Chapter 100 The Wig (2/2)
I was about to get down and ask Feng Chunsheng to have a look when I suddenly I saw those hairs come together, and then the pond filled with resin oil and became yellow. At the bottom, I could see a red human shadow.
I could hear a woman’s crying:”Wah wah wah wah.”
Seeing this, I felt my hair stand on end. My back was tight and my feet were soft.
Then…
Peng peng peng.
I pressed my face against the window and heard a tapping sound, then what I saw through the hole completely changed. It turned into to a red eye.
And that thing looked right back at me through the hole.
It was a bloodshot red eye, oozing blood.
I froze for a moment. When I came to, I dropped to the ground and then stood up quickly. I grabbed Feng Chunsheng’s hand and said: “Go! Run! There’s a ghost in there!”
Feng Chunsheng was stunned. I just dragged him along with me at a dead run back to the street.
I was so scared by that red eye, I felt queasy and got sweaty all over. My hands felt frozen.
Feng Chunsheng frowned and asked me: “Shui, why did we run away? What happened?”
Now I really couldn’t speak at all; I felt a little sick. I just wanted to smoke a cigarette to calm myself down, but when I lit one up, I just didn’t have any desire to do so. My jaw was trembling.
After ten minutes, I recovered. Then I said to Feng Chunsheng: “Brother Chun… there are more scary things in this barbershop besides that ghost lanugos.”
“What’s that?” he asked me.
I told him what I’d just seen, including the red human shadow at the bottom of the resin oil tub, and there blood-red eye in the window.
Hearing this, Feng Chunsheng frowned and asked me again: “Did you just make that up because you didn’t want me to look by myself?”
Well, he didn’t even believe me. I put his hand on my forehead and said: “Feel this. It’s as cold as the grave. It’s a psychological reaction and I couldn’t be faking it.”
When he touched it, he knew Ma Xiaoguo was involved in some seriously bad stuff.
He shook his head and said: “Maybe Ma Xiaoguo isn’t only making those ghost lanugos in there, but something even more evil.”
“What was that ghost shadow?” I frowned.
We didn’t know the answer. We would have to keep observing. Feng Chunsheng and I stayed in the car and watched the barbershop.
Then we found something.
Ma Xiaoguo didn’t only do haircuts - he also did wigs.
I saw him open the small room where those ghost lanugos were growing and take out several wigs to show to a customer.
Then that customer chose one and gave Ma Xiaoguuo a considerable amount of money.
It was probably more than thirty thousand.
Then the customer put it on their bald head and left the shop.
“What’s up with that? One wig cost tens of thousands?” I asked Feng Chunsheng.
Feng Chunsheng started the engine and said: “There must be some trick to those wigs… They must be connected to that red ghost.”
Eventually, we caught up with the girl who bought the wig.
I got out of the car and said to her: “Hello, miss.”
“Yes?” she replied.
“Well, let me ask you something… This is a very nice wig. So, where did you get it?”
“You can see it’s only a wig?” she asked me.
I told her I saw her when she bought it, and assured her that it was rather hard to tell whether it was a wig or real hair.
But it did not look like a wig at all. It looked very real. It was so shiny and bouncy… well, it could pass for genuine hair.
When she heard that I saw her by the wig, she just laughed and said this wig cost her thirty five thousand because she was balding and there was not so much hair on her head at all. That’s why she spent so much money on such good wig.
Then she added: “This wig is different from normal wigs.”
I asked her in what way.
She said: “As time goes by, this wig will grow into the scalp and become real hair.”
I gasped and asked her: “Did that Ma Xiaoguo guy tell you that?”
“Absolutely,” she replied.
Now I felt there was a real problem with Ma Xiaoguo. It was not only a matter of ghost lanugos, but also wigs that could grow into living flesh. Well, what the hell was he keeping in that small room?