The footsteps of Li Lu and his party gradually disappeared in the hallway, and I turned my attention to Guan Linlin's apartment. The décor of the rooms is indeed worthy of the positioning of this community, the interior is bright and spacious, and the soft furnishing details show the owner's almost extreme fascination with luxury living.

Obviously, Li Lu had led someone to conduct a thorough search of the room, but it did not destroy the consistent petty bourgeois taste inside, or rather, it was difficult to shake itself. The room is filled with lush plants, carefully placed by the window or on the shelves, casting intricate light and shadow on the floor. I was amazed that Guan Linlin had such a skill in raising green plants, and when I walked into the view, I found that they were all fake plastic potted plants.

Guan Linlin's apartment is a completely open structure, with an open bathroom, an open kitchen, and a small living room, simply placed with a cream-white leather sofa, a matching glass coffee table, and an eye-catching acrylic shoe rack full of high heels.

Between the living room and the bedroom, a Japanese screen is used as a lattice, with some kind of ukiyo-e painting on it, reminding me of the curtain of the nightclub where she works. Compared to the simple and empty living room, her bedroom is much more colorful. The same cream-white waterbed was placed in the most prominent position in the bedroom, and on the wall behind it hung several unnamed but familiar copies of European abstract paintings, and on the bedside table was a ceramic vase, in which a cluster of yellow roses was real, but withered.

Once a person has money, he will like to be a vassal elegance, whether her money is real or not, and whether that elegance is true or not. I overlooked a small pushable bookshelf not far from the head of the bed, filled with books on interpersonal and financial matters, which seemed to have not been turned over for a long time, and a thin layer of dust had fallen on it. The books are as meaningful to Guan Linlin as her cherished jewelry and furs, with price tags that can be worn or taken off at any time.

I rummaged through her closet and fumbled intently for her lingerie suspenders and dresses of different materials, as if I could still smell her. Then I floated to her bed, her futon was wrinkled, and her mattress had been moved, so she must have led someone to search under the bed.

Admittedly, this is a lovely apartment, and while it may have witnessed the love of interest between Guan Linlin and her benefactor and some of her customers, the apartment itself is still comfortable and a symbol of abundance and stability. I would even wonder who would be the next person to live here after Guan Linlin died, how would she cover the trail of a woman, and then take whose money and continue to run her own easily shattered life.

Guan Linlin's dressing table is near the window, and there are many big brand lipsticks, eyeshadow palettes and other valuable skincare products on it, and it seems that she is willing to spend money on her beauty. On the other side, there are some medicine bottles, most of which are vitamins and long-term contraceptives, as well as half a bottle of Midasilam tablets, and a yellow number plate is placed next to it, which should be the physical evidence that the police comrades focus on.

There were two drawers under the dresser, which showed signs of locking, but they had been forcibly opened by Li Lu and them, and the delicate little lock hung pitifully on them. I opened them one by one, and the drawers above were full of jewelry boxes, and the outer boxes were mostly made of flannel material, which contained various earrings, necklaces of pure gold and sterling silver, rings inlaid with precious stones, and a few crystal bracelets that have been very hot in recent years. And those that are put in it must not be commonly used, or are no longer needed, such as a few pearl necklaces that look fake, and an ivory amulet that is some years old.

Guan Linlin is dead, I don't know who will inherit these jewelry, maybe soon, her parents will come from the suburbs and learn that her body is still missing, so they can only bring back her jewelry as her shining inheritance.

In the drawer below, there are some scattered and important items, such as rental contracts, spare keys, and some slips to accept money transfers. In addition, there is also a stack of thick invoices, understanding and retaining their own consumption traces, which is a rare good habit for modern people.

I looked at these invoices one by one, they all belong to the past three months, including takeaway bills, online shopping records, medical beauty invoices and shopping receipts, through which I can roughly calculate Guan Linlin's movement trajectory in the past three months. Looking at it, several invoices from the same nail salon caught my attention. The invoice reads "Shell Nail Art", and the services she has consumed include "nail art", "eyelash art" and a "secret massage service", and the red seal below is a little strange, and the imprint does not look like an industrial product, but like a private seal carved by herself.

The invoice shows that the last time Guan Linlin went to this shell nail salon was ten days ago and purchased a "new frosted nail" service worth 388. The last time was about twenty-two days ago, when she consumed a double copy of the "secret massage service", apparently accompanied by someone. I suddenly thought about the night Guan Linlin came to me, she casually mentioned that she often asked Cao Ke to do her hair and nails with her—so Cao Ke should have also visited this nail salon.

This was a very important discovery, and I read the name of the nail salon several times, for fear that I would forget it. The trouble of being a ghost is that you can't use your phone all the time, or even if you have a laptop like Li Lu - you can only rely on your own brain to be a ghost.

I checked the kitchen and bathroom of Guan Linlin's apartment again, and found an apparently used cat litter box behind the milky white shower curtain, indicating that there was once a cat here, but I don't know where it went.

Just when I thought I was almost done exploring, a small porcelain figure in front of the bathroom mirror caught my eye. It is a ceramic girl, with rich colors and simple lines and brushstrokes, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will think that it is a souvenir of a trip to a minority township. But that's exactly why it can be abrupt and even out of place in a modern, minimalist bathroom.

I picked up the porcelain figure, shook it, turned it upside down, and noticed that it seemed to have a thin rubber stopper at the bottom, similar to an old-fashioned piggy bank. The rubber stopper was pulled off, and a curled note of paper fell out of it, made of white papyrus paper, with talismans drawn on it.

I recognize this talisman as a talisman that specifically collects the yin qi on a woman's body for cultivation, and only those heavenly masters who study the left path of the side door will use it. If a ghostly thing wants to improve its strength, it can suck people's essence, or it can increase its own cultivation by attaching itself to a private life and fornicating with a woman.

It seems that Guan Linlin has been paying tribute to a ghost for some time now, and this apartment full of love is a breeding ground for tragedy.

I pinched the talisman with two fingers, and as I muttered the words, I saw the note suddenly burst into a pure blue flame and turned to ashes in the sink. I turned on the faucet and washed away the ashes with the help of the water, and as soon as I turned off the faucet, I heard a conversation between Li Lu and the police officer on duty at the door, and it seemed that they had returned from dinner.

I hurriedly plugged the rubber stopper, rearranged the porcelain figure, and floated in the air, looking at my results with satisfaction.

This Li Lu, I must not have imagined that I would not only continue to track down Guan Linlin's death, but also catch up with his progress while he was eating, and thoroughly searched this place.

When I have new progress, I won't share it with you, slightly. I floated up to Li Lu and watched him put some of the evidence into the evidence bag with a serious expression, and couldn't help but roll my eyes at him.