Judgment Day [Unlimited]

Chapter 9 Clues

Just looking at the scene in front of him, Xie Xingyin could almost imagine the smell of blood coming to his face.

This amount of bleeding, let alone one person, is not enough for ten.

The entire room was filled with thick fluorescent blue, and the dim green light was like the Wangchuan River leading to the underworld.

It is not difficult to imagine that the thickness of the blood in the room at that time might be able to submerge the ankle.

In addition to the floor, there are splatters of blue blood on the four walls of the room, as if they were bitten off or cut off a major artery.What's more exaggerated is that even the ceiling is splashed with spots of fluorescent colors.

It was the scene of a massacre!

However, according to the data, Keiko has always lived alone, has no relatives, and even few friends.Where did so much blood come from in the room?

Xie Xingyin's face darkened slightly, and the hand holding the lens dropped down.

Under the naked eye, the tiles on the floor of the room are still as clean as new, without any abnormalities, as normal as the surface of a calm sea.But no one knows what kind of undercurrent lurks under the surface.

"Brother, what did you see?" Xiao Lu leaned over on tiptoe, curious to see.

"Blood, a lot of blood." Xie Xingyin was the first to kick the lens back into his pocket. "Hey, don't watch it. Bloody violence is restricted and harmful to the physical and mental health of minors."

Xie Xingyin always felt that this room was not simple.

In film and television dramas, the dark room is usually hidden behind a bookshelf or something like that.So Xie Xingyin's eyes fell on the bookshelf by the wall.

But the bookshelf in front of him was too small, barely reaching waist height, and there was no hidden door at all, so Xie Xingyin didn't rush to search after entering the door.

He grabbed the left and right corners of the small bookshelf and tried to pull it out hard, but the seemingly light bookshelf did not move at all.After careful observation, Xie Xingyin noticed that the boards and walls were completely nailed together and could not be pulled apart even with brute force.

Xie Xingyin straightened up slowly, with his hands resting on the wooden board, the doubt between his brows remained.

If there is no anomaly seen through the glasses, there is a good chance that this room will be overlooked.But now, Xie Xingyin is very sure that what happened here must be the key.

The atmosphere on the entire 14th floor was a bit weird, and it was getting late.Xie Xingyin subconsciously felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he planned to take Xiao Lu downstairs first.

But when he turned around, Xiao Lu who was following behind him disappeared.

Xie Xingyin was taken aback.

There was a slight noise in the toilet. He hurried over and saw Xiao Lu was standing on tiptoe in front of the sink washing his hands.

Xie Xingyin heaved a sigh of relief.

"Come on, let's go back first."

Xiao Lu shook off the water on his hand, took his hand obediently, and went downstairs with Xie Xingyin.

—

It was already evening when we came back from the fourteenth floor.

Xie Xingyin first knocked on the door next door, wanting to see the sick Li Wei.But after knocking for half a minute, no one opened the door.

So he tried to push the doorknob, but found that the door was locked.

At this time, the short-haired girl who shared the room with Li Wei suddenly poked her head out from the room of her two companions, and she also knew that Xie Xingyin was here to see Li Wei.

"Xiaowei's condition is still not very good. Her body temperature is slightly lower than yesterday, at 38.4°C."

Li Wei might still be sleeping at this moment, Xie Xingyin didn't disturb her anymore.

He took out the newspaper he brought back from room 1404, and assigned the task of checking the newspaper information to three high school students to see if they could find any clues.

Back in the room, Xie Xingyin stood in front of the sink and washed his face, when Xiao Lu suddenly lowered his head and opened the bathroom door and came in.

Xie Xingyin hung the towel back on the shelf, and gave him the place in front of the sink.

"Why are you in a daze again?" Xie Xingyin teased him casually.

After getting in touch with him in the past two days, Xie Xingyin found that this child was very interesting. He was quite cold at first, but after getting acquainted with him, he also talked a lot.

Xiao Lu didn't look at him, but stared at the ground intently.

Xie Xingyin smiled, boys at this age are just at the time when they are lively and active, and after so many days of doing nothing in the apartment, they are probably bored to death.

"What are you looking at?" Xie Xingyin put his hand on his shoulder.

Xiaolu didn't answer.Xie Xingyin followed his gaze and looked down, not knowing what's so good about the bathroom.

For a moment, an absurd idea came to his mind - on the fourteenth floor, when Xiao Lu went to the toilet alone, was he also looking at something?

—

On this day, Jia Ming came back at the latest.When he came back, everyone gathered in the corridor to eat instant noodles.

"Did you find anything on the first floor?" Xie Xingyin asked him.

Jia Ming shook his head regretfully. "Nothing, the iron door of the apartment is still locked."

After all, people are still animals that like to live in groups.Chatting in the corridor until late, everyone went back to their rooms.

When passing by Jia Ming, Xie Xingyin inadvertently caught a glimpse of a smear of red paint on the back of his shoulder blade.

Jia Ming couldn't see that the back of his clothes was dirty.

"Hey -" Xie Xingyin was about to remind him, when the door in front of him was slammed shut.

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The next day, as soon as the access control was lifted, Xie Xingyin took Xiao Lu with him, carried away Lao Liang who was still yawning, and stepped into the elevator again.

Although it was early in the morning, the sky was still dark, and the light-controlled lights in the corridor were still on.The moon hangs in mid-air, round and bright, terrifyingly big.

"What are you doing?" Liang Xin yelled as he was dragged into the elevator as easily as a chicken.His broken glasses slid down the bridge of his nose, looking comical.

"I'll show you something." Xie Xingyin said, "Old Liang, do you understand spells?"

Lao Liang looked at him inexplicably: "Of course, this is what I rely on for my living. A safe talisman is three yuan a piece, ten yuan three, would you like it?"

Xiao Lu sneered at the side, while Lao Liang stared at him.Xie Xingyin ignored them, and led them to the door of room 1404, and asked Lao Liang to see the amulet pasted on the door.

"Then do you know what this talisman is for?"

But Lao Liang looked at the talisman and frowned.

"This... Judging from the strokes of this talisman, it should be a kind of town house talisman, but the drawing method is slightly different from the general town house talisman... I'm not sure about the specific effect, but it's used to ward off evil spirits. .”

"Nonsense." Xiao Lu said while crossing his arms.

Lao Liang got angry when he saw him, and rolled up his sleeves to deal with the little bastard, but was stopped by Xie Xingyin.

"Go ahead and have a look."

After entering the door.Lao Liang's lips trembled, and his glasses almost slipped off the bridge of his nose. "Why so much blood..."

Xie Xingyin knew that he had also seen the blood all over the floor, so he shook his head.

He took out a compass from the cloth bag he carried with him.The pointer of the compass was wobbling, Xie Xingyin couldn't understand this, he just watched Lao Liang walking around the room muttering words.Finally, without saying anything, he went to the bathroom.

After walking into the bathroom, the compass in his hand suddenly turned violently, like a trapped beast struggling violently.Old Liang asked, "Huh?" in doubt.

Xie Xingyin looked into the bathroom, remembering that Xiao Lu did the same thing yesterday, he was inexplicably interested in the bathroom.

Xie Xingyin's eyes turned around in the toilet.Although the toilet is a 5A-level scenic spot in ghost movies, the toilet in front of me is too small.Suitable for haunted mirrors, bathtubs, nothing, the play is really limited.

The only thing that can be called... is the toilet in the corner.

There was a flash of disgust in Xie Xingyin's eyes.

Although Lao Liang didn't find the ghost, he seemed to have noticed something, so he went to the wall and knocked.

"There may be something in the wall." He said firmly.

Xie Xingyin followed his gaze, and there was nothing unusual with the naked eye.

After Lao Liang came and went for a while, Xiao Lu suddenly pulled Xie Xingyin and led him out of the bathroom, asking him to take a closer look.

"Can't you see, what's the difference between the inside of the bathroom and the outside?"

Lao Liang gave a suspicious "Huh". "The walls are not the same thickness on these two sides."

Xie Xingyin took a closer look and suspected that he was the one who was blind.

After they stood against the wall, Xie Xingyin took a careful look inside and outside, and then he noticed the difference.

The difference in thickness of the walls on both sides is less than ten centimeters, and they are all white background walls. If you don't observe carefully, it is easy to be ignored by the naked eye.

Xie Xingyin lowered his eyes and looked at the tiles in the corner, his expression became a little dignified.

The length and width of a square brick are about five centimeters, such a small difference is hard to see with the naked eye, Xie Xingyin didn't feel it at all, and he doesn't know how Xiao Lu discovered it.

However, although the deviation of five centimeters is small, the construction of the house is very rigorous, and it is absolutely impossible for a house to be built like this.

Xie Xingyin was a little ashamed of himself, and found that his observation ability was not as good as that of the blind old Liang.Old Liang seemed to see what he was thinking, and said in a whisper:

"Don't look at me as blind in one eye, but the vision in my good eye is much better than that of ordinary people."

The wall in front of him may be a load-bearing wall, unlike the concrete walls they smashed downstairs, it is not convenient to smash it casually.

"If there's really something behind, there should be an entrance around here."

They moved all the things they could move, Xie Xingyin looked around, and finally landed on the toilet.After a moment of mental struggle, Xie Xingyin still made up his mind, grabbed the edge of the toilet and lifted it up forcefully——

He didn't use too much force, and he lifted the toilet easily.The toilet tank is not even connected to the water pipe, it is simply a decoration.

The disgust in Xie Xingyin's eyes was even worse, he gritted his teeth and moved it to the side with all his might.

"Boom—" He let go of his hand, and the toilet was thrown aside heavily, and a bottomless hole appeared on the wall that was originally covered by the water tank.

Sure enough, the passage is here.

The hole was barely as wide as a person, and the hole was pitch black with no light to be seen, and the low shape looked like... a dog hole.

Apparently the wall was rebuilt.

Xie Xingyin had an intuition spontaneously in his heart - the female reporter who was the first to discover the Human-Mask Dog might have an inseparable connection with the Human-Mask Dog.

They have been jumping up and down in the building for the past two days looking for the human face dog, but they found nothing.Since the old detective told them to find the Human-Mask Dog, the Human-Mask Dog must be hiding in this building.

Maybe it's in this dog hole-like thing.

Looking at the cramped entrance of the cave, Xie Xingyin hesitated.

He gritted his teeth and could bear the shame of climbing a dog's hole. Anyway, there was no one else here except them.But the hole in front of him was too narrow, and it could barely accommodate an adult crawling in with his shoulders hunched—if a strong adult like Brother Biao, he might still get stuck halfway through the climb.

I have to say that getting into such a narrow place requires considerable courage and perseverance.In the narrow and deep hole, you can't stretch your hands and feet. If you bump into something, you won't be able to escape in time.

Xie Xingyin tapped the wall lightly with his knuckles, thinking about discussing with Lao Liang.

"... Otherwise, let's go downstairs first and discuss with other people."

Standing aside, Xiao Lu stared blankly at the entrance of the cave, as if attracted by the unfathomable darkness.Xie Xingyin caught a glimpse of him suddenly squatting down, leaping towards the wall without warning, and slid into the hole with a bow!

"Hey!" Both Xie Xingyin and Lao Liang were taken aback by him, and quickly stretched out their hands to pull, but Xiao Lu's movements were unexpectedly flexible, and Xie Xingyin didn't even catch his ankle.

Seeing Xiao Lu's figure disappear into the darkness, Xie Xingyin and Lao Liang looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Fuck! What's going on with this little bastard! Are you crazy??!" Lao Liang yelled.

Xie Xingyin also stared, not understanding why Xiao Lu got in like this.

He leaned on the wall with one hand and shouted into the hole. "Xiao Lu? Xiao Lu! What are you doing crawling in there!"

Xie Xingyin yelled towards the entrance of the cave a few times, but no one responded. His scalp felt numb like a needle prick, and a scary thought came to his mind.

There must be something wrong with Xiaolu...?

Recalling these days, Xie Xingyin didn't doubt him much.Xiao Lu is quite a likable kid.

The matter is still unclear, but Xie Xingyin can't do it if he just ignores the kid.

He looked at the dark hole, and finally turned his head to Liang Daozhang and said, "I'll go in and have a look first, and if there's anything going on inside, you can go down and call others."

"Hey, wait a minute—" Liang Daochang shouted after him.

Xie Xingyin didn't care about Daoist Liang's yelling, and followed him into it.

Fortunately, the flush toilet in the bathroom is just a decoration, and there is no unpleasant smell.

For Xie Xingyin, a 1.8-meter tall man, it was very difficult to crawl in the cramped and dark cave, and he was far less nimble than Xiao Lu.The posture of crawling close to the ground made his legs barely exert any strength, and he almost crawled forward by grabbing the rough ground with his hands.

After a while, my knees were scorchingly painful from the friction, and I didn't know if my pants were torn.

Xie Xingyin held his breath and crawled forward for a distance of four or five meters, when an electric light suddenly lit up in the darkness in front of him.

Xie Xingyin's eyes were caught in the blink of an eye, and he closed them subconsciously, then sped up his movements, and came out of the passage with difficulty.

When he crawled out of the dog hole with a look of disgust, Xiao Lu stood in front of him.

He looked no different from usual, and even reached out to give Xie Xingyin a hand.

Xie Xingyin stood up, brushed off the wall dust on his body, and looked around.They are now located in a small room on the other side of the wall.

This verified their conjecture.The two rooms were opened up, and the wall was rebuilt later to deceive people.

Liang Xin at the other end of the dog cave saw the light and also shouted: "Xiao Xie, little bastard! Are you all right?"

"It's okay, let me see where this is, you wait first." After Xie Xingyin answered, he looked at Xiao Lu with a slightly cold face.

"Xiao Lu." Xie Xingyin politely taught him a lesson, "What's going on with you today."

Xiao Lu didn't seem to realize how dangerous his actions were, blinked his beautiful eyes, and held Xie Xingyin's hand.The boy's calm tone seemed to be coaxing him. "I don't know, I saw something in it..."

Seeing his appearance, Xie Xingyin really couldn't say anything harsh, and could only hold back any anger in his stomach.

"Don't be like this in the future, you dare to drill in without knowing whether it is dangerous."

Xiao Lu has always been quite sensible, but his behavior just now was really abnormal, Xie Xingyin almost suspected that he was bewitched by something.

But it's all here, Xie Xingyin thought it's better to see what's in this secret room first.

There are no windows in the secret room, and the light is very dark, only an incandescent lamp overhead.

Compared with the room outside, the compartment in front of me is much smaller. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a utility room for mops. It is only two meters wide and six to seven meters long.

Xie Xingyin found that the inside was empty, except for a ladder leaning against the corner, there was nothing left.

He walked towards the corner.The paint on the ladder was still wet, and when I reached out to touch it, my fingertips were immediately stained with sticky red paint.

Xie Xingyin couldn't help frowning.

He always felt that the color of the paint looked uncomfortable.After sniffing and twisting carefully, it seems that it is not paint, but exudes a faint fishy smell, like a little dried blood.