Chapter 60 "Familiar" People
Before I came to this auction, I also searched online for reports about this mall being haunted.
I don’t know whether it was because it was so long ago or because the auctioneer didn’t want too much negative news. Most of the reports at that time have been deleted.
However, there are still a few news articles left. These news did not mention the name of Parkhuisheng Mall. They only said that there were frequent rumors of haunting in a large shopping mall located in District X, City X.
There were only a few mentions in the news, such as: the elevators in the mall always malfunctioned from time to time; the mall radio always played weird music, but the reason could not be found out afterwards;
There are always inexplicable "clang" sounds and the sound of water flowing from the toilets in shopping malls, but when I go in to check, I can only see empty toilets without anyone.
If these can be explained by chance or even fabrication, then the mysterious deaths of people in this mall are the beginning of the rumors that this mall is haunted.
The first few cases were accidents. A store clerk died after being electrocuted due to leakage when turning on the switch;
Some people also slipped and fell down the stairs and hit critical injuries, but rescue efforts failed.
But later, people began to commit suicide here one after another.
There are six floors in the shopping mall, and people who commit suicide often climb to the fifth or sixth floor, then climb over the glass wall and jump off.
He fell in the middle of the lobby on the first floor.
After falling from such a height, there is almost no chance of survival.
Only one person survived.
It is said that when he jumped down, a cart with a foam box happened to pass by downstairs. He happened to fall on the pile of foam and saved his life.
But when he woke up afterwards, he said that he would never jump off the building.
He obviously wanted to go to the fifth floor to buy a birthday gift for his daughter, but as he walked, he lost consciousness for some reason, as if someone had been tempting him to jump from there.
When he regained consciousness, he found that he was falling rapidly in mid-air.
As soon as the survivors' response came out, everyone was in an uproar, and the theory that the department store was haunted became more and more popular.
No one dared to go to Parkway Shopping Mall anymore. The working clerks resigned one after another, and the merchants evacuated one after another. Parkway Shopping Mall could no longer operate and was abandoned.
Although many years have passed, it is impossible to test whether these things were made up by people or whether they are true. However, in order to prove that there is nothing wrong with this mall, the organizer of this auction still made a lively arrangement before holding the banquet. .
First, they invited Taoist priests to exorcise the demons with great fanfare, then set off firecrackers for a long time, and used quicklime to disinfect the inside and outside of the mall.
I don’t know if these are really effective, or if the rumors about the mall being haunted are just rumors. Anyway, until now the banquet is about to start, nothing weird has happened.
I looked down from the glass fence on the sixth floor of the shopping mall. There were no traces on the white tiles on the first floor. There was also a circle of flowers placed around it to welcome guests to the auction held in the mall today.
I walked around the top floor of the banquet hall and found no ghosts.
Not even one.
Maybe it was really a rumor, I thought, and when I returned to the lobby, I picked up a piece of snack and put it in my mouth.
As soon as I took the first bite, the originally bustling venue suddenly became audible.
I almost thought I was breaking a law by biting this piece of snack.
So I stopped chewing and looked at the people around me.
But he found that they all turned towards the door, with their hands folded in front of them, looking respectful.
I also looked towards the door.
A man in a suit and tie at the door was walking inside.
Seeing him, my heart suddenly skipped a beat. If anyone pays attention to me, they will definitely notice that my face is as pale as earth now.
Although I had expected to meet this person before I came here, when I really saw what he looked like, I still couldn't control my expression.
Yin Zongyang.
He was less than 15 meters away from me. I could clearly see the pale gold brooch he wore on his chest, and the bright silver watch exposed on his wrist when he was walking. His every move showed that he had been pampered for a long time. His temperament makes people dare not make fun of him easily.
But as soon as I saw him, I thought of those bloody human lives, and I couldn't help but tremble slightly.
I think of the way he calmly trampled on human life as if it were a trivial matter, the way he covered my face with a wet towel with a sinister smile, the way he cut my wrists with a knife in front of me, and I also think of him. When I was dying, my face was twisted with hatred because of my jealousy and anger towards the Chu family.
Much scarier than ghosts.
This person has become my nightmare for a month.
Although I experienced all this in empathy, it was actually no different from my personal experience.
How can a person who has died once not be afraid of his murderer?
Fortunately, everyone's focus was on Yin Zongyang, and no one noticed anything unusual about me.
Yin Zongyang had already entered the gate of the venue, surrounded by three bodyguards. One was in front to clear the way for him, and the other two followed him, following suit.
There were already people at the banquet who couldn't help but want to come up and chat with him.
But without exception, these people were all stopped by the accompanying bodyguards before they got within one meter of him. Yin Zongyang didn't even look at those people, and walked straight into the top box of the banquet hall.
When the box door closed, the quiet venue became lively again.
I breathed a sigh of relief, but my face looked a little ugly.
The boss didn't know when he had touched my side.
"Cancan, are you okay? Why do you look so ugly?"
He suddenly spoke, which startled me.
Only then did I come to my senses, and I casually made up a lie about eating too much and maybe having a bit of overeating to cover it up.
The boss looked at the door of the top box and sighed with envy: "Hey, if I am qualified to enter that box sometime, then I will really be famous. Oh, by the way, Cancan, Director Xie I came here today, and I’m sitting in the box now, you know?”
I shook my head: "I don't know."
I don’t know why, but when I heard that Xie Yanwang was there, I felt a little more at ease.
Seven o'clock.
The auction officially begins.
Guests coming and going entered the large stepped box from the lobby, and many people were already sitting in the first two rows.
Looking around, I actually know half of these people.
In the first row, the people sitting next to Xie Yanwang, apart from Sister Liu and Daochang Chen, should be other government officials. I have seen some of them in the common sense and they looked familiar.
In the second row, there were some of the best merchants in X city, besides Yin Zongyang, there were also... the Chu family.
Chu Shengtian and his son, Chu Bin.
