Standing next to Chen Ge, Wen Qing did not dare to ask why. She was worried that the walls had ears and that others might hear some important information.
"You and Granny Li should go and stay in the living room first."
Chen Ge stayed alone in the bedroom. He closed the bedroom door, squatted beside the bed, and checked the boy's body.
With the scorch marks from the electric shock and the bruises remaining from the beating, Chen Ge's eyes finally rested on the boy's neck: "He was strangled to death by wires, and there were sawdust left in his fingernails. Before the child died, his arms were tied to the bed board.
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Chen Ge untied the rope from the body and covered the boy with a clean sheet: "On the surface, the electrician is a taciturn, harmless low-level worker. In fact, his personality is more irritable than ordinary people, but he puts all the
All the anger is accumulated in his heart, and then he vents his dissatisfaction by bullying the weaker ones. He is a thug at heart."
The electrician's situation was not unique in the building, and Chen Ge began to think deeper: "Under the constraints of morality and law, their nature is hidden, but in Xiang Nuan's world behind the door, the worst part of their character is completely
Exposed. This door seems to amplify the malice in human nature, making everyone become twisted and terrifying."
Chen Ge tried to guess what Ming Fei was thinking, but unfortunately there were too few clues and he had no clue.
Flipping through his backpack, Chen Ge found that blood streaks had begun to appear on the comic book. He tried calling the staff, but still received no response.
"Chen Ge!"
Wen Qing's voice came from outside the bedroom, and then the bedroom door was pushed open: "Something seems to have happened downstairs!"
The sounds of running, shouting, and crying in the corridor were intertwined, making it very confusing.
"Don't worry, let them make trouble for a while longer."
Chen Ge walked out of the room slowly, and the faces of the neighbors flashed in his mind: "Whose turn will it be next?"
Several people arrived on the second floor. There was a faint smell of blood in the air, and fresh blood stains could be seen on the stairs.
"What's going on?" Chen Ge heard Aunt Ding's cry before he got close. Other neighbors gathered around the corridor and blocked the road.
"The electrician is dead." Xiao Sun leaned on the steps, his face pale.
"Dead?!" Chen Ge looked very surprised. He quickened his pace and walked through the crowd: "Get out of the way!"
Standing at the corner between the second and first floors, Chen Ge seemed to be stunned. He saw Aunt Ding lying on the ground, crying Jiaqi's name, her hands and upper body covered with blood.
Aunt Ding seems to have lost her mind due to excessive sadness. No one can get close to her at all, or in other words, no one wants to get close to her now.
"You...killed him?" Chen Ge's pupils were trembling: "He is our only clue!"
"Jiaqi is the first child I adopted, and he disappeared in this community! I have been looking for him!" Aunt Ding, with disheveled hair, pressed her hands on the blood on the ground: "That's my child, you can understand
How do I feel as a mother? You know what I look like when I see that child..."
Aunt Ding burst into tears. She seemed to have lost all her strength and fell into a pool of blood.
"It really can't be said that it was Sister Ding who killed her. I saw with my own eyes a conflict between Sister Ding and the electrician. They fell down the stairs, and the fruit knife just stabbed into the electrician's neck. This can be regarded as evil retribution.
Right." The one who spoke was a tenant on the fifth floor. He was very tall. He always stood with Aunt Ding. This was his first time communicating with Chen Ge.
"Is it an accident?" Chen Ge looked past Aunt Ding and towards the corridor on the first floor.
The electrician had already run out of the corridor, and his body was at the entrance of the corridor. Bloody fingerprints could still be seen on the locked iron door.
"With a knife stuck in his neck, even if he doesn't die, he can't speak. It's a pity that the clues that he finally found have been cut off." Chen Ge's tone was quite helpless. He glanced at the tall man and said, "What do you call me?"
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"My surname is Li."
"Why do you smell like medicine?"
"I'm a pediatrician."
"Does the medicine for children smell so strong?" Chen Ge changed the subject without waiting for the other party's reply: "I was not present when the electrician died. Did you hear what he said last?"
"He called Aunt Ding's full name..."
Xiao Sun wanted to say something else, but was directly interrupted by Dr. Li: "The electrician is dead now. We must confirm as soon as possible whether he is the murderer of Qu Gui."
"But..." Xiao Sun insisted on speaking, but was interrupted by Chen Ge: "Yes, the top priority is to catch the murderer first. If the electrician is the murderer of Qu Gui, then everyone will be happy. Now I am worried that the electrician is just an accomplice.
, the real murderer is still hidden in this building."
Live people were killed in front of their eyes, and the atmosphere in the building became increasingly depressing.
"I will send Aunt Ding back to the room first. She saw the body of her adopted son. She was too stimulated today." Dr. Li wanted to lift Aunt Ding up from the pool of blood, but after several attempts without success, he looked towards
The crowd waved to one of the short men: "Big head, come and help me."
The short man had no hair, a large area of his face was swollen, and he looked a bit deformed.
Datou and Dr. Li helped Aunt Ding to the fourth floor, while Chen Ge silently watched their backs.
"Dr. Li is tall and looks very strong. It is impossible to help Aunt Ding. He is just looking for an excuse to ask Datou to leave together. The three of them should know each other and are a group."
Doctor Li, Da Tou, Aunt Ding, the electrician, and Chen Ge suspected that the four of them teamed up to kill the landlord and stole the keys to all the rooms.
As for the reason why they killed the landlord, Chen Ge probably guessed that the landlord had spied on their secret, so the landlord had to die.
"Um... what to do with the electrician's body?" Qu Ying's head was now big. Qu Gui's body was still lying in the living room. Now there was another body in the building. Their original intention was to track down the murderer, but things were inexplicable.
It started to get out of control, as if someone was secretly trying to kill all the tenants in the building.
"Don't worry about the electrician's body for now. I just made a terrible discovery." Seeing Dr. Li and the others walking away, Xiao Sun dared to speak: "The electrician was pushed downstairs. The person who did it was not Aunt Ding, but Dr. Li.
The two of them were running at the front."
"Jia Qi is Aunt Ding's adopted son. Why is Dr. Li so impulsive? He doesn't look like a person with a strong sense of justice." Chen Ge was slowly guiding the neighbors' thinking. He couldn't speak like Xiao Sun.
It was too straightforward, because he didn't know how many people in the building were involved in the murder of the landlord.
But one thing is for sure, there should not be too many people involved in the murder of the landlord, otherwise they would have no need to be afraid of Chen Ge, let alone sacrifice the electrician.
"I also find it very strange." The middle-aged man who hid women's underwear at home stood alone in the corner. Now he didn't believe anyone: "There is something wrong with the woman named Ding today. She usually treats her adopted son very poorly. Compared with
Raising a child is more like raising a pet. If something doesn't go your way, you'll be beaten and scolded."
"So you think Aunt Ding didn't kill the electrician to avenge her adopted son? But she was worried about other things?"
"I didn't say that!" The middle-aged man looked at Chen Ge and waved his hands repeatedly. He is an old tenant here and knows that talking nonsense can sometimes lead to death.
"How about we ask Wu You? It's the kid who lives in 301. Neighbors in the building say that kid loves to lie. But I think that kid is actually pretty good. It's just that he hasn't had anyone to accompany him for a long time. So
He has some psychological problems, don't we happen to have a psychiatrist here? You can take a look at him by the way." Xiao Sun suddenly spoke, scaring the middle-aged man into a cold sweat.
"That kid Wu You is full of lies. You can't believe a word that comes out of his mouth. Besides, he's just a little brat. What do you know? Let him see the body. Don't scare him directly and cause problems."
The man pretended to be calm and shook his head.
"Okay, I'm just making a suggestion. After all, that kid is always running around in the building, so he might know something." Xiao Sun was analyzing rationally, but he didn't even realize that he had become a thorn in most people's eyes.
Chen Ge also wiped the sweat from his forehead. As an ordinary person, after being involved in a murder case, the first thing he has to do is not to learn from detectives to solve the case, but to protect himself.
He understood Xiao Sun's practice of repeatedly jumping on the edge of death, but he did not agree with it.
"I don't think it's necessary to ask a child, but the murderer is hidden in the building. It's too dangerous for Wu You to stay at home alone. It's better to let him stay with us." When Chen Ge said the first half of the sentence,
The young man nodded, but when he heard the second half of Chen Ge's words, his head froze.
"Would it be inconvenient to have a child?"
"It doesn't matter, I'll protect him. Let's go to 301 to pick up Wu You now." Chen Ge walked directly towards the third floor. As soon as he entered the corridor on the third floor, he saw a boy's picture poked out of the room at the end of the corridor.
My face is a bit scary at night.
"Wu You, a murderer has sneaked into this building. It's not safe for you alone. Follow us first." Chen Ge wanted to hold Wu You's hand, but Wu You dodged away.
"A murderer?" Wu You looked at Chen Ge and the tenants and said in a very childish voice: "Aren't you all murderers?"
"Look, this kid knows how to lie." The middle-aged man spread his hands, looking helpless.
"You know we are all murderers, so why are you still here? Aren't you afraid?" Chen Ge looked at the child in front of him.
"I'm waiting for mom and dad."
"If you are killed, your father and mother will not be able to find you, so it is better for you to follow me obediently." Chen Ge's way of reasoning with his children is extremely hard-core.
Grabbing Wu You's hand, Chen Ge asked him to follow him.
Finding Chen Ge's firm attitude, the middle-aged man suddenly said he wasn't feeling well and wanted to go home. Chen Ge didn't stop him and let him leave.
In fact, Chen Ge knew very well that when the middle-aged man left at this time, he must be worried that Wu You would spill the beans, so he was eager to go back and destroy those shameful things.
After the middle-aged man left, the remaining people walked toward Aunt Ding's room on the fourth floor.
Dr. Li called Datou and Aunt Ding, and they must be discussing something. Chen Ge didn't want to give them too much time.
Arriving on the fourth floor, Chen Ge saw Da Tou guarding the door of Aunt Ding's room before he could get there.
"Is Sister Ding feeling better?"
"With Dr. Li here, there should be no problem." The big head looks very strange, but he speaks very kindly, giving the impression that he is the kind of honest person who is particularly easy to bully.
"Something happened just now after you left. I want to ask Aunt Ding in person."
"She still needs to rest."
"You'd better get out of the way, this matter is very serious." Chen Ge was followed by Qu Ying, Xiao Sun, Wen Qing and Granny Li, who had the advantage in numbers: "I will go in alone, and I won't disturb Sister Ding's rest.
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"Okay." Da Tou knocked on the door. After more than ten seconds, the security door opened, and Chen Ge walked in alone.
Although Aunt Ding is no longer young, the interior decoration of the house is very girlish, and the main color is pink.
As soon as Chen Ge entered the room, he smelled the strong smell of perfume and air freshener. He coughed lightly and took the initiative to close the security door.
Aunt Ding was lying on the sofa, and Dr. Li was standing next to her. When they saw Chen Ge come in, their expressions were not very good.
"Are you alright?"
"Do you remember the wretched middle-aged man on the third floor?"
"What's wrong?"
"Just now he said that the electrician didn't fall down the stairs by himself, but was pushed down by someone. Then he very vaguely reminded us to ask Wu You." Chen Ge had a cold face.
"Did you ask anything?" Aunt Ding's face was pale and her voice could not help but tremble.
"The child was stimulated. We couldn't understand what he said at all, like Aunt Ding always carrying the child up and down the stairs, a child appearing next to him like a ghost, etc." Chen Ge seemed to be unable to see Aunt Ding getting more and more excited.
With an increasingly pale face, he said to himself: "The point is not about this child, but about the uncle on the third floor. He is across from Wu You. I very much doubt that he taught Wu You these words. After all, a
Even if children love to lie, they won’t always tell these things.”
"That makes sense." Dr. Li and Aunt Ding nodded at the same time.
"In addition, I also discovered something. That uncle always seems to be interfering with our search for the truth. I suspect..." Chen Ge raised his head, his eyes bright: "Could he be the murderer of the landlord?"
"It's very possible that there are a lot of weird things about that person." Aunt Ding's face became a little rosier and her speech became more fluent: "He has a lot of women's underwear at home, and I don't know where he got it. Anyway, that
People are very disgusting.”
"You doubt him, and he also wants to blame you." Chen Ge struggled for a while: "I don't know who to believe. Let's do this. Later we pretend to go to a room on the third floor to check.
Then go directly to his house and conduct a surprise inspection to see if any evidence can be found. If there are items in his house related to the murder of the landlord, then you can be sure that he is the murderer of the landlord."
Chen Ge is very bold. His real purpose in doing this is to let the murderer take out the evidence himself. This is a series of tricks.