After hearing Ding Yang and Pan An’s exclamations, I immediately heard a dull crash, followed by a commotion, as if something had happened on the street!
Lin Yingxue and I didn't stop at all and rushed down the stairs. When we reached the seventh floor, I saw Ding Yang lying at the bottom of the stairs, Pan An falling on the stairs holding the handrail, and Senior Sister Shen Zhaohe standing at the top of the stairs. They were all staring at the glass window at the bottom of the stairs in shock, which had been shattered at some point. No one spoke, and even Pan An and Ding Yang on the ground didn't even think of getting up.
"Where's the teacher? What happened to you?"
Lin Yingxue discovered that among all the people present, only Teacher Lin was missing. She immediately ran downstairs while asking people around her. I grabbed her and stared at the steps under our feet for a long time. Finally, I found a thin line that was imperceptible to the naked eye on two or three steps behind Pan An.
Judging from the situation at the scene, Pan An and Ding Yang, who were lying on the ground, were most likely knocked down by the thin wire on the stairs. As for Teacher Lin, he may have fallen out along the broken glass in front and fell from the seventh floor.
Pan An and Ding Yang just reacted at this time. They all got up from the ground and rushed downstairs. Lin Yingxue and I walked around the thin wire on the ground to the broken glass. We looked down through the hole in the glass and found that there was a large crowd of people gathered below, including the police who had come before and were directing the situation. Although we couldn't see the specific situation clearly, we could figure out what was going on. Teacher Lin must have fallen out of the hole and died.
At this moment, I just felt my scalp tingling. I turned my head to look at the stairs behind me. The thin wire was across the fourth step from the top to the bottom of the stairs. That is to say, if no one saw the thin wire, it was very easy to be tripped by the thin wire without knowing it, and then roll down the stairs.
However, what scares me even more is that the person who put the thin wire on the stairs actually broke the glass at the bottom of the stairs without anyone noticing! In other words, if there is no glass blocking it, then the person who rolls down the stairs will fall directly through the hole in the glass and fall from the seventh floor!
You know, I didn't hear any sound of glass breaking before. It was obvious that the glass was broken in advance by the murderer, and this murderer was 100% the man wearing the evil ghost mask!
He had originally wanted to lead me to chase him, and then have me trip over the thin wire and fall down the building when I wasn't paying attention. But he didn't expect that I didn't chase him because I suspected he was Bai Qi. So he had been observing us secretly, and when he knew we were about to leave, he deliberately broke the elevator so that we had to take the stairs. In this way, we would fall into his trap no matter what. He was so vicious!
Thinking back now, I still feel cold sweats on my back. If I hadn't received a call from Bai Longfei at that time and mistakenly identified the man wearing the evil ghost mask as Bai Qi, I would have chased him all the way, and the person who fell out of the broken glass at this time would be me!
Afterwards, Ding Yang and Pan An told me that they would handle the matter here for the time being, so I took Lin Yingxue, who was about to faint from crying, back to the special case team dormitory and told Bai Longfei the whole story.
After hearing this, Bai Longfei had a solemn expression on his face, and he kept clenching and unclenching his fists. I don't know what he was thinking about at this moment. Lin Yingxue was sent back to her dormitory by me. She said she wanted to be quiet and didn't want us to disturb her.
"Brother Long, it was wrong of me to suspect that Uncle Bai wanted to kill me. If you have anything to blame, just tell me. I won't say anything."
Seeing that Bai Longfei didn't speak for a long time, I thought he was angry, and immediately said something a little nervous, but Bai Longfei waved his hand and said, "Why are you telling me this? In that situation, let alone you, even if it was me, I would not hesitate to link the masked man with my father. The old man's behavior is really abnormal. I have been thinking about whether the traitor in the special case team you mentioned is this masked man?"
Bai Longfei was not angry, and I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's impossible. You should have discovered from the last time we saw Qiongqi that this masked man is not in the same group as the God Organization."
"But if they were not a group of people, why would he want to kill you? I don't remember you offending anyone else that would make that person want to kill you."
As Bai Longfei was speaking, Ding Yang and Pan An came back. When I saw them come back, I immediately asked them how things were handled over there. They both told me what happened in a somewhat dejected manner.
When they were going down the stairs today, they didn't notice the rope under their feet at all. Since the two of them and Teacher Lin were walking in front, the three of them fell down almost at the same time. Pan An was walking on the handrail side of the stairs, so he grabbed the handrail in time and didn't roll down. But Teacher Lin and Ding Yang on the other side had nothing to leverage on, and they rolled down the stairs as they fell.
Because Ding Yang was young and had good skills, he managed to stop himself when he was about to roll out of the glass hole at the stairs. However, Teacher Lin was not so lucky. He rolled out of the glass hole and fell from the seventh floor.
When Ding Yang and Pan An went downstairs, they found that Teacher Lin had fallen to death on the spot. The police who arrived earlier also quickly handled the situation and brought the suspect and two bodies back to the police station. After Ding Yang explained what happened, he left the rest to the police.
When talking about this, Ding Yang and Pan An both felt very guilty. When they came in, they were looking around for Lin Yingxue. I think they don't dare to face Lin Yingxue at this moment. After all, they also have some responsibility for this incident.
I reached out and patted their shoulders and said, "Don't blame yourselves so much. Speaking of responsibility, I am the one who bears the greatest responsibility this time. If I had thought of this when I saw the elevator power outage, you wouldn't have been affected."
Bai Longfei said helplessly: "Now is not the time to pursue responsibility. We must catch the man wearing the evil ghost mask as soon as possible! He has already tried to attack Ji Wen twice. Although he failed both times, it can only be considered that Ji Wen is lucky. If there is a next time, it is hard to guarantee that there will be no trouble. Ji Wen, why don't you stay in the dormitory of the special case team during this period of time? I don't believe that the masked man is powerful enough to attack you inside the special case team!"
I shook my head and said, "I can't do this. Do I have to stay in the special case team like a turtle for the rest of my life? Besides, I'm no longer a member of the special case team, and I don't have the face to stay here any longer."
"Don't be like this. My dad might just be upset about something. He'll be fine after a while. Don't joke with your own life."
I smiled and said, "I'm not kidding about my life, am I? I'm telling the truth because I already have a way to deal with the masked man."
"What? Do you know who he is?" Bai Longfei and the other two asked me in unison after hearing this.
"Of course I don't know, but from these two situations, I can analyze some things. If my analysis is correct, then we can turn the passive situation into the active one!"
Thinking back on the two times I was ambushed by the masked man, the first time was in the newspaper building, and the second time was today in the hotel. Both times, the masked man was elusive and did not take the initiative to attack me. Instead, he set some small traps and waited for me to fall into the trap. His intention in doing so made me have extremely strong doubts.
The fact that he attacked me twice proves that he really wanted to kill me, and if I hadn't been extremely lucky these two times, the probability of me being killed by these two small traps would have been very high. But the strange thing is that although the traps he set were very lethal and well concealed, they were not 100% certain to kill me. Why is that
When I first experienced the trap, I thought he probably didn't want to kill me, so he set such a clumsy trap instead of doing it himself. But when the second trap appeared today, I seemed to understand a little bit what his intention was.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to kill me, but he doesn’t want to kill me so blatantly. He just wants me to look like I died in an accident so that he has nothing to do with my death and the police can’t trace his identity through my death. This is his concern!
So, this masked man is not as unscrupulous as the God Organization, but a person with a certain status. He cannot end up in jail for killing me.
I told everyone my analysis, and they were all confused. They asked me, "Although what you said makes sense, what exactly do you want to say? Do you want us to start from the clue of identity?"
"No, this clue doesn't lead to anything. What I want to say is that if we want to lure him out, we have to make him put aside his worries and kill me without hesitation, instead of using this clumsy trap to hurt me!"
Bai Longfei understood what I meant a little bit, and said solemnly: "But if you do this, won't you be in absolute danger?"
"Haha, the current situation is already like this. I don't care if it's a little more dangerous. As long as I can catch this masked man, I can safely deal with Qiongqi's plan. Brother Long, the two of us will go on a long journey tomorrow and stay in a remote village. In this way, the masked man will put aside all his worries and kill me personally!"