Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 240 - 213: The Escaping Evil Entity

As Zhou Zhicheng opened the door, Mu Yunchu immediately sensed an unusual air inside the house. It was a thick yin energy mixed with a discomforting brutality that made her originally calm heart feel a bit restless.

So she wasn’t drawn by the trash on the balcony like the rest of the group but headed straight to the bedroom first.

She immediately spotted the two freezers, but her gaze lingered only for a few seconds.

Her eyes swept across the whole layout, and there was pitifully little inside the house. Just as she focused her attention on the cabinet, Zhou Zhicheng suddenly blocked her path.

Unlike his usual calm demeanor, he appeared somewhat agitated and didn’t even have the patience to open the second cabinet. He couldn’t wait to ask about the young man inside the freezer.

And just because of this interference, the aura she had just locked onto almost vanished. Mu Yunchu chased after it, but only grasped at emptiness.

Zhou Zhicheng followed Mu Yunchu outside, but halfway through raising his hand, almost about to tap her shoulder, something seemed to withdraw from his mind. The urgency in his eyes was replaced by a bit of confusion.

It dawned on him belatedly as he caught his action, turning into surprise, and he quickly slapped his own hand down.

This strangely elicited a cold sweat.

Good heavens, was he crazy?

He dared to make a move on Mu Yunchu.

Although he admitted he was impulsive, he wasn’t usually this bad!

Mu Yunchu didn’t know what that thing was beforehand, only feeling there was something evil and unsettling that could affect people’s emotions. It felt unfamiliar in her realm.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a ’living creature’ capable of escape...

And its speed was so fast that even she wasn’t able to react. Zhou Zhicheng’s interruption didn’t give her a chance to capture the aura. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Seeing her somewhat grim expression, the others didn’t speak for a long time.

It wasn’t until she finished her contemplation that she once again posed the question about the identity of the corpse.

And why it wasn’t the original owner of the house.

Mu Yunchu pointed to another freezer next to the one she was working with, saying, "The original owner is here."

Without Zhou Zhicheng needing to say a word, the team members went ahead with their work. Once the lid was lifted, another corpse indeed appeared inside. Comparing it to the photographs, it was the original house owner, Lu Jun.

Zhou Zhicheng was momentarily stunned.

He thought, given his usual habits, he would certainly have opened this freezer to look. Why was he so unsettled today?

But with one more corpse, the case has become much more complicated.

"Yun Chu, do you know the identity of that body?"

He had a hunch it might be someone similar to Liu Cheng.

"Hmm..." Mu Yunchu said, "This person was considered a friend of Liu Cheng’s, but he was also murdered by Liu Cheng."

"He killed his own friend?"

Mu Yunchu nodded.

This Liu Cheng had gone abroad years ago and entered a fraud organization. When he first went, he suffered a lot of abuse. Although his family sent a considerable amount of money, their resources were limited, and the park authorities wouldn’t let him go, so he never returned.

Later, his only remaining family members were also gone, leaving no one to save him.

Then he met a ’friend’ inside, who turned out to be the deceased found in the freezer.

The two shared similar experiences and were often beaten, so they quickly developed a revolutionary friendship.

Until one accidental incident, they managed to escape the park, and due to lacking passports, they ended up smuggling back home.

At this point, Zhou Zhicheng raised a question: "That doesn’t make sense. If he returned without an identity, it would be understandable if nothing could be found in the database, but shouldn’t there have been traces from before?"

"Could it be because the databases weren’t comprehensive yet over a decade ago?"

Mu Yunchu said, "Because he changed his name and appearance."

Before returning to the country, he underwent cosmetic surgery abroad.

With the current appearance being searched, naturally, nothing could be found.

Zhou Zhicheng nodded, "I see how it is."

After returning, he didn’t use his ID card anymore, so no one knew who he originally was.

At this realization, Zhou Zhicheng suddenly understood something, "Does that mean, from the very beginning, he had no intention of coming back to live a clean life?"

Otherwise, how could he not have thought to update his ID card?

He looked up at Mu Yunchu’s apparent acknowledgment.

Zhou Zhicheng clicked his tongue, "No wonder, otherwise why would one voluntarily enter a fraud organization."

Someone always dreaming of a windfall surely wouldn’t be willing to work with their hands for their rewards.

So the two conspired to commit robbery.

Mu Yunchu’s eyes darkened.

"But before that, they needed to avoid wandering, so they looked for a place to stay."

Having heard that the Ghost Building was sparsely inhabited, they casually broke the lock of a room’s door, only to find someone inside.

"The original owner of this apartment was their first victim."

After committing the murder, the pair worried that handling the corpse would eventually be discovered. They happened to notice freezers inside the house, so they stuffed him into one.

The freezer was originally used by the original owner, Lu Jun, to store meat.

His legs were bad, and living on the top floor made it inconvenient to go downstairs frequently to buy groceries, so he invested heavily in two second-hand freezers. This way, he didn’t have to go downstairs for ten days or half a month, and freshness wasn’t a significant concern.

Next, they killed a second female victim.

"Initially, the two agreed only on robbery. However, during the actual operation, there were changes."

The victim was cornered into a small alley. Seeing as the area was very secluded and there was no likelihood of anyone passing by, their thoughts turned to something else.

Because during the victim’s resistance, they heard words which provoked them, Liu Cheng suddenly thought of recent news items, his murderous instinct overwhelmed him, and he killed the person outright.

Not only did he kill, but it was with extreme cruelty.

His friend was dumbfounded.

He only wanted money or potentially to assault, not to kill anyone.

Their differing ideals led to plans of parting ways, but Liu Cheng, fearing betrayal, killed his friend too.

Zhou Zhicheng: "..."

"This Liu Cheng is truly an outright psychopath."

"It seems his imitation of Zhang Zhen’s crime wasn’t for any particular reason; instead, his mind just conjured that image, and he mimicked without conscious thought."

Though reluctant to phrase it thus, the incident did stir up a bloodthirsty instinct he held within.

And so began a path from which there was no turning back.

He even considered his killings as his art. The prototype being the girl Zhang Zhen killed.

This led to ’imitation crimes.’

The subsequent events are already known—they targeted He Jiarong, inadvertently discovering major flaws in their methodology. Then they used a friend’s phone to procure illicit drugs.

...

Zhou Zhicheng listened, brows furrowing the entire time, and suddenly asked Mu Yunchu, "By the way, I think I saw you looking for something?"