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Chapter 24 Receiving a call from the dead soul

20xx. 03. 07
Today I received two bags of rice from Ade.

Ade is a friend Xiao met in the writing group. He lives in different areas of the same city. Although they have known each other for several years, they have never met each other, and no one has proposed to meet each other. They are pure netizens.

The friendship between Xiao and Ade was sublimated because last September, a strange incident happened between several of their literary friends.

One night in September last year, Xiao, Ade, and four other literary friends were chatting online.They complained to each other, saying that they didn't know what kind of novels to write, and they all said that they were short of money, and they all hoped to find new vitality through exchanges.

One of them, Artai, suddenly said that his current income is good, with tens of thousands of income every month, but he used it to pay off his debts, and he planned to work hard for two years to pay off his debts.

The news exploded in the group, and everyone was very excited, so they asked him where he was in high school and how he could earn so much, he responded without any dizziness, and only typed two words: Hehe.

At about 9:30, Xiao's cell phone rang, and he answered it and asked:

"Tai, you are not chatting in the group, why call me?"

"Brother, I don't want to say that in the group, I'm afraid they will listen to the fryer."

"What's your situation?" Xiao raised his vigilance and asked.

"Come and work with me, earn at least 1000 a day, and sometimes a little more." Artest said.

"You didn't say why."

"I work in a funeral home, carrying corpses..."

... Xiao's hand holding the phone trembled slightly, but whenever he heard words like death and corpse, it always made people shudder.

"Don't be afraid, it's actually fine, just get used to it for two days, and it's fine if you can make money and pay off your debts, come on, we can take care of each other together."

"No, I'm hanging up, take care." Xiao hung up the phone quickly, and went to drink a lot of warm water to calm down.

Alas, if only things were that simple.

The next day, during lunch, Ah De called Xiao and said, "A Tai is gone."

"What? He's gone? He called me last night and said he was working in a funeral home. Are you right?"

"How could it be wrong? In addition to calling you, he also called me and three other people, but the last person didn't answer his call."

Xiao and Ade checked, and the content of the conversations they received from Artest's phone calls were almost the same. They also invited him to carry the corpse with him, saying that they could take care of each other.

"Me and two of them have almost arrived at the funeral home, are you coming?" Ade asked.

"No, no, I don't know him, I'm just chatting online." Xiao shook his head desperately and said.

Ade called again in the afternoon and said:

"The funeral home's camera only captured Artest entering the mortuary on duty at 7:[-] in the evening, and then did not capture the video of him leaving there, which means that he has not left since entering."

Ade continued: "His autopsy report has also come out, he died of natural causes, and the time of death is 9 o'clock."

"What? The time of death is nine o'clock? I was the first to answer his call. I saw that the time was around nine thirty."

Xiao shouted, almost jumped up, it was too weird!
"I didn't receive his call until about 11 o'clock, my mother, there is a spirit body." Ade was also frightened.

Xiao didn't want to inquire about what happened next, and he didn't want Ah De to mention it again.

During that time, Ade was driving for an online car-hailing company due to the pressure of life. Because things happened too strangely, Ade asked for leave and stopped going out for the time being.

Another friend simply shut down and went to other places to travel and relax.

There is also a friend who is younger, named Ah Qiang, and after two days, he developed mental problems, sometimes yelling hysterically and scratching his whole body.

Ah Qiang was sent to the hospital for a psychiatric examination. No matter how the examination was performed, no special problems were found.

On the fifth day after Artest's death, Ah Qiang suddenly fell into a coma, was admitted to the intensive care unit, and was put on a ventilator and other medical equipment.

Ah Qiang's aunt hired a sorceress from other provinces to fly over for him, and went to the hospital to exorcise him.

After the ceremony, Ah Qiang woke up, and the hospital quickly gave him various physical examinations, saying that everything was normal, and he was discharged from the hospital on the same day.

And that day was the first seven days before Artest's death.

This matter gradually subsided later, and everyone wisely did not mention it again.

Xiao and Ade have been in frequent contact since then, officially opening their hearts and talking about everything, but they have never made an appointment to meet.

Through contact, I feel that Ah De is definitely a warm man.

Since February, Ade has sent us a lot of daily necessities: rice, cooking oil, soy sauce, salt, various seasonings, milk, paper towels, yuba, fungus...

We felt very embarrassed, so Xiao said to Ade: "Don't send so much, you can keep it for yourself."

"My family has a lot. If I don't send it to you, I guess it will be used up after the expiration date." Ade said boldly.

In fact, we can't stop him. Since he knows our home address, he can send it as he wants.

So, everything that has happened in my family recently seems very weird, incomprehensible, seemingly bad and good.

It was night, and something that made me feel uneasy happened again.

Just after 10 o'clock at night, Xiao received a call from old Chengbo.

In fact, since Fei's death, Xiao has not had any contact with old Chengbo.

So when he suddenly received a call from Uncle Cheng, Xiao felt uneasy.

"Old Cheng Bo, I haven't contacted you for a long time. What's the matter?" Xiao asked.

"Xiao, I received bad news just now, you must not go out, remember! That woman turned into an evil spirit and fled, you know who I'm talking about."

After Xiao finished listening, his face sank, and his voice was not stable: "Okay, I won't go out, thank you."

When I heard about it, I jumped directly to Xiao's side and hugged his waist. I stared at Xiao with a terrified expression, and asked, "Is there really an evil spirit?!"

"Keep your voice down, don't scare your son in the bedroom, it's okay." Xiao said, pretending to be calm and hugging my shoulders, I felt his hands were a little cold.

I suddenly thought of Brother Shan, I remembered Xiao said that he often leaves early and returns late, so I said:

"Call Brother Shan and tell him not to go out tonight or go home early."

"He called me at around [-]:[-], saying that he just finished socializing and found it very boring, so he went home early."

"Oh, that's good," I said.

"You don't have to worry about him. Old Cheng Bo said that Brother Shan has a strong aura, and he has a talisman on him." Xiao added.

To be honest, since Fei passed away on February 2, I have always been inexplicably worried.

(End of this chapter)