You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes.

In that instant, it was as if the entire world, which had been ripped away, carrying dust and musty smells, rushed back into his senses.

Su Ke'er's tense heartbeat and the howling wind outside the window became clearly audible.

But he ignored it.

His gaze pierced through the swirling dust in the dim light, fixing on the huge floor-to-ceiling mirror at the far end of the music room, which almost covered the entire wall.

The mirror reflected his calm figure, and behind him, Su Ke'er, who was clutching his clothes and trembling.

Everything seemed so normal.

Seeing Lin Chen's extremely serious expression, Su Ke'er didn't dare to breathe.

Lin Chen took out his phone, the screen illuminating his cold, handsome profile.

He dialed Su Qingge's number.

The call was answered almost instantly.

"Feed?"

Su Qingge's voice carried a hint of suppressed anxiety.

Lin Chen's tone was concise and to the point, without a trace of unnecessary emotion.

"The old art building, the music room at the far end of the third floor."

"Bring your men here, immediately."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Before Su Ke'er could react, Lin Chen strode towards the huge floor-to-ceiling mirror.

He stretched out his slender fingers and gently tapped on the cold mirror surface.

"Knock, knock."

The sound was muffled, echoing in the empty music room.

However, in the sound field model constructed by Lin Chen's god-like hearing, this dull echo carried an extremely subtle and abnormal delay and resonance.

Behind the mirror, there is nothing.

A cold smile slowly curved the corners of Lin Chen's lips.

found it.

Within two minutes, a series of hurried and chaotic footsteps approached from afar in the hallway.

"Bang!"

The door to the music room was pushed open roughly.

Su Qingge took the lead, rushing in with two fully armed special police officers, her face full of solemnity.

Following closely behind was Li Mingyu, whose face was full of impatience.

Behind him followed a middle-aged man with a bloated belly and sweating profusely; he was the school's dean of students.

As soon as Li Mingyu entered, he saw Lin Chen standing in front of the huge mirror with his hands behind his back, looking focused.

His impatience instantly turned into deep sarcasm, and he let out a cold laugh.

"Hey, Advisor Lin, instead of investigating the case, you're here admiring yourself in the mirror?"

"What, do you think you're exceptionally wise and powerful?"

He stepped forward and, in a lecturing tone, deliberately raised his voice.

"I'm telling you, the real culprit, the old security guard Wang Defa, has already confessed!"

"Now we have all the witnesses and physical evidence; we're just waiting for the signatures to close the case!"

"I advise you to stop playing tricks and trying to attract attention. Get back to your group!"

Lin Chen seemed not to hear his nagging.

He didn't even turn around to look at Li Mingyu. He simply raised his hand, pointed to the spotless mirror in front of him, and said to Su Qingge in a calm tone.

"Smash it open."

Two words, light and airy, instantly plunged the entire room into a deathly silence.

Everyone stared at him in astonishment, thinking they had misheard.

"What?!"

The head of student affairs was the first to scream, his obese body trembling with excitement.

"No! Absolutely not!"

"This...this is a complete set of artistic mirrors that our school imported from Italy at great expense! Each piece costs over ten thousand yuan! What right do you have to smash it?"

Li Mingyu was like a powder keg that had been lit, instantly erupting in rage.

He pointed at Lin Chen's nose and began to curse him, spitting as he did so.

"Lin Chen! Are you fucking crazy?! Who do you think you are?!"

"Do you know what kind of behavior that is—intentionally damaging public property?"

"Don't even mention a worthless consultant like you; even if the bureau chief came, he'd still have to follow procedure!"

"I now strongly suspect that you are deliberately obstructing official business! I hereby order you to get out of here immediately!"

"Otherwise, I will submit a report to the bureau and hold you accountable!"

Su Qingge frowned deeply, looking at Lin Chen with hesitation and struggle in her eyes.

Reason told her that Li Mingyu was right.

But her intuition, the intuition honed by countless brushes with death as a criminal investigator, was frantically warning her.

She looked into Lin Chen's eyes, which were so firm that no doubt was allowed.

There wasn't a trace of a joke in those eyes.

Su Qingge bit her lower lip tightly, her mind in turmoil.

Finally, as if she had made up her mind, she suddenly raised her head and was about to speak to the special police behind her.

"Ready..."

However, Lin Chen had lost all patience.

Explaining to idiots is always the biggest waste of time in the world.

He suddenly stepped back half a step with his right leg, his body sank slightly, and his waist and abdomen exerted force instantly, twisting all the power in his body into one in a flash.

Amidst everyone's horrified gazes, a powerful whip kick, like a battle axe, slammed into the very center of the mirror with a whistling sound that tore through the air!

"Bang—!!!"

A loud bang!

"Splash—!!!"

That expensive mirror suddenly exploded!

Countless shards of glass flew out in all directions, tracing arcs in the air!

The audience gasped!

Li Mingyu was about to unleash a torrent of curses when the words "You're asking for it" were already on the tip of his tongue.

But his voice seemed to be tightly gripped by an invisible hand, stuck in his throat, unable to utter a sound.

His pupils contracted to the size of pinpoints in an instant.

Behind the mirror, there was no solid wall at all!

Instead, it is a bottomless, dark, hollow interlayer!

As the mirror shattered, a pungent, nauseating odor surged forth from the dark void!

It was a mixture of formaldehyde and rosin, with a faint, almost imperceptible, bloody, putrid smell!

"vomit……"

The head of the teaching department, who was standing at the very front, couldn't take it anymore and immediately bent over and started retching.

Su Qingge and the two special police officers also changed their expressions drastically and subconsciously covered their mouths and noses.

A special police officer reacted quickly and immediately shone a powerful flashlight into the room.

The moment that bright beam of light pierced the darkness and illuminated the scene within the interlayer—

Everyone present, including the battle-hardened Su Qingge, felt a chill run from the soles of their feet straight to the top of their heads!

My scalp tingled instantly!

The beam of light first landed on the inner wall of the interlayer.

There, the walls were covered with all sorts of photos.

All of them are photos of Wang Qian's daily life as a missing female student: eating, playing the piano, smiling... It's like a morbid exhibition wall full of voyeuristic desires.

Then, the beam of light slowly moved downwards.

In the very center of the mezzanine, there is a "piano" that is just a skeleton!

That's not a real piano!

All the strings were replaced with a translucent silk thread that had an oily sheen.

Each thread was covered with pieces of dried, blackened flesh that looked like cured meat!

The beam of light moved again, shining on the end of the thread.

One end of these silk threads is connected to the frame of the instrument, while the other end is deeply embedded in the surrounding walls through a series of grotesque metal hooks!

This is not a musical instrument at all!

This is the most evil and terrifying resonance chamber in the world, created from human flesh and tendons!

Su Qingge's face turned deathly pale in an instant, and her stomach churned violently.

The entire scene was completely silent.

Only Li Mingyu's heavy, terrified breathing could be heard.

Lin Chen slowly withdrew his foot, dusted off non-existent dust from his trouser leg, and didn't even glance back at the hellish scene.

He simply turned his head, looked calmly at Li Mingyu, whose face was ashen and who was trembling like a leaf, and spoke softly.

The sound wasn't loud, but it felt like a series of slaps to Li Mingyu's face.

"Deputy Captain Li."

"Look, the design of this mechanism requires expertise in human anatomy, acoustic principles, chemical preservation techniques, and superb carpentry skills."

Lin Chen paused, a mocking smile curving his lips.

"Do you really think that old security guard, who can't even write his own name properly, would do something like that?"

Li Mingyu's lips trembled violently, and his face turned from white to red, then from red to purple, as if a dye shop had been opened.

He felt a burning pain in his cheeks!

It hurts even more than being slapped a hundred times in public!