Chapter 11 The Box(1/2)
However, she still comforted herself: No, it doesn't matter... Anyway, it will be three days later, and I won't have anything to do now...
However, her feet still ran up involuntarily. After running through several streets, she suddenly found that there were fewer and fewer passers-by around her. In the end, she found that even one could not see anybody. Although it was not surprising that there were fewer people on the street at this time, why were all the lights in the building dim? The lights around her were getting less and less. When she looked up, she could only see a piece of black, and there was no moonlight at all.
Here...it's the end...
The second hand on the watch has been running half a circle, and the time is getting closer and closer.
Before she knew it, she discovered...
I couldn't see the surroundings at all! There was completely darkness in front of me, and it was no exaggeration to say that I couldn't see my five fingers! How could this be? This is in a modern metropolis! How could it be that I couldn't see anything at midnight!
At this time, a heavy breath came from behind! She was shocked and then heard footsteps behind her back.
"Who? Who is it?"
She tried to increase her volume to boost her courage, but the footsteps did not stop at all. At this moment, midnight was already past.
"Don't...don't chase after me, please don't come!"
She immediately let go of her steps and ran desperately. Although her feet were almost exhausted, she knew that she would die once she was caught up and would not dare to stop. There was still no light around her, and the footsteps behind her also evolved into running sounds, and each stroke was like stepping on Ou Xueyan's heart.
At this moment, she tripped by something, and it seemed to be a hard thing. Xueyan hit the ground while falling down, and her feet were sprained heavily. She had to stand up with the thing. Then, she seemed to feel that the middle of the thing was empty, and while she was wondering, the surroundings suddenly became lit up.
That hard thing naturally reveals the true face of Mount Lu.
It actually...it's that box again! And it's open at this moment!
Before Ou Xueyan could escape, her hands stretched out from the box, grabbed Ou Xueyan's arm tightly, and then dragged her whole body into the box.
Then, the box was covered.
"Ou Xueyan may be dead."
Although they had not given up searching everywhere, both Runan and Ren Jing felt very sleepy. It was almost noon now, and the two of them had not eaten anything so far, and they gathered at the meeting place - the entrance of the magazine.
"I even went to her apartment to look for it at midnight," Ren Jing said breathlessly, holding the wall, "Later, after only four hours of sleep, I came out to look for it again. My phone is still turned off. She is probably no longer alive now."
Runan is now also panda eyes, yawning from time to time. Recently, the weather has gradually become colder. He is looking for Ou Xueyan everywhere at night, which makes him wonder how many sneezes he has sneezed.
"Since that's the case, let's go to the magazine first..."
When I came to the office and asked Ou Xueyan a few colleagues, the same result was still the same, while her desk was still empty.
"The boss is already angry and said that she will fire her immediately if she doesn't show up today." A colleague who seemed to have a good relationship with her said with a bitter face: "What happened to Xueyan? Did you meet a bad person? If you call the police as soon as possible! By the way, isn't her boyfriend the police?"
At this moment, the phone ringing on her desk suddenly rang. Ren Jing picked up the microphone without thinking and asked, "Hey? Who are you looking for?"
"Is it Miss Ou Xueyan from Kangyue Magazine?"
Listening to the sound of a man of some age, Ren Jing nodded and replied, "I'm not, but it's indeed Kangyue Magazine. Who are you?"
"Hurry up and let Miss Ou listen to the phone!"
"Sorry, she is not here, I will convey anything to you."
"Really... I am the landlord on the third floor of Fukang Apartment... You know? It's the apartment where the murder occurred. She came here with a policeman a few days ago and said she wanted to see the dead room. Because she came with the police, I gave the keys to them. But who knew that they left later and the keys were not returned to me at all! I went to the police station to find the policeman, but the person disappeared. When asked the reporter, they told me Miss Ou's name and the phone number of the work unit. I called and I had to return the keys to me no matter what, no matter how I said I would like to return the keys!"
So that's the case. It was because they went to that room.
Ren Jing planned to forward the phone to Ou Xueyan's colleagues for them to deal with it. Who knew that a woman's roar suddenly came from the phone: "Hey, what are you still calling? Why don't you come to help me! The water pipes are so blocked, I have to call the property company quickly. Look, the water in this place! Why is there so much garbage mixed with it!"
"What's your name? Really, it's like this since this morning, and it all came out when draining... Ah, Miss, I'm not talking to you, you can say to Miss Ou early and return the key to me quickly!"
Then the phone hung up.
"Who called?" Runan asked curiously from the side.
"Nothing, no matter what the phone number."
Runan felt a little uneasy.
When he sensed that Ou Xueyan would become the fourth victim, he felt a very strong sense of uneasiness. As her image appeared in her mind and gradually formed, he felt that something extremely terrible was injected into the Buddha's body. It was obviously just a premonition, but every hair on the Buddha's body stood up...
It's definitely not that simple. Ou Xueyan won't be as simple as the previous three...
"Go to have something first, you're hungry too. There is a good Western restaurant nearby. Do you want to have lunch together?" After walking out of the magazine, Runan An felt hungry and made this suggestion.
Ren Jing also felt weak all over and it was time to eat something to cheer up, so he nodded.
This Western restaurant is decorated very well. The tables are made of wood, and there is a pool in the center. The ground is paved with pebbles, and many leaves are hung on the ceiling. Once you enter the restaurant, you feel a strong natural atmosphere.
After choosing a seat, Runan picked up the menu on the table and flipped through it while saying to Ren Jing: "What do you want to eat? I've been ready for this meal. I just got the royalty of the new book... You said that you have read all my works, so you should have read the latest books, right?"
"It's fine. There's no need to ask for it, right? As for the new book, of course I've read it. Your imagination is indeed very rich. No wonder even directors from Hong Kong come to you to make movies. It probably won't work in China, because the movie review system is too strict. In fact, it can be said that your book can be published. After all, there are too many strange powers and magical things involved."
"How about steak or roasted chicken wings? Well, you're right, but writing books is just to make a living. After all, because I've been moving, I don't have the mood to study hard. My education is only a college degree, so it's very difficult to find a job, so I have to write some novels online."
While ordering good food and waiting for the time to serve, the two of them stared at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"Have you ever thought about... the future moment of your own death?"
The person who asked about it was Ren Jing.
Although it was a very unpleasant question, Runan still answered.
"I thought about it. I thought about it too many times, but I became numb. In the end, I decided not to think about it."
While he was speaking, he made pointless tricks on his knife and fork and tapped the plate, as if this would slightly relieve his uneasiness.
"I never thought about it once. Maybe... I trust my father very much." Ren Jing's eyes were always full of brilliance when she mentioned her father.
"Are there anyone else besides us?" Runan asked suddenly.
"What?"
"I think, since your father is omniscient and omnipotent, did he only have a premonition of our brother and sister? Are there no other people with supernatural constitutions? Did he mention more people to look for in his notes?"
Ren Jing smiled slightly.
"You are really smart."
That's true.
"He also mentioned that he asked me to find a painter who could see things that ordinary people could not see and paint them, named Ning Luo. But he only gave me this information. There was also a psychic master who said that this man had strong inspiration and could take out the evil spirits that were hosted in the human body. This was already the greatest limit of the supernatural powers that humans could possess."
Hearing this, Runan immediately stood up and said, "Ningluo? I have seen this person before!"
"What?" Ren Jing also stood up at the same time. The people next to her thought that these two people had a problem with their brains.
"When? Where?"
"It was probably a year ago, when the idea was caught in a bottleneck and wanted to find a good place to find materials, so the editor recommended this person, and told me his address, saying that he could go find him. Because he was a painter with quirks, there were very few people in the industry who knew him. He had contacted him for a while at that time..."
"What about it later?"
"I remember when I first visited him, his attitude was very strange. When I saw me, I first said I wanted to drive me away, but then I seemed to feel something, and I welcomed me into the room, and then I became very enthusiastic. Then he took me to his studio, pointed to his easels, and then asked me if I had seen a woman? I felt very strange at that time, there was obviously nothing there... Now that I think about it, he should have a stronger supernatural constitution, right?"
“What color?”
"Um?"
"What color is his eyes?"
"Ah, by the way, his pupils are dark purple..."
That's right! It's this person! Ren Jing was very excited, but he didn't expect to find the third person designated on his father's list so soon.
"Can you take me to find him?"
"Well... Of course, I had a lot of inspiration after visiting him, so I was deeply impressed by it. I still remember his address now. But let's solve the problem in front of me first."
At this moment, he suddenly realized something and asked again: "Wait a minute, why did you ask me the color of his eyes?"
"The color of the pupil is the embodiment of those with higher supernatural constitutions. If descendants inherit such constitutions, their eyes will definitely appear purple. Such supernatural constitutions have unprecedentedly active supernatural abilities, but most people have to fully awaken through acquired efforts. If those with black-pupil supernatural constitutions like you have improved their supernatural abilities in the future, their pupils will also change color."
After the steak and roasted chicken wings were served, Ren Jing put a napkin in and carefully cut the steak with a knife. She seemed to be very skillful in movement and seemed to eat Western food often. Just as she had cut a piece and was about to put it in her mouth, the conversation between a man and a woman on the next table attracted her attention.
"Oh? Is there something like this?"
"Look at that young lady, she was so gentle. She knocked a plate of pasta to the ground in public and shouted 'There is a ghost'. She ran out without paying the account. The waiter came to stop her and pushed her. I think it was probably because she had some brain problems."
"Is that so? That's really troublesome."
"And, yesterday when I was eating in that restaurant, I just sat near the lady and heard several waiters around me talking, so I asked one of them, guess what's going on? The waiter said that the lady entered the restaurant for dinner at about five o'clock, and after half of a plate of pasta, she suddenly sat still motionless, sitting like a fossil, sitting until after eleven o'clock in the evening. The waiter went up several times to ask her if she was uncomfortable, but she just didn't respond. If she hadn't looked at her nose and saw that she was still alive, everyone would have thought she was dead. Later, it was almost twelve o'clock when she woke up and suddenly called there was a ghost. I thought she was like a ghost."
Ren Jing lowered the steak, walked to the next table, and asked the man: "Sir, the person you just mentioned may be one of my friends. Where did you see her?"
"Oh... do you know her? It's in a 24-hour restaurant on Xiyang Road, called "Luyuan". Oh, Miss, I'm not curious, your friend..." He pointed to his forehead and asked, "Is there something wrong with this place?"
Ren Jing returned to her seat and said, "Let's go... It's a pity. It's rare to come out and eat Western food..."
When he arrived at the restaurant, Ren Jing first found a waiter to ask about the details of yesterday, and then told him about Ou Xueyan's appearance. Compared with the two, it was confirmed that it was indeed her. Then he asked: "Since she has not checked out, you are naturally chasing her?"
"Yes, but after chasing her, I never saw her again. Later we told the lobby manager that we had called the police for this matter. Since you know that lady, can you please tell me who she is?"
It was close to zero at that time... Could it be that she also followed Xia Peng's footsteps and was killed at zero? But this is a prosperous commercial area. If she turns into a twisted corpse, there is no reason not to be discovered...
What posture was her body twisted into and where was it hidden?
At this moment, she suddenly felt a sudden sensation.
Could it be...
She said to Runan without thinking: "Follow me! Ou Xueyan's body is likely to be there!"
To be continued...