"Hey, wife, I won't go back tonight. There are still many things to deal with."
"You go ahead and eat, I'll just take one bite."
"Don't make a special trip. It's too troublesome. Okay, let's leave it like this."
At around ten o'clock in the evening, Li Da's office was still brightly lit.
Li Da's office always has a foldable single bed.
Many times he couldn't go home because of his heavy official duties, so he just spent the night in this office hastily dealing with it.
After hanging up the phone with his wife, Li Da sat at his desk and flipped through many documents. These documents required his personal review and signature before various projects in the following major cities could be launched.
He has been managing Yan County for many years. Over the years, Li Da has been conscientious and meticulous, and he has never been careless about any work issues.
There was a knock on the door, and County Prime Minister Zhou Xiangyin walked in with a document.
"Sheriff, are you planning to stay in the office again tonight?"
Li Da took the document, smiled and sighed:
"It's such a normal thing. It's so troublesome to go back and forth. Every time I come home in the middle of the night, I disturb my mother and I's rest."
Zhou Xiangyin nodded, then pulled a chair over and sat opposite Li Da:
"Okay, let's stick to the old rules and eat instant noodles. I'll prepare them in a moment."
With that said, Zhou Xiangyin pointed to the document in front of Li Da:
"I collected information about the polling bureau. The polling bureau is very confidential and it is not easy to find out their information.
What is known so far is that this department is directly under the management of the Military Mansion and is located in Liuhuo Avenue.
It has only been established for a few months now, but despite its short establishment time, this polling bureau has a lot of work to do.
First, Longhua Road was rebuilt and renamed Liuhuo Avenue.
Later, he participated in many criminal cases in Lin'an City.
However, solved cases still belong to the Criminal Division. The polling bureau seems not to care at all about the so-called detection rate. "
"interesting……"
After Li Da glanced at the document, he raised his head and said to Zhou Xiangyin:
"Lao Zhou, go back and rest early. It's almost eleven o'clock."
"Okay, I'll leave as soon as I deliver the instant noodles. If you need anything, please call me anytime."
After a short while, Zhou Xiangyin brought a bowl of instant noodles, then said goodbye to Li Da and left the county government.
It will be around 11 o'clock tomorrow night, and there will be no one in the county building.
The security guard inspected each office as usual, making sure that all doors and windows were closed tightly, and went back to the security booth downstairs to start taking a nap.
Everyone knows that Li Da is a workaholic and lives in the office at all times, so he has become accustomed to this.
Li Da sat alone in the office and carefully looked at the information from the polling bureau. As Zhou Xiangyin said, this information did not mention much about the polling bureau, but it was enough to arouse Li Da's Da was confused.
The first is Liuhuo Avenue, which has been very lively online recently. A large number of tourists check in and take photos in Liuhuo Avenue. Any post with the words "Liuhuo Avenue" will always receive a large wave of traffic in a short period of time.
But among the many messages on the Internet, no tourists have ever mentioned anything about the polling bureau.
It stands to reason that if there is a department set up in a crowded place like Liuhuo Avenue, there will definitely be some news.
But Li Da browsed the Internet for a long time, but he couldn't find any news about the polling bureau mentioned by tourists.
This point alone is enough to confuse Li Da. Is it possible that this polling bureau is so low-key that it can even turn a blind eye to many tourists.
This is obviously unjustifiable.
Secondly, there are many criminal prosecution cases set up by the Polling Bureau. Case notices can be found online, but these notices make Li Da confused.
One thing these cases have in common is that they all come to an end.
Cases are often very public, but in the end they are basically settled.
The notice of the case only stated that the Criminal Division had solved the case, but did not mention a word about the details of the case.
The more Li Da read this report, the more confused he became. He thought that when he saw Director Feng, he would have a good chat.
Li Da looked up at the clock hanging on the wall. It was already close to 12 o'clock. After yawning tiredly, Li Da lay down on the folding bed hastily.
This bed was very uncomfortable to lie on, but Li Da had already gotten used to it.
As the lights in the office dimmed, Li Da soon fell asleep.
"Tick-tock...tick-tock..."
In the quiet office, only the old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall kept making sounds.
Li Da's steady breathing soon came, and he was obviously already fast asleep.
As the lights in the office went out, the entire building fell into darkness. Only the security booth on the first floor still had a faint light on, but the security guard on the night shift was already sitting on his chair and dozing off again and again.
"Zizzi..."
The sleepy security guard did not notice that a black shadow suddenly appeared in the dark corridor on the surveillance screen in front of him.
All the lights set up in the corridor are sensor lights, which light up when people come and go out when people leave. But when this black figure walks in the corridor, no lights come on.
In a daze, Li Da vaguely heard a faint cry.
At first Li Da thought he had heard wrongly, so he turned over and had no reaction.
But after a while, he realized that the crying sound seemed to be getting closer and closer.
In the silent environment, the crying sounds were extremely clear, even making people feel a little upset.
Li Da quickly opened his eyes, started to do it with some doubts, and focused on his ears.
Sure enough, he soon heard bursts of sobbing coming from the corridor outside. The sound was very sad, and it must be a woman.
But why is there a woman crying in the county mansion in the middle of the night?
With doubts, Li Da quickly stood up and turned on the light in the office, but what he didn't expect was that the light only came on for a few seconds and then went out again.
"strangeness……"
Li Da muttered to himself, then walked to his desk in the dark and made a call to the security booth.
His original intention was to ask the security guard to come and take a look, but the phone rang for a long time and no one answered it.
Could it be that the security guard deserted?
What happened made Li Da a little upset. Fortunately, he remembered that there was a flashlight in the drawer, so he quickly took it out.
Li Da put on a piece of clothes hastily, turned on the flashlight, opened the door of the office, and then shined towards the dark corridor.
There was no one in the corridor, but the sound of crying seemed to be a little clearer.
Li Da tried to stamp his feet, but the sensor lights in the corridor did not light up, and only the weak light of the flashlight could barely see.
"Who is it? Who is over there?"
Li Da raised his voice and shouted several times, but there was no response, only a steady stream of sobs, which made Li Da feel very confused.
He tried to look for the sound of crying, but after searching all over the floor, Li Da couldn't find the crying person, which made him quickly focus on the stairs leading downstairs. .
Li Da, who was irritated, quickly walked downstairs along the stairs. His office was on the eighth floor, which was also the highest floor of the county government.
When he arrived on the seventh floor, Li Da didn't notice anything weird at first, but as he walked, he suddenly felt something was not right.
All the offices were closed at the moment, except for one with the lights on. Li Da glanced inside curiously as he passed by, but then he froze on the spot.
There is only a set of desks and chairs in the simply displayed office, and next to the desk is a simple single bed.
The pillows and quilts on this single bed seemed familiar to Li Da. After looking at them carefully, he suddenly realized, isn't this his office?
But he just passed the stairs from the 8th floor to the 7th floor, and there was no way he could walk back to his office.
Li Da, who was stunned on the spot, immediately felt that something was not right. There seemed to be something missing in this room.
He looked around curiously, but everything in the room was normal, and the inexplicable feeling just now seemed a bit unfounded.
"It's weird..."
Li Da is a very staunch atheist, so when he encountered this situation, he did not think about ghosts and ghosts, but just thought that he was confused.
With doubts, Li Da continued to walk along the corridor without noticing the old clock hanging on the wall. At this moment, the hands were all pointing at 12 o'clock.
His doubts just now were not groundless. The reason why he felt something was missing was not that something was missing in the room, but that the clock on the wall stopped moving and the ticking sound disappeared.
Arriving at the stairwell again, Li Da looked specifically at the floor number posted on the wall directly in front of the stairwell.
A big number 8 came into view under the faint light of the flashlight.
Seeing this number, Li Da became more certain that he must have remembered it wrong. Although he was a little confused, he didn't think about it further.
The cry kept echoing in his ears, which made Li Da upset. He quickened his pace and walked quickly downstairs.
When he first came downstairs, Li Da specially used a flashlight to shine on the floor number on the wall.
But this photo didn't matter, Li Da was stunned on the spot.
I saw a big number on the white wall, and it was still the number 8.
Li Da's eyes widened, full of doubts. He looked back at the stairs he just came down, but this was the highest floor and there were no stairs going up. So where did he come down from just now?
Even the most obtuse person could feel that something was not right at this moment, let alone Li Da. He quickened his pace and ran downstairs quickly.
Time and time again, but every time he picked up the flashlight and illuminated the number on the wall, the number was always 8.
Li Da had never experienced anything like this before, and a bit of panic appeared on his face at this moment.
what happened? I was obviously walking to the 7th floor, but why did I always end up back on the 8th floor?
This doubt bothered Li Da, making him somewhat confused about the situation at hand.
He has tried several times since just now, but every time he returns to the eighth floor, as if a force has trapped him on this floor.
"Woooooooo..."
The sound of crying appeared in Li Da's ears again, which made Li Da feel even more panicked.
He quickened his pace, quickly ran back to his office, and frantically dialed the number of the security office. But no one ever picked up the phone.
Li Da sat down on his office chair. He gasped for breath and subconsciously looked at the clock on the wall. Only then did he realize that the clock had stopped at some point.
Just when Li Da was in a state of confusion and had no idea what was going on, the crying sound seemed to be getting closer to him.
The flashlight in his hand seemed to be Li Da's life-saving straw. He held it tightly in his hand and shined the light of the flashlight towards the door, even holding his breath subconsciously.
At this moment, a figure appeared lightly outside Li Da's door.
It was a girl wearing white clothes, with long hair shawl as black as ink.
She kept lowering her head and sobbing, and the crying came from her mouth.
The woman walked into the house lightly. Li Da looked at the figure in astonishment, feeling a roar in his mind and unable to calm down at all.
However, when the woman walked into the fog, she quickly fell to her knees, and the temperature around her seemed to drop a few degrees in an instant.
"Sir, I am wronged, I am wronged!"
The woman cried and repeated the same sentence in a sad voice.
Li Da was so distraught that he was completely confused about the situation in front of him.
"There are security guards downstairs, how did you get up here?"
The woman did not respond to Li Da's inquiry, but this time she finally stopped repeating her previous words:
"Sir, my little girl lives in Linfeng Mountain. She is bullied every day and has no place to express her grievances.
I came here specifically today to ask you to redress my grievances! "
Li Da's mind was full of confusion at the moment, and even now he couldn't figure out the situation in front of him.
But what the woman said surprised the upright Li Da:
"What happened? Since you were bullied, why didn't you report it to the criminal department? Why did you come to this county in the middle of the night?"
"Sir, my daughter can only come at this time. There are people guarding her during the day, so she cannot come in.
Please make sure to make the decision for my little girl, please..."
However, when the woman said this, she suddenly looked back towards the dark corridor, stood up with a look of horror on her face, walked out, and said in horror:
"He found me, sir, you must make the decision for my little girl!"
As she spoke, the woman ran out of the office. Li Da didn't know where he got the courage. He quickly stood up and chased her out of the door. But then he realized that the corridor was empty and there was no one there.
This made Li Da freeze in place for a long time. Suddenly he felt something approaching from behind, and then he turned around to look. However, a twisted and ferocious face came into view, which shocked Li Da. Jump.
"ah!"
With a subconscious scream, Li Da suddenly sat up from the bed.
His head was covered with sweat. The moment he sat up, Li Da looked around hurriedly, only to realize that it seemed to be just a dream.
I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that the time stopped at twelve o'clock, but the hands did not stop and were still making a ticking sound.
This dream was so vivid that it was still fresh in Li Da's memory even after he woke up.
He stood up, poured himself a glass of water and took a gulp of water before suppressing the panic in his heart.
Immediately afterwards, Li Da walked to his desk and made a call to the security office. This time, someone answered the phone within a few rings.
"Did anyone come in just now?"
Facing Li Da's inquiry, the security guard's voice sounded a little confused:
“Leader, how can anyone come here in the middle of the night?
What's more, I've been watching the surveillance. "
"knew."
After saying these words, Li Da hung up the phone, which made the security guard in the security booth look at the phone in his hand with some doubts, and finally muttered to himself:
"baffling……"
After putting the phone back to its original position, the security guard closed his collar again, then folded his arms and lowered his head and began to take a nap.
Now Li Da was almost sure that he had just had a dream, but to be on the safe side, he still opened the door to the office. However, as soon as he turned the door handle, the lights in the corridor immediately came on.
Only then did Li Da feel completely relieved. After calming down a little, he lay on the bed and fell asleep again.
At dawn the next day, Zhou Xiangyin came to work. Li Da had already put away the folding bed and began to sit at his desk to correct documents.
Zhou Xiangyin placed breakfast in front of Li Da. Almost every time Li Da stayed in the office overnight, Zhou Xiangyin would always bring breakfast to eat with Li Da the next day.
But when he saw Li Da, Zhou Xiangyin felt a little confused:
"Sheriff, are you okay? Why do you look so bad?"
Li Da took a bite of the bun and shook his head:
"It's okay. I had a nightmare last night. The dream was so vivid that I couldn't sleep well all night."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiangyin immediately laughed:
"Chief, what kind of dream could scare you like this? As far as I know, you seem to be fearless."
Zhou Xiangyin's words opened up Li Da's conversation. He told Zhou Xiangyin in detail about the dream he had last night.
Until now, Li Da's memory of this dream is still very clear, as if he had experienced it personally not long ago.
After hearing this nightmare, Zhou Xiangyin smiled indifferently:
"Sheriff, you are just too tired. Don't work too hard all the time. Make sure you get some rest.
Nightmares are always like this, without beginning or end, so don’t take it too seriously.
But having said that, this dream is indeed quite real, and the places mentioned by the person in the dream are all real. "
"Um?"
Hearing this, Li Da frowned:
"You mean Lin Fengshan? Why didn't I know there was such a place?"
"Lin Feng Mountain is our Taijia Mountain in Qingquan City. Lin Feng Mountain was named a long time ago.
The mountain is very remote and desolate. There is nothing except some old graves. It is normal for you not to know. "
Li Da's movements immediately froze on the spot, and his eyes looking at Zhou Xiangyin also showed a bit of surprise...
There will be an update at noon
(End of chapter)
