If the person hiding in this underground concealed space was the one who first pushed open the bed and hid inside.
And his brother, Dean, was clearly unaware of this as well.
But recalling that her younger sister Annie had remained calm after hearing that voice, she was surprised to learn that...
So the subsequent action of putting the bed back in place was accomplished by this seemingly powerless girl?
At this moment, Gu Xinghe looked at Annie again—
After asking her brother to push the bed she was lying on away from her.
Beneath layers of blankets, Anne lay peacefully in bed with her eyes closed.
Neither of them had any intention of leaving the bed or the blankets before moving the bed.
But in the process of moving the bed closer to Anne, he was already in the middle of it.
Gu Xinghe could sense the scorching heat emanating from the pocket watch in his arms, as if it were about to set him on fire.
It seemed to have reached the limit of what it could explore.
As he couldn't help but look at the seemingly dangerous girl, Annie also opened her eyes and looked at him at the same time.
In an instant, a strange whisper rang in Gu Xinghe's ear.
At the same time, even though he was not empathizing with any object, it was as if his whole body was experiencing synesthesia.
Gu Xinghe could feel thick blood slowly flowing down his forehead.
Not only that, but sticky, thick blood dripped onto his face, arms, legs, and other parts of his body.
It seemed as if they wanted to dye his entire body "blood".
In reality, this low-level pollution capacity can no longer bring any more negative psychological impact to Gu Xinghe now.
Having realized this, what Gu Xinghe wants to do most now is—
Just as he was about to pull off the heavy blanket covering Annie,
Mia then stepped forward and placed her palm on the back of his hand, stopping him from moving.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe turned to look into Mia's eyes, then lowered his gaze and took a step back in accordance with her movement.
At this point, after he and Dean had both stepped back.
They saw that a brick that had been hidden from the surrounding area on the ground, previously concealed by the bed, had been pushed aside from below.
A middle-aged man with the same appearance as the one Gu Xinghe saw on the wanted poster this morning emerged from the hidden underground space.
The man before them was undoubtedly Angell, the father of Dean and Annie.
At the same time, although Gu Xinghe did not see the face of the knife-wielding murderer when he was empathizing with the corpse of player Qi Kangle, he did not see the face of the murderer.
But the Angel he saw before him now was undoubtedly very similar in build to the murderer who killed Qi Kangle.
Not only that, Gu Xinghe also saw that after the man in front of him leaned out of the basement and stood on the ground, he took out a painting from the underground space beneath him.
As everyone suspected, the person who stole Mia's painting from the museum was none other than Ingres.
After that, he must have hidden in the basement of his house, successfully evading the search by the sheriff.
But why did he suddenly emerge from his hiding place at this moment?
The expressions of the people present varied.
But among them, the one who reacted most strongly was undoubtedly Deanjie, who was completely unaware of the situation but was closer to Angel in terms of blood relation than Gu Xinghe.
How could you do such a thing?!
Despite his son's questioning, Angel's expression remained indifferent.
"I'm doing all this just to find your missing mother."
Seeing that his father remained unmoved, his response enraged Dean.
"Wasn't your fault that Mother...disappeared?!"
[Isn't the reason people will think my mother is missing because you murdered her?]
Perhaps because Gu Xinghe and Mia were present, Dean Jie paused for a moment in his excited words.
Ultimately, he did not directly reveal in public that his father had murdered his mother.
But Gu Xinghe, who received additional information from Deanjie's inner thoughts, became even kinder to this strange family—
It seems that the older brother, Dean, is undoubtedly very hostile towards his father.
This may be because he knew that his missing mother was actually murdered by his own father.
But if that's the case, then it would be the only woman rumored to have disappeared after contacting Mia.
Her disappearance was not actually caused by Mia.
Mia, who was shrouded in mystery at the beginning of the instance, now appears to have completely escaped the recent spate of disappearances in the town.
But before Gu Xinghe could think any further, the conflict and argument between father and son were clearly still going on—
"Didn't you realize? That's not your mother!"
Upon hearing his father's rebuttal, Dean Jie, unusually, did not retort but instead paused for a moment.
After a long while, he spoke slowly and firmly, as if he had figured something out.
"But you still killed her."
“Brother, you shouldn’t talk to Father like that.”
Perhaps the conversation between the father and son was too intense, because Annie spoke to Dean in a disapproving tone.
Upon hearing this, Dean looked at his sister with an incredulous expression.
He seemed completely unable to understand what his sister was doing.
It seems that Gu Xinghe has discovered that the two siblings have completely different views and attitudes toward their father.
After a short while, Dean's stalled brain seemed to start working again.
He asked his sister in a hoarse, trembling voice.
"Annie, did you always know that Father was hiding under the bed?"
But when Annie heard Dean's question, she couldn't quite grasp the feeling that her brother had been "betrayed".
She simply tilted her head slightly, a hint of confusion in her expression, to express her bewilderment.
This answer is actually quite obvious.
The two siblings’ father, Ingres, stole the painting the night before last.
If someone tries to move the bed to hide in the underground space beneath it, they will naturally be discovered by Annie, who is lying on the bed.
Deanie, who had also come to understand this relationship, grew increasingly pale, seemingly unable to believe what he was seeing.
He felt as if he were meeting his sister for the first time.
Gu Xinghe could sense that beneath Dean Jie's already shocked expression lay an equally unsettled heart.
Watching the conversations between this family with their strange relationship, Gu Xinghe felt as if he were watching a family drama.
The attitudes and relationships among the three towards each other are incredibly complex.
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