special monster shelter

"What are you thinking?" Xie Zhi asked him.

Yuan Mu didn't look up, but just asked Xie Zhi, "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking about the one in the opposite building, did they draw the curtains so thickly on the first day? It's daytime now."

Xie Zhi's subordinate said to him, "We saw it when we came last time. That is the one we said before, and no one knocked on the door. Maybe I haven't been at home all year round, so I drew the curtains tightly."

Xie Zhi sneered, "Do you think it's possible? Although this is an old house, it can be considered a relatively good location in the provincial capital. According to speculation, the location is a three-bedroom apartment, and the monthly rent is nearly three thousand. The average salary in the provincial capital is four thousand a month. Qianwu, if you are not at home all year round, you rent the house here?"

"Here, we are now..."

"Go knock on the door now, you don't have to follow, Yuan Mu and I will go." After speaking, Xie Zhi took Yuan Mu and was about to leave.

Yuan Mu said to Xie Zhi's subordinates, "Have you found the pendant for the blind's drawstring?"

"what?"

"Generally, there is a pendant under the drawstring of the blinds. There was a pendant in the living room just now, but the one here is missing. Have you looked for it?"

The subordinate looked over there, and suddenly understood Yuan Mu's meaning.The position of the blinds is very low. If simulated by sight, it is probably a position that an adult man can reach with his hands while sitting on a chair.

On the night of the incident, the grandmother on the opposite building saw the old man in an accident and called the police, which proved that the shutters must be open.

However, whether the nanny murdered or the old man committed suicide, it is impossible to open the blinds logically.So there is a possibility that the old gentleman, struggling, grabbed the rope and opened the shutter.And the pendant on the shutter rope may have been dropped in a hurry.

Every detail of the crime scene could be a clue, and Xie Zhi's subordinates immediately became excited.

"Thank you, Brother Yuan, I'll contact the victim's family to inquire about the blinds, and then I'll notify my colleagues from the trace inspection team to come look for them." He thanked Yuan Mu and ran out.

Xie Zhi had a stern face, obviously unhappy because of his subordinate's carelessness.

Xie Zhi rubbed his neck comfortingly, "You're still young, take your time to practice."

Xie Zhi muttered, "Cubs are trouble."

Then he took Yuan Mu to the opposite building.

Sure enough, as the subordinates described before, this house looks like no one lives in it.They have already reached the gate, and they can't feel the slightest vitality.

Yuan Mu touched the Spring Festival couplets at the door, and the color had faded.Looking at the ground nearby, there was faint dust on the floor mat at the door, and it felt as if the people in the house hadn't been out for a long time.

Yuan Mu knocked on the door and asked softly, "Is anyone home?"

Very quiet.There has been no sound.

But Yuan Mu and Xie Zhi looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of understanding in each other's eyes.Although it was small, they did feel the breath of a living person in the room.

Yuan Mu thought for a while, then knocked three more times, "Excuse me, are you at home? We have something to ask you for help."

Yuan Mu's voice is very gentle, and it can make people feel very comfortable without deliberate effort.Perhaps because of this, after a few seconds, a tiny girl spoke from the door.

"I, I'm at home, but I can't help you."

This answer is very interesting.Saying that it can't help, not that I didn't see it, the meaning here is very subtle.

In the morning, Xie Zhi's subordinates went door to door to ask for help. If the girl was at home, they would know that something was wrong.But Xie Zhi's subordinates have always been measured and will not make a big fuss.So if she didn't open the door at that time, she probably wouldn't know too many details.

But her current tone is obviously that she knows something inside, so Yuan Mu and Xie Zhi only need a second to judge that this girl must know something.Even if he didn't witness the murder with his own eyes, he must know some secrets about the building opposite.

Therefore, Yuan Mu knocked on the door again, "Girl, we don't mean anything malicious, can we just chat?" While talking, Yuan Mu put a note through the crack of the door.

"This is my phone number. If you want, can we talk on the phone?"

The girl didn't speak, and didn't continue to answer for a long time.

But Xie Zhi and Yuan Mu didn't show any signs of impatience.After a few more minutes, Yuan Mu saw the note in the crack of the door being slowly taken away.

Yuan Mu said softly again through the door, "Don't be afraid, we won't talk here, I'll go downstairs. You can see me from the window."

After thinking about it, Yuan Mu added, "The phone won't be recorded, so you don't have to worry. We are not bad people."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Mu and Xie Zhi went downstairs.

Walking downstairs, the two of them raised their heads in tacit understanding and looked upstairs, only to see that the curtain that had been closed all along was slightly opened.The girl must have been peeking at them.

Yuan Mu raised his lips and revealed a gentle smile.

The drapes were clearly clenched in folds.

Yuan Mu waited patiently for another 2 minutes before the phone rang.

"Hi, hello." Yuan Mu took the initiative to say.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

Yuan Mu thought for a while, then continued to say to her, "Although it's very abrupt, I think you know why we came to you, right?"

"Correct."

"Can that help us?"

"No, I don't know anything." The girl's voice was trembling, and it was gradually filled with fear.

"Take a deep breath, don't be nervous, come on, let's calm down first, shall we?"

"I...I..." The girl's voice was shaking all the time, and she was about to cry in almost a second.

Yuan Mu felt that the situation was wrong, and when he spoke again, his voice was lower than before, but more gentle.

"Little girl, let's stop talking, shall we?"

"Ah."

"You don't have to speak, just listen to me, okay?"

"Hmm." Hearing that she didn't need to speak anymore, the girl seemed to be much less nervous.

Yuan Mu thought for a while, and slowly guided her, "Can you tell me, have you eaten today?"

The girl thought for a while and replied, "Eat."

"Are you tired now?"

"There are some."

"Sit down and pour yourself a glass of water, okay?"

"it is good."

Yuan Mu listened to the movement on the other end of the phone, and the girl's over-stressed mood just now has improved a lot.Yuan Mu heard her drinking water, and encouraged her, "Good girl, you did a great job."

"Thank you."

"No, we thank you. Is it better now? Can we get back to business?"

"Well, you can ask."

Yuan Mu glanced at Xie Zhi, Xie Zhi understood what he meant, and said that everything can be led by Yuan Mu.

Although it was only a few minutes of brief contact, it was enough to see that the girl was almost frightened and had an emotional breakdown.Facing Yuan Mu who is so sensitive, if it were someone else, he might not be able to speak at all.

Yuan Mu thought for a while, and found a relatively less blunt approach.

"Have you heard what happened to the old gentleman in the opposite building?"

"Well, I heard that."

"That's good. Will you be afraid? Shall I explain the situation to you in detail?"

"Yes, yes."

"You should know that the person who made the report was the grandma who lives next door to you. But she was ill, so the testimony when she called the police cannot be counted."

"Are you online?"

"No, not." The girl answered quickly this time.

"That's pretty good. It's a mess on the Internet now, because the nanny committed suicide, so now everyone thinks that the old man must have committed suicide. It's the old man's son who is slandering the nanny."

"So now there are all kinds of things to say, and many people point to the grandmother who reported the crime."

"..."

"Have you heard? Two days ago, the defendant, the nanny's lawyer, came to grandma's house to inquire."

"I, I know, brought experts."

"Yes, I said a lot of bad things, which made grandma's family very sad."

"I hear you, the house is not well insulated. So what are you trying to say?"

"I want to ask, if you are so close, what grandma can see, do you notice any details?"

"..." The girl was silent and did not speak.

But the more silent she was, the more she knew.But this girl was so frightened that she was so weak that she would collapse if she exerted a little force.

Yuan Mu couldn't bear to use too harsh words to persecute her, so he could only persuade her in the most common way, "The provincial bureau requires 48 hours to solve the case, and now there are barely [-] hours left. If you can't find the nanny's evidence, finally It can only end as suicide or accident."

"We are short on time, so we want to ask you for help."

"So, would you like to help us?"

"..." The girl remained silent.

Yuan Mu sighed and shook his head towards Xie Zhi.The girl's state is not right, unless some special means are used, I'm afraid she won't ask anything.

Xie Zhi understood Yuan Mu's meaning, nodded clearly, and decided to let it go temporarily.

Yuan Mu comforted the girl on the other end of the phone, making sure she was okay, before hanging up the phone.

Then he said to Xie Zhi, "I think this girl's mental state is not right."

Xie Zhi also had the same thought, "When you were talking just now, I already asked someone to investigate this girl's situation."

While the two were talking, Yuan Mu's cell phone rang again suddenly. Yuan Mu looked down and saw a text message with only one sentence, "I really didn't see what happened that night. But I heard it, I heard the nanny Say murder."

"What do you mean?"

"You go upstairs, there is a USB flash drive at the door, you will know after you take it."

Followed by another text message.

"That's all I really know, and I don't know anything else. Please don't come looking for me."

Yuan Mu quickly replied, "We'll go up now."

But he found that the text message could not be sent out, and the girl had already blocked him.

It is very rare for someone to avoid Yuan Mu like this.

Xie Zhi frowned, feeling more and more that something was wrong.But it's also a good thing that girls are willing to help.

So Yuan Mu and Xie Zhi hurried upstairs.

Sure enough, there was a small USB flash drive outside the door. The pink casing was very cute, and it looked like something commonly used by girls.

Yuan Mu whispered "Thank you" through the door.

Then he and Xie Zhi took the USB drive away and went to the crime scene in the opposite building.Xie Zhi's subordinates are over there, and they have computers that can open USB drives.

When the two went back, they unexpectedly found that the old man's son was also there.

Xie Zhi didn't shy away from it, time was urgent, he wanted to see what kind of evidence the girl gave them.

Inside were two audio files, Xie Zhi opened the first one, and a woman's voice came out.

"It's disgusting. When I think of serving such an old man, I want to drown her by pressing his head in the urinal."

Xie Zhi frowned, feeling that the voice was very familiar, but the blood on the old man's son's face faded instantly.

He knew this voice, even to the point of death, he could never forget it.

It's the babysitter's.