Chapter 4: A Blank Sheet of Paper
"About two months ago, when the mountain had just returned from you. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ali poured two glasses of water and put them on the table, recalling.
After Brother Dashan returned, his behavior became strange. Either go out for a few days and don't come back, or come back and go headlong into the house and don't know what to do. His face was not good at that time, and Ali didn't dare to ask, but he was very strange in his heart, knowing that he usually didn't like to stay alone in the house except for sleeping.
There are very few people in this villa, and they usually hire people to maintain and clean it on weekdays, except for a few friends, they usually live together.
Four days ago, Ali ordered takeaway and just delivered it, he shouted a few times and didn't hear a response, so he went upstairs to call Brother Dashan for dinner, walked to the door, and heard Brother Dashan's low roar.
“…… No way! I said no! Never tell anyone else! It's enough for a few of us to know, aren't you too much trouble? ”
Maybe he heard footsteps, there was no sound in the house, Ali knocked on the door and went in, and saw the anger on Brother Dashan's face that had not subsided, and couldn't help asking, "Dashan, what happened?" ”
He just kindly asked, who knew that Brother Dashan yelled at him: "It's okay!" What are you supposed to do, didn't you tell you not to come into my room?! ”
Ali said with a gloomy face: "I've been a brother for more than ten years, and I've never seen him so angry. ”
I wondered, what kind of secret Brother Dashan has even to tell his brother for more than ten years. Seeing Ali's sad appearance, I comforted him and said, "Maybe he's angry, just wait for the anger to subside." ”
Ali shook his head, "He was gone the next day after that, and I only picked up a cell phone in his house. ”
I hurriedly asked, "Have you looked for him?" For example, he usually likes to go to places. ”
He still shook his head, "I searched for three days, and I saw your phone number on the mobile phone call log, so I remembered to ask you." ”
I was lying on the sofa a little depressed, I haven't seen him all these years, Brother Dashan has a lot of secrets, and now even the contact information is broken, and even the brother he has been with him can't be found, let alone me.
After a long silence, I asked him if he could show me Brother Dashan's phone, he nodded, walked into a room, and came out with his phone a moment later.
I took the phone, the brand is Nokia, it's antique, I've seen it is indeed Brother Dashan's mobile phone.
Open the call logs, the dates are all these two days, I glanced at Ali, it seems that he should have called all the contacts on the phone.
I opened the mailbox again, there was not much information, the date interval was long, and the content was mostly nonsense. I read them one by one, and only the message from August 5th, a week ago, caught my attention.
"They're really coming!"
My hands trembled, who are they? Does it have anything to do with Brother Dashan's disappearance? I showed my phone to Ali.
Ali said: "I have also read this message, they should be those friends of Brother Dashan, I know almost everything, we often drink tea and chat together." ”
This message is marked as sent, it was sent by Brother Dashan, the other party is not in the contact, it is a string of unfamiliar numbers, and I didn't see the other party's reply.
I asked Ali if he recognized the number, and Ali said that he had called, and the other party had stopped working. I took out my phone and called it according to this number, and sure enough, I heard a shutdown prompt.
What the is going on? I'm a little confused, all the clues about Brother Dashan are broken, how to find him.
"It's not early, Brother Liu, you sleep first, the matter of the mountains is not in a hurry, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Ali patted me, I glanced at the time on my phone, it was almost twelve o'clock, so I nodded.
He took me to the room on the second floor, took a key from the top of the door and opened it. The room was spacious, neatly furnished, and I felt more comfortable in the bed than in the best hotel I've ever stayed in. I suddenly patted my head, I came in too much hurry, I forgot to bring the sedative, how can I sleep here.
Ali probably had already gone downstairs, I turned on the TV and turned up the volume, lying on the comfortable big bed, thinking back on today's experience, I suddenly found that something was wrong.
The feeling that something is wrong has appeared since I came to Tai'an City, where is it?
It must have something to do with Brother Dashan's disappearance, I thought about it for a long time, and the sound of the clicking in my ears and the sound of the TV seemed to be excluded by me.
It's Ali! The feeling that something is wrong comes from Ali!
Ever since he picked me up from the station, he has been very flat, as if he doesn't care much about Brother Dashan's disappearance. Since they have been brothers for more than ten years, he will definitely ask me about Brother Dashan, but until now, I have asked him that he has not asked me a word about Brother Dashan!
Since he didn't care, why was he in a hurry to call me over? What is his purpose? Could Brother Dashan's disappearance have anything to do with Ali?
The overhead light hit me, and I felt chills all overhead, as if there were countless hidden eyes watching my every move in the room.
I picked up my feet and walked slowly to the door, held my breath and listened for a moment, but there was no sound, so I quietly opened the door, and it was pitch black outside, except for a light shining from the room under my feet.
Ali said that he lived on the first floor at night, and there should be no one on the second floor, I remembered that he said that Brother Dashan lived in a room on the second floor, I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, turned on the lighting of my phone, and walked gently to the next door.
The door was not locked, I opened the door, looked inside, sure enough, there was no one, went in and turned on the light, the layout inside was similar to my one, I carefully looked around, the cabinets were empty, it seems that Brother Dashan's room should be on the left.
I put the items back in place, slammed the door behind me as I went out, and headed for the room on the left.
The door can't be opened, it should be locked, I thought about it, and touched the bottom of the door and the top edge of the door, but unfortunately I didn't touch anything, and I was a little depressed. After standing for a while, he turned around and went back to sleep, passing by the vase next to him, his heart moved, and he groped up and down, and sure enough, there was a bunch of keys pressed under a piece of paper at the bottom of the bottle.
Brother Dashan really inherited the atmosphere of the old Liu family, I smiled slightly, walked back to the door, and opened the door with the key.
After turning on the light, I couldn't help but curse in my heart, if it weren't for Brother Dashan's room, I would have poked myself in the eye.
At the head of the bed is a pack of opened Hongta Mountain and several magazines with sexy beauties on the cover, and half a stinky sock is exposed under the bed.
I carefully rummaged through the room, and I didn't let go of the bathroom inside, and even the half pack of cigarettes was poured out and checked one by one, and I didn't find any clues about Brother Dashan, I sighed, Ali estimated that he didn't know how many times to check, and everything was in his hands.
Do you want to ask him? I thought about it, I already had some doubts about Ali, I could test him.
I took a magazine in my hand, and it was full of beautiful women from Europe and the United States, all wearing small pieces of cloth that could only cover three o'clock.
"Huh?" I found a blank piece of paper in the magazine, and I just flipped it through and threw it on the bed, but I didn't find anything in it, and I took the other two magazines and flipped through them page by page, and I didn't find a single piece of paper except for the almost nosebleed.
I was worried about the thin white paper, was there any information hidden in it? Or did Brother Dashan put it inside?
I thought about it and thought about it, and I remembered the episode on TV, as if there was something written in fluorescent ink that could only be seen in the dark. Could this be that Brother Dashan didn't want others to see it, so he used this method to write his secret?
If that's the case, then Brother Dashan is too good at playing, I thought to myself.
I ran to turn off the light, looked in the direction of the bed, there was nothing, I said that he couldn't have this intelligence, I pouted, and was about to turn off the light, when suddenly I noticed something black in the window.
The weather was a little cloudy today, but there was still moonlight shining through the dark clouds, and the ground was clear just now, but now it seemed that something had covered a large part of it.
I looked intently out the window, and then my head boomed, my scalp tingled, and my hands and feet seemed to be frozen.
The black slimy is a figure!
The window was covered by a curtain, so I couldn't see what the figure looked like, but this was the second floor!
After a while, the figure remained motionless, and I was agitated, dragging my somewhat stiff legs, opened the door, and ran towards the first floor. I banged Ali's room, shouting.
"Ali! Ali! Come out of here! ”
The door opened, and Ali came out of the next room and turned on the hall light. He was wearing a vest, and when he looked at me with a frightened look, he was also anxious, "What's the matter, Brother Liu?" What's wrong? ”
I pointed to Brother Dashan's room on the second floor, stared at him with wide eyes and stammered: "Big, outside the window of Brother Dashan's room, there is a figure!" ”
Ali listened, went directly into the room where he had knocked on the door, came out with a kitchen knife, told me to stay here and don't move, and then quickly went out the door.
I poured a glass of water, sat down on the couch and drank it. When I calm down, my heart is not good!
That blank piece of paper!
I rushed to the second floor with the cup in hand, the door of Brother Dashan's room was still open, the curtains were gently fluttering in the wind, and the windows were wide open.
Someone broke the window into the house! What does he want to do? I saw that the magazines on the bed were turned around, and the socks under the bed were pulled out and thrown on the floor. I looked for it, and the blank piece of paper was gone!
I suddenly understood, the figure had climbed to the second floor, and when I was afraid to run downstairs, he pried open the window and came in and took the white paper.
It's all my fault, I was so scared that I forgot to take the blank paper and run again, I scolded myself, now it's okay, the only clue is gone.
I went downstairs with remorse, and ten minutes later, Ali came back, put the kitchen knife on the table, and scolded, "Damn it! Teach the thief to escape! Run fast, tell me to catch him and peel him off! ”
Wearing a vest and pants, the scolding Ali is no longer the extraordinary appearance when I first met, but it makes me feel more comfortable, maybe this is what he really looks like.
"Brother Liu, are you alright?"
I shook my head and said it was okay, but he still said apologetically: "The security here is very good, there are security guards patrolling at night, I didn't expect there to be thieves so bold." I'm sorry for scaring you. ”
I told him what was going upstairs, and when he heard it, his eyes became fierce, "I dare to rob here, I'm really a vegetarian." ”
As he spoke, he made a few phone calls and was about to go into the house and get dressed.
I saw that he was going out to catch the thief again, and I knew that this would not be done in a while, so I hurriedly grabbed him, "Brother Ali, the thief doesn't know where to go at this time, don't worry, I still have something to ask you." ”
He was pulled by me and wondered, "What's the matter?" As if he remembered something, he said, "By the way, what are you doing in Brother Dashan's house?" ”
I glanced at him and said, "Brother Dashan's life and death are uncertain, and I can't sleep, so I want to go to his room to find clues." ”
"But," Ali frowned, "there's nothing in Brother Dashan's house, what is that thief looking for?" ”
When I talked about the blank paper, he still shook his head, I observed that he didn't look like he was pretending, did he really not know the secret inside the blank paper?
"Brother Ali, didn't you find anything suspicious in Brother Dashan's room? Like a blank sheet of paper. I asked, incredulous.
Ali sighed, saying that he remembered, "In addition to finding his dropped mobile phone in the big mountain house, there are also a few pieces of waste paper in the trash can. ”
I was pleasantly surprised and hurriedly asked, "Where is the waste paper?" ”
He was a little embarrassed, "I saw that there was nothing on those waste papers, so I threw them in the garbage bin outside, and now I guess they have been incinerated." ”
I was disappointed, stopped talking, glanced at the time, it was past one o'clock in the morning, it was time to go to bed, and I would go back tomorrow. Brother Dashan is such a big person, he has a sense of what he does, and he has to wait for him to come back.
Ali suddenly patted his head and said to me: "I didn't throw away all the waste paper, I remember that there was a leak at the bottom of the vase in the corridor on the second floor, and I was too lazy to change it at the time, so I took a piece of waste paper and padd it underneath." It should still be there now. ”
My eyes lit up, wasn't that piece of paper under the vase of the key to Brother Zang Mountain's room?