"Women's underwear?" Wen Qing hadn't noticed those details. Only after Chen Ge pointed them out did she feel a chill of fear. "Was he some kind of underwear-stealing pervert?"
"Wu You must have seen his secret too. That's why he came out to stop us after he found out we'd spoken to Wu You." Chen Ge and Wen Qing stood in the hallway, speaking so quietly that only each other could hear. "What worries me most isn't that the man steals underwear, but what he said. Wu You left the door open and kept waiting for his parents to come home, which means he thought they were just out. But the middle-aged man said Wu You had killed his parents."
"You think the middle-aged man was the one who killed Wu You's parents?" Following Chen Ge around, Wen Qing had gradually begun to think just like him.
"I suspect several people acted together. No one was the direct killer, but they were all involved in Wu You's parents' deaths." After meeting three tenants, Chen Ge had realized that the building had its own rules. The residents had accepted them, and anyone who tried to break them would likely be targeted by everyone. "If someone witnesses a murder and refuses to cooperate with the police, deliberately hiding what happened, then they're an accomplice."
"Put that way, I feel so sorry for Wu You. Once we find Xiang Nuan, how about we take him with us too?" Wen Qing was a kind woman, but kindness was the most useless thing to the natives of the World Behind the Door. To survive here for long, the first thing one had to cast aside was the goodness in one's heart.
"Let's find Xiang Nuan first."
They followed the stairs to the second floor, where