Wen Wen couldn’t help but give a wry laugh. Although his responses seemed distracted, he wasn’t spouting nonsense.
The case he mentioned was real, with the cleverness of the murderer lying in the fact that they left a survivor and deliberately left evidence pointing to the living woman. If it hadn’t been done too deliberately, Wen Wen might not even have noticed the problem.
However, there was no need to explain this to the young girl. After all, Wen Wen had already extracted all he could from their conversations. Without her by his side chattering, Wen Wen could focus more on his investigation.
Tonight’s exploration team consisted of eight people, a young couple on vacation in Qianhe City, high school siblings studying locally, and three male students from Qianhe University.
When they learned that Wen Wen’s profession was a detective, they began to cozy up to him, especially Liu Jiaojiao, who already lacked a sense of security and clung to Wen Wen, bombarding him with endless questions.
After all, they were to spend the night in this deserted hospital, and with Wen Wen being the oldest and a detective, his presence was reassuring to everyone.
And Wen Wen used this opportunity to gain an understanding of their so-called ’adventure,’ so it wasn’t a loss at all.
After the girl named Zhao Jiao had accused Wen Wen of being a swindler, he did not deny it, and the others began to look at Wen Wen with contempt.
Tricking others was not a big deal—after all, who in life hasn’t deceived someone?
But to not even fool a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, even if he was a detective, he must be the kind who only concerned himself with petty neighborhood disputes.
By their looks, Wen Wen could tell what they were thinking, but he didn’t care.
He squatted down, pulled up a weed root and all, and placing it together with the soil in his palm, he took a deep breath. Then, he shook his head, disappointed.
The weed had been growing here for half a year and hadn’t absorbed any supernatural aura.
He wasn’t afraid of there being something abnormal here, he feared that there was truly nothing at all.
Wen Wen never believed in things like chance or strokes of luck. It was possible to pick up a Containment Item and gain a useful ability.
But could a thing as powerful as the Catastrophe Containment Facility select someone without reason?
Wen Wen was not the protagonist in some hack writer’s novel; he didn’t believe he had such good fortune.
Something must have happened in this mental hospital that he was unaware of.
Wen Wen’s odd behavior, observed by everyone, caused them to snicker.
"Alright, we all know you’re not a detective. There’s no point in pretending anymore, and we have to stay here all night anyway," said a university student named Zhu Haiyang, patting Wen Wen on the shoulder from behind.
He meant well, but Wen Wen felt uncomfortable. He stood up, gave Zhu Haiyang a glance, and decided to tease him.
Then, putting on an act, he spouted a bunch of nonsense, concluding with, "You have O type blood."
He turned and walked away, leaving a gaping Zhu Haiyang behind.
A detective who could determine someone’s blood type... That’s not scientific!
But what he didn’t know was that it wasn’t difficult for Wen Wen, who had a Vampire Constitution, to smell a person’s blood type.
Excited, Zhu Haiyang ran to his two buddies and whispered, "That Mr. Wu is really a godly detective; he could even tell I’m O type blood!"
Both classmates looked at Zhu Haiyang seriously, wondering if their companion was an idiot.
After bamboozling Zhu Haiyang, Wen Wen began to focus his energy on exploring the mental hospital.
Many of the objects laid out here were somewhat familiar to Wen Wen, but they were no longer of value to him. With people coming and going daily for the past two months, many clues had become useless.
The hospital consisted of only two buildings, a main building and a ward, with a courtyard in between for patient activities.
The main building primarily treated common mental disorders, while those living in the ward were lunatics who could not be set free.
If Wen Wen, as an ordinary person, had ever lost his sanity, he might also have been housed here.
Originally, Wen Wen was blending in with the crowd, but unlike the others who liked to wander and pause, he unconsciously walked to the front, with everyone else following behind him.
The others followed behind Wen Wen as if they were visiting a museum, the only exceptions being Lin Haiyang and Liu Jiaojiao, who still harbored a grudge against Wen Wen for deceiving her. They noticed Wen Wen’s points of interest were completely different from everyone else’s.
Wen Wen seemed to be here for clues, while the rest of the people appeared to be having fun.
Soon, they reached the third floor of the hospital. Wen Wen pushed open a door and entered a room. The room was filled with equipment coated in dust. Wen Wen picked up a medical record, shook off the dust, glanced at it, and tossed it aside with a twitch of his mouth.
Zhu Haiyang picked up the medical record and read it with curiosity as well.
This medical record spoke of a peculiar patient.
After being hit on the head by a flower vase from above, the patient’s view of the world became twisted.
Humans appeared as delicious food in his eyes, tasting of lobster, French fries, all different flavors.
And delicious food, in his eyes, looked like bloody chunks of human limbs and flesh.
To avoid harming others, he came to the psychiatric hospital for treatment and was very cooperative.
During his treatment, he constantly forced himself to eat a variety of meals, resisting the urge to harm people.
Eventually, his condition was cured, which should have been a cause for celebration.
But at this time, he suddenly discovered that when he ate the normal food he had longed for, it tasted bland and insipid, even making him feel nauseous.
Meanwhile, the passersby continued to incite his appetite...
After reading the medical record, Zhu Haiyang shivered and asked Wen Wen with curiosity, "Is there something wrong with this medical record?"
"What kind of hospital medical record would be written ? It’s all to scare you ’explorers,’" Wen Wen said with disdain.
"Even if it’s fake, it’s still quite scary," Zhu Haiyang felt a chill run down his spine.
Wen Wen continued to search the room for a while, then looked up at him and said, "Oh, by the way, although the medical record is fake, the person probably is real."
"How do you know it’s real?" Liu Jiaojiao, who had also finished reading the medical record, interjected into their conversation, looking at Wen Wen with curiosity.
Wen Wen’s gaze was steady, and his lips slowly curved into a strange expression as he said, "Because... I’ve seen him!"
Liu Jiaojiao screamed in fright and hid behind her brother, while Zhu Haiyang also felt a coldness in his body.
Wen Wen immediately went back to his normal expression; he just wanted to scare people for fun, and after wandering around for a while without finding anything, he was in the mood for some mischief.
Far from blaming Wen Wen, Liu Zhi, Liu Jiaojiao’s brother, seemed to take delight in her fright, which only irritated Liu Jiaojiao even more.
As brothers usually dote on their sisters and stand up for them if they are wronged...
But if it was just a scare during playtime, they took pleasure in their siblings’ fright.
Lin Haiyang looked at Wen Wen intently, now even more convinced that Wen Wen was someone extraordinary. Even he had been scared by that expression just now.
Suddenly, Wen Wen’s expression became peculiar.
Now, including Wen Wen, there were only six people in the group. The couple had separated from the group much earlier. Wen Wen had thought they wanted to explore on their own, but unexpectedly, he heard a sound that should not have been heard.
The sound was inaudible to others, but Wen Wen could hear it clearly.
"This place is at least gloomy and terrifying. To be messing around here, aren’t they afraid of being frightened to impotence..."
But many people seek the thrill, and as long as there’s no danger, Wen Wen couldn’t care less...