Chapter 1080 – Are you afraid of something?

　　The neighbors’ emotions were all mobilized, everyone was worried about whether their secrets would be discovered, and everyone was thinking of catching the murderer who killed through the window earlier.

　　Chen Ge was satisfied with such a reaction from the crowd, and he was about to say something else when that middle-aged man who had hidden women’s underwear in his house suddenly spoke up again.

　　”Wait, I don’t object to us going from room to room to search for the murderer, but I think it’s better to ask the landlord first just to be on the safe side.” The middle-aged man had met Chen Ge before, he knew that Chen Ge had spoken to Wu You, and had never been too trusting of Chen Ge.

　　”No problem, we’ll go find the landlord now.” Chen Ge directly blocked the middle-aged man’s mouth, he didn’t want to dwell on meaningless issues to avoid accidents, “Everyone, hurry up, we’ll catch that murderer earlier, we might be able to save one more life.”

　　The incident happened suddenly, Chen Ge didn’t give the neighbors much time to think, and directly dragged Wen Qing and Qu Win into the building.

　　Although he was the one taking the initiative now, as long as the neighbors calmed down, his situation would still become very dangerous.

　　He could only guarantee his own safety by utilizing this period of time to divide the residents within the entire building as soon as possible.

　　”Qu Win, why do you think the murderer is targeting your family? Who has your family been feuding with recently? Why does he want to exterminate your entire family?” In order to guide the neighbors’ thinking direction, Chen Ge took the initiative to start asking Qu Win, of course the questions he asked were all related to the murder, and at first glance they were all still very crucial, pointing straight to the core of the case.

　　Qu Win didn’t know why the “murderer” would exterminate his own family, but in order not to reveal himself as the murderer, he had to play along with Chen Ge at this time.

　　After thinking hard, Qu Win shook his head, “I don’t know why the murderer wanted to kill my family, our family is very low profile, we have never offended anyone.”

　　”Think more carefully, do you normally have any conflicts with the residents in the building?” Chen Ge was unforgiving, obviously throwing all the difficult questions to Qu Win in order to save himself.

　　He was forcing a murderer to think about his reasons for killing himself.

　　If Qu Win couldn’t think of an answer or name a random person, then the other person would become a key suspect.

　　If it was in another neighborhood, it wouldn’t be a big deal even if he became a key suspect, but it was completely different here.

　　Almost no one in this neighborhood is “clean”, everyone has a secret to hide.

　　In other words, everyone here can’t afford to be investigated or exposed. Normally, it doesn’t matter what they want to do behind closed doors, but at a time like this, the secrets hidden in their hearts will become the noose that kills them.

　　”I really can’t think of anything.” Qu Win didn’t want to be used by Chen Ge, and those neighbors around him who had secrets hidden in their hearts were also very sensible and didn’t say anything.

　　They all knew very well that the wisest choice at this time was to shut up, as talking nonsense would probably lead to a fire.

　　”I remember a few nights ago, when you and your dad had a fight, a lot of neighbors resented your loud voices, and then an uncle on the fifth floor even went to warn you specifically. By the way, it seems that the electrician on the eighth floor also had a conflict with your dad, it seems that because of the wiring problem, they also fought in the hallway, and at that time, that electrician also threatened your dad …… “Xiao Sun is genuinely wanting to catch the murderer, and he casually named a few names:” What’s going on? What are you all looking at me for? Am I wrong?”

　　Little Sun didn’t know what these neighbors looked like in private, he just said what he saw, which also proved that he should be one of the few “normal people”, and he wasn’t afraid of being investigated.

　　”These clues you’re talking about are so important! After we find the landlord, we’ll immediately go to these people’s homes to take a look!” Chen Ge appreciated Xiao Sun, it didn’t matter that Qu Win refused to cooperate, Xiao Sun helped Chen Ge tear a hole in the building among the tenants.

　　The few tenants mentioned by Xiao Sun just now would be the first victims, Xiao Sun did a good job, but his own situation became very dangerous as a result.

　　The residential building had ten floors, the landlord lived alone on the ninth floor, the tenth floor was unoccupied and all the rooms were locked.

　　The people came together to room 901, Qu Win knocked on the door several times but no one responded.

　　”The landlord might not be in the house, let’s go somewhere else first.”

　　”Wait!” Chen Ge grabbed Qu Win’s arm, “A tenant was killed in the building, making such a big commotion, the landlord didn’t even react at all, do you guys think this is normal?”

　　”It’s not normal, I guess the landlord should not be in the building, he might have gone to other places in the neighborhood. The landlords of these buildings, regularly have a rendezvous, maybe the landlord is now inside the other buildings.”

　　”A rendezvous?” Chen Ge discovered another important piece of information from Qu Win’s words.

　　”They will gather together and talk about rent, neighborhood environment, and so on.”

　　”What you said also makes sense, but you’ve overlooked a very important point.” Chen Ge’s speech slowed down, “I’ve been to the first floor and saw that the door to the building was locked, and that lock was locked from inside the building!”

　　”But what does that tell us?”

　　”Only the landlord has the key to the hallway lock, and the lock was locked from the inside of the building, which means that the landlord must still be in the building right now!” Chen Ge’s logic was impeccable, and his words made all the neighbors realize a very serious problem with a jolt!

　　”The landlord is still inside the building, but he didn’t react at all to a murder in the building, so I suspect that he has been killed.”

　　The landlord’s murder and Qu Gui’s murder were completely different in nature, as the landlord might have spare keys to all the doors in the building.

　　Now even Qu Win’s face became very ugly, the development of things had gone beyond his imagination.

　　”It doesn’t matter if you guys don’t believe me, let’s break the door locks and go in to take a look.” Chen Ge carried his backpack and swept a glance at the security door, he didn’t want to take out his skull crushing hammer at this time, “Do you have any tools at home? Still, human life is at stake, we are forced to do this. If nothing had happened to the landlord, he would have understood us.”

　　”My house is under renovation, there is a whole set of tools, you guys wait for a moment, I’ll go fetch them right now.” Aunt Ding was the first to speak up, her tone was urgent, it sounded like she was preparing to go back to fetch the tools, but in reality she probably wanted to go back to do something else, this was just an excuse.

　　”I have the tools to open the lock, I’ll go home and look for them.” A few more tenants left, Chen Ge knew what they wanted to do, but he didn’t stop them.

　　It wasn’t difficult to get rid of the “secret” of one’s room in a very short period of time, but it was difficult not to leave any clues behind.

　　A few minutes later, the neighbors came back one after another, holding a variety of tools in their hands.

　　It took nearly half an hour for all of them to open the security door of 901.

　　”What a pain in the ass, it’d be nice if they were all wooden doors.” Chen Ge pushed Qu Win into the house first, and Qu Win was outraged.

　　”The house is very neat, there are no traces of fighting or blood, it seems like we were overthinking it.” Qu Win walked at the front, he should be entering the landlord’s house for the first time, he looked a bit formal, not daring to mess with the things inside the house.

　　”You seem to be afraid of the landlord?” Chen Ge followed Qu Win like a ghost, his voice drifting into Qu Win’s ears.

　　”No such thing, don’t talk nonsense.”

　　”Is that so?” Chen Ge sized up Qu Win, he realized that the landlord had a very strong position in the hearts of the tenants in the building, and Qu Win’s current abnormal behavior was a good proof of that.

　　Without continuing to dwell on this issue, Chen Ge searched this room with his neighbors, they pushed open the doors of the rooms in the house, and finally all of them stopped at the bathroom.

　　Pulling back the shower curtain, there was no shower or bathtub installed in it, but a very small sized television set.

　　Chen Ge tried to press the TV switch, and the TV started up normally, but there were only black and white snowflakes in the screen.

　　”How could there be a TV in the bathroom?” Qu Win couldn’t figure it out.

　　”What’s playing on this TV should be something unseen.” Chen Ge looked at the surroundings, there were no windows in the bathroom, closing the bathroom door and pulling the shower curtain, it was a completely enclosed space, and people outside had no idea what the landlord was doing inside.

　　Moving the TV, Chen Ge found a large diagram of lines behind the TV, he observed the lines and found that all the lines led upstairs.

　　The lines in rooms 901 and 1001 were connected to each other, and the landlord’s secret should be hidden in room 1001 on the tenth floor.

　　Chen Ge didn’t tell others about his discovery, he saw the problem from those lines, normal appliances didn’t need to go through such complicated lines, Chen Ge suspected that the landlord had installed surveillance in the building.

　　That landlord was just hiding in the bathroom, snooping madly into other people’s lives.

　　Chen Ge probably guessed the landlord’s secret, the question was where did the landlord go?

　　If the landlord had seen the monster from the cursed hospital from the surveillance, then he would definitely be prepared for it.

　　The one who killed the landlord was the monster from the cursed hospital?

　　But if they did it, after taking out the landlord, they would most likely have already obtained the key, and there was no need to strike a deal with Qu Win.

　　That was the key to the problem, the monsters from the cursed hospital probably went to look for the landlord as well, but they didn’t find him, so they retreated and found Qu Win, ready to join forces with the residents of the building step by step.

　　Chen Ge slowly rationalized everything, there should be someone in the building who knew that the landlord was snooping around, and in order not to expose their secrets, one of them, or several of them, took out the landlord together.

　　People who can know that there is a problem with the line and are good at walking the line ……

　　Chen Ge instantly thought of the electrician mentioned by Xiao Sun just now, the electrician lived on the eighth floor, very close to the ninth floor where the landlord lived, and his suspicion was very high.

　　”You guys look here!” Aunt Ding opened the closet in the landlord’s bedroom, she took the clothes away and found that there were a lot of nails on the inner wall of the wardrobe, and a room number was written above each nail, from room 101 all the way to room 1006.

　　”Hanging on the nails should be the key to each room, the landlord has hidden the keys to all the rooms!” It was as if Auntie Ding was deliberately telling others, she had a very surprised expression, but this surprised expression looked too contrived to Chen Ge.

　　Wide-eyed and open-mouthed, it was completely superficial and not animated at all.

　　After seeing the key, Chen Ge also subconsciously showed his surprise.

　　Chen Ge’s surprise was almost like he had mobilized his five senses to interpret it, pulling one hair to move the whole body, and his emotions were free to be put in and out.

　　What was surprise, this was surprise.

　　”It seems that the murderer has taken the keys to all the rooms, this is not good news for us.” Chen Ge quickly regained his composure, he knew that Aunt Ding was hiding some secrets, but he didn’t try to dismantle the other party.

　　”Then what should we do now? The murderer is lawless, killed my family, and has something to do with the landlord’s disappearance ……” Qu Win really didn’t expect things to develop like this, and he felt like he had been dragged into the middle of a big pit by Chen Ge.

　　The other tenants were also a little panicked, Qu Gui was killed they hadn’t created much of a sense of crisis, but now after the landlord may have also suffered a poisonous death, most of them began to feel uneasy, a strange emotion spreading among the tenants in the building.

　　”Let’s go to that electrician’s house on the eighth floor first, didn’t your father have a fight with him before?” Chen Ge and Qu Win were about to walk out of Room 901 when the middle-aged man whose house hid women’s underwear suddenly stood out.

　　He blocked the living room door, his eyes staring intently at Chen Ge.

　　”Is there something wrong with you?” Chen Ge’s expression didn’t change in any way, he was too strong inside, obviously standing among a group of perverted lunatics, but he behaved in such a way that people couldn’t pick out a single fault.

　　”The tenants in the building are very mobile though, there are often new people moving in and old people leaving quietly, but ……” the middle aged man walked up to Chen Ge, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before, are you a new mover Are you new here? If you’re new, then you should have met the landlord, and you should be the last person to see the landlord.”

　　”The last person to see the landlord was the murderer, not me.” Chen Ge pulled Wen Qing to his side: “There is a child living in 401 called Xiang Nuan, you should know that, right?”

　　Chen Ge’s brain raced as he spoke, he went through all the sets of sayings he had thought of before in his mind.

　　”I know, that kid lives alone in 401. his dad is dead, his mom is a vixen, she is adopted by other men and doesn’t live here, he occasionally leaves the neighborhood to find his mom.” The middle-aged man’s words made Wen Qing tremble with anger.

　　”My sister and I are the ones that Xiang Nuan’s mom hired to take care of Xiang Nuan, that kid was sick and had some brain problems, I’m the psychiatrist in charge of treating him, and my sister is in charge of taking care of him.” Chen Ge said a lot more about Xiang Nuan, only then did the middle-aged man slowly move aside.

　　”Looks like that kid’s mom found him a good father and doesn’t worry about money.” That middle-aged man’s gaze lingered on Wen Qing for a long time.

　　Chen Ge stood between the middle-aged man and Wen Qing, a smile still on his face, “You’ve been picking on me since just now, are you afraid of something?”