The two girls huddled together, their backs pressed against the wall, and nodded repeatedly after hearing what Chen Ge said.
"Don't be nervous. Just answer whatever I ask and tell the truth." Chen Ge swung the skull crusher in his hand: "I won't hurt you unless you lie to me on purpose."
"Just ask, we will definitely tell you everything we know." Ma Ying and Liu Xianxian were pale, their bodies were trembling slightly, and they spoke unsteadily.
"What are your names? Which dormitory do you live in? Who is your counselor?" Chen Ge wanted to test the other party based on the information he already knew.
The two girls told Chen Ge their information honestly, regardless of whether Chen Ge asked or not.
"You seem to be just ordinary students, so why did you come to this place so late at night?"
"There is a legend about the sculpture on campus. As long as you find it after midnight, you can ask it a question." Ma Ying told Chen Ge the reason why she and Liu Xianxian came here. In order to prove what she said, she took out her mobile phone and let Chen Ge watch the video.
It was the first time that Chen Ge saw the video left by Ma Ying's sister before she disappeared. The victim hid under the bed and secretly filmed the video. It seemed that a vicious crime had just occurred in the house, and there were bloodstains everywhere.
The entire video is only thirteen seconds long, and in the last second, the picture freezes on the woman on the windowsill.
"My sister's disappearance should be related to the woman with skin disease." Ma Ying said in a low voice.
"Don't be so arbitrary. The victim hid under the bed to film the video. The quilt was hanging down, and the blood-stained sheets were exposed from the gap in the cabinet door. It is obvious that a murder had just occurred in this room. In other words, in addition to the person who filmed the video, there were other victims." Chen Ge watched the video again: "There is a rope hanging in the middle of the house, giving people the feeling that someone is going to hang themselves, but there are no chairs or other things on the ground to stand on. Did the murderer want to create the illusion that the victim committed suicide? Although the house is very messy, it is strange that the handicrafts on the bookcase are neatly arranged, and the sculptures next to it are not damaged at all. This bedroom should not be the first crime scene."
A guy who looked like a perverted murderer was analyzing the case seriously with his mobile phone. This made Ma Ying and Liu Xianxian a little uncomfortable. They didn't know whether they should be afraid or show other emotions.
"The woman on the edge of the windowsill is indeed suspicious. From her muscle lines and the points of force, we can see that her feet should be stepping on something. If there is no protrusion outside the room for people to step on, it means that this room is on the first floor of a building." Chen Ge looked at the woman's face in the video: "Of course, the premise of all this is that the woman is not a ghost."
The previous analysis was very logical, and when Ma Ying was about to change her mind about Chen Ge, he suddenly said something that was incomprehensible.
"ghost?"
"Look at the woman's skin color. Does she look like a normal person?" Chen Ge returned the phone to Ma Ying.
"Then according to what you said, she must be the murderer!" Ma Ying regained some strength.
"Do you have any misunderstanding about ghosts? Ghosts don't necessarily harm people. Look carefully at this woman's eyes, there is no malice in them. Besides, if she was the real murderer, why didn't she leave immediately after killing someone, but had to lie down at the window and peek?"
Ma Ying didn't know how to refute Chen Ge. It was the first time she saw someone making excuses for a ghost.
With sweat in her hands, she wondered in her heart, could the man in front of her also be a ghost?
Chen Ge found that Ma Ying seemed even more scared. He didn't know which of his words had touched her heart: "Okay, no more questions, take me to see the sculpture."
"The sculpture is in the warehouse, and it's not very clean there." Ma Ying stammered, "It seems haunted."
"What types of ghosts are there?" Chen Ge asked subconsciously, but his question shocked Ma Ying and Liu Xianxian again.
How to answer this?
Ma Ying's forehead was covered in cold sweat. Normal people would question the existence of ghosts even if they were not afraid. Why did this person directly ask what types of ghosts there were? Are there different types of ghosts?
"I don't really understand either." Her voice trembled, and Ma Ying felt tears welling up in her eyes.
"Take me over there and have a look."
Chen Ge's voice was irresistible, and Ma Ying and Liu Xianxian never thought of resisting. They supported each other and limped to the door of the underground warehouse.
"Paradise?" Chen Ge saw the two crooked words on the door: "Why do you name the abandoned warehouse Paradise? Are there many entertainment facilities inside?"
Ma Ying and Liu Xianxian both shook their heads; they didn’t know either.
"This place is interesting." Chen Ge squatted down and stroked the fine marks on the wooden door. He inserted his fingernails into the marks to the right depth: "These marks should have been dug out by hand."
The wooden door was covered with scratches that made people feel uncomfortable.
"The number of those monsters is greater than I thought." Chen Ge pushed the door open and strode forward: "Where is the sculpture you mentioned?"
"Behind the row of shelves at the back of the warehouse." Ma Ying reminded quietly: "There seems to be something strange in the copier and computer. When we went in just now, the tables and chairs moved by themselves."
"In the copier?" Ma Ying's words successfully aroused Chen Ge's curiosity, and he went straight to the copier.
Tables, chairs and benches blocked the road, and the ground was covered with white papers, each of which had a man's grimace printed on it.
"It's really ugly, but hiding in the copy machine is a good idea."
Chen Ge looked at the copier that had stopped working long ago, plugged in the bolt, and turned on the computer monitor.
But the strange thing is that the computer in front of me seemed to have been scrapped for a long time, and there was no response after pressing the buttons for a long time.
"What's going on?"
The two girls nearby were also frightened and started crying: "We really didn't lie to you. There is indeed a ghost in this copy machine. I saw it!"
Ma Ying opened the cover of the copier, but there was nothing inside: "Where did it go? It was here just now?"
"I know you are not lying. It probably escaped early." Chen Ge moved the tables and chairs that were blocking the road. Some of them were stuck together, so he broke them directly and quickly cleared the road.
The two girls followed behind, and when they saw Chen Ge swinging the hammer, they no longer had any thoughts of escaping.
The three of them walked to the end of the shelf, and Chen Ge finally saw the ugly sculpture.
“Is this the sculpture that sheds tears?”
"Well, it can verify the truth of a sentence. If the sentence states the truth, it will shed tears of blood. We two have just tried it, and it is true."
Chen Ge nodded. He didn't quite understand the principle of the sculpture, but that was not a problem. If he didn't understand, he could just ask directly.