The area inside Madam Chenâs house was small, but it was very clean. Although the wooden furniture and electrical appliances were old, they were taken care of with frequent maintenance. At first glance, it seemed deliberately worn out, but the area was covered with layers of small floral cloths that were favored by the elderly.
On the cabinet beside the entrance, there were many wine bottles being used as vases. They were most likely Madam Chenâs recycling.
Su Zimo and the others were most surprised by the large round folding table in Madam Chenâs simple living room. At the moment, there were many beautifully packaged pastries and snacks on the table, as if they were available for guests at any time.
âSeveral of these were recommended to me by Old Hong!â Madam Chen happily greeted her guests. âHe said that A-Hao and A-Ren liked to eat them very much. Normally, mouths of people my age arenât very good. We canât eat hard things, or any snacks that are too salty or too spicy. If Xiao Cheng and A-Hao and A-Ren are unwilling to visit this old lady, I really donât know who I should give these things to.â
Madam Chen welcomed them and looked very pleased, but Lin Hao and Lin Ren looked very uncomfortable.
âWhy are we here?â The two siblings stayed outside Madam Chenâs home, turning sideways to whisper to each other. They spoke softly enough that not even young people one meter away should hear, let alone Madam Chen, who was hard of hearing.
It was just that Su Zimo and Cheng Yun could hear them.
There were also other experienced trainers who were hiding in the dark hallway at the moment. Some of them should be able to hear, like Dr. Jin and Bai Man.
âI donât know why you wanted to follow them, but youâre my sister, so I have to follow you, ah!â Lin Ren complained in a low voice. âLetâs hurry up and move away from here and live somewhere else, okay?â
âWhy did we encounter this kind of thingâŠâ Lin Hao didnât look at the pile of food Madam Chen had prepared at all. Instead, after saying something somewhat tearfully, she coughed slightly and spoke to Madam Chen and the others, âMadam Chen, A-Ren and I suddenly remembered that we have something very important to do. We will leave first today.â
âAh?â Madam Chen didnât react obviously, but perhaps because she had Cheng Yun for company, she didnât encourage Lin Hao and Lin Ren to stay.
Su Zimo didnât say anything, but he suddenly left Cheng Yunâs sight and Madam Chenâs home and ran to the hallway nearby.
âXiao-di⊠A-Yu, where are you going?â Su Zimoâs sudden behavior was surprising to Cheng Yun. Although he didnât know what the child wanted to do, he felt that it wasnât good for such a tiny trainer to act alone in an unsafe place, so he rushed out before he could excuse himself to Madam Chen.
The Lin siblings were walking away, so Cheng Yun and Su Zimo were also walking away. Madam Chen, who was guarding the pile of pastries but couldnât eat them, also rushed out with an inexplicable expression.
âWhatâs the matter? Wasnât everything going well just now?â Hearing the sounds of people rushing away quickly, the trainers who were hiding at the corner of the stairs found a better place to hide.
But what Bai Man and the others didnât expect was that the first thing they saw wasnât the others, but A-Yu, who was running quickly across the wet floor for some reason.
Although some of the trainers considered A-Yu as bait, after spending time together, they still thought the child was quite reliable.
But why was he rushing more quickly than the Lin siblings behind him?
Su Zimo rushed downstairs like a gust of wind. When he reached the door to Old Hongâs house on the second floor, he cast a look at Ghost Umbrella floating to his side.
As always, Ghost Umbrella immediately understood what Su Zimo wanted to do.
So when the Lin siblings and Cheng Yun arrived at the second floor at almost the same time, they saw a strange sceneâ
The little boy who was delicate and well dressed stood in front of the dilapidated wooden door. He looked like an oil painting under a filter because of the dim lights in the hallway.
Then in the next second, the dilapidated wooden door that was originally locked opened with a âcreakâ in front of the boy, revealing the dim evening light of the room.
The Lin siblings were stunned: âHow⊠how could someone open the door.â
Cheng Yun was also confused.
âHas Old Hong been home this whole time?â Madam Chen, who walked slowly down the stairs after them, also saw the wooden door open suddenly, but she didnât have any negative thoughts. She just though that her old friend who lived there, Uncle Hong, opened the door from inside, so she yelled and walked over.
âOld Hong, are you home, ah?â
âA-Ren and A-Hao said that you went to the country. Could it be you were just sleeping late? Or is something wrong with you?â Madam Chenâs eyes werenât very good. The room wasnât well lit, and the thick dark curtains were drawn, so she couldnât find the figure that should have been in the room.
âOld Hong?â After a long time with no response, Madam Chen went closer.
âGranny.â Su Zimo, who saw the scene in the room clearly, was silent for a while, then raised his head to look at Madam Chen. âWhy did that grandpa fall to the ground?â
The tone was very childlike, but what he said made everyone tense. Cheng Yun turned on the flashlight on his phone and took a look inside the room.
With the help of his phone flashlight, Cheng Yun first noticed the large pool of dark red staining the white tiled floor!
âNo! Thereâs something wrong with this Uncle Hong! Auntie, call the police!â Because Cheng Yun and the othersâ cell phones couldnât be used in the nightmare world, he could only urge Madam Chen next to him.
But Madam Chen didnât appear to be someone who carried a cell phone with her.
Cheng Yun subconsciously look toward where the Lin siblings stood before, only to find out that they had disappeared!
Just when Cheng Yun was about to chase them, he heard Bai Manâs domineering voice from the hallwayâ
âHey, what are you doing being so sneaky and hasty?!â
Not long after, Bai Man asked the two young male students to hold the Lin siblings who had escaped just now. When they saw Cheng Yun and the others, in order to not violate the task requirements, they deliberately pretended not to know him as they pointed at the Lin siblings and said, âDo you know these two people? I donât recall having seen them in this building. Theyâre not only wearing weird clothes, but theyâre also sneaking down the stairs. Theyâre not thieves, right?â
Perhaps Bai Manâs tone was too arrogant, but nobody was suspicious of the identities of these people who had suddenly appeared.
Cheng Yun didnât say much to Bai Man and the others. He took out the cell phone in Len Renâs leather pocket and called the police.
âLet us go! These matters have nothing to do with us! It really has nothing to do with us!â After Lin Hao heard Cheng Yun tell the police about the accident and the address of the residential building, his whole body looked pale, and he knelt on the floor as if he had lost all of his strength.
It was then that Uncle Hongâs originally dim room suddenly lit up with an incandescent lamp, and an old, thin body fell into the pool of blood.
âItâs not our fault! We didnât want this! We didnât mean it!â Lin Ren collapsed completely when he saw the light suddenly turn on, and he confessed without being tortured.