Chapter 27: 2009

Zhao Long recalled that compared to this photo, the one that Dong Xie had found had much lower pixels, plus it was in a rather dimly lit building, and that the evil spirit plastered against the iron door had a ghastly white face, and all of his features were completely distorted, so he couldn't tell if there were any wrinkles at all, and naturally, it was difficult to discern his age. In fact, judging from the style of the clothes, the shades were very old and worn out, and it indeed didn't quite match the aesthetics of young people, not to mention that the landlord had also said before that most of the people living in this place were empty nesters who lived alone. In fact, this is not surprising, this area is extremely remote, said the urban and rural areas are some lift, there is no subway, the station, even a grocery store is very difficult to find, the housing type is also quite old, will come here to buy a house to rent a house will not have a few people, and into the city to work in the city of young people will choose to rent a house to live in the city, this is away from the downtown area of the S city, the driving distance is more than 2 hours, they were afraid of bad road conditions to catch up so early departure. Road conditions are not good can not catch up so early departure, only to ensure that last night ten o'clock arrived. From this inference …… that the old man holding the black cat, it is very likely that it is also a solitary empty nest old man. Zhao Long again brought the photo much closer, at this time he was really glad that the photo pixels were fortunately high enough, it is estimated that the landlord's son brought a smart camera or cell phone to shoot. But because of the distance, he could only tell that the old man was male, and not only his clothes, but his pants and shoes also seemed to have patches. And not far in the background was this Building 3. Ge Qi saw Zhao Long picking up a photo frame and scrutinizing it with a candle, just now he was cursing Zhao Long to go to hell, but now he was showing surprise, could it be that Zhao Long had found another clue to the way of life? Great! Only an hour had passed since the start of the bloodletter quest, so there might still be time to find the way to life in time! So he immediately changed his mind and made sure to guard the door properly! "Zhao Long, what's that picture? You show it to me too!" Ge Qi was now eager to go in and take a look, but he was also afraid that as soon as he entered, the door behind him would automatically close. Once this happened in the past Blood Character Records, no matter what means were used, the door could no longer be smashed open. "I'll show you later, for now, be quiet!" Despite having brought the photo very close, that old man's face was never quite clear. Apart from the distance factor, another reason was that the old man's body was blocked from a lot of sunlight by the shadow of the tree behind him. The old man's body and the shadows had the feeling of becoming one. "If this is the Evil Spirit ……" Zhao Long continued to look at a few other photos, none of the other photos had this neighborhood as their background, but Zhao Long still viewed them extremely carefully, so he might have missed some important clues. But unfortunately, he couldn't find any new clues even after looking at the other photos. After Zhao Long thought about it, he took that key photo out from inside the frame and checked to see if there was a shooting date on the photo. But alas, there wasn't. "Look again to see if there are more clues." He continued to flip open the drawer below and started to make a check. Inside the drawer were mostly miscellaneous items, and some antihypertensive pills, presumably kept by the landlord himself. "Hmm?" When flipping through the last drawer, Zhao Long suddenly saw a calendar. What was strange was that it was the end of 2019, but this was clearly a calendar from 2009! And a calendar from so long ago was actually kept very fresh. "This is?" There were many dates on the calendar that were circled in red and annotated. "Hospital review date …… partner's birthday …… oldest son's birthday …… youngest son's birthday… …Day oldest son came …… youngest son came ……" And behind that, heck, it's 2010, 2011 …… The landlord actually keeps calendars from '09 to the present, and each one records the days when both sons come to visit the house. And the two sons, are only once a year to come, and are the New Year's Day, however, even so, there have been so two or three years the two have not come to visit parents. Even the day they came back after three years was the day the landlady died. "That photo of them wearing obviously summer clothes, and it's unlikely that they would wear short-sleeved summer clothes on New Year's Day, especially when both old people are not in good health, it's impossible to wear that thin in January and February." Zhao Long began to carry out the analysis, "The days when both sons came, in addition to the New Year, there was only one …… photo should be taken on that day." The photo was taken three years before the landlady's death, six years ago from now, in 2013. Zhao Long searched the rest of the place, and after determining that there were no more clues, he walked to the door of the room and said to Ge Qi, "Very good, I thought you would escape." "Photos, show me ……" "Let's all look together." Walking to the door of the room, Zhao Long showed the photo to Dong Xie and Dong Ning, "Look at the photo and compare it to the one you found earlier." Zhao Long directly pointed his finger at the old man holding the black cat under the tree, and Dong Xie and Dong Ning immediately fixed their eyes on it. "Clothes ……" Dong Ning realized the problem at the first moment, while Dong Xie also immediately took out the photo to compare. On the photo, the evil spirit's terrifying figure was still creepy. And when the clothes were compared, they were indeed the same, even the pants were no different, and they were definitely not the same clothes and pants, because even the location of the patches were exactly the same. "And then there are these calendars. From the calendars, I can roughly deduce the date when the photos were taken, three years before the landlady died of a heart attack." Dong Xie took the calendars and examined them carefully, and suddenly, he thought of something. "You mean …… the photo shooting date was in 2013, right?" "Yes. ……" When Dong Ning heard these words, he also suddenly thought of something. Afterward, Dong Xie and Dong Ning said almost in unison, "2009!" "What do you mean?" Zhao Long didn't understand what was going on for a moment. "The photo we found earlier was taken on December 30, 2009! That is, ten years ago!" Dong Xie pointed to the photo of the evil spirit appearing in his hand and said, "If the new photo you found was taken in 2013, then …… this photo of this old man appearing is also already an evil spirit!" At these words, everyone's face changed dramatically! "Are there any other photos?" Dong Ning asked Zhao Long, "Just this photo?" "Well, there are a few other photos that are family photos of the landlord's family, and nothing unusual was found." "You take them out and show them to us again! Maybe we can find some clues!" Zhao Long had no choice but to go back to that room and take out the other few photo frames as well. He handed the photo frames to Dong Xie and Dong Ning, and they each took two photos to look at. Under the firelight of the candles, Dong Xie saw that not far behind the person in each photo was the old man holding the black cat! "No!" Zhao Long's face instantly turned pale, "Just now …… when I looked just now, there was clearly no him!"