CIATB Chapter 664: Walking Right Into the Trap
Chapter 664: Walking Right Into the Trap
William smoothly chatted up Xia Xiaomei and successfully added her on WeChat. Next, the two of them sat at a table in the activity room, chatting happily together.And this scene of them happily chatting also caught the eye of Jiang Ran, who hadn't left yet.
Jiang Ran hadn't left because he wanted to wait until everyone else was gone and help the two managers clean up the mess.
He watched Xia Xiaomei and some unfamiliar foreigner laughing and talking cheerfully together.
He recalled the time when he, as the assistant manager, had helped Xia Xiaomei get ready for that blind date event, handling her makeup and fashion choices.
Back then, he remembered, at that blind date event, Xia Xiaomei had locked eyes with a fitness trainer named Sun Yijie.
He just didn't know how things were going between them now.
"Probably broke up," Jiang Ran thought to himself.
If they hadn't broken up, Sun Yijie should be here with Xia Xiaomei at this welcome party right now.
"But that foreigner... looks like another bad match waiting to happen!" Jiang Ran thought.
He remembered Xia Xiaomei once telling him that she was already thirty-six, her family was pressuring her to get married, and she wanted to find a boyfriend to settle down quickly.
He felt that finding a foreigner wasn't reliable.
Mainly, long-distance relationships were unreliable enough, let alone cross-country ones?
His thoughts drifted from Xia Xiaomei back to himself.
"Once I've saved up enough for 50 million points and I'm free from my dissociative identity disorder..."
"Then, when I leave Alice Apartment, I can live a normal life."
"I can also find a woman I like, get married, and have kids." Jiang Ran fantasized about his future, his gaze seemingly leaping out of Alice Apartment, straight into the vast, starry universe.
Criminal Psychologist Li Shumu left the activity room early to check on Manager Mao Li Zhishu and the others as they dealt with that temperamental white woman.
He watched as they brought the white woman to the management office on the first floor.
Manager Mao Li Zhishu had been speaking in English the whole time, trying to communicate with the white woman.
Since he was far away, Li Shumu couldn't make out what they were jabbering about, even though he also knew English...
In his view, the white woman seemed incredibly unstable, like she had an explosive rage disorder.
If she weren't being restrained by several big men right now, she would probably have started brawling directly with Manager Mao Li Zhishu.
He watched for quite a while, but the argument still hadn't ended.
Suddenly, a voice aimed at him: "Hey, Criminal Psychologist, got time? If you're free, come help us clean up some stuff."
He turned his head and saw Manager Wu Meiling calling him to help clean up the aftermath of the welcome party.
He took another glance at the management office, where the argument showed no signs of ending. Pulling his hands out of his pockets, he decided to help with the clean-up first.
Meanwhile, in the activity room.
Those remaining were: Manager Wu Meiling, Assistant Manager Jiang Ran, and a few cleaning aunties.
Plus Li Shumu, who had just walked in.
Everyone else had finished eating and left.
That included the new lab rat residents.
Li Shumu was currently clearing the dishes at the first table.
Manager Wu Meiling came up to help, smiling as she worked and asked:
"Hey, Criminal Psychologist, have you found the deranged serial killer you're looking for yet?"
Li Shumu: "Not yet, but there are some suspicious candidates."
Manager Wu Meiling: "Who?"
Li Shumu: "That's a secret."
Manager Wu Meiling shook her head with a laugh: "I don't know who that bastard was who told you that we have that kind of psycho here."
"Our apartment is a famous model apartment."
"We've won quite a few 'Advanced Apartment' awards and stuff like that. There's no way we'd have that kind of freak here. So, I advise you, don't waste your time."
Manager Wu Meiling picked up a large basin of collected dishes and walked away smiling.
Li Shumu didn't take Manager Wu Meiling's words to heart. He had indeed been skeptical of the person who made him sign that agreement.
But after meeting that painter, the long-haired man, he was certain that this place was not ordinary.
"From the perspective of criminal psychology, the more normal a person appears on the surface, the more abnormal their psychology actually is," he murmured to himself.
The main camera in the livestream room split in two at that moment.
One side showed the activity room.
The other side followed Xia Xiaomei and William.
The camera followed them all the way to the ninth floor and into Room 901.
As soon as they entered the door, they couldn't help but embrace and kiss passionately, clinging to each other like lovers who had been separated for half a century.
In the livestream room.
Fairy Sister: [We haven't really seen Xia Xiaomei much in the stream since that fitness trainer guy from a while ago, have we?]
Little Dragon Girl: [Yeah, not much. After all, there are too many people living here. You can't just pan the camera over each one, or split the screen into a nine-grid or twelve-grid view. That would really just feel like watching security footage.]
Little Aunt: [I'm more curious. Now that two freaks are mixed together, who's the prey? Who's the hunter?]
Domineering Female CEO: [You can tell by looking at their life experiences.]
[Xia Xiaomei goes without saying, we all know. A sadist who hides behind the mask of an ordinary person, who enjoys torturing and tormenting people.]
[As for William, the information I got is more detailed than what the stream provides.]
[This guy is a total weakling compared to Xia Xiaomei. He's screwed!]
Ultimate Rich Kid: [Give us the details?]
Domineering Female CEO: [Fine. This guy, back in the UK, after his second marriage failed when he was in his thirties, was introduced by a friend to start dating Chinese women who had come to the UK.]
[It seems like around the third relationship, he had a violent argument with his then-girlfriend and accidentally killed her in a fit of rage. After killing her, he was very flustered, hastily disposed of the body, and then spent a long time terrified. When he found nothing happened, he went back to dating.]
[And so, he made it to girlfriend number eight. That was a Chinese woman nearly thirty, who was working as a laborer in the UK.]
[This woman actually wanted to marry William to get a spousal visa, permanent residency, and eventually citizenship.]
[William definitely didn't want that. He was just playing around, so another huge argument broke out, followed by a long cold war.]
[In the end, it seems that woman got hold of some fatal leverage on William and forced him to marry her. But in the end, they didn't get married, and she lost her life.]
[In short, William is not some deeply twisted deranged criminal or serial killer.]
[He's hardly got any blood on his hands... and he doesn't actively seek to kill people...]
Ultimate Rich Kid: [I see...]
I am the Hero: [How come there are so many foreigners at this welcome party?]
[One crazy white woman, and now William?]
Fairy Sister @ I am the Hero: [You're out? The male lead?]
I am the Hero: [Curse words!]
I am the Hero certainly hadn't forgotten how this bitch had exposed his secrets in the livestream.
Fairy Sister sent a pouty emoticon.