Chapter 1151 - Could This Be the Truth? 2 in 1 (1/2)

After hearing the revelation from Mr. Wang, Chen Ge’s heart was thumping unevenly. When he did the Trial Missions given by the black phone, he had personally witnessed these scenarios. He was the child who was killed multiple times by the killer!

Lifting his hands to press against his temples, green veins popped on Chen Ge’s forehead. The shattered memories were slowly piecing up together in his mind. He felt a headache mounting.

“Mr. Wang, are you sure that the name of the last victim was Chen Ge? Did you guys find his body?”

“Even though I failed to find his body, I was present when he was killed.” Mr. Wang’s eyes were filled with regret and guilt. His hands clenched into fists. “After our long analysis, we locked onto three children in Jiujiang who had the same build and size as the victims in the previous cases. We believed that the killer would target one of these three children next.”

“Therefore, the police had set up surveillance around these three children?”

“Yes. At the time, the law enforcement was lacking manpower, so I was called to join the operation as well. I was assigned to Team Seven by the captain of the Jiujiang Police Station at the same time. Our team was responsible for watching over a private orphanage.” Mr. Wang paused for a moment as if worried that Chen Ge did not understand him. He added, “Of the three children that we’d narrowed down, one of them lived at the city center of Jiujiang. He came from a very good family. The second child lived in Western Jiujiang, the child of the manager for Luo’s Real Estate. The last child though was living in Eastern Jiujiang’s private orphanage.”

The details of the three children did not match Chen Ge at all. He could remember very clearly that he was living with his parents at Jiang Yuan Apartments in Eastern Jiujiang. The three children targeted by the police at the time could not be him, but how come the last victim was called Chen Ge?

“Even to this day, I can remember what happened clearly. The police only told the orphanage’s teachers and the director their mission; the children did not know anything. They spent their day playing like usual and then went to sleep. Once night fell, everything was normal until it was midnight, and the child that we were supposed to be watching over suddenly disappeared. Even now, I have no idea how the killer managed to do something like that. It was impossible to sneak a child without a trace out of a room of other sleeping children. After the child disappeared, I immediately reported it to my superior, and then the whole of Team Seven started to go and search for the child.

“In the end, Captain Yan, who had just joined the force back then, and I found the child inside an abandoned building in Eastern Jiujiang.” Mr. Wang’s voice was shaking. Time supposedly washed away everything, but it was definitely not the case with Mr. Wang. Even when he was thinking back to the case now, he still found it hard to control his emotions. “The child was shaking like a leaf. He was seriously injured, and his eyes were pleading for mercy. He cried out for help. He told us that his name was Chen Ge. He said he wanted to see his parents, but just as the child was about to give us the name of his parents, the killer entered the room.”

“The child told you with his own lips that his name was Chen Ge?” Chen Ge himself had no recollection of this. He could not remember anything relating to Mr. Wang’s story.

“Every single sentence that I am telling you now is the truth.”

“So, what happened after the killer entered the room?”

“The killer was wearing a doctor’s coat and had the mask of a devil on. It appeared like he had already filled with room with narcotic gas before he walked in because once he did, Captain Yan and my mind started to spin and turn. After he shared a few words with the child, he took the child forcibly away.” Mr. Wang’s expression was wrought with pain and guilt. “If only Captain Yan had fired his gun at the time, perhaps things would have ended up differently.”

“Then, did you guys catch him in the end?” That was the only thing that Chen Ge cared about.

“Based on the report from the officers in the other teams, they finally surrounded the killer by the side of the lake, and they personally witnessed the killer toss the victim’s body inside the lake.” Mr. Wang took a deep breath. “The police instantly detained the man wearing the white coat by the lakeside. Everyone witnessed him kill the child and dispose of him in the lake, so there was no mistaking him as the killer! But the problem was there were still several unsolved mysteries regarding the killer that they captured.

“Number one, the man in the white coat that they captured by the lakeside was a madman. He kept mumbling, ‘Do not come back again… do not come back again.’

“Number two, the white coat that he was wearing did not fit him at all. It was clearly not his size.

“Number three, the way he disposed of the body was extremely amateurish. It did not look like the action of someone who had committed multiple murders.”

“So, you believe that the captured man was a scapegoat? The real killer found a madman and purposely put on a show for the police to see?” Actually, what Chen Ge did not say was, perhaps the killers had been switched as well. The victim and killer encountered by Mr. Wang and Captain Yan were the real killer and the young Chen Ge, while the one encountered by the main police force at the lakeside was a planted killer. Even the body that was tossed into the lake probably was not Chen Ge but one of the innocent orphans from the Eastern Jiujiang orphanage.

“Yes, your guess is similar to mine!” Mr. Wang’s gaze became sharp. “Captain Yan and I had a close encounter with the killer. Even though he was wearing a devil’s mask, obscuring his face, the chilling and oppressing presence that radiated off him was completely different from the killer who was eventually captured by the police!”

“Did the police eventually find the body of the victim of the child from the Eastern Jiujiang orphanage?” Chen Ge asked.

Mr. Wang shook his head. “Throughout the murders, none of the victims’ bodies were found.”

With what Mr. Wang had said, Chen Ge came up with a hypothesis. The doctors from the cursed hospital had been trying to kill him again and again for twenty years, but they realized that no matter how many times they tried, they could not kill him and attracted the law enforcement’s attention in the process. To distract the police away from them, they purposely directed this whole show before the team of officers and had the police apprehend a scapegoat. The killer and victim of these serial killings were still alive in this world, but other than a few people who were still concerned about this case, no one cared about it anymore. The truth would not change due to time; it would instead get buried under the sands of time.

“Have the police found any information regarding the previous few victims?” Chen Ge held onto the road light and kept his head lowered.

“No, they have failed to do so. Similarly, they could not find the bodies. Even the hair and blood had been properly cleaned by the killer, so nothing was left behind.” Mr. Wang’s expression was severe. “I can tell you confidently that this was a serial killer, but when the captain of Jiujiang Police Station closed the case twenty years ago, simply because the bodies of the victims could not be found, in the end, the case was treated as an indiscriminate murder case.”

“Is there a difference?”

“The difference is very big, but honestly, it does not really matter now.”

In the unfamiliar city, Mr. Wang and Chen Ge stood by the side of the road. The people walked past them. They had their own lives to hurry to, and no one really cared about what they were talking about.

“So, did you come to Xin Hai hoping to reopen this case?”

“Yes, the white coat worn by the killer at the time perfectly matched the uniform of a private hospital in Xin Hai. Other than that, Captain Yan and I heard the voice of the killer before. When he spoke, he had a local Xin Hai accent.”

“Do you still remember what the killer said at the time?”

“No, I don’t. The feeling of having the memory blurred out is very hard to stomach.” Mr. Wang swept a glance at Chen Ge, but he did not continue. Actually, he had the same feeling when he visited Chen Ge’s haunted house. Therefore, he had quickly recorded all the details that he could remember on the notebook the first moment he woke up. This did not mean that he suspected that Chen Ge was the killer. He just thought that Chen Ge did not appear like a normal haunted house operator, and that was one of the reasons he wished to cooperate with Chen Ge.