Chapter 83 - How Do I Complete This Mission? (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“For the sake of the child’s future recovery and your personal safety, please be careful.”

“I understand.”

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ge leaned against the toilet’s wall. His mind was a clotted mess. If the killer was not Fan Yu, then it had to be Fan Yu’s aunt. They were the prime suspects but also the victims’ closest family.

In any case, it is certain that Fan Yu’s aunt is hiding something from me. Something else must have happened that rainy night several years ago.

Their closest family turning into their killer, this was a mystery that stumped Chen Ge.

The crime scene was at Mu Yang High School, perhaps I can find some clues here.

Chen Ge reopened the livestream. The chat was still lagging, but at least the footage had gotten much clearer. After apologizing quickly to his viewers, Chen Ge walked out of the second-floor toilet with his mallet in hand. He stood at the door and waved his flashlight at the floor—there was not anything like footprints.

When I was hiding behind the toilet door earlier, I really did hear footsteps. They stopped before the toilet entrance, but the lack of footprints suggests that the owners of the footsteps are not living humans. Chen Ge glanced down the stairs. Last he heard, the sets of footsteps did head downstairs.

Chen Ge was unsure whether the footsteps belonged to the red shadow mentioned in the mission or not, but for the sake of safety, he decided to avoid it for now. Brandishing his flashlight, Chen Ge headed up to the third floor. However, when he was at the landing between second and third floor, the sound of footsteps reverberated in his ears again.

They seemed to be coming from the first floor. Two ‘people’ standing side by side were heading upstairs.

Have they discovered me? Chen Ge immediately switched off his flashlight, stuck his back to the wall, and stared closely at the mouth of the staircase.

The footsteps did not stop, and they walked onto the second floor.

It sounds like they’re heading into the second-floor toilet? Just as this thought crossed Chen Ge’s mind, the sound of cubicle doors being opened appeared beside his ears.

The cubicle doors were opened one after another, six times. They seemed to be checking the toilet cubicles. Chen Ge leaned closer to the railing and tried to poke his head out to take a closer look at the situation on the second floor.

After the cubicle doors stopped moving so did the footsteps. It appeared like everything Chen Ge had heard earlier was part of his imagination. He waited for five minutes on the stairs but could not hear any weird sounds coming from the second-floor toilet anymore.

The lack of footsteps means that the walking spirits are now inside the toilet. They’re probably hiding in one of the cubicles, waiting to ambush me. Chen Ge might have a powerful heart, but it did not mean that he had no fear. A surprise from inside the toilet cubicle would probably scare him quite a bit.

Since the spirit is now hiding inside the second-floor toilet, it’s the perfect opportunity for me to check out the third floor. Chen Ge did not turn on his flashlight. Thanks to the Yin Yang Vision, the reward he had received from completing a Nightmare Mission, even though it was not as magical as described by the black phone, it did greatly improve his sight, enabling him to see better than most at night.

In the darkened night, thunder flashed occasionally across the sky, giving Chen Ge a temporary glimpse of his surroundings. It created an eerie atmosphere. He feared that one of the lightning flashes might enable him to see things that he did not want to.