Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1418 Balls
"The phone number you have dialed does not exist."

Elizabeth looked at the phone and slowly deleted the numbers on the screen one by one.She called all possible emergency calls, 110, 112, 999, 911... none of the numbers existed.Presumably, what happened in this building would naturally not attract the police.

She couldn't afford a cell phone, and the cell phone in her hand was picked up from Abby's dead body. The screen saver was a selfie of Abby smiling brightly.For some reason, the deceased did not set a password for the mobile phone, anyone can open it with a swipe—Elizabeth hesitated for a few seconds, clicked on the communication record, and quickly scanned the content of her text messages and chats with other people; she said it was someone else, but actually There is only one person, Abby's boyfriend, Barbecue Hu.

Even if she didn't look carefully, she could feel that the text messages, which had started out as sweet and intimate, had gradually deteriorated in the past two weeks, becoming full of tension, threats and tears.

"We can't just leave her here like this, can we?" Heipeng's voice came out so suddenly that Elizabeth was startled.Although no one knew that this phone belonged to Abby, she still felt a little guilty, lowered her hand, let her sleeve cover the phone, and turned her head to look around.

After hearing her scream, the neighbors in this building rushed out like disturbed wasps, and there was a chatter of "what's the matter?" in the corridor.Before the crowd arrived, Elizabeth managed to calm down and caught a glimpse of a black mobile phone on the floor next to Abby's body. The gentleman opened the door and rushed in.

"Why..." Before he finished speaking, his eyes had already landed on Abby's body.Without even a pause, he turned his head and yelled out the door: "Abby is dead!"

After the roar, almost everyone gathered in apartment No. 8. There was no place to stay in the living room, so they swarmed and stood outside the door.The curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows were opened by someone, and many people crowded outside the window, looking at the tragic scene in the living room through the glass, all of them turned pale.

"Who... who killed her?" Li Er, who was standing at the door, had a trembling voice, and he didn't know who he was asking.Jessica squeezed her hand tightly to comfort her.

No one could answer this question, everyone looked at each other for a while, Yanhuang suddenly frowned and said: "There is no barbeque."

Elizabeth was taken aback, but this time she took a closer look, and found that there was indeed only the shadow of the barbeque beard missing among the residents.

"Barbecue Hu..." The two female college students looked at each other and said hesitantly, "We heard him beat Abby once, and Abby cried badly..."

"I also heard it once, and threatened her that I would kill her." Heipeng said immediately.

"It's not surprising that she does something after she's drunk. Look at her, what else can she be except love?" Ms. Chen shrugged her shoulders, her tone was indifferent and objective—as if she was lying on the floor. What lay there was not a corpse.

"Then... are we going to get the barbecue?" Mr. Guan asked.

When everyone fell silent with this question, Elizabeth's mind was filled with the weeping lullaby from Apartment No. 1.

The appearance of the "lullaby" was too discordant, it always hit her like a rock, no matter what she thought, she couldn't think of a reason why a single middle-aged man might cry and sing a lullaby when he was drunk.She had a feeling that once she found the reason, maybe she would find the end of the rope that would pull the curtain down and reveal the whole thing.

"What if he develops a drunken madness..." Someone muttered in a low voice, "Let's wait for someone who can deal with it to come."

What everyone knows, but doesn't say, is that Abby's death has little to do with their own goals-there are only 12 days left before the end of the game, and they don't want to be involved in things that have nothing to do with them. What a waste of time, anyway, they didn't fall in love with Barbecue Hu, so don't worry that he will continue to do things to others.

"Let's do this first," Miss Chen waved her hand impatiently, "I'll talk about it when I see Barbecue Hu coming out of the house."

This can be regarded as putting an end to the discussion.They decided to keep Abby in apartment 8, but put a sheet over her and left.Elizabeth was the last to leave, and her fingers were still trembling as she closed the door behind her.

It seemed impossible that the person who killed Abby was anyone else except Barbecue Hu.The news on Abby's mobile phone also concentrated all the suspicions on Barbecue Hu: his pleading, his love words, his swearing...all showed an image of an unstable mood.

But just because all the clues clearly pointed to Barbecue Hu, Elizabeth felt a little uncomfortable.These clues are clean and clear, without even a trace of clutter, as if the neatly trimmed green plants in the flower bed always have an artificial flavor.

After all, she still wanted to know what the lullaby was all about.

When Elizabeth turned to open the door of her own house, a footstep rushed over from behind; when she turned her head, she met two snow-white round eyes, but the pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.

When Yanhuang opened her mouth, there was a sour smell in her mouth that she hadn't eaten for a long time.She didn't feel that she was close to Elizabeth's face at all, her eyes were floating in the void, and she whispered, "...I'm going to do it today."

"What?" Elizabeth was startled.Didn't she just comfort Yanhuang?
"Abby is dead," Yanhuang said faster, "I know he must have done it. I have proof, I've seen him talk to Abby, they must have had an affair, maybe because of jealousy. Abby killed. This man is too dangerous for me to delay, and I will do it today."

"Wait a minute," Elizabeth only had time to yell, and Yan Huang turned and ran away without hearing it - the latter rushed down the stairs with a "thump", and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

She froze on the spot, caught off guard for a moment, and couldn't figure out what to do.When she turned her head and took a look at apartment No. 6, she couldn't help but sighed inwardly—when the curtains were pulled open and she looked in through the window, Grandma Pink was still guarding her grandson, not even refusing her eyes. Get off him.

When Grandma Pink followed Pink at every step, she naturally couldn't consult with her little allies.I don't know what happened to Ms. Chen, since Elizabeth ran into her once, she only stunned Grandma Pink twice, and she never did it again.

Do you want to remind Heipeng now?Whether she reminds her or not, she seems to lose this believer.

After thinking about it, Elizabeth decided to stabilize Yanhuang first, then turned and entered the house.Although she is poor, she has everything that can create atmosphere and create a sense of mystery, such as candle charms.I'm afraid Yanhuang won't listen to mere words, she has to try her best to scare that crazy woman.

For more than ten days, her spider-hole-like house has not changed a bit; when she walked by the doll on display, it seemed to be watching her all the way.Elizabeth hurriedly opened the drawer, looked at the contents one by one, and stuffed the useful ones into her pocket; perhaps she was in a hurry, and accidentally tore a string of beads, and the translucent fake jade beads burst into the air. Roll all over the place.

"The more anxious you are, the more trouble will happen," Elizabeth muttered and cursed, lying on the ground, trying to sweep up all the beads on the ground.After sweeping twice, her movements stopped.

A bead shimmered and stopped not far away.What stopped it was a small red satin shoe.

…the last time Elizabeth had seen these shoes was a few minutes before, when she was passing the dolls on the shelf.

She raised her head slowly, her eyes followed the red shoes, and she saw the doll who had walked down at some point.It was standing a few steps away, looking at her with black eyes, still smiling sweetly on its snow-white face.

(End of this chapter)