Early the next morning, in Xiaofeng's apartment, a couple who got up early to go to work came to the elevator and pressed the button. When the elevator reached their floor and the door slowly opened, what appeared in front of them was actually …
A female corpse with a distorted face!
The police rushed to the scene to investigate and quickly determined that she had died of suffocation, and the strangle marks on her neck clearly indicated that it was murder.
Yuezhen was awakened in his sleep by a call from the criminal investigation captain Fang Huai.
"Mr. Duan? That's how it is. Your college classmate, Ms. Zhou Feng, was killed. We would like to ask you to assist us in our investigation..."
The rain also seemed to pour down with his sorrow.
The microphone fell to the floor in an instant, his eyes jumped out of the void, and he looked at the surrounding walls without brilliance. After a long time, he felt some warm liquid running down his cheeks. Holding the corner of the quilt tightly with both hands, my heart seemed to be torn apart in an instant. Although he had expected it to be like this, but when it really came, he still couldn't stand it. He clearly said that he would protect Xiaofeng...but in the end he did nothing.
"You said it was Room 401 across from your friend's apartment? Someone is watching you there?"
"Yes... Xiaofeng went to my friend's house yesterday, and in the opposite window, I saw a strange man looking at this side with a telescope. He is probably the prisoner... Yes, it must be him..."
"Understood, please sign this record, we will investigate, please rest assured, we will investigate more."
Yue really didn't know how much time he had left.
Xiaofeng's parents also knew him, and when he came to Xiaofeng's house to sort out the relics with them, they were also entertained. Her parents were already in tears, and their eyes were swollen like walnuts.
"Xiaofeng...how could she just die like this? She is so nice, obedient and sensible, how could she have been killed...why did this happen..."
Xiaofeng's mother's voice began to become hoarse at this moment, and her voice was trembling constantly. Holding a big red coat in her hand, she said intermittently: "This... This is Xiaofeng's favorite piece of clothing when he was alive... Now , she... she... she will never have the chance to wear..."
According to Yuezhen's confession, the police went to the apartment opposite Luo Guangming to Room 401, while some other police officers went to Luo Guangming to verify the situation.
The police obtained testimony from the administrator of Luo Guangming's apartment that Duan Yuezhen and Zhou Feng had indeed been there last night. However, after coming to his door and ringing the doorbell for a long time, no one came to open the door.
"The administrator said he never went out?"
"Strange..."
The police then knocked on the door and shouted, "Is it Luo Guangming? We are the police, please open the door!"
Even so, nothing happened, and the police began to feel that something was wrong. Because according to Duan Yuezhen's confession, if someone in the apartment opposite was really watching them with binoculars, then Luo Guangming might also be in some danger. So, I went downstairs and called the administrator up, and opened the door with the backup key.
The policemen poured into the room, continued to call Luo Guangming's name, and began to search around. At this time, a policeman suddenly ran out from the study and said, "Come here quickly!"
When they gathered at the door of the study room, they saw a person lying down in front of the window, his eyes had turned white, he was holding a telescope in one hand, and a kitchen knife in the other.
A policeman stepped forward to check, shook his head, and said, "It's hopeless."
After Duan Yuezhen sorted out Xiaofeng's belongings, he said to Xiaofeng's parents: "This red coat... why don't you give it to me, I think you will be very sad when you hold it, so just give it to me... Please..."
Seeing his sincere and painful expression, the two elders also shed tears. The pain of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man is really heartbreaking. Seeing how affectionate this young man is for his daughter, there is naturally no reason why he should not be fulfilled.
Just as Yue Zhen was about to take the clothes, his cell phone rang suddenly.
It was Captain Fang calling.
"Mr. Duan Yuezhen, why did you lie to us? Don't you know that giving perjury is against the law?"
Yuezhen's heart skipped a beat. He was indeed lying when he said that someone was watching them with a telescope, but could he tell the truth? Who would believe that the female ghost in the painting would come to reality
"Officer, I..."
"We have checked! Because the number 4 is taboo, when the apartment was built, it was supposed to be the 4th floor, but it was directly skipped and became the 5th floor, so there is no room 401 at all! Of course, you may not know That matter, but it was supposed to be on the 5th floor. We checked, and the house facing Mr. Luo Guangming only lived in a blind old man. Do you want to say that he used binoculars to spy on you? And we also asked him, he said that he lived alone all the time, and no one came to the house all year round... In addition, I want to tell you that your good friend Luo Guangming has died. When he died, he held Knives and binoculars... I said, have you got everything upside down?"
Yue was really shocked...
He remembered that Guangming had lived in that apartment for about three years. He hadn't paid attention to the windows of the apartment directly opposite his study either in the past. When he told himself that he used the binoculars to see the person hidden behind the curtain in the opposite room that had been unoccupied, he didn't think much about it.
But... why did Guangming lie to himself that no one lived there if there was actually a blind man living there? And he also said that he saw bookshelves and desks in the study room, all of which appeared just a few days ago.
No... Guangming didn't lie. What he saw was the fourth floor that didn't exist at all. The existence of the uninhabited room 401 in his mind was a false memory caused by the confusion of the female ghost.
So... what about Mr. Yi and Miss Ren? Could it be that the two of them are now also trapped in the fourth floor that does not exist at all
If this assumption is true, then everything Guangming sees with the telescope... is also the scene on that non-existent floor! And now Guangming is also killed...
He is left alone...
That female ghost will never let him go...
Originally, he still had a glimmer of hope and asked the police to go to Room 401 and find Mr. Yi and Miss Ren, so that he could seek the last chance of survival. But it's impossible now because he can't go into the non-existent 4th floor to find the two of them. Maybe they were dead or maybe. In short, he will have to face everything alone next.
Of course, he entered the police station again and was questioned.
"Well... Simply put, two of your friends, Luo Guangming and Zhou Feng, are dead, and you gave us false testimony, so we have to be suspicious of you. According to the confessions of some people in your internship unit , your behavior these days is also very strange. We hope you will tell the truth."
"You mean I killed them?"
"We just want you to assist the investigation as much as possible."
Yuezhen was simmering with fire in his chest at the moment, three people died in a row, one of them was someone he loved deeply, and he himself would face the desperate situation of death at any time, it was no longer possible for him to maintain his rationality.
"I didn't kill people! How could I kill Xiaofeng! You piggy policemen, you don't understand anything! Let me tell you, they were all killed by ghosts! Don't believe me? You don't want to kill me! Anyone! No!"
Duan Yuezhen was almost going crazy. If it wasn't for a few policemen who forcibly restrained him, he might really do something that he couldn't even imagine.
Looking at him getting more and more excited behind the double-sided mirror, both Fang Huai and deputy captain Zhao Ying felt that Duan Yuezhen must know something, but he was so excited right now that he couldn't ask anything.
"Has the cause of death been reported?"
"Well," Zhao Ying nodded and said, "Luo Guangming died of heart paralysis. It seems that there is no sign of homicide, but he was holding a knife when he died. Miserable, so it shouldn't be a simple natural death. As for Zhou Feng, she was strangled to death, and there were signs of incontinence on her body, which was obviously a homicide. It's just that I don't quite understand why I chose to start in the elevator. After all, at any time There might be someone coming to take the elevator."
"I also feel a little strange. And why did Duan Yuezhen tell such a lie that can be exposed immediately? It doesn't make sense at all... Do you want to arrange a psychiatric appraisal for him? He just said that the ghost killed the man, maybe he is not normal Right? Well, for now, temporarily detain him for a period of time, and then find as many people he knows as possible for questioning."
"This... His parents are outside and have already asked for bail. After all, there is no definite evidence yet..."
When he was released from the police station on bail, Yuezhen's parents asked him with concern what had happened recently, but he never said a word. Even for parents, telling them the truth is useless.
He deeply understood that supernatural things like supernatural powers were not accessible to a layman like him, and if he was a little careless, he would be lost forever. Now, not only himself, but even the three friends... Even if he regrets his intestines, it is useless.
yes, no use...
He didn't want to die, he didn't want to die no matter what.
At night, I huddled under the quilt alone, hugging the red coat tightly, unable to fall asleep no matter what. Even though the lights were on in the room, and I was listening to music with headphones, and even turned the volume to the loudest, it still couldn't dispel the fear. He knew that "she" would come to him, but... where would she come from