I have seen dragons

Chapter 60 Dressed Beast
The paintings on the wall were drawn with black pencils. I don't know where such thick pencils came from to be able to draw on such a long wall.

Looking at the paintings, the first one shows a long-haired girl sitting by a fence drawing, with a man pointing at her. The second one shows the man trying to pull the girl into the bedroom, and the third one shows the girl struggling by the fence.

The fourth painting depicts her falling from the second floor...

Looking at the set design and furnishings, it was clearly a scene from the Guan Qin family's residence.

Yue Wen glanced at the old man who was unconscious in his arms and hesitated for a moment. Professor Guan had a very good reputation at Jiangcheng University and there had never been any bad rumors about him over the years.

Is what's painted on the wall really about him?

However, now is not the time for deduction, and no evidence has been found yet. He immediately said, "Since the woman's figure disappeared from here, perhaps this is the breakthrough point to get out."

"Should we break down this wall?" Zhao Xing'er aimed at the wall and swung her meteor hammer.

"should be."

Yue Wengang echoed, and with a loud bang, the meteor hammer had already landed on the wall.

bang——

With a single blow, the wall shattered, dust and smoke flew everywhere, and everything around it vanished as if shattered.

Yue Wen looked around and found himself back in the dark guest room. The wall that had been smashed was the one against the outer corridor. A pile of messy bricks lay scattered on the ground, and through the large hole, a human body was revealed!
It was a corpse encased in plaster. It must have been embedded in the wall before. After the wall broke, half of the body was exposed. Some of the plaster was scratched off, and the dark, rotting skeleton was a shocking sight.

Before this wall, the entire room fell silent. Although a faint yin energy still lingered, there was no sign of any evil spirits moving about.

Everything before seemed like an illusion.

Guan Qin's eyelids twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes. Looking at the scene before him, his pupils suddenly dilated. "This is..."

"Professor Guan, perhaps you can explain this?" Yue Wen looked at the skeleton thoughtfully. "What happened to this corpse?"

"I don't know," Guan Qin shook his head and said, "Maybe it's related to the evil spirits in the room."

“Every evil spirit has a cause and effect.” Yue Wen turned his head and looked directly into his eyes. “The evil spirit in the room may be related to this corpse, but how did this corpse end up in the wall of your guest room? You’ve lived here for so many years, you couldn’t have been completely unaware of it, could you?”

"I..." Guan Qin's gaze shifted for a moment, but he didn't say anything, only shook his head.

“Then I’ll call the Supermarket Management Bureau to handle it,” Yue Wen said. “We can’t find the source of these evil spirit incidents here, so we need the authorities to take action.”

"No!" Guan Qin shouted and stood up.

He turned his head, but dared not look at the corpse in the wall, so he quickly turned back and backed out of the house, facing Yue Wen and the other man.

"I... I was a female student I tutored a couple of years ago. I often tutored her at home, and over time... we developed feelings for each other," Guan Qin said somewhat incoherently.

“A student at Jiangcheng University is only around twenty years old. You were over fifty two years ago. How could she develop feelings for you?” Yue Wen frowned and stared at him intently. “Professor Guan, you don’t need to beautify yourself at this time.”

“You don’t understand, it’s an artistic echo…” Guan Qin opened his arms and explained forcefully, “I… I wanted to confirm my feelings with her, but she panicked and accidentally… fell from the second floor. It was an accident, it really was an accident!”

He stared at the corpse inside the wall, his eyes filled with deep fear.

“I didn’t dare to tell anyone, and I hid the body because I was afraid it would affect my reputation. It was also because of this incident that I retired from the school and did not continue my career... This is already a punishment for me.”

Looking at Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er's expressionless faces, he panicked slightly. "Little Yue, we've known each other for so many years, you know what kind of person I am. Can you do me a favor, clean up the nightmare here, and then never mention this again? I can give you money, I'll sell a few paintings, I can give you a million! No, I'll give you five million! As long as you pretend that what happened today never happened..."

“Before today, I truly believed you were a respectable elder,” Yue Wen said coldly, shaking his head.

Zhao Xing'er said disdainfully, "Old Deng, is what you're echoing art?"

"What you want to confirm is your feelings?" Yue Wen also asked.

The two of them said in unison, "Pah!"

Of course, things couldn't have been as simple as Guan Qin himself described, with no mention of an accidental fall due to developing feelings for someone.

It was clear he intended to use tutoring as an excuse to assault the female student, resulting in her death during the struggle. Fearing exposure, he sealed her body inside a wall. The student subsequently disappeared, and when the investigation didn't trace her back to him, he voluntarily retired to avoid trouble.

Thinking deeper, he must have done this more than once; perhaps many female students have been assaulted by him but dared not speak out.

Zhao Xing'er grew angrier the more she thought about it, and felt a slight itch in her hand as she held the meteor hammer.

Seeing the red light flashing in her eyes, Guan Qin was filled with fear and retreated backward until he reached the fence. Suddenly, without warning, the previously sturdy fence snapped and collapsed with a loud crack! Before he could react, he too tumbled down the fence.

The scene of her falling backwards was just like that helpless girl back then.

In an instant, Guan Qin's eyes flashed back to his childhood...

But in the blink of an eye, a meteor hammer flew over, its iron chain wrapping around his neck, making two quick turns before swinging back and suspending him in mid-air.

A revolving lantern was urgently withdrawn.

"Uh--"

Guan Qin immediately assumed a hanging position, dangling there and struggling desperately.

"Hmph." Zhao Xing'er, holding the iron chain above, snorted coldly, "Your crimes haven't been made public yet, so dying won't be so easy!"

"Well done." Yue Wen gave her a thumbs up, then went over to take a look.

The break in the fence was very smooth. If it had been made in advance, it would have fallen down long ago. It was impossible for it to have fallen down only after Guan Qin touched it.

He turned to the female corpse and said, "Is this your revenge? Don't worry, we will make him get the punishment he deserves."

Whether or not "she" heard Yue Wen's words, a faint breeze stirred in the room, and the heavy yin energy suddenly dissipated.

"So what do we do now?" Zhao Xing'er asked.

"Let's call the Supermarket Administration Bureau over," Yue Wen said. "This is no longer a simple case of evil spirits. Whether it's a murder case from a few years ago or a strange case now, it must be dealt with thoroughly."

As he spoke, he sighed again, "I always thought he was a highly respected person, but I never expected him to be like this. When I was a child, I admired him a lot and wanted to learn art from him."

"It's a good thing you didn't follow his example. How many good artists are there?" Zhao Xing'er cursed, then glanced at Yue Wen. "Someone who wears sunglasses and acts like an artist should be shot."

"This is a magical artifact..." Yue Wen muttered, while guiltily taking off the demon-revealing mirror.

"Uh! Uh! Uh..."

While the two were chatting, Guan Qin below was being strangled by the iron chains, his face turning purple, his eyes and tongue bulging out. He cried out several times, "Help...help...stop talking...!"

……

An hour later, Guan Qin, whose face was bluish-purple and who had been unconscious for an unknown period of time, was carried back on a stretcher by the police.

The forensic doctor was examining the body embedded in the wall at the scene, while other staff members were busy taking photos and making records. Wang Shoucai stood on the balcony, smoking and flipping through case files. The collar of his Zhongshan suit revealed the collars of his pajamas, and he looked sleepy.

"I'm sorry, Captain Wang," Yue Wen said with a smile from the side, "I'm causing you trouble again in the middle of the night."

"It's alright, we're used to this in our line of work." Wang Shoucai shook his head. "It's a good thing that such a large-scale Nightmare Realm was cleared out in a residential area without causing any casualties. If it weren't for you guys, I would have had to put in a lot more effort if the Nightmare Realm were to erupt in the future."

"Is the cause of the nightmare realm that the female student who was victimized?" Yue Wen asked, expressing his doubts. "I feel that her yin energy is not strong, and she doesn't seem like the kind of person who could form a nightmare realm."

“Perhaps there is another source that caused the paintings here to become nightmares, and she is just one of the nightmares,” Wang Shoucai said. “We will seal and investigate everything in this room, and we will definitely find the source.”

In the very center of the room stood a pot of shimmering golden sunflower, a divine seed brought by the Super Management Bureau. With this flower, ordinary nightmare creatures would be instantly killed upon showing their faces, and ordinary nightmare realms would be compressed back to their source.

It was thanks to this potted flower that they were able to come and go freely without incident.

"That's good." Yue Wen said, "In that case, we should thank that victim. If it weren't for her guidance, we wouldn't have been able to get out of the Nightmare Realm so easily."

“By the way,” Wang Shoucai said, looking up, “you said a high school girl came to you, and then she just walked out without any problems. Do you know her name? The police station might need to find out more from her during the subsequent interrogation.”

“I remember,” Yue Wen said. “Her name was Wang Miaomiao. She was a little girl with big eyes and a rather cute appearance.”

"Wang Miaomiao?" Wang Shoucai's expression suddenly changed, as if he had thought of something.

"What's wrong?" Yue Wen asked. "Do you know Captain Wang?"

“Perhaps it’s a coincidence, but… I just handled a strange case a few days ago. The victim was a high school girl named Wang Miaomiao.” Wang Shoucai said slowly.

　Good morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)