Wednesday, July 17th, 4224 of the Cangli calendar, sunny.
At 1 p.m., Li Nan finished her rather unpalatable boxed lunch and was about to take a nap when she unexpectedly received a call from the security guard at the Lakeside Community.
"Is this security guard planning to sell me a house?"
Li Nan thought to herself, then answered the phone and asked, "Hello, Xiao Cheng, what's up?"
"Officer Li, it seems there's been another incident in the neighborhood!"
"What's going on? Tell me in detail!"
"Officer, I'm currently in building 45, diagonally opposite building 38. No one has lived in that building for a long time. Just now, I smelled a strange odor coming from inside... it seems to be..."
"It's canned herring!" A childish voice came from the other end of the phone; it was Xiao Huang.
"Officer, it doesn't seem like it. It should be the same as Zhang Qiqi's!"
There are some things that Xiao Cheng can't say outright in front of the children.
Upon hearing this, Li Nan understood. "Xiao Cheng, protect the scene. We're on our way!"
"Okay, okay, officer, thank you for your hard work!"
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, "I hope it was just a false alarm!"
Xiao Cheng called Xiao Huang out and personally took him home. He woke up Xiao Huang's mother and told her to take good care of her child.
If things are really as bad as he suspects, it's not good for such a young child to see this!
After dropping off her child, Xiao Cheng returned to Building 45 and contacted the property management, explaining the situation briefly.
Having experienced the previous case, Luo Yufei was still shaken. She didn't blame Xiao Cheng for reporting the case to a higher level. She put down her chopsticks, found the spare key for Building 45, and rushed to the scene.
...
Lakeside Moonlight Community, although a wealthy villa area, is as familiar as home to the poor police officers in the Destiny Division.
Since the June 9, 2022 case, many cases have been related to this community, especially in recent months, with one incident after another.
At 1:45 PM, Li Nan had already led a large group of people to this location.
She even invited Qin Wen's colleagues from the Tracing Department.
We must be careful!
Although Peng Yuanyuan has already begun serving her sentence, it is only for the poisoning case.
The intricate relationship between her and woman A has troubled Li Nan and others for a very long time.
Unfortunately, no concrete evidence can be found to confirm that Peng Yuanyuan is Woman A.
When Li Nan and the others arrived at Building 45, Xiao Cheng and Luo Yufei had already been waiting for almost half an hour.
Luo Yufei also smelled the strange odor, but since the An Ding Division had already been notified, they didn't dare to open the door and go in to check.
Upon seeing Xiao Cheng and his companion, Li Nan greeted them and then instructed Luo Yufei to open the door.
Within a few minutes, Li Nan and the others also smelled this faint odor.
Qin Wen, an expert in this field, frowned and said definitively, "It's the stench of a corpse! Mixed with other things!"
Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill, as Zhang Qiqi's Building 38 was right across the street.
The shadow still lingered, and everyone slowed down their gear-changing.
After opening the gate to the villa's courtyard, Luo Yufei handed the key to Li Nan, saying, "Officer, you guys do it. I'm too scared to go in!"
Li Nan took the keys, her heart screaming, "Miss, I'm scared too! What should I do?"
Luo Yufei glanced at Yang Bairong, who was deliberately hiding behind Li Nan, sighed softly, and retreated far away with Xiao Cheng.
Li Nan led the group into the courtyard of Building 45. As the gate opened, the odor became even stronger.
Although the group had prepared by wearing double masks, they still couldn't block out the strong, pungent smell.
The familiar scene played out again, and this time, even the usually composed Qin Wen found it hard to bear.
Of course, it's not that Qin Wen has regressed; it's just that there are some special circumstances that she hasn't told Li Nan yet.
Li Nan has been busy with work lately and has no interest in fighting, so he hasn't paid his dues for a long time.
Seeing that Qin Wen didn't complain or make demands, he was happy to do so.
After making some adjustments in the courtyard, Li Nan and the others regrouped and went back into the house.
In the few minutes since the door was opened, there has been air circulation between the inside and outside, and a lot of air has been exchanged.
This time, with masks in place, everyone could barely tolerate the smell when they went inside.
The layout of Building 45 is similar to Gao Siming's home; upon entering and passing through the entrance hall, one sees a large living room.
The living room was furnished much like any other home, except that a huge freezer had been placed where a coffee table should have been.
The living room's floor-to-ceiling windows are covered by curtains, so the living room is not visible from the outside.
Otherwise, such an out-of-place freezer would have already attracted the attention of passersby.
Because the curtains were drawn, the room was poorly lit and seemed particularly dark. Li Nan pressed the light switch by the door, but the light bulbs inside the room did not respond.
"The power is out?"
Li Nan walked past the freezer to the floor-to-ceiling window and drew back the curtains.
The light filling the living room makes the freezer seem out of place with the rest of the decor.
At this point, everyone realized that the source of the odor was the refrigerator!
"Calm down, calm down!"
Li Nan cheered herself up and reached out to open the freezer.
"vomit……"
The freezer was about two meters long and was almost entirely filled by a rotting giant's body.
Around the corpse were dozens of unidentified small fish that had decomposed to the point of being nothing but bones.
Whether it's the giant statue in the dormitory or the countless tiny gray-white worms on the fish skeleton, everyone knows what they are...
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