Upon seeing Yu Shouling appear, Xiao Ji’s eyes lit up. The anger and sadness she had just felt were considerably suppressed. She rushed forward and hugged Yu Shouling tightly.
On the other side, the three members of the Wenna Guild still in the villa gathered around Wen Nan, who had arrived with Yu Shouling.
"You’ve finally decided to come out?" Xiao Ji released Yu Shouling, complaining like a child who had been wronged, "Xiao Xue is in trouble, Leng Leng, Qingqing, and Susu, they are all gone..."
Yu Shouling raised a hand and gently touched Xiao Ji’s hair. Then she said, "I know."
Recalling what Yu Shouling had said earlier, Xiao Ji asked, "Do you know what really happened?"
"Yes." Yu Shouling bypassed Xiao Ji and slowly walked toward the three corpses.
All the natives present, upon seeing Yu Shouling approach, instinctively took a step back, clearing a path for her.
Doctor Lu, who stood closest to the bodies, bowed respectfully toward Yu Shouling, "Lady Yushou."
His tone made it seem as if he was addressing not a "lady" but a "queen."
Yu Shouling squatted down to examine the bodies of Leng Leng, Qingqing, and Susu.
Wen Nan, standing on the other side of the crowd, couldn’t help but feel a surge of emotion as he watched Yu Shouling squat, noticing her round, full buttocks—
In the alchemist’s underground laboratory, it had just been the two of them. Yu Shouling had been so candid that Wen Nan had gotten used to it. Now, in this bustling crowd, watching her fair skin and graceful figure from afar, he couldn’t help but find the scene a bit strange...
Wen Nan quickly scanned the faces of the others around; no one showed any unusual expression.
It seemed that this "thousand faces" was only abnormal in Wen Nan’s eyes.
"Guild leader," Liang Yiming followed Wen Nan’s gaze, looking at the young woman squatting on the ground, and asked in a low voice, "Is that the villa owner you mentioned in the group earlier?"
Wen Nan nodded, not taking his eyes off those full mounds.
"You two, just now..." Liang Yiming wanted to ask what the guild leader and the villa owner were doing, why they appeared only after the alarm had been sounding for so long, but on second thought, he felt he might not have the right to question these things, so he swallowed the question.
But Wen Nan did not shy away from it. From the time the alarm went off until they arrived at the scene, they hadn’t done anything indescribable.
"We went to the real crime scene."
This time, the three members present looked at Wen Nan simultaneously, "The real crime scene?"
Twenty minutes ago, in the alchemist’s underground laboratory.
After receiving the alarm, Wen Nan instinctively moved toward the corridor they came in from, preparing to head to the indicated floor, but Yu Shouling stopped him immediately.
"We’re going out together."
Yu Shouling spoke as she picked up a wooden hairpin, expertly tying up her long hair that was draped over her back.
Wen Nan was somewhat surprised, thinking that the first time Xiao Xue encountered trouble, Yu Shouling had blatantly ignored the alarm, not showing up at all. Why did she want to accompany him this time?
Yu Shouling looked unwell, saying in a deep voice, "Leng Leng and Qingqing are in trouble. There’s no one to manage the situation. I must go."
The surprise on Wen Nan’s face grew more pronounced.
The alarm only mentioned a homicide, without specifying whose homicide it was, yet Yu Shouling immediately assumed it was Leng Leng and Qingqing’s incident?
What surprised Wen Nan even more was that Yu Shouling did not lead him to the fourth-floor east corridor indicated in the alarm.
Under Yu Shouling’s guidance, they entered another corridor.
Wen Nan then discovered that the alchemist’s underground laboratory actually had more than one entrance around its walls.
Behind each entrance lay a deep corridor, intricately embedded in the walls like a complex ant nest, allowing easy access to any corner of the villa.
These must be the creations dug out by that Dragon cat, Little W.
With this thought, Wen Nan and Yu Shouling soon arrived at a small lounge on the third floor.
Upon entering the lounge, they immediately saw the large white Dragon cat lying stiff on the ground, already lifeless.
Yu Shouling went to the Dragon cat’s side, lifted its head, and looked at Wen Nan, "Help me?"
Wen Nan stepped forward to help her hold the soft head in mid-air.
Yu Shouling extended her hand, forming a fist, then inserted her entire arm into the Dragon cat’s mouth.
After stirring around inside the Dragon cat’s mouth for a while, Yu Shouling withdrew her arm.
A mix of viscous bodily fluids, in Yu Shouling’s palm, gripped two already broken chopsticks.
They were a pair of black chopsticks, long and plastic, like the public chopsticks used at dining tables.
Yu Shouling’s face turned even gloomier, "Little W. accidentally swallowed the twins; one suffocated to death, the other died from compression."
Back to the fourth floor east corridor.
Yu Shouling briefly recounted her discoveries in the small third-floor lounge.
The few male servants and assistants on the fringe looked bewildered, while Doctor Lu, Xiao Ji, the two maids, and a few players immediately understood the lady owner’s intention.
It was another case of a homicide triggered by a mistake with the real body.
The truth of the case was clear. Though inevitably saddening, it remained an unalterable fact.
Yu Shouling made brief arrangements for the subsequent matters, dismissing everyone, and personally took part in handling the remains of the three women.