Chapter 102: The Story of the Haunted Mansion (1/2)

I stared at the screen for a few seconds. Which bastard turned my QQ into this?

I quickly thought of a prime suspect and made a call. When it was picked up, I instantly shouted, “Lao Yao, you bastard! What have you done to my QQ account?!”

“You took advantage of me! You used someone else to attack me! I’ll spread your nude photo to the whole world tomorrow!” he shot back.

“No, wait! Let’s discuss this!” I knew that wasn’t an empty threat. Someone like Lao Yao was more than capable of doing this kind of thing.

It turned out that Lao Yao was still bitter about the money. Xiaotao promised him she would give all of the bonus money in her pocket to Lao Yao. In the end, Xiaotao only pocketed ten yuan, so that was what Lao Yao got. He felt deceived and angry, but he didn’t dare to mess with a police officer, so he instead took it all out on me.

“I was paid ten yuan!” he whined. “What special kind of idiot do you think I am?”

“But you made that agreement with Xiaotao. This has nothing to do with me!”

“This has everything to do with you! You’re finished, Song Yang! From today onwards, I’ll make sure your life becomes a nightmare you can’t wake up from!”

I shuddered. Being targeted by Lao Yao was not a laughing matter at all. Once, a moderator of a forum deleted one of his posts. Lao Yao retaliated by hacking into the moderator’s personal computer, stealing all of his private photos, and spread it to the whole world.

I absolutely did not want to be one of his victims.

“Calm down, Lao Yao, I’ve got an idea. I need your help to get some information. If you help me, I’ll pay you instantly at a price that you set.”

“Okay,” his tone changed immediately. “Let me hear what you’ve got to offer me.”

I asked him to find information about the haunted house. We then discussed the price. Once we had a deal, Lao Yao said, “You’ll hear from me soon.” He then hung up.

If only Lao Yao were a part of the police force, I thought, then I wouldn’t have to spend money every time I needed information about something.

But hacking wasn’t Lao Yao’s only talent. His skills in obtaining information were top-notch too. That might not sound impressive to you, as you might think that anyone could do it by typing down some keywords into a search engine. But in fact, the most difficult part was finding relevant information. More often than not, the most accurate and reliable information was hidden behind a paywall or passwords.

I understood nothing about SCI or ISTP. But to Lao Yao, these were merely his playground.

After waiting for a while, I received a text message from Lao Yao that told me to log into my QQ account.

I did so, and found that everything had gone back to normal. Lao Yao had also sent me some documents there.

I opened it and skimmed through everything. I was taken aback by how much information he was able to gather in such a short amount of time.

According to the documents that Lao Yao found, the house where the bodies were found was involved in a fire more than a decade ago. It was ruled as arson by the authorities. At the time, a family of three lived there. The wife was young and beautiful, while the husband was much older and very possessive. Because of their difference in age, the husband always suspected that his wife was cheating on him, and this caused tension in their relationship.

At one point, the husband secretly took a paternity test with his son. When the result came out, it turned out that the two of them were not related at all!

This triggered the husband’s fury. Because of that, he developed a terrible plan for revenge. He killed the boy in cold blood, then cooked the flesh in a dish. He then told his wife to try the dish that he specially made for her. When she took a bite, he asked her if her son tasted good, then revealed that he killed the boy because they took a paternity test and he found out the boy was not his own! He then grabbed her and demanded her to tell him who was the boy’s father.