Wen Wen let out a silent chuckle. Although his answers were distracted, they were not nonsensical.
The case he mentioned was real. The killer's brilliance lay in leaving a witness alive and deliberately framing the surviving woman. If it hadn't been so deliberate, Wen Wen might not have found anything amiss.
However, there was no need to explain this to the young girl. Wen Wen had already extracted all the information he could from them. As long as she wasn't pestering him, Wen Wen could focus on his investigation.
There were eight people in the exploration team tonight: a young couple visiting Qianhe City, a brother and sister high school students studying locally, and three male students from Qianhe University.
When they heard that Wen Wen's profession was a detective, they all started trying to get close to him. Liu Jiao, who lacked a sense of security, was particularly clingy, pestering Wen Wen with questions.
After all, they were going to spend a night in this deserted hospital. With Wen Wen being the eldest and a detective, having him accompany them made everyone feel much safer.
Wen Wen also took this opportunity to understand their so-called 'exploration', so it wasn't a loss.
After the young girl named Zhao Jiao pointed him out as a liar, Wen Wen did not deny it. The group looked at Wen Wen with disdain.
It was alright to fool people; who hadn't fooled someone in their life?
But if you couldn't even fool a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, then even if this person was a detective, he was the kind who dealt with neighborhood gossip.
Judging by their gazes, Wen Wen knew what they were thinking, but he didn't care.
He crouched down, pulled up a weed by its roots, placed it in his palm along with the soil, sniffed it deeply, and then shook his head in disappointment.
This weed had been growing here for half a year, yet it hadn't absorbed any psionic energy.
He wasn't afraid of abnormalities here; he was afraid that there was nothing at all.
Wen Wen never believed in coincidences or fortuitous encounters. Obtaining useful abilities by picking up a containment object was possible.
But why would something as powerful as The Disaster Containment Facility choose a person for no reason?
Wen Wen wasn't the protagonist in a poorly written novel; he didn't believe he was that lucky.
Something must have happened at this mental hospital back then, and he didn't know about it.
Wen Wen's peculiar actions made the onlookers laugh.
"Alright, we all know you're not a detective. There's no point in you pretending. We still have to stay here for a night," a university student named Zhu Haiyang said, patting Wen Wen on the shoulder.
He meant well, but Wen Wen felt uncomfortable. He stood up, glanced at Zhu Haiyang, then grabbed his hand, gave it a couple of casual squeezes, and said coldly, "You're blood type O."
Then he turned and walked away, leaving Zhu Haiyang with his mouth agape.
A detective who could discern blood types – what a marvel!
He didn't know that for Wen Wen, who possessed a vampire physique, identifying a person's blood type was not difficult.
Liu Haiyang excitedly ran to his two brothers and whispered, "Mr. Wu is truly a divine detective! He knew I was blood type O just by looking at me!"
His two classmates naturally didn't believe him, so the three of them started bickering. Wen Wen mingled with the group, observing everything.
Many of the objects placed here were somewhat familiar to Wen Wen, but they held no value for him anymore. In the past two months, people had come and gone daily, making many clues useless.
The hospital had only two buildings: a main building and a ward building, with a courtyard in between for patients' activities.
The main building was primarily for treating common mental illnesses, while the wards housed the insane who couldn't be released.
If Wen Wen had lost his sanity when he was still an ordinary person, he might have ended up here.
Originally, Wen Wen was walking amidst the crowd. Unlike others, he didn't like to stop and look around, so he inadvertently ended up at the very front, with everyone else following behind him.
Everyone followed behind Wen Wen, like tourists visiting a museum. Only Lin Haiyang and Liu Jiao, who was still bothered by Wen Wen's deception, noticed that the points Wen Wen focused on were completely different from what others noticed.
Wen Wen seemed to be searching for clues, while others were acting as if they were sightseeing.
Soon, they reached the third floor of the hospital. Wen Wen pushed open a door and entered a room. The instruments inside were covered in dust. Wen Wen picked up a patient's medical record, dusted it off, glanced at it a few times, and then sneered before casually throwing it away.
Zhu Haiyang picked up the medical record and also read it curiously.
This record spoke of a peculiar patient.
The patient had been hit on the head by a vase from upstairs, and subsequently, the world appeared distorted to him.
Humans, in his eyes, were delicious food – some tasting like lobster, others like fries, each with its own unique flavor.
And delicious food, in his eyes, were the bloody limbs and meat of humans.
To avoid harming others, he sought treatment at the mental hospital and was very cooperative.
During his treatment, he forced himself to eat various kinds of meals, enduring the urge not to harm anyone.
Later, his illness was cured. It should have been a joyous occasion.
But at this point, he suddenly realized that when he ate the normal food he had longed for, it tasted like chewing wax, and he even felt disgusted.
And the pedestrians who came and went filled him with appetite…
After reading the record, Zhu Haiyang shivered and then asked Wen Wen curiously, "Is there anything wrong with this medical record?"
"Which hospital's medical records are written like this? This is all stuff meant to scare you 'explorers'," Wen Wen said dismissively.
"Even fake ones are pretty scary," Zhu Haiyang felt a chill down his spine.
Wen Wen continued to search the room for a while, then looked up and said to him, "Oh, right. Even though the medical record is fake, this person is likely real."
"How do you know he's real?" Liu Jiaojiao also finished reading the medical record and chimed into their conversation, looking at Wen Wen curiously.
Wen Wen's eyes didn't move, and his lips slowly curved into a grin. His expression was eerie as he said, "Because… I've met him!"
"Ah!"
Liu Jiaojiao screamed in fright and hid behind her brother. Zhu Haiyang also felt a chill.
Wen Wen immediately resumed his usual expression. He had simply wanted to scare them a bit. After wandering around for a while, Wen Wen hadn't found anything, so he felt like causing some mischief.
Liu Jiaojiao's brother, Liu Zhifei, didn't blame Wen Wen. Instead, he was gloating, which only made Liu Jiaojiao more annoyed.
Brothers usually dote on their sisters. If their sister was wronged, they would definitely stand up for her.
But if she was just scared during play, they were quite happy to gloat.
Lin Haiyang gave Wen Wen a deep look. Now he was even more convinced that Wen Wen was an expert. He himself had been quite frightened by that expression just now.
Suddenly, Wen Wen's expression turned strange.
There were now only six people in the team, including Wen Wen. The young couple had left the group much earlier. Wen Wen had thought they wanted to explore on their own, but then he heard voices he shouldn't have.
Others couldn't hear the voice, but Wen Wen heard it clearly.
"This place is at least creepy and terrifying, isn't it? Dare to cause trouble here, aren't you afraid of being so startled you'll become impotent…"
However, many people sought thrills. As long as there was no danger, Wen Wen wouldn't interfere…