Chapter 4 Chapter Three

"She's dead, she's already dead...she's coming back to catch us, first Fang Shu, then me, and then..." When Zhen Zhen and I came to Mai Qinghe's dormitory and asked him how he learned about Shen Tingyue's death, he just kept repeating similar words.It seemed that he was overly frightened, causing mental problems.With his current appearance, it's not easy to get words out of his mouth, but I have my way. "People who died in vain tend to linger on their grievances, lingering around the murderer all day long, waiting for an opportunity to avenge their revenge. Huh..." I pointed to a dark corner of the dormitory, "There seems to be a figure flashing there, could it be that I was blinded by it?" Wrong!"

After hearing my words, he felt as if he had received an electric shock, and immediately curled up in the quilt. The quilt covering his whole body kept shaking with his thin body.It seems that this method is quite effective, so I said again: "Escaping cannot solve the problem. I know a Taoist priest with profound knowledge, who may be able to help you a little bit. However, you must tell us everything you know. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do to help." He poked his head out and glanced at me, hesitated for a moment, then rushed forward and grabbed my hand for help: "Can you really help me?"

I nodded to him: "The premise is that you must tell us everything." "What do you want to know, as long as you can help me, I will tell you everything." He seems to have forgotten our conversation just now, which proves that his thoughts are quite confused, which may be a good thing for me. I asked him again, but this time I didn't directly ask why he was sure that Shen Tingyue was dead, but asked instead: "When did you learn of Shen Tingyue's death?" He stepped back suddenly, his eyes flickered, he wrapped the quilt around his body tighter, and replied falteringly: "She, is she dead?" As if suddenly, he became sober and became vigilant towards us.

"Didn't you just say that? I heard it with my own ears!" Zhen Zhen glared at him angrily. He moved back again, lowered his head unconsciously to avoid our gaze, and replied timidly: "Is there? I was very confused just now, and I didn't know what I said." I found a stool and sat in front of the bed, lit a cigarette, and then said leisurely: "You can say nothing, but we can't help you like this. I think your good brother must be very lonely in the underworld, but it's okay. It's okay, I think someone will go down with him soon." He shivered for a while, then raised his head and glanced at me, as if he wanted to say something, but he stopped talking.He was still hesitant until I finished smoking the cigarette in my hand.

I stuffed the cigarette butt into the empty coke can next to the bed, stood up and handed him a business card, "Call me anytime you want to confess everything to us!" After that, I left with Zhen Zhen. When I got to the door, I turned back to him and said, "I hope the place where we meet next time won't be the morgue." "Are we going back like this? There must be something wrong with him, why don't you force him to explain things clearly?" Just as she walked out of the door, Zhen Zhen asked in confusion. I smiled: "I don't plan to go back now."

As soon as the words came out, Mai Qinghe, who was wearing a quilt, rushed out of the dormitory, ran in front of us to stop us, and said in a panic: "I said, I said, I will tell you everything." Mai Qinghe's sudden change of attitude made Zhenzhen very puzzled, she looked at me inexplicably, I only gave her a sly smile back. When I stuffed the cigarette butt into the Coke can just now, I secretly put a whole person pill in it.The whole person pill looks like a capsule but is filled with a chemical that reacts when heated.There is nothing special about this kind of pill at normal temperature, but as long as the temperature is slightly higher, for example, if it is placed in the palm of the hand, it will keep beating and even somersaulting.I stuffed the pills and cigarette butts into the coke can. The heat generated by the cigarette butts would make the pills jump violently and hit the inner wall of the coke can, making a strange sound.Hearing an inexplicable strange sound suddenly would startle even a normal person. Mai Qinghe is so nervous now, of course he was scared to death.

Back in the dormitory again, Mai Qinghe looked around nervously, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he began to reveal a terrible secret to us: "Tingyue died a month ago, yes, she was killed by Brother Shu... " "What?" Zhen Zhen exclaimed in surprise, and I was also very surprised.Although he had already guessed that Mai Qinghe must know some ulterior secrets, he did not expect it to be so horrifying—if Shen Tingyue had been killed by Fang Shu a month ago, wouldn't Fang Shu's murder be a murder of an innocent soul? However, while astonished, I also thought of another question: "Why do you know?"

"Yes, Brother Shu told me personally..." He deliberately avoided my gaze. I said seriously, "I don't think killing someone is an honorable deed to brag about." Generally speaking, the murderer never wants others to know that he has committed a murder, and it is even less likely to take the initiative to tell others, and even kill the insider to cover up the crime.After all, once the news gets out, the murderer will be in a very dangerous situation. He bowed his head and remained silent, as if he was thinking about how to finish his lie. I didn't want to waste time with him, so I pointed at him and sternly reprimanded him: "You are the one who killed Shen Tingyue!"

"No, no, I didn't kill her..." He kept waving his hands and shaking his head. "If Shen Tingyue was not killed by you, if her death has nothing to do with you, why are you afraid that she will come back to kill you!" I pointed out his loopholes righteously. "I really didn't kill her, really..." The quilt wrapped tightly around his body kept trembling, telling us the truth intermittently—— I have a relatively withdrawn personality. Although I stayed in the Academy of Fine Arts for more than three years, I only made friends with Brother Shu and Kai Min.However, Brother Shu and I have a special affinity for each other, and we are brothers and sisters.I still remember that when I first entered the Academy of Fine Arts, I was often bullied by some old students. If Brother Shu hadn't helped me get ahead, I would have dropped out of school a long time ago.

A month ago, Brother Shu invited me out for supper.Usually, the two of us would only go to roadside stalls for supper, but that night he didn't know why he was so arrogant, he even invited me to a restaurant and ordered a lot of dishes.We were drinking and bragging, and while chatting, he suddenly asked me if I dared to do something big with him.At that time, I had just had a few glasses of wine, so I said to him without thinking about anything: "Brother Shu, just say what you want me to do, as long as you let me do it, I don't dare to say anything." "Brother, I'll take you to target shooting later, and we two brothers will have a good time together."

He told me that Tingyue was qualified to participate in the Provincial Art Exhibition. In order to create the exhibited works quietly, she would go to the studio on the third floor of the old teaching building to paint every night, and stay there until late. The old school building used to be haunted by ghosts, and usually no one would go in at night, and there were not many people nearby.So no matter what happened in the studio, no one would know, even if Tingyue was raped there, no one would know... After listening to his thoughts, I was shocked. Although I would occasionally do some bad things with him, it was just bullying freshmen and knocking some pocket money, but this time he actually asked me to go with him. Rape Tingyue! This is jail time, I thought he was just having a few drinks and joking with me.But he was serious, and told me: "Don't be afraid, it's okay, it's just a girl, even if the sky falls, I will hold it up." Rape is a serious crime that will lead to imprisonment. Of course I dare not do it, but I have promised him just now, and now I can't back down easily, so I have to tell him: "What if Tingyue calls the police?" "She dares! If she squeaks, I'll bury her right away!" He took out his phone and shook it in front of me, "We'll take a few nude photos of her after we're done, and see what she dares to do to us! " He put on an imperative posture, and he didn't listen to what I said, but encouraged me again and again.To be honest, Tingyue is the beauty of our Academy of Fine Arts. Not only does she look good, but she also has a great figure. She is the sexual fantasy object of many boys, and I really want to do that with her. Jiu Zhuang was cowardly, coupled with his instigation, I agreed in a daze. That night, the college was very quiet. On the way to the old teaching building, there was no one, and I could hear my own footsteps almost every step I took. "It's so quiet tonight, God help me!" Brother Shu was very happy because he didn't meet anyone along the way.However, I really want someone to appear in front of me right away, preferably an acquaintance, so that maybe he can dispel the idea of ​​raping Tingyue.However, even during the day, not many people would come here for a stroll, let alone late at night?Until we came to the door of the old teaching building, we still didn't meet anyone, and my expectations fell through. The moment I stepped into the teaching building, my mood was very complicated. The rumors of haunting, the dark stairs, and the worry about crime all made me very scared and nervous.But there was an inexplicable excitement in my heart. After all, Tingyue was also one of the best beauties in the Academy of Fine Arts. Who wouldn't want to kiss Fangze? With mixed feelings, I followed Brother Shu to the door of the studio on the third floor.He quietly opened the door, and the light inside the door gushed out like a hot flame, falling on me, igniting the fear in my heart, and making me retreat instinctively to a dark corner.At this moment, I am like a guilty thief, hoping to hide forever in a dark corner where no one can see. Through the crack in the door opened by Brother Shu, we can see the beautiful Tingyue in the studio, drawing with her back to us seriously.She paints very attentively, and in her eyes, it seems that there is nothing else in the whole world except her own works.Even when we entered the studio, she didn't notice.She never took her eyes off the canvas for a moment. Geshu signaled me to guard the door, while he tiptoed behind Tingyue.During this period, my eyes accidentally fell on the canvas. Although I just glanced at it casually, I was immediately attracted. The feeling of this oil painting is really shocking to me! The background of the painting is a small but tidy room. The bed, chairs, tables, and cooking utensils are all squeezed into the small space. Although it is crowded, it is not messy, and the painting is very detailed. I can even clearly see the open book on the table. The homework book, and the pencil in the stationery box. In the center of the oil painting is a grief-stricken woman. The strands of white hair on her head contrast with her face in her thirties. It can be seen at a glance that this is a woman who lives at the bottom of the society and suffers from hard work. A down and out woman who wasted her youth prematurely.The blade of the kitchen knife she held in her right hand was painted bright red, and on the wrist of her left hand, the blood was blooming coquettishly. A thin, white arm stretches out towards the woman from the edge of the picture, as if trying to prevent the woman from harming herself.However, the strength of the owner of the arm is so small... Although the tone of the entire oil painting is very dark and depressing, it has distinct layers, especially the blood flowing from the woman's wrist, which is simply coquettish and suffocating.Although just glanced at it, you can instantly feel the artistic conception in the painting - the bullied woman chooses to end her life in order to get rid of the ravages of fate.Seeing this scene, her child reached out to stop her in panic, but the child's strength was so weak that he could only watch his mother pass away. This oil painting depicts the mother, but what it wants to express is the child's fear, hesitation and helplessness. I was so attracted by this oil painting that I didn't even notice how Brother Shu pushed Tingyue to the ground and how he tore off her blouse.What brought me back to my senses was a touch of bright red——Tingyue, who was pressed to the ground, picked up an oil paintbrush with red paint, broke off the end and scraped on Brother Shu's arm.Geshu screamed in pain, slapped her, grabbed the paintbrush, and threw it aside angrily.The paintbrush is impartial, and it just lands on the center of the oil painting, on the woman's face.In this astonishing work that is almost completed, there is a touch of bright red like blood. When Tingyue saw her work being destroyed, she immediately became agitated. Although her thin body was held down by the elder tree, she still kept struggling.Because his arm was scratched, Brother Shu slapped her a few times in a fit of rage, and then strangled her neck until she stopped struggling... Dead, Tingyue was strangled to death by Brother Shu. After finding out that Tingyue had died, brother Shu and I were very panicked.But he calmed down quickly, and after thinking for a while, he said to himself: "No one saw us coming in, and no one is strolling around at this time. As long as we hide her, no one will come in." know what happened tonight..." We packed up the studio, and then I was the first to explore the way. Geshu picked up Tingyue's body and followed behind, tiptoeing towards the back wall of the college.I chose some secluded and dark roads to walk, although no one was found along the way, but there is a dead body behind, which will inevitably make people feel creepy. We were going to climb over the back wall of the college and find a random place outside to dispose of the body.But after climbing over the wall, Brother Shu actually said to me: "It's easy to be found by burying the body everywhere. Why don't we bury her in the nearby cemetery. There are not even ghosts there on weekdays, and there are many dead bodies buried." If there are fewer unknown corpses, even if the corpse is found, there will be no problem." Although what he said was very reasonable, the place also felt eerie during the day, and it was even more terrifying at night.To bury the corpse there, I have millions of unwillingness in my heart, but he insisted on burying the body there, so I had no choice but to obey his wishes. You can't imagine how scared I was. From the moment I entered the cemetery, I felt my scalp was numb, and I didn't pee my pants. The moonlight was not very bright that night, and the cemetery was surrounded by tall banyan trees, which blocked most of the light, so the cemetery was very dark.And it seems that this place has been abandoned for a long time, the ground is overgrown with weeds, and some places even grow to the height of the knees. Against the background of the tree shadows, it seems that at any time, a rotten arm will stick out from the grass and grab our feet. Pull us into the abyss of hell. I walked into the cemetery with Brother Shu under such a situation of being startled every step of the way.When I saw the tombstones hidden in the weeds, I was even more frightened, because under each tombstone there was a corpse, and there was a hungry ghost who had not been worshiped by incense. I told Brother Shu to throw Tingyue's body into the grass casually, and leave this terrible place as soon as possible, no one would come to such a place anyway.But he said that he was not afraid of 10,000, just in case, and insisted on burying the body in the deepest part of the cemetery. We didn't bring digging tools, so we had to find some stones and branches nearby to dig a hole.I was very afraid that another corpse would be dug up during the digging process, because I heard some old people say that the gangsters often bury the corpse here after killing people to silence them. Fortunately, we did not find another body. We hastily dug a shallow hole and threw the body in. While burying the soil, the hazy moonlight quietly fell on Tingyue's face.Since she died, it was the first time for me to see her face directly. Although it was just a glance, her terrifying face often appeared in my dreams--long messy hair, livid face, slightly convex The eyes and slender tongue make up a frightening face, which makes me tremble until dawn after dreaming back at midnight... If Shen Tingyue was really killed a month ago, then this case is too terrible!Although seeing Mai Qinghe's panicked appearance, he should not have lied, but this is his family's words after all, and substantial evidence must be found to verify what he said. To prove what he said is true, the most direct way is to find Shen Tingyue's body.