False evidence

Chapter 121 Shadow
After a moment's hesitation, I still pushed open the building door.

The monkey turned on his phone's flashlight and, by its light, saw the situation inside the room. The three of them gasped in shock.

Inside the room, on the table by the door, lay a black and white photograph, and a black cloth curtain hung on the wall, with the character "奠" (meaning "offering sacrifice") in the very center...

This is actually a funeral hall!

"Are we going in or not?" the monkey asked me.

"Since we're already here, let's bow to the deceased."

Once inside, the monkey found the light switch, pressed it twice but nothing happened.

I walked up to the offering table and saw a lighter on it. After hesitating for a moment, I picked it up and lit the half-burnt candle.

The orange flames flickered and rose, and I suddenly smelled a familiar scent.

The photo shows a middle-aged man who looks to be around forty years old. He has a fairly decent appearance, but for some reason, he makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

The monkey clasped its hands together, bowed to the photo, took a step back, and whispered:
"Why do I feel like there's something odd about the person in the photo?"

Pidan also said, "I feel awkward looking at it too. It feels like... it feels like this person's face is fake."

Hearing her say that, I suddenly remembered something from a long time ago.

I wanted to tell Pidan and the monkey my guess, but after looking at the photos, I felt it wasn't appropriate to say it here.

"Let me bow."

I bowed symbolically to the photo, then my gaze fell on the ground, and I suddenly shuddered.

There are three of us, but there are four shadows on the ground!
I quickly darted my eyes around to determine the location, straightened up, and pulled Pidan to the side, lifting a small stool to catch it.

The monkey looked at me, completely bewildered: "What's going on?"

"come here!"

I said something, but when I saw the ground beneath his feet, I was stunned again.

Then there's only his shadow left!
Pidan suddenly tugged at me and glanced at me sideways, gesturing for me to look to the side.

When I saw it, I was terrified.

Pidan and I stood side by side, our shadows cast by the candlelight stretching long onto the wall.

There were two people, but three shadows were cast on the wall.

And the extra shadow was actually stuck right behind my shadow!
I forced myself to calm down quickly, and in a flash, I turned to look at the door: "You stinky egg!"

As soon as he said that, he swung the stool behind his back.

"boom!"

This feint didn't achieve the desired effect; the bench smashed a dent in the wall, but there was no one behind it.

Looking at the shadows on the wall again, there were only two left.

"You saw it too? Then it couldn't be..."

Despite her boldness, Pidan was still a woman, and her voice began to tremble slightly.

"Hiss! Hiss..."

I looked at the monkey that was making the strange noise and saw that its eyes were slanted downwards. Following its gaze, all the hairs on my body stood on end.

The extra shadow somehow returned to the side of his shadow.

When I first discovered the fourth shadow, I judged from the shadow that there must be someone standing right behind him.

At this moment, the extra shadow reappeared, but it was not behind his shadow; instead, it was moving slowly in an extremely eerie manner.

It looks like someone is slowly circling around the monkey!

My first instinct was to grab the egg and retreat to the wall, while telling the monkey, "Squat down!"

After the Yan Fengwei incident, Monkey would often boast that he had seen the "world".

He clearly saw this bizarre scene too, and was so frightened that his hair stood on end. When I told him to squat down, he actually plopped down on the ground.

The extra shadow crouched down and continued to circle him slowly, but its posture was even more bizarre and indescribable.

The monkey is sitting on the ground, so there's no way anyone could be hiding nearby. If there's no fourth person, then where did this fourth shadow come from?
The monkey's eyes followed the shadow around several times before it finally broke down and cried out, "There's...there's a ghost!"

Pidan was genuinely frightened; he grabbed the back of my coat with one hand and whispered in a trembling voice, "I'm right next to you:"

"It's a man... Could it be the person in the photo?"

I also shuddered.

Looking at the black and white photograph on the table, a sudden flash of lightning struck my mind the instant I turned my gaze back.

I let out a sigh of relief and threw the stool I was holding directly between the monkey's spread legs.

The monkey was already a frightened bird. It let out a "howl" and retreated more than two meters by moving its hands and feet.

Seeing how frightened he was, I didn't dare to make things worse, and sighed, saying:

"It's alright now, get up quickly, don't embarrass yourself."

The monkey scrambled to its feet, but looked terrified, and pointed at the preserved egg.

Pidan and I turned to look at each other at the same time, and the figure that had disappeared after being 'hit' by the bench actually reappeared next to us.

Last time the shadow was behind me, but this time it kept circling around the preserved egg.

Moreover, at this point, the shadow had clearly changed from a man's figure to the figure of an ancient woman!

When I threw the stool, Pidan grabbed my hand.

Noticing my strange expression, they unconsciously relaxed as well. "What's going on with this figure?"

I glanced at the photo on the table and chuckled, "It's nothing, just a little joke the original owner played on us."

The words left my mouth, but my smile quickly froze on my face.

The shadow of an ancient woman still lingers around the preserved egg.

Although the monkey was frightened, it still cautiously approached us. "The deceased was clearly a man, so how did he turn into a woman?"

Pidan, who had been staring at the shadow, suddenly turned his head and whispered in my ear:
"I bet this guy is a rotten egg in disguise! That cat really is a spirit!"

"You think too much!"

I took a few steps forward, picked up the stool again, looked around, and finally my gaze fell on the stairs on one side.

"Friend, the illusion's been exposed, come out and meet me!"

“Friend, to be able to see through things so quickly…may I ask, are you from the government or the business?” a hoarse male voice replied.

However, the sound did not come from upstairs, but from outside the door.

"What does he mean?" The monkey squinted at the figure at the door, but due to the difference in light, he couldn't make out the person's appearance.

I understood what the person was saying, but I didn't know how to answer right away. After thinking for a moment, I decided to tell the truth: "They're just ordinary people. It was Chou Dan who brought us here."

"Oh?"

The other person seemed somewhat surprised, "Where's the cat?"

As they spoke, they stepped inside.

As soon as the newcomer entered, Monkey and Egg exclaimed in unison, "Why is it bald again?"

The man who came in looked to be no more than twenty-one or twenty-two years old, but he was dressed the same as Chen Zudao when I first met him: shorts and a white tank top.

The only difference was that this person was wearing a pair of three-stripe running shoes.

This person's appearance can be described in one word: ugly!

He was about the size of a monkey, skinny as a rake, but with big hands and feet.

The cheekbones on both sides were almost protruding beyond the edge of the face, obscuring the ears and making them barely visible, while the bald head stood upright in the middle like a sharp cone.

Not only are his eyes not the same size, but he also has a bulbous nose and a toad-like mouth...

Upon recognizing him, the preserved egg immediately mimicked his tone, saying:

"Friend, are you an ET from Mars?"

(End of this chapter)