Chapter 723 Gluttony

Zhang Shuxue huddled against the wall, sobbing, the deepest memory in her heart was awakened, she cried and retched, put her hands into her mouth, picked at her throat, and pulled her tongue.

It no longer mattered whether she was eating human flesh or not. I sighed and slowly let go of my hand.

I don't know how to comfort her. In fact, since she took the first bite of meat, she is no longer the same Zhang Shuxue.

She knew this very well. The memories in her mind could be forgotten, but certain reactions in her body could not be hidden. Under Dr. Zhang's imprisonment and torture, she had become accustomed to eating meat, and even her body was soaked in the aroma of meat.

I picked up the coat on the ground and threw it to the woman. I stood up and sat on the wooden bed: "How long have you lived here?"

"For over a year, maybe longer, I never left the pig cage apartment."

"When I came in just now, you opened the door for me, which means you can enter and leave this room freely. The Red Building is not too big or too small. There are four units in total, and there are so many stairs and passages. You can definitely You avoided your brother and escaped secretly, but you didn't do that." I paused and stared at the woman's face: "After more than a year, couldn't you find a chance to escape?"

Zhang Shuxue's tragic experience is indeed heart-wrenching, but there are many loopholes in her words. A good detective never pursues a case with personal emotions. I have always maintained absolute sanity.

The woman sat slumped against the wall, clutching her coat, her chest rising and falling, and it took a long time for her to calm down.

Her face was ashen, revealing a sense of despair and numbness: "I have no way to leave. This place is a maze that can never be escaped. It is a prison. Just like its name, it is a place isolated from the world." Isolated pig cages imprison those who live like pigs.”

"Can you tell me more about it?"

I looked into the woman's eyes, with tears in her eyes. She opened her mouth and lowered her head: "Don't worry about me. When it gets dark, you can leave as soon as possible. The more you know, the more you will fall into." The deeper.”

"Don't you want to end this life of despair? Even if you are numb, have you ever thought about your mother? The murderer is still at large, using different methods to torture and humiliate you. Don't you want revenge?" Love and hatred are the hottest things in people's hearts. If I want to awaken a woman's conscience, I can only start from these two aspects.

Mentioning her mother, Zhang Shuxue's eyes changed slightly, her black hair fell down, she raised her head and stared at me: "I can't go back, I can't go back, do you know?!"

She suddenly became excited, put one hand on the ground, let her coat fall to the ground, and stood up directly.

Plump and graceful, when she moved her body, the extra fat trembled slightly: "I have changed a long time ago, and now I am a monster..."

She pinched the fat on her belly so hard that her nails dug into the flesh, leaving several small wounds. It was obvious that she wanted to tear the flesh off her body.

With blood marks remaining on her stomach, Zhang Shuxue stepped on her coat on the floor and walked to the bedside. She took out a photo from the bottom drawer of the bedside table and handed it to me.

The photo looks old and wrinkled, made from several large pieces and backed with Scotch tape.

"Why are you showing me this thing?"

The photo is very ordinary. There is only a young girl with a smiling face in it. She looks about eighteen or nineteen years old, not tall and very petite. She was wearing a school uniform on her upper body and tight-fitting jeans on her lower body. She looked sunny and beautiful, and her whole body was filled with youthful atmosphere.

"This photo was taken when I graduated from high school when I was nineteen." Zhang Shuxue sat next to me, the fat on her body squeezed together.

"You said this girl is you?" I glanced twice more, and I was indescribably surprised. The girl in the photo was pure and petite, but the Zhang Shuxue in front of me, not to mention her temperament, was two full times fatter than in the photo.

"That was me before. As for now..." Zhang Shuxue snorted twice: "I feel like a captive pig, locked in a pig cage, waiting for the owner to feed me every day."

She smiled miserably: "Zhu Li once told me that pig farmers sometimes dump leftover meat and vegetables into the pig trough. Some pigs grew up eating pork."

"You can't cross the threshold in your heart? That's why you gave up on yourself and closed yourself in a pig cage apartment?" I returned the photo to her: "The trauma on your soul needs time to heal, and you need to return to a normal life. , instead of staying in a pig cage apartment, which will only cause your wounds to ooze pus, emit putrid smell, and eventually cause your whole body to rot."

My voice was not loud, but very firm and sincere: "I can take you away, I can send you to other cities and let you start a new life where no one knows your past and no one will hurt you. ."

Tone, emotion, I unknowingly used hypnosis when speaking, making every word I said very contagious.

I created a fictional paradise for a woman to hold her devastated heart.

In the first few seconds, I could clearly feel the woman's intention, but when she was about to make a decision, a completely unfamiliar cold light suddenly flashed in her eyes, and then her attitude changed dramatically and she pushed me away.

"Hypnosis didn't work? How did she wake up?" My thoughts were several times those of a normal person, and combined with the hypnosis I learned from Truman, there was no reason for failure.

"This is already the second time. I tried to hypnotize her in the living room before, but it also ended in failure." I had doubts in my heart, and carefully observed Zhang Shuxue, and found that the coldness in her eyes quickly faded away like a tide. What happened just now It's like an hallucination: "Her body seems to contain two souls. Does she have a dual personality?"

Some mental illnesses are caused by gene deletions and are hereditary. Her brother is a lunatic, and she herself may also have certain problems.

After Zhang Shuxue pushed me away, he sat alone by the bed with a hint of guilt in his eyes: "Why do you think you are doing it? It's thankless. You come to a place like the Pig Pen Apartment at night and you say some strange things to me. …”

She seemed to collapse as she spoke, clutching the flesh of her body and digging her nails into it: "You can't save me, you don't know the horror of this place, you may not wait until dawn, and you will become like me. people."

"I have challenged authority and iron laws, but I also abide by the fairness in my heart. Some things cannot be given up because I know they will fail. Since you are also a victim, then I have reason to take you out. "The changes in the woman before and after caught my attention. I stroked the ghost ring with my fingers and used my discerning eyes to see through her.

"The Pig Cage Apartment is different from what you imagined. This place..." Zhang Shuxue seemed to have made up her mind and finally gritted her teeth and said, "The whole building here is filled with ghosts!"

"Ghost?" My heart sank. Zhang Shuxue's answer was completely different from Zhu Li's. The latter told me that there were pigs and humans living in this building. How come Zhang Shuxue said that the building was full of ghosts?

Sitting next to the woman again, I lowered my voice: "What do you mean by ghosts? Don't your brother and Zhu Li also live in the apartment? Are they ghosts too?"

I feel that the ghost in the woman's mouth is different from the ghost in my knowledge. She probably just wanted to describe the weirdness of the tenants in the red building.

"Come and see for yourself." She grabbed my sleeve and led me to the door of the bedroom, letting me lie down at the crack of the door.

"What are you looking at?" I followed her instructions and looked towards the living room through the crack in the door.

The sound of chewing came to my ears, and my eyes slowly opened wide as I searched for the sound.

Next to the dining table, Li Ming stood on a chair, grabbed pieces of meat from the basin with both hands, and stuffed it into his mouth like crazy.

His upper body was pressed on the dining table, like a mutated monster, his face was covered with grease, and green blood vessels bulged outwards on his neck. It seemed that because the speed of swallowing could not match the speed of eating, a large amount of meat was stuffed into it. In the esophagus.

"How hungry is he? No, this is beyond the scope of hunger, and he is acting more like the more he eats, the hungrier he is." The scene in front of me was shocking. I wiped my eyes, not even daring to blink.

In front of food, Li Ming turned into a monster. His small body kept repeating the actions of chewing and swallowing. Soon, he cleared the first meat bowl on the dining table, leaving only the bowl of broth. .

"A bowl of meat takes a long time even for an adult. Zhang Shuxue and I have only been chatting for more than ten minutes, and he has finished eating?" The bowl of meat is bigger than Li Ming's face. I really don't know what his stomach is. How to hold so many things.

What was even more shocking was what happened next. After finishing a large bowl of meat, Li Ming was not satisfied. He stepped on a chair and moved the bowl of broth in front of him.

He first leaned down and smelled the taste, then put his hands into the soup to fish out the minced meat, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth.

The soup splashed everywhere, and I was shocked by this primitive way of eating.

He was no longer simply hungry, but had developed a morbid dependence on eating.

The expression on Li Ming's face was very excited now. He fished for a moment, and seemed to feel that eating like this was too slow. He held the edge of the dinner basin with both hands and slowly raised it.

He opened his mouth to the maximum, and he swallowed the broth in big gulps. Standing in the bedroom, I could clearly see that his belly was expanding little by little, as if it would explode at any time.

"This little guy was normal when I entered the house. How come he looks like this in a blink of an eye?" I turned my head and glanced at Zhang Shuxue: "Is there any medicine in your broth?"

"I didn't put anything away. What you see is the most real version of him." The woman held a photo of herself in both hands. The tears on her face had not dried yet, but I could already hear her swallowing her saliva: "Pig cage All the people living in the apartment are ghosts. No matter who you are, you will be haunted by them when you come in..."