Terrible news! My deskmate's first chapter is gone!

Haunted?

Chen Xi was somewhat surprised. What era are we living in? I never thought I would still hear the word "ghostly".

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, weren't beings that could not become spirits?

Yang Wei was definitely not joking with him.

Immediately, Chen Xi searched for the keywords "Jiangcun" and "ghost".

Believe it or not, there really is.

This is not surprising. Ghosts belong to feudal superstition, and it's impossible for you to spread such things. Normal search results certainly won't pop up.

However, it's impossible to delete everything that was previously sent.

There will always be some trace left behind.

The only trace Chen Xi found was a post on a forum.

The title is...

"Jiangcun Delivery Ghost"

Chen Xi reads things very quickly, basically reading ten lines at a glance, and he doesn't miss anything. This post was about 1000 words long, and he finished reading it in 10 seconds.

The story takes place last February.

The gist of the post is that the person who made the post was in Jiangcun and suddenly had a stomach bug and really wanted to eat fried rice with eggs.

But Jiangcun is a village, and there's only one convenience store in the whole village, so naturally there can't be any stir-fry restaurants.

The original poster is someone with a little money, and directly chose the least cost-effective but most enjoyable way to spend money.

I ordered a plate of fried rice with eggs from the county town and had it delivered to Jiangcun.

According to the map app, the travel time between the two places is about one and a half hours.

Because of the high delivery fees, there are naturally people willing to accept the orders, and they are accepted almost instantly.

Because the delivery took a long time, I took a short nap while waiting for my food.

boom! boom! boom!

"Your takeout!"

After an unknown amount of time, a knock on the door woke the homeowner.

He opened his eyes, a little dazed. He instinctively felt something was off, but since he had just woken up, he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong. He was still a bit confused.

Stand up and open the door.

Then, the most unbelievable thing happened.

Chen Xi could even sense that the author was scared when writing this part, as the number of typos and punctuation marks appeared much more frequently than in the previous statements.

It's a bit like someone who desperately wants to express what's on their mind, but due to urgency and fear, the frequency of typos and punctuation errors increases.

An order of fried rice was placed right by the door!

This statement seems normal.

However, from the original poster's description, it can be inferred that he was temporarily staying at a friend's house, as his friend had gone out to work and the house was empty.

The owner has keys to the main entrance and the second floor, which were given to him by a friend. He occasionally comes downstairs when he needs something, so it's a free place to stay.

The poster was instantly jolted awake, as if someone had suddenly doused him with cold water. He remembered very clearly that the door was closed!

Only after a moment of realization did the poster come to their senses and understand what had caused the strange feeling upon waking up.

The knock on the door and the words, "Your takeout!"

These two things are perfectly normal, but what's unusual is that the knocking and the message "Your takeout" didn't come from outside the front door.

It was coming from outside the bedroom door!

In other words, this fried rice was delivered directly through the front door to his bedroom door!

Not only that, the poster also checked the time at the time.

30 minutes!

This fried rice was delivered in just 30 minutes, including the time it took the restaurant to prepare it.

There's still steam on it!

This is simply unscientific!

The poster was terrified and dared not eat it at all. Since there was no delivery driver's phone number, the poster contacted the restaurant immediately.

To be honest, even if I got a delivery guy's call at this point, I wouldn't dare to call.

I was afraid that if I missed a call, the phone would ring from behind me!

Then comes the greeting, "Your takeout!"

......

The phone rang for a while before the store answered.

The shop owner said the order was taken by a deliveryman from a delivery group, since normal deliverymen wouldn't deliver to this distance.

The shop owner didn't have a phone number; he just posted an order in the group chat.

Because the commission is so high, many people are vying for it, and the restaurant doesn't know who ends up taking the food.

If there's a problem, the delivery guy usually contacts the store.

Because the partnership is built through a WeChat group, there are no middlemen taking a cut, and no complicated procedures; there is only the tacit understanding between the person preparing the food and the person delivering it.

The boss was busy and didn't have time to reply to the poster. He simply said that if it wasn't delivered, he would refund the money, and then hung up the phone.

The homeowner naturally dared not eat the takeout and hurriedly ran out of the house.

Seeing the locked door, he fell into deep thought.

Fortunately, there was surveillance footage at the corner of the village, and the poster went to the village committee to verify.

The house of the original poster's friend is located in an area accessible only by a corner.

Under the barrage of red envelopes from the original poster, the village committee, adhering to the principle that monsters should not be allowed to become spirits after the founding of the People's Republic of China, turned on the surveillance.

The result was naturally the last thing the original poster wanted to see.

In other words, there's nothing at all!

That fried rice appeared out of thin air.

The original poster acted like a madman, making the whole village aware of it.

In addition, this wasn't the first time the poster had visited Jiangcun; many villagers knew him because of his friends.

In the villagers' eyes, the landlord was a good boss and had no reason to tell such a lie.

Although there was no evidence, many people believed it.

The news of the ghost story spread quickly, making Jiangcun a little famous.

Some time later, some people even imitated the original poster, deliberately ordering fried rice from the same restaurant in the same place, but none of them experienced what the original poster had experienced.

And that was the end of the matter.

This post was written by the original poster after they went to a mental hospital and were 100% certain that they were not ill.

There weren't many replies to the post, and most of them were from people who didn't believe it and even said that the poster was a novelist making up stories.

Since nothing similar happened afterward, the matter was naturally dropped.

Chen Xi forwarded this post to Yang Wei.

[Chen Xi: Is this it?]

Yang Wei: Yes! A friend of mine in the same industry knows this person, and he says it's absolutely true.

The reason this incident didn't cause much of a stir is because there were no deaths or injuries.

Chen Xi: That's interesting, I'm planning to give it a try too.

And I'm going to order takeout from that restaurant at 2 AM!

[Yang Wei: No way, boss?]

Are you really that brave?

[So, what's the point?]

You went to Jiangcun to farm, right? Even if you don't believe in these things, there's no need for you to deliberately provoke them, is there?

[Chen Xi: Don't you want to see what this so-called ghost actually looks like?]

Having lived for so many years, the existence and legends of ghosts have always existed, but there have never been any photos of ghosts.

Aren't you curious about what this thing looks like?

Yang Wei: Not curious.

[Chen Xi: It's okay if you're not curious, I'll catch you and take a picture.]

Yang Wei: I don't want to watch!

[Chen Xi: No, you want to!]

[Yang Wei: Boss, when you were a kid, after watching horror movies, did you always go to the bathroom alone?]

[Chen Xi: I'm not that scared. I would hold my phone, watch the ghosts in the video, and pee while watching.]