"I'm sorry ma'am, I'm a detective, here's my business card, the one in the back is my assistant, we're assisting the Sheriff's Department in investigating a case, I have a few questions for you."

Jiang Chenchuan lied calmly, regardless of how cold the atmosphere of the conversation was.

The wife did not respond, her eyes lowered, as if she was thinking about something.

"Ma'am, if you don't cooperate, it won't be me next time, and you don't want to see the whole neighborhood surrounded by mounted police."

Under Jiang Chenchuan's words, his wife was a little shaken, and she was silent for two seconds before she said in a hoarse voice:

"Come in."

The door opened, and it was dark, not even a light was on.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Detective, there may be a power outage in the house."

The wife groped for the wall and walked inside, took out an oil lamp out of nowhere, lit it quietly, and put it on the table.

The light flickered, looking around in the faint light, and finally stopped before entering the living room.

The door behind it was still open, and only the moonlight sprinkled on the floor, like a layer of bright silver light.

"Where's your child?"

His wife's movements slammed, she tilted her head to look at Jiang Chenchuan, in the dark, this posture looked extremely weird.

I only heard her reply in the dark: "Sleep upstairs." ”

"Went to bed so early."

Jiang Chenchuan followed her words, as if he didn't notice the strangeness in the house, and the faint strange smell in the air.

"Yes, the child is small, and she has to go to school tomorrow, and I feel that she is not in good spirits in the past two days, so I told her to rest early, and I am also for her good, otherwise why should I care about her......"

At the mention of children, the wife began to babble on and on, as if this kind of verbosity was a common problem of mothers.

Jiang Chenchuan ignored her words, but observed the environment in the house in this short conversation, and quickly came to a rough result.

Married, a family of three, should have given birth to a girl, and the overall living conditions are good......

He picked up a photo frame casually, pointed to the man snuggling up to his wife in the photo, and said:

"Where's your husband? Haven't gotten off work yet? ”

"I'm off work, and I'm upstairs to put the kids to sleep." His wife cleaned up the mess in the living room and invited Jiang Chenchuan to take a seat, but he waved his hand and refused.

"No, I'd like to meet Karen."

Jiang Chenchuan had a whim.

"He's very busy, and he still has to work after coaxing the children, so it's good to ask me any questions directly."

As soon as she heard that Jiang Chenchuan wanted to see her husband, she became a little anxious.

"Is it from here to go upstairs?"

As if he hadn't heard her words, Jiang Chenchuan picked up the oil lamp, moved to the side of the stairs by himself, and as soon as he finished speaking, he strode onto the stairs.

Problematic!

There is definitely a problem here.

The second floor was even darker and more silent than below, as if no one existed, and the uncomfortable smell filled the air, seeing Jiang Chenchuan running upstairs, his wife panicked all of a sudden, and she anxiously followed.

"Wow."

The sound of footsteps going upstairs was unusually noisy in the silence.

With the light of the oil lamp, the doors on the second floor were opened one by one.

There was not even a single piece of furniture in the empty room, and when the door opened, it kicked up dust all over the sky.

"Mr. Detective, please leave my house immediately!" The wife said loudly in the staircase, and the shrill voice even caught Yulia's attention outside.

She looked at the pitch-black door vigilantly, paying attention to the movement in the room, the darkness was like a hollow that would devour humans, leaving Jiang Chenchuan inside forever.

"Mr. Ewell...... It's going to be fine, right? Yulia muttered to herself worriedly.

"Bang-"

Jiang Chenchuan opened the last door on the second floor, and the room that he didn't think was at all turned out to be a different scene.

The room was warmly furnished, with a small oil lamp lit, and in the beating light, Neng Karen sat at the head of the bed, patting the quilt gently with one hand, and in the quilt, their daughter's lovely and peaceful sleeping face was revealed.

Jiang Chenchuan stopped in place.

"Mr. Detective, you are so unreasonable!"

Then the wife who came here whispered angrily.

Hearing the movement, Karen looked up at Jiang Chenchuan, his eyes widened, he raised his index finger to his mouth, and then looked at the little girl, signaling to be quiet, not to make noise until his daughter sleeps.

"Sorry to interrupt."

Completely different from the expected situation, Jiang Chenchuan sincerely and quietly apologized to Karen and his wife.

"Please leave immediately!"

As soon as the door was closed, the wife immediately said sternly.

"I'm sorry, but my investigation isn't over yet."

I was about to turn around and go downstairs, but before I had taken two steps, I felt something kick at my feet, and when I looked down on the ground, I saw something like a diary.

Jiang Chenchuan bent down and picked up the notebook.

"What is this?"

"I don't know, let's go! Mr. Detective, don't ask any more. ”

The wife couldn't help but urge.

"Okay, if I leave now, can I take this?" Jiang Chenchuan waved the notebook in his hand.

"Yes, you can, whatever you want." His wife's patience seemed to have been exhausted, and she urged anxiously.

On the dark Belfa Street, there are only sporadic lights, and most of the residences are without electricity, like the Karlen house.

Yulia looked at the time, Jiang Chenchuan had been in for a while, and there was no news until now.

After thinking for a while, she pushed open the door of the courtyard, and when she was about to get closer, she saw a light floating, and after a while, Jiang Chenchuan walked out of the door.

"Mr. Ewell......"

The words are not finished yet.

The door behind it slammed mercilessly shut.

Frightened, Yulia shrunk her neck, and she leaned closer and asked weakly:

"Mr. Ewell, has there been any investigation?"

"Let's take a look at this first."

Jiang Chenchuan grabbed the diary in his hand and opened it to see that the notes were immature, probably written by Karen's lovely daughter.

Yulia held an oil lamp and illuminated the contents of the diary:

"Friday, when I went home, I didn't see my grandfather, he used to always stay on the second floor, sitting by the window in a daze, staying all day, my mother told me, grandpa is sick, I want to go to the hospital for treatment, recently I have learned a lot of new knowledge in school, and when grandpa comes back, I want to share it with him......"

"On Monday, there was a treasure chest in Grandpa's room, and it seemed to be a very expensive treasure in the box, and Mom liked it very much, but Grandpa didn't want to give it to Mom, he said, he wanted to leave that thing for me......"

"On Saturday, I secretly went to see my grandfather and used my pocket money to buy him his favorite fruit, but when I was at the door, I saw my mother take off my grandfather's instrument, and my grandfather seemed to be in pain...... This is, what's wrong......"

"On Tuesday, my father told me that my grandfather had passed away, and I didn't understand the meaning of death, so my mother explained to me that it was someone who went far, far away, and went, and never came back......"

"Thursday, so sad...... My grandfather used to tell me stories before going to bed, and I liked my grandfather's stories so much that my parents ignored me......"

"Wednesday, I didn't fall asleep today, my parents quarreled again downstairs, so I had to run to my grandfather's room to sleep......"

"On Sunday, Mom is getting more and more unhappy, why, is it because I mentioned Grandpa? However, I feel that my grandfather is still there, and he is still by my side......"

"Wednesday, today Mom is weird, Dad is too, they're getting weird...... Why is that? ……”

"On Friday, I seemed to see grandpa in my room......"

……

Something came out through the paper.

Yulia felt that this was her first time on a mission, and she couldn't help but panic.

"Mr. Ewell!"

The diary behind it was wet and sticky to the touch, Jiang Chenchuan tore it lightly, and saw large pages of red bloodstains.