Chapter 6 Chapter 5: What are you trying to hide?

It was dusk when I reached Leman.Driving the rented car, facing the sunset, the roadside scenery is picturesque and pleasing to the eye.Leman Town is quiet and tranquil, a typical European town.There was only one hotel in the town, and I thought a hotel room would never be a problem in a town like this, so it never occurred to me to book a room. Who knows, when I got off the car with simple luggage and walked into the rather old building, I faced the middle-aged, half-bald, honest-looking owner and asked for a more comfortable room. He said to me with an extremely apologetic expression and tone: "I'm really sorry, sir, all the rooms are rented out."

For a moment, I could hardly believe my ears, just stared at him, and when he repeated it, I let out an "ah": "Is there another hotel?" The owner said: "I'm sorry, there is only one hotel in the town." I said: "It seems impossible. This is not a tourist destination. It seems that your store has at least twenty rooms." The shop owner said, "There are twenty-eight rooms in total." I asked again: "Full?" The owner said: "Yes, I'm sorry, it's all full. Sir, you know, I feel as sad to reject you as I reject an old friend who wants to come to stay."

This made me hesitate a lot, where should I go to stay?Perhaps, an overnight stay in the car?The owner of the shop saw that I was very embarrassed, and he explained to me the reason why the hotel was full: "I don't know which country in Asia, a general came and recuperated in a nearby hospital. Now the residents of our shop, They are all subordinates of this general." I said "ah": "General Ziluo!" The shop owner said repeatedly: "Yes, yes." General Zillow is in a sanatorium near Leman Town. I read the news in the newspaper. I didn’t expect this general to come for treatment. There is such a big scene. I am thinking about whether I can ask the owner to move it a little. The place was for me to live in, and I saw three Asians coming out of the store.As soon as those three people saw me, they looked me up and down with eyes full of hostility.

These three people, looking at their appearance, knew that they must be General Ziluo's security guards. I glanced at them casually, then turned my face away, and said to the owner: "Any room, even a utility room That's fine, I just want to—" Before I finished speaking, I felt that those three people had come behind me. Moreover, they came too close, which was not the proper distance between strangers. A pair of hands put on my shoulders, and at the same time, a very rude voice said: "Come on, we have booked all the rooms." I was very angry in my heart, but I still maintained my composure and said coldly: "Please take your hands away. Also, I suggest you cut your nails, they are too dirty."

I spoke very calmly, but the person behind me was irritated by me. His hand on my shoulder suddenly tightened, and he grabbed my shoulder. His two companions quickly shouted, They are using the language of their country, telling that person not to make trouble. But his companion's warning came too late. Just as the man's fingers tightened and grabbed my shoulder, my left arm shrank back abruptly, and my elbow hit the man's rib hard superior. I also don't want to cause trouble, otherwise, my impact would at least break two or three ribs.The man let out a roar, and I turned around quickly, and saw the man's hands on his chest, his expression was startled and angry, his two companions supported him, and they also looked angry.

I pointed at them: "Want to fight? Or do you obey the law here?" I also spoke their language.Those three people must have thought that I was from their country, and one said fiercely: "If you go back and get off the plane, you will—" Before he finished speaking, I interrupted him and said, "You are welcome to wait for me at the airport." Then, I turned my head sideways, looked at them with disdain and said, "Looking at your situation, it seems that it is difficult to protect Zi Luo's safety." The faces of the three people turned blue. I put my luggage bag on my back and walked towards them. The three of them backed away hurriedly. When I came to the door of the hotel, I turned my head and said loudly, "Don't forget to cut your nails."

The person who was elbowed by me wanted to chase him out, but was held back by his two companions. I'm out of the hotel, I don't take this kind of small conflict to heart, but it's not always pleasant to find a hotel.I got in the car, drove slowly, asked someone where the local police station was, and it was only two corners away. I entered the police station and yelled for at least a minute before a young police officer panicked. The platoon came out from behind. When the policeman saw me, he was stunned: "What's the matter, sir?" I said, "I'm Qiu Lun's friend. Qiu Lun is the name of the dead man whose body was found in the forest not long ago."

The police officer said "Oh": "Yes, yes!" He still looked puzzled: "You came...for what?" I patiently said, "The cause of Cullen's death is suspicious, have you investigated it?" The police officer stepped forward: "Of course, he may have been murdered. However, that happened more than five years ago, and there is no clue at all." No matter how experienced the detectives were, they couldn't start investigating a case that had no head five years ago.What's more, the deceased was a foreigner. It seems that the local police didn't pay much attention to this case.

I scratched my head: "I want to find out the cause of his death, can you show me the information—information related to this case." The young policeman agreed straight away: "Yes." As he spoke, he opened a file cabinet drawer, searched for it, found a folder, handed it to me, and motioned me to sit down at a desk. Open the folder, and there are very few relevant materials.Except for an account of the discovery of the bones, there is only a sketch of the forest showing the exact location where the bones were found.In addition, there is a police document with my name on it, which records that the deceased had relics, indicating that they are to be handed over to me. The so-called "relics" are naturally the few photos that Miss Haven brought to me.

Then there is a forensic report, explaining the cause of death of the deceased and the time of death. The time of death was of course estimated, about five years ago.I read the information several times, folded up the forest map, and put it in my pocket, but the police officer didn't protest. When we left the police station, it was completely dark.If there is a place to stay, of course I will rest first and start working again tomorrow.But now I was going to spend the night in the car anyway, so I wanted to go to the forest first, but I drove out of town and changed my mind. The forest is just where the body of Cullen was found.After Chullen was murdered, the place where his body was buried had little to do with the whole case.

The most relevant one, of course, is the location where the murder happened, and there is no clue at all. The second is the small lake where Qiu Lun and Haven dated.Chu Lun encountered a strange thing there, and he also took a lot of photos to search for the answer, but was killed in the process of searching, and going to the small lake is much more important than going to the forest. So I turned to the little lake, and on the way I naturally thought of General Zillow again. Chullen claimed to have seen General Zillow more than five years ago, and he had someone call me to mention it.He took a lot of photos to prove it. In Haven's narration, General Zillow was forcibly dragged into a car by the small lake, and that car was the kind used on golf courses. If you follow this clue, you should have some clues. Half an hour later, the car passed a building with a rather high wall and a huge area, which seemed to exceed one hectare. I knew it was the nursing home. It's a little strange that the hospital needs to have such a high wall. Maybe this is a sanatorium specially set up for dignitaries, so there is such equipment?I didn't care about it at the time, and continued to drive, parked the car on the side of the road, and walked towards the lake. The moonlight was quite good that night, and the lake shimmered with the moonlight.There was no one around the lake.Beside the lake, there is soft grass.Seeing such a beautiful environment, I walked on the grass for a while, and I guess I came to the place where Qiu Lun and Haven were dating that day, so I sat down on the grass. I sat facing the lake at first, and then, half turned around, facing the direction of the road. I was thinking quickly, since the kind of car used on the field cannot drive too far, as far as I can see, the road has a few forks, but when I drove here, except for the nursing home, There are no other buildings. Then, this kind of car should be used by the nursing home. Then, Qiu Lun's death has a great relationship with this nursing home. The patients in this nursing home are known to be General Ziluo, Xin Yanshi, etc., will a hospital with such noble patients be associated with a murder case? I imagined what happened to Chu Lun that day. He saw General Zillow. Judging from the photos he took, the man who looked like General Zillow in the photo was dragged into the car by three other people. Even if the general is a patient, he should not be treated so roughly. Of course, there is some unknown secret in it, and Qiu Lun may be murdered because of pursuing this secret. What exactly is the secret?Not only did I not know, but I could not even conceive of the nature of the secret. By the lake, I sat there for about half an hour, thinking all the time, the surroundings were very quiet, until I stroked my face vigorously, I didn't hear that whistling sound. Since I was concentrating on thinking just now, I can't know how long this sound has been going on, but when I heard this sound, I immediately followed the sound. The sound came from a bush about twenty meters away from where I was sitting.It wasn't the sound of the wind. At first, I thought it was some small animal moving in the bushes, but I immediately saw another dark shadow beside the shadows of the bushes under the moonlight.That black shadow, after a little identification, it can be seen that it is a squatting person. I found out that there were other people besides me beside the lake. I couldn't help being stunned for a moment. Judging from the movements of the black shadow, I couldn't be sure what the squatting person was doing for a while. I slowly stood up , walked towards the bush.I didn't mean to step lightly on purpose, people walking on the soft grass would not make any noise. The squatting man didn't notice me until I could see him, he still didn't notice. I saw that man, squatting on the ground, digging the soil next to the tree roots with his hands very vigorously, and piled up the loosened soil.I stood behind him for half a minute, he kept doing the same thing, and I couldn't know what his purpose was. Since I was behind him, I couldn't see his face, and he lowered his head, concentrating on digging, as if it was a very interesting thing to dig loose and pile up the soil. After watching it for ten minutes, I couldn't help it. I coughed lightly, and then I said, "My friend, what are you doing?" As soon as I started to make a sound, the man turned his head abruptly and stared at me, motionless, with the expression of a frightened little animal.I was afraid that he would be further surprised, so I took two steps back and made another friendly gesture to him. The man stood up rather slowly as I stepped back.Only then did I realize that his figure was tall and burly, and he looked like an Asian. His complexion was rather dark, his eyes were darker, and his appearance was very airy, but his expression was extremely childish. This person was wearing a white cloth robe that looked extremely ridiculous, so that he looked like a clown but not a clown, and there was an indescribably funny taste. When he stood up completely, looking at his expression, he seemed to want to laugh, but he didn't know what to do. He was very nervous and a little at a loss. I had to make another gesture to him: "Hello." The man's mouth opened, but no sound came out, and in an instant, he suddenly showed an expression of extreme fear, and backed away again and again. He retreated too hastily, so that suddenly, he tripped over something, turned his back to the bushes, and fell on his back.As soon as I saw this situation, I quickly jumped over to help him, and stretched out my hand to hold his arm. Who knew that my kind support had brought unexpected consequences. He suddenly uttered a strange cry, which sounded very frightening. For a moment, I couldn't believe my eyes: this tall man was actually lowering his head, biting the back of my hand fiercely with his mouth. When the back of your hand is bitten, the only way to deal with it is, of course, to pinch the biter's gills immediately and make his mouth open.That's what I did, and, after I squeezed the man's mouth open, I punched him hard on the jaw.With this punch, the man let out another strange cry, and fell into the bushes. I dropped my hand, and the tooth marks on the back of my hand were so deep that I almost bleed from the bite.I was angry again, and I didn't understand that when I was about to shout at that person, two bright lights shot over. I saw a car speeding forward, the speed of the car was quite fast, and it drove to the front at once. Two people jumped out of the car and went straight to the bushes. The two men moved very quickly, and as soon as they jumped into the bushes, they immediately grabbed the man. The man made a terrible cry and struggled, but was dragged out by the two men and pulled towards the car.And at this time, I also saw clearly that the car was exactly the kind of light car that appeared in Chu Lun's photo. Those two people naturally saw me too, they glared at me, and exchanged glances with each other.I saw that they had pulled the man into the car, and one of the two had already jumped into the driver's seat. I hurriedly called out, "Hey, wait a minute, who is this man?" The driver said harshly: "Who do you think he is?" I raised my hand: "He bit me." The man snorted and ignored me. The car was already moving forward, and I immediately followed behind. The car was going very fast. Halfway through the chase, I stopped chasing the car and ran towards my own car. When I got into the car and started the car, I could still see the lights of that car. I drove the car and chased after it at a very high speed. The car approached the nursing home and entered through the iron gate that opened automatically.My car followed, and the iron door had already closed automatically. If I hadn't stopped quickly, I would have almost crashed into it. The sound of emergency braking pierced the silence, and it was very ear-piercing. I didn't get out of the car yet, and collected myself in the car. Everything happened so suddenly that I couldn't get used to it.I can only be sure of one thing: this hospital with its unreasonably high walls must be extremely eccentric. I took a breath, got out of the car, came to the iron gate, and looked inside.The hospital building was about 300 meters away from the iron gate.The area occupied by the hospital building is not large, and there is a large open space inside the wall, which is an extremely beautifully organized and arranged garden. The entire garden is pure European style.A hundred meters away from the iron gate, there are circles of roses surrounding a large fountain. In the center of the fountain is a very beautiful stone statue. There wasn't much light coming from the building, and the garden was even more immersed in darkness. It looked very peaceful, and it didn't look like any accident had happened at all.I looked it over a bit, then reached out to ring the bell. As soon as I rang the bell, I heard a low-sounding voice from the loudspeaker next to the doorbell: "Who is it? What is it?" I took a breath, this question was not easy to answer, I adopted the most prudent attitude: "I am a passer-by, and I just found some inexplicable things, I want to talk to your supervisor." As I said that, I looked at the iron door and the bolt, and immediately found a TV camera tube facing me, so I knew that the person I was talking to could see me on a fluorescent screen. I thought that if I spoke so vaguely, the other party's tone was not very friendly at the beginning, and my request would definitely be rejected. Who knew that the other party just stopped for a very short time and said: "Please come in." He promised so readily that I was stunned, but I didn't have time to think about it further, because the iron gate opened automatically, I thanked him, walked in the iron gate, and the gate closed behind me immediately. In my imagination, since this hospital is weird, I will definitely feel very eerie and mysterious when I walk in.But in fact, there is no such feeling at all. Under the moonlight, the deliberately organized garden looks very beautiful everywhere. When I walked past the fountain, I saw the door of the hospital open, and a man in a white robe walked towards me.When we met, the man held out his hand and said, "Are you the general's bodyguard?" I was taken aback for a moment, and asked back, "General Ziluo? No, the only relationship I have with him is that we are all Asians." The man laughed: "Then I made a mistake, and I shouldn't have let you in." He lowered his voice again, showing a very funny expression: "General Ziluo asked us to conduct the most rigorous inspection. The security measures, the patients in our hospital, are full of prominent figures, but no one has ever been more nervous than him." This man, about fifty years old, has a ruddy complexion, half-bald hair, and a kind appearance. The first impression he gives is very good. I shook hands with him, and he shook my hand vigorously: "You said you encountered some inexplicable things just now? What was that? You saw a UFO that landed on the roof of the hospital?" As he spoke, he laughed again, so I had no choice but to laugh along with him: "No." He asked, "Then—" I told him what I saw by the lake, and the man shook his head while listening: "Yes, one of our patients left the hospital without the doctor's permission." I said, "A patient?" The man said: "Yes—oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Dr. Du Liang, George Gerry? Du Liang." He seems to hope that I will know who he is when I hear his name, but I am not familiar with people in the medical field to this point, so I can only say indifferently: "Doctor." Dr. Du Liang looked somewhat disappointed, and he continued: "This patient, do you think he is a bit strange? He is suffering from a kind of intermittent dementia. This kind of disease is very rare. When it occurs, the patient is like Like an idiot, it takes a long period of treatment before there is hope of recovery." When Dr. Du Liang started to speak, he had already walked towards the hospital building, and I followed him.When he finished speaking, he had already come to the door, and he made a gesture for me to come in. Judging by his expression, it doesn't look like he has any special precautions against me at all.And his explanation is very reasonable, and I should be satisfied.Had it not been for the death of Cullen, I might have quit. I was at the door, hesitating for a while, Du Liang raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you going in for a sit down?" I said, "Do you want to disturb your work?" Du Liang spread his hands: "On the night shift, the most hopeful thing is that someone comes to chat with you, you are—" I told him my name, misrepresented an occupation, and said I was a tourist.Du Liang shook his head: "Don't lie, why do tourists come here? I think you are a reporter who is too enthusiastic about work and wants to interview some exclusive news." I had no choice but to pretend to be recognized by him, and smiled awkwardly.Du Liang smiled smugly.We walked through the gate of the building, which opened into a fairly spacious lobby, with a row of counters on one side and a night watchman reading a novel. I took the trouble to describe the situation inside the hospital because, although I think this hospital is weird, from the outside it looks normal, no different from other hospitals. Du Liang took me, turned a corner, entered a lounge, and poured me a cup of coffee from the electric coffee pot: "I can only tell you that General Zilo's health is very good, and he can recover in the shortest period of time." He was discharged from the hospital and returned to China to resume government affairs." I'm not a reporter here to interview General Zillow's illness.One of my purposes is to see what's going on in this hospital, and I can't see anything unusual now.The second is to ask Du Liang something I want to know. The first thing I thought of was what happened to Qiu Lun by the lake many years ago, so when I heard what he said, I immediately leaned closer, pretended to be mysterious, and lowered my voice: "General Ziluo is Seek medical treatment openly, but five years ago, he came secretly?" Du Liang was stunned: "There is no such thing." I pointed at him, "How long have you been here? If it's been more than five years, you must know. Please don't lie to me." Du Liangdao: "I have served in this hospital for more than ten years." I made a haha: "That's more proof that you're lying. I have a friend who saw General Zillo five years ago by a lake not far from here and took a picture of him." Du Liang frowned and stared at me. Seeing his expression, he seemed to have heard something extremely unbelievable. After a while, he suddenly realized and laughed, and slapped his own thigh hard: "By the way, then At that time, the general was not a particularly prominent figure, so I can't remember him, but he seems to have been here." From the moment Du Liang appeared, he gave me a good impression. He liked to laugh and speak with sincerity, and he took the initiative to invite me into the hospital building without any suspicious signs. But these two sentences made me suspicious. If there is a patient who came in a few years ago and is now being treated again, there is absolutely no possibility that the patient was not very prominent when he came to seek medical treatment last time, and he has forgotten this fact. Du Liang's words clearly indicated that he was lying. Why is he lying?What are you trying to hide?I quickly thought, not to expose him, but just echoed a few words: "My friend was murdered in a relatively short time after he saw Zilo, what do you think?" Du Liang's answer was quite decent: "What can I say?" I stared at him: "I think he committed suicide because he discovered a great secret." Du Liang sighed and said: "Yes, it's a bad habit to inquire about other people's secrets──" He pointed at me when he said this: "It's harmful to health." I smiled awkwardly, looked around, and Du Liang said, "What secrets do you think our hospital has?" I deliberately said, "That's hard to say." Du Liang smiled again and approached me: "As far as I know, vampire zombies, Frankenstein, and ghost doctors are being made in the basement. You really need to be careful." I said: "It's funny, it's funny." I stood up and stretched myself: "I'm leaving." Du Liang accompanied me out of the big iron gate of the hospital and watched me get into the car. If Du Liang's words hadn't aroused my doubts, I might have left here and investigated the cause of Qiu Lun's death in another way.But at this time, since he had doubts, he naturally refused to settle for it.I drove the car forward, sure that Du Liang could not see me, so I stopped and turned off the lights. The surroundings were very quiet. I sat quietly in the car for a while, thinking about what happened to Qiu Lun and my own experience.Still find that Lerman Sanatorium suspicious.But where the suspicion lies, I can't tell. After stopping for a few minutes, I got out of the car and walked back the same way. When I saw the hospital wall, I acted very carefully, trying to hide as much as possible. When I reached the foot of the wall, I stood against the wall and looked up. The wall was about eight feet high, and it looked very strange.I'm not sure if there is another security facility on the wall.It is not difficult for me to climb such a high wall. I first took out a pair of very sharp small chisels, inserted the tip part into the cracks in the bricks, and then climbed up gradually.After going through the same procedure about four or five times, I stretched my right hand upwards and could already touch the top of the wall.I slowly reached out and touched the top of the wall carefully, only to find that there was nothing on the top of the wall except rough cement.As long as you use your strength, you can climb over the wall. There are no security measures on the fence, which somewhat disappoints me, because I think that if this hospital is related to important secrets, it should not be so negligent.Does this mean that I made a mistake and that this hospital is not my goal? I thought about it for a while, thinking that no matter what, if I sneak in and have a look, there will be no loss.So as soon as I jumped up, I had crossed the wall sideways. At the foot of the wall was the grass. I relaxed my body and jumped down. It was easy for me to enter the garden of the hospital. At this time, I was on the left side of the hospital building. Under the moonlight, the whole garden was very quiet and there was no one there.I quickly took a few steps forward, and found that there was a long shadow cast on the ground, which was quite easy to spot. Immediately I ducked down and moved forward as fast as possible.After a while, I came to the side of the building, walked ten meters against the wall, and came to a door. The door was locked, but after breaking the glass and reaching in, the door was opened. Inside the door was a rather narrow corridor, dimly lit, with about eight to ten rooms on both sides of the corridor, all with closed doors. As I walked forward, I tried to push each door. Some were unlocked, some were locked, and there were unlocked rooms, including two bathrooms, and three other rooms with a little debris piled up. This situation is the same as in ordinary hospitals. There is nothing suspicious about it. I have almost walked out of this corridor. Outside the corridor is a Sichuan hall, and I can see two elevators.At this moment, the door of one of the elevators opened, and a man in white clothes stepped out and walked forward.In order not to let him see, I dodged close to a door. When the man passed by, I turned the handle of the door with my backhand, and the door was locked.Before this, I also found that three or four doors were locked, but I did not open them, because I thought that there was nothing worth noting about these rooms.At this time——I found that the room was locked, and I didn't intend to open it. I was just looking for the right time to cross the hall and go to other parts of the hospital to check it out. But at this moment, I was suddenly attracted by a very strange sound.This kind of sound, just heard, absolutely can not be sure what it is.And it was sent out at a very close distance from me, so I was taken aback. I looked at the situation around me, and very quickly, I found that there was really nothing around me that could make a sound.The voice sounded like it was coming from behind me, and I was standing with my back against a door.That is to say, the sound came from behind the door. After confirming this point, I can guess that the unpleasant sound was caused by someone behind the door scraping on the door with something. I took a breath and put my ear against the door.Once the ears were put on it, the voice could be heard more clearly. It sounded like someone was scratching the door with their hands.I listened to it for about half a minute, and felt a sense of extreme surprise in my heart.Most of the rooms in this area are utility rooms. Who would hide in a utility room and grab the door with their hands? I turned the handle again, but the door still couldn't be pushed open. I glanced at the keyhole. This kind of door lock can be opened in less than half a minute. I also immediately took a thin wire in my hand, but When I stretched the thin wire into the keyhole, my hands trembled involuntarily. This really surprised me. I don't know how many storms and waves I have gone through. There is absolutely no reason to be afraid in the current situation.I also knew that I was not actually afraid, but extremely surprised.A feeling told me that if I opened the door something unspeakably dreadful might happen. I paused for a while, and then took a deep breath. I was amused by the involuntary shaking just now, and said to myself: "What's the big deal, the big deal is that the dead people in the hospital turned into ghosts." I felt a little more relaxed, and my movements naturally went much smoother.While I was unlocking the lock, the scratching sound continued until there was a relaxed slap in the keyhole, and the sound stopped. I reached out and grabbed the door handle, but didn't open it immediately. If the sound just now was made by someone behind the door, then as soon as I opened the door and pushed it, the door would hit that person.I don't know who is the one making the scratching sound?If he yells when I touch him, then I will be found out. So, before I open the door and go in, I have to do a little preparatory work. My preparation, to put it bluntly, was extremely simple, that is, to use my left hand to open the door, while my right hand clenched into a fist. Turn the handle of the door and slowly push the door open. The door has only opened a few inches. I can be sure that there is indeed a person standing behind the door. This person must be standing very close to the door, because I have encountered resistance and cannot Continue to push forward. Now that I was sure there was someone behind the door, I couldn't hesitate any longer. I took a breath and pushed the door hard. The door slammed inwards, obviously hitting a person. I pushed the door quite hard, knocking the person I had to take half a step back, and I had already stepped in. The light inside the door was very dark, and I didn't have time to tell who that person was. Falling backward, onto a pile of debris. Until now, I still haven't seen clearly who that person is, but I can be sure that after receiving my punch, that person won't wake up for at least half an hour. I closed the door, reached over to the door, found the light switch, and turned on the light. The lights are not very bright, and the utility storage room does not need too bright lights at all.But it was enough for me to see clearly that the man was half-turned and fell forward after being punched. At this time, his back was facing upwards, and he was lying on a pile of sheets. The man was wearing a very funny-looking white cloth dress, lying on the pile of sheets, motionless. I took a few steps forward, bent down, came to the man's side, and turned him over to face me. After I turned over the man's body, I saw the man's face clearly, and at that moment, I was stunned as if I had been struck by lightning.