curse

Chapter 44

When Ye Xiao drove close to the Suzhou Creek, night had already fallen early, and he speeded up, but the road along the river was not wide, and there were many oncoming cars, so he could only keep honking his horn.When he finally came downstairs to Luo Zhou's house, opened the car door and walked out, he found many people surrounded downstairs.Now the weather is very cold, and it's time to eat dinner, but there are so many people around in the cold wind downstairs, which makes Ye Xiao very strange.He was not a person who liked to join in the fun, and he would avoid such things in the past, but now that he is a police officer, out of professional habits, he still squeezed into the crowd with all his strength.

In the center of the crowd, people formed a small circle, and in the small circle, a person was lying on his back.There was a street lamp downstairs that was always on, allowing Ye Xiao to see this person's face clearly. In an instant, his heart sank, as if the whole person had sunk in the sea.Unable to control himself, he softly called out the name of the man on the ground: "Luo Zhou."

Luo Zhou lay quietly on the ground, that familiar face was pale and pale, and his whole body was motionless, with eyes full of fear open, looking at the darkened sky and the stars.There was blood coming from the nose, which was constant, and what seemed to be spilling from the ears and mouth.Behind his head, blood was slowly flowing, like red streams, forking and converging, converging and forking, rushing on the concrete floor, and finally turning into a pool of red blood.The blood also dyed the back half of Luo Zhou's clothes red, making Luo Zhou seem to be acting in front of a blood-red curtain.

Ye Xiao was a little excited, he didn't know what to do, although he was not afraid of such a scene, but when this kind of thing happened to his best friend, he still felt a little angry, and he was frantic in his heart cried out: Who did this?But his first step should be to see if Luo Zhou is still alive, so he immediately squatted down and touched Luo Zhou's carotid artery, but he couldn't feel anything. There is no doubt that Luo Zhou was dead, but his body Still hot, he must have just died.

Ye Xiao turned around and asked the people around loudly: "Who did this?"

"It's him." A bold reply pointed at Luo Zhou who was lying on the ground.

"What did you say?" Ye Xiao couldn't control his anger anymore.

"He jumped from the upstairs by himself. We passed by here and suddenly heard something falling from the sky, and then saw him fall from the upstairs and hit the ground."

"When is it?"

"It was about three or four minutes ago. We have already dialed 4 to call the police." Before the man finished speaking, Ye Xiao had already heard the police lights whistling towards here.

Ye Xiao said to everyone: "I'm a policeman, please don't spoil the scene. I'm sorry, let me go up and have a look."

A passage was opened among the crowd, and Ye Xiao ran into the building through the passage. He pressed the elevator, but the people in the property downstairs told him that the elevator was broken this afternoon.Ye Xiao cursed secretly in his heart, then took a deep breath and ran up the stairs.When he was studying at the Public Security University, he once won the championship in the climbing competition. Now he seems to be in a competition, rushing to the top of the top floor.It took him just over a minute to reach the top floor, and without thinking too much, he kicked open the door of Luo Zhou's room with all his might.

There was a feminine smell in the room, Ye Xiao could smell it, and he knew who it belonged to.There was no one in the living room, no one in the kitchen, no one in the bathroom, and finally Luo Zhou's bedroom.The lights in the bedroom were turned on and the windows were wide open, a gust of cold wind blew in, making Ye Xiao's back tremble.The bedroom looked very messy, a half-eaten bowl of instant noodles was still steaming in the cold wind on the table, and the computer was still on, just on the desktop.However, what surprised Ye Xiao the most was that in the bedroom, on the wall facing the window, there was a performance poster of "Soul Breaking in Lou Lan".

Ye Xiao knew that this painting was painted by Bai Bi. The woman in the painting was holding a man's head, looking forward with a soul-stirring gaze.Ye Xiao also turned his gaze to the direction the woman in the painting was looking at. It was outside the window, a dark sky dotted with stars, and the lights of thousands of families on the other side of the Suzhou River.The last time I came here, I didn't see this poster. Ye Xiao understood, who brought this poster?He stood in front of the poster and faced the eyes of the woman in the painting. For an instant, his heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly felt that the head of the man held by the woman in the painting was his own.

He didn't understand why he felt this way, he shook his head vigorously, but it didn't help at all, but he seemed to feel that the woman in the painting was about to come out of the painting.So Ye Xiao involuntarily took a step back, the cold evening wind made the back of his head numb, he knew that all of this came from human instinct.When people are in extreme fear and find that a woman holding a human head is about to walk out of a painting, this instinct to avoid fear is fully released.He looked at the woman, took another big step back, and suddenly felt a force pulling his body backwards. His body almost lost its balance, but something pushed against his waist.The wind was blowing from behind, the hair was messed up, and the whole body was almost numb.

He now understood what lay behind him—death.Behind Ye Xiao is death, as long as his body goes further back and completely loses his balance, he will be dragged down by gravity and fall into hell from the window on the top floor.He turned his head and saw that his waist was tightly pressed against the window sill, while his head was thrown back out of the window. If it wasn't for the window sill, he would have met Luo Zhou in another world at this moment. I understand why Luo Zhou jumped down.He turned his head back from the cold and dark window, and looked into the eyes in the poster again.Ye Xiao suddenly understood that facing such a pair of eyes, Luo Zhou was irresistible, and jumping from the window was the only choice, which is why this poster was hung on the wall facing the window. It's murder. Hanging on that wall is equivalent to pronouncing Luo Zhou's death sentence.Ye Xiao panted heavily, just now he also brushed shoulders with death.He suddenly felt that all the strength in his body was gone, and he squatted down, hiding in the shadow of the window sill without moving.

After a while, his body recovered some heat, Ye Xiao stood up again, he didn't want to look at that poster again, it really was a nightmare, he once said to Bai Bi that when he saw this painting, he would think of a nightmare.But he really didn't understand why this painting depicting a nightmare was actually written by Bai Bi?He turned to the window again and looked downstairs. The street lights downstairs illuminated the circle of people, and many policemen were busy surrounding Luo Zhou's body.It was too far away, and he couldn't see Luo Zhou's face clearly. In his imagination, Luo Zhou was looking up at him in the window on the top floor.

Ye Xiao called his colleagues in the bureau, then sat quietly by the window and waited for their arrival.He looked up at the painting again, and he felt that he seemed to be in some kind of communication with the eyes in the painting, but his hands were still tightly grasping the window sill, for fear that he would lose control of his body anytime. .Gradually, Luo Zhou's face appeared in front of his eyes again, so he thought of his youth and his dreams at that time.

The window was still open, and the cold wind made his body shiver.

(End of this chapter)