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The three-star Trial Mission at Jiujiang Medical University would be a hard place to navigate without a map, so Chen Ge knew that he had to be careful. "I'll need to leave the statue here for now. Perhaps I should try to communicate with the school first. After all, if I need to complete the underground morgue mission, the school will be involved somehow."
The underground morgue was the last side mission that led to the four-star School of the Afterlife, so Chen Ge could not afford to be too cautious. A three-star trial mission is already so scary—a four-star mission would have been unimaginable, much less the five-star mission.
The black phone had its own system of categorizing the scary scenarios, but Chen Ge still had not grasped the standard of measurement yet.
His mind filled with thoughts of other things, he walked back to the two girls, holding the hammer. Without his Yin Yang Vision, he would not have been able to see the girls in the dark.
"Come on, I'll walk you out." Chen Ge seemed to change into a different person as his tone softened. "In the future, try not to wander off into strange places. If I didn't arrive in time, who knows what would have happened."
The two girls had pained expressions on their faces. The man had almost killed the statue from their campus ghost story, and he had the audacity to say the place was dangerous.
"Don't be afraid. I was acting so harshly earlier because this place is too creepy. If you'd shown any trace of fear or retreat, you'd be targeted by the monsters." Chen Ge held the hammer in one hand. "Actually, in real life, I'm a gentle and kind person."
"Gentle and kind?"
"Yes, of course." Chen Ge's voice was now filled with warmth. Unlike earlier, there was a sense of familiarity that arose in the hearts of Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian. It felt like they had heard this voice somewhere before.
"Come on, it's time to leave." Chen Ge walked ahead. When he passed the computer and photocopier, he gave them another try. After making sure that the computer could not be activated, he gave up.
The three exited the storeroom, and when they closed the wooden door, Chen Ge heard coming from down the corridor, something that sounded like a bubble bursting, like many things were bouncing on the ground.
"What is that sound?" Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian heard that as well.
"Doesn't this corridor lead to the underground morgue?" Even with the Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge could not see what was happening.
"Don't know, but it should extend to the underground basement of the western part of campus. That section was sealed up several years ago." Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian's eyes twitched violently like something seriously bad was about to happen.
At the end of the corridor, the sound of bouncing became more rapid, and it was mixed with the weird sound of a beast breathing. There was no ventilation underground, but they could feel the presence of a draft, covering their nostrils with the smell of formalin.
"Run, it's not safe to stay here!" Chen Ge grabbed the hammer and yelled at the girls, "Run!"
Before Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian realized what had happened, Chen Ge had already turned around and charged forward.
"Is something chasing after us?" Liu Xianxian's ankle was sprained. She wanted to move fast, but her body did not allow it.
"Come, I'll carry you." Ma Yin's own physique had not recovered. After picking up Liu Xianxian, she slowed down. The sound of bouncing came close, causing their hair to stand on end. They did not dare imagine the thing that made that sound.
"What should we do?" Her legs slowed down, and Ma Yin felt like collapsing.
"Put her down!" Chen Ge's voice came from the front. Ma Yin wanted to say no, but before she could say anything, she saw Chen Ge pull Liu Xianxian off her back and onto his own. Then he continued running. "Follow me!"
Ma Yin felt rejuvenated by hope seeing this, and she tried her best to keep up to Chen Ge. Chen Ge had an average build, and he did not look that muscular, but his explosive power and persistence was not worse than a trained athlete. They rushed forward.
When they ran out of the underground second floor, Ma Yin felt like fainting already, but Chen Ge showed no sign of slowing down. "Keep it up, this place is very dangerous!"
Chen Ge rarely put himself in a dangerous situation that he could not handle. When the underground morgue gave out that sound, the recorder activated on its own, and Xu Yin kept giving him a warning. To be able to make Xu Yin do that, the enemy had to be at least a Red Specter, which was why Chen Ge chose to run immediately.
The end of the corridor was a three-star scenario, and Chen Ge had never underestimated three-star scenarios. The Third Sick Hall aside, whether it be the well ghost in Coffin Village or Zhang Ya at Western Jiujiang's Private Academy, they were the most powerful existences among Red Specters—one Xu Yin would not be able to rival their power.
When they arrived at first underground floor, Ma Yin did not have much energy left in her. It was Chen Ge who dragged both of them out from the underground. After leaving the stairs, Chen Ge kicked the front door open and dropped Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian on the grass. He was also exhausted.
Of the three, only Liu Xianxian was not that tired. She looked at Chen Ge's face in the dark, and that sense of familiarity heightened. She gathered her courage and took out her phone to shine on Chen Ge.
"Boss Chen‽" She gasped. Even though she had suspected that earlier, it was still quite unbelievable.
"After you that surprised? I thought you realized that earlier," Chen Ge said and provided the reason that he had thought of earlier. "When you came to my Haunted House this morning, I noticed that the two of you were hiding some secrets. I was worried about you two, so I've been following you."
Ma Yin had other questions, but she was interrupted by Chen Ge. "Don't need to thank me. You're my guests, and since I noticed it, I couldn't just let it be."
He silently moved the hammer inside the backpack. "I don't have anything to ask for. The reason I'm doing is so that I can sleep at night. If you really feel like repaying me, then bring more friends to come visit my Haunted House."
Chen Ge's image increased tremendously in the girls' hearts. Even though Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian still had many questions, there was one thing they could not deny—it was Chen Ge who had saved them that night.
"Thank you."
"Quickly return to your bedroom. It won't be good if you're discovered wandering around the campus at 3 or 4 am." Chen Ge glanced at his own shadow. "We can continue this discussion in the morning."
Chen Ge sent the two girls away, and he prepared to return to New Century Park. He turned around to glance one last time at the old education block. He wanted to say something like When Zhang Ya wakes up, I'll return, but to his surprise, the door that he had kicked earlier had been opened again.
Something came out? Why didn't I notice it?
Chen Ge looked around him before turning to look in the direction that the two girls had left. His pupils narrowed, and he saw a third woman following behind the two girls.
Then the three of them entered the female dormitory together.
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How long has there been a third one?
Chen Ge was startled before he ran toward the female dormitory. The woman who trailed behind Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin seemed to notice him as well as she turned around to glance at Chen Ge. The ashy skin spoke of death, and her eyes were filled with complicated emotions.
Wait, that face?
The woman who followed behind Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin was the woman who appeared in Ma Yin's video!
The facial features and the emotions filling her gaze were all the same. Chen Ge did not dare waste time and charged forward.
"Be careful!" he screamed, but Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin did not seem to hear him. The woman placed her hand on Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian's shoulders. She leaned into the space between them and whispered something into their ears. Due to the distance, Chen Ge could not hear her clearly, but he did see the girls' bodies turn stiff and the focus in their eyes swaying. They eventually closed their eyes, but their bodies kept moving like they were sleep-walking.
"Ma Yin! Liu Xianxian!" Perhaps Chen Ge's shout had its effect because the two girls slowed down, and the expression slightly changed like they were caught in a nightmare. They were also struggling, but the result was different from what Chen Ge anticipated. The two girls did not wake up, but after moving for a few more steps, they fainted and collapsed to the ground.
The woman who trailed behind them turned to look at Chen Ge. She held his gaze as she pointed toward her heart. She made a weird sign before turning to disappear inside the female dormitory. The woman disappeared in the blink of an eye. Chen Ge managed to catch that there was a hole in her clothes near her shoulder like it had been shot through by a bullet.
"Why did she point at her heart? Was that a threat? Was she trying to warn me?" Chen Ge ran to the female dormitory and slammed on the window. In reality, his scream earlier had already awakened the dormitory manager.
"Someone fainted! Just outside the dormitory front door! Help!"
A man banged loudly on the window at the entrance of a female student's dormitory at 3 to 4 am. The manager, who was an auntie, did not dare come out on her own. She picked up the phone to call the security and the school admin.
…
A glass of warm water that had gone cold was placed on the table. Chen Ge glanced at the clock on the wall—it was already 5:40 am. The light filtered down on him. He placed both of his hands on the table and looked at the seven people who sat across from him calmly.
There included police officers, school security, and teachers at the university.
"I have told you many times, I am not a prevent, and it was not me who made the two girls faint. You can doubt me, but please remember everything that I am saying now. When the two girls wake up, I want you to personally apologize to me."
"Chen Ge, of course, we believe that you are innocent, or else Captain Yan would not have personally assigned me to watch over this case." Lee Zheng had dark circles under his eyes. They had just parted about ten hours ago, and ten hours later, they met up again in a different environment. Looking at Chen Ge, Lee Zheng felt like he was looking at one of his colleagues.
"The two girls came to visit my Haunted House yesterday morning. I realized that they were seriously troubled by something, and after I asked them, I found out the taller girl's elder sister has gone missing, and it has been troubling her for a very long time." Chen Ge placed his hand over his heart. "Perhaps you might think my action is very weird—why would I help them if I am not related to them? But I want to tell me, my parents also had a mysterious disappearance half a year ago, and since I understand what she is going through, I have the urge to help her!"
Chen Ge's voice echoed in the office, and it sounded quite convincing.
"Two girls fainted in front of the female dormitory at around 3 am. We have looked through the surveillance video. At the time, you were the only one who was following them. If you are not the culprit, then who could it be?" The person who spoke was a man in his thirties who dressed fashionably. He normally stayed at the staff dormitory, so when the news exploded, he was one of the first to come over.
"I don't know. It could be anyone, including you." Chen Ge did not show any intention to back down, and he would take on anyone who dared challenge him. "The fainting of two girls might not appear to be that serious, but there is a bigger case behind it."
There was a chilliness in Chen Ge's eyes. Other than the few police officers, the other people felt unsettled in their heart.
"I've already told you, the two girls came to find me at my Haunted House. The girl called Ma Yin… her sister has disappeared, and she studied so hard to enter Jiujiang Medical University to find her missing sister because her sister was once a student here…" Chen Ge told the school how Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian had been sneaking out of their dormitory every night lately to find the statue that was part of the campus legend.
"Most of the urban legends are fake, but a small portion of them are based on real events. However, after being tossed around as rumors, it was exaggerated to an impossible proportion." Chen Ge took a sip of the water. He sounded calm, but his brain was turning fast, trying to come up with a way to distract everyone's attention.
"You mean, the story of the weeping statue is real?" Lee Zheng was comparatively familiar with Chen Ge, and at the very least, he knew that Chen Ge would not create stories.
"There is a video on Ma Yin's phone that was sent to her before her sister's disappearance. The weeping statue in the underground storeroom showed up in the video. As long as we can find the owner of the statue, I'm sure we can use that as a clue to look for her sister's killer!" Chen Ge cupped his hands over the glass, and veins were popping on the back of his hands.
Not everyone in the room bought his story. They were there because they were told there was a pervert who was caught trailing female students. They definitely did not expect that to lead to a murder case.
"We've found the video that you mention." Lee Zheng's expression was weird. "The video wasn't taken on Ma Yin's phone. A few years ago, when Ma Yin's sister disappeared, her parents came to the police station to seek our help. At the time, they also provided that video, and after analysis by our technicians, we found that the video wasn't sent by Ma Yin's sister; it was shot by Ma Yin herself."
"Ma Yin was the person who shot the video?" Things were different from what Chen Ge expected.
"Indeed, to be precise, when Ma Yin's elder sister disappeared, she was together with Ma Yin, but Ma Yin cannot remember what happened that day." Lee Zheng flipped through his phone. "We still have the case files with us. A few years ago, her parents regularly came to check up on the progress, but they gave up recently." Lee Zheng sighed softly. "When Ma Yin's sister disappeared, Ma Yin hadn't even enrolled in university yet, but now she is about to graduate."
"No wonder she is so desperate to find her sister." After Chen Ge heard what Lee Zheng had to say, he was not feeling so well. He turned the cup in his hand, and he was suddenly reminded of something. "The video is shot from the first-person view. Obviously, there had been a murder in the house, and when I first saw the video, I managed to confirm the presence of a second victim. Since it has been revealed that the video was not sent to her from her sister's phone and shot by Ma Yin herself, the one who shot everything under the bed was Ma Yin! The other victim was most likely her sister!
"The murderer was inside the house, so how did she manage to survive the ordeal? In the last second of the video, she saw the woman hanging on the windowsill. Is it possible that it was this strange woman who saved her?
"She had lost the memory for an entire day. Could that be the doing of this strange woman as well? She didn't want Ma Yin to remember certain things."
At this point, Chen Ge stood up from the chair. "Have Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian woken up? Quick go and check up on the two of them. I suspect they might have forgotten the things that happened last night!"
The woman who entered the female dormitory with Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin earlier was similar to the woman who leaned on the windowsill several years ago. A few years ago, she managed to make Ma Yin lose her memory, so there was no reason she would not do the same thing several years later.
"Calm down, I will call the doctor down." Lee Zheng dialed a number on his phone. "Doctor Zhang, have the two girls awakened? Is it okay if we go and talk to them?"
The not-so-optimistic voice of the doctor came through the phone. "They have already woken up, and they're physically fine. However, they seemed to have suffered some kind of trauma, so their mental state is not that stable."
"Okay, we'll be there in a bit." Lee Zheng and the other officer led the way. The security guard at the campus and the male lecturer flanked Chen Ge on both sides. They did not seem like they trusted Chen Ge that much. The group entered the infirmary together. Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin were lying in bed, and their faces were pale.
"Are you feeling better? I have a few questions that I need to ask you two about last night." Lee Zheng moved a chair over and sat down beside the beds. He saw both Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin shake their heads at the same time.
"Last night, we were in our bedroom, but for some reason, we ended up in the corridor. We cannot remember anything that happened in between."
"Please try to remember. Last night, the three of us went into the underground morgue together. In the end, it was me who saved both of you!" Chen Ge squeezed his way to the side of the bed. He was pulled back by the security and the doctor; they were afraid that Chen Ge might scare the girls. But it was weird—the pale-faced Liu Xianxian and Ma Yin felt much calmer when they saw Chen Ge. It was as if this man gave them a sense of security.
"I cannot remember what happened last night, but I cannot sense any malicious intent from him." Ma Yin touched her head. "I feel like I've forgotten something very important."
Liu Xianxian had a deeper impression of Chen Ge compared to Ma Yin, perhaps because Chen Ge had carried her and run for quite a distance. Now, even though part of her memory was missing, staring at Chen Ge, she knew instinctually that this man was a good person, someone reliable. "Last night, he helped me and Ma Yin. I cannot tell what happened exactly, but I am sure that without his help, Ma Yin and myself would have been in serious danger."
Liu Xianxian sounded so sure and confident when she said that. She even smiled and added a thank you to Chen Ge.
"Last night, you say." Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. The memory loss of these two girls had to do with that woman with ashy skin. He remembered seeing the woman lean into Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian's ears to say something before they started to look like they were sleep-walking.
The ability to eclipse a part of someone's memory, I've seen this ability before. Chen Ge thought about it internally. Looking at Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian, Chen Ge was reminded of a different person—the police officer who was retiring, Ol' Wei. When Ol' Wei entered Coffin Village with Chen Ge, he seemed to have a run-in with No. 10 from the ghost stories society, and then part of his memory disappeared as well.
Ol' Wei's condition is similar to Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian! Does this mean he has also run into the woman with ashy skin? The Zhu lady said that No. 10 had a dead body on his back; could that dead body be this woman with ashy skin?
When Chen Ge asked the statue in the underground storeroom about the ghost stories society, the soul inside the statue had disappeared instantly. Therefore, the underground morgue was probably related to the ghost stories society as well.
The ghost stories society's chairperson should have access to more than one door. One of the doors is the blood door at the Third Sick Hall, so could the other door be the door in the underground morgue? Chen Ge was shocked by the thought that surfaced in his mind. He felt like he was getting close to uncovering the real identity of the society's chairperson!
No. 10 should be very familiar with Jiujiang Medical University.
Familiarity with Jiujiang Medical University, seen him wearing the Doctor Skull-cracker's mask at least once, and participated in many cases where Chen Ge was involved… At this point, a name suddenly popped up in Chen Ge's mind.
He Feng!
When Murder by Midnight was first introduced, He San had come to visit with a few other students from Jiujiang Medical University, and the eldest and tallest among them was He Feng. At the time, Chen Ge had been impressed by this young man's ability to stay calm under duress and even exchanged numbers with him. Chen Ge had planned to invite the man to join him as he expanded his empire.
Could it really be him? Chen Ge was still deep in thought when the eyes of Liu Xianxian, who was in bed, suddenly reddened. She was looking at someone among the group. Following the direction of her gaze, Chen Ge realized that the clean-looking man had his eyes jumping all over the place. He was trying his best to remain unaffected. Looks like this is the man Liu Xianxian was in love with.
Perhaps beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
The perfect man in Liu Xianxian's eyes had zero advantages in Chen Ge's eyes other than his passable fashion sense.
The black phone hasn't announced that the one-star mission is complete. Looks like I need to be cautious of this man.
Ma Yin and Liu Xianxian became Chen Ge character witnesses. They both said that Chen Ge was a kind person, and with the testimony from Lee Zheng, the incident was thus settled. When the sun rose, Lee Zheng brought the campus security into the underground morgue to remove the statue.
Then, they connected the school admin at the new campus, and the investigation to check who left the statue inside the underground morgue began. Things were taken out of Chen Ge's hands. While no one was noticing, he picked up his backpack and prepared to slip away from the campus. As he waited for a taxi to arrive, he suddenly saw the man whom Liu Xianxian had a crush on also trying to run away from the scene.
Now should be the time the school is busiest, but he is not staying behind to help, so where is he rushing to? Chen Ge hid inside the convenience store, and after the man got into the car, Chen Ge also hailed one of his own to follow after the man.
The taxi drove for about ten minutes before stopping at Fang Hwa Apartments.
According to Lee Zheng, the man has a permanent residence at the staff dormitory, so what is he doing at Fang Hwa Apartments?
Chen Ge did not have a good impression of Fang Hwa Apartments. He got out of the taxi and silently tailed the man.
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The man that Liu Xianxian had a crush on was very alert. Thankfully, this was not the first time Chen Ge had needed to tail someone, and it was due to his experience that he was not exposed. His apartment is in Fang Hwa? This place is not that far from Jiujiang Medical University, and the bus comes pretty often. In that case, why did he ask for a staff residence at the school?
Chen Ge did not dare get too close. He watched as the man entered the third building. It's the third building again. This cannot be a coincidence.
After enough time had passed, Chen Ge also entered the building. He was familiar with the building's layout. He pretended to be a tenant and very naturally head for the safety door. He was halfway through and realized that there was no one waiting for the elevator.
The man didn't take the elevator? Chen Ge held his breath as he entered the safety passage. There were no footsteps echoing down the stairs either. Right then, there was the sound of door opening on the first floor.
He's living on the first floor itself. Chen Ge stood in the half-open door and leaned out to look down the corridor.
Room 3004.
He remembered the room number before slinking over it to stick his ear to the door.
The man's voice on the phone filtered out from inside the room. "Brother-in-law? The school has not been safe recently. Things keep happening at night. Do you mind if I stay at your place for a while? Don't worry, I will not mess up the place. I will not touch a thing of yours or sister's. I know how important this place is to you. I know, I understand. I promise to not enter your study! Will not touch anything!"
After the call ended, the man's tone changed immediately. "Do you really think I want to be here? Such a pretender. Do you think I really want your charity‽"
Outside the room, one could hear the man rummaging through the room. He appeared mature and confident, but a completely different soul was occupying his body. After a bit more grumbling, the man continued to ransack the room. The sound of doors and drawers being pulled open echoed endlessly.
"That room has been rearranged, so the layout is different from before. No one should be able to tell the difference. I need to check it again." The man moved inside the room, and he had no idea his monologue was audible to Chen Ge.
One of the rooms has been rearranged? Why would he conduct an investigation at a time like this?
The man's actions were weird. Chen Ge initially thought that he was a weirdo and did not relate him to the murder, but with every sentence that escaped the man's lips, his suspicion of the man continued to grow.
After a few more minutes, the man seemed to have gotten all the necessary tools and entered the room. Due to the distance, Chen Ge could not hear anything. He remembered the room number and exited the building to walk to the window. He squatted down and crawled to the window of room 3004. Chen Ge glanced into the room. The man had a toolbox in his hands, and the look on his face as he stared at the bed in the room was quite scary.
"When I first stepped into this room, I felt it was cold. Even after so many years, I still cannot forget about it." When the man focused on the bed, Chen Ge clicked open the camera on his phone and silently recorded the layout of the room. The room had many partitions, making it feel smaller and more cramped than it was.
There is no table or bookshelf, and the mattress is also different from the one in Ma Yin's video, but the location of the bed hasn't changed. Peeking through this window allows me to have a clear view of stuff under the bed.
The furniture inside the room had been changed, and the interior had been transformed due to the partitions. On first glance, it was indeed different from the room in Ma Yin's video. However, he missed a very important element—the window.
The man had not seen Ma Yin's video. He only knew that Ma Yin had captured a video from inside the room, but he had no idea about its exact content. Based on the layout of the room and the man's words, Chen Ge was fifty percent certain that this man, who Liu Xianxian had a crush on, was related to Ma Yin's sister's disappearance. His hand went to the hammer inside the backpack, and he was itching for action.
No, the sun is still out. It's too inconvenient to do things like that in broad daylight.
It was almost the beginning of the working day. There were many people in the residential area. If Chen Ge injured the man, he would definitely scream. If a crowd gathered, Chen Ge would really have no way to explain himself.
He works at Jiujiang Medical University, and so many things happened at the campus last night. He must have a lot of things to do, so he wouldn't dare stay too long at home. He'll be leaving soon. I'll take my chances then.
Chen Ge took out the comic to attempt to negotiate with the ghosts inside it. However, probably it was daytime, only one of them answered his call.
So heartless?
In the end, it was Yan Danian who helped Chen Ge convince the other three ghosts. Chen Ge could sense a trace of liveliness in Yan Danian that was absent before this.
After summoning the gambler, Ol' Zhou, and the English teacher, Chen Ge told them his plan. He needed them to 'accidentally' steal the key. The three ghosts were doing this for the first time, and it was a challenge for them too.
Several minutes later, as Chen Ge expected, the man exited Room 3004. He put on the confident smile. His clothes had no wrinkles, and his shoes were shined.
It's time to move.
Perhaps because the light in the room was stronger, the three ghosts could only stay in physical form for twenty or thirty seconds, so Chen Ge only had one chance. When the man was about several meters away from the safety door, Chen Ge put all three of them out at the same time.
The very moment he did that, before he even realized what was happening, Ol' Zhou already landed a punch on Bai Qiulin's face. "You dare to cheat with my wife! You f*cker!"
Then, he started tussling with Bai Qiulin. Their fight was dragged out of the safety passage and knocked into the man.
"Stop fighting!" Duan Yue screamed as she ran out to try to stop the fight. Everything happened so suddenly that even Chen Ge himself was stunned, much less the man. The three tossed and turned, and the man was pushed against the wall. The argument was so intense that he did not dare interrupt them. At a time like this, he just wanted to escape.
After about fifteen seconds, Bai Qiulin swung Ol' Zhou's hands away, and he ran into the safety door.
"I will definitely kill you today!"
Ol' Zhou and Duan Yue chased after him. The three completed the mission in about twenty-three seconds.
Holding the key in his hand, Chen Ge felt the event was quite surreal.
"My God, what just happened?"
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The man cursed under his breath, patted down his clothes, and made sure his shoes were sparkly clean before leaving. He did not notice the lack of a key in his pocket. After the man had been gone for several minutes, Chen Ge used his key to enter Room 3004.
If this was someone else in this situation, they would have been cautious and tense, worried that the owner might return because, after all, the man was a suspected murderer. However, Chen Ge did not have that worry. The last murderer that had set his sight on him was still in the ICU with two arms and one leg broken.
"As long as I have good intentions in my heart, there is nothing to be scared about."
Chen Ge looked at the opened drawers and cupboards, but he did not venture to randomly touch the stuff in the room. Instead, he walked into the bedroom and placed the phone down under the bed. He tweaked the phone until the camera angle was similar to the video on Ma Yin's phone.
"Even though partitions have been added to the room, they did not change the location of the window." Chen Ge tapped the partition lightly and memorized the layout of the room. "This man is very suspicious."
Chen Ge stood in the middle of the room, thinking about the comments that Liu Xianxian had made about the man.
"After we left the teahouse, Liu Xianxian told me that this man is different from other men out there. He had all the good points of a mature man, but there was one thing weird about him—he thinks that his wife, who died in a car accident a few years ago, is still alive. The man packages himself as an emotional and trusting person, but reality does not seem that way. From how I see it, the man hasn't even married, and this room is not even his; it's his brother-in-law's."
People in the throes of romance would lose their rationality, and Liu Xianxian was a naive girl, so Chen Ge suspected that she had been conned by this man.
"Perhaps Ma Yin's sister was conned by the man as well." Chen Ge came up with various possibilities. "When she discovered the man's real identity, they had an argument, and the man accidentally killed Ma Yin's sister."
He wanted to call Liu Xianxian to ask for more details, but he was afraid that the girl might act rashly and do something unnecessary. To prevent himself from being exposed, Chen Ge eventually decided against that.
"The man's maturity and confidence are a facade. Internally, he is a very self-abasing person. Based on the conversation he had with his brother-in-law, it is obvious that he hates his brother-in-law. Perhaps the brother-in-law is the source of his self-abasement." Chen Ge was suddenly interested in this brother-in-law. "On the phone earlier, the brother-in-law forbade him from entering the study. This means that there is probably something important inside. Perhaps I can use that to figure out the brother-in-law's identity."
Chen Ge entered the study. The study was twice the size of the bedroom. Two bookshelves were stocked with various types of books, and there was a study table near the window.
"The man's brother-in-law appears to be a heavy reader." The man had an eclectic collection from philosophy to art, from modern medicine to study of the occult. Chen Ge did not touch the books on the shelves because, for a real book lover, they would know the exact position of each book, and Chen Ge was afraid of leaving a trace. He opened the dresser to take a look; it was very tidy inside. Chen Ge walked to the table and pulled open the drawer. It had two laptops of the same model.
"Why are there two laptops, and why are they kept inside the drawer?" He took them out and placed them on the table. He pressed the power buttons. One of them opened like normal, but the other one had a password lock. "They serve different purposes?"
Chen Ge got even more interested in the owner. "Since the laptop is locked, there must be something important sorted in this."
Chen Ge clicked open a random folder on the desktop, and when he did, he was shocked. The folder contained more than one hundred pictures and about twenty videos. Most importantly, all of the media was related to Chen Ge's Haunted House! The pictures covered all the scenarios, including Coffin Village!
"The only visitors who have visited Coffin Village are Sister Mao's group, so where did these pictures come from?" Chen Ge did not feel so good. He looked at the time stamp, and they matched the day of Sister Mao's visit. In other words, the owner of this house had taken the pictures from Sister Mao's group after they visited the Haunted House in the morning.
"But they were sent directly to the hospital after their visit. Does this mean the owner is someone working at the hospital?"
The more Chen Ge scrolled through the media files, the more unsettled he became. All the pictures and videos were time-stamped. He clicked open the earliest video. It was shot about one month ago at exactly the time he unlocked Murder by Midnight!
The video was blurry, and a few students' voices could be heard in the recording.
"That is He San and his friends' voices!" Chen Ge immediately thought back to the scene at the time. He had just unlocked Murder by Midnight when the students from Jiujiang Medical University came to create problems for him, to take revenge for Gao Ru Xue.
At the time, one of the students planned to take a video inside the Haunted House and shared it online. Chen Ge had mixed himself into the group of students. There should only have been seven people, so he had become the eighth one.
The video was shaking badly. When the cameraman realized there was an additional person caught on video, he dropped the phone out of fear. The camera was facing up, and it caught Xu Wan walking over from the other side of the corridor wearing Doctor Skull-cracker's outfit. The video froze on Xu Wan's face. She was wearing the scary mask that was sewn together from many human faces.
The video itself had no problem, but the timing and location was too weird.
"When I arrived at the ghost stories society for the first time, No. 10 recognized me immediately because he had seen the mask on my face."
Initially Chen Ge thought No. 10 was definitely one of his customers, but after watching this video, he realized that things might not have been that simple.
"No. 10 is someone I know in real life, but that person might not have visited the Haunted House personally."
When the group from Jiujiang Medical University first came, it was He Feng who led the group. Chen Ge suspected the young man to a certain degree, but be it from the aspect of age and presence, Chen Ge did not think He Feng was No. 10.
"The chairperson should be someone else." Chen Ge stared at the computer screen. "Why is this place's real owner so interested in my Haunted House? On top of that, why did he purchase a house in Fang Hwa Apartment's third building?"
The top floor of the building was the headquarters for the ghost stories society. The owner was familiar with Chen Ge's Haunted House and lived in this building. Chen Ge's conclusion was the real owner should be the last survivor of the society.
He desperately needed to know the owner's real identity. He clicked open the other folders to find for more clues.
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The cursor clicked on the other files on the desktop. Most of them were in English, and Chen Ge could barely understand it. He opened the comic to summon the English teacher, but ghosts seemed to receive plenty of damage when they appeared in places where sunlight could hit them directly. Chen Ge looked at how fragile Duan Yue was and did not force her. Without any other solution, Chen Ge took out his phone to snap all the information. Chen Ge exited the camera app and called Inspector Lee.
"Uncle San Bao, I have a favor to ask."
"Is it about the blood test result on the nail? I'll go help you rush it in the afternoon." Inspector Lee sounded like he was outside and not at the police station.
"No, I want you to help me investigate the owner of Room 3004 at Fang Hwa Apartments."
"Why do you want to do that?"
"It's related to the culprit. I feel like I'm close to catching the man!"
"Okay, I will try my best."
After hanging up, Chen Ge thought back to everything that he had touched in the room. He cleaned up his fingerprints and left Room 3004. He called a taxi to get back to New Century Park—a new day had begun.
The one-star mission triggered by the Special Visitor, Liu Xianxian, had not been completed. Technically speaking, Chen Ge had already followed the black phone's requirement to find Liu Xianxian, but he did not receive the message that the mission had been completed. I probably need to help her solve the issue in her heart.
The mission would not be that difficult. The man that she loved might be a murderer, so if Chen Ge could prove that, Liu Xianxian should know what to do. After all, one of the man's victims was her best friend's older sister.
With his employees getting more familiar with the work, Chen Ge became freer. Since he had nothing to do, he called Lee Zheng during his lunch break to ask for an update on the case. In reality, he was more concerned about that statue. He wanted to sneak that statue to his Haunted House.
Lee Zheng was at the new campus, interviewing people. No one had any recollection of that statue. It felt as if the statue had walked to the underground storeroom itself. The case ended up in a standstill. Chen Ge gave Lee Zheng a hint, asking him to pay close attention to the man Liu Xianxian had a crush on.
There was no accident that business day. One thing worth noting was that some people had started to challenge the three-star scenario. This group had probably heard about how Coffin Village had caused five people to faint, so they very naturally avoided that scenario and targeted the Third Sick Hall.
They were so confident before they entered, but they all surrendered before they were even halfway through. However, this did raise an alarm in Chen Ge. As more visitors started to challenge the three-star scenarios, eventually, the scenario would be cleared.
I should pace myself. The most crucial thing is to deal with the ghost stories society and complete Third Sick Hall's hidden mission.
Sitting inside the room, Chen Ge took out his comic. He had Yan Danian and the other ghosts try to communicate the phone spirit. He allowed them to use any method to convince the phone spirit that it was such a wonderful and blissful thing to work for Chen Ge's Haunted House.
Time slowly passed. Chen Ge's phone suddenly rang at 4 pm. He thought that it was Inspector Lee calling him with an update, but when he glanced at the caller ID, it was an unfamiliar number.
"Why would a stranger call me?" Chen Ge accepted the call and placed the phone beside his ear.
"I'm sorry, but is this Mr. Chen?"
"Yes, it's me." It was the first time Chen Ge had heard the voice on the other side of the phone, and it was laced with sadness.
"Are you the one who helped solve the case at Ping An Apartments?"
"Yes."
"Do you have time now? The old gentleman's condition is deteriorating. I'm afraid he won't be able to stay with us any longer." Hearing that, Chen Ge was stunned. "Hello? Are you there? Can you please come over? The old gentleman stated his wish to see you in person."
"I'll be there in a minute." Chen Ge took out his phone to call Xu Wan and Gu Feiyu, who were working. He told them that they should close up after the current visitors left. They were not going to accept any more visitors.
He ran into the staff breakroom, holding the phone. Pushing the door open, he saw Xiaoxiao hugging the white cat's tail. They looked at one another like they were in some sort of fight. In the end, it was the white cat who surrendered. It allowed Xiaoxiao to hug its tail as much as she wanted. It revealed a haughty expression like it did not want to lower itself to a girl's standard.
Xiaoxiao snuggled herself face into the white cat's body. Smothered by the puffy white fur, she felt it was quite interesting.
"Xiaoxiao…" Chen Ge stood at the door and silently shoved the phone into his pocket. He walked to the bed and picked Xiaoxiao up. "Let's go pay your grandpa a visit."
This time, Chen Ge did not place her inside his pocket but held her in his cupped palm. Xiaoxiao seemed to sense something as she looked at Chen Ge with a strange expression. Closing the door, Chen Ge charged out of the Haunted House.
"Uncle Xu, we're closing early today. Please help me console the visitors. When Xu Wan comes out, please remind her to close the gate before she leaves." Chen Ge ran toward the park exit.
"You're closing at 4 pm? Where are you going‽" Uncle Xu was completely caught by surprise. The visitors standing in lines were nervous, too, especially the few who were at the front of the line.
"Boss, how can you do business like this‽ The closing hour is 7 pm, but it's only 4 pm now!"
"I didn't have the chance to line up last time! This time, it's finally my turn. Can't we discuss this?"
"This is so rude!"
The visitors berated him. Chen Ge was surrounded in the middle, and in his arms, Xiaoxiao were shivering with fear. Chen Ge used his hand to caress Xiaoxiao's head, and he turned to tell the visitors, "This is my Haunted House's responsibility. If you have bought the ticket but haven't entered the scenario, then I'll compensate double the price."
Chen Ge turned to glance at Uncle Xu. "Uncle Xu, please help me record who needs compensation, I'll pay later."
"You can leave if you have an emergency, but we still have Xu Wan and Gu Feiyu. Couldn't we just let them carry on until you return?" Uncle Xu was confused. "Initially, only you and Xu Wan managed the place, and everything was fine, right?"
"It's different. Safety first. I don't want to risk it." Chen Ge's tone brooked no argument. "Just do what I ask."
Chen Ge did not hesitate and carried Xiaoxiao as he squeezed through the crowd. Perhaps because there were so many people, Xiaoxiao curled up in Chen Ge's embrace like she was afraid.
"It'll be fine, I'm here."
Chen Ge touched Xiaoxiao's face and called for a taxi to get to the hospital.
Chen Ge arrived at 4:30 pm. He called the doctor and rushed up the stairs.
When he pushed open the door to the second-floor corridor, two familiar faces walked toward him—Doctor Gao and Ol' Wei.
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