Chapter 2: A shocking photo appears during lunch together

  "Do you want me to explain?" I said irritably. "Then I'll definitely waste my breath again and get scolded by you."

  "This sentence is also nonsense, you say one less sentence, can't you just answer directly?" Once her little mouth started moving, it was like a machine gun, mercilessly firing at anyone who didn't make sense, and cutting down those who did.

  "Alright, I'll make a fool of myself then. In the seafood warehouse's freezer, what they don't lack is ice blocks, right?"

  "...it would take a huge chunk of ice to press down that brick. Do you have the patience to wait for the ice to melt?" She said with disdain.

  "Sprinkle salt. The seafood warehouse, in order to keep things fresh, first doesn't lack ice and second doesn't lack salt. After sprinkling salt, the melting speed is much faster. And the ice blocks don't need to be very big, just press one box on top and it's heavy enough. One edge of the box is pressed obliquely on the ice block, and the other edge leans against the wall. As long as the ice block melts away a part, this box will lose its center of gravity and roll down."

  "Rubbish! What's that red thing?"

  I gripped the steering wheel, overtaking a tricycle rider in front of me. "Alarm." Originally on the wall on the other side of the warehouse, I took it down and stuffed plastic-wrapped ice blocks inside, jamming them into the switch button and securing them with transparent tape. The pillar turned around. The next step was to carry the female corpse into the pillar, wait for both pieces of ice to melt, and the pillar would turn back. When Li Baoan heard you laugh, his first reaction must have been to press the alarm, which also pressed the switch below. At the same time, he inadvertently stepped on the wooden board, causing the floor tile to sink as well. Didn't I come out?

  "Oh."

  I continued: "After going in and seeing you lying on the ground, I touched your neck and found that you were still breathing, only then did I feel at ease..."

  "Mingying suddenly interrupted me and said: 'What's wrong with not jumping? It's still you who got me in this situation.'"

  I could only smile and continue: "Okay, I was wrong. By the way, what's it like after you go in?"

  "She went in and saw her standing there, reached out to grab my neck, shocked her, didn't work. Was pushed hard by her, fell to the ground and lost consciousness." Mingying was concise and to the point, not a single unnecessary word.

  I could only silently sigh, why does this woman always have an expression like I owe her 2 million... weakly said: "Ruined your pair of silk stockings, sorry."

  "I said two things." Mingying said lightly.

  "What?"

  "Firstly, if you mention stockings again, I'll knock you out with a knife."

  ………

  After taking a few deep breaths, what's another thing you'd like to ask?

  "You're still a bit clever."

  My hand shook obviously, the car swayed and turned, shaking a few times, more exaggerated than I was hit by a palm knife.

  "Good for nothing!"

  I don't know why, but after getting used to her cold face, being suddenly praised by her makes me so happy. It seems that the trick of hitting a dull stick with a sweet date is always effective.

  "After a moment of silence, she said: 'If you hadn't come back to save me, I would have definitely thought you were with the organization.'"

  "What organization? Do you think I'm in cahoots with this warehouse owner?"

  "Not if you're with me, no need to sneak around."

  "What organization?" asked Zhang Er and the monk, bewildered.

  "Hasn't the organization looked for you? Weren't they the ones who sent you?"

  "No, what organization?"

  "Nothing. Since it's not, let's not mention it. So, you're really the boyfriend of the second victim?"

  I suddenly remembered the afternoon of May 25th, when I first saw Xiao Luqi, that handsome guy who looked like Yan Chengxu beside her. That was her real boyfriend, and even I thought they were a perfect match, both in looks and personality. What about me? What did I count as?

  Mingying Baicheng thought I was too ashamed to admit that I had a girlfriend, so he snorted and stopped talking.

  After a moment of silence, I spoke up: "Ming, is it your surname?"

  "Unsophisticated and inexperienced."

  I can only continue to remain silent.

  I waited for a long time at the subway station, and the earliest subway finally arrived slowly. After struggling to get home, it was already after 6 o'clock in the morning. I tiptoed into the room, and the snoring sound on the bed came from the computer speakers.

  Almost every superhero has another identity as a disguise, such as Spider-Man, Batman, Iron Man......, like me using snoring sounds to create proof of presence for listeners, should I be called... Snore-Man?

  He gave a wry smile and quietly got into bed. He closed the playback program, and before long, real snores began to sound.

  I was woken up by Li Haibo's phone call around 9:30, and he said that if I'm free at noon today, let's go out for lunch. I replied vaguely, but on the condition that he comes to my place. Then I set an alarm clock for 11:30, turned over and continued sleeping.

  When I woke up and washed my face, I took a look at Xiao Luqi's appearance. I thought of the female corpse I saw in the warehouse vault early this morning, which was also stored in the same freezer and was in a state of suspended animation because she could still move around. It seems that my preservation method wasn't wrong, it's just that under such low temperatures, even if you're not dead, you'd have frozen to death long ago, right?

  This problem has left me baffled.

  At noon, I met Li Haibo at a roasted fish restaurant near the community. We ordered a 3-pound catfish and chose Wanxian mala flavor cooking method because Li Haibo's hometown is Chongqing. The cooking time of the roasted fish was very long, so we ordered beer and chatted while drinking.

  They were talking about their classmates from the past. Li Haibo mentioned two other members of the "Despicable Four" from his undergraduate dormitory, Huang Dongcheng is now thriving in the SME credit department of a certain bank, and Xia Yu returned home after completing her three-year JD (Doctor of Juridical Science) in the United States, working on high-end M&A cases at a well-known law firm. These two comrades are doing very lucrative business, quite high-end.

  Compared with these two wealthy and well-off gentlemen, Li Haibo and I are still struggling to make ends meet, so we can't help but clink our glasses together and drown our sorrows in wine.

  I remembered something and asked: "I recall that last Sunday you called me and said there was something good to show me, what is it?"

  Li Haibo suddenly remembered something and slapped his thigh, saying he almost forgot, then went to dig out his mobile phone.

  What am I laughing at? Didn't you silly boy become Edison the second and take some explosive pictures?

  He smiled and said even if he took a photo, he wouldn't let me see it. Here, take a look, isn't this your dream lover?

  I took it and was stunned: the girl in the photo was Xiao Luqi. There were actually four of them. I quickly asked you how did you take them?

  Li Haibo said with a nonchalant tone, "Just take the shot, who do you think would be shy when meeting a beauty?" Coincidentally, a nurse came to give her an injection, and the curtain was lifted, so I took the opportunity to snap a few photos. I secretly took them, and with a slight pinch, I pretended it was unintentional and pressed the shutter button. The people around didn't notice. Hehe, my skills, you don't know? Yeah, she's indeed a beauty, but unexpectedly died that night, what a shallow life.

  I only now noticed that on the right side of the photo, there was a nurse with shoulder-length hair. Just now when I saw Xiao Luqi, all my attention was focused on her. It seems that this nurse is injecting some kind of medicine into the IV bottle hanging from Xiao Luqi's arm using a syringe.

  Just then, my heart tightened: on the back of this nurse's left ear, there was a thumb-sized black mole with an extremely strange shape.

  Shunzi! See Shunzi again!

  Damn! Even eating a meal can't avoid this stuff, it's really disgusting!

  I finished translating four photos, and surprisingly, three of them had this guy in it, while the other one was a different nurse. The background of each photo is different, looking like they weren't taken at the same time. I asked Li Haibo, and he said indeed, every time the nurse came to lift the curtain, he would take advantage of the opportunity to snap a quick photo. You little rascal, you didn't even want me to leave the hospital back then, your expression was obvious, it's clear that you were infatuated with the beauty, how about this, taking so many photos, is it enough for you to...? This meal is on you.

  I forced a smile and numbly went along with it. But what I was thinking in my heart was something else: watching Wang Yongshun, disguised as a nurse, inject medicine into Xiao Lujie's IV drip, that full syringe of medication. This dose, roughly 100ml; three times, that's 300ml, what kind of poison is this? Why does it need to be injected in such large quantities?

  Xiao Luqi's weight is around 45-50kg. The average human body contains about 70-80ml of blood per kilogram of body weight, so Xiao Luqi's total blood volume would be approximately 3300ml. 300ml of poison would be equivalent to about 1/11 of her total blood volume. Such a large amount would cause severe poisoning, even if it were just water, and would likely lead to death.

  (By the way: Water intoxication is a condition that occurs when the body takes in too much water, leading to hyponatremia (low sodium levels). The kidneys can only process 16ml of urine per minute. If more water is taken in than this rate, excess water will cause cells to swell and lead to dehydration and low sodium levels. When large amounts of water are consumed or injected into the bloodstream, electrolytes become diluted to a concentration lower than what is safe for bodily functions, affecting brain function and potentially leading to death. That's why IV bags contain physiological saline solution, not pure water.)