Chapter 2 Is This a Phone Call from the Underworld?

Zhao Yunduo, who was on the other end of the phone, was very touched at first, but started to curse when she got no response.

"I knock! Shen Linglan, are you dead?! Say something! I'm so anxious! If you don't say anything, I'm going to be eaten by zombies!"

Zhao Yunduo got so excited that she raised her voice a little. A zombie at the door heard the sound and twisted its body to walk towards her.

Zhao Yunduo was so frightened that she quickly closed the door and dared not stick her head out again.

Two days ago, she had just finished her night shift at a convenience store at 2 a.m. and finally found a shared bike. After riding back to her rental house, Zhao Yunduo, who was tired after a day's work, fell asleep immediately without even eating the midnight snack she packed. When she woke up again, she found that although she was still in the rental house, the strange thing was that the rental house was in a dilapidated state, as if no one had lived there for a long time, and there were dense spider webs growing in the corners of the wall, which was very scary.

The most important thing is that there is no food or drink in the house, and her best friend Shen Linglan is not there.

When she opened the door in confusion and wanted to see what was going on outside, she found several zombies wandering around the door! They heard the noise and tilted their heads to look at her. The broken bodies and black eye sockets scared Zhao Yunduo so much that she immediately closed the door and locked it.

Zhao Yunduo leaned against the door, holding her pounding heart, completely unaware of what was going on.

"When did the world become like this!? What happened to the world after I fainted? Will the world be unable to exist without me? Without me, will the world become paralyzed and humans become zombies!? Or did I sleep until the end of the world!?"

Zhao Yunduo was lost in thought while rummaging through the drawers and boxes. She searched the closet that was wide enough for three people, the narrow toilet, and even the bottom of the bed that was too small for anyone to lie down, but she couldn't find Shen Linglan!

This is horrible!

She can't find her best friend!

It's scarier than the zombies outside.

Could it be that... my best friend Shen Linglan turned into a zombie?

Zhao Yunduo thought this was very likely, so she took out a fruit knife from the house, and with some courage, she stabbed the two zombies outside the door in the head.

Then she checked every room on the third floor, but couldn't find Shen Linglan. She was almost bitten by the zombies in room 307. Fortunately, she stopped quickly and avoided becoming the zombies' food.

By the time she crawled back to the rental house, she was already starving. It was also the middle of the night, but she didn't know what time it was.

Just when she was about to fall asleep, Zhao Yunduo suddenly received a call from Shen Linglan.

This phone was a smartphone that Zhao Yunduo bought for one thousand yuan after entering college. After using it for many years, it not only freezes from time to time, but also has several cracks on the screen.

She struggled several times before she was able to successfully connect to Shen Linglan's call.

"Hey? Lanbao, is that you? Woohoo, why is there a signal on my phone? I miss you so much. I'm telling you, I was working that day and suddenly fainted. Guess what happened when I woke up? I actually returned to our home, but you were not at home! Where have you been, you damn girl? There are zombies everywhere outside! Were you eaten by zombies? Say something, I'm so scared..."

She talked for half an hour, but not only did she not get a response from Shen Linglan, the phone was suddenly hung up.

When I called again, Shen Linglan's phone was turned off.

Zhao Yunduo was frightened and his mind was in a mess.

She tried to call the convenience store owner, but the call went unanswered.

The boss who distributed the flyers couldn’t be reached, and the boss of the factory was even more unreachable.

"Ah..." Zhao Yunduo sighed, "If I had known that it would be the end of the world when I woke up, I should have collected my salary yesterday and taken Shen Linglan out for a good meal. I still haven't collected more than half a month's salary, what a loss..."

She muttered something, not having eaten for a day and having spent a long time looking for Shen Linglan with a fruit knife in her hand. At this moment, she was hungry, tired and sleepy. She tilted her head and fell asleep on the bed.

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Because she was too drunk last night, slept too deeply, and her cell phone was out of battery, when Shen Linglan woke up, the sun was shining on her butt.

Shen Linglan rubbed her aching head and wailed. She subconsciously asked, "Duo'erbao, what time is it?"

The house was quiet.

Without waiting for a reply, Shen Linglan tilted her head and saw the spirit tablet beside the bedside table. She sat up, covering her swollen head, and suddenly remembered that her Duobao was gone.

Shen Linglan charged her cell phone and finished brushing her teeth. When she saw the time clearly, she almost jumped up.

"Twelve o'clock!? I knock! How come it's already twelve o'clock noon! It's over!"

She opened WeChat and saw a string of messages. They were all from Li Kuan, the team leader in charge of managing the internship group, looking for her. At first, he asked her why she hadn't come to work yet and whether she was late.

Later, he directly sent her a voice message, fiercely questioning her why she was absent from work? He also said that if she didn't ask for leave in advance, she would be deducted three days' salary. If she didn't come in the afternoon, she would not be issued an internship certificate!

Shen Linglan wailed and opened the text message, which had several messages on it, reminding her that she had missed several calls when her phone was turned off.

"Drinking is a mistake, it's such a mistake!"

Feeling upset, she prepared to call Li Kuan.

But soon, she saw a very strange message in the text message.

It said that there was a missed call at around four in the morning. She knew the number by heart, it was Zhao Yunduo's.

But……

Shen Linglan's eyes were fixed on the cloud-like urn, and goose bumps appeared on her arms.

But Zhao Yunduo’s phone was burned together with her body!!!

They had raised their hands and sworn to each other that no matter who fell first, the other would be responsible for destroying the other's phone and not let any of the contents inside be made public.

So two days ago, Shen Linglan, under the pressure from Aunt Zhao who wanted to look through Zhao Yunduo's various bank card apps, forced the crematorium staff to burn her phone.

Let Zhao Yunduo's innocence remain in the world.

But why is there a missed call from her?

Without bothering to call Li Kuan, Shen Linglan tremblingly dialed Zhao Yunduo's cell phone number.

When she heard the "beep, beep, beep" sound of the call being connected instead of the system prompting the phone to shut down, Shen Linglan almost wanted to throw the phone away.

The beeping sound of the call waiting to be answered lasted for a long time. Shen Linglan breathed a sigh of relief and laughed at her own naivety and stupidity. She had watched the corpse being burned with her own eyes, so how could a dead person answer the phone?

That missed call was probably some new type of scam, or someone might have resold Zhao Yunduo’s phone number.

Shen Linglan was lost in thought and was about to hang up the phone when suddenly the call was connected.

"Hello--?"

It was Zhao Yunduo's voice, which Shen Linglan was familiar with. She sounded a little drowsy, as if she had just woken up.

"ah!!!!"

Shen Linglan screamed and threw her cell phone onto the bed.

She turned around and hugged Zhao Yunduo's spirit tablet, "Duo'er, my baby, Guigui, someone is impersonating you! The voice sounds just like yours, it scared me to death!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh please show your spirit and punish her!!! Otherwise I will be scared to death and go to accompany you, wuwuwu!"

"Divine Gold, Shen Linglan!"

The phone was still in speaker mode, and Zhao Yunduo's voice reached Shen Linglan's ears very clearly.

Shen Linglan looked at the spirit tablet in her arms, then at the urn, and then at her cell phone.

She looked back and forth several times, and suddenly asked doubtfully: "Where...where did the sound come from?!"

"It's me!!!!" Zhao Yunduo shouted on the phone, "It's me, your hello daddy! Here!!!"

Shen Linglan carefully held the phone with two fingers and asked in disbelief, "Zhao Yunduo!? Where are you calling me from? Heaven or hell!?"

"I'm at our house!!! The one I rent for 800 yuan a month!"

Shen Linglan threw her cell phone on the bed again. She held her head, covered her ears, and carefully looked at every corner of the room with her big eyes.

Finally, he said tremblingly, "No, sister, if you want to talk to me, just say it directly. I'm also at home. Why are you calling me? Huh? Talking to the dead and the living, I don't know if the phone bill will be deducted... Is it still 20 cents for one minute...? By the way, where are you? In the house or outside the window? Can I see you if you wave at me?"

Zhao Yunduo found that she couldn't understand what Shen Linglan said, as if she was going crazy. She couldn't help but scold Shen Linglan for more than ten minutes, which immediately made Shen Linglan feel familiar.