Chapter 3
The simple, weed-covered bridge tunnel was barely illuminated by the streetlights on the side road.
There are no stars tonight. Thick clouds are floating slowly in the night sky, blocking the moon completely so that not a single ray of light is cast.
It was almost half past ten in the evening, and there were almost no other passers-by in this remote area. It was so quiet that even the sound of the wind blowing could be heard clearly.
Jiang Yi's younger sister's name is He Lan.
It was visibly that Jiang Yi's expression became strange, and He Lan began to feel a little uneasy.
She swallowed and seemed to be sobering up a little.
Subconsciously hugging the little white cat in her arms tighter, He Lan asked tentatively: "What's the matter, have you... really encountered this?"
Jiang Yi opened her mouth, curled her fingers, and her voice became weaker, a little confused: "I, I did... but, hiccup, but I always thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me, or, or maybe I remembered it wrong..."
Su Xuan stood aside and said sharply, "But you actually remember it very clearly, right?"
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been stunned when Qi Hanyu asked the second question.
As soon as Su Xuan finished speaking, Jiang Yi opened her mouth, was stunned again, and then bit her lip.
He Lan was really getting goosebumps.
However, they were friends after all. Seeing Jiang Yi biting her lip, speechless, He Lan was also a little creeped out by the atmosphere, but she still mustered up her courage, put down the protective white cat, and pressed Jiang Yi's shoulders. "What's going on? What happened to you? Some strange people or strange animals? Are you being followed?"
He Lan quickly thought of something: "Ah! So that's why you said you wanted to sleep at my house after drinking today? Because you were being targeted, right?"
As He Lan spoke, her confidence returned.
That's right, what strange animal is it? It's probably still a human, right? Jiang Yi is pretty, maybe she's been stalked by some creepy guy!
If this is really the case, then she will find a fitness coach with eight-pack abs from her friends and see if the wretched man dares to train with the fitness coach!
However, Jiang Yi became even more confused by her question, and even felt like crying: "I don't know!"
He Lan was stunned again: "How come you don't know again..."
Jiang Yi hesitated and said, "I, I want to sleep at your house tonight because of this incident... Because I want to drink, but I really don't want to go home alone at night recently. But I am actually skeptical myself. I always feel that maybe I am wrong, and I still don't know what is going on..."
Jiang Yi's words were a little incoherent. Su Xuan stood up straight, looked around, and released his spiritual power.
After quietly exploring the area, Su Xuan shook his head at Qi Hanyu and Xia Yan who turned around and blinked at him - they were not nearby.
But...
It doesn't matter if it can't be detected.
With a turn of his eyes and a raised eyebrow, Su Xuan looked at the two young ladies again and knocked on the small wooden table with his fingers, making two "knock knock" sounds.
After their gazes returned, Su Xuan pointed his slender, white finger at the QR code on the corner of the table and began to sell it easily: "Miss, it's impossible to make a mistake. At least you should know what kind of problem you are facing now. If you are willing to believe us--"
Spreading out his five fingers, he said, "Fifty-first time, I'll help you solve the problem first, and you'll pay later. It's cheap and good, and I won't cheat you!"
Qi Hanyu still remembered that she had to do business, so she nodded quickly and said, "Don't be afraid, sister. This may be a very strange thing for you, but for us, it's nothing, nothing!"
Xia Yan also meowed tentatively.
There was some spiritual power on Jiang Yi's body - this was a sign of having come into contact with monsters or spirits, and generally speaking, ordinary people would not be contaminated by spiritual power without continuous contact for a period of time.
Therefore, Jiang Yi must have met "the other party" for more than just one or two days.
Of course, apart from special existences like spirits, contact between monsters and humans is not necessarily a big deal.
For example, suppose the monster is lurking among the crowd, Jiang Yi's colleague, and does not know how to restrain his spiritual power. Then after years of getting along with it, it is not surprising that Jiang Yi has unknowingly picked up some spiritual power.
If the monster itself does not break the law, then there is no problem.
But the special thing is that the spiritual power that Qi Hanyu felt from Jiang Yi was all concentrated on the back of her head.
...This is not normal.
Could it be that Jiang Yi has a monster colleague who never touches other parts of her body and only accurately shoots at her head?
Pat the head and kill the devil? ?
Okay, it’s not impossible, but Qi Hanyu still tried to ask - and as a result, he got a clue.
Obviously, Jiang Yi encountered something that troubled her.
So no matter whether the "other party" has malicious intentions or not, whether it is communication... or beating people up, at least Qi Hanyu and Su Xuan can provide Jiang Yi with some help in solving her problems.
Moreover, Jiang Yi's spiritual power is not strong, which means that no matter whether the opponent is a monster or something else, it is a piece of cake for them to face Qi Hanyu and Xia Yan - ahem, and their Brother Su!
Qi Hanyu is confident that he will be able to get his first pot of gold!
Jiang Yi and He Lan looked at each other.
He Lan was still hesitant: "Jiang Yi, do you really want to...?"
They had come to the stall drunk and really just wanted to chat up the two handsome guys, but they didn't expect that as they chatted, they actually got serious about talking about exorcism.
These two handsome guys are serious...
Jiang Yi and He Lan have never believed in such things. As Jiang Yi said, before this, even though she clearly remembered what happened that day, she still hypnotized herself that she had seen it wrong or remembered it wrongly.
But at this moment, two handsome men and a white cat, those sparkling eyes, that confident expression...
Recalling the strange things that happened that night, Jiang Yi hesitated for a moment. She thought fifty yuan wasn't expensive, wasn't it just two cups of milk tea? She might as well give it a try. So she bit her lip and said, "Here's what happened."
*
Jiang Yi and He Lan are employees of the same company.
Jiang Yi has been working in that company since she graduated from university. It has been almost five years now, and her commute to and from get off work is the same route every day, with almost no change.
The company is not busy most of the time. There are only about one or two months in a year when we may occasionally work overtime until the evening, and no later than 9:30 pm.
I just leave the company at 9:30 in the evening, take the subway, and ride ten stops. By the time I get off, it is often already past ten o'clock and it is late at night.
The subway station is located at an intersection. There is a medium-sized shopping mall diagonally across the street. There are quite a few people there, but it is much quieter on this side. There is a street light only once every few meters and the light is not bright.
But no matter how deserted it was, Jiang Yi had already gotten used to it after five years.
So that night a week ago, she acted just like any other.
Turn right after walking out of the subway exit and walk along a street that is not narrow but not wide either. Occasionally you will meet one or two people head-on, and a car will pass by quickly on the road beside you.
When you reach an intersection, turn right.
It was a dark, completely deserted path—
On the left side of the trail is a large expanse of wasteland. I'd heard a long time ago that this wasteland was going to be converted into a parking lot, but no construction has started in the past few years. There are no lights in the wasteland, and it's overgrown with weeds.
On the right side of the path is a row of shabby small shops, but they close very early every day. At that time, all the doors and windows were closed and there was no light at all.
Although the silence was eerie, the path was not long, only about twenty meters long, and nothing had ever happened there, so Jiang Yi could barely tolerate the fact that she had to pass by here alone at night every time she worked overtime.
That night, she was wearing a pair of high heels as usual, walking quickly on the path, yawning as she thought about catching up on the variety shows she would watch when she got home.
Suddenly——
A stone flew from nowhere and hit her on the back of the head!
…
He Lan, Qi Hanyu, and Su Xuan were so nervous after hearing this that they almost didn't react: "Uh, a rock? Hit the head?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Jiang Yi nodded quickly.
He Lan was confused: "Is this the strange thing you were talking about?"
Jiang Yi: "Listen to me! Hey, I told you about the stone thing before, don't you remember?"
He Lan: "Ah? I, I don't remember it at all..."
…
Jiang Yi was immediately woken up by the stone hitting her head. She quickly stopped and patted her hair, and the round stone rolled to the ground.
Stones flying from the sky?
Or was it thrown by someone?
From childhood to adulthood, the only thing I've experienced is having fallen leaves hit my head. At worst, uh, having bird poop hit my head is more logical than having stones hit me, right?
Therefore, Jiang Yi reflexively looked up, behind him, and to the left and right.
However, looking through the night, I could see nothing but swaying shadows and faint moonlight.
It was very quiet all around.
Jiang Yi pursed her lips. Although she was puzzled, since the search was fruitless, she turned back hesitantly.
This trail is really eerie at night.
No matter how accustomed she was, no matter how brave she was, she still felt goosebumps standing alone in the middle of this path. If it weren't for the fact that there was really no other way to go...
Jiang Yi shook her head, quickened her pace and walked out of the path, turned left and walked for a while before entering the community where she lived.
…
That night, she treated it as a small accident in her life and didn't take it too seriously.
——But I didn’t expect that that night was just the beginning.
He Lan rubbed his arms, swallowed hard, and asked nervously: "Then...what happened?"
Jiang Yi moved her lips and said weakly: "Later..."
Qi Hanyu: "Later?"
Jiang Yi suddenly raised her head and said with a hint of tears, "Then, for seven days, I worked overtime for five days. During those five days, I was hit on the head with stones!!"
Everyone: “Huh?”
Jiang Yi rubbed the back of her head and cried, "Same path, same spot! I even felt like every time I got hit, it was the same spot on the back of my head! Exactly! Is he trying to hit some special spot on me when I'm not paying attention?"
The corners of everyone's mouth twitched.
He Lan: "No, who has such precise fingering?"
Qi Hanyu: "Damn, sister, did you feel paralyzed and unable to move after being hit by the acupuncture points——"
Su Xuan: "Well, actually it can't be said that I took advantage of you not paying attention..."
Jiang Yi: "Yeah, I always have a premonition every time I pass that place at that time, but I never know where those stones come from!"
As they listened to the ghost story, it turned into a weird story, and the focus of several people seemed to be a little off.
He Lan suddenly reacted and her face changed slightly: "Wait, I remember, you, you seem to have mentioned this matter!"
"Yes, didn't I say that when we were having lunch together that day? But everyone just laughed and told me to go buy lottery tickets." Jiang Yi was depressed.
He Lan's face showed guilt: "That afternoon, Xiao X kept talking to me about the project, and I didn't pay much attention. I'm sorry, I didn't know it was so serious."
Jiang Yi said, "Actually, I also think this is a bit weird. But you said someone was following me, but I really haven't seen a human figure once. And if someone really was following me, what kind of weird thing would it be to hit me on the back of the head with rocks all day? What kind of habit is this? So later I didn't think of mentioning it. I always felt like I couldn't explain it. Even if I went to the police and said I was being assassinated by rocks all day, the police would be confused!"
"What happened next?" Su Xuan regained consciousness, composed his expression, and asked seriously, "You 'saw' it later, right?"
He Lan was stunned for a moment, then remembered this incident and asked quickly: "Did you see the prankster later? Who? Do you know him?"
Qi Hanyu and Su Xuan only stared at Jiang Yi.
Although Jiang Yi has made up her mind to seek their help, He Lan obviously still doesn't think that what her good sister encountered was a "supernatural event". This is normal. How can an ordinary person turn his thoughts to the supernatural and monsters so quickly?
Only Jiang Yi, who witnessed it with her own eyes, knew what she saw.
At this point, Jiang Yi's face turned pale, and her teeth chattered. "I, I really thought I was seeing things before. Although I was a little scared and now I'm a little afraid to go home alone at night, I kept thinking that it might actually be a, a strangely shaped shadow! A tree shadow or something! It's just my own psychological effect, I think too much, until this little brother asked me just now if I had encountered any strange creatures..."
"Did I mention there's a wasteland on the left side of that path? The entrance to that wasteland is just a little behind where I was standing when I was hit by rocks those five times. The day before yesterday, after I was hit, I couldn't help but curse. When I turned around, I saw something lying on the ground at the entrance!"
Jiang Yi spoke faster and faster, sweat streaming down her cheeks. She stammered, "It was too dark and I couldn't see clearly, so I'm not sure, but I seemed to see a human face, connected to the body of some animal! I think our eyes met, and it was lying on the ground looking at me!"
He Lan opened her eyes wide in shock.
Jiang Yi was about to burst into tears as she spoke: "I just saw it once, and it retreated back into the wasteland!"
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