Chapter 8: The Past and Lost and the Investigator
"You...... I'm the student you gave the postcard during the day today. ”
Chen Qing frowned and explained to the other end of the phone, but the policewoman's face was still strange.
"Of course I do, but that's not what I'm asking you about! I asked you who stole the school surveillance probe! You said you were the last one to leave! ”
Chen Ci was silent for a long time, and the document in his hand was a little wrinkled.
"I have a clue, can you come to school? I'm waiting for you at the school gate. ”
"School? Now? The voice on the other end of the line paused for a moment, but finally agreed.
"I'll be here in half an hour."
Chen Qing nodded and sat back down at the table.
Just half an hour later, a figure hurried from the side of the road towards the school gate.
Chen Qing raised his eyes and saw that the tired appearance could only be the person he was still waiting for.
"Here." He waved and shouted to the policeman.
"I hope you really have a clue to tell me. I pushed off my rare vacation and I was really tired. She sat down hurriedly, her hair a little messy around her ears.
"I hope you can repeat the case again."
She frowned and looked at Chen Qing.
"I'm serious."
"I'm serious too."
Chen Qing looked at her and put the drink in his hand in front of her: "I won't wait here for half an hour for the police, just for fun." Breaking the law. ”
She looked at the young man in front of her and nodded silently.
"I received a report last night that all the cameras in your school were destroyed, and according to the records in the cameras, you were the last person to be photographed."
"What did you shoot me?"
The policeman was silent for a moment, his fingertips clenching his drink.
"I've photographed you on the rooftop, talking to somewhere empty.
Caught you in the hallway, smearing the walls with blood from your forehead. ”
"But it can't be true, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting with you. At least not that; We'll have to change the scene at the very least. ”
"But it's so bizarre...... That's why I'm willing to give up my personal time. Jiang Wan put down the drink and put her hand in her pocket.
But listening to her words, Chen Qing smiled: "Then do you know that in my memory, this is not the reason and purpose for you to find me and give me a personal phone." ”
"What do you mean?!"
Chen Qing shook his head: "The first point is that the monitoring dead ends in our school are thirty meters forward from the west wall, under the parking shed on the east side, and under the camera at the back of the teaching building. ”
"What do you want to say?"
"If that's really me, then you can't see me."
He pointed to the camera at the school gate: "Second: it's easy to fake a piece of surveillance, especially for this kind of ...... Not very professional security room in terms of. I wonder if you've analyzed what your camera captures? ”
Jiang Wan frowned, and the hand in her pocket seemed to sweat a few drops.
"Of course we did the analysis! There are no cuts and adjustments in the whole film! This! ”
"Even the resolution?" He looked at Jiang Wan's eyes in front of him, bent forward, and lay on the table.
"This ...... Of course it's the same! How could it be......" She wanted to say how could it be different, but before the words could be spoken, Chen Qing interrupted her.
"That's the problem! The cameras in the school are actually very old, and most of the videos shot will have noise or resolution loss, so how can those videos be 'completely' fine. ”
She was stunned, and her face seemed a little embarrassed.
"What do you want to say?"
"You didn't give me this business card because of this boring case." He looked at Jiang Wan with a very serious expression.
"I know you're confused." He looked at Jiang Wan and handed over the document in his hand.
"What is this?" The girl frowned, puzzled.
"The vacant houses in this area, the houses that have traces of habitation, but no one has come in and out."
"What do you want to say?" She put down the book, the fingertips in her pocket twitching a few times.
"Then you can choose to pause the recording, it will be a secret between the two of us. It's a gamble, do you dare to try it? ”
Chen Qing tilted his body and asked her with a smile.
"You see that?"
"That's what I used when I was the head of the grade group before."
She took a deep breath and nodded.
"Why?"
"Someone went missing in the morning, and you got a report, so you came to find me."
"That's right...... ? ”
"He died in front of me."
She froze.
"He died in front of me, so when you told me he was missing, I actually knew about it."
"And then?"
"Then after an afternoon, you all forgot. You forgot why you came, and his family should forget why there was that room. All traces of him are still there, but everyone will forget about him. It's like ignoring a piece of grass. ”
"You tell me these ......"
"It's because I found out that there are still many people like him, and I think they died too pitifully, and I have a certain clue, and I want to be a good person."
Chen Qing smiled and stirred the drink in front of him.
Jiang Wan frowned and looked down at the table.
"What's your answer? If it was in an official capacity, I am afraid that we would not be able to conduct an investigation. ”
"So you want me to go with you?"
He nodded: "It's naturally better to have a police officer who sings white faces but is worried about the students following." ”
"Huh. You don't feel like a student. ”
"Coincidentally." Chen Qing shrugged his shoulders: "Many people have said this, and more coincidentally, I think so too." ”
"Where's your clue?"
Chen Qing pointed behind her, and the door of the hospital was lit up.
"Here's it."
"This?" She laughed, "You don't want to tell me that someone hypnotized us." ”
"That's really there." Chen Qing pointed behind her and did not move, repeating the words in his mouth once.
"Are you serious?" She stopped laughing.
"A lot of things may not be as complicated as you think." Chen Qing shook his head and said, "For example, excessive intake of ether will cause short-term amnesia.
It's not that you can't think of it, it's just that you can't believe it. ”
Jiang Wan was silent for a while, and seemed to be convinced. "So what did you find?"
"In half an hour, thirty-two ambulances drove in, and thirty-two came out."
"How many?"
"Seven people in each car, one person out."
She was silent and touched the hard object around her waist.
"Accompanying you in a private capacity?"
"Of course. Do you dare to take a risk with a young man? He smiled and looked at the man in front of him.
"I didn't climb over the wall when I was in class in the search yard!"
The boy looked at her and smiled, and gently fastened one of the devices in his hand.
"Let's go?"
"What did you shut down?"
"Trumpet EMP, I can't record it."
Her face changed, but she smiled in an instant.
"That's good news?"
"At least that's good news for what we're going to do next."
They whispered, and their figures walked from one end of the street to the other like passers-by.
They came to a corner, waited a few more minutes, and then followed the opposite road to the back door of the hospital.
"This is a residential area, and beyond this fence is the hospital."
She glanced at Chen Qing and was a little disgusted: "Do you want me to help you?" Students like you, who say that they are used to climbing over walls, are actually semi-disabled. ”
He shook his head, his arms propped up slightly against the wall, and his fingertips carried his entire body over.
It's just that when he landed, Chen Qing's brows furrowed a little.
"It should be fine......
He was silent for a moment, and Jiang Wan's body had already turned over.
It's a lot faster than him.
"Where are we going to investigate?"
He pointed to the garage: "The camera shooting range of this signal is 270 degrees, and there is almost no dead end. We'll have to scrap it from the back to get in. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, his body had already moved forward from the shadows, and after setting up the device, he returned to Jiang Wan's side.
"Now I believe it, what you said won't capture your words."
She looked at each other, but didn't say much.
The two were silent and entered the garage of the hospital.
There were dozens of ambulances lined up, and he quietly touched it, his fingers pulling the latch behind the door in the dark, and he ducked sideways into the door.
And beside the boy stood a person, watching the dark figure flicker up and down in the night; She looked at the man, thinking.
"What are you looking for?"
He looked at the object in his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more confused he felt.
"Turned on LEDs, a dozen tranquilizers, two rows of reusable needles, this is a hospital? Just kidding, the slaughterhouse downstairs in my house is more hygienic than this. ”
Jiang Wan's face changed, and she hurriedly rushed to Chen Qing's side.
"This dose...... How can the red bottle medicine be ...... The medicine bottle was actually discarded directly in the car?! ”
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the medicine bottle in his hand was red.
"Huh."
"You're probably not in the wrong place."
She frowned, though she couldn't see clearly at night.
"What's next?"
"Look for it, if it's similar to before......"
Before Chen Qing could finish speaking, the door outside the garage opened.
The two of them sighed in their hearts, and instantly pulled up the cover on the ambulance and covered their bodies.
No sooner had they hid than the garage door opened.
But as the lights turned on and out, for a full three minutes, the whole garage was quiet and weird.
Jiang Wan compared her eyes, but saw that Chen Qing's eyes were staring at something from beginning to end.
It wasn't until the lights went out again that Chen Qing lifted the cover and said to Jiang Wan: "Let's go, the entrance is in the position of the toolbox." ”
Before Jiang Wan could react, her body had already run out of the ambulance with Chen Qing.
They walked side by side, their bodies against the wall, and after three or five seconds of study, Chen Qing pulled a certain tool, and the inside of the cabinet door immediately contracted and unfolded.
"You see?"
She frowned.
"Well, I can see the ambulance's rearview mirror from that position." Chen Qing was silent for a moment: "They did it on purpose. Those lying in the car...... You can look in the rearview mirror and keep looking in the direction you are away from home. ”
"Maniac."
"It's quite artistic." Chen Qing smiled and gave Jiang Wan a lady first.
Jiang Wan glanced at him, but she didn't shirk it, she touched the hard object on her waist, and a certain institution had been quietly pressed.
"There's a strong smell of blood in this place."
He followed all the way, and the steps that the two of them walked down already had hundreds of floors.
"The smell is getting stronger...... Something is wrong. There is also the smell of decay. ”
She frowned, and the gun at her waist was no longer hidden at the moment.
"Someone died." She didn't finish her words.
"A lot of people died." He pointed to the front and said.
They looked at the end of the staircase, where hundreds of corpses were quietly hanging in the vaulted hall.
They are air-dried, flesh attached to fragile bones.
They were watching, staring at the creatures that were walking here.
Chen Qing was stunned, he felt the subtle warmth in his pocket.
"Here...... It's the Backrooms. ”
He whispered, his fingertips touching the triangle sign on the armrest.
"Here...... It's the Backrooms I've been to. ”