Chapter 6 Chapter Five Exploration

After a night of chaotic nightmares, when I woke up, my back was sore, especially in my neck, and I had a stiff neck.I patted my face, sat up from the sofa, immediately thought of something, and hurriedly checked the time, it was already past seven in the morning.Feeling good, I went into the bathroom and searched carefully, but found nothing. I squeezed a paper towel, gently turned on the faucet, patted my face with cold water a few times, then took out my mobile phone to call Ling Zhijie, and it finally turned on. "Calling so early in the morning, are you in a hurry? Let me go home and sleep first." Ling Zhijie's voice seemed very tired, and he kept yawning. "Come and sleep with me, by the way, I didn't have time to tell you yesterday, bring the fingerprint collection tool!"

"What are you doing with those?" "You'll know when you bring it here, I'm ready here." "Okay, okay, I'll be there in half an hour!" "Driving tired, please drive slowly." "Di--" The other side has already hung up. I pushed open the bedroom door. The window was still ajar. From there, the rain had stopped, but the dark clouds were still looming over the sky. I went straight to the bay window and looked at the thin wires that had been laid there last night, but found no signs of tampering.I followed the trend of the thin line and looked up at the camera on the ceiling headlight. It was still facing the bay window, and I couldn't see any change in its position.

It seems that I didn't wait for the person I couldn't see last night.But it's okay, I still have time to wait.After leaving the bedroom, I put on my gloves, picked up the tempered thermos cup I had prepared yesterday, went out, went downstairs, and knocked on the door of 502.Ten minutes later, I went back upstairs with a thermos filled with hot water, made a bowl of instant noodles, and then started to eat breakfast. Ling Zhijie arrived a little faster than he said. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted that he was extremely sleepy and fell asleep.I asked him to lie down on the sofa for a while, but he was not polite, kicked off his leather shoes, threw himself on the sofa, and started snoring loudly.

I went back to the bedroom, turned on the computer, and prepared to look up some information about this community, and watch the news by the way.The news headlines of major websites are basically the same words: Special report on the huge serial murder case in X city!Latest development: There are seven victims so far, and the police say the murderer is still on the move The address of the corrupt official, the next important task of anti-corruption is entrusted to you! ", "2012 is coming, Big Brother Killer, please accept me as your apprentice, I want to be your successor", "Are you still a man?"Is it interesting to kill all the young women?If you have the guts to come to find my wife, see you in bed! "Seeing this, I couldn't help smiling. When a serial murder case has progressed to a certain extent and has not been solved, the focus of people's attention is no longer on the incident, but on the murderer himself.

Then one can imagine the pressure Ling Zhijie received from various aspects.At this time, I want him to rush over to help me with my personal affairs. Thinking about it, I feel a little sorry for him.After reading the news, I began to search for the murder of a family of four upstairs a few years ago, but there was no clue.I thought, maybe this is also a lie woven by Luo Xianmei.Suddenly remembered that I hadn’t logged into QQ for a long time, I went up to check, and there was a message, which read: I saw them smiling. It was from a former patient of mine.The symptoms of this patient are very special. In his view, all people have a wooden face with no expression.At first, I thought it was a variation of "face recognition disorder", but in later contacts, I found that his symptoms were not that simple.He can quickly remember a person's appearance, but he can't distinguish the change of the person's expression, so that he can't understand what people usually mean by laughing and crying.

I gave him a series of tests, and the results showed that his symptoms were beyond the scope of psychology.I did some more research and found out that it was a birth defect in the structure of his brain, which was caused by the inferior occipital gyrus area at the back of the brain not working properly. This symptom is far from being eradicated with current medical methods, so I had to persuade him to give up. Although the world he saw was made up of dead faces, it didn't affect him much.He's a pretty smart guy with a double Ph.D. and a decent career in economics.Although I can't help him cure his illness, we will communicate from time to time.But this time, I was really surprised when he sent such a sentence, so I replied with a message: How did you do it?I didn't wait for his reply, so I closed QQ directly.

Guessing that it was almost time, I went back to the living room and patted Ling Zhijie lightly.Ling Zhijie slept very lightly, and was woken up by my patting.He rubbed his face, sat up straight, and asked me, "How long have I been asleep?" "An hour and a half." He nodded and said, "That's enough, let's get started, where is the thing you found?" I put on my gloves again, put the tempered thermos cup on the coffee table, and said, "This is the fingerprint sampled from Luo Xianmei just this morning." Then I took out the lipstick and watch from the refrigerator, "Here are those two things, But the lipstick already has my fingerprints on it."

Ling Zhijie nodded and asked, "Is there any more?" "There should be a few photos and other fingerprints, but it seems that there should be none today." "photo?" "Well, I always felt that someone was in this room some time ago, but yesterday evening I suddenly saw that person, that thing broke into the bedroom. I thought it might come again, so I made a device in the bedroom and planned to shoot It looks like that thing. But I checked this morning and found that the thin thread has not been moved, and that thing didn’t come in last night.” I saw that Ling Zhijie's eyebrows were all knit together, obviously he didn't understand, and then I remembered that I hadn't told him about what happened yesterday, so I stopped and told all the details of last night.

Ling Zhijie raised his eyebrows in disbelief, but he looked at me again before turning his eyes. I knew this look, and this time he finally believed me unconditionally again. "I wiped the window frame of the bay window in the bedroom, the window frame of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, and the handle of the anti-theft door yesterday. If that thing tried to come in last night, it would definitely leave fingerprints on these places. As for I have also protected the places where fingerprints may be left in the house, such as faucets and bathroom door handles, etc. It is best to collect them to see if there are other fingerprints besides me and you." I added.

"Okay, I understand what you mean." After Ling Zhijie finished speaking, he got up, opened the tool bag he brought, and started his fingerprint sampling work. There were no fingerprints on the doorknob of the anti-theft door, no fingerprints on the window frame of the French window in the living room, and finally the window frame of the bay window in the bedroom. Ling Zhijie stuck his head out of the thin lines I had arranged, went outside the bay window to collect fingerprints, and retracted his head after a while.He brushed carefully on the inner glass of the bedroom for a while, then turned to me and asked, "Did you wipe the window frame after you laid out those thin lines yesterday?"

I was a little puzzled, nodded and said, I wiped it several times, and I can be sure that my fingerprints will not be left. "Then why are there so many fingerprints here now? There are still traces of sharp objects, and they are very fresh." Hearing what he said, I hurriedly took a closer look, and sure enough, after being brushed by Ling Zhijie, I could see some obvious handprint-like things, and there were a few messy scratches, which could be seen when I wiped it yesterday. Definitely doesn't exist. Seeing this, cold sweat broke out on my back, and I quickly turned around to scan the bedroom.Because, I have realized that the thing I saw yesterday may not have been dug out, but it is still in this room. Ling Zhijie probably sensed my strange expression, and jumped off the bay window in an instant, holding a handful of black things in his hand at the same time.As soon as I saw this black thing, my heart beat violently, and I immediately understood what he wanted to do. Ling Zhijie quickly walked past me holding the black thing, and then gestured for me to follow him.He quickly glanced around the bedroom, fixed his eyes on a row of closets parallel to the bed, walked gently over and knocked on the doors one by one, and tapped them to listen to the movement inside.After knocking on the last one, Ling Zhijie didn't have any special reaction, and he didn't open those cabinet doors either.I couldn't help asking him with gestures if he wanted to open them one by one, but he waved his hand, then left the bedroom, and at the same time motioned for me to follow. Ling Zhijie's movements at the moment are quite professional and cautious. The tension conveyed by these movements makes me feel that I am not in my own home, but I am following him into the dens where the felons are hiding.In the following time, we carefully searched the remaining rooms and all possible hiding places, but found no suspicious traces. "Zhijie, forget it, maybe I was overthinking." "Are you sure you erased your own fingerprints yesterday?" I nodded, I can still be sure of this.After getting my reply, Ling Zhijie thought for a while, and then asked, "Both the watch and the lipstick were found in the bathroom?" I also nodded. "Go to the bathroom again." After Ling Zhijie finished speaking, he turned and went into the bathroom.As I followed in, I said, "This kind of place is obvious at a glance, didn't you see it just now?" Ling Zhijie didn't answer me, he walked into the shower room, looked up at the ceiling, then stood on tiptoe, extended his arm and poked it up a few times.Before I understood it, I saw one of the boards on the ceiling flipped up with a slight poke, exposing a black hole.Almost at the same time, Ling Zhijie raised his gun and pointed it firmly at the black hole, but there was no movement in the hole.He made a gesture to me, and I understood right away, turned around, took a flashlight from the living room, and came back with a slightly higher chair. I watched Ling Zhijie hold a flashlight in one hand and a gun in the other, and stepped on a chair to poke up from the black hole. After a while, he shrank back.There was something black in his hand, and when I saw it, it turned out to be hair!Wet, exudes a rancid smell. Ling Zhijie handed me the hair, and then asked me to find a fresh-keeping bag to pack it in, and said, "There is still something on it, but it's stuck in the ventilation duct." At first, seeing the stinky hair made me feel bad, and felt nauseated, but when I heard that there was something on it, I immediately realized that there might be something worse, so I asked without thinking: "What else is there? " "I can't see clearly here. You need to find a hook or something. You have to hook it out to find out." Ling Zhijie stretched his upper body up after finishing speaking. I hurried back to find the hook.There are really few things that can be used as hooks at home. They are either too soft or too short. In the end, I had to dismantle a wire hanger and stretch it. I went back to the bathroom and wanted to give it to Ling Zhijie, but found that there was no one in the bathroom- - he's gone. It didn't take me long to find the hook, at most three minutes, Ling Zhijie couldn't have gone anywhere.I walked into the shower room, looked up at the hole, and thought, the space in the ceiling is so narrow, he can't go up into it, right?Even if it can go up to the inside, something as fragile as the ceiling can't bear Ling Zhijie's size at all. But after thinking about it, I still stepped on the stool and slowly stretched my head up from the hole like he did before. It was pitch black above, and the flashlight was in Ling Zhijie's hand again. I couldn't see anything at all now, only a smell like a dead mouse.It looks like something has rotted here, the same as the previous hair. I thought about it, and called Ling Zhijie inside a few times, but there was no response.I thought about it, and when I was about to withdraw, I suddenly heard a rustling sound from the top of my head, as if something was crawling down from a certain pipe above. My first reaction was Ling Zhijie, and I hurriedly shouted again, but when they heard my shout, they seemed to pause for a moment, and immediately changed to a faster speed and climbed down again. How could Ling Zhijie crawl in a ventilation duct with such a big body?I suddenly realized that something was wrong, and at the same time, goosebumps all over my body. I stumbled and wanted to get out, but my feet swayed, and I fell off unexpectedly. The stool was not high, and I didn't fall hard. I rubbed my ankles and planned to stand up. At the same time, I looked up to see the movement on it. I saw a pale face in the black hole, staring at me motionlessly.This scene was so exciting, all the nerves in my body jumped up, and I pulled my whole body to roll and crawl out of the shower room. But after taking a few steps back, I realized that no matter what was on the ceiling, it now seemed that it had a lot to do with Xin Jie's disappearance!Thinking of this, I didn't know where I came from. I picked up a mop from the side and stepped into the shower room. Without looking at it, I directly poked the handle of the mop upwards. My hand felt empty, and I didn't touch anything. I looked up, and the face that was on it just now was gone, and it was so dark that I couldn't see anything.I held up the mop, intending to step on the stool and go up to have a look, but suddenly I felt my left shoulder sink, and something rested on it.All my attention was on the black hole above, and the slap on my shoulders made me jump up, yell, and turn around at the same time - there was someone standing behind me. "It's me! What's the matter with you? Scared like this?" After seeing clearly that it was Ling Zhijie, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Where did you go just now?" "Upstairs, what's the matter?" "Why don't you talk to me?" "I still want to ask you! I asked you to find the hook, where did you go just now?" "I am on the balcony" Speaking of this, I suddenly realized that something was wrong. I did go to the balcony just now, but Ling Zhijie had no reason to wait so long, so he ran upstairs without calling me up. "A-Ning!" Ling Zhijie yelled at me suddenly, and then I came back to my senses, the way he looked at me became very strange.Suddenly, he stretched out his hands to touch my face, and I couldn't help avoiding it.He stopped and looked at me with even more strange eyes. After a long while, he said, "He Ning, what's the matter with you?! You've been talking about it lately. I asked you to find a hook, but you didn't see anyone for a long time!" He pointed to the black hole above the shower, and continued: "Just now I heard something drilling in there, I thought of what you told me before, I was going to catch up and have a look, but the door above was locked, I I had to come back and ask you for tools. I didn't expect you to be scared like a bird in the bathroom, can you fucking wake me up?!" With Ling Zhijie's roar, the abnormal feeling just now finally disappeared.I waved my hand, said sorry, and then told him what I just heard in the cave, and of course I didn't mention that horrible face.I was worried that if I said it, not only would Ling Zhijie no longer trust me, but he would think I was crazy. "Yes, that's the sound you said!" Ling Zhijie paused, and continued, "There was a white thing stuck in the ventilation duct before, and I asked you to go up and look at it when I asked you to find the hook. Just look at it. Seeing that clump shrank back upwards, that’s why I wanted to chase upstairs to see it. But don’t think too much, it’s probably a big mouse.” "You mean there's a big mouse dragging that ball of white stuff you saw? What's up with that pile of hair?" Immediately took a breath, and then said to me in a slow tone, "Hurry up and find some thin wires, let's go upstairs and have a look." A few minutes later, we opened the door of 702, and a musty smell came over us.