The basement always has a musty smell because it is not exposed to sunlight all year round. Although the circulating air purification and dehumidifier are turned on, it still has a different smell from the upstairs.

Xu Luo jumped down the last step and walked around on the spot.

"The basement is actually the place where he tortured me, as well as his private study." Xu Luo turned around and looked at Gu Nianyi who was walking down the stairs, "How is it? Is it hidden enough so that it won't be easy to be found?"

"Indeed." Gu Nianyi stepped down step by step, and he could see the whole basement.The height of the basement is not high, which is equivalent to about half of the living room above. It is divided into two sides, inside and outside, separated by a sliding door.

But when Gu Nianyi saw the scene in front of him, his first reaction was depression and terror.

The basement itself was cold and damp with no windows, but here it used a large area of ​​black walls, a metal bed without a mattress, a bed board that felt cold at first glance, and a chain hanging from the bed at the head of the bed.

The other places are almost all chains and iron cages, all exuding a gloomy luster, and it doesn't look like a place for normal people to stay.

"Have you been locked up by him...here?"

"No, he will lock me here for a small part of the time." Xu Luo stretched out his fingers and counted, "Probably when I was disobedient or when he was very angry, he would leave me here alone, and occasionally put a message His hounds that died later."

"...you will be afraid." Gu Nianyi said.

"Yes, at first I wasn't used to it, and I was so scared that my voice became hoarse." Xu Luo patted the wall here, "This kind of wall with sponge in the middle is specially used for recording studios, so no matter how I scream, I can't hear it." , there may be a small sound, so some people will ask him if he has a cat in the basement."

Gu Nianyi felt a little distressed, and walked over to grab his hand.

Xu Luo's hands were cold, and Gu Nianyi knew it wasn't all because of the colder temperature in the basement than above, maybe because of the fear he showed when he was narrating just now.

Xu Luo pulled away his hand, and picked up the cold shackles and joked with Gu Nianyi: "Don't tell me, this thing is really light compared to yours."

"..." Gu Nianyi rolled his eyes, then walked to the side of the room, and opened the sliding doorway, "...this is his study."

"Mm." Xu Luo responded and walked over.

Surrounded by cold concrete walls, topped by black-painted metal shelves, surrounded by glass display cases containing fishing gear supplies.There is a fishing rod with red paint and a feathery pattern outlined in the edge placed in the most conspicuous position, which seems to be the proud work of the owner.

"Wu Li's obvious job is a fishing gear designer. The most interesting thing is that he seems to really like this job. He has good aesthetic taste and has even won many international awards... I always feel that these perverts They seem to have pretty good aesthetic taste." After Xu Luo took him in, he showed him Wuli's bookcase, "Look, many of them are books related to art."

"Indeed." Gu Nianyi said, "Then, that safe..."

"Here." Xu Luo pointed to a small cabinet on the bookshelf.

Gu Nianyi: "..."

Put it in such an obvious place?

"What are you thinking?" Xu Luo seemed to be able to read his mind, and said, "Originally this safe was placed behind the bookshelf, but I just moved it out later."

"Oh..." Gu Nianyi scratched his head and said, "You can find out whatever I think."

"Not good." Xu Luo smiled.

Xu Luo hugged the cabinet while smiling, and put it on the table. The small cabinet is a combination lock, and it looks more refined and old than ordinary safes, like an antique.

"What's the password?" Gu Nianyi asked.

"Do you remember, before the Lu Fan case, the note he left when he died?" Xu Luo said.

"Well, I remember, it was soaked in water at that time." Gu Nianyi recalled, "We never solved it at that time."

"Actually, I also found one in Professor Wang Wenlu's notebook later." Xu Luo said, "I didn't tell you at the time."

"?" Gu Nianyi said, "His notebook for keeping track of things? Impossible, we have searched all over and there is only an ordinary diary."

Is there something that has not been discovered?Gu Nianyi thought.

"It's not the same as Lu Fan writing it down directly." Xu Luo said.

"There are calendars of recent years on the front of the old-fashioned notebook." Xu Luo walked to the bookshelf, slowly flicked his fingers over a row of books, tapped one of the thick-backed dark brown books, and pulled it out. Come down, and then spread it out on the table, "Basically, the time on these calendars will be the year after production or the year after production, look... such as this one."

"On March 3 and May 23, they were surrounded by a circle." Xu Luo said, "Although it is small, you can see it if you look carefully."

“对,和日期有关系?那我记得吕凡的日记本上是……30……4、8、1、7?对吧?还是被那水浸润的隐隐约约的字迹。”顾年祎道,“那么,和这个笔记本上的日期数字也是有关系的咯?3月4日和8月17日?”

"Wang Wenlu's notebook is different, do you remember?" Xu Luo said, "If I remember correctly, it should be June 6 and December 16."

Gu Nianyi said: "But what's the point?"

"I don't know." Xu Luo shrugged his shoulders, "And... Lu Fan's string of numbers is followed by several uppercase letters, the first is T and the second is..."

"Y or T, I don't remember clearly." Gu Nianyi said.

"I later guessed based on some videos of Lu Fan's lectures and his writing on the blackboard. It should be an English day of the week?" Xu Luo said, "I thought about it before. If it is a week, it is actually more convenient to use the Chinese characters Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, but as long as you look at some of the professor's notes from that year, it is not difficult to see that the professor likes to use English abbreviations..."

Xu Luo said: "So there is a question... If this 'T' really refers to the day of the week, is it Tuesday or Thursday?"

"But it can't prove that it means the week." Gu Nianyi said.

"Yes." Xu Luo said, "Then let's go back to Wang Wenlu's notebook. It is a very old-fashioned notebook. The earliest date of the previous perpetual calendar is 2002, and the latest date is 2006. The two circles he circled The days are all in 2002..."

"Because the earliest date of the notebook is from 2002, so maybe he didn't want to record the events in 2002, but..." Gu Nianyi looked down at the notebook.

"Well." Xu Luo said, "It should be in 99, because you can see the two days written by Lu Fan as long as you look at the perpetual calendar. Any calendar. He should just want to remember these two dates."

"They're really, really weird." Gu Nianyi said, "Whether it's a student or a teacher, there is a sense of following the rules and a certain agreement that must be followed."

Xu Luo came back to the safe: "I searched Wuli's bookcase for a long time, and found this notebook, which also had two dates circled on it. I tried the combination of the week and the date, and in the end it was Tried the password for me."

Xu Luo said: "Look, the dates of his two circles are 323 and 530. I used 323530 to combine, and 233035 to combine, and finally 2330... plus Tuesday and Sunday." Xu Luo shrugged, "That's it I tried it out."

"What's the point of these times?" Gu Nianyi asked.

"Then I have to ask the living people." Xu Luo pressed the number "233027", and the safe opened. "I can only try it out by luck."

Xu Luo took out the contents and said, "Oh, I thought it would be my birthday or something. I'm really disappointed."

"..." Gu Nianyi walked over and squatted beside him, inside was a kraft paper file bag.

"The reason why I didn't tell you is because I didn't open some things." Xu Luo said, "And the previous case didn't come to any conclusion, it just added to your troubles."

"Stop coming." Gu Nianyi looked at him, "At the end of the day, he just didn't want to trouble me."

"Yeah, dragging you into the water is what I did, and it's what I regret the most." Xu Luo leaned closer to Gu Nianyi and kissed his lips, "It's good that you are an ordinary person."

Xu Luo quickly pecked his lips and backed away, then took out a photo from the file bag and gave it to Gu Nianyi.

"There are more people in this photo than the one we saw before?" Xu Luo said, "Look, is there anyone who appears?"

Gu Nianyi looked at the photo. There were obviously more people in the photo than the previous one. Xu Luo took another plastic-covered photo from the shelf, which was the graduation photo of Qishan No. [-] Middle School, that is, That original.

"Look." Xu Luo pointed to him for comparison and said, "They are dressed differently and have slightly different hair lengths. They should not have been taken at the same time. At this time, some people still...or?"

Gu Nianyi turned his head to look at the photo with fewer people, and then looked at the photo with more people in his hands, and said, "There are two more men, three female students and one male student."

"Do you remember the secret room we were in before?" Xu Luo said, "At that time..."

"Those female 'corpses' on the ground at that time!" Gu Nianyi said, "The other party has been implying that the male teacher who gave us the last class killed them, and then the male teacher came from fell down the stairs and died."

Xu Luo nodded: "The voice on the radio has been guiding us, maybe there is a reason for this."

Gu Nianyi narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was thinking.

"Like Wu Mengjuan and the others, they never showed up in some of the later gatherings." Xu Luo said, "There is a high probability that they are already dead."

"Actually, the people in this photo, except for the teacher Song Lin and the unidentified Wang Xi and Zhao Lu, have all been confirmed dead." Gu Nianyi pointed to them one by one, "Wu Mengjuan, Sun Xue... Disappeared after the experiment."

He looked at a male student in front of him: "Wu Li, confirmed death."

Then moved his finger to the left: "Luo Sheng, it was confirmed last month that his body was frozen to death in the freezer."

Move to the left again: "This is Wang Xi who is said to work in a medical institution, and this is Zhao Lu who works in a securities firm."

"It is very likely that one of them is the frozen corpse whose identity has not yet been confirmed." Xu Luo said.

Gu Nianyi nodded.

"Teacher Song Lin hasn't appeared since he immigrated to the United States. We can't find his words, and others..." Gu Nianyi said halfway through, "Ah, no, they have a position!"

Gu Nianyi quickly remembered that the two different locators placed in Lu Fan's phone at different times could monitor Lu Fan's location all the time.

"Yes." Xu Luo said, "So the police don't know, and the group of people who need to monitor him may not know."

"But everyone is dead." Gu Nianyi said, "Who is still monitoring them?"

He took out the second photo and made a cross in the air: "If the girls on the second photo and the male teacher are all confirmed dead..."

"Then all the girls are dead..." Xu Luo said.

Gu Nianyi paused, and suddenly said: "Not necessarily? Death was instilled in us by the person in the secret room, but are they really dead? At least we haven't confirmed the identity of the other party now, and we don't know whether it is true or not. dead."

Xu Luo stroked the photo and rubbed Gu Nianyi's cheek with the top of his head: "Niannian, you are so smart."

"Okay, if it is accepted that the story in the secret room is true that day, the teacher died after being drunk, and the three female students also died..." Gu Nianyi said, "So at noon, they took pictures of this A graduation photo."

"Wait a minute, could it be a third party?" Gu Nianyi asked, "For example, students and teachers are under surveillance, but in fact it is a third party who is monitoring them, that is, the organizer of this experiment?"

"It's possible..." Xu Luo said, "There really is this third party."

.

"From 99 to this year, for more than 20 years, none of them was spared at all, and all their lives were monitored on a daily basis." Gu Nianyi said, "Why?"

Xu Luo shook off the portfolio and said, "That's what I'm going to say next, and there's one more thing, of course I'm just guessing."

There is also a bound book in the file bag.Gu Nianyi opened it to read, and there were some records and text summaries inside. There were two very eye-catching Xu Luo in it. Gu Nianyi froze for a moment, and began to read through the entire article, and found that it was very similar to a thesis. form.

"...Although it is not a journal paper in the strict sense, there is no special format, but how to put it, this article is more like a feedback." Xu Luo said, "It is similar to, 'I use some of the knowledge I learned in school this year. Where it is applied in life and what kind of results are obtained, I want to give you my feedback.'”

Xu Luo pointed to the archives without any article titles: "This was written two years ago, that is, before Wu Li's death. I finished reading it, and it only contained his description of how he controlled me and what he did to me that year. What kind of indoctrination and brainwashing made me willing to follow his part and write it in, but obviously not all of it... He hasn't finished it yet, because you see, he is about to start writing another part, only the beginning, and the experimental object is This is a boy named Chen Zhi."

Xu Luo added: "And this boy is the person he dated that year. You should have seen the whole story of this case."

"Wait, wait!" Gu Nianyi vigorously flipped through a few pages and said, "Why did he use this form to record how you were controlled?"

"I just said, it might be feedback." Xu Luo turned to the first page, "2018, bar, 2..."

"'2'? Then there is '1'?" Gu Nianyi said, "Give feedback twice a year?"

"Then he died." Xu Luo said, "so it must be very important for him to keep this thing in the safe."

"Why don't you send an email, or simply use the communication method to give feedback? Isn't this kind of thing printed out to leave a complete evidence for the police to arrest?" Gu Nianyi said.

"So maybe it can be considered that the recipient is inconvenient to use email or does not know any online operations?" Xu Luo said, "Some older people don't know how to access the Internet at all."

Gu Nianyi flipped through it, and the more he flipped, the more he felt uncomfortable, and said: "He said that it is useless to use intimidation and detention to brainwash you continuously for a year, and he is starting to consider using real drugs to control you..."

"Really, I didn't read it carefully." Xu Luo said lightly, "I was quite afraid of reading these."

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