Chapter 644 - Following the Guide (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Xiao Bu stayed at a normal apartment; her stepfather did not appear to be that well-off.

“Shall we knock?” Standing in the corridor, Chen Ge held the murderer that he had caught from the bush and wondered aloud. “This is after all Xiao Bu’s place, so it doesn’t seem right for me to break the door down.”

Chen Ge tried the doorknob, and to his surprise, the door was not locked. As the lock clicked, the door was pushed open. A faded stench drifted out from inside the room. Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, and his pupils constricted, a sign that he was using Yin Yang Vision.

Coffee table, sofa, television cupboard… All the furniture looked normal—there was nothing unique about them.

“Someone has died here; you’d better not go in.” His hands tied behind his back, the murderer uttered with his head lowered. He looked like he was talking to himself.

“How do you know that? Did you kill the person living here?” Chen Ge pushed the murderer from behind and entered the room with him.

“There is the smell of dead here; it is unmistakable.” The gray spots on his skin creased together as the man’s nostrils wiggled. He turned to look at the bedroom. “The smell came from that room; the victim should have been dead for a long time already.”

The ruffled hair covered the man’s face, and he kept his voice low. Instead of saying he was guiding Chen Ge, it was more like he was trying to make use of Chen Ge’s curiosity to create a chance for himself to escape.

“Inside the bedroom?” The only possible victim there could have been Xiao Bu’s stepfather, but when Chen Ge was playing Xiao Bu’s game, Xiao Bu’s stepfather died in the living room and not the bedroom.

The location of the dead body has changed. Has someone else been inside this room? Was it the raincoat man or Xiao Bu herself?

Chen Ge opened the bedroom door and peered inside. All the books on the shelves were arranged neatly, there was no trash on the ground, and several abstract paintings hung on the wall. There was no dust on the frame, and it appeared like this place was regularly cleaned.

The thing that appeared out of place was the wooden bed. Strangely enough, the bed had been moved away from the walls so that it sat perfectly in the middle of the room. A thick, comfortable bedsheet was spread on the mattress, and on top of it lay a middle-aged man.

“Xiao Bu’s stepfather?” Chen Ge walked to the bed, and when he saw the man at a closer distance, his fingers gripped the hammer involuntarily. A large part of the man’s skin had been replaced by cloth. He looked like an abandoned rag doll that had been roughly sewn.

In Xiao Bu’s game, such a choice was given. It was to sew the stepfather’s wounds together, to transform him into a doll.

Seeing the man before him, Chen Ge finally understood that when faced with the choice, Xiao Bu had chosen not to ignore her stepfather and figured out a way to make sure that he would stay by her side forever.

Such a cruel method of body preservation.

The murderer got closer to take a look as well. There was excitement dancing in his eyes as he admired the sewn skin on the middle-aged man’s body. “This man should be the most precious piece of art in this room. The person who created him must be a complete maniac!”

The murderer led to an unhinged laugh. He did not stop until there was a knocking sound that came from the wall adjacent to the neighbor’s home.

“Your assessment is wrong.” Chen Ge pointed at the edge where the skin connected to cloth. There was gray color on the edge of the skin. “The killer probably removed all the gray skin from the man’s body. She was trying to figure out a way to rescue this man, or rather, she did not want this man to turn into a monster like you.”

“Monster?” The murderer started to laugh wickedly. “It wouldn’t take long for you to turn into a monster that you’ve mentioned. Despair has already taken root inside your heart, and when the mind of a heavily determined person breaks, they will turn into the craziest spectacle!”

He was like a ready cobra. After he recovered his strength, he was ready to retaliate against Chen Ge.

“You should spend more time worrying about yourself, because if I really go insane, my first target will be you. I will use this hammer and whack it endlessly on your fleshy body until I feel better.” Chen Ge was just saying that to scare him, but the murderer took his words at face value because he really thought that Chen Ge would do something like that.