Li Yaozhan still couldn't accept the fact of Ma Wen's death after returning home, if guilt and self-blame planted a seed in Li Yaozhan's heart, then Yu Qian's vague words watered and fertilized this seed. Originally, it was difficult to say that Li Yaozhan had any inseparable emotions for Ma Wen in his heart, but now Li Yaozhan felt that he had to do something for Ma Wen no matter what.

Having made up his mind, Li Yaozhan planned to find a way to contact Ma Wen's mother first, at this time he found out that he didn't know much about his girlfriend, and it had been three months since they had been dating, he thought he knew everything about it, from Ma Wen's eating habits to clothing taste, sports hobbies to lifestyle, and even Li Yaozhan boasted with his friends that he had measured Ma Wen's measurements on the first night together. Li Yaozhan often boasts of being a master of the love field, and he sees Pao Niu as a battle, intelligence and means are very important, and he is an excellent commander. But now Li Yaozhan smiled wordlessly in his heart, and now none of the information in his hands is as useful...

"Yao Zhan, do you understand?" Li Jianguo knocked on the desk dissatisfied

"I know my father," Li Yaozhan dealt with his father casually

"It's rare that you've done a good job once, but don't let up! How to report back that is the most important thing, if you kid didn't spend that little bit of thought on work all day long, would I worry about you like this, huh?! Li Jianguo was so angry by his son's absent-minded attitude that he wanted to scold

"I know, dad," Li Yaozhan raised his finger and pointed to his head, "it's all here"

"What should I pay attention to at that moment, what should I say, you repeat it to me again" Li Jianguo was not at ease at all

"First report to Mr. Liu on WeChat, he is the top boss and can't be negligent, and then go to the company to pretend to meet Wang Dong by chance, and wait for Wang Dong to ask the details of the report to prevent Mr. Liu from stealing the credit, emphasizing that there are difficulties but they have been overcome..."Li Yaozhan recited like a sutra

"You give me a serious look, it's rare that Wang Dong has been optimistic about you recently, whether you can climb up or not depends on your recent performance, your father and I have accumulated a relationship for half a lifetime, and it all smashed on you!"

"Okay, Daddy, I'm tired, can you let me rest?" Li Yaozhan got bored, and scolded his father in his heart: How about climbing up? It's just a middle-level manager, isn't it a smiling dog like you who has been a smiling dog for half a lifetime?

"Okay, well, go and rest, you must remember, which one to send the special products you brought back, don't make a mistake" Lao Li Aizi was heartfelt, and when he heard his son say that he was tired, he immediately felt distressed, and began to blame himself in his heart, his son had just rushed back and had not rested well, and he was really anxious. However, if Li Jianguo knew that his son had planned to eat and drink with his little girlfriend when he was going home half a day late, I don't know how he would feel.

"I'm going to get a massage, I won't eat at home at night" Li Yaozhan pretended not to hear his father's nagging, grabbed the coat on the backrest and walked out, and when he passed by the living room, he coped with his mother and said a few words that he would not eat at home at night, and then broke his mother's hand pulling his sleeve and ran out.

Li Yaozhan drove to Ma Wen's rental house, and began to sort out his thoughts along the way, the police officer surnamed Yu said that it might be a suicide, so it can be seen that Ma Wen's death must be a little strange, otherwise the police don't need to be vague about this matter. And Li Yaozhan noticed that the police mentioned that he was Ma Wen's last call partner when they asked him, so what happened next is very likely to be related to the phone call at that time, so maybe you can find something in the rental house. After making up his mind, Li Yaozhan did not hesitate and concentrated on driving towards the old city.

After Li Yaozhan rushed to the vicinity of Ma Wen's rental house, he found a small restaurant and ate indiscriminately, and walked to the rental house with his memory. In early spring, it was dark early, and the sun was setting at this time, and it was already a little dark. Li Yaozhan came to the downstairs of Ma Wen's rental house and looked at the third floor, the curtains were tightly drawn.

Walking up the stairs of the old-fashioned brick and concrete building, as soon as he walked into the corridor, the darkness couldn't wait to swallow Li Yaozhan, he couldn't help but relax his steps, and looked back at the junction of light and darkness pulled out a blurred line, as if divided into two completely different worlds. Stamped his foot slightly, I don't know if it was in disrepair or the sound was too quiet, the sensor light didn't turn on, but the oppressive and heavy atmosphere made Li Yaozhan dare not stomp off the second foot, thinking of going up two floors further, which is where Ma Wen died, and suddenly felt a little scared in his heart. He was not a bold person, and he couldn't help but be terrified at this time.

"Ahem" Li Yaozhan coughed lightly twice, the corridor sensor light still did not respond, suppressed the surging emotions, and gave up the plan to turn on the light, he remembered that Ma Wen said that he was afraid of the dark in the early morning of that day, and he was perfunctory at that time, at this time, he was suspicious in the daylight because of the darkness in the corridor, and he couldn't help laughing at himself.

Packing up his mood, Li Yaozhan strode up, the old-fashioned residential floor height was not high, and he walked to the third floor after a while, staring at the dilapidated iron unit door, with the seal of the police station on it, everything was very familiar, but also revealing an inexplicable strangeness.

Li Yaozhan walked to the dilapidated wooden meter box in the corridor, opened the lid of the box, and took out a key from it, which was what Ma Wen told him when he helped Ma Wen move before, Ma Wen never went home during the winter and summer vacations, and chose to rent a house to spend the holidays, for Ma Wen, home was no longer there, and she didn't want to go to her remarried mother to cause trouble. If it weren't for the regular remittance and the occasional strange items sent in the bank card, Ma Wen wouldn't know how to be sure that her father was still alive, although every time she talked about her father Ma Wen, her tone was indifferent and indifferent, but Li Yaozhan knew that Ma Wen still cared about her father, otherwise she wouldn't have carefully collected those strange souvenirs.

Li Yaozhan kept a slightly longer and finely trimmed fingernail with his little finger, he cocked his little finger and carefully inserted it into the gap of the seal, gently pried it as far as possible to uncover the seal, and then took the key he had just touched and inserted it into the lock hole and slowly rotated, with a soft "click", he pulled the door open with one hand. Because the curtains were tightly drawn, although it was not completely dark, the room was very dark, and it was connected to the corridor. Only the small kitchen window sprinkled some light on the narrow hallway, leading to the dark suite, this quiet and strange atmosphere pressed him not to even breathe loudly, he poked his foot out and carefully walked into the hallway and closed the door with his hand.

Reaching out and taking off his leather shoes, he walked barefoot towards the suite, and at this moment a strange feeling arose in his heart, as if he was walking on a moonlit path to a huge altar, and the two black suites that did not let out the light were the center of the altar.

Li Yaozhan turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, and quickly looked at the whole house, the furniture and doors were opened, and the things in the house were basically taken away by the police as physical evidence, and after the case was closed, these things would be handed over to Ma Wen's mother, who came two days later, as relics, even if there were any clues, they could not be seen now. The house is small and the structure is very simple, and after two turns, I didn't find any valuable information. Eventually, he crouched down at the kitchen door, looking at the chalk-circled human figure marks on the floor, and the faint water marks on the ground.

Imagining Ma Wen lying here, there was a faint pain in my heart. Looking at it, Li Yaozhan suddenly found a human figure on the ground, his arm stretched out straight and seemed to point to something, looking along the extension line, it was the drain of the pool, when Li Yaozhan's eyes looked at the downstream, he suddenly seemed to be attracted by something and couldn't move it anymore

"There's something in there!" Li Yaozhan's heart jumped violently, making a drum-like thumping sound, echoing in the silent room, and swallowing a mouthful of spit, Li Yaozhan felt a little thirsty.

The idea that there was something in the sewer somehow suddenly popped into his mind, and after it came out, it occupied Li Yaozhan's entire mind at an alarming speed, and he couldn't get rid of it, and the violently beating heart pumped a large amount of blood to the brain, and his face turned red as if he was drunk. By this time the sun had sunk completely below the horizon, and the night had gilded everything with a silvery tone, and the feeling of that altar was more real.

Li Yaozhan couldn't suppress the restless emotion no matter what, thought about it again and again, and slowly stretched out his hand to wipe the narrow opening of the sewer, and touched it little by little. Unexpectedly, there is no slippery and disgusting touch, but it is very dry and flat, maybe Ma Wen never uses the kitchen at home Li Yaozhan thought to himself, stretched out his hand and probed it over, although it was an old-fashioned house, but the sewer was not as narrow as expected, Li Yaozhan easily stuffed his hand in.

"What is this?" Li Yaozhan's fingers probed a lumpy hard object, which seemed to be some kind of hard flakes. It got stuck right on the bend of the sewer. He carefully pulled it out with his index and middle fingers, held it up in front of his eyes and observed it carefully, under the illumination of the mobile phone flashlight, he saw clearly that it was a stone chip, and the material seemed to be some kind of limestone, full of cracks, and it felt very light. Li Yaozhan turned the stone shards over

"Huh?" Li Yaozhan was surprised to find that there was still a painting on it, but the picture seemed to be incomplete, a figure with lines drawn on its head was bowing to some kind of being, looking like the feet of some giant creature. Unfortunately, the rock chips are so small that they hardly have anything of value

What Ma Wen's father sent again? Li Yaozhan quickly guessed the origin of this rock chip, among the strange things that Ma Yuan sent to his daughter, this rock chip is not anything special, Li Yaozhan once saw the neat and tidy collections that Ma Wen packed, in his eyes, it was just some worthless souvenirs, but this rock chip unexpectedly made people feel like it was worth a little. As for why it was in the sewer, Li Yaozhan guessed that Ma Wen was holding the rock chip in her hand and fell to the kitchen floor, and the rock chip rolled into the sewer.

"Maybe this rock chip has something to do with Ma Wen's death?" Li Yaozhan held up the rock chip and observed it carefully, "Perhaps, should this be handed over to the police?" ”

But soon he dispelled this idea, what could a rock chip have to do with Ma Wen's death, he really couldn't think of it, it was nothing more than that it was sent by Ma Yuan recently, and Ma Wen cherished it so he held it in his hand. If it really has anything to do with it, Li Yaozhan remembered Yu Qian and shook his head, thinking that it would be better to check it himself, maybe he could find out where Ma Yuan was on the earth through this rock chip, and see if he could contact him. Taking 10,000 steps back, Li Yaozhan felt that he couldn't explain how he got this rock chip, and he wasn't sure if his current behavior was illegal.

"It's better to find a friend who is familiar with this kind of thing to check" Li Yaozhan made up his mind and carefully stuffed the rock chips into the inner pocket of his jacket, turned around and walked downstairs......