night traveler

The children in the dormitory were also taken away and will stay in the orphanage for the rest of their lives.

Later, they finally had a chance to escape, but they were killed by a demon-like man, leaving only Qi Chu alone.

Qi Chu felt parched, and fumbled for the water glass in the dark, but accidentally pushed it off the bedside table.The glass broke with a crisp sound.Qi Chu finally recovered from the nightmare.

Boom boom boom.Someone knocked on his door. "Achu, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I broke a cup." Qi Chu couldn't see the fragments clearly on the ground, so he picked up the bigger one.There was a tingling in the fingertips, maybe bleeding.

"Ah Chu, be careful not to scratch your hands, don't touch anything on the ground, let me come." Zhong Changming opened the door and came in, turning on the light.For a moment, light enveloped the entire room.The light made Qi Chu feel very glaring, as if someone put him in full view, making him feel that there was nowhere to escape.He curled up covering his face with the quilt, and gently licked the blood off his fingers.

"Achu, what's the matter, did you have a nightmare?" Zhong Changming touched the quilt, found that Qi Chu seemed to be shaking, and retracted his hand again.

Qi Chu at this moment is very much like how he was hiding from the rain eight years ago when he was huddled in an old blanket. He is as cautious, afraid of getting hurt, and afraid of things around him.

Zhong Changming turned off the light and pulled Qi Chu out of the quilt.Qi Chu rested his head on his chest, this action reminded him of Ning Ning.Ning Ning likes to lean on his chest, listen to his story before going to bed, he will touch his daughter's little head, kiss her heart, and gently let her lie down when she has fallen asleep.So he hugged Qi Chu a little tighter, resting his bearded chin on top of Qi Chu's head, it felt like his daughter was back, but not like it.

Qi Chu gently put his hand on his shoulder.

His hand was only two centimeters away from Zhong Changming's neck. If he was closer, and there was a thin knife in his hand, blood would flow like a fountain in the next second.

So Qi Chu put his hands on Zhong Changming's neck, and he could feel the pulse of life in the subcutaneous blood vessels.

It's good to be alive.Qi Chu fell asleep slowly with strange thoughts that Zhong Changming would never be able to figure out.

"Ms. Yin Hongyu, please tell me, when did the nurse Feng Yulan Feng of your orphanage resign?"

"It was seven years ago." Yin Hongyu is a very well-maintained woman, well-dressed, and slightly younger than her peers.

"It seems that you have a very deep memory of this nurse."

"Yes," Yin Hongyu replied calmly.Hu Yafeng found her arms crossed around her chest.This is a performance of self-preservation, she felt the danger. "When Feng Yulan came here, she said that the reason she wanted to be a nurse was that she lost two children in the fire. I sympathized with her and felt that she would treat these orphans as her own, so I hired her."

"But it didn't occur to you that she took out the loss of her child on the poor orphan, did you?"

Yin Hongyu's face changed, "There will be no child abuse in our orphanage."

"You mentioned the word child abuse just now because of your subconscious reaction. You knew that there was child abuse in the orphanage, but instead of stopping it, you condoned it."

"Yes.....".Yin Hongyu's face turned pale. "I didn't think she was like that."

There is a photo of Feng Yulan in the nurse's file. It is a very ordinary working woman's face, with the corners of her mouth and eyes drooping down, looking slightly gloomy.Could it be that the one who murdered the escaped waifs was also an ordinary-looking demon hiding in the crowd.

"I think you'd better tell me everything you know, Ms. Yin Hongyu. Now that you can't escape your guilt, tell me what happened here and how Feng Yulan disappeared."

"Okay." Yin Hongyu nodded slowly, she smiled wryly, the wrinkles at the corners of her mouth made her look a lot older in an instant. "It's like this. About ten years ago, Feng Yulan came to the orphanage, and I hired her..."

At that time, Feng Yulan looked very friendly, her past files were not stained, and she was good to the children at the beginning.She takes care of twelve children in dormitory [-].Since there is only one room on the fourth floor, only thirteen people on one floor know what happened at night.One night when Yin Hongyu went to find Feng Yulan, she heard the cries of a child echoing in the corridor on the fourth floor. Feng Yulan said that a child had fallen, so she didn't care.

But when she checked the children a month later, she found that the children in room [-] had many injuries.She questioned Feng Yulan if she was abusing the child, and said she would fire her and tell the police.But Feng Yulan smiled and said that if Yin Hongyu told the police, she would tell the reporter to let the reporter expose and spread the matter, and this matter would definitely damage Yin Hongyu's reputation.This woman Feng Yulan is simply a lunatic, but Yin Hongyu acquiesced in her behavior after considering her reputation.Yin Hongyu told the children in dormitory [-] that if they told about the abuse, they would no longer be adopted by their parents.Surprisingly, a group of five-year-old children did not accept the threat.

The group of children was then isolated from the other children.It rained one night.Yin Hongyu heard a loud noise coming from the fourth floor, but she didn't pay attention, and Feng Yulan and the twelve children disappeared the next day.

"...I didn't find them anywhere. I was very scared. I didn't say anything about the disappearance of the nurse and the child." Yin Hongyu's voice trembled unconsciously. "More than a year later, Feng Yulan's insurance company called me and said she couldn't be contacted. I had to tell them that Feng Yulan left my place not long ago. I don't know what happened to me after that."

"I want the photos of those twelve children." Hu Yafeng said lightly.What Yin Hongyu said, he had already guessed that it was close to ten.The thing to do now is to compare the photos of the victims and the children in the orphanage.

Sure enough, ten victims happened to be seated accordingly.

So, what about the other two children, and where did Feng Yulan go?

He took down the pictures and names of the two children.Qi Qi, Qi Chu.

"You know the murders that happened in the city eight years ago. I think you should have guessed that those are children who escaped from the orphanage."

Yin Hongyu's face turned pale suddenly, her lips were murmured and she couldn't utter a word.

"If possible, there should be two children alive now. But you should know that if it weren't for your connivance, the children would not be forced to leave and be killed." After Hu Yafeng finished speaking, he took the photo and left.

Yin Hongyu fell to the ground.I don't know if she regretted it?

Hu Yafeng went to the backyard again. He vaguely felt that there were some secrets hidden in the orphanage, but the dry well and dead wood would not tell him the answer, only a rotten smell ate away at everything.

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seventh night

If those two children were still alive, they might be important witnesses.But only if alive.

Hu Yafeng couldn't find a clue, and he was now in a corner.The living orphans were inextricably linked to the murder, but now he didn't think it was possible for the two children to be alive.

Perhaps the recordings of the residents he interviewed would provide clues?Hu Yafeng took out the words of the residents he recorded:

"I've seen that kid two or three times. What did he say his name was...I can't remember exactly."

"He said his name is Ah Chu."

"It seems to be... Ah Fei."

The names of five or six children surfaced in scattered sentences.Correspondingly, among the ten victims, Meng Qing, Gao Fei, Zhang Wangwang, Zhang Xiaoshan, and Li Yu were recognized.The whereabouts of the two children whose whereabouts are unknown, one named Qi Chu, was the information provided by the female clerk of the pearl milk tea shop.

Hu Yafeng decided to ask the clerk again. He collected the scattered materials on the table and put them into a file bag, and left his seat.

"Hey, Brother Hu, I think you've been very busy these days. What are you busy with? Can I help?"

"Ah, it's nothing, it's just the files from the whole past." Hu Yafeng said perfunctorily, put on a windbreaker on his police uniform jacket and went out.

The old town looked even more dilapidated, probably because more and more buildings were marked with the word "demolished". Occasionally, people passing by walked in a hurry.The sky here is also gloomy, as if the ghosts of children who cannot sleep forever have haunted this place.Hu Yafeng felt as if everything had returned to the scene of the crime eight years ago. At that time, he was a new little policeman, and was left in the police station by senior seniors. He could only create a scene of the crime based on his imagination. , full of things like detective novels, thinking that the future self will be easy.

Compared with the last time he came, the store has moved away.The bubble tea storefront is not neat, and the signboard hangs obliquely on the door, but it is already considered a passable store here.A wooden table with chess squares was placed near the residential area, and the stone bench was turned aside.Everything here is slowly rotting and dilapidated, like a slowly rotting case that is about to become unknown and become a piece of paper in the police file room.

Yes, what's the use of overturning the case?It occurred to him suddenly.He will catch the murderer, but no one will sympathize with the dead tramp.The panic caused by the reversal of the case will linger in everyone's hearts for a long time, thinking that the real murderer has actually been lurking in the crowd for so long.Finding out the truth cannot bring any light.

But the case had already taken root in his heart and became a demon.he suddenly quickened his pace