smuggler

Chapter 229 The Ninth Floor That Doesn't Exist
"What happened to you just now?" Chu Yuan whispered in my ear.

I thought of the two men and women dressed as migrant workers I saw at the station, and asked, "Do you remember the dream I told you last night, the one who helped the ghost fisherman fish!"

Chu Yuan hummed, and asked cautiously: "What's the matter... Did you see something just now?"

I quickly said: "I hooked up two corpses, just now, I saw these two people!"

Strangely, Chu Yuan didn't react at all, instead he was unexpectedly calm.

He fell into silence and didn't speak for a long time.

I was very surprised, so I asked again: "Is this the ghost fisherman trying to give us some hint? Do you... know something?"

After a long time, Chu Yuan's voice came slowly. He sighed and said, "You made your wish!"

The tone of Chu Yuan's words made me stunned...

There must be something he didn't tell me, I saw two living "drowned corpses", why is he so calm?

This matter has something to do with the ghost fisherman, so it must be very meaningful.

Chu Yuan said calmly: "The two people you saw just now are not good people, so you don't need to care so much!"

"What do you mean?" I asked, frowning.

Chu Yuan said: "The two of them are human traffickers, and they didn't come here to visit relatives at all."

I immediately thought of the cautious, timid and evasive eyes that I saw when I saw the two seemingly honest migrant workers dressed up at the station.

At the time, I thought it was simple and unpretentious, but after Chu Yuan said this, it completely changed.

That kind of caution and fear, including the fear in my eyes when I asked them what they were going to do in Huangjiahe, suddenly turned into cunning, the fear of being discovered by others.

I have never seen a human trafficker, but I hate such things as human traffickers.

Because when I was young, I heard that there were children in the village playing with their bellies at the gate, and strangers from other places were coaxing them with candies.

Children are simple in nature, they can leave by holding them, sometimes they use a rob, and when they approach, they ride a sidecar motorcycle with the child in their arms.

In fact, there are usually two people doing this kind of thing.

If those two migrant workers were really human traffickers, they would probably not do good things if they went to Huangjiahe.

I was restless and in a trance in the car.

The sudden appearance of two migrant workers always makes me uneasy.

There is always a vague premonition that these two people will not appear for no reason, and they may have a certain relationship with the ghost fisherman.

The car has been running smoothly, because I have stayed up too late these days and have not had a good rest.

My mental state has always been poor. Under the slight shaking of the car, I soon fell asleep.

After we entered the urban area, we found a place to have lunch, then took another taxi and told us the address. I was a little motion sick.

Therefore, I was in a daze along the way, leaning on the back of the chair was like falling into the abyss.

After arriving at the destination, it was already in the evening, and I was awakened from the haze. After getting off the car, the rainy weather was blown by the wind, and I immediately woke up.

We are located in the outskirts of the urban area, and the surrounding scenery is barren, not much different from the countryside, with the lights of the city in the distance.

In front of us was an old residential building about ten stories high. Judging from the dilapidated appearance, this building was at least 30 to [-] years old.

A sign was hung outside the gate in front of the building: "Waterworks Community".

I looked up and saw that this residential building was about ten floors high, with three units in total. The whole building looked strange, so it stands to reason.

It is the time for people to play with mobile phones and watch TV after dinner, but most of the windows here are dark.

There were only a dozen or so sparsely populated houses, with pale yellow lights shining on them, making the whole building look extraordinarily gloomy.

The snake curse on Bai Yang's body cannot be suppressed with the yin-yang hairpin, his soul must enter the realm of death, and use the rules there to dismantle the poisonous curse.

Only one person knows the way to enter the bardo, that is, the realm of death, and that person is in this building.

"The person the ghost fisherman mentioned lives on the ninth floor."

When I came to the unit building, as soon as I opened the door, I smelled a strong smell of dust, and the flickering lights in the corridor shone over, gloomyly reflecting on everyone's faces.

After entering the elevator, we were all dumbfounded. This building is [-] floors high, but the button for the ninth floor is missing.

Up from the eighth floor is the tenth floor.

"It's really evil." Bai Yang frowned and left the unit building, looked up and counted: "Logarithmic, there are [-] floors in total, why is there no button on the ninth floor?"

At this time, in the duty room not far away, a fat, middle-aged security guard emerged, with a fierce face, pointing at us with a baton and shouting: "What are you doing? Who are you looking for?"

I whispered: "Let's go to the ninth floor."

When the security guard heard the ninth floor, the corner of his mouth suddenly twitched, and he said in a horrified tone, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can there be a ninth floor here?"

Hearing our question about the ninth floor, the security guard was taken aback for a moment, then his face turned pale immediately, and he said urgently: "When this building was designed, the ninth floor was removed. You have come to the wrong place, hurry up .”

In fact, many places believe that the fourth floor is unlucky. Some tall buildings will block the fourth floor, and the fifth floor is the third floor.

The same goes for the fourteenth floor, but this is the first time I've heard that the ninth floor has been removed.

Nine is not a bad number.

The security guard cursed us and told us to leave, I ignored him and pulled Bai Yang into the elevator: "Let's go up and have a look."

The security guard saw us entering the elevator, and cursed and cursed, but did not stop us.

I pressed down on the tenth floor, and when the elevator reached the tenth floor, I went out to have a look. There was a thick layer of dust on the floor of the corridor, and some garbage was piled up everywhere. The doors of several houses were locked, and on one of the doors, Also pasted a few talisman papers.

"There's something wrong with this building. It's very dark here." Chu Yuan also came out, frowning.

"Go down and have a look."

Bai Yang waved to me, and we went down the stairs, from the tenth floor to the eighth floor.

The security guard was right, there is no ninth floor here.

Is this weird?

I don't know which family suddenly let out a miserable cry of a woman. The sound insulation of the old house is not good, and the cry spread to the eighth floor, which made my scalp jump.

"Look for that security guard!" Chu Yuan said in a low voice after looking around.

We took the elevator back to the first floor, and the security guard was still guarding the elevator entrance. When he saw us coming down, he laughed and said, "What did I say? You still don't believe it."

Chu Yuan took a step forward: "Your surname is Jia? We were introduced."

The security guard was stunned, looked at Chu Yuan with weird eyes, and said in a bad tone, "What are you doing here? Who introduced you?"

Chu Yuan didn't say it clearly, but just smiled slightly: "What are we doing here, you should have guessed it, there is a problem with this building!"

The security guard's face turned pale, and he suddenly became very unnatural: "Are you here to see something?"

Chu Yuan didn't say much, but nodded slightly.

The guard's attitude changed immediately, and he said with a smile: "I told you earlier, this building is evil. It is a famous ghost building in our city. Before, there were always young people like you who came here to explore when they were full."

(End of this chapter)