The Eighth Man in the Wall

Before the most expensive real estate in Linjiang City was delivered, home inspector Zhou Heng heard a child's voice in the shear wall of the master bedroom: "Uncle, I'm inside." The wall was cut open, and only a yellow raincoat, a blue sandal and a sentence carved on the cement - "The little tree is here" were found. There are no bodies. But on the roof of the building, which had not been opened for six years, the police discovered another body. A girl in a red dress. She held a list of seven people in her hand. Zhou Heng's name is not on it. But his father's name was removed from the list ten years ago. Subsequently, the footsteps going home every day in Yuting Alley, the apartments with movable rooms for residents, and the old cold storages that were called out in the early morning gradually pointed to the 47 "quiet room buildings" scattered throughout Linjiang City. These houses can preserve the last fears of the deceased, and also use the obsessions of the living to complete the last words that do not exist. Zhou Heng gradually discovered that his father, who died in a notorious accident, his mother who had been "dead in a car accident", and Lin Xiaoshu, a boy who had been missing for six years, were all related to the Quiet Room Project. And when the houses in the whole city start talking at the same time, he must distinguish: is what is left behind in the wall the truth, a lie, or the past that a living person refuses to let go of.