Chapter 365 - Raincoat (2/2)
Collapsing to the ground, Chen Ge was still worried about Gao Ru Xue. He dragged her to the sofa. “You’re fine now. Get some rest, I’ll go call Doctor Gao.”
Ten minutes later, the lights in the room came on, and there were footsteps coming from the corridor. Chen Ge raised his head to see Doctor Gao, who looked different from his normal image. His usual confidence and maturity were gone. Gasping for air, his eyes were filled with concern.
“Xiao Xue.” Kneeling by the sofa, Doctor Gao grabbed Gao Ru Xue’s hands, and the girl finally showed her vulnerable side. Silently putting the hammer back into his backpack, Chen Ge picked up the phone that Gao Ru Xue had dropped and walked out the door alone.
It was not over yet. He had to get that phone spirit no matter what!
Specters that are not Red Specter cannot expose themselves too long outside in the world; they have to attach themselves to something. That phone spirit won’t have gotten far.
Chen Ge did not chase blindly. His mind was clear. When I entered building, the elevator did not budge from the thirteenth floor. At the time, the phone spirit was on Gao Ru Xue’s head, suppressing her senses, so the one inside the elevator has to be another person or a ghost.
Someone was controlling the phone spirit, and said person should have been the one stopping the elevator from moving.
If the plan was to lure Gao Ru Xue away, there was no need to do this because he has no reason to kill Gao Ru Xue. After the plan failed, the best solution is to escape—doing more than that will only expose himself. So, why did he change the plan to kill Gao Ru Xue?
There were many different answers in Chen Ge’s mind, but there was only one that was most possible—Gao Ru Xue had accidentally seen the killer. To not let any witnesses survive, the person changed his intention to kill Gao Ru Xue.
The person behind the phone spirit lured me out of New Century Park and then lured Gao Ru Xue home. The culprit should be from the ghost stories society. Chen Ge leaned against the wall and looked out the window. All the clues started to line up. After tonight, they should only be the only member left.
Chen Ge returned to the room and had Doctor Gao pull up the surveillance of the thirteenth floor. He squatted down beside the sofa and asked, after Doctor Gao left, “Did you run into anyone weird on the way home?”
“Weird people?” Gao Ru Xue thought about it. “The driver who drove me home was weird. He kept telling me about those murders.”
“Who else other than him?” Gao Ru Xue had been influenced by the phone spirit, so she would have thought the worst of everyone.
After some thought, Gao Ru Xue suddenly said, “When I wanted to take the elevator earlier, someone wearing an extra-large raincoat was leaving the elevator. I bumped into him.”
“Raincoat?” Chen Ge was interested. “Did you managed to see his face?”
“No, the person was completely hidden inside the raincoat.” Gao Ru Xue hesitated before saying, “After he left the elevator, for some reason, I felt fearful of the elevator. I was afraid I might get trapped inside, so I took the stairs, but when I reached the sixth floor, the safety door on the first floor was pushed open, and someone began to chase me.”