Chapter 510 - Ming Yang Residence [2 in 1] (2/2)

After Jia Ming said that, he silently looked around the room and added, “What happened to them last night, you should ask the taxi driver and the creep called Chen Ge. They were together last night.”

Jia Ming was very familiar with his wife’s condition. After Huang Ling stopped struggling, he picked up a candy from the table and placed it in Huang Ling’s mouth. Weirdly enough, once the candy entered the woman’s mouth, Huang Ling calmed down almost immediately.

“She likes candy?” Captain Yan and Chen Ge noticed this detail, and they were both instantly reminded of Ma Fu, whom they just met at the prison. When Ma Fu was acting up, only by feeding him candy would he be able to calm down.

“But the candy is not medicine, right? Why would it have this calming property?” Captain Yan was confused, but Chen Ge next to him had a brief idea already. Ma Fu was able to calm down after eating the sweets because several children’s souls had entered his body. The children seemed to be interested in the candy. Following that vein of thought, Huang Ling’s body might be playing host to one or several ‘children’.

“It’s just a very normal candy. If you don’t believe me, you can take a few to conduct tests on it.” Jia Ming then picked up the bag of candy and gave it to Captain Yan. Captain Yan did not accept it but reached out to pick out one candy. “One is enough. Thank you.”

Huang Ling finally settled down. Captain Yan did not have any questions for her anymore. He had Lee Zheng help her back to the bedroom to rest. He and Tian Lei asked Jia Ming a few more questions. They only prepared to leave around 11 pm.

“Thank you for your cooperation. We will definitely uncover the truth.” Captain Yan walked at the front. After the other officers left the room, Chen Ge only moved away his gaze that had been staring at the bedroom door. Now, only Jia Ming and Chen Ge remained in the room, and the room temperature was drastically dropping.

“My friend, how can I help you? Do you have any question you want to ask?”

“It’s nothing. It’s not simple for you to take care of a mentally-unstable woman by yourself.” Chen Fe tapped Jia Ming’s shoulders lightly. He did not say anything else and headed out the door. After they were downstairs, Lee Zheng took out his phone and silently walked near to Captain Yan. “When I sent Huang Ling back into the bedroom, I snapped a few pictures of the interior. There doesn’t seem to be any problems. This Jia Ming doesn’t have a motive to commit this crime.”

“Jia Ming is definitely related somehow to Huang Ling’s mental illness,” Captain Yan said firmly. “When Huang Ling was acting up earlier, Jia Ming was closest to her, but he just stood there, not doing anything. There were many similar details.”

“However, based on Tian Lei and his team’s investigation, all of the neighbors only had good thing to say about Jia Ming. They thought that he was a very good guy. Haven’t we looked through this man’s working history? No matter how you look at it, he is a good person. Why would someone like this torture his wife until she went crazy?” Lee Zheng had studied criminal psychology before. The change in human character has a process and symptoms. Jia Ming’s performance was different from the thing that was described in the books.

“Will a good person be good forever?” Captain Yan looked at the candy in his hand before opening the wrapping.

“But a good person will have a moral compass in their heart, and they will not do things that are too over the line.”

“That’s where you’re wrong. When a good person loses their moral compass, they will become even worse, falling into the endless abyss.” Captain Yan placed the candy inside his mouth and added an observation seemingly out of nowhere. “This is because he knows the candy is no longer sweet.”

Opening the door of the police car, Captain Yan gave Lee Zheng one final order. “Your team has done a very good job solving the case of the eye-gouging murderer. Team two can temporarily take over the rest of the case. I want you and your team to silently investigate the case of Jia Ming and Huang Ling.”

“Captain Yan, isn’t this case under the Eastern Jiujiang’s police station’s jurisdiction? Isn’t it a bit over the line if we go ahead and butt in?” He did not think that the case was small, but Lee Zheng said so because he was worried that the people from Eastern Jiujiang Police Station might have some comments.

“That is why I told you to carry out your investigation in the dark.” Captain Yan’s fingers tapped the edge of the car window, and his countenance slowly turned serious. “Keep your eyes open. I have a feeling this is related to a very big case.”

“It shouldn’t be. Eastern Jiujiang has always been peaceful.” Lee Zheng also turned serious. He knew that Captain Yan was not one to joke around. “It has been peaceful, yes, but now…”

Before Captain Yan could finish, the door opened, and Chen Ge, who had just gotten down the stairs, very expertly crawled into the police car. “Sorry I’m late.”

“It’s fine. Lee Zheng, we’ll go back to New Century Park to drop Chen Ge off first.” Lee Zheng and Captain Yan both stopped talking about the earlier topic.

“Thank you, do you mind driving faster?” Chen Ge said. He still had something else to do that night. After the police left, he had touched Jia Ming’s body. He wanted to use the ghost on his person to test out the enemy. However, after he laid his hand on Jia Ming, Chen Ge had realized that other than Zhang Ya in his shadow, he did not carry any other employees with him. He had left his backpack at the haunted house.

Chen Ge was unable to command Zhang Ya, and he was afraid that his action might alert Jia Ming, so he prepared to return to New Century Park to grab all of his equipment and turn back later, using the most direct method to get to the bottom of the truth.

The police car had not started when an old lady walked out from the stairs. The old lady walked slowly to the car and tapped lightly on the car window.

“How can I help you?” Captain Yan opened the car door and stepped out.

“Sir, my son bought me an apartment at Ming Yang Residence. It has been several years already since then, but I still am unable to move into that house. Can you ask around to find out when the place will be completed?” The old lady sounded so saddened that one was unable to say no.

“Ming Yang Residence? Okay, I will help you ask around. Please return to your room. It’s getting late, and the winds are strong.” Captain Yan walked the old lady back to her room and returned to the car. “Go and get Tian Lei. He should be more familiar with this place.”

Lee Zheng called behind him, and Tian Lei got out from his police car and raced to Captain Yan. “Captain Yan, are you looking for me?”

“How much do you know about Ming Yang Residence?”

Tian Lei shook his head. “The Ming Yang Residence project has been inactive for many years already. The tenants come and create trouble every year, and we have to send out our people to talk to them and tell them that we pity them. We know that most of them have used all of the saving to buy this place, but this is something that can’t be helped.”

“Something that can’t be helped?” Captain Yan raised his head.

“There have been three investors. The first one died from illness, the second one got into a car accident when the place was half-built, and the third one decided to commit suicide by jumping off the half-finished building in the middle of the night. Rumors started flying around that the place is cursed, so no one dares to take over anymore.”

“All three investors met a bad end; this shouldn’t be a coincidence.” Captain Yan thought about it and told Lee Zheng, “When we get back, go and pull all the records on Ming Yang Residence.”

“Okay.” Lee Zheng gave an okay sign.

“Captain Yan, I suggest you stay away from this. That Ming Yang Residence is a hot mess; anyone who gets too close to it will be unlucky.” Tian Lei seemed to have experienced that himself.

“Also, you. I need a file from you as well.” Captain Yan raised the car window and ignored Tian Lei, who stood next to the car with an unhappy face.

The car engine started. After they left the area, Captain Yan suddenly turned to look at Chen Ge and tossed out a random question. “Chen Ge, did you know Jia Ming before this?”

“No,” Chen Ge answered on reflex.

Captain Yan nodded, and his expression softened. “You’d better watch over yourself. I have a feeling that Jia Ming has a strange hostility against you. During the questioning, he kept coming up with ways to push the blame on you.”