This actor is full of tricks.

Lin Jue was incredibly fast. After his breakthrough, his physical abilities increased almost exponentially, and he ran up the dozen or so flights of stairs in less than a minute.

He exhaled all the cold air from his lungs and stepped out of the door leading to the rooftop.

The meows around me grew increasingly shrill, like stray cats issuing a fierce warning to an intruder.

But there was nothing on the rooftop except for some dead rats.

Did he jump?
Lin Jue walked to the railing and looked at the scratches that were clearly left not long ago. There was no one to be seen downstairs. His gaze swept over and he saw an old small tape recorder lying on the ground not far away.

He walked over and picked up the tape recorder, which still had a few cat hairs stuck to it. It must have been left behind by the cat-faced girl.

He tried pressing the play button, but the recorder only made a few clicks and didn't make any other sound.

"It looks broken. This thing should be something the cat-faced girl always carries with her. Why would she carry this? What's recorded on it?"

"Drag all those who harmed you into hell... Could this contain the words of those who harmed her?"

Lin Jue put the tape recorder away, planning to find some time to see if there was anywhere that could repair it.

He searched the rooftop again, and after confirming that there were no clues, he went to the supermarket outside the community to buy new bedding.

The cat-faced girl didn't leave, which means there are still people in this neighborhood she wants to kill, and she might strike again soon.

When he got home, he saw He Wen staring at him with a livid face, and at his feet was a pile of garbage that had been cleared away and a bunch of dead bedbugs.

"Sweetie, Uncle will buy you something delicious when we get back." Lin Jue tentatively tried to pat He Wen's head, but she slapped him away, crushed a cockroach's corpse, and then angrily disappeared from Lin Jue's sight.

Lin Jue scratched his head awkwardly and patted Bi Zheng and Xiao Ming on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work."

He meticulously made the bedding, and then took out bags of trash to dispose of them.

"Hey, the garbage collector has changed his ways, he knows how to throw away garbage now."

"Didn't this guy used to collect all this junk like treasures? Is he thinking of selling his house and moving too?"

Who would want to stay in a room that a garbage collector once stayed in?

The people who returned to the community made no attempt to hide their malice. Lin Jue pretended to throw the trash in his hand at them, which made them scream and flee in a panic.

It wasn't until noon that the room was finally cleaned up and barely habitable.

He sat on the bed, took out the tape recorder, and tried it again. This time, he could hear a little bit of human voice, but the sound quality was very poor. The noise from the broken tape recorder masked the recording.

Lin Jue held the tape recorder to his ear and listened. He could vaguely hear a woman saying something, but he couldn't make out what she was saying. "Looks like it still needs fixing. But this tape recorder looks quite old. I wonder if there's a shop around here that can fix it." Lin Jue walked out of the house, wandered around the neighborhood for a bit, and then went into a home appliance repair shop.

The shop owner, a middle-aged man, saw Lin Jue's dirty appearance and mistook him for a beggar. Just as he was about to chase him away, Lin Jue pulled out several hundred-yuan bills from his pocket and placed them on the table: "Boss, take a look, can you fix this machine? It would be best if you didn't damage the recordings stored inside."

No one turns down money. Upon seeing the brand-new red bills at the center, the boss immediately beamed and took the tape recorder. After examining it for a while, he said, "This thing of yours is an old relic. It can be repaired, but some electrical components need to be purchased, so it may take a few days."

"As long as it can be fixed." Lin Jue pretended to look around the shop and asked in a casual manner, "Boss, have you heard about the cat-faced girl incident at Qingwangyuan nearby? I heard that the two people who died were community workers."

The boss's smile froze at the mention of the cat-faced girl. He looked around before lowering his voice: "I've not only heard of her, but I also know some inside information. I heard that the cat-faced girl was originally a resident of apartment 103 in building 7. I've even met her before. She was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old student living with her grandmother. Shortly before the cat-faced girl incident, her grandmother died, and not long after, the student disappeared. Then the cat-faced girl incident happened."

The residents of apartment 103, students aged sixteen or seventeen.
"Do you know why she killed those two staff members? I heard they had a bad reputation and were bullies in Qingwangyuan," Lin Jue pressed.

The boss shook his head: "I'm not entirely sure about the specific reasons, but those two guys do have some connections with higher-ups. They've done a lot of unethical things in the past, and the residents of this community have a lot of complaints about them, not just in Qingwangyuan Community."

So many people are very dissatisfied with the two deceased, it seems that the two deceased were the kind of people who started to bully others when they had a little power.

"Boss, do you know which school that student goes to?"

Lin Jue's series of questions made the boss look at him with great suspicion, but he still answered, "It seems to be Jiangda Affiliated High School."

"By the way, that girl really likes cats. I saw her feeding stray cats outside the neighborhood before."

"Okay, thank you, boss. I'll come back to pick up the tape recorder in a couple of days." Lin Jue thanked the boss and walked out of the store.

Building 7, Room 103, Jiangda Affiliated High School.

Lin Jue noted down the two locations and planned to go to Building 7, Room 103 to take a look first.

Building 7 is also a walk-up building, facing away from Building 3 where the character lives. From the outside, the entire building looks almost deserted. It's likely that the residents of this building knew that the cat-faced girl lived in apartment 103, so they moved out overnight.

The door to room 103 was locked, so Lin Jue went outside and came to the window of room 103.

This window used to have security bars, but they've disappeared, leaving only a few expansion bolts on the wall.

Lin Jue tried to lock the window, but it wasn't locked. He looked around a few times to make sure no one was there, and then quickly climbed into the house.

Upon entering the room, a foul odor immediately assaulted my nostrils—a putrid smell, as if the room contained something that had been dead for a long time.

The interior decoration of this room was completely different from that of the deceased on the fifth floor. It was clear this family was very poor; the paint on the walls was peeling off, and they could only cover the patches with newspaper. (End of Chapter)