night traveler

"Zhong Changming walked to the door of the room with the cardboard box in his arms, and suddenly turned his head to look at Qi Chu: "I won't let you go back to that kind of place again, and I won't let you wander.Chu, I promise. "

"En!" Qi Chu nodded obediently.He sat quietly waiting for Zhong Changming to go out, and when he heard the sound of the security door closing, he immediately ran to the window, climbed on the stool and looked out.About a minute later, Zhong Changming appeared outside the unit door, started walking towards the trash can in the community, threw the cardboard box into the trash can, and started walking back.

Very good!Qi Chu was secretly happy that after dinner he could run out to find the cardboard box and see what was inside.Qi Chu was about to climb off the stool, when he saw the cleaners in the community walking towards the trash can, lit a ball of paper and threw it in and began to burn the garbage that was almost full.

No!Qi Chu climbed onto the windowsill and opened the window.Looking at the burning garbage through the screen window, the flames approached little by little, and quickly engulfed the cardboard box, and everything in the garbage bin was ablaze.Qi Chu leaned against the window in frustration.Zhong Changming's voice came from downstairs: "Ah Chu, don't sit by the window, it's dangerous to lean against the screen window!"

Qi Chu had no choice but to climb down, and sat down in the big chair in the study room, shrinking himself up.

In the past two months since the serial killings of street children were solved, everything in the city has returned to normal order. Citizens no longer worry about their children, but the shadow left by the incident is inevitable.Fortunately, the Spring Festival is approaching, and the joyful festive atmosphere has more or less covered up the haze that shrouded the streets and alleys before.In order to make the case a thing of the past as soon as possible, the fact that the murderer was sentenced to death and executed was still placed at the end of the Yucheng news, and it was reported hastily.

In a few years, no one will remember a half-crazy, innocent bum.With the progress of the urban image renovation project, more and more old buildings are planned to be renovated. Some homeless people will hide in the buildings marked with the word "demolition", which sometimes scares the citizens.The relevant departments were very troubled by this, and the reaction of the citizens was even more intense. Due to the previous cases, many people held the idea that "the homeless people at the bottom of society, it would be better if they died", and they were against Tramps carry out vicious attacks.

Probably not long after the execution was executed, someone posted a post on the city's forum, proposing to hold a funeral for the murdered homeless children.Citizens each donated some money.The Public Security Bureau had already cremated the children's remains before, but at this time it was just a new burial.

In fact, until this day, no one knew where those street children came from.Some people living near the scene of the accident remember that they appeared on the street as if out of the blue one day, but no one has ever cared about how many children were homeless.Investigations by the Public Security Bureau into the identity of the children turned up nothing.Are all street children killed now?Or are the rest of the kids hiding?Of course the culprit has been captured, so they needn't worry.But the case still left doubts in many people's minds.

A funeral is held a week before the New Year.

The parents were afraid that this incident would cast a shadow on their children, so they did not bring their children here, although there was no report about the dead body in the news, so there was no room for imagination.But that's because, when the cops first saw the body, even the experienced captain ran off into the desert and vomited.

A lot of people came, including Aunt Zhang from the neighbor, the sister from the pearl milk tea shop on the corner that Qi Chu knew, and many, many people.Qi Chu felt that as long as anyone came, he must be the one who pityed his dead companion.He was wearing black clothes, hiding behind Zhong Changming, holding the corner of Zhong Changming's clothes with one hand, and holding a bouquet of flowers in the other.

So he was the only child here, but hardly anyone noticed him.

Someone was talking loudly in front, and he couldn't hear clearly.He felt lonely through the crowd, because he was the only one left.Although Zhong Changming kept putting his hands on his shoulders, he felt very lonely, and the thick down jacket that Zhong Changming bought for him felt very cold on his body.

The first thing missing was Koyama.After the food snatched from a girl was gone, it was decided that it would be better to find something to eat.Because when they rushed out, the girl fell to the ground in fright, so Ah Qing beat him up.So everyone who listened to Qi Chu decided to go out to find something to eat, or to look through the garbage cans of the fruit and vegetable store.It was raining that day, and Xiaoshan volunteered to find something to eat and come back.But did not come back until the evening.

After two days of rain, Qi Chu went out to look for Xiaoshan.There was a disgusting fishy smell mixed with the cold and creepy smell of rainwater.He found some traces behind the dilapidated dirt houses in the old city. He wasn't sure if it was from the hills. The sticky thing like flesh and blood was constantly being hit by the rain, and blood flowed out.

He fled back without telling anyone about it, but soon the leaves were gone too.The thin Ye Zi insisted on going out to find food. At night, there was a faint cry near the place where they lived. It looked like Ye Zi, but it didn't look like it.Everyone was scared and left the place where they lived.But the companions disappeared one by one.They were unbearably hungry, Qi Chu suggested that a few more people go to look for food so that they would not lose it, but Wangwang and Dafei, the two tallest children, went out together in the morning and disappeared at the same time.

In the end, he and Ah Qing were left.He and Ah Qing huddled in the blanket they picked up, cold and hungry.He fell asleep unknowingly, and when Qi Chu woke up, he was alone. He visited in private and found that Ah Qing was dragged by someone and disappeared into a dark corner, leaving behind a shoe with a hole in it.He ran away in fright, and met a homeless uncle, who pulled him and told him that he would take him to a safe place.At that time, Qi Chu always felt that someone was watching him, and turned around to find the man in the gray coat!

Qi Chu shivered.Zhong Changming noticed his strangeness: "Ah Chu, what's wrong?"

"cold."

Zhong Changming took off the hat and put it on his head, and took off the scarf and tied it around his neck. "We'll be back in a minute."

But Qi Chu wanted to stay until the end, and he still had something to say to Ah Qing and the others.

"My c, I froze to death." Chang Hao sneezed. "Hu Yafeng, you kid is a professional cheater, I'm confused because I listened to you and came here to suffer."

"Isn't that the leave you asked for just came in handy? After you go back, you can catch a cold as a matter of course..." Suddenly Chang Hao shuddered.

"Have you read too many detective novels! The real murderer must come back to attend the funeral? The tramp is dead and you expect his ghost to come to the funeral."

"Brother Chang, do you think the murderer is really that tramp?"

"It's possible, but who would make the corpse look like that, tsk tsk, I didn't eat that day."

"Is there any exact tool for committing the crime?"

"A meat cleaver that was thrown away by someone, and the blade is full of gaps."

"What about other than that?"

"Rope, that kind of thing can be used for anything, the torn clothes in the trash can are torn into strips, the plastic straps used by the vegetable store to tie cardboard boxes. Well, save yourself..."

"Brother Chang, whose child is that?"

"Don't interrupt me, boy, where are the children, whose parents will bring the children?"

"It really is, you see."

Qi Chu stood in front of the tombstone. There was only a eulogy on the tombstone, but no name. "Chang Ming, will I be placed here after I die?"

Zhong Changming was startled: "Ah Chu, don't say such things lightly, Ah Chu will not die."

"The dead people can also move here?"

"No, there are no empty cemeteries around here."

"Can I come here often?" Qi Chu bit his lip. "I want to come over to see everyone for Aceh."

"Who is Azi?"

"My friend, she stayed in the orphanage." No, Aceh was his sister.Because everyone said Aceh looked like him.So he recognized Aqi as his younger sister, but. ． ． ． ． ．Archie will stay in the orphanage forever, he will never see her again.

"If you want, I'll take you to the orphanage to see Aqi."

"Don't go, I don't want to go."

This kid is still so weird.Zhong Changming touched Qi Chu's head and asked him to put the bouquet in front of the tombstone.A frostbitten flower withers like the life of the dead.

Qi Chu burst into tears suddenly, and Zhong Changming held him in his arms and stood up.He glanced back before leaving.Sure enough, two men had been watching them.

The author has something to say: I am writing very seriously, so I hope everyone who passes by will read it seriously.

After all, I'm here, so I hope everyone can give me some pointers if there are some places in the writing!childish lack of experience

fourth night

"Tell you well, boy, why don't you listen!" The captain slammed Hu Yafeng on the head. "The director ordered that this case should not be investigated any more. You'd better be honest. Don't just think about being an early bird and implicating a team of us. Write me a review and come up. Remember to me that you are a policeman and not a tabloid Reporter!" After scolding Hu Yafeng, he turned to Chang Hao: "Hu Yafeng is new here. I let you take Hu Yafeng instead of letting Hu Yafeng take you! If you continue to investigate, it will cause anxiety among the residents. The prisoner has been executed. You two I want to catch a ghost!"

The captain's words are actually very similar to Chang Hao's.Hu Yafeng couldn't help laughing.

The captain's face turned blue: "Hu Yafeng, come here and let's have a good talk."

Hu Yafeng looked at Chang Hao with begging eyes.

Chang Hao lowered his eyes - take care.

Eight years later—

"Chang Ming, I'm back." Qi Chu said