Wild Deer Convenience Store

Chapter 23 Aide's Choice
The second mobile phone in the backpack belongs to A Pan.

It took Ai Weili a minute to confirm this point; because when she used her mobile phone to call A Pan, the strange mobile phone on the ground began to "buzz", and the displayed caller was " Ai Weili".

She didn't know the password of Apan's mobile phone and couldn't unlock it, so she couldn't see the message she had sent him before.However, there were several notifications pushed on the screen that hadn't been opened in time. There were Yahoo Sports and Reddit feeds, all of which seemed to be something that Pan would be interested in.

The two looked at the mobile phone on the ground and couldn't help being silent for a while.

"So this" Willow spoke first. "Belongs to 'Apan, Human,' right?"

It seems so.

"Then why did it fall into the hands of 'Apan, Ghost'?"

Ai Weili looked at the time displayed on the phone screen, 12:21, and was stunned for a while.Not without explanation
"There is the simplest explanation," Ai Weili said, "Apan, who attacked me just now, is Apan himself."

"But, didn't you say that he acted weirdly?"

"It's really weird," Ai Weili nodded, and now she doesn't want to think of Apan's appearance at that time. "But the one who owns Apan's mobile phone is Apan himself, right? There's no need to steal his mobile phone for those ghosts? What's more, there is another problem."

"what is the problem?"

"It's almost 12:30 now," she said in a low voice, "but Little T, who was supposed to take over the shift, never came."

Wei Luo rubbed his neck and said nothing.

Ai Weili touched Apan's cell phone lightly, and said, "If she can't come because of something, she should call me. She didn't come, it must be because she knew she didn't have to come. Apan was entering the door." Didn’t he just say it when he was there? He changed shifts with Little T, and now it seems that he didn’t lie.”

Of course, there is always a small possibility that all of this is caused by some ghost. At this moment, A Pan, who lost his mobile phone, is sleeping at home.

"But I believe in 'Okan's razor'. If it is not necessary, you should not add elements. The simpler, the closer to the truth." Ai Weili threw the phone back into the backpack, stood up and said, "I don't know that Apan is entering After the convenience store, what kind of changes have gradually taken place, but I think the person who first stepped into the store should be Pan himself.”

"Is it 'corroded', is that so?" Wei Luo asked after thinking for a while.

"I don't know either," Ai Weili put the backpack back on the dining table, wondering if its owner would come back to get it. "Why haven't we been 'eroded'? He has only walked in for 10, [-] minutes, and his behavior is completely unnatural. He has been forcing me to say something if I agree to let you come to work. I refused, so he attacked me .”

"What?" Wei Luo, who followed, opened his eyes wide. "Go to work?"

After listening to her simple explanation, Wei Luo couldn't help but let out a long "ah" and said, "You should say it! It's impossible for me to stay and go to work because of this sentence. One is one. ah!"

"First, I was worried that he might have some weird tricks. As soon as I said it, it came true," Ai Weili shook his head and said, "Second, I think his focus is not on what he wants from you in the future. He seemed to think more, um, how should I put it, hey, why did the word 'bend' appear in my mind."

She laughed to herself, but Werro was serious. "A straight bamboo, if you want to force it to accept its fate and twist itself into another shape, you mean this? I understand."

... This way of talking is really relaxing.

"Would you say it in your own words?" Ai Weili asked suddenly after a while.

Willow thought about it seriously, and said, "Me neither."

Ai Weili believed her.

If Apan was really "eroded", then why he was "eroded", where he went now, and whether he can return to his normal life in the future have become mysteries.

There are already too many unexplainable mysteries and strange things tonight, one after another, the conjectures, explanations and reasoning that the two tried their best are very pale, just barely enough for them to continue walking without suspecting that they are crazy.

From a certain point of view, it seems that life is like this.

The two discussed for a while, and they unanimously decided not to call Little T to confirm the change of shift; A lot of trouble - besides, what if the little T is also "eroded"?
"That is to say...it's normal outside now," Ai Weili summed up. "I can see that the guests at the barbecue restaurant outside are enjoying their meals, and they don't seem to have any problems. Therefore, the biggest strangeness and weirdness are all in the In this convenience store?"

"I think that's the case," Wei Luo nodded and said, "When I went out, I didn't notice anything wrong, and I came back safely. Instead, you who stayed in the store almost had an accident."

Now that the outside world has returned to normal and they can leave, it is best to leave as soon as possible.When little T comes to the store tomorrow night, she will never know what happened. Little T can only be like them, guessing and imagining in the future, making up for the mysteries encountered in life. an explanation.

Ai Weili had just picked up the key and was about to lock the back door when the phone rang again at this moment——she took out the phone and lowered her head to scan it. Sure enough, the caller was still "Ai Weide" .

Wei Luo glanced at the screen subconsciously, and immediately reacted, as if he wanted to pretend that he didn't peek, but he still couldn't hold back himself, and asked in a low voice: "Eh? Your... um, brother?"

Ai Weili glanced at her, picked up the phone, pressed the speakerphone, and said dryly into the phone: "Brother."

The reason why she pressed the speakerphone was that she had already determined one thing in her heart: the other end of the phone might not be her real brother at all.

It's already past twelve o'clock at night, and the brother who usually doesn't call her during the day, how could he care about her at this time?They haven't left the convenience store yet, haven't stepped into a safe daily life, if there is something weird pretending to be her brother...

How can I trick her into being fooled again?
"Where are you?" Ai Weide asked straightforwardly.

Ai Weili and Wei Luo looked at each other and said, "Where I am."

"What?" Ai Weide was stunned, and the anger he had prepared was disrupted by the momentary confusion. "What nonsense are you talking about? Where the hell are you?"

"Why are you asking this?" Ai Weili asked back.

"You still have the nerve to ask me," Ai Weide laughed without a smile, "I was really too lazy to care about your things. Whether you resign, whether you go home, how your life is, it all depends on you." You chose it yourself. But why are you such an adult, and you don’t know how to ask your parents to save snacks? It’s not easy for me to make money outside. I stay with clients until twelve o’clock in the evening, and I receive a call from my mother before I go home. ..."

His voice was indeed a little drunk, as if he had drunk a few more glasses.

Wei Luo, who was on the side, turned around in embarrassment; Ai Weili didn't know why his cheeks were hot, and he just wanted to escape from this phone call.

She was almost in a daze; what was on the phone, was it really one of the ghost things in this convenience store?
How could she imitate her brother's tone, temperament, and way of speaking so perfectly?After listening to Ai Weide's tone for more than [-] years, she dare not say that she can restore her brother to ten or three.

"Mom is angry and sad. She knows to call you. You must not say anything or listen to anything. Isn't it just me holding my nose to find you? You lied to her two days ago, saying I'm still at work—"

Unable to bear it any longer, Ai Weili quickly canceled the hands-free and put it on his ear, just in time to hear Ai Weide sneer: "What class do you go to? Who can you fool? Mom called today, and you just It's all revealed."

She looked up.Wei Luo seemed to have heard nothing, while rubbing his neck, he was on guard for her, observing the store, in case the two encountered any danger or strangeness again.

"... Oh." Ai Weili squeezed out a word.

"Oh what? Everyone says that elder brothers are like fathers, but I'm really tired. I don't want to take care of such a rich man anymore. I can't afford it. I don't ask you to make money. I just want to be less angry with my parents and let the second elder live more." Two days is better than anything else. Will you go home or not?"

When he was talking, Ai Weili could still hear the background sound on the other end of the phone; the sound of cars driving, the sound of night wind blowing, and the voice of people when Ai Weide drove past the night market.

If the eccentricities had been taken care of down to such a detail, she would have been duped--and, in some ways, he was indeed a real person.

If it wasn't for her, she could still hang up the phone neatly; but now it's difficult.

"Brother, now is not the time for me to talk." Ai Weili said, "I'm in a bit of trouble right now..."

"What are you doing?" Ai Weide's tone became vigilant, "Didn't you spend money and owe a loan or something? You have no other skills, so you will buy things. I said it a long time ago. You are young. Girl, you don't need to buy a car at all, if you think the bus is not good enough for you, just go to someone to pick you up..."

Ai Weili couldn't help picking up the phone and muted him.

"Let's do what we have to do," Ai Weili whispered to Wei Luo, walking behind the cash register. "Let him talk nonsense on the phone, the most important thing for us now is to leave this store—"

"Ah?" The small voice in the microphone suddenly paused and was interrupted. "What did you say?"

At this time, Ai Weili was pulling out her coat from the mess behind the cash register; her keys were still in the coat pocket.

Holding her coat and her belongings, she had just stepped out of the cash register and came to Willow's side when she heard it.

"What strange things are you talking about? What have you been thinking all day long?" The small but clear voice seemed to be talking to Ai Weili - but she obviously didn't say anything.

Ai Weili and Wei Luo glanced at each other, then turned their eyes back to the mobile phone on the cashier counter, and both relaxed their movements.

"It's funny," Ai Weide seemed to hear the answer that no one else heard except him, and laughed through his nose, and said, "If I can start all over again, let me tell you, Ai Weili, I must tell my parents , you have to be disciplined since you were a child, so that you can grow into another person, not like you are now..."

The sentence "I didn't speak" that Ai Weili originally wanted to squeeze in was suddenly choked up before his brother's last sentence, and he couldn't spit it out no matter how hard he tried.

She seemed to have returned to the moment when she was attacked by A Pan, the blood flowed into her mind, and her fluttering feet could hardly touch the ground.

"I really don't know what nonsense you are talking about. What is 'choose you or choose a baby'? Can you still choose? It would be great if you could choose, at least the baby will not be like you, life will be stereotyped, there is no hope... ..."

When Ai Weide said this, both of them saw it.

A very small hand with pale skin and iron-gray nails protruded from the edge behind the cash register, and the plump fat was solidified on the short arm.It was slowly crawling towards the phone.

Ai Weili may never know why he asked such a sentence at that time.

"So... which baby are you going to choose?"

　Today I took out the jeans I usually wear in summer and put them on, and I still haven't caught my breath... How much fat I have gained!It's all the snail powder's fault! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)