Following the Guide

Xiao Bu lived in a very ordinary apartment, and her stepfather's home did not appear particularly wealthy either.

"Are we breaking in?" Standing in the hallway, Chen Ge held the Murderous Maniac he had just caught from the bushes at knifepoint. "This is Xiao Bu's Home; breaking in directly doesn't feel right."

Chen Ge stopped at the door and gripped the handle, giving it a shake. To his surprise, the door was unlocked.

With a soft click, he pushed the door open.

A faint, foul stench drifted from within. Chen Ge narrowed his eyes, his pupils constricting as he activated his Yin Pupil.

Coffee table, sofa, TV cabinet...

All the furniture was mundane, with nothing out of the ordinary.

"Someone died in this room. You'd best not go in." With his hands bound, the Murderous Maniac hung his head, speaking as if to himself.

"How do you know? Did you kill them?" Chen Ge shoved the Murderous Maniac from behind and entered Xiao Bu's Home with him.

"There's a stench of a corpse here, a very distinct one." The gray patches on the man's skin crinkled as his nostrils flared, and he looked toward the bedroom. "The smell is coming from that room. The person must have been dead for a long time."

Matted hair obscured his face, and the man's voice was low. It was less like he was guiding Chen Ge and more like he was trying to exploit Chen Ge's curiosity to find an opportunity to escape.

In the bedroom? The only thing in this room that would emit the stench of a corpse was her stepfather's body, yet the scene Chen Ge had seen in the game was Xiao Bu's stepfather lying right in the middle of the living room. *The position of the body has