Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 229 Confess to Me 2
Everyone in the bar has been asked to leave.

The cordon was raised, and Tan Jia followed Zheng Yan, bending down to enter through the half-open door.

After walking four or five steps, Zheng Yan in front of her suddenly stopped, and she had to brake suddenly to avoid hitting him.

"What's wrong?" She peeked ahead.

The place was a mess, with broken glasses, trampled fruit and desserts, overturned tables and chairs, all piled up haphazardly. You can imagine how terrified the crowd must have been, and how they must have been scrambling to get out.

But these are all normal, just minor details, because what first catches the eye is a terrifying scene—

The wall was covered with a grinning ghost child image, sprayed with bloody red handprints, and the only intact plate contained ears and fingers. Under the dim red light, it looked as if you had entered a cannibal's bedroom, with blood dripping from everyone's mouth.

"...What's going on? Is this bar hosting a cannibalistic carnival party on its opening day?" Zheng Yan's eyebrows furrowed so deeply they could kill a mosquito.

Tan Jia, without blinking, calmly said as she looked, "It should be a horror-themed bar, just like a horror-themed restaurant, a paradise for niche enthusiasts."

She even pinched the ear on the plate through her gloves and said, "It's definitely fake."

Zheng Yan gave a complicated, incomprehensible look, walked around the filth, and continued forward.

Xiao Chen and Tan Ming arrived first. One of them was half-squatting next to the corpse and talking to Lao Li, while the other was observing the clues around him.

Tan Jia first observed the corpse.

Platinum blonde hair, a tattered and blurry face, a formal and heavy three-piece suit with a vest, exactly the same as in my dream.

The difference is that the body is now sitting on the sink, with its back to the mirror and its head down.

Although they weren't face-to-face, when someone entered the restroom and looked in the mirror, they could see their own face next to that face. For a fleeting moment, they felt as if that face might lift up at any moment, deliberately revealing its bloodied and mangled appearance, and smile at the other person.

Ugh, I can't help but get goosebumps.

Zheng Yan walked over and asked, "How is it?"

“He died a horrible death,” Old Li lifted the deceased’s chin. “Look at this level of destruction; only someone with a deep-seated hatred could do such a thing.”

Thank you, I've seen it. Tan Jia looked straight ahead, glancing past the face, and looked at the deceased's clothes.

It's a pretty high-quality three-piece suit. Wearing such a formal outfit, is it like a medieval vampire attending a horror-themed bar event?

Was the crime scene in this bar? Is there a clandestine clinic hidden inside?

She moved very close, only half a meter from the deceased's face, yet her expression remained calm. Old Li looked at her in surprise.

“She’s impressive; she’s bolder than my intern,” he told Zheng Yan.

Zheng Yan gave him an expression that said, "I didn't want to be proud, but since you've said it like that..."

"It's alright, it's not just about being brave."

Tan Ming rolled his eyes from behind.

Zheng Yan coughed and returned to the main topic: "Besides the face being mutilated, are there any other strange things about the corpse?"

"Nothing found yet. I haven't figured out the murder weapon, though. It's a weapon hard enough to pierce flesh and destroy bone, but not very sharp, so the skin and muscle tissue look like they've been hewn apart… We'll have to take it back, clean it, and check for any unusual marks on the skull." "Uh, do you think it could be a screwdriver?"

"?" Old Li looked at him, then at Tan Jia, who remained expressionless, and narrowed his eyes. "What are you guys up to?"

Tan Jia, unable to hear, walked a few steps away to chat with Tan Ming and Xiao Chen.

Who discovered the body?

Xiao Chen pointed to the man sitting outside shivering: "That guy came to a horror-themed event wearing a mask. He went into the restroom and saw a corpse. He thought it was a prop and even took a picture of it. But when he found out it was a real corpse, he was so scared that he ran away screaming, scaring away half the people in the bar."

It's clear that half of the people participating in this horror-themed event are just going along with the trend despite their fears.

Tan Jia glanced at the man and asked, "Did he see anyone who might be the murderer? Did anyone come out of the restroom before he went there?"

Xiao Chen: "According to him, no. They all thought that all the scary scenes here were specially set up by the bar. At first, they didn't associate it with a murder case at all, so they didn't pay special attention to anyone acting strangely."

"What about the people who went to the restroom before him? We didn't see them either? The murderer was carrying the body out, so he must have shown up. Surely someone saw him, right?"

"Among the people we've asked so far, everyone says they haven't seen it. When we asked the bar owners, they said they only checked the bar's interior before opening, and didn't look at the restrooms."

"Where's the surveillance?"

"There are surveillance cameras only at the entrance."

At the doorway, would the killer be there? If the killer was a victim of an illegal clinic, and that clinic was located near the bar or even underground, would she dare to leave through the normal exit?
...But it's not absolute. They thought the murderer might not have exposed the body, but the other party did, and in such a sensational way.

Tan Jia pondered for a moment, then asked from another angle, "Does the bar owner have any resistance to us coming in to investigate?"

“There was definitely some resistance, but their explanation was that being approached by the police on the first day of business because of a murder case was a bad omen and would ruin their business, so they didn’t want to be investigated in a big way.”

"Oh? Isn't it because they're afraid of being caught as an illegal clinic? Or because the person who died was someone they knew?" She raised an eyebrow, her eyes darting left and right to look for the bar owner.

Xiao Chen pointed to her: "It's those two young men, the two with tattoos. I tried to get their information out of them, but they both seemed confused and insisted that they didn't know the deceased."

Tan Ming added, "They kept swearing, asking who the deceased was, where he came from, and how he could have died in their shop. They were really swearing."

"That doesn't prove anything. Even if I were the mole, I could still curse, and I could even use different languages ​​to curse," Tan Jia said lightly, looking at the two men.

Xiao Chen nodded: "I was thinking the same thing. Maybe they were the ones who moved the body? Perhaps the murderer thought the same as us, that he abandoned the body and ran away, and they found the body and chose this method to dispel our suspicions. After all, in their view, we don't know that the deceased died in an illegal clinic, we only know that a young man was killed in revenge here, so we will only investigate in the direction of a revenge killing."

Tan Ming said, "There's no need to take such a big risk, unless the illegal clinic isn't located here. Those people are very well-informed; if they know there's going to be an investigation soon, they'll immediately hide for a while."

Tan Jia pondered, unconsciously kneading the dough in his hands.

In fact, she felt that the analysis so far had a sense of incongruity.

"What if the person who exposed the body was the murderer himself? What if the case doesn't turn out to be the 'victim and the shady clinic' story we initially imagined?"

She stared blankly at the possibility, when she suddenly noticed that the two bar owners across from her were staring at her and whispering to each other to confirm something.

Then one of them walked over hesitantly and asked her, "Are you... are you Lin Zhiyue's Powerpuff Girl?"