Chapter 858: Jiang Ran: Why Is It Always Me Who Has to Handle Things When Something Goes Wrong?!

"Call the police? How did you call the police? Our phone signals are all gone! So, how exactly did you manage to call them?"

Lin Yu beside him asked in confusion.

This sudden question cut into the conversation.

The Silver-Haired Guy and the Pink Long-Haired Girl both pulled out their phones and checked, discovering that, sure enough, their phones had no signal at all.

So, if everyone had no signal, how had he called the police?

The man in his thirties also took out his phone and took a look at that moment.

He exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, my phone really has no signal, but when I called the police earlier, there was still a signal!"

"Alright, whether or not your phones have signal is none of my business. It's getting late now, and I want to go back to sleep."

The Monkey King Mask Man put his mask back on and picked up the fire axe from the ground, intending to leave.

Lin Yu stopped him: "I'm sorry, but you can't leave yet, because you're a suspect."

The Monkey King Mask Man chuckled: "So what? Am I, the suspect, supposed to just stay here? And then what? Wait for the police to come?"

The Silver-Haired Guy said, "Why don't we head back to the apartment building first and notify the manager and the security guards here?"

Lin Yu said, "No need to worry about that, someone's already gone back to inform them."

The Silver-Haired Guy: "So then, we just wait here?"

Lin Yu said, "There were fourteen of us who came here to look around and have fun."

"Now, two people are dead."

"That leaves twelve."

"One went back to inform."

"There are four of us here."

"Then there's one who was taken hostage on the first floor of the library."

"We still have six people unaccounted for."

"Since we've already gathered so many people here, we can first go rescue the one who was taken hostage on the first floor of the library. That way, we're not wasting our time."

"And after we rescue that person, if there's still time, we can go look for the remaining six."

The Silver-Haired Guy was a bit shocked. There was someone who had been taken hostage too?

But after thinking it over, he agreed.

The Pink Long-Haired Girl agreed.

Lin Yu's girlfriend, Zheng Zihan, agreed.

As for the others, the man in his thirties and the Monkey King Mask Man, they also agreed.

Of course, for the sake of safety, Lin Yu and the Silver-Haired Guy didn't allow those latter two to get too close to them. They had to maintain a certain safe distance.

Therefore, the current situation was that the four of them were in the middle.

These two were positioned at a certain distance on the left and right sides of the group.

...

The Green-haired Guy returned to the area between the two apartment buildings.

The Green-haired Guy was also something of an odd character. By normal people's reasoning, a murder had occurred right beside them, and the dead person was even their own friend. Such a thing should be extremely urgent. The moment he got back, he should have hurriedly notified the manager and the security guards.

But instead, he first went to Building No. 2, to Zheng Zihan's home.

To take a shower and change clothes.

After showering, changing clothes, and being out and about late at night, all the dumplings he'd eaten for dinner had been completely digested.

So, at Zheng Zihan's place, he took out a pack of braised beef noodles he'd bought that afternoon and cooked himself some instant noodles. Only after he'd finished eating the noodles did he unhurriedly make his way to the first floor of Building No. 1 and Building No. 2.

It was already very late now, so there was no one to be seen in the management offices on the first floor of Building No. 1 and Building No. 2.

The management office was pitch black inside.

So, he went to the security room by the main gate.

There would definitely be someone on the night shift in the security room at the gate, and that person on the night shift happened to be Security Captain Xiang Shanfeng.

So, the Green-haired Guy told Xiang Shanfeng about what had happened to them.

And asked Xiang Shanfeng to help get in touch with the manager.

Xiang Shanfeng did contact them, and he did get through, but in the end, the person who accompanied the Green-haired Guy wasn't those two managers, but the assistant manager, Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran was really about to lose it.

It was already this late, and he'd been fast asleep, only to be rudely awakened by a phone call in the middle of the night.

After being woken up, Manager Wu Meiling on the phone explained the situation.

And finally, told him to go handle it.

Jiang Ran definitely refused! He was just an assistant manager, not the actual manager. Why did he have to be the one to handle everything?

Especially now, look at what time it was. It was already past 11 PM.

This was no way to do overtime.

Unless he, Jiang Ran, was the type to suck up to his superiors for personal gain, he definitely wouldn't go running off obediently to do whatever his leader instructed just because of one phone call.

He refused.

But Manager Wu Meiling knew Jiang Ran pretty well, so she pulled out the money tactic.

From a 300 yuan overtime fee, they haggled back and forth all the way up to 2000 yuan.

Only then did Jiang Ran agree to take on this task.

By the time Jiang Ran came down from his home in Room 304 to the first floor,

The Green-haired Guy was already waiting there.

Jiang Ran saw the Green-haired Guy and asked him, "What the hell happened to you people? Tell me the whole story again carefully. I only heard it vaguely from Manager Wu Meiling over the phone before, and I didn't really get the details."

The Green-haired Guy blew on his green bangs and stuck his hands in his pants pockets.

He said unhurriedly, "Here's what happened. A friend of mine was swimming in the pool. But when I and a few others went back to the swimming pool, we found him dead inside. He was only wearing a pair of underwear, so he must have been killed by someone."

Jiang Ran was stunned: "I heard Manager Wu Meiling say something about someone dying, but I didn't think it would actually be true."

"But your friend must have been in pretty good shape, going for a swim in the middle of the night with the pool water that cold."

The Green-haired Guy waved his hand: "That guy's physical condition was about the same as mine. So I don't get why he wanted to go swimming so late at night. Maybe he was just trying to show off in front of me, and ended up showing off himself straight into death."

Jiang Ran was stunned again when he heard this.

"How come, from the way you're talking, you don't seem sad at all that your friend died?"

The Green-haired Guy said, "He's dead, so what's there to be sad about? Would being sad bring him back? Besides, I should be happy for him! Now that he's dead, he can rush to be reborn. Eighteen years from now, he'll be a true man again! Maybe this time he'll be reborn into a wealthy family and won't have to live like this lifetime, crammed together with a dozen or so people in one place."

Jiang Ran said, "You're pretty open-minded about it."

"Oh, by the way, have you called the police?"

The Green-haired Guy said, "There's no phone signal! So I haven't called yet. That's why I came back first to inform you guys."

Jiang Ran said, "That's complete bullshit. If there was no phone signal, then how did Manager Wu Meiling manage to call and notify me?"

He was truly speechless. If there was no phone signal, did Manager Wu Meiling contact him through telepathy or by controlling his phone with her mind? If there really was no signal, then he'd be truly grateful for it! That way, he'd still be in his bed, fast asleep right now!

"Huh? Could the signal have come back?"

The Green-haired Guy, refusing to believe it, pulled out his Fruit 11, which had been modified to look like a Fruit 17, and discovered that there was indeed a signal.

Immediately, the Green-haired Guy used his phone to call the police.