??Chapter 94: 093. Do young people nowadays play this big? _1
Chapter 94: 093. Do young people nowadays play this big? _1
“Do young people nowadays play this big?”
Lu Ban sighed to himself, guessing that there was so kind of costu party, scare fest, or cosplay event going on.
He waved at the person, but they showed no reaction at all. By the ti Lu Ban had climbed out of the pool and stood up, the window was already empty.
Lu Ban went back inside the house, prepared ingredients in the kitchen, and waited until the oven beeped. The lamb chops were preliminarily roasted, so he applied honey and continued to caralise them.
Finally, after seasoning with so cumin and chili powder, a plate of roasted lamb chops was ready.
Lu Ban enjoyed his al while watching a horror movie on the large living room TV, savoring the roasted lamb chops paired with raw onion, feeling utterly satisfied.
“Indeed, relaxation after work is the best thing. Hmm, but there are too many lamb chops, it would be a waste to not finish them. Maybe I should ask the neighbor if they want so.”
Lu Ban said and started clearing the table, reheated the slightly cooled lamb chops, wrapped them in foil, and, holding them in hand, left the villa.
The next villa over was still lively, with the sounds of KTV singing faintly audible, the songs lancholic and in the traditional opera style.
Lu Ban rang the doorbell and after a little while, soone ca to open the door.
“I’m sorry, we’ll keep the noise down…”
The person who answered, a pale-faced young man, thought Lu Ban had co over to complain about the noise.
“It’s fine, I actually enjoy the singing. It’s like this, I was doing a barbecue next door and made too much, so I thought I’d share so with you. It’s natural lamb chops, really tasty.”
Lu Ban lifted the plastic bag filled with roasted lamb chops.
“Oh, thank you, thanks a lot.”
The young man hesitated as if unsure whether to invite Lu Ban into the house.
“No worries, I won’t intrude. I’m heading back now. Oh, and I was just swimming in my pool earlier, not doing anything weird, so the student on the second floor who saw
shouldn’t be too alard.”
Lu Ban had no intention of going in.
But when the young man heard what Lu Ban said, his expression turned subtle, and he called out, prompting several of his housemates to co out.
The two girls Lu Ban had seen were among them.
“Who went upstairs just now?”
The young man asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
He turned his face to Lu Ban, speaking with a sowhat shaky voice.
“We were all on the first floor singing karaoke, no one was upstairs…”
Lu Ban glanced over and indeed couldn’t see the man who had been watching him before.
So who was that person…
“Oh, then you’d better be careful,”
Lu Ban paused for a mont, then cautioned them, adding,
“It seems he might bear so grudges, so it’s probably best if you don’t stay overnight here.”
Upon hearing Lu Ban’s words, the girls’ faces turned even paler.
But seemingly because the daily rental was expensive, they hesitated.
“How about this. If there’s any issue, just co to
directly, this is my number. I’ll be staying here tonight.”
Lu Ban gave them his number, said goodbye to the group, and returned to his own villa.
After a while, he no longer heard singing from next door, and there was no more movent.
As evening approached and the night deepened, Lu Ban noticed that the villa next door was still lit up but unusually silent, which struck him as odd. He took out his phone and made a call to the property manager.
“Hello, I’m staying in one of the daily rentals, and I wanted to ask, didn’t you say there were no other rentals around this villa? How co there are university students partying next door?”
“…Indeed, none were rented out, I’m in charge of this area, and I’m sure no one else rented a place.”
“They are all still there, don’t believe ? I’ll take a picture.”
Lu Ban stepped out into the yard, took a picture of the brightly lit neighboring villa with his phone, and was about to send it via WeChat to the property manager.
But while selecting the photo, Lu Ban felt sothing was off.
He opened the photo and zood in.
Then he saw at the second-floor window, where there had been no one before, stood several young n and won.
The clothes on their bodies differed from one another, but all were stained with blood. Those youngsters who had taken grilled lamb chops from Lu Ban that afternoon were pale, their eyes deeply black without the whites, uniformly raising their right hands, seemingly waving at Lu Ban.
Looking up, when Lu Ban looked at the villa again, it was pitch black, without any sign that soone had been there.
Motionless: Maybe I saw it wrong.
Lu Ban sent a ssage back and didn’t trouble the estate agent further.
He returned to the empty room and used his mobile phone to search for keywords related to the villa and university student cases.
Soon, Lu Ban found that about three years ago, an incident involving university students had taken place in the villa area.
At that ti, several classmates had gathered together and then, sohow, an argunt started. Friends who were on good terms suddenly began killing each other, with no survivors. The following day, when the estate agent arrived at the villa, they could only find the house full of bloodstains.
However, Lu Ban carefully counted the number of victims and the number of university students he had seen and found an extra person.
“…The person on the second floor of that house doesn’t seem to be one of those university students.”
Lu Ban quickly realized this.
That person appeared sowhat younger, like a high school or middle school student.
He continued his search, but there wasn’t much more information available.
After so thought, Lu Ban decided to call He Youwu.
“…Are you finally turning yourself in?”
He Youwu still hadn’t snapped back to reality with the first sentence, he said subconsciously.
“Jiangcheng XXX Villa Area, there was a murder case involving university students here three years ago. I want to know now if there were any other cases before this one in the villas, where the victim might have been a middle school or high school student.”
Lu Ban got straight to the point without any banter.
“???”
Are you the police or are we the police?
He Youwu grumbled in his heart but still started looking through the electronic records out of curiosity.
After a mont, he was sowhat surprised.
“Yes, ten years ago. In this villa area, there was a family whose parents were working away, leaving only their high school freshman son at ho. Then, in the middle of the night, he encountered thieves, woke up to check, and ended up being killed by the two robbers. His body was even dismbered and hidden in the swimming pool and the garden…”
Hearing what He Youwu said, Lu Ban suddenly understood.
Was it the grudge of this first victim that caused the later university students to kill each other?
Also, dismbernt…
“Were the perpetrators from ten years ago found? With the dismbernt being the sa, they must have been pri suspects, right?”
Lu Ban reminded him.
“…Right, I’ll go check it out now. I don’t have enough access on this computer to see the details.”
He Youwu suddenly stood up.
He glanced at the computer screen and added.
“By the way, how did you know about all this?”
“I’m currently at number 81 in this villa area. I noticed that the next door had lights on, but there was sothing strange inside, so I looked it up.”
Lu Ban looked through the window at the house next door.
“Huh?”
He Youwu was taken aback. He looked at the computer again to confirm, then said.
“But the scene of the cri was at number 81 in the villa area.”
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