Chapter 2228: Love Trapped in the Cycle of Fate 27

Jin Chen, flipping to the diary, Shao Huai raised his chin, 'After prolonged contact with one of the twins, you can always notice some subtle differences.'

Shao Huai deeply agreed, flipping back and forth over the diary that was like a Death Note.

Xie Guan asked doubtfully, 'When did you have a twin brother?'

Before, it seemed Shao Huai had never mentioned it.

Earlier Jin Chen had mentioned it in passing, but he thought it was just a line from Jin Chen's 'character setting role-play'.

'That kid only came back after the college entrance exam; I really didn't mention it before.' Shao Huai didn't mind much, slinging an arm over Xie Guan's shoulders, 'It's fine; given your relationship with Chenzi, later my two brothers plus Xu Yi will go together to be your groomsmen.'

Xie Guan: '……'

Xu Yi smiled but said nothing.

Jin Chen went to the balcony and snapped the iron window shut.

'Do you guys want to jump off the building?'

The two girls turned their heads quickly, then looked toward where Jin Chen had been standing, dazed.

In the next instant, they both tilted their heads and smiled at Jin Chen, a small knife suddenly appearing in their hands, and without changing expression they stabbed fiercely at their necks.

Fresh blood spurted.

Even Jin Chen was caught off guard; the distance made it impossible to snatch the knife away.

Xu Yi instinctively went to help, but ended up with his hands covered in blood.

'At least we got a diary we can't really read.' Shao Huai tried to ease the atmosphere.

Xie Guan lowered his gaze at the corpse: 'As long as time is reset, we can find the killer.'

Even he himself isn't clear now whether he can truly escape this cycle.

Jin Chen snapped the iron window open again, glanced upstairs, feeling a bit annoyed.

'I have an idea.'

Jin Chen frowned: 'Use the most direct method to force out the killer.'

Shao Huai: 'For example…?'

Jin Chen: 'Burn 806.'

Shao Huai choked back.

Xu Yi: '…Huh?'

Xie Guan thought for half a second, then found a lighter in the room.

'Let's go.'

'We might also need a horn.' Jin Chen pondered.

Xie Guan: 'The convenience store has one.'

【Truly lives up to being a wicked couple.】 Ling Gun Gun shuddered.

8th floor.

'We really really don't need to discuss this anymore, there are ashes inside… ah.'

Seeing Jin Chen pick the lock, Shao Huai immediately brought out the urn of ashes from deep inside the cabinet, then patted his little chest.

'Burning it like this? Fine, that's more humane.'

Jin Chen: '……'

Jin Chen turned and tattled, 'Xiao Guan, he seems to be scolding me for lacking humanity.'

Shao Huai:???

Xie Guan gave a light, drifting glance, 'What difference does being inhumane make to you?'

'None.' Jin Chen said humbly.

Shao Huai stubbornly embraced the urn, 'It's all because of my damned mouth.'

I can't win one-on-one, let alone two against one.

He held the urn, feeling hurt, and sought comfort from Xu Yi.

Xu Yi silently pointed out, 'Your holding posture is wrong; I'll teach you.'

Shao Huai turned away, grimacing as he held it properly.

After igniting 806, Jin Chen casually pried open the door of 804 and placed a monitor in the hallway.

Xu Yi took a deep breath, grabbed the horn, and shouted down the stairwell: 'Fire!! The 8th floor is on fire!!'

After shouting, he ran back to 804 and watched the monitor through the computer screen.

Jin Chen flipped through a few pages of Xiao Jing's diary, then decisively handed the notebook to Xie Guan, 'It's coded; study it.'

Xie Guan looked at him in surprise, 'How do you know…?'

'You weren't trying to hide it from me either; the paper with the encrypted code was just lying around.'

Jin Chen ruffled his hair.

Xie Guan pressed his lips, and while no one had come up yet, he lowered his head and quickly flipped through.

The first to rush upstairs was Zheng Zu; he didn't think much, grabbed a bucket and charged into the smoke-filled 806, still shouting to see if anyone was there.

Xu Yi watched the computer monitor and sighed, 'Aside from liking not to pay money and having an unusually violent temper, he's actually quite decent otherwise.'

Immediately afterward, more and more residents went upstairs.

Perhaps due to the successive deaths of Song Gong and Zhou Jin, the residents had their suspicions; upon hearing that the fire was in 806, those who knew the inside story or had directly participated in the murder case back then all had grim expressions.

'Old Chen… Old Chen! How on earth was he guarding, that it ended up on fire!'

Uncle Wang was the most taboo; he didn't even enter, seeing the tablet of Old Fangzi's 'suppressing' of dead souls from years ago also fallen on the ground, he couldn't help but keep stepping back.

'Old Chen was asked by Teacher Luo to come help, saying he accidentally fell and hurt his leg, making it inconvenient… Ah, never mind Old Chen, let's quickly think about how to deal with this room!'

Aunt Li sighed, 'I don't even know if we can still… suppress it, Grandma Chen?'

Grandma Chen looked at the miserable state inside, couldn't help shaking her head; "Can't suppress it, can't suppress it… What a sin, all sin."

Finally coming up was Luo Wenbin.

At that moment, the four people outside the monitor screen all subtly changed their expressions.

"According to the normal timeline, Teacher Luo… broke his leg?" Shao Huai stared wide-eyed in shock: "No way."

Jin Chen's gaze locked onto the screen, imagining Luo Wenbin pulling on a heavy raincoat thick enough to conceal his figure, wrapped in cat fur.

On the screen, seeing 806 burned to ashes, Luo Wenbin's distorted anger outweighed his panic.

Jin Chen: "It's him."

Xie Guan's face cold, he said: "Why."

Yeah, why.

Even Xu Yi, who had interacted with Luo Wenbin as a neighbor for only a short time, couldn't figure it out, let alone believe it.

"The ash box… the ash box is gone!"

Inside Room 806, the open flame was temporarily extinguished; amidst the rolling thick smoke, someone shouted.

Instantly, it stirred up layers of waves.

"Who! Who set the fire! Who… stole the ash box!"

Amid the chaos, no one noticed the growing fury and hatred in Luo Wenbin's eyes.

Luo Wenbin's back was suddenly slapped.

He startled, turned his head, and met Jin Chen's icy gaze.

In the next instant, Luo Wenbin was dragged into Room 804.

The door shut out the hallway clamor; Luo Wenbin, still shocked, hadn't even had time to disguise himself when he saw Shao Huai holding the ash box in his arms.

"……Old, Lao Luo." Shao Huai was frightened by his sudden bloodshot gaze.

"'Why, how could it be you guys?'"

Luo Wenbin pulled out a rusted short dagger from behind his back, the extreme of repressed madness, shouting, "Kids, why? Ah!"