Dark Cave - part 5 - Chapter 22
But now, in his dream, he could clearly see that the person lying on the iron frame closest to him was a woman, wearing a white coat. Ouyang Shan, who was doing internship at the hospital, and An Qi Sachiko, who was working in the laboratory of the research institute, were all wearing white coats. They were all people he cared about. There was also Chiba Fumika, and many of his classmates. If disaster struck any of them, he would be driven crazy by the pain.
There was also physical pain. When he saw the pain detector that integrated the most advanced international technology showing the huge pain that Guanjian was enduring, even Toyokawa Takeshi, who was always disdainful, shrugged.
Who is this woman on the cross? I can’t see clearly. If I can’t see clearly, why not feel it?
Guanjian hesitated for a moment, then reached out and touched the woman’s face. A pair of eyes suddenly opened, and Guanjian was startled. He saw the familiar eyes again, angry and resentful. What frightened him even more was that there was something in his hand. He raised his hand to see clearly, but he only saw a flash of light under the light.
Guanjian suddenly woke up from his dream, sweating profusely. He took out his cell phone, and the screen showed 3:50 , an early winter morning. The room was quiet, and in the darkness, only the laptop screensaver was flashing a faint light.
The ringing lasted for a long time before Ouyang Shan’s voice came: ” Is it only on nights like this that you think of me like this? ”
” Hello, that’s all. We ‘ll talk tomorrow. ”
Guanjian hung up the phone, knowing that Ouyang Shan would definitely ridicule him in different ways tomorrow . He immediately called Anzaki Sachiko’s cell phone. ” Guanjian , what’s wrong? What happened? ” Anzaki Sachiko had obviously just woken up from her deep sleep.
” Nothing, just asking if everything is alright. ”
” What happened? ”
” Do you remember that in the experiment tonight, I saw the person on the iron frame again, but I still couldn’t see her identity clearly? Just now in my dream, I entered the black corridor again, but this time, for some reason, I could tell that there was a woman on the stage. ”
” Oh, that’s it. Should we call the police? ”
” How can I call the police? I can’t see who it is … wait! ”
Anzaki Sachiko waited quietly, the only sound on the phone was Guanjian’s increasingly rapid breathing.
Long after the experiment ended, Ren Quan was still sitting in the office in a daze .
will tomorrow be like? The first summons in my life? The first time I become a criminal suspect? What will happen next? The first party and government punishment in my life? The first divorce? Who would have believed that such a small mistake would have so many bad consequences? Just because I humiliated that girl, a girl who has been buried deep in the earth.
I am still alive, barely surviving. I have lived for more than fifty years, how much motivation do I have to linger on?
At some point , Ren Quan had taken out a scalpel used for animal experiments from the drawer. The sharp blade, as thin as a willow leaf, was pressed against the skin of the wrist artery, trembling slightly.
The phone in the office suddenly rang.
The key hand touched the mouse on the table, the computer screen was activated, and a new letter appeared in the mailbox.
Sender: Zhuge Shengnan! There are only three words in the letter: Huaqing Pool!
” Huaqing Pool? ” An Qi Sachiko on the other end of the phone whispered these three words. ” I remember now, ” An Qi Sachiko whispered, ” Huaqing Pool is one of the ‘ Top Ten Haunted Places in Jiangjing ‘ . ”
” Tell me where Huaqing Pool is. It’s one of the top ten haunted places you listed. ”
” Why, it’s so late, do you want to take a shower? ” Ouyang Shan was a little impatient.
” Tell me where it is! It’s a matter of life and death! ”
Ouyang Shan said: ” Diagonally opposite the Gonghe Road Cinema is a place for steam and sauna baths …”
Guanjian put on his clothes and called the number given to him by Officer Chen. It was Bayusheng who answered the phone. Guanjian quickly described the situation . Officer Ba said, ” Wait for me at the entrance of Huaqing Pool. Don’t act rashly! ”
Just as he got on the bicycle, he fell headfirst to the ground. A sudden pain felt like a sharp knife piercing through the center of his chest.
“ They ” began to tell him directly that death was happening.
dark corridor, the angry eyes, the face of the person on the iron frame gradually became clear, a face he was familiar with.
Guan Jian climbed up despite the pain and climbed back onto his bicycle. At the hospital gate, he hailed a taxi. Five minutes later, accompanied by severe pain, he arrived outside Huaqing Hot Spring.
Just as he climbed the stairs, he fell to the ground again. Perhaps his endurance of pain had finally reached its limit. At the same time, he found a person lying on the ground beside him! With the light from the door, he could see that it was a middle-aged man with a dark, wet bloodstain on the back of his head.
The police station was far from here, and it was obvious that the police had not arrived yet. If death was imminent, how could I really wait for them to come?
He rushed into the lobby of Huaqing Pool. There was no light in the lobby. On the right was a spiral staircase leading to the second floor. There was a corridor on the ground floor that seemed very deep. On both sides of the corridor were single bathrooms with closed doors, exactly the same as the scene in his dream.
He walked forward step by step. Suddenly, the lights in the corridor came on. At the end of the corridor , a man stood there. Startled by the sudden light, he looked up and turned around. It was Ren Quan! He was holding a scalpel in his hand, a scalpel stained with blood.
Bayusheng and two on-duty criminal police officers rushed to Huaqing Pool, they found Guanjian and Ren Quan standing in a daze in the long corridor. In Ren Quan’s hand, he held a bloody scalpel. The dead person lying on the trolley used to distribute bath towels was none other than Fang Ping, the graduate student who had reported Ren Quan to the branch not long ago!
She was wearing a white coat and lying on her back in the cart.
Bayu Sheng immediately cordoned off the scene, notified Officer Chen, the Municipal Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Department and the Criminal Police Brigade, and after asking some basic questions at the scene, he brought Guan Jian and Ren Quan back to the police station.
Everything happened so suddenly, ruthlessly disrupting Bayu Sheng’s investigation.
” After the experiment, I didn’t go home for a long time. I kept reflecting and even had thoughts of suicide. Later, I received a phone call from a very strange voice. The person told me that a miracle would happen to me tonight, and that ugly history would be erased. As long as I went to the ‘ Huaqing Pool ‘ once , all the nightmares would be washed away. I was so obsessed that I actually believed it …” Ren Quan’s face was still extremely pale, and cold sweat continued to emerge from his forehead after being wiped off many times. Officer Chen asked about the scalpel in his hand again. ” In the office, I was going to use it to commit suicide. After receiving the call, I didn’t know if it would be dangerous to go to Huaqing Pool, so I took it with me. ”
” How do you explain the blood on the scalpel ? ”
” I … I don’t know. It’s very dark inside and I can’t see anything. I used the knife to test the front …”
Bayusheng fell into deep thought: Is Ren Quan the perverted killer of these three murders? Or is the key the instigator, and this time he is blaming Ren Quan to kill two birds with one stone? Or is there someone else who is the murderer? Bayusheng looked at the email from ” Zhuge Shengnan ” , which was still the same Yahoo mailbox , and he had no way to find it.
Preliminary forensic identification showed that the gatekeeper of Huaqing Hot Springs was hit on the back of the head and suffered a moderate concussion, but his life was not in danger. The murderer used the gatekeeper’s own rubber baton, and it was obvious that he knew his pattern well, attacking him from behind and then marching straight in.
One thing is obvious , the murderer is in a small circle of people. He is obviously very aware of the incident of Ren Quan molesting Huang Shiyi. When Guanjian called the police, Kurumada Kosuke and Inoue Jin were drunk in ” Naniwa House ” , as evidenced by the hotel waiter. And because Guanjian and Ren Quan fought in the institute, the people brought by Yamashita Yuji all knew about it. All the team members lived in the hotel, and it was difficult to completely rule out the suspicion of not being at the crime scene.
Bayu Sheng instructed his assistant: ” Go back to the office immediately and work with the Intelligence and Information Office to check the backgrounds of the Japanese people at the Institute of Chinese and Western Medicine. Be thorough and check every single one of them! ”
The key is that I don’t know whether I should close my eyes. If I close my eyes, will I foresee death again?
“ They ” are never wrong. “ They ” said someone was going to lie on the iron frame and be brutally slaughtered, and so someone really was lying on the iron frame and was brutally slaughtered. “ They ” said the dead person was a woman, and so a woman died. “ They ” said there were countless people lying on the stage, so did the slaughter have to continue like this? !