After the Wine Cellar Confinent case concluded, Luo Fei and the others enjoyed a period of leisure.
During this ti, apart from handling their usual duties, there were no other tasks, so it was a rare mont of peace for them to relax.
On this particular day, Luo Fei was sitting with Zhang Wei and the others, discussing cases and chatting, when suddenly Zhou Fan passed by with a gloomy expression.
"Old Zhou!"
Luo Fei called out.
"What were you doing this morning? Got ti? Let’s have lunch together."
Upon hearing Luo Fei’s invitation, although Zhou Fan was still a bit upset, he ca over, sat down, and let out a long sigh.
The others gathered around, clearly sensing it was a troubleso case.
At such tis, having Luo Fei step in was undoubtedly the best choice.
"These past few days, our team’s tasks have been proceeding very orderly, and there weren’t any big issues. But this morning, there was a murder case at a hotel in the south of the city, which is giving a headache."
"Tell us more about it... I can’t speak for others, but our team leader would surely be willing to help."
Zhang Wei patted his chest, pointing at Luo Fei, then wore a nonchalant, ’not my business’ expression.
Seeing this, Luo Fei couldn’t help but laugh in exasperation.
"You rascal, you think you won’t have to do anything, do you? You pass tasks onto so easily, from now on the whole team’s burden is on you."
Everyone burst into laughter, and Zhang Wei stepped aside, looking abashed and not daring to speak again.
This little interruption eased Zhou Fan’s tension a bit.
"Here’s the situation, the hotel in the south reported an incident today, saying soone was found dead inside. When we arrived, we witnessed a very eerie scene."
Beside him, Luo Fei thought of sothing and made a joke.
"Did you co across a hanging corpse or a mysterious cause of death?"
This joke wasn’t particularly funny, but Zhou Fan maintained a serious expression and continued the conversation.
"Both!"
What?
For a mont, everyone doubted their ears. How could such a situation happen out of nowhere?
Seeing their disbelief, Zhou Fan took out his phone and showed them the photos taken at the scene.
Upon seeing the images on the phone, everyone, including Luo Fei, fell silent.
"No way... This is..."
Zhang Wei stared at the images on the screen, unable to look away for a long ti, while Lin Jie and He Xin were utterly flabbergasted.
Luo Fei crossed his arms, looking incredulous. Such images were not unfamiliar to him, having imagined similar scenes more than once when he was an unlucky novelist in a previous life.
But to see it in reality was utterly shocking.
In the image, a man was hung upside down in the room in a very bizarre posture.
His body was displayed quite freely, as if flying in the air.
However, it was all inverted, with half of his body already pale and stiff, indicating he had been dead for at least six hours.
Above his head, the ceiling had two notches, where the hanging ropes were attached.
A piece of red silk thread went through the lower half of his body, tying the waist and legs together.
A large bundle of black leather rope went under his arms, binding him tightly with his hands behind his back.
Being stripped bare and suspended in such a highly difficult pose, it looked like a piece of art, yet its perverse nature left everyone present in silence.
"Uh, this scene is hard for to handle."
"It’s not just you, I feel the sa..."
"Eh, just everyone quiet, let settle down."
Besides Luo Fei, the other three returned to their seats, gripping their noses, feeling overwheld! Reflecting on how they were just joking monts ago, now they were filled with regret.
The silence among them was deafening.
"See, even you can’t take it, right?"
Zhou Fan continued to scroll through the photos on his phone, revealing more pictures taken from different angles, each more shocking than the last.
Most importantly, the expression on the victim’s face was one of extre ecstasy, adding an eerie feeling.
"Looking at the binding style, it’s clear he was an enthusiast in this area, who knew how to play with ropes and had such an enraptured expression... It’s absurd."
Luo Fei pinched his chin, forcing himself to stay calm.
Zhou Fan chid in with so clues from the side.
"We found a small amount of sedative in the victim’s body."
"Drug-induced death?"
"No, it was only a small amount, not enough to cause death, probably just for sleep."
"Eh... for sleep, that’s quite sothing. Even with poor sleep quality, he could make such a fuss, this guy isn’t simple."
"So he died from intracranial hypoxia, being hung for so long."
Luo Fei pondered aloud, but sitting across, Zhou Fan was still shaking his head, with a particularly serious expression.
"That was my initial assumption too, but unfortunately, it’s not the case."
"What?"
Luo Fei was full of astonishnt. He had already considered all possible causes—neither death by hanging, nor by sedatives, nor by cerebral hemorrhage... he couldn’t fathom a fourth cause of death.
Seeing his confusion mirror his own, Zhou Fan opened the last photograph.
Luo Fei froze the mont he saw it.
Zhang Wei and the others began to recover slowly, but as they leaned in, they all teetered and could no longer bear it.
The last photograph depicted an even more horrifying scene.
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