"Her body was cut open, and the enormous amount of blood had even soaked through and split the solid wood floor."
That single sentence alone revealed a great deal of information.
For instance, the victim was a girl named Xiao Lianlian, likely around the same age as that little boy—seven or eight years old.
The victim's parents or guardians probably were not often home. Only then could the blood have soaked the floor badly enough to split it.
That meant Xiao Lianlian had gone undiscovered for a long time after she was murdered.
The body had probably been discovered by a neighbor as well. Otherwise, the description of the death scene would not have been so specific, down to details like the flooring.
In other words, Xiao Lianlian had likely been the only person in the house when the killer struck.
And the killer's goal likely had not been murder alone. Otherwise, there was no reason to use such an extraordinarily cruel method on such a young girl.
Of course, if the killer had been a ghost, such a Killing Method would not have been impossible either.
The woman and child had already gone far away, leaving Mei Sheng no chance to ask them for directions.
Ji Li and Mei Sheng did not turn back to look for them. After all, if they wanted clues, they could simply go to Family Apartment Building 302 and find their employer.
Secondhand rumors were far less reliable than asking questions on the spot.
However, before six o'clock in the evening had even arrived, an inexplicable kidnapping and a horrifying murder had already cast a chilling shadow over this mission.
Family Apartment Building 302 at Chengxiang Port was an old-fashioned corridor-style apartment block, impossible to miss.
When Ji Li and Mei Sheng arrived,