Ever since Gu Zhisang discovered the anomaly in the surveillance video, the two female college students turned pale when they learned that their roommate who fell to his death might have entered their bedroom before his death, and even that the cause of the accident was also in their bedroom.
They did not dare to obstruct and followed Officer Zhao into their room.
After a while, Xiao Gao asked hesitantly, "Master Gu, is there any problem in our room?"
"Yes." Gu Zhisang said firmly.
The moment she opened the door, she was sure that this room was the source of the strange appearance.
In the sight, large groups of pent-up evil spirits condensed into mist, almost covering the entire house, and were much thicker than outside.
Officer Zhao looked around and couldn't help but frown.
"There is a faint strange smell in this room. Do you smell it?"
The plainclothes officers behind me tried to move their noses, and some of them said "no" with a confused look on their faces.
Only one person said: "I felt a little bit of it when I first entered the room, but I couldn't smell it after I smelled it carefully."
As for the girls who shared the house, they all said that the only smell in the house was aromatherapy.
Because of what Gu Zhisang and Officer Zhao said, Xiao Gao and Xiao He looked even more uneasy.
"Stop for a moment." Gu Zhisang suddenly spoke up, calling out to Yuan Yunfang, who was silently filming behind everyone with the live broadcast equipment, and said:
"Take two steps back toward the door."
Yuan Yunfang was stunned, and then realized that these words were directed at her, so she stepped back.
After taking three steps back and about to exit the master bedroom, Gu Zhisang shouted "Stop".
"This room on your left, push the door and go in."
Officer Zhao realized what she had discovered, turned back, grasped the door handle and pushed the door open.
After turning on the light, he said, "Miss Gu, this is the bathroom."
The xx Garden Community sells finely decorated houses and high-end commercial houses, which are generally used as master bedrooms for homeowners. There are built-in toilets that imitate the hotel decoration style, with dry and wet separation, and a large internal space.
The bathroom sink is outside, and there is a shower and a bathtub inside.
From the tiles on the walls and underfoot to the furnishings on the shelves inside, you can tell that even though it is just a bathroom, the homeowner spent a lot of money decorating it.
Just as Officer Zhao and several police officers were about to check the restroom and the bathroom inside and out again, Gu Zhisang stopped them.
There's no need to waste energy.
She has discovered the source of the evil spirit.
The obsession of the dead behind Yuan Yunfang had been affected and had detached from behind her, attaching itself to somewhere and constantly hitting her.
That was the source of the black gas leaking out continuously.
Gu Zhisang's eyes were as clear as an ancient well. "Miss Sun, it's already this late. Don't you have anything to say?"
When everyone turned their heads, they found that the female landlord Sun Yueyue, who was being escorted by plainclothes police, had turned pale and even looked a little panicked.
She raised her head and glanced in the direction of Yuan Yunfang's phone. Her lips moved but she didn't say anything.
Gu Zhisang sneered: "Officer Zhao, please smash the mirror."
The thing I was most worried about and most reluctant to happen happened at this moment.
Sun Yueyue realized that Gu Zhisang was not just doubting or exploring, but really discovered the hidden secret of their family.
The panic that the hidden secret was about to be revealed made her struggle hard and she wanted to rush forward to stop Officer Zhao's actions.
"No! You are not allowed to touch my mirror!"
"I am the owner of this house. All the decorations and appliances in the house are mine. Without my permission, what qualifications do you have to destroy my private property?! I have the right to ask you to leave!"
She moved so vigorously that she broke free from two police officers and rushed to Officer Zhao, grabbing his sleeve tightly.
It took Officer Zhao quite some effort to get away. The front of his clothes and his sleeves were all wrinkled.
The mirror in the bathroom is huge.
It extends from the table top to both sides, is at least two meters long and more than one meter wide.
When decorating the house, Sun Yueyue seemed to have considered the top-notch usage of mirrors. She installed a circle of warm-colored lights with low brightness under the slightly protruding wall edge above and on both sides of the mirror to serve the purpose of lighting.
After asking the tenant in the shared house for a toolbox, Officer Zhao held a hammer close to the mirror.
He was a little surprised when he saw the person in the mirror.
The self in the mirror looked much more handsome. The wrinkles and uneven lines on his face were filled in by the light from all around the mirror, as if his skin had been refinished.
He estimated that this big mirror must have cost a lot.
After hesitating for a moment, Officer Zhao raised his hand and hit the mirror in front of him with a hammer.
With a sound of "crack", spider-web-like cracks appeared on the mirror surface and spread in all directions.
Tiny shards of glass fell onto the sink.
Officer Zhao hit it twice more, and several pieces of broken mirror fell down, revealing the white wall behind it.
Just when he was about to say that there was no change or discovery, he suddenly smelled a scent.
It smells like something old and rotten that has been stored for many years.
In fact, as soon as he entered the bathroom, he smelled a little bit, but it was not obvious because of the aromatherapy.
Tracing back to the source, Officer Zhao felt that the subtle smell in the bedroom outside was spreading from the toilet.
Now he realizes he was wrong.
The growing decaying aura seemed to be overflowing from the cracks as the mirror cracked!
Upon discovering this, Officer Zhao coughed twice, held his breath, and chiseled along the edge of the crack.
After just two hits, the hammer hit the area almost at the same level as his hairline, which suddenly became dented and then cracked and fell off.
A dark hole appeared behind the broken mirror.
Visible dust, mixed with a strange smell that suddenly became pungent, overflowed from the cave.
Seeing this scene, the hearts of several girls who shared the apartment tightened.
Xiao He exclaimed: "There's nothing behind the mirror!!"
Officer Zhao's men moved faster and struck harder, cracking the upper surface of the mirror in just a few hits, revealing the entire inside.
He took a closer look at the thing in the hole. Because the distance was so close, their eyes were almost meeting. He was so scared that he took two steps back and put one hand on the sink. His palm was pierced by a sharp piece of glass.
“T-This?!”
"Ah!!" Screams came out of the mouths of several young girls uncontrollably. They were frightened.
I saw that there was another mystery behind the huge mirror.
The back is mostly solid wall.
But at the upper part - about the top of the girls' heads or a little above their heads, it is no longer a solid wall.
A square hole was dug out on the wall, about 20 to 30 centimeters long and wide, and it was sunken and quite deep.
Something was placed in the hole.
Several plates with things on them.
Behind the plate is a standing photo frame.
Although the cave entrance is deep, the light from outside allows everyone to vaguely see that there is a photo in the photo frame placed inside - black and white, facing the camera, with a very sunny smile.
From an aesthetic point of view, this young man is quite handsome.
But this is a posthumous photo of a dead person, so it seems weird no matter how you look at it.
It has been hidden in the mirror of the shared house for who knows how long.
The two new tenants were so shocked that they really believed that there was something wrong with the house.
As for Xiao Gao and Xiao He, two girls who lived in this house all year round and spent a long time in the bathroom almost every morning and evening, they were scared to death.
Officer Zhao cleaned the wound on his palm and said with a serious expression: "Miss Sun, what's going on?"
Sun Yueyue remained silent and refused to speak.
So he asked Gu Zhisang directly.
"Ms. Gu, from what I understand, is that the person who fell ten days ago is related to the photo in the bathroom mirror?"
Could it be that... there is a 'ghost' in this cave?
Was it this photo that killed the male internet celebrity?
Not only Officer Zhao, but the other roommates also had all sorts of thoughts in their minds and became more and more afraid.
"It is indeed related." Gu Zhisang said, "But a photo can't kill someone. Officer Zhao can knock down two pieces of the mirror in front of the wall and the mirror in front of the hole, and then compare them in reverse."
Officer Zhao:?
He did as he was told and found that the mirrors in the two places were different!
Behind the mirror attached to the wall below, there is a completely opaque mirror coating;
However, there is no mirror coating on the back of the mirror at the upper hole, but only a layer of mirror metal on the outer layer of the transparent acrylic plate.
This shows that the lower half of the mirror is a one-way mirror.
The upper part - the mirror facing the hollowed-out hole in the wall - is a two-way mirror.
You can't see inside from the outside.
But if there is a camera or even a living person hiding behind the two-way mirror, it would be like observing the girls in front of the voyeuristic mirror through the glass.
Officer Zhao calmly touched the mirror with his finger and found that there was no gap or distance at all when he put his finger on the mirror outside the hole.
Even a righteous adult man couldn't help but feel his back tingled at this moment. The portrait seemed so strange no matter how he looked at it.
It was as if the young man in the portrait had been hiding in the hole in the wall, silently "watching" the outside.
When I saw Sun Yueyue's guilty look, I knew it must be the landlord's doing.
Trying to suppress his fear, Officer Zhao put on gloves and took out the photo frame and other things in the hole, but did not find the camera for the time being.
Gu Zhisang continued, “This mirror is specially designed like this.
"The height of the women who share the apartment is such that the area they look at is solid, and with the special lighting, it is difficult for them to notice that there is something else above their heads. They don't even know that every time they look in the mirror, something is "looking directly" at them from behind."
"I infer that the man who fell from the building had entered this bathroom before his death and accidentally discovered the secret of this mirror. It was because of his discovery that he was murdered."
Hearing this, Yuan Yunfang, who was also frightened by the image in the mirror, suddenly thought of something and shouted:
"I remembered Master Gu! More than half a month ago, the shower head in the outside bathroom broke. Xiao Wu contacted Sun Yueyue and told her about it. It was agreed that Sun Yueyue would find a worker to repair it. So Xiao Wu took advantage of the fact that we were not at home during those two days to borrow our girls' bathroom to take a shower."
According to Yuan Yunfang, there are indeed some inconveniences for men in a shared house, especially in terms of washing.
There are two bathrooms in the house, one in the master bedroom and one outside the living room.
Since the bathroom in the master bedroom has a large mirror, a lighting table, and a bathtub, several girls like to stay here.
As for the restroom outside, only the only boy, Xiao Wu, uses it, and only those who need to go to the toilet at night will go there.
The time when the shower outside broke down coincided with the time when Xiao Wu fell.
He did go to the bathroom in the master bedroom to wash up during those two days, which completely explains why he walked out from the direction of the master bedroom in the video surveillance.
Xiao Gao's face turned pale and he also spoke:
"After the accident at Angkor, we forgot about the repairs until the two new residents moved in and someone came to repair it."
Based on what his roommates said, Gu Zhisang drew two more cards.
This time the fortune on the card has changed slightly.
The truth of the matter gradually surfaced.
"That is to say, the boy who fell from the building was using the bathroom that day. If my deduction is correct, the boy was about 1.8 meters tall, and his line of sight was at the bottom edge of the hole in the wall when he looked straight ahead." Gu Zhisang said:
“He found out.”
Maybe the boy discovered the mirror's secrets when he was looking in the mirror or accidentally wiping the mist off the mirror, and found that the upper half of the mirror was actually a two-way mirror.
He began to suspect that there was something fishy behind the mirror.
I even suspected there was a camera or something behind it.
The boy had a good relationship with the girls he shared the apartment with, so he called Sun Yueyue to ask about the matter and whether there was anything behind the mirror.
This question made Sun Yueyue worried.
She was afraid that the portrait behind the mirror would be exposed, so she used some means to make the boy shut up forever.
This shows that there must be something even more mysterious behind this portrait that made Sun Yueyue willing to kill someone.
At this time, the test results of the contents of several small plates came out.
"Captain Zhao, Coach Gu, the plate seems to contain some ashes from burnt film, and there are also some tiny fragments with unburned base color."
"I suspect there are some photo embers in here."