Chapter 50 Stench

In a closeted glassed room, reflected by the moonlight. A man could be seen in front of his desk, with his hand on his forehead as he looked at the moon above him.

The man had an extremely refined and masculine face, sculpted flawlessly. He had thick and sharp eyebrows as well as his jaw line, his eyes were dark and radiated maturity.

The man seemed to be in a constant taste of worries as he tensed up all of a sudden.

After a couple of minutes, the man immediately sneered and facepalmed himself in the face.

"Aye! Why am I here pretending to gaze upon the moon and pretending I am a sad male lead, longing for his wife? I was tycoon and now I am stuck here counting stocks!"

Ma Zheng wanted to cry out in anger but all he could do was roughly grab his own hair and pulled them impulsively. He pitied himself very much for being born in this helpless soul

The only good thing he had and admired about his current self was his good-looking sister.

[Host must refrain from losing his temper as it could lead to poor health and an early death]

[Host won't be able to get rich if this happens!]

His system had been constantly nagging him every day about his health, Ma Zheng was extremely annoyed by it. He hated that the only things it could do were warning him about his health and asking him to invest in stocks.

A simple materialistic system!

These past few days, he had been plagued with worries as he got a call from the hospital that Ma Meifan was involved in a car accident. He didn't hesitate to express worries for her but what had disappointed him was her response; she asked him for money instead!

In addition to this, his office started smelling like rotting meat!

Ma Zheng got up from his seat and rubbed his nose, looking around to find the source of the smell. The janitors he tried to call over last time were on vacation.

Ma Zheng walked around his office in a circle before being interrupted by a sudden screen in front of his face.

[Host! Look beneath the desk!]

Ma Zheng raised his eyebrow with confusion and propped his head downward, looking beneath the desk. He discovered there was black box beneath his desk.

He crouched down and took it out.

The box emitted a pungent and overwhelming stench, making Ma Zheng gag out of disgust. Ma Zheng placed his arms over his nose to cover up the smell.

"Who in their right mind would put something stinky down here? Do they wish for their CEO to die from this disgusting stench?"

Ma Zheng didn't know whether he should open the box or not as he felt a looming danger coming behind his back. He turned his head and didn't see anything, he snorted with annoyance and turned to look at the box.

Ma Zheng placed his hand over the box and was about to open it before his system pops up again. This time, the message had a huge exclamation mark.

[Host! Be careful of the smell!!!]

Unfortunately, it was too late by then as Ma Zheng opened the box and a swamp of gigantic flies flew out from every direction inside the box, causing Ma Zheng to stumble back in shock and drop the box onto the ground.

The flies were gigantic as though they fed on the stinking stench from inside as they flew across the room.

Ma Zheng, having had OCD, covered his mouth in utter shock as he gagged.

"What in the world!"

The back of Ma Zheng's head felt ticklish as he laid his eyes onto the fallen box as it laid bare before his eyes.

Inside the box were white maggots covering the item as Ma Zheng freeze stiffly. The maggots crawled over the place as they tried to climb out of the box.

Ma Zheng stumbled backwards with a blank and pale expression, he didn't want to stay inside this room any longer and turned to run out the room before he was interrupted by a feminine voice.

"Brother, what is going on? Why does your office stink?"

A feminine and calm energy entered the room as Ma Meifan watched her brother with calm yet alerted eyes. She gazed as her brother look at her with complete surprise on his face.

"Fanfare, don't come inside here. It is disgusting," Ma Zheng went to her in a haste as cold sweat ran down his forehead and onto his neck. He looked as though he had been plunged into an ice bath.

Completely pale and devoid of color.

"What is going on?"

Ma Meifan frowned as she never saw this expression on her brother's face before. She tilted her head and saw the flies inside his room, her mouth opened slightly from shock.

Suddenly, a fly flew right into her pretty face.

Ma Zheng's face completely collapsed, "My sister! She has been tainted by the stink-liking flies!"

Ma Meifan didn't seem phased as she swatted the fly off her face, she turned to look at her brother with a cautious expression and asked him suspiciously.

"Brother…"

She was about to ask if he murdered someone and attempted to hide the body inside his office. But judging from his pale and colorless expression, it seemed to be untrue.

"Brother, did you kill someone here?"

She still asked directly as she couldn't be sure as she raised the neckline of shirt and covered her nose with it.

Ma Zheng was put into a state of shock by his sister as he defended himself in an offended tone, "Of course not! How could Fanfan think of her own brother like this?"

Ma Meifan nodded her head and took the initative to enter the room, trying to discern what was inside the box. Ma Zheng's body trembled, watching his pretty sister walk into his office with no fear on her face.

"Fanfan, where are you going? It is smelly and will taunt your beauty if you go near it!"

"Shut up."

Ma Meifan chastised him with a deadpan expression as she turned to look at him calmly before turning to look at the box. Upon seeing the maggots, she wasn't shocked at all.

Ma Zheng forgot Ma Meifan used to be a Medical Student in the past and was accustomed to seeing maggots and all sort of bugs.

Ma Meifan had come to a conclusion when she first entered his office but she wanted to confirm it first by looking inside the source of the smell. She recognized the smell as it was something that was rotting.

She took off her the external layer of her shirt and used it as a glove as she swatted the maggots off the rotting material. After most of the maggots came off, what entered her vision wasn't something she had expected.

It was a hand.

A feminine hand that may have belonged to a middle-aged lady as it rotted completely and holes appeared to have been poked by the maggots thoroughly.

Ma Meifan frowned and turned to look at her brother, informing him of her discovery, "It is corpse."

"A hand that belonged to a lady. It may have been cut off from a corpse or it could have been something fresh."

It didn't rot completely yet as some of it remained intact, this discovery made Ma Meifan come to another conclusion as she thought of it.

It could be a murder case! Where the murderer cut off the hand of the lady and bought it here!

But it could also lead her brother to being a suspect as well.

Ma Meifan watched him as she took the box with a calm expression and went over to him.

At that moment, Ma Zheng thought his sister was a complete maniacal and psychopath. His hair stood up as Ma Zheng shied away and hid himself from her.

He tilted his head and laid his eyes onto the hand inside with utter shock on his face.

"Who did this?"

He was angered upon discovering this, who would send him such an outrageous thing in the first place? Inside his office, no one other than him and his sister would dare come inside.

It could be a janitor but she went on a vacation for a couple of days now.

Ma Zheng nodded his head calmly and rubbed his chin, he raised his head and watched as Ma Meifan watched him with suspicion evident on her face.

"Sister, you can't possibly think I did this, can you?"

He asked her with a shocked expression, he rubbed his temples slightly. Ma Meifan nodded her head calmly, confirming his thoughts of her.

"It could be you. But I am sure it could have been someone else other than you. I should always be on guard."

Ma Zheng couldn't blame her because had he found it inside her room, the first person he would think of was her.