Chapter 4: Dreams and Doors
Today, Officer Jace received a strange phone call at the police station, and before he could get through, the other party had already hung up the phone.
It is not uncommon for many people to call the police and quickly hang up the phone because they are in danger.
Just as Jace saw the other party's number, he couldn't help but pause for a moment.
Isn't this the number of Rosen?
As early as after the case was filed, the police had already investigated Lawson, also including his mobile phone number.
Upon seeing the number, Jace immediately alerted all the officers and quickly tracked down the location of the phone, which was the Lawson residence.
"You stay here to call back, report the location of the phone at any time, you, and you come with me!" Jace Road.
They went to Lawson's house and found his phone in the cluttered living room, along with a bunch of keys and a large bag of methamphetamine.
……
Inside the café.
Burriman sat at the dining table, on the table, a freshly printed photograph.
These photos were taken while talking to the mentally ill Arlie.
"I did a good job, didn't I? Hee-hee! Merlin smiled and raised her head triumphantly.
Berryman didn't answer her question, he picked up the coffee he sat on and took a sip, his eyes full of worry.
When he returned home yesterday, he found that Rosen's belongings had been stolen, and the person who took them said that he was watching him at the moment.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look around vigilantly for a week, but found no suspicious person.
"Did you say Ari did it?" Merlin fiddled with her hair, looking thoughtful.
"What did Arri do?" Berryman asked, confused.
"Those who are missing, could it be that Yari kidnapped them? And that Professor Lei, it's not a good thing at first glance! ”。
"You're really 'Sherlock Holmes', think about it, every scene has an eyeball pattern drawn, it's the eye of nightmares, if it's Arrigan's, can your own painting still scare you crazy?"
"And Professor Ray, if he was a kidnapper, he wouldn't have saved Arie when he hurt himself." Berryman Road.
"Why?".
"If it was I who kidnapped you and you escaped, then I want you to die, because the dead don't call the police."
"Oh~ I see." Merlin suddenly realized, and then asked, "So what should we do next?"
"Now this disappearance case, have you been handed over to the police station to be responsible?" Berryman asked.
"I guess so...... Hahaha. Merlin scratched her head and smiled unreservedly.
This woman really can't lie, but I don't care, as long as I can find Lawson, anything. Berryman sees through it and doesn't say it.
"Then share your investigation, except for Rosen, you should have visited their families, right?" Berryman asked.
"Uh...... This one...... Nope. Merlene blushed and looked away in embarrassment.
"You detective is really ......" Berryman shook his head helplessly, he stood up and walked towards the exit.
"Where are you going?"
"Visiting the families of the missing."
"Wait for me!"
……
According to the information recorded in the file, it is easy to find the address of the missing person, but there are more than a dozen missing people, scattered in the city, and it takes at least three days to visit all of them.
Merlin suggested splitting up the process to speed up the visit, but Burriman refused.
Because Berryman was afraid that Merlin would accuse others again, and then things would get even more troublesome.
Whenever they walk into the home of a missing person, their family members are thrilled to think that they have found the missing person, but when they know that they have not been found, they are all plunged into a sad state that cannot help themselves.
Disillusionment with renewed hope is often the most painful.
In the process of visiting, Mei Lin, the second detective, made the same mistake again, and every time she wanted to start her deadly reasoning, if it hadn't been for Berryman's quick stop, I am afraid that she would have been coaxed away by others with a broom.
After a few days of visits, they received many useful clues, and almost every family mentioned a common denominator of the missing persons.
Before the disappearance of the missing person, he mentioned it to his family many times that they had a dream.
And the weird thing is that the dreams of the missing people are all the same!
They dreamed of a door with a big, living eyeball on it. Right! You guessed it right, the big eyeballs in their dreams are the nightmare eyes!
Within a few days of dreaming of this door, all of them disappeared without exception!
It can't be a coincidence, right? Berryman didn't think so, he vaguely felt that this dream was the key to the serial disappearance!
When Berryman asked them when the dream had happened, they basically replied like this.
"When he came back from a trip to Gray Mu Island, he started to have this dream, and within a few days he became nervous and disappeared later."
Even Rosen and Arlie were no exception, and Burriman visited their family.
What happened to the missing people on Grey Muhai Island? Why do they dream of the same door?
Burriman remembers that when he was talking to Yari, the other party also mentioned the dream, but he thought he was talking nonsense, so he didn't care.
The same dream begins after the Gray Mu Island! Berryman wrote down this crucial sentence in his notebook.
They were so tired these days that at the end of the last visit, after Berryman and May were separated, Berryman walked home alone.
Walking down a busy street, Burriman felt a pair of eyes staring at him behind him, and no matter how many streets he crossed, the feeling of unease always followed.
He took out his phone, turned on the front camera, and pretended to take a selfie, but in reality he was observing the situation behind the scenes.
No suspicious person was found.
In order to confirm that someone was following him, Berryman planned to try an experiment.
I saw him turn a corner and walk into an alley, and then he hurriedly ran around the corner in front of him, picked up the bricks on the ground, and hid them.
If you are really being followed, then the stalker will definitely follow you into this alley!
"Da ......" A rush of footsteps came from the alley.
The brick in Berryman's hand tightened, and he knew the stalker was coming.
As the footsteps got closer and closer, and when he was about to turn the corner, Berryman gritted his teeth, lifted the brick and rushed out!
Just as Berryman was about to smash the brick down, he realized that the person who came with him was just a fat child about 7 years old.
"Wow~" The child cried loudly, and his snot flowed all over his mouth.
Berryman couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he threw away the brick in his hand and left, he didn't want to be seen bullying children.
However, after he left, a man in a black sweatshirt walked up to the child, his head wrapped in a hood and his appearance was not visible.
The man's white hand took out a hundred-dollar bill from the pocket of his shirt and stuffed it into the child's pocket.
"That's good." He touched the child's head.
The child burst into tears and laughed, and jumped away.
……
What happened to the missing person on the island of Grey Mu, the only one who can answer Briman so far is the mentally deranged Arri.
He goes to the psychiatric hospital again, and he hopes that Arri's mental condition will improve and thus give him the answer.
But upon entering the psychiatric hospital, Professor Lei refused the visit and told the shocking news.
Arry committed suicide.
"Professor Ray? Did I hear me right? Did Yari commit suicide? Berryman couldn't believe his ears.
"Yes, Mr. Berryman, I'm sorry to let you make a trip. He was a good boy. Professor Ray sighed.
"What the hell is going on?" Berryman asked.
"You come with me." Professor Ray took Berryman to the surveillance room and pulled up a surveillance video.
It was two o'clock in the morning last night. The surveillance video shows Ally's hospital room, where Ally is sleeping in bed, his head is bandaged several times, and his white hospital gown feels a bit mummy.
When the time jumped to 2:13 a.m.
After a few moments, Arrie slowly sat up from the bed and walked out of bed without putting on his shoes.
At this time, Ally's face is facing the camera, he is dazed, his eyes are distracted, and his head is shaking like a bobblehead doll.
He then shuffled his feet slowly through the room, heavy and slow.
At this time, he stopped in front of the door of the hospital room, stretched out his hand and scratched at the doorknob, but the door did not have a doorknob at all.
Soon he stopped, and he stood motionless behind the door.
The time shown on the video passed minute by minute, and it was only after five minutes that he began to move.
He then lifted the plate from the table, letting go of his hand and letting it break to pieces.
He bent down to pick up a fragment and, without hesitation, slashed a cut at his left wrist.
Perhaps because the shards were not sharp enough, he made a few more cuts, as if he were playing a violin.
Blood finally spilled from the wound, his eyes were hollow, and he didn't feel the slightest pain.
The fingers of his right hand rubbed the wound, using the blood as dye, and drew the Nightmare Eye on the glass wall.
At this time, he suddenly turned his head to look at the camera, and the corners of his mouth grinned slightly, which was a sickly smile.
Then, holding the sluggish fragments of the plate, he sawed his throat little by little.
Hot blood spurted out and splattered onto the surveillance, staining the lens a blurry blood red, as if the strong smell of blood could be smelled through the monitor.
Eventually, he collapsed in a pool of viscous blood and convulsed, blood blistering on his neck, and that sinister smile always hung on his face.
This concludes the surveillance footage.
"Poor child......" Professor Ray sighed as he closed his eyes.
Berryman did not speak, and he was caught up in this horrific suicide.
After a while, he came back to his senses and asked, "Professor Lei, why are there dinner plates in the ward?"
"It was a mistake on the part of the nurse who forgot to collect the food after delivering it. Unexpectedly, this mistake hurt Ally...... I've fired this nurse. ”
Burriman stared at Professor Ray and couldn't tell if he had lied. But no one would have expected Arie to commit suicide, would they?
"Ally was in a weird state when he committed suicide, you're a professor of mental illness, what do you think?"
"There's one place worth noting!" Professor Ray pulls back the surveillance footage, and in the video, Arley reaches out and grabs at the doorknob.
"You see, this door doesn't have a doorknob at all, and he can't see what he can see at a glance."
Professor Lei pushed the thick reading glasses and said, "His eyes are not visually impaired, and all his actions are based on non-existent space, which means that in his subconscious level, that door has a doorknob."
"What do you mean?" Berryman was puzzled.
"His perception of the outside world has become very dull, and those strange actions are completely unconscious, which means that he was completely unconscious at the time of suicide."
"His behavior is very similar to sleepwalking, as if there is a door in his dreams. It's just my guess, but ......" Professor Ray touched his chin full of stubble.
"But sleepwalking is generally hereditary, and there has never been sleepwalking in Arri's family history."
"Dreams" and "Doors".
These two key words, when Berryman visited these days, often heard that they must have some connection with the death of Ari and the missing person.
Before leaving, Burriman sought Professor Ray's permission to make a copy of the suicide video.
……
Back in the hallway, Burriman found several officers knocking on his door.
And the officers also found the returning Briman.
"Mr. Berryman, please come with us to the police station for investigation!"
Burriman had a "sigh" in his heart, he knew that the stolen items had finally been discovered by the police.