Chapter 11 Chapter 10 What is two minus one?

When Zhou Yuanyi woke up, he felt a splitting headache, as if a million steel needles had been inserted into his brain, and there was a burning pain in his temple. His mind went blank, and he sat on the cold attic floor for a while before he remembered what happened just now. After falling from the ceiling, he was attacked, hit the back of the head and passed out. It was just him and chalk in the attic.Undoubtedly, the person who attacked him was Chabi, a street female artist with only one leg. Zhou Yuanyi stood up with his hands on the back of his head, and looked around, but there was no trace of the chalk.In a daze, Zhou Yuanyi began to think about what happened.

Why does chalk attack itself?Recalling the reasoning I have done, there is likely to be an accomplice of Zhao Lianpu among them.Could it be that Chalk is Zhao Lianpu's accomplice? Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help laughing.It's ridiculous that Zhao Lianpu actually chose the weakest one-legged girl among them as his partner.However, Chalk's disability may also be her best disguise, making it impossible for everyone to guess that she is a traitor. But wait a minute, when Zhou Yuanyi fell from the ceiling, why didn't Uncle Bao come up?He didn't come up, is it because something happened on the third floor of the villa?If something happened to Uncle Bao, it would be understandable for Chalk to attack Zhou Yuanyi.Reminiscing that there may be traitors among them, once something happens to Uncle Bao, it will be a question of what is equal to two minus one.So Chalk decided that Zhou Yuanyi was a traitor and attacked him?

With a wry smile, Zhou Yuanyi walked to the top of the chimney in a corner of the attic, and looked down. Strangely, there are several interlocking pieces of clothing tied to the top of the chimney, all made of chalk.Coats, pants, sweaters, autumn clothes, long johns.However, there was only a short length of the rope that was originally connected by the bed sheets, and there was still a little bit of black ash on the downward end. Zhou Yuanyi picked up the end of the rope, put it next to his nose and sniffed it, and immediately smelled a familiar burnt smell. Hey, why does it feel familiar?Zhou Yuanyi suddenly remembered that when he fell from the ceiling to the attic, he had smelled this scorched smell, and then he was attacked by chalk.

Well, that's right, when I fell to the attic floor, that burnt smell appeared.In other words, at that time, the rope had been swallowed by flames from nowhere, so something must have happened to Uncle Bao who was staying on the third floor.No wonder Chalk attacks himself with a cane! Oh, two minus one equals one. Looking at the chalk clothes tied to the top of the chimney, Zhou Yuanyi also knew how the chalk left the attic.The rope was burned, so Chalk took off his clothes, connected them into a rope, and slid along the rope to the third floor of the villa. Well, chalk is probably only wearing underwear now.It's really hard for her.Even though the rooms on the 3rd floor had air conditioning, it was freezing in the corridors.If she was smart enough, she should have thought of taking off the clothes off the mad woman's corpse to protect herself from the cold.

Eh, no, I remember that when the mad woman's body was found, her upper body was naked - her stomach had been disemboweled, and her blouse had to be taken off naturally.Well, chalk has no way of getting the crazy girl's clothes. Thinking of this, Zhou Yuanyi smiled, and patted his trouser pocket, only to hear the crisp sound of metal crashing. The key to open the anti-theft door of the elevator was obediently in Zhou Yuanyi's trouser pocket. Chalk didn't consider the issue carefully enough, and even forgot to take the key to open the elevator, so she would definitely not be able to take the elevator to the second floor of the villa.Besides, the mad woman's body was also in the kitchen on the second floor, so Chalk could only find a few sheets to wrap herself in the guest room on the third floor.

Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help smiling, and untied the clothes tied with chalk to the top of the chimney, and then let go, letting the clothes fall along the flue to the corridor floor on the third floor. Heh, this can be regarded as showing Chalk that he has no malicious intentions and is not a traitor. But there was no sound of footsteps down the chimney.Did the chalk hide? Zhou Yuanyi lifted his legs and got into the flue from the top of the chimney, firmly supported the inner wall of the flue with his hands, and slowly let his body descend.It took him three minutes to land in the corridor on the third floor of the villa, and his feet stepped on the chair on the table.And the chalk clothes he threw down just now were scattered beside him.

Where did the chalk go?Where did Uncle Bao go? Zhou Yuanyi suddenly felt his head hurt even more. Zhou Yuanyi and Uncle Bao had searched carefully on the third floor, but they couldn't find any possibility of secret passage.The elevator door from the third floor leading to the first and second floors was tightly closed again, and the key was in Zhou Yuanyi's trouser pocket. Uncle Bao and Chalk had no way to leave here on their own initiative. If they really disappeared from the third floor, the only explanation is that Zhao Lianpu took the elevator to the third floor of the villa again, and subdued Uncle Bao first while Zhou Yuanyi and Chalk were in the attic.Then when Chalk slipped down to the third floor, he subdued Chalk again and took both of them hostage to leave this floor.

However, Uncle Bao knows martial arts and is a good fighter in Wing Chun. It was not so easy for Zhao Lianpu to subdue him.Moreover, it is very difficult for Zhao Lianpu to kidnap two adults at the same time by himself.Could it be that Zhao Lianpu has a helper?Lin Yun'er's beautiful face immediately appeared in Zhou Yuanyi's mind. Was it Lin Yun'er who helped Zhao Lianpu take Uncle Bao and Chalk away? Zhou Yuanyi really didn't want to think about it anymore, so he took advantage of the situation and sat on the floor of the corridor on the third floor, raised his head, and looked at the hole in the ceiling that faintly exposed the attic.

It's really strange, just now I scratched the ceiling of the attic and looked out, what I saw was not the night sky, but the stone wall shrouded outside.why?Zhou Yuanyi felt that his head was completely bewildered, and he couldn't think of a reasonable answer at all. Zhou Yuanyi reached into his trouser pocket, took out the key that Zhao Lianpu gave him, rubbed it repeatedly, feeling the coldness that the key gave him. This luxuriously decorated villa, like a well-designed killing factory, devoured the companions who came here with Zhou Yuanyi one after another.Only the mad woman was the only one whose corpse actually appeared, and the others disappeared strangely, as if they had evaporated from the world.

For some reason, Zhou Yuanyi suddenly thought of the disappearance of a real estate tycoon in Sichuan City a month ago.The real estate tycoon named Guo Wenhui also seemed to have evaporated from the world. No matter how deep the police dug the ground, they couldn't find any clues. And Zhou Yuanyi also heard from other colleagues in the police station that there have been several disappearances in Xichuan City recently. A nearly 30-year-old stock trading expert who was dating his girlfriend the day before disappeared inexplicably the next day. A girl from a certain university, who was in the flower arrangement class the day before, had a heated chat with her classmates, disappeared the next day, and never appeared again.

An old lady who cleans the residential complex, braved the cold wind and was busy working in the community the day before, but did not come to work or return to the dormitory the next day. What happened all this time?Could it be that a group of murderers appeared in Xichuan City, killing people randomly and aimlessly, and hiding the corpses in unknown places, creating these bizarre disappearances? These cases were followed up separately as individual cases, not combined cases, and had nothing to do with what happened in this villa. Zhou Yuanyi didn't know why he thought of these cases. Maybe I thought too much. Zhou Yuanyi gave a wry smile, and suddenly heard a "grunt" from his stomach.Heh, I'm hungry. Think back, the last meal was instant noodles in the kitchen in the morning.Zhou Yuanyi wanted to check the time, so he reached out to touch the phone, but found that the phone was turned off, and it couldn't turn on no matter how hard he pressed the switch. The phone is dead. Forget it, let's go to the kitchen on the second floor to find something to eat. Zhou Yuanyi opened the anti-theft door with the key, but saw that the elevator car was parked on the first floor. Hey, strange!The last time he used the elevator, he found a fruit knife on the second floor, and then went back to the third floor to cut the soles of his shoes.If no one has moved the elevator, then the car should still stay on the third floor. It can be seen that someone must have used the elevator.The person who used the elevator was probably the one who took Uncle Bao and the chalk away, probably Zhao Lianpu. However, if Zhao Lianpu took Uncle Bao and Chalk away along the secret path, he should have parked the elevator on the second floor too!What are you doing on the first floor?Outside the elevator door there, it has been sealed by a newly built brick wall. Could it be that Zhao Lianpu broke down that wall in order to take Uncle Bao and the chalk away? But why didn't he leave the villa by the secret path hidden in the dark? Zhou Yuanyi couldn't figure it out.But no matter what, if the brick wall outside the elevator door on the first floor is broken, then he can also leave here from the first floor! As soon as the elevator reached the third floor, Zhou Yuanyi rushed into the car and pressed the button to reach the first floor. The car trembled slightly, and slowly sank down. Due to the acceleration of gravity, Zhou Yuanyi felt his body float up a little, and he returned to normal in an instant. Zhou Yuanyi squeezed the fruit knife he found in the kitchen on the second floor, and stared at the elevator door quietly. What kind of situation will he face after the elevator door opens in a while? In fact, Zhou Yuanyi was not afraid at all, but rather excited.With the training he received at the police academy, this fruit knife can also become a powerful weapon.After the elevator door opened for a while, no matter what kind of situation came up, he had the confidence to face it calmly. "Ding!" The elevator car stopped on the first floor. The elevator door opened slowly like a beast's mouth. When the door was fully opened, Zhou Yuanyi's heart sank to the bottom again. He saw the wall, still standing in front of his eyes.There were no cracks on the wall, nor any traces of fresh cement, just like the situation Tetsuo saw last time after he removed the security door. Is there a mistake?Since the wall has not been broken, why did the car stop on the first floor just now? Zhou Yuanyi's head hurt again. Everything that happened made Zhou Yuanyi unable to find a reasonable explanation. But no matter what, now he had to go back to the second floor of the villa—the hunger in his belly, like a wild cat that couldn't be driven away, kept protesting to him in various ways.Zhou Yuanyi knew very well that if he didn't store as much physical strength as possible, he would not have any capital to win life in case of any emergency. After the elevator returned to the second floor and stopped, the elevator door slowly opened. Just when Zhou Yuanyi re-stepped into the corridor on the second floor of the villa, he suddenly heard rustling noises, which came from the kitchen on the second floor. who is it? Zhou Yuanyi took out the fruit knife, rushed to the kitchen door, looked in, and saw chalk trembling all over. Chabi was wearing a very ill-fitting and filthy women's coat, and was kneeling on the blood-stained floor in the kitchen, with her eyes wide open, she was looking at the fruit knife in Zhou Yuanyi's hand in fear. "Why are you here?" Zhou Yuanyi shouted.He had already noticed that the women's coat that Chalk was wearing looked familiar, it seemed to be the one worn by the madwoman.But I remember that when the disemboweled body of the mad woman was found, the coat disappeared inexplicably.The incident happened suddenly at that time, so Zhou Yuanyi and Uncle Bao didn't bother to pay attention to this issue.But where did Chalk find the crazy girl's coat, and she still wore it? Chabi's eyes became dazed, which was an abnormal reaction after reaching the limit of her physical strength and endurance. Instead of answering Zhou Yuanyi's question, she trembled even more. Zhou Yuanyi realized that Chalk should be so terrified because he saw the fruit knife in his hand and thought he was a traitor.So he put down the fruit knife and tried his best to say in a soft voice: "Don't be afraid, I won't kill you. If I wanted to kill you, I would have killed you a long time ago." Chalk finally calmed down a little. She opened her mouth and asked tremblingly, "Are you really not a traitor? You really won't kill me?" Zhou Yuanyi nodded vigorously, and then said: "I won't pursue why you attacked me in the attic, but can you tell me how did you get here on the second floor? The key that can open the anti-theft door of the elevator is with me. hand, you should have no way to get to the second floor. Also, where is Uncle Bao?" The fear in Chalk's eyes suddenly flared up again: "I don't know how I got to the second floor... I slipped from the attic to the corridor on the third floor, and immediately someone hugged me from behind, and then a wet towel I covered my mouth and nose, and a sour smell penetrated into my nostrils... I immediately lost consciousness and passed out. I don't know how long I passed out. When I woke up, I found myself lying I went to the corridor outside the elevator door on the second floor. After I woke up, I felt very hungry, so I wanted to find something to eat in the kitchen. I just rummaged through the refrigerator when I heard footsteps outside... I didn’t expect it to be You came……" A wet towel that emits a sour smell and can make people unconscious immediately, it should be a towel soaked in ether liquid. "So, what about Uncle Bao?" Chalk shook his head, and replied: "I don't know. As soon as I went to the attic, I called Uncle Bao to come up quickly, but I didn't hear his response at all. Then the rope immediately burned from below, I guess, If it was Zhao Lianpu who set the fire, then Uncle Bao should be more ominous than ominous." "The person who attacked you, have you seen his face clearly?" "No, that person attacked me from behind. I didn't have time to turn around, but I guess that person should be Zhao Lianpu! Apart from him, I can't think of anyone else who might attack me." "So where did you get the clothes you were wearing? You were supposed to be in your underwear when you slid down the attic." Chalk showed a puzzled expression, looked down at the women's coat she was wearing, and murmured: "I was indeed only wearing underwear when I slid down the attic. But when I woke up outside the elevator door on the second floor, I found I'm wearing this coat. This coat was worn by a crazy woman, how could it come to me? Who put it on me while I was unconscious? It's strange..." Zhou Yuanyi's brain started to run at high speed. If what Chalk said is true, she was attacked by a mysterious figure when she slid down the attic and reached the corridor on the third floor, knocking her unconscious.When she woke up, she found that she had arrived on the second floor, and she was wearing the coat that the crazy girl wore before. The most puzzling thing was that after she woke up, the elevator car was still on the first floor. Needless to say, it must be the person who attacked her, and while Chalk was in a coma, he put the crazy girl's clothes on Chalk.Why do you want to do this?You don't have to worry about wearing too little chalk and catching a cold in the corridor on the second floor, right? Exactly how long Chabi was in a coma, the specific time is temporarily unknown, but it must not be too late. Considering that she just woke up not long ago, she should have been in a coma for about the same time as Zhou Yuanyi fell asleep in the attic. For such a long period of time, the mysterious man who attacked her had every chance to do whatever he wanted to her, so why did he let her go in the end and leave her in the corridor outside the elevator door on the second floor?For what reason would that person let her go?Why didn't you let the crazy girl go?Also, who was the real identity of the female corpse suspected to be Lin Yun'er at first? It's just too weird.This enigmatic villa is really too confusing. Zhou Yuanyi scratched the back of his head, and asked Chalk: "After you passed out, did your body have any abnormal reactions?" He was very worried, wondering if Chabi suffered sexual assault while unconscious. Chalk thought for a while, and then replied with some hesitation: "If you want to talk about abnormal physical reactions, it's really a little bit." Zhou Yuanyi suddenly became nervous. "I felt... after I passed out, someone seemed to hold a cold metal and pressed on my chest, back and back... Then my next door seemed to be tightly wrapped by something like a cloth strip Yes... It seems that there are still sharp needles piercing my arm... But I only vaguely remember the feeling of the needle being inserted, but I don't have the memory of pulling out the needle... Probably because I fell into a severe coma later, Then my mind went blank." Cold metal touching the chest, back and back?Why does it sound so much like a stethoscope listening to chest sounds? A tight cloth wrapped around the arm?Why does it sound so much like measuring blood pressure? Only needles go in, but no needles come out?Why does it sound so much like someone injecting chalk? To confirm his guess, Zhou Yuanyi stepped forward and grabbed Chabi's wrist. "What are you doing?" Chalk yelled in panic.In her heart, she still had doubts about Zhou Yuanyi, which could turn into unstoppable fear anytime and anywhere. Zhou Yuanyi lifted up the sleeve of chalk, and immediately saw that there were countless needle holes all over the veins of her arm, most of which were old needle holes, and some vein needle holes were superimposed together, and even turned into A small hollow.However, beside the concave hole, there is a fresh mark, which should be the needle hole pierced not long ago. "Are you taking drugs?" Zhou Yuanyi asked in surprise, looking at the needle holes on Chalk's arm. Chalk showed an embarrassing expression, and murmured: "To be precise, he used to take drugs." "Already quit?" Chalk nodded: "Well, I quit, and it took me half a year to quit." "No relapse?" "Of course, the arm is full of old needle holes, you should be able to see it?" Chalk replied unhappily. Chalk could not forget how painful it was during the six months of drug rehab.At that time, she was lying in the dark sewer all day long. She was lucky to have a few close friends who tied her to the iron fence of the sewer and stayed with her at all times, preventing her from going out to meet drug dealers. Opportunity.Whenever she became hysterical due to drug addiction, her friend injected her with sedative and sleeping injections to make her fall asleep.During those six months, she lay on the ground almost all the time, sleeping after eating, and eating again after sleeping. When she woke up, she could only move within the range specified by her friends and was never allowed to go out. Those friends were also street vagrants. In order to help Chabi get out of the sea of ​​poison, they took turns guarding her and spent almost all the money they got from begging to buy nutrition for her.Half a year later, when Cha Bi was finally able to walk out of the sewer with her head held high, she was more than 20 catties heavier than before drug rehabilitation.She is deeply grateful to those friends, and she reminds herself anytime and anywhere that she cannot let the thoughts spent by her friends on her be in vain.If she can't even do this, she has no value in living in this world at all. She always carries sedative and sleeping medicines on her body, and once she suddenly thinks of the wonderful feeling of being happy and fairy-like after taking drugs, she quickly finds a place where no one is around, swallows the sleeping pills, and has a good night's sleep.Since leaving the sewers, she can proudly tell everyone that she has never touched drugs again, not once. This time she accepted the free medical examination arranged by Lin Yuner, and it was also after her friends learned about it that they rushed to inform her with joy.In the words of a friend, it is necessary to pass a professional test by a doctor to make sure that Chalk has completely got rid of the temptation of drugs. After listening to Chabi's drug rehabilitation experience, Zhou Yuanyi nodded and said, "Congratulations, you have so many friends who are worthy of your heart. Drugs are harmful and have no benefit, so you must not touch them." Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of a question, "By the way, have you taken so many sleeping pills, has it affected your body? Will there be resistance to the medicine? Or is it a sequelae?" Chalk didn't answer the question, a strange light suddenly flashed in her eyes. "Officer Zhou, I suddenly thought of something. After I was stunned by a wet towel, I was still in a trance. It seems that I still have a little consciousness—maybe this is the drug resistance caused by long-term use of sleeping pills you just mentioned. .” "Oh?! Really? What did you see? What did you hear?" Zhou Yuanyi asked. "Actually, I didn't see anything, and I didn't hear anything. After all, I was in a daze at the time. However, I felt like I was lifted into the elevator, and it was lifted by two people. One raised his head and the other lifted his feet." .” "You were carried to the second floor of the villa by two people?" "No, it doesn't look like I was lifted to the second floor. From my vague feeling, it seems that when the elevator is going down, it stops for a while on the second floor, and then runs down again. Finally, I was on the first floor of the villa, and was taken by two people. Someone carried it out." "You were carried out of the first floor? How is this possible? There is a wall outside the elevator door on the first floor. It is a secret room like a copper wall!" Zhou Yuanyi exclaimed, he couldn't believe what the chalk said. "Uh, that's what I felt in a daze, maybe it's just my illusion." Chalk frowned.In her eyes, unconsciously, there was an expression of "you won't believe me anyway, so it's better if I don't say it". Zhou Yuanyi ignored Chalk's feelings, and continued to ask: "Then, what happened after you were carried out of the elevator?" "I really don't know what happened afterwards. The effect of the sleeping pills has already started to take effect. I can't remember anything except the feeling that someone pressed the cold metal on my chest and back in a trance. It's over." After Chalk finished speaking, he added, "Even what I said just now about the elevator stopping on the first floor is actually something I vaguely recalled just now, so I can't guarantee whether it's accurate..." Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help but fell into deep thought. If what Chalk said is true, regardless of the wall outside the elevator door on the first floor, then two people took her along the elevator to the first floor of the villa, performed a medical examination on her and gave her an infusion, but for some reason, they did not hurt her. He killed her and sent her back to the second floor of the villa. In the end, the two of them sank down the elevator to the first floor and left. It sounds like there are too many inexplicable things. Only in this way can he explain why when Zhou Yuanyi woke up, he found that the elevator car was on the first floor of the villa. In this way, there must be something wrong with the elevator in the villa. In other words, there must be something wrong with the wall outside the first floor of the villa. Is it a wall with organs?Did Zhao Lianpu and his accomplices use some method to disguise such a wall? Zhou Yuanyi's best friend in the police station is Xiao Gao from the technical department.When Xiao Gao chatted before, he once talked about a group of fake masters in the technical department who can use cardboard, flour and paint to change the appearance of a person into another person, even the height can be changed, and they can also use the Some of the simplest raw materials to disguise one thing as another. In criminal investigation, cover-up is a practical technique that is often used. Could it be that Zhao Lianpu used a trick to disguise an object as a wall?For example, it is actually a movable wall. Just press the switch, and the wall can move horizontally to reveal a door? If so, then the switches that control the movement of the walls must be found in the elevator. Thinking of this, Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help but get excited. As long as he found that switch, wouldn't he be able to leave this deserted villa like a death factory? Zhou Yuanyi had learned various search skills when he was studying in the police academy. As long as there is such a switch in the elevator car, he is confident that he will be able to find it. Before checking the elevator, Zhou Yuanyi suppressed his excitement, together with the chalk in the bloody second-floor kitchen, he found a few packs of instant noodles that were not damaged by needle holes, swallowed them dryly with tap water, and barely added a little After physical strength, the two got into the elevator again and sank to the first floor. After the elevator car stopped running and remained still, Zhou Yuanyi carefully inspected the three steel plates of the elevator car except for the exposed wall.From time to time, he knocked heavily on the steel plate, and kept stroking it with his hands, trying to find the hidden concave-convex mechanism from the seemingly smooth steel plate.However, after searching for nearly half an hour and exhausting various methods, Zhou Yuanyi finally found nothing, and did not find any mechanism at all. Zhou Yuanyi was extremely disappointed. How is this going?There is no mechanism in the elevator car that can control the movement of the wall. How to explain what happened to the chalk? Could it be that Zhao Lianpu used wireless remote control technology to control the movement of the wall?If this is the case, then Zhou Yuanyi will have nothing to do. There is another possibility, that is, the switch is installed outside the elevator, and Zhao Lianpu has an accomplice who stays on the first floor all the time, controlling the movement of the wall according to Zhao Lianpu's instructions.If this is the case, Zhou Yuanyi has nothing to do with it. Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help being furious. It seems that no matter what, he can't win this battle.He is destined to be imprisoned in this murderous factory by Zhao Lianpu. Zhao Lianpu is like a cat playing with mice, hiding in the dark and smiling sinisterly. no!You can't just be played by him like this! At this moment, Zhou Yuanyi completely abandoned the principle of calmness that he had always adhered to. He angrily kicked the steel plates on three sides of the elevator car, cursed Zhao Lianpu hysterically, and even cursed Lin Yuner. The chalk was crying in despair. I don't know how long Zhou Yuanyi had been hysterical, but he finally felt tired.This is a kind of burnout from the body to the depths of the heart, which is irresistible. He slumped helplessly on the floor of the elevator car and closed his eyes. He wants to sleep and doesn't care about anything.Maybe after waking up, I was lying on my bed at home, and everything was just a nightmare. Chalk also lay on Zhou Yuanyi's chest. In this desperate situation, two people who met by chance and had no one to rely on could only take each other as imaginary objects of support.Although this is like a rootless grass on the edge of a cliff, it is impossible to be reliable. "Boom, boom, boom—boom, boom, boom—" Suddenly, a strange sound entered the eardrums of Zhou Yuanyi and Chalk.