Zhang Yichi's heart was beating wildly, and he felt a sudden enlightenment in his mind. He felt that things might have turned around. With a slightly stiff step, he walked into the corridor and pressed the handrail of the door with his hand.
The door is locked.
But this didn't bother Zhang Yichi at all. He guessed that this should be the entrance to the basement used for storage by residents in each unit.
If this guess is correct, then he should also have a key that can open the basement. He put the plastic bag containing instant noodles on the ground, took out the key chain, and started trying one by one.
"throat!"
Unexpectedly, when I tried the third key, the key actually opened the door!
Zhang Yichi showed a smile that he hadn't seen in a long time. He gently opened the door. It was dark inside, and he could only see a staircase extending downward through a little light from outside.
He turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and shined it down. At the end of the stairs was a wall, and there seemed to be long and narrow corridors on the left and right sides. After hesitating for a few seconds, Zhang Yichi looked around to make sure it was safe, picked up the plastic bag and walked away.
Once inside, close the door.
Using the light of his mobile phone's flashlight, he reached the end of the stairs. There were long and narrow corridors on the left and right sides, with doors lined on both sides of the corridor.
The scale of the basement exceeded Zhang Yichi's imagination. It was roughly estimated that there were at least hundreds of storage rooms. He pressed the light switch on the wall, and the basement suddenly became bright.
Turning off the flashlight on his cell phone, Zhang Yichi began to check the specific situation. Some doors in the storage room were open and some were closed. The locked ones were probably where the residents had placed debris.
Zhang Yichi walked thoughtfully toward the depths of the corridor. After walking about ten meters, he found another upward staircase on the side of the corridor.
This made him wonder why there were still stairs. Could it be that more than the stairs he took could lead to the basement? He climbed the stairs and tried to open the door, but found that the door was also locked.
He frowned, took out the key that opened the basement door just now, and tried to open the door. Unexpectedly, it opened!
As soon as the door opens, another corridor comes into view!
Zhang Yichi was a little stunned. He slowly walked out of the basement, looked at the corridor, and realized the most special place in the basement. But he didn't dare to draw this conclusion easily. He returned to the basement, locked the door, and walked down the stairs.
Quickly walked deeper into the basement corridor.
So, he discovered one staircase after another leading to the top!
"So that's it." Zhang Yichi couldn't help but muttered to himself.
No wonder the basement is so big. It turns out that it is shared by the six units of the entire residential building! The six stairs leading to the top correspond to the corridors of the six units respectively. In other words, the residents of the six units of this building can pass through them.
The unit's hallway basement door comes here.
As for why the key to the basement door of the fourth unit where he is located can open the door of the basement of the third unit, Zhang Yichi thinks it is easy to explain. After all, the residents of the six units can all come to the same basement, so changing their door locks to
Different ones have no meaning.
Having received an unexpected gain, Zhang Yichi always felt that this could help him in some way. He took his belongings back to the corridor of the fourth unit, locked the basement door, and went upstairs back home.
Upon entering the house, Zhang Yichi threw the plastic bag beside the sofa, took out paper and pen, and began to write and draw on the coffee table.
Taking up more than half of the paper is a rough map. On the far right is the community where Zhang Yichi lives. Directly above the community is the adjacent school. To the left of the community are the overpass, the square, Yonghe Community, and a long grove.
After drawing the map, he immediately listed the two main problems he was currently facing on the edge of the map.
'How to clean blood from walls?'
'Where should Lu Tao's body be hidden?'
Focusing on these two cores, Zhang Yichi wrote down all kinds of information he encountered on his way out. The neighbor opposite was renovating, and there was a ladder leading to the rooftop on the sixth floor, but it was locked and connected to the entire building.
The basement of the building's six units...
Finally, Zhang Yichi connected some of the information to two issues.
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night.
Around one o'clock in the morning.
Zhang Yichi was sitting on the sofa in the living room. He didn't turn on the lights, so the room was dark. Feeling that it was almost safe enough, Zhang Yichi stood up and opened the curtains of the window and looked outside.
In every residential building within his sight, only a few houses had their lights on.
After standing in silence by the window for a few minutes, Zhang Yichi walked towards Lu Tao who was wrapped in plastic wrap. He stretched his hands under Lu Tao's body and slowly lifted it up.
Lu Tao's physique was about the same as him, and it wasn't particularly strenuous to lift him up under normal circumstances, but now Lu Tao was so heavy that he couldn't help but groan, gritting his teeth and picking up Lu Tao.
Carrying it on one's back is naturally more labor-saving, but Lu Tao was wrapped into a ball, which made it inconvenient to carry.
Carrying Lu Tao's body to the door, Zhang Yichi gently pressed the door handle and the security door opened.
The lights in the corridor were voice-activated lights. Zhang Yichi didn't want to make any big noise, so he could only use the faint moonlight projected in to go downstairs.
Carrying the body and slowly going downstairs step by step, Zhang Yichi breathed out on Lu Tao's cold body. The sweat soon soaked his clothes. He didn't know if it was an illusion or if he really smelled a strange smell.
The peculiar smell made his stomach feel a little uncomfortable.
It took three minutes to carry Lu Tao from the sixth floor to the first floor with great difficulty. These three minutes were almost the longest period of time in his life.
Arriving in front of the basement door, Zhang Yichi held Lu Tao's body with one hand and took out the key with the other hand to open the basement door. It was early in the morning and almost no one would go out, so Zhang Yichi didn't bother to close the door. He hugged Lu Tao down.
, then came up again and closed the basement door.
After finding a storage room with a lot of clutter piled up and looking like no one had been there for a long time, Zhang Yichi put Lu Tao's body in a corner and covered it with other things.
After doing this, Zhang Yichi went upstairs again and put Lu Tao's schoolbag, glasses, his blood-stained clothes, weapons, and tools for cleaning up the scene here.
After checking carefully to confirm that there were no mistakes or omissions, Zhang Yichi closed the door of the storage room and returned home without leaving any trace. After closing the door, his body immediately relaxed and leaned against the door.
He was almost exhausted, and his whole body was soaked with sweat. After a long time, he tried his best to walk into the bathroom, came to the sink, turned on the faucet, filled the sink with water, and plunged in...