Chapter 44: 44 Caught
There were footsteps outside. There was no time to take pictures. She hurriedly put the list inside her coat. Tu Lanxun didn't dare to look at it anymore. She returned to a safe place along the same route and then unfolded the previous page.
There is a set of labels behind the brothers Lin Si and Zhang Fan: Entered the laboratory on X day of X month of X year.
A red stamp was placed on it, as if a certain fate had been pronounced upon it.
Tu Lanxun heard the timed reminder of the VR helmet. While exiting the game, he thought that they were indeed the weird ones in the game, and they were not Tie Shou and Gao Dazhuang at the beginning. They were transformed in the laboratory.
Doctor Nightingale is a senior official in charge of the laboratory list...
"N might be a cold-blooded experimental pervert." This fact was remembered by her again, and this time it was difficult to forget. The scene of the Iron Hand Ghost and the Tall and Strong Ghost being engulfed in fire in the swimming pool repeatedly appeared in Tu Lanxun's mind.
With this feeling, Tu Lanxun went downstairs and returned the helmet with the data deleted to Bai Xiaoju. Only an hour had passed in the real world.
The convenience store has been doing good business these days, with ghosts from the expedition team living nearby often coming to have a bite to eat. According to them, many wandering souls have talked to them, and after hearing about the 24-hour Sunshine Convenience Store, they all want to come and have a look. However, because there is a fierce ghost here, they asked them to pass on a message and ask the boss if he mindful of other ghosts coming here.
Tu Lanxun smiled, of course: "We are a convenience store, the more customers the better."
Meanwhile, the computer girl, who was busy sorting through market data, suddenly said, "Hey, there's another store advertising on the Qinglan Forum!"
A new haunted shop has opened, called "Black Forest High-End Department Store," which sounds far superior to "The Broccoli Store." They sell everything from high-end everyday items and handmade chocolates carved in fourteen different flower patterns to luxurious jewelry. It's a truly unbeatable selection from a budget convenience store like "The Broccoli Store."
The most important thing is that the prices in the high-end Black Forest department store are shockingly low. Diamonds are sold at the price of glass, which is simply a loss-making business!
Tu Lanxun frowned slightly. When the only competitors were each other, the intention of doing this was very obvious, which was to start a price war, trying to suppress the broccoli business so that it could not grow, and then take over the entire market!
Computer Ghost: "Oh, I heard that the online store's sales growth has slowed down in the past two days... No, I have to check them out."
Tu Lanxun is very supportive of this kind of commercial competition. The computer ghost went into the computer for a long time and didn't come back. When she came out, her face was much paler and she seemed to be injured. "Something went wrong."
Tu Lanxun was nervous: "What happened? Did they find you and beat you up?"
The computer ghost smiled dully: "Oh, no, but the other party also knows about network invasion. They blocked my access to the camera or hard drive. I can't see anything, but this actually makes me more certain."
The sellers behind the Black Forest high-end department store are also ghosts, or at least closely related to ghosts.
"Where is the registered address of their store?" Tu Lanxun asked the computer ghost to rest and did it himself. He found out that Black Forest High-end Department Store was a completely virtual store with no physical qualifications. He opened the other party's comment area and saw that the express box was not coded cleanly. He found that the shipping address of Black Forest was actually on Lamei Street, Guihua Town, Pu'er Township, near Lucheng.
The computer ghost came over and asked, "Is there anything special about this address?"
Tu Lanxun has specially memorized the local characteristics of this city and even this province. She remembers that Lamei Street in Guihua Town, Pu'er Township is a very famous funeral street in the province.
In other words, it is a place that specializes in distributing and reselling funeral supplies, such as wreaths, paper money, paper figures and paper supplies. Due to their superb skills, the things they make look so lifelike that they have been reported in many news reports.
Where is the shipping location for Black Forest High-end Department Store? It's really a bit tricky...
Tu Lanxun was thinking about a countermeasure when he opened his Moments and scrolled down. The first post that popped up was from Tao Si. He had posted a picture and text lamenting his friend Zhang Xiaohuai. The photo inadvertently revealed a copper ornament with gold-painted patterns, which looked like a Central Asian folk luxury item.
Zhang Xiaohuai was the friend who had introduced Tu Lanxun to the Dragon and Phoenix Family to sell gold cookies. He was a second-generation rich kid who loved to socialize. His background wasn't as high as anyone in the world, but he was well-off and well-connected, and he enjoyed cultivating eccentric relationships with the most unusual people.
Tao Si's circle of friends, which seems to be lamenting but is actually secretly showing off, is about Zhang Xiaohuai who went diving in Southeast Asia, but had a problem with his oxygen tank, causing him to get injured. He is now in a foreign hospital and no one knows how he is doing.
Something happened to Zhang Xiaohuai?
Tu Lanxun was slightly stunned and opened Zhang Xiaohuai's circle of friends. He found that the other party's last update was in the early hours of yesterday morning. He said that a gold shop run by an acquaintance of his was robbed and the owner was injured. Fortunately, there was no bigger problem. Only a batch of valuable gold products were lost. Friends who had sent items there were asked to contact him.
The gold shop that was robbed was the Dragon and Phoenix Family, and the one who was injured was the fat boss.
This guy is so unlucky! Yesterday his business was wiped out, and today he gets into trouble. It doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Tu Lanxun sent a message of sympathy and once again despised Tao Si's affectation, but suddenly she remembered that the ornament that Tao Si inadvertently revealed seemed to have been seen on the homepage of the ghost shop in Black Forest Department Store?
That's right, it was one of those dynamic product posters with an open screen, the kind that was made very luxuriously. The product was placed in front of a velvet background with a slanted dim light. The bronze statue was in the shape of a cat, with eyes inlaid with round-cut yellow diamonds. It had a lazy posture and held a flying bird made of pearls and emerald feathers in its mouth. Unexpectedly, it was sold to Tao Si.
Even the black gemstone cones on the tips of the bronze lynx's ears are the same!
Tu Lanxun took a breath and couldn't help but send a WeChat message to Tao Si: The bronze cat in your circle of friends is pretty good-looking, where did you buy it?
Tao Si replied quickly, as bluntly as ever: "What does it have to do with you? You can't afford it, and besides, it's a lynx!"
Tu Lanxun continued to tease: It’s just a decoration, what’s so great about it? It doesn’t even have a brand.
Tao Si was furious: "What do you know? This is a birthday present from my uncle. Only nobles in Central Asia could have it. Even the craftsmen who made it are a family tradition! You country bumpkin!"
Tu Lanxun got the information he was looking for: Tao Si's uncle was indeed engaged in the medicinal herbs business in Central Asia, and the poster on the Black Forest homepage still said "For Sale." Could the bronze lynx sold at the high-end Black Forest department store be a knockoff? However, given the sophisticated counterfeiting technology, there must be something fishy going on. Could their merchandise be made of paper?
She no longer paid attention to these things because her old acquaintance Liu Maosheng appeared at the door. As soon as he entered the convenience store, he said, "Something happened, something happened!"
Tu Lanxun stood up and said, "Uncle Liu, please drink some water and tell me slowly. Who is in trouble?"
Liu Maosheng drank half a bottle of water, shivered, and then slowly explained the whole story.
Since Liu Maosheng became a ghost, he has been living in the suburbs of Lucheng. He has gathered a group of old friends, who are actually wandering souls with nothing to do after death. Occasionally, you come to visit my grave, and next time I will go to your burial place to go out for a walk or something.
But at the last two gatherings, one for ghost fishing and the other for a cemetery mountaineering group building, their “people” were not all there and were getting smaller and smaller.
"Could it be reincarnation?"
"No, they all agreed when we made the appointment, and it's only been a few days?" Liu Maosheng's brows knitted together, "Especially the last gathering, which was just yesterday. We agreed that the seven ghosts would gather at the foot of the cemetery, but only one of them showed up at three o'clock!"
Tu Lanxun was stunned: "Huh?"
What is the measurement method for a ghost at three o'clock? Only one hand? Only one foot?
Liu Maosheng explained that the remaining 0.1 is theoretically a living person, but he is a vegetative patient. His soul often sneaks out of the hospital and wanders with real ghosts - anyway, he can't go back to his body.
In the words of the would-be ghost named Yang Dazhi, he came here early to practice and adapt to life after death.
Liu Maosheng laughed, "But he's still breathing, so we can't really call him a ghost. We're hoping he'll wake up and come back one day, so let's just call him Zero One."
Tu Lanxun heard some humor in Liu Maosheng's words and asked him to continue. It was not unusual for multiple ghosts to disappear twice in a row.
Especially the ghosts who can play with Liu Maosheng are generally ordinary people. They were not extremely evil during their lifetime, and they have no deep hatred or blood feud. The state of their souls is as stable as retirement, and it is impossible for them to disappear easily.
"The problem is exactly 0.1. I'm talking about Yang Dazhi." Liu Maosheng hurried down: "The mountain climbing group dispersed yesterday afternoon and everyone went back to their own graves, but last night in the middle of the night, Yang Dazhi woke up! His body woke up!"
Tu Lanxun wondered: "How did you know?"
Liu Maosheng replied, "I was bored in the middle of the night, so I walked downtown. I passed by Yang Dazhi Hospital and thought of going in to see him, but what I saw was... a fog of blood!"
According to Liu Maosheng, the blood mist covered the two windows of the hospital, which was the room where Yang Dazhi lived. Liu Maosheng didn't dare to go in directly, so he squatted nearby until dawn, when the blood mist was almost cleared. When he floated into the ward, he caught up with Yang Dazhi opening his eyes... his physical eyes.
He was surrounded by his family members, and it was obvious that he was taking his last breath. This is the case with some vegetative patients, who may wake up once at the end of their lives. Yang Dazhi was one of them.
Yang Dazhi had been in a coma for several years, but he was still able to speak. He said: "I was caught... I saw a little yellow light..."
The family members beside him held his hands and wept: "You are going to heaven, you are going to paradise, the gods are here to take you."
Yang Dazhi denied it and said with his last bit of strength, "In the yellow light there is... myself... I smile at myself..."
After saying this, Yang Dazhi breathed his last. His family members cried loudly. The great joy turned into great sorrow, which burned away all his energy and spirit, but there was still a trace of relief left in the end.
Liu Maosheng gripped the corner of the table and nearly pulled himself out of his chair. "I can see clearly that Yang Dazhi's soul hasn't left his body. His spirit is gone! Just like the missing ghosts in our circle!"
At this point, Tu Lanxun only had a very strange association in his mind, about Yang Dazhi's last words.
Yang Dazhi said it himself that he was caught.
He saw a yellow light, and then he saw himself in the yellow light, and he was smiling at himself.
Isn’t that a mirror!
Yellow light...yellow mirror...golden mirror!
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