The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 69 Killing two birds with one stone

That day, clumsy Sha Gou pulled the key to Room 301 from his pocket and accidentally dropped it into the boiling hot pot. Zhong Kui easily sucked the key up with a brick-sized magnet. And the bedroom with the closed doors and windows was the dustiest, with all the furniture that had been moved inexplicably...

"Someone lifted up the wooden floor upstairs and spent a long time digging a deep groove in the cement floor that should have been flat. The groove extends all the way to the position facing your pillow. So the dust in that bedroom is much larger than other places. This person knows everyone's living habits very well. He knows that Wang Dakang has the habit of taking a nap every day. At noon that day, this person should have used this magnet to attract the kitchen knife hidden in the ceiling through the floor and complete his final murder." Qi Fei said.

Hearing this, Wang Dakang's face turned pale. "Ah? If this guy succeeds, I'm dead."

"At that time, no one should have been in the corridor of Guiyue Apartment. However, he didn't anticipate that a man named Sha Gou would suddenly appear that day, following the news of Yue Fengsheng's death, and suddenly run to the apartment. This man was filming with a camera and mumbling incoherently, making the murderer think he was live-streaming the incident. Fearing exposure, he aborted his plan."

Wang Dakang gasped, a cold sweat breaking out, and then he was puzzled: "But who wants to kill me? I'm just an ordinary citizen and I never have any grudges against anyone!"

"No, he not only wants to kill you, but also frame her." Qi Fei pointed at Zhao Xiaozhen. "This method will leave no trace of the murderer at the scene. The murder weapon is a kitchen knife. Zhao Xiaozhen will become the only suspect, and it will be difficult for her to escape the crime."

"Hmph, killing two birds with one stone, how clever." Zhong Kui said coldly.

"It seems this place is uninhabitable." Zhao Xiaozhen stared blankly at the kitchen knife on the bed in shock, muttering to herself. Then, trembling, she said to Wang Dakang, "Old Wang, why don't we move out? We don't want this house anymore!"

Wang Dakang glared at her fiercely, and this expression did not escape Zhong Kui's eyes.

"Hasn't the police officer already helped us figure out the situation? What are you afraid of?" Wang Dakang scolded Zhao Xiaozhen, obviously he was used to ordering her around.

When Zhao Xiaozhen heard this, she immediately shut up.

"At least, we can confirm that the strange noises you've been hearing are not caused by Lao Lin's ghost. Someone dug a groove in the floor to make it thin enough to suck up the kitchen knife." Qi Fei's words obviously failed to comfort Zhao Xiaozhen.

She suddenly lost control of her emotions and burst into tears: "It's all your fault. I didn't ask clearly when I took this house. Now, after a lifetime, I don't even have my own property certificate. I have nowhere to live if I move out. How long are you going to keep it?"

Wang Dakang was so angry at what Zhao Xiaozhen said that he shouted, "The company promised to resolve the property ownership certificate issue. Who could have guessed that they would have to change the system later? Don't be a fool after the event. Don't think I don't know that you married me just for this house!"

Zhao Xiaozhen burst into tears out of grievance after hearing this. Seeing the quarrel getting out of hand, Zhong Kui suddenly said quietly, "I advise you to be polite to each other. Who knows, the other person might be the murderer who killed your neighbor."

These words left Wang Dakang and Zhao Xiaozhen stunned.

"This, this can't be..." Zhao Xiaozhen stuttered, then looked at Wang Dakang, and Wang Dakang's eyes actually flashed a hint of hesitation towards her, and then he shouted angrily to Zhong Kui, "Don't talk nonsense, my wife is not that kind of pervert!"

"Then who do you think is the pervert?" Zhong Kui asked immediately.

Wang Dakang didn't know how to answer for a moment, but Zhao Xiaozhen seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Zhong Kui smiled at her and said, "It seems like you have someone in mind?"

Zhao Xiaozhen whispered, "That's not the case, but Lili told me that her black stockings that were hung outside were stolen. This incident made me feel sick for a long time, but it has nothing to do with this murder case."

After hearing this, Zhong Kui raised his eyebrows and said nothing more.

Zhou Li and He Zhixin also came up after hearing the noise.

"What happened?!" Zhou Li was horrified at the sight of the bloody scene. He Zhixin immediately rushed downstairs, muttering that he had a medicine box ready.

After a while, they brought gauze and bandaged Wang Dakang carefully.

It can be seen that the two families have a good relationship.

Only Zhong Kui looked at the two "loving" families with a cold look in his eyes.

When Qi Fei and the other two were going downstairs, when they passed the door of Room 102, the light that was originally on was turned off with a "click". It seemed that they were afraid that they would find out that they were living there, and they were being sneaky and trying to cover up their guilt.

……

An unfamiliar DNA report was placed in front of Qi Fei.

"The male skeleton found in Room 402 is not Lao Yu's, so whose could it be?" Qi Fei was puzzled.

"Brother Fei, we are still expanding the scope of the comparison, but we have not found any valid information yet. We have compared people who disappeared around the same time as Lao Yu six years ago, and none of them matched." Wu Shanqiu said.

Xiao Tao pushed his glasses and said, "I performed biopsies on the unknown man's skull injuries and Ai Lili's skull injuries. The unknown man's skull cells showed no signs of active proliferation, and there were no reparative changes such as osteoblast formation around the trabeculae."

"Speak human language." Qi Fei said immediately.

"Ailili's skull was smashed while she was alive, while the unknown male's skull was smashed after his death," Xiao Tao said with a smile.

"Oh! Did Lao Yu kill someone else and disguise himself, and then kept killing other residents in Guiyue Apartment?!" Wu Shanqiu said with sudden realization.

Qi Fei didn't say anything. He pondered Xiao Tao's words and said, "If the skull was shattered after death, then what was the fatal injury to this person?"

Xiao Tao pushed his glasses up again and was about to speak when Qi Fei interrupted him and said, "Speak human language!"

Xiao Tao cleared his throat and said, "Based on the examination of the skeleton, it's very likely that this person died of cancer."

Now it was Wu Shanqiu's turn to be curious: "Can you tell from the bones?"

"can."

"How did you get it?"

"Brother Fei forbad me to say that." Xiao Tao had a blank expression on his face, but his words were meant to be mischievous.

Qi Fei heard this and said helplessly: "Okay, it doesn't matter if you say this one sentence, go ahead!"

Xiao Tao then slowly replied, "Generally speaking, a histological examination of bones reveals characteristic changes of cancer, such as tumor cell atypia, increased mitotic activity, and necrosis. This skeleton shows these signs."

(End of this chapter)