Chapter 65: The Grave of Memory
It was an old photograph, and it looked like it was a certain year. Ye Yu bent down to pick up the photo, blew off the dust, and immediately noticed that this one was different from the other photos in the room.
This is still a group photo, the background of the picture seems to be the garden of the Zheng family's villa, but standing next to Zheng Qiu, it is not his wife, but a thin boy, holding Zheng Qiu's hand and smiling stupidly, looking no more than ten years old.
This is...... Zheng Qiu's son? Ye Yu just came up with this idea, and then he was denied by himself.
No, that's not right...... Zheng Qiu's hair in the photo is gray, it should have been taken when he was fifty or sixty years old, at that time Zheng Qiu's children were all adults, and the grandchildren were not so old, what is this...... Wait, why do I think this photo looks a little familiar?
Ye Yu held up the photo in front of him and looked at it carefully, but he still couldn't find a clue, but vaguely felt that he seemed to have seen this photo, but he couldn't remember where he saw it.
"Why are you so fascinated?" Seeing Ye Yu staring at the piece of paper in his hand in a daze, Liang Yunxiao also came over.
"Hmm...... Nothing, just a photo. Ye Yu thought about it for a long time and still didn't have an answer, so he casually handed the photo to Liang Yunxiao. Almost all of them are photos of Zheng Qiu and his wife, only this one is a photo with a boy, although I don't know the identity of the boy, but since Zheng Qiu has collected the photo here, it should be someone close to him, right? ”
Liang Yunxiao took the photo and glanced at it, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, but it was fleeting and quickly returned to normal.
"Having said that, Zheng Qiu has kept so many photos, it seems that his feelings for his wife are really deep......" Ye Yu looked around the small room full of photos and sighed softly.
"Hehe, how many memories can be recorded by relying on photos, besides, no matter how deep the feelings are, no matter how beautiful the memories are, they will gradually deteriorate and fade with time, don't you think Zheng Qiu will continue to play the strings later?" Liang Yunxiao put down the photo in his hand, his eyes swept over the photo wall, his eyes were as calm as a lake, and people couldn't see joy and sorrow. "Once people return to the loess, the carrier of memory disappears together, and these things have no meaning, not so much as a storehouse of memory, but a tomb of memory."
Hearing that Liang Yunxiao suddenly became "literary", this made Ye Yu feel a little uncomfortable, but after a little recollection of the other party's words, he felt that this point of view was a little too pessimistic.
"Hmm...... I think that even if these things seem worthless to others now, for Zheng Qiu, they are treasures that carry his good memories, although these memories have dissipated with Zheng Qiu's death, but at least he also found solace in these photos when he was alive, didn't he? ”
Liang Yunxiao turned his head and looked at Ye Yu lightly, and after a long time, he smiled: "I really envy you a little bit for being able to live so simple." Then he looked away, accompanied by a soft sigh: "If I can really get comfort, maybe I will forget those good memories that I can't relive anymore." ”
Ye Yu was about to say something more, but he saw Liang Yunxiao turn around and walk to the back of the room, obviously without the intention of continuing to discuss this topic, so he also gave up. Looking in the direction of Liang Yunxiao's travel, Ye Yu found that on the wall in the middle of the room, there was a hidden wooden door, which seemed to lead to another space.
"Let's go, there's no clue here, go inside." Liang Yunxiao pointed to the wooden door and signaled to Ye Yu, then pushed the wooden door open and walked in.
Ye Yu walked to the door, and finally glanced back at the room. The smile of the deceased is quietly sealed in the old photographs, looking bleak and desolate.
Graveyard of Memory...... Is it?
Ye Yu shook his head, sighed, and left the room.
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Behind the wooden door is a dark, spiral-shaped concrete passage that winds its way downward, flanked by simple sconces at intervals, which are dimly lit but at least better than nothing.
There are no forks in the passageway, and occasionally a few small cubicles appear on either side, which seem to be the place where the collection is kept, but now the collection has long since been taken away, and only empty iron shelves are left in the compartments. Ye Yu and Liang Yunxiao explored along the way, but unfortunately there were no clues; During the march, I didn't see You Yong and Xu Yanwei appearing.
The spiral passage became wider and wider, and the two of them came to the end before they knew it, and what appeared at the bottom of the passage was a dark red iron door about two meters high.
"It seems that there is no other way." Ye Yu looked around and found that there was only one exit to this passage, and this exit was the big iron gate in front of him.
Liang Yunxiao stepped forward to observe for a moment, and then stretched out his hand and flicked it lightly on the surface of the iron door. Finely shredded rust cascaded down, and it appeared that the dark red color on it was caused by the rust on the surface of the iron door. Then he knocked lightly on the door a few more times, carefully pressing his ear close to the door and listening, the iron door made a hollow echo under the knock, and there seemed to be another space behind the door.
"This door is so rusty, can it be opened?" Ye Yu also stepped forward and tried to push, but the iron door did not move at all, and it seemed to have a certain thickness.
Liang Yunxiao got up, patted the rust on his hands, and looked up at the iron door again. Although it is rusty, some European patterns can still be seen on the iron door, and there seems to be an English sentence engraved in the middle of the door, but unfortunately it is too corroded to be recognizable.
"This door doesn't look locked from the outside, but based on the previous situation, it is likely that there is also a door opening mechanism hidden nearby, and we have to look for it, and only by opening this door can we enter other rooms." Liang Yunxiao speculated.
Ye Yu nodded, and then suddenly thought of something. "Didn't you use your hearing to figure out the combination lock mechanism before? Do you want to try it again this time? ”
"Hey, you really think I'm a hound?" Liang Yunxiao pursed his lips and glanced at Ye Yu. "Not all of them can be heard by hearing, at least not here I hear the sound of electricity or mechanical levels turning."
In desperation, the two gathered in front of the iron gate again to observe carefully, hoping to find the hidden mystery. Unfortunately, no matter how you look at it, this door seems to be ironclad, not only does it not have any holes, but it is even very close to the concrete wall, and there is not even a crack in the door.
The two even thought of slamming the door, but they were afraid of startling the snake, so they had to give up, and after a busy circle, they still found nothing.
"It seems that the mechanism here is not simple......" Ye Yu looked at the iron gate blocked in front of him in disappointment, puzzled. You say, if You Yong and Xu Yanwei also entered this building, how did they know the location of the agency? After all, they don't have the same great hearing as you. ”
"Quite simply, one of them should already know the location of the building." Liang Yunxiao replied as he groped for something on both sides of the passage.
"What do you mean...... At least one of them knows the house's secrets? Ye Yu frowned and moved his gaze to Liang Yunxiao.
"Hehe, haven't you figured it out yet? In fact, the real culprit of this series of events is probably among those two people, or ...... Both of them are. Liang Yunxiao snorted softly and said coldly.
"What!? Isn't it a third party hiding in the shadows? Hearing Liang Yunxiao's judgment, Ye Yu's eyes couldn't help but widen in surprise.
"Think about it, we haven't seen the so-called third party from beginning to end, and Xu Yanwei and You Yong are two adults after all, it is impossible for them to be brought into the building by the murderer without any resistance; Taking a step back, even if they stumbled upon the building's mechanism while we were on our way to the restaurant, they wouldn't have sneaked in without notifying us and sneaking in on their own, especially if someone had already died. ”
"We hadn't heard anything outside in the restaurant before, so ...... If it weren't for the fact that one of the two of them had attacked the other and then brought them into the secret passage of the building; If it weren't for the fact that both of them entered the building on their own. Hiss...... Wait a minute...... Wasn't Zhou Hao still there at that time? Could it be that he threatened the other two? Ye Yu suddenly thought of a situation.
"Again, it is impossible for the three of them to clash without movement, and besides, we were not far from them at the time." Liang Yunxiao calmly analyzed. "According to my guess, maybe Zhou Hao left the team on his own at that time, although I don't know why he appeared on the balcony and was attacked and killed, but it can be judged from this point that the person who murdered Zhou Hao must be his acquaintance, or even someone he couldn't think of at all, otherwise it is impossible for Zhou Hao to have no resistance, and his body has no traces of fighting except for the knife on his hand."
"In the construction team, it is still the person Zhou Hao is familiar with in this house...... Then only You Yong and Xu Yanwei are left! Ye Yu was stunned, but then he suddenly realized a contradiction.
"Wait a minute, it's still not right, who attacked Xu Yanwei outside the kitchen in the first place? Everyone else was with us at that time, and we judged that there was a third party in the room based on that......"
"What if Xu Yanwei lied?" Without waiting for Ye Yu to finish speaking, Liang Yunxiao threw out an astonishing hypothesis. "What if everything he was attacked was directed and acted by him? Have you found that in the entire death notice letter, the only thing that did not actually succeed was to cut your throat, even if Chen Tao's death later seemed to make up for this, but in fact it was in the wrong order, Chen Tao was first hacked to death and then hanged down, and the brain marrow of Ru was reversed to the front than the throat of Ru, and the murderer had been killing people in strict accordance with the order in the warning letter, and this situation seemed to be covered. ”
"You said that Xu Yanwei hanged himself, is there any evidence?" Ye Yu asked.
"The evidence is the rope that was hanging him at the time." Liang Yunxiao took out a rope from his pocket as if he were juggling. "I found marks of a knife cut on it, and this rope can't bear the weight of an adult at all, so I deliberately kept it at that time."
Ye Yu took the rope and looked at it, and sure enough, he found that there were several sections that had been cut by two-thirds.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier when you found out about the problem?"
Ye Yu held the rope and leaned against the wall next to him with some dissatisfaction, squinting at Liang Yunxiao. However, the moment Ye Yu leaned against the wall, he suddenly felt that a cement brick behind him slowly collapsed, and at the same time, the ground began to shake slightly.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and then realized something.
"Not good!!"
Before they could react, their feet suddenly loosened, and they saw a big hole in the cement floor, and the two who couldn't dodge instantly fell into the dark passage. ↗ Search for "basket ★ color ★ book ★ bar" in the browser, and you can read it in a new chapter