At this moment, Chen Fei was waiting quietly outside Room 1002, anticipating the return of both hunter and prey.

Soon enough, his wait was rewarded.

He saw a person—right hand holding a hammer, left hand dragging someone who looked like a dead dog, sliding across the ground.

Initially, Chen Fei wore a smile, but as the two figures drew closer.

His smile gradually faded.

Replaced by furrowed brows, confusion, and puzzlement.

Wang Jian dragged the head-shot, bleeding new-generation Jack the Ripper right up to Chen Fei.

Once before Chen Fei, Wang Jian stared expressionlessly at him, eye to eye, completely unblinking.

Anyone who knew Wang Jian or had interacted with him would find the current Wang Jian utterly unfamiliar.

Especially since Wang Jian's face now appeared extremely cold and detached.

Chen Fei and Wang Jian maintained their eye contact for a long time.

Chen Fei's expression remained deeply perplexed.

Finally, he spoke.

Pointing at the hammer in Wang Jian's hand, he asked: "Are you going to kill me next?"

Wang Jian shook his head.

Immediately, Chen Fei stared directly into Wang Jian's eyes for another five minutes.

Then, he asked suspiciously: "Do you have dissociative identity disorder? Or schizophrenia?"

Wang Jian shook his head: "Neither."

Chen Fei's mind raced furiously, and soon he thought of one possibility.

But could this possibility actually exist?

Could someone's scheming really run this deep?

Ultimately, Chen Fei voiced the possibility he had guessed.

He said: "Don't tell me this is your true face now, and everything before when you interacted with me was an act? Your disguise?"

Wang Jian finally showed a smile: "You're clever. You finally figured it out."

"You're also the first person since my childhood to discover this secret of mine."

Getting this confirmation, Chen Fei's eyes widened instantly.

He kept replaying all his interactions with Wang Jian in his mind.

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They both thought Wang Jian was just an ordinary guy.

If everything before during their interactions was just acting, then Wang Jian was truly somewhat terrifying.

Not a single slip-up?

"Don't be surprised. After all, I've been acting since childhood. You haven't known me long—it's normal you didn't notice."

Wang Jian spoke calmly.

Chen Fei laughed loudly several times, though it was unclear what emotions mixed within that laughter.

He then continued: "Interesting, very interesting. This is my first time encountering someone like you."

"If the previous you was all an act, a disguise."

"And the current you is the real you."

"Then I have reason to suspect you entered this apartment specifically to kill those few people, right?"

"And earlier, in the room, when you were moved by Qi Shen's words and put down the knife—that was also an act. You never actually intended to spare Qi Shen and the others."

"Wonderful! Such acting! Such scheming!"

Chen Fei kept applauding.

Wang Jian said: "Pretty much. After all, acting that way fit the persona I usually project. Plus I guessed that even if I acted like I didn't want to kill them, you'd definitely force me to kill them anyway. So this performance of being moved and putting down the knife wouldn't actually affect their deaths."

"Besides, truly good acting means deceiving even yourself—both physically and psychologically. You have to believe your own lies."

Chen Fei applauded: "Since you're so scheming, I'm curious—how could you endure bullying from these guys for so long?"

In Chen Fei's eyes, Wang Jian was no longer an ordinary guy, making it hard to understand how he could tolerate such prolonged bullying.

Wang Jian now sighed deeply: "Even if my usual self is a disguise and this is my true self."

"Does that mean this so-called true self is invincible? Able to do whatever I want? Calculating every move? Extremely clever?"

"Let me tell you—when I saved that girl, I wasn't lying to you."

"I really saved her based on my conscience, even though she wasn't pretty, just average-looking."

"Afterward, I got bullied."

"At first, I wanted to endure it."

"But I never expected these guys would escalate things."

"Initially, I still thought about other solutions to return to my normal life."

"But these guys simply gave me no opportunity!"

"Therefore, I actually started considering killing them quite early on."

"The only question then was—if they died, would it lead back to me?"

"Could I escape completely unscathed?"

"In this era of surveillance everywhere, committing the perfect crime is truly difficult."

"Especially when there are five targets—one small mistake, one person escapes, and my entire life would be ruined."

"So if I were to act, I had to be absolutely certain before moving."

"But where could such certainty be found? So I kept enduring, enduring for so long."

"Finally, an opportunity came."

"Once, when I went out to buy groceries at the supermarket, I met a middle-aged man."

"That man told me about Alice Apartment and some so-called agreement."

"At the time I didn't pay much attention, but I still kept my wits about me and asked him for a contact phone number."

"Later, when I returned home, the more I thought about it, the more peculiar it seemed."

"And you might not believe this, but I had a feeling that my opportunity to deal with these people might lie within this Alice Apartment."

"So I came."

"After arriving, I found this apartment wasn't particularly special."

"The only unusual thing was that I actually received the 10,000 per day mentioned in the agreement."

"Honestly, I was somewhat disappointed, but I continued searching for what made this apartment different."

"After all, if it were just an ordinary apartment, why would they pay me 10,000 per day?"

"I even suspected that Alice Apartment might be haunted—a ghost mansion, a murder house, or something like that."

Hearing this, Chen Fei thought to himself that this place was indeed a ghost mansion and murder house.

After all, who knew how many people had died here.

If according to outside standards—a house where even one person was killed counted as a murder house.

Then this entire Alice Apartment was a super, super, super, with countless "super" prefixes, murder house.

Naturally unaware of Chen Fei's thoughts, Wang Jian continued:

"Later, heaven let me encounter you."

"Only then did I realize that this Alice Apartment indeed seemed somewhat unusual."

"Everything that happened afterward, you already know."

"I went along with the situation, using you to help me eliminate Qi Shen and the others."

After listening, Chen Fei asked: "Then when I betrayed you to Qi Shen, and when those guys subdued and tied you up—weren't you afraid you'd trapped yourself with your own game?"

Wang Jian revealed a faint smile: "To be honest, I was indeed panicking at that time."