When he woke up, Qin Tiantian saw a familiar ceiling.
She found herself covered with a thin blanket and sleeping on a large, slightly hard bed.
The bleary-eyed Qin Tiantian soon saw that the bright sunshine was shining in from the window, and Lu Tan was sitting in front of the computer, carefully watching a horror movie in which only one dog died from beginning to end, and pausing, replaying, and using it from time to time.
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"...Is this my home or your home?"
Qin Tiantian blurted out.
She even realized in hindsight that her first reaction was not to check whether her clothes were on properly.
Of course, the clothes are neatly dressed.
"Of course it's my home. You were frightened and fainted last night. I don't know where you live, and it's inconvenient to go back and disturb the police comrades handling the case, so I can only take you back."
Lu Kan paused the movie, and the scene froze on the scene where the protagonist and his wife were suspicious in the living room, which was a bit eerie.
"...I didn't do anything weird last night, right?"
Qin Tiantian immediately sat upright, his two slender white legs immediately retracted into the blanket, and only his round toes poked out from the edge of the blanket.
"What's weird?"
Lu Tiao frowned.
"It's okay, it's okay, you don't have to worry!"
Qin Tiantian said that he was about to climb out of bed, feeling quite embarrassed like a romantic young man who packed up his clothes and ran away after sleeping in a good house.
"Let's go after breakfast. We've bought everything."
Lu Tan pointed to the living room, where there were xiaolongbao and fried dough sticks and soy milk on the table.
"Let me use your bathroom."
Qin Tiantian slipped into Lu Tan's bathroom as if running away. What surprised her was that the bathroom was very clean, there was no scale, and even the toilet was brand new.
"Did he clean it specially?"
Qin Tiantian turned on the faucet, wanting to wash his face and wake up.
The experience last night was really scary, so Qin Tiantian decided to ask Lu Jian later.
She didn't put on makeup, so she didn't use makeup remover, so she just rubbed warm water on her face. Qin Tiantian held a handful of water, soaked her cheeks, raised her head, and wanted to dry her wet face.
At this time, Qin Tiantian saw himself in the mirror, his face was gloomy and black, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked particularly ferocious.
"!"
Slightly frightened, Qin Tiantian was stunned.
At this time, she saw herself in the mirror smiling towards her.
"..."
Qin Tiantian rubbed his eyes, and he in the mirror also rubbed his eyes.
"Is it an illusion..."
She tried to lie to herself and smiled at the mirror again.
Qin Tiantian in the mirror also smiled.
However, the time when she smiled in the mirror was half a second later than in reality.
"!!!"
Qin Tiantian hurriedly took two steps back.
She also saw that there seemed to be black hair blocking the drain of the sink.
This is obviously not my own hair, it is longer.
"Something's wrong."
Qin Tiantian wanted to walk out of the bathroom immediately, but when she put her hand on the door handle and was about to push the door open, she felt like there was someone standing at the door.
The man's shadow hit the door through the light from the balcony, making it blurry and unclear.
"Lu Tiao?"
Qin Tiantian called out tentatively.
She felt that the shadow was getting thicker and thicker, as if it would break through the door at any time.
"Don't scare me, Lu Tan, I'm telling you..."
At the end of the sentence, Qin Tiantian's voice was trembling a little.
At this time, she felt the door handle tremble slightly.
Then, not out of Qin Tiantian's will, the door handle slowly turned in the direction of unlocking.
"Don't...don't don't don't..."
Qin Tiantian tried to stop the door handle, but due to design reasons, she could only watch the door handle twist and the bathroom door slowly open.
Outside the door, stood Lu Tiao.
"what you do?"
he asked.
"There's something wrong with your family!"
Qin Tiantian wanted to cry but had no tears, so he grabbed the corner of Lu Tiao's clothes.
"You mean... like this?"
Looking up after hearing Lu Tiao's words, Qin Tiantian saw that Lu Tiao's face turned livid, and several cracks slowly opened on his neck, like shocking wounds.
"You, you, you..."
Qin Tiantian spoke incoherently and almost fainted again.
However, the wound on Lu Tiao's neck healed quickly, and he returned to his original appearance.
"Didn't I tell you that there are many people in my family?"
He laughed.
Qin Tiantian was shocked and stared at Lu Jian hesitantly for a while.
"Don't scare me. If you scare me to death, I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost!"
She struck a very fierce pose.
"Let's go have breakfast."
Lu Tiao made way out of the bathroom.
When Qin Tiantian returned to the living room, he looked around the bathroom. Lu Jian in the mirror seemed to be slightly frightened, and the hair at the drain had also retracted.
After breakfast, the frightened Qin Tiantian didn't stay long and went straight back home.
Lu Tan sent her home and remembered her house number under Qin Tiantian's instructions.
Not in a hurry to go back, Lu Tan decided to take a walk near the community.
After all, the emergence of a serial murderer still makes ordinary citizens like Lu Tian very worried.
What if I go downstairs to throw out some trash one night and it turns into wet trash?
Therefore, Lu Jian wants to contribute to the safety environment of the community.
While walking on the road, Lu Tan carefully observed the people around him. He found that several people were sneaking around.
Some of them look like a couple walking together, but in fact they are looking around and are not intimate at all.
Some of them looked like they were fruit vendors, but in fact they didn't say anything, they just sat there and watched the passers-by.
Others looked like they were waiting for someone, but in fact they were not waiting at all, they were just quietly monitoring their surroundings.
Very suspicious.
Lu Tan thought for a while and decided to test the other party.
He came to the fruit stall and saw a fruit stall selling watermelons, which was very unusual.
"Brother, how much does this melon cost per pound?"
Lu Tan asked.
"...two yuan a pound."
The stall owner didn't react. He looked away from the others and sat up straight.
“Is the melon rind made of gold or are the melon particles made of gold?”
Lu Jian tried to anger the other party.
"Look where there are melons now. These are all melons from greenhouses. If you think they are expensive, I think they are too expensive."
The stall owner frowned slightly.
"You pick one for me."
Lu Tan looked around and was sure that this stall owner was definitely not a genuine one, because the current market price of watermelons in Jiangcheng was three or four yuan, and melons that cost two yuan a pound were already considered the cheapest.
"How about this?"
The stall owner casually patted one of the watermelons.
"Will this melon stay ripe?"
Lu Tiao came closer and knocked the watermelon, making a crisp sound.
"I run a fruit stall, can I sell you raw melon eggs?"
The boss expressed disdain.
"I'm asking you, will this melon stay ripe?"
Lu Tan refused to give up, making the expression on the boss's face become more solemn.
"Are you deliberately looking for trouble? Do you want it?"
"If your melon is ripe, I will definitely want it."
Lu Tan walked around and came to the boss's side, randomly picked a chair and sat down.
"Then what if it's not familiar?"
"If it's not cooked, I'll eat it myself. Are you satisfied?"
The boss's voice became a little irritable, and two passers-by came behind him. The boss put the melon on the scale and took a look.
"Fifteen pounds, thirty yuan."
Just as Lu Tan was about to continue speaking, he saw two passers-by approaching him suddenly, raising their hands and grabbing his wrists and shoulders.
At the same time, the melon seller also took out his pistol and ID from his pocket.