Lin Bayi stared at me with a gloomy face, and the scene became very embarrassing for a while.

"I looked at the villa so luxurious, and I thought there should be a maid or no nanny or something living in it." In an instant, I casually came up with such a reason to prevaricate.

"There used to be, but in recent months, I've been dismissed, and now I'm the only one in the room." Lin Bayi finally turned around again and led me into the villa.

"I guess you've heard that I've had some problems with my funds recently, and now I'm stretched thin, and I can't afford to hire those maids and nannies anymore." While speaking, Lin Bayi slowly opened the door of the room and motioned for me to walk in.

The huge room was so dim that there were only three or four white candles, and not even a single light was turned on.

Lin Bayi's explanation for this is that he is the only one anyway, and in order to save electricity, he simply lights the candles that have not been used up.

I don't know what the old man thinks, but it seems to me that the cost of lighting a candle is much greater than the so-called electricity bill.

But since this is someone else's house, I can't say much, after all, every old man will always have one kind or another quirk.

"You sit down first, I'll pour you a glass of water."

"Well, there are seniors."

After Lin Bayi finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the kitchen with a lantern.

Sitting in the light of this candle and looking at the dark corners of the room, I always felt a little strange, as if I was keeping a vigil in the mourning hall.

Instead of being so awkward, he simply picked up a candle and stood up to look around.

It has to be said that the layout style of the villa, including the various decorative furniture in it, is quite tasteful.

The carved coffee table, the glazed vase, and the jade screen make me feel like I am in the royal family of the Qing Dynasty. I can't see that Lin Bayi, that bad old man, knows how to enjoy it.

In front of the hall, there was a huge oil painting, on which Xiaoxue, Lin Feng, and Lin Bayi and his wife were depicted.

Different from the family photo on the brass pocket watch, Lin Xiaoxue had already started to go to school at this time, and Lin Feng also had a hint of adult breath between his eyebrows.

As a rough estimate, the painting was completed five to six years after the photo was taken in the pocket watch.

In particular, Lin Xiaoxue's mother in the painting is full of sickness, it is estimated that not long after the completion of this oil painting, her mother passed away due to illness.

I still shifted my gaze to Lin Bayi, and found that his appearance at this time was very different from the photo in the brass pocket watch, and it could even be described as two completely different people.

It seems that the situation is more or less the same as I expected.

In the years between photos and oil paintings, Lin Bayi should have undergone a comprehensive plastic surgery, which caused earth-shaking changes in his face.

From the first time I met him, I found that Lin Bayi had many subtle knife marks on his face, especially the one under his eyelids, and those knife marks should have been left by plastic surgery.

It's no wonder I didn't recognize him when we first met, otherwise the whole incident might not have gotten to this point.

"Sting, stinging!"

Who is it!

Suddenly, in the dark stairwell, there was a faint sound, as if something was sliding rapidly on the wooden floor.

I immediately turned the candle in the direction from which the sound came, and saw a black figure flash in the corner of the second floor.

As I expected, there were other people in the villa. Lin Bayi, what exactly are you trying to hide!

Out of my mortal nature, I did not hesitate to chase after me with the candlestick.

Because of its age, the wooden staircase creaked as if it was about to collapse. I don't know how big a heart their family has to put such a staircase in the villa and not even repair it.

Rushing up to the second floor with the candlestick, he found that it was even darker.

And the entire second floor was filled with a smell of corruption, and almost as soon as I smelled the smell, cold sweat suddenly flowed down my back.

If my instincts were correct, the smell of decay should be the stench of corpses, and I've smelled similar smells countless times before at crime scenes.

Why does Lin Xiaoxue's second-floor house smell of corpses? Lin Bayi, how many secrets are still hidden in you, a bad old man?

"Squeak! Squeak" was the same voice again, this time closer, almost coming from the darkness around me.

Holding the candlestick and turning quickly, he suddenly saw a black shadow flash into the corridor on the side. This time, I saw it very realistically, and the black shadow was exactly the same as the one I had seen in the courtyard before, both in size and in that thin degree!

Sure enough, it was him!

Holding the candlestick, he followed the footsteps of the black shadow and dodged into the corridor.

There was silence all around, and the vast corridor was unusually dark, except for the candlestick I held in my hand emitting a faint light.

The candlelight swayed in the wind and could go out at any moment, and my heart swayed with the candlelight.

I knew that I would have brought a more reliable lighting tool, and when I looked at such a dangerous place with a candle, I always felt that my life safety was not guaranteed in the slightest.

Gradually, I felt that the stench of corpses was getting heavier, and as expected, the smell must have come from one of the rooms on either side of the corridor.

Where the hell is that thing hidden!

"Bang!" The door closed with a crisp bang and exploded in the huge corridor, so startled that my heart almost jumped out.

There was no wind in the hallway, and besides, only the door to the innermost room was closed.

I presume someone must have been hiding in that room and closing the door from the inside! That person, could it be the figure just now?

I felt as if the guy was deliberately guiding me into that room, could it be that there was some deadly trap hidden in the house?

My intellect told me it was dangerous inside, but instinct led me on.

Driven by curiosity, I went to the innermost room and leaned my ear against the door.

The room was silent, and I couldn't hear any strange movement at all, could it be that what I saw just now was an illusion?

Swallowing his saliva, he gently unscrewed the doorknob.

I only heard a "squeak", and the door was opened, and then a strong smell of corpses rushed to my face, choking me and almost throwing up.

The smell is coming from this room, and it looks like my guesses so far have been correct!

Holding his breath, he raised the candlestick and walked into the room. However, I was already soaked in cold sweat.

By candlelight, it was clear that the inside of the house was blood-red, the walls on all sides were deliberately printed red, and all the furniture and furnishings were covered with a layer of red cloth.

Such a bloody scene invisibly cast a huge pressure on my heart, why did Lin Bayi deliberately arrange a room in the villa like this? Red cloth, red wall, what is the special meaning of this room to him?

Suddenly, I saw a figure standing in the innermost part of the house, because of the angle, I could only see the back, and I couldn't see the front side clearly.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?"

The muscles of my whole body tensed unconsciously, and I could see why the figure was so thin at such a close distance.

He was wearing a cloak, and his shoulders drooped straight down as if they had been crushed, and at first glance, the two arms seemed to grow from under the ribs, even awkward, and the smell of corpses before seemed to emanate from near the figure.

The red-clothed strange man who appeared more than once in the Renbi case was actually somewhat similar to the figure in front of him, could it be that they were the same person?

I couldn't wait for him to reply, so I lunged up and ripped off the mantle.

Driven by inertia, the figure fell into my arms, and the heavy smell of corpses hit me.

Only then did I realize that the thing under the cloak was actually a corpse that had been rotting for a long time!

Most of the skin on the corpse's face had completely decayed, the eye sockets were deeply sunken, and the tall nose bones also exposed the white bones, and the wriggling maggots inside were faintly visible.

A large piece of corpse oil spread all over my body along with the stench of corpses, and my stomach churned, and I vomited almost everything I had eaten before.

Based on the part of the corpse that has not completely decomposed, it can be vaguely judged that the corpse in the arms should be a female corpse.

it! Lin Bayi doesn't know how to be a necrophilia, why is there a corpse in his house that has decomposed to such an extent?