After hanging up the phone, we also came to the activity center that Wu Xiufen had not completed. After stopping the car, the three got out of the car, but did not turn off the headlights. Under the illumination of the headlights, a wall appeared in front of us. There are overgrown weeds beside the wall, the tallest one is almost one meter high, which means that no one has been here for a long time.
The village chief looked at the activity center with only one wall, and then said, "This is it, but what's the use of you coming here. The murderer who captured the girl couldn't hide her in this three-sided ventilation place." Bar."
This wall has only been repaired to a height of about 1.5 meters, and the length is about ten meters. There are still red bricks exposed at one end, which looks a bit uneven. I supported it with my hands and climbed up to the top of the wall. Standing on this low wall of 5 meters, I looked around. The activity center is located in the northwest corner of the village, from here it is the back mountain.
And standing here, looking up the mountain, you can still see the light of the flashlight shining in the woods in the mountain from time to time. I looked at the ground, and among the weeds, I could vaguely see a road paved with red bricks. This road is about two meters wide, winding straight to the distance.
I jumped off the only wall that was repaired in the activity center, and walked along the road paved with red bricks. Half-person-high weeds grew out of the gaps in the red bricks, completely covering the red brick road. If it wasn't for the light from the car, I probably wouldn't be able to see it so clearly.
And this road extends all the way to the foot of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the red brick road disappeared without end.
Gu Chen randomly chopped off the weeds on the red bricks with the flashlight stick in his hand, while looking around. The spot of the flashlight seemed to be running around like a naughty kitten. Gu Chen looked at the red brick road that disappeared at the foot of the mountain, and said, "This is the first time I have seen a road built inside a house. If the walls around this activity center are repaired, then this red brick road will Is it inside the building?"
After hearing Gu Chen's words, I closed my eyes. In my mind, all kinds of clues slowly assembled into a complete picture like pieces of a puzzle. The location of the line gradually became clear in my mind, but I also understood that this speed was still not fast enough.
"The construction of the activity center is fake." I looked at Gu Chen who was still wandering around, then looked at the village head and said, "Wu Xiufen never wanted to build an activity center at all. From the very beginning, Wu Xiufen thought of creating some troubles during the construction of the activity center."
The village chief scratched his head and said, "But there is a problem here. If this Wu Xiufen doesn't want to build an activity center for us, why is she working so hard? You know, she didn't lose a penny to others. .Could it be that there is too much money to burn? And at the beginning, they paid the villagers to help, fifty fifty a day. But then it was changed to twenty, and finally the project was yellow, so the money was not paid at all.”
I shook my head and said, "Xingdong Village is only this big. If someone wants to build something, it must be impossible to avoid other people's eyes and ears. I don't know if you have heard a story?"
"What story?" The two asked in unison.
I said: "An old man likes to be quiet, but there are always a group of noisy children playing in front of his house. So, on the first day, the old man gave each of the children ten candies and told them Children, he likes the excitement of children playing in front of his house, and tells them that there will be candies tomorrow."
Both of them looked at me suspiciously, as if they didn't understand what the story I told had anything to do with this brick road.
I cleared my throat and continued: "The children were very happy on the first day, so they came here to play happily on the second day. And this old man is also very trustworthy in giving candies to the children, but this time only I gave them five each. The children were a little upset, but they still accepted it."
"I think you can guess the direction of the next story." I continued: "On the third day, the old man only gave the children a piece of candy. So these children became angry and declared that they would never again Come to the old man to play."
The village head said: "Well, this is similar to Wu Xiufen's salary for the villagers."
I snapped my fingers and said: "The old man wants to be quiet, but at the beginning, he didn't directly tell these children that he likes to be quiet, but told them that he likes to be lively. Because the old man understands that sometimes he wants to be quiet." Let others do one thing, maybe the opposite effect is better."
I pulled a piece of grass on the ground casually, and then said: "The old man and Wu Xiufen both use the psychology of wanting to suppress first, and Wu Xiufen is very good. Because human beings are born with a rebellious psychology, you just don't let him do anything. , he will do something. So you have to pretend that you like the things you hate, so that others will naturally follow the way you like."
The village head nodded, and then suddenly realized: "Yes, Wu Xiufen stopped helping the villagers, and the villagers never came, so she took care of it alone. After a few days, Then the workers were dismissed. Many villagers were secretly laughing, saying that this Wu Xiufen has too bad a heart, and she deserves retribution."
Speaking of this, the village head suddenly smiled, that kind of helpless smile: "So sometimes I am also quite surprised that Wu Xiufen originally built this activity center for everyone, but in the end it turned out to be a thankless job. Things. Thinking about it now, either Wu Xiufen is too stupid, or Wu Xiufen is too smart."
I shook my head, this kind of thing, I hear too much in my life. Famous artists help build roads in their hometown, but they are accused by the villagers of paying too little and the repaired roads are not strong. In fact, sometimes when you think about it, it is not difficult to be a villain, but it is very difficult to be a good person.
A good person has to do good deeds all his life to become a Buddha, but in the face of a bad person, we can become a Buddha immediately by saying "put down the butcher's knife". It can be seen that choosing to be a good person is a difficult mode of living in this world.
But Wu Xiufen seems to have studied thick black science deeply, otherwise, ordinary people would not think of this.
I said, "As I said before, it is impossible to hide so many red bricks and cement from people's eyes, so why don't you just ship them in openly. Wait until you have an antagonism with the villagers, and wait until the workers are dismissed." , leaving Wu Xiufen to do whatever she wants."
"But it's still the same sentence." Gu Chen said, "What does Wu Xiufen want to do?"
I said: "It is used to build a place where the murderer can hide. The murderer is in his twenties. Five or six years ago, the murderer was fifteen or sixteen years old. It was the time when he formed his own three views and had the ability to survive. Perhaps from that By then, the murderer had already started looking for these people."
At this moment, my cell phone rang, and it was Sister Mary calling.
"Wu Meng, we have a clue." Sister Mary said straight to the point.
I was overjoyed and asked, "What clue?"
"The IP that posted the post on the Internet has been found." Sister Mary said: "The murderer has been posting stories on the Internet, but his IP has been encrypted, and the IP is displayed overseas. I have been cracking since the first story, Until just now, I finally found this IP address! And this IP address, you are very familiar with."
Before Miss Mary could speak, I said, "Isn't Xingdong Village?"
Mary said, "You already know?"
I looked at my watch, and it was ten minutes before the murderer contacted us for the second time.
"That's right. During this day in Xingdong Village, I understood a lot of things." I said quickly: "Now, it's time to collect the net. Have you spliced the bowls together? The murderer asked There is no trace of splicing, and it cannot be seen as a broken bowl."
"No problem." Sister Mary said with a smile: "It's a matter of life and death. Don't dare to neglect it. I immediately found the best porcelain restoration expert. They usually restore antiques. These bowls are handed over to him. It's easy, don't worry."
Sister Mary continued: "Although you know that the IP address is in Xingdong Village, do you know whose ID card was used to register?"
I was silent for a moment, and then I said, "Let me guess, Wu Xiufen?"
"You know all of this?" Sister Mary said.
I said, "It's really Wu Xiufen?"
"That's right." Mary said.
Gu Chen said from the side: "You can guess this, but why is it Wu Xiufen? What is the relationship between this Wu Xiufen and the murderer, why does she help the murderer to do so many things?"
I said, "Do you remember the USB-to-COM cable? I think this is why the murderer can access the Internet. The murderer usually lives in Xingdong Village. Every time he finished posting, he would travel from Xingdong Village to Dongxing City. Go kill people. After killing people, the murderer will return to Xingdong Village, waiting for the next post and kill."
"But!" I changed the subject: "The murderer must not show his face in Xingdong Village. If an outsider comes to this small village, he will definitely be noticed. Therefore, there must be someone to provide for the murderer who lives in Xingdong Village. Food and drinking water. And Wu Xiufen never visits the house, and never lets others come to her home, why?"
"Why?" Gu Chen and the village head said.
I said: "Because Wu Xiufen wants to cover up the murderer, she can't let others see the murderer. Moreover, we all know that the murderer is proficient in psychology. I think the murderer may have taught Wu Xiufen the trick of suppressing desires. Knowing that he couldn't live in Wu Xiufen's house forever, it was too dangerous, so he rebuilt a place in Xingdong Village that no one knew about, and lived there."
The village chief shook his head and said, "But, I don't even know what I don't know about Xingdong Village."
What Zhao Mingkun once told me appeared in my mind, and at this moment, they are all linked together.