Chapter 104 My Love (9)

"Only the smell of mothballs..."

Li Ang looked at the size of the wardrobe and took out two piles of clothes.

These two piles of clothes belong to boys and girls respectively. They are relatively normal, including summer and winter clothes. There are no signs of damage or blood stains left by domestic violence.

"The problem isn't the clothes, it's the wardrobe itself?"

Li Ang groaned, took the flashlight, got into the closet, and knocked on the various wooden boards in the closet, but found no secret door or mechanism.

"Hmm... Why do I feel like I often hide in the closet? That time in the Philippines a long time ago [The Foolish Man in a Dangerous Building], that time in The Alchemist, and this time.

Obviously I never buy clothes from Heilan House - their waiters always refuse to let me take them for free, as they have agreed on men's wardrobes. "

Li Ang muttered to himself and checked every detail of the wardrobe.

I repeatedly said "open sesame", "open the Alaho hole" and other spells to the closet, but there was still no change.

Time passed bit by bit, and Li Ang ran his fingers over the scratches on the closet door and narrowed his eyes, "The Chronicles of Narnia, could it be that..."

He hesitated, stood in the closet, pulled the doors on both sides, and slowly closed the door.

In a confined space, the light of the flashlight shines brightly,

Li Ang listened to his breathing and focused his eyes on the crack of the closet door.

The two doors of the cabinet are tightly closed, leaving no gap in the middle. No outside scene can be seen through the door gap.

Suddenly, a rustling sound sounded outside, reaching Li Ang's ears through the wooden board of the cabinet door.

"Robin, are you asleep?"

A little girl's voice sounded, and it sounded like she was deliberately lowering her voice.

"No, Lin, we shouldn't talk."

The person who answered the call was a little boy. The direction from which the voice came was probably the two children's beds on the left and right of the room.

Can this wardrobe travel through time? Or is it simply that you can hear the conversations that took place in the room at a certain time in the past?

Li Ang's mind was racing, and he picked up the flashlight and pointed it at the closet door, ready to defend against potential enemies at any time, while listening carefully to not miss any sound.

"I know, but..."

The little girl paused, "Is Hope okay at your place?"

"It's okay, but she looks a little scared. Do you want to hug her?"

The sound of lifting the quilt,

The sound of slippers on the ground,

A slight meow.

It sounds like two children of this family brought the cat into the children's bedroom at night.

The boy's name is Robin, the boy's name is Lin,

As for the black cat, which is female and is called Hope?

"Be good, Hope, be good."

A slight meow, a little girl's voice comforting the cat.

"Today...I was scared too."

Robin took a deep breath and said softly: "While you and Dad were mowing the lawn outside, I was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

Mom suddenly came down from the room upstairs, holding her collection of dolls and toys, and talking to herself in front of the TV in the living room. She said a lot of things.

That we shouldn't have been born, that it was all a mistake, that she should have set the house on fire, that her father took her grandparents away from her...

I sat on the sofa and didn't dare to speak until my father came back and took my mother back to the second floor.

Last night, I heard my grandparents discussing with my father about sending my mother to a place far away, but my father did not agree. "

"Mom is going to be fine."

Lin said: "She is the best mother in the world..."

Doll? Shouldn't have been born? Set the house on fire?

Li Ang, who was hiding in the closet, raised his eyebrows subconsciously and said nothing.

Click.

The sound of a doorknob turning sounded outside, not the closet door, but the front door to the children's bedroom.

"Robin, Lin, are you asleep?"

The woman's voice sounded calm and normal.

"Quick, mom is here, hide Hope!"

Lin lowered her voice,

It sounds a little scary,

A series of footsteps sounded, approaching quickly and arriving in front of the closet door.

"Um?"

Li Ang frowned, and just as he was about to pick up the flashlight, he heard the sound of the closet door opening and closing, as well as a few gentle meows.

But the wardrobe itself has not changed at all.

"What I'm hearing are just voices from some point in the past?"

Li Ang's heart moved, and he did not rush to open the closet door, but continued to listen.

Judging from the direction of the footsteps, Robin hid the black cat named Hope in the closet, then quickly ran back to his bed, covered himself with a quilt and pretended to sleep.

Then, as the door opened, a heavier step stepped in.

Woman, wearing hard-soled cotton slippers, of medium weight.

"Robin? Lin? Are you asleep..."

The woman called "Mom" walked slowly over without turning on the light, approached the children's bed where Lin was sitting, sat down slowly on the edge of the bed, and murmured softly, "Lin, my daughter, you are so beautiful." Like me.

Big eyes, small mouth, blue eyes.

How I want to watch you grow up, watch you wear all kinds of skirts, watch you go to middle school, attend graduation prom, go to college, and find the one you love..."

As she spoke, she suddenly paused, and a whimpering sound came out of her throat like a machine jamming. She said in a low and hoarse voice: "But this is all wrong, nothing should happen, I am going to die, Lin, Robin, can you come and stay with me, mom?

Lin?

Lin?

Lin? "

She kept repeating her daughter's name, and her voice became more and more manic and turbid.

However, neither Lin nor Robin screamed and resisted - it seemed that they had adapted to this sudden situation.

"Meow!"

A clear cat meowing sounded inexplicably from inside the closet.

The woman's manic calling suddenly stopped and returned to her previous relaxed and cheerful tone, "Ah, Hope.

Have you brought her into the room?

Don't be good. How many times has Mom told you not to bring Hope into the bedroom, she will feel uncomfortable.

Well, let me see where she is hiding~"

The woman stood up from Lin's bed and walked toward the closet with her slippers on.

There was a click, and she seemed to have stepped on some toy, staggering and almost falling, and her palms caught the edge of the children's desk.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

The woman yelled angrily, "Robin! Why don't you put away your toys! Ah?! How many times have I told you! Put your toys in the box!!"

Please help, [Mimi Reading App] can steal book stamps like food. Come and steal your friends' book stamps to vote for my books.

She hammered the desk hard, causing the pencil eraser on the desk to jump.

Lin and Robin, who were pretending to be asleep, seemed to be too frightened to speak.

At some point in the past, the cat hiding in the closet became restless and agitated because of the noise, and scratched the door crazily.

Tear, tear.

Li Ang listened thoughtfully to the scratching sounds in the space next to him. The scratches on the inside of the closet door were left by the black cat.

The woman's roar continued for some time;

Then he stomped on the ground and rushed towards the closet.

Just when Li Ang was on full alert and was about to shine a strong strobe light on the outside of the closet,

Rapid footsteps were heard from the outside world again.

"Honey?"

A man's voice sounded from the door, and Lin and Robin shouted: "Dad!"

Are all members of the family of four here?

Li Ang said silently: "If my previous guess is correct, I am playing the role of the father in the family. If I open the closet door now, maybe I can see another version of myself?

No, not likely.

This cabinet is not so powerful, it has the function of traveling through time and space. "

He thought and continued to listen.

"Ah, Steven, you're here."

The woman's voice became calm again, as if she wasn't the one who suddenly became violent before, "I got up and saw you weren't there,

Let's see how the kids are sleeping. "

"I was just looking for the key to the study downstairs."

The man named Steven walked over quickly, hugged his wife, and said gently: "Next time you enter the children's room, remember to knock on the door in advance. Do you remember?"

"I don't like knocking on doors."

The woman said coquettishly like an adolescent girl, "It's too troublesome."

"I know I know."

The man held his wife and comforted her for a while, then walked towards the children's bed.

The two children seemed frightened and jumped out of bed and hugged their father.

The man of the house comforted the children for a while and let them lie back on the bed to continue sleeping. He took his wife who had calmed down and walked out of the children's bedroom.

After a while, the male owner returned again, came to the closet, opened the closet door, took out the cat, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Huh, Hope is fine too."

Lin timidly said: "Dad?"

Steven said gently: "Huh? What's wrong?"

"I'm so scared of Mom."

"...call."

Steven let out a heavy breath, sat beside the children's bed, and said gently to the two children: "It's okay, your mother is sick, and we are trying to find a way to cure her.

When she gets better, we can live happily as before, do you understand?

Okay, be good, go to bed early, kids.

By the way, Robin, I lost the key to the study. Please turn on the bedside lamp while I look for the spare key. "

"Okay daddy."

The sound of turning on the light, taking off shoes, the sound of feet stepping on the bed, the sound of squeaking metal rubbing against each other.

"alright."

Steven breathed a sigh of relief, jumped off the bed, comforted the children for a while, and left the room with the sound of the door closing.

After the sound subsided for a while,

Li Ang stayed in the closet for a while, and then opened the closet door after confirming that there were no subsequent sounds.

Outside the door, the scene is as before,

There was no one in the children's bed.

"So, the wardrobe just played me a recording?"

Li Ang muttered: "To summarize the information, there are four family members, the father is named Steven, the son is named Robin, and the daughter is named Lin.

The mother's name is unknown, but it is clear that she was in poor mental health.

The lithium salt found in the cabinet in the downstairs bathroom is a sedative drug used to treat mania.

Lamotrigine, or Labetone, can significantly lengthen the time between mood events.

Carbamazepine and quetiapine are also psychotropic drugs.

The wife said that the child should not have been born, that everything was a mistake, that she should have set the house on fire, and that her husband had taken away her parents...

But judging from the way the couple gets along, the husband is gentle and patient.

Unlike the storyline of imprisoning a young girl and forcing her to give birth to a child for him - the wife's personal freedom was not seriously restricted, and the husband's parents also visited the house.

So it’s a simple plot where the wife suffers from mental illness, is manic and depressed, and the husband struggles to maintain the family? "

He stepped on the floor of the bedroom with the soles of his feet, looked around, and frowned: "If this is the case, it is not enough to generate such a script task.

There must be some key plot happening later.

For example, a wife kills her husband, a husband kills his wife, etc. "

He pondered and walked out of the children's bedroom and came to the study.

The door lock core of the study room has a straight shape and is slightly smaller than the A key of the previous padlock.

“The study and the master bedroom are two areas that need to be explored.

There are currently no clues about the combination lock in the master bedroom.

As for the study room,

Previously, the male owner Steven told his son that the key to the study was lost and asked his son to turn on the bedside lamp and look for the spare key.

The house is so big that it’s a bit difficult to find the original key, and I’m not sure the original key is still in the room.

Then the spare key..."

Li Ang turned around and returned to the children's bedroom, looking at the set of chandeliers in the shape of a solar system model above Robin's bed.

The chandelier is composed of eight planet models of different sizes and colors.

From the inside to the outside, they are the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Each planet is in its own orbit, and the orbits can slide against each other.

Of all the planets, only the sun is a real electric light that glows when you turn a button.

"If the key was hidden elsewhere in the children's bedroom, there was no need for Steven to take off his shoes and step on Robin's bed - there was nothing in the space above it.

In other words, the study key must be related to this solar system model. "

Li Ang flipped the light button for a while, but there was no change, so he turned off the light, took off his shoes, stood on the child's bed, and reached out to pick up the star sphere through the pillowcase.

“You can’t take it off, the wires are the same as downstairs, very strong.

There is nothing like a key outside or above the sphere. "

He groaned, let go of the ball in his hand, and continued to observe,

Water, metal, earth, fire, wood, and earth, yes.

Each planet has a different color and size. Jupiter has big eyes, Saturn has rings, and all the stars are arranged according to the positions of the standard solar system model.

"Is there some mechanism? Just like the secret box in the Chevrolet SUV, it requires me to adjust the orbit of the solar system to a certain fixed angle?

Let all the planets return to their correct positions,

To make the key appear? "

A possibility appeared in Li Ang's mind, but he immediately rejected it, "No. It's unlikely.

Unless you are a computer or a professional astronomer, it is impossible to draw from memory the location of every planet in the solar system at a certain moment, not to mention that I don’t even know when that moment is.

There were no corresponding clues given in the house.

It would be possible if you gave me an expensive watch with a real-time model of the solar system, but there is no corresponding item in the room..."

Li Ang looked at the chandelier model and was silent. Suddenly, his eyes swept over the popular astronomy book on the ground with Copernicus's drawings printed on it, and stopped motionless.