Chapter 222: More Skills, Better to Have More
Xia Lili nodded and went to the third floor with the milk tea.
When Li Qihan saw Xia Lili's back disappear at the entrance of the corridor, he remembered something.
Qu Xian had heard Xia Lili's voice before, so he wouldn't be exposed later, right?
Thinking of Xia Lili's confident look, Li Qihan frowned and followed.
at the same time.
Entrance of 305.
Xia Lili knocked on the door of Room 305.
She knocked for almost a minute before the door of 305 finally opened.
"Who is it?"
It was Qu Xian who opened the door. He looked impatient, as if something good had been interrupted.
Xia Lili looked past him and into the house.
The room was dark, with only the projector in the living room on. It turned out that the two were watching a movie.
Xia Lili was holding a takeout bag and kept signing.
She previously worked part-time as a daycare teacher in a special needs children's care center and learned basic sign language.
Qu Xian frowned, and after a moment realized: "Deaf-mute?"
Qu Xian waved his hand: "We didn't order milk tea, did we?"
"Did you send it to the wrong person?"
He took a look at the address on the milk tea bag. It only said Building 11, 3rd Floor, but not the specific household.
Qu Xian turned around and called into the house, "Manman, did you order milk tea?"
"etc--"
A pleasant and lazy female voice came from inside the house.
Then Xia Lili heard the sound of slippers stepping on the wooden floor.
A pretty girl came out. She was wearing a silk halter dress. She glanced at the milk tea thermos bag and then at Xia Lili.
This person must be Bai Man.
Xia Lili and Bai Man looked at each other, and their vision suddenly became blurred.
But before the hallucination could enter his mind, Bai Man snatched the takeaway bag from his hand: "Yes, I ordered it. You can go now."
With a bang, the door of Room 305 was closed.
Xia Lili could still clearly hear the conversation between Qu Xian and Bai Man from inside the door.
"Manman, was it really you who ordered it?" Qu Xian's voice was filled with doubt. "I saw her pointing at 301 just now..."
Cao Man interrupted impatiently: "Who cares about her!"
She shook the milk tea proudly, "Even if it was delivered to the wrong person, it's ours. Perfect for watching a movie."
"But she is deaf and dumb. Will she come to us..." Qu Xian seemed a little hesitant.
"Yeah, I just heard you say she was deaf and dumb and that's why she came to get it."
Cao Man sneered, "She can't hear or speak anyway, so she can only suffer this loss in silence. If she comes knocking on the door later, we won't open it."
…
At this time, the hallucination image had already flooded into Xia Lili's mind.
In the hallucination scene, Qu Xian and Bai Man had an argument while watching a movie.
Halfway through the movie, Bai Man felt bored and pushed Qu Xian beside her in annoyance.
"The landlord is asking for rent again!"
She scratched her hair frantically, "If I don't hand it in, I'm going to be kicked out!"
Qu Xian frowned impatiently: "You deal with it first, I'm short of money recently."
"Deal with it?" Bai Man screamed. "Who said I could live a good life without working? Now I can't even pay the rent!"
"Shut up!" Qu Xian slammed the table. "Can you just watch the movie? Why do you have to make a scene now? The investment isn't going well, and I'm already feeling upset!"
"I'm going to make trouble!"
Bai Man jumped up hysterically. "You only treat me harshly, but why don't you treat that woman like that? You're just a useless gigolo!"
——“Snap!”
A loud slap interrupted her shouting.
Bai Man covered her face, her eyes wide in disbelief: "You hit me? I just had a beauty treatment today!"
"Beauty treatments?!" Qu Xian grabbed her neck angrily. "I don't even have money for food, and you still have money for beauty treatments?"
"That was the money I recharged earlier!" Bai Man struggled and screamed, slapping Qu Xian loudly: "You psychopath!"
This sentence completely infuriated Qu Xian.
He picked up the crystal ashtray on the table. Behind him, the background music of the projected movie was playing the passionate melody of the organ.
He hit Bai Man's head hard.
"Bang!"
With the first blow, blood flowed down Bai Man's forehead.
The scarlet liquid stimulated Qu Xian's nerves, and he continued to wave the ashtray frantically.
The movie behind me was still playing, and the magnificent soundtrack and the dull sound of collisions were strangely intertwined.
Once, twice...
Until Bai Man's face could no longer be seen in its original form.
At this moment, the background music of the movie stopped abruptly, and a clear English line suddenly sounded in the silent room.
Qu Xian's whole body trembled violently, and his already trembling hands could no longer hold the ashtray. With a "bang", the bloody weapon fell to the ground.
He turned his head mechanically and stared blankly at the flashing images on the screen, his breathing rapid and irregular, his chest heaving violently.
The side effects of the psychiatric drugs caused his fingers to spasm uncontrollably, and he had to dig his nails deep into his palms to barely stop the trembling.
After recovering from his shock, he slowly dragged out a 28-inch plain blue suitcase from under the bed.
Because my hands were shaking so badly, the zipper slipped from my fingers several times.
When Bai Man's body was forced in, the joints made a teeth-grinding "cracking" sound.
Qu Xian's temples were throbbing and cold sweat was running down his pale cheeks.
For the next two hours, Qu Xian cleaned up the scene mechanically like a puppet.
It took a lot of effort for him to put on the rubber gloves with his trembling fingers, and he wiped the blood on the ground again and again with a rag.
Then use 84 disinfectant to clean all places where fingerprints may be left.
Most of the 84 disinfectant bottle was spilled because of shaking hands.
His toothbrush, towel and clothes were all stuffed into the garbage bag.
Qu Xian looked very unstable and had to stop and take a deep breath to calm down.
His belongings were stuffed carelessly into a garbage bag, and Bai Man's cell phone was dropped three times in his trembling hands before it was completely shattered.
Finally, Qu Xian wiped the cold sweat from his face with trembling hands and pulled the handle of the suitcase.
His hands were shaking so badly that he had to use both hands to steady the box.
With a "click", the door of the rental house closed heavily behind him.
The only sounds in the corridor were the unsteady rolling of suitcase wheels and intermittent heavy breathing.
The predicted image suddenly disappeared here.
Before Xia Lili could recover from the shock, a pair of strong arms pulled her into the next room, Room 304.
It was not until she was pressed onto the sofa that she blinked as if waking from a dream.
Li Qihan handed her a cup of steaming water, and the warmth from the cup wall gradually warmed her cold fingers.
"What did you see?" he asked in a low voice, his voice so calm that it was reassuring.
Xia Lili grabbed his sleeve with such force that the fabric wrinkled.
She leaned close to Li Qihan's ear, breathing unsteadily: "The one who died was Bai Man... The one who was stuffed into the suitcase... was Bai Man!"
Li Qihan's expression remained unchanged. He simply patted the back of her tense hand and said, "Don't be impatient. Talk slowly."
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