Chapter 33: He Lian’s Home

Dong Xie gently pushed open the kitchen door. Inside the kitchen, next to the stove, there was a pot. Dong Xie slowly walked to the front of the pot and took a look towards the inside …… laying a steamed bun that had already gone rancid. "This house, should be He Lian's residence in life. However, for the time being, I can't see any clues." Dong Xie looked up and down before looking at the cell phone screen in his hand. This flip phone that they had picked up, extremely bizarrely still had power not to mention that it had recorded the text message records of him and his daughter and future son-in-law. The daughter of the cell phone's owner was none other than Ding Yi, the dentist who had died before the outbreak of the epidemic. And in the text messages, Ding Yi mentioned that the son of the director of Blackwater Hospital, who had been missing for three years, had reappeared. This matter caught the attention of Dong Xie and the others. Therefore, both Dong Xie and Han Lei thought that it was likely to have a great connection with this Bloodletter mission. Some of the text messages that followed were mostly pleasantries of daily life. Until a month before Ding Yi's death according to news reports …… "Yi, it's like this, He Lian and I were talking about the weird thing that happened to you last time when you were on the night shift at the hospital. What's this all about?" Ding Yi quickly responded, "Don't listen to him, Dad, there's no such thing." And this …… Heck, it was the record of Ding Yi's last text message with his father. And then, wanting to know what happened that night, Dong Xie opened Ding Yi's father's and He Lian's SMS records again. He wanted to find clues from it. The conversation between He Lian and his future father-in-law centered around Ding Yi, and basically never mentioned Xie Xun. Until a month before Ding Yi's death, he finally found the most crucial text message. "Uncle, although Xiao Yi won't let me tell you, but I thought about it and decided to tell you." The text message was followed by this, "Xiao Yi told me that she had heard strange sounds coming from the morgue at night. She thought it was strange at the time, so she went to carry out a check, then, at the door of the morgue, she saw a figure inside projected on the wall, which scared her so much that she fled. Later she got other people, but the morgue was without any abnormality, and no intruder was found. I'm still a little worried as she seems to be scared." When she saw this text message record, Dong Xie remembered the morgue they had once entered, and couldn't help but remind them of the horrific experience they had had back then. Ding Yi's father's reply was, "No way, Xiao Yi hasn't told me anything! I can't believe this has happened!" "I was wondering at first if it could be a thief, but why a thief would run to the morgue for good reason is also strange. That night, there had been a failed surgical operation where the patient died on the operating table and was then sent to the morgue. It's something that scares Yui to death." "It's a bit scary, but after all, Xiao Yi is a medical student, so she's not too scared." "That surgery was also the first time Dr. Xie Xun failed to save a patient's life on the operating table, and the patient's family even came to the hospital to make trouble over it. So the hospital is also quite difficult." "There seems to be quite a lot of things going on in the hospital lately as well. You two finish your marriage as soon as possible, He Lian." However …… just one month later, Ding Yi passed away. On the night of Ding Yi's death, there were multiple call records between Ding Yi's father and He Lian, and it was clear that the duo were scattered around the island searching for Ding Yi and corresponding with each other as a result. Comparatively, there were no records of text messages. After all, after their daughter's death, He Lian and Ding's father mostly talked in person or called to comfort them. The records of text messages, surprisingly, weren't much. Most of them were expressions of mourning for their daughter's death, and an inability to understand who the murderer was. The information that is available is that the night Ding Yi died, she left the hospital and did not go home, and the last person to see her was a nurse at the hospital. And after that …… there was no more eyewitness information. She died a long way from the hospital. There was even the question of whether the place where the body was found was the first scene of the crime. The murder weapon, on the other hand, was never found, while no one with a motive for the murder could be identified. And from the text message records, but there is to find a very key clue, that is …… He Lian's specific home address. This is in He Lian and Ding's father's SMS records actively mentioned. Following the house number, they actually found that He Lian's home was nearby. "Then, let's give it a try." After walking out from the kitchen, Dong Xie and the others had already searched the first floor. And then, he uttered these words. Lian Zixin froze and asked, "Try? Try what?" And then, Dong Xie took his cell phone and started …… dialing He Lian's cell phone number. It was amazing that Father Ding's cell phone could bizarrely still have power, so it was likely that He Lian's cell phone would do the same. However, although Dong Xie could hear the ringing of the dialed number, after a long time, there was never any answer. "No one answered the phone?" Han Lei more or less revealed a look of disappointment, "If we can find He Lian's cell phone, we should be able to find more clues." Dong Xie also nodded and said, "I think so too." At this time, they looked towards the stairs on one side. "Why don't we take a look on the second floor first?" "Hmm." The first floor was a mess everywhere, and it had been roughly searched, with no clues found. For now, it was time to take a look upstairs. Han Lei and Dong Xie walked at the front, while the others followed behind. Walking to the stairs, Dong Xie only felt that the light around him had dimmed considerably. He stepped onto the staircase steps, only to feel the sound of "creaking" and "crunching". During this process, Dong Xie and Han Lei were both feeling anxious. It wasn't long before the two of them had already made their way to the second floor. What appeared head-on was a poster of Meteor Garden, the very same F4 that was still young at the time. "This poster is really nostalgic." After walking up, Li Chong looked at the poster in front of him and tsked. "Hmm." Dong Xie walked up to the poster, although he knew that it mostly had nothing to do with the Bloodletter Quest, but it was nothing to look at anyway. However, not long after he walked to the poster, a corner of the poster near Zhou Yumin suddenly came off automatically! The corner that fell off was not small, basically covering Zhou Yumin's entire face. Dong Xie hastily took several steps back, and ended up directly bumping into Lian Zixin behind him. "This …… this?" Han Lei, on the other hand, fared much better than Dong Xie as he clenched his fists and said, "Don't be afraid first! Maybe it's some kind of hint?" "Hint?" Lian Zixin paid attention to the poster in front of him, but couldn't see anything for a moment. "I remember." At this time, Dong Xie suddenly said, "I remember Ding Yi's father's correspondence with He Lian said that Ding Yi's favorite actors were Yan Chengxu and Zhou Yumin. That's why He Lian posted the poster here, right?" Han Lei braved it and walked up to take another look, but no matter how he looked at it, it was just an ordinary stills poster, and he couldn't see anything halfway out of the ordinary. He had, after all, watched Ji Yu die in front of him at the time, so he didn't dare to get too close now. Even if a hand reached out from inside the poster and pulled him in, he wouldn't feel strange. After looking at it for a while, he still quickly moved away from the poster. Looking at the poster that had suddenly shed a corner in front of him, every resident was ready to run away at any time. Everyone remembered Ji Yu's death clearly. If the Evil Spirit really struck out to kill, the occupants were not able to do anything at all. There was only one life, and it was impossible to read the file and start over. Han Lei quickly made a decision, ''Let's go search the other areas of the second floor first. Everyone stay close behind me and flee as soon as something goes wrong." Everyone responded, with Han Lei's words, everyone finally had a backbone. And no matter what, Han Lei was always at the front, to die he would definitely be the first to die, so gradually everyone was no longer much afraid. And next to the stairs, is a hidden room door. Han Lei slowly walked up, slowly pressed his hand on the door, and a push …… Inside, was a study. Inside the study, there was a bookshelf, and next to the bookshelf was a writing desk. During the execution of the Bloodletter, to enter the room, there must be someone outside guarding the door before the occupants could go in and explore. "I'll do it." Lian Zixin felt that he couldn't burden Han Lei with everything either, so he volunteered to come out. "I'll go in with you!" Dong Xie uttered these words in a firm tone, and then, with the others in charge of guarding the door, he and Lian Zixin walked into this study!