Wild Deer Convenience Store

Chapter 5 The person who enters the store
It was the third day that Ai Weili lived with the dusty curtains.

She didn't want to buy a vacuum cleaner, and she couldn't save the strength to take it down to wash it; so she had to bypass the rock-like problems like running water to survive-she didn't move the curtains at all, and every time the sun shines directly into her eyes , in her sleep, she pulled the coat, turning it from a quilt to a blindfold.

Yes, she didn't even buy a quilt; because Ai Weili had seen the price of a new set of quilts.

Although the salary of a convenience store clerk prevented her from even buying a quilt or a vacuum cleaner, when she woke up at noon that day, she suddenly felt that it was no wonder some people were doing such a job for a lifetime.

The pressure of no future, because there is no future; no expectations from other people, because no one here knows her.

She doesn't have to work hard to prove herself, makeup or nice clothes to signal her class.When people lose their desire for the world, the world loses its grip on people; she seems to be able to spend her life in such a gentle and unconscious way until the last day-it is also a way of living.

What's more, there is a library in this town.

After discovering the library, it became Ai Weili's playground; although it is the same as "Wild Deer Town", the most exciting place only exists in the name.But even so, Ai Weili still spent a whole afternoon in the library, and didn't show up in the convenience store until he was about to go to work.

"You're here," A Pan stood up, looked at his phone, and said, "Come earlier next time, don't be so late."

His attitude was so natural and upright that Ai Weili subconsciously said "I'm sorry", only to realize that he had arrived at the store 5 minutes early.

"Let's hand over now while no one is there," logically speaking, he shouldn't have left until the handover is completed; but Apan said that, but he had already walked to the door. "Call me if you have something to say, bye."

"that--"

Only after Ai Weili yelled, he had already opened the door and left, as if he didn't hear him.

...Forget it, it probably doesn't make sense to tell him about that strange man yesterday.

Ai Weili put on her blue vest, and before she was about to walk to the cashier, she suddenly turned around and walked into the store between the shelves.

This time, Ai Weili checked the inside of the convenience store carefully and carefully, not even missing the staff toilets, and finally confirmed that there were no customers in the store.

No guests, no other staff, not even a fly, just myself.

Ai Weili sat down and took out a novel borrowed from the town library from his backpack.

She doesn't like romance and romance, and even when reading other books, she has to avoid those with love plots; the female detective in this book decides to retreat bravely and chooses a small town to settle down and live with her. The situation happened to be similar, so she borrowed it to see it—but the portrait of a smiling handsome man on the cover seemed to hint at some kind of plot ahead, which really made her a little worried.

After reading two pages, she raised her head and looked around the empty store twice.

Fine, still no one.

She lowered her head, and although her eyes stayed on the lines of text, her ears were still pricked up.

After slowly watching for a while, Ai Weili raised his head again without paying attention to what he was looking at.

She found that she was already mentally prepared—a customer who suddenly walked out of an empty store.

But the imaginary things, of course, will not happen; she has clearly checked, and there is only herself in the store, and no one comes in, so how could there be another person?It was different last time. When she came to work last time, she didn't check the store, and it was normal that she didn't see the customer in a suit.

After she finished reading Chapter 1, the clock on the wall pointed to [-]:[-], and the store was still quiet inside and out.

Her class is strangely light on business.

It was obviously the time to get off work and school, but for several days in a row, she couldn't see any guests at this time, no, let alone guests, there were not many people on the road in the town, like an empty city; except for the strange In addition to the strange tall and fat man, it was after seven or eight o'clock yesterday that guests began to gradually come to the door.

Maybe it was too quiet, so when the phone in the store rang suddenly, the sound was so crisp that it was almost harsh, and Ai Weili almost jumped out of his chair in fright.

So there is still a phone in the store?
She hurriedly searched around behind the cash register, and finally found the off-white old telephone that kept piercing the air with its screams from behind the cabinet where the cigarettes were placed.

"You, how are you?"

"Excuse me, is it 'Huijia Convenience Store'?" A brisk female voice asked.

"Yes," Ai Weili said.

"Great! I thought your phone lines were cancelled, and few places still use landlines."

Ai Weili didn't know how to reply, but Apan didn't tell her that the store would receive calls again. "That... do you need anything?"

"Yes, I have a question." As the female voice spoke, each word gradually became deeper and slower than the previous one, and finally almost turned into a thick and distorted male voice, like a player that was about to die. Device: "Excuse me, is there anyone in the store?"

Ai Weili froze for half a second.

Is it a prank call?

Otherwise, who would ask the person answering the phone if there is anyone on the other side?

"No... no one... in..." The voice seemed to have finally found out the truth, and repeated: "There... no one in the store..."

Ai Weili wanted to teach him a few words on the phone, but he couldn't muster any anger—or courage.She hung up the phone with a "snap", and pushed the phone back far behind the cigarette cabinet, so that she couldn't see it. She felt the cool hair on her back and a layer of hot sweat floating on it.

Sitting alone in the quiet store for a few minutes, Ai Weili calmed down a bit, and when she lowered her head, she realized that the book had been knocked off, probably when she was shocked just now.

She bent down, intending to pick up the book.

After bending down, her vision was completely blocked by the cashier counter, and she couldn't see anything except the cabinet door in front of her for a while.So before she straightened up hastily, Ai Weili listened without moving.

Feeling that there was no one in front of the cashier, Ai Weili sat up slowly—there was no one in the store, just like before.

She let out a long breath of relief.

It's a bit of an understatement, and if someone comes in, the doorbell will definitely ring.She took out her mobile phone, opened the contact list, and clicked on the word "Apan"—but just after it rang, she hung up again.

It's just a trivial matter like harassing phone calls, and it's not urgent. It's better not to bother the colleague who is off work, just send him a message and talk to him.

"Looks like someone called the store as a prank call," she wrote. "Did you know about that?"

A small dot quickly appeared on the dialog box, and Ah Pan quickly replied to her. "Don't worry, just don't pick it up."

"Won't it affect other things?"

"will not."

A Pan didn't seem surprised at all. It seems that someone has made harassing calls before.

Ai Weili opened the book, turned to the page he had read last time, read absently that the female detective met a tall and handsome neighbor, and sighed in his stomach.Please, he would be the murderer, or he could be the victim
As she glanced to the right page, she saw a telephone beside the book.

That old off-white telephone is sitting quietly on the cash register at the moment, just pressed against a corner of the book, as long as you turn the pages, it is impossible not to see it—it seems to be holding back a smile, waiting Ai Weili found it the same.

Ai Weili slowly turned his eyes, and his gaze was fixed on the page again.

She has seen it many times and there is no one in the store.

And even if there is a second person, they have to lean over the cash register, extend their arms, and pull open the cigarette cabinet to take out the phone.

The only plausible explanation is that she thought she had put the phone back where it belonged, but she hadn't.

Isn't that often the case in life?I thought I packed everything before I went to work, but when I opened it, I found that I didn’t bring something with me; I could swear that I wrote the questions, but the papers were sent out, but they were empty.

As for disputes such as "you said it" and "I didn't say it", they are even more common, which shows that the human brain is very unreliable.

But at this moment, Ai Weili's eyes were fixed on the pages of the book, pretending to read the book, feeling that the muscles of his neck and face were all stiff.

The question circling in her mind over and over again was not "did I forget to put it back", but another one - is there a wire behind the phone?
This year's idea is a bit ridiculous, and she doesn't know why she is thinking about the phone line - there is no phone line, how did the call come in just now?

She really couldn't remember if she hadn't noticed the phone line when she answered the phone just now.

When she found that the phone was pressing down on a corner of the book, she felt as if she hadn't seen the phone line... Ai Weili closed her eyes, trying to find a reasonable explanation in her mind.

When I knocked the book down, the book pulled the phone line out?

Just as she froze and remained motionless, desperately remembering the floor just now, the bell at the door suddenly rang.

Ai Weili's muscles twitched, and he raised his head reflexively. When he saw the guest walking through the door, he said "Welcome" stuck in his throat.

When she saw the woman coming in from the door for the first time, she thought she saw something she shouldn't have seen again; because the female guest's eyes were so wide that the eyelids were about to tear, and the eyeballs were about to roll out. The eye sockets were the same, as if she was being tormented by some unbearable panic - but when she looked behind the female guest, Ai Weili understood.

The female guest's reaction was normal.

A naked gray-and-white man stuck closely behind the female customer and walked into the store with her.

(End of this chapter)