Chapter 21 21. Lair

But is this really the murderer's trick? Lin Fan stared blankly at the strange diary.The bright red word "start" is still on it.Lin Fan picked up the diary again.He no longer looked at the previous content, but turned to the last page.The diary reads: "I know you'll find me and who I am, and it will all come to an end, though I don't know which day it will be." Lin Fan turned another page, and it read: I finally smashed that mirror today.I was at a loss and couldn't feel any pleasure.He tortured me for so long, but I didn't feel any pleasure.It will end, though I don't know when.Today I decided to show this diary to Lin Fan. I don’t know why, maybe when I saw his appearance and expression at the Qingyun Temple, I always felt that he and I were the same. same kind of people.

I know he'll find out who I am eventually, but it's okay, I'll give him this while I'm still sober, let him catch me, let him end this, end my pain, and end others pain of. But I can't let him catch me, I have work to do, I can't!cannot! ... Then there are traces of being scratched by the pen below. It seems that the paper was scratched because of excessive writing force. Lin Fan put down the notepad, and found that there were other things in the package, and there was a note in the package, which read: Lin Fan, your time is running out, and mine is running out.

Looking at this note, Lin Fan read silently: "Not much time, not much time!" Lin Fan thought and smiled, "Let's see who is running out of time!" Lin Fan picked up the notebook and rushed out the door, even forgetting to close the door. When he arrived at the police station, Lin Fan handed the notepad to Ren Fei, "Here's something good for you!" Ren Fei took the notepad, "What is it, mysterious?" Ren Fei opened the notepad and looked up at Lin Fan in surprise as soon as he read the previous content, "Where did you get it? Don't tell me, this time you bought it from a bookstore again?"

Lin Fan smiled and said, "Someone delivered it automatically." Ren Fei asked: "At this time, the murderer dares to come to you in person?" Lin Fan said, "Is there anything impossible?" Ren Fei asked: "Why did he do this? Give this notepad to you instead of us?" Lin Fan said: "Who knows, this question can only be asked to the murderer." Ren Fei still asked in disbelief: "You really don't know, you don't have any idea?" Lin Fan said: "If I have thoughts about everything, I will drive my mind crazy. If I know everything, then I will be a god."

Ren Fei didn't quite believe Lin Fan's words, he sensed something strange from Lin Fan's tone of voice.But he didn't know what this strange thing was. This notebook was handed over to Director Liu, and Lin Fan said to Director Liu: "I just glanced at the content in it. From the content, there is a very important clue, that is, the murderer once got a heavy illness, it said that he had only one month to live, but he recovered miraculously. There is also a time clue in the letter, which is three years ago. The two clues of "cured patient" should be able to find the information of this person in the hospital, there must not be many such people, and the doctor will never forget it."

Director Liu immediately sent people to split up and conduct a detailed investigation of every hospital in the city.Ren Fei and Lin Fan also set off, and the first hospital they went to was a "rehabilitation" hospital.This is the most famous hospital in the city that specializes in cancer treatment.As soon as they mentioned it to the doctor, they got important information. Director Sun of the "Rehabilitation" Hospital told them that a strange case happened in their hospital three years ago.A patient came to their hospital for examination because of severe headache.The result of the examination was that the patient had advanced brain cancer and had only one or two months to live.But what he didn't expect was that when this person came back for an examination a month later, the cancer cells in the patient's brain could not be detected. At that time, the doctors in their hospital said it was a miracle.The patient has not been seen since that examination.

Hearing what Dean Sun said, Ren Fei and Lin Fan looked at each other. Lin Fan asked Dean Sun: "Is the patient's information still available?" "Yes." Dean Sun hurried to the file room to find out the patient's file.Dean Sun also said, "It's really strange. This person has never taken medicine in our hospital, and he himself said that he has never taken medicine. He originally gave up treatment, but he suddenly recovered. Later we tried to contact him. He wanted to do a detailed study on his body, but he never got in touch." Lin Fan opened the file, and it read:

Jia Gushi, male, 35 years old, was confirmed to have malignant brain cancer after examination and was inoperable. Jia Gushi's ID number and other information are also registered in the file. Finding out the person's name and ID number is the best direct clue to solve the case. After getting this clue, Ren Fei and Lin Fan rushed back to the police station, and they retrieved all relevant information about Jia Gushi.Fortunately, they found Jia Gushi's residence address in the information, and Lin Fan and Ren Fei immediately led the team to Jia Gushi's residence. It seems that Jia Gu is actually a rich man, and he lives in a villa area on the outskirts of the city.While driving the car, Ren Fei asked Lin Fan: "Do you think this is all too easy?"

Lin Fan also felt the same way. The murderer suddenly gave him the diary, and now he found the suspect's address so easily. Can't help myself, want to be caught by the police? Arriving at Jia Gushi's residence, Ren Fei asked his team members to block off the nearby streets for the sake of caution. This time he hoped to have a result instead of making a waste of a trip.Fully equipped, they forced their way into the house, searched the house and found no one. This is a two-story villa with a large area and a small garden at the back, which is full of lush flowers and plants.The environment of the whole house looks quiet and comfortable, and the furniture in the room is neatly arranged.

Lin Fan was walking around in the living room. He touched the table with his hand and found a thin layer of dust on the table.The furniture and decoration colors in the house are very solemn, which can make people feel that the owner of this house is a very serious person.But this house also gave Lin Fan a cold feeling. Originally, a mansion like this should be what many people yearned to own, but standing in such a house did not make Lin Fan feel any vitality in life. There is an easel by the window of the master bedroom on the second floor, and a portrait of a human head is drawn on the drawing paper of the easel, but the facial features of the person are not drawn in this portrait.The mirror on the wall is broken, it must have been smashed with something.Looking at everything in front of him, Lin Fan remembered the words in the notepad again... Lin Fan seemed to be able to see the scene of that person standing in front of the mirror talking to him... the faceless head portrait on the drawing paper, It seems to be silently telling something to those who look at it.

Apart from some dust on the furniture, everything in the house was in good order, except for the smashed mirror.Lin Fan walked to the window and saw the garden downstairs.The flowers and plants in the garden are growing very well and appear full of vitality.But the garden seemed to be another world, quite different from the world in the house.Although they are only separated by a window, they never seem to be able to blend together.One side is full of vitality, but the other side is... Ren Fei walked up to Lin Fan and said, "It looks like no one has lived in this house for a long time." Lin Fan said, "Did you find anything special?" Ren Fei shook his head and said, "I didn't find anything, they are all things for daily life." Lin Fan said: "The murderer wanted us to come here, it's impossible for us to see these things." Ren Fei said, "Then what do you mean?" Lin Fan smiled and said, "A rich man always finds a place to hide his good things, and a person like him will definitely find a place to hide his things." In fact, Ren Fei also thought of it, but he didn't find any compartments or dark rooms upstairs and downstairs just now. Lin Fan said: "I took a look just now, and according to the structure of this house, there shouldn't be any dark rooms. But villas generally have basements." The two came to the garden downstairs together, and after careful exploration, they found the entrance to the basement. Prying open the door of the basement, the inside is dark, like a huge black hole.Ren Fei looked at Lin Fan, turned on the flashlight and was the first to go inside.Since he had just walked in from the outside, Ren Fei's eyes hadn't adapted to the darkness here, and the flashlight could only shine one meter away, leaving a small halo.Just as Ren Fei walked into the basement, the light suddenly turned on.He turned his head abruptly, only to see Lin Fan smiling and saying to him: "It's better to have a light than to use a flashlight." Ren Fei was startled when the light came on just now, because he always felt that there should be something weird in this basement, but after they entered, they found that it was just a very ordinary basement.There are a lot of sundries in the basement, including tools for planting flowers and plants, and some miscellaneous old household items, which don't seem to be anything special.Lin Fan walked to the table and touched the table, there was also a thin layer of dust on it.Although this basement is used to store sundries, everything is neatly placed so that it doesn't look cluttered at all. Ren Fei felt a little disappointed.He asked Lin Fan: "Did you find anything?" Lin Fan said, "Not yet." Ren Fei said: "Could it be that the murderer moved all the things, or else he has another place, and no one has lived here for a long time." Lin Fan said, "It's possible." Although he said this, his eyes didn't blink, as if he was looking for something. Ren Fei looked at Lin Fan and asked, "Why, do you think there is a problem?" Lin Fan didn't answer Ren Fei.The basement area is not very large, and with the addition of cabinets and shelves, there is not much space left in this basement.Lin Fan turned around in the basement, gestured for directions with his fingers, and walked towards a shelf.This shelf is about one meter wide and two meters high, and there is a wooden barrel next to it, and there are some tools in it.Lin Fan moved the bucket out, and he found some scuff marks on the floor and corners of the wall. Lin Fan tried to move the shelf, but the shelf only shook and was not moved by Lin Fan.Lin Fan walked to the right side of the shelf, where there were several pottery dishes for planting flowers.Lin Fan moved the pottery plate away, and found that there was an iron bolt in the lower right corner of the shelf, fixing the shelf to the wall.Lin Fan pulled out the iron bolt and gently pushed it to the left.The shelf moved, and a door appeared behind it. Ren Fei pushed Lin Fan in surprise, "How do you know there will be a dark room here?" Lin Fan smiled and said, "I guess." "Then how did you guess that?" Lin Fan pointed to the entrance of the basement, "Look, the basement is directly under the house. The road is opposite the house. If there is a dark room, it should not be built under the road. Judging by the size of the basement, if there is a dark room, it should be It's under the garden, and, you see, the shelves are arranged strangely." Ren Fei took a look and thought there was nothing strange about it, "Why can't I see it?" Lin Fan pointed to the cabinet and said, "Look, the cabinets on the other two walls are placed against the wall and take up the entire wall. This cabinet can't occupy the entire wall. According to the custom, if we place it, it should Put it against the wall over there, and there will be more room for entry and exit near the door, but the strange thing is that this cabinet is placed against the entrance." Ren Fei smiled and said, "Your observation is really meticulous." After entering the dark room, they searched for a long time before finding the light switch.When they saw the dark room clearly through the light, they were all stunned.Because this darkroom is no longer as neatly arranged as the basement you just entered, this darkroom can be said to be a mess, there are drawing papers everywhere on the walls, on the table, and on the ground, and various things are drawn on the drawing papers , but most of them are portraits, but there are no faces painted on these portraits.Under the dim light, these grotesque portraits of human heads reflected the dim yellow light, making people get goosebumps when they looked at them.No matter where you go in the room, the faces of these portraits always seem to be facing you, always looking at you, making you wonder where to hide, and there is nowhere to hide.Since the air in the room has not circulated very much for many years, the smell is unspeakably uncomfortable.There was still a mirror on the wall of the room, but it had been broken. Looking at everything here, Ren Fei thought of the rooms he saw just now, one is heaven and the other is hell.Ren Fei thought to himself: What kind of person lives here? In addition to the paintings, they also saw blood.It's just that the blood is not bright red, but dark red.On the broken mirror, on the table, on the floor... Lin Fan looked at these paintings, and one of them caught his attention.It was a sketch.There is an over-elongated human-shaped thing on it, and next to the human figure is a dilapidated room, and a strange-shaped dead tree is drawn next to the room, and the drawing paper below has been painted torn... The whole picture Painting only has these three things. There are many other paintings that it is impossible to tell what the paintings are. Looking at these paintings, Lin Fan remembered the words in the notepad... On the table in the dark room are a lot of things in a mess, including brushes, paper, and a knife.Lin Fan wrapped the knife with paper and picked it up, only to find that the blade was still stained with blood, and the blood was already dark black.It can be seen that this is a scalpel, very sharp. Ren Fei asked: "Could this knife be used by the murderer to kill?" Lin Fan said: "Perhaps the murderer also used this knife to hurt himself." Hearing Lin Fan's words, Ren Fei couldn't help shivering.Ren Fei said: "Put down the knife quickly, the way you hold the knife is terrifying." Lin Fan put down the knife obediently, and said with a smile, "Why have you suddenly become so timid? This is not like you." Ren Fei said: "It's not that I'm timid, it's that your virtue is unbearable. If you record it, you will probably be scared to death by yourself." Lin Fan pushed aside the drawing paper on the table, and found a row of dark red numbers written on the table: 959595! "What is this murderer up to?" Ren Fei said, looking at the numbers on the table. Lin Fan touched the numbers on the table and said, "Look, there's dust on these numbers." Ren Fei also touched them, and said, "It seems that these numbers were written by the murderer a long time ago, not left recently. " Chen Xiaodong's voice came from outside: "Captain Ren! Captain Ren!" Must have discovered something, Lin Fan and Ren Fei hurried out. Chen Xiaodong said to Ren Fei: "We found a secret compartment in the room, and there is a safe inside." With that said, Chen Xiaodong took Ren Fei and the others up to the bedroom on the second floor.There is actually a hidden compartment and safe in the wall behind the broken mirror frame. But this safe has a password and cannot be opened.Everyone's eyes all looked towards Lin Fan at the same time. Lin Fan walked over and entered the numbers "959595" without thinking, but the safe was not opened as everyone expected.Everyone was a little disappointed, Lin Fan stood in front of the safe, and said to himself: "Looks like I need to have a key." He turned his head and stared at a large oil painting on the opposite wall.Oil paintings depict various expressions of a person.Below the oil painting is the big bed.Lin Fan walked over and stepped on the bed without taking off his shoes, went to the oil painting, and groped behind the painting for a while.After a long time, Lin Fan turned around, and everyone saw an extra key in his hand. The safe has a key and a password, and it is opened at once.But everyone couldn't believe how Lin Fan knew where the password and key were kept.Because they came here with Lin Fan, it is impossible for Lin Fan to know more about the situation here than they do, but the way Lin Fan opened this safe was like opening his own safe at home. The eyeballs almost fell to the ground. There is only one letter in the safe.The letter reads: You found me, and I finally found you. This is our choice.The word "stubborn stone" is written at the bottom of the letter. Ren Fei said: "When will the murderer leave this behind?" Lin Fan said, "Who knows?" As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Fan ran out, "Ren Fei, come with me!" This action of Lin Fan confused everyone present.Ren Fei didn't know what happened, he could only run after Lin Fan, and the other policemen followed suit. Ren Fei followed Lin Fan all the way back to the dark room in the basement.When Ren Fei entered the dark room, he saw Lin Fan staring blankly at the shattered mirror in the dark room.Ren Fei walked over slowly and looked into the mirror, he saw Lin Fan and his own deformed face in the mirror... But at the moment when he saw Lin Fan's face, Ren Fei couldn't help shaking.Now he really can't tell whether Lin Fan is really sick or a normal person. Lin Fan walked to the mirror and took it down.But there was nothing on the wall behind the mirror.Lin Fan watched the mirror slowly turn around, the back of the mirror was facing Ren Fei, Ren Fei took two steps back in fright... Lin Fan slowly put down the mirror, revealing his face.He looked at Ren Fei, "What did you see?" Seeing Lin Fan's expression, cold sweat dripped from Ren Fei's forehead.He couldn't believe Lin Fan would have such an expression at this moment.In fact, Ren Fei didn't see anything scary just now. Behind the shattered mirror, there was another mirror. The strange face under the light... But just seeing his own face, Ren Fei was so scared that he took a few steps back... Chen Xiaodong was standing at the door at this time, and he saw everything that happened.He stammered, "Brother Fan! You..." Lin Fan slowly turned the mirror around, looked at the mirror behind that mirror, looked at his own face in the mirror...but Lin Fan smiled...