Chapter 5 Surveillance did not capture a third party

  The moment the thought flashed, it seemed that the bloody scene in the banquet hall that night reappeared before my eyes. Lin Mei's head, eyes, arms, legs... and the blood flowing all over the floor...

  It's her, it must be her, she has come back for revenge!

  My heart racing and stumbling all the way back to the dormitory for singles.

  As soon as I entered the house, I slammed the door shut with a loud bang and turned on the lights to carefully check every nook and cranny of the room. Only after finding nothing did I finally breathe a sigh of relief.

  My head felt like it was pressed down by a thousand-pound stone, and the smell of urine emanating from my body made me very uncomfortable. I opened the faucet in the bathroom and took a shower, and my groggy head finally started to clear up a bit.

  Lying on the bed, those terrifying scenes still flashed before my eyes, so I simply closed them.

  I don't know how long it took, but I eventually fell asleep in a daze.

  It seemed like I heard someone calling my name in my dream, "Lan Tian... Lan Tian, I'm here!" Followed by a burst of giggles and soft laughter.

  Who is it?

  I wanted to open my eyes and look, but my eyelids were too heavy to open at all.

  "Are you waiting for me?" A hand suddenly touched my shoulder, its sharp fingers like poisonous arrows, piercing through the skin and flesh of my shoulder, tightly inserted into the scapula!

  I let out a loud "ah" of pain, opened my eyes to find my heart seemingly stopped beating, the air around me suddenly frozen, and what entered my field of vision was a face!

  To be precise, it's not a face, but a facial skin!

  That was a face without any blood color, like being cut off as a whole, no eyes, only two empty eye sockets. She "looked" at me, the corners of her mouth slowly curved into a ferocious arc, and she smiled gloomily.

  "Hehehe...... aren't you always fond of me? I'm here, hehe...... hehehehe..."

  It's her! It's Lin Meixin!

  I screamed in terror, "You, what are you going to do? Your death has nothing to do with me, don't come looking for me, no...!"

  She didn't say a word, just stared at me. Suddenly, she raised one hand and slapped her face hard!

  In an instant, that pale face had five gullies of flesh with blood flowing slowly out, one drop, two drops... dripping onto the ground, a shocking crimson stain!

  "Am I good-looking?" She "heh heh" laughed, the flesh on her face quivering like several crawling centipedes.

  She slowly approached, stretching out the blood-stained finger pointing at me, "You killed me, I want you to be like me, just like... none of you can escape!" The bullet hole on her face seemed to emit a thread of evil hatred, which could swallow me in an instant.

  I'm going to die... Closing my eyes, it should all be over now?

  Her pair of icy hands suddenly clutched at my neck, and I instantly felt almost suffocated!

  "No! Your death has nothing to do with me, don't kill me!" Ah...... I struggled to sit up, and it was just a nightmare.

  It's okay, just a nightmare!

  The scene in my dream was vivid, was she really looking for me or was it an illusion? Cold sweat soaked through my pajamas.

  I didn't dare sleep anymore, so I got out of bed and sat waiting for dawn.

  It's great that the sky is already slightly bright, and it won't be long before dawn breaks. The morning light has driven away the fear deep in my heart. A new day has arrived, what's waiting for me again?

  I was just about to go to the bathroom to wash up when there was a sudden knock at the door.

  In this city, I have no relatives or neighbors, a solitary life, not even a friend to talk to, who would knock on my door so early?

  My heart, which had just relaxed, immediately tensed up again. I went to the door and took a peek through the cat's eye, only to find two men in big hats standing outside, one of whom was the young policeman from last night.

  The police came knocking on my door, which was something I had expected all along because I was the last one to leave the company's office building last night.

  Two police officers took me back to the police station. There were many people in the police station, and they looked very busy. My arrival did not seem to attract much attention from them.

  It was a young policeman who asked me this. He didn't waste any words and got straight to the point, "I heard that you had a good relationship with the deceased, is that true?"

  "Uh-huh, yes, she is both my colleague and senior, we get along pretty well usually."

  "Has the deceased shown any abnormal behavior recently? For example, having a dispute with someone at work, bearing a grudge, or mentioning to you that they were threatened by someone?"

  "Everything was normal, and I didn't see her have any conflicts with anyone."

  Of course, even a fool wouldn't reveal the matter of Lin Meixing's death at their classmate gathering.

  The young policeman asked me a bunch of irrelevant questions before asking about last night's incident. "According to our investigation, the deceased was hit by a car after running out of your company's main gate last night. Moreover, you were the only one working overtime in the entire building last night, and you also appeared at the scene, right?"

  "It was like that, at that time there was only one person working overtime in the company." I thought for a moment and replied, "No, at that time there should have been another person in the building..."

  "Is there another person?" The young policeman replied with interest.

  "It should be, I saw her being chased by someone in the monitor and she ran out of the company building desperately."

  The young policeman shook his head and said, "We've already reviewed the surveillance footage of your company's building and didn't capture any third person as you mentioned."

  Since there was no third person, who did Liu Tingting see after all? Could it be that Lin Meixin was really chasing her to kill her? Suddenly, I thought of Lin Meixin's terrifying and ferocious face in my mind, and nervously shouted, "I don't know who hurt Liu Tingting! But it's absolutely not me, you have to believe me!"

  The young policeman hummed coldly, "Don't get excited, we already know you left the company building after the deceased was killed last night. Today's interrogation is just a formality. Perhaps, there wasn't even a murderer, and the deceased really did die in a car accident."

  There was a voice that almost shouted out of my mouth, Liu Tingting didn't die in a car accident, her death is related to Lin Meixin! But I absolutely won't be stupid enough to mention the fact that Lin Meixin suddenly died at the class reunion scene. Moreover, even if I said it, this young policeman might not believe me anyway.

  Who would believe that a dead person would still be chasing after a living person?

  As I came out of the police station, the heavy rain that had started at dawn had stopped. However, the sky was still overcast with dark clouds, and the gloomy cloud mass looked like a group of distorted human faces.

  Those faces seem a bit familiar, who are they? Looks like... looks like the classmates from Liu Tingting's class who attended the gathering.

  "Rumble!", the terrifying thunder sounded again in the sky. I was startled by this sudden thought, and had a very strong bad premonition.

  I shook my head hard and dragged my leaden legs, trudging step by step towards the dormitory.

  On the third day after Liu Tingting's death, the police announced that Liu Tingting was not murdered but died in a car accident. I naturally did not believe this result at all. Was everything I saw that night just an illusion?

  No, it's impossible.

  I asked the company's boss for a week's sick leave, and when I went back to work at the company again, I found that there were many new yet familiar faces in the company.

  Those ten or so people were all classmates of Liu Tingting, including Lin Wei, Big Liu, Xiao Peng, and that girl Zhang Xiaolu who had been trying to find Liu Tingting's boyfriend.

  I was stunned, how did all these people suddenly appear in the company?

  Lin Wei saw me, walked up and patted my shoulder, a handsome face flashed a hint of ferocity that was hard to detect, then smiled and said, "Lan Tian, we meet again, new colleague, come on, shake hands!"

  I was extremely reluctant to shake hands with this hypocritical guy, but seeing his ferocious expression, I got scared and forced a smile, saying "Welcome, welcome."

  Lin Wei suddenly leaned in close to my ear, gritting his teeth and whispering, "Don't forget that we're on the same boat now. And before things calm down, don't even think about leaving. Otherwise, you know the consequences."

  I felt a chill all over my body and hastily replied in a low voice, "Wei Ge, I know." The Forbidden Spirit

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