Chapter Two The Corpse
Xia was a regular here,he was quite familiar with this place.Soon,he was at the second floor.
He came into the first lobby he saw.Is it the one Zhang mentioned,he didn"t care,he only wanted a plug base where he can plug the charger kept with himself.
Though small,the lobby had necessary garbs for personnel to have a good rest.
The pleasant surprise was he found a plug seat on the wall,against which was a single bed.
He plugged the charger into the plug seat,leaning back on the bed.
Disappointingly,the cell phone still couldn"t be started.Whether it was out of power or was damaged,Xia didn"t know.
He intended to call his parents before,rea.s.suring them that he had found a good job.They had been worried about his job hunting issue Since his graduation, which gave him much pressure.
Nowadays,the rate of unemployment was on the rise.Even some of the top students from prestigious universities didn"t get a good job after graduated,no to mention others.
Xia had planned his future before.If he couldn"t find a job,he intended to study geomantic omen art with his grandfather.
In spite of whether geomancers were cheaters,they earned a lot.With one burial his grandfather earned 500RMB at least.People respected and trusted them.Xia"s grandfather said Xia was born a geomancer.Was it not his
parents" disapproval,he may already become a famous geomancer.
But it the latest job he would take,fortunately,he found a satisfying job.
It would be a great surprise when he drive Audi A6 to home some days later.
He felt really excited for this thought.He decided to keep it as a secret now,retaining the good new as a big surprise.
While smiling,he had to admit the company was very mysterious.
He couldn"t find any information about this company on line,actually,he remembered that he didn"t applied for the position.(For there was no information about this company on line,Xia certainly couldn"t apply for the position of this company! )
Another strange thing is,the middle-aged man who interviewed him previously seemed like a layman,furthermore,no company would be so brainless to provided a 20,000 monthly salary for a watchman of a library.
"Isn"t a conspiracy?"he wondered.
Xia shook his head,deciding to play by ear.Beg in danger of riches and honor.knowing there might have storm ahead,he was determined to go on.
The reality reward the bold and starved the timid.
"No more thinking,sleep!"
Xia decided to grab a couple of hours" sleep,and then swap shifts with Zhang.It is his duty,but the middle-aged man didn"t say he can"t get a nap.
He only said the duties were keeping watch at night and opening the door in the morning.
Xia got up to lock the lobby"s door.Then,he drifted off to sleep,curling up tight.
Xia was awakened for he wanted to p.i.s.s.He didn"t know how long he had slept.He grabbed the cell phone subconsciously,intending to look at the time.But suddenly he found there was something wrong.
He turned his head on left quickly,finding the door was open.
The darkness outside was creeping into the lobby from the 7or8-centimeter-gap.
The light outside must be turned off by Zhang,otherwise,he won"t see nothing,he thought.
"Zhangxiaoshun,is it you?"
Feeling pried,he get upsetting.
Holding his breath,he wait for a while,still silent.He felt a little released,getting off the bed as he really had to pee.
The feeling of being pried still remained.
He didn"t care much about it,approaching the door.But suddenly,the door was shut bang from outside.
Then,he heard a string of footstep fading.
"a.s.shole!Zhangtianshun!you a.s.shole!"
This went beyond Xia"s tolerance,well provoking him into rage.He didn"t have a very good temper.
There were only two persons in this whole building.As he was sleeping here before,the man prying behind the door must be Zhang.
How did he open the door?There might be a key to this door.Zhang had been working here for a long time,no doubt he might have keys.
"The b.a.s.t.a.r.d must do this to frighten me,pretending some kind of wight."
Xia spat out,tearing the door open and striding out angrily.
It was pitch-dark outside,just like he seeing from the door gap before.
As he can"t start the cell phone,he didn"t know the time.He returned to the lobby as to find a flashlight to against the darkness.
For his pleasure,he rummaged out a flashlight in the drawer of the bedside table.
Though not bright enough,it is useful under this circ.u.mstance.Without it, he might not even find the restroom .
With a flashlight in the hand,Xia got out of the lobby.In addition to the darkness,it was extremely cold outside.
"Zhangtianshun,the b.a.s.t.a.r.d must turn the air conditioner down deliberately."
The more he thought,the angrier he got.
He was so upset he forget to go to the restroom.He rushed down the steps,returning to the ground floor.
"Zhangtianshun!You there?"
The ground floor was as pitch-dark as the second floor.While shouting angrily,Xia wielded the flashlight to shine around.
"Zhangxiaoshun!I know you are here!Come out!Make it clear!Stop playing tricks!"
Xia scoured the ground floor but found n.o.body.
So Zhang was not here.
"Maybe he is upstairs."
Not finding Zhang in the ground floor didn"t make him giving up.He was always a staunch man.
Returning to the second floor again,he began to search for Zhang from one room to another,but still in vain.
Searching and shouting,it was a tough job,but he got no response.
It seemed as if ...Zhang was not here!
He went on searching the third floor,but the flashlight began to flickering.
"Oh,man,can"t be out of power?Now?"
He shaked the flashlight,but it was still flickering which made the scene indistinct.
As he didn"t find the switch before,he wouldn"t see anything if the flashlight was shut.He had to compromise,finding a restroom to pee and returning to the lobby on the second floor instantly.
He had no choice but to come for Zhang tomorrow.
While thinking,he went into a restroom on the third floor and choose the ladies room obscenely.
As known to every one,there is no p.i.s.soir in ladies room.Xia pushed one of the stalls" door,going into the cubicle.Just then,there came a flushing sound of the toilet from the next cubicle.
"Crash!"
His face changed when he heard the noise,because it meant there was someone in this room.
He hastily close the door.Covering his mouth with a hand and holding the flashlight in another hand,he squatted to see if there was a woman next door from the bottom seam .(He could identify the gender with the shoes.)
The flushing sound continued.
"ah!..."he shouted out as he saw a man looking at him face to face.
He was so frightened for the suddenly-appeare face,to make matters worse,he had never seen this face before!
It was a man"s face.
Calming down,he looked outside again,but the face was out of thin air.
However,he could kept hearing the flushing sound.
"Who"s f.u.c.king next door?"
Xia punched the part.i.tion yet it remained silence.He was really scared this time.
Hastily emptying his bladder,he went out the cubicle.He meant to return to the lobby on the second floor,unbidden, he approached the next door.
At this very moment,the noise of flushing was gone.The pitch-dark room was filled with deafening silence.
Xia was certain that the man didn"t leave as he had been paying highly attention to the next door and heard no sound of anyone pushing the door open and leaving.
But,it is strange that if the man was still here,why so quiet,no sound at all?
Xia hold tight the flashlight.He considered himself a good fighter,though was no match for someone like Tyson.After all,he had practiced a lot from the year in primary school until now.
Swallowing hard,regardless whether there was someone in the cubicle or who he was,he kicked the door directly.
Then...he saw a man leaning...
The man"s body was eerily bogged in the toilet with only his head visible.The still-wet blood saturated the ground nearby.
"dead!He is dead!"
Xia was on the edge of screaming,but he shut up his mouth rationally.
blood was still wet,the murderer must not go far away,that is to say,he was still in this building.
He was saturated with cold sweat when he thought that the murderer was in the same building ,furthermore,he might be in the same floor.
"Has Zhangtianshun been killed too?"
Thinking of Zhang"s disappear,he can"t help wondering.
While thinking,he found something more horrible.
A big blood fingerprint on each door!
Blood was still dropping down,apparently,it was printed on just now.
Xia ran to one of the door,throwing the door open,only to find there is another corpse.He was badly scared.
But this was a female corpse.
Then,he pushed every door open,and found...a b.l.o.o.d.y corpse in every cubicle.