Weird Talker

Chapter 1 A Phone Call

August [-]th, cloudy.

Qin Manjiang picked up the glasses on the bedside table and put them on, turned his head and glanced at the time, it was 07:30 in the morning.

Although the curtains were drawn, not a ray of morning light leaked in, and it looked like a cloudy day.

Get out of bed, turn on the TV, the morning news is on.

He picked up his phone and sent a message to the monitor.

"I'm not feeling well, please continue to ask for leave."

Soon, he received a voice from the class monitor who also got up early:
"Student Qin Manjiang, if you don't come this semester, you will fail all the courses. You still..."

The voice was very gentle, but Qin Manjiang didn't continue listening.

He doesn't like his name very much.

This name was chosen by my father. He is not a cultural person. He has never been out of the small riverside village in his life. He just heard that when he was born, it happened to be dusk. "A setting sun spreads the water, half of the river is rustling and half of the river is red", so Lao Qin's inspiration came up, and he immediately decided that the half river is so beautiful, then my son must at least be a whole river.

At the suggestion of the old village chief, the name Qin Quanjiang was replaced by Qin Manjiang.

Qin Manjiang is also very fortunate, but fortunately, Lao Qin didn't have a brain to get him a Qin Sesel.

However, later, Old Qin drowned in the river that he had relied on all his life. After that, Qin Manjiang didn't like his name very much.

"It's okay, monitor, please help me ask for leave as usual, and I will figure out how to fail the subject."

Qin Manjiang replied.

Then he put down the phone.

As an ordinary farm boy by the river, in Qin Manjiang's ordinary life in the past 20 years, only two major events happened:

One is that he was admitted to a university, and it was Fucheng University with a good ranking and not too far from home.

Another thing is the death of Lao Qin.

Lao Qin is a country man with a big heart. Although he lost his wife in his early years, he has always lived happily and heartlessly. Qin Manjiang never believed that he would commit suicide the moment his son was admitted to university.

But the words about Lao Qin's suicide were said by his younger sister. She watched Lao Qin slowly walk into the river on the same evening as Qin Manjiang's birth day. He disappeared without a trace, and when he was found downstream, he had turned into a floating corpse swollen with water. After identification, the corpse was indeed Lao Qin.

It stands to reason that since my own sister witnessed the suicide process, there is no need for suspicion or investigation.

But after Lao Qin committed suicide, her younger sister's mental state has been very strange. She is full of aggression, always watching everything around her with vicious and fearful eyes.

After examination, the doctors came to the conclusion that Qin Yiman suffered from various mental illnesses, the most serious being persecution delusion, and that if left unchecked, it would cause great harm to society.

Qin Manjiang did not follow the doctor's order to send her to a mental hospital, but retired from the school dormitory and rented a flat in Fucheng to take care of her.

But even so, Qin Manyi still completely lost consciousness a month ago. She was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, and she still hasn't woken up until now.

And this is also the reason why Qin Manjiang is skipping classes all day.

He needs money, although it is almost a matter of course for Fucheng University students to find a job with a good salary as long as they graduate normally, but he can't wait.

The medical equipment to maintain Qin Xin's life would cost a huge amount of money once, and he needed a lot of money.

She couldn't just die like this.

Whether as a younger sister or as a direct witness to Lao Qin's suicide.

Qin Manjiang picked up the remote control, amplified the news broadcast on the TV a little bit, and then walked to the bathroom. He just squeezed the toothpaste on the toothbrush, before putting it in his mouth, the phone rang again.

This time it was not the monitor, but a phone call, and the monitor did not have his phone number.

Sure enough, after wiping the water off his hands, he went to pick up the phone and glanced at the caller's information, Qin Manjiang's eyes lit up slightly.

Everyone has friends, and Qin Manjiang also has one. Although things gather like birds and people are divided into groups, Qin Manjiang's friend is a real rich second generation.

Qin Yiman's initial treatment costs were almost all paid in advance by him.

His surname is Li, and his first name is Xijiu. Li Xijiu also has a brother named Wang Dongcheng. The reason why Qin Manjiang, a wild kid from the border, got together.

The family business and the like are handed over to the eldest brother who inherited his father's surname. He is mainly responsible for living and spending money.

Only those who are content are worthy of happiness, and Li Xi is very content.

However, Li Xi had already stopped studying.

It's not that he couldn't get into university, he even got into Fucheng University like Qin Manjiang.

But he was expelled shortly after entering the school in his freshman year.

The reason was that one night, when he was running in the playground, he saw a group of people fighting outside the base of the wall, and on a whim, he climbed up the wall and sat on it to eat melons.

He was so happy to see it, and he didn't know who pushed him, or his own butt slipped, and fell off the wall just like that, right in the middle of the two groups of people who were pushing vigorously. , Seeing that this person did not know each other, they all thought he was the person called from the other side, so they beat him together.

How can the rich second generation who have done everything except study since childhood be willing to suffer such a disadvantage?
He said he fought back and fought back.

In the end, the police arrived for a medical examination, and the two groups of people were almost pushing each other, and they didn't hurt each other much at all.

On the contrary, it was Li Xi who descended from the sky, greeted them until his face was bruised and purple.

This matter was caught later, Li Xi was able to settle it with his brother, but he himself didn't want to study anymore, so he left Fucheng University so neatly.

In short, this kid is tall, handsome and rich, with almost no shortcomings except his brain is not very good.

Maybe the brain is not very good, which is not necessarily an advantage.

But no matter how much you miss me, isn't it a bit too much to call in the morning?

Qin Manjiang pressed the answer button:

"how?"

He asked suspiciously with toothpaste foam in his mouth.

"Brother Qin, I'm watching a movie!"

Li Xijiu's voice was quite excited.

Qin Manjiang turned his head and glanced at the time on the TV, watching a movie so early?
"Oh, so what?"

Qin Manjiang brushed his teeth and asked casually.

"This movie is so interesting, everyone is very immersed, the girl next to me was scared to cry, but her face didn't take off makeup? It was painted so white."

Li Xi muttered.

"The world is so big, it's normal for some people to be so white."

Qin Manjiang clamped the phone with his right shoulder and the side of his face, and squeezed out the shampoo with difficulty.

Speaking of this, Qin Manjiang was stunned. The movie theater was already open at 07:30 in the morning, and judging from Li Xi's "everyone", there were actually quite a few audiences.

"It makes sense," Li Xi seemed to be persuaded by Qin Manjiang, but soon exclaimed, "Wow! Brother Qin! There is an old man who was sitting in the second row just now, and when I was talking to you, I sat down Come to the line in front of me, so fast!"

"The world is so big, it's normal for some people to move fast, and your own movements are not slow."

Qin Manjiang squeezed the shampoo on his head and replied while rubbing it.

"That's right..." Li Xijiu's voice seemed to be a little softer, and after a while, he asked with some doubts: "Brother Qin, the old man in the front row suddenly turned his head and looked at me, did I speak too much?" He heard the loud noise... He turned his head and didn't even move his body, it's amazing..."

"The world is so big, it's normal to have a few people with strange bones."

Qin Manjiang still didn't take it seriously.

"You didn't call me early in the morning just to tell me you were watching a movie, did you?"

"Ah?" Li Xijiu's voice was full of surprise, "What early in the morning? Isn't it past ten o'clock in the evening? I thought you should get off work after doing any part-time job, so I was going to wait for you to watch a movie, and then we went to eat Some supper is coming."

As soon as Qin Manjiang stopped washing his hair, his body stiffened for a moment. At this moment, a clear broadcast came from the TV:
"In the early hours of last night, a fire broke out in a movie theater at No. 36 Tiannan Road in our city. No survivors have been found so far. The specific casualties are still under investigation..."

Qin Manjiang held his breath subconsciously, he knew that Li Xi was not a joker.

"Where are you watching a movie?"

"Tiannan Road!"

"What's the date today?"

"Ah?" Li Xijiu's voice seemed very inexplicable.

"Answer me seriously, what day do you think today is!"

Qin Manjiang's attitude stunned Li Xi, but soon, he replied honestly: "August NO.11, brother Qin, what's wrong with you?"

That sentence seemed to flip a switch of some kind.

At this moment, the whole world seemed to be soaked in water, and everything around him began to twist strangely, and a sense of suffocation that was not strong but real also appeared suddenly.

"Qin...Brother Qin, everyone in the movie theater suddenly turned to look at me..."

Li Xi's stammering voice came from the phone, this was the first time Qin Manjiang felt the emotion of cowardice from that kid.

Qin Manjiang took a deep breath, but he didn't realize that the more unspeakably strange the situation, the faster he calmed down.

"Don't be afraid, they are just weird people. Don't act rashly. Answer me first. Is your movie theater at No. 36 Tiannan Road? What time is it?"

Qin Manjiang's description was like a bunch of crazy words, most people would not believe it, but Li Xi did.

"It's... No. 36, Tiannan Road, Critical Cinema, it's August NO.11 at 31:[-]pm."

"I'm asking you, isn't it a joke?"

"Ah? What a joke, isn't today just..."

"..."

"Keep in touch, I'll figure out a way."

"No... no way, bro, I have to hang up, I can't stay here anymore..."

Before he finished speaking, the phone hung up.

There was a blind tone on the phone, and the morning news about the fire at the Critical Cinema was still on.

The fire has been extinguished and firefighters are searching for possible survivors.

But judging from the extent of the fire shown in the news footage, everyone in the cinema last night should have had an accident if nothing happened.

After drying his hair, Qin Manjiang stopped in mid-air with his hand reaching for his glasses.

Brain activity and time seemed to stand still for a moment.

That pair of glasses was given to Li Xi before the college entrance examination.

Frankly speaking, he and Li Xi are completely different in how they behave, regardless of family background, personality, or hobbies.

Li Xi is an extremely blind and optimistic fool. The only time Qin Manjiang was drunk was when Lao Qin passed away. He was afraid that the drunk Qin Manjiang would catch a cold, so he took off the table board and put it on Qin Manjiang. Get a beating from the restaurant owner.

"The Critical Cinema was severely burned, and the chances of surviving the trapped people are extremely slim. We can see that several charred bodies have been transported out of the scene..."

Rationally speaking, Li Xi is already dead.

The scene has been burned like that, no one can survive, and it is even difficult to extract DNA for identification.

But... I received a call from him.

He is still alive at 11:10 in the evening of August NO.30, and he can call himself in August NO.12!
Qin Manjiang took a deep breath.

Li Xi at this moment is like Schrödinger's cat, in a state of superposition of life and death.

This made Qin Manjiang hesitate. If one thing is not done, it may have two results, but once it is done, there will only be one final result. Human participation directly interferes with the result.

The current Li Xi is still alive last night, but once he gets involved and destroys a certain delicate balance, or discovers him from among the dead being carried out, all the unknowns will collapse into one result——his death .

Qin Manjiang rubbed his already long hair vigorously.

He couldn't explain this unusually weird event that couldn't even be called to the police.

But, just leave it alone?
At this time, the phone screen suddenly lit up. It was a text message. The sender was Li Xijiu. There was very little information, but it was very clear. There were only two words:
"help me!"

Qin Manjiang let out a long breath, and all his entanglements and doubts disappeared, because he clearly saw the other party's request.

After washing his face with cold water, he was not in a hurry to go out to the scene of the fire. Instead, he read the relevant reports of the fire, as well as some true or false information on the Internet.

He was silent, and returned a message to Li Xi:
"Hide well and live."

"I'll bring you back."

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