Chapter 0264 – Cling Film

　　After briefly looking over the notes, the thoughts in the minds of the three forensic science students varied.

　　”Helping an outsider bully his own child, he doesn’t deserve to be a father.” Li Xue looked a little angry, although she knew that this was probably just a backstory of a haunted house, she still substituted in and fought for the boy.

　　”The kid is too much of a loser to look at. If it were up to me, I’d double back whoever bullied me!” Wang Yan waved his fist.

　　”I would think that this kid is not only not a wimp, but also very scary.” Yang Chen carefully flipped through his notes, “Did you guys notice that the boy’s diary in the last few months was all about apologizing to his own father?”

　　”Doesn’t that just show that he’s a wimp? Bowing down to the murderer.”

　　”The boy apologized to all sorts of people every day, but from a certain point onwards, the only thing left in the notes were his apologies to his father.” Li Xue also saw that something was wrong, “Why did he keep apologizing to his father?”

　　”Look at the time.” Yang Chen flipped the notes from back to front, the second half of the notes were all confessions and apologies to his father, he kept flipping forward for more than twenty pages before the content in the notes finally changed.

　　”The boy’s apology to his father began the night he was called to his parents and his father beat him late into the night.” Yang Chen held the notes and stood in the middle of the dormitory in deep thought.

　　”The notes are very clear, the father locked the dormitory door from the inside, not allowing anyone to come near, he also gagged the boy’s mouth with a bed sheet, it’s too cruel.” Li Xue sympathized with the boy from the bottom of her heart.

　　”You guys have to think about one thing clearly, the notes were written by the boy, he will only let us see what he wants to express.” Yang Chen closed the notes in his hand, “The book is full of apologies and sorry, but think about it, how can the true inner thoughts of a madman whose worldview is upside down and who treats ugly filth as beautiful and pure be repentance?”

　　He sat down on the smelly bed and seemed to take the boy’s place, “His classmates hated him, stomped on his good intentions, felt sick to their stomachs when they looked at his face, and the only family they had back at home viewed him as an enemy. The boy’s life is full of bad language and violence, so he can only bury his true self in his heart and put on a skin full of apologies as a way to protect himself.”

　　”Lao Yang, what are you trying to say?” Wang Yan and Li Xue both realized that Yang Chen’s mood was not quite right.

　　”I also suffered from domestic violence when I was very young, but luckily, I have a strong, smart brother.” Yang Chen just sat on that stinking bed, “I experienced the same pain, so I can probably guess what that kid is really thinking.”

　　With a hint of indescribable emotions in his eyes, Yang Chen casually picked up the trash model on the ground, “The design of this haunted house is simply amazing, everything is just like it really happened.”

　　”Why don’t you tell us about it as well! What are you lamenting blindly by yourself?” Wang Yan followed Yang Chen’s example and also picked up a piece of trash prop, but could not see any abnormality.

　　”The haunted house owner gave us hints from the moment we entered.” Yang Chen put the garbage model under his nose and smelled it, “The garbage in the house doesn’t have any odor, but the stench is always there.”

　　”Didn’t we know this just now?”

　　”Then think again why the boy kept picking up garbage into the dormitory?” Yang Chen guessed the truth, but he didn’t have a bit of pleasure in breaking the ice, and even felt a bit uncomfortable.

　　”Because the boy has a mental illness, isn’t it written in the notes? He’s been sick since a long time ago, his worldview collapsed, treating ugly things as beautiful things.”

　　”Wrong, the real answer is actually quite simple.” Yang Chen picked up the model of household garbage in his hand, “Garbage in real life emits a foul odor.”

　　”Real life?”

　　”That kid wanted to use the stench of the garbage to cover up what really stinks! That’s why he kept bringing back garbage to the dormitory!” Standing up, Yang Chen scanned the dormitory, “What would you guys say would emit a stench? And this stench should never be smelled by people?”

　　Wang Yan and Li Xue looked at each other, they both studied forensics, at this moment a word came to mind at the same time, “Corpse odor!”

　　”The notes changed from that night to an apology to his father alone, I’m curious about what he did to his own father and why he keeps confessing and apologizing.”

　　Yang Chen already had the answer in his heart, he stood in front of the only locked closet in the dormitory and reached out to grab the lock.

　　The rust came off, the lock in the haunted house scene was just a prop, he removed that lock with a little force.

　　The closet door opened and the stench hit his nose!

　　In the center of the closet stood a dead body wrapped in plastic wrap!

　　Face twisted, eyes bulging out, the man’s death was tragic.

　　The three medical students stopped in front of the closet, looking at the corpse prop in the cling film, no one said anything, the feeling of shock and horror in the bottom of their hearts intertwined, even breathing became difficult.

　　”This should be the answer, the boy has probably been planning this since he started picking up trash from the dormitory.”

　　The boy’s notes had been apologizing every day since the day of the accident, and continued for dozens of pages before stopping.

　　It was hard to imagine how he had lived with a dead body, in this foul-smelling room, for so long.

　　”The fact that it went on for so long without being noticed is what is so sad in my opinion, even after hiding the culprit in the closet, the boy’s life remained unchanged. No one cared about him, much less ever cared about him.”

　　Yang Chen closed the cabinet door and padlocked it, “To be able to design such a scene, I’m convinced by Boss Chen, this haunted house of his is by no means just scary.”

　　”Awesome indeed.” Li Xue’s clenched hand slowly loosened, her mood unable to calm down for a long time.

　　”You two don’t sigh, the time should have exceeded twenty minutes, let’s hurry out.” Wang Yan remembered the prop dead body wrapped in plastic wrap in the cabinet and was a little panicked: “The dead body props in this haunted house of his, made more scary than the real thing.”

　　”Let’s go.” Yang Chen was the first one to turn around, he suddenly stopped when he walked to the dormitory door, “Have you guys noticed that the stench of this place has become a bit thicker.”

　　”Is it because of the open locker door?” Li Xue followed behind Yang Chen, “Don’t think so much, this challenge failed, we’ll come back next time.”

　　The three of them walked out of the dormitory together, and as they walked back, they suddenly realized that there was a person standing not far from the corridor.

　　The man had his head hung low, facing away from them, and there was a rope hanging down from his neck to his chest.

　　”Isn’t this the mannequin that hung itself in the first dormitory? How did it get out?!”

　　Wang Yan turned back to his companions and found that Li Xue and Yang Chen’s eyes were also filled with panic.

　　The stench in the air was still worsening, and while the three medical students hesitated, the lock on the dormitory closet slowly loosened and fell to the ground.

　　”Crunch ……”

　　The worn out closet door was opened a little bit from the inside.