After understanding animal language, the villainous girl is guaranteed to become a heartthrob.

Chapter 14 There's someone under the bed...

Tangyuan and Xiaoshu didn't know how to describe the stinky smell.

So this is what they call a musty smell!

Fu Xiaoxiao opened the window, and the wind rushing in stirred the curtains, so she simply pulled the entire curtain open.

It was pitch black outside the window, and the cold wind was howling.

Jiang Yuan chose a supernatural suspense film where girls in the dormitory are disappearing one by one.

Every night, the girls live in fear, afraid that they will be the next to disappear.

Halfway through the movie, Fu Xiaoxiao, who had been holding her pee for a long time, finally couldn't hold it in anymore.

"I need to go to the restroom."

Jiang Yuan turned her head to look at her and teased, "Are you brave enough to go alone? I'll go with you."

“No need,” Fu Xiaoxiao said. “I’ll have Xiaoshu and Tangyuan keep me company.”

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Jiang Yuan picked up the remote and pressed pause.

Fu Xiaoxiao took a cat and a dog to the room to use the toilet.

The more she tried not to recall the plot, the more easily those images surfaced in her mind.

Fu Xiaoxiao became increasingly frightened as she thought about it, and hurriedly put on her pants and washed her hands.

As she stepped out of the restroom, she saw Tangyuan and Xiaoshu pacing around the room. She smiled and said, "Alright, you two little bodyguards, you can go now."

After walking a few steps, I realized that the two little ones hadn't followed.

Fu Xiaoxiao turned around to call them, but Tangyuan scurried under the bed.

"Tangyuan, what are you doing under the bed?" she asked helplessly.

After Tangyuan barked twice, Xiaoshu followed and crawled under the bed.

Fu Xiaoxiao was completely bewildered. "What are you two playing at this time?"

The sapling climbed out, meowed at her a few times, and then burrowed back inside.

Although Fu Xiaoxiao couldn't understand animal language, she could still guess what the little tree meant.

Fu Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, then walked over. "Is there some fun toy under the bed?"

**
Jiang Yuan sat cross-legged on the sofa, thinking about Gu Lingling.

The video shows that she did come to Villa No. 6, but under what circumstances would the surveillance cameras fail to capture any trace of her presence?
What could have caused her to suddenly stop contacting her mother?
As Jiang Yuan was thinking, she suddenly heard a piercing scream.

"what--"

Jiang Yuan's thoughts were interrupted, and her expression changed the next second. "Xiao Xiao!" She immediately got up and rushed out.

Inside the room, Fu Xiaoxiao slumped to the floor, her face deathly pale, her eyes red-rimmed, and her whole body trembling uncontrollably.

"What's wrong, Xiaoxiao?" Jiang Yuan came to her side and asked anxiously, "What happened?"

"Yuan Yuan!" Fu Xiaoxiao threw herself into her arms, choking back tears, "Under the bed, there's...there's someone under the bed..."

She wasn't sure if it was a living person or...

Jiang Yuan tried to look down, but Fu Xiaoxiao stopped her, saying, "Don't look! It's too scary!"

"Okay, I won't look." Jiang Yuan patted her back reassuringly and said softly, "Let's go out first and see how to handle this."

"Okay." Fu Xiaoxiao was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she could only walk back to the audiovisual room with the help of Jiang Yuan.

Tangyuan and Xiaoshu followed them out, chatting as they walked.

"So it was this person who smelled musty!"

"How can a human smell so bad? That's so strange!"

"That's hilarious! Why don't humans sleep in beds, but instead sleep under them?"

"Are you playing hide-and-seek?"

Jiang Yuan closed the door to the video room, touched Fu Xiaoxiao's hand, and felt that she was still trembling. He reached out and hugged her, saying, "Don't be afraid."

"Yuan Yuan, is that person dead...?" Fu Xiaoxiao's voice was choked with sobs.

"should be."

How could a living person smell bad?

"Yuan Yuan, shall we call the police?"

"it is good."

Jiang Yuan took out her phone and made a call.

When the operator asked her about the situation, she suddenly remembered Li Ailan from that afternoon and Gu Lingling with her sweet smile in the video. She hoped it wasn't what she was thinking.

When Fu Xiaoxiao saw the image on the screen, she panicked even more and picked up the remote to turn off the projector.

Ten minutes later, police sirens sounded downstairs.

Fu Xiaoxiao's tense nerves finally relaxed.

The police came up to the second floor and carried the entire bed away.

Fu Xiaoxiao covered her eyes, unable to look.

Jiang Yuan mustered her courage to look at that face, her heart sank, and her brows furrowed tightly.

She had just seen this face in a video today.

She gripped Fu Xiaoxiao's hand tightly and whispered, "Xiaoxiao, it's Gu Lingling."

[System 009: Congratulations, Ms. Jiang, on completing the task. You have received the reward: Monkey Dictionary.]

Fu Xiaoxiao was startled, opened her eyes, and asked incredulously, "Is it really Lingling?"

Jiang Yuan nodded.

Fu Xiaoxiao glanced at it cautiously.

A police officer overheard their conversation and asked, "Do you know each other?"

"I don't know her." Jiang Yuan shook her head and recounted her encounter with Li Ailan that afternoon.

The villa's manager heard the sirens and rushed over, quickly arranging for Jiang Yuan and Fu Xiaoxiao to move to another villa.

But Fu Xiaoxiao had lost interest in staying there. After giving her statement, she returned to her apartment in the city with Jiang Yuan.

Fu Xiaoxiao dared not turn off the lights and tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.

At 5:30 a.m., the sky was already beginning to lighten.

"Every time I close my eyes, I see Lingling's face." Fu Xiaoxiao felt so painful.

"Don't overthink it," Jiang Yuan comforted her. "I'll stay with you, go to sleep."

She said that, but the image of Gu Lingling dying with her eyes wide open kept flashing through her mind.

Li Ailan should know about this by now, right?

Will she break down?

Jiang Yuan and Fu Xiaoxiao didn't fall asleep until eight or nine in the morning.

**
Jiang Yuan woke up at around 1 p.m.

The screen displayed one unread text message and more than ten WeChat messages.

The text message was from Si Heng; he already knew about the case at Villa No. 6, Yunshan Hot Spring last night.

Jiang Yuan opened WeChat and saw more than ten other messages from Li Ailan.

Li Ailan: [Miss Jiang, something's happened to my Lingling!]

Li Ailan: [Lingling was found in Villa No. 6. Could you please tell me the details of last night? Please!]

Li Ailan: [Ms. Jiang, I know it's wrong of me to bother you like this, but I really have no other choice. I don't know who else to turn to...]

Li Ailan: [They said they couldn't find out how Lingling got to Villa No. 6, there were no security cameras inside, they couldn't find any evidence! And they couldn't find the murderer!]

Li Ailan: [I really don't want to see Lingling die unjustly!]

……

Jiang Yuan stood in front of the French windows, watching the heavy snow falling all around her, her mood growing heavier and heavier.

Half an hour later, she made a voice call to Li Ailan on WeChat and recounted in detail how she discovered Gu Lingling's body the previous night.

On the other end of the WeChat message, Li Ailan broke down in tears.

Jiang Yuan didn't know how to comfort her.

After all, at times like these, any words of comfort are pale and powerless.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Ailan gradually calmed down and said in a hoarse voice, "Miss Jiang, thank you. I'm sorry for troubling you."

Jiang Yuan opened her mouth, but in the end only uttered two words softly: "Please accept my condolences."

The next time Fu Xiaoxiao saw news about Li Ailan was two days later, when she forwarded a video to Jiang Yuan.

Li Ailan knelt on the bustling pedestrian street, holding a banner to seek justice for her daughter and pleading with the relevant departments to thoroughly investigate the truth.

(End of this chapter)