Chapter 1056 - Shrill Cat’s Call [2 in 1] (2/2)

Grabbing his backpack tightly, Chen Ge’s hands searched along the wall until he found the frame of the door, “We will go inside and talk. Just give me three minutes. That is all I need!”

Then, without waiting for the middle-aged man to respond, Chen Ge stepped over the threshold and entered his house.

“Hey, who said that you can come in here?”

“Quickly, close to the door!” Chen Ge was unable to see anything. All he could hear was the horrible screeching from the cats. However, it appeared that he was the only person who could hear them.

“What are you trying to do? Who are you?” The middle-aged man moved very slowly and sluggishly. The cats called like they were being slaughtered. It was spine-tingling to hear them. Chen Ge followed the sound and gripped the middle-aged man by his elbow and dragged him into the room. “Close the door!”

The door clicked shut. Chen Ge signaled for the middle-aged man to stay quiet. Even then, the cats did not stop meowing. If anything, the calls had become shriller and sharper. Ying Chen appeared to have heard the door close, and he was heading their way!

“You…”

“If you do not want to die, don’t say anything!” Chen Ge squeezed the command out through gritted teeth, and that finally managed to shut the middle-aged man up. Chen Ge stood frozen at the door, but the middle-aged man had wandered away from him. He seemed to have walked into the living room. The sound of footsteps exposed the presence of someone inside the house, but it was not the time for Chen Ge to worry about that.

The sharp and painful screams of the cats drilled into his ears. It was impossible to determine their location. It was as if Ying Chen was standing right before Chen Ge. The latter did not dare breathe too loudly. All he could do now was wait because Ying Chen was probably standing just outside the door. Between him and Ying Chen, there was only a door in the way. Chen Ge clamped his hands over his lips, thinking, Ying Chen knows that someone entered his house, but he does not know that the intruder was me. If I see this from his perspective, there is a good chance that he might mistake the intruder as the owner of this house. With Ying Chen’s personality, he might just decide to kill this middle-aged man.

Assuming the middle-aged man only shares a normal neighborly relationship with Ying Chen, if Ying Chen wants to kill the middle-aged man, that will place me and the middle-aged man in the same boat. So, what I need to do now is wait for Ying Chen to leave and then test the middle-aged man by slowly revealing the truth to him and seeing how he reacts.

The cats kept on meowing for a full minute before they stopped, which meant that Ying Chen had probably left. Wiping away the cold sweat from his forehead and the blood stain from the corner of his eyes, Chen Ge turned around and called into the room, “Brother, are you still there?”

Ying Chen probably went home to grab some equipment before returning to kill the middle-aged man. This was an apartment, so a brutal killing would attract too much attention. Chen Ge believed that Ying Chen would start with some kind of drug, and after the middle-aged man fell unconscious, Ying Chen would make his move. The horrible stench assaulted his nostrils, but at that moment, Chen Ge did not care that much about it. In his mind, as long as the place did not stink of death, it was already better than most places.

“Brother, I know it was rude of me to suddenly barge into your home, but I hope that you will listen to my side of the story.” Chen Ge took a deep breath. He knew that once he said those things, the situation might turn even more complicated because he would be introducing even more extenuating factors into the situation. “There are two siblings living on the seventh floor. The younger brother is blind, and the elder brother likes to adopt stray cats. Do you have any impression of them?”

There was no sound that came from the room. It was as if the middle-aged man had disappeared into thin air.

“When I passed by his house this afternoon, I noticed the door to their house was not closed. After I entered it, I discovered a dead body hidden under the elder brother’s bed. He is a murderer!”

After Chen Ge dropped that bomb, there was finally a reaction from inside the room. The middle-aged man’s voice came from a corner of the living room. “Impossible, I know that man. His name is Ying Chen. He is a naïve and innocent person. He can always be found doing things that are not worthwhile if you ask my honest opinion, like volunteering to take care of the building’s surrounding garden and taking in those stray cats.”

“Naïve and innocent? Is that how you see Ying Chen?”

“Yes, you cannot find a kinder, more naïve person in this world. Based on what he told me, he just wants to do more good things in the world to gather some good karma in the hopes that his good deeds will touch the heavens above to help recover his younger brother’s sight. Tell me, if that is not naivete, what is?”

The middle-aged man did not believe Chen Ge at all. From his point of view, the term murderer could not be linked to Ying Chen.

“Never judge a book by its cover. What you are shown is a front that he has put a lot of effort into. It is all part of his disguise.” Chen Ge did not expect that when he had placed the truth so openly before the man, the man would still think that he was joking.

“I do not understand why you are saying things like, but if you are not lying, let me gather some of the neighbors, and we will all go together to his house to look.”

“That is a definite no.” Chen Ge did not wish to expose his existence. Once Ying Chen had him in his crosshairs, he would be exceptionally vulnerable considering the fact that he was unable to see anything at the moment.

“Actually, what are you doing here?” The middle-aged man grabbed Chen Ge by his hair. “And why are you keeping your eyes closed? Is there a medical problem with your eyes?”

“I am not lying to you. Ying Chen has killed someone, and there is probably more than one victim. He is a madman.”

“If there is someone that is mad, it is you. You are blind, so how did you see the dead body in his room?” The middle-aged man started to believe that Chen Ge was lying to him. After all, Ying Chen was a neighbor whom he had known quite some time, and Chen Ge was a stranger whom he had just met that day.

“I touched it with my hands. The dead body was strapped under his bed. It was a headless body!”

“You touched a dead body with your hands? That sounds quite unbelievable.” The middle-aged man pulled harder. He was not welcoming to Chen Ge. He dragged Chen Ge by his hair to the front door. “Compared to a suspected murderer, I feel in more danger around someone like you who sneaks into other people’s homes without their permission.”

His hair was yanked out from his scalp. Chen Ge felt pain jolt through his body. In response, Chen Ge grabbed the middle-aged man’s arm. He wanted to fling the man’s arm away, but when his finger touched the middle-aged man’s skin, his expression changed. The middle-aged man’s body was devoid of any body warmth, and more importantly, there were bumps on the man’s skin along with something that felt like muscular lividity.

Livor mortis? This medical term appeared in Chen Ge’s mind, and he instantly let go. This uncle is dead?

“Get out of my house now. If I see you around loitering around the area, there will be consequences. Do you understand me?” Chen Ge was hauled out of the room by the middle-aged man. Standing in the corridor, a chill crawled all over his heart.

“In Ying Tong’s memory, the middle-aged man appeared in the form of a dead person. That means that he is probably already dead in real life. What is the reason behind his death? Was it because he had discovered Ying Chen’s secret? Or had Ying Tong once told him something, but he did not believe him, and that caused Ying Chen to place a target on his back?”

Many things behind the door were connected. Chen Ge stood for a while at the door when suddenly he heard the old elevator moving. At the same time, the cats started to meow again.

“Ying Chen is coming this way in the elevator.”