Chapter 0018 – Murder House Live
There was only one person in the Peaceful Apartment who fit that age criteria, the old man in the landlord’s house who had trouble even eating.
”Something’s not right… Combined with the news, the owner of the apartment building should be an old man, but the landlord who received me is a middle-aged man.” Chen Ge stood up as he walked over to the wall and eavesdropped with his side ear.
The volume of the TV set over by the wall was high, and it was playing meaningless advertisements.
”If you watch TV normally, shouldn’t the first time you encounter a commercial be to change the channel? But now they’ve been listening to commercials for several minutes.” Chen Ge pressed his ear against the wall, “I must have overlooked something.”
He quieted his mind and thought from beginning to end, “After I entered the room, I heard the sound of rice bowls breaking from next door, followed by the landlord starting to abuse the old man recklessly, and then after that, the TV volume was suddenly turned up……. The old man was sitting in a wheelchair and couldn’t move around, and the one who turned up the volume must have been the landlord, but why did he to do so?”
Chen Ge’s eyes narrowed, and an idea emerged in his mind, “Is the landlord abusing the elderly? Using the TV volume to cover up the sounds of the beatings?”
The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, “I just moved in and the sound of a rice bowl breaking came from next door, the timing is too coincidental, could it be that the old man intentionally touched and broke it? After all, according to common sense, it’s just a broken bowl, there’s no need for the landlord to get so angry. Right! He was afraid that the old man had attracted my attention.”
”But why should he be afraid? And why did the old man seek help?”
A lightning bolt crossed his mind, and Chen Ge recalled another detail from earlier, when the landlord was insulting the old man, because he was too agitated, there were a few foreign dialects mixed in.
”The old man’s family are all from Jiujiang, but this landlord is a foreigner, he shouldn’t have a deep blood relationship with the old man.”
”Normally speaking, it’s impossible for the old man to give his property to an outsider to take care of, unless the lame man has taken over the nest and held the old man hostage! If that’s the case, then his real identity could be a caretaker with a greedy heart, a burglar who broke into the house, or the murderer from a few years ago!”
Thoughtfulness ah!
Chen Ge clenched his fists, “No wonder he suddenly ran to the door of my house to eavesdrop, so he was a thief at heart.”
Sweating on his forehead, reasoning this kind of thing was still a little too overwhelming for Chen Ge, he hadn’t systematically studied criminal investigation and logic, so he could only smooth things out bit by bit on his own.
”What should we do now? Rush directly to the next door and use a tool hammer to swing that landlord to death? No, it’s too impulsive, in case the reasoning is wrong, the consequences are unimaginable.” Singer Chen carried a tool hammer in his hand and stuffed a fruit knife in his pocket as he walked around the room.
”Find a chance to go back and make sure? Also no, what if I spook the snake? The murderer may have accomplices, and I can’t fight them with two fists, so once they’re on my tail, then I’m on my own.”
”Right now I don’t have any substantial evidence, everything is just conjecture. Besides, the most important purpose for me to come here is to find out the murderer of the extermination case four years ago ……”
Chen Ge fell into another agonizing situation, and after a while, the sound of the television set in the next room suddenly stopped, and the silence was a bit frightening.
”What’s going on?” He quietly opened the door of the room, squatted on the floor, and looked along the doorway of the next room, which was pitch black, and even the lights were turned off.
”It’s only eight o’clock and you’re sleeping?” Chen Ge squatted in front of the landlord’s door with a tool hammer, he suddenly felt that he was afraid that his appearance would cause others to misunderstand him, he hurriedly looked back and found that there was no one before he stuffed the hammer into his arms and returned to his room.
”It’s not necessarily accurate to speculate just based on the news on the internet, now if only I could have a professional to help me analyze it.” Chen Ge lay on his bed and touched his cell phone, his contact directory never seemed to speak except for Xu Wan.
”Being a person to the extent that I am, it’s enough to be specialized.”
Chen Ge thought for half a day, out of all the people he had contacted, the only one who could be related to case investigation was that unlucky kid who had been stunned – Heshan.
”Forensics should be a little better than me.” He opened his short video personal homepage, and as soon as he logged in, he saw dozens of private messages prompted in the background.
Clicking on a random one, it turned out to be sent to him by the head of a studio in the platform, wanting to invite him to join.
”Is this person considered a star scout?” Right now, Chen Ge didn’t have time to look at it, he buried his head in searching up Heshan’s ID, and didn’t even put this on his mind.
But who knew, after a while, that studio sent another private message.
”In? We’ve watched your video, it’s very promising, do you have any plans to cooperate with us?”
”We can contact our own big anchors to draw traffic for you and give you more exposure.”
”It’s hard for a person to make it alone, basically all the anchors on the platform will embrace the group, you can consider it.”
”In?”
A pop-up window, sent Chen Ge a bit on fire, his side is fighting with the murderous demon five years ago, which have the leisure to add what studio, directly back to the person two words: “Not in.”
”Oh, young and vigorous ah, consider our studio, you just need to put your short video with our studio’s logo, we will provide you with the best channel for more people to see you.”
”Sorry, I’m not interested for now.” Chen Ge felt that he was already polite enough, if another person was in the same situation, I’m afraid that he would spray him for a few sentences before directly blocking and pulling black.
”That short video of yours has the possibility of becoming a hit, but you have to figure out that it’s only a possibility, the platform’s daily average of short video uploads is one million, and you’re just one of the luckier ones. Modern people pursue faster entertainment, they don’t have the patience to wait, the world is full of gimmicks and explosions that are more eye-catching every now and then, if you don’t run it properly, it won’t take long for that video of yours to be drowned out.”
”Let’s talk about it tomorrow, I’m busy right now.” Chen Ge had already found Heshan’s ID.
”Is there anything busier than making money? If you really don’t want to, we can work together in a different way, for example, we’ll pay for your filming method ……”
Chen Ge didn’t bullshit with him and directly blacked him out before sending a message to Heshan.
Somewhat to his surprise, in less than a second Heshan returned the private message, “Boss, I’ve been waiting for you to release a new video!”
”Wait a bit, I have a very important question I want to ask you.” Chen Ge asked for Heshan’s phone number and after dialing the phone, he lowered his voice and told him the cause and effect of the matter.