When Song Mengmeng and her friends arrived at the door, the landlord was sitting there playing mahjong with an acquaintance. He was having a great time today, winning big, so he was a little unhappy that the game had been disrupted. He originally thought the group of plainclothes officers who came over were neighborhood committee staff and wanted to show some respect, but he immediately backed down after seeing the identification provided by Huo Yuankai.
She was like a lamb entering a wolf's den. This tall girl, who was over 1.8 meters tall, wished she could shrink to a 1.3-meter-tall little girl. She followed behind Huo Yuankai and spoke in the gentlest tone possible, which gave Huo Yuankai goosebumps.
"Officer, you have to trust us. We strictly follow the regulations when renting out rooms! The procedures and fees are all posted publicly. We're completely honest and transparent!"
The landlord, hunched over, followed behind Huo Yuankai, muttering to himself, trying to prove his harmlessness and kindness.
"And another thing, all the tenants in my house have registered and uploaded their information as required! There are absolutely no swindlers, cheaters, or thieves among them!"
"Forget about breaking the law, even people who are usually slovenly are not allowed to stay here!"
"I didn't realize you had such high standards for your tenants!" Huo Yuankai couldn't discern anything from the surface, but he was quite knowledgeable about it. Anyway, he was just there to knock on the door; he really couldn't help with anything else!
But something about the landlord's attitude seemed off to him.
If everything was truly done according to the rules and procedures, why would the landlord be so guilty and trying to please him?!
Sensing something amiss with the landlord, Huo Yuankai changed his approach, subtly beginning to talk to the landlord.
The landlord, perhaps too panicked, failed to notice Huo Yuankai's probing. He went along with Huo Yuankai's words, chuckling ingratiatingly, "That's right, that's right. Isn't it to respond to the call to provide tenants with a safe, harmonious, and high-quality living environment as much as possible?"
Huo Yuankai glanced at the landlord, said nothing, and continued walking inside with his hands behind his back.
Song Mengmeng went upstairs very quickly.
She moved almost as fast as a cat, quickly leaving Hu Yue and the others far behind. She soon reached the fourth floor and stopped outside a closed door.
"Who lives on the fourth floor?" Huo Yuankai asked casually as he turned around and asked the landlord who was following him like a shadow.
"The fourth floor? There are three apartments on the fourth floor, but right now only a pair of sisters live in the small suite on the left. Those sisters are art students from Beijing, I think, and they came to Baiyue to sketch!"
So I only rented it for two months. Naturally, the rent was a bit higher than other tenants.
Officer, that's just how the market works. You can't possibly blame me for breaking the rules, can you?
The landlord was very accommodating and answered all my questions.
Of course he knew about the two sisters who lived on the top floor.
The three apartments on the fourth floor were leaking a bit on the top floor, probably because the building was old. He originally planned to hire someone to redo the waterproofing, but the two sisters came to his door right then and there.
He was initially somewhat reluctant, but to his surprise, the two sisters were incredibly generous!
Not only did he not care that the house was leaking, he also paid the rent for the other two apartments on the fourth floor, saying that he wanted to rent all three apartments together for two months.
The reason they rented all of them is that they sometimes need to create art and need inspiration, but they don't want the environment to be too noisy or disturbed!
For landlords, this kind of good thing is like a pie falling from the sky!
He agreed without even thinking, "It's a fool not to make money when you can!"
Could it be that there's something wrong with the identities of these two sisters?!
Just as the landlord was pondering this, a series of screams and vomiting sounds suddenly came from the fourth floor above...
Upon hearing this commotion, Huo Yuankai, who had been chatting casually with the landlord downstairs, suddenly changed his expression, stopped paying attention to the landlord, and turned to run up the stairs.
The moment he reached the second floor, the overwhelming stench of blood and the putrid smell of corpses nearly drove him away!
Such a strong smell, how come the people who lived in this building before didn't have any reaction at all...?
Although he had some doubts, he didn't stop walking. He passed his colleague, who was vomiting uncontrollably at the bottom of the stairs, his face pale. He rushed to the fourth floor and stood in the wide-open doorway. Looking at what was inside, even though Huo Yuankai had already experienced a psychological visual shock once before, he still couldn't hold back. He turned around, grabbed the plastic bag from his colleague's hand, and ran to the side...
Song Mengmeng did not enter the room, not because she was afraid, but because after removing the barrier that embellished the peace and concealed the truth, the living room that was presented to everyone was so cramped that there was hardly any room to stand.
It was a giant spider web that covered the entire living room.
Scattered haphazardly on top were more than a dozen human heads, already mostly rotten; and beneath the spiderweb, all around were piles of human bones, along with decaying, stinking organs and the like…
This is just the living room; we haven't even been to the other bedrooms yet...
"What, what should we do?" Hu Yue returned after vomiting, her face pale as she looked at the scene inside. Clearly, this should be one of the primary crime scenes!
If we don't go in, we definitely won't get any firsthand clues!
But if they go in, they obviously can't act recklessly. What if there are some traps or mechanisms they haven't seen? Wouldn't that just send innocent people in to their deaths for nothing?!
Most importantly, the site cannot be damaged at will. For example, the spider web that takes up the entire living room cannot be restored immediately if it is damaged!
"This is the spider web of Jorogumo." As Song Mengmeng raised her hand, the spiritual fire in her hand shot out from her fingertips, and in the blink of an eye, it burned the huge spider web to ashes. "Go in, there is no danger now!"
This thing isn't of much value; it's just proof of the Jorogumo's identity!
However, its presence threatens the safety of other ordinary people present, since this thing is poisonous, highly poisonous!
“In that case, I think we should go in and take a look first.” Hu Yue’s expression changed upon hearing Song Mengmeng’s words. She reached out and stopped the police officers who were about to go in directly, and whispered, “It’s not too late to let them go in to examine the scene after we’ve confirmed that there is no danger inside that could threaten anyone else’s life.”
"Mm." Song Mengmeng nodded, not objecting to Hu Yue's suggestion, but instead took the first step into this killing hell that made one's legs go weak just looking at it!
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