Late at night, private room in the basement of the Ogwilly Hotel.
"So, two people died?"
"Yes, Sister Ninth, Lao Zhou! If Brother Feng hadn't tried his best to save him this time, I might have been trapped there."
Chongzi looked pale, and because he spoke too fast, he couldn't stop coughing.
I hurriedly explained, "What happened this time was purely an accident! No one could have prevented it!"
Jiu Qingning was leaning on the sofa, holding a women's thin cigarette in her hand. She slowly exhaled the smoke and said, "Xiang Bantou, there are risks in this business. It's normal for something to happen. I don't care about Lao Zhou's life or death, even if he dies."
I will also give his family a sum of money. All I care about is, how much profit will you get this time?"
"Probably around 450,000."
In fact, I haven't had time to look at the items in the bag, so this number is just an estimate.
"Only this little?"
"No! We are just exploring this time! The big stuff from the reservoir hasn't come out yet! You have to give me more time!"
She laughed after hearing this, grabbed the ashtray and said with a smile, "Xiang Boutou, I didn't say I wouldn't give you time, why are you panicking? Since I asked you to lead the team, I fully trust your ability! Come on, do your best, Qian
Don’t let me down.”
When she said the last sentence, her tone deliberately paused for two seconds, and my palms became sweaty while listening.
This is encouragement, but also a warning! If my output cannot increase in a short period of time, I'm afraid she won't be polite to me. The cheongsam woman also said that she would send someone to dispose of Lao Zhou's body tomorrow. We can't let people stay here all the time.
Soaking in the reservoir.
It was already late at night when I returned to the room, but I didn't feel sleepy at all. Xiaoxuan brought me some hot water and asked softly, "Do you feel like you're riding a tiger and it's hard to get off?"
"That's not the case. It's just because two people died in one day that we feel a little uncomfortable."
"Xiaoxuan, why do you think Lao Zhou suddenly drowned?"
Xiaoxuan frowned, "I also find it strange. , don’t forget that he was carrying a gas cylinder at the time, so it is logically impossible for him to drown in the water.”
"It's weird not to think about it." I shook my head and recalled the underwater scene again.
I remember that Lao Zhou was carrying a gas cylinder but not a mask. There were only two possibilities: either someone pulled off his mask while we were not paying attention, or he took off his mask and committed suicide.
Although it sounds a bit nonsense, there is also a third possibility, which is "ghost possession".
The middle-aged woman was so resentful that she killed Lao Zhou in the water. Otherwise, how could Lao Zhou still smile after he drowned? I get chills down my back when I think of that scene.
People in our industry more or less believe in these things, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken the initiative to check my household registration for 400,000 yuan and ask him to help me eliminate the disaster.
Xiaoxuan came up behind me and gently squeezed my shoulders. She said, "Stop thinking so wildly. Yunfeng, you have to have a good sleep. Do you know that you haven't slept all day and night?"
"Hey, I can't sleep. You should rest first. I'll go check for bugs."
When I went to the bug room, he was lying on the sofa, chewing an apple and watching TV. When he saw me coming in, he hurriedly got up.
"No, no! You're not ready yet, just lie down. Let me ask you a few words."
"Okay, brother! Just ask!"
"It's about Lao Zhou. Please tell me in detail."
The TV was still playing a TV series. Chongzi was curled up on the sofa wearing a blanket. He swallowed the apple in his mouth and frowned and said, "My eldest sister was here just now. There are some things that I don't want my eldest sister to know."
"This is probably what happened, brother. Didn't you say that Lao Zhou was missing? I immediately went into the water to look for him! As soon as I dived in, I saw
Lao Zhou stood laughing in the water, and at that time he was squeezing his own neck with one hand."
"What! Are you laughing while standing in the water? Are you pinching your own neck? Are you sure you're not being deceived?"
Chongzi sat cross-legged on the sofa and shook his head vigorously.
"No, I must not have been blinded. I swam over to save Lao Zhou, but Lao Zhou pinched his neck with great force! It took a lot of effort for me to break his hand open. Guess what happened next?"
"Then Lao Zhou caught you and wouldn't let you go?"
"That's right, so Brother Feng, if you ask me to say this, it will sound evil. Just the two of us know about it, and you don't want to tell anyone about it."
Chongzi immediately said, "I'll talk to my eldest sister tomorrow and see if she can send some brothers to help you. Anyway, I won't dare to go into the water these two days."
"Don't be a bug! You can't give me back at this critical moment! I'll still rely on you for help later! Besides, if you quit before we've completed the task, what will the eldest sister think of you? Will she?
They will think that you are not good at doing things and cannot be reused."
Chongzi's character is bold, ruthless and single-minded. I have noticed it a long time ago. Chongzi is extremely loyal to the cheongsam girl! How loyal is he? I guess he will do it even if the cheongsam girl asks Chongzi to kill his parents.
Sure enough, when he heard what I said, Chongzi immediately backed down. He gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, I don't want my eldest sister to think that I am incompetent. That would be more uncomfortable than killing me!"
"That's right, cheer up! We will do something big tomorrow, so your eldest sister will think highly of you."
"Yes! What a bastard!" The insect seemed to have forgotten its fear and resurrected with full blood like a chicken.
After coming out of Chongzi's room, I stood outside the corridor and smoked a cigarette, recalling a detail in Chongzi's words just now.
He said he saw Lao Zhou strangling himself to death and wanted to know It's easy to know whether Chongzi is lying. Just find Lao Zhou's body and take a look at the skin around his neck.
I didn't dare to call her Xiaoxuan because I was afraid that something might happen to her, so I decided not to tell anyone and just secretly took a look at the scene when I found out.
I drove a pickup truck to the reservoir at night, turned off the engine and got out of the car, then rolled over the embankment. I carried my big bag and walked westward for more than 300 meters before returning to the water where the accident happened.
In the middle of the night, I came to an empty reservoir alone. I was scared, really a little bit scared! My mind suddenly thought of the scene in the movie The Dead in the Village where the beautiful aunt slowly walks into the water.
"Ah sneeze!"
I sneezed, lit three sticks of incense prepared in advance and placed them by the river. I stretched out my hand and made a sign of the cross on my chest. Then I clasped my hands together and prayed quickly, "Buddha bless me, God bless me, Sanqing Liubu"
Bless me, the gods of the west bless me, Lord Ziweixing bless me, Yama of the Ten Palaces bless me, Amen, Amitabha."
I opened my bag, put on my diving suit, checked the brightness of my headlight, then jumped directly into the water and swam towards the deep water area.
Lao Zhou's body had sunk to the bottom of the water. When the light shone on Lao Zhou's smiling face again, even though I was mentally prepared, I still felt a chill.
I stretched out my hand to hold Lao Zhou's chin, slowly lifted it up, and immediately saw an obvious bruise on his neck.
And this bruise does look like it was pinched by human hands.
Since it had been soaked in the water for a while, Lao Zhou's body was slightly swollen and swollen. When I touched it, he half-stretched his body and immediately leaned fully against me.
Lao Zhou's face is still grinning, so you can see a little of his teeth.
A man and a corpse looked at each other, and as we got closer, I suddenly discovered another unusual place.