Dragon Girl Nouveau chapitre

Chapitre 10

Alright.

What puzzles me is that the garden of this house is so large; that old servant must have had a lot to do. If the house...

If it were just the two of them, unless the old servant Acheng happened to be not far from the gate when I arrived, otherwise...

How could he hear someone knocking on the door?

Although the sound of the brass ring hitting the door was loud, I was certain that both of them were inside.

If it were in the middle of the room, then there would be no way to hear the knocking.

My doubts continued to grow, until I realized that Wang Zhiyi must also be hiding something from me!

After I got into the car, I couldn't help but sigh deeply, wondering to myself, why does everyone seem so...

It's like they're hiding something from someone. Luo Ding gives off that feeling, and so does Wang Zhiyi.

Although that was just my feeling, and I had no evidence to prove they were hiding something, I...

The feeling was so intense!

Driving absentmindedly, I soon looked back, but "Juefei Garden" was no longer visible. My mind was racing.

Wang Zhiyi must have been a very wealthy man, and he certainly knew how to enjoy a comfortable life. However, people like him...

Why did I suddenly want to build a skyscraper?

I sighed again. There were just too many questions, but my immediate priority was finding the missing Xiao Guo. Perhaps, those two...

The employee's assessment was correct; I'd gone astray. I desperately searched for answers in my vague and uncertain imagination, trying to find the answer to that pair of small...

Guo's disappearance did not help at all.

Once inside the city, cars and pedestrians were all packed together. It was a struggle to finally get back to Xiao Guo's detective agency.

As soon as I pushed open the door, several employees said in unison, "Mr. Wei, you're back!"

Judging from their tone and expressions, they must have something extremely important waiting for me, so I quickly asked, "What is it?"

An employee said, "Colonel Jack from the police has called you seventeen or eighteen times, asking you to come see him."

I raised an eyebrow and said, "He didn't say anything?"

Another employee said, "He didn't say, but we've already found out that the building manager, Chen Mao, is dead!"

I was startled. The clerk continued, "The colonel is with his men in that building. Please go there immediately!"

I didn't waste a single second; I turned around and left.

Things seem to be getting worse. At first, it was just people being frightened; then people went missing; and now, people are dead.

Death!

I was so anxious that I kept honking my horn and weaving in and out of traffic, looking for a way to get there even a second faster. I was rushing up the highway...

As we drove down the sloping road toward that building, I was surprised by how fast I was going.

Part 5: The Administrator's Bizarre Death

I stopped my car and saw several police cars, ambulances, and black vans parked in front of the building.

I got out of the car, and a police officer, carrying a walkie-talkie, walked towards me. He was facing me while simultaneously...

Radio: "Colonel, Wesley is here!"

He pressed a button, and I immediately heard the colonel's voice come over: "Have him come up quickly!"

I paused for a moment, then asked, "Where is the colonel?"

The officer pointed upwards and said, "On the rooftop."

I took a few steps back and looked up, only then realizing that there were also many people on the rooftop of the building. I could vaguely make out...

I recognized the colonel; although he looked small on the rooftop, which was over twenty stories high, he was waving at me, and I immediately went inside.

The lobby of the building.

The police officer and I got into the elevator together. I said, "The body was found on the rooftop?"

The officer said, "Yes, a friend of Chen Mao came looking for him, but found Chen Mao wasn't there, so he went upstairs all the way to the rooftop."

Upon discovering the body, he immediately came down and called the police.

I frowned: "Why does the colonel want to see me?"

The officer shrugged, indicating he didn't know why. I looked up at the row of lights above the elevator; the numbers were...

It kept throbbing, and soon we reached the top floor.

As the police officer and I stepped out of the elevator, we could already hear the colonel yelling, "Wesley, where have you been?"

"I need to talk to you about something important, but I can never reach you."

As I climbed the stairs, I said, "You'd better practice telepathy; then you can find whoever you want."

You can find all of these!

I jumped onto the rooftop, and Colonel Jack greeted me, shaking my hand firmly.

Whenever he shook my hand so firmly, I always thought that in that instant, what the colonel was thinking must have been...

He was thinking of a way to unexpectedly throw me down, and then he'd burst out laughing!

Whether my thinking is right or wrong, the colonel did indeed have a challenging look on his face at that moment.

I saw many people on the rooftop. Colonel Jack let go of my hand, turned around, and walked towards the edge of the rooftop.

I saw a white sheet covering a corpse. Jack bent down and lifted the sheet. I suppressed my nausea and watched intently.

The corpse.

In that instant, I felt a strange and inexplicable unease. Chen Mao's corpse sent chills down my spine, and I immediately looked up again.

Look at Jack.

Jack released his grip, and the white sheet was placed over the body again.

I opened my mouth wide, speechless. The colonel took a breath first, then asked, "Look, how did he die?"

?

I was still speechless, and looked up at the sky.

On the rooftop, there was nothing else but the sky. Jack seemed to know why I was looking up at that moment.

Then he asked again, "How did you see him die?"

I took a deep breath, composed myself, and asked in return, "Has the body been moved?"

Colonel Jack shook his head and said, "No, based on all the evidence, he died right here. After he died..."

There is absolutely no sign that it has been moved, absolutely not!

I can believe this, because it's easy to tell whether a body has been moved.

However, how could that be possible?

I finally cried out, "However, that's impossible! He died from falling from a great height!"

As I spoke, I pointed to Chen Mao's corpse.

I only glanced at it just now, and it sent chills down my spine, all because of this. Because of Chen Shui-bian and Mao Zedong's broken limbs...

The manner of his death was so obvious that he had fallen to his death from a great height!

The impossibility and the strangeness lie here, because this is the rooftop of a building more than twenty stories high.

Chen Mao's body had not been moved, and he died from a fall from a height. So, from where did he fall?

What happened next? Was it in mid-air?

My thoughts were in turmoil, and as I pondered, I unconsciously shook my head.

Colonel Jack gave a wry smile: "Why did I call you here? Unfortunately, we both have differing opinions on the cause of his death."

Agreed!

I shouted, "Anyone can see that he fell to his death, and from a great height!"

The colonel nodded again and said, "Yes, the forensic doctor said that even if someone jumped from the rooftop and landed on the ground, they wouldn't be injured like that."

He fell from a very high place!

I couldn't help but look up and ask, "Where did he fall from?"

The colonel reached out and pressed down on my shoulder: "The only possibility, of course, is that a plane, or a helicopter, flew over..."

Chen Mao fell from the top of that building!

I shook my head: "You don't need to tell jokes. I know neither you nor I can laugh."

The colonel couldn't laugh, and instead sighed deeply: "That's why I was so anxious..."

The reason I'm looking for you is too strange!

I looked at the colonel, and suddenly I remembered Luo Ding's words: "The elevator kept going up until it finally stopped."

After coming down, he opened the door of another unit, and when he got to the balcony, he saw that everything above and below was shrouded in a gray haze.

Only then did I truly realize how alarmed I was. If he had suddenly fallen off the balcony, where would he have landed? I slowly...

I told the colonel what I had thought, and he smiled wryly: "You want me to believe that the elevator in this building is malfunctioning?"

"Go up to the top of the building, and keep rising?"

I said, "At least Luo Ding had such an experience."

The colonel said, "You're wrong. Luo Ding has come and gone, but he's still inside this building!"

I smiled wryly and said, "So, you want me to believe that if the elevator keeps going up, the building will grow taller too?"

The colonel shouted, "There's nothing wrong with the elevator. Perhaps it stopped for a while, and the people inside..."

But they didn't realize that they thought the elevator was constantly going upwards!

I shook my head: "Colonel, I won't argue with you, but where did Chen Mao fall from?"

As we were speaking, the forensic doctor and a police officer came over and whispered to the colonel. The colonel nodded, and the stretcher was brought over.