Chapter 296 Beautiful, I want it
Jiang Liyue was completely unaware of Luo Si's thoughts.
Seeing that he didn't press the matter further, and that the group's administrators didn't seem to be responding for the time being, she put away her phone.
She was about to go downstairs.
The elevator stopped several times as it went downstairs, and the people who entered all looked cautious, clearly different from the NPCs in Apartment 444.
They are most likely players.
When the elevator stopped on the fourth floor, a middle-aged man with a square face and a thin man entered the elevator.
They both looked a bit disheveled, as if they were injured, limping, and their eyes still betrayed their fear.
The elevator doors closed and it continued downwards.
The two people who came in from the fourth floor ignored the other people in the elevator and quietly undervalued the value.
"Brother Zhang, what do we do next?" the skinny man asked in a low voice, his tone filled with despair.
That's right, they are the skinny guy and Zhang Guofu who survived the murderer last night, and they are the only two survivors out of the six.
Even so, he still suffered considerable injuries.
Zhang Guofu didn't know what to do either. Last night, they took advantage of the fact that the murderer was being held back by the others to escape, and then they fled in all directions. They barely managed to survive.
But they're injured and their room has been damaged. What are they going to do tonight?
The elevator reached the first floor, and people started to get out. Zhang Guofu and the skinny man followed them out.
Jiang Liyue followed behind them nonchalantly, listening to their conversation.
She noticed that, not only her, but also several other players who had come down from the elevator earlier were intentionally or unintentionally eavesdropping on their conversation.
After all, judging from their words, they had faced the killer directly last night.
To everyone's surprise, the skinny guy didn't mention the killer from last night again, but instead started talking about the news Qian Laifa sent.
"Didn't Qian Lai say that the serial killer already had other prey? Why would he come looking for us? Is the information fake, or is it that the serial killer killed more than one room's worth of people in one night?"
Zhang Guofu denied the first guess: "This morning, someone in the group said that her door was damaged. The 18th floor is above Qianlai. He was not lying. The sound he heard last night should be this sound."
"Then, then why..." the skinny monkey asked, puzzled.
Jiang Liyue never expected that hearing some gossip would be related to her.
The two people in front of her walked further and further away, and she did not follow them. Soon she sat down on a bench in the lobby of the apartment.
A moment later, the elevator came down again, and among the people who came out was a woman in her thirties with long curly hair and a mature, sophisticated air. She walked straight in her direction and said, "Xiao Jiang."
She is Zhu Shan, who made an appointment with Jiang Liyue yesterday to meet today.
"Sister Shan, my full name is Jiang Liyue. You can call me Liyue or Yueyue." Jiang Liyue greeted her with a smile.
“Yueyue.” Zhu Shan took a liking to her at first sight yesterday.
Jiang Liyue continued her sweet and cool style from yesterday, which made her eyes light up: "You look really beautiful today."
"Thank you." Jiang Liyue smiled and said, "Then let's go out for a walk. The area around our apartment is quite nice."
Apartment 444 is indeed nice from the outside. During the day, it looks no different from the normal world, and it is surrounded by a small commercial area.
There were also many pedestrians coming and going, as well as various office buildings and shops.
This is the scene I couldn't see from the window last night.
But Zhu Shan didn't take Jiang Liyue very far; she simply led her to a quiet corner booth in a nearby coffee shop.
Both of them knew perfectly well that the meeting they had arranged today was not simply to show Jiang Liyue the surroundings.
More importantly, let's talk about apartment 444.
Before she began, Zhu Shan reassured everyone, "Don't worry, the people inside the apartment won't know what's happening outside during the day, and they won't hear any of our cries for help or anything related to apartment 444."
This means that although the residents of apartment 444 seem to be able to go out into the outside world, they are actually completely isolated islands.
Unable to seek help or express their fears, they could only return to that terrible hell before 10 a.m. every day to await death.
"Yueyue, I saw the message you posted in the group. I won't ask how you managed to evade it, but I know that after last night, you should know that something strange is going on in our apartment, right?" Zhu Shan got straight to the point.
Jiang Liyue nodded and slowly uttered three words: "murderer".
Zhu Shan's eyes flickered when she heard those three words: "That's right, he's a serial killer."
"However, I don't know much about the killer. I only know that he randomly picks people at night. I don't know their specific identities, or even whether they are male or female, or which floor they live on."
“I had previously tried to sneak in and look around in the stairwell under the cover of darkness, but I didn’t get any clues.”
That makes sense.
Jiang Liyue hadn't expected to find out the killer's real information so easily.
She smiled and said, "Sister Shan must have something else to say to me today."
“That’s right.” Zhu Shan nodded. “I called you here mainly to tell you never to trust that scoundrel Luo Si!”
Zhu Shan's expression was full of disgust when Luo Si was mentioned.
Indeed, she had never hidden her dislike for Luo Si; she even cursed him in front of him in the elevator yesterday.
“I don’t know the murderer, but I know Luo Si is definitely working for him!”
“Originally, everything would have ended as long as no new tenants moved into the apartment, but Luo Si loves to trick people into moving in. He knows there is a murderer here but he doesn’t tell them in advance. He’s utterly despicable.”
“I also noticed that he made a fortune from this.”
Given the low room rates, even if Luo Si rented out all the rooms, he wouldn't make much money.
Therefore, Zhu Shan's accusations are entirely reasonable and well-founded.
“And I also overheard him talking to the serial killer on the phone.” Zhu Shan said with regret, “Unfortunately, he discovered me before I even got close, otherwise I would definitely have known who the serial killer was.”
Jiang Liyue nodded: "In other words, Luo Si is likely the only one who knows the identity of the serial killer."
"Yes, knowing the identity of a murderer, he still did things for him, treating him as his scapegoat. Don't you think Luo Si is despicable?" Zhu Shan became angrier as she spoke.
She was a police officer, and her personality was one of hating evil, so of course she couldn't stand this kind of person.
Jiang Liyue shared her indignation: "Shameless, utterly shameless!"
Zhu Shan's expression towards Jiang Liyue became even more affectionate.
Indeed, to build a friendship, you have to curse someone you both hate together...
"Do you know the apartment manager?" Jiang Liyue asked, remembering that she hadn't received a reply to her message.
Zhu Shan thought for a moment before shaking her head: "I don't know, but I heard that the entire apartment building belongs to the building manager..."
She lowered her voice when she said the last sentence.
Jiang Liyue also had an expression as if she knew a big secret, providing plenty of emotional value: "Really?"
"I saw the message you posted in the group, but I think it's better to just forget about it. How could they possibly handle something like this?" Zhu Shan thought it was unreliable.
Jiang Liyue smiled and said, "That's not right. If the building manager is the owner of the apartment, he should be more responsible for the broken door."
In the lobby of apartment 444, Jiang Liyue stood under the security camera, smiling as she looked in its direction: "Manager, are you really not going to help me out?"
Meanwhile, in a dark room, only a faint light emanated from the computer screen.
The man's face flickered in and out of focus in the light.
But he was only focused on the beautiful face on the screen.
So beautiful... I want it so bad.
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