Chapter 1 Fear on the Green Train
The shaking green train rumbling.
The woman sitting opposite me had a pale face. She held the water cup in both hands and kept drinking water, even though she had already drunk three.
She looked very nervous, and her eyes turned from time to time to time to look around. After she took another sip of water, she finally spoke slowly.
"My boyfriend... doesn't seem to be alone."
After saying this, she turned her head carefully and looked in other directions. After confirming that nothing was wrong, she felt a little relieved.
Her words were quite strange.
From the literal point of view, it can be divided into two meanings.
The emphasis is on the word "one", which means that someone may impersonate her boyfriend, such as twins, or more obscure, who is a schizophrenia person.
If the emphasis is on the word "man", it will be a bit mysterious.
I prefer the latter's guess. In our line, it has some connection with those things.
My name is Pei Mu. I am a haunted house test sleeper. Unlike live online trial sleep, I just want to sell the house better. Most of the people who come to me have bought a house and only heard that there has been an unnatural death in the house.
Usually in this case, there will be no live broadcast on the Internet. At most, I will install surveillance cameras in the house, or I bring my own video equipment to convey the most realistic feelings to the employer.
Many people ask me if a woman is afraid of trying to sleep in a haunted house.
The answer is yes. Although I am a materialist and do not believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods at all, the potential consciousness and psychological hints will more or less affect subjective judgments.
Moreover, it is said that women are yin and are most likely to attract unclean things, which is why my business is booming.
Compared to young and strong young people with strong aphrodisiac fire, if even my woman is safe in a haunted house, it will better show the safety of the house.
As for why I continue to do this, in layman's terms, life is forced, and I have never encountered anything that science cannot explain.
"Aren't you afraid?"
The woman's name is Song Yu, who was made by phone three days ago. The "haunted house" she called was in a remote countryside and could be reached in more than four hours. However, she insisted on taking the green train to go there. The specific reason is unknown.
The "Hazy House" is a two-story building built by the owner herself. It has a yard and a wall. She showed me photos taken from a distance.
I am afraid or not, I know she is very scared.
If I say I am afraid, I believe she will be even more afraid, and even regret asking me to try to sleep.
A professional haunted house test sleeper, even in order to show that he is very skilled, he is afraid that the word "speaks" must not be spoken out from me.
So I smiled and replied: "Not afraid."
Her trembling hands rested again: "Miss Pei..."
"Just call me Pei Mu. Can you tell me about the specific situation of this haunted house?" I paused and tried to convey my fearless consciousness to her. "Also, why do you say that your boyfriend is not alone."
Song Yu nodded: "I want to go to the toilet first. Can you accompany me?"
She drank too much water, and probably she would go to the toilet frequently during the few hours on the train.
Usually, when facing strangers or people you just met, you are unwilling to let others see their embarrassing side. Even if you are separated by a door when going to the toilet, the sound will make people feel embarrassed.
But Song Yu asked me to walk into the train toilet with her. There was a cramped space and there was almost no place for me to step on, but she insisted that I accompany her.
Maybe she felt a little embarrassed, and she smiled at me embarrassedly after returning to her seat: "Thank you so much."
This is probably why she came to me. Whether she goes to the bathroom, takes a shower or sleeps, I can be with her.
“This is what I should have done.”
In the later time, she told me a lengthy and terrifying experience around her boyfriend and the haunted house.
To be precise, her boyfriend should be considered a netizen, named Zuo Jing, and they have never really met.
They met a year ago, and they shook WeChat, and it was so clichéd and bloody.
Everyone knows it. This way of getting to know each other is either purely boring, or just thinking about you and I am willing to do something shameful. Song Yu is purely bored, so she shook Zuo Jing.
"I didn't want to add friends at first, it was unreliable, and there were all kinds of people outside, you know..." Song Yu felt a little embarrassed when she said, "We are more than 400 kilometers apart, and there is nothing to talk about."
I smiled without saying a word and listened to her continue to tell.
"Only his comments are the most serious and confusing among the people who say hello."
"What did he say?" I asked.
Song Yu thought for a while: "You are redemption, or the abyss."
I hissed: "I leave some pessimistic comments."
"I also feel that I happened to have something else to be busy at that time. After almost two hours of work, I added his friend by mistake."
Perhaps my calmness can really give her strength, and Song Yu is obviously not so scared: "We talked a lot. At first, he was indeed a little pessimistic, saying that life was not satisfactory, but later he figured it out and it was fine."
In her description, Zuo Kyung is a somewhat introverted person who is not very good at expressing his own ideas. He can feel his warmth in more than a year since they were together.
From mutual guidance and redemption to talking about everything, until they confirmed their relationship six months later, they had never met.
"You have been chatting on your phone for more than a year, but you never thought about meeting each other and running away?"
She nodded: "I said it several times, but he refused it for various reasons until one day two months ago..."
Song Yu began to get nervous again, and she went to get another cup of hot water. Fortunately, the water tank in the train was very close to us, so she didn't ask me to go with her.
"We have video chats every night. From the video, we can see that he lives in a not-so-rich place. He said he is a novelist and needs to live in a relatively quiet place to create inspiration before he can always live in the countryside."
"I'm sure where he lives is the place we are going to."
When I heard this, I felt that there was no strange feeling of tension, but she became more and more panic, and her hands began to shake again. The description was not as smooth as it was at the beginning. She said with hammers and hammers, as if she wanted to say too many things and didn't know which sentence was the point.
One day two months ago, she and Zuo Jing were chatting video as usual. At first she didn't notice anything wrong and asked him to take his cell phone to visit his house through video.
But as I looked at it, I felt something was wrong. His house seemed to have not lived in for a long time, with some dust on the table and the ground.
The most important point is that under the lighting, the furniture and decorations in the house can clearly show shadows, but he cannot show any shadows.
"I didn't think much about it at that time. Maybe it was because of the angle of the site, or the shadow was too light, and the video conditions were not very clear until... until I saw it..."
Hearing this, I felt a little trembling in my heart, as if I was infected by her nervous description, and I was also a little nervous.
"There are eyes peeking into the room outside the window of his house, the kind with the glass facing him, only one pair of eyes and a forehead exposed, and I can see clearly."
Song Yu was afraid that I would not believe it, so he put down the water cup and grabbed my hand tightly: "Since then, Zuo Jing was like evaporating from the world. He sent him a message to the sea and didn't answer the video call. About a week ago, he suddenly contacted me and asked me to find him. After I went there, I found out that it was a haunted house, and no one lived there. I didn't dare to go in and went back."
She held the hot water cup for so long, and when she grabbed my hand, it was only a few seconds when it was hot, and it became cold in an instant.
The trembling feeling from her hands was shaking into sieve, which made me feel a little upset.
"Song Yu, do you need a rest? We have to spend the whole day together in the same house, and you can tell me slowly." I was really afraid that she would breathe, she breathed rapidly, her face was covered with cold sweat, and we were very close, so I could clearly see the hairs on her face standing up.
Actually, I really want to know who she saw that person, but she was too scared. For her physical condition and psychological defense, I temporarily put away my curiosity.
For the remaining hours, she curled up and leaned against the train window, and her eyes still glanced around from time to time. Someone who got up or passed by would make her nervous for a while.
Until she almost arrived at the station, Song Yu's nervousness dropped a little. After hearing the train's station notification, she began to sweat wildly again.
"Dear passengers, Jiayin County Station is here in front. Please bring your luggage in advance. I wish you a happy journey, thank you."
I got up to move my luggage. Song Yu brought few things, only a backpack, probably only had changed underwear and toiletries.
Unlike her, I brought an oversized suitcase, which is a necessary equipment for me every time I try to sleep in a haunted house.
It's quite heavy, but fortunately a kind man helped me carry it down.
Thank you to the kind-hearted person, I patted Song Yu on the shoulder: "I'm at the station, let's go."
She seemed to have made a great determination, gritted her teeth and stood up, and held my arm tightly: "I hope I won't harm you this time."
I didn't answer, just smiled.
She didn't say anything like an ordinary employer, and why did she think something bad would happen this trip?
I have met many guests like her, and I always worry about whether I can be safe before trying to sleep.
The customer spends money to hire me for peace of mind. I am employed by others to make money to improve my life. How could there be so many false kindness with a fool?
Ghosts are just imagined by humans. Before they do not believe in ghosts, I only believe what I see with my eyes.
I have slept in so many haunted houses and have not seen any ghosts. At least until today, I don’t believe that there are ghosts.
Jiayin County Railway Station is much more down and out than I thought. The station is dilapidated and it is extremely desolate to leave the station.
Apart from the black car drivers who are soliciting business everywhere, there is nothing, and I can only say that this is a place.
"Two little sisters, go to the county town? I'm just free of two seats." A group of big brothers and sisters surrounded me like tigers pounced on food.
I held the suitcase in one hand and pulled the trembling Song Yu in the other hand, shook my head: "We won't go to the county town."
"Then where are you going? If you go along, you can take you there. How about adding twenty dollars to one person?"
This is the worry of not driving. You have to find a car to get to your destination after leaving the station.
Song Yu glanced at the black car not far away and shook his head at me.
I couldn't imagine how we could get over besides the black car, so I asked the black car driver with a smile on my face: "Master, can I go to Sicun by the way?"
"Si Village?" The black car driver's smile gradually solidified, "How many numbers?"
“No. 4.”
The black car driver's face changed drastically, and he waved his hand: "I won't go to that place, you can ask others."
He retreated and murmured in a low voice: "The young people nowadays are really ignorant of life and death, and they dare to go to haunted places."
After hearing this, I smiled distressedly and thought to myself that I had taken on a big job this time, which was a very famous haunted house.
The people around us all dispersed.
The black car driver didn't take the job, so we couldn't walk over. At a loss, a voice suddenly appeared around us.
Chapter completed!