Chapter 230: Who leaked the news?

Xu Mo had already thought it through.

He planned to solve the problem of how to enter the secret room in the simplest way.

Rather than waste time thinking how to open the door, it's better to just smash it!

Simple and brutal, and highly effective.

"No big hammer, only a small one," the woman said, shaking her head.

"A small one will do; go get it for me."

Hearing that, the woman immediately went and fetched a toolbox.

It was her husband's.

Men always like to collect such little gadgets, even if they never use them.

He took the toolbox.

Xu Mo opened it and took a glance.

Inside there was indeed a small hammer.

Besides that, there were wrenches, screwdrivers and the like.

Finally, Xu Mo selectively took out that small hammer and a screwdriver from the toolbox.

It's a bit small, but it should be enough for chiseling the door.

Xu Mo planned to wait for the Investigation Team to leave, then go next door to chisel open that secret room's door.

……

Meanwhile.

Room 2012.

A man and the officers outside the door were staring at each other.

He wore a bitter smile.

Just moments ago.

This man had been sleeping soundly when the knocking woke him; his morning grumpiness made him launch a tirade at the officers.

He even cursed the officers' ancestors eighteen generations deep.

Only after finishing his rant did he realize.

The people before him were all in police uniforms… the police had come.

He actually unleashed a tirade at the officers without distinguishing right from wrong!

Fortunately he didn't lay a hand on them.

Otherwise it would have been defined as police assault.

He scratched his head.

"Er… haha, well, I just woke up, my vision's a bit blurry, sorry, officer uncle!"

Having been pointed at the nose and scolded so harshly,

nobody could tolerate that.

But the problem was he couldn't well retort.

After all, he was currently live-streaming; if he talked back or got physical now, it would affect the reputation of the vast police force.

Han Fei's face had already darkened to the extreme.

When he spoke, his tone involuntarily grew heavier.

He pulled out his credentials, gave the man a glance, then spoke without a trace of emotion.

"We suspect there's a criminal in your room; we need to search inside, please cooperate."

Since he had just woken up, the man's brain was still a bit slow.

Without much thought he nodded: "Cooperate… of course I'll cooperate."

After obtaining the homeowner's consent, Han Fei led the officers rushing into the room.

However, at that moment the man seemed to think of something.

Suddenly his eyes widened.

"No! You can't go in!"

Saying that, he prepared to block Han Fei and the others.

Hearing that, Chen Ke almost instinctively pressed the man against the wall, making his face meet the cold wall in an intimate contact.

With a slap, before the man could even react, he was pressed there.

"Han Team, this kid's got something weird!" Chen Ke said.

Han Fei naturally noticed as well.

Such strange behavior—what else could it be if not something uncanny?

He immediately ordered the officers: "Search carefully!"

……

Two minutes later.

The officers who had searched the room returned to Han Fei.

"Han Team, the search is complete; no one's here."

"No one?" Han Fei wondered: "Then why was he nervous?"

The officer smiled and replied.

"He has an inflatable girlfriend on his bed; maybe he was afraid of being seen."

Han Fei: "……"

What does he think he is!

All that effort and this!?

The man that Chen Ke pressed against the wall turned red with embarrassment, his face flushing all the way to the base of his neck.

He didn't want the officers to go in, precisely because of that.

After all, how could he let anyone know he has an inflatable girlfriend?

Isn't this a perfect social death?

Moreover, there were quite a few officers present.

Even more of a social death!

But what he didn't know was...

The people who knew he had an inflatable girlfriend were not limited to the officers present.

There were also the millions of Water Friends in the Live Broadcast Room.

His road to social death had only just begun.

Chen Ke released the man he had pressed against the wall, reached out and patted his shoulder, and said with a half‑smile,

"Sorry, brother, didn't hurt you, right? I thought you were hiding a criminal in your house, this whole thing... It's fine, it's just an inflatable girlfriend, right? That's not embarrassing; at least you're far better than those law‑breaking scoundrels!"

As he spoke, Chen Ke deliberately raised his tone.

He also glanced at the tiny camera on Shen Manni's collar.

That kid just insulted Chen Ke, and Chen Ke remembered it.

Out of professional conduct, he could neither retort nor strike.

But a little disgust for someone is still permissible!

The Escapee wasn't hiding in this room, and Han Fei didn't waste any more time here.

He just disbanded the team and left.

After all the officers left,

The man couldn't help but mutter angrily under his breath, "Cao!"

Damn, how awkward!

Fortunately, only those officers just now knew about it.

As long as the people who know him stay unaware, it's fine.

But the next second,

His phone rang several times without any warning.

He took it out and looked.

All were messages from acquaintances.

A drinking‑buddy friend: "Hey kid, I heard you have an inflatable girlfriend hidden at home? (Surprised. jpg)"

A colleague: "Can you send me a photo of your girlfriend? (Evil grin. jpg)"

There were a bunch of similar messages.

It was as if the whole world now knew he had an inflatable girlfriend!

Even his father sent a voice message at that moment.

The voice said: "Son, it's fine to relax appropriately, but you need to watch your health, understand?"

At the end of the voice, the father's sigh sounded like iron that wouldn't become steel.

The man: "???"

Damn... who is it? Who actually leaked the news!?

After calming down for a moment,

The man opened the ticket‑purchasing app.

I can't stay here any longer.

He decided to move to another city!

…

After leaving Room 2012, Han Fei frowned again.

He always felt he had overlooked something important.

Which link exactly went wrong?

Where are those two Escapees hiding?

Staring at the stark white wall of the corridor, Han Fei fell into thought.

Suddenly, he slapped his thigh.

The wall!

"I think I know where the two are hidden!" Han Fei exclaimed excitedly.

"Where?" Chen Ke asked.

Han Fei pointed at the wall: "If nothing's amiss, they're behind the wall."

Chen Ke wore a puzzled expression.

Behind the wall?

How could people hide behind a wall? Could these two crooks have wall‑passing skills?

Seeing Chen Ke's bewildered look, Han Fei explained.

"Did you notice that the structures of rooms 2010, 2011, and 2012 aren't the same? To be precise, the layouts of 2011 and 2010 differ from 2012; 2011 is a bit smaller!"

Immediately afterward, relying on memory, Han Fei walked along the white wall outside the corridor, gesturing as he went.

"I'll roughly sketch it for you; we've entered all three rooms. The 2012 room's range is from this line to this line, the 2010 range is from this line to this line. Logically, the piece left in the middle should be the 2011 house range, but what we saw when we just went in wasn't like that—the 2011 house range is only from this line to this line."

Speaking of that, Han Fei paused.

He then kept extending his hand, gesturing on the white wall in the corridor as he spoke.

"A portion in the middle is empty, which means the 2011 area we saw after entering is far smaller than the actual 2011 area; there could very well be a secret room in 2011!"