Big Tiger turned the car around and drove in a straight line.
He said, "We pretended to be police officers and went in to search. I never expected we'd get results so quickly."
"But this thod can only be used once. After using it once, we've already alerted the enemy. Even if we continue pretending to be police officers to search other places, we won't find anything useful."
Second Tiger spread his hands, "So what? It doesn't matter! With the three of us, I refuse to believe we can't find the other murderer!"
Big Tiger glanced at Second Tiger.
Among the three tigers, Second Tiger was the most handso.
Even by outside standards, he fell into the handso category.
Because of this, his luck with won was surprisingly good.
Whenever seduction was needed, he was the one who stepped up.
Big Tiger sighed, "Actually, that's not the fundantal reason. There's another one."
Second Tiger asked, "Which one?"
Third Tiger also leaned his head over.
But he remained his usual self, hardly speaking.
Big Tiger spoke while driving:
"I have a distant cousin nad Xiao Q."
"I t him a few tis when he was young. Although he was younger, we got along quite well because I discovered he loved criminal investigation, detective work, and horror supernatural stuff since childhood. Just like ."
"But later, since we were distant relatives after all, we hadn't seen each other for many years, only chatting occasionally on our phones."
"And then, about two or three months ago."
"He suddenly sent so very strange text."
"The content went like this."
"Cousin, I signed an agreent and entered the Alice Apartnt in Nancheng City. Staying here for one day earns ten thousand yuan."
"I discovered this is real, but I also found out the secret of this apartnt."
"This apartnt seems to be a ga set up by certain people."
"It houses many deranged criminals, deranged serial killers, and ordinary people like who signed agreents to enter..."
"This was the first text he sent . Later, at different tis, he sent other texts, intermittently."
"I thought this was a novel he was writing, since I also wrote this type of novel when I was young."
"So at the ti, I didn't ask him if it was real. I thought he sent it to for feedback on his novel."
"But after reading it, I didn't have much to suggest, so I just replied, 'Good concept.'"
"He just sent back a smiling emoji."
"Then one day not long ago, he suddenly sent this text during a weird early morning hour:"
"Cousin, I'm currently on Macedonia Island. I think this island has countless connections with Alice Apartnt, and the format should be similar to Alice Apartnt."
"Right now, Xiao Peng I ntioned before—his ex-girlfriend was captured by the chainsaw murderer, forcing us to rescue her within fifteen minutes. We have to go now. Sigh, I have a feeling I might die here, though I'll try my best to survive."
"It was early morning at that ti, and I was sleeping, so I only saw it when I woke up."
"After reading it, I thought this was the climax of the novel plot he designed."
"So I replied: What happened next? Did you survive?"
"But..."
Big Tiger laughed mockingly at this point, "He never replied to my ssages again after that."
"I thought at the ti this kid was playing mystery gas with , since he'd done similar things before."
"Until one day I suddenly heard from my parents that my distant cousin Xiao Q had gone missing while traveling abroad."
"Only then did I instantly understand."
"Turns out, those things he sent weren't so novel he designed, but actually exist in this world."
Big Tiger now parked the car by the roadside.
He turned to look at Second Tiger and Third Tiger:
"The place we went to today was that Alice Apartnt my cousin told about."
"And as you saw, that Xiao Xing guy had a cabinet full of human heads."
Second Tiger and Third Tiger fell silent.
After a long silence, Second Tiger said, "But I still don't understand. Since you already knew about the shady aspects of this Alice Apartnt, Big Tiger,"
"you could have either refused the commission or completed it. So why withdraw halfway after starting?"
Big Tiger said, "Knowing this Alice Apartnt truly exists, even though I knew it was dangerous, I still wanted to go see it to satisfy my curiosity."
"As for why I stopped—it's precisely because of the danger. My curiosity was sowhat satisfied, so I stopped."
After hearing this.
Second Tiger stopped questioning and leaned his head back against the car seat.
"Forget it, forget it. Since even you think it's dangerous, Big Tiger, then it must be truly dangerous. Anyway, we got 500,000 yuan this ti, and I recently had my eye on a model—now I have money to have fun."
The Three Tigers Detective Group always split their inco equally.
No matter what type of partnership, if money issues aren't handled properly, it's extrely easy for people to go their separate ways.
Second Tiger stopped concerning himself with this matter.
But the usually silent Third Tiger suddenly spoke: "Big Tiger, your distant cousin probably died at the hands of that chainsaw murderer. Don't you plan to avenge him?"
Big Tiger smiled and adjusted his glasses.
"Avenge him? If that chainsaw murderer were right in front of , and I had complete confidence, I would avenge him."
"But if I have to go through all kinds of trouble to avenge him, that would only happen for my parents or my biological siblings."
At that suburban villa.
Zhou Yan and the other two were still waiting for the police to arrive.
Xiao Xing sat obediently on the sofa with silver tal handcuffs locking his hands, showing no desire to escape.
Despite this, Li Miguo and Jimmy stood on either side of him, watching him.
Zhou Yan sat cross-legged in a queen-like posture on a purple sofa, saying, "That damned Three Tigers Detective Group! They didn't even finish the job before running off! They have no professional ethics at all!"
Zhou Yan was still complaining about the Three Tigers Detective Group.
It seed she felt that if they had put in more effort, they might have caught the person who killed her father too.
Li Miguo asked Jimmy, "Jimmy, why do you think the Three Tigers Detective Group terminated the commission?"
Jimmy thought for a mont and said, "Probably the sa reason as Mike—they think that apartnt is dangerous. If they continued investigating, they might lose their lives!"
Zhou Yan sneered, "What bullshit about losing their lives? What danger could an apartnt possibly have?"
At this mont, Xiao Xing suddenly said, "Since you think that apartnt isn't dangerous, why don't you go investigate your father's death yourself?"
Zhou Yan, feeling provoked, beca quite angry, "I'm not a professional! What would I investigate? And I have money—it's not like I can't afford to hire people to investigate for ."
"Oh, right, I want to ask—since you killed my brother, did you also kill my dad?!"
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