Chapter 837: Huang Kaiyu Is Attacked
This hand should belong to a man. The palm was relatively large, the skin dark and yellowish, with quite a few calluses scattered across it.
From the looks of it, it had been severed no more than an hour ago.
"Who did this?!"
Huang Kaiyu thought to himself.
He had learned from Huo Yun what was going on at Alice Apartment, so seeing a hand here caught him off guard, but not entirely by surprise.
He pushed his electric bike back to its charging spot, ignoring the still-bleeding hand, and walked out of the bike shed on his own.
After taking just a few steps outside the shed, his gaze swept forward and locked onto the wall of Building No. 1.
Suddenly, a flash of light appeared from the corner next to that wall.
Huang Kaiyu's attention was easily drawn to that sudden glow. When he looked over, he saw a person standing at that corner.
That person clearly had a man's face. But he had long, flowing hair. He was wearing a black-and-white female student uniform, staring straight at Huang Kaiyu with an indescribable look.
His eyes were filled with a lifeless aura.
Huang Kaiyu was momentarily stunned. When he blinked again,
wanting to take a closer look, the light vanished, and the man-faced person in the female student uniform was gone.
"Playing tricks."
Huang Kaiyu pulled a spring knife from his waistband.
Gripping the knife tightly in his right hand, he quickly walked toward the corner of Building No. 1's wall.
The corner was empty.
He shone the flashlight from his phone all around, but there was no sign of anyone.
"In such a short time, where could he have run off to?"
Huang Kaiyu searched around the corner for a while longer but found nothing.
He had no choice but to head back to Building No. 2.
Right now, Building No. 2 was pitch black.
After passing through the glass automatic sensor door, Huang Kaiyu stomped his feet on the ground a couple of times, but the voice-controlled lights didn't respond—maybe they were broken. In any case, the first floor of Building No. 2 was utterly dark, and even the management office showed no sign of Manager Wu Meiling, with all its lights off.
Huang Kaiyu pulled out his phone for illumination.
He walked toward the elevator.
He had covered about half the distance.
Suddenly, a sound appeared in the first-floor lobby where he was.
A young girl's soft humming.
"La la la... la la... la la la la..."
The voice was hollow, carrying a strong sense of eeriness.
If this were a horror film, it would be pure horror movie soundtrack material.
Huang Kaiyu tried to pinpoint the source of the sound.
But after listening carefully, it felt like it was coming from all directions.
"Who's there?!"
He shouted loudly.
No one answered.
Only the eerie girl's voice kept echoing.
Squinting his eyes, he continued walking toward the elevator, though this time, his pace quickened significantly.
Just as he finally reached the elevator and pressed the up button,
A sudden chill swept across his neck.
His body jolted violently. The next second, Huang Kaiyu's spring knife stabbed backward.
He didn't care what kind of shady character it was.
But before his knife could strike whatever was behind him, a massive force suddenly slammed into his head.
His brain took a huge shockwave.
Huang Kaiyu felt his vision go black instantly, countless stars flickering before his eyes.
The next second,
Bam. Huang Kaiyu's body crashed heavily onto the cold tiled floor.
...
At nine o'clock in the evening, Jiang Ran finally returned to Alice Apartment. He was carrying a plastic bag with a few boxes of medicine inside.
These boxes contained specialized medication for dissociative identity disorder, sourced from America.
This was something Wang Qingzhao had bought for him. But since she was busy and didn't have much time this time, she told him to pick it up from her place instead of her delivering it.
"But is it really okay to tell me the door code to her house..."
When Jiang Ran went to Wang Qingzhao's place to pick it up, she wasn't home. She had messaged him on WeChat with the password for her smart lock, so Jiang Ran just entered the code and walked in, grabbing the medicine from her living room.
"Maybe this is what trust looks like?"
Muttering to himself, he scanned his face to enter Alice Apartment.
As he passed by the security room, Jiang Ran happened to glance inside. Two security guards were there.
One was Zeng Yan, and the other was Zhang Wei.
Jiang Ran hadn't known the other two young security guards before—Zeng Yan had only mentioned them a few days ago.
Zeng Yan spotted Jiang Ran just then, greeted him, and stepped out of the security room.
Jiang Ran and Zeng Yan chatted for a bit.
Zeng Yan said, "Perfect, I'm off work right now."
As a security guard, Zeng Yan worked a full eight-hour shift each day.
Jiang Ran, as the assistant manager, had a fixed start and end time for work each day.
Zeng Yan's work schedule depended on the shift rotation—sometimes night shift, sometimes day shift, sometimes starting in the evening.
"Oh, by the way, Jiang Ran, I'm free the day after tomorrow in the evening. I'd like to treat you to a meal, as a thank-you for helping me land this great job. Is that okay?"
"Sure, no problem."
Jiang Ran didn't bother with pleasantries and agreed right away.
He personally hated empty formalities—when you knew you'd accept in the end, there was no point in refusing multiple times beforehand.
Maybe because they were both young, Zeng Yan appreciated Jiang Ran's straightforwardness.
They chatted a bit more.
One lived in Building No. 1, and the other in Building No. 2, so they parted ways at the split. But not long after they separated, Jiang Ran had just stood by Building No. 1 when he heard Zeng Yan suddenly shouting his name from Building No. 2's direction. His voice was loud, laced with panic.
Sensing something was wrong, Jiang Ran hurried over. He saw Zeng Yan standing inside the glass automatic sensor door, radiating sheer panic.
By then, all the voice-controlled lights on the first floor of Building No. 2 were on.
Jiang Ran saw Zeng Yan's right hand trembling as it pointed to a spot.
That spot clearly held a person lying on the ground, collapsed in front of the elevator.
From where they stood, it looked like there was quite a bit of blood over there.
"Damn!"
A thousand curses ran through Jiang Ran's mind.
Seeing this scene, he rushed over with the plastic bag of medicine in hand.
Once there, he didn't dare move the person lying face-up on the ground recklessly.
He only quickly dialed 110 and 120.
At the same time, he sent messages to the managers of Building No. 1 and Building No. 2.
A few minutes later.
Manager Wu Wen from Building No. 1 was the first to arrive.
He came to the scene.
After seeing this,
he showed little reaction. He just walked around the person lying in the pool of blood a few times.
Then he asked Jiang Ran if he had called 110 and 120.
As for Manager Wu Meiling, she also rushed out from her single room on the first floor.
Of course, she came out looking a bit disheveled.
With just a quick glance, Jiang Ran and the other two at the scene could even spot part of Manager Wu Meiling's black lace bra.