Chapter 121: Volume 1, Chapter 121: Tenant (9)

Finally, she didn't have to livestream every day; Jiang Zhi looked at the money in the bag on the ground, and her mood instantly improved.

She hummed a song, hopped over to the sofa, and began cleaning.

Just after she had finished airing the sofa cover, a commotion suddenly came from outside the door.

She oddly opened the door and saw several police officers walking into the apartment of the fat man next door, Zhang Hao.

The doorway was cordoned off with police tape; shortly after, two people carried out a stretcher, the white cloth stained with dark red blood that dripped from the edges.

"I saw the person living in that household yesterday; how did they die today?"

"I just took a sneak look—the death state is horrible! It's torture, not even human-like."

"I don't even know who he provoked…"

The tenants crowded in the hallway chatted back and forth, spreading all kinds of gossip.

【Discovered the serial killer case.】

Jiang Zhi covered her mouth, her eyes showing panic.

That serial killer killed someone right next door to her.

When did this happen? This building isn't soundproof at all, and the tenants on the same floor are even worse.

Zhang Hao was killed; she should have heard the commotion.

Why has she heard nothing from last night until now?

The several police officers next door questioned all the tenants on this floor, including Jiang Zhi.

"When did you see Zhang Hao?"

Jiang Zhi answered truthfully.

The day before yesterday, when she went out to that half-road where the Strong J Case occurred, she encountered Zhang Hao coming to hit on her.

Zhang Hao also asked her for her phone number.

After the police finished questioning, they left.

Jiang Zhi saw the tenant Gong Shao on this floor.

He is the captain of the Serious Crime Squad responsible for this case.

Gong Shao was still dressed in casual, loose attire; his slippers slapped the floor with a pat-pat sound.

Jiang Zhi hurried over and whispered to him, "Officer Uncle, I think the serial killer lives on this floor."

Gong Shao had been so busy these two days he couldn't even find time to drink water; he raised an eyebrow, neither confirming nor denying her words.

"Then who do you think it is?"

Jiang Zhi pursed her dry lips, hesitated, then said, "I don't know who it is either, but I'm sure it's definitely one of the tenants here."

Gong Shao had no patience to listen to her, clicked his tongue, and walked past her to leave.

Jiang Zhi hurriedly stepped in front of him, a little anxious, "Officer Uncle, I have something else important to tell you."

A shadow lingered in Gong Shao's eyes as he flipped through the documents in his hand, then promptly pulled out a cigarette, bit it between his lips, and in a moment, clouds and mist rose up.

"Speak."

Jiang Zhi took a deep breath and spoke solemnly:

"What I'm about to say may be hard for you to believe, but everything I say is true; the tenants on this floor are not normal people……"

"I just want to ask you, Officer Uncle, is it possible that those people were killed by vampires?"

"Huh?" Gong Shao almost burned his fingers.

Jiang Zhi thought he didn't understand, so she explained: "It's vampires, Western vampires, they suck human blood, have two fangs, and their skin is snow-white……"

Her words trailed off; in her peripheral vision she caught a familiar figure—indeed, it was the white-haired vampire living next door to her.

Jiang Zhi's body suddenly stiffened; she trembled as she shifted her steps, hiding herself inside.

His hearing probably isn't that good, right?

Until Gong Shao's laughter broke her train of thought.

"Hahaha——"

He stubbed out the cigarette, laughing until he bent forward and backward, obviously treating her as a joke.

After laughing, Gong Shao sneered, "Are you a pig? How could vampires possibly exist in this world?"

Having said that, the man turned and walked away.

Jiang Zhi, being called a pig for the first time: "……"

As expected.

No normal person would believe something like this!!

But that white-haired one really is a major suspect!

He possesses speed, strength, and explosive power far beyond that of an ordinary person; if he wanted to kill someone, it would truly be as easy as flipping his palm.

To kill Zhang Hao next door silently, without a sound, only he could do that.

Jiang Zhi returned to the doorway, glanced at the police tape cordoning off the neighbor's apartment, and inexplicably felt a chill.

If the serial killer intends to kill her tonight, she won't live to see tomorrow morning.

There are still more than ten days.

She must find the serial killer within these days.

"Jiang Zhi."

A familiar voice came from beside her.

Jiang Zhi followed the sound and saw Le Zhou, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.

Le Zhou looked as if he hadn't slept all night, his face full of weariness, travel-worn, his eyes filled with worry: "As soon as I arrived, I heard there was a murder in our building, right next door to you—are you okay?"

Jiang Zhi shook her head: "I'm fine."

Le Zhou let out a breath, scratched their head, and said: "These past few days I went back to my hometown; I only just returned today."

As he spoke, he smiled a little embarrassedly, took out a box containing something from behind him, and handed it to her.

"This is a specialty from my hometown; I'm giving it to you."

A shy young man.

Jiang Zhi waved her hand, embarrassedly saying, "No need."

Le Zhou's eyes showed a hint of disappointment: "Actually, it's not anything precious; I specially brought it for you."

Hearing that, Jiang Zhi could only accept it.

He also gave himself a keychain trinket, a cute little doll; he said he bought it as a souvenir with the specialty.

After he left, Jiang Zhi returned to her room, placed the keychain trinket by the entrance, and set the specialty on the table.

Late at night.

Lying in bed, Jiang Zhi was awakened by the sound of chopping meat; she opened her bleary eyes, the room was pitch black, and her senses became unusually sharp.

"Thud—thud—thud—"

It was the sound of a cleaver hitting the chopping board.

Jiang Zhi suddenly became fully awake and turned on the bedroom light as quickly as possible.

That sound did not stop; in fact, it became even clearer.

It was coming from the neighboring room.

She remembered that the corpse discovered today by Zhang Hao, who lives next door, (was).

Jiang Zhi trembled as she curled up under the blanket, not daring to move a muscle.

Whose sound was that coming from next door?

The sound of chopping meat came clearly to her ears; Jiang Zhi plugged her ears, but she could still hear it.

"Wuu-wuu-wuu, I'm so scared."

As soon as she finished speaking,

The sound stopped abruptly.

Jiang Zhi pulled her fingers from her ears and listened carefully.

The sound really disappeared.

She huddled against the headboard, letting out a relieved sigh.

While she was sleeping in a daze, she didn't know that the landlord next door, who was chopping meat, was being strangled by the white-haired vampire.

The landlord's family sold pork; this tenant had died, the house was empty, so he thought he'd chop tomorrow's pork here, but before he had chopped for long, a white figure suddenly appeared before his eyes.

It frightened him greatly; he thought it was a ghost, but didn't expect it to be the tenant from room 604.

"Save… save me…"

He struggled desperately with his legs, thinking he was about to die, when his vision blurred and both he and the pork were flung onto the main road.

The white figure also vanished from before his eyes.

The landlord's eyes rolled back, and he immediately fainted.

Meanwhile, Jiang Zhi, who slept until waking the next morning, had an uneasy night's sleep, constantly dreaming of a burly man chopping human meat in front of her.