The neighbors' emotions were all aroused. Everyone was worried that their secrets would be discovered, and everyone wanted to catch the murderer who killed people through the window as soon as possible.
Chen Ge was very satisfied with everyone's reaction. Just as he was about to say something else, the middle-aged man who hid women's underwear at home suddenly spoke again.
"Wait a minute, I don't object to us searching room by room for the murderer, but I think it's better to ask the landlord first just to be on the safe side." The middle-aged man had met Chen Ge before. He knew that Chen Ge had talked to Wu You and he had never trusted Chen Ge very much.
"No problem, we'll go find the landlord now." Chen Ge directly blocked the middle-aged man's mouth. He didn't want to dwell on meaningless issues to avoid accidents: "Everyone hurry up, the sooner we catch the murderer, maybe we can save one more life."
The incident happened suddenly. Chen Ge did not give the neighbors time to think and directly dragged Wen Qing and Qu Ying into the corridor.
Although he is now in the initiative, his situation will still become very dangerous as long as the neighbors calm down.
He can only ensure his own safety by making good use of this time and separating the residents in the building as quickly as possible.
"Qu Ying, why do you think the murderer targeted your family? Who did your family have a feud with recently? Why does he want to kill your entire family?" In order to guide the neighbors' thinking, Chen Ge took the initiative to ask Qu Ying. Of course, the questions he asked were all related to the murder case, and at first glance they seemed very critical, pointing directly to the core of the case.
Qu Ying had no idea why the "murderer" would kill his entire family, but in order not to expose himself as the murderer, he had to cooperate with Chen Ge and continue acting.
After thinking hard, Qu Ying shook his head: "I don't know why the murderer wants to kill my family. Our family is very low-key and has never offended anyone."
"Think about it carefully. Do you usually have any conflicts with the residents in the building?" Chen Ge was relentless. It was obvious that he wanted to protect himself and threw all the problems to Qu Ying.
He was forcing a murderer to think about the reasons why he killed himself.
If Qu Ying could not think of an answer, or just said someone's name at random, that person would become the key suspect.
If it were in other communities, it wouldn't be a big deal even if he became a key suspect, but it's completely different here.
Almost no one in this community is "clean" and everyone has secrets that cannot be revealed.
In other words, no one here can withstand investigation and exposure. It doesn't matter what they want to do behind closed doors at other times, but at this moment, the secrets hidden in their hearts will become the rope that kills them.
"I really can't think of it." Qu Ying didn't want to be used by Chen Ge, and the neighbors around him who had secrets in their hearts also knew what to do and didn't say anything.
They all knew that the wisest choice at this time was to keep quiet, because saying nonsense could very likely bring trouble upon themselves.
"I remember a few nights ago, when you and your dad were arguing, many neighbors disliked your loud voices. Later, an uncle on the fifth floor went to warn you. By the way, the electrician on the eighth floor seemed to have had a conflict with your dad. It seemed to be because of a wiring problem. They even had a fight in the corridor. At that time, the electrician threatened your dad..." Xiao Sun really wanted to catch the murderer. He casually said a few names: "What's wrong? Why are you all looking at me? Am I wrong?"
Xiao Sun didn’t know what these neighbors were like in private. He just told about some of the things he saw. This also indirectly proves that he should be one of the few "normal people" who is not afraid of being investigated.
"The clues you mentioned are so important! After we find the landlord, we will go to these people's homes immediately!" Chen Ge admired Xiao Sun very much. It didn't matter if Qu Ying refused to cooperate. Xiao Sun helped Chen Ge to open a gap among the residents in the building.
The few tenants mentioned by Xiao Sun just now will become the first victims. Xiao Sun did a good job, but his own situation has become very dangerous.
The residential building has ten floors in total. The landlord lives alone on the ninth floor. No one lives on the tenth floor and all the rooms are locked.
Everyone came to room 901 together. Qu Ying knocked on the door several times but no one responded.
"The landlord may not be in the house, let's go somewhere else first."
"Wait!" Chen Ge grabbed Qu Ying's arm. "A tenant was killed in the building, causing such a big commotion, but the landlord didn't react at all. Do you think this is normal?"
"It's not normal. I guess the landlord is not in the building. He may have gone to other places in the community. The landlords of these buildings hold a meeting regularly. Maybe the landlord is in another building now."
"Meeting?" Chen Ge discovered another very important piece of information from Qu Ying's words.
“They would get together and talk about rent, neighborhood environment and so on.”
"What you said makes sense, but you overlooked a very important point." Chen Ge spoke slowly: "I went to the first floor and saw that the door to the corridor was locked. The lock was locked from the inside of the corridor!"
"But what does this prove?"
"The key to the corridor lock is only owned by the landlord, and the lock was locked from inside the corridor, which means the landlord must still be in the building!" Chen Ge's logic was impeccable, and his words made all the neighbors suddenly realize a very serious problem!
"The landlord was still in the building, but he didn't react at all to the murder that happened in the building. I suspect he had been killed."
The murder of the landlord and the murder of Qu Gui are completely different in nature because the landlord may have spare keys to all the doors in the building.
Now even Qu Ying's face became very ugly. The development of things had exceeded his imagination.
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. We can just break the door lock and go in to see what's going on." Chen Ge picked up his backpack and glanced at the security door. He didn't want to take out the skull crusher at this time: "Do you have any tools at home? As I said before, human life is at stake. We are forced to do this. If the landlord is not in trouble, he will definitely understand us."
"My house is being renovated and I have a complete set of tools. Please wait a moment, I'll go get them." Aunt Ding was the first to speak. Her tone was hurried and it sounded like she was going to go back to get the tools. In fact, she might want to go back to do other things and this was just an excuse.
"I also have tools for unlocking the door. I'll go home and look for them." Several more tenants left. Chen Ge knew what they wanted to do, but he did not stop them.
It is not difficult to get rid of the "secret" in your room in a very short time, but the difficult part is not to leave any clues.
A few minutes later, the neighbors came back one after another, holding various tools in their hands.
It took everyone nearly half an hour to work together to open the security door of 901.
"It's really troublesome. It would be better if all the doors were wooden." Chen Ge pushed Qu Ying into the house first. Qu Ying was angry but dared not say anything.
"The house is very tidy, there are no signs of fighting, and no blood. It seems we have overthought it." Qu Ying walked in front. It should be his first time entering the landlord's house. He seemed a little restrained and did not dare to touch things in the house.
"You seem very afraid of the landlord?" Chen Ge followed Qu Ying like a ghost, and his voice floated into Qu Ying's ears.
"That's not true, don't talk nonsense."
"Really?" Chen Ge looked at Qu Ying. He found that the landlord had a very high status in the hearts of the tenants in the building. Qu Ying's current abnormal behavior was a good proof of this.
Without further dwelling on this issue, Chen Ge and the neighbors searched the room together. They pushed open the door inside the house, and finally everyone stopped in the bathroom.
Pulling open the shower curtain, there was no shower head or bathtub inside, but a very small TV.
Chen Ge tried to turn on the TV, and it started up normally, but there was only black and white snow on the screen.
"Why is there a TV in the bathroom?" Qu Ying couldn't understand.
"The content played on this TV should be something shameful." Chen Ge looked at the surroundings. There was no window in the bathroom. With the bathroom door closed and the shower curtain drawn, it was a completely enclosed space. People outside had no idea what the landlord was doing in there.
When moving the TV, Chen Ge discovered a large wiring diagram behind the TV. He followed the wiring and found that all the wiring led to upstairs.
The lines of rooms 901 and 1001 are interconnected, so the landlord's secret should be hidden in room 1001 on the tenth floor.
Chen Ge did not tell anyone about his discovery. He saw the problem in those lines. Normal home appliances do not need such complicated lines. Chen Ge suspected that the landlord had installed surveillance cameras in the building.
The landlord was hiding in the bathroom, snooping into other people's lives crazily.
Chen Ge probably guessed the landlord's secret, but the question was where did the landlord go?
If the landlord had seen the monster in the cursed hospital from the surveillance camera, he would definitely be prepared.
Was it the monster from the cursed hospital that killed the landlord?
But if they did it, after killing the landlord, they would probably have obtained the key and there would be no need to reach a deal with Qu Ying.
This is the crux of the problem. The monsters in the cursed hospital may have also gone to find the landlord, but they didn't find him, so they had to find Qu Ying as a second choice and prepared to unite with the residents in the building step by step.
Chen Ge slowly figured out everything. Someone in the building must have known that the landlord was spying, and in order not to expose their secret, one person or several people killed the landlord together.
Someone who can tell if there is a problem with the line and is good at routing...
Chen Ge immediately thought of the electrician that Xiao Sun had mentioned just now. The electrician lived on the eighth floor, very close to the ninth floor where the landlord lived. He was highly suspicious.
"Look here!" Aunt Ding opened the closet in the landlord's bedroom. After she took away the clothes, she found that there were many nails on the inner wall of the closet. There was a room number written on each nail, from Room 101 to Room 1006.
"The keys to each room should be hung on the nails. The landlord has kept the keys to all the rooms for himself!" Aunt Ding seemed to be telling others on purpose. She looked very surprised, but this surprised expression seemed too artificial to Chen Ge.
With eyes wide open and mouth wide open, it's completely superficial and not lively at all.
After seeing the key, Chen Ge subconsciously showed his surprise.
Chen Ge's surprise was expressed by almost all of his five senses, and his entire body was moved by a single move, and his emotions were controlled freely.
What is surprise? This is surprise.
"It seems that the murderer has taken the keys to all the rooms. This is not good news for us." Chen Ge quickly regained his composure. He knew that Aunt Ding was hiding some secrets, but he did not expose her.
"So what should we do now? The murderer is lawless. He killed my family and is also related to the disappearance of the landlord..." Qu Ying really didn't expect things to turn out like this. He felt that he was dragged into a big pit by Chen Ge.
The other tenants were also a little panicked. They had not felt much of a crisis when Qu Gui was murdered, but now that their landlord might have also been murdered, most of them began to feel uneasy, and a strange emotion spread among the tenants in the building.
"Let's go to the electrician's house on the eighth floor first. Didn't your father have a quarrel with him before?" Chen Ge and Qu Ying were about to leave room 901 when the middle-aged man who hid women's underwear at home suddenly stood up.
He blocked the living room door and stared at Chen Ge.
"Are you okay?" Chen Ge's expression did not change. He was too strong inside. Even though he was standing among a group of perverted lunatics, he behaved in a way that no one could find fault with.
"Although the tenants in the building are very mobile, with new people moving in and old people leaving quietly, but..." The middle-aged man walked up to Chen Ge and said, "I don't think I've ever seen you before. Are you new here? If you are new, then you should have met the landlord, and you should be the last person to meet the landlord."
"The last person to see the landlord was the murderer, not me." Chen Ge pulled Wen Qing to his side: "There is a child named Xiang Nuan living in 401. You should know him, right?"
As Chen Ge spoke, his brain was working rapidly, and he went over all the arguments he had prepared in his mind.
"I know. The kid lives alone in 401. His father died, and his mother is a vixen who is kept by other men and doesn't live here. He occasionally leaves the community to visit his mother." The middle-aged man's words made Wen Qing tremble with anger.
"My sister and I were hired by Xiang Nuan's mother to take care of Xiang Nuan. The child was sick and had some problems with his brain. I was the psychologist responsible for treating him, and my sister was responsible for taking care of his daily life." Chen Ge talked a lot about Xiang Nuan, and the middle-aged man slowly stepped aside.
"It seems that the child's mother found a good father for him, so he doesn't have to worry about money." The middle-aged man's gaze stayed on Wen Qing for a long time.
Chen Ge stood between the middle-aged man and Wen Qing, still smiling: "You have been picking on me since just now, what are you afraid of?"