Thriller Night Talk

Chapter 124: The number you are calling is currently out of the service area, please try again later.

Translator-Rhapsodite

Editor-Agneya, Proofreader-Ghostie

Friday, August 6, 6:45 p.m.

At the end of the ceremony, the Taoist priest invited by the Cai and Su families left with his little apprentices and the relatives and neighbors who came to help also left one by one. The living room, which was originally crowded with people, was finally vacant now, and only the elder sister of Su Lan who lived nearby brought them dinner from her home.

“I will be going back to the resort later.”

Sister Su gently held her sister’s hand and persuaded her in a coaxing manner.

“Your brother-in-law will come over later. Let him stay here with you tonight, okay?”

“There’s no need for that sister.”

Su Lan shook her head while wiping her tears.

“My classmates will be staying here with us tonight, so brother-in-law doesn’t need to come over.”

Su Lan knew that her sister and brother-in-law operated a B & B in the resort. The summer vacation was the peak tourist season. Everyone was staring at the turnover of these two months, and they really shouldn’t concentrate more on their bad things.

“Sister, you’ve worked hard these days…Go back to the resort earlier.”

Sister Su felt that her sister was right. Although she was still worried, she walked out of the door step by step.

It was a huge three-story building, and soon only Cai Mingjian, his wife, Wei Fuyuan, and Jiang Nan’an were left behind.

The house was suddenly too quiet.

As the sun slowly dipped in the west, Cai Mingjian turned on all the lights, so that the gradually darkening room became bright.

By the time the four of them ate dinner hastily in the living room, it was already completely dark outside.

During haunted times, the darkness was always unsettling.

Moreover, they lived in a village at the foot of the mountain in the scenic area. After nightfall, the streetlights were not as bright as those in the urban cities. Looking out from the living room window, one could only see the dimmed street lights and a few sporadic lights on the main road.

If the anxiety during the day was barely tolerable, then right now, looking out into the deadly darkness, Su Lan inevitably fell into a stiff, anxious state again.

She bit her fingernails unconsciously, and didn’t feel pain even when the bites bled all over her hand.

After Cai Mingjian noticed his wife’s unconscious actions, he hurriedly walked to her side, gathered her in his arms, and moved her away from the window.

“That…Xiao Wei…”

Cai Mingjian looked at Wei Fuyuan as if asking for help, “Will tonight…?”

He only said the first half of his sentence, but anyone could tell that he wanted to ask whether ‘that thing’ will appear tonight.

Although Wei Fuyuan was not a Taoist priest or a monk, as a capable person with Yin and Yang eyes and could ‘see’ inhuman things, it was better to have him than not to have him. Even if it was just for some kind of psychological comfort, it was still good.

Wei Fuyuan really gave the couple a sense of mental stability.

“You have already invited the Taoist priest to do the ritual.”

He pointed towards the yellow talisman attached to the beam of the entrance door.

“Those evil beings should not be able to enter, right?”

In fact, what Wei Fuyuan was worried about was the exact opposite of the couple’s worries. What he was afraid of was that the shadow would not appear.

If Wei Fuyuan hadn’t used his Eyes of Heaven to make sure that the Taoist they invited was a complete hack… he might have had to find a way to sneak out of the door and strip off all the runes on the windows and door beams.

Listening to Wei Fuyuan’s comfort, Cai Mingjian smiled bitterly.

He wanted to say that he had already sought several batches of Taoist priests, monks, and even women shamans, however, each time the results were very disappointing to him.

“It would be best if it really were to work once and for all…..”

Cai Mingjian said.

“In the past…..every time I invited someone to deal with it, it seemed to anger that dark shadow……making the situation even worse.”

He didn’t know that he had already said this to the two people in front of him in the [Thriller Night Talk], and he still murmured to himself.

“The first time, Xiao Lan almost drowned in the bathtub that night; the second time, the subway’s screen door opened inexplicably. If the passenger next to her had not stopped her in time, she would have fallen onto the rails…”

Recalling the past, Su Lan shivered with fright.

Cai Mingjian held his wife in his arms for dear life.

“So, I am worried about tonight……”

Seeing the pitiful appearance of the two, Jiang Nan’an acting impulsively out of love, jumped in front of the two, and said loudly.

“Don’t worry, we’ll be with you tonight…Ow!”

Wei Fuyuan pinched him hard behind his back.

Jiang Nan’an turned around and glared at Young Master Wei, and suddenly he came back to his senses.

——Oh shit! How could I forget!

He must have realised that he’d trained his energy to be completely righteous from a very young age, so his body was purely Yang in nature, making him a walking talisman against evil. Although Wei Fuyuan didn’t learn any magic before, he was very gifted and brought the power of merit and virtue from his mother’s womb, so ordinary evil things couldn’t get close to him.

Although they didn’t know what the real body of the “dark shadow” was, today they stayed here for a day, and the usual things didn’t appear at all. If they really followed Cai Mingjian and Su Lan behind them tonight, that thing might not really come.

——This is certainly not possible!

The two of them came to visit their old classmates, and it was okay to stay at someone’s house for one night, but it did not make sense to stay every day!

Of course, this kind of thing should be solved as soon as possible, and the time shouldn’t be dragged out!

Jiang Nan’an smiled awkwardly and hastily changed his mind.

“We will live next door to you tonight. If anything happens, we can hear it as soon as you shout!”

Cai Mingjian did not know what was going on in their minds, he thought they were afraid, but also knew that he could not force them, so he just squeezed out a wry smile as a response.

Although Cai Mingjian and Su Lan were scared to death, and were worried about when they would encounter the possibly enraged evil spirit because they invited the Taoist priest to do a religious ceremony. The night passed in an extraordinarily calm manner, not only did Su Lan not see the dark shadow but also did not encounter any bizarre accidents.

It was a silent night.

At 10:30 p.m., Wei Fuyuan and Jiang Nan’an said good night to the restless couple and took refuge in the room next to them.

Wei Fuyuan took out the bamboo tube given to him by Bei Quan from his backpack and released Guan Hu Su Ying.

“Go to the next room and keep an eye on it. Notify us immediately if you find anything unusual.”

Wei Fuyuan finished his instructions to the little fox, and after thinking about it, he added awkwardly,

“I’m sorry for troubling you.”

The snow-white fox waved its tail, nodded haughtily, and slid past through the wall, leaping out of sight.

Wei Fuyuan took out his phone again and started texting Bei Quan.

Bei Quan’s 4000-year old Nokia couldn’t install WeChat or other instant messaging apps, but the SMS function still functioned smoothly.

But Bei Quan was the type of person who does not like to return messages.

Wei Fuyuan had bombarded him with text messages at an average frequency of four messages per hour since he got on the high-speed rail, reporting his situation in great detail one by one, which was like a spring outing diary written by a primary school kid.

However, after a day of continuous tossing and turning, all he received were three meager replies from Bei Quan.

[I see.]

[Well done.]

[Continue to work hard.]

——Tsk, what type of boss vs subordinate attitude is this? I’m your boyfriend!

Wei Fuyuan flipped through the messages sent out today, and the more he looked at it, the angrier he became. He only regretted that Bei Quan was not in front of him, or he else would have nibbled out at least a dozen tooth marks all over his body, so that he would know who was the one truly in charge.

Of course, poor Young Master Wei also tried calling Bei Quan, but unfortunately, when the number was dialed out, all he heard was a cold electronic female voice.

[The number you have dialed is not in the service area, please try again later.]

Wei Fuyuan had no clue regarding Bei Quan’s whereabouts, or how remote his location was that it defeated even the great Hua Guo Mobile, the company who purportedly has cell phone towers even in the Taklimakan Desert.

Since Bei Quan could still reply to his messages, it proved that this bad signal may just be a coincidence.

So Wei Fuyuan gritted his teeth and began to type today’s 101 primary school kid travel report,

[I asked Guan Hu Su Ying to keep its eyes open, I hope that thing will quickly appear soon. But today it has not come out all day. I think it might be afraid of us, so we can easily estimate its strength by it!]

When the message was sent out, the chatbox was as still as a stone sinking steadily into the sea, and there was no reply or whatsoever.

Wei Fuyuan waited for ten minutes, and guessed that Bei Quan would probably ignore him, so he made up his mind to climb onto the bed and recharge his destitute energy.

———————–

At the same time, Bei Quan, Qingzhu, and A’Liu were led into the mountains by two police officers to personally check the ravine where Wang Baotai’s body was found.

The dumping site of Wang Baotai’s body was rather remote.

It was found next to a branch line along the provincial highway. It was said that only local pickup trucks transporting mountain goods would go this way. Although not so old and dilapidated, the concrete road had really begun to crack. If you’re traveling by car on this road, and didn’t fasten your seat belt, it was easy to be bumped up by 20 cm and hit your head on the roof.

Naturally, there was no hope of expecting any perfect electronic monitoring in such a remote area.

The police officer driving the car told Bei Quan and the other two, that they had obtained surveillance at the two closest locations to the accident site, and locked some suspicious vehicles. However, without more substantial clues, it would take time to check each one, and it was likely to miss the real suspects and there was a possibility of mistakes and omissions.

“Alas, you know, this kind of small place.”

The police sighed.

“There are few monitors installed. The hard disk capacity is small, and only keeps records of the last three days.”

Bei Quan and Qingzhu both nodded, indicating that they were aware of the difficulties.

Indeed, this was the northwest mountainous region and naturally can not have the advantage of high-definition surveillance everywhere in the big city.

Moreover, since the case had been notified to the “Special Seven Field Service”, it was evident that the ‘head’ judged that there were probably inhuman factors involved that are too tricky for ordinary people to deal with. If it was only investigated by the average criminal police officers, how could the murderer be caught? In addition, the safety of the police officers or witnesses were also a serious problem.

Now that the case had been handed over to the ‘Special Seven Field Service’, they won’t use conventional means such as careful monitoring but intend to use their own unorthodox methods to solve the case.

They set out at about 7 p.m. and the car reached the mountain road in the dark after nearly four hours. They finally arrived at their destination at 11 p.m.

The police officer in charge of driving the car turned up the brightness of his torch light, waved it ahead, and said to Bei Quan and the others.

“It should be this way.”