Chapter 8 The Story of the Haunted House

Speaking of this, Liu Feifei stopped, looked at Fang Xiaocao, and her expression seemed to be holding something back.

Having already parked the car at the roadside and holding popcorn, the obedient Xiaocao, eating melon, hurriedly asked when Liu Feifei stopped talking, "Then what, then what?"

Liu Feifei hesitated for a moment and asked, "Xiaocao, are you sure you want to hear this?"

As a top real estate agent, Liu Feifei assessed from experience that Xiaocao's desire to purchase would plummet after hearing this story.

"Yes, yes, please~"

Xiaocao's little head bobbed like a chick pecking at grains.

"Alright then..."

Liu Feifei said helplessly.

"A neighbor, who was friendly with the couple, curiously asked the husband where his wife had gone."

"The husband simply said that his wife had gone back to her hometown."

"Hearing the husband's explanation, and after all, it was the couple's private affair, the neighbor didn't pry further."

"It wasn't until a year later, when the neighbor adopted a retired police dog, that the secret of the wife's disappearance was completely revealed."

At this point, Liu Feifei paused.

Xiaocao, perceptive, passed over a bottle of water.

Liu Feifei twisted open the cap, took a sip, and continued, "That noon, the neighbor was walking the police dog home and when passing the villa, the dog suddenly stopped, sniffing the air and barking furiously at the villa before eventually breaking free from the leash and jumping into the villa's garden, frantically digging at the soil planted with roses."

"Until its front paws were bloody and the soil was stained with blood, it still refused to stop."

"Seeing this, the neighbor realized something, went home to get a shovel, and helped to dig."

"Until..."

"The neighbor dug up a leg bone from beneath the garden of roses!"

At this, Liu Feifei took a deep breath, took another sip of water, and steadied herself.

Xiaocao, with goosebumps, had already imagined many scenes from a wife-killing case.

"Is it... a case of killing one's wife?"

Xiaocao asked with a quivering voice.

Liu Feifei shook her head, her eyes somewhat complex.

"I told you before, it wasn't just one person who died, how could it be a simple case of killing the wife?"

Liu Feifei said solemnly.

At those words, Xiaocao's delicate body shuddered.

"Then... then what is it..."

Xiaocao stammered.

Looking at Xiaocao's frightened pale face, Liu Feifei smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll know after you hear the rest."

Putting down the Aquarius bottle, Liu Feifei whispered, "After digging up the leg bone, the neighbor was startled and finally understood why the normally docile police dog had suddenly become so agitated."

"This police dog, during its service, had been used to search for victims' bodies, so it was especially sensitive to the scent of corpses."

"After the neighbor called the police, the local police station immediately reported to the city bureau, which dispatched a technical team and a criminal investigation team to the scene, and they summoned the husband for questioning."

"The city bureau's technical team, under the garden of roses, dug up a total of fifteen bodies."

"The oldest body was determined through autopsy to have died two years ago. Except for the head, the rest of the body had obvious signs of having been cooked, and the leg bones and ribs had bite marks of varying depths."

"After facial reconstruction and DNA sampling, the results showed that the DNA belonged to..."

At this point, Liu Feifei stopped again and looked at Fang Xiaocao.

"Is it... the wife's?"

Xiaocao asked, shivering.

Liu Feifei smiled and shook her head.

Taking a deep breath, she spoke solemnly, "The DNA tests and facial reconstruction both belonged to the husband!"

"Holy moly~"

Upon hearing this, Fang Xiaocao screamed in horror.

"How could it be the male owner's?"

"Wasn't the male owner always around?"

Fang Xiaocao's eyes bulged like brass bells as she exclaimed.

Liu Feifei said with a wry smile, "Yes, no one expected that the male owner would have died two years ago..."

"When the neighbors heard this news, they fainted on the spot, and they are still in a psychiatric hospital."

"Even more bizarre is that after the incident, the person who lived in the villa impersonating the male owner for two years just mysteriously disappeared."

"Until now, they haven't found the person, and the case remains unsolved."

Liu Feifei sighed and said, "It is precisely because the case is so bizarre that the luxurious villa has become a haunted house and has never been sold."

"There are rumors that the deceased male owner is still living in the villa."

At this moment, Xiaocao was so scared that she curled up in the driver's seat, hunched into a ball.

Seeing Xiaocao's state, Liu Feifei shook her head and sighed, "Xiaocao, why not set your sights on another target?"

Xiaocao shook her head firmly and said, "No, I want this villa."

"As long as I uncover the secrets of this villa, it won't be a haunted house anymore."

"Without ghost stories, it can't be considered a haunted house!"

Xiaocao said stubbornly.

"Alright, then shall we go see the house?"

Seeing Xiaocao's determination, Liu Feifei said helplessly.

"No rush, Sister, haven't you finished your story yet?"

"Where did the wife go?"

"And what about the identities of the other fourteen bodies dug up from the garden?"

Xiaocao shook her head and asked.

How could Xiaocao let the story rest unfinished?

"The wife's body has never been found, alive or dead."

"Some speculate that she was the first victim and had been eaten by the killer."

"Others guess that the man who disappeared was the wife in disguise."

"After killing the husband, the wife chopped and cooked his body, ate the flesh off the bones, and buried the bones and skull in the garden among the rosebushes. Then she got plastic surgery to look like her husband."

"She reverted to her original identity after the incident, which led to the illusion of a mysterious disappearance."

"However, the police have investigated, and the wife's identification and all sorts of documents had gone silent two years before the incident and have not been used since."

"As for the other fourteen bodies, they were all identified as missing persons from Tang City through DNA testing and database analysis, all disappearing within those two years."

Liu Feifei didn't beat around the bush this time and told Xiaocao everything she knew in one breath.

After listening, Xiaocao felt numb.

What kind of monstrously evil killer could eat more than ten people within two years...

It was even more extreme than the ostrich meat incident reported in the news.

[Ding Dong!]

Just then, Xiaocao's phone rang.

The sudden alert scared Xiaocao so much that she almost threw the phone away.

After calming herself, Xiaocao glanced at the phone screen.

It was a WeChat message!

Seeing it was a message on WeChat, Xiaocao immediately checked it.

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