Chapter 36: A town without sunlight (6)

In fact, that day, apart from the hazy sun, Liu Weijun felt that everything was very normal, with his father having already left.

When his mother, with bloodshot eyes, handed him the steaming noodles, the inexplicable feeling of heart palpitations that he had had when he woke up in the morning was gone. It was like life had returned to normal. His father would be back in ten days, and he didn’t feel like he had to bear anything.

The town began to slowly come alive, with people getting up early for work, children going to school, and the aroma of breakfast wafting through the air… After finishing his breakfast, Liu Weijun put down his bowl and made a special trip to the timber distribution office.

The place that was still filled with inexplicable terror and tension last night was now a bustling scene of work in progress, which made Liu Weijun feel a little dazed. Could it be that everything last night was a dream?

Time passed by little by little, and Liu Weijun wandered around the town, but found that everything was normal and couldn’t be more normal. Even the trajectory of people’s daily lives was no different. It was just like that, and it was evening.

Liu Weijun remembered that day, he had completely relaxed, and at the time of the incident, he was talking casually with his mother, who was boiling water, comforting her, and then preparing to wash his feet.

This was a normal scene, and I believe that at that time, hundreds of families in the town were all performing it, but it was interrupted by a sudden scream.

The scream was so piercing that it inexplicably cut through the night sky. Because of the distance, Liu Weijun hadn’t heard it yet, but the scream was like a fuse that had been lit, spreading and detonating the bomb. The town began to become restless from a certain corner, and then it spread. More and more noise began to appear in this originally peaceful town…

“Why do I feel like there’s some commotion outside?” Liu Weijun’s so-called peace of mind was not really peace of mind. His ears were good, so he heard the faint noise.

“Huh, I don’t hear anything,” Liu Weijun’s mother looked at Liu Weijun strangely. After all, she was old and her ears weren’t very good.

This was the last conversation Liu Weijun had before the calm, and then their conversation was interrupted by the loud knocking on the door from the courtyard.

For some reason, when he heard the knocking, Liu Weijun’s heart skipped a beat, and his mother looked very uneasy. Thinking that he was the only man in the family, and that his father had told him to grow up and become a real man since last night, Liu Weijun forced a smile of comfort on his mother’s face and then went to open the door with a strong and calm demeanor.

From the kitchen to the gate, it was only a short distance, but with the intense knocking, Liu Weijun’s legs were weak. When he reached the gate, he almost summoned up the courage to open it.

“Is Mr. Liu here?” As soon as he opened the door, Liu Weijun didn’t even have time to see who it was before he heard a very urgent voice, breathing heavily.

Then, Liu Weijun saw who the person was. It was a worker from the timber distribution office. He was from the town, so he lived there, but he didn’t really see much of his father. Liu Weijun was very surprised why this person would come to the door at this time, so eager to find his father.

Almost subconsciously, Liu Weijun replied, “My father is not here. He won’t be back for ten days.”

The man’s face clearly showed disappointment when he heard this, and then he was stunned at the door, with a kind of panic of not knowing what to do. Looking at the man’s expression, Liu Weijun’s mood followed suit, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, thinking about what his father had said the day before. With great difficulty, he mustered up the courage to say, “Actually, you can…”

But before he could finish, the worker said in a voice of sudden realization, “Oh, you can ask Lin Jianguo. He’s not easy to get close to. Your father is friends with him, and you are friends with him, right?”

“Uncle Lin is also not here. He went out with my dad and won’t be back for ten days.” Liu Weijun didn’t know why he felt a bit sorry, but he was really curious about what was going on. Without waiting for the worker to be disappointed, he said, “What happened? Tell me, at least…”

He didn’t say “at least” because he didn’t have any skills. The army seemed to have left overnight last night, and Uncle Lin and his father were both gone. The whole town seemed to have lost all its support. At that moment, Liu Weijun suddenly felt his shoulders grow heavy.

“Do you remember Wei Donglai? Wei Donglai, who died at the timber depot, is back.” The worker’s tone became lost and helpless, but he still told Liu Weijun the answer. As he spoke, he sighed again and said, “This is no secret. Many people in the town saw him just now, and many people were scared… he is now returning to his home.”

Wei Donglai was originally from the town.

When Liu Weijun heard the news, he was stunned. He thought about the seriousness of his uncle and father yesterday, and today a person who had been dead for so long had returned to the town?

“Are you shocked?” At this point, Uncle Wei Jun looked at me with an unusually calm expression. Perhaps after sticking it out in this town for so many years and remembering the past, he could face it calmly.

I was shocked, but not completely. After all, I had been prepared for it, and in modern society, the phenomenon of so-called suspended animation is endless. The reasons behind it are not worth exploring. After all, there are already enough folk theories circulating, and as long as they do not affect the real world, they are personal causes and effects. Professionals do not need to get involved. This is almost an attitude that is tacitly accepted in the circle.

It can be said that this tacitly accepted rule restrained my shock, but this matter simply cannot be thought about in detail. A person who has been dead for so long has been resurrected. In addition to the horror of the incident itself, there must be a great secret behind it… According to the rules, the corpse should have decayed long ago, right?

I took a deep breath, calmed myself down, and said with a forced calm, “I’m a bit shocked, but I’m even more curious. Why did that worker come directly to you?”

“It’s simple. He was one of the ten workers who guarded the night shift, so he knows a little about the situation.”

“What happened next? Did you meet Wei Dong?” I was very curious to know what happened next.

“Yes, that night…” Uncle Wei Jun began to tell the story of that night.

On that night, after the worker said that, Liu Weijun was first afraid, but then his fear was overwhelmed by curiosity. After all, there were so many people in the town, and many of them were uncles and aunts who had watched him grow up and were acquaintances. This gave him a great sense of security, and he had a strong desire to go and see the resurrected dead man… This thought was so strong that he had forgotten his father’s exhortation, no matter what happened in the town, he should not ask.

“Let’s go and take a look. I can tell Uncle Lin and Dad when I get back.” Liu Weijun came up with a lame excuse, but the worker didn’t object. In fact, there was no need to object, because sooner or later he would see it anyway.

“Mom, I’m going out for a while. It’s important. It’s something Dad asked me to do,” Liu Weijun gave his mother such an excuse, and then, without waiting for her to answer, he hurriedly ran into the night with the worker.

In a relatively closed town, the speed at which news of an event spreads is quite incredible, even though there were no relatively developed means of communication at the time.

When Liu Weijun and the worker arrived at Wei Donglai’s home, his home was surrounded by an unknown number of people, many of whom were familiar faces.

Wei Donglai’s home was a small building on the street, with no yard at all. With so many people crowding in, Liu Weijun’s relatively thin teenage body could not get in at all, and he could not see whether the so-called Wei Donglai had really come back to life.

Looking through the crowd, Liu Weijun also saw that Wei Donglai’s front door was tightly shut, as if he didn’t want to receive the crowd at all.

However, life and death are the biggest problems for humans, and death and resurrection are the biggest temptations for humans. Although Wei Donglai’s door was closed, the crowd still refused to disperse, and some excited people even began to knock on Wei Donglai’s door, and the scene became a little out of control.

Looking at this chaotic scene, Liu Weijun’s heart inexplicably became a little panicked. He had a hunch that something was about to happen. At that moment, the flat roof of the two-story building in Liu Weijun’s home suddenly lit up, and the sudden light was a bit blinding.

Liu Weijun subconsciously looked up and saw that Wei Donglai’s family had come up with two lanterns, and they had also placed several oil lamps on the roof. Among them was a figure, who was somewhat nervous and holding a torch in the night.

At that moment, Liu Weijun was in a trance. He clearly saw that the figure holding the torch was Wei Donglai himself.

Was that the man who had died and come back to life? Except for the paler complexion, there was no difference between him and his appearance before he died. The shape of his face, his facial features, his height, his weight, everything was exactly the same… This was not something that someone could fake, was it?

He just didn’t know why, but Liu Weijun always felt that after Wei Donglai appeared, there was a strange smell in the air. It wasn’t unpleasant, but it was extremely pungent, like entering an old house that no one had lived in for many years. Yes, it was a rotten smell.

“I know that you all can’t accept that I am Wei Donglai, but I have been in this town for so long that many of my neighbors know me, and a lot has happened! If you want to prove that I am Wei Donglai, go ahead and prove it.” After Wei Donglai said this, the crowd was quiet for a moment.

In the light of the fire, Wei Donglai suddenly smiled. That smile made Liu Weijun’s heart chill, but Wei Donglai was oblivious and continued in a seductive tone: “The reason I want to prove to you that I am Wei Donglai is because I have a big secret to tell you.”