As a modern person, Chen Zhi is an absolute materialist. He does not believe in ghosts and gods, but this time his intuition told him that this matter was by no means that simple. He always felt that he should go to the Youth Forge again.
, there is the answer he wants.
But this idea is indeed too ridiculous. After so many years, Chen Zhi has no idea about the situation there. Maybe the factory has been acquired and renovated a long time ago. Even if he goes to see it, it is best to go during the day.
He had smoked more than half of a pack of cigarettes. The time on his phone showed that it was only ten minutes before twelve o'clock, and it was pitch black outside the window.
"What on earth does that Teacher Guo want to do with me? Why doesn't anyone remember him..." Chen Zhi lay on the bed and tossed and turned, his persistent curiosity torturing him.
Suddenly, a terrifying thought rushed into Chen Zhi's mind,
"What if Teacher Guo was already dead at that time? He was killed in front of that warehouse fifteen years ago. Then... what was that thing I saw? A ghost?"
After putting out the last cigarette butt, Chen Zhi made a decision. Tonight, he was going to go to the warehouse of the Youth Forge to see what happened back then. Although it was ridiculous, he didn't want to do it again.
Suffering from a night of random thoughts.
Chen Zhi is not a timid person, but he knows that it will definitely be scary to enter a factory in the suburbs at night. However, if the factory has really been acquired and renovated, it will not be easy to attract attention if you go at night. Otherwise, if you break into a heavy industrial factory during the day,
Getting caught is very troublesome.
Chen Zhi first copied the map on the note onto a piece of white paper, and then prepared what he needed to go out.
The location of the youth forge was very remote. You could only go there by taxi at this time. Chen Zhi took his mobile phone and map, packed a portable tool bag with some simple tools in it, and changed into work clothes.
, put on the hat, lowered the brim and walked out of the house.
Chen Zhi stopped a taxi. The driver looked Chen Zhi up and down first, with obvious suspicion in his eyes. Taxi robberies in the middle of the night occasionally happened in this city, and Chen Zhi also carried a heavy tool bag.
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After Chen Zhi got in the car and told the driver his destination, the driver said he knew the factory, but it was too remote. He could take Chen Zhi there, but he would have to pay an extra 20 yuan. Chen Zhi agreed.
"Little brother, what are you doing there in the middle of the night? That factory seems to have been abandoned for a long time..." When the taxi was driving on the road, the driver asked Chen Zhi tentatively.
"I'm going to get something. You wait for me outside for a while." Chen Zhi replied in a low voice.
"Get something? The factory has been abandoned for so long. It is said that there was a ghost inside. What are you taking?" The driver became a little flustered after hearing Chen Zhi's words. In his eyes, Chen Zhi was becoming more and more abnormal.
Chen Zhi did not speak anymore, but looked down at the map in his hand. When the taxi driver saw that Chen Zhi ignored him, he stopped asking, gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator to drive towards the suburbs.
The drive was very fast at night. After about forty minutes, the taxi stopped at the entrance of Youth Forge in the suburbs.
The wind at night was very cold. Chen Zhi got out of the car and looked forward. This place was exactly the same as the impression in his memory. It had not changed at all after so many years. It was just more dilapidated. However, there were several large youth forges at the entrance of the factory.
The scarlet letter still exists.
"Little brother, I'll wait for you for twenty minutes. If you don't come out, I'll leave. Also, you have to give me the money first. If you're not afraid of this damn place, I'm still afraid!" The driver stuck his head out of the car.
Say to Chen Zhi outside the window.
Chen Zhi gave him some money, told him his mobile phone number, and asked him to wait in the car with peace of mind.
The taxi driver was about to say no, but found that Chen Zhi had already walked quickly towards the factory gate. The abandoned factory was pitch dark, like a ghostland. The driver did not dare to make any more noise, and shrank his neck to stay there.
In the car.
The gate of the factory is surrounded by iron railings. This is a typical iron gate made in the 1960s. However, after more than ten years of wind and rain erosion, there is a big gap in the railings, and Chen Zhi can just get through.
After entering the factory gate, there is a straight cement road. On both sides of the road are weeds as tall as a person. Many large steel parts are lying abandoned in the weeds. They are already rusty. In the dark night, they look like one by one.
It looked like a wild beast with teeth and claws. From time to time, a cool breeze blew by, and Chen Zhi felt a chill on his neck.
According to the markings on the map, Chen Zhi quickly determined the direction. There were cement roads along the way. In a short time, he had entered the main factory building.
This factory was very large, and it was so dark inside that the weak moonlight could not shine in. When Chen Zhi walked inside, he felt that there seemed to be a ghost lurking in the darkness in the factory, grinning secretly, waiting for Chen Zhi to commit suicide.
Cast into a trap.
Even though Chen Zhi didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he felt his legs were weak at this moment.
Chen Zhi took out the flashlight from the tool bag. This flashlight was a wolf-eye flashlight. He spent a lot of money to buy it. The light of the flashlight was very strong and could shine dozens of meters away. Chen Zhi emboldened himself and pressed on.
He tightened the tool bag on his back, held an iron crowbar in his hand, and walked towards the factory.
After entering the depths of the factory, not a single bit of moonlight shone in, and the surroundings became even darker, as if we had entered another world.
Chen Zhi passed by some equipment operating tables and saw thick dust on them and some miscellaneous tools scattered on the ground. The factory was very deep. Chen Zhi walked for more than two hundred meters when he suddenly appeared in front of him.
There is a duty room.
The door to the duty room was an old-fashioned wooden door, covered with dust. Chen Zhi stepped forward and pushed it with a crowbar. The wooden door was very aged and fell down, making a heavy muffled sound and splashing a lot of dust.
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Chen Zhi took a flashlight and took a photo, but found nothing unusual. There was only an old-fashioned wooden table, a single bed, a folding stool in the duty room, and a red leather book on the table.
This was a work diary. Chen Zhi flipped through it casually and saw on the last page: "Everything is normal in the factory. Important parts will be delivered tomorrow. Please pay attention to receive them."
The date is July 4, 1992, and there are no words after that.
There was a drawer under the wooden table, and there was a marching kettle in it. Chen Zhi picked it up and shook it. There was a sound of water inside. Chen Zhi unscrewed the lid, and a strong aroma of wine came out.
"People were very frugal at that time, why was this half a bottle of liquor left here?" Chen Zhi thought in his mind, put the kettle back and left the duty room.
Chen Zhi continued to walk forward. Behind the duty room was a long and narrow corridor, surrounded by darkness and there was no sound at all.
Along the way, Chen Zhi always felt something was wrong, as if someone was staring at him in the dark.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the corridor finally reached the end, and a small door with glass appeared in front of it. Chen Zhi had a very deep memory of this place. After exiting this door, it was the warehouse where Teacher Guo was hit.
Chen Zhi walked to the small door and stopped. The glass of the small door was covered with dust, making it impossible to see the outside scene.
After Chen Zhi hesitated for a moment, he opened the small door and saw in the darkness ahead, the warehouse in his memory.
But Chen Zhi's heart sank at this moment...
There was a large dent in the door of the warehouse, which was obviously hit by a huge impact.
Chen Zhi immediately felt his palms sweating. He knew that the memory of his childhood was not an illusion, everything was real...
Chen Zhi walked over and saw the entire warehouse clearly under the bright moonlight.
The door of the warehouse is made of thick iron, which is now covered with rust and scars. In the middle of the door is a dent after being hit by a truck.
Chen Zhi touched the deep dent on the door, feeling the power in his heart, and thought silently, "It is impossible for a person to survive such an impact. Then I..., then I will do it the next day.
Who is that Teacher Guo you saw?"
Chen Zhi's brain could no longer control his fears and fantasies at this time. The weather in the Northeast was already very cold, and the surroundings were frighteningly quiet.
Surrounded by weeds as tall as a person, Chen Zhi felt that there seemed to be a person standing in the grass in the distance, looking at him coldly, smiling ferociously in the darkness.
And the teacher Guo from fifteen years ago seems to be standing behind the door of this warehouse now, crawling on the door covered in blood, glaring at Chen Zhi who has missed the appointment.
Chen Zhi's scalp was numb and cold sweat broke out on his head. It was absolutely impossible to retreat at this moment. If he left now, he would be tortured by this incident forever in the future.
"You must go in and take a look!" Chen Zhi thought to himself, and then calmed down.
Chen Zhi first used a crowbar to pry open the lock on the iron door. The lock was already rusty and fell off as soon as he pried it open.
After the door opened, a gust of cold wind blew out from inside, mixed with a strong metallic smell and musty smell.
Chen Zhi glanced inside with a flashlight. The warehouse was not big and was filled with messy parts and broken boxes.
Chen Zhi stepped on these things and carefully walked inside. He looked around and didn't see anything strange.
But he noticed that there was a very awkward place in the warehouse. There was a large wooden box placed in the middle of the floor. It was very isolated, as if it had been placed here deliberately.
The wooden box was covered with moldy green hair. Chen Zhi tried to push it. The box was very heavy. He pressed the front of the wooden box with both hands and exerted force on his legs. With a dull friction sound, the wooden box was slowly pushed open.
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The ground below was exposed, and it turned out that there was a cellar under the box. The cellar door was tied with a heavy iron chain and a delicate small silver lock.
"Is there something hidden here?" Chen Zhi's heart began to beat violently. He was a little nervous at this moment, and a bad premonition arose in his mind.
This small silver lock head is very delicate, and there is no trace of rust on it. It took Chen Zhi a lot of effort to break it open.
Chen Zhi struggled to open the heavy iron door of the cellar, and an iron ladder was exposed below. The cellar was pitch black. He didn't know how deep it was, but it was extremely eerie and terrifying.
Chen Zhi patted his face, calmed down, put the flashlight in his mouth, and climbed down the iron ladder.
The iron ladder was only more than ten meters long, and Chen Zhi climbed to the bottom in less than a minute.
When Chen Zhi's feet landed, a strange smell hit his face. He scanned the front with a flashlight. The cellar was very humid, and the moldy walls around it were peeling off.
When Chen Zhi shined his flashlight on the ground, what he saw made every capillary in him explode.
There was a dried corpse on the ground. The corpse's face was hideously distorted. On the wrist of the corpse was an Omega men's watch. The edges of the dial were very conspicuous gold.