Chapter 0408 – Liu Zhe’s Special Hobby
If this three-star scene was in an open place, Chen Ge wouldn’t be too entangled, there were employees to break the back, and if they couldn’t fight then they would withdraw.
But the problem now is that the corpse warehouse is built underground, there is no place to run when something happens, and it is likely that you will be trapped and die inside.
Chen Ge took a paper and pen and briefly counted the severe ghosts that could be put to use on his side.
”My House of Terror can reasonably be considered a three-star horror scene, with numerous ghosts and monsters, all of which also have special abilities, but the battle power is generally not strong.”
Eighty percent of the House of Terror’s battle power came from Zhang Ya, the remaining fifteen percent was Xu Yin, and the final five percent were other ghosts and monsters.
”I have the backbone to tough out the other three-star scenes, but that’s only after Zhang Ya awakens.”
Wanting to accelerate Zhang Ya’s awakening wasn’t without a solution, Chen Ge just needed to find a few female ghosts to talk about their lives should be fine, the key was that he was afraid that Zhang Ya would awaken and get angry and do him first.
Chen Ge lay on the bed, he felt that he couldn’t rely too much on Zhang Ya either, although this feeling of hugging his thigh was very comfortable.
”The other severe ghosts in the House of Horrors still have potential to be tapped, the location of Xu Yin’s heart is not dyed red, it is still one step short of becoming a true red, and this last step should be related to the door.”
Turning the pen in his hand, Chen Ge remembered the door in the third sick building, “Why don’t we go ask Door Nan’s owner, Ge? That kid is a door pusher, he must know a lot of information.”
Chen Ge was instinctively somewhat resistant to the world behind the door, but it was crunch time now, so he couldn’t care less.
”There are at least two Red Clothes on the President of the Weird Tales Association, Xiong Qing and his wife, I have to be prepared to face two Red Clothes at the same time before I can do so.”
Chen Ge glanced out the window, night had already fallen, “Take advantage of the fact that there’s nothing else going on tonight and make a trip to the third sickbay.”
Packing up his backpack, Chen Ge took out his black cell phone and glanced at it again before heading out the door, the black cell phone had gently vibrated just now after Li Zheng had mentioned that the missing person’s body had been recovered, Chen Ge hadn’t had the time to look at it before.
Sliding the screen, he tapped on the unread message.
”Special Visitor Mission – Disappearing Wife has been completed, lucky Knight Ghost Favored One, congratulations on unlocking the horror scene – Wife’s Room!”
”The Wife’s Room (Scream Index 1 star): I thought he would marry me, who knew that he would put me in a sculpture and put it in the middle of a dark corpse vault.”
The task on special visitor Liu Xianxian has been completed, but there are still many questions left unanswered, such as why did Liu Xianxian force herself to touch those horrible things? Why did she show a smile when she was scared and so on.
Chen Ge could be sure that Liu Xianxian had hidden some things from him, the relationship between this girl and Liu Zhe was not simple, maybe she was clear about part of Liu Zhe’s secrets.
”Now that Liu Zhe is delirious and Liu Xianxian is being ignored, all the abnormalities in her body must be related to Liu Zhe, this is a breakthrough.”
Carrying his bag, Chen Ge stopped at the entrance of the haunted house, he changed his mind after thinking for a moment and took a taxi to Jiujiang Academy of Forensic Science.
When he arrived at the place, Chen Ge walked directly towards the school as usual.
”Hey! What’s going on!” A tall and thin security guard stopped Chen Ge, the man didn’t seem to be in a good mood and had a taut face.
”Going into the school to look for someone.” Chen Ge’s eyes swept over the sign on the security guard’s chest; this man was the Zhang Li Zheng had mentioned to him.
Before Liu Zhe turned himself in, Li Zheng had also suspected Tension, and the night Ma Ying’s sister disappeared, it happened to be Tension who was on the night shift.
”Recently, the school has been checking tightly, outsiders are prohibited from entering the school, so call that person to come out.” Zhang Li was not at all merciful, which was probably one of the reasons why he was so poorly liked.
Chen Ge didn’t talk nonsense with Zhang Li and called Liu Xianxian to ask him out.
”Boss Chen, you’re looking for me?” Liu Xianxian had a good impression of Chen Ge, being decent, warm-hearted and friendly, and most crucially, having saved her life once.
Chen Ge nodded and entered the teahouse they had been to last time, asking for a single room.
Closing the door to the cubicle, the room quickly quieted down.
After a moment of silence, Chen Ge was the first to speak, “How much do you know about Liu Zhe?”
At the mention of Liu Zhe, Liu Xianxian’s expression became a little dark, her eyes seemed to have lost their color, and she told the story between herself and Liu Zhe.
In Liu Xianxian’s description Liu Zhe was a mature and perfect man without any shortcomings, it was only because he missed his late wife too much that he hesitated in the face of a new romance.
After listening carefully, Chen Ge looked at Liu Xianxian as he asked a second question, “When you entered the underground warehouse that day, Ma Ying had been protecting you, and she didn’t give up on you at the most dangerous time. Now I’ll ask you another question, if one day, both Ma Ying and Liu Zhe fell into the water at the same time, and you could only save one, who would you go and save?”
It was a very boring question, but Chen Ge’s tone was very serious.
”I don’t know.” Liu Xianxian picked up the tea cup on the table, she was very uncomfortable being looked at by Chen Ge, she always felt that Chen Ge’s gaze was like a knife that could pierce into her heart.
”Liu Zhe surrendered himself.” Chen Ge decided to go straight to the point: “The murderer of Ma Ying’s sister a few years ago was him.”
”Snap!”
The teacup dislodged and fell on the ground, spilling hot tea all over, but Liu Xianxian looked at Chen Ge with wide eyes as if she couldn’t feel any pain at all.
”This happened two hours ago, Liu Zhe has now been arrested.”
”Impossible!” Liu Xianxian stood up at once, her favorite person was the murderer of her friend’s sister, this was too hard for Liu Xianxian to accept.
Seeing Liu Xianxian’s reaction, Chen Ge was relieved, the situation he was most worried about was that Liu Xianxian knew that Liu Zhe had killed someone and still chose to help the other party hide it.
”Things haven’t gotten to the worst yet.” Chen Ge signaled Liu Xianxian to calm down and told the whole process of Liu Zhe’s crime.
In front of the facts, all defenses were pale, and Liu Xianxian sat dumbfounded across from Chen Ge.
”In fact, you should have also noticed all the problems with Liu Zhe, otherwise you wouldn’t have sought out that sculpture, wanting to determine whether he loved you or not.” Chen Ge gave Liu Xianxian some time and waited for her to accept this fact before she continued to start questioning, “I noticed when you first entered the haunted house that even though you were very scared in your heart when you faced something you feared, you still wouldn’t hide from it, and you would even have a smile on your face. Ma Ying said that you have changed since your sophomore year, is this change related to Liu Zhe?”
Liu Xianxian nodded her head gently after a long time, and she told Chen Ge everything.
”In fact, I fell in love with Liu Zhe when I first saw him, he knows how to be considerate of others, and being with him makes me happy and content.”
”Until one night in the second semester of my sophomore year, when we came back from a movie and parted ways at the school gate, I was halfway there before I remembered that his gloves were in my bag.”
”I ran back to look for him, only to find that he hadn’t gone back to his lodging, but had snuck into West Campus.”
”He looked nervous and acted completely different from his usual behavior, I was worried if something had happened to him, so I quietly followed behind.”
”That night was extraordinarily dark, and I watched as he burrowed into the sealed laboratory building.”
”When I got close, I heard him talking to someone inside, mentioning words like corpse and blood.”
”I leaned over the window to peek in, and the scene inside the room is something I can’t forget for the rest of my life.”
”Liu Zhe was standing in front of a specimen jar and was talking to a human head, I didn’t think my favorite person would be a madman and almost screamed.”
”I bit my own finger ready to leave quietly, Liu Zhe’s back was turned and I didn’t realize it, but the head in the jar seemed to see me!”
”The thick eyelids held open a slit without anyone touching them, and the head gently bumped against the glass jar, followed by Liu Zhe who seemed to understand what was going on and turned around to run towards the outside.”
”I knew I had been discovered and ran desperately towards the outside, but in the end I was caught up by Liu Zhe.”
”I was terrified, worried that he would do something to me like those perverted maniacs in the movies.”
”But what I didn’t expect was that Liu Zhe stopped when he was three or four meters away.”
”In a helpless and agonizing tone, he told me his own story.”
”Seven years ago, his wife had a car accident, and since then he hasn’t been quite the same as a normal person, he seems to be able to feel the presence of those things, he can even hear his wife calling out his name tomorrow.”
Liu Xianxian looked at her hand that was burned red, her voice was a bit hoarse: “I was impressed by his infatuation, such a person shouldn’t be left out by the world, so I agreed to help him keep this secret.”
”He took advantage of your kindness, as far as I know Liu Zhe has never been married at all, what he told you was actually what happened to his brother-in-law.” Chen Ge rang the table bell and asked the waiter to come and help Liu Xianxian with her burned hand.
”I know, I’ve realized it later.” Only after the waiter left did Liu Xianxian speak, “As we spent more and more time together, I also discovered some strange things about Liu Zhe, such as the fact that he would make a trip into the underground corpse vault every Wednesday.”
”Entering the underground corpse vault every Wednesday?” Chen Ge took a sip of tea, Wednesdays were the day when the Weird Tales Association met.
”Yes, no one knows what he’s going to do in the underground corpse vault, I once asked him about it, but every time I inquired about it he would throw a fit and say that he didn’t want to, everything was forced upon him.” Liu Xianxian took out her own phone and clicked on one of the recordings, “I don’t understand why he got so angry, this is what I secretly recorded during an argument once.”
Chen Ge put on the headphones and listened for a while, there was a hint of tension and fear in Liu Zhe’s voice in addition to anger, he seemed to be afraid of something: “In his normal life, did he have any behavior that was different from the norm?”
Liu Xianxian thought back for a while, “Liu Zhe’s closet would always waft a smell of formalin, and there would be a very faint smell of formalin in the meals he cooked, and that smell seemed to have infiltrated into his body, so he usually sprayed a lot of perfume when he went out.”
She hesitated a little, and then followed it up with an even more terrifying thing: “Liu Zhe is not a medical student, but there is a lot of information about anatomy and necrology in his computer, and his hobbies are a little bit special, or you could say a little bit perverted. He loves to go for exciting things, the more horrible and thrilling it is, the happier he feels.”
Squeezing a smile on her face, Liu Xianxian gently touched the corners of her mouth, “I will become what I am now because of him, he told me that there are many horrors in this world that exist beyond human cognizance, but as long as I smile at those horrors, they won’t harm me.”
”So you’re trying to train yourself?”
”Liu Zhe is very good to me, he has bought me many things and is very considerate to me. I grew up without a father, and that feeling he brought to me was very special. I was probably possessed at that time, feeling like I would do anything for him.”
Chen Ge didn’t want to waste too much time on Liu Zhe’s matter, he skipped the topic, “About Liu Zhe’s brother-in-law, how much do you know?”
”Unclear.” Liu Xianxian shook her head, “He avoids me every time he answers the phone, and he seems to be a little bit afraid of his brother-in-law …… By the way, there was a time when Liu Zhe quarreled with his brother-in-law for some reason, and Liu Zhe was almost crying and begging his brother-in-law at that time, saying that he never wanted to enter the middle of those red passages again. ”
”Then what did his brother-in-law say?” The passages of the underground corpse vault were divided into three types according to their functions, and Li Zheng had just told Chen Ge about them before.
”His brother-in-law’s voice was very low, I couldn’t hear it too well, it seemed to say that after entering the red passageways, as long as you don’t make any noise, you’ll be fine.”
”You can’t make a sound in the red channel, okay, I get it.” Chen Ge nodded silently, Liu Xianxian had unintentionally revealed a very important piece of information to him.
After asking some more questions to make sure he hadn’t missed anything, Chen Ge sent Liu Xianxian back to the School of Forensic Medicine, and gave her a word of advice on her way out, in the recent days, just stay honestly in the school, and don’t ever go to places where there are few people.
Taking a taxi to the third sick building, Chen Ge organized all the information on his phone in the cab, all he was doing now was preparing for the raid on the underground corpse vault of the Jiujiang Forensic Medical College.
At almost eleven o’clock at night, Chen Ge arrived at the third sick building, this time he had all the ghosts and ghouls from the house of horrors with him, and he wasn’t afraid that Mennan’s master character would turn against him.
After paying for the car, Chen Ge went over the fence and headed straight to the third sick building.
After not seeing him for a few weeks, the third sick building hadn’t changed much.
Tearing off the seal on the door, Chen Ge pushed open the iron door of the building and came outside the third ward.
At the beginning, Door Nan Master Ge had said that at zero hour every night, the bloody door of the third ward building would open for a minute. If Chen Ge wanted to find him, it would be fine to come at this time.
Guarding the outside of Ward Three, as the time slowly passed, Chen Ge became nervous, this was the first time he had actively entered the world behind the door.
Palms sweating and heart beating faster, Chen Ge stared at the door of ward three, and as the first strands of blood began to appear, he quietly pressed the switch on the repeater.