Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 290 - 287: Sanity Value

Chapter 290: Chapter 287: Sanity Value

ps: This Chapter is Chapter Two Hundred Seventy-Eight, The Sealed Memories, sigh...

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A body lay on the ground; it was the curator’s wife.

Wen Wen played a detective who had to identify the criminal from among four suspects, and this time he could not use violence.

The four suspects were Mr. Jin, the curator of a photo studio, Mr. Song, the studio’s cameraman, Miss Ma, the victim’s younger sister, and Ms. Li, a customer who often visited the shop.

The police officer who came to investigate had already found some clues, all of which were now in Wen Wen’s hands.

According to the clues, all four had a motive for the crime.

Curator Jin and the victim, Ms. Ma, had a strained relationship and often talked about divorce, staying together only for their child to keep up appearances of family harmony.

The cameraman was involved with the victim, something everyone but Mr. Jin knew about.

Moreover, the victim’s father had just passed away, and as a wealthy man, he left his inheritance to only his two daughters.

The last suspect, the customer, had a habit of petty theft, and the shop owner’s wife had caught her stealing the day before the incident...

"These relationships are quite messy, the clues are tangled like a mess, everyone is a suspect, yet each has an alibi."

Wen Wen rubbed his hair, looking at the four suspects standing before him, wanting to curse but refrained because he was in the middle of an exam.

Who could create such a story? Instead of writing novels, they had to meddle in the Hunters Association’s messy affairs.

Complaints aside, the case still needed to be solved, and the complex nature of the case had piqued Wen Wen’s interest, reminiscent of his previous detective career.

He walked around the photo studio and found many clues.

"The victim fell from the second floor, hit her head on a table and died. She was facing away from the balcony railing on the second floor prior to her death, so the pusher was likely someone she knew."

"But all four suspects are acquaintances... Uh... that customer should be ruled out. Having stolen in the store before, it’s unlikely she’d openly go upstairs to talk to the victim."

"Also... the victim had a severe argument before she died, and she suffered from heart disease. The pills she carried for emergencies were switched with sugar pills..."

"The killer might be only one person, but more than one person might have wanted her dead, which is interesting."

Wen Wen sat on a chair, holding a stack of police investigation documents. He analyzed the situation while casually questioning the four suspects.

The questions were about their relationships with the victim and what they were doing at the time of her death. Although their stories diverged, Wen Wen had already almost concluded his thoughts.

Suddenly, as Wen Wen sifted through the documents, he felt some hard objects, and upon checking, he found they were a stack of photographs.

"I didn’t notice this stack of photos earlier... It must contain some important information."

Wen Wen took out the photographs, prepared to examine them closely, but then he froze, his eyes reddening slightly, a crimson hue swirling at the corners of his eyes.

The first photograph was a group photo unrelated to the photo studio and the case.

It was a family photo featuring an small-eyed man, a beautiful woman, and a little brat grinning, bubbles coming out of his nose...

That little brat... was Wen Wen!

As for the two adults in the photo, Wen Wen’s parents, his memories of them were quite vague.

After his parents had passed away one after the other, Wen Wen never returned to his original home or looked at the photographs again. If it weren’t for catching a Hallucination Ghost in the Illusionary Realm and seeing his mother’s face, he might even have forgotten what she looked like.

It wasn’t that he was forgetful, but that he forced himself to forget!

Because every time he thought of those things, he felt heartache, an unbearable heartache that he couldn’t control.

He stood up, looking at the four suspects like an Evil Ghost, his voice hoarse as he asked, "These photos...where did you get them?"

The people glanced at each other but none could clarify; in their memories, these photos did not exist.

Wen Wen sighed, remembering what the woman had said when he first entered this Virtual Space.

"A scene that might disturb me...haha, I feel like killing someone now!"

Wen Wen lingered on the first photo for a long time because he didn’t know what the contents of the next photo would be.

After hesitating, he continued to flip through, finding all these old photos from his home, each he had seen before, but those were from a very long time ago.

When he flipped to the last photo in his memory, Wen Wen’s hands trembled slightly because there were two more behind it!

He swallowed hard and flipped open a photo; his whole body shuddered.

The content of the photo was an exploded car with a man’s dismembered corpse next to it from the explosion—his name was Wen Rui, Wen Wen’s father.

The memory Wen Wen had not wanted to think of for many years once again surged into his mind.

His father was a detective, or rather, claimed to be one.

After becoming a detective himself, Wen Wen had also looked it up, but his father’s name was not among the legally registered detectives, but for the young Wen Wen, Wen Rui was his idol.

The first signs of mental issues in Wen Wen began with his father dying in a car explosion during a mission!

He ultimately chose to live as a detective too, because of Wen Rui’s influence.

Seeing this scene again, Wen Wen’s emotions experienced intense fluctuations, a vast amount of crimson frenzy spreading from his body and gradually filling the entire room.

And Wen Wen’s expressions also twisted, becoming as ferocious and fierce as a Ferocious Beast!

The four suspects did not seem afraid, as they had already lost their self-consciousness, their eyes cloudy, and their bodies enveloped in this crimson Qi.

The Virtual Space blocked Wen Wen’s Superpower but didn’t restrict his mind; now that the frenzy was also simulated by the space, it showed that Frenzy seemed more like a mental thing.

After looking at this photo, Wen Wen hesitated whether or not to open the next one; by now, he had already guessed its content.

Under the influence of Frenzy, his physical health rapidly broke through the limits of the Exploration Realm and reached the strength of the Mastery Realm. Unable to control his strength, he hammered the table in front of him, and it completely shattered.

Outside the machine, the female evaluator’s mind also tensed up as the assessment had reached a critical moment.

It seemed their investigation was correct; the most triggering thing for Wen Wen was his original family.

Many people with mental issues are unusually fixated on certain things.

And Wen Wen’s fixation was his family, but his family was gone!

Therefore, using Wen Wen’s family as a stimulus, it was possible to determine to what extent Wen Wen could maintain his self under strong stimulation.

Although this might cause some issues for Wen Wen, any type of problem could be controlled within the Association, much better than losing control during a mission and turning into an enemy.