"Host, are you still complaining that I didn't give you a cheat?" The system took credit: "The process was so smooth, and the allies were so reliable..."
"Get lost, none of that is your credit." Li Yuebai was furious. He had never seen such a useless and shameless system that required the host to do everything by himself.
Everything went smoothly, and they got the silver-plated bullets and silver-plated rattan knives as quickly as possible.
Soon after, the second vampire case occurred.
Late one night, a call came in from Heping Community, No. 112 Gaoyuan Road.
"Help... Help!" A panicked young girl's voice came from the microphone: "110? I want to call the police! My roommate, my roommate is dead!"
"Please calm down. Are you safe now?" the female operator replied.
"Me? I'm safe, nothing happened to me..." The girl sobbed, "My roommate was alone in the room, dead! The floor was covered in blood, and his head had fallen off!"
"Please hide in a safe and crowded place as soon as possible. We will arrange for someone to go there immediately."
"This case is very suspicious." Li Yuebai said.
Ye Qing nodded, took off his headphones, and submitted a request for police dispatch.
When they arrived at the neighborhood where the crime occurred, the young girl who called the police was squatting in the security booth at the entrance of the neighborhood, huddled up in her arms, shivering, with a key in her hand. After discovering the crime, she immediately locked the door, ran out, and headed straight for the security booth, where there were security guards on duty all night, so it was relatively safe.
After Ye Qing showed his police ID, the girl looked at them for a few seconds, breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly took them to the building where she lived.
Her name was Ma Xiaoting, and the dead girl was her roommate, Xu Lili.
Ma Xiaoting and Xu Lili both graduated from college and stayed in this city to work. They had no relatives here, so they shared a two-bedroom house - the house in Heping Community was old, small in size, and had low rent, which was just right for newcomers to the workplace like them who had not made much money.
After going upstairs and reaching the burglar-proof door, Li Yuebai took the key from Ma Xiaoting and opened the door. As soon as he entered, a strong smell of blood hit him in the face.
Ma Xiaoting was so scared that she didn't even dare to look at it again. Now seeing the two of them supporting her, she slowly regained some courage and followed them into the house, explaining how she found the body:
"Lili gets off work earlier than me every day. I get home at 8pm, and she usually gets home around 7pm." Ma Xiaoting pointed to a tightly closed door and said, "That's her room. I usually call her when I get home to see if she's there. But today, there was no response. I looked at the door and saw her shoes and bag. She probably didn't go out. So I went to her room to look for her. When I pushed the door open, I saw blood all over the floor!"
As she spoke, Ye Qing and Li Yuebai put on rubber gloves and gently opened the door.
The room was small, with a bed, a computer desk, and a lot of miscellaneous items. In the middle of the floor, a young girl was lying on the ground, wearing pajamas and slippers thrown on the ground. The ground was covered with blood, and a lot of blood splattered on the walls, the bed, and even the ceiling. It was very tragic.
The blood was gushing out from the girl's neck - she had no head, and the section of her neck was not neat, and blood was still flowing out of the section.
Li Yuebai squatted down and looked under the bed - there were shoes, old cardboard boxes, a trail of blood... and the girl's head. She was quietly standing under the bed, her expression very painful, her eyes still wide open.
Who is that person, and what kind of power, could have cut off Xu Lili's head like this?
It couldn't have been suicide; no one could cut off their own head like that.
It couldn't be Ma Xiaoting either. She was very thin and weak and didn't have the strength to do that.
"Are there any signs of outsiders breaking in?" Li Yuebai asked.
"No...no." Ma Xiaoting looked at the body, covered her face again, and left the room, saying in a crying voice: "We are the only two who have the key, and the windows are all equipped with anti-theft nets. When I came back, the door was locked and the valuables were not missing."
The windows are well sealed and the security nets are in good condition, so it is impossible for outsiders to break in through the windows.
"Does Xu Lili have any enemies?"
"Absolutely not, neither of us are the kind of people who like to cause trouble." Ma Xiaoting felt very aggrieved and sad.
There is no necessary connection between causing trouble and getting into trouble. On the streets, in train stations, in remote alleys, on buses... there are often some hooligans, human traffickers and other criminals who specifically target gentle and honest girls. However, this is not a public space but a private house, so such inference does not apply.
"Could it be that the criminal followed her into the room?" Li Yuebai asked, "When Xu Lili opened the door, he took the opportunity to break in."
"No." Ma Xiaoting shook her head, took out her phone and checked the real-time chat record: "At 7:30, Lili sent me a message saying that she bought some jellyfish and told me that I didn't need to buy any more food. It was sent from a computer, which means she was already at home at that time."
Ye Qing and Li Yuebai looked at each other.
The possibility of humans committing crimes is becoming less and less, and the possibility of vampires committing crimes is becoming more and more likely.
"Has Xu Lili shown any unusual behavior recently? For example..." Li Yuebai thought of the little girl who was almost sucked blood in the underground garage: "...mental confusion, abnormal behavior, etc.?"
"It's common for her to be in a bad mood, for example, she got scolded at work, broke up with her boyfriend..." Ma Xiaoting thought hard, "If you say she was in a strange mood, she was a little strange in the past two weeks. She was obviously deducted from her salary, but she always looked like she didn't care."
Not getting any valuable information, Li Yuebai decided to examine the body first.
On the ground next to the body fell a silver ring, a thin circle, without any mark on it, and stained with blood. Li Yuebai picked it up carefully and put it in the evidence bag.
Most parts of the body are normal, there are no special conditions, only the hands are special.
Xu Lili's hands, whether fingers or palms, were covered with burnt marks! Some of the serious ones were even torn! It was as if she had frantically pulled a sparking electric wire or a red-hot iron wire with her hands and got burned like this!
The next step is to look for clues among the debris in the house.
Li Yuebai has always been careful to protect students' privacy and would not forcibly check their mobile phones or search their schoolbags. However, in order to find out the cause of death, he had to temporarily offend the deceased.
Books, dolls, perfumes, cosmetics, celebrity posters...all very ordinary, except for one thing that looked odd - a square black stone.
"What is this?" Ye Qing asked Ma Xiaoting while holding the stone.
"I don't know. She never showed it to me." Ma Xiaoting shook her head.
"Does Xu Lili keep a diary?"
"She doesn't have a paper copy. She likes to write it online and then make it visible only to herself." Ma Xiaoting replied: "I usually do the same."
Li Yuebai's eyes turned to the computer on the desk and the mobile phone next to it.
The computer was in standby mode, and when I restarted it, the screen locked and asked for a password.
The same goes for cell phones.
"I don't know her password. I have my own computer and cell phone, so there's no need for me to use hers... Besides, everyone has privacy, even roommates..." said Ma Tingting.
"The password of a computer with this level of confidentiality is easy to crack." Ye Qing bent down and looked at the screen. His slender fingers trembled slightly, and he produced a small machine with a screen from somewhere. He pulled out a wire from the small machine and connected it to the computer: "Leave it to me."
Li Yuebai already knew that Ye Qing was an expert in computers, so he was not surprised and asked casually, "How long will it take?"
"Ten minutes at most."
"Too slow." Li Yuebai lowered his head and looked at the computer keyboard carefully: "The password is i love 1 days, let's try it first."
Ye Qing had just started the cracker and glanced at him when he heard that.
The speed of the cracking machine is already very fast. How is it possible that Li Yuebai can say the correct password in no time at all?
Sure enough, after entering this string of characters, the computer screen lit up and turned to the welcome interface. The desktop opened slowly. This computer was very old and stuck. It made a sound like it was about to fall apart when it was running, and the fan was blowing desperately.
"How do you know the password?" Ye Qing asked while waiting.
"Before going home, the victim bought two packs of liangpi." Li Yuebai no longer had the smug look he usually had when solving a puzzle. Instead, his expression was solemn and his voice was low: "The outer packaging of the liangpi was red, and the quality was poor. The color faded and got on her fingers."
One was for himself, and the other was for Ma Xiaoting, both were still on the table and had not been eaten.
"She put down the packaging box and turned on her computer out of habit, and the red on her fingers stained the keyboard."
There are a few faint red marks on the white keyboard protective film, printed on the keys 1eiolvd, and when arranged and combined, they read I love 1 d……
"How do you know what comes after d? And it's not necessarily arranged in this way." Ye Qing frowned.
"There is a German band called 1 Days, which is Xu Lili's favorite band." Li Yuebai pointed to a plastic box under the table, which was full of posters and CDs.
"No, that's right." Ma Xiaoting lowered her eyes: "Lili often said that she wanted to save money to go to the concert."
Finally, it started up and the entire desktop appeared before their eyes.
The instant messaging tool was still online, with an avatar flashing. Li Yuebai clicked on it and found it was a chat message from a friend of Xu Lili named Wu He.
Wu He: Lili, speak up! Stop pretending to be dead.
Wu He: You scared me to death just now. You photoshopped such a scary photo to me. I want compensation for my mental damages! And treat me to a meal!
Wu He: Hey, it’s such an old horror story, and you’re still using it.
Wu He: Stop pretending and reply to me quickly, or I will get angry.
…
Wu He sent many messages in a row, all complaining that Xu Lili did not reply.
Of course Xu Lili didn't reply, because she might have been dead by then.
"Do you know this Wu He?" Li Yuebai asked Ma Xiaoting who didn't dare to approach.
"Yes, she is our classmate, but she is not in this city, so we can only chat online." Ma Xiaoting replied: "Sometimes it is inconvenient for me to reply to Lili on my way home from get off work, so she chats with Wu He for fun."
When Ma Xiaoting thought about having to inform Wu He and the others about the cause of Lili's death, her eyes turned red again.
Li Yuebai held his breath and didn't dare to pull up the chat interface.
Judging from what Wu He said, Xu Lili sent her a photo before her death.
The content of that photo is very horrifying.
After being frightened, Wu He was sure that Xu Lili was joking.
What kind of photo is this... Li Yuebai unconsciously stretched out his left hand and held Ye Qing's arm, finding a sense of security, then controlled the mouse with his right hand and pulled it up -
A photo was displayed on the chat tool interface, and the sending time was 7:45.
The person in the photo is Xu Lili, who is sitting in front of a computer. She has a lovely smile on her face, and it is obvious that the photo was taken with the computer's built-in camera.
Behind her, there was something vaguely dark.
After seeing the thing clearly, Li Yuebai felt his throat choked.
It was a slender black figure, only the size of a palm, human-like, but obviously not human, with slender limbs and a face that was both human-like and not human-like. It was twisted into a weird posture, showing a creepy smile to the camera, and one hand was still touching Xu Lili's head.