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Chapter 396 The Disappearing Murder Weapon

Bai Mengfei dialed the number, but the receiver indicated that the number was not in service.

It seems that Shengyang is no longer using this phone number.

But how could such a small setback possibly defeat Bai Mengfei?

Absolutely impossible!

She turned around, immediately picked up her phone, and opened a certain app. She thought to herself, this real-life escape room must have registered their information on it.

Sure enough, by simply entering "real-life escape room", one could see the relevant information left by this escape room on the platform, and Bai Mengfei was able to successfully contact the owner, Shengyang.

The call was answered shortly after it was dialed: "Hello, who is this?"

"I'm forensic pathologist Zhang, and I'm right outside your shop. I have some questions I'd like to ask you about this case. Is this a convenient time for you?"

After thinking for a moment on the other end of the phone, Sheng Yang quickly nodded and agreed, "Okay, I'll come over and open the door for you right away!"

Bai Mengfei stood at the door, waiting quietly.

After waiting for about an hour, Shengyang finally arrived in a hurry. Seeing that he was dressed very warmly, Bai Mengfei immediately became suspicious and looked at him with a suspicious gaze.

"Where are you going?" Bai Mengfei asked softly.

Sheng Yang blinked secretly, thought for a moment, and then said with a forced smile, "I'm not going anywhere!" After saying that, he quickly took out his key and opened the door, looking quite cooperative.

But Bai Mengfei could tell from his eyes that he looked flustered and seemed somewhat guilty.

Bai Mengfei then deliberately asked, "Where is your wife?"

"Wife?" Shengyang forced a smile. "My wife hasn't been feeling well lately, so she went back to her parents' house. After all, such a big thing happened at the shop, it's no small matter, right? Who could have imagined so many problems would arise recently? Business has plummeted, sigh!"

Bai Mengfei nodded slightly, appearing to understand, but a hint of doubt still lingered in her eyes.

After Shengyang opened the door, she followed him inside.

As soon as she entered the store, she saw a yellow talisman pasted on the white counter, and a Bagua mirror placed above it.

"What are these things used for?" Bai Mengfei asked, her eyes sharply fixed on the strange-looking objects.

Shengyang quickly turned around and explained to her, "These are used to ward off evil spirits!"

"Do you really believe in ghosts?" Bai Mengfei asked him, looking at him with a suspicious expression.

Sheng Yang forced a smile, a smile tinged with bitterness, and exhaled puffs of white breath, probably because the weather was getting colder.

After laughing, he sighed and said, "I still prefer to believe it exists rather than not! After all, that man has been dead for a while, right? I'm worried that the curse is real. If that's the case, then it'll just be my wife and me left in the shop, and something really bad might happen!"

Bai Mengfei then understood Shengyang's worries. From his panicked eyes, she could tell that he wasn't lying.

Seeing that he was staring at the stairs as if he was looking at something, Bai Mengfei became curious and slowly approached him, asking softly, "What are you looking at?"

Upon hearing Bai Mengfei's question, Shengyang quickly turned around and frankly said to Bai Mengfei, "If I told you that I feel there is something unclean here, would you believe me?"

Bai Mengfei suddenly remembered that the morgue had been tampered with before, and then she thought of the accident that Xiang Yuntian had encountered. Gradually, she began to believe it.

Little did they know, all of this was actually Kelly's doing.

However, she hadn't had time to delve into these matters, so she didn't know.

Seeing Bai Mengfei deep in thought, Shengyang knew she was beginning to believe him, so he leaned closer and whispered, "I knew you'd believe me, that's good! So, you shouldn't investigate this case any further. If you really anger those unclean things and they target you, that would be troublesome!"

To this, Bai Mengfei simply replied coldly, "Thank you for your concern."

Sheng Yang nodded slightly, and then tried to pull Bai Mengfei out.

Bai Mengfei broke free of his hand and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'll take you away from here, so you won't be haunted by vengeful spirits!" Shengyang said anxiously. "Didn't you thank me already?"

"I thank you, but the case still needs to be investigated." With that, Bai Mengfei walked into the store.

As she walked, she asked, "Are you sure you didn't see anyone suspicious that day?"

Shengyang shook his head and said definitively, "No! I remember it was raining heavily that day, and I thought no one would come to play. But who knew, people still came."

"Don't you have any other employees in your store? Like someone who cleans?" Bai Mengfei stopped and turned to look at Shengyang, trying to determine if he was lying.

He firmly replied, "No! It's just my wife and me. We do all the cleaning in the shop. After all, the rent is expensive and we don't earn much. How can we afford to hire people? We schedule more than a dozen games a day, but sometimes we don't have any. We still have to pay the utility bills."

Bai Mengfei felt that Shengyang's explanation of the difficulties made sense, so she didn't ask any further questions. However, she still felt that something was amiss and a strange feeling lingered in her heart.

Is there some detail that we've overlooked that everyone has missed?

When she went up to the second floor to investigate, Shengyang became timid and didn't even dare to go up the stairs, leaving her to walk upstairs alone in her trench coat.

She lifted the curtain and walked along the dark, narrow passageway to the first room of the secret chamber. It seemed that the preparations had been stopped halfway through, and the door was ajar.

Bai Mengfei stepped forward and pushed open the door.

She walked into the room alone, stood where the crime had occurred, and closed her eyes. She began to recreate the scene in her mind: the two of them had arrived at this level, and it seemed like it was about to end.

How could such a tragedy have happened?

Moreover, the two were not scared to death, but were killed directly by a knife. However, the murder weapon has now disappeared without a trace.

If what Shengyang and the others said is true, and no outsiders came, and it was a case of infighting, then the murder weapon must still be in this secret room.

Could it be that she's going to solve a real-life mystery in this locked room and find the murder weapon? That possibility exists.

Just as Bai Mengfei was pondering, the wind chimes hanging outside the door suddenly rang out with a clear, crisp sound: "Ding-a-ling..."

If someone were alone in such an environment where people had died, they would probably be terrified to death if they suddenly heard such a sound.

Bai Mengfei, however, remained remarkably calm, simply turning her head slowly to look in the direction from which the sound came.

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