One night passed in a hurry, and as usual, Chester ate a bunch of fast food, and then fell asleep under the influence of alcohol. When he opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning.
After looking at the time on his phone, Chester was so excited that he didn't even have time to wash his face. He grabbed his work clothes and rushed towards the door of his house.
It's only ten minutes until work time.
Riding in his tattered pickup truck, Chester rushed to the construction site, only to find that the construction site was full of police cars, blocking this important traffic thoroughfare.
After getting off the car, Chester immediately walked towards his post, but when he reached the police car, he was stopped. The police officer in charge of the interception signaled him to stop.
"Hey, man, didn't you see that our police are handling a case here? If you want to go there, it seems you have to take a detour."
The policeman stopped Chester and reminded him.
"Man, what's going on in there?"
Chester asked immediately, constantly looking inside.
"This matter has nothing to do with you, please go around."
The police didn't explain and kept urging.
Chester agreed, but still couldn't help but poke his head and look around, but suddenly saw the foreman who was usually responsible for managing him not far away, busy around, following a man in a suit, explaining something. At the same time, there was a flattering look on his face.
Although it was the first time for Chester to meet that man, he already knew from the employee roster that this man was the person in charge of dozens of nearby warehouses.
This person's position is probably in the position of manager, and above that, he is the general manager of the entire Los Angeles warehouse area, but these positions are really out of reach for Chester.
However, these thoughts only flashed through my mind, because there were more interesting things happening in front of me - three or four police cars blocked this passage, and at the gate of a warehouse that was unloaded by Chester himself just yesterday Outside, it was surrounded by a large number of yellow warning tapes, with only a few police officers carrying cameras in charge of inspecting the scene coming in and out.
Seeing this scene, Chester immediately understood something. He looked at his sweating foreman with gloating, and maliciously wondered what went wrong with him.
But at this moment, the foreman suddenly turned his head and saw Chester. Chester only saw his eyes light up, and then he waved his hand quickly, "Hey, Chester, come here quickly. Why are you still standing there?"
Chester reluctantly pointed to the foreman at the policeman, and the policeman understood and stepped aside.
Chester felt a little guilty in his heart. He passed through the defense line of the police car and walked towards the foreman. When he reached the other party, he just opened his mouth and the foreman couldn't wait to ask, "Chester, you seemed to be... You’re the last one to leave, did you see Leon before you left?”
"Leon?"
Chester was stunned for a moment, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: Could it be that this great battle is actually related to Leon
Thinking of this, he felt faintly guilty for some reason, like a child who had done something wrong, so he quickly responded, "I didn't see it. It was already half past six when I unloaded the last batch of goods. Leon should have been in the warehouse at that time. Inside, I didn’t see him.”
"Are you telling the truth?"
At this moment, the man in a suit and tie beside him suddenly spoke and asked in a questioning tone, "Did you really not see Leon before you left last night?"
Chester shook his head quickly and looked at the other party blankly.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce you, this is Mr. Connor, the leader of our team."
The foreman quickly explained, "Chester, if you have any clues, you must tell them. Do you understand?"
"clear."
Chester nodded, and then asked awkwardly, "But what happened to Leon? Could it be that he..."
"Leon is dead."
Before asking, the foreman said with some regret, "Joseph discovered it this morning. He found that the goods in Warehouse No. 9 had not moved all night, so he ran in to look for Leon, but found that Leon was dead..."
"How did you die?"
Chester's heart sank and he asked a little heavily.
"You don't have to worry about this."
Before the foreman could answer, Connor spoke first, stopped the conversation between the two, and then looked at the foreman, "I'll leave it to you first. The police said that Warehouse No. 9 needs to be temporarily closed. In that case, you can Ask everyone to avoid this warehouse and go to work in other warehouses. When Joseph comes back from completing the notes, let him start work immediately."
"clear."
replied the foreman.
Then Connor glanced at Chester again. Chester quickly lowered his head, and immediately turned around when he saw the other person, completely leaving the scene.
"Huh..."
Until the person in charge left completely, Chester saw the foreman secretly heaving a sigh of relief. Then the foreman waved his hand and told Chester, "You also heard what Mr. Connor said, the next goods in Warehouse No. 9 Stay still for now, you go to work in Warehouse No. 12."
"good."
Chester agreed and left.
When he climbed onto the crane in Warehouse No. 12, his mind was still groggy. Maybe it was because he didn't sleep well last night, or because of the news about Leon's death in the morning. In short, Chester's day's work They were all a little confused, and they were just mechanically unloading the goods from trucks.
The day's work was not a leisurely one. Chester only took an hour's break during lunch, and then worked all day long. When the last truck cleared all the goods and left, it was evening again before he knew it.
Chester had long been accustomed to this kind of busyness. He finished his work with his head free. When he climbed down from the crane, he discovered that there were no police outside Warehouse No. 9 in front of the road at some point. The warehouse door was locked. A few remaining yellow caution tapes still surround the warehouse door.
Apparently, after a day of investigation, the police officers were off duty.
Chester shrugged, and he also walked towards where he parked his car, but when he walked to the door of Warehouse No. 9, something suddenly moved in his heart.
He has the key to Warehouse No. 9.
At this moment, Chester suddenly felt a little short of breath. He didn't know why he was so excited. Maybe it was the adventurous instinct that had been suppressed in his bones for too long
His life has been repeated for so long that he has even become accustomed to it. However, when an opportunity for exploration and adventure is presented to him, he discovers how fascinating and fascinating this opportunity is to him. lure…
Now that the police have gone off duty, and almost all other workers have also gone off duty, no one will know that they have been to the crime scene. Besides, what's the harm if I just went in to take a look and see what happened
Chester took a deep breath, and he felt as if the blood all over his body was boiling. When was the last time he felt this way? I'm afraid it's still when I was young, right? Time has smoothed his mind and everything, and now, he is resurrected!
It seemed that he had gone through thousands of struggles in his heart. In short, when Chester came back to his senses, he was already standing in front of the door of Warehouse No. 9 by mistake. Then he touched his pocket, and in his pocket was the key to Warehouse No. 9. .
"Just take a look, just take a look..."
Chester comforted himself in a low voice. Then he no longer hesitated and stepped across the obstructive isolation belt. Then he took out the key and inserted it into the employee entrance door next to the door of warehouse nine.
Click!
With a crisp sound, the employee entrance door suddenly opened, revealing the dark space inside.
A familiar damp musty smell hit me.
Chester was very familiar with this smell. He looked at the sky and saw that only half of the sun in the west was exposed on the mountain. It was obviously very late. In this case, Chester planned to Just look inside and leave without taking too long.
Thinking of this, Chester walked into the already very dark warehouse and looked along the rows of goods on both sides.
In the dimness, the rows of goods are like shadows in the darkness of night, like a dream. Only when the setting sun shines through the few windows in the warehouse and hits a certain piece of goods will it form a special glow. light.
The interlacing of light and dark creates a special mysterious atmosphere, which makes Chester feel more adventurous.
Click, click, click...
Chester walked step by step, his footsteps echoing in the silent warehouse, but he still didn't see anything until he walked more than half of the warehouse.
There is definitely no body of Leon, but there should be something left at the scene of the body, such as... the outline of the body's posture when it died, and the yellow cards marked next to various suspicious signs, etc.
Did you make a mistake
Chester looked puzzled. He thought about it and suddenly heard the sound of the place where he was asked to go before he got off work last night. It was a corner of the warehouse. There were a lot of steel columns placed there. Could it be said that Lai Where did Ang die
Thinking of this, Chester immediately stopped, turned around, and walked towards the fork divided by the cargo next to him.
This time, Chester finally guessed it right. He found what he was looking for not far from where the two of them stood yesterday—an outline of a corpse outlined with white lines, and three people nearby who were responsible for indicating the location. Yellow signboard.
This is where Chester died.
When he saw all this, Chester took another deep breath and suppressed the pounding heartbeat in his heart. He took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight mode so that he could see all the details on the ground as clearly as possible.
Following the light of the mobile phone, Chester showed a confused look, because from his position, the white outline on the ground did look like Leon's figure. It was obvious that Leon was lying on the ground when he died, and his limbs were Stretching straight and straight, the posture of the whole person lying on the ground is like the shape of the letter "A".
But the only thing that feels weird is that the neck of this white humanoid silhouette seems to be surprisingly long...
Just like a primary school student who can't draw a simple sketch, the outline of the figure composed of white lines is very coordinated, whether it is the arms or the legs, but when it reaches the shoulders, it becomes a little weird - from the shoulders of the figure outline, there is actually a The neck is much longer than ordinary people, and the neck is slightly curved, just like a duck's neck, which is very uncoordinated.
Chester was a little confused. He dared to swear on his mother that Leon definitely did not have such a long neck. If the other person's neck was really that long, he would have applied for the Guinness World Record a long time ago and would not compete with him. Just do this kind of job from 5 to 9.
So, did the policeman in charge of drawing the line make a mistake due to shaking hands, or was the deceased not Leon but someone else
Chester scratched his head and thought with some uncertainty.
But just as he was scratching his head with the hand holding the mobile phone, the light from the mobile phone suddenly shone into the corner of a pile of goods nearby. In that corner, a figure flashed past!
"!"
Chester suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly stabilized his cell phone and looked into the corner. When he saw clearly what the figure was, he breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out to be a false alarm...
The figure that flashed past was none other than a statue of an angel.
The material of this statue seems to be carved from marble, and it shows a lifelike image of an angel. It has soft curly hair, the hairstyle is close to the head, and there is a hairband on the top of the head.
The arms and fingers of the statue are carved very lifelike and rounded, and the body is dressed in the usual pleated tulle clothing of angels. The most eye-catching thing is the pair of wings that are folded as soft as feathers...
The only regret is that the angel's hands covered her face tightly, making it difficult to see her holy eyes and face.
Walking to the statue, Chester patted his chest and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh… "
But suddenly, an idea flashed in Chester's mind, and he vaguely remembered that when he met the other party yesterday, this Leon seemed to be observing a relief? And on that relief, there seemed to be a few angels covering their eyes
Thinking of this, Chester immediately turned around and walked towards the depths of the warehouse according to yesterday's memory. He wanted to find yesterday's mural painted on the steel column again.
Soon, he arrived at the location where Leon took him to yesterday.
There are steel pillars placed everywhere here. Dozens of them are stacked on top of each other, taking up all the sight. Chester raised his head and looked at one of the steel pillars -
Sure enough, on this steel pillar, there were three angels covering their eyes, standing or squatting. They were exactly the same as the sculpture he had seen before, both in style and shape.
etc…
Chester, who was about to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly paused. He frowned and felt something was wrong, because in his memory, there should be four angels on the mural, two of them squatting on the ground, and the other Two are standing.
But now, there are only two squatting angels and one standing angel.
Is there an error in my memory
Chester turned his head with some confusion and looked in the direction he came from. At this time, the sky was getting darker and darker, and there was only darkness on the road he came from.
However, the reason why Chester looked there was not because of the darkness, but because he suddenly had an inexplicable idea. Could it be that the angel sculpture he saw just now was the one missing from the previous mural?
The angel on the mural ran out