Chapter 104 Surprise in the Toilet

Too bad the insightful and astute old Taoist isn't around right now.

Otherwise, upon seeing this scene, he would definitely take out his phone and help the boss capture this classic moment.

Blood splattered,

Romance and extravagance under the crimson hue,

The sofa's simplicity matched with the boss's indifferent expression,

Accented by the shocked expressions of the policemen beside him,

Marvelous!

Zhou Ze missed the old Taoist a little now.

He also felt that he should urge Lao Zhang and Lao An to bail the old Taoist out sooner.

The spray of blood on the sofa surprised Zhou Ze a little, but didn't scare him into jumping up, face ashen.

He'd seen thrones piled with bones;

This was just a small scene.

In fact, Boss Zhou was too lazy to even pretend to be shocked.

Just like Lao Zhang was initially flustered about running into acquaintances, their DNA and fingerprints couldn't be faked.

Officer Chen's attention was initially on the blood on the floor, then lingered on Zhou Ze for a while. This scalp-numbing scene had even made her heart sink. The crucial point was that it happened so suddenly, without any mental preparation.

But the man before her, the man sitting on the sofa who caused all this, acted as if nothing had happened.

Even,

He casually crossed his legs,

As if striking a pose.

"What's in the sofa?" Lao Zhang immediately approached.

First the missing, abused girl,

Then the empty villa,

The discovered small room with Buddhist statues,

Plus the sofa now,

The sense of oppression and eeriness emanating from this villa, this house, grew stronger.

"Why don't you lift it up and take a look?"

Zhou Ze stood up, reached under the sofa, fumbled around, and said, "It's been opened here. There's a seam."

"Shall we lift it up?"

Lao Zhang asked Zhou Ze, not looking at Officer Chen this time.

When faced with such a bizarre matter, Lao Zhang's first reaction was to listen to Zhou Ze. After all, Zhou Ze had much more experience than the police in this area.

"One, two, three!"

Officer Chen stood to the side without objecting, watching the two men lift the sofa cushion.

The inside of the sofa was hollow,

As if a part of it had been forcibly dug out.

And inside,

There was a remnant of a white plastic bag, but it was now torn.

"Blood plasma."

Zhou Ze said,

"But the container for the blood plasma is a little crude."

As a surgeon, Zhou Ze was no stranger to things like blood plasma. In fact, there had always been irreconcilable contradictions between medical blood use and the blood bank inventory in the country. These contradictions involved many aspects, and even those working in the field found it difficult to explain the specific reasons and rationales, let alone how to resolve them.

Officer Chen knelt down, bringing her face closer to the blood plasma on the ground.

Zhou Ze looked at the woman and subconsciously sniffed his nose.

"Very fresh blood," Officer Chen said.

Are you the zombie or am I the zombie?

Boss Zhou suddenly felt that it was a pity for this female police officer to not be a zombie, given her talent. Let Yingying do such boring and unchallenging things as being a living person.

That way, Yingying's bottom wouldn't be cold anymore.

"Call your Tongcheng police station and send people over immediately. You guys, guard the exits in this area and prohibit outsiders from entering."

Several police station comrades nodded and ran out to make phone calls.

Officer Chen stood up, glanced at Lao Zhang, then at Zhou Ze, and said:

"Let's three search this villa again."

Afterward,

Lao Zhang and Officer Chen went up to the second floor.

Zhou Ze was assigned to search the first floor.

"This woman is ordering me around."

Boss Zhou felt that guarding the perimeter was a highly difficult task, which was where he could demonstrate his expertise. As for searching, it was too troublesome.

Turning around,

He glanced at the dirty sofa again.

Zhou Ze suddenly felt that clearing the old Taoist's name and getting him released was a matter of urgency.

Usually,

Wasn't the old Taoist responsible for doing these dangerous tasks? How did it fall to him this time?

Casually opening the kitchen, Zhou Ze also opened the cabinets and refrigerator, finding nothing.

Leaving the kitchen, Zhou Ze entered the bathroom.

Because it was a townhouse, it was definitely much larger than an ordinary apartment, and had three floors, but the actual area wasn't that exaggerated.

The things in the bathroom were neatly arranged, even spotless.

The floor tiles were so clean that they could be used as a mirror.

Zhou Ze suddenly thought of something,

Since blood plasma could be stored in the sofa,

Then,

Who cleaned this house?

Was it the original owner of the house,

Or…?

Zhou Ze first opened the toilet tank lid,

Because of the last ghost jade incident,

Boss Zhou had a deep obsession with this location in the bathroom.

There was nothing unusual in the tank.

Zhou Ze turned to leave.

The comrades from the local police station had already searched once, and there was no one in the house. Zhou Ze didn't think he would find anything.

He,

Wasn't as unlucky as the old Taoist,

Right?

Just as he reached the bathroom door,

Zhou Ze stopped again,

Turned his head,

And looked at the toilet again.

Hesitating,

He mocked himself, "I must be overthinking it."

Walking to the toilet,

Zhou Ze reached out and lifted the toilet lid.

"Heh heh."

Zhou Ze smiled.

Under the toilet lid,

The old woman's face with a head full of silver hair,

Was also smiling at Zhou Ze,

As if she were also smiling.

………………

"What's the background of that Boss Xu?"

Officer Chen and Zhang Yanfeng searched the second and third floors together. During the search, she suddenly asked.

"Huh?"

Lao Zhang was stunned, not expecting Officer Chen to suddenly ask this question.

"Oh, he's just a bookstore owner. He owns that pharmacy, and the bookstore next door, too."

"So rich?"

Opening two stores on South Street,

The pharmacy business was okay, but she had seen the surgical room equipment inside, which could not be afforded with a small pharmacy’s budget.

What's more,

The bookstore next door was definitely losing money.

Lao Zhang hesitated, organized his words for a moment, and then introduced his boss in detail:

"He's lazy as hell, never thinking about working all day, only thinking about lying there in the sun.

His wife's family is quite wealthy. They also run a large private hospital in this city. He's a live-in son-in-law, just living off his wife.

Relying on his father-in-law's and wife's money, he’s out there just getting by."

"I don't feel like he's as bad as you say."

Officer Chen frowned.

She had seen Zhou Ze come out of the operating room in a white coat, especially the indifference Zhou Ze showed when facing that scene on the sofa earlier.

"That's right, these days, to live off your wife as a kept man, you have to have some skills, right? Ordinary people want to live that kind of life, selling their male dignity, but no one wants you or pays attention to you."

As he spoke,

Zhang Yanfeng pushed open the bedroom door.

There was a wedding photo hanging on the head of the bed.

On the wall facing the head of the bed hung a large oil painting. The oil painting depicted a rural field. Although Lao Zhang was a rough man and didn't have much knowledge of art, he still thought the painting was pretty good from an ordinary person's point of view.

However,

Hanging such a large oil painting in the bedroom meant the TV cabinet could only be placed to the side. It seemed a little uncoordinated, but that didn't matter. Maybe the owner just liked this kind of style?

Zhang Yanfeng turned his head and noticed that Officer Chen was also observing the oil painting. He smiled and said, "You think it's beautiful too?"

"The painting skills seem good, but it's actually just a soulless shell, a type of apprentice with a very solid foundation. This painting imitates the works of famous foreign painters. It's full of craft."

"…" Lao Zhang.

"Most importantly, haven't you noticed?"

Saying that,

Officer Chen took two steps forward,

Pressed her finger on the oil painting,

Then took it away.

Her finger was actually stained with paint.

"This painting was just finished, no more than two days ago." Officer Chen said as she took two steps back, and said to Zhang Yanfeng: "Take the oil painting down and take a look."

Zhang Yanfeng nodded, stood on tiptoe, and took off the oil painting.

After the oil painting was taken down,

The light white color of the wall was abruptly revealed.

This wall,

Had a clear and huge difference from the surrounding walls. It had just been repainted.

"Using an oil painting as a cover?" Zhang Yanfeng said.

"No." Officer Chen held her forehead with one hand and pondered: "I have a bad feeling now. There should be something hidden in this wall… well, you should understand."

Where did so much blood plasma in the living room sofa come from?

"He put so much effort into painting the oil painting, it's not like he's trying to cover it up, but rather a behavioral satisfaction.

Just like the things those performance artists do in the eyes of the secular world, it's actually to pursue a kind of satisfaction in their own hearts, even if what they do has no value or meaning.

In short, it's like a moron in a school classroom who likes to deliberately make some noise to attract attention, and is still smugly thinks he is great even when other students are cursing him in their hearts."

While saying these words, Officer Chen was still serious, even if dirty words came out one after another, but she wouldn't give you the feeling that she was saying dirty words.

"I have tools in my car. I'll go down and get a tool."

Zhang Yanfeng and Officer Chen went downstairs together. They planned to dig open the wall later to take a look.

Just as they reached the living room on the first floor,

They saw Zhou Ze, who had just washed his face, coming out of the bathroom. Boss Zhou was wiping his chin with a tissue.

"We made a discovery upstairs. Help us dig a wall later."

Officer Chen said to Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze was not a policeman after all. If she wanted to ask Zhou Ze for help, she naturally couldn't simply give orders like she would to those subordinates.

Hearing that he had to do hard labor digging a wall,

Boss Zhou felt very sad.

He was at least the owner of two large, money-losing stores,

How did he end up doing the work of a renovation worker here?

Immediately,

Zhou Ze pointed to the bathroom behind him and said:

"There's a surprise in the toilet."