We had gained quite a lot from tonight's visit, but it had also left us with plenty of questions.
Zhang Rong scratched his head. "This is way too complicated. Who killed Bai Qinian...? His mom wants to bring him back now, so it couldn't have been her. Then who was it...?"
I said we should leave first.
That man who had taken Wang Meilan's money earlier-those people were being paid to do a job.
He had taken so much money from Wang Meilan again tonight. Maybe he was going to do something else for her.
If the female corpse in the room was one of the girls from the love letters, that man might be planning to kidnap the other two girls next.
This was no time to alert them, either, so Zhang Rong and I did nothing. We scrambled onto the windowsill, then jumped back into the courtyard by way of that platform.
I had only just landed when Zhang Rong suddenly shuddered and grabbed me tightly.
"What's wrong?"
"Look..."
He pointed upstairs.
I followed his finger and saw two people standing at the window of Bai Qinian's room, looking down at us.
And those two were none other than the dead Bai Qinian and that girl.
Zhang Rong and I were so frightened that we didn't dare move. We stood frozen for a full minute.
I had to admit, you needed strong nerves in our line of work.
Otherwise, suddenly seeing something like that in the dead of night could kill someone with a heart condition on the spot.
When the two corpses upstairs made no further move, Zhang Rong and I didn't linger. We hurriedly climbed over the wall and fled.
After running out of the residential complex, we were still badly shaken. We went over to