Chapter 524: Hit by a Car
Chapter 524: Hit by a Car
Especially since that person was highly likely to have impersonated this knocked-out team member, after all, his clothes had been stripped off."Out, everyone go look! Check the surveillance! See where the last person who got on the bus ended up!!!"
Cold sweat kept dripping from the new captain's forehead.
This kind of incident was no longer a minor issue. If it ended up causing some kind of disaster...
His position as captain would definitely not be secure.
These dozen or so team members were also quite panicked.
Including Xiao Leng and Xiao Zhi.
After all, when something like this happened, the punishment mechanism didn't just target the captain; their entire team, all members, would also face penalties.
So, one after another, they all hurriedly rushed out to check surveillance and search for the person.
Of course, the one who regretted it most was the Cleaner team member who had left his colleague alone to go to the restroom.
If he had known this would happen, he would have stayed there with him.
It was just that being a Cleaner had become too comfortable.
He had forgotten that every time they went to clean up, they were dealing with some demon's lairs.
The team members all ran out, leaving only the new captain standing there in a daze.
He kept muttering to himself, "It shouldn't be like this..."
He also knew the rules regarding that live-streaming game at Alice Apartment.
Those deranged criminals living inside shouldn't be able to leave Alice Apartment, right?
Not by any means or in any form?
Suddenly.
The new captain remembered something.
That was back when he was a Cleaner at the Alice Apartment in Tai Country.
Those who could live in Alice Apartment were all heinous, utterly depraved freaks.
There were plenty inside who didn't follow the rules.
Especially the new ones who just entered.
You tell them they can't leave, and they just won't leave?
Impossible.
There must be those who, driven mad by confinement, escaped from Alice Apartment.
And those deranged criminals who escaped from Alice Apartment, once found, met extremely miserable ends.
Tortured to death.
Back then, there was one deranged criminal who, taking advantage of when they Cleaners were doing a sweep, killed a lone one, impersonated him, and escaped.
He remembered that the captain of his squad back then was directly demoted to a regular team member.
Now, was he at the Alice Apartment in Hua Country about to have a similar experience?!
"Please don't tell me I'm this unlucky..."
The new captain wasn't unlucky; his luck was actually pretty good.
Because not long after, his team members returned with collected surveillance footage from many different sources.
After compiling and investigating it.
What completely caught the new captain off guard was...
The person who knocked out their team member wasn't a deranged criminal from Alice Apartment, but rather...
An acquaintance of his, the one who screwed him, Xiao Leng, and Xiao Zhi over, leading to their demotion...
But fortunately, this guy came out, just circled around the apartment they were staying in, and then left...
"A stroke of luck amidst misfortune; my captain position should be safe, right?"
In a state of anxious unease...
...
Starlight Gym.
Inside the gym, Jiang Ran was sweating profusely, continuously training his physique.
Inside the gym, there were also many other men and women.
Gyms are considered places where male-female relationships can get pretty messy.
Here, male-male, male-female, female-female encounters are commonplace.
In fact, for humans as a species, which circle isn't messy?
It's just a matter of degree.
Like right now.
A woman in her thirties, wearing tight-fitting clothes, walked towards Jiang Ran.
This woman had an ordinary face, but her figure was truly good.
Especially that buttocks.
After long-term exercise, that area was particularly attractive to the opposite sex.
Combined with this woman's demeanor.
As she walked over, one could notice many men's eyes lingering on her, especially on her buttocks.
Jiang Ran was running on a treadmill.
The woman gracefully walked up to him and asked with a smile, "Handsome, can you help me with something?"
Without stopping the treadmill, Jiang Ran replied while running, "With what?"
The woman said, "There's a piece of equipment over there I don't really know how to use. Could you guide me?"
With that coquettish voice, any normal man wouldn't refuse.
But Jiang Ran didn't even glance at the equipment and said, "I'm a newbie. Besides the treadmill, I don't know how to use anything else. You'd better ask someone else."
The rejection in these words was already quite clear.
The woman gave Jiang Ran a resentful look and left, swaying her hips unhappily.
"Still, it's this appearance that's causing these peach blossom situations."
Jiang Ran concluded this.
He hadn't done anything, yet peach blossoms came knocking.
If he couldn't hold himself back, big trouble would ensue.
After exercising for over two hours.
He took a shower in the gym's shower room and changed into the clean clothes he had prepared.
Today's workout session ended just like that.
Jiang Ran carried his backpack, which contained all his dirty clothes.
He walked home.
He needed to cross a road.
He walked to the central safety island where pedestrians could wait.
He was at the very front.
It was a red light now, and the traffic was dense.
Jiang Ran was looking straight ahead when suddenly, a flash caught the corner of his right eye.
He saw a black figure suddenly dart out.
This black figure probably wasn't recklessly crossing the road.
Because after darting out, he directly fell forward, and even shouted out loud, "What the hell!"
Therefore, Jiang Ran concluded he had been pushed.
And those two words, "What the hell," were also the last two words of his life.
His sudden darting out.
Made the following gray sedan completely unable to brake in time.
This black figure was directly run over by the sedan.
After the black figure was run over.
Blood splattered everywhere. The black figure lay on the spot, vomiting blood violently. A large pool of bright red blood began to form a lake.
Only then did the people on the safety island in the middle of the road, waiting to cross, realize what had happened.
One after another, they started screaming in shock.
The scene immediately fell into chaos.
Not just here, but on this road, all the following cars slammed on their brakes one after another.
Afraid of hitting anything else.
While everyone else was in extreme panic, or took out their phones in shock to take photos or videos forward.
To share with their friends and family, or post online for more strangers to see.
Jiang Ran, however, kept his hands in his pockets, coldly staring at that black figure.
It was a young man.
At most around 25 years old.
What a pity, so young, and his life was gone.
He couldn't experience more of life's journey.
Because, judging by the injuries, Jiang Ran estimated there was no saving him.
Next, someone called the police.
Police cars and ambulances arrived.
Next, Jiang Ran and the others were taken away for questioning.
Jiang Ran didn't know if this sudden incident would be treated as an accident, where the injured person lost his footing and darted out himself.
Or if evidence would be found to define it as homicide and find the killer.
In any case, after being interrogated and showing no apparent suspicion for now, Jiang Ran was released.
As for the rest, he didn't know, and the police didn't reveal anything related to him.
"It was definitely intentional murder."
"As for whether the killer had a grudge against the victim or was a stranger, that remains unknown."
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