With that said, she entered the kitchen, leaving Han Qiang and Xu Heng behind, and the air was a little quiet.
Xu Heng sat on the sofa and said after a while: "My younger brothers and sisters are very cute."
"Haha, really?" Han Qiang smiled, but became nervous inside.
My son just had a nightmare and this guy came to my house. Isn’t it a coincidence...
He was suspicious in his heart, but he didn't show it on the surface, and asked: "Where is your mother? Why don't you ask her to come with you?"
Hearing this question, Xu Heng lowered his head and said nothing.
Han Qiang was silent for a moment and said, "I understand."
Of course he knows Xu Heng's mother. This woman and Xu Yan have been together for a long time and have a very good relationship. Now I'm afraid she is still immersed in the pain of her husband's death...
The food was served not long after, and several people sat around the dining table, but the atmosphere was inexplicably awkward.
Xu Heng was too cold. Even though he was polite and would chat along, everyone could see his alienation.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but after the meal, Han Qiang always felt that something was wrong with the way Xu Heng looked at him.
…
It was another night of nightmares. Han Qiang wiped his sweat and walked to the bathroom. When he returned to the bedroom, he heard something moving at the door.
Having been frightened recently, he suddenly became alert, quietly walked to the door, and looked through the peephole to the corridor.
The voice-activated light outside the building turned on at some point, and a figure with a lowered head stood outside the door, his body looking a little distorted in the cat's eyes.
"this……"
Han Qiang was shocked, how could there be anyone outside in the middle of the night?
But the figure slowly raised his head, revealing a slightly pale face. He leaned his head closer, as if intending to look into the room through the peephole.
An eyeball gradually enlarged, and before Han Qiang could retreat, the corridor became dark.
It’s Xu Heng!
Han Qiang almost screamed, his heart pounding. This guy didn't go home, but kept standing outside the door?
He was a little creeped out, but he pretended not to notice, and tiptoed back to the bedroom, lying on the bed with confused thoughts.
"Doesn't he know?"
As he muttered, the whole story of that nightmare began to emerge in his mind.
The story is not complicated.
Xu Yan is much older than Han Qiang. He is his good brother and his leader. Not only did he bring him into his company, but he also spent time helping him adapt to work.
But even with Xu Yan's care, Han Qiang was only promoted to a small position after one year, and has not made any progress since then. On the other hand, Xu Yan's work has become more and more smooth, and he has become a supervisor naturally, and no one is dissatisfied.
Han Qiang was jealous, but he knew that Xu Yan deserved all this. He was capable and more sophisticated, so maybe being a supervisor would not be his end in the company.
In Han Qiang's perception, Xu Yan was almost perfect, and it was almost impossible to find any flaws in his body, until one day, he entered a place called a secret store.
Yes, it is the most famous restricted area for activities, the secret shop.
This is a strange store that can only be entered at midnight. The goods inside are blood-stained mouths, and they will tell you any secret - as long as you can pay an equal price.
The owner of the store was a woman whose face could not be seen clearly. Under her "sales promotion", Han Qiang's desire was aroused and he accidentally purchased Xu Yan's secret.
He really wanted to know what secrets Xu Yan, who was loved by everyone, hid that could not be disclosed to the public.
Xu Yan indeed has a stain.
Manager Xu, who is trusted by the company and loved by the employees, is actually cannibalizing the company's public funds!
Han Qiang couldn't believe it, but he was more willing to believe in the power of the secret store. After the shock, he was inexplicably excited. When he came to his senses, he had anonymously reported Xu Yan to the company.
Desire is the poison and alcohol is the catalyst.
Not long after that, after drinking a few glasses of wine, he followed Xu Yan to the roof of a residential building.
Xu Yan lives in this building.
The wind was very strong that night, but it could not wake Han Qiang up. Xu Yan trusted him very much and told him many things, including the secrets he hid.
"Someone reported that I was squandering public funds," Xu Yan said while smoking a cigarette, his voice not revealing any emotion or anger. "You may not believe it, but this is true... My son is sick and my family needs money. I really have no choice."
Han Qiang listened quietly. Perhaps it was the effect of alcohol. Instead of saying anything to comfort him, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.
"I know I made a mistake. Before I step down, I will find a way to make you a supervisor. This is the last thing I can do to help you."
Xu Yan walked to the edge of the building and looked down at the crowds of people moving downstairs. His face showed fatigue. This was the first time Han Qiang saw him like this.
"It's so high. Do you think it will feel like flying if you jump like this?"
Xu Yan looked at everything downstairs, sighed, and turned around dejectedly, only to be met with a ferocious and twisted face.
"You'll know if you try it!"
The suppressed roar fell, a figure fell from a height, and bloody flowers bloomed on the street.
A gust of wind blew by, and Han Qiang realized what he had done. Looking at his gloved hands, he was a little scared, but more of it was morbidly excited.
Because of the scarcity of land, the buildings now are very high, and that guy can't survive!
He is Xu Yan's good friend and holds Xu Yan's secret, so he quickly faked the incident into a suicide.
Because his son was ill, Xu Yan had no choice but to squander public funds against his conscience. Faced with the dual pressure of life and conscience, he was exhausted and chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
The police naturally suspected Han Qiang, but there was no surveillance around the area where the incident occurred. He also wore gloves when pushing the person, leaving no fingerprints. Therefore, even if this was possible, the police could not produce evidence.
It was a troubled time at that time, and they couldn't afford to use extraordinary powers to investigate two guys who were not extraordinary people.
The loss of public funds also involved some people. Han Qiang found the clues about these people in the information left by Xu Yan, and took the position of supervisor without any resistance.
When the dust settled, this matter should have ended, but Han Qiang leaked the secret.
The secret store has two purposes: equal exchange and no leakage of secrets. Even if the world knows about the secret store, its existence should not be leaked by customers.
But he said it out loud once when he was drunk.
Of course, everyone who heard it didn't take it seriously, and he forgot about it when he was drunk.
But Han Qiang's first nightmare began.
He returned to the secret store, with all the shelves facing him, and the bloody mouths arranged neatly, opening and closing to murmur.
The woman stood in front of the shelf and cast her eyes on him.
"You leaked the secret," she said in an ugly voice. "Those who leak the secret will have nightmares again."
"The nightmare will be repeated!" Countless mouths on the shelves repeated in hisses, with strong malice.
Han Qiang did not expect that his child would also have nightmares, and this incident seemed to involve his family.
And Xu Heng, does he know anything...
There was a sudden movement beside him, interrupting Han Qiang's thoughts. He turned on the lamp and saw a pale face.
His wife sat up sweating profusely, looking at him with empty eyes, and the words she spoke pierced his heart.
"I had a nightmare...I dreamed about Brother Xu."
…
The artist breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out that this was the origin of the strange things happening to Han Qiang. Later, the guy died at his own hands not long after, so there was no need to read on.
Secret store!
He got the information he wanted, and all he had to do next was to prescribe the right medicine. He wanted to withdraw his consciousness, but was horrified to find that he couldn't escape no matter what, and could only be forced to continue experiencing Han Qiang's life.
But he is not worried, because Xu Qiang will be killed by himself in the dream soon, and he will definitely wake up by then.
However, the scary thing is that the subsequent development of the dream is completely different from what he knew——
Han Qiang was very anxious. Things were starting to get out of control. His nightmares seemed to be contagious and had begun to affect his family. This was by no means a good sign.
Sadly, there was nothing he could do to change the situation, the method of entering the secret store had failed, and he couldn't even go to someone to apologize.
Is it really going to be a lifelong nightmare?
And his intuition told him that the nightmare was just the beginning, and the price of leaking the secret was far more expensive than any secret.
To be continued...