Restricted area grave keeper

Chapter 32 Exceptions
The diary has already turned yellow. Based on the content described above, this diary should have been recorded a long time ago, that is, the era before the restricted area existed.

Lu Zhan had investigated the identity of the deceased on the ninth floor. He was a doctor, and at the same time, he was also a fairly strong genetic warrior, who had nothing to do with the "I" described in the diary.

What is on the table is not so much a diary, but rather an autobiographical novel whose authenticity is unknown.

Lu Zhan no longer watched the video on the monitor because he believed that Chen Shi would handle everything well.

The smell of decay filled his nostrils, and he turned to the next page of the diary.

……

That meal obviously brought our relationship closer. In the following days, Chen Xiaoyue no longer looked at me with guarded eyes.

I'm very busy with work, and I often don't get home until late at night, but no matter how late I get home, I can see that the lights in her house are still on.

"Still sleeping well?"

I was a little worried about her, and I was embarrassed to knock on the door of her house late at night. I was about to open my own door, but suddenly heard a strange voice behind me.

I turned around and approached Chen Xiaoyue's house, the voice became a little clearer.

After hesitating for a moment, I knocked on the door, but the door was not closed, and it opened slowly as soon as I touched it, and the darkness inside the door spread out.

"Could someone break in?"

I stood in front of the door for a while, then tiptoed carefully into the house.There was no light turned on in the living room. Thinking of the lights I saw downstairs, I realized that Chen Xiaoyue should be in the bedroom.

As I got closer and closer to the bedroom, I gradually heard a song, which was a melody I had never heard before, like a lingering love song, which sounded quite old.

I have to say that hearing such a song at night is quite infiltrating. I quickened my pace and walked to the door of the bedroom, and saw the light shining through the crack of the door.

The singing became more and more sad, and I couldn't hold back my curiosity, so I quietly walked to the door and looked in through the crack of the door.

There was no weird scene in my imagination. I saw Chen Xiaoyue putting on makeup in front of the mirror. She caressed her face with a rather unfamiliar technique. After some operations, she made herself more and more ugly. Laughed out loud.

But speaking of it, it seems that she has never seen her wearing makeup before...

I was thinking to myself, and suddenly realized that I was peeping. I stepped back quickly, and when I looked up, I found a photo frame on the wall. Two people could be vaguely seen in the photo, like a wedding photo.

But the room was too dark, I couldn't see clearly, and I didn't dare to stay for long, so I left in a hurry.

Early the next morning, the door was knocked rhythmically, I opened my eyes in a daze, covered my aching head, glanced at the clock on the wall, woke up in an instant, got up and dressed, and looked at Looking at the phone, there are several missed calls on it.

"over slept."

I yawned, not worried about being late for work, first sent a message to ask for leave, and then went to the bathroom to tidy up my grooming.

I am tall and handsome in the mirror, but my expression is not very good-looking. I have been suffering from headaches for several years, but the doctor can’t give me an answer. I can feel that my health is getting worse, so I dare not even drink alcohol in recent years up.

As a reporter, I have visited hospitals many times, and I know how fragile life is. Perhaps it is because of this that I want to dig out more truths in the limited time. After all, many things cannot stand the wait.

With that in mind, I opened the door.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw Chen Xiaoyue walking towards my home, so I hurriedly stopped her.

She turned around, still with that expressionless face.

"You didn't open the door, I thought you were not at home."

"Accordingly, he is not here." I didn't explain too much, and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Today is my birthday."

I pretended to be confused and said, "What's the matter, don't you want me to accompany you?"

In fact, I saw her birthday cake in the living room as early as last night.

"You know, I have no friends."

"If you don't have friends, you should have family, right?"

"I've always been alone."

I froze and shook my aching head, yes, she seemed to have said that she was an orphan.In the past, there were friends who were willing to accompany her, but after that incident, she doesn't even have any friends now.

"Are you uncomfortable?" Chen Xiaoyue saw my strangeness.

"It's an old problem," I said without wanting to say more, "I'll spend your birthday with you, and I happen to be free today."

We quickly bought ingredients, and at Chen Xiaoyue's insistence, we also bought a bottle of white wine.

Although it was Guan Ming who walked into her house openly this time, I still felt a little guilty. What if she knew that I sneaked into her house last night?
Fortunately, she didn't notice it, or maybe she did, but she didn't bother to teach me a lesson, so she walked into the kitchen not long after entering the house.

"You can cook." I glanced at the buckets of instant noodles piled up in the trash can in the living room, and couldn't help but tease.

"You will cook when you stay alone for a long time." Chen Xiaoyue's voice came from the kitchen, "You seem to be alone too, right?"

"My mother passed away, and my father was injured and turned into a vegetative state. He has been lying in the hospital." I replied casually, looking up, but I didn't find the photo of last night.

"It's put away?" I was a little puzzled, wondering if I had read it wrong, and Chen Xiaoyue was never married, so where did I get the wedding photo?

But thinking of the ring on her ring finger, I felt something was wrong again.

Thinking like this, I quietly walked into Chen Xiaoyue's bedroom and found a photo frame on the bed.

It really was a wedding photo. In the photo, the man and the woman leaned close together, their faces full of sweetness.

The frame is clean and appears to have been carefully cleaned, while the photo is slightly yellowed and looks old.

"What are you doing?" Chen Xiaoyue's voice came from behind, I was startled, and replied, "Turn around."

"Can you still go to my bedroom?"

"Let's go now." I turned around guiltily, and looked back at the photo. The woman on it was dignified and generous, but it wasn't Chen Xiaoyue.

"It should have been left by the previous tenant. You can't just throw away this kind of thing. What if they come back to look for it?" Seeing that I hesitated to speak, Chen Xiaoyue explained.

"Can you forget the wedding photos? This is an important testimony of love." I echoed and walked out of the bedroom, pretending to criticize the couple's carelessness, and secretly glanced back.

"Don't be guilty, I saw you last night." Chen Xiaoyue didn't mean to pursue it, she shook her head and pulled me into the kitchen, "Come and help."

We have been busy all morning and prepared a table of sumptuous dishes. Although this is a birthday with only two people involved, it still needs to have enough sense of ceremony.

Chen Xiaoyue poured two glasses of wine and handed me a glass. I took a sip and felt extremely spicy, so I quickly put down the glass.

"You can drink all of this." Seeing the girl drinking like water, I found it hard to accept, "Aren't you afraid of getting drunk?"

"It would be great if I could get drunk." Chen Xiaoyue muttered something, but I didn't catch it clearly.

Our meals are not big, and there is a lot of food left on the table. She put down the chopsticks, looked at the table quietly, and then looked at me: "Because of the so-called curse, all my friends have cut off contact with me...you Are you not afraid of me?"

"I've never been afraid of that."

My heart moved. One of the reasons I contacted her was to find out the truth. Now that she opened her mouth, I can follow the trend to ask.

"By the way, at that time, did you see how the old man died?"

The girl was silent for a moment, and replied: "I didn't see it, I was blindfolded... But does it matter how you die? If you die, you die, and there is nothing left."

"Are you afraid of death?"

"Of course." The girl glanced at me, "Aren't you afraid of death?"

I didn't answer, but asked: "Since you are so afraid of death, how dare you be defenseless to strangers, are you not afraid that you will die because of it?"

Hearing this, Chen Xiaoyue's fists hidden under the table seemed to be clenched a little bit, her face was a little dazed for the first time, and she said in a daze, "Of course I'm afraid, I want to live a good life."

Her body trembled slightly, her emotions became more and more wrong, her expression changed several times, she cried and laughed for a while, and showed dozens of expressions in a short period of time, and her pretty face looked a little weird.

"Don't be afraid, you won't die, you will live a good life." Sensing the girl's strangeness, I hurriedly comforted her, and she gradually calmed down.

"I'm still alive, am I still alive..." She whispered, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, got up and took the cakes, and put candles one by one.

"Hey, you have plugged in more than 30 sticks and are still plugging in," I reminded her dumbfounded, seeing her in a trance.

As if waking up from a dream, she hurriedly pulled out some candles, and didn't hesitate to stop until there were 24 left.

"Could it be that you have forgotten your age? If you forget, just insert eighteen. Girls will always be eighteen!" I teased.

Chen Xiaoyue glanced at me and said softly, "I haven't celebrated my birthday for a long time."

"It's okay, I'll live with you in the future, and I'll stay with you." I said.

The girl was silent for a moment, and gently blew out the candle.

"There probably won't be another one."

I didn't hear her murmur clearly, I only saw her eyes closed, and I didn't know what wish she had made.

There were no clues about Chen Xiaoyue, but I vaguely had some ideas, and decided to use the old man who died half a month ago as an entry point. I investigated the old man's address and relationship, and found his landlord.

The landlord is a kind-hearted old woman. When she heard my intentions, she sighed and said, "Old Yang and I have been friends since we were young, but since he was kidnapped ten years ago, he has stopped contacting me."

There was some guilt on her face: "It's also my fault. I believed those rumors and never dared to go upstairs to find him. I heard that after that he became a lot withdrawn and lost contact with many friends. But Lao Yang This person's parents passed away early, so he must have been lonely all these years."

"I really didn't expect him to take drugs, I didn't expect him to be a kidnapper, and I didn't expect him to die inexplicably..." The old woman said with a lonely expression, "Obviously I can bring him back in time, if he doesn't die If so, it should be over sixty."

After listening quietly, I asked, "Can you take me to his room?"

"Fine, but don't mess with the contents."

I agreed wholeheartedly, followed the old woman upstairs, and came to a dusty room.

The furnishing of the room was very simple, with almost no extra furniture. There were a few empty wine bottles scattered on the floor, as well as bottles containing sleeping pills.

I looked around, and my eyes finally fell on the wall. The color of a wall was obviously different from other places. Something should have been hung there.

The curtains in the bedroom were drawn, and there was only one bed inside. A box of instant noodles was placed beside the bed. It seemed that the old man was living in a very difficult life and his living habits were not good.

Something flashed in my mind, but it never came out. Seeing that there were no more discoveries, I bid farewell to the old lady and took a taxi to leave.

As soon as I got home, my colleague sent me a message, which was the information I asked him to check.

I thanked my colleague and promised to invite him to dinner. Then I opened the file and browsed carefully. The content in the file is very detailed. The curse incident has caused a sensation several times and has been reported by major media, but the content described above is really mysterious. , it's hard to believe.

Seventy years ago, a rumor about a curse suddenly spread in the city. It is said that people who are cursed will die strangely after ten years, and pass the curse on to someone around them, making them a sacrifice for the next curse.

What is incomprehensible is that, for 70 years, this curse has been fulfilled, the dead appear one after another, and the cause of death cannot be found.

The reason why I investigated the old man was because he was the last person who was cursed, and just half a month ago, he died strangely after kidnapping Chen Xiaoyue. It was exactly ten years since the last death of the cursed person.

And this also means... Chen Xiaoyue, who was closest to him at that time, was the next person to be cursed.

I rubbed my aching head, and my eyes locked on the first photo of the cursed person in the data.

His name is Wang Da, he is a middle school teacher, and he has an older brother who is a doctor.

I began to look up news about Wang Da. It is said that one day when he was alone with a boy in the office, he and the boy suddenly screamed in the office. Everyone rushed to the locked door after hearing the sound. , happened to see Wang Da jumping off the stairs, and the boy fell unconscious on the ground.

The monitoring in the office was destroyed, and the boy didn't know what to do. No one knew what happened inside, but the office was full of weird symbols, and the falling corpses made everyone panic for no reason.

There were rumors that the boy had done a bad thing before, and Wang Da educated him for it. However, perhaps because the boy was an orphan and was in a disadvantaged group, the public opinion was overwhelmingly against him, but Wang Da had been suffering tortured by cyber violence.

Some people said that Wang Da jumped from the building not to commit suicide, but to curse, but not many people believed it at the time.

It wasn't until the boy died inexplicably ten years later that rumors of the curse spread widely.

Wang Da's elder brother was called Wang Xiaofei, a doctor with excellent medical skills, but long before Wang Da, he committed suicide by taking poison.

I continued to read and couldn't help but sigh: "Unfortunate encounter."

Wang Xiaofei caused a medical accident and the patient died on the spot. After that, he didn’t work as a doctor anymore. This may be the reason for his suicide. Below are some photos of the day of the accident. You can see a woman kneeling in front of the ward cry.

Over the past 70 years, there will be a dead person with unknown cause of death every ten years, and the curse is not groundless.

But I found that the dead have one thing in common... Including the old kidnapper and Chen Xiaoyue, they are all orphans. Is this some kind of coincidence?
"There are a lot of things in the report that really cannot be explained. Is there really a curse?"

I thought so, and suddenly shook my head self-deprecatingly.

My father said that there are no vicious ghosts and gods in the world, only elusive human hearts.

Thinking of this sentence, I realized that I hadn't visited my father for a long time, so I took a taxi to the hospital.

My father has been in a vegetable state for a long time, and he has never woken up all these years. Looking at his face, I understand in my heart that my father will always be like this in the future.

I sighed lightly, my head was aching again, I rubbed it, then took my father's hand, a sad emotion welled up from the bottom of my heart, and said firmly: "I will live for you."

(End of this chapter)