My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 255 Clues to An Lan's Old House

"Boss Zhuang, I'll go back to work first."

"Well, get busy. Thank you for your hard work."

Saying goodbye to Secretary Zhang, Zhuang Xiao shook the key in his hand, turned back and said to Dong Weirui: "Let's go upstairs. I remember their house is on the seventh floor."

Dong Weirui suddenly asked, "Don't you need to go back to your house first?"

When she was in school, she often followed Dong Zeyu to Zhuang Xiao's house to play, so of course she knew where Zhuang Xiao lived.

"No, I'm afraid I'll see Xiaodie again when I go back. Let's do our business first, and then go back for a walk."

With that said, Zhuang Xiao took the lead and walked into the unit door.

The sunlight shines through the window at the corner of the stairs, bringing up particles of dust floating in the air and sticking to the corridor with the smell of rust.

Standing on the seventh floor, Zhuang Xiao looked at the mottled security door in front of him in silence.

Dong Weirui took out his baton and knocked on the door, causing rust to fall off. "They moved out after An Lan passed away in 2008. They didn't sell the house until last year when their IVF baby was born. But the house price dropped, so it remained unsold for a year until your company bought it."

"Well, they didn't clean up the home decoration inside. Maybe they didn't want to see a scene that would make them sad."

Zhuang Xiao inserted the key into the keyhole. "That is to say, the furniture here has not changed since sixteen years ago."

"Wait a minute."

Dong Weirui stopped him.

Zhuang Xiao looked puzzled.

Dong Weirui squatted down quickly, with the hem of his coat hanging over the dusty threshold.

She ran her fingertips over a winding dark red mark on the door crack and sniffed it. "Human blood, it will coagulate within 48 hours."

Then she stood up and gripped her baton tightly, "I'll open the door."

"No need."

Zhuang Xiao turned the key and opened the door.

A pungent burnt smell suddenly came out from inside the door, like the smell of burnt protein mixed with rust.

Zhuang Xiao's temples were throbbing - the smell was exactly the same as the corpse in the basement of the chicken farm.

The two men walked into the house cautiously. In the 30-square-meter living room, all the furniture was covered with white cloth, like rows of body bags.

The TV, sofa and dining table under the white cloth are still in the style of 2008, and even the tea cups on the coffee table are scattered in a messy manner.

All time seemed to be frozen in that autumn 16 years ago.

“Someone has been here.”

Dong Weirui touched the coffee table and the cup.

There is dust on the coffee table, but not on the cup.

Zhuang Xiao's nostrils flared, and then he looked up at a bedroom with a closed door.

That was An Lan's room. He remembered it very clearly. After all, he had been there with Shu Die in other timelines.

And now, that smell of burnt protein comes from here.

Dong Weirui asked, "Have you ever thought about Xiaodie?"

"Well, I thought maybe I could see another one of her at my parents' house downstairs. The person who took out the key just now also thought about whether she might be here too, but I think it's unlikely. After all, she and An Lan don't actually have much in common."

Zhuang Xiao was helpless, "It seems that not only downstairs, but An Lan's house is also one of the 'passages'."

Dong Weirui walked to the door and turned back to ask, "Do you have a key?"

Zhuang Xiao handed over the house key.

Dong Weirui took it and tried to open the door, but it didn't open. "It's not this."

"Then it's gone."

The original brass key used to open this bedroom door was obtained from An Shihong.

But now An Shihong is not crazy, and his family has moved away long ago, so Zhuang Xiao didn't get the key at all. "Move aside."

After getting the answer, Dong Weirui waved his hand to let Zhuang Xiao step back, then raised his long legs and kicked the door hard.

With a loud bang, the wooden door frame where the door lock was attached was kicked off, and the door creaked open.

"Holy crap!" Zhuang Xiao was immediately shocked, "So powerful?!"

This looks like the kick from the knight in Kamen Rider. If I were kicked like that, with my current physical condition, I would probably have to lie on the ground for a long time to recover.

"It's all work-related." Dong Weirui walked in without changing his expression. He paused for a moment, then turned back and waved, "Come in. The person is already dead."

Zhuang Xiao rushed in hurriedly.

The furnishings in this room were similar to those he and Shu Die had seen before.

But at this moment there is a corpse on the ground.

In other words, it is charcoal that has begun to take human form.

Dong Weirui had already put on gloves and squatted down to check. She turned around and threw a pair of gloves to Zhuang Xiao, "Look for it yourself."

Zhuang Xiao took the gloves and put them on, then stepped over the corpse and ran straight to the desk.

The bookshelf on the desk is still filled with a bunch of old romance novels.

Zhuang Xiao opened them one by one and examined them carefully.

But there were no bookmarks in it.

No writing was left behind.

In other words, these novels don't look like they have been read by anyone.

At this time, Dong Weirui spoke up, "Just like the ones in the chicken farm, they were burned to death."

After a pause, she added: "But this body was tortured before death. She had three broken ribs and a fractured left arm. She must have been in a fight, but she was not subdued. Then she was doused with gasoline and set on fire.

"The time of death should be more than half a month."

Zhuang Xiao rubbed his brows, "That is to say, she died at least half a month ago, and she should have died in this room in the 'shadow world'. But now the 'channel' is connected, and I thought about Xiaodie's matter, so her body appeared here."

Dong Weirui nodded, "Yes, do you have any clues?"

"I haven't found it yet." Zhuang Xiao replied casually, then opened the drawer, and then his eyes froze.

It was in this drawer that he once found those mobile phones and phone cards.

But now there is no phone card or mobile phone in the drawer, only a photo frame with cracked glass.

The photo frame contains a photo of An Lan when she was a child. She is wearing a blue and white elementary school uniform and has a bright smile on her face.

Next to her was a handsome boy with a flat head and the same school uniform, who looked disgusted.

That’s right, it was Zhuang Xiao himself.

"strangeness."

Seeing Zhuang Xiao mumbling, Dong Weirui stood up and walked over, "What's wrong?"

Zhuang Xiao asked her to look at the photo as well, "I don't remember when I took a photo with her."

"This isn't a group photo." Dong Weirui saw it at a glance. "This should be a group photo of the class. She cut it out, enlarged it, and printed it out."

Zhuang Xiao was stunned, and after looking carefully he realized that it was indeed the case.

The expressions of the two people in the photo are a little blurry, which is obviously because the pixels are too low. You can even see obvious noise in the photo.

An Lan's already blurry smile was split into pieces by the spider web-like cracked glass, looking quite sad and cold.

Zhuang Xiao subconsciously raised his hand to touch the glass.

The moment his finger touched the crack, the glass shattered and the photo inside fell face down onto the desk, revealing the words written on the back of the photo.

[Zhuang Xiao, long time no see, I will always be watching you.]

(End of this chapter)