Chapter Twelve: The Key of Ghost Gate

  Buying a car is not like buying vegetables at the market, we just go to choose a car, pay for it, and wait two days to pick it up. These two days are already very fast. Because of his arrogant appearance, people think he's someone who can't be offended. He promised to deliver the car within 48 hours. Su Haicheng used to be in the army, so I guess he was used to driving that kind of car, and as soon as he came, he looked at the Hummer. I had to remind him that he's a dead man now, buying such an eye-catching car, if something happens, it will be broadcast on gossip news. At that time, some research institute might really come to catch him for dissection experiments.

  He eventually bought an SUV.

  In addition, I also got him a mobile phone, and it was still registered under my ID card.

  In the afternoon, we were just about to go back when Kakaxi called. He was very excited on the phone and said: "Sister Forty-one, are you at home? Is that dead person at your place?"

  "He's called Su Haicheng, not a dead man!"

  "Go! Are you there? The boss and I have found something very important here, want to show it to your dead family member."

  "Did you tell the boss about Su Haicheng's matter?"

  "I just said he also went to that village. I didn't say anything else."

  I'll take a look at Su Haicheng across from me, covering the receiver and saying in a low voice: "Kakashi and the boss said they found something important to show you."

  He nodded in agreement, and I said to Kakashi, "Then you and the boss go to my house, we'll be right back."

  After hanging up the phone, we headed towards my little nest.

  Back at my home, Kakashi was already waiting with the boss at the entrance. I felt a bit nervous, after all, it was the boss's first time coming to my place, and he was a man I liked, so it was a bit embarrassing to let him see my sloppy side.

  "Boss, things are a bit messy at home."

  Kakaxi pushed me: "Who's looking at you, hurry up and open the door, there's really good stuff."

  I opened the door, and four people walked into the house. I only then realized that they really didn't care what my house looked like. Su Haicheng and the boss didn't even formally introduce each other, just nodding at each other, everyone quietly focusing on the materials Kakashi had brought.

  Kakaxi walked into my room, connected his tablet signal to the computer, and opened the screen.

  The boss said, "This is when we went to post the missing person notice this morning. A security guard at a shopping mall said he saw Sakura yesterday. When we asked to check their surveillance cameras, he refused. Kakashi hacked into their network and retrieved this video. You see, at 1:06 seconds, the one walking out of that door is Sakura."

  Four people stared at the computer screen until the woman's back appeared on the screen and then walked past. The whole process took only three or four seconds. All that could be seen was a back view.

  After watching the video, I said: "The back of the woman that Kakashi and I saw at the entrance of the studio yesterday was exactly like this. The clothes she wore were just like this. A beige top... it really is Sakura."

  The boss turned to Su Haicheng, looked at him and asked seriously: "You've also been to that village, have you seen this woman in the village? Did she die of infectious disease or was she burned to death? Was she following those corpses from...?"

  "Boss, boss!" I called out to him, feeling like he was getting more and more agitated.

  The boss lowered his head and let out a sigh: "Please tell me, what exactly happened in the village? Where's Sakura? My Sakura?"

  Su Haicheng's gaze was still fixed on the screen, where Sakura's back was frozen in place by Kakashi. "When we arrived, the entire village was already dead, including the medical team. I don't remember the woman you're talking about. And this is just a silhouette, even if I had seen her in the village, I wouldn't necessarily be able to confirm anything based on just a silhouette."

  The boss took two steps back, sat on my bed: "What else? I just want to know what happened to Sakura Snow. She's come back to find me now, why won't she see me? What exactly happened in that village?" He became more and more agitated as he spoke, his whole body shouting.

  I pushed Kaka Xi, and Kaka Xi turned off the screen and walked to the boss's side, saying: "Boss, you should calm down too. We have four people now, I don't believe we can't find any clues."

  Kaka Xi said that, I felt a bit ashamed, in this matter, I really didn't help much. Su Haicheng sat back in front of the computer, opened a picture on the computer, it was something very similar to the small stick he received. He said: "Take a look at this. The information says this should be a key. In the village, I also found one that's almost the same. Has your girlfriend ever told you about anything special in their village? For example, do they have any enemies?"

  The boss stared at the screen, Kakashi also said: "Key? It doesn't look like a key no matter how you look at it."

  The boss didn't speak until a while later: "Key? On Sakura's birthday last year, we drank a lot of wine and she got drunk. She told me something, I don't know if it was true or not. She said that their village has a very long history. Even though young people go out to study and work, some even get married and have children outside and never come back. But the village chief's family always stays there. And their village chief is not elected by national law, but is succeeded directly by one family. Because their village chief also includes a responsibility, which is to guard a key. That key guards their graveyard, where all the dead people are. If they don't take good care of the key, it's possible that those dead people will come back."

  "Are dead people coming back?" I exclaimed in surprise, "Is this the key to the Ghost Gate?"

  Kakaxi pulled at my clothes, using his eyes to indicate Su Haicheng beside me: "Dead man! Come back!" Doesn't this sentence of his mean that the dead man he's referring to is Su Haicheng?

  These past few days, being with him all the time, I had already forgotten about Su Haicheng's special circumstances in my subconscious, and couldn't recall that what this dead person said might not be a ghost, but rather a dead person like Su Haicheng.

  "That's what I'm saying, someone must have moved the key, that's why this happened?" I said.

  Su Haicheng took out the small stick from his pocket and said, "No. I found this under an old man's corpse. Judging by his posture at the time, he should have been trying to protect this key before he died. The thing that needs to be protected is something that people don't want to be discovered or taken away, which means this key has not been used yet."

  Kakaxi still had a sarcastic tone and said: "This hasn't been used by anyone yet, and it's already like this... what if someone actually uses it..."

  Kakaxi's words were not yet finished, the boss suddenly stood up and rushed towards Su Haicheng, reaching out to grab the key in Su Haicheng's hand.

  Su Haicheng was after all a soldier, and a very formidable one at that. He quickly reacted by kicking the computer desk, and the wheeled office chair slid out from under him, leaving his boss grasping at thin air.

  When the boss rushed up for the second time, Su Haicheng held the key in one hand and grabbed his wrist with the other, twisting it. The boss cried out in pain.

  These two movements happened too quickly, so fast that Kakashi and I were both a bit stunned. When Kakashi came to his senses, he immediately attacked Su Haicheng. I hastily turned my face away, but with Kakashi's physical strength, Su Haicheng just swung his elbow and Kakashi crashed into the computer.

  "Ah! You're a dead man, we should send you to the research institute for dissection!"

  "Shut up, Kakaxi!" I shouted. Su Haicheng's gaze was filled with a dangerous chill. "Su Haicheng! Don't get angry, he didn't mean any harm. Let go of the boss first!"

  Su Haicheng didn't let go, he coldly said to the boss who was still being held by his wrist and couldn't move: "What do you mean?"

  The boss panted with pain, saying: "Give me that key, I want to go back, I want to go back to that dead village, I want to use the key to open that door and let out all the dead people inside. I want to let Sakura Snow out!"

  He's gone mad! This time he's really gone mad! How could he have such an idea!