Chapter 9 Chapter Eight The First Killed

A scream, a woman's scream, came from the second floor.The scream quickly turned into a sharp cry, which was Wu Meilan's piercing and hoarse cry, calling "Come quickly", as if someone wanted her life.Gao Pingying quickly ran towards the second floor, Ye Wan followed behind, Zhang Bo and Zhang Ma in the kitchen also heard the sound. On the corridor on the second floor, the door of Wu Meilan's room was wide open. Wu Meilan was pale and terrified, and was talking to He Yi about the fright she had received.There is a man under her bed. She didn't pay attention to the bottom of the bed yesterday. When she was applying eye cream this morning, Gao Pingying asked her to check her phone. In a panic, she accidentally dropped the eye cream on the ground and rolled to the bottom of the bed because the situation was urgent. She was not in the mood to find eye cream and went downstairs.After returning to the room after lunch, she thought about eye cream, so she found the person under the bed.

At this moment, people from the third floor also came down to check on the situation, and everyone gathered in front of Wu Meilan's room.The ten people in the house are all outside Wu Meilan's door now, who will be under Wu Meilan's bed?Ye Wan glanced at Wu Meilan suspiciously, Wu Meilan's expression was very real, it was a frightened state of a woman.A woman behind Wu Meilan looked even more panicked than Wu Meilan. Zhang Ma was attached to Uncle Zhang with a disturbed and panicked expression. Having seen ghosts, did she associate all strange things with ghosts? Gao Pingying walked into the room, squatted down, and looked under the bed for half a minute. After standing up, his expression became a little serious.There was indeed a man under the bed, and he seemed to be dead.Ye Wan thought of those men's feet again. Is it that person? Who else could it be?No matter who it is, death events are horrifying. If there is the first death, there may be a second death, and a third death...

In order to know who the dead person was under the bed, Gao Pingying asked Mama Zhang to take the quilt off the bed, and Uncle Zhang to remove the single iron bed.A few minutes later, everyone saw the dead man under the bed. He was in his fifties, wearing only a vest and shorts.Because the face has been corroded by sulfuric acid, it is impossible to distinguish the appearance of this person.There were obvious bruises around the neck of the deceased, the body was dehydrated, the hands and feet showed signs of being bound, and the back of the head had marks left by heavy objects.The mouth of the deceased was not only stuffed with a cloth ball, but also pasted two circles of adhesive tape on the outside, so that the cloth ball was firmly fixed in the mouth.These cloths and gummed paper were also ruined badly by sulfuric acid.

According to Gao Pingying's analysis of the corpse, the murderer should have hit the back of the deceased's head with a heavy object first, knocked him unconscious and then bound and sealed him, then strangled the deceased, and then disfigured him with sulfuric acid.The exact time of death is currently unknown, but judging from the condition of the corpse, the time of death will not exceed four or five days, and it will not be a fresh death.The most likely time of death should be about three days, but a lot of people came in these two or three days, which expanded the scope of the murderer.

"Is there sulfuric acid in the house?" Gao Ping asked anxiously. "There is a bottle in the storage room." Ye Caixia thought for a while and said, "I bought it four months ago, because something fell into the toilet on the third floor and blocked it. I had no choice but to buy a bottle of sulfuric acid to dissolve it. , half used, and half left.” The purpose of using sulfuric acid to disfigure the face could not be clearer, it is not to let people know who this person is.The body was found in Wu Meilan's room, there are three possibilities.The first possibility is that Wu Meilan killed someone and then called "stop the thief". This kind of assumption is unlikely, she should not be so stupid.The second possibility is that the murderer moved the body into her room after the murder last night. This is also unlikely. It would be better to move the body outside directly than to move the body to her room.If it was to blame Wu Meilan, this way of blaming Wu Meilan was also very clumsy.The third possibility is that the body has been kept in Wu Meilan's room, and it was not moved in last night. Before Wu Meilan came, this person had already died in this room. Unfortunately, Wu Meilan chose this room. house.Her reasons for choosing a room were reasonable. She felt that the third room was next to the bathroom and the smell was not very good, so she chose the second room.

The whole situation seems contradictory. The murderer kills someone, then puts drugs and then seals off the house. Why did he leave himself on the balcony in the end?Since the murderer finally retreated to the balcony, it was not the person in the house.If an outsider can kill people and put drugs without leaving a trace in a house, there must be someone in the house to help him. How could this helper be locked in the house willingly?Unless, the drug addict, blocker and murderer are not the same person at all. Gao Pingying seemed to be very interested in the corpse. He sniffed the corpse again and again, then lifted up the clothes of the deceased to look. Long scar."

Hearing these words, two screams came out from the crowd looking at the corpse at the same time, and the two people who screamed were Ye Caixia and Ye Wan.Ye Wan covered her mouth and controlled her screams. The dead man under the bed turned out to be her father, Ye Guoqiang.When she saw the deceased, she was flustered. The age and body shape of the deceased was very similar to her father. Because the face was damaged, she was not sure for a while.I just heard Gao Pingying's words, and I can be sure that when her father fought in gangs when he was young, someone cut him in the lower abdomen, leaving a scar about two inches long.

It can't be a coincidence that the deceased fit his father's characteristics so well. This is where his father came from when he disappeared.He came to his aunt to borrow money on the 22nd, but he didn't go home.When she called her aunt, she said that her father would go back that day.And now, her father died in her aunt's house, how to explain all this, Ye Wan shot her eyes at her aunt.Her aunt's expression was on the verge of collapse. Seeing her questioning eyes, she struggled to say "it's not me" before fainting on the ground. Ye Caixia was sent to her own room, Gao Pingying locked Wu Meilan's room in order to avoid damage to the body, and Wu Meilan moved to Shen Dan's room to live with her daughter.After the room with the dead was locked, people who were still confused about the death slowly gathered in the living room downstairs. Ye Wan also went down. She also wanted to know who the murderer was, otherwise she would not die with peace even if she was killed.

The living room with no lights turned on was very dark and gloomy on a rainy day, and with the smell of the dead, the darkness became colder and more terrifying.The rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier, like a rain curtain, covering the scenery between heaven and earth.This kind of rain is very similar to the thunderstorm ten years ago. Ye Wan looked out of the window and felt a dull pain in her heart again. Her father also died tragically in the ruined rose garden. Except for Ye Caixia, everyone else was in the living room, even Shen Dan, who was mentally ill, also participated. It seemed that she also cared about death.No one spoke in the living room, and everyone was thinking about the deceased. This is a puzzling matter. Ye Wan absolutely cannot accept the conjecture that the murderer is her aunt. The purpose of her sitting here is to find evidence to sever this conjecture. .

"When was the last time Mr. Ye came here?" Gao Pingying asked breaking the silence. "The afternoon of six days ago, that is, the afternoon of the 22nd." Zhang Ma replied. "Why did Miss Ye come to live with my aunt?" Gao Pingying asked Ye Wan again. "My father is a good gambler. He lost the house ten days ago. On the 22nd, he came to ask his aunt to borrow money and he disappeared. On the 25th, the debtor came to collect the house and asked me to move out the next day. I had no choice but to I called my aunt, and my aunt asked me to live in her house first. So, on the afternoon of October 26, I came here." Ye Wan said the reason why she came here.

Gao Ping asked if anyone saw Ye Guoqiang leaving, Uncle Zhang, Mama Zhang, and He Yi all shook their heads, even the abnormal Shen Dan shook his head.The first three were awake during the day, and the latter was awake at night, which means that no one saw her father leave for 24 hours.Either her aunt was lying, or one of the four of them was lying.If her father came here on the 22nd and was killed, today is the 28th, and he has been dead for nearly a week, the body should have been decomposed, but now this body is not, that is to say, her father was not killed on the 22nd .Gao Pingying said that the time of death was about three days. Could it be that the man's feet she saw on the fourth floor were really his father?Ye Wan's mind was a little messed up. "Mrs. Shen said her brother left, but everyone else said they didn't see him leave..." "Do you want to say that my mother is the murderer?" Shen Le asked sensitively. Gao Pingying smiled and pointed out neutrally that if there is an abnormal death, there must be a murderer. Ye Guoqiang should have been killed on the 25th or 26th, and there were only six people in the house during these two days.There was no sign of outsiders entering, and no one knew about the murder. The murderer must be someone in the house. From the looks of it, the person who saw Ye Guoqiang last was Shen Le's mother. "My mother won't be a murderer, why are you here to dictate?" Shen Le protested displeased. "He is qualified." Shen Huaqi, who had been silent all this time, interrupted gloomyly, "Because he is a policeman." After Gao Pingying's identity was uncovered, it was like a bomb that suddenly appeared, and the people in the living room were stunned.Ye Wan couldn't see what role this policeman was playing, but her intuition told her that he was not simply passing by randomly.No one knew she had witnessed what happened ten years ago, and since it's been so long, he probably didn't come for what happened ten years ago.There was only one thing recently, and that was her father's disappearance, but she didn't call the police. This was told by her aunt. Don't call the police for the time being. Calling the police will bring out her father's gambling.She thought that Gao Pingying must have other purposes for coming here. The people who sealed the house didn't know that he was a policeman, so they also sealed the bomb in the house. There is a policeman, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but Ye Wan's suspiciousness made Ye Wan wary of Gao Pingying.She was very curious, how could a busy policeman come here to kill time for no reason?It seems that the people who walk in here are all mysterious, and they can't tell the truth.What's more, the things that happened here are also as strange as ghosts and ghosts. Is it the dead who made troubles in the past, or the living people who are living now?Everything is like a puzzle. "Are you here to handle the case?" Ye Wan looked directly at Gao Pingying and asked him. He didn't give a positive answer, and said with bright eyes without any pretense: "No matter what reason I come here, as long as Miss Ye is as clean as the bright moon, there is nothing to worry about." "This kind of situation reminds me of Agatha's "The Lonely Island". Ten strangers are invited to a villa on an isolated island. In the villa, there is an old poem about ten little Indians. The method of death. Afterwards, the ten people all died according to the death method in the poem. But the murderer was the judge among the ten people, because he was dissatisfied with the few people who escaped the crime, so he came up with this way of punishment After He Yi finished speaking with emotion, he looked at Gao Pingying and asked meaningfully, "Does Policeman Gao also have such intentions?" Gao Pingying heard the insinuations in He Zong's words, and he explained to himself that he was a policeman, not a judge, and this house was not his, and the island house in the book was purchased by a judge, how could he have the conditions to do something like that? plan. "Then what is your purpose in coming here?" Just as Ye Wan wanted to ask, Wu Meilan asked first. It seemed that she was more concerned about Gao Pingying's appearance than Ye Wan.The mysterious policeman didn't answer, but just looked at Shen Huaqi, and the listless Shen Huaqi answered for Gao Pingying, that he sent Gao Pingying here.Gao Pingying was injured while handling the case and recuperated at home. He just received that weird letter and thought it was quite mysterious, so he invited him here to recuperate and help him check the situation. This is the reason why Gao Pingying came here. I didn't expect that something really happened here.How could it be such a coincidence, ten little Indians, there were also ten people in the house, the dead Ye Wan's father died before the closure, so he couldn't be counted among the ten people.How can I really say that they are like ten little Indians, and they all die one by one?There are also death prophecy poems in the book, so they are trapped here waiting to die inexplicably?Thinking of these, Ye Wan thought of sin and punishment. Now I can't go out and I can't call the police. Everyone's life experience in the house is unknown to others. Even if Gao Ping wants to ask, no one may be willing to say it. After all, he is just an ordinary guest and has no police authority. .Why did my father hide at my aunt's house?Then why was he killed?Ye Wan couldn't figure it out, and she couldn't figure it out even more, why her aunt wanted to hide the fact that her father was here, and whether those men's feet were her father, she really wanted to get an answer from her aunt at this moment.