Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

Chapter 429: Supermarket Encounter

Jiang Ran looked towards the middle-aged male resident who had screamed.Not just him, everyone else also looked at him.

There was no helping it;the scream from this middle-aged male resident just now was incredibly effeminate.

The kind of effeminacy that makes you want to punch him.

And when Jiang Ran and the others saw the appearance of this middle-aged male resident, they were all stunned.

The appearance of this middle-aged male resident formed an extreme contrast with his effeminate voice.

A tall man, one meter eighty-five.

Wearing a white tank top.

His two arms were frighteningly thick, with bulging upper body muscles, showing clear signs of fitness training.

At the same time, he held a pink silk handkerchief with a butterfly pattern in his right hand, pinched between his thumb and index finger, constantly imitating the noble ladies from ancient TV dramas by lightly covering his mouth.

Seeing this scene, the others didn't make a sound.

They were probably all thinking to themselves, if encountered alone, would you be afraid of the murderer, or would the murderer be afraid of you?

At this moment, Jiang Ran suddenly remembered the White Ghost Face Mask Person.

He quickly asked the manager, Mao Li Zhishu:

"Manager, did you and Shangguan Fei manage to catch that White Ghost Face Mask Person last night and early this morning?"

Manager Mao Li Zhishu shook his head: "No, we never caught him. He never went to Shangguan Fei's home."

Jiang Ran chuckled: "Yeah, that person didn't go to your place, but he did come to mine, sharpening his knife for a long time."

"Moreover, when he came to my place, I sent you messages and called you, but you didn't reply."

Embarrassedly patting his left hand with his right, Manager Mao Li Zhishu said: "I'm very sorry, Jiang Ran. Because we never caught him, Shangguan Fei and I let our guard down and both fell asleep, so we didn't see."

"I did see the messages and missed calls you sent me when I woke up this morning. I originally wanted to apologize to you this morning, but then this murder case happened."

"Sorry, I'm truly sorry!"

Manager Mao Li Zhishu bowed to Jiang Ran, a perfect 90-degree bow.

It was very standard and full of sincerity.

This kind of apologetic bow is probably quite common and normal in Cherry Blossom Country, part of their culture.

But here, this sudden, very formal bow, especially from someone wearing a suit, felt quite novel to everyone.

Jiang Ran had once seen two Cherry Blossom Country celebrities on TikTok.

One man, one woman. The woman was a senior in the entertainment industry. Both were attending an event in Hua Country.

As it happened, the two met, and the man kept bowing, using polite language, greeting and saying hello.

The woman also bowed in return.

This seemed normal at a glance. From Hua Country's perspective, meeting a fellow countryman in another country and greeting them is normal.

What Jiang Ran found abnormal was that these two, when greeting each other and bowing, didn't do it just once;they bowed at least a dozen times...

The Painter, hearing their conversation, asked: "White Ghost Face Mask Person? What is that?"

Jiang Ran turned his head and replied: "There's a person, wearing a black robe and a white ghost face mask. For several days in a row, around midnight, he's been sharpening a knife outside several people's doors."

"In short, everyone be careful!"

"Although no one has died yet, who knows what that person wants to do, so I suggest everyone pay attention when sleeping at night."

Of course, Jiang Ran felt his words were completely redundant.

After all, since coming among these people, the Danger Warning System in his mind hadn't stopped once.

The Painter stared at the Porcupine Man for a while, then lowered his head and sighed deeply in a voice only he could hear:

"Is this apartment just messed up?"

Those who know the Painter's history understand why he said this.

Because he is an artist who likes to turn various beauties into specimens and collect them.

He's completely different from the deranged criminals and deranged serial killers in this apartment who kill at the drop of a hat.

And actually, this apartment has quite a few people like the Painter.

Facing possible crises, these people aren't much better off than the lab rats.

More than ten minutes later.

No one knew who called the police, but they arrived.

Upon arriving, they were surprised: "Your apartment had another incident?"

"And this kind of deranged murder?"

The process was the same as when they collected Li Chong's body the day before yesterday.

Various evidence collection and investigation.

Taking the body down.

While they were handling the case, Jiang Ran kept watching from the side. He discovered that the deceased, when previously hung up, had his back and buttocks—which couldn't be seen before—also densely covered in embroidery needles.

Furthermore, he also learned the identity of this dead man: he was indeed a long-term resident of Alice Apartment.

In the Neighbors Over Distant Relatives live stream room.

Middle-aged Uncle: [Another death?]

Little Dragon Girl: [Yes, an old resident died.]

[I just looked at the information about this old resident provided by the apartment.]

[This person was in his forties.]

[He had seven or eight lives on his hands.]

[The cases he committed were all murder-rape cases.]

[The victims were all young women, and all of them wore white dresses.]

[This person seems to have been unable to resist young women wearing white dresses.]

Bomb King suddenly popped up: [So sleepy. I'm really pushing myself to watch this live stream. The previous 'I Want to Be the Treasure King' live stream was only three days and three nights, but this one is seven days and seven nights.]

Little Dragon Girl: [There are exciting replays. You don't need to watch the live stream continuously.]

Bomb King: [I know, but watching replays isn't as thrilling as watching live. Hmm... let me take a good look at who killed this person... Hmm, are these old residents in the apartment killing each other? And... hiss... it's not a single perpetrator?!]

...

Jiang Ran felt there had been a bit too many deaths in the apartment recently.

One died the day before yesterday, one died yesterday, and another died today.

At this rate of dying, Alice Apartment could soon top the list of haunted houses. By then, selling the apartments would be impossible.

Property values would plummet greatly.

After the police took the body away and finished their investigation and evidence collection,

the eyewitnesses in this apartment all returned to their respective homes.

Jiang Ran didn't. He rode his electric bike to a large supermarket and bought chicken breast, breadcrumbs, and other ingredients.

Recently, a 'Chicken Cutlet Brother' suddenly became popular on TikTok.

Jiang Ran lives in Nancheng City, so he definitely has no chance to eat Chicken Cutlet Brother's chicken cutlet. Even if he were in the same city as Chicken Cutlet Brother, he wouldn't go buy it because the lines are too long.

So, he planned to follow the tutorial posted on Chicken Cutlet Brother's own TikTok account.

He would make fried chicken cutlet for lunch.

Just as he finished buying the ingredients for making fried chicken cutlet at the supermarket and was about to buy some other snacks and drinks, pushing his shopping cart, a voice with a somewhat uncertain tone suddenly sounded behind him:

"Jiang Ran?"

Hearing someone call his name, Jiang Ran turned around.

But matching this unfamiliar voice was an unfamiliar face.

This was a young woman, about the same age as Jiang Ran.

Long hair, ordinary-looking, but with decent fashion sense.