Chapter 14: There’s Someone… Under The Bed..
Tangyuan and Little Tree also didn’t know how to describe this smelly odor.
So this is called moldy smell!
Fu Xiaoxiao opened the window, and the wind that rushed in stirred the curtains. She simply pulled open the entire curtain.
Outside the window was pitch black, and the cold wind howled.
Jiang Yuan chose a supernatural suspense film, where girls in the dormitory disappeared one after another.
Every late night, the girls were on edge, afraid they would be the next to disappear.
The movie was halfway through, and Fu Xiaoxiao, who had been holding her bladder for a long time, finally couldn’t resist.
“I need to go to the restroom.”
Jiang Yuan turned her head to look at her and teased, “Are you daring to go alone? I’ll go with you.”
“No need,” Fu Xiaoxiao said, “I’ll have Little Tree and Tangyuan accompany me.”
“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 restroom.
The more she didn’t want to recall the plot, the more those scenes appeared in her mind.
Fu Xiaoxiao felt more and more scared, hurriedly put on her pants, and washed her hands.
Walking out of the restroom, she saw Tangyuan and Little Tree pacing in the room, saying with a smile, “Alright, my two little bodyguards, you can go now.”
After walking a few steps, she realized the two little ones hadn’t followed.
Fu Xiaoxiao turned back to call them, but Tangyuan instead burrowed under the bed.
“Tangyuan, why are you running under the bed?” she asked helplessly.
After Tangyuan barked twice, Little Tree also burrowed under the bed.
Fu Xiaoxiao felt extremely bewildered, “What are you two playing now?”
Little Tree crawled out, meowed a few times at her, and then crawled back in.
Although Fu Xiaoxiao couldn’t understand animal language, she could guess what Little Tree meant.
Fu Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, then walked over, “Is there a fun toy under the bed?”
Jiang Yuan sat cross-legged on the sofa, thinking about Gu Lingling’s matter.
From the video, it could be seen that she had indeed come to Villa No. 6, but under what circumstances did the surveillance not capture any trace of her presence?
And for what reason did she suddenly stop contacting her mother?
As Jiang Yuan was thinking, she suddenly heard a piercing scream.
“Ah—”
Jiang Yuan’s thoughts were interrupted, and the next second her face changed, “Xiaoxiao!” She immediately got up and rushed out.
In the room, Fu Xiaoxiao was slumped on the floor, her face pale, her eyes red, and her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
“What’s wrong, Xiaoxiao?” Jiang Yuan came to her side and asked nervously, “What happened?”
“Yuan Yuan!” Fu Xiaoxiao threw herself into her arms, choking out, “Under the bed, under the bed, there’s… someone…”
She was uncertain if it was a living person or…
Jiang Yuan wanted to look down, but Fu Xiaoxiao stopped her, “Don’t look! It’s too scary!”
“Okay, I won’t look,” Jiang Yuan patted her back comfortingly and said softly, “Let’s go out first and see what to do.”
“Okay,” Fu Xiaoxiao was so scared her legs went weak, and she had to rely on Jiang Yuan to walk back to the media room.
Tangyuan and Little Tree also followed out, chatting as they walked.
“So it was this person who smelled moldy!”
“How can a human be so smelly? How strange!”
“That’s hilarious, why don’t humans sleep on the bed and instead sleep under it?”
“Are they playing hide-and-seek?”
Jiang Yuan closed the door of the media room, touched Fu Xiaoxiao’s hand, and felt her still trembling, reaching out to hug her, “Don’t be afraid.”
“Yuan Yuan, is that person dead…” Fu Xiaoxiao’s voice was filled with sobbing.
“Probably.”
If it were a living person, how could they smell like that?
“Yuan Yuan, should we call the police then?”
“Okay.”
Jiang Yuan took out her phone and made a call.
As the operator asked her about the situation, she suddenly remembered Li Ailan from the afternoon and Gu Lingling with the sweet smile in the video.
She hoped it wasn’t what she thought.
Fu Xiaoxiao’s heart became even more panicked as she saw the image on the screen, and she picked up the remote to turn off the projector.
Ten minutes later, the sound of sirens was heard from downstairs.
Fu Xiaoxiao’s tense nerves finally relaxed.
The police arrived on the second floor and moved the entire bed away.
Fu Xiaoxiao covered her eyes, not daring to look.
Jiang Yuan mustered the courage to look at the face, and her heart suddenly sank, her eyebrows furrowed tightly.
She had just seen this face in a video today.
She squeezed Fu Xiaoxiao’s hand and said softly, “Xiaoxiao, it’s Gu Lingling.”
【System 009: Congratulations Miss Jiang on completing the mission, you have received a reward: Monkey Dictionary.】
Fu Xiaoxiao’s heart skipped a beat, she opened her eyes and asked her in disbelief, “Is it really Lingling?”
Jiang Yuan nodded.
Fu Xiaoxiao cautiously glanced over.
A police officer heard their conversation and asked, “Do you know her?”
“No,” Jiang Yuan shook her head and recounted the situation of encountering Li Ailan that afternoon.
The person in charge of the villa rushed over upon hearing the sirens and quickly arranged for Jiang Yuan and Fu Xiaoxiao to switch villas.
However, Fu Xiaoxiao had lost the mood to stay there, and after making her statement, she returned to the city apartment with Jiang Yuan.
Fu Xiaoxiao dared not turn off the lights and tossed and turned all night without sleep.
At 5:30 AM, the sky was already dimly lit.
“As soon as I close my eyes, I see Lingling’s face,” Fu Xiaoxiao felt so much pain.
“Don’t overthink,” Jiang Yuan comforted, “I’m with you, go to sleep.”
Although she said that, Gu Lingling’s unresigned expression kept flashing through her mind.
Li Ailan must know about this by now, right?
Will she break down?
Jiang Yuan and Fu Xiaoxiao didn’t fall into a drowsy sleep until around eight or nine in the morning.
Jiang Yuan woke up around 1 PM.
The screen showed one unread text message and over ten WeChat messages.
The text message was from Si Heng, who was already aware of the case at Cloud Mountain Hot Spring Villa No. 6 last night.
Jiang Yuan clicked into WeChat, and the other ten or so messages were all from Li Ailan.
Li Ailan: 【Miss Jiang, my Lingling is in trouble!】
Li Ailan: 【Lingling was found at Villa No. 6, can you tell me the specific situation last night? Please!】
Li Ailan: 【Miss Jiang, I know it’s wrong to bother you like this, but I really have no choice, I don’t know who else to turn to…】
Li Ailan: 【They said they couldn’t find out how Lingling went to Villa No. 6, there was no surveillance inside, no evidence could be found! And no murderer!】
Li Ailan: 【I really don’t want to see Lingling die unjustly!】
…
Jiang Yuan stood by the floor-to-ceiling window watching the heavy snowfall, her mood growing heavier.
Half an hour later, she made a voice call to Li Ailan on WeChat and carefully recounted the process of discovering Gu Lingling’s corpse last night.
On the other end of WeChat, Li Ailan sobbed uncontrollably.
Jiang Yuan didn’t know how to comfort her.
After all, at such a time, any comfort was pale and powerless.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Ailan gradually calmed down, her voice hoarse, “Miss Jiang, thank you, sorry for the trouble.”
Jiang Yuan opened her mouth, and finally softly said two words: “My condolences.”
The next message from Li Ailan was two days later, when Fu Xiaoxiao forwarded a video to Jiang Yuan.
Li Ailan knelt on the busy pedestrian street, holding a banner, wanting to seek justice for her daughter and begging the relevant authorities to thoroughly investigate the truth.
