Chapter 11: Homicide
Zhuo Yifan and I almost instinctively followed, I really wanted to ask the origin of the blood jade cicada in Mr. Zhao's hand, Zhuo Yifan also seemed to have a strong interest in the blood jade cicada, so he said that he should have ulterior motives.
"That's real, isn't it?" I trotted and asked Zhuo Yifan tentatively.
Zhuo Yifan made a shushing gesture at me and said, "You go back first." ”
"No, I want to go with it." I said this on purpose.
He pursed his lips and wanted to say something, but found that Mr. Zhao had already distanced himself from us, so he didn't have time to drive me back, just ran quickly.
Mr. Zhao is not tall, and he is still a small short-legged man, but his speed is amazingly fast.
Zhuo Yifan and I rushed out of the alley as fast as we could, and saw the man get into a taxi, and we followed closely behind him to catch up with him.
"Zhuo Yifan, that jade cicada is a good thing, right? Do you know where it came from? What dynasty? Sitting in the car, I poked my head out of the window and asked Zhuo Yifan.
Zhuo Yifan was also looking at the taxi in front of him, and replied impatiently: "Little fart, what do you do when you ask so much, let me tell you, in a while, I will talk to him alone, and you will wait for me outside his house." ”
Zhuo Yifan had already begun to think about it, I didn't make a sound in my mouth, thinking in my heart, knowing the person's residence, after Zhuo Yifan took care of his affairs, I would definitely ask about the blood jade cicada alone.
The taxi in front stopped in front of an extremely dirty and crowded shantytown after more than an hour of driving.
Taxis in this place can't be squeezed in, so we also got out of the car and stared at Mr. Zhao from a distance.
Mr. Zhao walked forward with his body bent and holding the baby, and at the same time looked around from time to time, and the thief's eyebrows and rat eyes did not look like a good person.
Because the shantytowns were criss-crossed, it was very disorganized, and we had some difficulty following them, and Mr. Zhao disappeared from our sight several times.
"Hurry up Zhuo Yifan." I couldn't help but look back and urge.
Zhuo Yifan didn't know when there was already a small flashlight in his hand, shining ahead.
"Zhuo Yifan, it's about to close, and you're not afraid of being discovered?" I lowered my voice to remind him.
"No, I, I, I'm a little afraid of the dark." As he spoke, his face suddenly sank: "Fat Nine, what about people?" ”
"Huh?" Our attention was attracted by Zhuo Yifan, and I completely lost Mr. Zhao in front of me.
"Stinky boy, don't come with you, you have to come." Zhuo Yifan said that the pace under his feet sped up a little, and I was also very annoyed.
After following Zhuo Yifan forward for about a hundred meters, three twisted paths appeared.
Zhuo Yifan shook his head and sighed in frustration.
I squinted my eyes and searched for Mr. Zhao's shadow in these dim paths.
"There." I pointed to the first road on the right and said to Zhuo Yifan.
Zhuo Yifan raised the flashlight and shone it in that direction, but as a result, this light attracted Mr. Zhao's attention, he turned his head, saw the two of us, and ran away.
"Mr. Zhao, don't run, I want to talk to you!" Zhuo Yifan shouted and chased out, and I followed.
Mr. Zhao seemed to be afraid that we would snatch his treasure, like a mouse flying in the path.
Although I didn't run as fast as him and Zhuo Yifan, my eyes saw it really, and after running with him for ten minutes, I found that he was taking us around the bend, so I hurriedly told Zhuo Yifan to slow down, and finally hid behind a corner.
Mr. Zhao thought that we had lost it, but he gasped violently in the dark, and looked around for a long time before walking towards a small four-story building that was already a little crooked.
Zhuo Yifan and I waited for him to walk a few steps away, and hurriedly followed, this small building is dark from one to four floors, Zhuo Yifan signaled me not to follow the upstairs province to be discovered, as long as you look at which floor the light is on, you will know where he lives after a while.
"Hmm." I nodded, tilting my head to look up at the building.
In less than a minute, I saw the light on the left side of the third floor turn on, and I was signaling Zhuo Yifan to go up, but the next second, the light went out again.
It was as if the lights had just blinked, and everything was dark again.
"What's the situation?" Zhuo Yifan muttered: "Fat Jiu, you are watching here, I'll go up and take a look." ”
"I'll go with you." I stared at the window on the third floor and saw a bald man flash through the window.
The bald man's face seemed to have blood! It was only for a moment, but I could see it clearly.
"Zhuo Yifan is in danger, let's call the police first!" I grabbed Zhuo Yifan and said.
"What's dangerous, he's so big, I can level him out with one hand." After Zhuo Yifan finished speaking, he rushed into the corridor without hesitation.
I couldn't stop him, so I had to follow him.
There was a smell of urine in this corridor, and I guessed that there were often people urinating directly here, so I covered my mouth and nose and ran up quickly.
By the time I reached the third floor, Zhuo Yifan had already entered, the door was not closed, and I could already smell a smell of blood that made me tremble.
It smelled exactly the same as the smell in my father's room when he died.
I hesitated for a few seconds before I gritted my teeth and took a step forward, and saw Zhuo Yifan, like me, standing in a daze, looking at the five corpses on the ground that had been dissected and miserable, he froze in place, as if he was shocked.
"Zhuo, Zhuo, Zhuo Yifan?" I screamed, my heart pounding, because, in the darkness, I also saw that Mr. Zhao's head was on the corner of the table, and he was staring at me with wide eyes.
I wanted to go in and pull Zhuo Yifan out, but as soon as I lifted my foot, I stepped on a viscous liquid under my feet, which was half-dried blood, and the five corpses were lined up one after another, among which there were two old men, who should be Mr. Zhao's parents, and a woman, possibly his wife.
The other two are children, who are only five or six years old, and the murderer is such a young child, he is simply not human.
I watched this scene and thought of my family, whether my grandmother would have died so miserably.
Zhuo Yifan stood stunned for a while, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, only to see him squat down and take a look at the abdomen of the dissected corpse in front of him.
"Click, click."
At this time, under the corridor, there was a faint sound of footsteps, and there was also the sound of people talking.
"If Lao Zhao still dares to drag on and not pay back the money, we won't be soft and give him some hardship."
After a man finished speaking, several people behind him responded.
I was immediately stupid, and instinctively turned around and went into the house, and closed the door.
"Zhuo Yifan, someone came up to find Mr. Zhao!" I lowered my voice and said to Zhuo Yifan.
Zhuo Yifan was stunned for a moment, stood up and walked in the direction of the window inside, it is impossible to jump down this floor, even if he doesn't die, he will have to cut off his hands and feet.
"Go hide in your room." Zhuo Yifan pulled me and found a room at random and went in, but in this room, except for a bed and a small wardrobe, there was no place to hide at all.
Hiding in the closet, it is too conspicuous, as long as the people who come in outside can find us by rummaging through it at will.
"Hide under the bed." After Zhuo Yifan finished speaking, he lay down first and slowly moved under the bed, and the flashlight was turned off instantly.
"Poof!" With a bang, the door outside was kicked open in an instant, and I hurriedly lay down and moved under the bed.
"Ahh There was a scream outside, and I shuddered.
Zhuo Yifan was silently looking at me with his neck sideways at the moment, while I was looking at Zhuo Yifan's left, and there was still a person lying on his left.
I squinted and saw that the man's hair was dry and yellowish, and his face was pale, presumably a dead woman.
Zhuo Yifan leaned desperately towards me, and the people outside must not be good people, when they saw the murder, they didn't want to call the police, but began to rummage through the cabinets to find valuable things.
In the conversation with those people, I came to a conclusion, that Mr. Zhao should be playing cards, lost a lot of money, these people grace the day came, so they came to the door to collect debts, and now seeing Mr. Zhao's family died tragically, they thought that Mr. Zhao still owed money to other creditors, so they were hacked to death.
Now that the matter has come to this, they can only find something valuable to take with them.
It's just that their banging sound has already alarmed the neighbors on the left and right, and those neighbors called the police, hearing the roar of the police car, these people were originally messing around.
I heard them shouting for a run or something, and then the footsteps were gone.
Zhuo Yifan hurriedly pushed me out from under the bed and crawled out, turned on the flashlight in horror and shone it under the bed, his eyes widened in shock.
It was indeed a female corpse underneath, and a large area of spots appeared on her face.
I've seen this kind of spot when I was a child, and when the old man in the village dies, he will have this kind of spot on his face and body, and my father said it was a corpse spot.
The woman must have been dead for days, but no wounds were seen on her body.
"Let's go quickly, the police will come up and won't be able to leave." Zhuo Yifan saw that I was still in a daze, so he dragged me and walked outside.
As soon as I stepped into the living room, we heard movement in the hallway, and Zhuo Yifan reacted quickly and dragged me back into the room.
It's over, those policemen are here, won't they treat me and Zhuo Yifan as murderers?
When he was scorching, there was a strange "bang" sound in the room, as if someone was slapping the wooden plank hard.
But the walls are all lime cement, where did the wooden planks come from?
Suddenly, I thought of the bed board, and Zhuo Yifan almost looked down at the bottom of the bed, thinking if it could be a corpse?