Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Gerald's Game

A ball of reddish-brown blood poured out from the skin, making a stinging hissing sound, the red lips immediately sucked it up, and there was a faint crying sound from all around, pressing the throat, the muddy water in the sink was mixed with bloodshot Flow slowly. Every day at noon, Shen Xuemei makes some food by herself, because her husband, Sun Lin, rarely comes back for lunch, and even dinner. The nine-year-old daughter, Sun Wenwen, eats lunch at school .But today is Saturday, logically speaking, the husband should come back for lunch to accompany his daughter. Although he is the boss of the company, he is not so busy that he has no time on Saturday.

However, Shen Xuemei was used to it. Her husband, Father Sun Lin, often didn't go home. He only went home to spend time with his daughter. There was no relationship between them, and they were like strangers. Father Sun Lin hadn't touched her for a long time.Shen Xuemei also knew for a long time that there were women outside of him, more than one, they had quarreled and divorced before, but her husband never agreed.Day after day, Shen Xuemei has become numb. She knows that she is old and unattractive, but for the sake of her daughter, she just lives like this. The daughter is the only joy in her life.At noon, the two had dinner happily, and then Shen Xuemei sent her daughter to amateur piano lessons, but her daughter kept clamoring for her father, Shen Xuemei could only perfunctory her.After sending her daughter back, Shen Xuemei usually turns on the TV to watch series. She is the only one in the empty villa.

Silence makes people fearful, and bloody traces remain in her mind. Shen Xuemei looked at the band-aid on her thumb. Today's local TV station's life report said: "A dead person was found on a bus this morning. He was about 30 years old. The preliminary determination is that he died of poisoning, and the police are investigating." Unusual poisoned death... Because Shen Xuemei had to serve her daughter for breakfast, she didn't go out to buy vegetables until about ten o'clock. When she arrived at the vegetable market, she heard some women talking about the murder that happened at the nearby bus station.Now, seeing it on TV again, she felt a little uneasy, thinking of her husband, Sun Lin's father, and even imagined that the face of the corpse was Sun Lin's father.

My husband hasn't been home since yesterday. Although this is a common thing, and the man mentioned on TV is about 30 years old, and my husband is 40 years old, but my husband looks young and looks like 30 years old. In her teens, her daughter was clamoring for her father just now, so she decided to make a phone call to ask Sun Lin's father to come back for dinner at night. Called the phone, beep!There was no one answering there all the time; I called the company again, but the company staff said they were not there. Shen Xuemei had no choice but to give up, still watching TV, but she couldn't help but wonder what her husband would be doing?Must be fooling around with some woman.

In fact, Shen Xuemei's judgment was correct. Father Sun Lin was wandering around the Xinhua Bookstore at the moment. He didn't come here specifically to buy books. He was just doing some kind of cover-up, and he was actually dating his lover.Because the lover was shopping in the mall, and the time agreed by the two of them did not arrive, so he went to the bookstore first. Looking at the bookstore, he decided to buy a book when the appointed time was approaching, because it would feel awkward to go out empty-handed, as if he was the type of reading for nothing, and he would be embarrassed if he was bumped into by an acquaintance. On Tangtang, the big boss of a company is reluctant to buy even a book.

"Hello, thirty-six yuan." After paying the money, Father Sun Lin met someone he knew at the elevator entrance. It was a writer named Han Tieshan. He was in his fifties with thinning hair and looked like an old man, although he was about ten years older than Father Sun Lin. , but in appearance, he looks like Sun Lin's father and his father, with a very keen light in his eyes. "Ah! Hello." The two exchanged a few words at the elevator entrance. "Oh, Writer Han, long time no see." "Haha, Mr. Sun is here to buy books. Oh, this one! It's pretty good."

"Recently, I want to read more books to catch up on culture, haha, Han Da writers also come to buy books?" "Come and see, there will be a signing event here the day after tomorrow. Mr. Sun needs a lot of support and help promote it." "sure." Then, the two said goodbye.Sun Lin's father checked the time and realized that he was going to be late, so he hurried to the nearby agreed coffee shop.When he entered, his lover Xu Ying was already sitting there drinking coffee. She was wearing an off-white blouse that looked like a Korean T-shirt, showing cleavage, and a black pleated skirt underneath. Her enchanting figure brought infinite temptation.

Sun Lin's father immediately walked over with a smile on his face and said, "Honey, wait a minute, I forgot the time while reading in the bookstore." "No, just came here for a while." Xu Ying replied casually, and then took the book in Sun Lin's father's hand to look at it. "You like to watch it? Then I'll give it to you." Sun Lin's father fawned. "I've read it, you can keep it." Xu Ying put the book in front of Sun Lin's father, looking a little unhappy. Sun Lin's father understood that he was acting like a spoiled child. He was just a little late, which is always the case with new lovers at the beginning.He looked around, looked at Xu Ying's attire, and deliberately leaned over to look under the table, causing the beautiful young woman to lose her temper, and cursed: "You are too bad, pervert, there is no end to it!"

Sun Lin's father looked at his beauty with a playful smile, and suddenly remembered something, his expression immediately became serious, and asked Xu Ying: "I saw a writer named Han Tieshan in the bookstore just now, and he also wrote suspense mystery novels, do you know him?" ?” The expression on Xu Ying's face also immediately froze, because her husband is also a writer of suspense mystery novels, and there are only a few famous writers who write such works. Don't think about it, they must know each other. The key is whether they recognize each other. Xu Ying.As for cheating, the most worrying thing is to be seen by acquaintances and report to the husband to catch the adulterer.

Seeing Xu Ying's expression, Sun Lin's father was a little scared, worried that this sentence would scare Xu Ying away, and there would be no singing for tonight's play.So he immediately explained: "Don't worry, he just came to the bookstore to talk about the signing event. This kind of old writer won't wander around and can't touch us." The two left the coffee shop afterwards, and Xu Ying followed Sun Lin's father wearing sunglasses, and came to a high-end restaurant for dinner.In a private room with a TV, after the waiter finished memorizing the menu and left, Father Sun Lin couldn't help but put his arms around Xu Ying and kissed him. Xu Ying coquettishly pushed him away, turned on the TV and said, "Don't do this, you will be seen Yes, watch TV first."

As soon as the TV was turned on, it happened to be a local news program, broadcasting the latest report, which said that a person was poisoned and died in the bus, reminding the citizens to pay attention to food. Sun Lin's father said casually: "The news is really interesting now. It's clearly a murder case. It looks like food poisoning." Xu Ying turned her head and asked strangely, "How did you know it was a murder?" Sun Lin's father gestured and said: "This story spread quickly, and now newspapers and media are offering rewards to provide clues. I have a friend who is from a newspaper office. He mentioned it to me when I met him. He arrived at the scene immediately. Earlier than the police, these people are very capable." "I thought you killed it?" "I don't have the guts." Xu Ying pretended to curse: "Bah! You have no guts, you still dare to steal other people's wives." Father Sun Lin grabbed Xu Yingxiumei's hand and said with a playful smile, "It's because your husband is not here." Xu Ying pretended to curse again: "Poaching thief!" "The room has already been booked, it's still the same place, and the guy also brought it." "Oh! It's time to eat, don't be so disgusting." To be honest, Sun Lin's father was a little impatient. He hadn't "stealed fish" for several days, and the suppressed dirty desire needed to be ejected. Every time he hunted a new prey, the animal desire was the strongest. After eating, he drove Xu Ying to a hotel in the suburbs.Although this hotel is located in the suburbs, its business is very good, especially on Sundays, when many couples book rooms early.It is estimated that this place is remote and quiet, and the price is cheaper than the city center. The layout and service are relatively good. The most important thing is that it is remote and you can't meet acquaintances. Xu Ying put on sunglasses when she got out of the car, probably because Sun Lin's father said that she met the writer Han Tieshan just now, and she was a little worried about being recognized by acquaintances, even though it was night.The fat Sun Lin's father walked a little ahead, showed the key card to the waiter at the counter, and ordered: "Bring a bottle of red wine and bring some fruit." Then, he turned around and led Xu Ying into the elevator. Their room was on the third floor, in the middle of the corridor. "Baby!" As soon as he entered the door, Sun Lin's father hurriedly hugged Xu Ying and kissed him like a wolf. This was a normal reaction for a man.This woman Xu Ying is indeed too attractive. From the perspective of beauty and sexiness, she looks like an actress who arouses men's sexual desires.The two of them hooked up not long ago, because Xu Ying is a married woman, and her husband is also a writer, so she needs to be careful not to be discovered by others.So in public, they are just like ordinary friends, and they have to keep an eye on what's going on around them all the time. It's like a hungry wolf who can't get their hands on food for a long time, and must be in a hurry right now. Sun Lin's father was indulging in the pleasure of kissing and stroking Xu Ying, when there was a knock on the door next to them, they were each shocked in their hearts, because they started to be passionate when they entered the door, standing not far from the door, knocking The sound of the door seemed to be right next to his ears, so he would be instinctively startled.But Sun Lin's father immediately realized that he called something just now, so he calmed down and opened the door. "Hello, your wine and fruit." A young male waiter came in, put down his things, and took a good look at Xu Ying, whose clothes were a little messy.The woman was even sexier now, with the straps of her bra showing sideways.Xu Ying also glanced at him and smiled secretly.When the waiter came to the door, Sun Lin's father generously handed him a 100-yuan RMB as a tip, and said, "Knock the door softly next time." The male waiter nodded again and again, holding the one hundred yuan RMB in his hand, he was very happy, almost no one gave him a tip, once it seemed to be fifty yuan, that was already three months ago, the room here It's only one hundred and twenty yuan a day, so naturally there are no wealthy people.While the male waiter was having fun, he recalled the woman he saw when he entered the door just now, she was so sexy!Like a model, I thought how great it would be if I could meet such a woman for the first time, and I couldn't help lusting.That's the way people are, never satisfied. After Sun Lin's father and Xu Ying drank a glass of red wine, they flirted, and then he began to kiss Xu Ying.In fact, Sun Lin's father wanted to get to the point long ago, but women like romance, so let's try to please their new lover with some flair. Father Sun Lin likes this woman very much. This woman is the most sexual partner he has ever met who can play passionately on the bed. She is both sexy and beautiful, and can play various tricks. A man with a strong sexual desire like Father Sun Lin Could he not like it? In private, he still thinks that Xu Ying's husband Ye Luo is really a blessing.However, according to Xu Ying, Ye Luo had some premature ejaculation and couldn't last long.Thinking of this, Sun Lin's father secretly rejoiced and became more brave. He wanted to show this woman his own strength. Faint groans stimulated the heart and lungs, suppressed panting echoed in the dark corridor, an atmosphere of excitement and fear floated, and evil psychology was slowly sprouting. Uh-huh!The sound from the wall. Sun Lin's father didn't know what was wrong this time. He just got to the point, tied Xu Ying to the bed, and started kissing every inch of his skin. Under the lower eyelids, the whole person seemed to be sleepy, and then the internal organs were in severe pain, and he lost consciousness instantly. Sun Lin's father fell off the bed and fell to the ground without moving.There was only a woman screaming for help from the door. The male waiter hesitated for a while, thinking: Could it be that they played too violently?Don't break in. "Hello, what's going on inside?" There was crying in the screaming, and the waiter was sure that something terrible happened inside, so he stepped back hurriedly to knock on the door. After two knocks, the door opened with a bang. The scene in the room stunned him. The woman who was as sexy as a model was tied to the bed just now, stretching her limbs naked, with a frightened expression on her face.The middle-aged man who gave him the tip just now was lying on the ground beside the bed, with only a pair of shorts on his body, dead like a catfish. His consciousness was blurred for half a minute. Such a picture closed his senses, his slightly open mouth froze, and he was immediately awakened by the woman's scream.He hurried over to untie the rope tied around the woman's hands and feet, and glanced at the corpse on the ground, the corpse's eyes were open. "Quick, see what's wrong with him?" the woman said. He squatted down, and tremblingly probed the corpse's nostrils with his index finger: "There is no air." "Help, someone is dead." Out of professional instinct, the male waiter immediately ran out to call other colleagues in the hotel and called the police. When I returned to that room again, the sexy woman had already put on her clothes, her expression was dazed, her hair was messy, many people were watching, and the corpse was lying on the spot. After a while the police arrived and cordoned off the scene.During the questioning, the police asked him how he heard the shouting, and he just said that he happened to be passing by.In fact, he wanted to hear the woman's cries during sex. The desire just now made him unbearable. To put it bluntly, he has this habit, and he often eavesdrops on the sounds of men and women making love in the guest room. Wan didn't expect to encounter a dead person. Some people around whispered that this woman was so powerful that she killed that man. It seemed that this man died from exhaustion.There are too many talkative people in this world. However, the male waiter knew that the couple entered the room not long ago and had just started to get down to business. How could it be exhausted? He guessed that it might be a heart attack, because he was so excited to meet such a sexy woman, and his blood pressure rose to God. up.Of course, he didn't say any of this, he just thought to himself.He only told the police that it took almost half an hour from when he went in to deliver the things to when he heard the woman shouting. Not long after the police arrived at the scene, the forensic doctor had not yet arrived. Many reporters had already heard the news. This was due to the credit for providing news clues. . After the forensic doctor came, he made a preliminary examination of the body and determined that it was poisoned. The captain of the criminal police Liu Tianming was searching the home of the deceased Yu Kuang to see if he could find a milk carton, because the deceased Yu Kuang's girlfriend Mo Xiaoyi said that the deceased drank poisonous milk. Some toilet paper was found in the trash can in the bedroom, which was used to wipe after having sex. Liu Tianming remembered the woman who was with the deceased Yu Kuang last night, that is to say, they went back to the residence and had sex last night. Perhaps This woman can provide some clues, and it is also possible that this woman is the murderer. The whole house was checked, and nothing of value was lost, and more than one hundred dollars in the drawer were not taken away, indicating that the murderer was not seeking money.Liu Tianming thought of the woman who was with the deceased Yu Kuang last night. She was about twenty years old and dressed like a lady sitting on the stage. If she wanted to kill someone, she should be seeking money, and she didn't have such a clever way of killing. Liu Tianming seemed a little worried and frowned, because there was one more thing last night that was hard to tell.When he received a call from another case and heard the news of the same poisoning, he had a premonition that this must be a big case, so he hurried to the hotel. When Liu Tianming arrived, many reporters were already interviewing the surrounding onlookers. These people had their own opinions, and he was also surrounded by reporters. He squeezed into the scene without saying anything.When he learned from the forensic doctor that the symptoms of the deceased were similar to those of the deceased Yu Kuang in the previous case, the fog shrouded his mind again, and no clues could be found at the scene. After the forensic doctor ruled that he was poisoned and left the scene, the unlucky male waiter was brought back to the police station together with the person involved, Xu Ying, and the red wine and glasses brought in for drinking were immediately tested.However, the results of the test came out quickly, and there was no poison in the red wine and wine glass, so the waiter was released immediately, which taught him a very profound lesson. The person involved, Xu Ying, kept crying in the interrogation room. After Liu Tianming saw this woman and the information she had just asked on the spot, her first reaction was a vase. In this real world, this kind of woman is either a lover who is adopted, or an emotion that specializes in cheating. Animals, because models basically don't know any skills except walking the stage.Therefore, after models retire at an age when they are not suitable for acting on stage, they cannot find a job, and they basically marry rich people and become full-time housewives.It is said that a magazine has done a survey in this area, and the model is the first, and the second is the flight attendant. Liu Tianming waited until Xu Ying was almost crying and her mood had stabilized, so she signaled the female criminal police next to her to start questioning. "What time did you meet the deceased Sun Lin's father?" "It was around five o'clock. I don't know. I drank coffee for a while at the appointed place. I remember checking the time. It was almost six o'clock." "Where were you before meeting Father Sun Lin?" "shopping." "What time do you start shopping?" "I've been shopping since I left home at three o'clock in the afternoon." "Then where did you go after you met Sun Lin's father?" "When I came out of the coffee shop, I went to a nearby restaurant. When I started eating, I played the news at 6:30. After eating, it was almost 8:00, and I drove to the hotel." "What happened after that?" Xu Ying was taken aback, and said, "Do you want to say this too?" The policewoman looked at Liu Tianming, and Liu Tianming nodded, but she was a little embarrassed. There are two reasons for the embarrassment. First, the content to be discussed below includes the plot of making love, and it is not a normal way of making love, it is passionate bundled.Secondly, the client's beauty exudes a strong femininity. The combination of the two makes Liu Tianming somewhat confused and embarrassed. Fortunately, he is not the one who is asking the question. As the saying goes, "People are not sages." Also men. This sexual plot reminded Liu Tianming of a certain movie plot, it seems that Stephen Chow's "Play Back to School" also has a plot of bondage sex.But the one who died was the man on the bed who was stabbed to death. The funniest thing is that the policeman played by Zhou Xingchi came and drank a cup of extracted semen as tea. This case is very strange. How could the cause of death of the deceased father Sun Lin be similar to another unrelated case?This is definitely not an ordinary robbery or revenge murder. Liu Tianming was wondering what the connection between these two cases was. The person involved, Xu Ying, told the truth about what happened from the meeting with Sun Lin's father in the afternoon to the hotel. Seeing Liu Tianming pondering, she timidly asked in a low voice: "Can you not publicize this matter? Don't let Does my husband know it's okay?" The entreaties of such a beautiful woman are really touching. Liu Tianming finally spoke from the side. He said harshly: "We will protect the privacy of the client, but we cannot guarantee whether your husband will know. However, you must guarantee Tell us all the details you know." Xu Ying nodded. She was afraid that her husband would know that she was having an affair outside. Women are like this. They really want to have an affair, but they are terrified when they find out.Moreover, her husband is a famous writer, much older and richer than her. Obviously, the woman is afraid of losing her current status and wealth. Although Ye Luo, Xu Ying's husband, was not required to be notified of this case, the wife of the deceased Sun Lin's father had to be notified and asked for relevant details. The deceased Sun Lin's father, the boss of a large company, broke up with his wife a few years ago. In recent years, he has fostered or hooked up with many women, including his company's secretary, flight attendant, agent, and model. Most of them used money. Get rid of her, she is a master at flirting with women, and Xu Ying is a new one she met recently. Xu Ying was taken away from the interrogation room, but Liu Tianming did not leave. He was still sitting, smoking, thinking and waiting for the family members of the deceased. At this time, Shen Xuemei was watching the local news at eight o'clock on TV, and her daughter was doing homework in the room. She was worried in her heart that there were so many homework for the child in school, and she always had to write until eight or nine o'clock. There was a housing dispute in the news, and then there was a report of a death in a hotel. Shen Xuemei felt that there were always deaths recently.She seems to be able to feel something when watching the news every day, or to sum up some rules. Ding dong!Ding dong!Someone was ringing the doorbell, and Shen Xuemei was stunned for a moment. Could it be that her husband, Father Sun Lin, didn't bring the key, and the person who rang the doorbell knocked a few more times. Shen Xuemei got up to open the door, and when she saw a policeman in uniform, she felt a certain feeling in her heart. "Hello, is this the home of Father Sun Lin? You are Father Sun Lin's wife, right?" Shen Xuemei nodded and replied: "Yes, please come in." Two policemen came in, looked around, and then said to Shen Xuemei: "Your husband has an accident, and we need you to go to the police station with us." "What happened?" Shen Xuemei asked instinctively. "Mom, why doesn't Dad come back for dinner on Saturday? He promised to buy me a bear!" The daughter ran out of the room, holding a toy puppy, and shouted.The girl was stunned again, because she saw the police uncle, she was a little timid, staring at the policeman's face. The policeman immediately smiled back, and the girl smiled back.The mother immediately dismissed her daughter, Sun Wenwen, and continued to ask, "What happened to my husband?" "Well, you go back with us and tell you on the way." Shen Xuemei nodded, feeling very depressed, she called her sister.Because her daughter Wenwen was alone at home, she was worried and asked her younger sister to come and take care of her. Before leaving, Shen Xuemei told her daughter: "If someone calls the door, ask who it is. If it's my aunt, open the door. Strangers don't open the door, remember?" The girl nodded, believing that her mother had told her so more than once. "Did something happen to Dad?" The girl suddenly asked. The mother's eyes fluctuated a little, but she responded in a very normal tone as much as possible: "Don't ask nonsense, kids, go watch TV, Mom will be back in a while." The girl ran to watch TV, and Shen Xuemei followed behind the policeman. The moment she closed the door, she felt a terrifying silence in her heart, just like the dim lights in the corridor outside, and the eerie chill hidden around. The light in the interrogation room was also dim, the air didn't flow very much, and she couldn't feel that she was breathing. From the time the police told her husband's death to now facing two criminal policemen, a man and a woman, Shen Xuemei had remained silent.Before the questioning started, Liu Tianming was muttering something to the female detective. Afterwards, the female criminal policeman asked, "Your name is Shen Xuemei? You have been married to Sun Lin's father for fifteen years?" Shen Xuemei nodded and made a weak "hmm" sound when asked about some routine information. After a while, Liu Tianming asked, "How is your relationship with your husband?" "No, we didn't get along a few years ago, but now we're like strangers." "Then do you know that your husband Sun Lin's father has a lover outside?" "Not sure, but I can feel it." Liu Tianming didn't ask any more questions, and spoke a few more words with the female criminal policeman. He looked at Shen Xuemei, but there was no sound around him.Shen Xuemei suddenly asked, "How did my husband die?" Liu Tianming's eyes froze for a moment, and he answered after a moment of composure: "Your husband died having an affair with his lover in a hotel. The specific cause of death is under investigation." Hearing this, Shen Xuemei didn't cry, but kept her head down and remained silent for a while.Then the interrogation ended, and Shen Xuemei was temporarily left in the criminal police team, so it cannot be called detention. Why did Liu Tianming stop asking questions?To a large extent, he didn't have the idea of ​​interrogation, and he couldn't figure out the case in his head, so there was no need to ask random questions.Liu Tianming needed to think about it. In addition, he was always hungry. It was past nine o'clock and he hadn't eaten dinner yet, so he continued to think while eating instant noodles. Later, he deliberately took Shen Xuemei to identify Xu Ying, and asked Shen Xuemei if she knew this woman. The purpose was to observe Shen Xuemei's expression, because people's expressions and eyes can best reveal psychological details.When Shen Xuemei saw the woman who had an affair with her husband, there was no hatred in her eyes or expression. She still shook her head calmly and told Liu Tianming that she had never seen her before. Never seen it before?Indeed it is. Afterwards, Liu Tianming sat in the office and smoked cigarettes one after another. The two seemingly unrelated murders had extremely similar and confusing ways of death, and the relatives of the two deceased had completely different reactions when they heard the news of the death. Xiaoyi was terrified and in a daze; Shen Xuemei was silent, neither noisy nor noisy, and she didn't show much sadness. "Blog post?" Liu Tianming thought of something even more bizarre - a blog post. Could it be that there really is a murderer who post a murder blog post before committing a murder, or a blog post that can predict the whole process of death. The subordinate who was sent to check the blog posts clearly told Liu Tianming: "There is such a blog post, and not one, but three serialized ones, and the third one appeared a few hours ago." After Liu Tianming finished reading the third killing blog post, he was stunned in front of the computer, staring at the screen with terrified eyes, as if there was a pyramid-like mystery hidden in those virtual words.