Chapter 103: Ji Taimei

"Let's not get married, let's not get married, okay... Please don't leave us..."

Listening to the woman's crying coming from the computer seat opposite, Ji Taimei's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Scum."

What kind of thing is this, running into a scumbag playboy just by going online. Ji Taimei moved his hand away from the mouse, pretended to go get a drink, walked past the back of the machine where the sound came from, and secretly glanced at the guy sitting in the chair.

"This guy doesn't look handsome either..." Ji Taimei frowned, fished a bottle of toilet cleaner from the freezer, pulled the ring with a hiss, and took a sip with a heavy heart. He thought, do girls now like the drifter style?

Watching the scruffy guy hang up the phone and start playing games in front of the computer, Ji Taimei was puzzled, and then his phone rang too.

Looking at the caller ID, it was his mom calling.

Ji Taimei sighed, walked to the door of the internet cafe, leaned against the door frame, and answered the phone: "Hello, Mom? What's the matter. No... I'm not secretly going online, really not. I'm at a classmate's house writing homework with him. Really, if you don't believe me, I'll go back and you can check..."

"Just say I'm not at the internet cafe... What did you say?"

Ji Taimei still wanted to quibble, but heard a woman's crying and sobbing from the other end of the phone, trying hard to suppress it. His heart was in a mess, and he hurriedly said: "Mom, what's wrong with you? I... I'm at the internet cafe, okay? Don't cry. It's not good for a pregnant woman's body to be too happy or too sad. I, I'll go home right now, I'll go home right now, go home right now."

"No, don't go home!" The woman on the other end of the phone cried even louder, saying somewhat neurotically: "Don't go home, absolutely don't go home, you know? Don't come find Mom... Woo woo, Taimei, you have to hide, hide far away. When it gets dark, go to Grandma's house in the suburbs and protect your sister..."

"Mom, what on earth are you talking about?" Ji Taimei was full of confusion and hurriedly asked: "What on earth happened at home? Why don't you let me go home? Where's Dad? Speak, Mom, what on earth is wrong?"

"Don't ask anymore, don't go home, absolutely don't go home..." The woman's voice on the speaker gradually suppressed her crying, and there was a bit more reason in her words: "You go to the station in the west of Yun City first. Mom left something for you in the third mailbox from north to south. Take the things inside, go outside the city to find your sister, and absolutely don't come back."

"Absolutely don't come back! Otherwise, even if I become a ghost, I won't let you off!"

The phone hung up.

Ji Taimei tried to call his mother's number several times, but failed to connect. In his anxiety, he wished he could return home immediately to confirm his mother's situation with his own eyes, but reason told him he couldn't do that. Ji Taimei's mother was a very strong-willed woman. With that tone in her voice on the phone, if he didn't listen to her, he really didn't know what stupid things she would do.

"Damn it!"

Ji Taimei stuffed his phone into his pocket, drank the cola in the can in one gulp, and walked to the front desk of the internet cafe to check out. The guy before was still playing games in front of the computer. The sound of gunfire and the explosion of airplane bombing came from the speaker under the monitor. He was very focused on shooting.

Human joys and sorrows are not connected. He only felt noisy now.

Ji Taimei took back the unused internet fee from the manager, put on his coat, hurried out the door, and used a ride-hailing app to call a car to the West Suburban Station.

A few minutes later, the car arrived. Ji Taimei sat in the passenger seat and said straightforwardly: "Master, West Suburban Station." The car drove out of the street and left the small alley where this small internet cafe was hidden.

The manager at the front desk leaned out somewhat curiously, looking at the back of the car driving away, and said to himself: "In such a hurry, did something happen at his home?"

The manager watched the car turn a corner and disappear from his field of vision, and sat back at the front desk.

But neither he nor Ji Taimei noticed that the man who had been silently shooting in front of the screen before had disappeared at some point.

"Master, hurry, please try to be as fast as possible." In the car, Ji Taimei urged anxiously.

The driver was not old, looking only in his thirties. He was still wearing a dark blue security uniform. It looked like he was a security guard from some residential area running a part-time job after getting off work. Ji Taimei couldn't help but worry about his driving skills. But facts proved that his worry was superfluous. The driver's driving skills could be called superb. He stepped on the accelerator to the end all the way, turned the steering wheel with ease, and drifted through the intersection several times in the last few seconds of the green light. The whole car was like a feather flying close to the ground, lightly passing through the bustling streets of Yun City.

It wasn't dark yet when he sent Ji Taimei to the entrance of the West Suburban Station.

"Thank you so much! Big brother, you are simply Fujiwara Takumi's dad!" Ji Taimei paid the taxi fare with great gratitude and hurried off the car to run toward the station.

The sky was getting dark. A golden sun gradually sank into the water surface of Yunmeng Marsh, smearing a layer of powder called evening glow on the sky of Yun City. The heavily made-up clouds floated above his head, swaying, stirring Ji Taimei's thoughts into a mess.

He couldn't control his thoughts about what his mother meant by those words on the phone? What on earth happened at home? Why didn't anyone answer his father's phone when he called several times in the car?

No one could answer his doubts. Ji Taimei ran into the West Suburban Station panting, carefully finding the third mailbox from north to south.

The mailbox was empty. In modern society, basically no one uses letters to contact. The symbolic significance of these mailboxes in the old city station is far greater than the actual significance. Only the appointment and removal of civil servants and university admission notices and other written documents go through the postal system every year, as well as the death notices of soldiers, etc.

Ji Taimei opened the mailbox. A pure white envelope lay quietly in the empty iron box, the envelope sealed with lacquer, and written in the lower right corner: 【To my dear son】.

Tearing open the envelope, inside was an exquisite piece of stationery dotted with light pink cherry blossom patterns. He knew his mother liked cherry blossoms the most.

The beginning of the stationery was a line of neat handwriting:

"When you see this letter, Mom might already be dead."

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"Don't be sad for my death. You must live on. 'They' have already found us. They are the most terrifying things in the world, more cruel than beasts, more vicious than evil ghosts, more insidious and cunning than any conspirator you can think of."

"Don't go home, don't try to find Mom. When you pick up this letter, 'they' might already be watching you."

"You have to go to the suburbs, take the last bus at exactly ten o'clock at night to Grandma's house. Only when you get there will you have a chance to live."

"After getting off at the station in the suburbs, you have to walk through the small road outside the village to Grandma's house. Remember to look at the precautions on the back of this letter. It is best to memorize them all. It can protect you."

"Mom loves you."

A feeling of inexplicable sourness surged into Ji Taimei's nasal cavity. He turned the stationery over. On the back, there were also a few lines of neat handwriting, but unlike the handwriting his mother left on the front of the stationery, the words on the back were standard printed Song typeface.

【1. After walking on that small road, you can only walk forward, absolutely do not look back】

【2. When you are walking on the small road, you should be able to hear two sets of footsteps at the same time, one is your own, one is its. Don't be afraid, it will protect you】

【3. If you hear only one set of footsteps on the road, stand still and don't move until its footsteps return to your back before you can continue walking forward】

【4. On the way into the village, you will encounter a Land Temple. Remember to offer three sticks of incense to the Land God. The incense can be found in the red plastic bag under the brick next to the small temple. Remember, it is a red plastic bag. If you see any other color plastic bag, give up offering incense and leave immediately】

【5. After entering the village, if you hear someone calling your name, you can answer with your father's name. Absolutely do not use your own】

【6. Keep this stationery safe, absolutely do not leave it on your person. Look at it again after you arrive at Grandma's house...】

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