Chapter 2: Chapter 2
When the traffic is sparse enough in the middle of the night, the wide road can reveal some of its own truths, those scars that are invisible under the various turbulence during the day.
Although I am a third-rate detective, based on respect for this profession, I will go all out for every commission.
The easiest way to tell if a girl is lying is to go to the unlit road at the right time and look for the underworld show in the advertisement.
Turn on the computer to search, and the Jiangcheng Wudeng Road does exist.
In the mouths of old Jiangcheng people, this road has another very special name - "screw knot top".
"Screw knot top" actually means "build corpses and roof". During the Anti-Japanese War, this was the largest massacre field in Jiangcheng. Residents nearby said that street lights cannot be installed here at all, as long as they are installed, they will be turned off the next day.
The bulb was fine when it was taken off, but the tungsten wire inside was broken, and no one dared to install a new bulb afterwards. Walking in the alley and playing the flashlight will also turn off inexplicably. Any electric things can't be used in the alley at night, and motorcycles and battery cars have to be pushed.
People nearby usually don't come out at night. So if you meet someone at the "Screw Knot" at night-it may not be a person.
"The company is located in such a place, so it really deserves the name of the underworld show." Frankly speaking, I am an atheist with supremacy of logic. After an afternoon of data collection, I am even more sure that this is not a clever prank.
"It's up to tonight to see if it's true or not." Putting on casual clothes, stuffing the advertisement and the anti-wool device into the pockets of his trousers, he drove to his destination by bicycle.
The unlit road is in the old town. When I arrived here, it was already dark and there was still drizzle in the sky.
"It's really unlucky." On rainy days, it is easy to hurt yourself with the electric anti-wolf device. If you meet criminals, it will be embarrassing.
Wandering in the intricate alleys, with old buildings on both sides, the locals were very unfriendly to me, an outsider, and asked, as long as they mentioned the word "unlit road", they would wave their hands and leave in a hurry.
Without any hint, I wandered around like a headless chicken until after ten o'clock in the evening and still haven't found the legendary no-light road.
The rain became heavier, and there was a mist between the sky and the earth. I wanted to find a place to shelter from the rain, but there was not even a decent store in the surrounding alleys.
There are only a few storefronts, and there are still paper houses, spirit horses, wreaths and shrouds in the store, which is obviously a dead business.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and I had no choice but to bite the bullet and hide in the shroud shop, but what I didn't expect was that as soon as 11 o'clock, the shopkeeper turned off all the lights, lit two sticks of white wax, and gave them to me A black umbrella on the grave, urging me to leave.
"These people are too weird." Holding a black umbrella, standing in the rain, at a glance, the whole alley was not even a ray of light.
"No light road?" I shuddered for no reason, and walked alone for twenty minutes, lost my way, and just when I took out my mobile phone to call the police for help, I happened to see an old man on the opposite side of the road. Grandma waved to me.
"It's dark and rainy, why is she outside alone? Where's her family?"
The rain soaked Grandma's clothes, and the old man was alone, looking much miserable than me.
She waved anxiously, and I quickly approached to hold an umbrella for her, "Grandma, you..."
Lightning flashed by, and I looked down and saw Grandma's raised face, bloodless, with wrinkles crawling out from all directions like folded beans Skin covered the entire old face.
"I lost something, please help me find it."
The old man's voice was trembling, as if he was dying, this was the last request before he died.
I forced myself to calm down, "Don't worry, what did you lose?"
Grandma's cloudy eyes rolled to both sides: "I lost my little grandson, it's in this alley."
She pointed to the dark road, and limped into it as if possessed by a demon.
"Grandson? A living person?" For some reason, I remembered all the rumors about unlit roads on the Internet, and stared at the old man's back, my hairs stood on end.
"Impossible. The so-called ghosts, gods, and Buddhas scare themselves. My current situation should be caused by a certain environment that triggers human instincts to respond to uncertain events." The human body will produce a self-protection mechanism in the face of danger. It is fear and avoidance.
"The local people's reaction combined with the rumors on the Internet, as well as the grandmother in front of me, their behaviors are all weird, as if they are deliberately creating a scary atmosphere." I don't believe in evil, but I still think it's a prank , Nowadays, many variety shows are doing everything they can to pursue ratings, and all kinds of heavy-duty programs are emerging one after another. Maybe in places I don't know, there are more than a dozen cameras installed at this time to follow the whole process.
Thinking about it this way, my sense of fear suddenly subsided, and I held up my umbrella and entered the depths of the alley at the same time as Grandma.
After a long time, I, who had lost my way for a long time, was already broken, but it was Grandma who was walking and suddenly stopped.
"Baby grandson, don't run around next time..."
"Found it?" I was a little surprised, followed the old man's gaze, and slowly opened my eyes wide.
On the cold steps lay a tattered doll wet by rain!
The old man hugged the doll affectionately, not caring about the mud and water stains at all, as if he was treating a newborn baby with care.
"She, is she a lunatic?!" I followed a crazy old lady for more than an hour in the rainy night!
"Oh, oh, doll, don't be angry, I'm here to apologize to you. I shouldn't have lost my temper just now, and threw you to the ground with all my strength. It made your new floral dress dirty, and your face was covered in mud. It must still hurt, right? I'm so sorry! I'll take pictures of your dirty clothes, wash your face if it's dirty, rub it for you if it hurts, and from now on, we'll stay together." The old man picked up the doll and
sang The nursery rhyme is far away, I have a little sympathy for the old man besides a wry smile. I am over seventy years old, and there is only a tattered doll by my side.
Thinking of this, I chased after him, and stuffed the black umbrella in my hand to the old man: "It's raining heavily, take the umbrella, go home quickly."
Grandma took the umbrella and was stunned for a while.
"Be careful on the old road, see you later." The rain soaked my clothes, and I hid on the steps where I picked up the doll to avoid the rain.
"For seventy yuan, I worked really hard." The commission had no clue, I squatted on the ground, and habitually wanted to light a cigarette, but the moment the lighter was turned on, I saw the house number on the outer wall of the small building ——"No. 44 Unlamped Road".
The flame was extinguished in an instant, I took out the small card, put my face closer to confirm again and again: "It can't be such a coincidence, can it?" There is
no way out in the mountains and rivers, and there is another village in the dark willows, and this is exactly the place I am looking for.
"The address in the advertisement does exist, and things are getting more and more interesting." I was pressing the switch of the anti-wolf device with my palm, and just about to enter the corridor, my clothes were suddenly pulled.
"Who!"
Turning around and taking out the anti-wolf device, the crackling electric arc was very clear in the dark night.
"Grandma?" The old man holding the puppet stood behind me at some point, and I, who had gotten an A+ in the actual combat quality of the police academy, didn't notice it at all.
"Young man, it's dark, don't run around." The old man blocked the doll's sight with his body, and slipped a handkerchief out of his sleeve as if accidentally.
"Little mouse, go up to the lampstand, steal the oil to eat, but can't get down. Meow meow, the cat is coming, ji li gu lu roll down..." Singing
nursery rhymes, coaxing the puppet in his arms, the old man disappeared into the rainy night.
I picked up the handkerchief left by the old man, it was pure white, like the white silk used for hanging, and I held it in front of my eyes, and there was an antique short poem on it.
"Wu Wei is so poor that it is very difficult to throw away paintings.
The origin of the internal affairs lies in Dixiang.
If you have a son to receive kindness, you must have a land, and
there is no way for ghosts."
After reading it twice, I broke out in a cold sweat. This is an acrostic poem. If you connect the first word of each line, it means—there is a ghost in the house!
"Is she crazy?" Combined with the old man's previous words, the meaning she wanted to express was very clear. Although it was obscure, at least logically speaking, there was no problem.
"Are there really ghosts in the world?" Looking at the dark corridor, I hesitated for a moment before walking in.
For a detective, what attracts him most is never the result, but the process of cracking the unknown.
My eyes gradually got used to the darkness, I touched the mottled wall and walked down the stairs to the basement.
"No. 44, Unlamped Road, 4th floor underground, room 444..."
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