Chapter 32: Brother Jie, Did You Catch Him?

Chapter 32: Brother Jie, Did You Catch Him?

"Brother Jie, wha—what do we do!"

Seeing Liu Jie come out, Li Xiaoya, with her hair disheveled, frantically grabbed his arm, her eyes filled with panic.

Liu Jie was also encountering this situation for the first time; he swallowed hard. "It's okay, I'll go check on her first."

At that moment, Zhang Lu had her eyes tightly shut, leaning against the wall, her hands hanging limply, completely silent.

Above her head, a vivid red color was glaringly obvious.

Liu Jie extended his finger, trembling as he brought it to Zhang Lu's nose.

"Brother Jie, how is she?"

Liu Jie fell to the ground, supporting himself with both hands and moving backward.

"She, she's not breathing."

Li Xiaoya also collapsed to the ground, staring at her own hands.

"Brother Jie, I, I killed someone! I killed someone!"

Li Xiaoya looked at her hands, her face pale, her body shaking.

She didn't mean to kill anyone!

Who told her to try and take her rice and slap her!

Li Xiaoya sat on the ground, holding her head.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!"

Meng Ci hadn't expected that merely wanting to watch their internal conflict and vent his dissatisfaction over the sudden disappearance of the space would lead to such a scene.

Well then!

Those who needed revenge could be taken care of one by one by others, leaving his hands clean.

In the surveillance footage, Liu Jie and Li Xiaoya had calmed down somewhat and were now discussing what to do next.

Li Xiaoya's mind was consumed by the fact that she had killed someone, making it impossible for her to think clearly.

Moreover, having killed her own mother, her guilt was growing.

But Liu Jie was ruthless, suggesting that since it was pouring outside, they could simply throw Zhang Lu into the floodwaters.

That way, the rain would cover all evidence.

Li Xiaoya, clutching her head, didn't know what to do.

Zhang Lu was her mother. If she were swept away by the flood, there would be no trace left of her remains.

Once the rain stopped, how could she ever give her a proper burial?

Seeing Li Xiaoya hesitate, Liu Jie said, "If you don't throw her in the water, you'll end up in jail!"

"You better think carefully."

"There are your fingerprints all over Auntie. There's no way to explain it away."

Hearing about going to jail, Li Xiaoya immediately agreed with Liu Jie's plan.

She was still young; she couldn't let this ruin her future.

If she went to jail, her life would be over!

No jail, no jail.

With this thought, Li Xiaoya gradually calmed down.

Believing that if her mother were alive, she would surely forgive her!

After eating instant noodles in silence, they sat in the living room.

Until past eleven at night, when the lights downstairs had all gone out, Liu Jie carried the corpse while Li Xiaoya led the way, and they made their way to the third floor in the dark.

The residents of the third floor, seeing the floodwaters rising higher and fearing they might flood their home one night, had already moved to other floors.

At this hour, apart from the sound of rain and water, there was nothing else.

Li Xiaoya, feeling guilty, kept looking around, afraid someone might suddenly appear and discover what she had done.

The floodwaters had already submerged the second floor entirely. The two of them pulled Zhang Lu's arms and slowly lowered her into the water.

Then they let go.

With a splash, there were no significant waves.

Silently, Zhang Lu's body was quickly carried away by the floodwaters.

And disappeared without a trace.

The heavy rain and floods would cover up everything about this accidental killing.

"Brother Jie, will this really work?"

Outside, it was pitch black, and Li Xiaoya stared blankly into the darkness.

"Relax, no one will find us," Liu Jie assured her.

"Click!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a camera shutter echoed in their ears, accompanied by a white flash that stood out starkly in the darkness.

"Who's there!"

Liu Jie, sensing something amiss, rushed to the stairwell, but found nothing.

"Jie Ge, did you catch anyone?" Li Xiaoya ran over, barefoot and panting.

Liu Jie shook his head, his face grim.

"No."

"What should we do now?"

Thinking about how her crime of murder and disposal of the body had been discovered, Li Xiaoya felt terrified.

Murder alone could mean a death sentence, and now with the added crime of disposing of the body.

If they were truly caught, her future would be over.

"Don't worry, it's so dark, he couldn't have captured anything."

The stairwell was very dark, and the person was far away, so they couldn't have captured anything!

Moreover, with such dim lighting, any photo taken would be completely black.

"Even if they did capture something, I'll testify for you, saying it was self-defense. There won't be any problem."

Liu Jie's words were full of holes; even ignoring the murder, disposing of the body was enough to send them both to prison.

But Li Xiaoya trusted Liu Jie completely and believed his words.

After Liu Jie comforted Li Xiaoya, the two slowly returned to the fifth floor.

Lying in bed, Liu Jie couldn't fall asleep. How did that person leave so quickly without making a single sound?

Could they have been mistaken?

Or was Zhang Lu's vengeful spirit haunting them?

The more Liu Jie thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he clung tightly to Li Xiaoya in his arms.

"Auntie, I'm sorry, your death has nothing to do with me."

"If you seek revenge, don't come after me!"

"If you must, go after Ya Ya!"

Liu Jie closed his eyes, silently praying for the spirits to leave and shifting all the blame onto Li Xiaoya.

Of course, it couldn't be a ghost!

It was Meng Ci.

When Liu Jie and the others were about to dispose of the body, Meng Ci had already gone down to the third floor and hidden in the darkness, watching them dispose of the body.

He then deliberately turned on the phone's flash and shutter sound before taking a photo, just to scare them.

When he was discovered, Meng Ci planned to duck into an adjacent room.

But then he remembered it was past midnight, and perhaps the space could be entered again, so he tried stepping into the space.

To his surprise, he actually managed to enter the space.

Meng Ci was thrilled when he reappeared in the space.

He explored inside and found that nothing was missing!

He even grabbed a cup of milk tea to calm his nerves.

However, he still needed to figure out why he was kicked out of the space earlier.

Otherwise, if he wanted to hide in the space during a dangerous situation and was suddenly kicked out, he might not survive.

Finding no clues outside, Meng Ci returned to the house within the space.

He searched floor by floor and eventually found the answer on the third-floor open-air balcony.

There were several lines of text on the wall.

"Since the space opened, for every twenty-four hours in the outside world, the space allows one hour of cumulative living time."

Time can be accumulated.

These lines disappeared instantly after Meng Ci read them.

Wait, what does this mean? They didn't even give him a chance to react.

Fortunately, Meng Ci had a good memory and could recall the lines.

This meant that for every twenty-four hours in the outside world, the space allowed one hour of living time inside.

Meng Ci had possessed the space for forty days, which meant he could stay inside for forty hours.

In the early stage, Meng Ci would occasionally enter the space to check if anything was missing, probably wasting some time.

Additionally, during that time he spent over two hours looking for supplies and hiding from others.

He also spent nearly five hours practicing with guns. After exhausting the accumulated time, he was kicked out of the space.

It seems that in the early stages, he needs to save more time so that he can retreat into the space when encountering dangers later.