Zou Zhengze opened the door and saw his lover sleeping with a man. When they saw that he had come back, their eyes widened in fear.
“B*tch! How dare you cheat on me?”
The image of them pledging their eternal love and their lingering affection flooded his mind. Zou Zhengze’s eyes instantly became red and he lifted a kitchen knife.
The knife stopped in the air. Zou Zhengze took two deep breaths and put the knife down.
It was not worth it.
“Stay together forever, you cheaters.”
Zou Zhengze threw the kitchen knife resentfully and closed the refrigerator door.
He cut off the crab pincers, removed the crab shell and stomach, and sucked the crab roe…
Li Ang was extremely skilled in eating crabs. He only used chopsticks and a spoon to eat the crab in a refined manner. His elegant actions, dignified table manners, and graceful posture made Officer Wang Fengnian look increasingly more uncomfortable.
What was even worse, he was telling jokes while eating. He could manage to tell all kinds of jokes, from White Snow in Early Spring to The Song of the Rustic Poor, which amused Wang Congshan and her mother. Hence, the atmosphere was very harmonious.
“Cough, cough.”
Officer Wang Fengnian searched for a joke in his mind and coughed deliberately. When he attracted their attention, he said in a low voice, “Once upon a time, there was a young man who achieved nothing in his life. When he was one foot into the grave, he yearned to be praised again. This thought touched God and He sent a physician over to say that this illness was incredible.”
The whole living room suddenly fell silent. Only the sound of the fan blades turning could be heard.
“Ha ha ha ha ha.” Li Ang laughed a few times, and Wang Congshan and her mother laughed as well.
In order to break the embarrassing silence, Wang Congshan passed him her empty bowl. “Dad, fill my bowl with soup.”
Subconsciously, Li Ang took the empty bowl and helped Wang Congshan scoop up a bowl of soup. When he realized what had happened, he saw Officer Wang Fengnian’s hands hanging in mid-air and noticed the expression on Mrs. Wang’s face.
The atmosphere in the living room became even more solemn and depressing. It seemed as if water was dripping in the air.
“I almost forgot. The other day, Fangni and her family, who live opposite us, sent us green rice balls. I’ll give them a few crabs in return.”
Mrs. Wang got up and went to the kitchen to get a large Tupperware to pack some crabs. When she went out, she didn’t close the door. She went directly to her neighbor.
“Fangni, Fangni? Are you guys at home?”
Mrs. Wang knocked on the security door with her knuckles. In the living room, Li Ang and Wang Congshan lowered their heads while accepting the stare of Officer Wang.
“Why is there nobody…”
Mrs. Wang sniffed something strange and said, “What’s this smell? Is it coming from their balcony?”
In the living room, Li Ang, who was silently eating crabs, suddenly looked up. Along with Officer Wang, he looked at the neighbor’s security door.
There was a strong… smell of blood coming from it.
The two of them looked at each other and stood up at the same time before they walked to the hallway.
“They might not be at home,” Officer Wang told his wife with a smile. “Xinwan, go back and eat with Shanshan. Little Li and I will smoke a cigarette in the hallway and have a chat.”
“Chat?” Jiang Xinwan glanced suspiciously at her husband, silently telling him not to frighten him. Then, she turned and went into the house.
Officer Wang closed the security door after his wife went into the house. His eyes suddenly became cold and he squatted down.
Zeng Weiming and Wang Fangni, who lived in the opposite unit, had placed rubber rugs outside the door to block dirt and other contaminants and put cotton rugs inside to prevent slipping and ensure fine dust isolation.
They paid particular attention to detail.
Wang Fengnian saw a thick bloodstain extending from his neighbor’s security door toward the rubber carpet.
He lifted the carpet to reveal a pool of thick, dry blood.
This amount of blood flowed from the security door and reached the outside… Either the residents inside had accidentally spilled pig’s blood that had yet to be made into a pig blood cake at the door, or they were lying on the floor with their main arteries bleeding while watching themselves bleed dry.
Wang Fengnian knocked on the door hard and shouted the names of his neighbors. After receiving no response, he took out his cell phone, called his colleagues for assistance, and called the real estate property to get them and the building’s security to come up.
Just as he was about to kick the door hard, Li Ang took out a paper clip slowly and twisted it a few times before he pried open the security door.
“Brother Wang, don’t look at me like I’m a criminal.” Li Ang put away the paper clip, scratched his head, and said with a smile, “Prying locks is just my hobby. I have written a thesis on the ten most common security risks of security door lock cores on the market.”
Wang Fengnian said with a displeased expression, “Don’t call me brother.”
Li Ang, who looked pleased, accepted what he was told before he said, “Okay, Dad. I will take good care of Shanshan.”
If this had been the right time and venue, Wang Fengnian would have definitely let Li Ang know what he was called by using military fists.
Officer Wang pushed open the security door, only to see that Zeng Weiming’s house was completely dark and he couldn’t even see his fingers.
Li Ang took out his cell phone and used the backlight to slightly light up the place.
Wang Fengnian didn’t step into the house right away. He took advantage of the light coming from Li Ang’s cell phone and carefully switched on the lights in the living room through the layers of his sleeves.
When the lights came on in the living room, Wang Fengnian couldn’t help but gasp.
Blood, blood, blood. Bloodstains were everywhere.
On the ceiling, the table lamp, the walls, the tables, the floor, the TV wall, the shoe racks… Everything was covered in a dark red color.
Drops, spurts, streams, wiped patterns, touched spots… All kinds of strange blood stains filled the house.
It was like an abstract painting of a lunatic painter.
The strong smell of blood, which was hard to ignore, infiltrated the brain directly. Wang Fengnian’s scalp went numb for a while. In the more than 20 years of his criminal investigation career, he had never seen such a bizarre, strange scene. He had never encountered a similar case, despite the weird things that had been happening in the past seven months.
The total amount of blood in an adult’s body was about 6% to 8% of their body mass. In other words, an adult male weighing 70 kg had a total blood volume of 4,200 ml to 5,600 ml, which was equivalent to three large 1.5 L bottles of coke.
Officer Wang quickly estimated what was necessary to create this spectacle in the house. This was nearly the blood volume of two people.
“F*ck…” Wang Fengnian swore as his hand grasped the door tightly.
Just like Officer Wang, Li Ang gasped and said in a deep voice, “The Nordic pastoral style furniture in this house probably costs a lot of money.”