Chapter 8 Chapter 5 The Weird House

Those eyes were very strange, and there was a terrifying hatred in them. I was so scared that I took a few steps back, and I just didn't do anything. I gritted my teeth and knocked on the door of this family.I knocked on the door, but no matter how I knocked, the people inside just didn't open the door, and didn't even make a sound. After knocking for a long time, I finally gave up. Forget it, after such a long delay, it's better to carry Lin Zhiyan upstairs first.I carried Lin Zhiyan on my back again, this old woman didn't know what she was thinking, she didn't hum, she just held Tiantian's little hand vigorously.

Tian Tian was obviously frightened, she held Lin Zhiyan's hand with her left hand, while her right hand was still firmly grabbing the corner of my clothes. The three of us climbed up one floor maintaining this weird posture. When I reached the stairs again, I deliberately looked at the floor signs. Suddenly, a kind of helplessness and terror rushed into my mind. On the fourth floor, still on the fourth floor, that damned dark red character "four" is still hatefully written in the middle of the two doors. the place just now.With a livid face, I put Lin Zhiyan on the ground again, and then held my head to think carefully.

Since coming to this fourth floor, the space seems to have stagnated. No matter how I climb, I am afraid that I will stay on the fourth floor.but why?Have we encountered the legendary ghost hitting the wall?But the so-called ghosts hitting the wall usually happen in open places at night. It is said that people who encounter ghosts hitting the wall will keep going around in circles within a certain range, and can't get out no matter what. Could it be that the fourth floor of this house is haunted?how is this possible! When a person walks normally, the distance of the two legs is not equal. For example, if the distance of the left leg is large and the distance of the right leg is small, the person will keep walking to the right.This situation will not be noticed on the road during the day, because there are often landmark objects to correct this deviation.

But in the dark, especially in the open and unmarked flat land, the difference in distance will have an obvious effect, making you keep turning in one direction until you walk in a circle, walk back to the original place, and then continue to circle. lock up. In this way, people mistakenly believe that they have encountered the so-called ghost hitting the wall.People in ancient times did not have this kind of scientific understanding, so they mistakenly believed that it was the work of ghosts. There must be something I'm overlooking.There must be something in this eerie building, on that seemingly endless fourth floor, that I should have noticed but didn't.

Suddenly, Lin Zhiyan, who had been silent all this time, spoke: "Tiantian, don't you feel cold in wearing so little?" Suddenly, this sentence shot into my mind like a ray of light. I seemed to think of something, but I couldn't grasp my own thoughts.correct!wrong! It's January now, and it's the coldest winter in 50 years. Tiantian in the corridor only wears a thin suspender skirt, and she doesn't feel the cold at all. This is a contradiction in itself. We both obviously thought of this, and we moved our eyes to Tiantian at the same time. "When will Sweet Mom and Dad come back?" I suppressed the doubts in my heart and asked softly.

"I don't know." Tiantian turned her head and thought for a while, then shook her head. "Then why is Tiantian sitting alone in the corridor waiting, does Tiantian have the key to open the door?" Lin Zhiyan swallowed hard. Tiantian happily pulled out a red rope from the clothes under her neck, and a key was hung on the rope, "This is the key to the door given to Tiantian by mother, but Tiantian can't invite big brothers and sisters in, because Mom said, don't let anyone she doesn't know go in." Lin Zhiyan and I looked at each other, and asked in a deep voice: "Since there is a key, why doesn't Tiantian go in and wait for Mom and Dad?"

A look of fear flashed across Tiantian's face, and she said aggrievedly: "There is Mrs. Xiong at home. Mom wants Tiantian to run away, and Dad also wants Tiantian not to go home. I have to wait until they come back. Otherwise, Mrs. Xiong will catch Tiantian. Sweet eat." The more we listened, the more surprised we became, Mrs. Xiong?In her home?Is there any connection between this Xiong's mother-in-law and the old man Yang Junfei's investigation, or is it just a simple story of parents using it to scare their daughter?But no parent would let their children not be allowed to go home.something wrong.

Wanting to ask something more, suddenly, a look of fear and anxiety appeared on Tian Tian's face. "Grandmother Xiong is here, she's here to eat sweets." She let go of the corner of my clothes in a panic, and ran downstairs in a stumbling manner.We didn't have time to catch her, we just felt a gust of wind blowing over, as if we were blinded by the sand, we rubbed our eyes reflexively, and when we opened our eyes again, the girl had disappeared. "Look." Lin Zhiyan pointed forward in surprise. There is still a "four" character in the stairwell, but that character has become a white-painted Song typeface, and the door on the left side of the fourth floor has no trace of the crying spell and snatching the boy.

Everything is very normal, the corridors of the ordinary old houses, the ordinary lights of the corridors, as if everything just now was just a short and weird dream.But on the ground, there is something reflecting the bright yellow metallic luster. It is a mirror, an antique bronze mirror carved with phoenixes and peonies. We were both stunned, and neither of us reacted for a while. After a long time, Lin Zhiyan looked at me tremblingly, and asked, "Did I get hit in the head, and something went wrong with my brain? Everything just now was like a dream, but such a clear dream is impossible."

I shook my head, didn't say anything, just walked over, bent over to pick up the bronze mirror, looked at it over and over for a long time, and then said to him, "This bronze mirror has a diameter of seven centimeters, a plain edge, and a round button. The inner area of ​​the mirror is decorated with five auspicious beasts chasing each other, and the outer area is decorated with four phoenix birds shuttling among peony flowers. The outer edge of this thing is a fourteen-petal diamond pattern, and the outer decoration is fourteen cloud patterns. Four Luan and phoenix have different shapes, and the feathers on the tail are carved in high relief, so it should be a mirror with phoenix and peony patterns from the Yuan Dynasty."

"Hey, where did that girl named Tian Tian go? Seeing her in such a hurry, it seems that something is really chasing her." Lin Zhiyan was still immersed in her own thoughts, and said worriedly. I ignored her, continued to look at the mirror, and said: "There are five auspicious beasts in the inner area of ​​this mirror, and the five auspicious beasts are decorations that only existed after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This kind of phoenix pattern also existed from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the ones in the mirror The peony was only formed in the Yuan Dynasty. The decoration of the whole mirror is full of innovative spirit, including its high relief technique. The realism of the peony is very precious. Throughout the history of bronze mirrors, the bronze mirrors of the Yuan Dynasty are very rare Few, there are fewer big and fine ones like this, so this thing is very expensive. It should not be so expensive that it should be thrown in the stairwell for me to pick it up.” We talked to ourselves for a while.Lin Zhiyan glared at me, "Let me explain what happened just now, where did that girl go? Where did that weird spell written on the paper on the door go, and that thing you called snatching children? Have we been collectively hypnotized, or is it simply my mind playing tricks and creating an illusion?" I helplessly raised the mirror in my hand, "If it's really just a visual illusion created by you and me, what's the matter with this phoenix peony mirror? It should have fallen from Tiantian's body. Don't worry about what happened just now. I explained that I was also confused, with a big head." Some are depressed, and some are unwilling to give up.I walked to the door of the family on the left of the fourth floor, took a light breath, and looked in through the peephole on the door. What the cat can see is very blurry, but even that blurry glance gave me a lot of information. There was no one in that house, let alone red bloodshot eyes, only clean and simple furniture, and a few turned on porch lights. It should be a very normal family. Walking to Tiantian's house again, she still looked inside through the cat's eyes.You can vaguely see that the furniture inside is covered with white cloth, and I'm afraid it hasn't been inhabited for a while. Some yellow ribbon-shaped objects can even be seen on the ground, much like the cordon used by the police station. I went to the door of the house on the left and took a closer look.The center of the door seems to have been pasted with something, and there are still some sticky things on the door that haven't been torn clean. I tore it off with my hands, put it under my eyes and looked at it carefully, it seemed to be something like red paper. Immediately, many doubts rushed into my heart, I frowned, carried the confused Lin Zhiyan on my back without humming, and walked slowly towards the sixth floor. This time, it was easy to come to the house Zhang San gave us. This is indeed a well-furnished three-bedroom and one-living room.The layout is very delicate, and the love of the original owner for this house can be seen everywhere. But these are not worthy of my attention.There are two bedrooms in the house. As soon as I entered the door, I didn't have time to take a closer look at the environment, so I threw her on the bed, sat in front of the computer next to the bed, and desperately looked up the data. Finally, I found the information I was looking for. That was a news article more than three weeks ago.An unbelievable thing was recorded in the news. "Look at it." After I finished reading, I took a deep breath and gave the screen to Lin Zhiyan. She looked puzzled, and soon her face turned pale, and her breath became short-lived. "What's going on?" She looked at me. "You mean, we really encountered a supernatural event?" "That's not what I meant." I interrupted her rudely: "It's clearly recorded in the newspaper." Indeed, it was recorded in the Jiangling Evening News on December 30 last year: On the fourth floor of a certain suburb in Jiangling the night before, a family of three were found lying in a pool of blood. The knife died unfortunately, but the hostess still had a trace of breath from the four knives in her body.After investigation by the police, the murder case has been solved. The murderer who killed the man and his daughter was the woman who was stabbed four times. What is the reason that caused the hostess to face the murderer with her husband and daughter?On the afternoon of December 29, the reporter learned about the hostess' motive for committing the crime from the Jiangling police. At around 2 a.m. the night before last, the Jiangling Police Station received a report that there was a fight sounded next door on the fourth floor of a suburban building.The police station immediately sent people to the scene, and found that the door was locked, and the room was quiet without any movement. The police quickly contacted the local locksmith to open the door. It was found that there were three people in the room. Among them, the hostess and his daughter fell on the ground with a lot of blood, and the hostess Li fell on the bed.Immediately, the police urgently called an ambulance and gave first aid. When the emergency personnel arrived, they found that the male owner Liu XX (male, 38 years old) and his daughter Liu XX (female, 4 years old) had died, and Liu XX's wife Li XX (female, 37 years old) had died. Still alive, but with multiple stab wounds.The ambulance hurriedly sent Li to the hospital for rescue. Li's life was not in danger, and the police immediately launched a comprehensive investigation. Now Li has admitted that she killed her husband and daughter, and that she committed suicide many times in the hospital, but was discovered and stopped by the nurses on duty at the hospital. The deputy director of the police station on duty led a policeman to control the suspect Li while interrogating his motive for the murder. According to the criminal suspect Li Mou, as early as a few years ago, her husband Liu Mou was collecting antiques everywhere, not doing his job properly, and lost his job because of this, but he never repented and still enjoyed antiques.For this reason, the two often fought, but their four-year-old daughter Liu always turned to her father. The day before the incident, Li and Liu had a quarrel over the incident. Liu slapped Li twice, and Li slapped Liu back and kicked Liu out of the house.At around 12 o'clock that night, Liu came back from a stroll outside. He didn't know where to buy a bad mirror to show off in front of his daughter. For some reason, Li suddenly felt very irritable. She went to her kitchen to take out a kitchen knife and said to Liu, "Hack me to death. If you don't hack me to death, I will hack you to death." Afterwards, she stabbed deeply into the chest of Liu who was in a hurry and was talking on the phone. Although Liu was injured, he still struggled with Li and yelled for his daughter to run away. Immediately, Li's hatred became more intense, and she stabbed Liu's back several times with a sharp knife. Liu's daughter was frightened and froze when she saw the state of their husband and wife. At this time, Li Mou, who was already red-eyed, remembered that her daughter always turned to her useless father, and that she killed someone, she would definitely be locked up, and her daughter would definitely be bullied by others without father or mother. , He simply did nothing and continued, stabbing his daughter several times, and her husband and daughter fell in a pool of blood one after another. Seeing that her husband and daughter had collapsed, Li finally came to his senses. He didn't want to live anymore, so he stabbed his chest four times.The police took the suspect Li to a psychiatric hospital for identification, and it turned out that Li had never suffered from mental illness. But the strange thing is that the suspect Li died in the cell that night after he was detained by the police.According to reliable sources, Li died in a strange manner. When he was discovered, his whole body exuded a rotten smell, and his head was missing. According to the forensic examination, it is very likely that he had been dead for more than five days. Coincidentally, the body of her four-year-old daughter also disappeared from the autopsy room of the police station. This matter will continue to be tracked and reported by this newspaper. "I want to ask what you mean. What do you think of what happened just now?" I asked after carefully reading the report several times. "I'm a little confused." Lin Zhiyan covered her forehead with a rare solemn expression, "Is Tiantian already dead? And she was killed by her biological mother after witnessing her mother kill her father. She is so pitiful." !" "Poor thing, there is no way to pursue it now. The whole thing is weird and definitely not simple. Although Lingshan City is not big, there are hundreds of thousands of households. It is impossible to just rent a house. The house can touch the place where the murder happened. I think that Zhang San deliberately lured us to live here. I'm afraid he knows something inside, but for some reason, he doesn't want to say it." I thought road. As soon as Zhang San was mentioned, Lin Zhiyan gritted her teeth, "That bastard, a woman's sixth sense keeps telling me that it's not a good thing." I smiled wryly and shrugged my shoulders. Women, creatures like rationality or sensibility, as long as they hate something, they can pull that thing into the sixth sense. Their sixth sense is really a handy thing. "By the way, I always forgot to ask, is your injury okay?" I asked. "Nonsense, my mother's body is not comparable to that of ordinary people." Lin Zhiyan remembered that she was covered with injuries, she checked a little, and said stiffly: "Isn't there just twelve soft tissue injuries? It's ok, just get up and sleep." How can the human body have such strong resilience as she said?Moreover, isn't a woman sleeping only for beauty? Could it be that Lin Zhiyan's sleeping skills can also bring the dead back to life?As far as the injuries I checked when I bandaged her and applied medicine in the hotel, let alone move, no matter how good the recovery is, it won't be healed in more than ten days. Speaking of which, Lin Zhiyan, an old woman, has a pretty good figure, her skin is fair and smooth, and she doesn't know how to take care of it. If she hadn't been her partner and knew her details, she would have thought she was just an ordinary girl who was about to graduate from high school. That's all. As soon as I thought of this, Lin Zhiyan looked at me with weird eyes. She smiled and stared at me ambiguously, "How is my figure? Did you see my whole body when changing the dressing?" "So-so, it's okay." I almost blushed when I was asked abruptly, and I turned my head and said firmly. There was a weird smile on the corner of Lin Zhiyan's mouth, and she pretended to be shy, "Oh, you've seen them all, and you won't be able to get married in the future. It seems that I can only take advantage of you. We'll get married tomorrow. Hey, tonight, why don't sisters teach you the most important things an adult should do." "No." I took a few steps back subconsciously, keeping a safe distance from her, "It's business. Before the old man disappeared, did he send you anything, or did he leave any message?" Mentioning Yang Junfei, Lin Zhiyan was a little more serious. She turned her head and thought about it, then shook her head, "Probably not. When I realized he was missing, he hadn't contacted me for a few days. Did you think of anything? " "I think the old man should not have been caught, and the organization that wanted to catch him shouldn't be the military. Don't ask me why, I'm just guessing. There are very few clues and information left for us now. I can only make a simple judgment." I said slowly. "Moreover, the old man is very likely to have stolen something very important from that organization. Those people couldn't find the old man, so they began to trace his identity, and then wanted to find some information from us. The character of the old man, it is very possible that that thing or information related to it has been secretly passed on to us by him. Although, it seems that we still don't know exactly what he gave us, or even where .No, we must have got something like that, it's under our control, but we didn't realize it!" "Then, what do you think it will be? How will the president pass it on to us?" Lin Zhiyan agreed with my point of view very much, she thought about all the details in her mind, and finally shook her head. "But I really can't think of what he passed on to me. Although our contacts are frequent, they are very ordinary. He basically didn't mention the progress of the case and the status report." "This is the biggest doubt! Don't you think? The progress information should be reported to the headquarters every day, which is conducive to the filing of the case. This is what the old man has always emphasized. The reason for his uncharacteristic behavior is probably because he feels that I was monitored, even bugged." I pondered and said: "He is protecting us, and at the same time protecting himself. It seems that this matter is really not simple, the other party's organization is very strong." Lin Zhiyan was a little worried, "Then what should we do now?" "Of course we need to find what the old man left us first. Have you brought the address book information about this case?" I asked. "Yes, it's in the luggage." "Very good, I'll take it out tomorrow and listen carefully to it several times, but first, I still have some things to do." I stood up, picked up the coat on the chair, put it on, and then walked out the door. "Where are you going?" Lin Zhiyan looked at me in confusion. "Go to Tiantian's house for a visit." I turned around and smiled. "Since Zhang San deliberately arranged for us to live in, and we are particularly concerned about her affairs, we might as well visit the scene once, maybe we can find some clues." After finishing speaking, I went out without looking back. I really care about what just happened.I don't believe in the existence of ghosts. As long as everything happens, there must be a reason for it to happen.If Tian Tian's mother killed her husband and daughter as the news said, why did she suddenly die in the detention center? Did she commit suicide or homicide?If it was suicide, where did her head go? If it was homicide, then who was it and why did they kill her?Also, she had been dead for only one night, so why did the corpse emit a rotten stench, even like a corpse that had been dead for five days. If she was really dead for five days, how did that corpse kill someone? How could a dead body not be examined by a doctor when it was in the hospital? And why did Tiantian's body disappear? My intuition tells me that behind all this, there must be something unknown but closely related to this event.I'm going to find it out.