What is the scariest ghost story you have ever read?

I suspect that one of the guys playing mahjong is not a human.

On Saturday, I invited three friends to come to my house to play mahjong.

At twelve o’clock in the morning, Zhang Jun suddenly turned pale, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his eyes were full of panic. When asked what was wrong, he said that his stomach hurt a little and he went straight to the toilet.

Taking advantage of this time, I opened my phone to check the news, and happened to see a local news push saying that two cars collided at an intersection not far from my home. A speeding Huolala hit a white Ford SUV, killing the SUV driver and the Huolala passenger on the spot. The scene was horrific.

The news also included several pictures of the scene. The pictures were quite clear and even the license plate of the SUV could be seen, Su F2866D. I am very familiar with this license plate. It is Zhang Jun’s license plate.

A chill suddenly came over me. The news clearly said that the driver of the SUV died on the spot. Then who was the person sitting here playing cards with us just now? Could it be a ghost?

I thought about Zhang Jun’s expression just now. He might have realized that he has turned into a ghost. I heard that ghosts who died suddenly have to find a substitute. Only by finding a substitute can they reincarnate. Could it be that Zhang Jun has set his sights on the three of us?

I was so scared that my face turned pale. I quickly forwarded the news to Li Tie and Ma Hui. After reading it, they were just as frightened as I was. Their faces changed drastically and they felt terrible.

Li Tie suggested leaving immediately and not continuing the fight. Midnight was the time when the yin energy was at its heaviest. If they stayed any longer, they would probably die a miserable death.

We agreed with Li Tie’s opinion and were about to get up and run away when the toilet door was opened. Zhang Jun stood at the door with a pale face, staring at us intently.

His face looked really ugly.

Even if a normal person has diarrhea, his face wouldn’t be so pale, and his expression was weird, with his head tilted and a half-smile on his lips, which was creepy.

He said grimly, “What are you three doing? You don’t want to leave, do you? You want to run away after winning the money? You have no gambling ethics. Be careful, you may earn money but not spend it. Keep playing. No one can leave until you play twenty rounds today!”

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Not only does Zhang Jun’s voice sound strange, his actions are even stranger.

Instead of returning to his seat, he ran to the incense burner and burned four incense sticks to the God of Wealth, saying that he would definitely bless him to win money.

When I saw him burning incense, I was so scared that my legs went limp. Usually, three incense sticks are used when praying to gods or Buddhas, and only four incense sticks are used when offering sacrifices to ghosts. Zhang Jun is a businessman, so it is impossible that he does not understand this.

Soon, Zhang Jun sat back in his seat with a gloomy look on his face, staring at us intently, as if afraid that we would run away. He said, “Why are you standing there? Sit down and continue fighting. I don’t believe that I can’t beat you today.”

The three of us had no choice but to continue sitting down.

The atmosphere was originally good, but it suddenly became tense. Apart from the sound of playing cards, no one took the initiative to speak. Instead, Zhang Jun looked at the three of us in turn from time to time, and his expression was like that of a hunter selecting prey.

I remember the old people in my family said that ghosts are afraid of yang energy. As long as we can hold on until dawn, no matter what kind of ghost you are, it will disappear without a trace. It is early morning now. As long as we can fight a few more rounds and hold on until dawn, we should be able to be saved.

I said, “Twenty rounds is not enough. It’s the weekend anyway, so we have plenty of time. I suggest playing until dawn and sleeping in tomorrow. What do you think?”

Ma Hui was slow to react and didn’t understand what I meant. He said he could only play until four o’clock at the latest because he had an important event to attend tomorrow.

Li Tie reacted quickly, glanced at me secretly and nodded in agreement, but Zhang Jun didn’t object. Instead, he kept urging me to play my cards quickly.

I looked at the cards in my hand and played a thirty thousand. As soon as I threw the card, Zhang Jun suddenly grabbed my hand, his eyes widened, and a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

“Lao Xu, it’s you!”

His hands were so cold, as if they were taken out of an ice cellar.

I was so scared that my soul was about to fly out of my body, and my whole body was shaking. I said, “Lao Zhang, we are all brothers, don’t do this. If you have anything to say, just talk nicely and don’t hurt me!”

Li Tie and Ma Hui were also frightened and told Zhang Jun to calm down.

Zhang Jun said, “You three are sick, what nonsense are you talking about? I’m talking nonsense!”

He spread out the cards on the table, and it turned out that he was waiting for thirty thousand.

I was still a little scared, so I pulled my hand back and said, “Zhang Jun, how did you get here today? Why don’t you see Li Tie and the others off when the show is over?”

Zhang Jun said, “What the hell, I’m short on money lately, so I transferred my car a few days ago, but I didn’t tell you. I took a taxi here today, and I’ll have to take a taxi back later.”

Has the car been transferred?

So, he wasn’t the one who got into trouble just now!

I breathed a sigh of relief and forwarded the news to Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun also took a deep breath after seeing the news and said that he was really lucky. If the car had not been transferred, he might have been the one in the accident today.

He added, “You three looked at me like that just now, you didn’t think I was a ghost, did you?”

I smiled awkwardly and said, “Lao Zhang, you often burn incense sticks, and you know the rules better than the rest of us. Why did you burn four sticks of incense to the God of Wealth just now?”

Zhang Jun looked back at the incense burner with a look of surprise.

He said, “Strange, I remember burning three incense sticks, how come it became four? Never mind, let’s continue fighting, I’m winning, it seems that four incense sticks are also effective!”

Zhang Jun and I were still discussing the burning of incense when Li Tie suddenly stood up with a grim look on his face. He covered his stomach with his left hand and said that his stomach suddenly hurt a lot and he needed to go to the toilet.

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They say lazy people poop a lot, and that’s absolutely true.

While Li Tie was in the bathroom, the three of us chatted, and Zhang Jun kept saying that he was lucky, otherwise we would have to go to the morgue to see him. Before he could finish his sentence, his face suddenly became ugly again.

He said, “Lao Xu, Lao Ma, I suddenly remembered something. I just ran into Li Tie downstairs. He complained to me that a Huolala car came when he took Didi today. It was so bumpy on the way that he almost vomited the food he had eaten the night before. He even wrote down the license plate and planned to complain tomorrow. Could it be the car that had the accident just now?”

I asked Zhang Jun if he remembered the license plate number. Zhang Jun frowned and thought for a long time, and said that Li Tie seemed to have mentioned it. There was a 5 and a 9 in it, but he couldn’t remember the rest.

I quickly opened the news and enlarged the picture. The front of the Huolala car was smashed to pieces and the license plate was scattered on the ground, but I could vaguely make out the license plate number was Su F5629Q.

The news said that the passenger in the Huolala car also died on the spot.

My scalp suddenly felt numb, goose bumps appeared all over my body, and I felt cold all over. The one who came back as a ghost was not Zhang Jun, but Li Tie who was in the toilet.

Zhang Jun asked quietly, “What should we do? Should we leave?”

I said we couldn’t leave for the time being. A person has just turned into a ghost and may not realize it yet. Instead, he will continue to fulfill the last agreement he made before his death. That’s why Li Tie came here to play mahjong. Once he realizes that he is dead, the consequences will be unimaginable and none of us can escape.

The best way is to continue playing mahjong. Once daybreak comes, he will disappear by himself.

We must stay calm and not let him find any flaws.

Although they were both very scared, they finally agreed to my plan. Since they were best friends in life, they should play this last game of mahjong with him.

We had just made the decision when the lights in the living room suddenly flickered, on and off.

What’s even more terrible is that the toilet door opened at the same time, and Li Tie stood at the door with a pale face, looking at us with a half-smile, which was very creepy.

He said grimly, “What are you three talking about? You’re not planning on running away, are you?”

I was so scared that I got goosebumps. I tried to stay calm and said, “No, I was just hungry and was discussing whether to order takeout.”

Li Tie slowly walked to my side, held my shoulder, and said in a sarcastic tone: “Lao Xu, I’m really a little hungry. I won a lot today, so I’ll treat you to a barbecue!”

When I heard this, a chill ran down my spine. The elders in my family always said that you should never eat food offered by ghosts. Eating food from ghosts means you will follow the ghost.

I said no thanks, it was me who made the mahjong appointment today, so I should treat everyone. Ma Hui and Zhang Jun also reacted and nodded in agreement, saying that it was fine for me to treat everyone, and Li Tie could treat everyone another day.

Li Tie had a sullen face, and stared at the three of us intently.

He said grimly, “What do you three mean? Are you afraid to eat the food I offered you?”

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We still compromised, not for anything else, just because of fear.

Li Tie’s expression was eerie, and his behavior was completely different from when he first entered the door. I suspected that he might have discovered that he was a ghost.

He invited us to have barbecue, which clearly meant that he was going to send us on our way. Whoever ate his barbecue would be taken away immediately.

Li Tie was a big spender, ordering barbecue worth more than 200 yuan in total. The three of us didn’t dare to say much for fear of irritating him, so we could only continue playing mahjong and think of other solutions.

After just three rounds, there was a knock on the door. It was the takeaway ordered by Li Tie.

He got up and ran to open the door. It was indeed the delivery guy standing outside. However, the guy’s expression was very strange. He glanced at us, then showed a surprised expression. Without saying a word, he put the takeaway on the ground and ran away.

Li Tie took one look at the delivery guy, called him a psycho, and then picked up the food.

The matter may seem insignificant, but it contains a huge amount of information.

The delivery guy must not have seen Li Tie and found that he opened the door himself, so he got scared and dropped the food on the ground. Li Tie must have turned into a ghost.

Zhang Jun, Ma Hui and I looked at each other. They seemed to agree with me, with anxiety in their eyes, and we didn’t know what to do.

Soon, Li Tie put the takeaway food on the table. He said that today’s delivery guys have very little manners and that he must complain about them and give them a bad review. He also asked us to eat more.

Barbecue is something we usually like to eat, but we didn’t eat a single bite. We just held it in our hands pretending to eat it. After all, no one wanted to be the first person to be taken away by Li Tie.

Only Li Tie was eating happily alone.

He took two bites, looked at me and said, “Lao Xu, I’m really hungry. I just told Lao Zhang when I came here. I called Didi and a Huolala car came. I got really upset halfway through the ride, so I started arguing with the driver. In the end, I got off the car early and walked here by myself.”

Li Tie is not in the car?

When I heard this, I immediately perked up and said, “So, the passenger seat wasn’t you?”

Li Tie looked at me with confusion, and I asked him to read the news carefully to see if the Huolala he had taken before was the one mentioned in the news.

Li Tie looked through his phone and exclaimed that he was so lucky. He didn’t look carefully just now, and it was indeed the same car he took tonight. There was another person following him in the car. If he hadn’t gotten off early, he would have been the one who died tonight.

I was so scared, it turned out to be another misunderstanding!

After figuring out the situation, I looked at Li Tie with a different look in his eyes. He now had a happy smile on his face, without any trace of the gloomy look from before.

I breathed a sigh of relief and showed an embarrassed expression. Li Tie finally reacted and looked at me with dissatisfaction. He said, “Lao Xu, are you fucking sick? You don’t think I’m a ghost, do you? Hurry up and continue playing mahjong after eating. I’m in a good mood.”

I said, “You can’t blame us. It’s just such a coincidence. Now we can eat without worry.”

I was already hungry, so I grabbed the barbecue and started eating. But Ma Hui opposite me suddenly stood up, his forehead covered with beads of sweat, and he looked very painful.

He said, “You guys eat first. I have a stomachache too. I need to go to the toilet.”

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Ma Hui also had diarrhea.

There must be something poisonous tonight. Why do the three people in front and behind complain of stomachache? Is diarrhea contagious or what? I ate so much barbecue and had no reaction at all, but Ma Hui only ate so much and had a reaction in such a short time.

I glanced at Ma Hui’s desk and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Ma Hui didn’t even eat a single bite of the barbecue.

I heard from the elders in my family that people cannot eat after they become ghosts, and can only be cooked for them by living people, so Ma Hui didn’t eat a single bite.

I thought about the expression of the delivery guy just now, as if he saw a ghost. It seems that he didn’t see something wrong with Li Tie, but saw something wrong with Ma Hui who was at the same table with us.

I told them my opinion, “There’s something wrong with Lao Ma. Could he be the one in trouble? I heard that ghosts don’t eat. Look, Lao Ma didn’t eat a single bite. I remember him saying that things weren’t going well for him recently. He lost a lot of money in the stock market and wanted to commit suicide by jumping off a building!”

Zhang Jun also said, “I heard that he owes hundreds of thousands of yuan. Someone went to see him a few days ago. The delivery guy’s expression was really strange, as if he was really scared. He must have seen something. Lao Li, call the delivery guy and ask him what happened just now.”

Li Tie nodded and immediately called the delivery boy. After a while, the call was connected. He asked several questions, but the signal seemed not to be very good. The delivery boy kept saying “Hello, hello” and he didn’t hear a word Li Tie said.

“Who are you calling?”

A gloomy voice suddenly came.

I don’t know when Ma Hui came out. His face was frighteningly pale and he limped towards us. He was fine when he came in, but how come he had a limp when he came out of the toilet?

It is said that people who commit suicide by jumping off buildings are very miserable, and breaking legs is a common occurrence. Ma Hui must have discovered that he had turned into a ghost, so he showed the corresponding symptoms. Moreover, he had just clearly opposed fighting until dawn, and said that he had important things to do tomorrow, so he could only fight until four o’clock at the latest.

It was dawn at five o’clock, but he could only play until four o’clock, which was very telling.

Damn it, when did he commit suicide? Why is there no news at all?

Li Tie reacted very quickly and said that he had just called his mother and told her that he would play mahjong all night and would not go back to sleep, and asked Ma Hui to come over and play cards quickly.

Ma Hui smiled sinisterly twice and limped back to his seat.

He gave the three of us a weird look and said, “You three look like you’ve seen a ghost. Do you think I’m a ghost?”

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We did think so, but we couldn’t say it out loud. Once it was confirmed that Ma Hui was a ghost, one of the three of us would definitely be taken away by him.

I said, “No, it’s nothing. Why would I suspect you’re a ghost? What’s wrong with your foot? Why are you limping all of a sudden?”

Ma Hui looked down and stomped his hands twice, with a very strange expression on his face. He said, “I twisted my arm accidentally when I went to the toilet just now. It’s no big deal. It will be fine in a while.”

It was fine, but suddenly it twisted. This explanation is too far-fetched.

I asked him again, “Why didn’t you eat a single bite of your takeaway?”

Ma Hui glanced at the takeaway and glanced aside. He said, “I’m trying to lose weight recently. My coach told me not to eat these greasy foods, otherwise it’s easy to rebound. That’s why I didn’t eat a single bite.”

Nonsense, complete nonsense.

When did he start losing weight? How come I had no idea about this? I looked at Zhang Jun and Li Tie, and they also looked confused.

Ghosts are best at lying, and Ma Hui must be lying to us.

I then said, “Lao Ma, how are your stocks doing recently? If you don’t have enough money, the brothers can help you find a way. I was worried when I heard you talking the day before yesterday.”

As soon as I asked this question, the light bulb suddenly flickered again, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, illuminating Ma Hui’s gloomy face, which looked extremely creepy.

He stood up, glanced at the three of us, and said coldly, “You three are not suspecting that I owe a lot of debts, and I jumped off the building to commit suicide, so now I come back to find you.”

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, my heart was in my throat, I felt that the time had come to completely tear each other apart, Ma Hui was the devil!

灯泡依然闪烁不停，丝毫没有回复正常的意思，我的额头满是冷汗，手也在不住地颤抖，我甚至做好了跑路的准备。

“Hahaha!”

Ma Hui suddenly laughed, and he fell forward and backward with laughter. He said, “You three are sick, can you please stop being so suspicious? I am a very thick-skinned person, how could I commit suicide by jumping off a building? It’s only a few hundred thousand, not millions. Lao Xu, you have the most imagination here, isn’t that what you mean?”

He didn’t wrongly accuse me, it was indeed my idea.

I was still worried, so I asked again, “What exactly are you going to do tomorrow? Even if you fight for an extra hour, we won’t trust you as long as you fight until dawn.”

Ma Hui hesitated for a while and said, “Okay, let’s go to daybreak. What’s wrong with you three today? You’re so weird. You’re always suspicious. You get scared to death at the slightest sign of trouble. You almost had a heart attack while playing mahjong. How could this be a ghost?”

I can’t be sure whether Ma Hui is a ghost or not, but one thing he said is very right. Today is indeed a bit weird and not right. If we continue to fight like this, I’m afraid the three of them will suspect that I am a ghost. If I had known this, I would not have suggested playing mahjong.

I was in a bad mood and I just came up with this idea on the spur of the moment. I don’t have any other friends but these three buddies, so I called them out, thinking they could help me relax.

I haven’t even talked to them about my business yet, and there have been so many misunderstandings. I thought I should just forget about it and stop here today to avoid further misunderstandings.

I was just about to speak when I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen. My face turned ugly and cold sweat continued to seep out of my forehead, exactly the same reaction as they had before.

The barbecue must have been poisonous. My stomach has never been in good condition. If it is not fresh, I will immediately have a stomachache after eating it.

I threw the cards aside and said I was going to the bathroom and asked them to wait for a while. I didn’t care what they thought and rushed into the bathroom and locked the door.

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The toilet is a good thing, it helps me calm down.

Although Ma Hui tried his best to deny it, I still felt something was wrong. There must be a ghost in the room. Even if it wasn’t him, it must be someone else.

The most direct evidence is the delivery guy just now.

Those who are involved are often confused. The four of us are all involved, so we can’t see the truth from each other, but the delivery guy is an outsider, and he must have noticed that something is wrong among the three of them.

First, Zhang Jun, he kept saying that the car had been transferred, but he just forgot to tell us, but who can prove this? It is also possible that he himself remembered it wrongly, and the car had not been transferred, but he had just become a ghost and was not conscious yet.

The second person is Li Tie. He said he got off the bus halfway, so he escaped. But where is the evidence? No one can prove that he really got off the bus. Maybe he lied to us.

Ghosts love to deceive people. They deceive us because they want a substitute, but they haven’t decided who is the most suitable one yet.

Finally, there is Ma Hui. His reasons are very far-fetched, such as spraining his ankle and losing weight. These are just lies to fool people. He is the one who loves to eat the most among us. It is impossible that he has no appetite today. Again, it’s not that he doesn’t want to eat, but that he can’t eat because he is a ghost.

After a simple analysis, I found that my whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

Except for me, it is very likely that all three of them are ghosts, because I was the one who invited them to play mahjong, so they all came to me.

It’s not that they can’t find a substitute, but I’m the only substitute and they want to snatch me away.

想到这里，我全身一阵恶寒，鸡皮疙瘩起了满身，我甚至不敢开门出去，我怕看到的是三个面目狰狞的厉鬼。

What’s even worse is that Zhang Jun’s voice came from outside the door.

“Lao Xu, why don’t you come out? The three of us are waiting for you.”

What does it mean that they are waiting for me? Have they already made up their minds to let one of them take me away?

I calmed myself down. Since they hadn’t taken any action until now, it meant that I still had a chance. The only way was to wait until dawn, then I would be saved.

I washed my face, opened the bathroom door and walked out.

The lights in the living room flickered again, sometimes bright and sometimes dim. In the distance, the three of them sat grimly in their seats, looking at me with extremely weird expressions.

I slowly approached and realized that I had misunderstood. Their expressions were not weird, but shock with a hint of fear.

What is going on? Are these three going to suspect that I am a ghost?

Zhang Jun looked at me and said, “Xu Yan, did you break up with Li Jiao?”

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I did break up, yesterday.

But it wasn’t me who proposed the breakup, it was Li Jiao. She listed many of my shortcomings and was determined to break up with me.

She said that I had no ambition, that after three years together, I was still a grassroots employee, that I was satisfied with the status quo and had never thought about the future.

More importantly, her mother wanted a dowry of 200,000 yuan, and also asked me to buy a three-bedroom, one-living-room house so that her parents would live with us in the future and it would be easier to take care of the children.

My family is not well off, and it took all of their savings to buy me this small house. I simply can’t afford a dowry of 200,000 yuan, nor can I afford a large house with three bedrooms and a living room.

I told her about my situation and said that I would work hard in the future. Li Jiao expressed her understanding verbally, but she said that she was really tired and that she felt there was no future with me.

I didn’t agree to break up and begged her bitterly. I said I really couldn’t live without her. After three years of relationship, could we just break up like that?

Li Jiao’s attitude was very firm. She said that she was not young anymore and could not afford to delay. Her mother had arranged a blind date for her. The other party was an excellent civil servant with a promising future and a well-off family.

She decided to go and see, and if it was suitable, she would get engaged.

I asked them how they knew that. I told them that I was in a bad mood, so I asked them to play mahjong and mentioned this matter to see if they could think of a way to save the situation.

The three of them didn’t say anything, just looked at me, and finally Zhang Jun spoke.

He said, “Just when you went to the bathroom, the three of us received a message from Li Jiao, asking if we had seen you. She also said that she had been trying to contact you for a long time but couldn’t get through on the phone and you didn’t reply to messages. She said that your mood was very unstable and that you didn’t want to live anymore. She was afraid that you would do something stupid!”

I understood instantly that the three of them thought I was a ghost.

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I was really horrified by their actions.

How could I be a ghost!

I loved Li Jiao very much. Even though she proposed to break up and I felt a pain in my heart, I still wanted to save this relationship. There was no way I would commit suicide.

I said I didn’t commit suicide. I remember very clearly that I stayed at home all day, waiting for them to come over to play mahjong. I didn’t reply to the message because I hadn’t figured out how to face Li Jiao.

The lights flickered more and more violently, alternating between light and dark, as if they would explode at any time. The three of them still had tense faces, as if they still didn’t believe what I said.

Zhang Jun looked at me and said, “No, you must have been out. When I came here just now, I didn’t see your car. Why isn’t your car downstairs?”

My car isn’t there?

That’s impossible. After I came back yesterday, I parked my car in the parking space downstairs. I didn’t go out all day today. How could my car not be in the parking space?

I walked to the window and took a look, and I was immediately shocked to find that the spot where I usually parked was empty. My car was really gone.

I said, “Maybe I was towed away because I parked in the wrong place?”

To be honest, even I feel that my explanation is too far-fetched. If there really was a problem, the other party should have called 110 instead of towing my car away.

But I really can’t remember where my car went.

I saw the three of them standing far away, and there was really nothing I could do. I said, how about this, I will call Li Jiao right now and ask her to come here in person. I believe she will be able to tell whether there is a ghost here or not.

The three of them looked at each other and agreed with me. I called Li Jiao on the spot and told her that I was at home with Zhang Jun and the others and asked her to come over so we could have a good talk.

But the strange thing is, no matter what I said, Li Jiao always just said “Hello, hello”, as if she couldn’t hear me. After a long time, she asked me not to scare her and said we could discuss anything. At most, she would not go on the blind date and asked me to have a good talk with her.

She also asked me if I was at home and that she could come over right away because she had something important to tell me.

Li Jiao had just hung up the phone when Zhang Jun suddenly pushed Li Tie to my side. His expression was very ugly and there was some fear in his eyes, as if he had really seen a ghost.

He said, “What’s wrong with you two? Why can’t the other party hear you when you are talking on the phone? And you dare to say that you are fine? Are you ghosts?”

Ma Hui was also a little scared and took two steps back. He said that everyone was friends, and if there were any last wishes, they could help us fulfill them, so there was no need to harm others.

Li Tie and I are like ghosts in their eyes. We can’t explain ourselves even if we have a hundred mouths. It’s all because of this damn cell phone. The signal is so bad at the critical moment.

I said, “Zhang Jun, Ma Hui, don’t let your imagination run wild. Li Tie and I are not ghosts. If you are afraid, why don’t we continue playing mahjong? We will know who is the ghost in the morning. We are brothers. Don’t you think we have even this basic trust?”

The four of us continued playing mahjong, but the atmosphere became extremely weird.

No one spoke, and everyone had the same gloomy expression. The only sound in the room was the thumping of mahjong tiles. Fortunately, the originally flickering light bulb returned to normal, otherwise even the mahjong tiles would not be visible.

After a circle, I suddenly heard footsteps outside the door and then I heard the delivery guy’s voice again.

“Comrade police, this is it!”

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I never thought that the delivery guy would call the police.

I glanced at the three of them and was about to run to open the door, but I didn’t expect the police to kick open the door and rush in. There was more than one policeman, but three of them. As soon as they rushed in, they searched around the house, as if they were looking for something.

I was quite surprised. These policemen were so rude. They just barged into someone else’s house without even saying hello and completely ignored the existence of me as the owner.

I walked up to the police and said, “This is a private residence. How can you just come in? Even if you really have something to do, at least wait for me to open the door.”

I talked for a long time, but the police didn’t react at all, as if they couldn’t see me at all.

It wasn’t just me. The police seemed unable to see Zhang Jun and the others as well. They just circled around the mahjong table for several times without asking any questions.

The leading police officer stood in front of the mahjong table and glanced at the delivery boy. He said, “What’s going on? You said there might be something going on here, but why is there no one here?”

The delivery guy said, “I received a takeaway order an hour ago and it was delivered right away. When I knocked on the door, someone opened it for me, but I didn’t see anyone. However, there were mahjong tiles on the table, which clearly showed someone playing mahjong. I was a little scared and left. But just now, the person who ordered the food called me again without saying a word. I suspected something had happened, so I called 110 to report the incident.”

Another police officer turned around and replied, “Captain, maybe there really were people gambling in a group. Maybe the delivery guy’s behavior scared them, so they ran away without even eating the barbecue. There was such a big pile, but he didn’t even touch a single one.”

The delivery guy looked a little scared. He said, “Comrade police, do you think this is haunted? It’s too weird. How can a door open by itself?”

The leading policeman shook his head and said, “Don’t talk nonsense. There is no such thing as ghosts or gods. We will investigate this matter thoroughly.”

Looking at the scene in front of me, my whole body was shocked. Including Zhang Jun and the others, they all had expressions of disbelief on their faces. We have been trying to find out who is the ghost, but we didn’t expect that all four of us are.

We thought we ate the barbecue thoroughly without leaving any residue, but in their eyes, we didn’t expect that we didn’t even touch a single barbecue.

Yes, ghosts don’t need to eat!

“Xu Yan, are you in there!” At this moment, another figure walked in from outside. It was my girlfriend Li Jiao.

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Li Jiao is here.

I saw her rushing in, looking very tired, and she said, “Comrade police, what’s going on?”

The police did not respond, but instead asked about Li Jiao’s identity and why she came here so late.

Li Jiao said that she was my girlfriend and had just received a call from me but couldn’t hear my voice. She was very scared and afraid that I would do something stupid, so she came to my house to check on me.

The police briefly asked me about my situation and said that they had received a report that there might be people gambling here, so they came to take a look.

However, judging from the on-site investigation, everyone in the room should have left.

Looking at Li Jiao’s anxious expression, my heart broke. If I hadn’t turned into a ghost, I wouldn’t have known that Li Jiao was so worried about me.

If that’s the case, then why did she still have the heart to break up?

Does she know how sad I am? She is on my mind 24 hours a day. I have a lot to say to Li Jiao, but it’s a pity that she can’t hear me.

I still can’t figure out how I died and why Zhang Jun and the others died with me. I tried hard to recall, but I couldn’t remember anything.

The only thing I remember is to come back and play mahjong.

Just then, the leading police officer’s cell phone rang.

He walked aside to answer the phone, his expression became very solemn. After a long while, he put down the phone and slowly walked to Li Jiao.

He said, “Li Jiao, didn’t you just say your boyfriend’s name is Xu Yan? Is he about 1.8 meters tall, with short hair, and is he wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt today?”

Yes, I did wear a blue short-sleeved shirt today.

Li Jiao said, “It’s Xu Yan. He likes to wear blue clothes the most. Did you find him?”

The police nodded and said, “Li Jiao, you must calm down. The police just called me and asked me to go to the Hao River. They said a car fell into the river and was just salvaged. There were four bodies in the car. One of the bodies had a wallet. The name on the ID card was Xu Yan.”

012

I remembered everything. I was really dead, and Zhang Jun and the others died with me.

In the morgue, I looked at my cold body and tears instantly welled up in my eyes.

This afternoon, I was in a bad mood, so I made an appointment with the three of them to play mahjong in the evening. However, I became more and more irritated lying at home, so I drove to the Hao River alone.

That is our mother river, the water is very deep. I drank a lot of wine and suddenly I had thoughts of committing suicide. Li Jiao doesn’t want me anymore, so what’s the point of me living?

I called Ma Hui and told him that I was by the Hao River and I didn’t want to live anymore.

Ma Hui was frightened and called both of them. Li Tie did get off the bus halfway, but he did not walk to my house. Instead, he went directly to Haohe River.

The four of us brothers sat by the Hao River and drank a lot of beer.

They accompanied me, comforted me, and said they would help me win Li Jiao back. At that moment, I was really glad that I had such friends.

The four of us drank until 12 a.m., and we were all drunk. I felt much better, so I suggested going back to play mahjong. The Hao River was not far from my home, and I felt I was still conscious, so I asked the three of them to get in the car together. But in a fit of excitement, I stepped on the accelerator too much and rushed into the river.

That’s right, I was driving under the influence, I deserved to die. No wonder several of us had stomachaches one after another and felt like we had caught a cold, it was because we were soaking in the water the whole time.

Li Jiao knelt down beside my body and cried. She kept slapping herself, saying that she shouldn’t have said those words to me and that she was deliberately provoking me.

She didn’t really want to go on a blind date, nor did she really want to break up. She just wanted to deal with her mother and stimulate me at the same time, so that I could arouse my fighting spirit and work harder.

She said she really loved me and she knew I would not break up easily, so she used this stupid method, but she didn’t expect that I would be so desperate. She had already planned the future, but I left her alone.

When I heard what Li Jiao said, I cried. It turned out that she still loved me.

I really regret it. If I had worked harder before instead of just playing games when I got home, perhaps nothing that happened today would have happened.

I stood beside Li Jiao and tried to stroke her back, but my hand passed through her body and touched nothing.

I know that I no longer belong to this world.

I turned around and Zhang Jun and the others were already waiting for me.

I looked at them, smiled bitterly, and said, “Brothers, I’m so sorry. I have implicated you and caused you to die at such a young age.”

Zhang Jun said, “We are already dead, why would we beat you up? We have no regrets. If there is an afterlife, we are still willing to be your brothers!”

I nodded and walked towards them.

There is a white light in the distance, that is our next stop.

I walked to the white light and looked back at Li Jiao again.

Goodbye, my beloved woman.

If there is an afterlife, I hope we can still be together.