Chapter 16 Chapter 15 Early morning of the 29th

Time slipped by little by little, and the rain outside was still falling happily. Although the thunder was gone, the chill in the middle of the night was stronger.The people curled up on the sofa felt more tired and slightly hungry besides the chill.I didn’t finish my dinner, and after some searching, everyone is conflicted now—sleep is the best way to resist hunger, but sleep is the most negative. Choosing to sleep is tantamount to giving up the instinct of survival. Not sleeping Staying up late will speed up the power of the stomach and make people hungry. Everyone felt that sitting in such a daze was a waste of all manpower. If everyone went to sleep, the building would fall, and maybe the door of the secret passage would be opened again in the dead of night.After discussions and discussions, it was decided to implement a shift system. Because Shen Dan was a special person, he was not assigned to the shift team.The remaining six people, in groups of two, are divided into three groups and shifts every three hours, so that they can maintain their physical strength, and they can also insist on waiting for the door of the secret path.

According to the relationship between the characters, three groups of characters were finally decided, Gao Pingying and Ye Wan were in one group, He Yu and Wu Meilan were in one group, and Zhang Bo and Zhang Ma were in one group.In order to take care of the elderly, the first shift was guarded by He Yi and Wu Meilan from midnight to 3:00 am; the most difficult second shift was guarded by Gao Pingying and Ye Wan from 3:00 am to 6:00 am tomorrow; Bo and Zhang Ma were assigned to the third shift, from six to nine tomorrow morning.And so on, until the door to the secret path is found. Ye Wan returned to her room, wanting to lie down and have a good sleep to relieve fatigue and hunger.Not long after I closed my eyes, I heard a collision and a groan.When Ye Wan opened her eyes, a memory flashed in her mind.On the first night, while she was sleeping, she also heard a crash, very similar to the one just now.

Open the door, Zhang Bo and Zhang Ma on the second floor have already heard the sound, and He Yi and Wu Meilan downstairs also came up to ask what happened.The voice came from Gao Pingying's room, Ye Wan knocked on his door, and there was a "come" from inside.Soon, the door was opened, looking inside the room, the chair fell on the ground next to the closet, and nothing else was out of the ordinary. Gao Pingying explained the reason for the crashing sound. On the first night, because of drugs, he couldn't check the room properly.When I was lying on the bed just now, my eyes wandered, and I found a small corner of a piece of paper on the middle edge of the top of the wardrobe, which I would not have noticed if I didn't pay attention.He wanted to see what was on it, but forgot that the chair in the room was broken, so he lost his footing and hit the wardrobe.

Ye Wan moved the chair in her room, took off the top of the closet, and found three envelopes, two of which were red and one was white.The addressee on the two red envelopes is "Shen Huawen", and the addressee on the white envelope is "Ye Guoqiang". There is nothing on the envelopes except the name. Opening the envelope to Shen Huawen, the content of one envelope is "Give up what doesn't belong to you, and that is to get what you need most. To die or live is to be greedy or to give up."The content in another envelope is "If you don't know how to give up, you are going to die."The letter paper is also red, and the words inside are not written with a pen or printed, but are cut out of the words from the newspaper and pasted on the paper using the scrapbooking method.Opening the envelope to Ye Guoqiang, the content inside was "Xu Hongmei's soul will not forgive the crimes committed against her".The letter paper is white, and the words inside are the same as those in the two letters, and they are also made of newspaper words.

The envelopes and letter paper of the two threatening letters against Shen Huawen were a bit old.According to the content of the letter, it should be that Shen Huawen has embezzled other people's property. The intimidator first sent a letter threatening, but seeing that Shen Huawen was indifferent, he sent a letter declaring that the settlement would be settled by death. On October 29, 2006, Shen Huawen died.The threatening letter sent to Ye Guoqiang, judging from the newness of the envelope and letter paper, should be recent. "Did Miss Ye read this letter when she was at home?" Gao Ping asked Ye Wan.

Ye Wan nodded slowly. On the evening of October 21st, she found a white unopened letter with no stamps under the crack of the door. Because her father's name was written on it, she put the letter by her father's bedside. On the bedside table.That night her father came home very drunk and fell asleep when he entered the room.He didn't wake up until noon the next day, saw the letter on the bedside table, and asked her in a panic where the letter came from.Then my father didn't even eat lunch, so he prepared to go out in a panic, and asked him where he was going, saying that he was going to his aunt's house to borrow money.Ye Wan thought it was a reminder letter at the time.

"It seems that this is the real reason why Mr. Ye came to see his sister on the afternoon of the 22nd. It was about the threatening letter." Gao Pingying flicked the letter with his fingers and said, "From this letter, it can be inferred that Mr. Ye Xu Hongmei’s death was related to Xu Hongmei’s. After reading the letter, Mr. Ye rushed to find Mrs. Shen, which can also explain that Mrs. Shen knew Xu Hongmei, and the girl in the second sacrificial hall on the fourth floor may be Xu Hongmei.” Ye Wan now fully understands her aunt's fear. The sins of the past entangle her like a poisonous snake. This threatening letter has proved that Xu Hongmei's death is related to her father and aunt. I was so panicked because there was a threatening letter in front of me.

Gao Pingying asked Shen Huawen if anyone knew how it came about, and Mama Zhang answered the question.The two letters appeared one and a half years ago in the cabinet in the living room of the residence. She found both of them while cleaning the cabinet, and she gave both letters to Uncle Zhang.Uncle Zhang added Zhang Ma's words. After he got the letter from Zhang Ma, he gave the letter to Shen Huaqi and asked Shen Huaqi to give it to Shen Huawen.The letter was indeed taken away by Shen Huaqi, and for some reason, it reappeared in the house. Only Shen Dan, who is mentally abnormal, is left in the Shen family, and he is not present, so Gao Pingying didn't ask any more questions.What is puzzling is how the three threatening letters are on the cabinet in Gao Pingying's room.Letters do not belong to one person, do not belong to the same time period, but are put together.This room was always empty before Gao Pingying came. Who put the three threatening letters on the cabinet?Why put it there?What does the intimidation against Shen Huawen refer to?The suspenseful snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and the situation is frightening.

The sudden discovery of three threatening letters made Gao Pingying very interested in other people's rooms, and asked to check everyone's rooms, and he might find unexpected clues, including the door to the secret passage.Wu Meilan was a little embarrassed, she was afraid that Shen Dan would get angry, just in case, she went upstairs to comfort Shen Dan. Gao Pingying checked Shen Le's room and Wu Meilan's room when the accident happened, so these two rooms were excluded.The inspection starts from Ye Wan's room.As soon as he walked in, Gao Pingying was stunned for a moment. He stood still in the room and turned back to his room. When he turned back again, his expression was slightly different.

"What's wrong?" Ye Wan asked nervously. Gao Pingying didn't answer her, and returned to his normal state for rounds. His intentionally hidden expression showed that there was indeed a problem, but he didn't want to reveal it.Ye Wan vaguely understood that Gao Pingying was surprised by the smell of the room, and she also had this kind of surprise when she entered Gao Pingying's room for the first time.What does the smell of the room mean? The smell is different between men and women. The ward rounds ended soon, and the effect was not very good. Everyone's room was very ordinary, not to mention the door to the secret path, and there was not even a dark cabinet.The biggest harvest is the two things found in Ye Caixia's room, one is a disposable syringe thrown on the floor, and the other is a small safe in the closet.

The safe is hidden in a cabinet door inside the closet, with a length of about forty centimeters and a width and height of about thirty centimeters.The safe was very bulky and not easy to carry, so Ye Caixia couldn't take it with her when she left.It's unknown what's inside, and no one can open it without a key or an expert codec.As for the disposable syringe, it was obvious that someone threw it into the room on purpose.Its appearance coincided with Shen Le's death. Because the ward rounds were delayed for some time, the guarding time of several groups of people also changed, and they were postponed by one hour.It was four o'clock in the morning when Ye Wan and Gao Pingying started guarding the room. Ye Wan was wrapped in a blanket and curled up on the sofa next to the mural, her body was a little numb, the internal organs inside her body were accumulating internal cold, and the cold air from outside continued to invade her body, she felt as cold as falling into an ice pool in an abyss heart and soul.Because of the stomach discomfort on an empty stomach, a fit of convulsions, and lack of sleep, her spirit has shown the decadence before death. "It's so cold." Gao Pingying rubbed his hands and said tremblingly, "Drink something warm to keep you warm." He was wearing autumn clothes, and the cold air had already brought the breath of winter.And early morning is the coldest time of the day, even though she was wrapped in a blanket, Ye Wan still felt cold hands and feet.On the coffee table are the drinks left by He Yi and Wu Meilan when guarding the room.There was still some brewed coffee in the coffee pot, and when there was no food, coffee was the only food.Gao Pingying took the coffee pot to the kitchen to heat it up. When he came out, he had a coffee cup hooked on the index finger and middle finger of his right hand holding the coffee pot.Ye Wan was very puzzled, she found that this policeman was very unwilling to move his left hand.What can be done with one hand, he will do it with the right hand, and what needs to be done with two hands, he will ask others for help. After taking two sips of coffee, the heat made Ye Wan's blood flow, and after her tense and decadent spirit was relieved, she had an idea of ​​survival.Ye Wan asked Gao Pingying if they could still get out of the house alive.The answer Gao Pingying gave her was very positive.Of course they could walk out of the house alive, it wouldn't be a perpetual thunderstorm, and people wouldn't be so vulnerable.As long as the rain is less, there will be a way to contact the outside world, and in the case of water, people can live for about a month.Furthermore, they are not the target of the Avengers. The most important thing now is to keep in good condition and persevere. Gao Pingying's self-confidence virtually gave Ye Wan spiritual encouragement.After her emotions stabilized, her mind also became active. She thought of something unusual and felt that someone was lying—this person was Mama Zhang.On the first night, when Ye Wan was awakened by the sound of a collision, her consciousness was a little fuzzy, plus she was flustered, and she didn't seriously analyze the source of the sound of the collision.Later, Mama Zhang told her that Uncle Zhang accidentally knocked over something when he was drunk. At that time, there was no one living in the room on the side of the stairs on the second floor, so she acquiesced to the other party's explanation.Hearing the collision sound in Gao Ping's room tonight reminded her of the last collision sound, it was so similar.Three threatening letters disrupted her thinking.Now, she recalled that the first night's collision sound came from the room opposite her, that is, from Gao Pingying's room, not from Zhang Bo and Zhang Ma's room. Mama Zhang was lying, why did she lie to cover up the sound of the collision?Ye Wan told Gao Pingying the ins and outs of the collision sound.Gao Pingying's face suddenly became serious, he frowned, his bright eyes were filled with a sense of crisis, after careful consideration, he softly reminded Ye Wan that he should be careful when talking to other people in the room, it is best to keep silent .Because, in this house, except for her and him who are innocent, everyone else is suspicious.At present, the murderer will not attack them, but if they know what they have learned, it may attract the murderer to kill them. Gao Pingying's reminder made Ye Wan feel that the murderer was hidden among the five people upstairs. Before she left the house, she had to be careful in every word and action, otherwise, the murderer would give her a reason to kill her.Both she and Gao Pingying were unexpected by the murderer, and there was no place for the two of them in the other party's murder plan.If they are ignorant and hinder the murderer's plan, it is tantamount to sending themselves into the other party's plan. "Tell me, is there really a secret door here?" Ye Wan inspected the people on the single sofa on the right side of the desolate and quiet first floor. "There must be. Otherwise, how would you explain the disappearance of your aunt and Shen Huaqi? Even if you are dead, there must be a corpse." Gao Pingying said while picking up the coffee pot, and asked her if she would like another cup of coffee to warm her body. There is still some coffee in the jug.This is a large coffee pot, and a pot of coffee can probably pour five or six cups of coffee. Ye Wan shook her head, there was still a little coffee in her cup, and she didn't want to drink too much coffee at night, it would be bad for her stomach and nerves.Gao Pingying poured himself another cup, as if he wanted to use coffee to fill the emptiness in his stomach.Ye Wan stopped looking at the person on the right, and she was suddenly a little surprised when she saw the things in front of her right.The fish that used to swim freely in the fish tank were all floating motionless on the surface of the water. "Those fish..." Ye Wan pointed to the fish tank and stood up. All the fish in the fish tank were dead, and a piece of fish carcasses floated under the light.Gao Pingying picked up the fish with a fishing net and looked at it, and then checked in the colored gravel below.Ye Wan looked at the fish tank anxiously, these fish died quietly, just like Shen Le.They were swimming happily yesterday, but now they are all dead. Who killed them?What's the point of killing these fragile little lives? "Are these fish starved to death, or poisoned?" Ye Wan asked Gao Pingying who was still checking the colored gravel. Gao Pingying shook his head: "Not at all. If it is poisoned, the fish corpse will definitely be black. It is even more impossible to starve to death. There are floating algae in the water. Even if you don't feed it, you can still live for a long time." "Why is that? Could it be that they are also possessed by ghosts?" Ye Wan blurted out. "Miss Ye, it's fine for people with mental disorders to talk about ghost possession, but it's better for people with normal mind not to say such things." Gao Pingying glared at her, "They should have been frozen to death, these fish are all tropical fish , the water temperature is very high, and the water temperature must be kept at more than 20 degrees. The cold air suddenly came, the water temperature dropped sharply, and the electric heating tube was forgotten to turn on, so it froze to death.” The fatal thing turned out to be the water temperature, not humans or ghosts.After a false alarm, Ye Wan suggested that Gao Pingying fish out the fish carcass and throw it in the kitchen trash can. Putting it in the water will rot and stink and affect the air.Gao Pingying, who was holding the fishing net, seemed not to have heard her, staring at the colored gravel under the fish tank, then used the fishing net to dig out the colored gravel, and then picked up the fishing net. Ye Wan saw that in the small fishing net in his hand, besides some colored gravels, there was also an ancient copper key.The head of the key is a simple square lock tooth of the early days. The handle of the key is a circle with a diameter of three centimeters. There is a cross inside the circle. Jesus is nailed to the cross. The body of Jesus is quite three-dimensional and meets the needs of the length. Pinned to the top of the key label.On the top of the circle, there is also a red round gemstone with a diameter of seven millimeters. The total length of the key is about seven centimeters. It is a very special and precious key.