Chapter 0597 – Like a Shadow
”It’s normal to have daydreams and nightmares.” Li Zheng still understood Chen Ge, in his opinion it was impossible for Chen Ge’s character to do something like hiding under the bed and committing murder.
”I know you don’t believe it, but that really wasn’t a dream.” Jia Ming’s voice was lowered and his tone was a bit odd: “Have you ever thought about what you were doing in the mirror when you stood in front of it to wash your face? Did he similarly lower his head to wash his face, or was he still standing in the mirror, looking at you from top to bottom? Have you ever encountered a situation where someone asks you to borrow something from the toilet cubicle, but when you come out, you realize that you are actually alone in the toilet? Have you ever noticed that when you call your nearest and dearest, the other person will always say that there is a murmur on your side of the room, as if there are a lot of things standing around.”
Jamin gripped the bed with both hands, harder and harder, “I’ve experienced all of these.”
”I’d better call the doctor in.” Li Zheng was an atheist, he had studied basic criminal psychology and psychopathic psychology in the police academy, in his opinion if Jiaming wasn’t lying, then there must be something wrong with his brain, most likely suffering from hypochondria.
”Before the doctor comes in, can you listen to me tell a few stories.” Jia Ming’s head tilted toward Chen Ge, “Stories about him and me.”
”Do you guys look that close?” Li Zheng nodded in agreement.
”When I left Jiang Long’s house, I panicked and ran wildly for half an hour before making a big detour back to my house.”
”At that time, I was renting a room, the landlord was an old lady, she lived on the first floor, we lived on the second floor, and the third floor was a utility room.”
”I came back when it was already very late, into the hallway after the old lady’s cat kept screaming, not the usual kind of pampered call, the sound is short, sharp, very scary.”
”May be woken up by the sound of the cat’s cry, after a while, the old lady opened that door inside her house, looked at me and said.”
”You guys walk softly, what are you running blindly for if you don’t sleep at night?” Jia Ming now can’t forget the old man’s expression at that time, imitating it.
”I rushed to apologize to the old man, walked to the second floor when I realized that it was not right, looked back, the dark hallway is clearly just me, why did the old lady to say ‘you guys’?”
”At that time, I had a cold air rushing to the back of my head, ran to the door of the house to rummage for the key, but the more anxious, the more I could not find it, and that’s when another strange thing happened.”
”There was a thumping sound coming from the utility room on the third floor, like a ball rolling across the floor.”
”When I moved in, the old lady had told me that no one lived on the third floor and that it was used to store miscellaneous items. I had asked her why, and she said that her son’s family used to live on the third floor, and then their family of three got into a car accident, and even though the third floor was empty, the old man didn’t want to rent it out, wanting to keep it for himself.”
”Never lived on the third floor of the sound, I do not dare to stay in the hallway for a long time, from the outer pocket of the jacket to find out the key, but this time the sound has stopped.”
”I curiously glanced upstairs and there was a pair of gray feet around the corner of the third floor, because of the angle I could only see those feet.”
”I was terrified and opened the door to my room as fast as I could.”
”Entering the house I was still upset and closed the outside security door, and as I was about to close the inside one, curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to see the owner of those gray feet.”
”Lying down at the crack of the door, I adjusted my angle, slowly crouched my body, and shifted my sight upward to see another pair of gray legs, and just as I was about to continue looking upward, a child’s head suddenly appeared in the field of vision!”
”It was in a very odd posture, its legs were standing straight, but its head was tilted almost to the top of its feet, which was not at all something a normal person could do.”
”I closed the door to my room heavily, and only then remembered to turn on the living room light.”
”Knowing the approximate location of the switch, I felt my hand toward it, and as I touched the switch, it seemed to touch something that felt like the skin of a living person, and it seemed as if I had touched the fingers of another stranger in my own home.”
”Pressing the switch, the light shone on and brought me a sense of security that I had not felt for a long time. I began to call out my wife’s name, but there was no response.”
”Frightened, I turned on the lights in all the rooms and eventually found a note left by my wife next to the living room phone.”
”She said my father-in-law was seriously ill and the doctor had urgently informed her to go to the hospital, that the meals were in the refrigerator and that I should heat them up and eat them myself when I returned.”
”My wife wasn’t home, I put the note away and looked at my hand, I did touch another person’s hand just now, there was someone else in this room now besides me.”
”I was afraid to go to sleep, I checked all the places in the room where I could hide someone, I had no luck, I tried to call my wife, I dialed several times in a row and no one answered.”
”I was so scared that I turned on the TV, purposely turned up the volume, and then made myself a couple of cups of strong coffee. I was going to spend the night in the living room and move out of this old house in the middle of nowhere in the morning.”
”I couldn’t be bothered to watch what the TV program was playing, and when sleepiness set in, I just kept drinking coffee.”
”When it was finally dawn, I couldn’t hold it in so I went to the restroom.”
”After solving the problem, I stood in front of the sink, wanting to wipe my face with cold water, turned on the hose and watched the water flow, but I was inexplicably panicked, as if someone was watching me.”
”I had a strong suspicion that the stranger who had followed me into the house was hiding in the bathroom, I scanned the bathroom with my afterglow, but there was no place in the bathroom where I could hide anyone.”
”Straightening up, I looked at my hunched, haggard self in the mirror and shook my head. I made up my mind to move out when the sun came up and go live somewhere with a lot of people.”
”Putting down the towel, I felt that something wasn’t quite right, and I didn’t have time to think about it, when the phone rang in the living room.”
”I was startled and rushed to answer the phone, and on the other side of the microphone was my wife’s voice.”
”At this time the sky is no longer completely dark, the phone wife said she called me a lot of phone calls, but no one answered, very worried.”
”Speaking of which I was furtive in my heart, last night it was clear that I had called her a lot of times, and she was the one who didn’t answer.”
”I subconsciously glanced at the phone line and was about to tell her about it when she suddenly opened her mouth and asked me why there was someone else in the room. She heard someone on my side talking intermittently, in a voice similar to my father-in-law’s, as if saying behind, behind ……”
”I hurriedly turned my head to look back, and there was no one behind me. Further away, I could only see myself in the mirror standing face to face with the phone also in my hand, exactly the same as my movements.”
”It was almost dawn, I told my wife to take care of my sick father-in-law, and after hanging up the phone, I sat back down again, but the more I thought about it, the more wrong I became.”