In the dark rainy night, the rain was like broken pearls, and it dripped on Mu Qin and Qiu Zijia.
Mu Qin endured the cold, set aside the weeds of the high plants, and followed the darkness to the gate of the small church, which was faintly lit by the light. He did not see Xu Fu chasing them out of the church. Perhaps Xu Fu was also in the church, perhaps he had already left through the back door of the church… This small church had a back door, just behind the church stage.
Although Xu Fu did not seem to chase after Mu Qin and the others, it did not mean that Mu Qin was safe now. After watching the church for a while, Mu Qin turned his head and looked in the other direction, except in the orphanage. There was also an office building in the apartment building. This office building, Mu Qin and the others had not been there yet. It was a building that did not look big. The visual inspection was only four stories high. There may be clues to the key to the door.
The current form was not clear, and Mu Qin was not sure where it was a safe place. Instead of pursuing the ethereal sense of security, Mu Qin felt that he was still risking to escape the possibility of being killed, so he pulled Qiu Zijia around, and pointed to Qiu Zijia, the office building that was the farthest away.
“Let’s go there,” Mu Qin said. “We haven’t explored it yet… and the building is black with lights.”
Mu Qin and the others had explored apartment buildings and chapels in succession. Every room they passed, the lights were turned on one after the other, so the room where the lights were on was where they had already explored.
Qiu Zijia said: “But we only explored the first and second floors of the apartment building. We have not been to the 3, 4, 5, and the second floor of the chapel had not been able to go up…”
Mu Qin turned his head and glanced at the direction of the church, replied: “I haven’t seen Xu Fu coming out of the church. Whether he is still in the church or going out from the back door of the church, we should all go to the building farthest from the church.”
Qiu Zijia was still scared: “But we went to the office building, and then opened the lights of the office building during the search. Didn’t Xu Fu know that we were there?”
“He has to know sooner or later.” Mu Qin continued. “And we can’t because he will know to stop searching and we have to find the key to the exit door.”
Qiu Zijia was unable to refute Mu Qin's words. He knew that Mu Qin was right. This orphanage was such a big place. The killers were here. They went around and explored on the other side. If the killers were on the other side, they would come back and continue to explore here, nothing more than hide and seek, hide and seek, playing guerrilla warfare, very simple truth.
“Well, I will listen to you,” said Qiu Zijia.
After the simple action plan was finalized, Mu Qin's body would be backed up by Han Li, who was unconscious under the tree. When Mu Qin felt that the woman's body was hot, he said to Qiu Zijia; "Han Li’s fever is very serious, we must find her some antipyretics.”
“Antipyretics!?” Qiu Zijia seemed very nervous after listening, Mu Qin thought that Qiu Zijia would directly persuade himself to leave Han Li, after all, Qiu Zijia did not wait to see the female teacher, and it was quite dangerous to run around with a patient at this time, but the result was unexpected. After a moment of silence, Qiu Zijia said: “Well, how do we find it?”
“You go back with her.” Mu Qin was too lazy to say why he suddenly changed his mind. Instead, he decided to hand over Han Li, who was on his back, to Qiu Zijia.
He said to Qiu Zijia: “You carry her… along the wall of the courtyard, move slowly toward the office building. Because the edge is very dark, there are trees, flower beds and weeds beside the wall. These plants can help you hide. It should be fairly safe. As for me, I will go to the infirmary of the apartment building there, and I should find some medicines in it."
Qiu Zijia roughly understood what Mu Qin meant: "Do you mean that we are taking action separately? You get antipyretics, and I carry her in the direction of the office building?”
“Yes, after I find the medicine, I will go there to find you.” Mu Qin said.
Qiu Zijia was worried: “What if there is a problem on the way? If we are killed, what should we do?”
“There are only two kinds of problems. One is that I was found by the killer. The second is that you and Han Li were found by the killer.” Mu Qin pressed his voice down seriously. “If I am killed by a killer, you don’t care. Going straight to the office building, I will try my best to get out. If I have not been looking for you, it means that I am too fierce. At that time, you are able to continue to bring Han Li, or discard her, at your will.”
“On the contrary, if you are to find the killer, then you and Han Li when the killer threw the abandoned child, then came to me, I’ll protect you.” Mu Qin said.
Qiu Zijia’s complex question asked Mu Qin: “Do you mean let me use Han Li as a shield?”
Qiu Zijia’s question made Mu Qin sharply watch Qiu Zijia for a while, then Mu Qin said: “Yes, if necessary, she is your human shield.”
“Since she is a shield, why do you risk to find her antipyretics?” Qiu Zijia did not understand. “Why don’t you just make her a bait, such as tying her under the light, looking for an old radio to play music around her, this situation can definitely attract the killer to eat this bait, while he hooks the bait, we can I searched for the office building there without any scruples?”
Mu Qin looked at Qiu Zijia with deep gaze: “I am not a good person, Qiu Zijia… but I don’t do anything bad. If I feel that I can do it myself. Next, I am willing to save people, willing to take the risk of being alone for this woman to find antipyretics. The key is not why I should do this, but because you… will you do the same thing with me?”
“I will not.” Qiu Zijia shook his head. “I will not take any risks for this woman. My life is the most important!”
After listening to Qiu Zijia’s words, Mu Qin suddenly laughed. This was the first time Qiu Zijia saw Mu Qin’s face. With a clear smile, Mu Qin always looked like he had a cold expression, and this time he suddenly showed a smile, which really made Qiu Zijia a little embarrassed.
“Self-confidence is human nature.” Mu Qin said, “If you have lived like this before, then you will continue to live like this in the future, no one will blame you.”
Qiu Zijia didn’t talk. He looked at Mu Qin with a little fear and sadness. Mu Qin couldn’t imagine how Qiu Zijia understood the meaning in his own words. He didn’t know what Qiu Zijia was thinking. Mu Qin was too lazy to pay attention.
After Mu Qin handed the female teacher to Qiu Zijia, he gave him a “start action” gesture, and then watched Qiu Zijia carry Han Li into the grass.
Soon after, Mu Qin also left the grass flower bed and walked to the stone road in the courtyard. Following the sloppy rain, he stepped over to the illuminated apartment building.
The apartment building was not far away. Mu Qin walked a few steps and quickly entered the open corridor on the first floor of the apartment building. Then Mu Qin looked up and looked around to observe the movement. No sound was heard except the sound of the rain. A quiet and peaceful place.
So Mu Qin began to search for the location of the infirmary. The location of the infirmary on the first floor was next to the stairs of the apartment building. It was not difficult to find, because the door number was marked on the door of each room.
Only when Mu Qin had just arrived at the door of the infirmary, Mu Qin had to stop in amazement.
Because he saw a lot of blood on the ground.
There was blood on the ground. It shouldn't have been so strange to Mu Qin because on the stairwell of the first floor of the apartment building was lying the body that Mu Qin and the others had seen before.
The deceased was opened with a knife on his neck. When he fled from the courtyard to the apartment building and climbed up the stairs of the apartment, he left a lot of blood on the ground. After Xu Fu came over and took Han Li, he stepped on the blood and left with intricate bloody footprints. Later, when Mu Qin, Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu left the apartment building, they also stepped on these bloodstains, so they left more bloody footprints.
Ever since, the stairs from the second floor to the first floor of the apartment building were full of blood. The blood had spread to the corridor on the first floor to the outside courtyard. But now because of the rain, the blood in the courtyard was blurred by the water. Infiltrated into the slate and the soil.
But why was there blood on the door of the infirmary?
Although the infirmary was next to the stairs of the apartment building, but it was still separated by a distance. Mu Qin determined that he had left the apartment building with Qiu Zijia and Cheng Guoxu, but did not pass through the entrance of the infirmary. In the impression, the floor in this place should be very clean.
Mu Qin carefully observed the footprints on the floor of the infirmary’s door. The footprints were quite fresh. At the same time, he found the footprints… The person who left the footprints seemed to have entered the infirmary, and the footprints extended into the doorway of the infirmary. Then came out again, maybe looking for some drugs or medical supplies in the infirmary.
Who had been here?
Since he came to the infirmary, he was looking for a drug on behalf of the other person who was injured and sick. Mu Qin thought, among the six people, except Han Li, he could confirm that there were three people who had been injured. The first was the dead body lying on the stairs next door, but he had already died. After all, Mu Qin personally probed through the pulse heartbeat.
Followed by Cheng Guoxu, Mu Qin witnessed Xu Fu cut a knife in the neck of Cheng Guoxu, but he did not see the scene of Cheng Guoxu’s real death. Mu Qin speculated that Cheng Guoxu’s physique was not as good as Xu Fu, and was not as good as the deceased on the stairs next door. Therefore, Cheng Guoxu could not escape from Xu Fu’s hand. It was also impossible to rush to find the drug in this infirmary.
In the end, Xu Fu, Xu Fu was designed by Mu Qin to smash his legs with a candle chandelier. This was what Mu Qin saw with his own eyes. However, his leg was specifically injured, Mu Qin had not known.
Xu Fu was indeed the person most likely to come to this infirmary. His legs may be injured or even broken. He may need to be bandaged or fixed. However, Mu Qin and Qiu Zijia had been kneeling in the grass for a long time, and did not see anyone through the church door, so Xu Fu may have walked from the back door of the church.
In his heart, he wandered through these messy thoughts and inferences. Mu Qin slowly squatted down and pushed the door of the infirmary with a light hand. The bloody footprint at the door showed signs of people coming in, so there was no such human thing in the infirmary, but Mu Qin still felt uneasy in his heart. He tried to be as covert and quiet as possible. He pushed open the door of the infirmary and looked inside to probe around.
Before when Mu Qin, Qiu Zijia, Cheng Guoxu and Han Li were together, they searched the infirmary. The infirmary was more spacious, the lights were on, and the things inside were abandoned. A simple canopy bed with a mattress on it, the mattress was covered with disgusting black marks, he didn’t know if it was blood or other secretions.
In addition to the canopy bed, there was a row of cabinets next to the wall. There were some medicines and medical items inside. Most of the cabinets were empty, but some medicines remained. Mu Qin hoped that inside there was antipyretic, even if it was out of date.
Observing that there was no one in the infirmary, Mu Qin no longer crept and quickly acted. He quickly rushed to the row of cabinets and began rummaging. He found that these cabinets were also turned over. The man who left the blood in the door of the infirmary, he came in and turned over the cabinets, and left a lot of bloody fingerprints on the cabinet.
Mu Qin followed the bloody handprints on the cupboard to inspect the cabinets. There were about five or six cabinets that had been turned over. The man took gauze, bandages and alcohol from the cabinet.
It was noticed that Mu Qin continued to turn over the other cabinets. He saw the bottles and jars and the various medicines in the box. He didn’t know what the antipyretics were, so he could only look at the instructions on the bottle or the box.