Thirteen prisons

Chapter 38 Clues
Zhou Yuan understands Hu Dongdong's cautious attitude as if he is facing a big enemy.That kind of disease is really terrifying, and the situation in the warehouse is also quite suspicious, and the appearance of those red substances is too strange.He even regretted it a little. He didn't expect so much when he came to the machinery factory site this time, and he didn't expect such a risk at all.If Lao Hu also contracted this strange disease because of himself, Zhou Yuan would never forgive himself.

Zhou Yuan took off his shoes first, there were a lot of things on them, so he definitely couldn't take them anymore.To be on the safe side, I took off my clothes and outer pants and left them in the warehouse before I walked out.I saw that Lao Hu was well dressed.

"You'd better change it too." Zhou Yuan was a little worried.

Lao Hu shook his head: "I'm fine, I stopped when I saw that thing from a distance. But you, I reminded you, why are you still going inside? By the way, did you get a sample of that thing?"

The two of them didn't expect to find out so soon when they came out this time. It was estimated that it would take at least three days, so they brought replacement clothes, which came in handy.Zhou Yuan changed into a T-shirt and put it on, but found that he only brought a pair of beach shorts and a pair of slippers, so he had to make do with it.Zhou Yuan took out the thermos cup and shook it: "It's done. Besides, I found something in it." He remembered something and found something out of the bag: "I still have your mobile phone in it, but I will help you remove the calling card. Come out." Anyway, Lao Hu's mobile phone is a miscellaneous brand and not worth much, so it's best not to take the mobile phone out if it was left on it.

Lao Hu was quite satisfied with Zhou Yuan's handling: "What did you find?"

Zhou Yuan talked about the mobile phone and diary he found in his backpack. Lao Hu checked carefully and found that neither of these two things was contaminated with the red substance, so he was relieved: "It's not early, we will study it when we go back." Zhou Yuan looked at the time, the chef said that when they arrived at three o'clock, it was already almost 02:30.

On the way to the factory area, the two had a brief exchange of what they had just discovered.The two entered the depths of the warehouse from both sides of the wall, but the situation on Lao Hu's side was much simpler.He was much more vigilant than Zhou Yuan, but when he was about to reach the other end of the warehouse, something appeared on the roof next to the wall, flashing red under the flashlight, and he recognized it immediately those traces.

But unlike what Zhou Yuan saw, there were very few traces of red on the other side of the wall.It's more like it spread from Zhou Yuan's side.Lao Hu went back and climbed up the wall.But he immediately saw that in front of Zhou Yuan, those red substances were densely packed like alien nests, and the feeling under the faint light was really shocking.Fortunately, Lao Hu has a strong mind, so he put on the mask immediately after he stabilized his mind. After all, the thing has a fishy smell, and he is afraid of being infected through the air.Then he saw that Zhou Yuan had strayed into it, because he was worried about the risk of infection if he took off the mask and talking, so he first used a flashlight to attract Zhou Yuan's attention, and then tried to send him a text message with his mobile phone, but found that there was no signal.Finally, he had an idea to save the text message on the screen, and threw it in front of Zhou Yuan.

The next focus of the two is to guess what this thing is.

It obviously has some connection with Lin Jing's body mutation.But Zhou Yuan checked around, and there was no one else except the backpack he found, so he had to go back and study it before he could come to a conclusion.

It was ten past three when we arrived at the gate of the factory.The chef was walking back and forth anxiously while smoking a cigarette at the gate of the factory area. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them rushing over.But seeing Zhou Yuan wearing a pair of slippers and beach shorts, the expression on his face became a little strange.Zhou Yuan had no choice but to explain that he fell into a puddle and had to change his clothes.After all, they didn't plan to let others know what happened in the warehouse.

On the way back, Zhou Yuan finally understood why the chef had that strange expression when he saw him wearing shorts and slippers.He realized how painful it is to walk in the mountains without pants after experiencing it firsthand.I didn't feel it when I came here, but now I know how powerful those weeds are on the side of the road. The skin on the whole leg was red, painful and itchy after being scratched all the way.Not to mention how difficult it is to walk the mountain road with slippers, almost three steps and one wrestling.After finally returning to the guest house, Zhou Yuan felt his legs were numb, with countless red scratches on them.

Seeing that it was getting dark, the minibus back to Daba Town had already stopped.Because they were thinking about the things in the notebook and mobile phone, they discussed it with the owner of the guest house, and the owner was very generous and drove them back to Daba Town in person.

After returning to the town, Zhou Yuan immediately bought a pair of pants and sneakers and put them on.After searching for a long time, he finally found the only place in the town where he could repair his cell phone. There might be some clues in the cell phone that Lin He left behind, at least through it, he could know who else he had contact with.But I can't turn on the machine, I don't know if it is because there is no electricity or it is broken.

This store is actually an electrical appliance store, which sells some small electrical appliances such as kettles, radios, and electric irons.It's just a piece of A4 paper pasted on the counter, with the words "mobile phone repair" printed on it.The shop owner is a young man who is very interested in the Nokia 6111 that Zhou Yuan handed over.I don’t know how long the mobile phone has been in that warehouse. The buttons are full of thick dirt, the shell is severely worn, and the screen is also scratched. I can only vaguely see that it is a Nokia logo. I curiously asked where they found this old antique. of.Knowing that they wanted to restart the phone, the young man walked into the back room for a while before coming out with a charger as thick as a small brick.

"This mobile phone has been discontinued a long time ago, and the charger with this socket must not be found. But you are lucky, I happen to have a broken one, and I can remove its interface and weld it together with other chargers. It works, but the quality is not guaranteed, do you want it?"

Zhou Yuan took it and plugged it into the socket on the counter, and plugged the interface into the phone: "No problem, as long as it works."

"OK. Seventy."

Old Hu came over: "Brother, you are not good enough, a brand new charger is only twenty or thirty."

The young man was not in a hurry: "My charger is brand new. If you cut the wire, it will be worthless. I have to solder it on for you, which is a bit troublesome."

Zhou Yuan directly took out one hundred and put it on the counter: "Then you get it quickly, as long as it can be charged."

The young man agreed to come down, glanced at the old mobile phone and added: "Okay, then you wait a moment. But I can only guarantee that the charger is fine. If the mobile phone is broken, I can't help it."

As it turned out, the charger was indeed fine, but the phone didn't respond at all when plugged in.Seems to be a problem with the phone itself.Zhou Yuan was a little disappointed. Although the phone card can be taken out, most of the information should be stored on the phone. If you can’t turn it on now, everything is in vain.
Seeing his disappointed look, the young man said, "If I leave it here, can I fix it for you?"

Zhou Yuan hesitated, but Lao Hu took back the mobile phone from the young man: "Forget it, we won't repair it." He pulled Zhou Yuan out, and then said in a low voice: "This guy looks like two knives. , and if there is really something in the phone, it’s not good for others to see it. Maybe there will be some pornographic photos coming out.”

"Then what should we do? Go to Baiyuan City tomorrow?"

"No need. Let's go back and look at the diary first, and leave the mobile phone to Lu Ming." After Lao Hu finished speaking, he took Zhou Yuan to the next street to find a courier.Zhou Yuan never noticed that there was a delivery point in Daba Town, and he didn't know when Lao Hu saw it and wrote it down.Fortunately, the express delivery point was not yet closed, so I sent the phone to Lu Ming after packing it tightly.The person at the delivery point looked at the address and said that it would arrive within two days at most.

After rushing back to the small building, Zhou Yuan first went to the second floor to visit Lin Jing.

Lin Jing still maintained a stable state.Stable only refers to her vital signs, and her life is not in danger for the time being.It still looks scary, remaining encased in a red substance.She was still unconscious in bed, but that was fine, it might be even more painful to watch herself become like this.

Yan Yi acted as if he hadn't seen Zhou Yuan, and didn't ask him where he had been for the past two days. He was observing some samples in front of the instrument table, recording something attentively from time to time.

Zhou Yuan interrupted him and took out a thermos from his backpack: "Old Yan, we went to the ruins of Huaguang Machinery Factory."

Yan Yi put down the pen in his hand, and finally raised his head to look at Zhou Yuan, his eyes calmly waiting for Zhou Yuan to continue.

"We found the warehouse where the fighting took place back then, and found some strange things in it." Zhou Yuan explained briefly, and was about to open the thermos cup: "This kind of thing is very similar to the thing on Lin Jing's body." Similar, I think it is necessary to do an analysis."

Yan Yi suddenly stretched out his hand to stop Zhou Yuan's movement: "Don't open it yet. The origin of these things is unknown, so I don't know if they are contagious. I will do a detailed test later, you go out first."

Zhou Yuan didn't go out immediately, but asked: "Old Yan, we had a guess on the way back. Since it appeared near the fighting scene, if this disease was caused by some kind of bacteria, could it be Li Aihua's blood infected the surrounding animals or plants, and then caused this mutation?"

Yan Yi waved his hand impatiently: "Until there is no result, all speculation is useless. You go back and rest first. I will check it carefully."

Zhou Yuan was a little upset. He thought that finding such an important clue would help Lin Jing's condition, but Yan Yi's attitude was a bit perfunctory.However, Lin Jing did this because he had a problem with his previous judgment of the condition. He must have been in a bad mood these days, so Zhou Yuan couldn't say anything more. He went back to the downstairs room silently, and studied the notebook with Lao Hu first. .

The appearance of the notebook was even worse than that of the mobile phone. Not only was the cover a bit moldy, but the paper inside was all glued together, but when they opened it and saw the word "Linhe" written on the title page, they were still heartened.These things were indeed left by Lin He.

Carefully flipping through the pages, there is a line of big characters on the first page: "Out of control! I have to go far."

When Zhou Yuan saw the word out of control, his first reaction was Lin He's spontaneous combustion.But this sentence has no explanation.Turning to the next page, Zhou Yuan found it was blank. It seems that the records in this book have no rules.Sure enough, after reading all the way, most of them are very messy and fragmented, which are all descriptions of mood, and there is basically no specific and useful information.The key is that there is no time record, from which it is impossible to tell when Lin He wrote it.It is impossible to judge whether these descriptions are just records of ordinary feelings, or whether he already knew his illness at that time

Looking back, there are only one or two words on some papers, and some are very random scribbles.But after that, it gradually became normal. Some of the sentences were obviously written for female friends, with a reminiscence nature, which read very smoothly and had a slightly sad literary feeling.

Zhou Yuan thought of some things about Lin He that Lin Jing had told him, and guessed that it might be written by Lin He to his girlfriend. According to the tone of these sentences, his girlfriend had probably passed away at this time.

In the next few pages, some words related to pain and disease began to appear clearly. It can be felt that he was in pain when writing these things, but there is still no clear information.Zhou Yuan flipped through it quickly, and when it was almost finished, he found that there was a sentence repeatedly recorded in the last few pages of the book.

"It's terrible? What is this?"

On the last three or four pages, this sentence has been written countless times, each time with more force, and the last line is only left with the words "Why?".

Obviously, after countless times of back-tracing, the edges of the words have become rough and black, disordered, thick and strong, it doesn't look like three characters at all, but looks like a weird symbol when connected.

"This must be the late stage of his illness." Lao Hu concluded.

This notebook, from the beginning to the end, can clearly see the change of handwriting.From the neatness of the first few pages to the scribbling and madness of the last few pages, it must be a portrayal of Lin He's emotional change process, and it can be seen that the writer's mentality has changed all the way.Zhou Yuan can even imagine such a scene - in the ruins of the machinery factory, in a gloomy abandoned warehouse, in that dark environment, under the dim light, surrounded by strange red substances, a man who almost collapsed , repeatedly drawing in the notebook frantically and desperately.

"What the hell did he do?" Lao Hu folded his hands on his knees. This gesture indicated that he was in great confusion: "He stayed in the forest farm guest house for a month, and he must have visited that warehouse more than once. Is there a place to write these incomprehensible diaries?"

Zhou Yuan was also puzzled at first, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and shouted: "I know!"

Under Lao Hu's puzzled gaze, Zhou Yuan explained excitedly: "In that state, Lin He's emotions were obviously suppressed all the time, and he couldn't confide in others, so he chose to vent his emotions in this way." Do you remember that in the room he rented in Beiyang City, there was handwriting on the wall, which was painted off by Yan Yi?"

"Actually, it doesn't matter what those words are written in. But it can prove from the side that when Lin He is anxious to a certain extent, he will choose to use words to vent his emotions. There were similar words without beginning and end written on the banknote.” Zhou Yuan remembered that he was in an Internet cafe at that time and almost had a dispute with the network administrator because of the blood-stained banknote. At that time, he wondered why he would do this, and he did not understand the reason until now. .

"It makes sense." Lao Hu nodded in agreement with Zhou Yuan's analysis: "Although there are no new clues, these things can at least prove that Lin He's state has been very wrong. We only know that he fell ill and died of spontaneous combustion in the end. But What happened in the middle? For example, did he know that his blood can burn? If we can figure this out, I believe it will definitely help our current situation."

After hearing what Lao Hu said, Zhou Yuan thought of another thing, and said with some doubts: "I remembered a strange thing. Before Lin He got out of my car, his arm was bleeding. After I told him, He looked tense, maybe he knows blood burns?"

"No, no." As soon as Zhou Yuan finished speaking, he frowned and denied his statement. "I thought the blood on the money was stained by the blood he shed on the car, but now that I think about it, it shouldn't be. The traces on it are definitely there before. So why didn't it burn?"

"There is another problem." Lao Hu looked at Zhou Yuan, and said quietly: "How did he infect you? I think this is the key to the problem."

They cannot answer this question now.After looking at each other in blank dismay, they picked up the notebook and flipped through it from the back to the front, hoping to find something.But after reading it two or three times, I still couldn't find that there was no other useful content, so I had to put it away temporarily.

After all, this is Lin He's relic, Zhou Yuan still hopes that Lin Jing will return it to her when she recovers.Thinking of Lin Jing's current situation where life would be worse than death, he couldn't help feeling sad for a while.Although this trip to the machinery factory was rewarding, it was far below expectations.I just hope that Lu Ming can find something from that phone, otherwise Zhou Yuan really doesn't know what to do next.

(End of this chapter)