Chapter 514 - He Arrived (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“Stay close to the wall and away from the rails. Be careful of your step.” Captain Yan found Room 104 and entered it. The biggest difference about this room was that there was plenty of old furniture inside, and the wall had many children’s drawings.

“It feels like a family of three once lived here.” Chen Ge followed behind Captain Yan. With his Yin Yang Vision, he did not need the flashlight and started wandering about the room. “What is this?”

Beside the wooden table, which was missing a leg, there were many dried apples, and there was one under the table that had a bite mark on it. “The tenant here must have loved apples.”

Chen Ge used a piece of paper to pick one up. The apple had gone rotten, and seeing this, he was suddenly reminded of the apple that he had seen inside the underground morgue. Apples seem to have a special meaning to dead people. If I have time, I should consult the few doctors.

“Look at this!” Tian Lei, who had been silent, suddenly opened his lips. He shone the flashlight on the left wall of the living room. The cracked wall had a weird painting on it. Two adults and a girl were talking, and not far away from them was a boy drawing.

“These two adults should be the parents, and that makes the girl their daughter. The boy was the one who painted on the wall.” Lee Zheng tried to analyze the painting. “So, it’s actually a family of four.”

“When we interviewed Jia Ming, didn’t he say that they didn’t want kids because of Huang Ling’s physical condition?” Tian Lei raised his brow. “Did this man find a mistress, or was he lying to us?”

“He definitely lied to us, but he probably wasn’t lying when it comes to the issue of children.” Captain Yan walked out from the kitchen. “The house isn’t completed. It wasn’t Jia Ming and Huang Ling who lived here, and the kids probably had nothing to do with them.”

“Are they homeless children?” Lee Zheng stood next to the window and looked out. “But why would they choose this room? The building does not have elevator—wouldn’t it be easier to stand on the ground floor?”

“The answer is probably hidden in this room.” Chen Ge tilted his head back to look at the ceiling, and he did not look away. The three officers saw that and also looked up. On the ceiling of Room 104, someone had used a sharp stone to carve out four human faces. They were placed at all four cardinal directions. They surrounded a girl in the middle, and the four faces bit on her limbs. “What is this painting trying to represent? It doesn’t look like a children’s painting.”

The faces of the two adults had the names Jiang Long and Zhang Chuyu. The two children’s faces had the names Jiang Bai and Jiang Xiaohu. “Jiang Long? Isn’t that the name of the investor who jumped from the building? Why would his name be here?”

“This looks like the name of his family.” Tian Lei thought about it and said, “This was probably the owner venting their frustration on Jiang Long. After all, he is the developer.”

“As angry as people can be, they would not vent on a dead person. Furthermore, in this picture, it is Jiang Long who bites someone else.” Captain Yan looked at the painting. “The handwriting looks young, like it’s written by a child. But a child wouldn’t have reached the ceiling, and there are no stools in the room.”

The three officers were thinking of various possibilities while Chen Ge entered the bedroom alone. He had to control his expression. Only he knew that Jia Ming had been taken over by Jiang Long, and the discovery of Jiang Long family’s name in this room only heightened that suspicion. Jiang Long had taken over Jia Ming’s body for this Room 104.

But what is so different from this room? Chen Ge looked for a long time but found nothing. He stood up and looked out the window. Standing there, he could see the buildings in the distance.

Li Wan City?