chapter 5 black bracelet

The timing of this text message really hurt me ten thousand times.

It's over, we found the wrong person. It turns out that the old Liu mentioned in the old man's note is Lalo Liu , not Terry Liu as mentioned by Don !

Just when I turned around to leave, the broken wooden door in front of me opened.

Before I could see the person opening the door, suddenly, a hand stretched out from inside the door and grabbed my wrist tightly.

This is a dry and bloodless hand like a firewood branch. It looks like it will break under the force, but its strength is extremely great. I tried my best to break free, but was forcefully pulled in by it. .

In desperation, I got wise and shouted loudly

"Don asked you to save him!"

The person inside the door seemed to have heard my shouting and released his hold on my hand. Although in just ten seconds, my wrist was already bruised from being scratched.

I rubbed my wrists, turned around and was about to run away. A very hoarse voice came from the door, "Looking at your young age, you have a lot of dirty things on your body."

These words made me stunned. After hesitating for a moment, I slowly took back the front foot I had just stepped out.

The wooden doors were all pushed open, and a skinny old man in ragged clothes was leaning on a stick and staring at me. Most of this old man's hair had fallen out, leaving only two bunches of snow-white temples.

What made me nervous was that the old man's right eye was actually green. At first glance, it looked like an emerald inlaid on a dead tree!

"Ahem..." The old man lowered his head and coughed twice, then raised his head and looked at me.

"Is the Don you just mentioned Ryan Tang?"

I don't know why, but now I feel as if I am imprisoned by some kind of magic power. I just feel stiff and unable to move.

I nodded and said, "Yes, he asked me to come to you to save him."

I deliberately said something sarcastic. Don was not a human being, so the person he introduced was absolutely untrustworthy. If I honestly came here to deliver the goods, I was really afraid that the old man would eat me up in just a few bites.

"Chuck...cluck." The old man covered his mouth with his right hand and laughed after hearing this. The laughter was running back and forth in the dilapidated and dark corridor, which made people shudder!

"You bastard, you're already in danger, but you still have the guts to tip him off?"

I didn't know how to refute the old man's words. Then I thought, was he hinting that he was going to take action?

I subconsciously took two steps back, and he continued, "Have you always met a series of weird people recently?"

I really wanted to laugh when I heard what he said, and I cursed in my mind, "You have fucking green eyes, and you ask me if I always meet weird people?"

But I didn't dare to say these words. I just said "hmm". My palms were sweating. I wasn't thinking about talking nonsense with him at all. I was just thinking about how to run out quickly.

Suddenly an idea came to me, I sighed and said

"Old man, Don has met a powerful person. Let me tell you. From now on, I will be the one to pass the news between you two."

The old man was stunned for a moment, and I saw his emerald-like eyes move slightly.

"Come on, let me show you something."

After that, the old man turned around and was about to enter the house. When I saw the old man turning around, I cursed in my mind and ran away. When I was at the corner of the stairs, I heard the old man shout, "Don't let there be too many people..."

I couldn't hear the rest of the words clearly, so I just ran down the eighth floor as hard as I could.

The road was dark and dark, and there were several holes in the clothes, but he didn't care about them anymore.

When I got out of the building, I felt like I had been reborn, leaning on my knees and breathing heavily.

Suddenly, a hand patted my shoulder from behind. I screamed "ah" in fright and quickly ran away.

Looking back, I saw that the person photographing me was a short, fat uncle. With the faint light from the door, I could barely see his face clearly.

This uncle was about fifty years old. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked honest. However, he didn't know what he had gone through. There was a scar between the eyebrows on his right eye.

When the uncle saw that I was scared, he smiled sheepishly and said

"Sorry, young man, I saw you hunched over and leaning on your knees. I thought you drank too much and vomited here."

I thought it was the old man who had chased me out, but when I saw that this uncle was quite kind, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and said softly:

"It's okay. I found the wrong person and almost died of fright."

The uncle said "Oh" and said, "I have lived here for more than ten years. Let me see if you recognize who you are looking for."

I gasped and said, "I'm looking for an old Mr. Lalo Liu who can catch ghosts."

The uncle suddenly laughed when he heard this and said, "This is really fate. I am Lalo Liu, but what you said is wrong. I am not old, and I can't catch ghosts."

When I heard that this person in front of me was Master Lalo Liu, whom I had taken the risk to find, I almost jumped up with joy, quickly held his hand and said

"You must save me. I am recommended by sixth uncle of Tangwa Village to beg you."

Lalo Liu nodded when he heard this, "Oh, since it was introduced by sixth uncle, then you can come into the room with me and talk to me."

Although there was no way that the pudgy middle-aged man in front of him would be able to catch ghosts, he had no choice now that strange things were happening.

I timidly glanced into the doorway I just ran out of. Lalo Liu seemed to see that I was worried and said with a smile, "I'm here, don't be afraid."

Trembling, I followed Lalo Liu into the dark corridor again, which was like a devil's lair.

But seeing his broad shoulders and steady steps, I felt like I had some confidence in my heart, and I wasn't so scared anymore.

Lalo Liu lives on the third floor. There is nothing in the room except a black and white photo hanging on the wall and a pile of old furniture.

As soon as I sat down, I couldn't wait to say, "Master Liu, I know you are a capable person. I have caused trouble, so you must save me."

Then I told in detail the strange things that happened during the past two days of driving, including Don and Terry Liu who had just made the mistake.

After hearing this, Lalo Liu looked me up and down and said slowly, "Have you heard of the popular saying that water ghosts will replace dead ghosts?"

I heard about water ghosts pulling scapegoats when I was very young.

There is a big river not far from my home. A few years ago, a girl who went to the river to wash clothes drowned. Since then, this river has drowned one person every year.

People in the village say that the ghosts of people who drown in this river will be detained in the river. Only by finding a new ghost to replace them can they be reincarnated.

Lalo Liu went on to say:

"Ten years ago, the first driver pulled a car of people and fell into the reservoir. I think it was an accident. The second driver and the people in the car were the scapegoats of the people in the first car. The people in the third car also fell into the reservoir. That’s it”

When I heard this, I felt like I had a sudden realization. I nodded quickly and said, "This really makes sense. Now I am the fourth driver. Do you think it is still too late for me to resign?"

Lalo Liu shook his head and did not reply to me immediately. My heart was in my throat.

"What? It's too late? Am I dead?"

He moved his fat body and stood up from the chair with difficulty and said, "No, you can't resign, you still have to drive this car."

My biggest wish now is not to win five million in the lottery, but to return to the peaceful and ordinary life I had before, and stay as far away from the last bus on Route 13 as possible.

When I heard I had to keep driving, I felt like a big stone was weighing on my chest that I couldn't remove.

"Let me tell you this, you will be the one driving this bus for the first time in ten years. It is equivalent to you having a contract with Route 13. If you don't handle the matter well and let it go, it won't be so easy to get away with it. "

I was dumbfounded when I heard this. How could I believe that the No. 13 bus was still bound to me? Or was it the water ghosts who had the accident with the third bus that placed all their expectations on me?

I quickly asked

"Is there no other way?"

Lalo Liu turned around and entered the bedroom. After a while, he came out with a bracelet made of black beads and handed it to me and said:

"This bracelet can keep you safe for a while. You must remember to wear it when you go out in the car every day. Come to me after get off work on the 15th day of the lunar calendar this month."

Before I could say anything, Lalo Liu waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go back first, it won't be good if you stay here for too long."

Although he still had a lot of questions, he didn't dare to ask any more questions for fear of upsetting others. He bowed deeply to him, put on his bracelet, and turned around to leave.

After leaving the community, I kept looking at this life-saving treasure carefully.

This is an inconspicuous bracelet, just a dozen jet black beads connected together.

I don’t know what kind of material this bead is made of. It doesn’t look like wood, let alone jade.

It was already 9:30 pm when I returned to the dormitory. I didn’t want to get out of the car anymore, but remembering Master Lalo Liu’s instructions, I still went downstairs.

I put the bracelet on my wrist and looked down at it every three to five minutes, for fear that I would lose this life-saving treasure.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, I drove the No. 13 bus out of the station as usual. As usual, the villagers got on the bus one after another, talking and laughing. I originally thought that if I saw sixth uncle, I would just tell him what happened today. explain.

Unfortunately, he didn't take the car tonight.

I held back my urine before getting out of the car. After arriving at the paper mill safely, and after all the villagers got out of the car, I quickly relieved myself on the roadside.

The dark rural dirt road at night was full of potholes. When I turned back to get in the car, I fell down hard.

I muttered to myself, if this person were a little lower, he would fall when he walked. This is absolutely true.

On the way back to the station, I kept thinking about what Master Lalo Liu said to me. I drove to the reservoir in the blink of an eye, and with the help of the car lights, I suddenly saw a person standing in the middle of the road ahead.

I broke out in a cold sweat and quickly stepped on the brakes.

Fortunately, I braked in time and didn't hit anyone. I was breathing heavily and was about to curse when I lowered my head and suddenly noticed that my right wrist was empty.

The black bracelet is missing!

I'm obviously wearing it on my wrist, how could it be missing? I slapped my forehead.

"Damn it, I must have fallen off when I got out of the car to relieve myself."

When I was feeling scared, I looked in front of the car and was so frightened that all the hairs on my body stood on end.

The man standing in front of the car was none other than the first driver of Route 13, Don, who had been dead for ten years! !