ATFBETIBM Chapter 573

They were originally searching for the missing Xiaohua.

Now, another new skeleton has appeared.

Things were getting more and more bizarre.

“Officer Wang,” Mrs. Shen asked, “Besides Xiaohua’s case, are there any other unsolved cases of missing women in recent years?”

Wang Tou: “No, in these ten years, the police have been very effective in solving cases, including murders, and there are no outstanding cases of missing women.”

That made it even stranger.

Li Chongming: “Could it be that Xiaohua’s leg bone was taken out of the police station?”

Wang Tou denied again, “Although it has lost its skin tissue, everyone’s bone structure is still somewhat different. The shape of this leg bone is not the same as Xiaohua’s, so this is not Xiaohua’s leg bone.”

In just a few hours, three bodies had appeared in the wooden house.

Cao Jiyun.

Zhang Li.

And an unknown female skeleton.

Time passed second by second, and everyone was at a loss.

Li Chongming gave up on surviving and slumped on the sofa, his eyes empty and his face blank.

Mrs. Shen sat on the rattan chair where Xiao Xin had just been sleeping, staring straight at the skeleton, lost in thought.

Ran Jingjing leaned against the wall, still tightly holding the box, her eyes blocked by transparent glasses.

Wang Tou stood between the two bodies, stroking his chin as he carefully examined them, trying to find more clues.

Everyone stayed quietly in the living room, not going anywhere.

Because they realized that once they were separated from the group, it could likely mean death.

Cao Jiyun had died alone on the rattan chair, while Zhang Li had died alone in the kitchen.

But humans were not robots after all.

They spent two hours in silence. Ran Jingjing suddenly stood up straight and walked towards the corridor.

Mrs. Shen noticed, “Lawyer Ran, where are you going?”

Ran Jingjing: “To the bathroom.”

Mrs. Shen glanced at the bathroom, rubbed her belly, and finally gritted her teeth, “Oh.”

Ran Jingjing didn’t say anything more, she walked straight into the bathroom, and with a “bang”, forcefully closed the door.

Soon there was the sound of the faucet turning on in the toilet.

A few minutes later, the sound of running water was still there.

Li Chongming said weakly, “Lawyer Ran is really particular, even at this time, she wants to take a shower.”

“A shower?” Wang Tou was surprised, “How do you know she’s taking a shower?”

Li Chongming: “I’ve heard this sound a lot while managing rental houses, it’s the sound of water going into the bathtub.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Tou’s face changed dramatically and he rushed to the bathroom in three quick steps.

The bathroom door was locked. He pounded heavily on the door while shouting inside, “Lawyer Ran! Lawyer Ran!”

Inside the bathroom, there was no response.

Wang Tou lifted his foot and kicked the door hard.

With a loud bang, the lock deformed from the impact, and the moment the door opened, Wang Tou rushed in without hesitation.

Everyone realized something was wrong when Wang Tou rushed to the bathroom, and they followed him. When Wang Tou barged in, they entered the bathroom as well.

Deep in the narrow bathroom, the faucet next to the wooden bathtub was still running.

Next to the bathtub, Ran Jingjing’s young body lay draped over the edge in an “Ω” shape, her head submerged in the water and her legs kneeling outside.

Her arms hung weakly at her sides, and her neatly arranged hair was now scattered and spread across the water’s surface like a strange and enchanting ink chrysanthemum.

Wang Tou didn’t hesitate and ran over to quickly pull Ran Jingjing out of the water.

At this moment, Ran Jingjing’s face was completely devoid of color, soaked and water dripped down her clothes.

Mrs. Shen and Li Chongming stood at the back of the crowd, looking at each other with pale faces.

Mrs. Shen held her breath, “Ran Jingjing is dead too?”

Li Chongming muttered quietly, “Who told her to seek death? She went to the bathroom alone.”

Wang Tou had no time to pay attention to these two. He immediately began performing CPR on Ran Jingjing.

Pressing his broad hands on the center of her chest, Wang Tou stared at Ran Jingjing intently, not missing any changes in the other party.

Three minutes passed, five minutes… ten minutes…

Ran Jingjing still showed no signs of improvement, and her face was growing paler.

Mrs. Shen: “Officer Wang, stop pressing. Save your strength. She’s dead.”

Li Chongming echoed, “Yeah, that’s right.”

Wang Tou looked up and glared at the two bystanders, then pressed down on Ran Jingjing’s chest again, “The best rescue time after drowning is within half an hour. She still has a chance to survive!”

Mrs. Shen: “But it’s been over half an hour now.”

“Xiaohua can have someone dead by the third watch, who could keep her alive until the fifth? Stop now, Officer Wang.”

Wang Tou looked at Ran Jingjing’s lifeless face, and shouted with anger in his voice, “Ran Jingjing! Didn’t you want to find Xiaohua? Didn’t you want justice for Xiaohua? You’re just going to die like this, don’t you want to know who killed Xiaohua?! Wake up, wake up!”

“Ahem, ahem!”

Whether it was that Ran Jingjing’s fate had not yet ended, or Wang Tou’s words had stimulated her, Ran Jingjing, who had already lost her breath, suddenly coughed, expelling a transparent liquid.

Wang Tou’s eyes suddenly lit up. He quickly turned Ran Jingjing over and pounded her back a few times, helping her expel the remaining water.

Ran Jingjing coughed weakly, weakly opened her eyes to look at Wang Tou who was rescuing her, then closed her eyes dazedly.

However, this time closing her eyes was different from before. Her chest rose and fell rhythmically, and color returned to her face.

Ran Jingjing had come back to life!

This news was as brilliant and beautiful as fireworks in the sky.

Mrs. Shen’s voice was filled with surprise, “Ran Jingjing is awake? If she can survive, why can’t we? So maybe we won’t necessarily die. Maybe we can survive too.”

Li Chongming: “Come on, didn’t you just say Ran Jingjing was dead a moment ago?”

Mrs. Shen: “Officer Wang is reliable. If Officer Wang hadn’t been rescuing Ran Jingjing all this time, she would really be dead. Well done, Officer Wang.”

Wang Tou, slumped on the ground in the bathroom, panting heavily. He was soaked from head to toe.

He gasped for air in big gulps, and his tense expression loosened a bit.

He had saved her, finally, someone was saved.

This was great.

This was a good start. If he could save one person, it meant there was a chance to save everyone.

Surely, they could all leave here.

Moreover, Ran Jingjing is a survivor. She might have seen the culprit’s appearance. When she wakes up, they might get more clues.

Wang Tou looked down at Ran Jingjing on the ground with joy. As his gaze swept over the pocket of her clothes, he noticed a familiar corner of a note.

The smile on his face suddenly froze, and Wang Tou took the note from Ran Jingjing’s pocket.

The cold water had already soaked the note, blurring the words on it.

A crooked line of text appeared on it.

[Four hours, find her, they are coming.]

The smile on Wang Tou completely disappeared.

Four hours…

Find her…

They are coming…

Who are “they”?

Clearly, the “they” mentioned on this note referred to those monsters outside.

What did “four hours” mean?

Does it mean that in four hours, those monsters will rush in?

“Find her”?

Who is “her”?

Is it Xiaohua?

As Wang Tou read the contents of the note aloud, the cramped space became heavy with tension once again.

Mrs. Shen’s face turned even uglier and she pointed at the unconscious Ran Jingjing on the ground, “Get her up! She must have been in contact with the murderer just now. The murderer is Xiaohua’s ghost. She must know where Xiaohua’s ghost is!”

“The ‘her’ on this note must be Xiaohua! We have to find Xiaohua! There are only four hours left before those monsters outside rush in!”

But how could a person who was unconscious suddenly wake up?

Mrs. Shen anxiously scanned around and noticed a box placed on the washbasin.

After taking one look at the box, her expression suddenly turned bitter. She rushed forward, took the box, and viciously smashed it into the living room.

The box was thrown out, and it hit the wooden door with a loud bang. Then it bounced back into the living room, rolling twice before coming to a stop.

Still venting her anger, Mrs. Shen walked into the living room and kicked the box several times while cursing, “It’s all because of you, it’s all because of you! You’ve been dead for ten years, why can’t you rest in peace and have to come out causing trouble?!”

“You demon! If you hadn’t seduced Shen Shukuang back then, how could Shen Shukuang have wanted to break up with me?!”

“Now that you’re dead, you still pretend to be a white lotus, as if we owe you something! Su Xiaohua, I hate you! You ruined my whole life! Why does my daughter look so much like you? When will you stop haunting us?!”

“Now I have nothing left, no husband, no child, do you also want to kill me? Do you want to kill me like you did to them? Come on, why aren’t you coming, why don’t you give me peace? How long do you want to torment me?!”

“You bitch, you bitch!”

People will inevitably act irrational when facing death. Bai Lixin carried Ran Jingjing out of the bathroom and placed her on the only sofa.

Then he snatched the box that had been tossed around from under Mrs. Shen’s feet and placed it on the coffee table.

Mrs. Shen’s expression remained crazy. She glanced at the box protected by Bai Lixin and was about to rush over to vent her fury at Ran Jingjing.

However, a single sentence from the young man completely silenced her.

The young man said, “If you want to know where she is, be quiet and listen to me.”

A small word can move a thousand pounds.

Mrs. Shen really quieted down.

Wang Tou: “When you say ‘she’, who are you referring to?”

The young man: “Of course, Xiaohua. Who else could it be?”

“Mrs. Shen,” the young man glanced at the woman with a strange expression, “what is the real reason as to why you didn’t want Xiao Xin to leave?”

“Is it really just because you think she would become a pitiful orphan?”