shady writers

Chapter 59 Book 3

The red sun rises from the sand dunes, and a seven-story apartment building is extremely conspicuous among the clouds.

The previous ghost ladder has disappeared. If you want to go up here, you can only wait until night, when the ghosts build stairs again to climb up.

Of course, if you can fly, you can fly down too.

In room 302, the walls are covered with pink wallpaper, the coffee table is a small pink round table, and several roses are placed on the balcony, which are already in full bloom at the moment, exuding a slight fragrance.

Obviously, this is a girl's room. She loves life and nature. The room is well organized and the floor is extremely clean.

But in such a one-bedroom, one-living room, there are two girls lying on the bed, and four men sleeping on the living room floor.

The teahouse was suspended in the air, and the door was facing the balcony. The store manager led the staff out of the teahouse, and the sound of the bell came again, like an alarm, waking up the people who were lying down.

The store manager and clerks walked into the balcony, and the teahouse disappeared there.

"Wake up." The store manager said.

"Wake up." Hua Yong'an was still a little bit confused when he just woke up, but he was completely awake when he saw the store manager.

They stayed in 302 for one night yesterday, and nothing happened. Everyone planned to stay up all night, but the store manager let them sleep. Thinking that the store manager is the examiner of this test, since he let them sleep, it must be tonight. Nothing will happen.

So they also fell asleep, so that it would be convenient to continue the test later.

The clerk walked to the living room and turned on the TV, "Will you watch it?"

The store manager also went over.

It was as if they had come to serve as a comparison group with them, where one was at ease and the other was suffering.

But there is no way.

"I'll make breakfast." Guan Yuxi came out of the bedroom and headed for the kitchen.

"Let's look for any clues first." Hua Yong'an said.

So everyone dispersed and started to act.

Now the only people in this building are the store manager and the clerk and the cat. It would be a shame if we didn't take advantage of this time to investigate.

So the scope of their search did not stop at 302.

It wasn't until Guan Yuxi asked them to eat that they communicated with each other about the clues they got while having breakfast.

"I suddenly remembered something." It was Chen Nan who spoke first, "When I read the report before, I mentioned that the dancing girl once said that in the room of 302, I heard the sound of the wind blowing, and there was even sand. I heard the voice when I was in the room just now."

"What did you find?" Hu Xue couldn't wait.

"Calm down and listen." Chen Nan said.

Everyone calmed down, and they were not in a hurry to eat. Sure enough, they heard the sound of the wind blowing and the sound of the raised sand beating.

Hua Yong'an stood outside the window, looked at the yellow sand being blown up by the wind, and understood in an instant.

"What she heard back then was the voice of the desert of death!"

"I think so too." Chen Nan nodded, "The store manager said before that 302 is the contact point between the Death Desert and the Mirror Realm, and this contact point was artificially created, where the yin and resentment in the whole world are the deepest. It is a heavy place, so I suspect that after the first college student rape incident, this place has begun to be connected to the desert of death."

"So the purpose of the other party is to turn 302 into a connection point?" Gao Ming asked.

"It should be." Hua Yongan nodded, "but the question now is how did he know and why did he do this."

"The clues are not enough, maybe we still have something to find." Hu Xue quickly picked up the porridge a few times, "I'll go to 102 to check later, I think there must be something wrong with the person who made the mask."

"Let's go together." Hua Yongan also said.

After eating, Hua Yongan and Hu Xue went to 102 together.

Hua Yongan went to the bedroom of his son and father again, looking at the computer, he walked over and turned it on.

Fortunately, the computer does not have a password. When it is opened, there is a group photo of the family. The mother holds the child, and the father puts his arms around the mother's shoulders.

Hua Yongan took a screenshot of the photo on the desktop, then searched for pictures on the Internet, and found the page of the report by searching for pictures.

It said that a couple took their children to an amusement park and got into a car accident.

The cause of the accident was that the driver of the truck was driving tired and lost consciousness while passing a certain section of the road, which caused the accident. But miraculously, the parents and children were seriously injured and miraculously survived after being sent to the hospital.

Hua Yong'an thought about it, and then searched to see if there was any similar news. There were indeed some accidents or man-made injuries, and finally survived miraculously.

However, the survivors of many of these cases were later involved in other incidents and became murder suspects.

This reminded Hua Yongan of Qian Meiyue.

Hard to do!

Hua Yongan thought of a possibility.

The store manager mentioned before that there are still many ghosts living as humans in the Second Mirror World.

Then the mask here seems to have another possibility.

He suddenly remembered that it was mentioned in the diary that the boy's mother lived on the second floor.

Hua Yongan ran out. Hu Xue was studying the broken masks and the props for making masks in the living room. When he saw him, he shouted: "Captain, have you found any clues?"

"Well, you continue to look here, I'll go to the second floor to have a look."

"it is good."

When we reached the second floor, the doors were all open at the moment, probably because the time the ghosts disappeared happened to be when they were active at night, so the doors were not closed.

Hua Yongan searched from room to room, and finally found the boy's mother's room.

Because there are photos of them in that room, it is basically certain that it is here.

I don't know if it's because my son lives in 102 and my mother lives in room 202.

The decoration here doesn't look like a woman's residence, the whole style is biased toward men, of course, it may be a stereotype, Hua Yongan just kept it in mind.

But after he basically finished reading the place, he could be sure that the person who should have lived here was a man.

The other party must have lived here for a long time, leaving a lot of traces, and then moved away in a hurry. While taking away the necessities, he left behind all the things that could not be taken away, and then made the boy's mother cheaper.

On the contrary, the boy's mother is very strange. It can be seen that she should have lived here for a long time, but she has not changed all the things left by her predecessor, and basically nothing of her own is left behind, and she only has one set of clothes , as if she was two sets of clothes.

As for the rest, it is the photo in the photo frame at the door.

Hua Yong'an thought that her feelings for the boy and her husband should not be low, and she should have kept things related to them.

After the girl in the red dancing shoes jumped off the building, she moved out from the second floor to the fifth floor. It is actually very strange to live on the second floor at this time, and it is even more strange that there is nothing left.

Plus what his father said in the boy's diary, and the reports he saw before.

Hua Yongan had a preliminary guess.

The family of three had passed away due to an accident. What did the mysterious man do to make them and others think that they were recovering and even survived.

But in the process of getting along, the family finally found out that something was wrong.

Perhaps the father found out that the mother was dead, but he thought that he and his son were not dead, so he divorced his wife and ran away with his son, fearing that his wife would hurt his son.

But there is a doubt here, which is the man's mask.

In this way, it seems that the man also knows that he is dead, so he makes these masks.

Or, in fact, he is indeed alive, but he has some magical ability, so after killing ghosts, he turns ghost faces into masks?

I don't know if this mother knows that she has become a ghost?

After searching for a long time, Hua Yong'an finally found a box under the bed.

Inside the box were the children's things, and the men's things, which seemed to belong to her husband and son.

All in all, there doesn't seem to be much clues to be found.

He was about to leave, but he saw a rope behind the box, it was a hemp rope, it looked a bit like it!

Hua Yongan took the rope and went to 102. The only ghost in the whole building, the homeless man, was still there.

Hua Yongan took the rope and compared the strangle marks on his body, they were exactly the same!

He looked at the rope carefully again, and found a faint bloodstain in the rope, which seemed to be the bloodstain left by someone trying to break free with his fingernails.

This rope has tied people!

If it was outside, Hua Yong'an couldn't be sure that this rope was the one that bound them, but here it is a place of testing, and it is basically certain that this rope should be the one that bound them.

Time passed little by little, and soon it was noon. The meal was still cooked by Guan Yuxi. Hua Yongan took the photos and went back to room 302. Everyone seemed to find a lot of things.

It is estimated that many clues can be obtained after the integration.

This time everyone was in good agreement, instead of chatting at the beginning, they ate quietly.

After dinner, Hua Yongan took out the photo and handed it to Jin Zuowan. Jin Zuowan has a very good memory, basically he will not forget the files he has read, and this person basically reads all the cases recorded in the system. Go through it again.

"I remember them." Jin Zuowan flipped through his brain and found the relevant content, "This man almost killed his wife after he was drunk. At that time, the blood flowed all over the place. The neighbor called the police, but the wife said that she accidentally cut it. , and because it was a dispute within the family, evidence such as fingerprints of a single person could not be found, and in the end the evidence was insufficient, and the wife kept saying that it was just an accident, so the case was closed."

Hua Yongan froze for a moment, he suddenly thought of a possibility.

It was the husband who was suspected of murder.

"Did anything happen to this woman after that?"

"No." Jin Zuowan said, "But she became famous later. After a certain disaster, she donated a large amount of money anonymously. Later, it was found out, and it was found that she had donated no less than [-] million in ten years. At that time I wonder where her money came from. It seems that she was finally found out to be a shareholder of several companies, and the dividends alone are quite a lot. She also donated a lot of money to the temple and often went to worship for her own Husband and child praying, but the blame is that her prayer is for the dead, but her husband and child are still alive, because of this she was condemned by netizens for a while."

These words further affirmed Hua Yongan's guess.

"I have a guess." Hua Yong'an put down the photo and took out the rope. Everyone's attention was on the rope. "The man and son of this family live in Room 102. Their family went out once before. After a serious car accident, he survived unexpectedly after being seriously injured, and then Jin Zuowan said that the husband almost killed his wife.

"They were all dead, and the only one who survived, the real miraculous one, was the wife."

"In order to prevent himself and his children from hurting his wife in the future, the husband and his wife divorced and took away their son, and lied to his son that his mother was no longer his mother, preventing him from seeing her, and for some reason he started to make a mask , for ghosts who look like him and are still human."

"Wait, let me add something." Hearing Hua Yongan's words, Chen Nan interrupted him, "I just found the dancing girl's mobile phone in 302, and there was a conversation between her and her best friend on the mobile phone. She was on vacation that day, and she planned to Stay at home and don't go out."

"So I suspect that she was taken away from her home, then she was nailed to the head with steel nails, and then she was manipulated to go home and dance to commit suicide."

"After listening to your words, I have an idea. Is it possible to enter the girl's house without being noticed by everyone and take her away? Is it because of the mask? If it is a ghost, it can pass through the door, and humans should You can't see them."

"It's very possible." Hua Yongan affirmed, "That makes sense. The man in 102 entered 302 with a mask and took the girl away, and then sent it to the mysterious person. Later, his wife found out, so the wife worried that he would go to 202 again. It was discovered one day that she had contacted the child and moved to 102, after meeting the child, she entered [-] and took the rope."

"After the man found out, he was going to move out with the child and avoid his wife again."

A basic guess came out.

"I think it's very possible." Hu Xue also nodded, and took out the mask fragments he brought back, "I saw a rule in the mask making box. After each mask is used, there will be a number mark for the number of times it has been used. .”

She took out a complete mask, "I found this one behind the TV."

The face of the mask was so shattered, it looked as if countless fragments had been stuck into the face after being hit by a car, but it could be vaguely seen that it looked the same as the man in the photo.

She turned the mask over and there was a "3" on it.

"Three victims, used exactly three times."

The truth has largely been pieced together.

[Congratulations to the tenants, you have deduced 90.00% of the original truth. The red shoes have been aroused. After leaving here, it will dance forever until it finds its original owner. Only his sins disappear. Red Dancing shoes to find peace.

Now please wait quietly, when midnight arrives, you will witness a miracle. ]

The six of them breathed a sigh of relief, the store manager must have released water for them, or let the sea go.

Hua Yongan's eyes drifted to the store manager who was still watching TV.

The store manager stood up, "Now I can treat you to a cup of tea first."

The clerk poured six cups of tea and sent them over. They drank the tea and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can we take Aunt Han away now?" Chen Nan couldn't wait.

"No." The store manager shook his head, "You only got the red dancing shoes now, and there is one other thing that you haven't got. You can probably get it by midnight."

Chen Nan was a little disappointed, but soon cheered up again.

After all, 99 steps have been taken, and the last step is enough to succeed.

Time passed little by little, and soon it was dark, and the sound of climbing came from downstairs again, and ghosts built the ladder again, and after a while, the ghost building was full of ghosts again.

When twelve o'clock arrived, the wind suddenly increased, and they all heard the sound of the wind blowing sand and beating the door.

"It came from the bathroom." Guan Yuxi was the closest to there and was the first to realize it.

They remembered that it was also the bathroom door when they came over.

So a group of people walked into the bathroom, and the store manager closed the door and said, "Now you can open the door and have a look."

Chen Nan walked over, he wanted to finish the task quickly and take Aunt Han back.

As soon as the door was opened, everyone was stunned, because behind the door was another desert, but this desert was different, the wind was strong, it was full of sand, and it was impossible to see the way ahead.

"What you need, the things that can make customers go home, are inside." The store manager said.