A person was dead. The bar immediately turned into a madhouse. Some timid people screamed and ran outside. Most of them were afraid of getting into trouble and followed suit.
Some brave and nosy people squeezed towards the bar bathroom to watch the commotion.
Huang Po and I stood there, stunned. It took us a moment to react. "Let's go and have a look," I said.
When we squeezed to the bathroom, the bar manager and the waiters had already come to their senses and blocked the corridor outside the bathroom, preventing people from going in to watch.
Standing in the corridor, I saw the girl who was sitting on the ground, sobbing and looking terrified. It was the girl who had been kissing and groping with Huang Po before. My heart skipped a beat, and the sense of foreboding became even stronger.
"We're her friends. Let us through," I said. At that moment, I just wanted to go in as soon as possible to confirm my suspicion.
Huang Po also stepped forward and whispered a few words to the bar manager. The manager then nodded and told the waiter to let us in. But he still reminded us,
"Don't touch anything at the scene. The police will definitely examine it."
I cautiously walked into the bathroom and peeked into the partition. Every hair on my body stood on end.
The dead chick was the one I had gone to the alley with tonight. The belt she wore around her waist as a decoration was hanging on the crossbeam of the toilet partition.
She was naked from the waist down, her skirt lying on the ground. She was kneeling on the ground with her legs bent, her head stuck in the loop of the belt. She had been dead for a long time, her tongue sticking out, and a strange smile still on her face.
Such a serious matter as a death couldn't be hidden. The criminal police team soon arrived.
It was another old acquaintance this time. I saw that criminal policeman again.
When he saw me, he was both angry and amused. "Chen Feng, are you a person cursed by the stars? (a person who brings bad luck wherever he goes) Why does a death occur wherever you go?"
The first witness was a girl named Xiaolu, the one who had flirted with Huang Po at their table.
The girl, with her makeup smeared from crying and sobbing breathlessly, said, "I just accompanied Tangtang to the toilet. Then there was a power outage, and when it came back on, Tangtang was like this."
"Has your friend had any abnormal behavior recently?" the criminal policeman asked seriously.
"No, she couldn't have committed suicide. It must be murder. We were very close. She had been fine recently. We often came to the bar. If there was anything bothering her..."
Xiaolu stopped here and turned to look at me. I had a bad feeling: She was going to drag me into this.
Sure enough, the next moment, Xiaolu pointed at me and continued, "Just now, Tangtang went out with him. When she came back, she said that she only touched him a few times, and he climaxed quickly."
As soon as she said this, the people around couldn't hold back their low laughter.
The criminal policeman looked at me with an "I knew it" expression. He had watched the video of me and Jiang Lixin before and had already formed a preconceived opinion.
Damn it... I'm really speechless.
"Tangtang told me that after this guy finished his business, he was really mean to her. He must have been enraged and wanted to kill her to cover up his tracks. I watched a foreign movie where someone killed for the same reason."
Xiaolu had already pegged me as the killer. Pointing at me, she looked all high - and - mighty and even cooked up a motive for the murder.
Everyone gave me skeptical looks.
I was utterly gobsmacked. "Damn it, chick. I can put up with you calling me a premature ejaculator, but I can't tolerate being accused of murder. We just met by chance. Is it really worth it for me to do such a thing?"
"If it wasn't you, then who was it? We haven't offended anyone in this bar. Who would kill Tangtang for no reason?"
"Chick, I've been sitting in my seat the whole time. We only rushed over after we heard you scream when the power came back on after the power outage." I explained helplessly.
"The bar had a power outage. It was pitch - black. You could have sneaked over and killed Tangtang, and no one would have known."
I was at a complete loss for words. When a woman gets emotional, she doesn't care about logic at all.
Just then, the bar owner rushed over and happened to hear this. He waved his hand and said, "Our bar has surveillance cameras, infrared ones with their own power supply. We'll know the truth once we check the surveillance video."
The surveillance video was quickly retrieved. Those infrared surveillance cameras were really something. Even during the power outage, everything in the bar was crystal clear.
The sneaky things those men and women were doing in the dark were all on display under the surveillance cameras.
No wonder people say don't think you can do whatever you want in a dark movie theater. You're basically putting on a show for the monitor.
I even suspected that the bar owner deliberately installed these infrared cameras. He just wanted to watch the fun.
Fortunately, the criminal policemen handling the case were professional. They didn't dwell on the actions of other men and women and directly focused on my and Huang Po's positions.
The video showed that after the power outage, Huang Po and I stayed in our seats. Huang Po was dancing to the rhythm, while I was looking around.
It wasn't until the power came back on and there was a scream from the bathroom that Huang Po and I got up and headed towards the bathroom.
The surveillance video proved my innocence, but I wasn't happy. The situation was clearly getting worse. The woman who died before was also closely related to me.
This time, Tangtang, who I had just met. I even deliberately made sure she didn't touch my right earlobe, but she still died mysteriously.
The criminal policeman frowned while watching the surveillance video. After confirming that I was not a suspect, he suddenly said to the bar owner, "What about the surveillance video from the bathroom?"
The bar owner was taken aback and then shook his head and denied, "How could there be surveillance cameras in the bathroom? That would be an invasion of privacy."
"Quickly retrieve it. I know you must have installed hidden cameras. If you cooperate, it could help us find clues for the case, and I might go easy on you. But if our technicians find out on their own, you know the consequences."
The bar owner started sweating immediately. "I'll accept the punishment. I'll cooperate, okay?"
I was at a complete loss for words. So there were cameras in the bathroom too. This bar owner really knew how to have fun.
Well, it makes sense. In a bar, people often get excited and go to the bathroom to have a moment of passion. The bar owner probably realized it was a great place to get a lot of footage and secretly installed hidden cameras.
The hidden surveillance video was retrieved. After the chick named Tangtang entered the bathroom stall, there was suddenly a power outage.
Thankfully, the infrared camera wasn't affected and could continue to record what was happening inside the stall.
Tangtang finished using the toilet, stood up from the toilet seat, pressed the flush button, and then prepared to pull up her skirt and leave.
Just then, an arm in a red wedding dress slowly emerged from the bathroom mirror.