Chapter 0514 – He’s Here After All
”Walk against the wall and stay away from the railing, be careful of falling.” Team Yan found room 104 and entered it.
The biggest difference between this room and the other houses was that there were all sorts of shabby furniture placed inside, and there were many children’s graffiti on the mottled walls.
”It feels like a family of three has lived here.” Chen Ge followed behind Team Yan, who possessed Yin pupils and didn’t need a flashlight, and turned around the house on his own, “What is this?”
There were many dried up apples thrown next to the wooden table with a missing leg, and gnawed apples could also be seen underneath the table.
”The people who live here should love apples.” Chen Ge padded the paper and picked up one and looked at it, rotting and deteriorating with mold growing on the surface, seeing this apple, he suddenly remembered the apples that he had seen in the underground corpse storage, “For corpses, apples seem to have a special significance, we can ask those doctors when we have time.”
”You guys look at this!” Tian Lei, who had always had a weak presence, suddenly spoke up as he shone his flashlight’s light onto the wall on the left side of the living room.
A slightly strange painting was drawn on the cracked wallpaper, with two adults and a girl coming together to talk, and a little boy drawing a picture not far away.
”These two adults should be the child’s parents, the girl is their daughter, and the one drawing on the wall is the boy.” Li Zheng tried to analyze, “So it’s a family of four.”
”When we questioned Jia Ming earlier, didn’t he say that they didn’t want a child because of Huang Ling’s health?” Tian Lei raised both eyebrows lightly, “Could it be that this person has found a mistress? Or did he lie to us?”
”He definitely lied to us, but he shouldn’t have lied to us on the point of the child.” Team Yan walked out from the kitchen, “The house isn’t completely built yet, it’s not Mr. and Mrs. Jia Ming and Huang Ling who live here, and the child who drew the picture probably isn’t related to them either.”
”Is it a street child?” Li Zheng stood next to the window and glanced outside, “But why do they have to live in this room? The building doesn’t have an elevator, wouldn’t it be more economical to live on the ground floor?”
”The answer is probably hidden in this room.” Chen Ge tilted his head back and looked at the ceiling, unable to move his gaze away for a long time.
The other three police officers saw him like this and also looked overhead.
On the ceiling of room 104, someone had carved four faces with sharp stones.
The four faces were in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and north, with a little girl drawn in the center, and the four faces biting the little girl’s limbs.
”What is this painting trying to express? It’s not like a child could draw it.”
The faces of the two adults had Jiang Long and Zhang Chuyue written on them, and the faces of the two children had Jiang Bai and Jiang Xiaohu written on them.
”Jiang Long? Isn’t that the name of the investor who jumped off the building? How did it get written here?”
”This seems to be the name of his family of four.” Tian Lei thought for a while, “It’s probably because the owners have vented the resentment in their hearts on Jiang Long, after all, he is the developer.”
”Even if the owners lost their minds, they shouldn’t be able to vent their resentment on a dead person, besides the painting shows Jiang Long biting someone else.” Team Yan looked at the painting above his head, “The font is childish, like it was written by a child, but a child definitely can’t reach the ceiling, and there isn’t a single place in this house that he can step on.”
The three policemen pondered over the possibilities, but Chen Ge entered the bedroom alone at this time, he had to control his expression.
He was the only one among the several people present who knew that Jia Ming had been possessed by Jiang Long, and the appearance of the names of Jiang Long’s family of four in this house further confirmed Chen Ge’s suspicion that Jiang Long had occupied Jia Ming’s body, most likely for the sake of this room 104.
”Is there anything different about this room?”
Chen Ge searched for half a day and didn’t find anything, he straightened up and looked out the window, standing in this position he could hazily see the large, dark building in the distance.
”Liwan Town?”
There wasn’t a single light in Liwan Town in the middle of the dark night, as if it was a dead city.
”I still can’t figure out what exactly Jiang Long is trying to do, if it wasn’t for Team Yan having to come over, this would be the time when I would have probably already taken control of Jiang Long.”
Chen Ge glanced towards the several buildings next to him, he looked and suddenly realized a problem.
These four buildings were separated into the southeast, northwest and north, all of them were nineteen floors, the tenth floor was exactly in the center, and with four rooms on each floor, Room 104 happened to be in the westernmost position.
”The layout of the four buildings is very similar to the location of those four faces, and that face of Jiang Long also happens to be in the westernmost part, matching the location of building number one.” Chen Ge went out to look at the painting again, “Why did they bite the girl? If each face corresponds to a building ……”
Chen Ge couldn’t figure it out on his own, and he subconsciously came to the westernmost part of room 104.
After moving away the garbage on the floor, Chen Ge found that the color of the ground here was not quite the same, and he found some heavy objects inside the house to swing against that area, cracking the thin layer of cement on the surface in the police officer’s uncomprehending gaze.
”Sure enough, it’s empty.” Chen Ge put his hand into it and felt as if he had touched something, not soft, but not too hard either, and he grabbed the thing out completely.
The moment he raised his arm, all the cops in the room, including himself, froze.
The shadow cleansed into the shape of a woman, but at this moment Chen Ge was oblivious, he looked at the slender, pale, clingfilm wrapped arm that he grabbed out, and with great difficulty, he twisted his head around to look at the few policemen.
To be honest, he also didn’t expect that what was hidden here would be an arm.
”Don’t move around! Put it down slowly!” Yan team was the first to open his mouth, he held up his flashlight and slowly approached, picking up that tightly wrapped arm, just by simply sweeping a few eyes, Yan team seemed to have already determined something: “Tian Lei, have your people arrive for me within twenty minutes! Li Zheng, notify the criminal investigation group of on-duty personnel to come to the eastern suburb of Mingyang neighborhood immediately! Prepare to take over the split body case!”
”Yes!”
After giving the order, Yan team’s expression eased a little, he asked Li Zheng for a cigarette and handed it to Chen Ge: “Scared, right? Go outside and have a cigarette to calm down.”
”No need.” Chen Ge didn’t bother to pick up the cigarette, his face was very pale, “Team Yan, do you still remember that when we first came to Mingyang District, I asked Captain Tian a question?”
”What question?”
”Why is the room number on the 10th floor of Building 1 104, and if it’s arranged like that, how are the other buildings numbered?”
”En, I remember, why?” Team Yan didn’t quite understand what Chen Ge meant.
”Four buildings, nineteen floors each, four rooms on each floor, normally the numbering should be four digits. For example, the number of room number one on the eleventh floor of building one is 1111. but at that time, the statement given by Captain Tian was that the four buildings were a whole, and the builder was also preparing to build a corridor high above the ground to connect the four buildings, so that number representing which building was omitted.” Chen Ge tried his best to get his point across.
”What exactly are you trying to say?”
”Look upwards.” Chen Ge pointed to the painting on the ceiling, “We found the left arm of the corpse in this building to the west, which corresponds exactly to the picture, if the four buildings are a whole, then does this Ming Yang neighborhood represent the girl in the picture who was bitten by a human face? And aren’t the other parts hidden in the corresponding floor rooms?”