Qiu Zijia said: "We'd better not stay here, what if the killer finishes cooking the female teacher and then turns back!"
Mu Qin also knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time. He grabbed the corpse's arm and observed for a long time.
So Mu Qin was finally convinced that the slap just now was indeed the nervous reaction of the corpse, so he stood up and said to Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu: "The killer's footprints went to the courtyard behind, and while he was grabbing the female teacher, we Search over there at the chapel."
At this time, Cheng Guoxu uttered something rare, his tone trembling inexplicably: "Don't you care about that woman?"
Qiu Zijia anxiously said: "Fuck it! We can't protect ourselves, so we don't have time to care about others!"
It's cruel to do nothing but see death, but Qiu Zijia is very heartless in his words and deeds, and Mu Qin is not such a kind person.
When Mu Qin was serving in the army, he was trained by the instructors to be calm and calm, to see the situation clearly before acting. Even if his best companion was tortured and killed by the enemy in front of his eyes, he would wait calmly, weigh his own ability, and then think about whether he could save him. People must not lose their judgment on the situation because of impulse.
This teaching was regarded as the truth by Mu Qin, and Mu Qin has been implementing this truth after leaving the army.
So after thinking for a while, Mu Qin said: "The risk of saving Han Li is too great. We have no weapons, and you have no fighting ability except me. And... now it can be clearly deduced that the killer is Xu Fu, after all, the three of us They're all here, we haven't done any unnecessary things, the last person who didn't show up is dead now, Han Li was taken away, so only Xu Fu is left."
Speaking of Mu Qin, he also recalled: "Xu Fu's physique is the best among us. I predict that he is 1.89 meters tall and weighs about 85 kilograms. He may hold a gun with a length of about 30. A short knife of about one centimeter, with excellent response and strength."
"Xu Fu was a murderer before, and he has more experience in this game than us. He is definitely not weak psychologically, and will not be easily confused by words or traps. We have no chance of defeating him. Reckless saving will only Get us all in."
Mu Qin's analysis put a lot of pressure on Qiu Zijia. Qiu Zijia took a breath and said, "I knew it was the murderer. He looked fierce at first sight!"
Mu Qin didn't speak, he still frowned, always feeling that something was wrong.
If the killer is really Xu Fu, why did the other party deliberately separate from them in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to stay by their side all the time? Pretend to accompany them to find the key to the orphanage's gate, and then kill them one by one when they are exhausted, and ensure that the key to the exit can be held by themselves, so that the possibility of all fugitives' escape success will be reduced to lowest.
Mu Qin couldn't figure it out, so he decided to give up these complicated thinking for the time being, and adopt a flexible action mode. He led Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu towards the small church opposite the apartment building.
Now the rain was getting heavier, and the blood stains left by the deceased in the courtyard were quickly washed away by the rain. This storm came at a bad time.
Walking through the courtyard to the steps of the chapel, the clothes of Mu Qin and the others were completely soaked by the rain. The temperature in the orphanage was very low. Mu Qin felt that the outdoor temperature was only about ten degrees. Wearing a thin gray shirt and trousers, not only can't keep warm, but also because of being wet, the body temperature is lower.
The cold made Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu shiver endlessly. Mu Qin's cold tolerance is not bad. After all, he was a soldier. During his five years of service, Mu Qin once had the memory of training outdoors in sub-zero temperatures wearing only thin clothes.
However, looking at Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu who were frozen into a sieve, Mu Qin said: "Hurry up and enter the church, we can't get caught in the rain again."
After that, a few people hurriedly pushed open the door of the church... It was the mahogany door carved with snake-wrapped crosses and a combination of colorful diamond-shaped glass.
This door is very big and heavy. Luckily, it is not locked, and it can be opened slowly by pushing hard, but the bad thing is that the door also made a huge noise during the process of pushing the door. On a rainy night when the water splashes resounding, no matter what kind of noise it is, it can be easily covered by the sound of the rain hitting the ground.
Mu Qin just pushed the door open a small gap for one person to pass through, and then beckoned Qiu Zijia and others to go in one by one.
When they entered the small church located in the orphanage, Mu Qin and others began to observe the interior of the church.
Because it is only a small church, the interior space of the church is relatively small, but it also has an obvious imitation of Western style. There are rows of benches for believers to rest, and there is a small stage with a huge Jesus cross hanging on the background wall of the stage. The statue is also decorated with stained glass next to it.
There is a very huge and luxurious silver chandelier hanging on the ceiling, which is the kind of European-style candle chandelier, with a sharp inverted triangle-shaped load-bearing structure in the middle, surrounded by small lampstands like extended branches and leaves, on which candles can be placed . This kind of chandelier has a lifting function, and it is hung by an iron chain. The clergy can put down the chandelier, place a pure white candle on the lampstand, and after lighting it, raise the chandelier.
Before the electric light was invented in Europe, people basically used this kind of candle lamp. A candle was placed on a simple lamp stand. In order to prevent the flame from being blown out by the wind, a transparent cover was occasionally put on it. . More often than not, they don't even need a lampstand, it's enough to just put a candle on the table.
Of course, this is only the way of life of the poor. The extravagant and indulgent European nobles like to use sterling silver to create gorgeous and exquisite silver lampstands, and then put candles on them. They made the lighting tools as gorgeous as decorations, and then they felt that if they only put lights on the table, the room would not be bright and luxurious enough, so they made the lamp stand bigger and hung it on the ceiling with iron chains , This is also the origin of the candle chandelier.
Candle chandeliers in modern society basically only have the shape of a candle. In fact, the light bulb is made into a flame-like shape, and it looks good when hung at home.
However, Mu Qin found that the candle chandelier in this small church is a very traditional one that can only light candles. Although it is indeed exquisite and beautiful, it also adds a lot of inconvenience. The electric lamp can be instantly lit in the dark , however this traditional candle chandelier will not work.
Fortunately, there are other lighting lamps in the church, such as wall lamps. The wall lamps are serious electric lights, but it seems that many bulbs inside are broken. After Mu Qin fumbled for the switch, he only managed to turn on two. The whole chapel was extremely dark.
"It's too dark." Qiu Zijia wanted to search the small church, but the darkness blocked his exploration. When he tripped over the raised plank for the third time, he said to Mu Qin, "We Can't you think of a way to find a flashlight first?"
Mu Qin didn't answer, he walked to the stage of the chapel, there were crimson curtains on both sides of the stage, behind the curtains were some cabinets for storing tools, these cabinets were basically used to put Bibles, crosses and other prayers Props needed.
After the orphanage was abandoned, the contents of these broken cabinets were basically emptied. In one of the small cabinets, Mu Qin found a Bible that seemed to have been cut off in half by a sharp tool, and it was still stained with black stains. .
Mu Qin flipped through the half of the Bible casually under the dim light. The Bible was still in English, and the densely packed letters were arranged in front of Mu Qin. Mu Qin couldn't understand it, so he threw it away after turning two pages.
Then Mu Qin continued to look through the cabinets. In the last cabinet, Mu Qin finally found what he needed, a few yellowed candles of different lengths, a box of used matches, and two candlesticks. In this last cabinet.
"In this way, there will be a light." Mu Qin took out the candlestick, picked out a candle that looked good, and lit it with a match.
When Mu Qin saw the candle chandelier on the ceiling just now, he was thinking, since there are such ancient things in this chapel, correspondingly, candles and matches will naturally be prepared.
Soon, the small light source of the candle successfully lit up the area around Muqin, and Muqin took it to illuminate some dark places in the chapel.
The flame in Mu Qin's hand attracted Cheng Guoxu and Qiu Zijia. After the two said a few words, they also went to find a candle in the cabinet to light it. With the light source, the three began to explore in this small church. Small church, but there are many hidden mysteries, first of all... They noticed that the church has a second floor.
There is a second floor inside the church, but the stairs leading to the second floor have collapsed. For unknown reasons, there are only some faults left on the stairs, and the collapsed ruins are still piled up in the corner of the stairwell. If you want to go to the second floor, Mu Qin has to find chairs and other items to pile up and climb up, but this is too time-consuming and labor-intensive. Mu Qin and others thought about it and gave up this move.
"Come and see! There's a lot of blood here!" Afterwards, Qiu Zijia found a row of pews in the church that were severely damaged, which seemed to have been violently damaged by someone. Note the large amount of blood remaining on these planks.
Mu Qin walked over and took a look. The blood was still fresh, but it had slowly started to solidify. Immediately afterwards, Mu Qin found that the bloodstains extended all the way to the door of the church. Realizing something, Mu Qin said with a disturbed tone, "It seems that this is the first scene."
Qiu Zijia suddenly understood, and said in horror: "You mean, the dead man we saw just now was attacked here?"
"It should be like this. He was attacked here, and then fled through the door." Mu Qin said, holding the candlestick in his hand and walked to the door of the chapel. When they entered just now, they didn't notice it because the surroundings were too dark. The door was also stained with blood.
"I have a bad feeling, I think we should get out of here as soon as possible?" Qiu Zijia saw that there was so much blood on the door, and couldn't help but start to tremble.
Mu Qin said: "Don't worry, this is a good opportunity, we should search here as soon as possible while the killer can't come for a while."
Qiu Zijia said: "But the killer cooking female teacher shouldn't take long, what if she comes back later?"
"He doesn't necessarily know we're here." Mu Qin glanced out through the glass window next to him, and judged, "It's still raining heavily outside, and the sound of the rain and the rain will eliminate our traces, which will make the killer lose Judgment, but also give us more time to explore."
Chapter 7 Iris Flower 07┃The body parts from head to toe have been replaced and become another person.
That is to say, but as long as they think that the terrible killer may return to this church anytime and anywhere, several people can't help speeding up the pace of searching this small church. They rummaged through the chairs or corners of the church one by one, hoping What valuable clues can be obtained.
Mu Qin walked to the stage of the church, which is a small stage, usually used by the clergy to speak on the stage, and occasionally some nuns singing group will be invited to stand on it to sing carols, so this stage On it was a musical instrument—a piano.
Almost everything of value in the abandoned orphanage has been removed, but this obviously valuable piano is still here as if it has been forgotten, it is pitch black and has been painted with a layer of gloss His body was covered with a thick layer of dust. Mu Qin approached it and touched the piano cover with his fingers, leaving clear five-fingerprints on it.
Then Mu Qin opened the piano cover. Under the cover are black and white keys. With the protection of the piano cover, they are well protected. Mu Qin chose the lowest key and pressed it lightly. short sound.
Although it was a very low and short note, the sudden sound of the piano still startled Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu who were searching for other locations. Interested in playing the piano!"
Mu Qin turned a deaf ear to Qiu Zijia's warning, he still looked at the piano with some fascination, because this piano aroused some memories of Mu Qin.
After the death of his adoptive parents, Mu Qin basically lived alone. He lived in an 80-square-meter house left by his adoptive parents, although this house was later occupied by an unscrupulous old uncle and sold to others , but Mu Qin still remembers a beautiful piano in that house, in the study of his adoptive parents.
Mu Qin has no musical talent. He was actually a naughty kid when he was a child. He was full of energy and liked to play everywhere. He caught birds, climbed trees and rolled out of mud. He didn’t have the mood to sit down and study quietly, let alone learning music, which requires patience. matter.
Therefore, the adoptive parents did not force Mu Qin to learn any special skills. During the years they were alive, they gave Mu Qin a very happy childhood and made him grow up carefree. Appreciate their upbringing.
Different from Mu Qin, both adoptive parents are talented in music, especially Mu Qin's adoptive father, it is said that he once won a piano performance award in a certain world-class competition, and the trophy he got was placed in the study at that time on the bookcase.
It’s just that Mu Qin was young at that time, and he didn’t have much idea of the so-called competitions or awards. He didn’t understand what it was. He just thought his adoptive father played the piano very well. Will get into the study, obediently lie on the lap of the adoptive father and listen to him play the piano.
Thanks to his adoptive father, when Mu Qin grew up, he had a very good impression of those who played the piano. Perhaps it was the cultivation and depth of his adoptive parents...Mu Qin left a deep and indelible impression through music, so every time Hearing piano music, Mu Qin will be deeply attracted by it.
Muchin's first love was met through music.
At that time, he was still a high school student, studying in a key high school in the city. His adoptive parents had long since passed away, and Mu Qin's custody was entrusted to his old uncle, who had nothing wrong with him except that he liked to gamble. .
Although the old uncle has always emphasized that he will not gamble big money and just play casually with dozens or hundreds of dollars, it is obvious that this is a bottomless pit. Soon the old uncle's property was ruined by himself, and his wife and son left one by one. He, when he got Mu Qin's custody rights and the property of Mu Qin's adoptive parents, he still couldn't get rid of this bad habit. He was reluctant to let the property of his adoptive parents be squandered like this.
But Mu Qin is only a minor child. Apart from spending money on gambling, the old uncle did not treat Mu Qin badly in life, or beat and scolded him. It is really not easy to get rid of Mu Qin. There is no other way. Qin can only study hard, thinking of being admitted to a good university farther away, away from this unscrupulous old man.
Mu Qin, who studied hard, started evening self-study since the first year of high school. At that time, the school did not mandate that the evening self-study was not mandatory for senior one students, but they all started from the second year of high school. The students in the school mingled and played with them, and studied with them at night. Mu Qin sat in the corner of the classroom, holding a pile of papers and writing hard.
When the other students were secretly talking small things, passing notes, playing with mobile phones, and other kinds of games in the evening self-study class, only Mu Qin did his homework honestly.
At that time, there was a music room next to the study room of the second-year high school students, and there was a piano in it.
The music specialty students in the school will go to the music room to practice every night during the evening self-study class. Therefore, Mu Qin wrote his papers and homework every night while listening to the beautiful music played by the piano in the music room next door.
As time passed, Mu Qin gradually discovered that the piano player in the music room next door seemed to be getting better and better. It was Mu Qin who was attracted by music and finally couldn't help it one day. He wanted to go to the music room to see who was playing the piano in it.
Mu Qin quickly took action. Taking advantage of the ten-minute break in the self-study room, Mu Qin went to the music room next to him. The door of the music room was closed. Mu Qin didn't dare to push it, so he stood by the window and walked in. took a look.
Then Mu Qin saw his first love, a tall and thin boy.
That's right, boy.
Mu Qin was not sure whether he was gay until he became an adult. Before his first love, he never had any affection for anyone, regardless of gender. But the first person he fell in love with was indeed a boy, and his name was Zhou Yue.
Zhou Yue and Mu Qin are both freshmen in high school, but they are not in the same class. Mu Qin is only in the ordinary class, and Zhou Yue is in the key class. It is said that Zhou Yue’s family is very rich. He is a high-achieving student trained under elite education. He not only has excellent grades in other aspects, but also has a very high quality of music. He has been learning piano since he was a few years old. He has won countless awards since he was a child. Quite a few, it can be called a genius level figure.
The school is very concerned about accepting such students, so as soon as Zhou Yue entered school, he immediately attracted a lot of attention. The principal, director, and teachers of various subjects took good care of him. In addition, Zhou Yue has good academic performance, and he is good-looking. A gentle, handsome, gentle boy, according to some youth campus novels, Zhou Yue is like a glamorous prince on campus.
Mu Qin should have been unable to climb up to such a "Prince Lord", and he never thought about being high up, he was just obsessed with the posture of that person sitting in front of the piano and playing attentively, and would go to the window of the music room every night for self-study Over time, Zhou Yue found out about Mu Qin's existence secretly. Zhou Yue opened the door of the music room and invited Mu Qin in.
Mu Qin still remembered that after he entered the music room, the first thing Zhou Yue said to him was: "Why are you standing there peeking at me?"
Mu Qin was blushed by his question, hesitated for a long time, and then told the truth to Zhou Yue: "The piece you have been practicing is my father's favorite piano piece when he was alive. When I saw you playing the piano, I would... Miss my dad."
Mu Qin has always missed his adoptive parents. For him, the adoptive parents are the guides in his life. Although they are not Mu Qin's biological parents, they have given Mu Qin almost everything.
Mu Qin's answer seemed to surprise the young man in front of the piano. The other party didn't mind Mu Qin's faux pas for peeping all the time. Instead, he talked with Mu Qin and told Mu Qin that if he wanted to hear him play the piano in the future, he could go in directly. Watching from the outside.
Then, Mu Qin and Zhou Yue became friends, secret friends as a matter of course. At that time, few people in the school knew about the relationship between Mu Qin and Zhou Yue, and no one would associate the "Prince" who was the focus of attention in the college with such an ordinary and low-key student as Mu Qin.
But they had a good relationship at that time. Mu Qin would often go to the music room to talk to Zhou Yue during the evening self-study time. They talked about everything, and Zhou Yue would teach Mu Qin how to play the piano. The feeling of his fingers resting on his palm.
It's like an ugly duckling being pitied by a noble and beautiful swan.
They even had a relationship later on, the kind of relationship that intimate lovers have. Mu Qin couldn't remember the occasion of the relationship, but one day, they sat together on the seat in front of the piano in the music room, and Mu Qin watched Zhou Yue play the piano as usual. After playing, Zhou Yue lowered his head and looked at Mu Qin, Mu Qin also looked into the other person's eyes. He saw Zhou Yue's night-like eyes imprinted with his own face. He couldn't help approaching the other person, wanting to see more clearly, but unexpectedly, Zhou Yue went straight to him. Come over and kiss Mu Qin's lips.
After one kiss, they are no longer friends, but lovers.
That was Mu Qin's first love, a first love that was doomed to be fruitless. This love was not discovered by others, and was not hindered by teachers, parents, or other classmates. ...and never heard from again.
Because Mu Qin has no money to go to college, even though his excellent grades allow him to go to the same prestigious university as Zhou Yue, if he tells Zhou Yue about his situation, maybe Zhou Yue will find a way to support him, After all, Zhou Yue's family is well-off, and Zhou Yue has always liked Mu Qin very much. Zhou Yue is a very good communicator, and he will tell Mu Qin what he thinks without reservation, and tell Mu Qin that he cares about him.
But in the end Mu Qin gave up this idea and chose to serve in the army.
In addition to some self-esteem problems, the main reason is that Mu Qin knew that there would be no result between himself and Zhou Yue.
They are not people from the same world. Zhou Yue has background, status and ability, and he is destined to rise to the top. But Mu Qin has nothing, so maybe he will hold Zhou Yue back, put a gay hat on him, bring him Come all kinds of ridicule and criticism.
So, in the end, I left without saying goodbye.
Thinking of this, Mu Qin sighed slightly, and closed the dusty piano cover in front of him.
In the final analysis, it is also because Mu Qin is very timid. From the very beginning, Mu Qin had the worst intentions to associate with that person, and never dared to expect the possibility of a happy ending, so he finally chose to give up.
It was many years ago. Not only did Mu Qin serve in the military for five years, but he also worked for four or five years after he came out. Now that he is 28 years old, he is no longer the stunned young man who would be addicted to young love. He has matured too much, as if his body parts have been replaced from head to toe, and he has become another person.