Chapter 1083 – Black Mist
Chen Ge wasn’t prepared to waste any more time with the residents of the building, he wanted a quick fix, which was why he had such a more aggressive proposal.
Once Dr. Lai and Auntie Ding slowed down and knew the truth, then they would definitely understand that this was all Chen Ge’s doing, and that the person who really needed to be gotten rid of was Chen Ge.
Dancing on the tip of a knife, Chen Ge was clear about his situation from the start, but he could only go about it this way.
He had to waste as many of those tenants in the building as possible before Dr. Lai, Auntie Ding, and the others reacted, until the other side couldn’t pose a threat to him even if they were united, then he could take over the building openly and honestly.
”Sister Ding, take a good rest in the house, close the doors and windows, and pay attention to safety, Big Head and I will go over to take a look.” Dr. Li was still expressionless, and Chen Ge couldn’t guess what he was thinking, but one thing was certain, Dr. Li was moved by Chen Ge’s proposal.
This was a good opportunity to clear their name, so they naturally wouldn’t miss it.
Seeing Dr. Li “bite the hook”, Chen Ge stood up and spoke towards Aunt Ding with great concern, “I’m not sure if the murderer of the landlord and the murderer of Qu Gui are the same person, so you must be careful when you stay home alone.”
”I’ll pay attention.” Aunt Ding didn’t hear the deeper meaning in Chen Ge’s words as she lay down on the sofa and put on a weak look.
”Let’s go, Sister Ding needs to rest.” Dr. Lai was the first to open the security door, and he whispered a few words in Big Head’s ear.
Chen Ge used his ghost ears and vaguely heard the words Promise.
His complexion remained unchanged, and he followed Dr. Lai out of the room unhurriedly.
Wheel of means and heart, Dr. Lai was also considered a relatively powerful person, it was just that he had belittled Chen Ge too much.
Perhaps he subconsciously thought of himself as a predator, brutalizing the weak and killing the small, murder after murder made him feel that his inner demons were extremely inflated, and ordinary people were just alternative prey in their eyes.
It was naturally great to be able to go with the flow and frame the crime on someone else, and if he really couldn’t, and couldn’t get rid of the blame, then he would just take out all the people who knew the secret.
This twisted mentality caused him to not take Chen Ge seriously, and in fact it wasn’t his fault, who would have thought that an outsider would be able to restore most of the truth in such a short period of time through all the clues.
Of course, as time went by, his suspicion of Chen Ge would deepen, and his desire to kill Chen Ge would grow stronger.
Auntie Ding lived on the fourth floor, and Big Head was Auntie Ding’s neighbor, and after Dr. Lai finished whispering to him, Big Head took an excuse to go back to his house.
Half a minute later, Big Head came out of his house, looking as usual.
”Sister Ding needs to rest, let her stay at home.” Chen Ge swept a glance at the crowd, “Is that big uncle on the third floor still not back?”
”Let’s go over to him directly, just to save time.” Dr. Li spoke directly, he himself didn’t even realize that every word Chen Ge said was as if he was being guided to do something.
He didn’t feel like he was being manipulated, he just felt that working with Chen Ge was quite comfortable, just like someone would always take the initiative to come over and hand him a pillow when he dozed off.
Several people came directly to the door of the middle-aged man on the third floor, Chen Ge knocked for half a day before the middle-aged man opened the door.
”I’m sorry, my stomach isn’t feeling too well and I went on a big trip. Let’s go, which household are we going to go to next?” The middle-aged man had beads of sweat hanging on his forehead, and he was still panting a bit when he spoke, he didn’t look much like he had just finished going to the restroom.
”We’re going to check one by one, since you opened the door, let’s start with your house first.” Dr. Li walked straight into the room without waiting for the middle-aged man to refuse, with Big Head following closely behind.
”It’s fine for you guys to line up, don’t break my things, I have a lot of treasures here.” The middle-aged man seemed to have already disposed of his “secrets”, he was not worried about what Dr. Li would find out.
Looking at the confident middle-aged man, Chen Ge shook his head, without secrets can also create secrets, and the person who creates secrets has nothing to do with himself, he is like a bystander at this time.
Several people all entered the rented house, the middle-aged man’s room was very messy, a large number of bottles and household garbage were thrown on the ground, and the cleanest place in the whole room was those beautiful posters on the wall.
”You put so many people’s portraits on the wall, aren’t you scared when you wake up at night?” Chen Ge’s state of search was very different from when he went to the electrician’s house, he kept staring at the posters on the wall, dragging the middle-aged man down and creating an opportunity for Dr. Lai and Big Head.
”Why would you be scared to wake up at night and see them? Isn’t that a happy thing?”
”What happiness can there be in just looking at posters?” Chen Ge swept a glance at the sofa and realized that the female underwear were still thrown haphazardly on the sofa.
The fact that the women’s underwear were not tidied up meant that the middle-aged man did not care about others seeing them, and that these women’s underwear were not considered his secret at all.
At first, Chen Ge thought that the middle-aged man was just a fetishist, but now he felt that things weren’t that simple, this lewd middle-aged man shouldn’t just be collecting underwear, he must have done something even more excessive.
”Hey! You guys come over here and look!” Dr. Lai’s voice came out from the middle-aged man’s bedroom, and everyone was attracted and crowded outside the bedroom.
Lifting the black cloth covering the closet, Dr. Lai opened the door to the cabinet, which was lined with various yellow videos and books with extremely large scale covers.
”This is all my personal collection, and I didn’t spread it maliciously, it’s not against the law, right?” The middle-aged man leaned against the door frame.
”Could you have recorded something else in these videos?”
”If you don’t believe me, you can take a look for yourself, but I’m afraid it would take months if you want to see so many works, right?”
The middle-aged man walked over and tried to close the closet door, but Dr. Lai grabbed his hand, “Open this locked box under the bed for us to take a look.”
”Don’t you guys go too far!”
”You don’t want to be wrongly accused of murder, do you? Open it and take a look, if it has nothing to do with the murder, we naturally won’t say anything more.” Dr. Li’s face was expressionless, his voice was cold, making people instinctively feel intimidated.
”Alright, I’ll cooperate with you, when I arrive at your house later, I’ll also properly search your room.” The middle-aged man carried out a meaningless threat as he took out the key from his pocket and opened the wooden box under the bed.
Inside the crate was a female body model, made so lifelike that from a distance it looked almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
”This is my wife, she has accompanied me for a long time.” The middle-aged man stood next to the wooden crate, he did not allow anyone to touch the model.
If it was an amateur who didn’t know anything about doll making, seeing this woman’s model would only marvel at how beautifully made it was, but unluckily, Chen Ge was a master doll maker.
He was familiar with all the materials used to make dolls, and there was no material that could make a doll’s skin so realistic, unless he was using human skin.
The mannequin in the box was different from the majority of mannequins on the market, split into dozens of parts, and all body parts could be removed and replaced by themselves.
Compared to a well-made mannequin, this mannequin was more like a body frame, where the face, hair, skin, and so on could all be replaced by oneself.
The middle-aged man displayed the mannequin in the box, he only allowed to see it, not to touch it, and there really wasn’t anything else in that box besides the mannequin, the tenants in the building didn’t interfere with the man’s personal fetishes.
”Finished looking, right? Can I lock the case now?” The middle-aged man was about to close the box when Big Head’s voice suddenly came from the bathroom.
”What’s this!”
Several people in the room ran out, and the middle-aged man re-locked the box without any panic, his expression relaxed as if he had survived a great calamity.
The middle-aged man was the last one to walk out of the bedroom, after he came to the living room, he realized that everyone was looking at him.
”What’s wrong with you guys?”
”You’re still asking us? Give an explanation.” Big Head spread out his palm, which held a badly worn tooth, “I found it in the sewer opening of your bathroom.”
”No way! There’s no way there’s this in my house!” The middle-aged man stared at the tooth in Big Head’s palm and suddenly developed an uneasy feeling.
”This was found in the bathroom of your house, you’d better give us a reason.” Big Head spoke in a thin voice, and with his somewhat deformed appearance, he looked very }human.
”I’ll say it again! There’s no way there’s this thing in my house!” The middle-aged man and the big head went toe-to-toe, refusing to back down, and seeing the atmosphere freeze, Chen Ge walked over.
”Don’t be anxious, finding a tooth isn’t a big deal, you play with doll assembly, is this tooth for a doll?”
”Dolls don’t need teeth for their mouths.” The middle-aged man explained to Chen Ge, a layman.
”So you just threw their teeth into the sewer? Is that mannequin really a mannequin?” Big Head took the opportunity to attack the middle-aged man again.
”What are you babbling about?” The middle-aged man glared at Big Head as he kept arguing, but no one bothered to listen to him seriously.
”The teeth alone don’t mean anything, all calm down.” Chen Ge looked at Big Head with a puzzled face, “Do you have any other findings besides the teeth?”
”Aren’t these teeth enough proof?” Big Head pointed at the sewer in the bathroom.
”These?” Everyone, including the middle-aged man, looked towards the sewer.
The tin drain was taken away, and several teeth fell from the corner of the pipe, and some of these teeth still had rotting flesh underneath.
”Why are there these things?” The middle-aged man noticed the unkind gazes of those around him, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead, “I really don’t know why there are so many teeth in the drain, it could be something from other people’s homes that fell through the pipe and into my house, you guys believe me!”
”The teeth all fell in the corners of the pipes, if it was something from someone else’s house then it would have been washed away directly down the main pipe.” Dr. Li’s voice came out from the other bedroom, his icy gaze fixed on the middle-aged man, “I advise all of you to better stay away from him, I’ve made a new discovery on my side.”
Dr. Lai raised a doll making tool book in his hand, which was densely packed with all the notes made by the middle-aged man, he flipped the book to a certain page, and from it, he took out a piece of paper filled with dried blood stains.
”What do you guys see here?”
Xiao Sun and Qu Win were the first to walk over, and after seeing the handwriting on the white paper, their expressions all changed.
”A promise?”
”I promise that I won’t put ……”
The entire piece of paper was all covered in blood, the writer was in a very poor state at the time, seemingly severely injured, and the few words that could be seen clearly were written crookedly, as if his fingers had been broken.
The content in the middle was completely unreadable, and everyone could only see the promise at the beginning and the landlord’s name at the end.
”Why do you have a promise signed by the landlord? What exactly did the landlord promise you?”
”How should I know? It’s not mine!” The middle-aged man had realized that something was wrong, two people had just died in the building, the murderer had not been caught, and items related to the murder appeared in his room, this was definitely someone setting him up.
A deep sense of fear wrapped him up, the middle-aged man leaned his back against the wall, his pupils trembled as he scanned everyone in the room: ”That thing was intentionally placed in my house by someone! It’s just like the teeth in the sewer! It was the work of a murderer! Someone is setting me up!”
”Why would the murderer go out of his way to frame you when so many of us were there?” Dr. Lai held the pledge in both hands to prevent the middle-aged man from doggedly snatching it.
”You guys believe me! This really isn’t mine!” The middle-aged man’s forehead broke out in sweat in a hurry, he was just thinking about hiding his secret before, he didn’t even think that someone would go and frame him.
”How about we control him first, this person is too dangerous.” Big Head looked around, “The bed at the electrician’s house where the body was tied up can be used to tie him up just right, there’s also an electrotherapy machine in that room, I don’t believe he’ll still be tough-talking when the time comes.”
”What do you guys think?” Dr. Lai looked to the other tenants.
Chen Ge seemed as if he was still immersed in the great shock, and he didn’t open his mouth.
Xiao Sun, on the other hand, shook his head, “What’s the difference between us doing this and the murderer? I think it’s better for everyone to talk it over in one room.”
”I agree with Big Head’s proposal, the person who killed the landlord might have the keys to all the rooms in this building, we must force the whereabouts of the keys before we can do anything! Otherwise we won’t be able to sleep well at night!” Qu Win and his girlfriend didn’t care if the middle-aged man was wrongly accused or not, nor would they care about the torture and pain the middle-aged man suffered, all they considered was their own interests.
”Me, Big Head, and this couple, the four of us agree to force the questioning, the minority obeys the majority, let’s do it!” Dr. Lai carefully put away the commitment, he, Big Head and Qu Win, the three of them surrounded the middle-aged man.
The situation was crisis, the middle-aged man knew that someone wanted him dead, wanted him to be the scapegoat.
”You guys listen to me! I really have nothing to do with the landlord’s death! If you guys don’t believe me, you can ask Wu You! That kid knows who the real murderer is! He once saw someone wandering outside the landlord’s door late at night!” The middle-aged man really panicked, he knew that most of the tenants in this building were abnormal, once they were tied to the wires, even if they weren’t the murderer they would still be tortured with only half a life left.
”Wu You likes to rely on lying to gain the attention of adults, this is what you said yourself, why have you changed your mind now? I realized that you as a person are also full of lies, but it doesn’t matter, I will make you open your mouth and tell the truth later.” Dr. Lai took a step forward, he didn’t need the middle-aged man to tell the truth, he only needed the middle-aged man to say what he wanted to hear, and if the middle-aged man couldn’t say it, then he would keep torturing until it did.
”Why do you keep forcing me?” The middle-aged man’s gaze hovered between Dr. Ri and Big Head: “The teeth were found by Big Head, and the promise was found by you ……”
The eyes changed violently and the middle-aged man suddenly shouted, “It’s you two who are harming me! Big Head has been your patient since he was a child! He was obedient to you! The two of you are the ones who really killed the landlord!”
The middle-aged man was hoarse as he shouted at Chen Ge and Wen Qing, the only ones who hadn’t taken a stand, “You guys believe me! I’m telling the truth! Those two are the murderers!”
At this moment, Chen Ge and Wen Qing were the middle-aged man’s only hope, and he had completely forgotten that just a short while ago, he had kept going after Chen Ge.
”I also want to believe you, but with the evidence in front of you, it’s best if you don’t resist.” Chen Ge raised his head, and his words became the last straw that overwhelmed the middle-aged man, “You’ve been influencing me to make a judgment since we found the dead man, can you tell me your reasons for doing that?”
”Cut the crap and catch him first.” Dr. Lai and Big Head rushed towards the middle-aged man at the same time, and that middle-aged man struggled desperately.
”You guys will regret this! All of you will be killed by the murderer!” Basically dead after being tied up with wires, and the building was already unsafe, the middle-aged man made a move that no one expected after shaking off Big Head and Dr. Lai.
He rushed to the side of the living room window and decisively opened it, and just as he was about to jump down, a mouth vaguely appeared amongst the black fog.
”Ah!” The middle-aged man let out a miserable scream, bright red blood spilled onto the window frame, and that mouth seemed to have bitten off his neck.
The black mist surged, the middle-aged man disappeared, and the few people in the room didn’t dare to approach the window.
”What was that thing just now?” Chen Ge had Yin pupils, and he had the best eyesight out of everyone, but even so he didn’t get a clear look at the exact appearance of that thing: “There’s a man-eating monster in the black mist?”