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Chapter 139 Murderer
Chu Changge got out of the car and opened the fat man's car door.

The cold wind filled the taxi, and the fat man felt a throbbing pain in his head.

But he didn't pause for long before grabbing Chu Changge's sleeve and frantically jumping out of the car: "Why are you asking me what I'm doing? Let's run!"

As he spoke, he tried to pull Chu Changge away, but he couldn't budge her.

The fat man turned around to look at him, somewhat confused, but when he turned around, he was met with the driver's extremely pale face, which made him shiver again.

At this moment, Chu Changge also turned to look at the driver in the fat man's car.

The driver's head was still stuck between the car door and the seat, but his body was still sitting upright in the seat, which looked quite terrifying.

The fat man had been hoping that Chu Changge would be so frightened by seeing the driver's appearance that he would run away with him.

But to everyone's surprise, Chu Changge only glanced at that pale face a few more times and did not react otherwise.

"Are you blind?" the fat man asked, his mouth agape.

Chu Changge pried the fat man's hands off: "Not yet."

"No..." The fat man swallowed hard and took several steps back.

He glanced at the two repulsive-looking drivers, then at Chu Changge who remained unresponsive, and felt a little uneasy: "Are you Brother Chu?"

Chu Changge glanced at the map in the fat man's hand: "Nonsense."

The fat man began to doubt that the person in front of him was Chu Changge. Although he knew that Chu Changge had always been a person with no expression, he used to run away when he saw a ghost, but now he didn't even move his legs.

They either learned bad habits from the doctor or got switched at birth...

The fat man thought to himself, and as he thought, he took a few steps back: "Then let me ask you, what color was the dress you wore when you were a child?"

Chu Changge never answered the question.

He simply took out a special item called "Save Device" that Gu Mian had stolen from an NPC. Only after seeing this did the fat man reluctantly believe that Chu Changge was a living person.

The two then got back into the fat man's taxi.

The fat man was forcibly pulled onto the bus, and he was a little nervous when he got on.

The car drove along the dark road, and the fat man sat close to Chu Changge: "Brother Chu, you knew all along that these drivers were ghosts?"

By this time, the driver had turned his head back, and apart from his somewhat frightening appearance, he did not do anything else dangerous.

"Hmm," Chu Changge said, having already taken the map from the fat man's hand and examining it closely. "I knew it from the beginning, but they pose no threat to us. However, they might cause a psychological shock to those who are easily frightened."

The fat man touched his chest: "How can you be so sure? What if he suddenly turns around and bites us?"

As he said this, he glanced nervously at the driver in front of him, but thankfully the driver didn't seem to be planning to turn around and bite them.

"The dial pad—we only need to hail a taxi here, but the phone in the phone booth has a complete dial pad."

"I tried dialing a number..."

"Wait a minute," the fat man asked, puzzled, "What number did you dial? 110?"

"I can't get through to 110." Chu Changge was quite certain.

"You actually hit him?"

Chu Changge handed the advertisement in his hand to the fat man: "I dialed the family member's number on the missing person notice."

Each player will receive a small advertisement with a map and the specific address of their "home" when they enter this instance.

Moreover, each small advertisement has a different missing person notice, and the family contact number on it is naturally different as well.

The fat man didn't look at the advertisement Chu Changge handed him, but cautiously asked, "So, are there really any missing persons' family members answering the phone?"

As he spoke, he furtively glanced at the driver in front of him. The driver in front was probably also a missing person, so the fat man was particularly careful when he spoke, afraid of touching the driver's fragile heart.

Chu Changge shook his head: "No, but there is a phone recording..." The fat man frowned: "A phone recording?"

Can dialing the phone number on a missing person poster really trigger a hidden storyline? He hadn't even paid attention to that number.

"It's a phone recording, not the victim's recording, not the victim's family's recording, but the murderer's recording." Chu Changge paused here.

The killer's recording...

The fat man has only ever met people who were killed by the murderer, and has never met the so-called murderer.

Could it be that the murderer was also hiding among the taxi drivers?

The fat man felt a chill run down his spine at the thought. He finally looked down at the small advertisement Chu Changge had handed him, and what he saw was a very conspicuous missing person notice.

【Search notices】

[Name: Li Guofang; Gender: Male; Age: 23]

[She went missing on April 28, 2017, after taking a taxi. She is 4 meters tall and was wearing a thin black sweater and jeans when she disappeared.]

[Resident of the Changsheng Plastics Factory Staff Quarters]

[Please, kind-hearted person, contact your family immediately if you see this. A generous reward will be given!]

Below is a photo of the missing person. The fat man swallowed hard as he looked at the photo.

Li Guofang...

Li Guofang's photo looks exactly like the driver in front of her.

Chu Changge then spoke:
The killer recounted how he murdered the missing person, hid the body, and then moved on to find his next victim.

"And he also said something else..."

"Anything else?" The fat man looked blank.

Chu Changge turned his head to look out the car window and saw a phone booth ahead: "Driver, could you please stop?"

The car braked suddenly, and the driver sat silently in the front, without saying a word or making any other movement.

Chu Changge took the two people's flyers, opened the door and walked towards the phone booth, with the fat man quickly following behind.

The night was dark, and the phone booth wasn't far, but the fat man found that short distance terrifying.

It felt like a psychopath might suddenly appear on the way, kill you, and then dismember you.

"Actually, this instance was hinted at from the beginning that these drivers would not harm us; the danger in this instance comes from other places."

As Chu Changge spoke, he glanced at the small advertisement in his hand.

The advertisements for Sunshine Taxi Company are very eye-catching.

Of course, the most eye-catching phrase is "Our drivers will provide you with the safest service."

Chu Changge continued, "Besides, when you got into the taxi, the driver told you not to go out easily at night and to be careful, right?"

"Yes," the fat man nodded, "but the doctor would also smile at the ghost, and in the end he still sawed its head off, didn't he?"

Chu Changge seemed unwilling to talk to him further, and directly led him to the phone booth, then picked up the fat man's flyer: "The number I dialed earlier was Li Guofang's family number. The murderer described in detail how he killed Li Guofang..."

"It's bloody, isn't it?" The fat man hesitated and looked at the driver not far away. Li Guofang was sitting in the car.

"No," Chu Changge said, "The phone recordings for each missing person notice are different. I've already listened to Li Guofang's. Now I'll listen to yours."

The missing person notice on the fat man's advertisement was looking for a person named "Miao Qingxi".

Chu Changge dialed the number, and within two seconds, a middle-aged man's voice came through the receiver. His voice sounded perfectly normal.

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