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

Chapter 428: Jiang Ran: How Dare You Sharpen a Knife Outside My Door

Day 4 of the 29th round.2:20 AM.

Inside Room 304.

It was a scene of silence and tranquility.

But at this moment, an unpleasant, grating, scratching noise disrupted this peace.

Jiang Ran was also awakened by this grating, scratching noise.

Just woken up, he thought he was hallucinating.

But after a short while, when that scratching sound became increasingly clear,

he turned on the bedroom light, picked up his phone, and checked the time.

"It's not even 3 AM yet, what the hell?!"

He left the bedroom in his slippers and turned on the living room light.

Then, standing in the living room, he listened carefully for the source of the sound.

Immediately after, he walked towards the door.

Jiang Ran's security door and the glass in his home were good quality items he had previously spent money to replace.

This security door had a screen inside.

By tapping on the screen, he could see the situation outside through the peephole on the smart lock outside the door.

Jiang Ran listened;the scratching sound was coming from outside, so he wanted to see what was happening out there.

As a result, on the large screen inside the door, he saw:

A person holding a fruit knife, wearing a black robe and a white ghost face mask, standing outside his door.

Continuously scraping the door with the fruit knife.

Jiang Ran was terrified by this sight, his face turning pale.

His heart pounded wildly.

His rapid breathing took several minutes to return to normal.

After returning to normal, he blurted out:

"Hey, why aren't you going to that Lin Feng's house, or Shangguan Fei's house, what are you doing at my place?"

"Could it be contagious? Whoever knows of your existence, you'll show up at their door?"

Jiang Ran held his head, in extreme distress.

Although it was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes, the person matched the descriptions given by Shangguan Fei and Lin Feng exactly;it was the same person, identical.

Immediately after, he took out his phone and sent a message to Manager Mao Li Zhishu.

Mao Li Zhishu and Shangguan Fei, along with the security team, were supposedly lying in wait for this person anyway.

He was informing them so they could come catch him.

But the sent message was like a stone sinking into the sea;there was no reply from the other side.

Jiang Ran then made a phone call, but the other side kept not answering, busy with who knows what.

Also, during the call to Manager Mao Li Zhishu,

Jiang Ran noticed through the screen that the white ghost face mask person outside the door suddenly stopped scraping the door with the knife.

Immediately after, they squatted down, that exaggerated white ghost face pressed close to the door lock by the door, as if they knew someone inside was watching them.

They stared at Jiang Ran inside the door for a very, very long time.

Jiang Ran couldn't see the facial features of the person under the mask, only the pitch-black abyss beneath the exaggerated eyes and mouth on the mask.

This made Jiang Ran feel creepy all over again, goosebumps rising all over his body.

A mere fruit knife definitely couldn't break through Jiang Ran's security door by force;even a power drill and chainsaw together couldn't break it open.

But Jiang Ran still moved a chair and sat in the living room, turning his head from time to time to look at the screen inside the door.

He couldn't sleep;he had to wait for that white ghost face mask person to leave.

After about half an hour, the guy finally disappeared from the screen.

"Damn, I forgot to call the police."

Maybe it was because he was too nervous.

Jiang Ran had thought to notify Manager Mao Li Zhishu but forgot to call the police.

But now that the person was gone, calling the police would be useless.

"Sigh, another day of being on tenterhooks."

After the white ghost face mask person left, Jiang Ran was also extremely sleepy, his eyelids feeling like thousand-pound weights.

He collapsed onto his bedroom bed and fell asleep in no time.

A little past 7 AM, Jiang Ran was awakened again by his phone.

His eyes were so heavy with sleep he could barely open them, all because of that person who used his door to sharpen a knife yesterday.

But no matter how sleepy he was, he had to answer the call.

After answering the phone,

Jiang Ran was instantly wide awake.

After waking up, he just slipped on his slippers and hurriedly took the elevator down to the first floor.

Upon arriving, he rushed out of the elevator in a hurry and came outside the apartment building.

At this moment, seven or eight people had gathered outside the apartment building.

Leading them was Manager Mao Li Zhishu, who had only arrived yesterday.

Today's Mao Li Zhishu was still wearing yesterday's burgundy suit.

Seeing Jiang Ran, who had probably just gotten up, he waved at him.

After Jiang Ran arrived, he asked where someone else had died?

Manager Mao Li Zhishu pointed upwards.

Jiang Ran looked up.

On the outer wall of the apartment building.

At the level of the 1st floor.

A male corpse was hanging by its neck from a thick hemp rope, the other end of the rope connected to the rooftop on the top floor.

This male corpse was similar to the former manager Li Chong who had been nailed here before.

Both were completely naked.

But the difference was, the former had a red-tasseled spear piercing through his mouth, nailing him in place.

Whereas the one before his eyes now was hung by the neck.

Besides that.

"What are those densely packed things all over his body?!"

Jiang Ran noticed that this male corpse had densely packed white, reflective items all over its body.

"Those should be needles, silver embroidery needles, one by one."

A voice sounded beside Jiang Ran's ear.

He turned to look and found it was the person who had also witnessed Manager Li Chong the day before yesterday and had spoken to him.

This person was precisely that Painter.

The Painter told Jiang Ran that if he couldn't see clearly, he should use his own phone to take a picture of it above, then zoom in on the photo.

Jiang Ran did so, and when he saw the zoomed-in photo on his phone,

the two fingers he used to zoom in on the photo froze.

Then, he couldn't help but say: "So disgusting, my trypophobia is about to flare up."

The densely packed embroidery needles seemed to correspond to the countless pores on that male corpse's body.

Who knows what mindset the person inserting the embroidery needles had.

How many needles, how much time, were spent to create such a creepy thing.

Truly more of a hedgehog than a hedgehog.

A hedgehog only has spines on its back, but this male corpse had embroidery needles on every part of its body.

The Painter said at this moment from the side: "The day before yesterday, Manager Li Chong died, with that kind of death. Today, another one with this kind of death appears."

"This is the murderer, intentionally using the human body to create this, placing it in the most conspicuous spot, showing his 'work' to all of us."

Hearing this, Jiang Ran said: "The person who killed Li Chong killed another person yesterday. The murderer is an opera performer wearing a white military general opera costume."

"So, is the murderer today still him?"

Yao Junjie, Liu Xiaogang's friend who died in Jiang Ran's house yesterday,

probably wasn't known by many people.

After all, Jiang Ran didn't have the habit of taking photos and posting them in group chats or on social media.

Of course, accidental witnesses couldn't be ruled out, but the body was taken out covered with a white cloth.

The Painter was somewhat surprised: "Another person died yesterday? And you saw that murderer with your own eyes?!"

Jiang Ran nodded: "I saw it with my own eyes. The murderer killed a person yesterday;the one who died was probably a friend of a new resident. He broke into my house to kill him. The method of death was the same as Li Chong's: pierced through the mouth, nailed to the wall, no clothes on the body."

"I hid at the time, so I was fine."

"I called the police yesterday anyway, but they didn't catch the murderer. Everyone should be careful from now on;he might continue killing."

At this moment, suddenly a middle-aged male resident screamed shrilly: "Eek! You scared me to death! How could there be murderers in this apartment?! What should I do if I encounter one alone in the future?!"