Chen Shi left the community, stopped every time he walked, using his finger to make a viewfinder and looking back to estimate that the character "ten" picked in midair was always in his field of vision.
The painting of the little monk is very clear, the window is in the shape of "Tian", and the word "Ten" occupies the upper left corner.
Xu Xiaodong sent a text message every few minutes, "Are you okay?"
After wandering for an hour, I didn’t know how many times I climbed in the middle of the building. Chen Shi suddenly found an old residential building in a tall building. It was about six stories high. Although it was old, it was painted with a new layer of paint, and it was pasted downstairs. Following the leasing notice, the rent was still cheap, and it seemed that it was rented out by others.
Chen Shi ran from the unit buildings one by one, and from the stairwell windows on the sixth floor of the fourth unit, one could clearly see the "ten" swaying in mid-air, and the position was very close to the one on the painting.
Chen Shi knocked on a tenant’s door and found that no one answered the door. In order to save some trouble, he looked around. There was no monitor here, so he removed two wires from the wire window, stuck it in the keyhole, and three times. The door opened.
This house has not been rented yet. The house has just been renovated. It smells of formaldehyde. The entrance is an aisle. Next to it is the bathroom and kitchen. The front is the bedroom. There is an empty bed frame inside. The balcony has been sealed. stand up.
Chen Shi looked through the window, and the "ten" character appeared perfectly in the upper left corner of the window. He was excited, but he did not forget that he was now trespassing into the house.
So he wiped his footprints clean with a napkin, walked out the door, and contacted the landlord.
After the landlord came up, he said, "Comrade police, what are you investigating? Will it affect our renting business?"
Chen Shi said, "It's an old case, and it won't hinder you... Ask, what was this building used to do?"
"Family Building!"
"Which unit's family building?"
"It used to be the family building of an automobile factory. Because of the dissatisfaction, the factory rented it out for some migrant workers. I am also an old employee of the automobile factory. No loss for a demolition fund!"
"You are quite business-minded, please, open this room and take a look."
The landlord is obviously a fearful person. After taking out the key, he said, "Comrade police, there will be no dead people in the house, right? I declare that although I am the landlord, the people living here have nothing to do with me. I am not responsible."
"Don't worry, I can carry it!"
Entering the door, Chen Shi took a picture of the cross on the window, sent a message to Xu Xiaodong to close the stall, and then said to the landlord: "Can I rent this house?"
"Oh, I see, stalk the bad guys, right?"
"Yes, yes, how long can I rent for the shortest time?"
"If you want to rent, you have to rent for a quarter."
"If one month does not work, we are not living. We will be vacated in less than a month. The police will definitely not cheat you."
The landlord was still hesitating. Chen Shi said, "I will pay half a month's rent."
"Well, just treat it as my support for your work." The landlord said with a smile.
Immediately transferred the account via WeChat and Chen Shi took the key. Later Xu Xiaodong rushed over. Xu Xiaodong looked around and said, "This is really the place? NB, Brother Chen, we have found the crime scene 13 years ago! "
"Don't be happy too early. Look at this wall and floor. I don't know how many renovations have been made. The evidence may be gone long ago."
Chen Shixin thought that he could call the little monk, on the one hand to identify, and on the other hand to revisit the old place, he might be able to recall something.
Chen Shi called to ask Lin Dongxue what he was doing. Lin Dongxue said, "There's still a while! I'll contact you in a while!"
Seeing that it was almost noon, Chen Shibian and Xu Xiaodong simply ate something, went to the guest house to call the little monk, and came back here again at three in the afternoon. As soon as he entered the door, the little monk looked at a loss, "The pattern is correct, but the environment like… "
"Thirteen years, the outside has been demolished and built, and the reference has long since changed."
The little monk checked around. When he touched a depression on the wall, he suddenly burst into tears and nodded desperately, "It's here! It's here! At that time, I saw my father being hurt by bad guys. I was terribly scared and grabbed a hand. A nail, subconsciously poke a small hole in the wall."
The depression is less than one meter above the ground, which is in line with the height of a child, but the location is relatively close to the door, and the bedroom cannot be seen from here.
Chen Shi asked: "Did you go forward?"
"Go, how else would I see the light on the window."
"Your father was already..."
"A lot of knives have been chopped off, and the glass, the ground, and the walls are full of his blood."
Chen Shi looked around the bedroom, imagining that on that dim night, a lunatic brutally murdered his father in front of the little monk. The whole room was blood-red, like hell, echoing with the laughter of the lunatic.
Chen Shi shook his head, "The amount of bleeding, your father was probably dead at the time, and the murderer was mutilating his body. Even if he didn't breathe, he couldn't talk to you. And there is a problem with what he said to you, why did he say "Chen Xuan, hide." He usually calls your full name? The layout of this room is clear at a glance. What's the point of hiding? In that environment, shouldn't it be asking you to run?"
"That's what I remember!" The little monk had tears in his eyes, as if he had been desecrated, and his volume suddenly increased.
"Where is your mother? What was it doing?"
"Be tied up by the bad guy and thrown on the bed, right there!" The little monk pointed to the wall on the left hand side.
"What does your father usually call you?"
"Xuan Xuan!"
"Where is your mother?"
"Chen..." The little monk suddenly looked up, "I'm pretty sure, that sentence was called by my father!"
Chen Shi shook his head again, "Is there any difference between this sentence, whether it is the mother's or the father's? Why do you insist on saying that it was the father's?"
"This is true!"
"I propose a more situational hypothesis! This sentence was said by your mother. She was not tied up at the time and she was still hiding in the bathroom. When you walk to the bathroom door, you can see the bedroom, and your mother can see you. The bad guy only cared about the corpse, and he turned against the light outside the window, and didn't notice that you came in. That's why your mother told you to hide."
"It's not like this! It's not like this!" The little monk desperately denied, "You have never experienced it, what do you know!?"
"Human memories are untenable. I agree with Lao Peng on this point, and people will subjectively modify memories in order to maintain their position or important people... When you came in, your mother was not controlled at all, she still Acting, she stood by and watched your father's death."
"You are talking nonsense! You are talking nonsense!" The little monk yelled, turned around and opened the door and ran away.
"Fuck, why are you so impulsive? Do you want to chase?" Xu Xiaodong asked.
"Let him calm down for a while, he is already an adult, he can't lose it." Chen Shi lowered his head and nodded a cigarette, and continued to examine the room.