The number displayed on my phone was completely unfamiliar, and no location was shown. It was probably a local Minqing number.
I put the phone back to my ear and heard the woman on the other end asking,
"What's wrong? You really can't tell who this is? Have you forgotten? We agreed you'd come over today. Since when has your memory gotten so bad?"
Her voice was teasing, and she sounded as if she knew me very well, but I didn't recognize it at all.
Most importantly, I couldn't sense any yin energy coming through the call.
Suspicion slowly crept into my heart. "Who is this?"
"You've got to be kidding me. You really can't tell? You can't even recognize my voice?" The woman sounded surprised and displeased.
I'd figured it out by then.
Aside from that sentence that had sent a chill down my spine, the woman's approach was clearly one of those scams that often appeared in the news.
I said impatiently, "If you won't tell me, I'm hanging up."
The woman fell silent for two seconds.
"Lin Qi, I never thought you'd be so forgetful!" She called me by name.
I hung up immediately.
I got up and had breakfast, and the number didn't call again.
When I got to the office, I told everyone about the "Ghosts Obscuring the Eyes" case and mentioned the call, too.
The Skinny Guy was surprised. "Isn't that a really old scam? I think it was popular back when we were in high school. My mom got fooled once. She chatted nonsense with the caller for half an hour, then hung up without even remembering who it was."
At that, the Skinny Guy couldn't help laughing.
The Fatty said, "If it's just a scam, that's one thing. But the timing really