Nightcrawler: 20 Years of Peaceful Demons

Chapter 4 The Missing Half Bones

To be honest, in the past few years of drifting south, I have seen countless liars, especially those who come up and say "the benefactor, you have a bad omen", I basically ignore them, after all, I know their routines. Knowing it by heart is nothing more than getting close to you, saying some specious words, and after defrauding your trust, you will start to rack your brains to defraud you of money.

But I don't know what's going on. When I heard this person speak, I subconsciously looked at him seriously.

This is a man with a calm temperament but a very young appearance. He looks about 27 or [-] years old, and his two beards like "Lu Xiaofeng" are very impressive. The bearded man is either a slob or an artist, and the one in front of him, with black trousers and white shirt, gives people a refreshing and sunny feeling, his eyes are dark and shiny, and there is a faint smile on his face, which makes people not be too defensive .

He is neither a slob, nor does he seem to be an artist living in his own world. He said that I was "unlucky" when I met him, and immediately aroused my curiosity.

In particular, I have really encountered very weird things recently, which makes me even more interested.

So instead of ignoring him like a liar, I asked, "What do you mean by that?"

The other party also knew that it was quite abrupt for him to come over suddenly to strike up a conversation, so he smiled and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fortune teller, but I just think your complexion is not normal, so I just asked a question."

I looked at him, hesitating in my heart, not knowing what to say to him, but my colleague Xiao Liu said to me: "Brother Hou, we should go."

At this moment, there are still a few minutes before the departure of the car, Xiao Liu made a sound, in fact, he wanted to remind me not to be deceived, after all, there were still a lot of scammers in the south at that time. Those who sell fake newspapers, and even human traffickers, are all very rampant. When you go out, you must be cautious.

I hesitated, but the man dug out a sachet-like thing from his backpack, the size of a palm, embroidered with yellow cloth and gold silk, very delicate.

When I saw the other party's thing, I thought it was a sale, and I was on guard, but who knew that the man said: "I am usually in the Yangcheng area, and you have to drive. If it is too late, I will give you this thing. You hold it and put it close to you. Don't take it easy." Open it; if you come across any problem that you cannot solve, you can come to me in this place."

After finishing speaking, he first handed me the sachet, then took out a pen and a piece of paper, and handed them to me after finishing writing.

Immediately afterwards, he actually stood up and left without asking me for money.

I looked down at the note, which said "Ma Yi'ao, east of Heji Grocery Store, Yuexiu Fourteenth Village, Yangcheng". People's handwriting is really good.

Indeed, this man named Ma Yi'ao has a beautiful running script, and the strokes of the pen are quite vigorous. One can tell that he has worked hard since he was a child.

After finishing speaking, he talked about people again. What did Xiao Liu say this person does?Doesn't look like a liar.

He didn't ask for a penny, of course he wasn't a liar, in fact, I already knew in my heart that the reason why this person came to say hello to me was probably the trouble I caused in Guancheng, especially when the long-legged woman came to my place, Although I don't know what she did to me while I was unconscious, it was definitely not a good thing.

I read the contents of the note again, kept it in my heart, put it away, and put the kit in my trouser pocket. Xiao Liu next to me smiled and said, "Look at you, do you really take it seriously?"

When I talk about things in the world, I would rather believe what they have than believe what they don’t have, right?

Xiao Liu reminded me that you'd better open it and take a look, if there is something dirty, that's not very good.

I shook my head, rejecting his onlookers.

Back at the company, Xiao Liu and I reported the work situation of Goose City to Lao Jin. After listening to it with a blank face, Lao Jin dismissed Xiao Liu and asked me in a low voice: "What did you do? The list, why did someone pry it? Brother Tai is very angry about this matter, you have to be careful when you meet him later."

I smiled wryly and said, Boss, I don’t want to either. We contacted people from the purchasing department before, but the other party got through with the big boss of the factory. What do you think I should do?
Lao Jin said that Brother Tai is very dissatisfied with you now, so don’t waver in front of him these two days—how about this, you go to Zhucheng Deli to stay for two days, and there happens to be a batch of potions that need to be purchased there. As an old customer, you are responsible for coordinating and contacting the relevant leaders to get in touch with each other.

I nodded and said yes.

Because I didn't dare to face the angry Tai brother, I asked Xiao Liu to report the account, and went to Zhucheng by boat without stopping. I stayed there for three days. After handing over the potion, I invited a group of leaders there to have dinner Drinking, because of what happened in Guancheng, I had lingering fears about going to entertainment venues, so I didn't hold an evening show, and took the latest boat back to the Special Economic Zone. When I got home, it was already past eleven o'clock at night.

The special zone is prosperous, and the village in the city where I live is full of people even in the middle of the night. I did my best to serve the factory leaders before, and I was a little drunk. I sobered up on the way home, but my head was still groggy. So when I returned to the rental house and opened the door, I didn't feel anything unusual.

But when I showered, I felt something was wrong.

There is a water heater in the place where I live. It is obviously hot water, but when it hits me, my body feels cold.

That kind of coldness is as if you are rolling naked on the snow, piercing through your heart and piercing like an awl.

Then I rushed, and I found that the floor of the bathroom was blood red.

In the narrow bathroom, there was blood all over the place. I was shocked. I stopped the water and looked around. There was nothing unusual. .

At this moment, I was really frightened. I covered the bleeding part with a towel, ran to the full-length mirror in the room, turned around to look, and saw a gap the size of a baby's fist in the tailbone. There was blood flowing out, like a small fountain, gurgling, and it couldn't stop.

I covered it with a towel desperately, and then shook my head vigorously to clear up my alcohol-numbed mind.

Soon, I remembered that weird guy named Ma Yi'ao a few days ago, and his tips.

I hurried back to the bathroom, took out the kit from the change of clothes, looked at the hole sealed by the needle and thread, gritted my teeth, and tore it open, and found a piece of yellow talisman paper with runes written on it. There was also half a bone, and three hard, thick, toothpick-like black hairs.

Other than that, there is nothing left.

I turned the kit upside down and saw nothing else, but at this moment, I suddenly heard a sharp cry.

gah...

This sound startled me, and I hurriedly looked towards the balcony next to the bathroom, but found nothing.

The cry was sharp and miserable, a bit like a cat, or some similar animal, but because my body was still bleeding, I didn't dare to think too much, I looked at the yellow talisman paper, and then looked at others. He also went to the doctor in a hurry, gritted his teeth, and pushed the half of the bone to the opening of the tailbone near the buttocks.

I was already desperate at the time, and I did this only subconsciously to comfort myself. I didn’t expect that when the blind cat encountered a dead mouse, when the half of the bone touched the wound, a cold feeling spread all over the body.

It felt like a person who was dying of thirst in the desert suddenly drank a big mouthful of water.

That's refreshing.

I was almost in a daze for a while, and when I came back to my senses, I found that my hands were sticky. I rubbed them subconsciously, and found that the wound had scabbed and no bleeding.

It's really amazing.

At that time, I was in a trance of severe blood loss. After confirming that the wound had stopped bleeding, I instinctively scrubbed my body, put on my clothes, and hurried to the village health center.

With so much blood, I thought I was going to die, but when I went to the health center, I told the doctor on duty about the situation. When the doctor asked me to take off my pants to help me check, he was inexplicably silent for a long time.

When I turned around impatiently and looked up at the doctor, the doctor also looked at me in the same way he looked at "Silly Boy".

Immediately afterwards, he said: "You said you have a wound on your buttocks? Where is it?"

I said didn't you see it?
The doctor showed me a mirror with a blank expression on his face, only to see nothing on the bare buttocks except for two pimples the size of rice grains and a black mole.

Naturally there are no wounds.

At this time, the old doctor in his 50s said slowly: "Young people, when you are wandering outside, you must know how to love yourself, don't make friends with those shady friends, and don't try new things and novelty indiscriminately. If you touch it, your life will be ruined, you know?"

When he said this, he probably thought that I might be an addict who had hallucinated because of drugs.

I fled the hospital in a panic, and when I got home, I remembered that the life-saving kit was still thrown in the bathroom. Now, only half of the bone that helped me stop the bleeding was missing.

I thought about it for 5 minutes in the bathroom, but I couldn't figure out where the bone went.

Smelling the bloody smell in the bathroom, and the blood-stained towel, I understood that what happened just now was not a hallucination after I drank.

I know very well that all of this is true.

The next morning, I called Lao Jin, and in addition to handing over the work for the past two days, I also asked him for leave.

Lao Jin didn’t agree at first, saying that the higher authorities didn’t have a good impression of me, and now I’m going to ask for leave, which may affect my salary increase at the mid-year summary.

I didn't hesitate, saying that my life was gone, so why would I get a raise?

After asking for leave, I immediately bought a ticket and rushed to Yangcheng. According to the original address, after several rounds, I found the Heji grocery store in Shishicun Village. The proprietress heard me say I was looking for Ma Yi'ao, and laughed, saying that you are looking for that crazy person. , He went out, and he didn't know when he would be back.

Ah, god, neuropathy?

(End of this chapter)