Chapter 1078 - Who Is the Killer? (2in1) (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Wen Qing took a careful look at the two people in the room, and she felt a headache coming. They were in such a strange and creepy place, but neither Chen Ge nor Uncle Huang seemed to notice that. She did not know whether she was overacting because she had too little experience or these two’s understanding of the world had gone far beyond the conceptualization of a normal person. After much hesitation, Wen Qing finally walked into the room. But she did not dare sleep, she merely stood behind Chen Ge.

1Uncle Huang practically collapsed on the couch. He looked like he paid Chen Ge no mind at all and slowly closed his eyes. His body appeared to have grown attached to the sofa, and that was not a figure of speech. The blood vessels from the couch entangled around him, joining Uncle Huang to the couch. With no disturbance, Chen Ge made use of this rare opportunity to assess his surroundings. The layout of this room was rather different from the other rooms they had encountered. It was much smaller than a normal room. The kitchen and the toilet occupied the same space, and there was only one bedroom and one living room.

“Compared to Wen Qing’s home, this place is missing a bedroom and a kitchen.” Chen Ge suspected that the source of the stench came from the missing rooms. He sat for some time on the couch and even took some time to examine the blood vessels on the couch. Strangely enough, when Chen Ge sat on the couch, the blood vessels looked like red streaks of decoration, but when Uncle Huang occupied the couch, the blood vessels came to life like little snakes. They gyrated on the stained couch, looking quite scary while they were at it.

“The blood vessels inside under the stain inside this room can only recognize Uncle Huang. They will only show their true form when they are around Uncle Huang.” Chen Ge did not quite understand the relationship between the blood vessels and Uncle Huang, so the only thing to do was to ask the old man about it, but Uncle Huang appeared to be asleep. The wrinkles on his face were closely folded together. He had not said a single word since he dropped down on the couch, and his body was slowly sinking into the couch.

“Chen Ge, I do not think Uncle Huang will be able to help us in his state.” Wen Qing was feeling quite disappointed. Before she arrived, she had very high hopes for Uncle Huang, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

“Earlier, you told me that it was his boss who rented this room for Uncle Huang, correct?”

“Yes, what about it?”

“Then, between you and him, who moved into this residential area first?” Chen Ge asked.

“When Xiang Nuan and I moved here, Uncle Huang had been staying here for a while already. His boss was quite a nice person. He knew that Uncle Huang had no place to go in the city, so he rented this room to him for a very low price.”

“Uncle Huang got into an accident at work. Do you know how much his boss compensated him for his injury?”

“I’m not sure. I never thought to ask Uncle Huang about it. After all, that was his private business.” Wen Qing was quite confused about why Chen Ge was asking her about these things.

“Have you noticed that only this room’s layout is different from the other rooms in this apartment. This place is missing both a kitchen and a bedroom…” Chen Ge paced around the room. His fingers glided down the wall before they stopped at the wall that was right next to the main bedroom. “Based on the layout of your own home, there should be a door here that leads to the guest bedroom.”

His fingers dug into the wall, and they came back with some black and red stains in his fingernails. “The surface is coated with a layer of white paint, but underneath it was all this black and red stuff.”

The reason Chen Ge could discover this was due to the stench, the stench that apparently he alone was able to smell. From the moment he entered Uncle Huang’s room, he had been trying to search for the source of the smell, but he had failed to find it. It was not inside any of the open rooms. After some analysis, he had gone to the spot where the smell was thickest. “The smell is leaking out through this particular wall.”

Chen Ge turned back to look. Uncle Huang was still curled up on the couch. It was as if no matter what Chen Ge did, it would not rouse Uncle Huang. “There is a hidden room here, and the smell in this place originates from that place.”

His fingers kept working. The paint on the wall was loose from the moisture. There was no cement or bricks behind the paint. Instead, the wall was made up of the unknown black and red building material.

Half of Chen Ge’s finger had already dug into the wall. The sense of touch that came from his fingertip changed. It felt like he had touched a thin layer of blood vessels. Pulling back his finger, Chen Ge used his Yin Yang Vision and looked through the hole. What he saw was a maze that was made of the thing that looked like blood capillaries. Between the gaps in the ‘blood vessel’, Chen Ge spotted an eye looking back at him.

“Is there a dead body on the other side of the wall?”

Opening his backpack, Chen Ge silently took out Doctor Skull Cracker’s hammer.

“What are you doing‽”

“I am going to break down this wall.”

“We’ve been in here less than five minutes, and the owner of this place is still sleeping.”

“Hence, this is the perfect time for us to make our move.”

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Wen Qing felt that Chen Ge was being irrational. What Chen Ge intended to do would definitely anger Uncle Huang. Why would they make another enemy for no reason?

When the two spoke, Uncle Huang, who was submerged in the couch, appeared to have recovered somewhat. He turned his head with great difficulty to look at them and then croaked out, “Have you two not left?”

Seeing Uncle Huang had woken up, Chen Ge expertly and silently shoved the hammer back into his backpack. “Sir, this place has been rented to you, right?”

“Yes, the owner of this place is not staying here, so they rented me this place to have me take care of it for them. That is the perfect arrangement because I was looking for a place to stay as well.” Uncle Huang’s mannerisms and tone did not change compared to before. It was as if no matter what happened, the way he spoke would be the same, and it would never change.

“Got it.” Chen Ge nodded.

“If there is nothing else, perhaps you should go. I feel like calling it a day.” Uncle Huang slowly stood up. The blood vessels on the couch returned to normal. It was as if those strange things had never happened before. With his body trembling, Uncle Huang walked to the bedroom door. He coughed several times. His physique was so fragile that he had to walk by holding onto the wall. When he was at the door to the bedroom, one of his fingers tapped lightly on the wall that was next to the bedroom door.

“Close the door on your way out. I am getting more and more tired lately. If you have any questions, you should go and ask the landlord. He lives on the top floor, but he appears to have a bad temper, so you should be careful when you approach him.” Uncle Huang, whose tone had not changed since they met him, suddenly increased his tone, to stress his words careful.

“Then we shan’t disturb your rest. If you have any clues or if you have seen that boy, you can contact us anytime. We will be around the building.” Chen Ge practically dragged Wen Qing out of Uncle Huang’s room. When they left, they did close the door for Uncle Huang as he requested.

“I realize your mind changes as swiftly as the wind. At one moment, you were ready to break the door, but now you are so ready to leave. It was not easy for us to find Uncle Huang. At least we should have asked him more questions before we left,” Wen Qing lamented with some regret. “He has lived here for a very long time. He knows more about this residential area’s secrets than I do. You have wasted such a perfect opportunity. Speaking of which, why did you suddenly want to demolish the wall earlier? I felt like Uncle Huang was spooked by you.”

“You only saw the surface layer.” Chen Ge did not go into detail. He turned to take a glance at Granny Lee. When he and Wen Qing entered Uncle Huang’s room, Granny Lee, who had been following them, did not dare enter with them. She merely waited quietly outside the door.

“Then should we go back in to ask Uncle Huang for more details?”

“There is no need to do so.” There were certain things that Chen Ge could not say out loud. He realized that it was not that Uncle Huang did not want to help them, but he did not dare help them directly. When they first met Uncle Huang behind the door, both Chen Ge and Wen Qing were shocked by his appearance. Honestly, this version of Uncle Huang was the stuff of nightmares; bitemarks covered his face, and he looked rather unapproachable.