I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 203 The Ending of "The Hour Hand Leaps to Death"
Yucheng, sunset in the evening.

The light of the setting sun shines on the old man through the gaps in the branches and leaves outside the window, and then through the window.

The sunset was beautiful, but the old man couldn't see it. Facing the direction of the setting sun, he could only feel the sunlight on his body gradually lose its temperature.

At this time, the old man knew that the sun had set.

The night crept in and covered the evening sky,
A gust of cool night wind blew, the old man tightened his clothes, and turned around with his blind stick.

"Uncle Yu, it's time to eat."

The nurse brought the food to the dining table and came to help the old man.

The old man just waved his hand, groping around the table and wall, walked to the table with his blind stick and sat down.

"...Today's taste, is it fried twice-cooked pork?"

the old man asked.

"Uncle Yu, you have a really sharp nose, it's just twice-cooked pork."

"It can't be done. The older you get, not only your eyes can't see, but your nose and ears are also getting weaker. Otherwise, you should smell it when you are frying in the kitchen."

The old man said with a smile, put the cane on the side of the table, reached out to touch the chopsticks on the table,

The nurse hurriedly handed it to the old man, who received it in his hand, paused holding the chopsticks,
After groping for a job, I had dinner with the nurse.

"Today's dish is fried well."

"It's delicious."

"Uncle Yu, if you find it delicious, eat a few more bites."

"Well... I listened to "Hour Hand" yesterday, and it's almost time for the finale today."

"Even at this moment, the new content has not been updated."

"I also watched Uncle Yu yesterday, I guess it's time to end, right?"

"It may be that the finale has more content, and the author spent more time writing it."

"Well, that's right."

"...Uncle Yu, let me take a look for you..."

"Hey, it's updated, Uncle Yu."

"...Well, let me listen first."

"Uncle Yu, why don't you listen after dinner first, don't worry."

"I'm getting older, and my appetite isn't that good. A few bites are enough, and I can't eat much more."

"Uncle Yu..."

Seeing the old man's appearance of listening to the novel first without thinking about food and drink, the nurse was a little bit dumbfounded,

"Then Uncle Yu, I'll get you a bluetooth headset, you can eat some food first."

"It's fine, it's fine..."

The old man answered, obviously already thinking about the content of the novel.

As we get older, sometimes we just get older and younger.

……

"Ah~"

From noon, Ji Zhuo started to sign books,
A book was signed, and the hand-signed ones were sour.

The place to sit is first on the stool by the dining table, then on the sofa, and now,

He simply put the books on the coffee table, while Ji Zhuo himself sat down on the living room floor.

Looking back at the signed books and more unsigned books,
Ji Zhuo yawned, feeling his wrists sore.

After signing all afternoon, from noon to night, today I have signed the autograph book requested by Huating Publishing House.

However, Burt Publishing House sent it over in two batches. A total of [-] copies of "Seven Sins" have not been signed yet.

"call……"

He took a deep breath, flicked his wrist,
Ji Zhuo tugged again, pulling a whole box of [-] copies of "The Seven Sins" from the side.

This time, I was sitting on a box of books, holding "Seven Sins" and starting to sign.

"People are like stars, looking at the light is weak, but the distance is too far away - ABC"

Ji Zhuo's signature in "The Seven Sins" Ji Zhuo didn't leave a blessing like the signature in "The Caged Bird",
The main reason is that he is afraid of being exposed. After all, all his readers know that his autographed books all have a blessing.

In order to avoid the reader from this remarkable feature to connect him.

So what Ji Zhuo added to the seven kinds of sins is a famous saying similar to a philosophical saying,

There should be quite a few authors doing this, anyway, they have nothing to do with his old vests.

The selected philosophical quotes basically have two characteristics, they have a good tendency, and they are...short enough.

"Beliefs beyond life and death distinguish man from animals - ABC"

"The fallen rotten leaves hide spring, and the disappointment at this moment hides hope..."

Hmm... because I couldn't find so many simple philosophical sayings, many of them were compiled by Ji Zhuo.

Anyway, it is estimated that no one will be serious about who said these words, right?

Ji Zhuo just took the bookmarks and signed them.

Until the outside is completely sunset, night.

Immersed in the process of signing books one by one, there is no emotion, the book signing machine - Ji Zhuo,
just stopped.

It's not that the hand-signed bookmark is useless.
Mainly... hungry.

"Gollum..."

His stomach was rumbling and he started to rebel.

When hunger welled up, Ji Zhuo felt that his hand holding the pen was shaking.

"Come here today..."

Sitting down to make a decision, Ji Zhuo decisively threw away the pen in his hand,
The whole person just spread out on the sofa in the back,
Then he picked up his phone and ordered a nearby takeaway.

Wait until the takeaway is over,

Ji Zhuo slumped on the sofa rubbing his wrists and arms,

Just remembered something,
It seems that he didn't post today's update?
Today should be the finale update, right?

Ji Zhuo thought, then struggled to get up from the sofa again,
It took all my perseverance to get up and go to the study to post today's update.

There are still three chapters in total, and Ji Zhuo sent them all in one go.

As usual, I gave a short closing speech.

"This book is finished. I don't know when the new book will be released. Finished."

After the single chapter was sent out, there were comments from readers soon.

Ji Zhuo refreshed and took a look.

"After seeing the end of the book, I decisively came to find the testimonials of the end of the book first, and sure enough... Thank you, Author Dog, for deliberately perfunctoring me in your busy schedule."

"Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

"What are you doing with the yin and yang weirdness! The author deliberately wrote this testimonial to perfunctory us, and thank you dog author #狗头."

After liking this group of Sand Sculpture readers, Ji Zhuo clicked on his computer and slipped away.

……

"Dad...Dad, can I use my phone, "Hour Hand Leaps to Death" is coming to its finale today."

"...The finale? Wait, have you finished your homework yet?"

"One more thing, can I write it after reading it?"

"No, write first, and write as soon as you want to read it."

"Well then..."

In the noodle restaurant in Fancheng, the owner of the noodle restaurant packed up the dishes and walked into the kitchen.

The boy next to him asked him for a mobile phone, but he was unsuccessful, a little disappointed,
However, he quickly seized the time, took out the book from the side, and hurriedly wrote the homework.

When the owner of the noodle shop returned to the back kitchen with the bowls and chopsticks,
Pause.

"Is it the end?"

He muttered something, then looked outside the back kitchen,
There are no new customers in the noodle shop at the moment,
The owner of the noodle shop took out his mobile phone first, dragged a stool beside him and sat down.

Click on the non-ink novel on the phone,
Opened "Hour Hand Leaps to Death" on the bookshelf,
"It's really the finale..."

Seeing that the finale was updated, the owner of the noodle shop clicked on the new chapter and watched it,

Gradually drawn back into the plot by the author's description, immersed in the world of this novel.

……

In the text, after the protagonist Lin Yi took over the last case that was preparing to be the end of his life,
Continue to progress down.

The three deceased in the falling building happened to be a family of three.
In the end, the child who slipped from the top of the dense tree canopy did not know whether he was dead or not at first, but his skull was severely damaged after he fell to the ground, and he was confirmed dead by the forensic doctor.

And there are three remaining parties, the old father of the deceased man, the ex-wife of the deceased man, and the son born with him earlier.

And the confessions of the three people,
The difference is that the old father of the deceased man said he came here to look for his son. He heard the sound of falling from the building as soon as he entered the house, and then he discovered that his son and his daughter-in-law had fallen from the building.

In this regard, the police and the detective agency mainly asked him three questions.

The first is that as soon as he entered the house, he heard the sound of falling stairs, who opened the door for him.The monitoring of the corridor showed that he had indeed entered the house, but the person who opened the door for him could not be seen on the monitoring.

To this, the father of the deceased man replied that it was his grandson who opened the door for him.

After opening the door, I heard the sound of falling.

The second problem is that a total of three people fell down. When the police and detectives first arrived at the scene, they only saw the bodies of the deceased couple.

It was later learned that there was another girl who fell on the canopy of the tree in the community, and then slipped down behind. The old man and the other two should have noticed the girl on the canopy of the tree.

Why didn't try to rescue upstairs, and didn't explain to the police at that time.

To this the man's father replied,
It is because the green branches and leaves in the community are kept secret, and the lighting in the community is not very good.

At that time, he didn't notice the girl falling on the canopy,
Hearing the sound of falling from the building, he ran down in a hurry. After running down, he only saw the bodies of the deceased couple, but not the girl's body. Naturally, he didn't consider that the girl also fell from the building.

And the final question is,

Why did he choose this time to come to the deceased's house.

To this question the man's father answers,
The man opened a sand quarry near the village where he lived,

The irrigation season has recently arrived, and the upstream water intercepted by the sand mining field pollutes the downstream water at the same time.
Some people from the nearby village approached the man to argue, but the man ordered someone to beat him up instead.

Others found him and came to the door crying, he vomited in the house for a whole day,
Still looking for him to talk about his son.

Afterwards,
The confession of the boy, that is, the child born to the man and his ex-wife.

the boy said,
Today is Saturday, he came to his father to play computer games,

He comes here every Sunday.

Before the sound of the falling building sounded, he heard the deceased couple arguing next door,

This kind of quarrel happened from time to time, and he heard it several times when he came, so he didn't care about it, he just played with the computer in the study next door.

Until he heard a knock on the door and found no one to open it, he went to open the door, and then heard the sound of falling.

Confession for the boy.

The police basically asked one question,
That is why the boy didn't notice that the girl also fell from the building,
Even if you don't find the girl falling from the treetop and being entangled by the branches and leaves,

But it should also be noted that after the falling incident, the girl was nowhere to be seen.

The boy's answer to this was,

Since he came to his father's house, he has not seen his half-sister,
His father gave his younger sister a weekend cram school,

He didn't see it that day, so he thought his sister didn't come back from the cram school.

His grandfather asked him before, and he said the same.

Finally,

A statement from the deceased man's ex-wife, also the boy's mother.

As for why the boy's mother appeared at the scene of the crime.

She replied that she was here to pick up her child. Every time her son came to play in his ex-husband's house, she would come to pick up her son when the time came.

She entered the room after the man's father arrived. When entering the room, the door was not closed, so she went in directly.

When she entered, she saw that the boy and the man's father were still in the living room, followed by a sound from the bedroom, and then the sound of falling, and then she knew that someone had fallen.

There seems to be no problem with the confessions of the three people.

The three provided proof to each other.

It seems that the whole falling incident is pointing to a quarrel between the couple of the deceased, the girl may be trying to dissuade them, or in the process, a family of three fell from the window together.

The couple fell to the ground and died directly. The girl first fell to the canopy and fell unconscious, then fell to the ground and died on the spot.

There are indeed traces of the window, and there are indeed signs of entanglement between the deceased couple.

It is known from the monitoring of the corridor and the testimony of nearby residents.

When the fall happened, it was probably some time after nightfall, and most of the residents upstairs and downstairs were busy having dinner in the kitchen.

The described sound of falling from the building was probably close to the time described by the three parties, but before that, it seemed that the dead couple's violent quarrel was indeed heard.

As for the location of the fall, because there is no monitoring, there is no way to determine the exact time of the fall.

There is no evidence to prove that the falling case was homicide.

Even from the location of the fall, because of the quarrel and entanglement of the deceased couple, there is no way to determine,
Because it could be that one of the dead pushed the other down...

The only doubt is still on the dead girl. If the girl was accidentally pulled down while dissuading her,

Should the girl's dissuading voice be heard by the three parties in the living room?

But the three parties said they didn't hear it... But this is just a small doubt, and it makes sense to say it.

The girl may be scared because of the quarrel between her parents, even if she discouraged her, she didn't make too much noise, or even made a sound.

The same goes for the surrounding neighbors, who have never heard the girl's voice.

The case was temporarily deadlocked because there was no more evidence.

And Lin Yi joined the investigation of this case as a detective.

From a common sense point of view,

Lin Yi naturally considered this case as homicide first,

Because although the words of the three parties could not find serious loopholes,
But the problem is that, from common sense considerations, this incident is too coincidental.

There were six people in the house at the time, three in the living room and three in the bedroom.

As a result, three of them died just like that, accidentally falling from the building... maybe a little too low.

And the last few chapters of the finale,

The plot progresses like this.

The weird countdown in front of Lin Yi's eyes is only the last three days.

Lin Yi, who was about to reveal the truth of this case as the end of his life,

Temporarily overcame his fear of death, seized the time to investigate this case,

Visiting and investigating with the police during the day, and constantly thinking based on the clues collected at night,
Even sleepless all night... Before the countdown to the last day, Lin Yi didn't sleep for two full nights,
The main thing is the countdown that can be seen as soon as you open your eyes, shortened a little bit,

It was like clenching his heart tightly, making him unable to bear the fear, making it difficult to fall asleep.

It's just that in the early morning of the last day, Lin Yi fell asleep for less than an hour.

Then I was woken up by the alarm clock I set, and when I opened my eyes, my eyes were red and bloodshot.

Looking at the weird countdown in front of me again,
This unavoidable countdown time has less than six hours left,

Death's footsteps were approaching urgently behind him.

Lin Yi's eyes were red at first, and he picked up a bottle of medicine from the side,
Something like a sedative, under the threat of death, Lin Yi knew very well that there must be something wrong with his mental state,
This drug was prescribed by him from a psychiatrist. Under the effect of sedative drugs, he can temporarily suppress his fear of death, the feeling that the fear is going to drive him crazy,
But after picking it up today, Lin Yi paused.

In the end, I still didn't eat it.
He is going to be able to solve the current case at the last moment of his life,
At least... let him die worthwhile.

And the sedatives interfered with his thinking.

then……

After Lin Yi washed his face with cold water, he went out.

He made an appointment with the three parties and asked again.

Because there is not enough evidence, even if the police suspect,
In the end, the three were released, but they were not allowed to leave the city and were given certain surveillance.

The place where the appointment is located is a quiet restaurant.

(End of this chapter)