Following that feeling, I took two steps back, looked up, and a figure flashed away from the window on the fourth floor.

"Brother, what's wrong?" The fat man noticed my strangeness and looked back and asked.

"It's fine!"

Withdrawing my gaze, I surveyed my surroundings.

Due to the passage of time, the walls of the six buildings in Qingyang Community have basically fallen off cleanly, the blue-red walls are exposed, the side aisle stairs are also mottled, and the railings in several places have been completely rotten.

The entire Qingyang community, from the inside to the outside, exudes a sense of decay.

Entering the corridor, the walls are covered with all kinds of small advertisements, graffiti, and the handrails are wooden, the patent leather has long been peeled off, and there are burrs in some places.

At the corner of the staircase from the second to the third floor, a piece of broken furniture was piled up with dust, and the already narrow corridor looked even more cramped.

Walking up, there were mold spots on the walls, revealing a musty smell.

"It's bad enough." The fat man muttered.

Xiao Yu stiffened his face, frowned, and didn't say anything.

Little Black was lying on my neck, like a black scarf, snoring, and the thing was asleep.

When I came to the fourth floor, I paused for a moment and stared at the iron door with the word Fu on it for a long time before continuing to walk up.

The fifth floor is the top floor, the first floor has three households, and Zhou Ming's house is in the middle.

"I don't have a key!"

Xiao Yu looked at the door, and a hint of frustration flashed in his eyes.

"I'm coming!"

The fat man happily took out a wire, inserted it along the keyhole, and stabbed it twice, and the door lock clicked and opened.

"Enter, enter!"

The fat man opened the door, and his fat face was full of pride.

Little Black suddenly woke up, as if frightened, put himself on my shoulder, and ran into the house.

We all walked in, and Zhou Ming's home was cleaner than I expected.

The floor is undecorated, it is pitch black cement floor, and there is an old-fashioned sofa in the living room, the sofa cushions are gray and white, and it is very clean.

After the living room, it is the bathroom.

The door was open, and inside there was an old-fashioned Haier water heater, the wash basin was not too deep, porcelain white, and it was also very clean.

Above the washbasin is a mirror, there are sporadic spots on the mirror, which should have been splashed when washing the face, but not much, it can be seen, and the owner often wipes it.

"Can such a broken basin drown someone?" The fat man asked, pointing to the washbasin.

"Can't!" The little fish shook his head.

"There's got to be something here!" The fat man's eyes began to light again.

No need for fat people to say, everyone knows that it is not normal.

"You don't check such an obvious loophole?" I asked.

"How do you check?"

Xiao Yu asked rhetorically, "Except for the police, there is no information about the third person at the scene, fingerprints, footprints, all of them, the deceased has no signs of resistance, there are no external injuries on his body, and the surrounding neighbors have not found any abnormalities, how can you let us check?" ”

The fat man was silent.

The atmosphere was awkward again.

Xiao Hei walked in between the two of us, went straight to the floor drain, lowered his head, and looked intently, as if he was looking at someone.

"We checked the floor drain, only the hair of the deceased, and found nothing else." Seeing this, Xiao Yu said.

Xiao Hei glanced back at Xiao Yu, with a hint of sarcasm in his coffee-colored pupils, his claws raised, the sharp claw blades popped out, hooked the floor drain, and pulled down again, and took it out again, with an iron ring in the heart of the claw.

"What's that?"

I crouched down to pick up the hoop and looked at it closely.

The iron ring is not big, just buckled in the floor drain, it is a bright color, there is not much rust, it should have been put down recently.

The inner ring has a pattern, but it is not very clear, it looks like it should have been carved with a knife, much like the picture of a person being tortured, the pattern is a human figure bowing down, and the head of the person is covered with a circle of water lines, exactly like the posture of the deceased.

"Brother, show me!" The fat man leaned over and said.

I gave the iron ring to the fat man, looked down at Xiao Hei, who gave me a look, and walked out, and I immediately followed.

Xiao Hei came to the living room and pointed to the coffee table in front of the sofa, which was an old-fashioned wooden coffee table, and it was empty.

"What do you mean?" I asked, looking down.

Xiao Hei rolled his eyes, walked over and stretched out his claws to point to the back of the coffee table, I suddenly realized, walked over and turned the coffee table over, the back of the coffee table, also engraved with a painting.

It's just that compared to the iron ring, the painting on it is clearer and richer.

There were five people on it, and one of them was exactly the same as the picture on the hoop.

The remaining four were those with sharp blades stuck into their chests, those whose bodies were pierced by a wooden stick, those who had been planted in pots, and those who lay in flame-like flowers.

"What's this?" The fat man asked.

"Meow!"

I shook my head, and Blackie screamed again, waving his paw for me to follow him.

Putting down the coffee table, I followed Xiao Hei to the kitchen, Xiao Hei pointed to the dining table and stool, I went over to look, the back of the dining table and stool, also the same pattern.

The dining table is large and has a full pattern, and the stool is small with one or two patterns.

After reading the dining room, Xiao Hei took me to the bedroom again.

Two bedrooms, one of which was empty, had only one bed, an old-fashioned iron bed topped with wooden planks.

As expected, on the back of the wooden board, too, are those drawings.

The other bedroom, where Zhou Ming lived, had a wardrobe and a computer desk, on which the pictures were also engraved.

"Is this man sick?"

After reading this, the fat man shouted.

"Use your brain!"

I pointed to the pattern on the back of the computer desk that I turned over and said, "The one with a sharp blade in the chest represents the death of metal, which can be regarded as a golden punishment; If the body is pierced by a wooden stick, it can be regarded as wooden torture; Those surrounded by flames under the body can be seen as burning at the stake; Those buried in the basin can be regarded as earth punishment, and the rest is waterboarding. ”

"Five punishments." The fat man blurted out.

"Meow!" Xiao Hei showed a look that was not too stupid.

"What are the five punishments?" Xiaoyu asked.

"The five ways of death engraved on it are to die by a sharp blade, which is gold, to die by a stick, to die is wood, to drown is water, to burn is to die, and to bury is to bury, that is, the five punishments of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth."

The fat man stretched out five carrot-thick fingers and counted them one by one, "It is said that someone can use these five criminal laws to create powerful ghosts, which is commonly known as the five punishment ghosts, but the five criminal laws are only circulated in wild history and legends, are we so lucky this time that we have encountered the real one?" ”

The more the fat man spoke, the lower his voice became, and the expression on his face kept changing, sometimes frightened, sometimes excited.

"In other words, four more people will die, won't they?" The little fish reacted immediately.

"It stands to reason that it is, but at the moment, it seems that something is wrong." I said.

Longmen City is a fifth-tier small city, with eight streets under its jurisdiction and a permanent population of about 200,000.

There is a prerequisite for creating five punishment ghosts, once it starts, you can't stop it, but after so many days, only one Zhou Ming died, which is obviously wrong.

"What if it doesn't go wrong?" Xiaoyu asked.

"If nothing goes wrong, people will die." I replied.

As soon as the words fell, a crisp bell rang.

Xiao Yu took out his mobile phone, nodded again and again after connecting it, and his face changed.

"There's a homicide on West Erdao Street, and I'm going to go for an autopsy."

Putting down the phone, Xiaoyu said in a deep voice.

"Grass, do you want to be so coincidental?" The fat man's face was incredible.

"I'll send you there!"

I sighed to myself, and like the fat man, I felt a little too coincidental.

"Hmm!"

Xiao Yu nodded, didn't say anything, and walked out with a gloomy face.

After walking a few steps out of the building, the feeling of being stared at returned, and I looked back and that feeling disappeared again.

Sending the small fish to the scene, the fat man and I didn't leave, waiting for the small fish outside.

Exploring the site, examining the corpse, pulling the corpse to the morgue, and when everything was done, I saw Xiaoyu again, and it was already dark.

After only a few hours of separation, Xiaoyu's face became even worse, and after getting into the car, she said directly: "The preliminary judgment is that he died by suicide, and he was killed with a knife and pierced into the heart." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yu hesitated.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"What is a little strange is that judging from the blood stains on the ground, the time of death is more than three days, but the time of death when the body is revealed is no more than eight hours."

Xiao Yu said with a gloomy face.