"Yeah, I know."
Chen Ge was very grateful to the police in Hanjiang. The police did not necessarily represent 100% justice, but Chen Ge knew that Li Zheng, Captain Yan and others were doing their best to uphold justice, and they also helped Chen Ge a lot.
"You say you know, but you'll make the same mistake again next time." Li Zheng shook his head helplessly. He was sincerely advising Chen Ge. Compared to himself who had the support of his family and the help of his colleagues, Chen Ge was alone.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. Brother Zheng, how did you find the body?"
"According to what you said, it's actually very easy to check. No one lives in this house on the twelfth floor, but the electricity bill is very high every month. We directly locked our eyes on this place, and after opening the door, we found the body in the freezer."
"Has the prisoner been caught?"
"The suspect should be the head of the household, and the deceased is his girlfriend who suffers from anorexia. We have already sent someone over after receiving the news, and if nothing goes wrong, we will be able to arrest him tonight." The Hanjiang police are extremely efficient in handling cases, and in some ways, this is also related to Chen Ge.
"That's good. I can give her an explanation now."
"Confess?"
"Can I go in and take a look? This shouldn't be the first crime scene, so there's no possibility of destroying evidence." Chen Ge entered the house after Li Zheng agreed. The room was not big, and the girl spent the last moments of her life here.
Passing through the living room, Chen Ge entered the kitchen and saw the freezer and refrigerator placed side by side.
He recalled what the girl said to him that night, and felt a little uncomfortable: "The person who hurt you will be punished by the law immediately. He can't get away with it."
Just as Chen Ge finished saying this, there was a light knock on the door.
Li Zheng subconsciously looked behind him, while Chen Ge, who had the gift of ghost ears, immediately looked at the freezer.
Opening the door, Chen Ge saw a thin girl huddled in the shadow of the freezer. She hugged her shoulders with both hands, raised her head slowly, and her pale face was full of tear marks.
The sunlight shone on her face and her body became illusory, but she didn't care. It seemed that she wanted to bathe herself in the light during her last moments.
"Don't cry, you deserve better."
Chen Ge reached into the freezer, trying to wipe away her tears, but he touched nothing.
The sunlight shone between them, like a ravine that could never be crossed.
"It's okay, I'll take you home."
Before the girl disappeared, Chen Ge took out the comic book and included her in it.
Looking at the empty freezer, Chen Ge was stunned for a while.
"What are you looking at? The bodies were indeed found here, but they have been taken away." Li Zheng walked over.
"Nothing." Chen Ge picked up his backpack and waved to Li Zheng: "If everything is fine, I'll leave first."
"Do you think I called you here just to chat with you? Tell me everything you did last night! After you finish taking notes and there are no problems, go back and wait for the next summons!"
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It was already afternoon when Chen Ge returned to New Century Park. After running continuously between the east and west suburbs and not sleeping all night, he was now very tired and his body was a little overwhelmed.
"It's still more comfortable to have your own haunted house."
Lying in the staff lounge, Chen Ge fell asleep unknowingly.
No one disturbed him, and when Chen Ge opened his eyes again, it was already dark outside.
"It's already eight o'clock? I must remember to set the alarm next time." Chen Ge lifted the thin blanket covering himself and glanced towards the door. The room was very quiet and it seemed that all the employees had gone off work.
He put the white cat lying on him aside and found a note on the table. The handwriting was from Xu Wan - we have already cleaned the place, you should have a good rest and remember to eat.
Putting down the note, Chen Ge walked out of the staff lounge with his backpack and went through every scene.
After making sure there was no problem, he went to the prop room and found the photo he had drawn from the turntable during the day in a wooden box in the corner.
This is a very ordinary photo, without any bad smell attached to it.
On the back of the photo is written the date December 21st. On the front of the photo is a teenage boy wearing a white long-sleeved shirt. His face is blurry and cannot be seen clearly, but the overall feeling he gives is clean and sunny.
"How can I find it? There's not even an address." Chen Ge first memorized the date, then stared at the photo.
"Lighted fountain? This place seems to be a park in the city!" Without any other clues, Chen Ge decided to go to the city to take a look first.
Since he got the black cell phone, he rarely went to the city and only went to remote places.
Before he could take out the things in his backpack, Chen Ge put away the photos, picked up his backpack and ran out of the horror house.
After taking a taxi to the city, Chen Ge found that the park in his memory had been fenced off, as if it was under construction, with only a small path left.
"Brother, why is this park fenced off? Can we still go in now?" Chen Ge found a man wearing a helmet next to the fence.
"What are you going in for? This park is going to be demolished soon. Didn't you see that all those decades-old trees in it have been removed?" The worker seemed easy to talk to.
“It’s going to be demolished?” Chen Ge found this place through photos. If the park was demolished, the scenery in the photos would no longer exist, and his last clue would be lost.
"I heard they are planning to build a supermarket, but I don't know the details." The worker waved his hand at Chen Ge and said, "We are working inside, you'd better not go in casually."
"A friend of mine left me a photo of a park. He hasn't been feeling well lately, so he wanted me to go to the park again and take some photos for him." Chen Ge walked towards the empty path. "I'll be right out."
There were huge holes everywhere in the park, the floor tiles had been turned over, valuable old trees had been dug up, and the gardens were left with weeds.
Chen Ge held the photo and walked through the park based on his childhood memories.
He had been to this park before, but because it was too far from the western suburbs, he didn't come here often.
After going around in circles for a long time, Chen Ge finally found the place in the photo.
However, there was no water in the fountain anymore, and the lamps around it had been removed, leaving only rusty iron frames.
Weeds were growing out from the cracks between the floor tiles. The ice cream and marshmallow shop in the photo was nowhere to be seen. Looking around, the only thing that remained the same as in the photo was the bench next to the fountain.
“It’s the same place, indeed.”
Chen Ge walked past the fountain, looked around, and finally sat on the park bench: "How can I find it?"
He was staring at the photo in his hand, absorbed in it, when suddenly a woman's voice came to his ears.
"Excuse me, do you know Fang Yu?"
Chen Ge turned his head and saw a very quiet woman standing behind him.
The woman was about the same age as Chen Ge. She had very fair skin and her cheeks, neck, and arms were all covered with tattoos. And there were only two words tattooed on them - Fang Yu.