"Is this … really going to be okay?" Looking at Peng Jiating's back, Liu Ming was a little worried. On the other side, Qin Zhen was also stunned.
"I have to do this. Only by forcing her into a corner can I find out what's behind her." Zhang Heng's words were vague, and he did not explain much. He turned to Liu Yuwei and said, "Thank you for your cooperation. You can go home now. Leave the rest to me."
"Will she be okay?" Liu Yuwei's face showed a touch of worry.
"Who? Tian Tian or Peng Jiating?"
"Both of them."
"I don't know. I'll try my best," Zhang Heng said.
"I … didn't tell anyone about Peng Jiating's family in school," Liu Yuwei mustered up the courage to say.
"I know," Zhang Heng patted her head and said to Liu Ming, "It's late. Take your sister home."
"What about me? I can stay and help," Qin Zhen volunteered.
"Go home. The part that needs your help is over. I can handle the rest myself," Zhang Heng said.
"One more person means one more helper," Qin Zhen said shamelessly.
What happened tonight was still a mystery to him, and he could not figure it out. So far, he saw Zhang Heng scolding a primary school student at full speed, and Zhang Heng made it clear that he did not intend to explain why.
It was like watching a TV series or a good novel, and then the director and the author suddenly stopped.
Zhang Heng glanced at Qin Zhen, "Whatever. If you can keep up, go ahead."
"Okay." Qin Zhen was overjoyed when he heard the word 'whatever'. As for the latter half of the sentence, he ignored it. He had always been in good physical condition. He was a member of the school basketball team in high school and college, and he had to train every week. Before high school graduation, his physical condition was better than Zhang Heng's.
In his opinion, there was no problem of him not being able to keep up. In fact, Zhang Heng's speed was not fast, and he did not seem to be in a hurry. Maintaining a normal pace, he walked downstairs to Peng Jiating's house.
"What's next? What should we do next?" Qin Zhen asked curiously.
Unlike Tian Tian, Peng Jiating lived on the fifth floor, which was considered the highest floor in the neighborhood. Zhang Heng made it clear that he had no intention of interacting with Peng Jiating's family. Qin Zhen was very curious as to how Zhang Heng would approach Peng Jiating.
Zhang Heng did not answer. Instead, he walked to the north side of the building, facing a pond in the community. However, the pond had long run out of water. To save electricity, the street lights here were no longer turned on, and it was basically dark at night. The best thing about this place was that no one would see him.
Zhang Heng looked up at the roof, stepped on the air conditioner's compressor with one foot, and grabbed the eaves of the second floor with the other.
"Hey, are you serious?" Qin Zhen was shocked. He finally realized that Zhang Heng was planning to climb to the top of the building from here. However, it was too dangerous. For ordinary people, it was no different from climbing the Chieftain's Rock.
Zhang Heng was speechless. "Do you have to shout so loudly to attract everyone's attention?" As he spoke, his hands and feet did not stop moving, and he quickly climbed to the third floor.
Qin Zhen finally understood what Zhang Heng meant when he said he could keep up. Now, he looked up like he was watching Spiderman.
Zhang Heng ignored Qin Zhen, who was below him. Now that he had Level 1 rock climbing skills, it was more than enough for him to handle a situation like this. Basically, it didn't take him much effort to reach the fifth floor. The whole process took less than ninety seconds.
In fact, Peng Jiating's house on the top floor was easier for Zhang Heng to enter than Tian Tian's house on the first floor. Peng Jiating's windows were basically installed with anti-theft nets, while Peng Jiating's house had a certain height, so there were no protective measures installed.
Zhang Heng changed his posture, moving his left foot from the air conditioner compressor to the windowsill. After that, he swung his body over. Qin Zhen, who was watching from below, almost bit his tongue.
Zhang Heng had never been to Peng Jiating's house before, and he didn't know which room was Peng Jiating's. So, he could only use the stupid method of searching all the rooms. Fortunately, it didn't take too much time. Even with the curtains blocking his vision, Zhang Heng could basically tell whose bedroom he was in by putting his ear to the glass and listening to the sounds coming from inside.
Finally, Zhang Heng stopped in front of a window that had no light and no movement.
The window was locked with the most common kind of crescent lock. This kind of lock was extremely unsafe, and as long as one pressed one's palm against the window from the outside, creating a gap between the two windows, the lock could be easily staggered.
Although Zhang Heng tried to keep it as quiet as possible, the old window still made some noise. However, the people in the house seemed to have heard nothing.
Zhang Heng slipped into the house through the window. As he told Liu Ming and Qin Zhen, the reason why he used words to provoke Peng Jiating and make her think that no one in the world cared about her was because he wanted to see what was behind her back. After all, Peng Jiating was just an ordinary child. No matter how much she hated Tian Tian, it was impossible for her to bring a series of disasters to Tian Tian's family.
To do this, she obviously received some kind of "help."
Of course, Zhang Heng could also search Peng Jiating's room again during the time halt. However, after what happened with the guardian amulet, Zhang Heng wasn't sure if the thing he found was the root cause of all this. Only when Peng Jiating thought that the world had abandoned her would she take the initiative to look for that thing.
Like the last straw in front of a drowning person, it was also the last existence of "kindness" in this world.
But even if he was mentally prepared, the scene behind the curtain still surprised Zhang Heng.
He saw Peng Jiating lying on her small bed with her eyes closed. She was not wearing any clothes, but her exposed skin was full of tiny scales, like crocodile skin, and there were two spikes growing out of her lower abdomen.
It was an extremely strange scene. Zhang Heng couldn't even tell whether Peng Jiating was a human or a monster at this moment.
So he took two steps forward and came to the bed. At this time, "Peng Jiating" on the bed suddenly opened her eyes and rushed at him.
Zhang Heng's expression remained unchanged. He stretched out his right hand that had been in his pocket, and a cold light flashed in his hand. The hilt of the knife accurately hit "Peng Jiating's" temple. At the same time, to prevent conventional physical attacks from being ineffective, Zhang Heng deliberately took half a step back.
But it turned out that he was overthinking. Although Peng Jiating's appearance had changed a lot, other than being a little more agile than ordinary people, there was nothing commendable about her. She still retained her human weakness, and she immediately passed out after being hit by Zhang Heng.
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