Chapter 0120 – Rusty Key

　　”Being careful shouldn’t be a problem.” Chen Ge opened his backpack and stuffed Xiao Xiao into his arms before taking out his tool hammer and flashlight.

　　”What are you doing?” Dr. Gao heard the commotion and walked out from the bedroom, he felt a bit of a headache as he looked at Chen Ge’s alternative look.

　　”Just in time.” Chen Ge dragged Dr. Gao to the window, “Later, the two of us will stay on the line, you keep watch in room 304, I’ll go to 303 to take a look.”

　　”Go to 303 for what?” Dr. Gao’s gaze swept over the hammer in Chen’s hand and finally rested on the muppet in his arms, his eyelids fluttering wildly.

　　”The cause of Men Nan’s illness should be amongst 303, I’m going to go in first to check it out before the early hours of the morning.”

　　”You’re just going to go over there like that? And with a rag doll?”

　　”If it was just me, I might have hesitated for a while, but it’s different with you picking up the slack.” Chen Ge dialed Dr. Gao’s number, then put the phone into his chest pocket, “Stay on the line.”

　　Dr. Gao instinctively nodded, and as he held up the phone, he suddenly felt that he had a heavy burden on his shoulders, having to be responsible for the safety of two “patients” at the same time.

　　”Be careful!”

　　Chen Ge stepped on a chair and stood on the window sill, he put the tool hammer into his pants pocket, peeled off the wall, and stood on the window sill of 304 to push the window of 303 open with his foot.

　　”Dr. Gao, don’t hang up the phone and be ready to pick me up.” After Chen Ge finished speaking, he clutched the window of 304 with his left hand, poked his body out of the window, and stretched his leg onto the window sill of 303.

　　At this time, his body’s center of gravity was still on the 304 side, and after the leg that was stretched out stepped down, the hand that was gripping the window slowly loosened and his body tilted towards the window next to it.

　　When he tilted over two-thirds of the way, he looked at the window frame of 303, loosened his left hand, and stretched out his right hand to grab the window frame.

　　With the force of his right hand, Chen Ge moved his body over in a smooth manner.

　　”Going over a neighbor’s window in order to treat a patient?”

　　Looking at Chen Ge who disappeared into the 304 window, it was too late for Dr. Gao to stop him; he had been practicing for more than ten years, and it was the first time that he had encountered such a situation while treating a patient.

　　Grasping the window frame with his right hand, Chen Ge slowly squatted his body, opened the window completely, and jumped in.

　　”But I can finally come in.”

　　Room 303 hadn’t been rented out since the incident, and the interior furnishings were basically kept as they were, the room was covered in dust, and stains could vaguely be seen on the walls.

　　The house is very dark, the concrete floor is uneven, Chen Ge opened the flashlight to shine only to find that the center of the room is covered with a worn and smelly carpet.

　　”Several other rental houses, including the landlord’s room, don’t have carpets, and this house even has a carpet specially laid.”

　　There must be a demon when things go wrong, Chen Ge grabbed the edge of the carpet and lifted it.

　　A strong stench emanated out, Chen Ge covered his mouth and nose and threw the carpet to the side.

　　There was no imagined very cruel picture, there were just some old clothes thrown under the carpet.

　　All of the clothes were men’s, in the same size and dimension, and should have belonged to the same person.

　　”The smell of moldy clothes can’t be this pungent.” Chen Ge used a hammer to set those clothes apart, and soon made a shocking discovery, there were a few dead sparrows thrown under the clothes.

　　”The bodies are intact, and the time of death should be within a week.” As Chen Ge mastered the gift of astringency, some more basic knowledge about necromancy also appeared in his brain, “This room hasn’t been rented out since the incident, yet someone came in within a week and buried these things under the clothes.”

　　Chen Ge felt that the problem was becoming a bit tricky, and this was a bit different from his previous speculation.

　　”Wang Haiming died in this house, unfortunately I don’t know the exact location, but it doesn’t matter much, search them all and you can always find something.” Chen Ge didn’t find anything of value in the living room, he leapt over the clothes on the floor and entered the middle of the bedroom.

　　A wire bed was placed against the wall, and near the head of the bed was a somewhat aged bookshelf with a few books placed crookedly on it.

　　The pages of the books were damp and moldy, and also emitted a faint stench.

　　Chen Ge checked all the drawers and cabinets and found nothing, he finally entered the bathroom with a mindset of trying.

　　The internal structure of all the rooms in the apartment building was similar, and as soon as he opened the bathroom door, Chen Ge saw the mirror placed directly opposite the door.

　　Under the illumination of the flashlight, the Chen Ge in the mirror always felt a little awkward compared to the real person.

　　He didn’t enter it, but just took a look outside.

　　”There doesn’t seem to be any more clues in this room.” The rental house wasn’t big, and Chen Ge had searched almost all the corners.

　　Standing in the center of the living room, Chen Ge looked at the clothes that were hidden under the carpet, “Strange, all of these clothes seem to be stained with blood, it’s impossible to soak so many clothes with just the blood of a few sparrows.”

　　He possessed Yin pupils, his eyesight was much better than the average person, and gradually realized that something was wrong.

　　”There’s something wrong with the clothes.”

　　Holding a tool hammer, he examined every piece of clothing, and finally found a very ordinary gray jacket in the center position.

　　There were chunks of dark blood remaining on the shoulders and back position of the clothes, and Wang Haiming might have been wearing the clothes to hit the wall in the first place and cracked his head.

　　Only with a head injury would the bloodstains show such a distribution.

　　”What is this?” Chen Ge shook the clothes and for the first time, he found something else in the clothing pocket.

　　He took out the object in the jacket pocket, it was cold in his hand, and when he put it in front of his eyes, it was a rusty iron key.

　　”I’ve seen the keys to apartment building doors, they’re flat copper keys, this key is much larger than the apartment key.” Chen Ge couldn’t figure out why a patient who had nothing to use and was picked up from a mental hospital would have a key on him that wasn’t his own house door.

　　”Did he pick this up outside? But if he picked it up casually, he certainly wouldn’t have collected it so solemnly.” Chen Ge wasn’t clear about the usefulness of this key for the moment, so he could only put it away for now, and he was about to leave when his flashlight swept the window.

　　The open window glass reflected a silhouette, the tenant who lived in room 302, was poking his upper body out of the window, wanting to peek at the situation over here.

　　”I entered 303, why is he so concerned?” Chen Ge pretended not to notice and buried his head to put the clothes on the floor back in place, but his brain was racing, “Only the people in rooms 302 and 304 can enter room 303 without going through the door. the door nan of room 304 is the victim, so thinking about it, the sparrow in 303 is most likely from the hand of that young man in 302. ”

　　”But why did he do that? Could it be that he was already occupied by the monster in 303?” Chen Ge remembered all the abnormalities that that young man in 302 had shown, talking to himself, arguing with himself, all of this was so similar to Wang Haiming at the time.