Qiu Zijia said: “We still can’t stay here, in case the killer finishes the female teacher and then turn back, what do we do!”
Mu Qin also knew that this place should not be left for a long time. He grabbed the arm of the body and observed it for a long time. The other person’s body had begun to cool, and it was too late to live.
So Mu Qin was finally convinced that it was indeed the nerve reaction of the body. He had to stand up and come to Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu: “The killer’s footprints have passed to the back courtyard, and he grabbed the gap between the female teacher and us. We go to the chapel and search. “
At this time, Cheng Guoxu rarely talked , and the tone was inexplicably a little trembled: “Whether the woman is there?”
Qiu Zijia anxiously said: “Take a guess! We can’t protect ourselves, how can we manage others?”
It was cruel to see death or not, but Qiu Zijia’s behavior and demeanor were very heartless, and Mu Qin was not a good person.
When Mu Qin served in the army, he was trained by the instructor to calm down and see the situation and act again. Even if his best companion was murdered and killed by the enemy in front of his own eyes, he would wait calmly and think about whether he could save them after he had measured his own ability. People must not lose their judgment in the situation because of impulsive actions.
This teaching was regarded as the truth by Mu Qin, and Mu Qin had always carried out this truth after leaving the army.
So after a moment of thinking, Mu Qin said: “The risk of saving Han Li is too great. We have no weapons. You have no fighting ability except me. And… It is now obvious that the killer is Xu Fu, after all, everyone is here, we have not done anything extra, the last person who did not appear is now dead, Han Li was taken away, so that only leaves Xu Fu.”
Mu Qin also recalled: “Xu Fu’s physique is the best of us. I predict that his height is one meter eighty-ninety centimeters and he weighs about eighty-five kilograms. He may hold a short knife about 30 centimeters in length. The reaction and strength are very good, excellent.”
“Xu Fu, he used to be a murderer. He also has more experience than us in this game. His psychological quality is absolutely not weak. He will not be easily confused by words or traps. We have no possibility of defeating him. Put all of us into it.”
Mu Qin’s analysis gave Qiu Zijia a lot of pressure. Qiu Zijia sighed and said: “I knew that he was the murderer, look at his fierce look!”
Mu Qin did not speak, he still wrinkled an eyebrow, he always felt that something was wrong.
If the killer was really Xu Fu, why would the other party deliberately separate from them at the beginning? Wasn’t it better to stay with them and get to know them better? Pretend to accompany them to find the key to the orphanage, and then kill them one by one when they were tired, and also ensure that the key to the exit could be held in their hands, so that the possibility of all the fugitives fleeing would be reduced to the lowest.
Mu Qin couldn’t think of it, so he decided to give up these complicated thinking for a while, and adopted a modest action mode. He led Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu to walk toward the chapel opposite the apartment building.
Now the rain was getting stronger and heavier. The blood that the dead left in the courtyard was quickly washed away by the rain. This storm was not a short one.
Walking through the courtyard to the chapel of the church, the clothes of several people including Mu Qin were completely wet by the rain. The temperature in the orphanage was very low. Mu Qin felt that the outdoor temperature was only about ten degrees, and they only had a group of people wearing thin gray shirt trousers, not only could they not keep warmth, but the body temperature was also getting lower due to getting wet.
The cold made Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu endless, and Mu Qin’s cold resistance was good. After all, he was a soldier. After serving for five years, Mu Qin once had the memory of wearing only thin clothes training below zero.
However, looking at Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu who were frozen into sieves, Mu Qin said: “Come into the church, you can’t stay in the rain any more.”
After a few people hurriedly pushed open the door of the church… that was a mahogany door engraved with a snake-wrapped cross and a colorful diamond-shaped glass combination.
This door was very big and heavy. Mu Qin was glad that it was not locked. It could be opened slowly by pushing it hard. But what was worse was that during the process of pushing the door, the door also made a huge noise. Although thanks to the sound of the splashing rain, no matter what kind of noise can be easily covered by the sound of the rain hit the ground.
Mu Qin just pushed the door open a small gap for one person to pass, and then called Qiu Zijia and the others to enter.
When they entered the chapel of the orphanage, Mu Qin and the others began to look around the church.
Because it was just a small church, the interior of the church was relatively small, but there was also a distinct western-style style. There were rows of long seats for the rest of the church. There was a small stage with a huge Jesus cross on the background wall of the stage. The statue was decorated with stained glass next to it.
There was a huge and luxurious silver chandelier hanging on the ceiling. It was a European-style candle chandelier with a sharp inverted triangle shape bearing structure in the middle. A circle of small lamp-stands extending around the circle, candles could be placed on the small lamp-stand. The chandelier had a lifting function, and an iron chain hang from it. The clergy could put down the chandelier, place a pure white candle on the sconces, and then ignite the chandelier.
Before Europe invented electric lights, everyone basically used this kind of candle light. There was a candle on a simple lamp stand. In order to prevent the wind from blowing out the flame, occasionally a transparent cover was placed on it. More often, they didn’t need a lamp-stand, just putting a candle on the table was enough.
Of course, this was just the living method of the poor people. The luxurious and indulgent European aristocrats liked to use sterling silver to create a gorgeous and delicate silver lamp-stand, and then put the candles on them. They made the lighting tools a gorgeous effect of decorations, and then they felt that if the lights were on the table, the room was not bright and luxurious, so the lamp-stand was made bigger, and the chain was hung on the ceiling. This was also the origin of the candle chandelier.
The candle chandelier in modern society basically had only the shape of a candle. In fact, the bulb was made into a flame-like shape and hung in the house for a good look.
However, Mu Qin found that the candle chandelier in this small church was a very traditional, candle-only one. Although it was really nice and beautiful, it also added a lot of inconvenience. The electric light could be lit in the dark. However, this traditional candle chandelier would not work.
Fortunately, there were other lighting lights in the church, such as wall lamps. Wall lamps were just a few lights, but there seemed to be a lot of light bulbs broken, Mu Qin groped for the switch, it only lit up two. The entire chapel was dark and dull.
“It’s too dark.” Qiu Zijia wanted to search this little church, but the darkness blocked his footsteps. When he stumbled on the wooden planks that were lifted on the ground for the third time, he said to Mu Qin, “Can’t you first find a way to find a flashlight?”
Mu Qin did not answer, he went to the stage of the chapel, there were dark red curtains on both sides of the stage, and behind the curtain there were some cabinets for storing tools. The cabinet was basically a prop that was used to pray for the Bible, the cross, and so on.
After the orphanage was abandoned, the things in these damaged cabinets were basically evacuated. In only one of the small cabinets, Mu Qin found a Bible that seemed to be cut off by the sharp weapon, with black stains on it.
Mu Qin flipped through the Bible in a dim light source. The Bible was in English. The dense letters were arranged in front of Mu Qin. Mu Qin didn’t understand it. He flipped through two pages and threw it away.
Then Mu Qin continued to turn over the cabinet. In the last cabinet, Mu Qin finally found what he needed, a few candles that were a little yellowish and of varying lengths, and a box of used matches, plus two candlesticks.
“There is a light.” Mu Qin took out the candlestick, picked out a candle that looked good, and lit it with a match.
Mu Qin just thought about the candle chandelier on the ceiling. Since there was such an ancient thing in this small church, correspondingly, it was natural to prepare candle matches and so on.
Soon, the small light source of the candle successfully lit the area around Mu Qin, and Mu Qin took it to illuminate some of the dark places in the chapel.
The fire in Mu Qin’s hands attracted Cheng Xu and Qiu Zijia. After two words, they went to the cupboard to find the candle lit. The three people with the light source began to explore in this small church, although it was a chapel, but there were many hidden places, first… they noticed that the church had a second floor.
There was a second floor inside the church, but the stairs leading to the second floor were collapsed. He didn’t know what caused it. There were only some faults left on the stairs, and the collapsed ruins were still piled up in the corner of the stairwell. If he wanted to go to the second floor, Mu Qin had to find a chair and other items to pile up and climb up, but this was too time-consuming, and Mu Qin and the others thought about it and gave up the move.
“Come on! There is a lot of blood here!” Then, Qiu Zijia discovered a row of very damaged benches in the church. It seemed that it was violently destroyed by someone. The whole bench was broken, the planks and nails were scattered on the ground, Qiu Zijia noticed that there was a lot of blood on these boards.
Mu Qin walked over and looked at the sight. The blood was still fresh, but it had begun to solidify. Then Mu Qin found that the blood all the way to the door of the church, and realized what happened. Mu Qin’s tone revealed his uneasiness and said: “It seems that this is the first scene.”
Qiu Zijia suddenly came over and said: “You said, the dead person we just saw, were they attacked here?”
“It should be like this, he was attacked here, and then he ran away.” Mu Qin said, holding the candlestick in his hand and went to the small door of the church, when they came in, they did not see it because the surroundings were too dark, but the door was covered with blood.
“I have a bad feeling, I think we should leave here as soon as possible?” Qiu Zijia saw that there was so much blood on the floor, and he couldn’t help but start to tremble.
Mu Qin said: “Don’t worry, this is a good opportunity. We should wait for the killer for a while, and we will search it again as soon as possible.”
Qiu Zijia said: “It should not take long for the killer to finish the female teacher. What if they come back later?”
“He doesn’t necessarily know that we are here.” Mu Qin looked through the glass window next to him and judged, “There is still heavy rain outside, the rain and the water will eliminate our traces, which will make the killer lose us. It also gives us more time to explore.”
Qiu Zijia said: “We still can’t stay here, in case the killer finishes the female teacher and then turn back, what do we do!”
Mu Qin also knew that this place should not be left for a long time. He grabbed the arm of the body and observed it for a long time. The other person’s body had begun to cool, and it was too late to live.
So Mu Qin was finally convinced that it was indeed the nerve reaction of the body. He had to stand up and come to Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu: “The killer’s footprints have passed to the back courtyard, and he grabbed the gap between the female teacher and us. We go to the chapel and search. “
At this time, Cheng Guoxu rarely talked , and the tone was inexplicably a little trembled: “Whether the woman is there?”
Qiu Zijia anxiously said: “Take a guess! We can’t protect ourselves, how can we manage others?”
It was cruel to see death or not, but Qiu Zijia’s behavior and demeanor were very heartless, and Mu Qin was not a good person.
When Mu Qin served in the army, he was trained by the instructor to calm down and see the situation and act again. Even if his best companion was murdered and killed by the enemy in front of his own eyes, he would wait calmly and think about whether he could save them after he had measured his own ability. People must not lose their judgment in the situation because of impulsive actions.
This teaching was regarded as the truth by Mu Qin, and Mu Qin had always carried out this truth after leaving the army.
So after a moment of thinking, Mu Qin said: “The risk of saving Han Li is too great. We have no weapons. You have no fighting ability except me. And… It is now obvious that the killer is Xu Fu, after all, everyone is here, we have not done anything extra, the last person who did not appear is now dead, Han Li was taken away, so that only leaves Xu Fu.”
Mu Qin also recalled: “Xu Fu’s physique is the best of us. I predict that his height is one meter eighty-ninety centimeters and he weighs about eighty-five kilograms. He may hold a short knife about 30 centimeters in length. The reaction and strength are very good, excellent.”
“Xu Fu, he used to be a murderer. He also has more experience than us in this game. His psychological quality is absolutely not weak. He will not be easily confused by words or traps. We have no possibility of defeating him. Put all of us into it.”
Mu Qin’s analysis gave Qiu Zijia a lot of pressure. Qiu Zijia sighed and said: “I knew that he was the murderer, look at his fierce look!”
Mu Qin did not speak, he still wrinkled an eyebrow, he always felt that something was wrong.
If the killer was really Xu Fu, why would the other party deliberately separate from them at the beginning? Wasn’t it better to stay with them and get to know them better? Pretend to accompany them to find the key to the orphanage, and then kill them one by one when they were tired, and also ensure that the key to the exit could be held in their hands, so that the possibility of all the fugitives fleeing would be reduced to the lowest.
Mu Qin couldn’t think of it, so he decided to give up these complicated thinking for a while, and adopted a modest action mode. He led Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu to walk toward the chapel opposite the apartment building.
Now the rain was getting stronger and heavier. The blood that the dead left in the courtyard was quickly washed away by the rain. This storm was not a short one.
Walking through the courtyard to the chapel of the church, the clothes of several people including Mu Qin were completely wet by the rain. The temperature in the orphanage was very low. Mu Qin felt that the outdoor temperature was only about ten degrees, and they only had a group of people wearing thin gray shirt trousers, not only could they not keep warmth, but the body temperature was also getting lower due to getting wet.
The cold made Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu endless, and Mu Qin’s cold resistance was good. After all, he was a soldier. After serving for five years, Mu Qin once had the memory of wearing only thin clothes training below zero.
However, looking at Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu who were frozen into sieves, Mu Qin said: “Come into the church, you can’t stay in the rain any more.”
After a few people hurriedly pushed open the door of the church… that was a mahogany door engraved with a snake-wrapped cross and a colorful diamond-shaped glass combination.
This door was very big and heavy. Mu Qin was glad that it was not locked. It could be opened slowly by pushing it hard. But what was worse was that during the process of pushing the door, the door also made a huge noise. Although thanks to the sound of the splashing rain, no matter what kind of noise can be easily covered by the sound of the rain hit the ground.
Mu Qin just pushed the door open a small gap for one person to pass, and then called Qiu Zijia and the others to enter.
When they entered the chapel of the orphanage, Mu Qin and the others began to look around the church.
Because it was just a small church, the interior of the church was relatively small, but there was also a distinct western-style style. There were rows of long seats for the rest of the church. There was a small stage with a huge Jesus cross on the background wall of the stage. The statue was decorated with stained glass next to it.
There was a huge and luxurious silver chandelier hanging on the ceiling. It was a European-style candle chandelier with a sharp inverted triangle shape bearing structure in the middle. A circle of small lamp-stands extending around the circle, candles could be placed on the small lamp-stand. The chandelier had a lifting function, and an iron chain hang from it. The clergy could put down the chandelier, place a pure white candle on the sconces, and then ignite the chandelier.
Before Europe invented electric lights, everyone basically used this kind of candle light. There was a candle on a simple lamp stand. In order to prevent the wind from blowing out the flame, occasionally a transparent cover was placed on it. More often, they didn’t need a lamp-stand, just putting a candle on the table was enough.
Of course, this was just the living method of the poor people. The luxurious and indulgent European aristocrats liked to use sterling silver to create a gorgeous and delicate silver lamp-stand, and then put the candles on them. They made the lighting tools a gorgeous effect of decorations, and then they felt that if the lights were on the table, the room was not bright and luxurious, so the lamp-stand was made bigger, and the chain was hung on the ceiling. This was also the origin of the candle chandelier.
The candle chandelier in modern society basically had only the shape of a candle. In fact, the bulb was made into a flame-like shape and hung in the house for a good look.
However, Mu Qin found that the candle chandelier in this small church was a very traditional, candle-only one. Although it was really nice and beautiful, it also added a lot of inconvenience. The electric light could be lit in the dark. However, this traditional candle chandelier would not work.
Fortunately, there were other lighting lights in the church, such as wall lamps. Wall lamps were just a few lights, but there seemed to be a lot of light bulbs broken, Mu Qin groped for the switch, it only lit up two. The entire chapel was dark and dull.
“It’s too dark.” Qiu Zijia wanted to search this little church, but the darkness blocked his footsteps. When he stumbled on the wooden planks that were lifted on the ground for the third time, he said to Mu Qin, “Can’t you first find a way to find a flashlight?”
Mu Qin did not answer, he went to the stage of the chapel, there were dark red curtains on both sides of the stage, and behind the curtain there were some cabinets for storing tools. The cabinet was basically a prop that was used to pray for the Bible, the cross, and so on.
After the orphanage was abandoned, the things in these damaged cabinets were basically evacuated. In only one of the small cabinets, Mu Qin found a Bible that seemed to be cut off by the sharp weapon, with black stains on it.
Mu Qin flipped through the Bible in a dim light source. The Bible was in English. The dense letters were arranged in front of Mu Qin. Mu Qin didn’t understand it. He flipped through two pages and threw it away.
Then Mu Qin continued to turn over the cabinet. In the last cabinet, Mu Qin finally found what he needed, a few candles that were a little yellowish and of varying lengths, and a box of used matches, plus two candlesticks.
“There is a light.” Mu Qin took out the candlestick, picked out a candle that looked good, and lit it with a match.
Mu Qin just thought about the candle chandelier on the ceiling. Since there was such an ancient thing in this small church, correspondingly, it was natural to prepare candle matches and so on.
Soon, the small light source of the candle successfully lit the area around Mu Qin, and Mu Qin took it to illuminate some of the dark places in the chapel.
The fire in Mu Qin’s hands attracted Cheng Xu and Qiu Zijia. After two words, they went to the cupboard to find the candle lit. The three people with the light source began to explore in this small church, although it was a chapel, but there were many hidden places, first… they noticed that the church had a second floor.
There was a second floor inside the church, but the stairs leading to the second floor were collapsed. He didn’t know what caused it. There were only some faults left on the stairs, and the collapsed ruins were still piled up in the corner of the stairwell. If he wanted to go to the second floor, Mu Qin had to find a chair and other items to pile up and climb up, but this was too time-consuming, and Mu Qin and the others thought about it and gave up the move.
“Come on! There is a lot of blood here!” Then, Qiu Zijia discovered a row of very damaged benches in the church. It seemed that it was violently destroyed by someone. The whole bench was broken, the planks and nails were scattered on the ground, Qiu Zijia noticed that there was a lot of blood on these boards.
Mu Qin walked over and looked at the sight. The blood was still fresh, but it had begun to solidify. Then Mu Qin found that the blood all the way to the door of the church, and realized what happened. Mu Qin’s tone revealed his uneasiness and said: “It seems that this is the first scene.”
Qiu Zijia suddenly came over and said: “You said, the dead person we just saw, were they attacked here?”
“It should be like this, he was attacked here, and then he ran away.” Mu Qin said, holding the candlestick in his hand and went to the small door of the church, when they came in, they did not see it because the surroundings were too dark, but the door was covered with blood.
“I have a bad feeling, I think we should leave here as soon as possible?” Qiu Zijia saw that there was so much blood on the floor, and he couldn’t help but start to tremble.
Mu Qin said: “Don’t worry, this is a good opportunity. We should wait for the killer for a while, and we will search it again as soon as possible.”
Qiu Zijia said: “It should not take long for the killer to finish the female teacher. What if they come back later?”
“He doesn’t necessarily know that we are here.” Mu Qin looked through the glass window next to him and judged, “There is still heavy rain outside, the rain and the water will eliminate our traces, which will make the killer lose us. It also gives us more time to explore.”
