False evidence

Chapter 351 Unlicensed Clinic (9)

I was genuinely a little scared.

However, what startled me was not the driver's strange behavior, but the eerie expression on his face at that moment.

Because I felt uncomfortable as soon as I got on the bus, I didn't pay much attention to the driver's appearance.

At this moment, one corner of his mouth appeared upturned, and his mouth movements seemed somewhat exaggerated, as if he were forcefully chewing undercooked beef. It was less like eating and more like he was throwing a tantrum.

His chopsticks kept moving back and forth between the two bowls and the dish, but his eyes were fixed straight ahead!

In the darkness, I still couldn't make out his face clearly, but looking into those gleaming eyes, I felt a chill run down my spine.

I stared at the driver for a full minute, and he didn't even blink.

What exactly is he looking at?
I instinctively turned my head to look and realized that it actually looked like a bathroom.

The squat toilet was filled with garbage, and the sink was gone.

The driver's gaze was fixed on the bathtub in the corner.

The same dilapidated bathtub also contained a lot of trash and grime.

Perhaps because it's a self-built house, the bathroom is larger than that of a typical commercial apartment.

No matter how big it is, it's still a bathroom.

Who would set up a table in the toilet, facing the toilet bowl and staring at the bathtub while eating?
I walked out with extreme confusion and gestured for Anxin to go back.

When we reached the top of the stairs, An Xin asked me quietly who was in the room.
I said I was the driver who brought us here.

Lu Xin asked me, "What is the driver doing in that room?"

Perhaps it's because we're all living independently now, and although we can't be seen by ordinary people, we're still instinctively wary. So, when I went inside, everyone else stayed outside with An Xin.

I recounted the driver's strange behavior, and An Xin and Liang Yuan both seemed somewhat frightened.

Liang Kaiyuan, who had experience being a ghost, looked puzzled: "Even if you're blinded by a ghost, you can't eat while facing the toilet, right? That ghost is too mean."

"It's not facing the toilet, it's facing the bathtub," I corrected him.

Lu Xin said, "You're just being possessed by a ghost; you won't die."

He pointed upwards and said to me, "Do you think there might be other people up there?"

"You talk too much!"

I glared at him and gestured for An Xin to go up first.

When I reached the thirteenth floor and saw the sign on the wall, I couldn't contain my excitement.

Liang Yuan realized what was happening and said, "The floor number is reversed. Thirteen is 13, but if you turn it upside down, it's thirty-one?"

"You're really smart," Lu Xin teased.

Liang Kaiyuan said, "Now we'll see if the number thirty-one that Sanqi wrote by the river counts. If it does..."

Before he could finish speaking, a voice suddenly asked, "Who? Who's there?"

The moment the question was asked, the number 'thirty-one' written backwards on the wall suddenly disappeared.

The windows on one side of the corridor also let in enough light to allow for clear vision.

It was then that I realized it was already getting light outside.

An Xin had been listening to me and Lü Xin and the others, and was genuinely startled by this sudden noise.

When I heard that voice, I almost burst into tears of joy.

Following the sound, I saw two women leaning on each other, each holding a stick, cautiously moving towards me.

Who else could it be but Pi Dan and her mother!
I rushed over to greet them, but when I got there I couldn't find either of them.

The mother and daughter walked to the top of the stairs and saw An Xin, both of them breathing a sigh of relief.

Egg Mom clutched her chest and asked, "Child, what are you doing here? Did I scare you?"

An Xin also held her phone to her chest, looked at me, then at Pi Dan, and seemed to be deep in thought.

An Xin was right next to Liu the Blind when he was explaining how to find preserved eggs.

She wasn't stupid; she knew the purpose of my trip north, and naturally, she also knew the relationship between the young woman in front of her and me.

She shook her head at Eggplant Mom, "Auntie, I'm fine." Eggplant Mom said in surprise, "Oh my, judging from your accent, you're from the South too?"

An Xin ignored her and turned to Pi Dan, asking, "Are you Pi Dan?"

Pidan was taken aback: "You know me?"

An Xin glanced at me again and said, "I came here specifically to find you, along with Sanqi."

Pidan was taken aback. "He came looking for me? How did he know I was here?"

An Xin turned to me and said, "There shouldn't be any need to go any higher, right?"

Liang Yuan said, "We can't go any further, there are no more stairs."

Indeed, when Pidan asked the question, not only did the floor number disappear, but the building also seemed to have its blinds removed, becoming brighter.

Even more strangely, the staircase that was still going up disappeared.

Outside the window, it was still raining, though the rain had lessened considerably.

We could hear roosters crowing in the distance from time to time, and we could see through the window that we were not on the tenth floor, but at most the third floor.

I said to An Xin, "Let's go down first and find Brother Yan first."

An Xin went downstairs without saying a word.

Upon reaching the second floor, Liang Kaiyuan asked, "What about the driver?"

An Xin remained silent and walked towards the room where the driver had been.

"Leave him!"

Liang Kaiyuan and I said at the same time.

An Xin seemed like a different person, coldly saying, "They made money off you, but they also stayed up all night with us."

"I'm not saying we should ignore him, I'm telling you to leave him alone! It's not too late to come up and find him after we find Brother Yan!"

Recalling the driver's expression, I had a bad feeling.

Reality is not a fictional movie or TV show that can bewitch living people and lead them to the toilet to eat air.

What kind of ghost would play such a pointless prank?
Lu Xin, equally perceptive, said, "I have a feeling something's going to happen. An Xin, don't go any further!"

But at this moment, An Xin was like a stubborn girl arguing with her family, and no amount of persuasion could dissuade her.

What's worse, Pidan and his mother, who are both very curious, also came along.

Seeing that An Xin refused to turn around, Lü Xin and I had no choice but to rush to the room first.

The driver remained seated at the table, but unlike before, he no longer ate in silence. Instead, he would occasionally look up and say something.

His voice wasn't loud; it wasn't until Lü Xin and I went inside that we could hear the driver say:

"You're pregnant, you need to eat more."

As he spoke, he even made a gesture of serving food to the person opposite him.

The next second, his voice changed, and he said again, "Heh, baby's dad should eat more too."

Lu Xin and I stared at each other in stunned silence.

When the driver spoke again, it sounded like he was straining his voice, mimicking a woman's tone. This reminded me of Eunuch Sun.

Is she pregnant? Who is the baby's father?
This sounds like a conversation between a couple at the dinner table.

For the next few minutes, the driver was talking to himself.

When he speaks in his natural voice, he only urges the 'woman' to eat more.

When it turns into a 'female voice,' it keeps talking about the baby in its belly.

The more I listened, the more awkward it seemed. Why did this 'woman' speak in a way that sounded a bit like Fang Ling from before, with a slight stutter?

Just as Lü Xin and I were both puzzled, the driver suddenly put down his chopsticks and asked the person opposite him in his normal voice:

"Have you thought about what will happen to my family after the baby is born?"

(End of this chapter)