Judgment Day [Unlimited]

"........."

Xie Xingyin froze when he bent over, and stared at the pair of eyes in the wall for a few seconds.

No wonder it couldn't be pushed.

"what is that!"

The people who were looking behind to join in the fun also saw what was behind the wall, and they all screamed.

The hole in the wall was slightly above Xie Xingyin's waist, so he could imagine the posture of the person inside.It may be squatting, it may be lying on the stomach, anyway, it is definitely not standing properly.

It fits the description of the human-faced dog quite well.

But Xie Xingyin quickly rejected this idea.

He noticed that the pupils of the eyes in the wall were loose and gray, and the eyelids had been festered—obviously they belonged to the dead.

"It's okay, keep digging. It's just a dead man." Xie Xingyin said.

"What do you mean it's just a dead man?" Brother Biao seemed to be discouraged. Although he had caused troubles and troubles since he was a child, he had never done anything that caused a life. To these damn things. "Why don't you tear down the wall first, who knows if this is a zombie?"

Xie Xingyin really checked it out, and said something along the lines of his words: "Without hair, it's not a zombie."

He tried to clean up the surrounding wall bricks, and opened a big hole that could barely be bent down.

And the real face of the corpse inside the wall was also revealed. It was a dried female corpse, wearing ordinary home clothes, with gray and blue skin.

Looks like the hostess of the house.

Others covered their noses with their clothes and dragged the female corpse out from the wall.

After seeing clearly the appearance of the female corpse, Brother Biao gave a cowardly "hiss". "I, my mother—"

"What, this is your mother?" Old Liang leaned over to look curiously, but was slapped back in anger.

Xie Xingyin turned on the portable flashlight he found in the closet, and observed the layout of the room through the hole in the wall.Hearing the sound of the dispute, he also looked back.

The female corpse was laid flat on the ground, and several young girls had already hid in the distance, covering their mouths with their sleeves as if they were about to vomit.

After careful inspection, everyone found something abnormal about the female corpse—her hands and feet were cut off from the wrists, exposing thick bones.Without the palms and soles of her feet, she can't walk upright, so she can only use her forearms and calves to stick to the ground like a dog, and crawl on her forearms and knees.

The room behind them was dark and silent.

Xie Xingyin stood at the door and shone around with the flashlight for a while.People outside heard him "ah".

"More than one."

Xie Xingyin took a photo around and found nothing unusual, so he took the lead in sneaking in.Jia Ming came in after him.

There was a thick layer of dust in the room, and there was a faint smell of old decay in the dry air.The gray-green curtains were drawn tightly, and no light could penetrate the entire room, making it dim and bleak.

"Look." Xie Xingyin shone the light on the doorway, motioning him to look over there.The entire wall at the door was bricked to death, and a solid concrete brick wall was built. They just broke through that brick wall to get in.

In the corner by the concrete wall, a body of a slightly smaller body sat down, its skin was green and gray, and only the whites of the eyes were left in the two eye sockets. dead.Like the female corpse, the places where the hands and feet should have been were also empty, as if they had been neatly cut off by something.

There are some food packaging bags and empty cans scattered in the corner of the room, but there is no food other than that.

"Didn't it mean that all the residents of Wangchuan Apartment have moved out?" Xie Xingyin frowned.Obviously, the two disfigured corpses in the room were most likely trapped in the wall and starved to death.

Covering their mouths and noses with their sleeves to prevent choking on the flying dust, they searched the room.

The light in the room was very dark, Xie Xingyin found that the overhead light was broken, so he went to draw the curtains.

But as soon as the dusty curtains were pulled back, what was exposed was not the imagined glass window—it turned out to be a window that had been sealed by cement bricks, and half of the blurred lettering was still printed on the cement bricks. Bloody handprints.

Xie Xingyin watched in silence for a moment, then closed the curtains again.

No wonder there was no light in the room.It was very simple and rough to seal the doors and windows, and the murderer didn't even need to use the secret room murder method in detective novels, just waiting for the people inside to starve to death after running out of water and water.

The method is quite cruel.

The two dead bodies, one big and one small, by the wall in the room should be the mother and son who lived in this apartment.There were no obvious wounds or bloodstains on the body, and no obvious signs of fighting were seen. Before dying, they were all lying on the wall beside the wall, described as emaciated and thin, too weak to stand up, but still staring at the bricks with wide eyes. escape.

Taking advantage of Jia Ming's going into the bathroom, Xie Xingyin quietly took out the lens from his pocket, and took a picture inside and out.The room was clean, no blood stains were seen.

Nothing was found in the bathroom, so Brother Biao ran in tremblingly and shared the clues he got with Xie Xingyin. "We found a dead cell phone in the woman's pocket."

Xie Xingyin took the mobile phone he handed over.It was an old-fashioned push-button mobile phone, which has not been seen on the market in recent years.

This made them even more worried.

"Is it really so easy for a grown woman with a child and a mobile phone to be trapped to death?"

Worse yet, had no neighbor noticed they were missing?

"I think so too." Jia Ming came out of the bathroom at some point, and praised, "This doesn't look like simple revenge."

"Let's break open the other rooms and have a look." Xie Xingyin said.

Brother Biao went out quickly.The remaining two rummaged through the room carefully, but found no daily necessities that could be used.There were still some clothes in the wardrobe, but they didn't dare to wear the clothes of the dead.

Xie Xingyin noticed that there were several pairs of shoes neatly placed in the shoe cabinet, which belonged to the mother and child.

Apparently, they didn't start out without arms and legs.What happened to them before they died?

They searched around, but still had no clue.

The only thing of value is a diary found beside the bed, which seems to have been written by the mistress in a state of insanity.

"I heard that the little freak who lived on the eleventh floor died last night. He died well. The last time Chengcheng was scared by her and cried all night."

"Another child went missing in the apartment. When I went upstairs today, I saw Mr. Noda from the Wangchuan Detective Agency also coming. What happened, this is already the fifth one."

"Recently, I have suffered from too much stress and insomnia. Every night I hear something scratching at the door of my house. See a psychiatrist in a few days."

"She's back, she's really back... I saw her... Will she take revenge on us..."

"Can't get out, can't get out...Help! Let us out!! We are not monsters! We are not monsters!!!"

After writing, the handwriting was so frantic that it almost flew off the page, as if it was written in a state of extreme mental breakdown.But one day, the records in the diary stopped abruptly.

The owner of the diary lost his hands and could no longer record.

Xie Xingyin looked at the corpse of the child lying in the corner, and sighed.

"Tsk, what a deep hatred." Xie Xingyin said with a sigh.

The light in the room was very dim, so he put the diary in his bag and planned to read it again when he went out.

The body of the little boy was probably the woman's son Chengcheng.

They must have been sealed in the room. They desperately tried to get out by clawing at the wall, but they had no hands or feet, and they didn't even have the ability to smash things against the wall.

Xiao Lu didn't know when he came in, squatting by the wall, staring at the corpse on the ground.Xie Xingyin covered his eyes with his hands, and led him out.

They smashed open the two adjacent rooms in the same manner. The conditions in the rooms were basically the same, and they died by the door blocked by the brick wall.In addition to the mother and son, there are more single residents in the apartment, and they don't know how desperate they are when they are trapped to death alone.

This is not the kind of building walls to suppress evil that Lao Liang said.The residents in Wangchuan's apartment did not move out, they were all sealed inside alive.

No wonder no one can help, because everyone in this apartment is trapped.

Thinking of all these things separated by a wall, the mink fur coat helped her husband retch violently.

Jia Ming looked a little frustrated: "When will it be a head? There are at least six or seven hundred rooms here, and one hundred brick walls are knocked on a day, and they are knocked open one by one to see if there is a human-faced dog inside?"

"The human-faced dog may not be in the room." Xie Xingyin said.

I spent the whole morning picking locks and smashing walls, exhausting a lot of energy.Brother Biao has already taken off his coat, only wearing an undershirt, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: "I'm too tired, let's take a rest."

Xie Xingyin looked out the window: "Okay, take a rest first, and talk about other things in the afternoon."

Everyone squatted in the corridor eating instant noodles.Eating instant noodles in front of the female corpse is really not a pleasant thing, Brother Biao asked the younger brother to take it back to the original room.

Xie Xingyin walked to the window alone and looked downstairs.

Outside is the commercial street called Wangchuan Road.The sky was still not bright, and pedestrians could not be seen on the road. Not far away, it was blocked by dark mountains, and no matter how far away it was, it would be impossible to see clearly.

"Let's go upstairs to take a look in the afternoon." After eating, Xie Xingyin put away the instant noodle bucket, "I want to take a look at the room of the female reporter who found the human-mask dog."

After lunch, Xie Xingyin took the materials from Jia Ming.

The clues in the folder given by the old man are very complicated. In addition to the real effective information, there are also a lot of useless interference information that they need to distinguish by themselves.

Looking at the thick stack of A4 papers in front of him, Xie Xingyin's gaze was involuntarily attracted by a picture.

There was even a bloody picture of Keiko's suicide scene in the file, and he subconsciously thought that there must be some important clues in this picture.

Xie Xingyin stared at this photo carefully. In the photo, only Keiko's half body was taken, from the crotch to the neck, without showing his face.Keiko was wearing a very ordinary plaid skirt, cut her wrist, and the blood flowed all over the floor.

After staring at this picture for a while, Xie Xingyin felt that she seemed to be holding something in her hand.However, the black-and-white photos in the documents were a bit difficult to distinguish. He could barely make out a few coins or something, and one of them fell out of his hand.

The head of a man wearing an olive branch can be vaguely recognizable on the blood-stained coin, which should be some kind of foreign commemorative coin.

"Who is this? Ya, what's wrong with Yali?" Brother Biao leaned over and said.

"Caesar."

Xie Xingyin stared at the coins on the picture.

Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic.But what connection could Caesar and the Face Dog have?

—

Li Wei lay in the room all morning, but the situation still didn't improve much.When I checked the thermometer, I had a high fever of 39 degrees.

The high school girls who took care of her gave her some water and barely ate some compressed biscuits.

"Leave some people to take care of her, and the rest will go to other floors to look for clues in the afternoon." Xie Xingyin said.

But Li Wei refused.

"Don't worry about me." She was very ill and gasped for breath while speaking, "I'll just lock the door behind me. The room is safe. Go find clues."

Xie Xingyin looked at the pale Li Wei and nodded.They couldn't find an effective treatment method in the tower. If Li Wei's fever didn't subside, it would take seven days to survive.

If the task can be completed as soon as possible, it may be possible to take her out to find Natalie for treatment.

"I found a few packs of Ganmaoling Granules." Jia Ming came out from behind a newly dug brick wall, and said to the others in a low voice, "I need to look for more medicines, not just for that girl. The environment in this place is not good." , and there is not much nutritious food, so it is hard to guarantee that other people will not get sick."

The high school students stayed in the room to take care of Li Wei, looking through the materials given by the old detective.Brother Biao and younger brother stayed here and smashed the wall to find medicine. After Jia Ming, Lao Liang, and Xie Xingyin made up their minds, they decided to split up to find clues.

"According to my previous experience of entering the tower, there is little chance of ghosts casually injuring people during the day. We have to hurry up and go back quickly." Jia Ming said, "I want to go to the first floor to see, you can do what you want."

Xie Xingyin planned to go upstairs to Keiko's room.Xiao Lu also followed him.

The elevator went up to the fourteenth floor and stopped.

The fourteenth floor is the top floor of the entire apartment, and the height of the floor is less than two meters. Standing in the corridor feels inexplicably oppressive.

If Xie Xingyin had grown taller, he would have kowtowed to the head.

Except that the floor is lower, the layout of this floor is the same as other floors.They quickly found Room 1404, located in the middle of the corridor.

But when he saw the door of room 1404, Xie Xingyin's expression suddenly turned ugly. Looking at this door was like seeing the coffin board that sealed the zombies.

This door looks the same as the other rooms, but there is a piece of talisman with red letters on a yellow background pasted on the door of 1404 in front of you.

Of course, Xie Xingyin couldn't understand the meaning of those ghostly painted charms, but the spells were nothing more than used to ward off evil spirits and suppress them, so he intuitively knew that it was not a good thing.The symbols drawn with dark red cinnabar mixed with black dog's blood are particularly eye-catching, as if warning the living not to enter.

What's even more bizarre is that Xie Xingyin also noticed a detail.The hinge of the door in front of me is also mottled with red rust, but the bearings are brand new and shiny.It means that the door is often opened and closed.

"This door is not rusty, is there anyone still using it recently?"

Xie Xingyin tried to use his voice to break the mysterious atmosphere in the air.

"Who knows if it's a human or a ghost." Xiao Lu blinked and said.

The boy's innocent tone made the atmosphere even weirder.

Xie Xingyin stood up helplessly, and said to Xiao Lu, "Stand back a little."

Lao Liang, who knew how to pick a lock, didn't follow. When Xie Xingyin was about to break open violently, Xiao Lu had already stepped forward.I don't know if the wire in his hand was snatched from Lao Liang.

"Can you still pick locks?" Xie Xingyin asked curiously.

Xiao Lu said "hmm".Xie Xingyin didn't see what he did, he only heard a "click" of the door lock, and it really opened.

Xie Xingyin originally thought that when he opened the door, he would see the same brick wall again, but no.

There was no wall in this door, and the layout of the entire room was presented in front of them at a glance.The floor of the entire room was spotless, quiet and clean as if someone still lived there. "

The specifications of the rooms in Wangchuan's apartment are all exactly the same, and the narrow rooms can be seen at a glance.

There are neither people nor corpses here.

Xie Xingyin opened the bathroom door and took a look, there was only a simple toilet and sink.

"Why isn't there even a bed?" He asked strangely.

There is a small one-meter-high bookcase against the wall. The bookcase is so empty that there is no dust on it, only a few stacks of "Wangchuan Daily" are placed.

Xie Xingyin flipped through the pages, and found that the newspapers were neatly stacked by date. There were newspapers for almost every day, but the May 5 edition was missing.

May 5nd seemed to be the day after Keiko committed suicide.

Xie Xingyin held the newspaper with a solemn expression.He suddenly thought of a question.

According to the information, Keiko attempted suicide, and she was originally thought to have moved out with other residents.Now that other residents are dead downstairs, where is Keiko?The information given by the old detective did not introduce Keiko's whereabouts at all.

There were several drawers at the bottom of the bookshelf. After Xie Xingyin opened three empty drawers in succession, he found a diary in the fourth drawer.

It was an old-fashioned diary, with a simple black leather cover, and Keiko's name was written on the title page in elegant lowercase letters.

Xie Xingyin flipped through a few pages, and found that the content in the diary was very ordinary, basically talking about her daily work.He put away the diary casually, planning to go back and study it carefully.

The room in the apartment is very small, and the room of more than 20 square meters can be seen at a glance, so it is difficult to hide in a dark room.

But this is the top floor, Xie Xingyin wondered if there would be a compartment upstairs.

With a floor height of more than two meters, he could touch the ceiling directly by raising his hand.Knocking around with the mentality of seeking evidence, Xie Xingyin checked every corner of the room, not even the top of the bathroom.

However, the feel is all real, and it doesn't look like there is any attic entrance.

Xie Xingyin originally thought that he would find the most crucial clue in Huizi's house, but he didn't, and was a little frustrated.

Forget it, go back and study Keiko's diary again, maybe there will be clues.

Before going out, when Xie Xingyin stuffed the diary into his pocket, he touched Lao Liang's lens in his pocket.He took out the lens and took a photo without any hope, but was shocked immediately.

Unlike the messy rooms before, this room 1404, which looked the cleanest and tidy to the naked eye, had Lan Yingying's blood all over the floor.Careful identification can also see a lot of dragging and splattering blood.

"My God." Xie Xingyin couldn't help but gasped.

What happened in this room?