Chapter 101 Something happened, someone died in 602
When the scream rang out, Guan Xia was limping and grimacing as he packed his suitcase.
After stuffing the dirty clothes in her hands into the washing machine for washing, Guan Xia walked back to the living room with difficulty, found her cell phone and opened the group chat of their Building 16.
As she expected, the group was very lively and messages were posted very quickly.
"Who's upstairs so uncultured? Why are they howling in the middle of the day?"
"That's right, I just coaxed my child to sleep, but he was woken up, and now he's crying loudly."
"It seems to be on the 6th floor. I heard it on the 5th floor too."
"Something happened. Someone died in Room 602."
"What the hell? Who died?"
"602? No way! I ran into someone in the hallway a few days ago. He looked better than me and could definitely outlive me."
"Isn't it suicide?"
"They were killed. Both the big one and the small one died [picture]."
"What????"
The group was quiet for a moment, and then the messages came faster.
Guan Xia had to scroll up before she could find the photo that was obviously taken secretly.
The angle of the photo is not good, and perhaps because of the nervousness, it is even more blurry, but you can vaguely make out a figure lying on the floor of the living room with a dagger stuck in the chest.
In addition, there was a figure on the floor next to the sofa. It was very small, obviously a child. Although there were no external injuries, the face-down position, combined with what was said in the group before, made Guan Xia feel a little suffocated.
She knew this couple, one older and one younger. They lived in room 602, and she lived in room 501 of the same unit.
Because he was too much of a homebody, they didn't meet often, but Guan Xia was impressed by the child.
He is a 5-year-old boy who is well raised by his mother. He is lively and cheerful, and very social. Every time he sees Guan Xia, he will greet her seriously and even gave her a lollipop.
Guan Xia couldn't believe it. Two such ordinary yet lively people just died like that?
After being lost in memories for a while, Guan Xia continued to check the group messages.
"Xiao Liu seems to have an ex-husband or ex-boyfriend. My mom just told me that she ran into them at the gate of the community. They were arguing fiercely, and the man even tried to steal the child."
"Is it a tall, thin man with thick eyebrows like Crayon Shin-chan? I saw him too, standing at the door of our unit, with his arms folded, looking menacing, as if he was trying to block people."
"You mean you want to steal the child? Then this man can't kill the child as well."
"That's not necessarily true. Aren't many murders committed by acquaintances?"
"He came to look for Xiao Liu yesterday. My son said he saw him at the entrance of our unit around noon. He handed Xiao Liu something and left."
"Didn't he enter the house? Was Xiao Liu still alive when they left? Then it seems he wasn't the murderer."
"That's not certain. Who knows if he'll come back in disguise? Maybe he did it on purpose at noon? Just to have an alibi. Isn't that how it's played out in TV dramas?"
"So, all the strangers who came in and out of our unit yesterday afternoon are suspects."
"Wait a minute, a question suddenly occurred to me. Many murderers like to return to the scene of a crime. So, let's..."
As soon as these words came out, the group suddenly became quiet. Guan Xia, who had been watching seriously, couldn't help but feel a chill on her back.
The group was silent for only a few seconds before a message popped up.
"The criminal police team is here [picture]."
Guan Xia clicked on it. It was shot from a high angle. Many people came, at least a dozen at a rough count. Walking in front was a tall young man with a solemn expression and a heavy look between his brows.
Guan Xia had never been in the system before or after traveling through time. Although she didn't know much, she knew from some superficial experience that anyone who could take a leadership position in the criminal police team at such a young age must be extremely powerful. With such a strong person in charge of this case, Guan Xia knew at a glance that the complexity and severity of the case might be beyond her imagination. She had previously thought that it was unlikely that the murderer speculated in the group would return to the scene. When she saw this young man, Guan Xia suddenly began to get goose bumps uncontrollably.
After glancing at the suitcase and thinking for only half a second, Guan Xia put the things he had just packed back.
An unknown amount of time had passed. Guan Xia was checking to see if she had left anything behind when she heard a knock on the door. "Is anyone home? Police!"
Guan Xia knew that it was a routine questioning by the criminal police team, so he quickly used his hiking stick as a crutch to move towards the door.
When the door opened, an unusually burly man appeared. He glanced at Guan Xia's legs and asked, "What's your name?"
Guan Xia answered honestly: "Guan Xia."
The man asked while writing in his notebook, "Do you know Liu Jiahui? What is your relationship?"
Guan Xia took a moment to realize that Liu Jiahui was the resident of Room 602.
Guan Xia: "I've met him a few times and said hello, but we're not familiar with each other."
The man asked again, "Where were you yesterday afternoon?"
Guan Xia: "Just got back from traveling. I got off the plane around 4 o'clock and got home around 6 o'clock."
"Did you see anyone suspicious?"
Suspicious person? Guan Xia thought about it carefully and was about to shake her head to answer no, when she suddenly felt dizzy and her ears were buzzing.
In a trance, an interface suddenly popped up in Guan Xia's mind, as if someone was typing on it, and words popped out quickly.
The informant system is bound successfully.
You were questioned by the police, and you suddenly remembered that at 17:53 on the afternoon of April 19, when you were returning home, you met a nervous-looking maintenance worker in the corridor. There were a few stains on his cuffs, which you keenly noticed looked like blood, so you decided to tell the police.
As the interface appeared, Guan Xia's dizziness quickly passed, but after seeing the words clearly on the interface, a strange expression suddenly appeared on his face.
The incident happened yesterday, so of course she remembered the repairman, but the problem was that the repairman's performance in her memory was inconsistent with what was described on the interface.
When the maintenance worker saw Guan Xia, he was not nervous. Instead, he stepped aside to make way for her and even asked her enthusiastically if she needed help.
It was because the maintenance worker's behavior was so natural and calm that Guan Xia didn't classify him as a suspicious person. As for the blood stain on his cuff...
Guan Xia frowned and recalled carefully. She was in a hurry to go home at that time. She hurriedly refused the maintenance worker and tried hard to climb the stairs. She really didn't pay attention.
Just as Guan Xia was thinking this, the interface suddenly changed. The text disappeared instantly and turned into a video. It not only replayed the entire process of encountering the maintenance worker yesterday afternoon, but even paused and enlarged the picture, and circled the blood-like stain on the maintenance worker's cuff with a red circle.
Guan Xia: ...
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