Chapter 24 (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Chen Ge looked through the sent dates of all the messages, and they were all one day apart and sent at midnight. This matched perfectly with what Wang Qi said, but it was also the detail that made Chen Ge shiver in terror.

How could a body frozen inside a wall send a message punctually every night?

Supernatural activity? If this was truly the work of a powerful specter, how was that group of tenants, who had disturbed the body, still alive?

Something is wrong. Chen Ge lined up all the clues, and a thought dawned upon him. The person who has been sending Wang Qi messages every night is the killer of his fiancé, as well as the real killer responsible for the arson years ago.

And I think I know that person is, Chen Ge thought, standing inside the wooden house. Wang Qi is thought a mad person by every tenant in the apartment, and the landlord chases him out every time he sees him. But more than that, he is the only person I saw tonight who isn’t a tenant at the apartment. In spite of that, he appears often enough within the vicinity of the apartment; this means that his actual place of accommodation must be very close to the apartment.

But the question is, when I was arguing with the landlord about the rental, he told me confidently that there is no other place to live within several thousand meters. In other words, Wang Qi couldn’t be living at another nearby apartment or hotel. In that case, this wooden house is probably where he lives when he’s not out spreading those notices.

If he’s the resident of this wooden house, then many things can be explained. The pitiable man who wanders about every day, asking about his missing fiancé, is probably his own fiancé’s killer!

Chen Ge had a hard time believing that he had chatted so amiably with a cold-blooded murderer and even attempted to share his sad history with the man. His swallowed deeply, and it was then that he felt fear. This madman must have been through some trauma to have the need to collect the dead woman’s clothes and even use the woman’s phone to message himself every night. Perhaps there’s another personality that lives inside his body that comes out to take over his body after he falls asleep.

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Chen Ge became. He looked through the phone to try to come up with more clues. This phone should be covered with his fingerprints, so it is an important piece of evidence; I have to take good care of it.

As Chen Ge looked at the screen, perhaps it was the nervousness or perhaps it was something else, he saw a girl’s figure appear on screen. She looked to be eighteen or nineteen and was wearing a blood-dyed school uniform.

He rubbed his eyes to attempt to take a closer look when he felt a chill run up the back of his neck like something was brushing its hand along it; this made Chen Ge jump and turn back to look!

The air in the wooden house froze, and Chen Ge’s heart almost jumped out of its cage when he saw what was behind him. The door of the wooden house had been opened silently, and standing about two meters behind him was Wang Qi with his eyes bloodshot, raising an axe slowly up in the air.

Time seemed to have stopped as the two men looked at each other, neither daring to move.

“So close…” Wang Qi’s voice was completely different from before; it seemed like the madness that was suppressed earlier had been unleashed. Chen Ge did not say anything in return, but his grip on the mallet tightened. He was feeling rather grateful toward the specter. If she had not shown up to warn him, his head would have been rolling on the floor.

“Such a waste.” Wang Qi took a step forward, and Chen Ge immediately held his mallet up in a guarded manner. “Relax, you’ve seen the stuff inside the phone?”

Chen Ge did not know what the madman was up to, so he did not dare let his guard down.