Chapter 2221 Love Trapped in the Cycle of Fate 19
The 8th floor looks even more dilapidated.
It seemed that large-scale destruction had occurred here. The walls, light tubes and safety facilities visible to the naked eye in the corridors and hallways were destroyed beyond repair.
As time goes by, it becomes shocking.
Xu Yi looked down the corridor a few times and was surprised. "I haven't come up to see it yet. How come it's so rotten?"
"Tenko, look here."
Shao Huai was not careless at the critical moment. His sharp eyes found clearly defined dust cleaning traces on the side of the corridor, from the door of 801 to 805 and ending at 806.
Not only that.
Jinchen glanced at the edge of the door frame near 806 and found several traces of polishing.
He took a few steps back. “It looks like blood has been splashed here.”
Xie Guan: "I've been here a few times, and I also feel that 806 looks like a murder scene, and..."
"Uncle Chen has the key to the entire floor. I've gotten it, except for 806."
Xie Guan reached out and fiddled with the iron lock, then raised his eyes to look at the top of the door.
"There are five locks here."
[That's too simple. It can't stop the technology you are eager to try. 】
Jinchen, eager to try, pushed it back.
Jinchen returned to the corridor, dug out the wire for cable ties from the pile of sundries, picked up a few pieces and stuffed them into his pocket.
Two minutes later, the door of 806 opened to the four people.
Xu Yi sighed, "It's like the King of Locks is alive."
Even the locksmiths aren't that fast.
The moment I pushed the door open, a room full of dust rushed in my face, carrying with it the smell of blood that had not been cleaned up and the damp smell of decay.
Even as the door was pushed, large pieces of wall fell from the roof. Jinchen was quick-witted and pulled Xie Guan behind him, raising his hands to protect him.
Xie Guan only felt a flash before his eyes, and the next thing he smelled was a dry and warm breath.
He tilted his head slightly, his fingertips unconsciously tightening his sleeves.
“Fuck…”
Shao Huai faced the falling dust attack head-on, choking and coughing repeatedly, and was pulled back by Xu Yi.
Xu Yi: "No one has lived here for too long. A house without people will age quickly."
As Xie Guan had guessed before, room 806 had been cleaned up so thoroughly that almost no clues could be found. It would be useless even if they knew that it was a murder scene.
Even the traces of graffiti on the wall were roughly polished away.
Xu Yi, however, made a different discovery.
"It seems like..."
Xu Yi hissed, "It seems that there was some kind of sacrificial ceremony for the placement of ashes, but it is not common here."
After all, Xu Yi had just graduated from funeral studies and had not completely forgotten all this knowledge. After walking around the room a few times, he was sure.
"If I'm not mistaken, the cabinet in the bedroom is where the ashes will be placed in the end."
Jinchen was very active and in a blink of an eye he pried open the iron lock on the outside of the cabinet and slid the cabinet door open.
In the dim light, the black box was placed in the middle of the top of the cabinet, covered with a triangular scarf, making people dare not look directly at it.
Shao Huai: "...Why are there ashes here? Could it be..."
Shao Huai suddenly stopped talking and looked at Xie Guan cautiously.
Xie Guan calmly shook his head, "No."
"I took my parents' ashes away personally, and they will not appear here."
Shao Huai breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."
Xu Yi suddenly cried out, "Jinchen, can you move this cabinet? Move it out."
"can."
Jinchen replied casually and moved the entire cabinet out.
Then he paused, "Hey, there's something else here."
There is a hidden world behind the cabinet, which is a small altar hollowed out of the wall.
Xu Yi's guess was confirmed, but it turned out to be a bit complicated.
Shao Huai asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"
"In some places, this placement means that the entire room is used as a coffin, and it is also used in a superstitious way..."
Xu Yi picked up the half-burned incense from the ground, his eyebrows almost twisted together.
"How strange! These are two completely contradictory sacrificial methods. On the one hand, they want to suppress the dead in the house, and in superstitious sacrifices, they believe that this can prevent the person who died suddenly from seeking revenge."
"But there is also a kind of...sacrificial method here. In this method, everyone in the entire apartment is used as a sacrifice to worship the person who was killed. If the person who is worshipping the dead is extreme, he might really kill someone. It is extremely cruel."
Jinchen raised an eyebrow, "Is the latter's sacrificial method obvious?"
"Not obvious. I also read about it in a book before, and you only discovered it after you moved the cabinet." Xu Yi pondered, "Logically speaking, the former wanted to suppress the dead body, so he didn't dare to move the cabinet."
Jin Chen lowered his eyes in thought, raised his hand and hooked Xie Guan's finger, "Did you find any information about the murder case?"
Xie Guan curled his fingertips and hooked them tighter.
"The case was suppressed very tightly. The only thing the police at the time found was that it was a revenge crime, premeditated murder, and that the man had been lying dormant in this building beforehand."
The murderer has not been found yet, so he thought it was related to the landlord and moved here.
"Will that mean..." Jinchen quietly changed his position and moved the cabinet to a more obvious angle.
"The one who performed the ritual sacrifice on the deceased was the murderer at that time, and the one who wanted to use the entire apartment as a sacrifice is the murderer now."
While the three people beside him were thinking, Jinchen said, "Uncle Chen frequently goes in and out of the 8th floor, but he never moves the cabinet. It should not be the latter. As for whether it is the former..."
Xie Guan frowned and understood what Jinchen meant.
"Could it be that... the current victims are all the murderers of the first murder case?"
Shao Huai shook his head. "Well... if that's the case, then Song Gong is a possibility, but Zhou Jin... is this guy also the murderer? Does he have the guts?"
The honest man Xu Yi has been infected, "Hasn't Zhou Jin been tied up by us? Let's interrogate him later."
The proposal was passed by three votes.
Zero, staring at the monitor, sighed and emerged.
[Host, run quickly, you are about to be surrounded! ]
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Xu Yi and Shao Huai hurriedly ran down the corridor on the 4th floor and were stopped by Uncle Wang who was holding a flashlight.
"You two guys, have you seen Mr. Song and Old Chen?"
Sure enough, he came to look for someone.
Shao Huai looked behind Wang Bo and was shocked.
Why are there so many people here?
There is no need to say much about Uncle Wang and Aunt Li, they seem to be very close friends with Uncle Chen. Zhao Chunmei and Grandma Chen are also there... just assume that they want to find Engineer Song to fix something.
But why are Han Dong and Zhao Zu there too? These two couriers and cat lovers don’t look like they have anything to do with these things.
Shao Huai suddenly felt that Xie Guan’s guess just now was not unreasonable. Maybe Zhou Jin was also the murderer of the first homicide.
Even Duoduo, the little girl from Class 603, followed timidly behind with red eyes.
"Brother, do you know where Uncle Song is?"
Shao Huai calmed down and asked, "What do you mean? Mr. Song and Uncle Chen are missing?"
"Then I haven't seen them today. I just played chess with Xu Yi in Room 701."
Xu Yi nodded in agreement and said, "Maybe he went out for something. You guys are so anxious to find him. Did something happen?"
Although they are all neighbors, they all have their own things to do. Mr. Song and Uncle Chen have only been missing for less than half a day, but they are already so anxious to find them.
No one would believe that there is nothing fishy.
