Chapter 983: Guess What Kind of Skin This Is?

The beautiful figure before him looked stunning from behind, and her face was every bit as gorgeous. She definitely wasn’t one of those people who looked good only from behind.

But why was she suddenly so worked up?

Could it be that she’d seen him and fallen for him?

No way!

Jiang Ran thought he was a little handsome, sure, but surely he wasn’t so devastatingly good-looking that women fell in love with him at first sight.

“Ahem.”

Still, under the heat of her gaze, Jiang Ran cleared his throat a few times and asked, “Miss, why are you looking at me like that?”

A hint of chill touched the beautiful girl’s lips. “Oh? You don’t remember me?”

Jiang Ran scratched his cheek with his right hand and studied her carefully. He shook his head. “Do we know each other? If we did, you’re so beautiful that I couldn’t possibly have forgotten you.”

The chill at the corners of the beautiful girl’s lips turned even icier. “Jiang Ran, you really do have a convenient memory!”

Since she’d said his name, Jiang Ran was certain she knew him. But why couldn’t he remember her?

“You don’t remember me, but surely you remember my older sister, Huo Xiaoxiao?”

Jiang Ran hadn’t recognized her at first, but the moment he heard the name Huo Xiaoxiao, it all came back to him.

“You... You’re her younger sister, Huo Yunyun?!”

It was as if his memory had refreshed. Jiang Ran immediately recognized the woman in front of him.

Huo Yunyun had once dated a Black man.

She’d run into Judge Jiang Ran on Bar Street one night.

Her boyfriend’s phone had fallen to the ground, and Judge Jiang Ran had stepped on it. Well, he hadn’t actually stepped on it.

But her boyfriend and Huo Yunyun had demanded that he pay for the phone.

Judge Jiang Ran had beaten them both up without hesitation.

One got kicked in the groin; the other suffered a concussion and needed surgery after having his head slammed into a tree.

Judge Jiang Ran had been satisfied.

The Jiang Ran who came afterward had suffered for it.

He had no memory of what happened, yet he’d taken the blame and paid the two of them 200,000.

Later, at the castle treasure hunt organized by Gu Bei, one of Jiang Ran’s high school classmates, Huo Xiaoxiao, another of his high school classmates, brought her younger sister and her sister’s Black boyfriend along.

Then a horrific murder took place in the castle.

Huo Xiaoxiao and her younger sister, Huo Yunyun, were fine, but her Black boyfriend had been left behind forever, becoming a ghost.

Jiang Ran truly hadn’t expected the world to be so small that he would run into Huo Yunyun here.

Huo Yunyun rubbed the spot on her head where Judge Jiang Ran had once slammed her into a tree and given her a concussion. Her injury had healed long ago, but it still ached faintly.

She gritted her teeth. “Jiang Ran, what a small world. You killed my boyfriend back then. How come the police never arrested you and thrown you in prison?”

Jiang Ran was speechless. “We were being hunted. Your Black boyfriend was the one who played dirty first and tried to leave me behind so the Armored Man would kill me. If I hadn’t fought back, I’d be the one who died.”

Back then, the four of them had been chased by the Armored Man. Her Black boyfriend, Blake, had suddenly charged forward and grabbed Jiang Ran, trying to shove him to the back to use him as a shield against the Armored Man. But Jiang Ran had already been on his guard. He’d used his Crotch-Crushing Dragon Claw and grabbed Blake right there, worsening an injury that hadn’t yet healed. Blake had collapsed, howling in pain, and the Armored Man had hacked him to death.

She shouted, “Then you should’ve just died!!!”

Jiang Ran lowered his head and stared at the writing on Huo Yunyun’s right arm.

“And you have the nerve to blame me? If you’d been devoted to your Black boyfriend, then I could understand you saying that when you saw me.

“Because you loved your Black boyfriend so much.

“But you already have a new boyfriend, and judging by his name, he’s foreign too. What gives you the right to blame me?

“You found yourself another boyfriend in such a short time. Better be careful. That dead boyfriend of yours might come back to pay you a visit.”

Jiang Ran’s words seemed to frighten Huo Yunyun. Her body trembled.

But in the next moment, she gritted her teeth. “What does it have to do with you if I find another boyfriend? Am I supposed to be a nun for the rest of my life just because he died? And so what if he’s foreign? I like foreign men. What’s wrong with that? Foreigners are just more noble than you.”

Jiang Ran chuckled and said no more.

Huo Yunyun was about to start up again, when the man tattooing her said, “You two, stop arguing for now. If you want to fight, at least sit down first and let me finish the tattoo. Then you can carry on.”

After Huo Yunyun sat down, the man looked at Jiang Ran. “I’m the owner here. Are you here to get a tattoo too? If so, you’ll have to wait a while. No rush. You can look around the shop in the meantime.”

“I’m not here for a tattoo,” Jiang Ran said. “Wu Wen sent me to pick something up.”

At that moment, Jiang Ran’s face suddenly stiffened.

The owner didn’t notice and continued tattooing Huo Yunyun with his head lowered.

Jiang Ran backed away several steps and began looking around the shop.

But in truth, he kept his attention on the owner.

After staying at Alice Apartment for so long, he’d grown used to the System’s voice in his mind.

Actually, the Danger Warning System had spoken as soon as he entered the shop, but he hadn’t paid it any attention. He’d been distracted by the fragrance.

Now, at last, he paid attention.

Only then did he realize that the Danger Warning kept sounding, adding +7, +7.

There were three people here in total: Huo Yunyun, the owner, and him.

It definitely wasn’t Huo Yunyun.

Back at the castle, he’d spent time alone with her and her sister.

Neither of the sisters had triggered a danger warning.

That left the owner.

After about ten minutes in the shop, Huo Yunyun’s tattoo was finished, though she still had other things to get done.

So the owner came over to deal with Jiang Ran first.

“Come with me.”

Jiang Ran followed the owner through the back door of the shop. He wasn’t worried the owner would try anything, not in broad daylight.

They soon reached the workbench where the owner did his work.

Jiang Ran immediately spotted the sheet of pale, smooth human skin hanging on the wall.

He stopped there and asked the owner, “What’s that?”

The owner said, “Take a guess.”

Jiang Ran studied it for a moment. “Looks like skin.”

“That’s right. It’s skin.”

The owner asked, “Guess what kind of skin?”

“An animal’s, I suppose? But are there animals with skin this clean and pale?”

The owner smiled. “You got it. It’s an animal’s. Humans count as animals, after all.”

“Humans count as animals? This is human skin?!”

Jiang Ran’s eyes widened as he stared at the owner in front of him as if he’d seen a ghost.

Wait, had he really uncovered something suspicious this quickly?!

The owner smiled again. “All right, I was joking. Why would I have human skin here? If it really were human skin, I’d already be in prison, waiting to be executed.”

“It’s artificial leather made in a factory to imitate human skin.”

“It looks quite a bit like human skin, but it isn’t. I was just trying to scare you.”