“What?” Liu Xiaofan and Rong Jian blurted in unison.

“The trash!”

“The trash?!”

While Rong Jian was thoroughly dumbfounded, Liu Xiaofan loudly scoffed and said, “We asked if you saw anything odd, and you say it’s the trash?”

The slightly frantic Jiao answered, “Yeah! The trash’s different!”

Rong Jian realized something was odd about this and swiftly interrogated, “Are you saying that somebody ...