Aoba Office

Yu Xiaoqin looked at the thing in her hand as if no one else was watching. She didn't even blink, it was very scary.

We walked into the room and called her several times, but she didn't even look at us.

The thin man closed the door.

There was only one small window in the room, which was still closed. The air stuck to me and no sound could be heard.

"Yu Xiaoqin, do you know Qingye Supernatural Agency?" I asked.

There were no chairs in the room, so the three of us stood beside the bed, almost surrounding Yu Xiaoqin.

Being surrounded by three strange adult men like this, she didn't feel scared or uneasy. After hearing my question, her body trembled and she slowly raised her head.

Yu Xiaoqin had never looked at me squarely before. Looking at her eyes now, I feel numb in my back.

There was nothing in those eyes, they were empty and lifeless, like a blind person. The color of the eyes also seems a little abnormal.

Yu Xiaoqin raised her head.

Without the cover, I saw what was in her hand.

It was a group photo, an old-fashioned photo. Both the texture of the photo and the wedding styles of the two people in the photo gave people a sense of the passage of time.

This should be the wedding photo of Yu Xiaoqin and her husband.

My surprise subsided and I said, "I know people from Aoba and know about the phone booth."

Yu Xiaoqin was still looking at me.

"Did you get a call from your husband?"

A faint smile appeared on Yu Xiaoqin's face, like an ordinary happy woman.

I felt sad, but I asked, "Are you sure that's your husband?"

The slight smile disappeared immediately.

Yu Xiaoqin stared at me expressionlessly.

"You only heard the sound, right? Can you tell me what you went through after your husband died?" I asked patiently.

Yu Xiaoqin still stared at me.

"You don't want to be cheated, right? Your husband definitely doesn't want to see such a thing. And if you really don't want to cheat, why did that ghost lie to you? What's your husband's situation now?"

Yu Xiaoqin's body trembled a few times, and her eyes slowly opened wide.

I saw the panic in her eyes.

This woman shouldn't be young in terms of age, but she doesn't look old. That abnormal mental state made her look weird. The first impression is that it is weird and out of place.

At this moment, Yu Xiaoqin seemed to have a bit of a living person.

"Can you tell me what you went through after that?" I tried to speak in a soothing and gentle tone, for fear of irritating Yu Xiaoqin.

Yu Xiaoqin trembled slightly, holding the wedding photo in her hand, her eyes kept turning in her eye sockets, unable to find a focus.

"Yu Xiaoqin, we want to help you." I said firmly.

Yu Xiaoqin's eyes fell on me.

"I also have an important family. I am also in trouble now. It's not that I am noble or sympathetic to you. It's just that what you encounter may also happen to my family. If that ghost is evil, I will eliminate him in advance ." I said.

Yu Xiaoqin seemed to accept my statement.

She slowly calmed down.

"I..." Yu Xiaoqin's voice was hoarse and slight as she started to speak, "I've been looking for it..."

"Looking for your husband?" I asked.

Yu Xiaoqin nodded, then shook her head, "He is dead, but the phone, as long as the phone booth..."

The fat man asked in surprise: "You want to contact your husband through that phone booth?"

Yu Xiaoqin's eyebrows softened and she touched the photo with her fingers, "I want to hear his voice, I want to hear his voice..."

She repeated, her fingers still caressing the groom in the photo.

The fat man breathed out.

The thin man opened his mouth but stopped talking.

I was still calm, "You've been looking for the phone booth. Any clues?"

Yu Xiaoqin shook his head, "I'm just looking. One...two...of the phone booths on the road were demolished...I kept looking..."

"Then you found this place?"

"Downtown, no more."

City appearance construction in urban areas must be started first and implemented most strictly. This may not be the case in the suburbs.

Some facilities that have been demolished in urban areas can still be seen in the suburbs. It may be abandoned with no one to manage it or demolish it, or it may be still in use due to the surrounding environment. The same public facilities often have two operating plans in urban areas and suburbs. Take buses as an example. There will be special short-distance buses in the suburbs, with special paintings and license plates, and the route names are also different from those in the urban area. This means they cannot enter urban areas and charges vary.

Yu Xiaoqin didn't have many clues, but the search process still had a certain rationality and logic. She wasn't completely crazy.

"When did you find this phone booth?" I asked.

"18 years." Yu Xiaoqin's memory is not a problem either.

"How did you find it?" I asked again.

Yu Xiaoqin's face seemed to be glowing, "Living here, every day, I go to the street. I heard the phone... the phone ringing. It was that... it suddenly rang. I turned around... ah..."

She seemed to be caught up in sweet and happy memories, her eyes sparkling like those of a child.

I can probably imagine that scenario.

She searched day after day, year after year, walking down the streets like a headless fly.

She must have had a panic attack when the phone booths in the city were torn down. She began to move to the suburbs and live in some urban-rural areas. That kind of place is usually rented by groups, the environment is dirty and messy, and no one manages it, and no one can manage it well. But only in that kind of place will some phone booths be preserved.

Most phone boxes should be turned into rubbish bins.

I don’t know if Yu Xiaoqin ever felt disappointed or gave up, but she finally waited until the phone rang.

Maybe she was still in a depressed mood when she heard the ringtone, but the ringtone must have brought her back to life.

Then she saw the old phone booth.

"Did you get the call?" I asked.

Yu Xiaoqin shook her head and said absentmindedly: "Wrestling, I missed..."

She was probably too excited at the time. When I rushed over, I fell down. When I got up again, the ringing of the phone had stopped.

"I picked it up, but there was no sound. I couldn't fight it out. I waited inside. The police were missing..." Yu Xiaoqin said with difficulty, somewhat incoherently.

"Are you asleep in there?" the fat man asked.

Yu Xiaoqin nodded.

"Then the phone booth disappeared and you were discovered by the police?" Fatty asked.

Yu Xiaoqin nodded again, "Let's go again the next day..." Her face became radiant again.

"Did you get the call?" I already had the answer.

Yu Xiaoqin had a happy smile on her face, and there were crystal tears in her eyes, "Ah... I got it..."

"What did your husband say to you?" I asked.

Yu Xiaoqin lowered her eyes, "No... I heard his voice and he called me. I kept crying. I didn't hear... Later, I fell asleep again..."

I couldn't help but frown, "I fell asleep both times. Are you feeling unwell?"

Yu Xiaoqin was stunned.

She'd obviously never thought about it.