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Yan Junze felt his urge to smoke grow even stronger and said to the fat security officer with a smile, "Could I, perhaps, have a puff?"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The fat security officer gave him a sideways glance, "You\'re still a student, aren\'t you? Call me Uncle Wei, and this is Uncle Bai."

The security officer named Bai said to Grandpa Zheng, "Nothing more for you here, head back."

"Eh." Grandpa Zheng had been wanting to leave and nodded, glancing at Yan Junze before departing.

"Old Wei, what has the world come to?" Security Officer Bai turned around and sighed, "Did you ever imagine this would be the end when you first became a security guard? To be a security guard filled with fear is also unexpected."

Security Officer Wei held the cigarette in his mouth and spread his hands, "What can we do? Who knew that strangenesses would be everywhere nowadays? Did you see when we came in? There\'s a warning sign erected at the bottom of building five in this complex, also having issues with strangeness."

"That falls under the jurisdiction of the Exorcist, not a regular case, so it\'s none of our business," Security Officer Bai shook his head.

"Hmm," Security Officer Wei glanced into room 503, "This case should be a homicide. The killer has cleaned up the scene and moved the dead old lady onto the bed."

Security Officer Bai agreed, "Right, but if that comb is the only murder weapon, the incident might have happened by chance, a spontaneous decision, otherwise, it\'s impossible not to prepare a sharper knife for the crime."

"But the comb was left behind, not taken, just placed on the bedside table. Could the killer be so foolish as to leave the murder weapon behind after cleaning the scene?" Security Officer Wei said, puzzled.

"Umm," Yan Junze raised his hand, "I know it\'s inappropriate to interrupt both security officers while analyzing the case, but I still want to interject. The comb... I pulled it out of Granny Ren\'s chest."

"Ah!" Both security officers turned to look at him in shock.

"Granny Ren\'s soul told me she wanted to comb her hair, saying it\'s a custom in Lotus Town. I couldn\'t find a comb anywhere and then I saw this one, so..." Yan Junze\'s words were a mix of truth and lies, but when it comes to tales of strangeness, such claims wouldn\'t arouse suspicion.

The two security officers exchanged glances, and after a long while, Security Officer Wei managed a forced smile, "Are you really a student?"

"Genuine Shuntian No.3 Middle School product," Yan Junze nodded.

"Has the school started teaching \'Bravery Training Classes\' now? Or a course on \'How to Effectively Communicate with the Strange\'? Where did you get that kind of courage?" Security Officer Bai was taken aback.

Being locals, they had heard of customs like combing the hair of the dead, so even though they were slightly skeptical of Yan Junze\'s words, they didn\'t focus their attention on that.

What they were more concerned with was how audacious this guy was!

"Born with it," Yan Junze smiled and asked, "Since you two officers have determined it\'s a homicide, why not seal off the scene, gather evidence, or call for backup?"

Security Officer Wei chuckled, "We don\'t need you telling us what to do."

Security Officer Bai, however, explained, "Didn\'t you just say that the old lady\'s spirit guided you to inform her relatives? So, we too have to wait until her wish is fulfilled to formally seal off the scene and start the investigation, or else many unexpected troubles will arise."

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a van drove into the complex. Following the van, at the entrance to the complex, two taxis stopped, and several people of varying ages alighted and headed straight in this direction.

"It must be her family that came," the chubby Security Officer Wei said.

Not long after, accompanied once again by Grandpa Zheng, around five or six people arrived on the fifth floor one after the other. There were men and women, old and young, most of them with sullen faces, but there was no sign of deep sorrow.

Grandpa Zheng had an aggrieved expression, looking at Security Officer Bai with a look that said "If I had known, I wouldn\'t have run down," leaning against a wall and continuously catching his breath.

"Mr. Security Officer, where is my mother?" a short woman with long hair, leading a boy of about seven or eight years old, walked up to them first.

Listening to her tone, Yan Junze felt that she didn\'t display any emotion of sorrow, her voice was eerily calm.

"In the bedroom? She must have passed away a long time ago," Security Officer Bai said. "The elderly lady had last wishes, you should go and see her first, we will seal the scene for investigation afterward."

"You can only look inside the bedroom, do not touch anything in the house, and do not enter any other rooms," Security Officer Wei added from the side.

"Hmm, how come big brother hasn\'t come?" the woman looked back at the man and woman who had followed her, and then asked another middle-aged woman who arrived last, leading a little girl.

"He\'s drunk and can\'t get up," the middle-aged woman said.

Yan Junze bent down towards the short woman\'s little boy and asked, "You are... Yu Xiaochang?"

"Yes, hello uncle," the little boy, wiping away the tears that threatened to fall, nodded obediently.

Yan Junze\'s face stiffened, and a twitch began at the corner of his mouth. After a long while, he managed a forced smile and said softly, "Aside from your poor vision, I feel like you are the kindest here, call me brother."

"Brother," Yu Xiaochang quickly corrected himself.

Yan Junze said this for a reason. Among the relatives of Granny Ren who had arrived, so far, he had only seen Yu Xiaochang shed tears; the rest had expressionless faces, including the middle-aged woman\'s little girl.

"Mom, I want to see grandma!" Yu Xiaochang lifted his head, looking pitifully at his mother.

The short-haired woman, impatient, nodded, "It\'s only you who remembers her, let\'s go, take a look and then we return home. Your eldest uncle and second uncle are here, it\'s time for sons to be filial, it\'s not our turn as mother and son."

"Hey, what kind of talk is that?" the middle-aged woman leading her daughter retorted, "Aren\'t you her biological daughter? And like I\'ve said, your elder brother is still drunk at home, he might not even wake up by tomorrow morning, so it\'s still just the two of us. Besides, I\'m just an outsider who married into the family, what do I care!"

The man and woman standing nearby, among whom appeared to be the elderly woman\'s second son said right away, "Let\'s be clear, I\'m only here to see mother one last time, then I\'m heading home. I have to haul cargo early tomorrow, what if I don\'t sleep well and get into an accident?"

"Ah, this fiery temper of mine!" Security Officer Wei\'s voice suddenly rose by several octaves, "How could you all act like this as her children? What kind of people are you?"

Security Officer Bai, too, was fuming and waved his hand irritably, "Do you want to go in to see her or not? If not, all of you get lost!"

Grandpa Zheng shook his head vigorously from behind.

"Hey, Xiaochang!" Yu Xiaochang\'s mother suddenly gasped in surprise as her son had already let go of her hand and run into Room 503 alone.

At the same moment, a mission completion notification popped up in Yan Junze\'s mind.

[The Old Woman Knocking at Mid-Night, Anxiety-Inducing (Medium), Completed, Received 200 Different Dimension Energy points]