Ever since that stormy night the day before yesterday, when he followed the shadow to the fork in the road, he had truly experienced what fear was.
After living for so many years, he had never been afraid of anything. Even when he faced the bodies that were found in the building, he had never felt fear. He was only numb.
However, what happened that night completely changed his mind.
Who was that shadow? The question began to haunt him.
For three years, he had never suspected the owner of Room 1. However, when he saw the body of the man in black, his thoughts began to change. In fact, he had suspected it before that, so he revealed some information to the policeman, hoping that he could solve the mystery.
But now, it seemed that the police could not solve this mystery alone. Originally, he wanted to tell them about his troubles for the past three years and end this nightmare as soon as possible, but he still hesitated.
Perhaps the corpse of the man in black did not mean anything.
He remembered that terrifying and strange rainy night. It seemed to be the same shadow, but it didn't seem like it.
If she was still alive, he could ask her this question.
But he couldn't go to anyone else, the ghost had warned him.
He was suffering in pain.
The small space was enough for him. He was very grateful to his benefactor and did not ask for too much. He only hoped to have a place to live, but looking at this house, it seemed to be as old and ugly as himself.
The terrifying darkness descended again.
Every day, he longed for the night, but today, for the first time, he was afraid of darkness.
At this moment, a piercing sound rang in his ear, almost making him fall. He turned around to look.
The phone was ringing.
He stared at the phone with his eyes wide open. There was liquid flowing slowly in his turbid eyes.
He looked at the phone as if he was looking at a time bomb.
In fact, he didn't need a phone at all. He had installed it at the request of his benefactor to make it easier to contact him.
In his memory, the phone had never rang, and he gradually forgot its existence.
And today, on this night that had terrified him, it rang and screamed like a madman.
He even wanted to wait a little longer. If it stopped barking, he wouldn't have to answer the call. He had a vague feeling that this call was not from a person.
But it still rang.
This was fate, and it could never be avoided.
This was his life belief, so when he picked up the phone and heard the man's words on the phone, he was even more certain that this was his destiny.
He put down the microphone and sat weakly on the bed, his eyes glazed over.
After a while, he stood up and walked out. It was as if there was a strange magic in the darkness that tempted him to walk into the building door that looked like a beast's mouth.
The corridor that he was once familiar with had become particularly unfamiliar. The cold air currents flowed here and kept hitting his body, making him feel a coldness that he had never felt before.
He slowly walked up to the sixth floor. He could feel a rotting smell in the air.
He had no choice.
It was already dusk when they returned from the landlord's house. The setting sun was as red as blood.
Wu Tong and Zhong Shu didn't talk much.
Wu Tong was thinking about Li Tong.
He couldn't lose Li Tong. Otherwise, he would suffer for the rest of his life. He hadn't informed her parents yet. He didn't know what they would do to him if they knew about this. He hoped that they would beat him up to make him feel better.
When Wu Tong passed by the bungalow, he saw the head of the building walking back into the bungalow. His black clothes were almost submerged in the dark dusk.
As he walked into the building, he suddenly had a terrifying thought.
Something happened at home! When Wu Tong saw the glaring red handprint on the door, he almost suffocated. His hands began to caress his chest again, suppressing his rebellious heart.
He opened the door with trembling hands and saw a black object on the sofa.
He rubbed his eyes hard, but it was still black in front of him.
He carefully bent down and sniffed. It seemed to be blood, but it had already solidified.
The Grim Reaper had come! The cold and fishy smell still lingered in the room. Wu Tong looked around the room helplessly and felt a wave of despair.
The underground spirit began to speak again. It was hard to hear what it was saying, but its voice was like the ethereal rain.
Ever since Shen Qisheng and Lin Danni were both killed, the Shen family's villa had become unusually deserted. Under the gorgeous decorations, there were terrifying death cases.
According to his son, Shen He was taken away by his grandmother. The child would probably spend the rest of his life at his grandmother's house.
Zhong Shu pushed the door open and walked in. Everything in the house was the same as the last time he came, except that the floor and furniture were covered in a layer of dust. He felt a cold air quickly rising from the depths of the villa.
The weather was so stuffy. As soon as he entered the house, Zhong Shu's sweat evaporated. The cool air seeped into his skin, making him feel very comfortable.
Zhong Shu stood in the large living room for a long time before he realized that there would not be any messages left here. He woke up from his trance and went up to the bedroom on the second floor.
It was eerily quiet. The footsteps on the stairs were loud, as if someone was following him. When he saw the dark corridor, the uneasiness in his heart grew stronger.
Zhong Shu suddenly thought that living here alone indeed required a lot of courage.
He pushed open a door and walked in. A rotten smell greeted his nose. In a trance, there seemed to be someone standing in the room.
Zhong Shu was shocked. He took a closer look and realized that it was just a coat hanging on the hanger. It was probably worn by Lin Danni when she was alive, but it had not been taken away for a while.
Zhong Shu looked around the room. Fear was slowly eroding his body like a virus.
He had to quickly find some valuable clues and leave this place of death.
He went to the dressing cabinet and pulled open a milky white drawer. There were only some miscellaneous items inside, most of which were daily cosmetics. He then pulled open the drawer below, which was filled with some books. He rummaged through it and found a sky-blue diary with golden edges.
Zhong Shu's eyes lit up. He blew at the cover of the diary. In fact, there was no dust on it, probably out of habit.
He sat down and looked at the cover of the diary. Then, he carefully opened it. A gentle smell of books spread over his face. He frowned deeply and gradually entered the lost and unfortunate world in the diary...
It was an unusually hot night, making people sweat profusely.
Zhong Shu was lying on the bed with his hands behind his head. He was half-naked, and he could even see wisps of heat coming out of his pores and dissipating above his head. However, he did not notice the heat on his body at all. He was only thinking about the diary he found in the Shen family during the day.
Fortunately, Lin Danni had the habit of writing in her diary, which allowed him to understand some of Shen Qisheng's situation.
It turned out that Shen Qisheng really lived in Room 1 and had not returned home for more than a year.
Before he and Wu Tong went to investigate, Shen Qisheng had already gone home. Moreover, during this year, she had always walked to deliver daily necessities to Shen Qisheng. In the past year, she had been filled with doubts. Why did Shen Qisheng not come home for a year? Why did he always wear black clothes? What was in that room that made him miss it so much?
This was also a mystery that troubled Zhong Shu. However, he also found in the diary that Lin Danni seemed to have begun to suspect Shen Qisheng. Sometimes, she thought that he was not human, especially when she thought about the terrifying legend in the building. She thought that it was Shen Qisheng's ghost, but in fact, he had died long ago.
At this moment, he heard someone knocking on the door. Zhong Shu shivered. He opened the door and saw that it was Wu Tong.
"What did you find today?"
"I found this." He waved the diary in his hand and briefly told Wu Tong the contents.
After listening to the story, Wu Tong suddenly felt that the scary ghost would enter his house through the secret door of the bathroom at any time.
"Then the first scene of Lin Danni's death must have been in the room next door, and then someone moved her to my house through a secret door.”
Zhong Shu nodded in agreement.
However, Shen Qisheng was already dead. Could it be that the person who returned to the Shen family was his ghost?
"Yu Jie's time of death was half a year ago. During that time, Shen Qisheng was in that room. Does that mean that he killed Yu Jie?”Wu Tong thought for a long time before asking.
Zhong Shu shivered and said in a low voice,""What is the motive? He had no reason to kill Yu Jie. On the surface, the two of them had nothing to do with each other. Only his son, Shen He, was a student in Yu Jie's class, and Yu Jie had a good relationship with her students. It was difficult to form a motive for murder.”
Wu Tong was about to say something when he suddenly heard a muffled bang coming from outside the building. It seemed like something heavy had fallen from the sky.
Wu Tong and Zhong Shu looked at each other, confused.
Zhong Qiang heard the sound and walked out of the room.
"Little Qiang, go back and do your homework."
"Someone fell down." Zhong Qiang muttered to himself.
"Don't talk nonsense, kid. How did you know someone fell?”
Zhong Qiang didn't say anything. He blinked a few times and went back to his room with a pout.
Zhong Qiang's words lingered in the quiet room like a ghost. For some reason, Zhong Shu somewhat believed his son's words.
"I'll go out and take a look," said Wu Tong.
Zhong Shu was worried, so the two of them walked out together.
Through the light upstairs, they saw a black mass lying on the ground at the door.
Wu Tong's heart started beating furiously. He felt that Zhong Qiang was right. Someone had fallen.
A thin and weak body was lying on the ground in a strange posture, like an old tree.
"He's right!" Zhong Shu muttered to himself.
They saw the building manager staring at them with his eyes wide open in despair!
What was this place? This question had troubled Li Tong for a long time.
She was surrounded by endless darkness. When she woke up, she felt that she was sealed in a chaotic world. The darkness was like a nightmare that haunted her endlessly. She was like a homeless orphan who had lost her sense of direction. She was trapped here without moving, and her heart longed for a glimmer of light.
This was a place that was rotten everywhere, and the air was filled with a stench. Li Tong was terrified. This must be hell, and there must be rotting corpses everywhere.
Li Tong didn't know how long she had slept. When Wu Tong appeared in front of her with a bloody face in her dream, she woke up in shock and found that her entire body was sore and numb.
Later, she realized that her eyes and mouth were covered with a piece of cloth, and her hands were tied behind her back. She struggled with all her might and let out a whimper, but her body could not move at all.
After a few futile attempts, her strength gradually disappeared, and she gave up the idea of struggling.
The darkness around her made her feel a little at a loss, especially the stench in the air, which made her feel a violent nausea. She tried her best to suppress her stomach, but she could not help but vomit. The sour smell of filth mixed with the stench surged into her body and stirred up her internal organs, making her suffer.
Suddenly, she heard a strange sound.
It was a fly! The sweltering weather gave the flies a chance to survive. They were frantically clamoring in this dark world. The buzzing sound lingered around her, almost deafening. Occasionally, some green-headed flies landed on her face and hands.
She loathed this kind of scary and dirty little creature. It stopped on her body like worms crawling over her, and her entire body felt an indescribable itch.
From time to time, she twisted her body to wave away those annoying little things, but the indomitable spirit of the flies almost made her collapse.
The air was extremely foul. She wanted to shout for help, but all she could make was a muffled voice. She even heard her own echo.
This place seemed very empty. Hearing her own echo made her feel even more afraid.
At this moment, there was the sound of metal clashing from somewhere. It seemed to be the sound of a large lock being opened.
She was very nervous, and her entire body was tense. Just as she turned her face, she was met with a dazzling light shining on the cloth covering her eyes, so that she could only see a red and orange world.
"Hehe, it's time to eat."
A person walked over and seemed to throw something in front of her.
She shivered deeply.
Lou Chang's head was almost split in half. Some sticky things were scattered around the body. Zhong Shu squatted down and took a closer look. It was actually a coagulated blood clot.
Only the blood of the dead would be coagulated!
Captain Pang of the Criminal Investigation Unit was there in person. He was a very burly man with bright eyes. He carefully looked at the building manager on the ground and then looked up at the building.
"Captain Pang." Zhong Shu came forward to greet him.
"How is it?" He glanced at Zhong Shu and did not leave the corpse.
The uneasiness in Zhong Shu's heart grew stronger and stronger. He found that there was not a drop of blood around the building leader's body, only scattered blood clots.
Captain Pang squatted down to examine the corpse carefully. He reached out to pull open the building leader's clothes and pressed it on the back of the deceased. Then, he stood up and said,"He was already dead before he jumped off the building. The time of death is estimated to be more than twenty-four hours.”
Wu Tong was stunned when he heard that. He looked at Zhong Shu in disbelief." How is that possible?!"？I saw him when I came back in the evening.”
Captain Pang stared at him and asked,"Is this really the person you saw?"”
Wu Tong hesitated for a moment before nodding.
Captain Pang turned his head to look at Zhong Shu. Zhong Shu was also confused. Captain Pang looked at the corpse again. There was indeed no drop of blood around him. Through the light of the flashlight, he found that there was light purple livor mortis on Lou Chang's back.
His expression became very solemn. He clearly felt that something was not normal.
How could a dead person jump off a building? If someone had killed him and thrown him down the stairs, why would they do that?
At this moment, the police officer who had entered the bungalow to search walked out with a black coat in his hand. Through the light, he saw that it was a black windbreaker.
"This was found in the room." a policeman reported.
Zhong Shu took it over and took a look. He pulled out a hat from under his clothes. It was a black top hat.
Wu Tong looked at these things in surprise." Is the director really a ghost?”
Captain Pang stared at the clothes, his expression unreadable.
Zhong Shu's expression was serious and he did not say anything else.
"Have you checked upstairs?" Captain Pang looked up at the building.
Someone replied,"I've checked, but I didn't find anything suspicious."”
Captain Pang seemed to be worried. He turned to Zhong Shu and said," You and I will go up and take a look. Little Zhang, bring a few people to check every house. If you encounter anyone suspicious, report it immediately."”
After Zhong Shu asked for a flashlight from another police officer, the two of them walked into the building. At this time, Wu Tong also followed. After Zhong Shu explained his identity, Captain Pang did not say anything else and nodded in agreement.
The police officers checked every floor carefully. Zhong Shu and Wu Tong followed Captain Pang to check.
They had almost walked through the entire building. There was only one family living on the second, third, and fourth floors. There was another family living on the fifth floor in the middle of the three rooms.
When Xiao Zhang went to knock on the doors of rooms 11 and 13 on both sides, an old man said,""There's no need to knock. There's no one at all.”
Xiao Zhang looked at Captain Pang in a daze.
"Let's go to the sixth floor." Captain Pang ordered.
After searching all the floors, they did not find anything unusual.
Wu Tong sniffed, and the corridor was filled with the smell of death again. It was the strange smell that he often smelled at home.
After opening the iron door leading to the roof, the three of them walked up to the roof. Wu Tong looked at the light of the flashlight and scanned the upstairs, constantly searching for possible clues.
There were indeed no clues left upstairs. In addition, it was dark and they could not see anything. The three of them had no choice but to go downstairs.
When they reached the fifth floor, Wu Tong suddenly looked to the side as if he had heard something. Seeing that Captain Pang and Zhong Shu did not have any reaction, he thought that he was probably overreacting.
Zhong Shu was at a loss about the death of the building master. He was once again in the fog.
He originally thought that the strange building leader living in the bungalow was a ghost, but the soul-stirring scene last night made him feel a violent shock.
Would a dead person commit suicide by jumping off a building?
This was indeed a great mockery, because after the autopsy, it was found that the building leader had suffocated to death before jumping off the building.
Zhong Shu found it hard to understand. What was going on?
When he returned home, Zhong Shu saw that his son was asleep. He comforted his son that he did not see that scene.
It was already four o'clock in the morning. After dealing with the troublesome matters caused by the death of the building manager, he finally calmed down. However, it was difficult for him to calm down.
He walked out and went next door to look for Wu Tong.
Wu Tong's room was filled with smoke again.
"We're still investigating your girlfriend's matter, but there's no result yet.”Zhong Shu was very helpless about this.
Wu Tong only smiled bitterly. He felt his face stiffen and took a deep puff of his cigarette.
If they still couldn't find her, how would Wu Tong explain this to her parents?
"Things have become more complicated. It has been confirmed that he was already dead before he jumped off the building.”Zhong Shu sighed helplessly and took out his cigarette.
This was the thirteenth cigarette he had smoked since he found the building manager's body. The white porcelain ashtray was filled with cigarette butts, and the room was filled with the thick smell of smoke. Wu Tong could not even see his face clearly. Everything was hazy, as if he had arrived in another world.
"How is that possible? I saw a ghost?" Wu Tong's face revealed a painful expression. When he thought of the scene where he found the corpse, he still had lingering fear.
Wu Tong still remembered that when he saw the building leader's corpse, they were all stunned. Wu Tong could only stare at the dead man on the ground in a daze, especially when the building leader's terrifying eyes almost popped out.
What was going on? Wu Tong thought in confusion.
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