Chapter 53 Section 7

I walked through the long corridor of the hospital and walked into an intensive care unit. Cao Junhua nodded when he saw me coming.Qu Shengwen was lying on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. He was covered with a white quilt, and the oxygen mask beside him was on standby at any time. I moved a wooden chair to the bed and sat down. "Qu Shengwen," I looked at his weak face, and said, "I think the bone you found in the basement may not be your grandfather." Hearing these words, Qu Shengwen's powerless eyes immediately became dull Get up. "What's going on?" Cao Junhua also cast a puzzled look at me.

"Because of the secret room," I began to explain, "there is only one possibility to explain the secret room. I went to the scene to investigate, and the latch of the iron door cannot be inserted from the outside with any mechanical mechanism, and there are no other entrances and exits in the basement. Secret way, then there is only one explanation, that is, someone inserted the latch from the inside." "Then how does this person get out?" Cao Junhua frowned and asked. "That man didn't go out. For forty years, he has been staying in the secret room." I replied.

"Could it be... that white bone?" "Yes, it's that bone." "Wait, wait..." Cao Junhua's thoughts were clearly confused, "That bone was shot to death. You just said that the bone was not Qu Shengwen's grandfather, so who is he?" "Let's explain step by step," I took a deep breath and continued, "We know from Wang Qin's diary that Wang Ruilong should have killed Qu Shengwen's grandfather with a single shot. After Wang Ruilong killed Shen Weiqiang, he may have killed him. His body was buried in the wilderness. When he finished dumping the body, he returned to the basement to clean up the mess. The bullet on the wall should have been left when Shen Weiqiang was shot. We all know that Wang Qin Suffering from congenital heart disease, so we might as well assume boldly that Wang Qin's father also suffered from serious heart disease, which may be a genetic disease in their family. Back to the topic, when Wang Ruilong returned to the basement, his He had a sudden heart attack and fell to the ground and died on the spot. At this time, the door was locked by him, so a secret room was formed on the scene. In other words, the bone was actually Wang Ruilong's body, which is why Wang Ruilong disappeared the next day— —he died alone in the basement."

"But the bones were shot..." Cao Junhua emphasized again, "How do you explain the bullet holes on the skull?" "That's not a bullet hole." I denied Cao Junhua's words. Cao Junhua was at a loss for words, and Qu Shengwen on the bed also stared at me, as if he was urging me to clarify the truth quickly. "We only learned about the 'bullet holes in the skull' from the diaries of the two people. No professional forensic personnel has examined the bones. It may not be bullet holes. It's just that the place where Wang Ruilong fell happened to be on the wall. Under the bullet, this made Senyu and Qu Shengwen preconceived that the skeleton was shot dead by the bullet. When they saw a small hole similar to a bullet hole on the skull, they became more convinced of their judgment. The real cause of death of the bone ——As I said just now, I was not shot to death, but had a heart attack. After more than forty years, the corpse slowly turned into bones in the basement. The cause of death cannot be seen from the outside. That is the truth of this chamber."

"But you still haven't explained why there are small holes like bullet holes in the skull?" Cao Junhua asked a key question. "That's the fault of 'time'," I replied decisively, "'time' is really scary, sometimes it can erase everything, and sometimes it can create everything. It can be said that the culprit of this secret room—— time." "Okay," Cao Dui waved his hand, "I know you have a habit of public speaking, let's make it clear." I continued: "When I went to investigate the basement just now, I found many small cracks in the ceiling. From the previous map, it can be seen that the top of this basement is Wutong Lake." Speaking of this, I paused "Captain Cao, I don't know if you have heard the idiom 'Water drop penetrates stone'? The seemingly insignificant and weak water drop can penetrate a hard stone. It only needs one thing - time, that is, perseverance the spirit of."

Cao Junhua opened his mouth wide, and said in amazement: "No way...you mean, the water from Wutong Lake dripped from the ceiling, and it has been dripping on the same place of the skull for a long time. Did it drip out a hole?" Qu Shengwen's breathing also began to become short on the hospital bed.I nodded to Cao Junhua, and then said: "That's right, and I remember that the water in Wutong Lake was filled by the county government because it was polluted by chemical plants and the acidity was too high. The main component of human bones is collagen fibers And calcium, phosphorus and other substances, the water with high acidity drops on the bones, which will accelerate the dissolution of the bones, so after forty years, it is absolutely possible to penetrate a hole in the skull."

I recounted all the inferences after Xia Shi surveyed the basement here, and at the end I did not forget to add: "Of course, all this is my speculation, there is no substantive evidence, it is just the most reasonable one I can think of. Explain. Only in this way can the secret room be explained, so - the corpse in the secret room is not Qu Shengwen's grandfather, but Wang Ruilong." I saw Qu Shengwen's eye sockets became moist, what was he thinking?Maybe he was missing his grandfather.Speaking of which, after my grandfather was killed by Wang Ruilong, he would sit on the edge of Wutong Lake and cry every day. The water of Wutong Lake carried Qu Shengwen's tears, turned his tears into bullets, and kept shooting at Wang Ruilong's temple.Is this also a kind of revenge?

Just as I was about to leave the ward, Cao Junhua stopped me. He stretched out his right hand and said, "Last time, I'm really sorry, but this time I really thank you. I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate again." I held Dui Cao's hand, patted his arm, and said, "Hey, what you said, I thank you. I'll treat you to dinner when I'm free." A large pit was dug on the ground, and the soil was continuously dug out from the quiet ground.The new-looking tombstone collapsed feebly by the side of the pit, and the words "Tomb of Grandpa Shen Weiqiang" on the tombstone were still emitting a bright red light.The skeleton that had been covered in darkness for more than 40 years was finally fully exposed to the white sunlight. The two round holes on the skull were looking directly at my helpless face, as if they wanted to tell me something... yes , perhaps the story is too long.