Chapter 0274 – Deadly Information
At eleven thirty-four in the evening, Chen Ge received a call from Team Yan in the police car.
”The situation isn’t too good, the other party is very vigilant and seems to have discovered us.” Team Yan then sent Chen Ge another photo: “After entering the elevator, our detectives saw a cell phone thrown inside with this message being edited on it.”
In the photo was none other than Xiao Gu’s cell phone, and there was a very strange paragraph in the WeChat input field:
”Dad killed us and put us on the stairs.”
”Brother lay behind me.”
”Brother lay in front of me.”
”Can you find us?”
”What do you mean?” Chen Ge was a little puzzled after seeing the message on Xiao Gu’s cell phone, not quite understanding the meaning of this sentence.
”I suspect that the group of lunatics have already found us, that’s why they deliberately left such a message in the elevator.”
”You guys have already entered the third floor?” Chen Ge had previously given Team Yan and the others a heads up, instructing them to never alert the snakes.
”All of the two action teams are wearing civilian clothes yet to enter the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood, the vehicles are parked at the intersection one hundred and five meters away from the incident neighborhood, and there are people on standby in the vehicles.”
”Then how could they be discovered? Could it be that your detectives had a problem?”
”Impossible, the one who entered the third building to investigate was our veteran here, with seven years of criminal investigation experience, and had assisted us in solving a number of vicious cases.” Team Yan didn’t think that his men would have problems, “Besides, he just opened the elevator and saw this cell phone, to set it up in advance without being seen, it would take at least three minutes, and in between the three minutes, our detectives hadn’t yet entered the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood.”
”I understand what you mean, which means that the suspect had already arranged this cell phone before your arrival.” Chen Ge’s face changed after he figured out to this point: “Where is that scout who found the cell phone now?”
”He’s still inside the third building, the photos were taken and transmitted back by him.”
”Damn! You guys hurry and get him back!” Chen Ge knew very well in his heart that the fundamental purpose of the Weird Talk Association to lure Xiao Gu into the trap was to deal with himself! The cell phone with the odd message left behind should have been prepared for him!
After coming into contact with a lot of ghosts and monsters, Chen Ge had already figured out some patterns, and the vast majority of ghosts and monsters, including Red Clothes, needed a medium if they wanted to harm someone.
For example, receiving a love letter from Zhang Ya, playing Xu Yin’s tape, using a ballpoint pen to play the Pen Fairy game, etc. Ordinary people needed a “special” medium.
Ordinary people need a “special thing” to become a switch in order to contact the other world.
The message left on Xiao Gu’s cell phone was actually a switch, and seeing the message was the equivalent of being targeted by one or more unknown ghosts.
”Good.” Team Yan didn’t ask for the reason in detail, and using the internal communication device, he gave the scout a temporary evacuation order, but to his surprise, only a few minutes had passed before that scout lost contact!
”Something happened?” Team Yan didn’t hang up the phone, and Chen Ge heard it clearly over here, “I may still have three or four minutes before I can arrive, you guys mustn’t send any more people in!”
Several police officers on the other side of the phone were discussing strategies, after ten seconds or so, Chen Ge heard the sound of a car door opening from the phone, as if someone had found Team Yan.
After both sides talked, Team Yan told him to stay in the car, then picked up his own cell phone again and said to Chen Ge, “The apprentice that the scout took just now found me, and his master sent him WeChat.”
”When you contacted the scout just now, didn’t he not respond to you?” Chen Ge became more and more puzzled, “What did that scout send to his apprentice?”
”Just three words – in or out.”
”In or out?”
”This message was definitely not sent by our scout.” Team Yan’s voice became serious: “It is absolutely impossible for an experienced scout to send meaningless text messages to his apprentice in the middle of a mission. If he had any needs or was in danger, the first thing he would think of should be the chief commander on the scene.”
”It seems like that scout may have been in mortal danger.” Chen Ge didn’t say this sentence out loud, he just thought about it in his mind.
”Whether he was killed or not, we have to prepare for the worst.” The investigator was in danger, and Team Yan naturally wouldn’t crouch outside the neighborhood in this situation, “Notify Team 1 and Team 2 to move in immediately! Enter building number three!”
”Team Yan, don’t be impulsive! The mental patients inside the building are very dangerous!”
”The situation has changed, we can only use other plans now, you give the phone to Old Wu, tell him to drive the car to my side first and meet me.”
Human life is at stake, Chen Ge knew that he couldn’t persuade Team Yan, so he could only back off, “The others are fine, you take care not to let that cop who received the message enter the building, he might have been targeted.”
The investigator saw the message being edited in Xiao Gu’s cell phone and then something happened.
Immediately after the incident, he sent a message to his apprentice, and Chen Ge vaguely felt that there was a hidden problem.
He also associated it with the first words Xiao Gu opened his mouth when he called him, which seemed to be related to Old Wang.
Deducing it all over again, Xiao Gu had already confirmed that he had come to work in the haunted house, and the probability of him running into the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood to patrol the area at night was not high, so why did he appear in the middle of the third building?
”Xiao Gu’s distress was most likely the result of Old Wang sending him a message first!”
Chen Ge wanted to say something else to Team Yan, but Team Yan had already started deploying and hung up the phone.
Three minutes later, Chen Ge arrived at the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood.
”Has that lost scout been found?”
”Already found in the corner of the stairs on the second floor, physically unharmed but in a coma, according to the reaction of the personnel at the scene, his pupils are lax and his face looks terrible.” Team Yan stood by the side of the car, their internal communication device in hand, frowning worriedly, “What I’m curious about now is how the murderer managed to make an adult with a fighting base and a strong body fall into a coma in just a few minutes.”
While the two of them were talking, that scout had already been carried out, and there were special people taking care of him.
Chen Ge took a look at the scout’s attire, and he was completely an ordinary person, as long as he didn’t lift his coat, he couldn’t be found out at all without being able to see the police walkie-talkies.
”The Weird Tales Association should be treating this plainclothes man as a passerby who accidentally got into the game, they regard life as grass, and will show no mercy even when dealing with innocents, but this time, they’ve kind of kicked the can down the road.”
When Chen Ge went to the 24th floor for the first time, Zhu Xiu had made a request to the Weird Tales Association, hoping that the Weird Tales Association would step in and help him escape from the police’s manhunt, but the Weird Tales Association explicitly rejected him.
This small detail proved one thing, the Weird Talks Association did not dare to clash head on with the police, they were like rats living amongst the shadows of this city, creating garbage and tearing up carrion, but never daring to see the light of day.
”Team Yan, did your people find that phone in the elevator?” Chen Ge asked another crucial question, the unedited message on Xiao Gu’s cell phone was a trap intentionally left by the Weird Tales Association, and reading it would likely trigger something ominous.
”It’s already been found by a team and put into an evidence bag.”
Team Yan didn’t realize the seriousness of the matter, but Chen Ge was different, with several lives at stake, he didn’t dare delay any longer, “Team Yan, the group of psychopaths really wants to deal with me, I can’t run away from this.”
He said and walked towards the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood.
”You wait.” If another victim came over, Team Yan would definitely stop the other party, but Chen Ge was not quite the same.
He took out a walkie-talkie from the car and shoved it into Chen Ge, “Can you use it?”
”Yes, when my haunted house used to have a lot of employees, there was one for each person.”
”That’s fine.” Yan team was still a little uneasy, and waved at the old Wu who was driving, “You two go in together, or you can take care of each other.”
Yan team’s good intentions Chen Ge did not refuse, he and Lao Wu entered the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood together.
In order to prevent unnecessary panic, Yan team did not notify the residents of the building, and the third building was still quiet and scary.
The dim lights reflected the ghastly white wall skins as Chen Ge and Lao Wu walked to the side of the elevator.
”Team Yan told us to follow Team Two, let’s go to the fifth floor now.” Old Wu had just determined the location of the two action groups through the walkie-talkie: “You’ll be right behind me later, don’t run around.”
Having the victim participate in the arrest, such a situation rarely occurred, but after considering the series of things that had happened to Chen Ge, Lao Wu was quickly relieved.
This man beside himself had filled a row of filing cabinets in the Serious Crimes Filing Room in only three weeks.
Thinking of this, Lao Wu moved a step to the side, keeping a distance of almost two meters from Chen Ge.
”Old Wu, let’s go to one group first! There’s something wrong with that cell phone, and now a group is in danger!” Chen Ge’s voice was urgent, the longer it dragged on, the more likely a group would be in danger.
”No, Team Yan explained that you should follow group two.”
”Go and take a look first, if nothing happens to one group, we’ll go and meet up with the second group.”
”Alright.” Old Wu hesitated for half a day before entering the elevator with Chen Ge and pressing the button leading to the eighth floor: “Group 1 and Group 2 are responsible for the left and right staircases respectively, Group 1 is progressing faster, so the possibility of encountering danger is also greater than Group 2.”
”It’s fine.” Chen Ge casually replied back, he watched the numbers on the display change little by little, but his eyes stopped on that extra number – 24.
The two quickly reached the eighth floor, at this time a group had already gone up to the ninth floor, they searched floor by floor and progressed quickly.
Lao Wu in the intercom and a group leader to get in touch, the two drilled into the side of the safe passage to the ninth floor.
Standing at the entrance of the building and waited for a while, a group leader followed by two people from the corridor ran out: “Why did you bring him also?”
The first group leader was physically very strong, when Chen Ge was interrogated at the city precinct, this person was sitting across the table, and Team Yan called out his name once, as if he was called Li Zheng.
”Team Yan explained, I’m just following orders.” Old Wu looked at the two people beside Li Zheng, “How come there are only three people left in your group?”
”I asked Xiao Jia and Ah Cheng to take over in the hallway to prevent the murderer from taking the opportunity to escape when we entered the floor to search.” Li Zheng looked toward the hallway, “You guys didn’t encounter them?”
When he said this, Chen Ge instantly had a bad feeling, “That phone you guys picked up in the elevator, is it on them?”
”Yes, what’s wrong?” Li Zheng had also heard of Chen Ge’s great name for a long time, and as if he thought of something, he frowned, took a flashlight, and stood directly in the darkened hallway and shouted, “Xiao Jia! Ah Cheng!”
The sound in the hallway traveled far, and before long, a response came out of Li Zheng’s walkie-talkie: “Brother Zheng, Xiao Jia doesn’t know what’s going on, and keeps running upstairs! We are now on the fourteenth floor, I just caught him …… Xiao Jia! What are you doing? You’re crazy!”
The voice on the intercom suddenly became garbled, followed by the sound of something heavy falling.
”Cheng?” Li Zheng gripped the walkie-talkie and shouted behind him, leading several other team members towards the upper floors.
Chen Ge and Lao Wu also rushed after them, and several people ran wildly to the fourteenth floor, where Ah Cheng was lying on the ground with his face covered, blood seeping out from his fingers.
”Old Wu! You two send Ah Cheng down immediately.”
”Brother Zheng, I’m fine, hurry up and find Xiao Jia, he’s just like being possessed!”
Li Zheng took away Ah Cheng’s hand and looked at it, his cheek was bitten and the back of his hand had a bite wound.
”That cell phone, is it on Xiao Jia?” Chen Ge was the only one out of everyone who was still emotionally stable, “Did the two of you read the messages on the phone?”
”I didn’t look at it, Xiao Jia looked at it twice when he put the phone into the evidence bag.” Ah Cheng answered truthfully.
”Sure enough, it’s related to that message.” Chen Ge recalled the content of the message, which was very odd, and he thought back in his mind, “Dad killed us and put us on the stairs, the first two sentences of that message should be alluding to the stairs, but what does the older brother and younger brother one after the other mean? And why did you go looking for them at the end?”
While Chen Ge was pondering, Li Zheng had already rushed up to the fifteenth floor with his men.
”Old Wu, you guard Little Jia here, I’ll go up and take a look.” Chen Ge didn’t give Old Wu a chance to open his mouth and directly ran up.
”The first scout who saw the message was unconscious, but the second Xiao Jia who saw the message seemed to have gone crazy, why is there a difference in symptoms?”
Li Zheng and the others didn’t dare to separate and were afraid of missing the floor Xiao Jia was on, so they chased him up the stairs, Chen Ge didn’t have this concern, after he ran to the fifteenth floor, he walked to the side of the elevator.
After waiting for the elevator door to open, he directly pressed the button for the 23rd floor, he was ready to go to the 23rd floor which was the most dangerous floor to take a look, after all, Xiao Gu had mentioned this floor on the phone.
”I hope Xiao Gu will be alright.”
The elevator door slowly closed, Chen Ge’s finger rested on the repeater switch.
If he was the only one who came here, there was a real possibility of getting hit in the face of the unknown tactics of the Weird Tales Association. Unfortunately, this time, he had come with the police, and he had the advantage in numbers instead.
The numbers on the display screen kept changing, and as the elevator rose to the twenty-first floor, Chen Ge’s own phone suddenly vibrated.
He slid the screen, and to his surprise, it was a message from Xiao Gu’s phone.
”In or out?”
The first time he saw the message, Chen Ge gave him a reply.
”Report the location, I’m coming to you now.”