Qin Guang and Chen Ge's livestreams were blocked at the same time, but Chen Ge had announced his return, whereas Qin Guang was still nowhere to be seen . A bunch of curious viewers swamped Chen Ge's comments; they wanted to know what had really happened that day . Chen Ge did not even tell the police about what really happened inside the Third Sick Hall; naturally, he would not reveal the secrets to the viewers . He gave a few vague replies before going offline . It was then that his phone rang; it was a call from Liu Dao .
Since they were once partners, Chen Ge accepted the call .
"Chen Ge, has the platform approached you to inform when your livestream will be unblocked?"
"Not yet, but I believe it shall be soon . What's wrong?" Livestreaming was just another promotional method for Chen Ge, he did not worry over the details . As the fame of the Haunted House grew, he had the intention of making the livestream a way of communicating with his fans, like releasing daily progression of the visitors and releasing information about new scenarios .
"It's like this . Our previous cooperation was really successful, so I want to do something similar, but something easier to control . " Liu Dao had not given up yet . His cooperation with Chen Ge was the first time he had managed to faceslap Qin Guang's studio ever since their falling out .
"What kind of idea do you have in mind?"
"I will arrange a few of my most popular hosts to enter your Haunted House to do a livestream . What do you think?" Liu Dao anticipated Chen Ge's answer . Before asking Chen Ge, he had made multiple investigations already .
"It sounds like a great idea, but the timing is not right . You'll need to wait for a while first . "
"Don't worry, we'll definitely give you a number that you'll be satisfied with . Furthermore, the livestreams will help promote your Haunted House, won't it?" Liu Dao was an experienced member of the business, so he knew Chen Ge's concern . "Plus, we will never leak the content of your Haunted House . They'll use phones to carry out the livestreams, so the quality will not be that clear . "
"I don't have enough scenarios . I'll get back to you . " Chen Ge did not want to expose the details of the Haunted House, so he rejected Liu Dao in a roundabout way . Even though there were many detailed guides to Chen Ge's Haunted House online, reading the guide and experiencing it were two different experiences . One had to experience terror to know how it would grip one's heart .
After ending the call, before Chen Ge put the phone down, another call came in . He thought it was Liu Dao, so he was surprised when he saw that the call was from Captain Yan .
"He won't be bringing me good news," Chen Ge grumbled, having no idea the other person was thinking the same thing .
"Captain Yan? How can I help you?" Chen Ge lay in bed and sighed . He was in a good mood that night .
"I heard from Inspector Lee that you went to Lin Guan Village last night . " Compared to Chen Ge, Captain Yan sounded serious . He used this tone whenever a case was involved .
"Is there a problem with that village?" Chen Ge sat up immediately . He did not think much of Lin Guan Village, which was at the foot of the mountain . After all, the real scary village was Coffin Village inside the mountain .
"Stay away from Lin Guan Village—don't go there at night . " Captain Yan seemed to have talked to Inspector Lee before making this call and knew something about Chen Ge .
"Captain Yan, you have to be clearer than that, or you're just going to make me more interested . "
"You should know about the poisoning case at Lin Guan Village, right? The only survivor of the family of four was a little girl . "
"I do . In fact, I just met the girl at the Children's Home . "
"The girl's previous caretaker was found dead inside an abandoned old house at Lin Guan Village . " Captain Yan's voice was chillingly calm, but his suppressed anger could be heard .
"Why would the body be placed in Lin Guan Village?" The first suspect that came to Chen Ge's mind was Jiang Ling's sister, but he had interacted with her before . Even though she had a monstrous exterior, internally, she was no different from a normal person .
"That is a question that confuses me as well . At the time, the case came to a standstill because of this as well . We traced back all the victim's words and actions for the few days prior and found something weird . " Captain Yan sounded like he was hesitating over revealing this sensitive information to Chen Ge . After several seconds, he sighed . "The victim utilized the channel she obtained through her career to purchase blood . "
"Human blood?"
"Yes, that was our only lead . " Captain Yan reminded Chen Ge again . "Do not go to Lin Guan Village alone at night, at least before we have a clearer idea of what's going on . "
"Then how long shall I wait?" Chen Ge could wait, but the mission on the black phone could not . The three-star scenario, Coffin Village, would disappear in six days . The missions that passed their expiration date would not be unlockable in the future .
"At least until all the mental patients from the Third Sick Hall have been caught . " Speaking of this, Captain Yan felt a headache coming . "Initially, they still acted rather normally, but after that incident at Fang Hwa Apartments, we realized that we've greatly underestimated their lethality . "
Chen Ge heard the message that Captain Yan did not say . "Is there another related case?"
"I'm standing at the crime scene, dealing with the mess . "
"Crime scene?" Chen Ge slowed down . "Someone died?"
"Yes, two deaths to be precise, and the crime scenes are weird to say the least .
"The first victim was a burglar . According to the camera, the victim just committed a crime and escaped into the back alley, but he never exited it . A passing drunk called the police . The victim's eyes had been gouged out, and he died from an unknown cause .
"The second victim was a fugitive hiding in Jiujiang . He was found hanging in his rental room . If not for the gouged eyes, we wouldn't have tied the two cases together . "
Listening to the description, Chen Ge was confused . "Why would they gouge out the victims' eyes?"
"We're dealing with mental patients, so who really knows why? They're operating on a different worldview . " Captain Yan sighed . "In any case, these kinds of similar cases are due to something in the killer's history . The gouged eyes could be some sort of ritual, or the killer might have experienced trauma related to eyes when they were young . Or possibly this is just something to throw our investigation off . "
"The chance of childhood trauma is big . The patients at the Third Sick Hall were all traumatized when they were young . " Chen Ge remembered what Captain Yan said . The killer was most likely the chairperson; he wanted to try his best to understand this sick man .
"Instead of the eyes, I'm more curious about another thing . " There was a drumming on the table from the other side of the phone, Captain Yan's habit when he was thinking . "Why would they purposely target these sinners? Are they trying to tell us they're different from normal criminals?"
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