Chapter 62: Haunted House Mystery: Skeleton Gift
The store manager had something else to deal with, so he left after Fang Rui and Mu Mian entered the crime scene.
"Forensic Doctor Mu, you are not here to find clues at all. You just like this place, right? Are you in love with the skeleton bride?" Xiao Zhang exposed Mu Mian's little trick.
Mu Mian looked away a little guilty, but she emphasized: "I am here to find clues. Didn't you notice that he was carrying a bag when he entered this copy, but when we found his body, the bag was gone. Aren't you curious why the bag disappeared?"
Fang Rui remembered that in the surveillance, Liu Xiaonian was carrying a bulging black bag, and he didn't know what was in it. But they didn't see the bag at the scene.
"Could it be that the murderer took it away?" Xiao Zhang guessed, "Could it be that the murderer wanted to steal the things in the deceased's backpack, so he killed him?"
Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang spent the whole morning searching the secret room, checking every prop corpse, but they did not find the backpack that the deceased had lost.
"It looks like the murderer really took it away." Xiao Zhang sighed.
Mu Mian was playing with the noose, she even stretched her neck into the noose to feel the feeling of being hanged.
Seeing this, Fang Rui quickly reached out and pulled Mu Mian away.
"Mu Mian, it's very dangerous for you to do this. If you accidentally trigger the mechanism, you may hang yourself." Fang Rui reminded her helplessly.
"It won't be so unlucky. Chen Xue said that we Leos will be very lucky this month."
Unable to find the black backpack of the deceased, they had to leave the store first. Before leaving, Mu Mian looked back frequently, which made Xiao Zhang suspect that her soul had been taken away by the skeleton bride.
That place was very spooky, could there really be some dirty thing living there?
It was already noon, and everyone was very hungry, so they ate in the restaurant downstairs.
Fang Rui ate very quickly. After he finished, he said to Mu Mian and Xiao Zhang: "Take your time to eat. I'm going to buy something."
"Boss, go ahead. I'll keep an eye on Doctor Mu and make sure she doesn't get lost."
Mu Mian looked at Xiao Zhang aggrievedly: "I have a good memory. I've never gotten lost before."
"Oh, the point is that I will protect you. Do you understand?"
"Then please focus on the point next time."
"..."
After a while, Fang Rui called Xiao Zhang and asked them to find him in the underground parking lot after they finished their meal.
Mu Mian and Xiao Zhang walked to the parking lot. From a distance, Mu Mian saw Fang Rui carrying the skeleton bride. Mu Mian's pupils dilated.
"Boss, why did you take this thing down?"
The skeleton bride was about the same height as Xiao Zhang and was made of resin, so it wasn't too heavy. Fang Rui brought the skeleton bride to Mu Mian, "Mu Mian, this is for you."
"Is this a gift for me?" Mu Mian felt like she was hit by a huge surprise.
Mu Mian was stunned. Today was not her birthday, nor was it a holiday, but Fang Rui actually gave her a gift, and it was what she wanted most today, this beautiful skeleton bride.
Chen Xue was right, they Leos will be really lucky this month!
Xiao Zhang was also stunned. He seriously suspected that the boss had been assimilated by Mu Mian. Who would give a skeleton as a gift? But he didn't dare to complain, because Mu Mian might really like it!
"You don't like it?" Fang Rui frowned. Then why did Mu Mian stare at it just now? Did he guess wrong?
"I like it, I like it so much!" Mu Mian hugged the skeleton, his face full of emotion, "Fang Rui, how did you buy it? I asked the clerk if he could sell it to me, he said no, and said that I looked like I couldn't afford it. I told him that I was rich, but he still didn't believe it..." " As
long as you like it."
In fact, it is not difficult to buy it. A murder occurred in the secret room, and their store manager plans to rebuild the secret room. Everything inside will be disposed of at a low price and replaced with other props.
So when Fang Rui said that he was willing to spend twice the price to buy the skeleton bride, the store manager immediately agreed, and said that he could give the original coffin to Fang Rui. Fang Rui refused.
It is better not to have such an unlucky packaging. He didn't want to walk around carrying a coffin. He had already attracted a lot of attention just now by carrying the bride.
"I like it. I like it very very much." Mu Mian was very excited. "Fang Rui, I like you very very very much now too. Thank you, you are so nice. I declare that you are now ranked first on my list of good friends."
Fang Rui's expression was a little unnatural. He knew that the like Mu Mian said was equivalent to her liking the skeleton bride, but he still felt that there was some difference between the two likes.
"Wasn't the boss ranked first before?" Xiao Zhang asked in surprise.
"Chen Xue said she must be ranked first. But now it's not possible. She can't even cry in front of me. Now Fang Rui must be ranked first."
"Then where am I ranked?" Xiao Zhang asked curiously.
"The west."
"So close to the front?" Xiao Zhang was a little moved, "Then how many friends do you have in total?"
"I have a lot of friends, a total of west."
"..." "
Officer Xiao Zhang, you are also very important in my heart. You are the funniest person I have ever met."
"Oh, don't compliment me in person." Xiao Zhang's heart suddenly blossomed.
They drove an SUV today, which could barely fit the bride. Mu Mian held it all the way and refused to let go, and the whole person was very excited.
When they arrived at the bureau, Mu Mian held the bride and took the longest route back to the office.
Many people greeted her along the way. When they saw the skeleton bride, they would ask: "Mr. Mu, what is this? Is it the evidence you collected?"
At this time, Mu Mian would answer them: "It's not evidence. This is a gift, a gift from Fang Rui to me. This is the first gift he gave me."
Then they looked at Fang Rui with eyes that Mu Mian couldn't understand: "Fang Rui, this is what you gave to a girl? If you don't know how to give gifts, ask me. I know how to give gifts."
Mu Mian corrected him: "He is very good at giving gifts. I like this gift very much."
They all looked shocked. Fang Rui shrugged helplessly at them.
"Chen Xue, look, this is a gift from Fang Rui. I like it very much." Mu Mian carried the skeleton bride into the office and said to Chen Xue with excitement, "This is the first gift he gave me."
"I already know." Chen Xue raised her mobile phone. She had just learned about this in the group, and someone even posted pictures in it. She took a look at the scary-looking skeleton bride and commented, "It's very beautiful."
"I originally wanted to put it in my room, but since you like it so much, I'll put it in the office, next to my seat, so that when you are tired from work, you can see it as soon as you look up."
"...Okay."
"I'm going to buy some beautiful clothes for it online, and I'm also going to buy maintenance equipment to take good care of it." Mu Mian said excitedly.
Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang took the photos to ask Liu Xiaonian's parents, but they didn't know Liu Xiaonian's interpersonal situation. They only knew that Liu Xiaonian had almost no friends.
Fang Rui could only open Liu Xiaonian's mobile phone and find the friend he contacted most often.
That friend was also an escape room enthusiast. His name was Li Bin. He used to team up with Liu Xiaonian to play escape rooms. They were a good partner.
He was in disbelief when he heard about Liu Xiaonian's death. "You guys are not mistaken, are you? Xiaonian is a person with severe social phobia and has no grudges against anyone, how could he be murdered? Are you real police officers? You are not scammers who want to cheat me out of my money?"
Xiao Zhang showed him his ID and Liu Xiaonian's photo.
He slowly accepted the news of Liu Xiaonian's death. He choked up and said, "I really can't understand how someone like Xiaonian, who has severe social phobia and a people-pleasing personality, could be murdered?"