Translator: CinderTL
"So... is this your reason for coming out?" Jiang Cheng scrutinized Banana Wolf, who was standing outside the door, leaning against the wall, his legs still trembling uncontrollably. He frowned as he asked.
"Let him in," Wan Yuanning's voice came from behind the door. "It must be true."
Jiang Cheng opened the door wider, quickly glancing down the corridor to ensure there was no issue before fully opening it. "Come in quickly," he urged.
Banana Wolf, his face twisted in discomfort, with faint tear stains at the corners of his eyes, pleaded, "Can someone... someone come out and help me? My leg is cramping. I had to lean against the wall to get here. I really can't..."
Seeing that no one was willing to step outside, Banana Wolf had no choice but to lean against the wall and shuffle in step by step.
Once he was seated on the sofa, Banana Wolf's complexion improved slightly. There was blood on his shoulder from where Weng Qing had scratched him earlier.
Chu Jiu, noticing this, hurried to the dining room, rummaged through a drawer, and found some medicine and bandages, which she then brought back.
"Bear with it," Chu Jiu said as she pulled down Banana Wolf's shirt to apply the medicine. Banana Wolf repeatedly thanked her.
"Have you figured out what's going on?" Jiang Cheng didn't mince words. The introduction outside the door had been too rushed, and there hadn't been time to ask.
After taking a sip of water, Banana Wolf's expression stabilized, though his heart was still pounding. "Yes, I think... I've got it mostly figured out."
"Oh," Banana Wolf's eyes suddenly widened as if he had just remembered something. He said angrily, "That landlord is no good. He tricked a lot of people into coming here."
Seeing Banana Wolf's furious expression, if it weren't for his immobile legs, he would have rushed downstairs to give the landlord a beating.
"We've already taught him a lesson," Fatty patted Banana Wolf's uninjured shoulder, comforting him. "Don't worry, we gave him a good beating!"
"What about the woman from room 808?" Jiang Cheng cut to the chase.
Hearing this question, Banana Wolf's expression turned serious, and he sat up straight. "That girl's name is Lin Chen, and her boyfriend is Li Maoshen!"
"And..." Banana Wolf frowned, a cold glint flashing in his eyes, "this Li Maoshen is also the pretty boy who abandoned Sister Qing."
"Him?"
"Yes," Banana Wolf nodded. "Sister Qing found out he was fooling around outside, and that's why she ended up like this. But she doesn't seem to know about the relationship between Li Maoshen and Yu Youwei."
Jiang Cheng agreed with this because, in his earlier conversation with Weng Qing, she seemed to have a good impression of Yu Youwei.
If she had known about the affair between Li Maoshen and Yu Youwei, she definitely wouldn't have spoken so highly of her.
Licking his lips, Banana Wolf added in a very soft voice, "I was worried that Sister Qing and Yu Youwei might fight, so I didn't tell Sister Qing about the affair between Yu Youwei and Li Maoshen."
Fatty, looking at Banana Wolf's rather delicate appearance, blurted out, "Bro, I didn't realize you were so clever."
Banana Wolf gave a bitter smile, thinking that if he weren't clever, he'd probably be hanging on the wall by now, let alone talking about clues.
"We need to help Sister Qing. She's too pitiful," Banana Wolf said passionately. "I promised her I'd help catch Li Maoshen and bring him to justice."
"But Li Maoshen is already dead," Fatty blinked.
Wan Yuanning, however, seemed to understand something. She gave Banana Wolf a deep look and said, "You mean you want to use a ghost to deal with a ghost?"
In this instance, there were quite a few ghosts, but Weng Qing was a special one.
She could appear during the day, and apart from not being able to leave the room, she behaved just like a normal person.
Did this mean that in terms of strength, Weng Qing was also superior to Li Maoshen and Yu Youwei?
"Knock knock."
"Knock."
"Knock knock knock."
A soft knocking sound came from the door, two short knocks followed by a long one, very rhythmic. Chu Jiu, who was tidying up the medicine and bandages, looked up and whispered, "It's Hua Luo. He's back."
It seemed this was their agreed-upon signal.
After opening the door, Hua Luo quickly walked in, his eyes filled with an indescribable panic. The moment he entered the room, the atmosphere became tense.
"I've got the information on the girl who jumped from room 808," Hua Luo said quickly.
"What's going on?"
He didn't even drink the water Chu Jiu handed him. Instead, he immediately took out a phone, tapped the screen a few times, and a report-style document appeared.
However, the part where the name should have been was still blacked out.
"I haven't found out the girl's name yet. This is the initial autopsy report," Hua Luo took a deep breath. "Take a look."
Since the phone screen was small, everyone had to huddle together to see. But slowly, Chu Jiu, who was in the middle, turned pale.
"How... how is this possible?" Chu Jiu stammered. "This woman was already dead before she jumped!"
"And she had been dead for at least half a month?"
In the autopsy report issued by the forensic examiner, it was clear that upon opening the woman's chest cavity, a foul stench wafted out. It didn't feel like a fresh corpse that had just fallen to its death but rather like a long-dead, decaying body.
Even more bizarrely, there was no sign of it on the surface—no cadaveric lividity, no bruises. Apart from the injuries caused by the fall, there was nothing.
The report even included specific descriptions like "smooth skin" and "elastic."
The autopsy report was issued on the third day after the jump, neither too fast nor too slow. It seemed the police initially treated this case as an ordinary one.
But right after this autopsy report was issued, the woman's body was taken to the crematorium and cremated in the early hours of the fourth day.
It all happened within 24 hours.
After that, all files related to this case were sealed, both internally and externally. Even in the police station's own archives, the woman's name was concealed.
After reading the content on the phone, everyone finally understood why this case was so deeply hidden.
It seemed the level of weirdness had alarmed the police.
But what they didn't expect was that Hua Luo shook his head and said, "There's more. Actually, the woman's body wasn't cremated. It went missing."
"Missing?"
"Yes," Hua Luo nodded, his expression unusually serious. "It disappeared from the police station. After the autopsy, the body was placed in the temporary morgue at the station. It was supposed to be taken away by the funeral home in the dead of night, with a police escort. But when they opened the door, the body was gone."
"Someone stole the body?"
After a moment of silence, Hua Luo took the phone and opened a video. The footage was very blurry, seemingly taken on a rainy night at an inconspicuous street corner.
A disheveled figure, wrapped in a large raincoat that almost reached the ground, staggered out from the corner.
"That night, a raincoat also went missing from the police station's autopsy room," Hua Luo's voice suddenly rang out.
(End of the Chapter)
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