Chapter 1051 The Cat
Chen Ge explained for half a day before Zhen Zhen understood what he meant, but Zhen Zhen didn’t seem to want to talk about this topic and re-hid behind the policewoman.
”Chen Ge, he’s still a child, he’s being treated for psychological trauma, you don’t want him to recall those bad things.” It was the first time the policewoman Chen Ge had met him, but the other party directly called out his name, as if the two had known each other for a long time.
”If you want to stop the tragedy from the source, you can only look for the answer from Zhen Zhen here, and I was forced to do so.” Chen Ge squatted in front of Zhen Zhen, “Zhen Zhen, if you sense the location of the other child you must tell me, uncle is trying to go and protect that child.”
The cursed hospital was also searching for the child chosen by the Underworld Fetus, once they were allowed to find it first, that child would most likely be killed by them directly.
After ten minutes or so, Zhen Zhen finally opened his mouth, hiding behind the policewoman, his small face lost its smile, and he timidly said, “That weird uncle would always say strange things to me before I fell asleep, and after listening to those words, I would always have dreams that had absolutely nothing to do with me, as if experiencing an unfamiliar period of my life in the viewpoint of a person who had been taken in.”
Zhen Zhen didn’t express himself very clearly, but Chen Ge was able to understand what he meant.
This child was of the same origin as the Underworld Fetus, and his body was tainted with the Underworld Fetus’ aura, and with Jia Ming’s help, he had dreamed the dreams of other children who had been chosen by the Underworld Fetus.
It was with this ability of Zhen Zhen that Jia Ming and Bei Ye had searched for Liu Wen before.
”Besides Liu Wen and Nie Xin, I also had a dream that was pitch black and I couldn’t see anything.” Zhen Zhen was struggling to recall.
”It was pitch black in the dream? Can’t see anything?”
”En, that feeling is very difficult, the surrounding is completely black, the body is also particularly itchy, wanting to scratch the skin.”
Just listening to Zhen Zhen’s description, Chen Ge felt a bit uncomfortable: “If your eyes can’t see, then your sense of smell and hearing should be fine, did you smell any strange odors? Hear any special sounds?”
Chen Ge was slowly guiding Zhen Zhen, that child thought for a while before speaking, “I can smell a fishy odor, and I can hear cats purring, yes! It seems like there are many cats in my room.”
”Many cats? A blind man who adopts stray cats?” The first image that came to Chen Ge’s mind was this, “Only the cries of cats? No sounds of people talking?”
”There seemed to be a man’s voice, he seemed to call my brother and seemed to say something, but it felt like he was far away from me and couldn’t hear too clearly.” Zhen Zhen told Chen Ge all she knew.
”I probably understand.” Chen Ge walked out of the duty room, took out his own cell phone, and recorded the useful information, “Two men appeared in Zhen Zhen’s dream, they should be brothers, the younger brother is blind, and there are many cats around him. Inferred from the fishy odor, that environment should be very poor, the brother stood at a distance from the brother to talk ……”
Li Zheng stood beside Chen Ge and watched Chen Ge talking to himself, organizing the information and recording it at the same time, a bitter smile unconsciously hung on his face, “It’s really a condescension for you not to be a police officer.”
”Brother Zheng, can you do me another favor.” Chen Ge looked at Li Zheng after finishing organizing the information, “If we don’t find that blind man as soon as possible, his life will probably be in danger.”
One moment he was chatting with a child, the next moment he was talking about a murder case, the topic changed so quickly that even an experienced criminal police officer like Li Zheng didn’t react, “Life threatening? How did you deduce a murder case through a child’s dream? I don’t mean to question you, I just find it a bit unbelievable.”
”Intuition.” Chen Ge was not at liberty to go into details, “My intuition has always been accurate.”
”I won’t deny that, but with the limited police force right now, I’m afraid we can’t offer you much help.” Although Li Zheng said on his lips that it was difficult to help, when he returned to his office, he still opened the database that only the police could access.
”Look at our local area to see if there are any pet stores run by two brothers, or organizations that adopt stray cats, the younger brother should be blind, and something bad must have happened to their family ……”
There were many clues, but it was still very difficult to sift through all the information in one day.
It wasn’t until a little after two o’clock in the afternoon that good news came from Li Zheng’s side, they had found someone who fit the profile.
”Ying Chen, twenty-two years old, head of the local caring cat rescue website in Hanjiang, a cat lover, has participated in various volunteer activities in Hanjiang many times, has excellent academic performance during school, and does not have any bad hobbies.” Li Zheng pointed to the computer screen, “These are all publicly available information on the internet, this shouldn’t be a violation for me.”
Chen Ge looked at the website called Loving Cats, the homepage of the website was all about all kinds of cute cats, all kinds of exchange postings from cat lovers, the hottest thing on this website was a stray cat rescue program, calling on people not to just throw away their pets.
On the website there was an introduction of Ying Chen, and his photo, the man was very literal looking, his skin was very white, giving a very good first impression.
”He’s quite good, his parents died early, he and his brother later lived in a relative’s house, it turned out that the relative only adopted them to take up his house, and treated the two brothers poorly all the time. He kept quiet about it and studied hard until he finally kicked his relatives out when he could take care of his brother on his own. All in all, this is a very sunny and inspiring young man.”
Li Zheng held the survey report he had compiled, “The website users also spoke very highly of him, feeling that he was like a child with a heart full of light, and there were even many unmarried female users who wanted to chase after him, but he politely refused because he had to take care of his own younger brother and was afraid of dragging down the female partner.”
”According to you, he’s really a nice person.” Chen Ge first looked through the entire website and found no abnormalities, then he clicked into Ying Chen’s own homepage.
Among the homepage were videos and photos taken by Ying Chen, as well as articles written by himself, mostly documenting his life with his brother, and stray cats.
All of his videos and articles had a high number of views, and he had also opened his own account on certain video sites, with not too many fans, but not too few either.
”Brother is a caring person, and even though brother has eye problems, he will definitely be well taken care of as well.” Chen Ge clicked on one video and silently watched it.
”Yes, having a brother like this is a blessing in misfortune for the younger brother.”
”Brother Zheng, you’re missing my point.” Chen Ge looked back at Li Zheng, “Do you remember how Zhen Zhen really described that dream? It was pitch black all around, you could smell the fishy odor, you couldn’t see anything, and your body was particularly itchy. If the older brother was really taking care of his younger brother in every way, there’s no way such a situation could have occurred.”
”But that was just a dream of Zhen Zhen after all.” For Li Zheng, any suspicion had to be based on evidence, and a dream could certainly not be taken as evidence.
”Dreams are the reaction of a person’s subconscious mind, most people will choose to escape when they encounter something terrible in a dream, there are also some people who will pick up a knife in a dream, and the different choices can actually react to a person’s mental state and psychological problems to some extent.” Chen Ge didn’t raise his head and continued to watch the video.
”Do all of you who run haunted houses now have to know so many things?” Li Zheng watched Chen Ge continue to view the videos one by one, “Are you now trying to find evidence from the videos that can prove that Ying Chen is not what he appears to be?”
”These videos of him look and feel like there’s nothing wrong with them, but ……” Chen Ge took out his own cell phone and accessed the official website of the local weather forecast of Hanyang River, which contained meteorological data for the entire year.
He compared the meteorological data, and his expression slowly became grave: “Brother Zheng, I’ve found the evidence.”
”How did you find it?” Li Zheng was a senior criminal police officer himself, and he had watched part of the video himself, and didn’t find anything too wrong with it.
”When I clicked on Ying Chen’s homepage, I found that many of his videos were of him rescuing stray cats, and those cats looked very miserable and were extremely fearful of people, but after Ying Chen’s rescuing and nurturing, those cats became healthy, beautiful, and weren’t so afraid of strangers.”
”This shows that his rescue was effective ah, it didn’t deviate from the purpose of their website.”
”But have you noticed that most of the stray cats rescued by Yingchen are adult cats with a fixed size?”
”What are you trying to say?” Years of criminal investigation experience gave Li Zheng a bad feeling.
”I suspect that some of his videos may have been shot backwards.” Chen Ge stood in front of the computer and said in a low voice, “He first filmed healthy and normal cats, and after he had enough material, he started abusing the cats. The miserable look of the cat at the beginning of the video is actually the last look of the cat, isn’t it scary when you think about it like that?”
”I think it’s also scary that you can think about this.” Li Zheng realized that Chen Ge was completely considering things from the perspective of the perpetrator, and he was glad that Chen Ge hadn’t taken a crooked path, otherwise it would have been an extremely difficult opponent.
”After having a suspicion, I tried to find a way to prove it, but most of his videos were shot in the same scene, there were no calendars or clocks in the room, the thick curtains were drawn, and the change in light wasn’t noticeable, this guy was meticulous and plugged all the loopholes.” Chen Ge said and clicked on a video he had just watched, “But this video he revealed the horse’s foot, listen carefully, at the beginning of the video you can vaguely hear the sound of rain and thunder outside, and at this time the cat looks miserable, one leg can’t stand steadily, the wound is infected, and there are problems with the eyes.”
”The video was released on the 26th of last month, he himself said in the video that the cat was picked up by him at the beginning of last month, and when he first picked it up he himself was shocked by the cat’s miserable appearance, and he also condemned those who casually abandon their pets at the beginning of the video.”
”But I just went into the official website of our Hanyue weather to check, last month only the twenty-fourth day of the day had heavy rain.”
”That means he filmed the cat’s miserable appearance on the twenty-fourth, and when he posted the video on the twenty-sixth, the cat in the video had already recovered to normal, and not a single trauma could be seen, do you think that’s possible?”
Ying Chen had a meticulous mind, but he was still far from Chen Ge.
”Then why did he do it? Not only did he abuse the cat, but he also sent out the video for so many cat lovers to see?”
”I feel like it’s the same as certain murderers, who after committing a murder have to return to the scene to take a look, they’re enjoying that perverted thrill.” Chen Ge continued to watch the video, to be honest, if it wasn’t for that rain falling very coincidentally, it would have been hard to catch Ying Chen: “Brother Zheng, this guy is most likely a pervert with an extremely dark psyche, he’s good at disguises and is also very smart, if he’s left unchecked, sooner or later he’ll do something even more horrible.”
”Indeed, but I’m more worried about his brother right now.” Li Zheng’s expression became serious, “Living with such a brother, he will likely be harmed as well, that’s why you said earlier that his life would be in danger, right?”
”Pretty much, anyway, we need to find them as soon as possible.” Chen Ge looked at the introduction about Ying Chen on the computer screen, this person also had a blind biological brother called Ying Hitomi.
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Chen Ge found Ying Chen’s contact number on the webpage, and he and Li Zheng agreed to go to Ying Chen’s house first thing in the morning.
After leaving the city precinct, Chen Ge thought twice, Li Zheng was already so busy, it was better if he didn’t cause any trouble for them.
Getting into a cab, Chen Ge directly dialed the phone number on the webpage.
The phone was answered after three rings, and a man’s voice came from the other side of the phone, “Hello, this is Ying Chen.”
The phone number left on the webpage was for negotiating business cooperation, so Ying Chen’s attitude was very good.
”Mr. Ying, I’m a haunted house owner from New Century Paradise, I want to place a long-term advertisement on your website, I wonder if you’re interested?” Chen Ge was a veteran as soon as he opened his mouth, “We can talk about the price face to face, we definitely won’t let you suffer.”
”Good, I’ve always felt that the park and cute pets go well together, in addition, our website’s user group is relatively young, and many of them like to go to amusement parks during the holidays.”
The two sides hit it off right away, and in order to let Ying Chen relax his guard, Chen Ge didn’t directly say that he would go to the other party’s house, but instead asked Ying Chen to pick a restaurant that was very close to his house.
Half an hour later, Chen Ge arrived at the restaurant and he called Ying Chen again.
”Boss Chen! I’ve already booked the private room!” A young man walked out of the restaurant, he was dressed simply and fashionably, giving off a very clean and sunny feeling.
”Ying Chen?” Chen Ge carried his backpack, “You recognize me?”
”I knew it was you as soon as I heard about the haunted house in New Century Land, I just didn’t expect you to come here in person.” Ying Chen kept on being polite, one moment saying that he was Chen Ge’s fan, and the next moment praising Chen Ge’s youthfulness, he was so smooth that he simply didn’t look like a twenty-two year old young man.
Chen Ge did not want to advertise on his website at all, so he seemed “sincere” and offered a price 30% higher than the market price.
The two sides talked so happily that those who didn’t know might have thought they were old friends who hadn’t seen each other for many years.
The relationship between the two people quickly close, a glass of wine down, in the waiter ready to serve the last plate of food, Chen Ge accidentally touched each other, dish juice showered on his shoulder.
Ying Chen hurriedly came over with a napkin, and Chen Ge’s face instantly darkened: “I have to meet a client later, what can I do about this?”
The waitress kept apologizing, and Chen Ge finally ran out of options and asked Ying Chen, “Older brother, can I go to your house to borrow some clothes? The next client has already made an appointment, and it’s not appropriate for me to go over like this.”
Ying Chen hesitated before agreeing, “No problem.”
The two settled the bill and entered the neighborhood next to them, this place was very close to the old city and the location was relatively remote, basically no one could be seen in the neighborhood.