he from Lian Shunda? I have told you many times about the project money." It's the school that owes it, and I can't do anything about it!"

"We are here for Feng Qizhou." One of the kidnappers said coldly.

Li Ji immediately fell silent, and after a while he hesitated and said: "I was just confused for a while before engaging in those superstitious activities, and now I have also been taught a lesson..."

"Do you still need to lie at this time?" The other party sneered, "Do you think we haven't investigated your background? When various qigong masters were most popular in the eighties and 90s, you once published articles in newspapers exposing pseudoscience. I also had a public debate with an old professor in the school who vigorously promoted Qigong. If there is one person in this school who disrespects ghosts and gods the most, it is you! How could you really ask people to read Fengshui? Tell us honestly, it was Who instructed you to lure Feng Qizhou to Beijing?"

Li Ji's face turned ashen: "No, no one instructed me, I was really just confused..."

"I don't have time to go around in circles with you," the kidnapper pulled out a bright dagger, "I'll ask you once, if you don't answer, I'll chop off your finger, and after that, I'll dig out your eyes."

"No! It's true that no one ordered it. It's just that I've lost my mind. You must believe me!" Li Ji howled anxiously, struggling desperately, but his body was tightly restrained, how could he break free? ?The kidnapper was obviously the kind of truly cruel and merciless person. Seeing that the other party was still holding on, he raised his knife and dropped it without hesitation.With a click, the old man let out a miserable scream, and the little finger of his left hand was cut off neatly.The severed finger fell to the ground, blood spattered, and Li Ji almost passed out from the pain.

"Don't tell me? It's a bit of an old revolutionary's hard bone," the kidnapper laughed extremely coldly, "Or you don't care about the little finger, how about changing the index finger?"

He raised the knife again with a smirk, Li Ji whimpered, his clothes were soaked in sweat from the pain, but he still refused to speak.Seeing that the bloody dagger was about to cut off Li Ji's index finger, the opponent's movements stopped suddenly.At the same time, the rest of the kidnappers also let out a sound of astonishment.

They all saw an incredible change.A terrifying change that would stop your heart beating.

——Li Ji's blood drop that fell on the ground seemed to suddenly lose the shackles of gravity, and slowly floated up.They condense into round blood beads, carrying a strange beauty, reflecting the brilliance of the night and suspended in the darkness.

"No! Run!" The kidnapper with the knife keenly sensed the approaching danger.But it was too late for him to shout. Before people could move their feet, after a few inaudible noises, the blood droplets in the midair exploded one after another, turning into a scarlet blood mist, instantly killing the five people. The kidnappers, together with Li Ji, were shrouded in it.

A series of heart-piercing screams sounded in the blood mist in an instant, which didn't sound like human voices at all.In the hazy red blood mist, the five kidnappers could be vaguely seen struggling and scratching desperately, as if trying to get rid of something sticking to their bodies, but the struggle was very short.After a few seconds, they were on the ground and were soon motionless.

The blood mist gradually dissipated.At this time, it can be clearly seen that the five kidnappers lying on the ground have all been reduced to bones—clean bones, not even a trace of flesh and blood remained on them.Their clothes are basically intact, except for some scratches that may have been left by rolling on the ground before, but the original skin and flesh and blood under the clothes have all disappeared without a trace.These white skeletons emit a pale light in the weak light. The heads of each skeleton have a big black mouth, as if they are still screaming miserably, and the hands that have become bones are still scratching. It is conceivable that he suffered extremely severe pain before his death.Even on this sweltering late summer night, the hellish picture was enough to send a deep chill.

And the only one who didn't turn into a skeleton was Li Ji.With difficulty, Li Ji supported his body on his knees, slowly straightened his waist, groped on the ground to find the severed finger that was cut off just now, and reattached the severed section of the severed finger to the finger.Although he was trembling with pain and sweating profusely, the consequences of this action were quite astonishing: the severed finger slowly began to join together, and then the wound gradually healed.After a few minutes, the little finger of the left hand had completely recovered, and it was not obvious that it had been severed.

Only then did Li Ji get up from the ground panting heavily, his eyes swept over the hideous white bones on the ground, his legs suddenly gave way, and he fell back to the ground.

"I don't want to be like this, I really don't want to be like this..." Li Ji muttered, "But I can't help it, I can't control it, I can't control it!"

The dirty former vice principal collapsed on the ground, sobbing.

At the same time as this strange tragedy happened, Feng Si was standing in the dormitory, facing another strange person—Fan Liangyu, the two-headed weirdo.Among these special groups of people who call themselves "guardians" he has encountered, Fan Liangyu is the most powerful, but also the most tyrannical.This person will cause harm to others for no reason, and enjoy the pain of the other party, as if that pain is the best meal for him.

"What's the matter, don't point at my nose and yell at me this time?" Fan Liangyu smirked.

"A good man doesn't suffer from immediate losses," Feng Si said sullenly, "Now even if you want me to kneel down and sing to conquer, I will probably obey."

"That's why I said, although you are a waste, you are still clear-headed." Fan Liangyu patted him on the shoulder carelessly.

"You ran to my dormitory at night and knocked out my roommates, just to compliment me, didn't you?" Feng Si said, "By the way, you didn't do anything to these grandchildren, did you?"

"This is a school after all. If I make something wrong with them, it will not end well, and your identity will be easily exposed. So it's just to let them sleep for a while." Fan Liangyu said.

Feng Si breathed a sigh of relief: "That's okay. Then, what's your business with me today?"

"I'm here to send you a warning." Fan Liangyu rolled his eyes.

"Is someone trying to catch me or kill me again?" Feng Si didn't seem surprised. "This is already a normal life. It's not a big deal."

"It's good to have this awareness, then I'll go." Fan Liangyu nodded, turned around and left.

"Hey... wait!" Feng Si quickly stopped him, "You haven't said who you are?"

"Don't you don't care? Didn't you say it's the norm in life?" Fan Liangyu sneered, "Then why bother to ask."

"Okay, you won, Uncle Fan," Feng Si swallowed his anger, "you should tell me."

Fan Liangyu stretched out his hand and pointed to Feng Si's nose: "Boy, how many things have you experienced in this life? Don't think that you have seen demon servants and monsters with your own eyes, and you have been spanked a few times, and you feel that your hair is hard. Yes——you are still far away. Death is not something to be talked about to show off. After you have walked back and forth on the borderline of life and death dozens of times like me, you can pretend to be a cloud It's not too late to look like breezy shit."

Feng Si was speechless.He found that this two-headed monster was not only ruthless, but also seemed to be able to speak directly to people's hearts.He has always claimed to be smart and wise, but in front of Fan Liangyu, he was completely seen through, as if he had been irradiated by X-rays.

"You're right. No matter what, I still don't want to die. Stubbornness is the most senseless thing," he sighed softly. "So I apologize to you. Please tell me what's going on."

"You do have some advantages," Fan Liangyu glared at him, "For example, you can correct your mistakes, so you're not too stupid."

"This is probably the only advantage I have left..." Feng Si groaned.

Fan Liangyu took out a mobile phone from his pocket. This scene made Feng Si feel very uncomfortable.He immediately felt relieved, feeling that his own prejudice was still at work, as if he always felt that the guards were a bunch of old antiques intercepted from the torrent of time, but it was not like that at all.In fact, they are not isolated from the world. Although they hide their identities, they still live in the mortal world, and may even have technological power beyond mortals.

Fan Liangyu swiped a few times on his phone, called up a video, and handed the phone to Feng Si.Feng Si stared at the screen, and saw an old dusty building with about six floors, the windows were so broken that there was almost no glass, and only half of the door remained, sealed by several criss-cross seals the door.The whole building presents a gray and dilapidated tone, as if it can smell the dusty smell of spider webs.

"This is the operating building of an old abandoned hospital in a small town in the south," Fan Liangyu explained. "Due to development disputes, it has not been demolished and has not been used again."

The photographer continued to move forward, easily slipped through the gap under the seal, and walked into the operating building.There was no light in the corridor, and it was pitch black in the video, and only a little blurry shadow could be seen. The photographer deliberately reached out to turn on the light in the corridor while walking, indicating that the entire building had completely lost power supply, so the lights were turned off. Unable to light up.

He walked past the first floor of the operating building, pushed open a creaking door, and started up a long flight of stairs that descended to what appeared to be the basement of the building.Although the floor cannot be clearly seen on the screen, it can be roughly judged from the footsteps that this person has gone down at least two floors, and may have reached the second to third floors underground, which should be the bottom of the building.

The ground floor is still a long corridor. On the screen, you can faintly see garbage all over the floor, dilapidated tables and chairs piled up randomly, and empty department rooms with the doors open, like a restless mouth.Even looking at this blurry image on the small mobile phone screen, Fence could feel a strange chill rising, and instantly thought of countless horror stories with the hospital as the background.

Perhaps just like what Fan Liangyu used just now, the hospital is a place on the dividing line between life and death. Such a unique atmosphere can best breed horror and gloom, Feng Si thought.

The photographer had already reached the end of the corridor, and in front of him was a closed door, which seemed to be locked.But I don't know what technique the photographer used, the lock was easily opened, he stretched out his hand, and pushed the door open.Dazzling light immediately poured out from the door.

The room at the end of this underground corridor actually has electricity!
Under the white light, the image in the camera is also clear again.It can be seen that this is the mortuary of the hospital, but because it has not been used for many years, it has been covered with dust and cobwebs.When the photographer came to the mortuary cabinet, he opened a few grids, all of which were empty.

"Aren't they all empty? What's there to see?" Feng Si couldn't help asking.

"It's not like you haven't seen the moth mark before, how could you ask such a stupid question?" Fan Liangyu sneered.

Feng Si realized it all at once.The so-called beetle mark is a special space inspired by the power of the brain, which has completely different physical laws from the daily world, just like a piece of wood has a hole left by moths.Using moth marks, you can not only create a combat method full of lethality, but also open up an independent foreign land.

In other words, in this seemingly empty mortuary, there is actually a hidden space.So what is hidden in this moth scar?

Feng Si's curiosity was greatly aroused, and he stared at the phone screen intently.I saw the photographer walking up and down in the empty mortuary, circling in circles, as if looking for some flaws.After about seven or eight minutes, he stopped, as if he had discovered the range of moth marks and was about to invade.

But before he could start to move, the screen suddenly began to shake violently, giving people a feeling of dizziness.Feng Si carefully differentiated and found that the shaking was because the photographer couldn't care less about keeping the phone steady for a while—someone else appeared!
Those people were probably the ones who constructed the foreign land in the mortuary, Fons guessed.At this time, the photographer had already stuffed the mobile phone into his pocket, so he could only hear the sound of fierce and chaotic fighting, but he could no longer see the picture.After a while, the sound changed to hurried footsteps. It seemed that the photographer started to run away, and his enemies were chasing him.

"It can be stopped," Fan Liangyu said, "except for escaping, there will be no new content until the phone's battery is exhausted and the filming is interrupted."

"What's going on here?" Feng Si asked, "You showed me this video on purpose, indicating that it's about me. Who took the video?"

"It's our family's investigator," Fan Liangyu said. "A few days ago, he disappeared, but we found the memory card in a corner near the hospital. His mobile phone was specially made to pass through a small switch in a crisis situation." Quickly eject the memory card, and there is a tiny signal source hidden in the memory card. So although the enemy killed him and took the phone, the memory card cannot be found."

"Investigator? Investigating something?" Feng Si asked again.

"Investigate those families hiding in the dark."

"The family in the dark?"

"Yes, a family that hides in the dark and is more dangerous than us," Fan Liangyu said, "Unlike us, they may directly want your life."

three

Wen Xiaolan meticulously sorted out all the paper materials and electronic documents, and cleaned up the desk. During this period, colleagues from the office kept passing her and saying hello to her.

"Xiaowen, you did a great job," the HR manager patted her on the shoulder affectionately, "You are the best intern the company has recruited in the past three years. I really hope you will graduate this year."

"Thank you for your compliment, I will continue to work hard," Wen Xiaolan nodded with a smile, "I hope to come to the company for an internship next year."

She packed her personal belongings, took a last look at the office with some reluctance, and then walked towards the elevator.A few minutes later, she was already standing outside the building, and her boyfriend Zhou Yuwei was waiting for her pushing a bicycle.

"It's finally over, how is the internship evaluation?" Zhou Yuwei asked.

(End of this chapter)