Chapter 0358 – Their Real Purpose
It was the first time Chen Ge heard this woman’s voice, this person should be about the same age as Gao Ruxue, and there was a hint of impatience in her tone, as well as a bit of deeply hidden resentment.
”I’m a friend of Gao Ruxue, and I want to ask her out for dinner tonight.” Chen Ge casually said, “Where is she?”
”Wash her hair and go, I’ll have her call you later.”
”Good.”
The phone hung up, Chen Ge sat on the bed in the lounge with her bag on her back, “If it’s a normal date, then it doesn’t matter if Gao Ruxue washes her hair or takes a shower, but she’s clearly in the middle of a panic right now, and she’s asking me to meet her in order to solve her roommate’s matter, so in this case, given her character, she shouldn’t go and dress up on purpose.”
Chen Ge felt that something might have gone wrong on Gao Ruxue’s side.
Five or six minutes later, Gao Ruxue called, and after connecting, Gao Ruxue’s voice came from the other side of the phone, “I’m getting ready to go out now.”
The door of the room opened and closed, Gao Ruxue seemed to be walking alone on the long corridor, the murmur on the phone was much less, “Where shall we meet at night?”
”Name a place, I’ll be there now.” Hearing that it was Gao Ruxue’s voice, Chen Ge was slightly relieved, it was good that nothing happened to the person.
”Then come directly to our school, come in through the west gate, there are less people over there, we’ll meet at the back of the teaching building on the old campus.” Gao Ruxue seemed to hide in the bathroom by herself, “You’d better come over quickly, I’m getting the feeling that the two roommates are out of sorts.”
”Did something happen again?”
”During the afternoon class, Liu Xianxian slept on her desk for the whole afternoon.”
”It’s normal for her to run to the underground warehouse at night and sleep during the day.” Chen Ge didn’t think there was anything wrong.
”If she was really sleeping, I wouldn’t have given you the word.” Gao Ruxue’s voice was low, she was extremely insecure right now, “Halfway through the second class, my pen fell to the ground, when I bent down to pick up the pen, I inadvertently realized that Liu Xianxian had actually not been sleeping the whole time, her eyes were rounded and she was looking at the mirror in the drawer.”
”Mirror?”
”Yes, to be precise, she was looking at herself in the mirror.” Gao Ruxue restored the situation for Chen Ge: “Her eyes were full of blood, and it felt like she was full of resentment towards the person in the mirror, but wasn’t what was reflected in that mirror her own self?”
”Your roommate kind of looks like she’s been possessed, you shouldn’t stay in your dormitory tonight, they’ll probably make a move on you at night.”
”Okay, let’s meet at the school first, I still have a lot of things to tell you.”
Hanging up the phone, Chen Ge was about to head out when his cell phone rang again, this time it was Captain Yan calling.
”Too coincidental, right? It happened to be at this time.”
Pressing the answer button, before Chen Ge could say anything, he heard Captain Yan’s voice: “Come to the city branch immediately, I have something very important to tell you.”
”Right now?”
”Right! Very important!”
Team Yan’s tone was very serious, Chen Ge thought about it and agreed, “I’ll come over right away, but I have other things to do in the evening, so I can’t stay too long.”
”It won’t take you long.”
The call ended quickly, Chen Ge carried his bag and took a taxi to the city precinct, on the way, he dialed Gao Ruxue’s phone again, but this time no one answered.
Almost eight o’clock, Chen Ge arrived at the city branch office, and as soon as he entered the door, he realized that the atmosphere in the room was not quite right.
The duty officer at the door recognized Chen Ge and brought him to Team Yan’s office.
Pushing the door, there were two other people in the room besides Team Yan – Old Wei and Grandpa Bai.
”Relieved
The door to the room closed, and Team Yan gestured for Chen Ge to sit down, “Last night, the three of you went into the middle of the mountain and retrieved the two children, but I specifically sent someone into the mountain during the day today to follow the route you described, and after searching for six hours, I didn’t find the village.”
”It was Master Bai who led the way last night, you have to ask Master Bai about these things.” The Living Coffin Village Scene had already been unlocked, and Chen Ge didn’t want to go back into that Underworld Village for the time being.
”My route is right.” Master Bai leaned back in his chair, he had slept all day today before slowing down, “I looked at the photos your team members took when they came back, the route is correct, after crossing the valley, it’s Coffin Village.”
”The problem now is that after crossing the valley, we didn’t see the village.” Team Yan sat down at the table, “What exactly did you three meet last night?”
”I can’t remember, but I do have the impression that there was a village.” Old Wei lowered his head, he had obviously gotten credit, but he acted a bit down.
”The child has been rescued, that village can be found slowly, there is no need to rush.” Chen Ge stood to the side, he didn’t even sit down, ready to leave at any time.
”If it’s just child abduction and sale, we can slowly check it, now the problem is ……” Captain Yan took out an evidence bag from a drawer, the bag was filled with a sidearm: “Old Wei’s sidearm is missing a round of bullets, after the technical department’s inspection, it was found that this gun had been used last night, while Old Wei has no impression of this, do you know what this portends?”
Chen Ge shook his head, he was clear that the shot was fired by Lao Wei himself, but why Lao Wei fired the gun at that time, and what exactly he encountered, Chen Ge did not know.
”Old Wei has been a police officer for many years and has a lot of experience, the fact that he was able to force him to shoot means that things have gotten to the point where he has to shoot to solve the problem! Did you guys encounter such danger last night?” Team Yan stared at Chen Ge closely, waiting for Chen Ge to answer.
Chen Ge swept a glance at moncler outlet online Bai without thinking and casually said, “No.”
Upon hearing his words, moncler outlet online Bai’s clenched hand slowly loosened.
”Then do you have any impression of Old Wei shooting?”
”I heard gunshots in the village, but I wasn’t with Lao Wei and moncler outlet online Bai at the time.”
”The sidearm is the most important thing for the police, it’s impossible to let outsiders touch it, now we can be sure that the sidearm was used once, whether the one who fired the gun was Lao Wei himself or not, this matter is very serious, if you have any clues, you must tell me as soon as possible.” Captain Yan looked at Lao Wei who hung his head down and sighed softly, “The doctor said that Lao Wei’s case belongs to transient memory loss caused by strong stimulation, I will pursue this matter to the end no matter what.”
”Understood.” Chen Ge nodded and hesitated, “Captain Yan, that Dr. Chen from the Jiujiang Welfare Institute was also in the village at the time, he’s been following us all the way, Old Wei shooting may be related to this person.”
”We are now on a citywide manhunt for this person, there should be results soon.” After Yan team finished speaking he rummaged around in the drawer for something, a few moments later he took out a map with photos attached to it, “There is a second thing I want to ask you to do today.”
He pointed to those photos on the map, “See for yourself, each photo is the scene of an eye gouging murder.”
Chen Ge looked at the photos that were pasted in a circle on the map, his pupils slowly narrowed, a total of five eye-gouging homicides had occurred in Jiujiang in the past two days, if the crime sites of these five homicides were drawn in a circle, it could be found that the center of this circle happened to be the New Century Paradise!
”All the eye-gouging murders centered around my haunted house? Is this some sort of ritual of the Weird Tales Society?”