Uneasy

Chapter 5 The Missing Man (1)
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Chen Ziyan followed police officer Zhou Yuanyi to the police station to take notes.In the police station, Chen Ziyan told Zhou Yuanyi that besides Feng Shu, he also sent the outline and samples of the article to two trusted friends, namely Sanpi and Xiaowen.

After Zhou Yuanyi recorded this point, he raised his eyebrows and suddenly asked, "It's been a whole day today, where are you?"

Chen Ziyan was stunned, and said, "Why, you doubt me?"

Zhou Yuanyi laughed awkwardly, and said, "Don't mind, that's what being a policeman is like, you have to doubt everything."

Chen Ziyan also knew that this was really unimaginable, Feng Shu's death was exactly the same as the plot of the novel he wrote the night before.When something like this happens, no matter who it is, they will think that Feng Shu's death has something to do with him.

He had to cough, and replied helplessly: "I understand your thoughts. I have been writing this thriller at home all day today, and I have written a full [-] words. Unfortunately, no one testified for me, I did not Alibi. It is impossible for me to know that Feng Shu will die in advance, and it is impossible for me to specially ask a witness to accompany me to write novels. However, I have the habit of browsing the web while writing novels." He paused, then said, "I I especially like to read posts in a forum called Lianpeng Ghost Story. This forum is full of all kinds of thrillers and horror novels that I like, including many mystery novels. I like to leave a message after reading the post. Neither today Except, I left comments on several posts while browsing."

Zhou Yuanyi also knew about the Lianpeng nonsense forum. This forum is a section of Tianya Community, the number one Chinese online community.

Chen Ziyan told Zhou Yuanyi the ID he used in the forum, and Zhou Yuanyi entrusted Xiao Gao to contact a moderator named Zhuang Qin in the Lianpeng Nonsense Forum.Moderator Zhuang Qin immediately checked the forum and found that this ID had indeed left comments in several hot posts during the day yesterday.Zhuang Qin contacted the background technical administrator of the website in the fastest time and obtained the IP address used by this ID to post.

The conclusion obtained was that the IP address displayed by this ID when leaving comments in several posts proved that Chen Ziyan was indeed posting comments from his computer at home.

In other words, Chen Ziyan's suspicion was temporarily ruled out.

Zhou Yuanyi was very curious about why Chen Ziyan conceived such a plot.Inspiration doesn't always fall from the sky, does it?What prompted him to write such a perverted horror story?
Hearing Zhou Yuanyi's question, Chen Ziyan smiled and said, "It's true as you said, inspiration doesn't fall from the sky, it always needs to be touched by something. Suspense novel writers must read a lot of books and pay attention to things around them." Just work. I know one writer who likes to go hiking and collect folk tales in the countryside for inspiration. Another writer likes to download the latest papers from the paper website to find out where fashion is going."

"how about you?"

“I love watching movies, all kinds of movies. I think that no matter how good a movie is or how bad it is, there is always something good about it. My favorite thing is to stop in the middle of a movie and come up with your own ideas. The following plot. If what I conceived is the same as the ending of the film, it means that the screenwriter of the film coincides with my idea. If not, hehe, then my inspiration comes, and I can write a different Same good article."

"Mr. Chen, you haven't said how you got the inspiration for this article." Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help asking again.

Chen Ziyan smiled awkwardly: "After watching a movie called "Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty", I was inspired and decided to write a thriller novel related to ancient tortures."

""Ten Torture Tortures in the Qing Dynasty"?" Zhou Yuanyi felt that the title of the film was a little familiar, but his brain short-circuited for a while, and he couldn't remember what movie it was.

"Yes, it's called "Ten Torture Tortures in the Qing Dynasty". Hehe, that movie is a Hong Kong tertiary movie..." Chen Ziyan blushed a little.

Zhou Yuanyi couldn't help laughing out loud.He also remembered that it was a Hong Kong movie based on the love affair between Yang Naiwu and Xiaobaicai, one of the "Four Strange Cases" in the late Qing Dynasty.Although the title of the film aims to reveal the cruel punishments of the Manchu Dynasty, and the film also shows various shocking and appalling instruments of torture, the film is most praised, and what leaves a deep impression on people is the exaggerated exaggeration in the film. Sexy plot.

It was an out-and-out tertiary film.

Zhou Yuanyi suppressed his smile, and asked again: "Did you really start writing this article yesterday?"

"Yes." Chen Ziyan gave an affirmative answer.

"Then when were the outline and synopsis written?"

"I never fight unprepared battles. I have to conceive the story before I start writing, otherwise I will fall into a dilemma if I am not careful. So I started to conceive this novel a long time ago, and the outline and synopsis are already in the I've been lying on my computer for more than half a month."

Although Chen Ziyan's suspicion has been cleared, anyway, the details of this case do have incredible coincidences with Chen Ziyan's novel.So Zhou Yuanyi decided to focus his breakthrough on other people who had read this article.

Zhou Yuanyi asked: "Apart from the Sanpi and Xiaowen you mentioned, have you ever sent it to anyone else?"

Chen Ziyan shook his head.

Zhou Yuanyi asked again: "What about your family? Did you see the article on your computer?"

"Impossible!" Chen Ziyan yelled, "I live with my girlfriend. Although the outline has been made for a long time, my girlfriend Tang Yifei doesn't know Feng Shu at all—it's impossible for her to have a motive for committing the crime."

Chen Ziyan has written a lot of thriller and suspense novels, and Chen Ziyan also knows a lot of terminology for handling cases.

Zhou Yuanyi wrote down the name of Chen Ziyan's girlfriend Tang Yifei noncommittally, and said, "We will investigate."

Chen Ziyan suddenly asked unwillingly: "Officer Zhou, I still have a question that I haven't figured out. Since you only found a pile of bones in the house, how can you be sure that the person who died was Feng Shu?"

Zhou Yuanyi glanced at Chen Ziyan, and asked, "What do you want to say?"

"Faceless Corpse! Faceless Corpse!" Chen Ziyan exclaimed excitedly.

As a criminal police officer, Zhou Yuanyi naturally understood what Chen Ziyan meant by "faceless corpse".In detective fiction, the "faceless corpse" is a recurring criminal trick.The "faceless corpse" in the novel usually refers to those corpses whose faces have been chopped off beyond recognition, or corpses with decapitated heads, corpses that have been burned, or even missing corpses, etc.

So Zhou Yuanyi nodded with a smile, and replied: "That's right, in Japanese mystery novels, especially in 'Storm Villa-style serial murder' mystery novels, there is often an unidentifiable dead person. Generally speaking, at the beginning The person who is believed to be dead is not actually dead, he is the real murderer. This is the phenomenon of the 'faceless corpse' you mentioned just now. In this case, we cannot immediately confirm that the person who died is Feng Shu. In fact, we Now it is just assumed that he was the one who died. After all, this is the house he rented. If he killed someone else, it would be too dangerous to choose this place. He would be regarded as a murder suspect in the first place. It’s not quite logical. However, for the sake of caution, we are now contacting Feng Shu’s parents for a comparative DNA test, which will confirm whether the deceased is Feng Shu.”

After finishing the transcript, Chen Ziyan shook hands with Zhou Yuanyi to say goodbye. At this moment, the atmosphere between the two was quite harmonious.Zhou Yuanyi found out that Chen Ziyan not only wrote thriller novels, but also several mystery novels.Although due to various reasons, Chen Ziyan's mystery novels have not been published.Both Zhou Yuanyi and his girlfriend are fanatics of mystery novels. Zhou Yuanyi once got a lot of inspiration from mystery novels in previous cases.So he told Chen Ziyan that if Chen Ziyan's mystery novel was published, he must give him an autographed copy.

Chen Ziyan readily agreed.But even Chen Ziyan himself couldn't tell when his mystery novels would have a chance to be published.

Perhaps, the thriller novel he is writing now will become an instant hit and sell well in the book market.At that time, with this upsurge, let other works that have not been published before be published together.

Chen Ziyan looked forward to this day coming soon.

When Chen Ziyan returned home exhausted, it was already past four o'clock in the morning.Opening the door, the room was pitch black, and his girlfriend Tang Yifei should have gone to bed long ago.

He was about to press the fluorescent light switch at the entrance, when a large truck drove by outside the house, and the light from the headlights swept across the house.Chen Ziyan was startled. He saw a woman with disheveled hair and empty eyes sitting on the sofa in the room—it was Tang Yifei.

In Tang Yifei's hand, there was a cigarette that was about to burn out, and she stared blankly at the void-like darkness opposite.A wisp of green smoke curled up from her fingers, and the smoke enveloped her, making her look extraordinarily mysterious and strange.Suddenly, a ball of white and dazzling things popped out from between her knees, but she seemed to be stunned, without any reaction.The white, fluffy little guy swished to Chen Ziyan's feet, and while gently stroking Chen Ziyan's trouser legs, he let out a coquettish cry: "Meow——"

This is Tang Yifei's favorite white cat.In the darkness, its two eyeballs shone brightly like two burning coal balls.

Chen Ziyan was a little curious, he didn't know what Tang Yifei was doing.

At this time, Tang Yifei seemed to have stepped out of her own world.She turned her head to face the light projected from outside the house, and there seemed to be tears on her face.She saw Chen Ziyan standing at the entrance, stood up slowly, and asked quietly, "Ziyan, do you love me?"

Chen Ziyan nodded silently.How could he not love Tang Yifei?

Three years ago, Chen Ziyan was still an internet writer working hard in Lianpeng nonsense in the Tianya community.What he wrote was a little esoteric, too personal.Although he writes thrillers, there are many personal thoughts hidden under the words.

In this fast-food era that advocates fast reading, Chen Ziyan is an outlier.Not many people follow his articles, and there are very few clicks. He is almost a writer who is not followed.He never cared what other people think, just kept writing, no matter the cold or heat, he kept writing.

After graduating from university, Chen Ziyan aspired to become a professional writer.It is a pity that the novels he wrote cannot be recognized by others, and he can only make ends meet by writing small articles like dried tofu for magazines and newspapers.

However, from the first day he wrote an article in Lianpeng Guihua, there was a girl who followed his posts and followed up his articles.In the words of the girl, she felt that there was a power in Chen Ziyan's novel, a power that resonated with her heart.The girl also said that she firmly believes that Chen Ziyan's articles will be recognized by people one day, and he will definitely be successful.

Later, Chen Ziyan found out that the girl was in the same city as him, so they made an appointment to meet.They almost fell in love at first sight, and soon established a relationship - this girl is Tang Yifei.

Chen Ziyan firmly believed that it was Tang Yifei's appearance that brought him a turning point, and that Tang Yifei was the lucky star in his life.

Almost at the same time as Tang Yifei met, Chen Ziyan met Feng Shu, the editor of the publishing house, under the introduction of his college classmate Sanpi.Feng Shu was the first person to affirm the quality of Chen Ziyan's novels. He published Chen Ziyan's first novel against all odds.Although the book went to Waterloo in the book market, Feng Shu was still full of confidence in Chen Ziyan. He believed that Chen Ziyan would be able to write a shocking and immortal work.

Unfortunately, Feng Shu died.

And he was killed by a tragic method of murder in Chen Ziyan's novel.

Chen Ziyan felt terrified and shuddered.

——Could it be that the article he wrote is a curse?Was it precisely because of this curse that Feng Shu died?Is there some kind of incredible mysterious energy hidden in the article?Do you want to continue writing?Will the new plot lead to more horrific deaths?

Chen Ziyan didn't dare to think about it anymore.He shuddered, and immediately struggled out of the mess of thoughts.

Looking into Tang Yifei's eyes, Chen Ziyan asked gently: "What's wrong, Yifei, what happened?"

Tang Yifei rushed to Chen Ziyan's side, hugged his waist tightly, pressed her head tightly against his chest, and said excitedly: "You will never leave me, promise me, okay?"

Chen Ziyan quickly replied: "Of course, I promise you, I promise I will never leave you!"

Tang Yifei groaned, the tears burst like a flood, breaking the last defense of her eyelids, and she began to cry.

Amidst the crying, the lovely white cat also howled loudly, as if responding to Tang Yifei's bitter cry, like a desperate duet.

—Why is she crying?What happened?

Chen Ziyan's heart began to fluctuate again.

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Tang Yifei works in a building materials sales company.

She is probably the most beautiful woman in this company. Because of this, she can often feel the hot current in the eyes of male colleagues in the company.And the most blazing one is the eyes of her boss Wang Shengyang.

Wang Shengyang is in his 30s, handsome and handsome.The company named "Extraordinary Building Materials" was founded by him, and the business is quite good.He usually dresses well and drives an imported off-road vehicle.But in private, some colleagues broke the news that in fact, the funds for starting the company came from Wang Shengyang’s wife—an old woman in her 50s, with body odor and obesity, but she had a lot of gold and silver, and she preferred young and handsome young women. man.It is said that Wang Shengyang became the lover of that old woman when he was studying at the University of Mechanical Engineering.The old woman fell in love with him, so she got married as soon as he graduated, and spent a lot of money to set up this building materials company.

But regardless of whether the truth is true or not, it has nothing to do with Tang Yifei. She only needs to do her own job well, and her heart is full of the name of her boyfriend Chen Ziyan, so she has always been the target of the messages sent by her colleagues. Do not squint, ignore.

However, the situation in the company changed that day.

At noon that day, Tang Yifei had been busy making a purchase plan for wall paint—she was in charge of product purchases in the company.

She worked so hard that she put her whole body and mind into the work, every number needed to be checked, and the inventory quantity of every item had to be carefully checked.So when she stopped what she was doing and was about to take a break, she realized that it was time for lunch.The colleagues all went out to eat, and the huge company was empty, there was no one there, only messy desks.A quiet company is like an empty grave.

Tang Yifei's stomach growled, and she also felt hungry, so she quickly packed up the things on the table, stood up, picked up the lunch box and prepared to go to the restaurant for dinner.

Tang Yifei's company is located on the [-]th floor of a [-]-story building in the center of the city. The public restaurant of the building is on the first floor, and the second and third floors are the parking lot of the building.

Tang Yifei took the lunch box, closed the door of the company, walked through the corridor, and waited for the elevator.

There was no one in the elevator. She pressed the button for the first floor, but the light on the first floor turned on and then went out.The elevator didn't move at all, the iron door kept opening and closing, closing and opening again - it turned out that the button on the first floor was broken, no wonder the elevator didn't respond.

Now, Tang Yifei has two choices.One way is to go to the first floor and then go down one floor.Another way is to go down to the second floor first, and then go up to the first floor.In the lobby on the first floor, there must be a lot of staff working in the building preparing to go upstairs. As long as the elevator door opens, there may be many sweaty people crowding in. Tang Yifei hates this feeling.What she couldn't bear the most in her life was the smell of men's sweat, so she pressed the button for the second floor without hesitation.

The elevator sank slowly, coming to a slow stop.At the moment of pause, due to the unbalanced gravity, Tang Yifei felt a little dizzy.

The iron door of the elevator opened like the mouth of a beast, and Tang Yifei saw all kinds of vehicles parked in a haphazard manner in the dark underground parking lot.Tang Yifei walked out of the elevator quickly, and walked towards the safety door on the right.At this moment, she suddenly felt warm on her back, as if there were countless ants crawling on it.

This is a feeling of being spied on. Usually in the office, Tang Yifei has long been used to the blazing prying eyes of colleagues and bosses. She also knows that she is a beauty, so she doesn't care at this time.

The moment she entered the security door, she suddenly saw a black shadow on the wall—a person stood behind her.

Tang Yifei was about to turn her head to see who was standing behind her, but before she could react, she saw the black shadow on the wall suddenly grow larger, covering her shadow in a flash.

A pair of hands stretched out from under her ribs, and then tightly grasped her chest, Tang Yifei felt a sharp pain.She wanted to turn her head back, but a cold face had already approached her cheek.The reason why this face is said to be cold is because on this face, there is a mask - a mask with a blue face and fangs.From the perception of the part touched by the cheek, Tang Yifei can be sure that it is a mask made of bronze.

A fishy breath came out of the masked man's mouth, making Tang Yifei feel sick and vomited.

The masked man's mouth was close to Tang Yifei's ear, and he said through gritted teeth, "Don't try to resist, follow me! Or I'll kill you!" It was a ferocious man's voice.The man seemed to be holding his breath to say this, which also made his voice more sinister and terrifying.

(End of this chapter)