Tomb Keeper

Chapter 52 The Secret of the Grave Mountain (3)

I drove a jeep and followed this truck in the mountains until midnight. Later, the car stopped at a cliff, and the man in the car came over and pointed to a cave not far away and said, Boss is waiting for you in the cave. .In this way, I asked them to remove the cash box, carry it on their shoulders, and follow me to the cave.After entering the cave, I looked up and saw seven or eight men standing inside, and one of them, a bearded man sitting on a stone, was the leader of a drug dealer.I quickly compared his facial features with the facial features I had memorized in the photo, and it was absolutely right, it was him, except that the beard was obviously pasted only tonight.I took a quick look inside the cave, there was no other way out.So, I turned around and said to the box bearer who had just entered the cave, put the box down, and I have to give you some of the money.So, I squatted down and opened the cash box, and took out a large wad of money and put it on the ground next to it. The miniature submachine gun under the box was already in my hand, and I jumped to the rock wall of the cave entrance, raised my hand and fired a round of bullets into the cave, and then shouted, no one should move, if you want to survive, throw the gun out first Hole, and back out of the hole.At this time, at the same time as the gunshots were heard, my comrades rushed up to completely seal the entrance of the cave. Three drug dealers were killed, two were injured and six were captured alive. We made a triumphant return.

After remembering this past in my dark tomb, I suddenly felt very afraid.Because, it is said that people will see the past like a movie before they die, and my memory just now is really like playing a movie.

And, despite the feeling of dread, I still can't stop the memory, and I saw the scene of the army cleaning up the scene of the plane crash.I picked up the girl, and when I put her into the body bag, I couldn't help but straighten her messy long hair...

I must have been in a trance, when I thought of this, I felt the silky feeling of stroking the girl's hair.I knew that after so long in the dark underground, this trance was only a harbinger of something more dire to come.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the girl at the scene of the crash speak.I couldn't see her face in the dark, but I heard her voice shouting, "Hey, hello, please come here."

I looked sideways, and there was already a faint light shining through the iron gate.I walked over like a shadow, and when I saw Ye Zi standing outside the iron gate, I said, come back next time, maybe no one will come to you.

Ye Zi didn't speak, I couldn't see her face clearly.So I asked as usual, what time is it now?She said it was midnight.My lips moved and I didn't say the words "let me out" because I was desperate.

She said, I still want to figure out a problem.I said, you can ask, but after you ask, you have to believe my answer. When a person is about to die, his words are also good, right?

She said, you have a close relationship with Zihua in the town, did she instigate you to come here to harm me?When I came here, I lived with her for three days, and she often followed me upstairs and downstairs, and even whispered to her sister-in-law, discussing how to play tricks on me.If this woman dares to chase me to the cemetery, I will lock her here too.

Leaf's words started to scare me.I said, Zihua and I met on the bus to Xihe Town.Neither she nor I would think of harming you.

I said it very simply because there is nothing to say.I've given up trying to convince her.

Suddenly, Ye Zi said, I have thought about it seriously, if you promise me one condition, I will let you out.

I couldn't believe my ears for a moment, and just looked at her blankly, until she said the words again, and then I said excitedly and eagerly, "Just tell me, I agree to any conditions."

She said, first, leave here as soon as you go out, and never come back again; second, you have to tell Zihua not to come here.Because I met her in the town once, she told me that she would take time to see me.You have to tell her so that she will stop chasing and harming me.

I quickly said, I fully accept these two conditions.

You gotta swear to God, she said.

I said, I swear, get out of here and never come back again.Zihua is not allowed to come here either.

Leaves put the flashlight on the ground for lighting.After watching me swear, she smiled.Her smile is not hideous at all, but a cute girl's smile.

She said, well, that's it.I hope I didn't make a wrong decision, who told me to fall in love with you once that night.

Her words made me very warm.For this reason, it would be worthwhile for me to stay in this tomb for a few more days.

I wait for her to open the door.I even wanted to kiss her on the forehead after going out, and then leave the graveyard in a sense of regret.

However, she had no intention of opening the door.She looked at me without speaking for a while, then slowly turned and left. After walking up two steps of stone stairs, she turned to me again and said, I will unlock the door after you fall asleep.Maybe tomorrow night.Remember, leave here as soon as you go out, and never come back again.

She left, and the sky light was closed again at the open tombstone.I sat down against the stone wall in the dark, thinking about tomorrow night, my heart was jumping with excitement.I became confused again, but this time I didn't see the scene of being a special soldier, but I saw Ye Zi and I sitting in the grave at night, I hugged her, and the breath of bluegrass and lilies filled my nostrils.

I woke up and glanced sideways at the direction of the iron gate, as if the leaves hadn't left, otherwise how could I smell the intoxicating breath.I went to the iron gate, touched the iron gate inadvertently, and suddenly found that the door was not locked. What's going on?I immediately realized that when she came here just now, she had already unlocked it, and then she called me and talked to me.

I pushed the door open with a "wow", walked up the stone ladder, and pushed it lightly, and the tomb door was also ajar.I saw the graveyard and the sky again.The sky has turned white, it is almost dawn.

I walked down the mountain quickly, and the graves and tombstones kept receding behind me, and I felt some sense of loss and nostalgia in my heart.

I walked directly on the dirt road leading to Xihe Town.I swore to Ye Zi, leave here and never come back again.Thinking of this, I was so sad that I almost shed tears.

It was already morning when we reached Xihe Town.Not far from the entrance of the town, the one-eyed owner of the small restaurant opposite the post office greeted me outside the door, and I realized that I was already panicking with hunger.After entering, I asked for some food and started to eat. The one-eyed boss came over and looked at me sideways and asked, are you looking for Zihua?I nodded with a "hmm", and he said that he hadn't seen her on this street for many days, and there was her package at the post office, but he hadn't picked it up yet.I was taken aback for a moment, but quickly realized that the package must be the bowl sealed in red paper that Master Diao sent her according to the fortune teller's request.After leaving the small restaurant, I crossed the street and went into the post office to take a look. There was indeed Zihua's name on the package reminder list written on the small blackboard.

What happened to Zihua?Could it be that she also went to the cemetery to see Ye Zi, and was locked up somewhere by Ye Zi?This is impossible, because one of the two conditions Ye Zi asked me to agree to was to tell Zi Hua not to go to the cemetery.I hurried to the entrance of Zihua's restaurant. Her sister-in-law was cleaning a big table. When she saw me, she came out to greet me and said, are you looking for Zihua?She is hospitalized.When I asked what was wrong, her sister-in-law sighed and said that it was all her husband's fault. He hadn't heard from her for several years after he went out to work, which drove Zihua crazy.crazy?Although Zihua's state gave me a premonition of the outcome, I was a little surprised when I actually heard the news.I asked where Zihua lived in the hospital, and her sister-in-law said, not far away, probably more than ten miles away from here.It is a branch of the provincial psychiatric hospital. It is very large. It is said that the scenery there is beautiful and quiet, and it is most suitable for building this kind of hospital.

After I asked Zihua's sister-in-law the way to get there, I went straight to the hospital.It took about an hour to walk more than ten miles, but I took the wrong road halfway, and it was already noon when I arrived at the hospital.The hospital was very quiet, almost no one was seen, and the ward was like a garden.I walked across the avenue, walked across the lawn, and entered a building.I went straight into the doctor's office, there were four desks, but I didn't see the doctor, I guess I went to lunch.

I sat down on a chair in front of a desk and felt bored, so I got up and took a large stack of medical records from the file cabinet to look at, and I thought I might be able to see Zihua's medical records.However, something unexpected happened to me. After looking through several medical records, I suddenly saw Ye Zi's medical records.The above diagnosis is the same as my judgment, she is suffering from persecution paranoia.It is recorded in the medical records that her disease is intermittent, and she is like a good person in normal times; once it occurs, she will have fear of strangers, and in severe cases, she will have fear of family members, doctors and nurses. They will have the behavior of running away or even attacking each other.

I was looking at the medical records and suddenly felt someone behind me.Looking back, it was a male doctor in a white coat.I was about to get up and give up my seat, but he pressed my shoulder and said, don't move, are you interested in this medical record?I quickly shook my head and said, I just flipped through it casually.He asked again, do you know her?I had to shake my head again.He said that the patient had been out of the hospital for more than a year, and we could not find her.Her godfather was also very anxious, saying that he would sue our hospital if he could not find her again.

At this time, another doctor came in. He stared at me and asked, who are you looking for? I said I was looking for Zihua, but he said "oh" and said you come with me.

I walked into a ward, Zihua was sitting on a chair.She recognized me at a glance, nodded and said to me, brother, you are here.After she finished speaking, she pointed to another chair next to her and asked me to sit down.

Zihua's condition doesn't seem to be as serious as I thought.After I sat down, I was about to tell her not to go to the cemetery to find Ye Zi, but she pointed to the window and said to me, brother, can you close the window?I have a cold and I am afraid of the wind.I was taken aback. Isn't this the scene when I sat with her in the car when I first went to the cemetery?I glanced at Zihua, in order not to disappoint her, I got up and closed the window.After I sat down again, she said again, brother, are you going to sweep the grave?Let me tell you, after you go to the cemetery, don't stay there overnight. If you do that, you will become a stupid gravekeeper after dawn.

I was in a trance, why is everything in the past repeating itself?At this time, the doctor who found out that I was looking at the medical records came in. He pointed at me and said, why are you either peeking at the medical records or visiting everywhere? Come with me and go back to your ward. The leader of your newspaper office is here to visit you .

At this moment, I didn't hear the doctor's words very clearly, but I heard that the leader of the newspaper office came, which surprised me very much.I followed the doctor through the labyrinth of corridors, and after entering a ward, I saw that the editor-in-chief and the director of the reporter department of the newspaper were already sitting in the room.The editor-in-chief glanced at me first.Then I said, it seems that you are better.I didn't understand what he meant, because I was in a panic. I went to the cemetery for an unannounced visit. I didn't tell the newspaper to keep it secret. I thought he was chasing me.So I said to him, I have completed an important task, but it is not convenient to talk about it here. After returning to the newspaper office, I will report to him in detail, and our newspaper office will publish another important unannounced visit report.

I also said that the reason why I didn't announce my whereabouts in advance was in line with the special forces' reconnaissance principle. During my service, I often attacked alone. For mission needs, it is necessary to cut off contact with all parties.

At this time, I heard the doctor say to the editor-in-chief, listen, he is talking about special forces again.

I suddenly felt that this doctor looked hideous.I used to be a special soldier, so what's wrong with that?Although there is no such record in the personal file I transferred to the newspaper, it is also for the sake of keeping military secrets from being leaked.

Thinking of this, I stood up and said to the doctor angrily, I didn't think I was a special soldier, so it's not for you to intervene.

The doctor came over and pressed my shoulders, and pushed me into a chair and sat down.I saw the editor-in-chief shaking his head and saying to the doctor, why hasn't his illness improved?
I was stunned.Is this the editor-in-chief of my newspaper?Why do you treat the reporters of your newspaper like this, not to mention that I am a reporter from the special forces who will do something big.

I heard the doctor tell the editor-in-chief that his illness will be cured slowly.Paranoia cannot be cured in a few months.

There was a "buzz" in my head, and then I realized that they all regarded me as a patient here.This is really a big misunderstanding.I jumped up and said to the doctor, you are mistaken, I am not a patient here.I have just completed a major task for the newspaper, and I am going to report back to the newspaper with the editor-in-chief.

The doctor sat me down again, and said to the editor-in-chief, look, everyone here says they are not sick.

God, I regret that I shouldn't be here, because here, people only believe what the doctor says, and everything I say will be regarded as a disease.

However, I still want to say, to fight, I questioned the doctor, you said I was delusional, what delusions, you can tell me.

The doctor was at a loss for words for a while, and he hesitated for a while, saying that your delusion is not accurate, or it may be called heroic delusion.

I laughed out loud when I heard it.Heroic delusion, look through medical books, is there such a name?
My laughter frightened the doctor, and the editor retreated to the door in shame for not protecting his reporter.At this time, the doctor came over again and wanted to push me to sit down, but I only pushed him lightly, and he sat down on the ground.Immediately, two male nurses came in, and their hands clamped me like iron clamps, preventing me from moving.I saw that the doctor had brought a needle filled with the liquid medicine. He lifted up my sleeve and injected the liquid medicine into my arm.

My eyelids immediately became heavy.In a daze, I heard them still talking about the hero's delusion.God, can this be called delusional?My heroic dreams are shattered in this era.People, you must remember my experience in the graveyard, so that my name can be justified at the right time.

(End of this chapter)