Chapter 338

As Li Hao was secretly lamenting in his heart, he saw Li Yuning seemingly wanting to climb down the elevator shaft to the very bottom to take a look, so he hurriedly reminded her: "The bottom has already been cleared, and the elevator wreckage has been removed; basically everything has been transported back to the Baizhou Law Enforcement Bureau and the Xuanmi Group."

"I'm not looking for those; what I'm looking for are things you can't see." Li Yuning smiled, and after using the flashlight's beam to identify a few footholds, she landed at the very bottom with a few agile movements and jumps.

The other person's agile skills made Li Hao feel somewhat emotional; although she looked unhealthy, her movements were decisive and clean, and it was impossible to tell she was any worse than an average healthy person, perhaps even more capable.

Li Hao stood above without following her down; he helped hold the light to illuminate the bottom so that Li Yuning could see more clearly, and incidentally, he also wanted to take this opportunity to observe Li Yuning.

The physical health condition Li Yuning revealed about herself made one feel pity, but just as the Xuanmi Group represented by Chen Feng had said, there were some strange things about this young girl.

Crouching down, Li Hao observed Li Yuning's actions, only to see her circle the bottom of the elevator shaft, then look up at the top; her seemingly perfunctory search only lasted five minutes, and then she indicated she had seen something, climbed back out of the elevator shaft the same way, and returned to the elevator entrance on the first floor.

Li Hao reached out to help pull Li Yuning up, then asked curiously: "What did you discover?"

"Although Zhao Zheng might not have been a special human with extraordinary intuition while he was alive, he definitely had direct contact with some Abnormalities during this period." Li Yuning clapped her hands to shake off the dust, rubbed them hard to try and scrub off the black paint, and spoke to explain at the same time.

Li Hao's heart jolted, "So, he is the true Patient Zero of this Abnormal incident."

"It's not certain yet, Uncle Li; please trouble yourself to take me to Zhao Zheng's home and residence, and if possible, you can also organize a record of Zhao Zheng's itinerary for the past few months for me." Li Yuning shook her head, unable to give a definitive answer.

Li Hao nodded and drove Li Yuning to Zhao Zheng's former residence.

It was not far, located within a luxury apartment complex near Baizhou Tower; Li Hao had accidentally checked the property prices of this building before, and after hearing them, he was almost scared to death, secretly grumbling to himself: "Working as a security guard for these ten years is much more comfortable than my twenty-plus years as an Enforcer; having someone backing you is truly something."

Arriving at Zhao Zheng's residence, the other party lived in a single-unit penthouse where the entire floor was his territory; just as they stepped out of the elevator, Li Hao saw the brazier placed at the entrance still containing the ashes of yellow paper, and the door frame was wrapped in white strips and white flowers, full of the sorrowful atmosphere of a funeral, while simultaneously giving people a strange sense of eeriness and unease.

At this moment, a young woman with a face full of exhaustion walked out of the door; seeing Li Hao and Li Yuning arriving by elevator, she barely managed to show a host's attitude to welcome the two.

This person was Zhao Zheng's wife, Lu Min; before coming, Li Hao had already greeted Lu Min, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to take the elevator to this top floor.

The independent units in this complex had special privileges; their elevators were exclusive, and without an invitation from the owner or the owner's dedicated magnetic card, outsiders could not go up to them.

Entering the house, Li Hao looked at the decor of the wealthy household that met his eyes, his attention somewhat stolen away.

"The two of you, please sit here for a moment; the refrigerator is right next to you, and the tea and cups are under the coffee table cabinet. Please help yourselves to whatever you'd like to drink; I'll go help you tidy up and organize my husband's belongings from when he was alive," Lu Min said apologetically; from the moment they met, a lingering sorrow remained between her brows, and presumably, her husband's death had a significant impact on her.

After Lu Min turned and entered the room, Li Yuning unceremoniously took a drink from the refrigerator, inserted a straw and drank, then began to wander around the living room.

You really are just helping yourself. Li Hao watched Li Yuning's behavior, feeling somewhat between laughter and tears; he could control his own mouth and wasn't thirsty, so he followed behind the young girl with his hands behind his back.

Zhao Zheng was likely a trendy digital enthusiast, as there were many smart home appliances in the house; although the decor looked relatively simple, it revealed an expensive "low-key" nature everywhere. Li Hao felt that the price of this entire set of smart home appliances would be more than half of his twenty-plus years of savings.

Therefore, in a house based on a minimalist style, the sudden appearance of a vase that did not match the decor style appeared extremely conspicuous and abrupt.

The vase's pattern was composed of a variety of complex, variegated color blocks, with yellow, green, white, black, and brown as the main colors; those color blocks seemed to possess life, and in a blink, it felt as if they were moving.

"It's a Three-color Glazed Pottery, an old antique, with a history of about fifteen hundred years." Just as Li Hao was curious about whether this vase was an antique, Li Yuning picked up the vase to examine and appraise it closely, "But this piece of pottery is not entirely the work of humans."

Hearing this, Li Hao was startled, then retreated a few steps, lowered his shocked tone, and whispered: "Could it be that this is an Abnormal object?"

"You could say that; if a person stares at these color blocks for too long, their eyes will be deceived by these color blocks, as if the pattern of the color blocks is changing over time, and in the end, it should combine into an existence you wouldn't want to know about or see." Li Yuning did not deny it, but she personally seemed not to want to classify this item in that category.

"Could it be that Zhao Zheng was targeted by the Child of Cruelty because he saw this?" Li Hao hurriedly pressed for an answer.

Li Yuning: "That's possible, but it can't be fully confirmed; we can ask Ms. Lu later."

After waiting for more than half an hour, Lu Min was drenched in sweat, looking disheveled, her hair soaked through by sweat and sticking to her pretty face, with two red flushes high on her cheeks, breathing softly; there was an inexplicable, moving charm to her.

Li Hao dared not look, focusing his attention on the box of items Lu Min had organized; the razor, comb, and other things placed on top were indeed private enough to be Zhao Zheng's belongings from when he was alive.

Li Yuning unceremoniously reached in to rummage through them, her speed very fast; she would pass one to Li Hao for a second look after flipping through it, but Li Hao couldn't keep up with the young girl's speed at all.

Finally, everything in the box had been flipped through; Li Hao had only looked at less than half, but Li Yuning had already finished, and she began to ask Lu Min about the vase.

"That vase... it was given to me by a sister I met after I attended a Socialite Gathering. That person herself was a wealthy lady who was quite generous to her friends. I had known her for less than half a month when she invited me to her home to enjoy the collection, and this was one of the vases placed in the living room that she took the initiative to give me when I was leaving after returning from her house." Lu Min gave everyone an unexpected answer.

The vase was not Zhao Zheng's.