Chapter 29 All the wrong things started half a year ago
It seems that everything that went wrong started from that incident half a year ago.
At least Lao Guan thinks so.
Because before that, nothing happened in the inn.
"Sijiayi came to the inn alone. When we chatted later, she said that she likes to travel alone and never travels with others."
When Lao Guan talked about this incident, his tone was very serious, his face was solemn, and his eyes were full of shock. It seemed that what happened at that time was really beyond his scope of cognition.
There is a slight light outside the window, and the ancient city is still quiet at dawn, with a very light mist wandering on the bluestone. It is too early to have breakfast at this time, but everyone has not slept and feels uncomfortable in the stomach. Laoguan is still simple
Butter tea and tsampa were prepared.
He brought another bowl of yogurt to Fang Ting.
Fang Ting didn't want to eat it, she was so frightened by what Lao Guan said before.
Cheng Zhan seemed to have quite an appetite. He had a piece of tsampa and a sip of butter tea, and he ate very elegantly. Si Ye turned his head and looked at him. This man's preferences were quite good.
Lao Guan still remembers Si Jiayi's story.
He thought that a solitary girl like Sijiayi might not like to make friends, but in fact he was wrong. The night before Sijiayi checked in, he became friends with other young people staying in the inn.
In one place, everyone was eating barbecue and singing songs around the bonfire, which was very lively.
It was the end of the tourist season in the ancient city, and the student parties and tour groups had almost left. The only ones who could stay or come at that time were basically gamers and professional backpackers.
Although the July Inn is not full, it is still the busiest inn in the entire ancient city.
The rooftop on the second floor is open, and you can barbecue over the bonfire all night long. With the charcoal fire, the aroma of highland barley wine mixed with the aroma of yak and mutton will make your mouth water when you smell it from a distance.
Si Jiayi stayed in the inn for six days. During these six days, she and Lao Guan had a good relationship. Lao Guan asked her where she was going next.
Si Jiayi laughed and said that she had not yet decided. She always travels according to her mood. She can go wherever she wants on a whim, or she can go home directly without going anywhere.
Cheerful and cheerful, this is Lao Guan's impression of Sijiayi.
On the seventh night, Si Jiayi participated in the bonfire party again, because one of the young lovers was leaving Shangri-La at dawn, and several young people who had a good time saw them off.
At that time, Si Jiayi smiled and said to Lao Guan, I might have to drink too much tonight, so call me tomorrow. I like your breakfast, and it is much more delicious than those cooks at my house.
Laoguan ran an inn and met many people. When he heard Si Jiayi mentioning the cook at home, it was that one and not that one, so he knew it. He was right at the time, this girl was indeed from a good family.
In fact, Lao Guan didn't dare to say how delicious the breakfast was. He felt that what Si Jiayi wanted to eat was just the flavor of fireworks. As a rich girl, she would naturally have plenty of fine clothes and food. The only thing she lacked was probably the most ordinary warmth in the world.
Alright.
Sure enough, everyone played very late that day, probably in the middle of the night. When Lao Guan came back from his poker friends, the balcony on the second floor was still very lively.
Lao Guan went to bed first, and when the couple left the next day, most of the girls and boys attending the bonfire were still awake.
The couple laughed and said they drank too much last night and played games.
Lao Guan didn't know the specific content of the game, so the couple mentioned it in an understatement, saying it was a ghost game circulating on the Internet.
Si Jiayi was not seen downstairs for dinner until noon. When Lao Guan knocked on the door in the morning, she did not respond. He thought she must have drunk too much.
Lao Guan knew how uncomfortable it would be to drink too much, so he thought about it and decided not to bother him. It would be dark in the blink of an eye.
Most of the friends who were at the campfire with Sijiayi the night before ran out to play, and the inn was quite quiet.
Lao Guan didn't know whether Si Jiayi went out to eat or ate in the store. He hadn't seen her all day, so he went upstairs and knocked on the door again.
Still no one answered.
He was a little worried, fearing that something would happen if a girl drank at home.
I took the spare key and opened the door while calling Si Jiayi, fearing that she would be frightened by him again. As a result, when I opened the door, Lao Guan was frightened half to death.
The room was very dark at that time, with the curtains half-covered and half-open. The moonlight and lights from outside squeezed in, and the situation in the room was vaguely reflected in Lao Guan's eyes.
He felt like there was a person lying on the wall opposite the door!
Just lie on it!
"You know the furnishings in the room." Lao Guan drooped his head and had no intention of eating.
This was said to Si Ye. The room he lives in now is the same room Si Jiayi once lived in.
Opposite the door is a three-drawer cupboard, which temporarily serves as a bedside table. Next to it is a bed. The furnishings in the room are quite simple and clear at a glance.
But when Si Jiayi stayed at that time, the room had matching bedside tables and there was no three-drawer cupboard.
The main switch of the room was at the door. Lao Guan was so frightened that he reflexively touched the light.
The light was on, but the current was unstable for some reason, and the light above my head flickered.
It was in this flickering light that Lao Guan could clearly see the man lying on the opposite wall.
Si Jiayi!
But no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a human being. It's just like a black shadow stuck to the wall.
"No, to describe it specifically, it's like a piece of human skin stuck on the wall." Lao Guan paused here and said, "You have all seen those animal skins hanging on the wall, right?
, the flat one is there.”
Fang Ting felt chills running down her spine again. This was very similar to Qu Ya's situation.
"So, you mean, Si Jiayi turned into a human skin and stuck it on the wall?" Si Ye asked.
Lao Guan nodded, then shook his head again, "It changed again later."
A living person turned into human skin, just hanging on the wall, even wearing the clothes from the previous day. It looked like a thriller.
But just when Lao Guan was shaking with fear and was about to call the police, he saw that the human skin... was moving!
It was really like a shadow wandering on the wall, leaving blood stains when it wandered. Lao Guan's feet went weak and he sat on the ground.
I was so scared that I couldn't speak. I wanted to run but couldn't move.
I just watched helplessly as the human skin on the wall gradually became three-dimensional. In other words, a real person was stuck on the wall. It was indeed Sijia's intention. At first, her back was turned to him, and her whole body was stuck on the wall.
on the wall.
Soon, her torso left the wall, while her limbs were still stuck there.
"It's very similar to Qu Ya's situation. The arms and legs are so long that they are not in proportion to a normal person." Lao Guan rubbed his arms. Even though more than half a year had passed, he still felt horrified to mention it again.
It was as if he was disturbed. It took less than half a minute for the human skin to reach the person, and it only took a few seconds for the person to get off the wall, but in Lao Guan's eyes, it seemed like centuries had passed.
Si Jiayi came down from the wall. His walking posture was very strange, like a puppet on a string. He felt frustrated every step he took. His head was drooped, his hair was hanging down, and the clothes on his body were almost covered with blood.
She walked toward the door step by step, walking very slowly.
Lao Guan was sitting at the door, his whole body shaking like a sieve. How could this be a scene that ordinary people could see? He just watched Si Jiayi approaching...
Get closer.
Until he passed by him, what he smelled in his nose was the strong smell of blood.
Later, when Lao Guan recalled this episode for a long time, he had no impression of whether Si Jiayi went downstairs or disappeared suddenly.
It felt like she went downstairs and left the inn, but rational analysis found it impossible.
First of all, the inn is not completely deserted. There are still a few residents drinking in the coffee area and talking on the phone. If Sijiayi just appeared on the first floor, the other residents would not be invisible.
Secondly, it was not late at night at that time. After leaving the inn, there was a long street paved with bluestones. There were people on the long street. If Sijiayi, who was covered in blood, walked out of the inn, at least some people would scream in fear.
Therefore, Laoguan’s analysis just disappeared all of a sudden.
It was as if Si Jiayi walked to the door of the room and then suddenly disappeared.
Fang Ting trembled her lips and looked up, "No, isn't there a camera? Why can't it be found if it's missing?"
Lao Guan shook his head, "There were no cameras in the inn before. They were put on after the incident half a year ago."
This is why when he mentioned the camera at that time, he said half of it was hidden and half of it was hidden.
Si Ye's expression was cold, it was rare to see him like this.
"Then you painted the wall to hide the blood stains, and for fear of being discovered, you replaced the bedside table with a three-drawer chest that could cover the wall."
Lao Guan exclaimed, "How can I hide it? It's so weird that I can't explain it!"
It has indeed become an unsolved case.
Because there are no cameras in the inn, there is no way to replay what happened that day.
Lao Guan only reacted after Si Jiayi "left" for nearly ten minutes. He got up from the ground and ran downstairs, asking everyone he met if he had seen some kind of girl.
Si Jiayi just disappeared.
The police intervened and investigated for a long time, but to no avail.
Except for Laoguan, there were no witnesses. Guests in the coffee area said that they had never seen anyone come out, and they were still swearing. Neighbors who passed by the inn at that time also asked about it, and they did not see anyone suspicious coming out of the store.
The blood stains on the wall were identified and found to be not Sijiayi's but animal blood.
If it weren't for the existence of this bloodstain, Lao Guandu once thought that Sijiayi was just having a dream. How could a living person be stuck on the wall, and the blood was missing?
Si Ye asked him to recall carefully what else besides the blood stains.
"Scratch marks." Lao Guan said with certainty.
But the police didn't think he was arrested.
In fact, in Lao Guan's opinion, they were not scratches. When there was a shadow on the wall, blood and traces were produced as the shadow traveled.
So to be precise, they are drag marks.
But the marks are not large-scale, they look like they were left accidentally, so at first glance they look like scratches.
Before, Lao Guan only noticed the blood. Even if he saw the marks when he repainted the wall white, he didn't think much about it until the same kind of "scratches" appeared on the wardrobe in Qu Yana's house.