Chapter 101: Little Boy Playing with A Ball (2/2)

“Are you sure?”

“There was no need to make so much effort at all if it had been a simple burned corpse. If it was a psychopathic serial killer, then what would they gain? Killing two people at the same time and throwing them in the same spot—that didn’t sound a lot like what serial killers normally did. Besides, the place was completely isolated. No one would’ve found them if not by coincidence. That would prevent them from getting any perverted pleasure…”

Xiaotao nodded thoughtfully.

“What do you think happened, then?” she asked.

“I’m confused myself,” I sighed. “I’ll probably be able to get a much better picture once I complete the autopsy tomorrow.”

“Which line of inquiry do you think we should follow?”

“First, we should confirm the identity of the victims, then investigate the background information of the house. We should find out who the current owner is. This house should be a haunted house, so we should see whether anyone died there before, then investigate from there.”

“Right, I’ll assign the tasks accordingly first thing tomorrow morning.”

Dali couldn't help but raise his thumbs up. “Xiaotao-jiejie is always so cool and efficient.”

Xiaotao smiled and explained, “Every murder case is a race against time. Each second that passes means that the possibility of the next victim to fall prey to the murderer increases.”

Once we finished our food, Xiaotao told Dali to go back first because she had something else to say to me.

“What is it?” I asked.

“You really are clueless about girls, aren’t you? The girl was interested in you. Did you not see it?”

“Which girl?” I wondered for a while.

“The one whose number you gave to Dali! She gave it to you, you know?” Xiaotao smiled.

I shook my head in confusion.

Seeing that I said nothing, Xiaotao poked my arm and teased, “Is she beautiful? That girl?”

“She’s fine…” I replied vaguely.

“You’re really too slow about these things, you know? Maybe I should educate you about it sometime. Anyway, I’m going back now!”

“Um, by the way…”

“What is it?”

I had something to say, but I was too embarrassed about it.

“Never mind. We’ll talk about it later.”

Xiaotao smirked. “Don't be late tomorrow!”

After that, I was interrogated by Dali the whole night. He asked me how things were between me and Xiaotao. Did we hold hands? Did we kiss? He encouraged me to be more active and aggressive in pursuing her. I didn’t know how to answer his questions.

Then he asked me to help him analyze whether he and Xia Mengmeng had a chance to get together. How likely would it be? Were their characters suitable for each other? I was too sleepy, so I just mumbled something and fell asleep.

Early next morning, we arrived at the police station for the task force meeting. There was nothing much to say at this point as the case was still in its early stage. Even the identity of the victims had not yet been clarified.

After the meeting, I found a carpenter shop and drew a sketch of what I wanted to the master. I needed him to produce a pair of wooden pillows according to the description in the sketch, and I wanted it ASAP. The sooner the better!

Meanwhile, the police, including Xiaotao, went around to investigate the case. All I could do was wait at that point. There was nowhere else to go in the city so I accompanied Dali to the internet cafe. He played League of Legends with great enthusiasm, but I was not good at any game. All I did was waste time on QQ and read some news on the internet.

I searched the internet for any news articles about the house. The things that Baidu found were all useless, so even after a long time, my efforts were not fruitful.

I shook my head in despair and opened the QQ site again. But the moment I entered the site, a horrifying sight greeted me!

All of my friends’ avatars were turned to cursed children with bloody eyes. They kept shaking and squirming and they all sent me the same message: Song Yang, I want you dead!

1. Public display of affection.

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