Chapter 0360: Opening the Door
”Still no answer, forget it, I’ll leave the school first.”
An inexplicable emotion spreads in Gao Ruxue’s heart, she is very uneasy right now, everything she looks at feels problematic.
”Master, drive faster, I have something urgent.”
The confined space made Gao Ruxue a little breathless, she opened the window of the car, the wind messed up her hair.
Her eyes swept over the crowded crowd, but Gao Ruxue couldn’t feel a trace of hustle and bustle, she always felt that someone somewhere was looking at her.
”You are a student of Jiujiang Medical College, right? It’s best not to run around alone at night, it’s been a bit chaotic lately.” The driver gripped the steering wheel and casually said, “There have been several murders in the city late at night these days, the people who died were so miserable, I heard that their eyes were all gouged out. I don’t mean to scare you, until we catch the murderer, it’s best to stay honestly in school at night.”
The driver may have meant well, but the words fell on Gao Ruxue’s ears and changed flavor, she couldn’t control it and started to think wildly.
Murder? Several in a row? Why did he tell me to go back to my dorm room? Could it be that he is the murderer?
In Gao Ruxue’s eyes, the driver’s ordinary face became a bit eerie, every tiny movement seems to hide malice.
Gripping the cell phone, Gao Ruxue did not reply, turned his head to look out the window, from time to time will sneak a glance at the driver.
Twenty minutes later, the cab drove to the Qixia Lake District, which is the house that Dr. Gao bought two years ago in Jiujiang.
Paid for the car, Gao Ruxue hurriedly get off, now almost ten o’clock in the evening, the neighborhood has been a lot less people coming and going.
Qixia Lake District is considered a relatively upscale district in Jiujiang, a beautiful environment, next to the Qixia Lake, but the location is slightly remote.
Entering the neighborhood, the street lamps emitted a shallow white light, Gao Ruxue lowered her head and quickly stepped forward, she did not dare to look towards the bushes on both sides, the green belt late at night looked a little scary.
”It’s broken, the book and water cup are in the cab.” She had been in such a hurry getting down that she had ended up accidentally forgetting her things in the cab.
The water cup didn’t matter, that book would be used in class later, and thinking about it made Gao Ruxue even more irritated.
The cab had long since left, and it would be impossible to go back and get it now.
Took a look at the cell phone time, immediately on the 10:00 p.m., the district almost can not see the other silhouettes, but the distant buildings in the light of the lamp, more or less to let the high Ru Xue a little bit of peace of mind.
Qixia Lake neighborhood has its own small garden, from which through, Gao Ruxue came to the third building, her family lives in the third building thirteen floors.
”The neighborhood is so quiet today.”
Entering the building, Gao Ruxue’s exposed arm felt a hint of coolness, she patted her hand and waited for the sound-activated light to come on before she dared to continue forward.
Compared to the past, there didn’t seem to be any changes in the neighborhood, but Gao Ruxue always felt that something wasn’t quite right.
The words the driver said to her in the car flashed by from time to time, sentences like murder and eye gouging, as if a rope was slowly tightening around her neck.
”Could that driver be the murderer?”
”I feel that his tone of voice is very strange, the serial murders happened in different places, the murderer was able to commit the crime quickly in a night’s time, he must have utilized transportation, the murderer is most likely the cab driver.”
”Could the dead man have sat in the same seat I did? Could there be a bloody tool of the crime hidden in the trunk?”
The more Gao Ruxue thought about it, the more scared she became, every few steps she had to look back, she was worried that someone would suddenly come out from behind her.
Leaning against the wall and walking to the side of the elevator, Gao Ruxue pressed the button on the elevator, and the voice-activated light went out just as the elevator door opened.
Darkness suddenly descended, and Gao Ruxue’s body froze in the elevator doorway as she vaguely saw a deep black humanoid silhouette in the elevator!
”Slap!”
The sound of clapping came out from the elevator, and a person wearing a raincoat brushed past Gao Ruxue and walked towards the outside of the building.
”A raincoat? It’s not like it’s raining outside.”
The wide brim of his hat covered the man’s face, and he was not tall enough for the large raincoat to cover his legs and shoes directly.
The man left in a hurry, and there was no blood or anything suspicious on the raincoat.
”Is it likely to rain at night?” Gao Ruxue glanced at the weather forecast on her cell phone, there would be showers in the latter part of the night: “Strange man.”
She waited until the man left before Gao Ruxue dared to enter the elevator.
The light shone on the hallway, she watched the elevator door slowly close, an indescribably depressing feeling suddenly surfaced, she felt like a fish that had been thrown on the shore, it was a little difficult to even breathe.
”It’s better not to take the elevator.” Reaching out to block the elevator door that was about to close, Gao Ruxue walked out again, and she had a very bad premonition as she looked at the elevator car.
Running into the safe passage, Gao Ruxue began to climb the stairs, one step seemed to be invisible to the end, when she reached the sixth floor, she heard the security door on the first floor make a sound, it seemed that there was another person who had also entered the middle of the safe passage.
”Someone is following me?”
Gao Ruxue instantly remembered the strange man in the raincoat, and at the same time, those words of the cab driver began to appear in her mind.
”The man in the raincoat is the murderer of the serial murders? Could it be that he just killed someone in this building?!” Gao Ruxue’s face turned pale, “I crashed his murders inadvertently, is he following me now trying to get at me?”
Gao Ruxue had intentionally slowed down her steps at first, trying not to make too much noise, but under the pressure of fear, she ran faster and faster.
”I have to hurry back home before I can do that!”
There were footsteps faintly sounding downstairs, and at this moment, there seemed to be another person in the safe passage chasing towards the upper floors!
The distance slowly drew closer, Gao Ruxue desperately ran towards the upper floors, her home was on the thirteenth floor, and now there seemed to be a distance of five floors between the two sides.
Running to the corner of the thirteenth floor, Gao Ruxue pushed open the door of the safe passage and rushed into the middle of the corridor.
She fumbled in her pocket to find her keys, the sound of footsteps in the hallway became clearer, the person was right behind her!
Her fingers were a bit stiff, Gao Ruxue tried twice before inserting the key into the lock hole, she turned the key to open the security door outside, by this time the sound from the security passage was already approaching, probably only one floor away from her.
”Hurry!”
Finding the key to the door on the inside, Gao Ruxue slipped it into the lock hole, and the sound of footsteps in her ears had turned into the sound of running!
The other party had also reached the thirteenth floor!
The card spring flicked, the door inside was opened, and Gao Ruxue couldn’t care less about closing the security door outside to directly enter the house.
She turned around and closed the door on the inside, then leaned her back against the door of the room and started panting heavily.
”Finally home.”
After adjusting her breathing, Gao Ruxue lay down on the inside door panel and looked outside through the cat’s eye.
There was not a single silhouette in the dark corridor, and the doors of one house were locked, except for Gao Ruxue’s place, where the outside security door was half-open.