I took Da Jinya and drove away.
In the car, Da Jinya was still complaining, saying that when he was in Harbin, there was nothing happening at all, just lying at home watching TV all the time, so comfortable. But now that he's with me, why are there so many problems?
I was really annoyed, wondering who couldn't make money, and had to resort to dealing with black antiques, almost ending up in jail.
Now, there's work available every day, and you're still not happy? I really wanted to find a chance to deduct Da Jinya's wages, let him know that the money doesn't come easily.
I didn't bother to engage with Da Jinya's complaints.
As I was driving halfway, Wind Shadow called me and said he had already bought a train ticket from Beijing to Guangzhou, departing at noon today, and arriving tomorrow morning.
I asked, why is your train so slow? The high-speed rail only takes four hours now.
Wind Shadow chuckled and said in life, you must not be hasty, you must have grace, and in adversity, you must have courage.
I inwardly laughed at this, Wind Shadow really cared about his reputation. Probably didn't have the money to buy a high-speed rail ticket, could only afford the slowest hard seat train ticket, after all, although Wind Shadow is very capable, he seldom gets work and earns very little.
But I didn't reveal this, instead flattered him by saying: Old Wind sure has grace.
"Of course," Wind Shadow said and was about to hang up.
I asked him if he wanted to tease Da Jinya a bit, he was just grumbling to me.
Hearing that I was going to put the call on speakerphone again, Da Jinya was really scared, and quickly waved his hand, saying if Wind Shadow teased him again, he wouldn't be able to drive well.
I laughed, in fact, Wind Shadow had already hung up, his last words were: don't worry, teasing people depends on my mood, when I arrive in Guangzhou tomorrow, I'll tease that guy to death in front of him.
"If you don't work well, I'll make Old Wind call you every day." I smiled and said to Da Jinya.
Da Jin Ya shrank his neck and dared not speak for a while.
After about an hour and a half, Da Jin Ya and I arrived under the "Pilgrimage Overpass" and saw a car under the overpass with its front all caved in, like a crushed soda can.
Wang Tianlai was sitting by the car, being questioned by a traffic policeman. He seemed absent-minded, constantly twisting his pale face and looking around.
As I approached Wang Tianlai, he saw me and rushed over frantically, saying, "Xiao Li, Xiao Li, over here."
"I see," I and Da Jin Ya said as we walked over, holding our cigarettes.
Wang Tianlai came running over, acting as if he were crying, "Xiao Li, I've been uneasy for the past few days, and today really was an accident. Look at my car, it's turned into a crushed can."
I asked Wang Tianlai not to worry and to tell me slowly.
At this point, the traffic policeman became impatient, asking Wang Tianlai if he was going to make a statement or file an insurance claim.
Wang Tianlai raised his hand and told the traffic policeman, "Stop asking, it's all my fault. I'll handle the accident scene myself."
Following the principle of "the less fuss, the better," the traffic policeman rode away on his motorcycle. In fact, when handling traffic incidents, most traffic police officers will ask, "Are we settling this privately?"
Once the traffic policeman had left, Wang Tianlai told me about the thrilling scene from an hour and a half earlier.
It turns out that he was scheduled to film a scene of the protagonist returning home in the past few days. Therefore, yesterday Wang Tianlai drove around to scout locations for the shoot. This morning, at six or seven o'clock, Wang Tianlai got up again, driving back to the studio in Yokohama to shoot.
However, while driving on the "Pilgrimage Overpass," a large truck suddenly began driving in the opposite direction at a high speed and crashed into Wang Tianlai's car.
At the time, Wang Tianlai instinctively turned the steering wheel, and the car forcefully broke through the central barrier, damaging the brakes. His car then careened into the railing on the other side of the road and flew off the overpass.
After hearing Wang Tianlai's story, I looked up at the overpass. It was about ten meters off the ground, with a section of the railing broken. It seemed that Wang Tianlai's car had plunged from that spot.
After looking at the overpass, I became puzzled. I said to Wang Tianlai, "How could a big truck be driving in the opposite direction? There's a section of railing in the middle of the overpass, so it's not as easy as on a regular road to drive in the opposite direction or overtake."
"Oh, at the time when my car fell, I only thought of this problem. That big truck was probably a ghost vehicle," Wang Tianlai said that he had also asked the traffic policeman and said that he had seen a large truck.
But the traffic policeman pointed to a height barrier, saying that this overpass had a height restriction, and vehicles over two meters high couldn't use the overpass. In other words, the "big truck" that Wang Tianlai saw didn't even exist.
I nodded and asked Wang Tianlai again, "By the way, you said you almost killed yourself. What happened?”
"Oh, it's like this," Wang Tianlai said. "When my car crashed off the overpass, it was about ten meters off the ground. The car was upside down and about to fall, so I had put all my hope on the airbag."
After pausing for a moment, he continued, "But when the car fell a few meters, I suddenly felt a tremendous force pulling me up from the seat. The seatbelt snapped, and I was pressed up against the front windshield."
"The front windshield is an area that the airbag could not protect. I was pressed against there, and I was sure to die. It was almost impossible not to be turned into minced meat," Wang Tianlai said with a grimace before continuing, "At that time, as I turned my head to look backward, to see what had pulled me up from the seat."
He lit a cigarette and shivered as he said, "When I turned back, it scared the hell out of me. The person who pulled me up was none other than myself."
Wang Tianlai himself killed himself?
"Yes? It really was me, the person who pulled me up looked exactly like me,” Wang Tianlai grabbed my sleeve and said, “Xiao Li, you're an expert in this field, help me out, how could I kill myself?”
"How could you not? Did you trigger your own doppelganger?" Da Jin Ya interjected.
Wang Tianlai asked Da Jin Ya, "What's a doppelganger?"
I explained to Wang Tianlai about a person having a 'dark' side and a bright side, meaning that in this world, there is always someone who looks exactly like you, with similar stature and height, perhaps with an age difference, for example, one may be just one year old, while the other may be a hundred years old.
These two people are both you, belonging to a single spirit and sharing two bodies. This person may never meet you in their lifetime, but in reality, they do exist.
In news reports, it's not uncommon for people from two different countries to chat online and suddenly realize that the person on the other side looks exactly like them. This is the dark and bright side of a person, also known as a mirror image. The Chinese character for "person" used to be "从," with two people merged together to form a complete person. This refers to the original and the mirror image.
So what does a doppelganger do? It's when the mirror image turns into a ghost and causes trouble for you.
The result after cooking beans is the burning beanstalk. The beans cry in the pot. Originally from the same root, why are they so eager to torment each other?
The mirror image and the original are originally from the same root, but now they hate and harm each other. Why so impatient to torment each other? This is a doppelganger.
"What? What should I do?" Wang Tianlai was terrified, saying, "Oh, I forgot, when my car was about to fall, my lucky charm suddenly shattered, and then another force lifted me directly to the back of the car, pressing me tightly against the back seat, and that's how I escaped death."
"Oh! Did you buy off a lucky charm?" Da Jin Ya suddenly demanded, "Damn it, I wanted to buy a lucky charm last time, but I didn't have the money. When I had money, Malisan said it was sold. Turns out it was bought by you."
Wang Tianlai quickly apologized, "Yes, yes, brother, don't blame me. If I didn't have the lucky charm this time, I wouldn't have been able to escape disaster."
"A lucky charm saved you once, but it won't save you again. Your doppelganger will still come for you. This time, you have to invite me to handle the dark side, right?" I looked at Wang Tianlai with a half-smile.
If Wang Tianlai had invited me to handle the dark side last time, would all these things have happened now? I told him about the taboo of living people, the taboo of living people. When a lot of people tell you that you don't look good, you really should take it seriously, or you might have some unexpected problems.
Wang Tianlai was at a loss, crying and laughing. He asked me not to tease him anymore and said that he would come find me to handle the dark side in the future.
I patted his shoulder and said that to break this doppelganger curse, they needed to find a dark person, right?
"You can break the doppelganger curse?" This time Da Jin Ya was also shocked.
In fact, I didn't tell Wang Tianlai just now that this doppelganger curse is a guaranteed death in the world of the dark. It kills the dark person, who comes from the same root and source as you. This means that, through your birth date and some finding methods, including asking for help from gods, you can only find yourself in the end and can't find that doppelganger who is out to harm you. It is lurking in the shadows, waiting to harm you.
Isn't there a saying? "If heaven creates a crime, it can be forgiven, but if one creates their own crime, they can't survive."
This doppelganger curse is a clear case of creating one's own crime and killing oneself.
"It can be broken. A while back, a guy named Duan Guangyi contacted me. He came to register as a new dark person; he can break this doppelganger curse," I told Da Jin Ya.
"What ability does he have to break the doppelganger curse? Are you not just joking?" Da Jin Ya asked me.
I shook my head and said that this person didn't belong to a dark family, but he had an ability that was genuinely unseen in the dark world. I had witnessed it firsthand, and it was indeed quite powerful.
"What ability does he have?" Da Jin Ya asked me.
"He has his own three past lives' memories and can also see through three lifetimes of a person's past, present, and future," I told Da Jin Ya.
The "Big Gold Tooth" was so shocked that his jaw nearly dropped. This person called Duan... what's his broad ability?
"His ability is quite vague, needing to search for the past lives of the other person through dreams. Of course, it doesn't mean all the past lives can be found, but it can find some particularly intense past experiences. I think he can find the source of Wang Dao's doom, then we can confront the 'medicine' and resolve the doom, and save Wang Dao's life."
The most difficult part of breaking the doom is not even knowing who exactly wants to harm you. Once the source of the doom is found, that is, why that person wants to harm director Wang Tianlai, everything becomes easier.
The "Big Gold Tooth" still refused to believe, saying that this person couldn't possibly be related to the goddess of the underworld, right? Having never drunk the soup of the goddess, yet possessing three lifetimes of memory?
"Are you curious? Do you want to meet?" I asked the "Big Gold Tooth."
He said he did.
I said, "Give me 20,000 yuan, and I will take you to broaden your horizons. I can't let you watch in vain."
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