Terror 602

Chapter 5

The car soon arrived at Buyun Garden. The garden looked even more dilapidated than at night. Su Yang directed the police to Room 602, Building 6. The neighbors looked at them in amazement, whispering to each other, with curiosity and uneasiness in their eyes.

The old policeman carefully observed Zhu Su's door, and the rust and dust on the iron door did not escape his sharp eyes. The young policeman kept taking pictures. The old policeman stood up and asked the neighbor next to him: "Is this Zhu Su's home?"

The neighbor nodded and asked back: "Did something happen to her? No wonder she hasn't come back for several months."

"How many months hasn't she come back? How many months exactly?"

The neighbor counted on his fingers and said: "A little more than four months."

The old policeman nodded thoughtfully and said to the young policeman: "Open the door."

Su Yang said anxiously: "Why didn't you knock on the door? She sent me a text message last night saying that she would come back, but the neighbors didn't see it." But then he remembered the series of things that happened from last night to today, and he closed his mouth again, secretly cursing himself that he shouldn't believe what others said.

The old policeman stared at the young policeman, watching him put on gloves, take out a bunch of tools from his backpack and start unlocking, while casually answering Su Yang: "Don't you see the dust on the iron door? No one has been in and out of this door for at least half a year."

The young policeman quickly opened the iron door and the door. The old policeman put on gloves and gently pushed the door open. Su Yang's palms were full of cold sweat, but he still gritted his teeth and followed in. The room was dark, all the curtains were drawn, and only a faint light came in from the kitchen. The young policeman fumbled to turn on the light, but found that the power had been cut off.

Su Yang quickly adapted to the dimness in the room, but the pervasive stench made him feel stuffy in his chest, his brain swollen, and his stomach churning. He frowned and muttered: "What is this smell, so smelly?"

The old policeman's low voice came from the darkness: "If you are allowed to be a policeman for a few years, maybe you will get used to this smell."

Su Yang wanted to ask what the smell was, but suddenly his eyes lit up, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand to block the light. It turned out that the young policeman pulled the curtains open. The outline of the house suddenly became clear: it was a two-bedroom, one-living room layout, with a home theater, a sofa and a coffee table in the living room, on which remote controls, CDs and other sundries were scattered. Surprisingly, there was a vase on the coffee table with two lilies in it, which had long since withered, leaving only two stumps. It seems that Zhu Suying is a person who understands the fun of life.

Suddenly, Su Yang screamed. The two policemen turned around abruptly, and the neighbors outside the door also had their heartbeats accelerated, focusing their eyes on Su Yang, who pointed directly at a corner behind the door, his face pale. The old policeman asked vigilantly: "What did you see?"

"Red grapes... red grapes..." For a moment, Su Yang's heart was in a mess. The two policemen's faces also changed, and the young policeman walked up quickly and picked up a bag of red grapes from the corner. The red grapes looked particularly fresh, and they were out of tune with the stale smell in the house. Obviously, it was absolutely impossible to be a relic from four months ago. There was only one explanation: someone brought the red grapes left by Su Yang into the house after he left last night!

The old policeman's face darkened, and he signaled the young policeman and Su Yang to leave the door.

At the door, the neighbors' faces were full of suspicion and anxiety. The old policeman did not explain, took out his mobile phone, walked out of the crowd, and made a call: "Criminal Police Brigade, this is Lao Chen. Xiao Zhang and I are now in 602, Building 6, Buyun Garden, Baiyun District. We suspect that a homicide has occurred here, and it is related to the beheading case last night. Please send personnel to reinforce the search urgently."

The neighbors began to get restless. Old Chen walked into the crowd, scanned everyone, and asked in a deep voice: "Who among you is familiar with Zhu Su, and knows Zhu Su's contact information and other information?"

A middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and replied: "I have her mobile phone number, wait, let me check... Well, it's this number. But I don't know her very well. She has lived here for a few years, but basically doesn't visit other people. I only left her phone number last year when she asked me to help fix the water heater."

Old Chen's eyes stayed on Su Yang, who was looking through his mobile phone and comparing it with Zhu Su's phone number. A horrified expression appeared on his face, "How is it possible? Is the person on the Internet really Zhu Su? Then where is she? Is she a human or a ghost?"

Old Chen patted Su Yang on the shoulder, motioning him to calm down. He turned around and asked the neighbors: "Before Zhu Su disappeared, did you notice anything unusual about her? Has anyone come to see her during this period of time since she disappeared?"

The neighbors talked about it all at once, and in summary, there were several points: First, Zhu Su moved to 602, Building 6, Buyun Garden with her parents about three years ago. They bought a second-hand house. Not long after, her parents immigrated to Australia and never came back. She lived here alone; second, Zhu Su was not young (no one knew how old she was, but she looked no more than 28 or 29 years old), and she looked good, but she rarely brought friends home and almost never visited neighbors. Two or three months before she disappeared, a man would occasionally come to see her, but he never showed up again after Zhu Su disappeared. This man usually comes after 10pm. He is not tall, about 1.65m, and has dark skin. However, after Zhu Su disappeared, in addition to the people who check the water meter and collect electricity bills, there are different young men knocking on the door of Room 602 every month to look for her. It was not until the neighbors told them that Zhu Su was not there and Room 602 was empty that they left half-believingly.

Lao Chen sorted out these clues in his mind. It seems that the dark-skinned man is a big suspect, but why there are men coming to Zhu Su every month is a bit strange. Could it be that the identities of these young people were "cheated" on the Internet like Su Yang? What is the intention of the mastermind behind the scenes?