Chapter 17: Lao Chu's Secret
Everything that happened in this living room, whether it was the knife mechanism or Lao Chu's self-immolation, was of course the masterpiece of 'those people'.
The old Tao among the 'people' dragged us with a little ghost, found Lao Chu one step ahead of us, and arranged all this.
At this time, they should be observing every scene in this living room through this pinhole camera.
"For demons, killing pleasures oneself, and once pleasure is numb to pleasure and tastes despair, it becomes the greatest pleasure......"
Damn it!
I gritted my teeth and slammed the pinhole camera against the window, crushing it with my thumb until the pinhole camera shattered, until the skin of my fingers was scratched, and the heat rushed to my heart with pain.
"Your Excellency Jiang Wangsheng......"
At this time, Jiang Yunliu's voice rose from the bottom of my heart.
"Anger doesn't have any effect, and what you've seen is just the tip of the iceberg for those demons."
"Shut up!"
I gritted my teeth and drank coldly, and another voice, but with a hint of urgency, came from behind me.
"Jiang Wangsheng, what are you doing?"
I turned around and looked, of course, it was Shen Li, who was standing behind me, with his hands on his back, staring straight at my bleeding thumb with a pinhole camera.
I let out a long sigh and handed Shen Li the pinhole camera I had smashed.
"Someone is watching everything in this room, it should be 'those people.'"
Shen Li stared at the pinhole camera I handed over and said "um", but he didn't reach out to pick it up.
"What's behind it?"
I asked with a frown.
Shen Li, of course, was holding something more important than this pinhole camera in her hand behind her back at this time.
"Jiang Wangsheng, there are some things that I shouldn't hide from you, but before you know it, I hope you are mentally prepared."
I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Shen Li meant by saying this, Shen Li continued.
"Even if Lao Chu doesn't have nature, he will definitely not be able to live, Jiang Wangsheng, you remember this."
"What the hell are you talking about, Shen Li? If you have anything to say, just say it! ”
I'm a little annoyed.
Shen Li nodded and pulled out the hand behind her back, and I then found that her hand stretched out from behind her back was twisting a boxy plastic bag, which was a necessary evidence bag for our detectives.
At this time, the bag was filled with some wet gray lumps, and I didn't recognize what they were.
"White Scales."
Shen left his mouth and stared at me with an unusually heavy expression.
"'Those people' stuffed white phosphorus into Lao Chu's esophagus, and then used some methods to make Lao Chu's internal body temperature reach the ignition point of white phosphorus, forty degrees.
At this time, the white phosphorus in Lao Chu's body is already combustible, but it lacks enough oxygen, so when you uncover the rag in Lao Chu's mouth, a large amount of oxygen is poured into Lao Chu's mouth, and the white phosphorus in Lao Chu's body burns.
Jiang Wangsheng ......"
Shen Li was still talking, but I didn't listen to it anymore.
I was stupid in place, and my mind was filled with images of flames coming out of Lao Chu's mouth when I opened the rags in Lao Chu's mouth.
It's me...... Kill Lao Chu......
Not bad! It was I who lifted the rag from Lao Chu's mouth, causing oxygen to pour in and white phosphorus to burn......
"How could it be...... How could it be ......"
I muttered, and the picture in my mind came to the scene when Lao Chu was burned by the fire, lying on the ground and reaching out to us.
What kind of pain is that? What kind of despair is that?
I shuddered, leaned against the window wall, and shrunk to the floor, feeling a flood of guilt and self-blame.
It was I who performed the last step of 'those people'! It was I who wielded the butcher's knife that killed Lao Chu!
I, Jiang Wangsheng, am the executioner who carried out the final step of the plan of 'those people'......
I breathed deeply, but I couldn't suppress the strange emotions in my heart.
I never thought that I would kill someone, and now I have indeed ended Lao Chu's life with my own hands......
I trembled all over, and the sound of choking in my ears sounded when Lao Chu was rescued by me, stuffed with rags.
That's not something to say! That's telling me not to open the rags in his mouth!
Lao Chu wanted to live, Lao Chu wanted to live at that time! And I, because of a mistake, buried his life......
I opened my mouth wide, but I couldn't breathe normally, because the guilt and self-blame in my heart were like a hand, clenching my whole heart......
"Your Excellency Jiang Wangsheng......"
At this time, Jiang Yunliu's voice sounded from my body again.
"I can understand your feelings, but now is not the time to blame yourself.
Don't forget this man's instructions before he died, be quick, it'll be too late to be late. ”
As I listened, my mind was filled with the words that Lao Chu had spoken with all his strength when he was burned by the flames.
"Bed...... Hurry up ......"
I glared and got up, facing Shen Li's frowning eyes.
"Jiang Wangsheng, white phosphorus is already highly poisonous, Lao Chu is not your ......"
"Don't talk about this, where is Lao Chu's bedroom? Take me there! ”
I interrupted Shen Li in a deep voice, but Shen Li was stunned, as if he didn't expect that I would say such a sentence.
And I didn't wait for Shen Li to answer, and rushed directly to the door of the living room except for the bathroom.
Lao Chu used all his strength to say the word bed in the burning fire, although I don't know why, but it is obvious that this bed is very important to Lao Chu, so he still thinks about it until he dies!
"The middle door!"
Probably reacting, Shen Li ran to my side, pulled me and pushed open the door in the center of the living room, and in the door, there was also a Simmons bed, of course, Lao Chu's bedroom.
I stepped into the bedroom and searched all over Simmons' bed, but Shen Li, who had also come in, slumped at the door and asked me what I was looking for.
"Didn't you hear Lao Chu's instructions before he died?"
I replied and didn't stop, but Shen Li frowned.
"Lao Chu said before he died?
Jiang Wangsheng, don't talk nonsense, how can you be able to speak if you are wrapped in such a flame? ”
"But I just heard it!"
"Then what did you hear Lao Chu say?"
"Bed!"
I replied without hesitation, and asked Shen Li to help find it, but Shen Li glared, turned around and knocked on the wall tile where the bedside table was leaning.
"What are you doing with Shen Li? Lao Chu is talking about the bed, not the wall! ”
I was a little annoyed, but Shen Li looked calm, still knocking on every wall tile on the bedside table.
"Before I assisted Lao Chu in handling the murder case, at the celebration banquet, Lao Chu drank too much, chatted with me, and talked about the 'small treasury'.
I still remember when he said that his 'little vault' was on the wall tile against his bedside table, and that all his secrets were hidden inside. ”
After Shen Li finished speaking, my heart moved, and her fingers knocking on the wall tile on the bedside table also stopped at the same time, because the wall tile she was knocking on at this time actually reverberate!
Shen Li is right! There is a dark grid!
I hurriedly went to Shen Li's side, and Shen Li had already buckled up in the gap of the hollow wall tiles, but he was buckled and buckled, but the hollow wall tiles were not buckled, but the eyebrows on the starry eyes were wrinkled together.
"What's going on?"
I asked, also to buckle the gap in the hollow wall bricks, but the same frown.
Because the gaps in the hollow wall tiles are not separated from the wall tiles, or in other words, the gaps in the hollow wall tiles are clearly the same as all normal wall tiles, which are stuck to the wall.
This means that this old Chu's 'small treasury' was sealed at one time, and if you want to take it out, you can only break this wall brick......
But why did Lao Chu do this?
"He's protecting what's in the bricks......"
Without waiting for me to think, Shen left his mouth.
"If I hadn't heard about his 'small vault', and I found this hollow drum wall brick that was not separated, I would only think that inside the wall brick, it was only when the decoration was used less that the hollowing phenomenon occurred......
I listened suddenly, and I also looked directly at the half-square meter of hollow drum wall tiles.
What kind of secret is hidden in the small vault in this wall brick, and Lao Chu would bother to hide it so much?
Without further ado, Shen Li pulled up the sheet on the bed and wrapped it around his elbow, of course I knew what she was going to do, took a few steps back, and then, Shen Li struck an elbow and shattered the hollow wall brick.
For a while, with the sound of wall tiles falling on the floor, I only saw a dark red in the broken hollow wall tiles......
A dark red, at a closer look, it turned out to be a large box with a dark red texture, which could just fit into the wall tile space of about half a square meter.
However, when I took a step closer and looked at the big box, my heart couldn't help but tremble.
Because I only saw that the surface of this dark red box was engraved with dense runes, and these runes were very familiar to me......
Not bad! These runes, all of them, are the soul calming talismans I have seen on Chen Sheng's corpse and on the curtain of the old hunter's attic!
I couldn't help but think of Chen Sheng who was 'trapped' by the scarecrow, and the little ghost in the big urn in the old hunter's attic......
How could the box in this old Chu dark grid have a soul suppression talisman?
Could it be that he is also a Taoist priest like the old Taoist who gave the old hunter ancient books?
What is in this box with a soul suppression talisman?
My eyes widened, and my heart was full of worry, and Shen Li had already taken out the big dark red box from the dark compartment of the broken wall tiles and put it on the bedside table.
And I can see clearly that every side of this dark red box is engraved with the same soul suppression talisman......
It is not impossible for a two- or three-year-old child to be indented into a half-square-meter dark red box......
With palpitations, Shen Li pressed both sides of the big box, and was about to open the big box directly, but I quickly stopped her, saying that something was wrong with the big box.
"What's wrong?"
"Shen Li, do you remember the runes on the curtain in the old hunter's attic?"
I pointed to the soul calming talisman on the big box, but Shen Li gave me a blank look.
"Jiang Wangsheng, do you think I will believe this?"
After speaking, Shen Li didn't wait for me to react, and directly pressed both sides of the big box and lifted the lid of the big box......