Dangerous Personality

The two looked at each other for a while in the corridor.

"If I want to kill you," Chi Qing looked into his eyes and said word by word, "There are at least ten ways that will not leave any clues, and it is very easy for the police to find the murderer at all , and maybe no one will even find out that the crime happened, which means no one will find out that you are dead."

Chi Qing's tone didn't fluctuate at all when he spoke, just the tone sounded like Jielin felt that he was already a corpse in his eyes.

Xie Lin has seen many ways to warn people, this is the first time.

Xie Lin smiled: "...don't be so cruel."

Chi Qing entered the last few digits of the password and said, "Hurry up and disappear from my eyes while I'm still rational."

For Chi Qing, it was not in line with his style to just give a verbal warning and let Jielin retreat with all his limbs intact.Moreover, Xie Lin made more and more exceptions to him, for example, when facing Xie Lin, how could he let him approach just now.

He lowered his head, took off his gloves, and wiped the corners of his lips.

After Chi Qing went back, he took a shower again and changed his clothes again.

After tidying up, he went to bed in the dark and closed his eyes.

The clock on the wall rotates clockwise from "9", and the minute hand makes a slight "click" every time it rotates.

Chi Qing lay on the bed for about four or five hours, and when the clock pointed to "2", he suddenly opened his eyes as if pinching the dots, his bottomless pupils blended with the dark night.

The night outside the window was getting darker, and there were only three or two wild cats still wandering downstairs in the community, with high-pitched and thin voices, and their shrill calls pierced the night sky from time to time, and then disappeared silently.

He lifted the quilt and got out of bed with bare feet, without turning on the light, walked from the bedroom to the living room and sat in the dark - if someone suddenly enters his house at this moment, they may be frightened by this weird scene, after all, few people stay awake in the middle of the night Sleep, "sleepwalking" on the sofa.

The protagonist in the weird picture is still holding the TV remote control in his hand, and he is playing with the remote control.

In this quiet late night, people's thinking is often more active than during the day.

Chi Qing bent his legs, bent his neck, rested his chin on his knees, and thought quietly: The voices he heard before usually appear between three and four in the morning, there is no specific rule, and the probability of appearing on weekends is higher High, which may be related to 'his' work and rest time.

Today, a month has passed since the incident.

Xue Mei died two months ago.And two months ago, Yang Zhenzhen happened to drag her suitcase all the way to South China City, and stood at the crowded train station, waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up.

Although Ren Qin moved in less than half a month ago, she must have spent some time looking for a house after she came to South China City.

Taking "one month" as the node, Chi Qing connected the three victims together and thought, is it possible for the murderer to find a new person every other month, and if he finds a new person, he will get rid of the previous one?

……

Thinking of this, he glanced at the calendar on the wall,

Because the lights were not turned on, the "28" on the calendar was not clearly visible, but it was clear that it would be almost a month since Xue Mei's death counted from the day the crime happened.

And the most important question.

Will the murderer come tonight?

The answer to this question, except the murderer himself, I am afraid no one can answer.

Chi Qing finally lowered his head to look at the floor under his feet - Ren Qin's family was just downstairs, just separated by a wall.

She may be lying in the bedroom at this moment and fell asleep ignorantly. When she was a child, her bedroom door might be quietly pushed open like a peephole on the wall, and then the man who came in would Standing by the bed and watching her quietly.

Thinking of this, Chi Qing picked up the black coat with a hood hanging on the armrest of the sofa 3 minutes before the hour hand pointed to "10", and got up.

Ren Qin was thinking wildly before going to bed, and had a very real nightmare at night. She dreamed that someone was trying to open the door of her house with a key, and the sound of the key being inserted into the lock was very clear in the middle of the night.

She was so frightened that her hair almost exploded, and she rushed forward, holding the doorknob tightly with one hand, preventing people outside from turning the key to open the door.

The two forces inside and outside the door repel each other, and the person outside the door turns the key and finds it is resisted, and pauses slightly.

Ren Qin's breathing stagnated along with the half-second pause.

Then the next second!The people outside the door started to turn the keys frantically!

Ren Qin had no other choice but to press her whole body against the door, but the difference in strength between the two was huge, the door lock turned faster and faster, and the sound became louder... Ren Qin screamed desperately in her heart , Just before the door was forcibly opened, she woke up from the nightmare trembling all over.

The alarm clock next to the bed showed that it was 3:00 in the middle of the night.

A layer of sweat broke out on Ren Qin's back, and it was difficult to fall asleep again for a while, so she got up and turned on the light, put on her clothes and planned to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water for a drink.

Holding the ceramic water glass in her hand, she drank several sips of water in shock before barely recovering from the nightmare just now.

The orange cat sleeping in the living room also opened its eyes when it heard the movement, and walked lightly to Ren Qin's feet, tilting its head to look at her: "Meow~"

"GongGao," Ren Qin called it, and felt relieved after seeing it, "I'm sorry for waking you up."

"Meow~" The orange cat rubbed against the legs of her pajamas.

After drinking a glass of water, Ren Qin was about to go back to her room to continue to sleep, but before moving away, she glanced at the door in a strange way - the dark brown electronic door stood there quietly, and the silver doorknob was as clean as new.

This electronic door, which was supposed to make people feel safe, did not reassure Ren Qin at this moment.

The nightmare just now was so real, she walked to the door step by step with the water glass in her hand, she didn't know what to think, her heart beat faster, and she quietly approached the cat's eye on the door.

She looked out through the door mirror, but she didn't really think she would see anything, but when she got closer, her eyes accidentally caught a strand of black hair under the hood.

Ren Qin felt that the blood in her body was cold from head to toe, and her pupils suddenly widened.

It was more than three o'clock at night.There really is a man.standing in front of her house.

Across the door, the man was thin and thin. He was wearing a black coat and a hat. The loose hood covered most of his face. Through the door mirror, she could only see the man's long hair in front of his forehead. The first It's hard to tell who he is.

Ren Qin only took one look, and after the other person slightly raised her head, she suddenly looked away and dared not look again, afraid of making eye contact with the person outside the door, afraid that she would be found looking at him inside the door.

But the moment she moved her eyes away, she happened to catch a glimpse of the man's face—his pupils were bottomless, his chin was thin, his complexion was sickly white, but his lips were very red.

She covered her mouth, and her panic reached its peak.

This is Mr. Chi upstairs.

Chi Qing stood outside the door for about ten minutes. At first he leaned against the door of the safe passage, and later he wandered back and forth in the corridor because he was really bored.

He pondered in his heart: If the murderer still didn't show up until four o'clock in the morning, then he probably wouldn't come tonight.

Chi Qing waited impatiently, thinking that it was impossible for him to come up and watch every night without sleeping. It would be much more convenient if he could install a surveillance camera... So he stood at the door and raised his head, carefully calculating which is the best place to install the surveillance camera .

He took a few glances and thought: Forget it, it is illegal to install surveillance cameras at other people's doors.

Or find a way to remind Ren Qin tomorrow and let her pretend.

inside the door.

Ren Qin suppressed the fear in her heart, and after a while, mustered up the courage to take another look outside the door.

"I told you before, that strange-looking person who lives upstairs, do you still remember?" A few minutes later, Ren Qin hid in the toilet and said with a trembling voice, "He, he is at my house now door."

The girl who answered the phone was the girl who planned to rent with Ren Qin before. When she answered the phone, her voice was still in a daze. After a few seconds, she realized that she was all dozed off: "——What did you say?"

"He," Ren Qin said, her hands trembling more and more, thinking of what she saw in the door mirror, "he is still walking around outside my house."

"...Now? At this point?! Is the person above you a pervert?"

"I don't know...By the way, he said something strange to me when he left after dinner today."

"What?"

Ren Qin said incoherently: "He said that if he, he was the murderer, he would choose me as his next target."

"..."

The girlfriend on the other end of the phone intends to take back the question mark in the interrogative sentence just now and change the sentence into a declarative sentence.

This is abnormal.

Ren Qin retrieved the few personal information of the upstairs residents in her mind, and said, "And he lived there before, and he moved here from near the two neighborhoods where the crime occurred."

"?!!"

The information is amazingly consistent.

"Fuck," the female voice on the other side also panicked, "Let's calm down and think about countermeasures. Don't panic. First of all, you must not expose yourself. Don't let him find out that you have seen him. It's impossible to drive this pervert into a hurry. What will happen. You just pretend that nothing happened, and he lives upstairs, wandering around your door in the middle of the night, and the police can’t care about it. He didn’t do anything substantive. There was no benefit to fighting with him before, it would only put us at a disadvantage."

Ren Qin calmed down slowly, she said tremblingly: "You're right...I can't let him find out, I have to pretend nothing happened."

Ren Qin didn't fall asleep all night.

When she went out the next day, her mental state was even worse, her eyes were black and blue, and she went out to work with a canvas bag on her back.

She was absent-minded when she went to work, and the weather has not been very good these few days. The dreary air before the rain weighed on her body. Just after nine o'clock, it really started to rain.

Pedestrians on the road came and went in a hurry, wrapped tightly in their coats.

"What's the matter with you, the customer ordered the wrong order several times." An employee in the store said dissatisfiedly, "When the time comes to complain, our store will be deducted from wages, can you be more serious?"

Ren Qin hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, last night I..."

She talked halfway, but didn't go on. Sometimes in the adult world, they only look at the results and don't listen to the "excuses". .”

Ren Qin stayed exhausted until noon and lunch break. When she was packing the last order before the lunch break, she noticed something vigilantly and looked out the door—there was constant traffic on the street, drizzle, and pedestrians of all colors passing through the traffic. However, Ren Qin still saw the black figure holding an umbrella across the street at a glance.

Even across the street, she could still clearly see the black glove the man put on the handle of the umbrella.

Standing in the rain, that figure seemed to be looking at her from a distance through the drizzle and the long street: "..."

On the way, a car slowly passed by the street, and the traffic was a bit congested, which just blocked the two people's sight of looking at each other.

When the car passed by, the place where people were standing on the other side of the street had returned to emptiness, and there were no people, as if the glance she had just seen was just an illusion.

Ren Qin stared there blankly, lowered her head and found that the red ribbon in her hand was knotted wrongly, so she hurriedly untied the wrong knot.

... She felt like she was about to collapse.

Chi Qing, who didn't know anything about it, crossed the road holding an umbrella.

Today, he walked back to the road locked by Xie Lin after avoiding all surveillance, trying to find the connection between this commercial street and Xue Mei, Yang Zhenzhen, and Ren Qin.

Just passing by the shop where Ren Qin worked, he stopped to take a look, and finally decided not to disturb her when she was at work, and we will talk about the surveillance at night.

Just as he was thinking, the phone in Chi Qing's pocket kept vibrating, and he picked up the phone: "Hello?"

Xie Lin: "Are you not at home?"

"Outside," Chi Qing said, "Is there something wrong?"

Xie Lin said on the other end of the phone: "It's nothing, it's not because you are still angry with me that you deliberately didn't open the door."

Chi Qing: "Although I'm not that boring, if the object is you, this situation is not impossible."

Xie Lin added, "I apologize."

Chi Qing said "Oh", and then said, "I don't accept it."

"..." Chi Qing stopped when he heard the light breathing on the other side of the phone. He crossed the intersection and turned out from the end of the long street holding an umbrella. The drizzle was blown away by the wind, and then he heard Jielin's hand The voice sounded, and the man said helplessly, "Assistant Chi, you are not only difficult to serve, but also difficult to coax."

After Xie Lin and Chi Qing talked on the phone briefly, they received another unexpected call.

The word "Ren Qin" kept flashing on the phone screen.

"Miss Ren?" Xie Lin answered the phone.

To his surprise, Ren Qin's voice was flustered: "Mr. Xie."

"What's wrong?" Xie Lin comforted, "It's okay, speak slowly."

Ren Qin also thought that Jie Lin and Chi Qing seemed to be friends, and whether this person was trustworthy was still a question mark.

But one person's favor for another is an elusive thing. Xie Lin looks good, treats people with grace, and sometimes even looks at his face and listens to his voice, and it is easy for people to fall into it unilaterally. ambiguous.

Although this goodwill only stops at goodwill.

... Besides, in those two cases, there was no information indicating that the murderer had any accomplices.

Ren Qin still decided to trust him: "Are you at home tonight? I'm sorry, I know it's sudden and presumptuous to say this at this time, but I really can't find anyone else...I, I might be targeted."

Xie Lin: "...?"