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Chapter 627 I will play a song for you, please lend me your ear.
"That's when I realized something was wrong. How could I possibly bump into someone in my own bathroom?"
"I told that friend of mine, who is Yuan Haotian's colleague, about this. He was a little scared when he heard it and told us to be careful and to call the police if things got really bad."
"It's better to avoid trouble. We originally wanted to wait and see. If Yuan Haotian continued like this after a while, we would call the police."
"Unexpectedly, not long after, he broke into our house with a knife and killed Zhang Shengli and Cao Deren."

Li Shu's expression was somewhat sad: "As for why I was able to escape, it's because I had just finished my night shift and was coming home when the incident happened. As soon as I opened the door, there was blood everywhere inside."

"My two friends were lying in blood, and Yuan Haotian was standing next to them with a knife in his hand."

"When I saw the corpses in the room, my legs went weak and I couldn't even lift my legs to run away. I could only crawl and tumble into the corridor and shout for help.
"Fortunately, my neighbors were still awake. They heard my voice and ran out together to subdue Yuan Haotian."

Despite all that, Gu Mian still hadn't figured out Yuan Haotian's motives. Coco, standing next to her, also had a thoughtful expression on her face, clearly analyzing Yuan Haotian's intentions.

The only point of contention is the conflict during the climb of Weishan Mountain, but Li Shu doesn't know why Yuan Haotian and Cao Deren had the conflict, making this a difficult question to answer.

However, Gu Mian discovered another clue in these words.

"What's your friend's name?" Gu Mian stroked her chin. "The one who facilitated your two previous meetings with Yuan Haotian."

Upon hearing this question, Li Shu looked up at Gu Mian, paused for two seconds, and then said, "Chen Yao."

"Where do you live? Where do you work?"

"I only know he lives in Greentown Community, but I don't know his exact address. His company is Fengqi Business, and Yuan Haotian also works for that company," Li Shu replied.

"What is your relationship with Zhang Shengli and Cao Deren? Why do you live together?"

"She's my roommate; we met when we were renting the apartment."

"I see," Gu Mian nodded, not asking too many questions about it. He changed the subject to the video footage from the crime scene: "There are security cameras in your building's hallway, right?"

Coco was right next to Gu Mian, very close to Li Shu. She noticed that when Gu Mian mentioned the word "camera," Li Shu's expression stiffened for a moment.

"Yes." He nodded.

Gu Mian, seemingly oblivious to his stiffness, continued to ask, "Is it broken? Can we still watch the recording?"

Li Shu lowered his head slightly and after a while replied, "Yes."

He seemed somewhat resistant to Gu Mian and the others watching the video.

Even the egrets noticed something was wrong.

Are they afraid the recording will be seen by them? Bai Lu frowned as she looked at Li Shu, thinking that the other party might be lying when recounting the incident.

At this moment, Gu Mian suddenly stood up: "Alright, I have nothing more to ask. Do you have any other questions?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the other people.

Bai Lu and Ke Ke both shook their heads, while Xie Bi'an remained silent. Gu Mian was used to his silence, so she simply ignored him.

"Let's go back to the crime scene and take another look," Gu Mian said, turning around and taking two steps toward the door.

But after taking two steps, he suddenly stopped and turned around: "Lishu, could you please give me your house key?"

Actually, you don't need a key; Gu Mian originally planned to saw his house apart.

But this has a negative impact.

Li Shu nodded, took a set of keys from the bedside table drawer, and handed them to Gu Mian: "You know where I live, right?"

"I know." Gu Mian took the keys, turned around, and walked towards the door.

He suddenly stopped at the door, turned to the hospital bed, and said, "Alright, stop pretending."

Li Shu subconsciously looked at Gu Mian, and then he heard a rustling sound coming from the hospital bed next to him.

He turned his head and saw that the man in the suit had woken up sometime earlier and was reluctantly getting out of bed, muttering something like "What bad luck."

After leaving the ward, Bai Lu lowered her voice and said, "This person doesn't seem to want us to see the video of the incident."

why?

What exactly is he hiding?

Is Yuan Haotian really the murderer?

The egret pondered.

Gu Mian swung the keys in her hand as she walked up to the elevator: "Let's go to his place first. The property management should be able to see the video footage from that night. Once we see the footage, we'll know what he's hiding from us."

Bai Lu nodded and followed the others into the elevator.

But just as she stepped into the elevator, she suddenly felt a chill on the back of her head, but when she turned around, there was nothing there.

She gently bit her lip and looked at the other people in the elevator, only to see that Coco's expression next to her was also a little strange.

"You felt it too?" the egret asked in a low voice.

Coco nodded, her face pale: "I think there was something behind me just now."

There's a ghost here. The egret was almost immediately certain.

Gu Mian didn't feel anything, of course; he just hoped the elevator wouldn't suddenly get stuck.

Fortunately, he was lucky; the elevator went down to the first floor without stopping.

When they arrived on the first floor, the elevator doors slowly opened, and Gu Mian saw several people standing outside.

Noticing the elevator doors open, a slightly overweight man wearing glasses waved to several other people not far behind him: "The elevator over here is here, come on over."

Hearing the noise, the others gathered around. Bai Lu rushed out as soon as the elevator doors opened, seemingly wary of the chill she had just felt.

Gu Mian also stepped outside.

At this moment, the slightly overweight man quickly walked to the elevator door and blocked it with his hand to prevent it from closing.

Just as Gu Mian passed by the slightly chubby man, Coco suddenly spoke up, "Wait a minute."

As she spoke, she glanced at the people waiting for the elevator on the first floor: "Are you also... players?"

Is that so?

Gu Mian didn't have the habit of trying to open someone's interface every time she met them.

But Cocoa seems to have it.

The people waiting for the elevator stopped and looked at Gu Mian and Xie Bi'an after hearing Coco's words. Gu Mian noticed that their eyes were glancing at them, and she knew that they were amazed by her and Xie Bi'an's member nicknames.

The four people waiting for the elevator were another group of players they had never seen before.

Two men and two women.

One was a middle-aged man wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt, whose nickname was Wang Youcai, a very common nickname.

One of them was the slightly chubby, bespectacled man who blocked the elevator earlier; his nickname was "Twist Off Your Head," and he was a friend of Yan Shuangfei and Li Yuan. Gu Mian had even praised that nickname before.

The two girls' nicknames are "Qi Ye Qi Qi" and "Qi Ye Wei Wei," which is quite remarkable that they still racked their brains to come up with a couple's name when the global game was released.

After taking a closer look at Gu Mian and the others, the four players' expressions were somewhat strange.

They showed this expression because of the font color of Gu Mian and Xie Bi'an, which looked like they had a membership.

Secondly, it's because Xie Bi'an's attire was truly unconventional and eccentric.

Not to mention the players, even random passersby in the dungeon couldn't help but take a second look at the black cloak.

The middle-aged man, Wang Youcai, looked hesitant: "You... um, you're another group of players, right? Someone from your case is also hospitalized here."

You could tell he wanted to ask about that colorful nickname, but he held back.

Ke Ke answered from next to Gu Mian, "We have a surviving victim hospitalized here, is that you too?"

Wang Youcai nodded: "Several high school students in our case are hospitalized here."

"High school student?" Coco looked at Wang Youcai strangely.

“The murderer in our case is a man. He… he was in a bad mood after divorcing his wife. He went out drinking in the middle of the night and ran into those high school students. Then they got into an argument and started fighting,” Wang Youcai explained. “Then he smashed the bottom of a bottle and stabbed several students to death on the spot. The remaining few ran away quickly and were injured and came here to be hospitalized.”

Bai Lu listened to Wang Youcai's words and her mind raced: "So that's how it is. I thought our two groups' cases were related when I saw you here."

“Your case is…” Wang Youcai looked at Bai Lu.

Bai Lu then succinctly explained the case to him.

After confirming that there was absolutely no connection between the two cases, Wang Youcai said goodbye to Gu Mian and the others, and took his three team members up the elevator.

Bai Lu looked at the group of people entering the elevator, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping herself.

There's a ghost in the elevator.

She wasn't sure if the ghost had followed her out.

What is the trigger for the ghost to kill people in this instance? Why did they suddenly sense the ghost's presence in the elevator?

Could it be that the elevator in this instance has a special function that allows players to sense the presence of ghosts?
Just as Bailu was pondering this, the elevator doors in front of her closed completely.

Until the very last moment the elevator doors closed, the expressions on the people inside remained completely normal.

Didn't they sense the ghost? Did the ghost follow them out?

Gu Mian had no idea what Bai Lu had been thinking in those few seconds. He was setting the next goal: "Let's go to the crime scene first, which is Li Shu's house, to watch the video footage from the night of the incident, and also search his house for any clues."

The chill in the elevator frightened Bailu, and this time she absolutely did not want to travel separately again.

Having no other choice, Gu Mian had to swallow her pride and flag down a van on the street to take everyone to Ping An Apartment.

The five of them arrived at their destination shortly afterward.

Perhaps because of the copy, Li Shu's house was not sealed off by the police.

Gu Mian simply took the key and opened the door to his house.

The room was in a mess, clearly having been through a major battle.

The wall was stained with blood that was still relatively fresh, and the outlines of small figures were drawn in white lines at the places where the two victims died.

The egret noticed that its judge was particularly interested in the two little white figures on the ground. It watched as the judge circled the two figures a few times before suddenly lying down on them.

Hello everyone, I am the singer who occasionally comes back to life. Now, let me bring you a beautiful song:

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Holy crap, I misspelled the chapter title. This should be chapter 626.

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