Chen Ge did not plan to waste any more time with the tenants inside the building. He wanted to end this as soon as possible, and that was why he came up with such a radical suggestion.
Once Doctor Li and Auntie Ding came to their senses and found out the truth, they would definitely understand that this was all Chen Ge's doing, and the real person that they needed to get rid of was Chen Ge.
Dancing on the tip of a knife, Chen Ge knew his situation from the beginning, but that was the only thing he could do.
He had to get rid of as many tenants as possible before Doctor Li and Auntie Ding could react. He had to wait until they could no longer pose a threat to him, and then he could openly take over this building.
"Sister Ding, you should take a good rest inside the house. Close the doors and windows, and be careful. Big Head and I will go take a look." Doctor Li was still expressionless. Chen Ge had no idea what he was thinking, but one thing was for sure — Doctor Li was tempted by Chen Ge's suggestion.
This was a good chance to clear their suspicion, and they would not let it slip by.
Seeing that Doctor Li had taken the bait, Chen Ge stood up and said to Auntie Ding with concern, "I am not sure whether the killer that killed the landlord and Qu Gui is the same person. You have to be careful when you are alone at home."
"I will be careful." Auntie Ding did not understand the deeper meaning behind Chen Ge's words. She lay on the sofa and pretended to be very weak.
"Let's go. Sister Ding needs to rest." Doctor Li was the first to open the front door. He whispered something into Big Head's ear.
Chen Ge used Ghost Ear, and he could hear the words' letter of commitment '.
His expression did not change, and he slowly followed Doctor Li out of the room.
In terms of cunning and cunning, Doctor Li was quite a capable person, but he had underestimated Chen Ge.
Perhaps he had subconsciously treated himself as a predator, killing the weak. The repeated murders had caused the demon in his heart to expand. In his eyes, normal people were just backup prey.
If he could push the boat with the current and shift the blame to someone else, it would naturally be good. If it really didn't work and he couldn't shift the blame, then he would directly kill everyone who knew the secret.
This kind of twisted mentality caused him to not treat Chen Ge seriously. Actually, this was not his fault. Who would have thought an outsider would be able to recover most of the truth in such a short period of time through so many small clues?
Of course, as time passed, his suspicions towards Chen Ge would grow, and his desire to kill Chen Ge would also grow stronger.
Auntie Ding lived on the fourth floor, and Big Head was Auntie Ding's neighbor. After Doctor Li whispered something to him, Big Head found an excuse to return home.
Half a minute later, Big Head came out of the house with a normal expression.
"Sister Ding needs to rest. Let her stay at home." Chen Ge glanced at everyone. "Hasn't the uncle on the third floor come back yet?"
"Let's go find him directly. It'll save us some time." Doctor Li said directly. He did not realize that every word that Chen Ge said seemed to be guiding him to do something.
He did not think that he was being manipulated. He just felt that it was quite comfortable to 'work together' with Chen Ge. It was like someone would automatically come to pass him a pillow when he was sleepy.
The group went directly to the door of the middle-aged man on the third floor. Chen Ge knocked for a long time before the middle-aged man finally opened the door.
"I'm sorry, but my stomach is not feeling well, so I had to take a dump. Come on, which room are we going to next? " The middle-aged man's forehead was covered in sweat, and he was gasping for air when he spoke. He did not look like he had just come from the toilet.
"We plan to investigate each room one by one. Since you've opened the door, let's start with your home." Doctor Li did not wait for the middle-aged man to reject and walked into the room. Big Head followed closely behind him.
"You can go ahead and investigate, but don't ruin my things. I have many valuable collections here." The middle-aged man appeared to have dealt with his' secret 'already, so he was not worried that Doctor Li would find something wrong with him.
Looking at the confident middle-aged man, Chen Ge shook his head. Even if there was no secret, one could create a secret, and this secret had nothing to do with him. If anything, he was more like a bystander.
The group entered the room. The middle-aged man's room was very messy. There were many wine bottles and trash littering the floor. The cleanest place in the room was the posters of beautiful women on the wall.
"Aren't you afraid to wake up at night with so many pictures on the wall?" Chen Ge's attitude was completely different from when he went to the electrician's home. He kept staring at the posters on the wall. He stalled the middle-aged man and created an opening for Doctor Li and Big Head.
"Why would I be afraid when I wake up at night and see them? Isn't that a very happy thing? "
"What kind of happiness can come from looking at the posters?" Chen Ge glanced at the sofa and realized that the female lingerie was still littered on the sofa.
The lingerie was not cleaned up, which meant that the middle-aged man did not care about other people seeing them. The lingerie was not really his secret.
Initially, Chen Ge thought that the middle-aged man was just a fetish, but now he felt like things were not that simple. This perverted middle-aged man probably did more than collect lingerie. He must have done something even worse.
"Hey! Come and take a look! " Doctor Li's voice came from the middle-aged man's bedroom. It attracted everyone's attention, and they crowded outside the bedroom.
Peeling back the black cloth that covered the dresser, Doctor Li opened the dresser door. Inside the dresser were various yellow videos and books with large covers.
"These are all my personal collection. I did not distribute them with malicious intent, so it's not illegal, right?" The middle-aged man leaned against the door frame.
"Do you think there are other things recorded in these videos?"
"If you don't believe me, you can go take a look for yourself, but if you want to see so many works, it will probably take several months, right?"
The middle-aged man walked over to close the dresser door, but Doctor Li grabbed his hand. "Open this locked box under the bed and let us take a look."
"Don't cross the line!"
"You don't want to be falsely accused as a murderer, do you? Open it and see. If it has nothing to do with the murder case, naturally, we will not say anything. "Doctor Li's face was expressionless, and his voice was cold.
"Fine, I will cooperate with you. When I arrive at your home, I will also search your room." The middle-aged man made a meaningless threat. He took out the key from his pocket and opened the wooden box under the bed.
Inside the box was a female body model. It was very life-like, and from afar, it looked no different from a real person.
"This is my wife. She has accompanied me for a long time." The middle-aged man stood next to the wooden box. He did not allow anyone to touch the model.
If it was a layman who did not know how to make a doll, they would only sigh at how beautiful the model was. Unfortunately, Chen Ge was a master doll maker.
He was familiar with all the materials that could be used to make a doll, and there was no material that could make a doll's skin look so realistic unless he was using human skin.
The doll inside the box was different from most dolls on the market. It was separated into several parts, and all the parts could be removed and replaced by the user.
Compared to a real doll, this doll was more like a body frame. The face, hair, skin, and so on could be replaced by the user's own hands.
The middle-aged man showed the doll inside the box. He only allowed people to look but not touch it. Other than the doll, there was nothing else inside the box. The tenants did not interfere with the man's personal preferences.
"Are you done? Can I lock the box now? "The middle-aged man was about to close the box when Big Head's voice came from inside the bathroom.
"What is this?!"
The few people inside the room ran out. The middle-aged man calmly locked the box again. His expression was relaxed like he had just survived a disaster.
The middle-aged man was the last to leave the bedroom. When he came to the living room, he realized that everyone was looking at him.
"What's wrong with you guys?"
"Why are you asking us? Give us an explanation. " Big Head opened his palm, and there was a heavily worn tooth sitting in the middle of his palm. "I found it at your home's toilet."
"Impossible! My home would not have something like that! "The middle-aged man stared at the tooth in Big Head's palm, and a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart.
"We found it at your home's toilet. You'd better give us a reason." Big Head's voice was very thin, and combined with his slightly deformed appearance, he looked very creepy.
"I'll say it again! My home would not have something like that! " The middle-aged man and Big Head were at each other's throats. Seeing that the atmosphere had frozen, Chen Ge walked over.
"Don't panic. Finding a tooth is not that big of a deal. You're used to assembling dolls, so this tooth was prepared for the dolls, right?"
"The mouths of the dolls do not need teeth," the middle-aged man explained to Chen Ge, a layman.
"So, you tossed their teeth down the drain? Is that really a doll? "Big Head used the opportunity to attack the middle-aged man.
"What are you talking about?" The middle-aged man glared at Big Head. He kept trying to explain, but no one paid him any attention.
"Teeth alone cannot prove anything. Everyone, calm down." Chen Ge looked at Big Head with confusion. "Other than the teeth, did you find anything else?"
"Are these teeth not proof enough?" Big Head pointed at the drain in the toilet.
"These?" Everyone, including the middle-aged man, turned to look at the drain.
The iron drain had been removed, and at the corner of the pipe, several teeth had fallen. Some of the teeth even had rotten flesh stuck to them.
"Why are these things here?" The middle-aged man sensed the hostile gazes from the people around him, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat. "I really have no idea why there are so many teeth in the drain. Perhaps other people's things have fallen into my home through the pipe. Trust me!"
"The teeth all fell at the corner of the pipe. If they belonged to other people, they would have been washed away along the main pipe." Doctor Li's voice came from another bedroom. His cold eyes stared at the middle-aged man. "I advise all of you to stay away from him. I've made a new discovery."
Doctor Li raised the mannequin book that he was holding. It was filled with the middle-aged man's notes. He flipped the book to a certain page and took out a piece of paper that was covered in dried blood.
"Take a look at this. What is this?"
Xiao Sun and Qu Yin were the first to walk over. When they saw the handwriting on the paper, their expressions changed.
"A letter of promise?"
"I promise I will not …"
The whole piece of paper was covered in blood. The writer was in a very bad state at the time, like he was heavily injured. The few words that could be read were crooked like the writer's fingers were broken.
The content in the middle was blurry. They could only see the letter of promise at the beginning and the landlord's name at the end.
"Why would you have a letter of promise signed by the landlord? What did the landlord promise you? "
"How would I know? This is not mine! " The middle-aged man realized that something was wrong. Two people had just died in the building, but the killer had not been caught, and an item related to the murder had appeared in his room. Someone had to be trying to frame him.
A deep sense of fear enveloped him. The middle-aged man leaned against the wall. His pupils trembled as he scanned everyone in the room. "Someone purposely placed that thing in my room! It's like the teeth in the sewer! It's the killer's doing! Someone is trying to frame me! "
"There are so many of us here, so why would the killer choose to frame you?" Doctor Li held the letter of promise with both of his hands to prevent the middle-aged man from trying to snatch it from him.
"Believe me! This is really not mine! " The middle-aged man's forehead was covered in sweat. He had been trying to hide his secret, so he did not expect someone would try to frame him.
"How about we restrain him first? This man is too dangerous." Big Head looked around. "The bed that the electrician used to tie up the dead bodies is perfect for that, and there is an electrotherapy machine in the room. I don't believe he will still be so stubborn."
"What do you guys think?" Doctor Li turned to look at the other tenants.
Chen Ge appeared to be still in shock. He did not say anything.
Xiao Sun shook his head. "What difference is there between us and the killer if we do this? I think we should all stay in one room and discuss this. "
"I agree with Big Head's suggestion. The person who killed the landlord might have the keys to all the rooms in this building. We have to force them to reveal the location of the keys! Otherwise, we won't be able to sleep peacefully at night! " Qu Yin and his girlfriend did not care whether the middle-aged man was framed or not, and they did not care about the pain and torment that the middle-aged man was suffering. They only cared about their own interests.
"Me, Big Head, and this couple, the four of us agree to force the killer to reveal the truth. The majority rules, so let's do this!" Doctor Li put the letter of promise away carefully. He, Big Head, and Qu Yin surrounded the middle-aged man.
The situation was dangerous. The middle-aged man knew that someone wanted him dead, wanted him to be the scapegoat.
"Listen to me! I really have nothing to do with the landlord's death! If you don't believe me, you can go and ask Wu You! The boy knows who the real killer is! He once saw someone loitering outside the landlord's door at night! " The middle-aged man was really panicking. He knew that most of the tenants in this building were not normal. Once he was tied to the wire, even if he was not the killer, he would be tortured until he was half dead.
"Wu You likes to lie to gain the adults' attention. You said that yourself, but why are you changing your mind now? I realize that you are also a liar, but that's fine. In a bit, I will make you speak the truth. " Doctor Li took a step forward. He did not need the middle-aged man to tell the truth. He only needed the middle-aged man to say what he wanted to hear. If the middle-aged man refused to speak, then he would torture him until he did.
"Why do you keep forcing me?" The middle-aged man's eyes wandered between Doctor Li and Big Head. "It was Big Head who found the teeth, and it was you who found the letter of promise …"
The expression in his eyes changed, and the middle-aged man suddenly screamed, "It is you two who are trying to harm me! Big Head has been your patient since he was young! He listens to everything you say! The real killer of the landlord is you two! "
The middle-aged man screamed at the top of his lungs. He turned to Chen Ge and Wen Qing, who did not say anything. "Believe me! I am telling the truth! They are the real murderers! "
At that moment, Chen Ge and Wen Qing were the middle-aged man's only hope. He had completely forgotten that not too long ago, he had been trying to cause trouble for Chen Ge.
"I also want to believe you, but the evidence is right before my eyes. You'd better stop resisting." Chen Ge raised his head. His words became the last straw that broke the middle-aged man's back. "Ever since we discovered the dead man, you have been influencing my judgment. Can you tell me why you are doing that?"
"Stop wasting time. Let's capture him first." Doctor Li and Big Head charged at the middle-aged man at the same time. The middle-aged man struggled desperately.
"You will regret this! You will all be killed by the killer! " Being strapped to a wire was basically a dead end. The building was no longer safe. After the middle-aged man shook off Big Head and Doctor Li, he did something that no one would have expected.
He rushed to the living room window and decisively opened it. Just as he was about to jump down, a vague mouth appeared in the black fog.
"Ah!" The middle-aged man screamed. Fresh blood splattered on the window frame. The mouth seemed to have bitten through his neck.
The black fog swirled, and the middle-aged man disappeared. The people inside the room did not dare approach the window.
"What was that thing earlier?" With Yin Yang Vision, Chen Ge had the best eyesight among the group, but even so, he did not get a good look at the thing. "Is there a man-eating monster inside the black fog?"
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