Chapter 3: Turnaround
Panic flashed on Zhang Yichi's face, and he looked around, the blood on the walls that could not be cleaned up, and the corpses that had not yet been hidden in the living room......
No matter who it is, you must not let it in!
He forced himself to regain his composure and got up to see through the cat's eye who was coming.
"Hello, Courier." A voice came from outside the door.
Zhang Yichi breathed a sigh of relief, glad that no acquaintance came to him. Since it's a courier, just pretend you're not at home. The door must not have been opened, because the bloodstains are too conspicuous. He also doesn't plan to try to get the courier to leave the delivery at the door, in case the other party has to sign face-to-face, or leave some other abnormal impression, the gain outweighs the loss.
After making such a decision, Zhang Yichi sat motionless on the sofa, waiting for the courier to leave on his own. However, the doorbell stopped ringing in a few dozen seconds, but he still didn't hear the sound of the courier coming downstairs, so he didn't act rashly.
Suddenly, a purely musical mobile phone rings! It turned out that the courier thought he was really not home, so he called!
Zhang Yichi hurriedly went to get the mobile phone on the coffee table, he subconsciously wanted to hang up the phone, but he immediately controlled himself.
He had faked the illusion that he was not at home, and although the phone ringing would definitely be heard by the courier outside the door, the phone ringing was not evidence that he was at home. On the contrary, once he hangs up, the illusion of not being at home will be self-defeating.
After careful consideration, Zhang Yichi put down the phone and stared at the phone screen.
For more than ten seconds, the phone was not connected, so the courier hung up the phone, and after a few seconds, he called again, and still no one answered. Soon, Zhang Yichi heard the sound of the courier coming downstairs.
"Whew......" With a long sigh of relief, Zhang Yichi got up and came to the small bedroom where the sundries were placed, standing sideways by the window, looking down.
Not long after, the courier walked out of the unit door, scratched his head and looked at the sixth floor where Zhang Yichi was in bewilderment. Worried about being seen by the courier, Zhang Yichi retracted his head, and at the same time, he saw the living room illuminated by the light.
His heart lifted again.
No wonder couriers are puzzled! It turns out that I forgot to turn off the lights! The cell phone rings in the room, the living room light is still on, and there are too many places to talk about. Zhang Yichi made a decision immediately, took out his mobile phone and called the courier back.
"Hello?" Zhang Yichi said as he walked to the living room, found the key and put it in his pocket.
"Is it Mr. Zhang? I just came to your house to deliver a courier to you, why didn't anyone open the door? The courier said suspiciously.
Zhang Yichi walked to the door and began to change his shoes: "I just went to sleep and woke up to see that I missed the phone." Have you gone far? ”
"No, I just came downstairs."
"Cheng, wait for me, I'll go downstairs and get it." Zhang Yichi put on his shoes, opened the door and went downstairs.
The courier hurriedly said: "No, no, I'll just go up again." With that, the courier walked into the corridor again.
Zhang Yichi was naturally not really polite, he deliberately went out to keep the family's secrets.
Soon, the two met in the hallway. The courier handed the receipt to Zhang Yichi, and after Zhang Yichi signed his name, he took a package of express delivery and went upstairs.
After entering the house, Zhang Yichi opened the courier and it was a new pair of shoes. He opened the shoe cabinet to put his shoes in, but the shoe cabinet was already full.
It seems that the former was a person who loved shoes very much. Zhang Yichi thought, and then tidied up the shoe cabinet again, making room for the shoes to be stuffed in. Then, Zhang Yichi came to the small bedroom again, stood by the window and looked down.
He'd been busy before, but now he finally had time to take a good look at the situation outside.
This is an old-fashioned neighborhood with seven floors per residential building, and each building has six units. There is a special parking area in front of the building, and in the corner of the parking area, a camera is set up, which is just at an angle to monitor all six unit doors.
"Leaning on the ......" Zhang Yichi is like falling into an ice cellar.
Everything just now went relatively smoothly, so smoothly that he took it for granted. He didn't realize that there were surveillance cameras in this community! Having a camera means that the police can easily find out that Lu Tao came to his house and did not go out, and having a camera means that he cannot carry Lu Tao's body away......
If the bloodstains on the wall are a trouble, then the surveillance camera almost directly announces Zhang Yichi's ending! He couldn't figure out how to get rid of the few fatal points that the surveillance camera had created for him!
Zhang Yichi returned to the living room and sat down with a gloomy face. A series of events caused him to suffer from constant shocks, and he realized that the difficulty of the task given to him by the mysterious force was beyond his ability, and he could not cope with such a scene.
The discomfort of all kinds of feelings mixed together made Zhang Yichi feel more uncomfortable than facing death.
After adjusting his mood again, Zhang Yichi took his mobile phone and keys and went out.
Since it is clear that difficulties will not disappear automatically and be solved automatically, it is better not to hesitate not to waste time, it is better to seize the time and meet it head-on!
The moment Zhang Yichi closed the door, there was a sense of uneasiness out of his comfort zone. He took a deep breath and turned to look at the occupant of his house, which didn't seem to be occupied, and the security door didn't even have a cat's eye.
Through the hole in the door where the cat's eye was to be installed, Zhang Yichi saw that the neighbor's living room had just been tiled, and it was still a mess, which seemed to be being renovated.
Generally, the decorator will not work too late, because the decoration is usually very quiet, and working too late will affect the rest of the surrounding residents. It's already past eight o'clock, and it is estimated that the decorator will be off work before seven o'clock. I didn't wake up until after seven o'clock, so I didn't hear anything loud outside.
Zhang Yichi recalled the scene when he 'killed' Lu Tao, which not only included his angry screams of Lu Tao, but also the sound of electric drills. Originally, he couldn't figure out why there was the sound of an electric drill, but now he knew that when he killed Lu Tao, it was estimated that the opposite side was being renovated. Fortunately, the sound of the electric drill drowned out everything that happened in their house, and did not expose this terrible scene early.
After a brief analysis, Zhang Yichi tiptoed up to the seventh floor of the top floor, where sundries and insoles were placed in front of the two anti-theft doors, which should be inhabited. On the other side, there is a steel ladder that climbs up to the rooftop, but unfortunately the door to the rooftop is locked.
Then he began to go downstairs, checking the floors to see if there were any occupants. After grasping this information that cannot be used at present, Zhang Yichi walked out of the unit door. He acted as casual as he could, and began to walk in one direction.
As he walked, he pretended to be bored and looked around, but actually quietly looked at the camera. When he walked to the main entrance of the community, Zhang Yichi was a little disappointed, because he found that there were cameras in front of each building, which made it impossible for him to avoid the cameras in front of their buildings even if he could try his best to avoid the cameras in front of them, he would inevitably be monitored by others.
This huge surveillance network made of cameras has become a haze hanging over his mind, and it is also the problem he wants to solve most urgently.
I went to the supermarket on the side of the main entrance of the community to buy some instant noodles, and Zhang Yichi carried a plastic bag and planned to continue to explore the periphery.
The cameras in the community are only limited to the inside, and only the sidewalks on the side of the road will appear every other section of the community.
Zhang Yichi boarded the overpass and came to the square opposite the community. Although it is close to half past eight, the flow of people here is still very large, and it is very lively, and there are already uncles and aunts dancing square dances.
He felt that there was no point in exploring this route, so he walked to the other side, bypassing the square along the sidewalk, and came to the vicinity of another neighborhood called Yonghe. The east side of the Yonghe community is the square, and the west side is a long and narrow forest, Zhang Yichi didn't know what was behind the woods, he only walked to the edge of the Yonghe community and didn't go further to investigate.
Zhang Yichi returned from the north side of his neighborhood to see his middle school again.
After figuring out the few important buildings around him, he entered the community. When he came to the front of the residential building where he was located, when he entered the unit door, Zhang Yichi suddenly stopped.
He found a door in the hallway! This door happened to be in the blind spot when he came out, and because he was all focused on the camera when he came out, he ignored it!