ID number 019

The carpenter woke up frightened.

With a pale face, he put down the girl on his lap, stumbled and ran outside.

"Old Zheng, where are you going? What are you doing in such a panic? Old Zheng!" The carpenter's wife was pouring fish bones outside the house, and when she saw him looking like a ghost, she yelled suspiciously.

"It's something! Go to bed first, don't wait for me!" The carpenter called and ran, and he quickly ran to another carpenter's house, dragging him to find other carpenters.

Not long after, the carpenters gathered at Li Erban's house again. Everyone was going to wash up and go to sleep, but when they came out suddenly, they were at a loss.

If it weren't for the good relationship on weekdays, they would have turned their faces at Old Zheng and would not have come over.

"Old Zheng, what did you call us here for? Because you were in such a hurry that I didn't even put on my shoes."

"Isn't the coffin all nailed up?"

"Yeah, no problem, we checked before we left."

"..."

All the carpenters suppressed their temper and looked at Lao Zheng.

Old Zheng didn't speak. He shook his legs and slowly walked two steps towards the coffin, carefully checking the coffin nails. The nails were not inserted into the coffin.

Apparently no one had moved.

Old Zheng heaved a sigh of relief, his calves stopped shaking, he wiped his face with a splash, and wiped the sweat of his hands on the jacket: "Let's go back."

Everyone was baffled, and someone's temper broke out uncontrollably.

"It's time to come back? Why don't you give us an explanation when you come out at night? Sneak us to play, right?"

"No, I was frightened by a dream." Old Zheng laughed dryly.

Several people:"……"

"What did you dream about? Li Erban told you in a dream that the coffin wasn't big enough?"

"Okay, don't talk about it. Now that the town is in such a situation, who doesn't panic, it's not shameful to be frightened by dreams." The old carpenter turned his face away, "Go back, all go back!"

Lao Zheng left Li Erban's house with everyone, and when he crossed the threshold, he paused: "It might rain in the second half of the night, the door of Erban's house is not closed tightly, let's carry the coffin inside .”

A little carpenter couldn't help complaining: "There are so many things, hey, the dead are the most important."

The carpenters looked back and lifted the coffin.

As soon as they took a step, the carpenters felt something was wrong. After putting Li Erban's body into the coffin, they tried the weight.

The coffin is noticeably heavier now.

And it seems that it just weighs a person's weight!

When Lao Zheng thought of his dream, he couldn't help but shudder, and his wrist slid down with no strength.

The other carpenters couldn't lift the coffin stably, so they withdrew their hands one after another.

"Oh!"

The coffin fell heavily to the ground, splashing a cloud of dust.

The candles in the house were burned down to the buttocks, and the wind from the courtyard was blowing in, making the flames flickering, flickering and flickering.

The little carpenter stammered: "This, this, this, this coffin..."

He turned to look at the others: "Is there two..."

Before he finished speaking, he ran away screaming.

Lao Zheng and the others also fled Li Erban's house in a hurry.

Everyone stopped at the bright spot, and slumped on the ground in shock.

There were a few drops of water on the timid pants, and I was scared to leak urine.

"What dream are you having?" The old carpenter grabbed Lao Zheng.

"Old Zhao..." Old Zheng collapsed on the ground and said tremblingly, "It's Old Zhao, he's inside!"

"I dreamed that he fell into the coffin and built the cover himself." Old Zheng said to himself, incoherently speaking, "The nails are good, we have all made sure of it."

Then he asked some carpenters: "How did he get in?"

No one could answer, and they didn't dare to go back and uncover the coffin boards to see if it was Old Man Zhao inside.

Everyone sat blankly for a while, and Lao Zheng proposed to go to the old man Zhao's house. The others went with him, but found no one.

Now everyone panicked even more.

For them, whether it is a fish with the name of a townsman on its back, or killing itself by smashing itself, eating fish is equal to cannibalism, these are not as scary as ghosts.

The old carpenter spit on the wall and rubbed it with the sole of his shoe: "Listen to me, there is no one in the house, so it may not be an accident. The old guy smells so strong, it looks like he drank too much. Maybe this Where will it lie in the corner?"

"The coffin is..." The little carpenter trembled.

Several people looked at each other, the weight of the coffin was placed there, even if it wasn't Old Zhao lying inside, there was someone else.

It is impossible to have only Li Erban.

Regardless of the identity of the person inside, the nails in the coffin are good, and no one can get in.

It's the devil's doing.

There are ghosts.

They saw the answer in each other's eyes.

"Don't tell anyone, and don't say a word at home, just pretend you don't know anything!" The old carpenter stared.

Everyone agrees.

Talking about this kind of thing will only make the town even more uneasy.

"I don't want to catch fish anymore." Old Zheng walked in a trance, "Gao Degui said that if you grab your life, you will be struck by lightning."

"I don't want to either. It is written in the book my sister gave me that there are gods standing three feet above the head. People are doing it, and the sky is watching. It's not that the time has not come, and there is karmic reincarnation. I am very afraid of retribution." The carpenter whimpered.

A carpenter echoed: "Yes, if you eat other people's fish, you will be in fear for the rest of your life, and you will not be able to survive."

The atmosphere was depressing.

The old carpenter asked, "Did any of you catch your own fish?"

All shook their heads.

"I didn't catch it either." Under the moonlight, the old carpenter's thinning hair was more than half white. He said, "The fish tide will come in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. Then we can cooperate and find a way to find our own fish and not catch others. of."

Several people glanced at the old carpenter's slack bags under his eyes.

They are all thinking that a fish with someone else's name swims up to them, and it represents decades of life. Is it really possible not to catch it?

Li Erbanjia

The high-quality coffin boards in the wood were pried open, and Chen Yang stood by and looked inside.

Inside the coffin were two dead bodies.

One is Li Erban, and the other is old man Zhao.

Stacked.

Old man Zhao was on it. He was lying on his back with his eyes closed, his dirty trousers rolled up to his knees, no shoes on his feet, and the toenails and soles of his feet were covered with mud.

There are also a few wet muddy watermarks on the gown.

This is a fish-catching outfit.

Old man Zhao had a smile on his face, he looked very happy and satisfied.

Looking at it, Chen Yang had the illusion that the corpse would suddenly open its eyes. He called Chao Jian to help move the coffin board back.

"As far as the current situation is concerned, when the old man Zhao ate the fish named Li Erban by the river, his own fish was also eaten, so he died immediately." Chen Yang said his inference, "After that All the people who are active in the town are the dead old man Zhao."

"Then why did old man Zhao come to find Li Erban?" Chen Yang couldn't figure it out, "He took away Li Erban's life, killed him, and ran into the other party's coffin, what kind of message would this be? ?”

Chao Jian leaned on crutches and stood beside her: "I don't know."

Chen Yang was choked by his blunt answer: "Well, there are indeed too few clues, and I don't think there's much to unfold. Let's check again."

"It's less than eight o'clock now, and the back door closes at ten o'clock. We're not in a hurry to go back." Chen Yang put the phone back in his pocket, and pulled towards Jane and walked outside.

Not long ago, they found out about Li Erban's house from a townsman, and when they came over, they met carpenters who ran out of it in a panic.

At that time, Chen Yang thought to himself that Li Erban's family must have made a big discovery.

However, the reality is that Li Erban's family did make a big discovery, but they failed to extract mission rules from it.

Chen Yang wanted to go to other houses where the dead person lived, maybe he could find something similar in the dead person.

Not only the deceased himself, but also the situation of the other party's family should be paid attention to.

Chen Yang's neck was itchy, and the mosquito bag was about to be scratched by him. He had already experienced the trouble of this task from the very beginning. The town is not like a village, it has a large area and many people. In addition to local people, there are also businessmen from other places. It seems that they are all clues, but in fact most of them are misleading.

"Why don't the mosquitoes bite you?" Chen Yang scratched his neck and looked at Chao Jian, wondering.

Thinking of something, he said "Oh": "I see, you have heavy body hair, and mosquitoes are afraid of getting lost."

"..." Chao Jian snorted, "You are the only one who is smart."

Chen Yang twitched the corners of his mouth: "The two bumps on my neck were bitten at the entrance of the town when I entered the mission, and the few bumps on my arms were bitten later. The bumps are not big, and they are not very itchy."

"The mosquitoes in the town are not the same as those in the town. The mosquitoes in the town are milder."

Chao Jian glanced at Chen Yang's neck by the moonlight, the two bags were bigger and redder than before going out, and bloodshot, he frowned: "Go back."

Chen Yang was stunned for a moment: "Go back now?"

"There are a lot of mosquitoes." Chao Jian said.

Chen Yang was stunned: "Just keep walking, it's okay if you don't stop, and the mosquito repellent will help."

He had just finished speaking when he heard grumbling from the path to the left.

"There are a lot of mosquitoes, I really regret it, I shouldn't think that the sun protection shirt I bought last year is not good-looking, I have to wait for the new one to arrive before wearing it, and I shouldn't wear cropped pants, it's a disaster if the ankle is exposed, ah, ah, I'm going to die gone."

"Don't you have a bracelet?"

"Garbage, I was cheated, the buyer's show is all fake, they say it is super easy to use, super mosquito repellent, and it can be used for 48 hours to 72 hours, I just use it for a long time, it will not work, repelling mosquitoes ass , I will give a bad review when I go back!"

The big-eyed girl came out from the alley, and as soon as the spitting stopped, she waved vigorously at Chen Yang and Chao Jian, as if a fellow villager saw a fellow villager with tears in their eyes.

Chen Yang waited for her to approach Zhuzhu, and asked, "Where have you been?"

Zhuzhu said, "Just strolled around."

The big-eyed girl spoke to her at the same time: "We went to the small attic opposite the inn."

Chen Yang looked at Zhuzhu.

"Yes, I went to the attic and wandered around the town after staying for a while." Zhuzhu said, "We ate something casually, and wandered around until now."

The big-eyed girl asked Chen Yang: "What's the dinner at the inn?"

"Fish." Chen Yang said, "All kinds."

Big-eyed girl: "..."

"That's over. I hate fish very much. It seems that the dry food in my bag should be saved."

The big-eyed girl said, she glanced at Jane, and found that the corners of his mouth and face seemed to be injured, she rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

who hit it?

What are they missing?

Big-eyed girl secretly winks at Zhuzhu.

Zhuzhu's reaction was not as big as hers, and she didn't pay any more attention after glancing at her, nor was she curious.

Chen Yang's gaze moved down and landed on the phone between Zhuzhu's fingers: "Do you want to take pictures at night?"

Zhuzhu is a mobile phone held in both hands, she seems to like it very much: "I don't take many pictures, I just hold it."

"Holding it like this, the phone is covered with sweat." The big-eyed girl grumbled, scratching her face, and said to Chen Yang, "Mr. Chen, Zhuzhu and I have only met you and no one else. "

"The mission site is not closed. It's so dangerous. It's not easy to meet when we are separated. If something happens to someone, we won't know immediately."

Chen Yang raised his eyebrows, it was actually closed, it was just a larger scene.

He asked, "Are you going back?"

"Well, I'll investigate tomorrow during the daytime." Zhuzhu's sunscreen shirt is white and very long. She wears it open, and the hat at the back is buttoned up to cover her short blue hair.

"In this weather, you can't go out at night." The big-eyed girl complained, "There are not many mosquitoes before dark. After dark, my mother, the mosquitoes walk together all the way, so they are very affectionate."

Chen Yang: "..."

The big-eyed girl said: "People in the town are eating fish. Those fish bones, fish offal, etc. are dumped at the door or in the corner of the house, and they are very fishy, ​​which is especially easy to attract mosquitoes."

Chen Yang nodded in agreement, it was fishy.

At dinner time, the town was filled with the smell of fish, but now there is only fishy smell.

Everywhere.

It's as if the whole town is inside the belly of a fish.

"Mosquitoes don't bite pearls." The big-eyed girl said enviously.

Zhuzhu coughed twice: "Well, it's your physique that attracts them too much. I'll be with you, and I'll be in your glory."

Big-eyed girl: "..."

She wanted to ask Chen Yang for some mosquito repellent, but she was too embarrassed to open her mouth.

Chen Yang saw the little girl's thoughts and offered to give her a hand.

The big-eyed girl's excited hands were shaking, her heart was beating: "Thank you!"

"Mr. Chen, you are handsome and good-looking, you will definitely be able to go back alive, ah, no, you will live to the end, the last end, I bless you, bless you..."

The more he said, the more exaggerated he was, and he even made gestures, and he moved himself.

Chen Yang pulled his backpack without a word, and he remembered a sentence he had read somewhere, everyone has a performance personality in their hearts, but some are strong, some are weak, some keep disconnecting, and only come up once in a while .

Wen Qing belongs to the former.

Most people fall into the latter two categories.

Chen Yang talked about the matter between Li Erban and old man Zhao. He habitually showed his kindness first in the mission world, and took the initiative to show that he cared about teamwork, and then asked the two little girls if they found out.

"We found out that there are only adult fish, not children." Zhuzhu said, "Children will not suffer from this crime."

The big-eyed girl was immersed in the ghost story of two people sharing a coffin, her voice trembling: "Actually, I also suffer. When the parent dies, the child will have no home."

"We are not from this world, so there is nothing we can do." Zhuzhu sighed.

The four of them stood in pairs, one remained silent, and the other three suddenly fell silent.

"Oh, by the way, we didn't dare to go, madwoman. We entered a family in the west of the town!" said the big-eyed girl, "The owner of that house is Yang Erzhu. When he entertained us, he walked away from time to time. Every time, I was very nervous when I left, and very relaxed when I came back, which is very similar to when I took in the little milk dog."

"Zhuzhu and I suspected that he caught his own fish and raised it in the house."

"We wanted to sneak into his house to make sure, but it didn't work. His wife kept watching us." Zhuzhu said, "I guess we can only have a chance when the fish tide comes the day after tomorrow."

Chen Yang was thoughtful.

"gone."

A low, cold and impatient voice sounded in his ears, and Chen Yang's thoughts came back. He said to the two little girls, "I'll walk with my brother for a while. Be careful on the way back."

Chen Yang added: "If you see other people after you return to the inn, please tell us to meet at 09:30, and then we can exchange information."

The big-eyed girl watched Chen Yang and Chao Jian go away, she said ambiguously: "This younger brother is not that younger brother, that's great."

Zhuzhu was speechless: "What do you envy?"

"I also want such a good-looking brother." The big-eyed girl said suddenly, "Zhuzhu, you wear a white hat at night, it's creepy."

Zhuzhu trembled: "I didn't think there was anything at first, but when you said it, my hairs stood on end."

She quickly took off the hat of the sun protection shirt, rubbed her arms and said, "Let's go."

At the end, he said: "Go to the bright place."

"I know, I won't go to a dark place, in case a hand is suddenly stretched out..." the big-eyed girl stopped talking.

Chen Yang and Chao Jian didn't go to the Earth Temple to see the female lunatic, that place is not close to their current location, walking back and forth plus checking, it is very likely that they will miss the closing time of the inn.

They walked in one direction, and finally came to the back of the small attic opposite the inn.

It's all here, there's no reason not to go in.

Chen Yang looked up at the small attic in the night, he actually prefers the daytime to entering this kind of place with a strong taste of the Republic of China at night, but some things like night, and they only come out at night.

Just as he was thinking this way, a figure appeared at the door of the attic.

Chen Yang suddenly froze in place.

It wasn't until the figure got a little closer to him that he saw who it was.

"Ms. Xiang, it's you." Chen Yang greeted Chao Jian with a smile.

Xiangzi Musu was facing the sky, her skin was very white, and her hair was extremely black. Such a visual impact made her feel like a cartoon, unreal, and her voice quality seemed alienated against the dark background.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Chao."

Chen Yang raised his eyebrows. Among the group of taskers, only Xiang Zimu would call Chao Jian so formally, and everyone else was "your brother".

"Is there something going on in the attic?"

"No." Xiangzimo adjusted the left cuff.

Chen Yang noticed this detail of hers, to be exact, it was unreasonable, he called it down.

In the hot summer, you can sweat all over your body when you move or move. The reason why the artist wears long sleeves is that he is afraid of touching his body with dirt, so he wraps himself so tightly.

What is this woman for?

Sun protection?

No, sunscreen should be like beads.

Chen Yang took another look at Xiang Zimu's left wrist: "It's pitch black in the attic, and Ms. Xiang goes in alone, aren't you afraid?"

Xiang Zimu said, "I have a mobile phone and I turned on the flashlight."

Chen Yang: "..."

Xiang Zimu seemed to know Chen Yang's inner activities, she gave him another set of arguments: "I believe in past lives and present lives, I believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, and I also believe in karma. There is no dark place in my heart, so naturally I am not afraid to go into the dark place .”

Chen Yang said: "But this town is a mission world. The ghosts here will only kill people according to the rules. The rules set taboos, and if they violate them, they will be killed, even if there is no grievance in the background of the mission."

Xiang Zimu's eyes were very light: "I'm talking about me, it's just my personal view on life."

Chen Yang looked at her: "That's it."

Xiang Zimu asked Chen Yang, "Are you going into the attic?"

Chen Yang was about to answer, when Chao Jian said annoyedly: "Endless?"

Xiang Zimu left immediately.

The speed was so fast that Chen Yang didn't even realize it. He smelled the aroma in the air. It was the smell of Xiang Zimu's body. He wasn't sure if it was incense or bath products.

"I haven't chatted with her in detail yet, forget it, let's talk about it when we go back to gather." Chen Yang glanced at Jane, "You don't like her."

Chao Jian's face was full of gloom: "I hate all ugly monsters."

"Yes, the whole world is ugly."

Chen Yang turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and walked into the attic: "If we can go to the end and unbind our ID number, I will take you to see an ophthalmologist."

Twitching towards Jane's face.

The attic was empty and there was nothing there. Chen Yang walked from downstairs to upstairs, looked at the inn opposite, and looked straight past the VIP area on the second floor.

Go to the room where the merchants live.

The windows were all lit with light bulbs, and the Qijia Inn brought out the best hospitality for businessmen.

"I thought there would be a screen, a guqin, a table, a dressing table, etc." Chen Yang held up his mobile phone to take a picture behind him, "It should be a Buddha statue, Jade Guanyin, but I didn't expect it to be an empty building."

There was a creaking sound between Chao Jianga's teeth, if Chen Yang didn't smell the fragrance of milk, he really thought he was eating milk tablets.

Now Chao Jian doesn't even swallow the medicine, but just bites it into pieces.

Chen Yang suspected that Chao Jian was using bitterness to restrain himself.

"You bit the medicine, the taste in your mouth is not unpleasant." Chen Yang took off the backpack, "There are two bottles in the bag, one is plum garden, and the other is cold white water, you can take whichever you want Which."

Chao Jian suddenly became agitated for some reason, he poured two more pills into his mouth, stared at Chen Yang, and kept making the sound of opening and closing his teeth.

The light of Chen Yang's flashlight flickered over, and Zhao Jian's appearance was no different from that of a ghost.

"Let's go down." Chen Yang quickly put down the phone, and the light was facing the wooden board in front.

Chao Jian didn't move, he was still staring at Chen Yang, breathing heavily: "Do you remember what I said?"

Chen Yang asked blankly, "Which sentence?"

There was noise downstairs, which interrupted Chen Yang's conversation with Chao Jian.

Teacher Xie and Old Wu came back.

Old Wu was talking about Ms. Qiao's fault, saying that she was indiscreet and dared to mess around in the task world, as if she couldn't live without a man.

Teacher Xie exposed it mercilessly: "You thought you could have something to do with her, but you didn't expect that she would dismiss you and choose someone else. If she doesn't like you, you call her a bitch."

Old Wu's face was on fire: "That's not the case!"

Teacher Xie said rigidly: "Let's not say that this is the mission world. If you say you die, you will die. You wear a ring on your hand. People with families can't carry you behind their backs..."

Old Wu interrupted him angrily: "I said that's not the case, Teacher Xie, I call you teacher to save face, don't really treat me as your student, otherwise we won't be able to cooperate!"

A person came from the back door of the inn. It was Widow Zhou. She carried a lantern and stopped after walking for a short distance.

Widow Zhou didn't call Teacher Xie and Lao Wu, but just stood quietly by the side of the road.

Like a guide.

Chen Yang retreated into the attic, gently closed the half window, and whispered to Chao Jian: "We..."

The voice stopped because of a weight.

The young man took Chen Yang's backpack and put his whole body on his shoulders, holding a cane in both hands, and placed it across his neck: "Carry me."

Chen Yang: "..."

so suddenly.

Although Chen Yang's fingernails hadn't grown yet, they didn't affect his use. He didn't need to use his arms to support Jane's legs, and started directly.

The person on the back suddenly said: "I haven't taken milk tablets for more than half an hour."

"Ah? Ang." Chen Yang said while walking, "Is there nothing in your pocket? If not, then..."

A warm breath brushed against Chen Yang's left ear, brushed his cheeks, and approached his mouth and nose, accompanied by the young man's hoarse voice: "There is no milk smell."

Chen Yang sniffed it subconsciously: "Well, no."

It's all extremely bitter and medicinal, and it smells terrible.

When Chen Yang reached the stairs, Chao Jian got off his back, with two crutches on each side: "Take the backpack."

"It's dark, so I'll just carry you down." Chen Yang put on his backpack, seeing that Chaojian insisted on walking by himself, he had no choice but to give up, "I'll take care of it for you, walk slowly."

The stairs are made of wood and creak when stepped on.

Chen Yang's habit of counting came out unconsciously. He shone the flashlight down and said after counting: "I read a ghost story before, it was about counting stairs, one floor was added or one floor was missing, I was so scared that I didn't dare to climb the stairs alone, I had to drag my sister."

A boy's voice sounded beside him: "Really?"

When Chen Yang spoke, all the pores of his body opened in an instant, and a wave of coldness crazily penetrated into him, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

wrong!

The sound of the cane hitting the wood is different from the rhythm...

The people around her are not Chao Jian!

The young man stopped on the stairs below, turned around on crutches, looked at Chen Yang in silence, and parted his lips and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chen Yang tried to control his heartbeat and breathing, but found that there was little effect. He rushed down the stairs with a few strides.

A voice followed him behind him, with a slow tone.

"what happened?"

Chen Yang bit his knuckles vigorously, blood came out from the bite, the pain tied his crazily beating nerves, he turned his head nonchalantly: "It's nothing, let's go back to the inn, it will be closed anytime soon."

The boy stood on the stairs and looked at him: "Okay."

Chen Yang's back was covered with cold sweat, no, he couldn't leave, Chao Jian was still waiting for him in the attic.

And he felt that the way to get rid of this ghost was very likely to be here.

If you leave, you will never be able to get out.

Calm down, Chen Yang closed his eyes, the ghost was Chao Jian's face, the wounds from being beaten by Xiang Dong were all there, it was exactly the same as the real thing, not scary at all, it made him feel a little bit better, so he wouldn't be so scared that he couldn't think.

"Didn't you say you were going back to the inn? Why didn't you leave?"

Leaning on crutches, the young man walked towards Chen Yang, lowered his head, and smiled at him: "Why do you always say one thing and do another, just playing with me, brother."