Chapter 340: Beast Couple

Lu Min opened her heart and confessed everything; although it was unknown whether there was any falsehood in it, it was, at the very least, one step toward the truth.

Li Hao and Li Yuning also struck while the iron was hot, once again requesting to further search the house. This time, Lu Min did not hesitate or evade, and agreed.

Subsequently, Li Hao followed Li Yuning as she walked back and forth through the various rooms of the house. He followed behind, observing Li Yuning while keeping an eye on Lu Min. At one moment, he suddenly felt a bit mentally exhausted; he had not expected to have to keep watch over two people at once.

Li Hao did not know what method Li Yuning used to search, nor did he know how she judged whether something was related to Abnormal factors. He only saw Li Yuning wander through the rooms she had entered for the first time, and then she found things hidden in various corners and inconspicuous spots. She even discovered items that even surprised Lu Min, such as long-lost earrings, rings, and hairpins. But what shocked Lu Min the most was that there were actually secret compartments and hiding spots in the house she had lived in for so long that even she did not know about.

From those secret compartments and hiding spots that looked quite peculiar at a glance, Li Yuning pulled out some things that looked rather wrong.

A very special unmarked liquid medicine bottle, a portable hard drive, and a small soft-leather clown mask.

Li Yuning examined the medicine bottle. She opened a small slit in the cap, and the faint fragrance that had originally lingered around the bottle suddenly became much more intense. Just by smelling the scent that had suddenly become stronger, she felt a wave of dizziness and her body felt somewhat weak.

Li Hao hurriedly stepped forward to support Li Yuning's back, simultaneously snatching the medicine bottle from her hand. He moved further away to lightly sniff the scent of the agent in the bottle, his brows immediately knitting together. He said in a deep voice, "This is 'Obedience Water,' a hypnotic drug circulating on the black market. It is a potent sedative synthesized and processed from various hypnotic drugs. Usually, you only need to put one drop on a handkerchief and cover a person's nose and mouth before it finishes evaporating; even a sturdy adult male can be completely knocked out and rendered delirious within one minute."

"This is an absolutely prohibited drug. How could you have this thing in your home?"

Hearing this, Lu Min shook her head and waved her hands repeatedly, "I don't know, I really don't know why this thing is here."

"Could it be Zhao Zheng's thing?" Having not absorbed much of the anesthetic gas, Li Yuning slapped her cheeks hard, immediately feeling much more alert. She shook her somewhat sluggish head and asked.

Li Hao did not rush to reach a conclusion, but instead said, "There is that suspicion, but I cannot be certain."

He then glanced at the clown mask. The clown mask was designed to be eerie and ferocious, exuding an indescribable terror. Putting these elements aside, the mask was somewhat too large; it was clearly not suitable for a woman to wear. He only used his eyes to roughly measure the size of Lu Min's face and felt that Lu Min's face definitely would not match it perfectly. However, this was not absolute; in Li Hao's career of handling cases, some female criminals would also use items unsuitable for them, such as oversized raincoats, shoes, and certain murder weapons.

After Li Hao swept his gaze around the room, he had a hunch. He flipped the clown mask to the inner side, and the corners of his mouth immediately curled up. He looked at Lu Min with a strange expression—to be precise, at Lu Min's red lips—and smiled, "Ms. Lu, you really like to wear makeup, don't you? Even at home?"

"It's become a habit." Lu Min gave a dry laugh, then her eyes widened, as Li Hao displayed the back of the mask to her; there was a lipstick print left on the inner side, roughly where the lips would be.

Li Hao even leaned in slightly to sniff the mask. The scent of face powder emanating from the inside of the mask had accumulated over time from the wearer, and that fragrance seemed to have seeped into the "marrow" of the mask.

"Madam, this seems to be your item. How can you pretend not to recognize it?" Li Hao criticized her seriously and sternly regarding this.

Lu Min's entire face collapsed, her expression turned gloomy, and she looked at Li Yuning with unkind eyes, occasionally glancing at Li Hao as well. She fell silent and said nothing more.

Li Yuning pulled an adapter cable from somewhere and read the contents of the portable hard drive directly through her phone. No one expected the contents of the hard drive to be so "stunning."

Playing a certain video, Lu Min appeared in the frame wearing that outfit that did not fit her figure, wearing the clown mask, holding a Western-style short-pointed kitchen knife as she walked into the room. She arrived at the center of the frame and stood eerily beside a sleeping man.

Looking closely, that sleeping man was actually Zhao Zheng. Yet, even though his wife made such a loud commotion during the act, and even stood beside him muttering complaints, every word and every sentence carried thick murderous intent.

Suddenly, Lu Min let out a vicious gasp, gripped the knife handle with both hands, raised it high, and then stabbed it fiercely down toward Zhao Zheng's throat.

But the bloody scene that was expected did not appear, because the blade of Lu Min's knife stopped less than three centimeters away from the skin of Zhao Zheng's throat. After a one-second pause, Lu Min raised the kitchen knife high again and stabbed it down fiercely once more, but she still stopped the knife above the lethal area without continuing to pierce. The entire video repeated in this manner.

"Why do you do this kind of thing?" Li Hao asked, "Didn't you say before that you and your husband have a good relationship?"

"Heh..." Lu Min chuckled, emitting a cold, self-deprecating sound, "Isn't it natural for a husband and wife to hurt each other?"

"Hey, Uncle Li, look at this." Just as Li Hao was preparing to properly re-interrogate the other party, Li Yuning made another discovery.

It turned out that Li Yuning had randomly opened other videos. In the newly opened video, the two were shocked to find that the protagonist of the video had changed; to be precise, the identities of the victim and the perpetrator had been swapped.

The one lying on the bed had become Lu Min, and the one wearing the eerie mask and holding a weapon while repeatedly making attempts to kill their bedfellow had become Zhao Zheng.

Li Hao had Li Yuning open other videos and discovered that the couple had a daily round of "assassinating" each other, though the methods of committing the act might differ.

Seeing this, Li Hao had a sudden realization and looked at the silent Lu Min with a strange expression: "I didn't expect you two to play so wild and so specifically. To think you would actually want to vent the dissatisfaction of married life in this way. You really aren't afraid of something going wrong one day."

"Ah!"

Just as Li Hao said this sentence, he heard a miserable scream coming from the video being played. Li Hao looked over, his entire face wrinkling up.

Because this couple was indeed playing more and more perversely. Merely pretending to assassinate each other could no longer satisfy their fetishes, so they had committed even more "stimulating" and "vicious" acts. They had actually randomly attacked passersby, drugged them, brought them to a small house somewhere unknown, and had actually conspired together to kill a passerby!