Free Web NovelChapter 465: Chapter 465
"5-805 WinterLove: @5-801 Lil Howell Bullshit! Stop slandering people in here!"
"5-805 WinterLove: Everyone, don’t listen to the nonsense this psycho from 801 is spouting. I’ve never hurt anyone, let alone killed someone!"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @5-805 WinterLove Don’t even try to deny it. I saw you go into 804 with my own two eyes!"
"4-1009 Lowell On Deadline: @5-801 Lil Howell What’s going on? Did someone die in 804 in your building?"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @4-1009 Lowell On Deadline That’s right! Four out of the five people in the family in 804 are dead. Miss Kane, her mother, her daughter, and her boyfriend are all dead. Now only Miss Kane’s son, Leo, is still alive."
"5-801 Lil Howell: Three adults and a child, all killed by the murderer, @5-805 WinterLove!"
"5-805 WinterLove: @5-801 Lil Howell Bullshit! Which one of your eyes saw me kill anyone?"
"2-1908 Coco: Alright, both of you, stop arguing. Just call the police. Arguing in the group chat isn’t going to help you catch or convict anyone."
"4-1209 Chillin’ At Work: Yeah, a whole family being wiped out is a big deal. Just call the cops! What’s the use of arguing here?"
"5-805 WinterLove: Heh, the police have already been here! They investigated and confirmed I’m innocent. Otherwise, how could I still be here chatting?"
"5-805 WinterLove: This psycho from 801 is only spouting nonsense in the chat because the police cleared me! This psycho is just trying to frame me!"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @5-805 WinterLove That’s because you’re cunning! You just didn’t leave any evidence! I saw you pick the lock and go into 804 with my own eyes!"
"5-805 WinterLove: @5-801 Lil Howell So what if I went into 804? I thought it was empty and wanted to see if there was any furniture I could use for fuel. It was a case of necessity!"
"5-805 WinterLove: I saw people inside after I went in, so I ran off immediately! How was I supposed to know they ended up dead in there later!"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @5-805 WinterLove You picked the lock and went into 804 at noon, and that very same afternoon, four out of the five family members were dead. Isn’t that a bit too coincidental? It can only mean you’re the killer. Stop trying to make excuses!"
"5-805 WinterLove: @5-801 Lil Howell Holy shit, you’re unbelievable! You won’t believe the police’s findings, but you’ll try to convict me based on your own fantasies? Is there any justice left in the world?!"
"4-1009 Lowell On Deadline: @5-801 Lil Howell Bro, let me be fair here. You don’t have any solid evidence, so there’s not much we can say. We should just go by the results of the police investigation."
"5-801 Lil Howell: @4-1009 Lowell On Deadline I’m trying to warn you out of kindness. If you don’t want to believe me, fine! So much for good intentions. You’ll see when you’re the ones getting killed by a murderer!"
"4-1009 Lowell On Deadline: @5-801 Lil Howell Dude, you’re being way too extreme..."
"2-1408 Bella Grant: Sigh, actually, my neighbor died too... Their lock was also picked. The killer broke in, robbed them, killed them, and took all their supplies. But because the security camera froze and cracked, they never found the killer..."
"4-1009 Lowell On Deadline: @2-1408 Bella Grant The killer has to be a neighbor from the same building. A while ago, no one could get in or out, so besides a neighbor from the same building, no one else would have had the opportunity to do it."
"2-1408 Bella Grant: @4-1009 Lowell On Deadline Okay, okay, stop talking about it! It’s so creepy..."
"5-801 Lil Howell: It is creepy. Who would have thought that someone you see every day, a neighbor, would actually murder their own neighbors at a time like this!"
"5-805 WinterLove: @5-801 Lil Howell Holy shit, are you ever going to stop?! Believe it or not, I can sue you for slander!"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @5-805 WinterLove Did I mention your name? Why are you assuming I’m talking about you? If the shoe fits, wear it. Sounds to me like you have a guilty conscience!"
"4-1209 Chillin’ At Work: Alright, stop arguing already!"
"4-1209 Chillin’ At Work: @5-801 Lil Howell Didn’t you say there was a little boy who survived? Did the surviving boy not see the killer?"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @4-1209 Chillin’ At Work No, Leo was asleep at the time. He woke up to find his whole family dead. He’s such a poor, pitiful kid!"
"3-1007 Kiki, Mom of Two: Sigh, he really is a poor kid. His entire family is gone..."
"2-1908 Coco: @5-801 Lil Howell So where is this Leo now?"
"5-801 Lil Howell: @2-1908 Coco The police took him. Leo still has an aunt on his mother’s side. His aunt’s family is pretty well-off and can adopt him, so the police took him to her."
"..."
The argument in the group chat continued, but Melody Summers had no heart to keep reading. In the months since the snow disaster began, many people in the complex had died. Many residents, lacking supplies of their own, had preyed on their neighbors.
As the saying went, "My neighbor stocks food, I stock guns. My neighbor is my pantry."
While it was only human nature to do anything to survive, it was still disheartening to see normally friendly neighbors turning on one another...
After lunch, Melody Summers wanted to go downstairs for a look. But just as she opened her door, she heard a SLAP as something fell at her feet!
Melody Summers looked closely and saw it was a sheet of letter paper.
The paper had been wedged in the crack of the door, and it had fallen out when Melody opened it.
Melody Summers picked up the paper and unfolded it, realizing it was from her third uncle, Cameron Summers.
In the note, Cameron Summers wrote that his family had already set off for the countryside. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Cameron wrote that they would first go back to Jade Rowan’s hometown, where they would contract a few acres to start farming. After the seeds were sown, the fields would be left for Jade to manage while Cameron himself would go out to find work.
Cameron Summers filled the page, repenting to his family. He said he shouldn’t have gambled, and especially shouldn’t have been a bad influence on his child. He said that after this life-or-death experience, he had truly seen the light. He swore he would never gamble again; he just wanted to live a good life through the work of his own two hands and pay off his gambling debts as soon as possible.
Melody Summers frowned as she finished the letter, feeling more and more disgusted the more she read. She was so sickened she almost threw up the lunch she had just eaten.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. After all that had happened before, Melody wouldn’t believe a single word her third uncle said!
’A gambler’s every word is a lie. All this talk of repentance, of truly seeing the light, of wanting to live a good life with his own two hands—it’s all just part of the act a gambling degenerate puts on.’
’Believing even a single word is the beginning of a disaster!’
Melody Summers crumpled the letter into a ball with disgust. She didn’t show it to any other family members, instead throwing it away directly.
At that moment, Melody Summers had no idea that even though Cameron Summers and his family had moved away, they would still bring a load of trouble to the Summers family...
