Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Find

Ling Zhijie looked at his watch and asked me: "Is this what happened?" I closed my eyes and took a long breath, but the oppressive feeling in my chest still surged up like a mountain, which was suffocating . I don't know what else to say to this man in front of me because he doesn't believe what I say.To be honest, I didn't trust myself either, so I didn't nod or shake my head. "What are you thinking now?" Ling Zhijie was always used to asking others like this.I know what he means by asking this question, because when he asks this sentence, he uses the kind of eyes that seem to be able to see through your heart.His eyes were a bit scorching, I looked away and turned to the wall clock on the wall, "It's five o'clock, you go back first, you have to go to work tomorrow."

"I said He Ning, what do you mean? According to what you said, Xin Jie is missing, and you are asking me to go back now? What on earth are you thinking?" Ling Zhijie stood up, walked to the edge of the bay window, He poked his head out, looked around for a while, then turned around and continued, "You said you saw her jump from here, but you didn't see anyone or blood below...you said..." "I didn't say she jumped!" I also stood up and interrupted him. "Well, well, you saw her fly away from the window? Has she grown wings?" "She cried, she cried before she flew out and told me not to look for her, that's it."

Ling Zhijie came back from the window, looked at me with those scorching eyes for a full ten seconds, and then asked, "Did something happen between you?" I knew what he was thinking, so I replied: "Nothing happened, she was reading a book on the bed, I was going to take a shower, that's it, it's very simple." "Not this, I'm asking if you have ever had a fight?" Ling Zhijie's eyes continued to press tightly. "Have you ever seen us quarreling?" I returned him with the same look. "I haven't seen it, but I know you guys had a fight." "Ling Zhijie, let me tell you, it was all a few years ago, don't mention it to me! Besides, you saw her yesterday, and you think her complexion How about it?"

Ling Zhijie finally shifted his gaze away, sighed, and asked in a calm tone: "Ah Ning, you are the person I trust the most, but I can't believe what you told me tonight. No one can believe it, you know?" He paused, as if he was waiting for me to say something, but I knew it was useless.Seeing that I didn't move, he seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it, and ran to the living room. When he came back, he had an extra cigarette in his mouth and handed me one at the same time.I took it subconsciously, and he lit it for me, then sat down next to me without saying a word, smoking one after another.There was a severe pain in my finger, I snorted softly, and then found that the smoke had burned out, but I hadn't put it in my mouth.

I got up, and while pinching the cigarette butt into the ashtray, I said to Ling Zhijie: "You go back first, that's it for tonight, I'll sleep for a while, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." After smoking the last cigarette, Ling Zhijie also stood up, patted my shoulder, and said in a calm tone: "A-Ning, don't think too much, everything will have a reasonable explanation, Xin Jie is missing , not dead, so you... also have a good sleep, maybe tomorrow she... will come back." I looked up at him and replied, "Maybe, maybe I'll be back tomorrow." Ling Zhijie walked out of the bedroom, and I subconsciously followed him to see him off.When he closed the door, he looked back at me meaningfully and said, "Ah Ning, I know you must have something to hide from me. Something must have happened between you, but I won't force you now, wait until you think about it." Come find me when you get it clear!"

I smiled wryly, why should I hide from you about what happened tonight?It's just that you can't believe this matter so far, hehe, to be honest, if I didn't see my wife disappear strangely with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it myself. Ling Zhijie left, I went back to the bedroom, looked at the bay window, it was still closed.I didn't want to close it, because a ridiculous idea suddenly appeared in my mind, maybe my wife would fly back from there in a while. For more than four hours, I searched every corner of the house, and asked the security guard on duty to search the entire community, and even looked at all the surveillance cameras. This is the effort that Ling Zhijie and I have made after rushing over, but, no result.

I stood in the empty bedroom and looked at my watch. It was already six o'clock in the morning, but the winter night was too long, and the world outside the window was still shrouded in darkness.I'm still fidgeting, I really can't believe that my wife just disappeared without a trace, no, she must be somewhere right now, but where is this place?I walked to the bay window again, stood up like my wife, looked back at the bedroom, and then stared at the deep darkness downstairs. This is the sixth floor, with a height of more than 20 meters. If you really jump down, the possibility of surviving is too small. Even if you can survive, you will definitely leave marks on the ground.However, Ling Zhijie and I have already checked the open space downstairs and found no trace.

So, she didn't jump off?flew away?This was my first instinct, but obviously, it didn't fit my worldview.What else is possible?What else is possible? ……correct!She went to the fifth floor!Why didn't I think of it? !On the fifth floor lived a family of three, the hostess was Luo Xianmei, a housewife.She puts a coal stove in the corridor to boil water all the year round.She greeted us whenever we passed and she was a very nice person.She gets up earlier, basically around 6:30 every morning, and I can hear her kettle beeping. It was already ten past six at this moment, and she should have gotten up about the same time.

After hesitating for two seconds, I rang the doorbell of Room 502.The door opened before the first bell rang. "Hey! It's you, who do I think it is? What's the matter, you woke up so early today?" Luo Xianmei, like most middle-aged women, is slightly fat, and speaks full of air. If she doesn't deliberately lower her voice, her voice Can be heard throughout the corridor. "Sister Mei...it's early too...I just wanted to ask, did you hear any strange sounds last night?" Luo Xianmei's eyes flashed, and she asked, "What strange sounds?" "That is, for example, is there any strange noise outside the window?"

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw her frown, and then said: "I didn't hear anything outside the window. But I just fell asleep yesterday, and I heard someone ringing the doorbell upstairs, and it kept ringing. Later, there were many people going up and down the stairs. I wanted to come out and take a look at that time, but the old ghost told me not to mind my own business. I said, could it be that our building was burglarized? Your things Stolen? Tell me, tell me quickly." I smiled awkwardly and said, "No, it's not a thief, it's a few friends of mine who came over. I'm fine now, I'm going to go to work, and I'll tell you later."

"Hey, let me say, Xiao He, why are you like this? If you have anything to do, please tell us. You are all neighbors. If you look down and don't look up, if you need my help, just say it." I dealt with it casually and went back upstairs.What is certain now is that the wife did not fall downstairs. I laughed at myself, thinking that even if she wanted to turn over, she would not be able to turn downstairs with her skill and courage. Could it be that she really just disappeared in a way that I can't understand at all? If I hadn't tried every possible situation, I would always have doubts about my wife's disappearance. I always felt that my wife was not far from me at this moment, but where could it be?My thoughts returned to the question outside the window again. If it is possible to turn down, then it is also possible to turn up, that is to say, turn to the seventh floor? I didn't think about this before, because the seventh floor has never been occupied and is empty.I habitually excluded the seventh floor.Thinking about it now, since there is no one living there, the possibility of turning up is higher than the possibility of turning down. Of course, the premise is that my wife has a reason to leave me and turn up.I don't know if my mind is sober or cloudy now, but I think it is necessary to verify every possibility, otherwise I won't give up.Two minutes later, I took a flashlight, a screwdriver and a hammer and started to walk upstairs. At this time, the beep of the kettle just came from downstairs. I looked at my watch and it was exactly half past six. "Xiao He, come down!" I was about to go upstairs when Luo Xianmei shouted from below.Although there is no one living on the seventh floor, it is not appropriate for someone like me to go to the door with a screwdriver and a hammer. I had to stop and asked, "Sister Mei, what's the matter?" She ran up and dragged me down, saying, "What are you doing up there? Didn't I tell you before? Don't go up!" I felt inexplicable, "What did you tell me? Why can't you go up?" Luo Xianmei pulled me to the door of her house before stopping, glanced at the tools in my hand, and her face darkened, "Are you still going to go up? To pry open the door?" "I... I just want to go up and see if there is any problem with the wiring." Looking at her aggressive eyes, I lied. "Hehe, I don't know what you're doing up there?" She paused, her eyes lit up, and she suddenly lowered her voice, "I know you want to go upstairs and have a look, and I know you asked me if I heard you at night. Why is the strange sound. I tell you, I know all this, since you moved in!" I froze for a moment, not quite understanding what she meant by this.Then her expression became mysterious: "Did you hear the sound of children playing marbles upstairs at night? And the sound of high heels walking around?" I shook my head, and to be honest, I'd never heard her say those voices.But since she said that, it showed that she knew something, so I nodded again, wanting to hear her continue. "Hey, let me tell you, did you hear it or didn't you hear it?" I nodded again. "Since you heard it, you still don't understand?" "Understand what?" "There's no one living up here!" It may be that I had been immersed in the emotion of my wife's mysterious disappearance before, but I was suddenly turned around by her voice. She meant: the upstairs is haunted.But, to me, that's pretty bullshit.I don't believe in "ghosts", not at all. But I still pretended to be enlightened and said: "Oh, I see, don't worry, I won't go up." Luo Xianmei looked at me in disbelief, "Did something happen to you last night?" "It's nothing, you can take the water in quickly, or it will be cold. I have to get ready to go to work." Before Luo Xianmei entered the room, she took another look at me and whispered, "You have been here for so long, and I won't hide it from you. There used to be a family of four living upstairs above you, and they all died."