Yan Xiaoxiao couldn't see how terrified the couple next door were, but she could hear two more deafening screams coming from their doorway again.
Although the young man reached out his hand towards them, he fell straight down towards his neighbor halfway through. His eyes were wide open, and he didn't move again after falling to the ground.
Afterwards, the property management staff and the police arrived. A group of people were busy taking the young man, who had stopped breathing, away and began questioning the neighboring couple about the situation and investigating the cause of the young man's death.
The investigation went smoothly because there were surveillance cameras in the stairwell, so it was very clear how the young man got into trouble.
However, after watching the surveillance footage of the young man's accident, both the property management and the police fell silent.
The surveillance footage shows that after Yan Xiaoxiao's neighbor called to report that someone was making noise at night, the property management sent a young man who happened to be on duty that night to check the situation.
But after leaving the duty room, this young man slowed down and became leisurely, playing on his phone as he walked towards Yan Xiaoxiao's building.
What should have been a one or two-minute walk took him almost five minutes to get there.
That wasn't all. When he arrived at Yan Xiaoxiao's building, he looked at the elevators. Both elevators were clearly stopped on the first floor, and no one was using them late at night. However, he refused to take the elevator and instead walked up the stairs.
The stairwells in Yan Xiaoxiao's apartment complex are also equipped with surveillance cameras, so they can see what happened after the young man entered the stairwell.
Judging from the way the young man strolled leisurely from the duty room to the ground floor, no one would think that he was taking the stairs to get to Yan Xiaoxiao's floor as quickly as possible.
The truth might be quite the opposite; they might be using the excuse of coming up the stairs to stall for time.
Yan Xiaoxiao and the others were on the fifth floor. If they climbed the stairs at a normal pace, it would take them at most two minutes.
But the young man would stop and tap his phone every two steps, a smile always on his face, as if he were chatting with someone.
He was still looking down at his phone as he was about to reach the fifth floor.
But as he was playing, he suddenly felt that he could not walk, as if something was blocking his way.
He frowned and looked up, only to find a staircase in front of him.
He was about six or seven steps away from the fifth floor. There were no clutter or obstructions on those steps, but he just felt like he couldn't climb them.
In the video, the young man tried to lift his foot again, and this time he succeeded. However, just as his foot stepped onto the next step, the key hanging from his waist suddenly fell to the ground.
The young man frowned and had no choice but to stop and pick up the keys.
His keychain was huge because it not only held keys, but also other items like nail clippers, keychains, and knives.
Picking up the keys should have been a simple task, but the moment he picked up the keychain, his hand seemed to suddenly lose control, and he directly took the small knife off the keychain and opened it.
Throughout this time, the young man's expression remained one of utter bewilderment and shock.
Because at this moment, the "movement of his hands" was not from his conscious will at all!
He never even considered taking the knife off and opening it.
What surprised him and everyone outside the monitoring screen even more was that after he opened the knife, his next step was to quickly and ruthlessly plunge the knife directly into his own chest.
Watching helplessly as his hand defied his will and plunged the knife into his chest, the young man stared wide-eyed in pain and terror.
He opened his mouth, trying to scream and cry for help.
But for some reason, even though it was clear that he had used all his strength to resist the force in his hand and tried his best to call for help, no sound could be heard in the entire surveillance video.
The young man struggled against that inexplicable force for a long time before finally giving in.
Then, step by step, he walked up to the fifth floor and arrived at the door of Yan Xiaoxiao's neighbor's house.
What happened next was exactly as the neighbors witnessed.
However, Yan Xiaoxiao did not find out everything in the surveillance footage and then tell Lin Xi.
After all, the police will not easily reveal the details of their investigations to the outside world.
This was information that the police themselves told Lin Xi.
Because the young man's situation in the surveillance footage was too strange, it was highly likely that it involved areas they were not familiar with, so naturally they had to seek help from other units.
Then, Lin Xi, as a member of a special department, came to help out as a favor.
After reviewing the surveillance footage, Lin Xi went to Yan Xiaoxiao's residential area to check the situation.
In fact, Lin Xi had already guessed the situation from the surveillance footage. The force majeure that the young man encountered was most likely a ghost.
When Lin Xi arrived at the stairwell to investigate, she indeed sensed a strong yin energy there.
In the stairwell, an old man who looked very old was hammering at the wall.
Even though they could sense Lin Xi's presence, the other party still didn't react at all.
Lin Xi frowned and observed the old ghost's condition. It seemed that the old ghost's mental state was not quite normal.
Lin Xi called out to the other person, but there was no response.
However, judging from the aura of the other party and the aura on the young man's corpse, this is indeed the ghost that killed the young man.
Since communication failed, Lin Xi had no choice but to take the old ghost away directly.
He then took the opportunity to cleanse the entire stairwell of any lingering negative energy, hoping to prevent it from affecting other residents in the area.
After bringing the ghost back, it was handed over to other colleagues in the special department to continue investigating the truth.
My colleagues were very efficient; the next day they found out from the ghost why he wanted to harm the young man.
But the truth is actually quite outrageous.
Because this old ghost is a dementia patient, and he lives in this building.
The old ghost passed away a few days ago. Before he died, he would often take a small hammer and tap here and there at home, finding pleasure in it.
However, since many people go to work during the day, and the old man's family members would stop him if they saw him, there were no neighborhood conflicts.
However, after a while, people started hearing the clanging and banging noises and complained to the property management.
When the property management received the complaint, they went to check on the situation. They learned that an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease was occasionally making noise. The property management staff then gave him advice and education, basically telling him not to disturb others and that his family should keep a closer eye on him.
Coincidentally, this young man was one of the property management staff who came to educate the old man and his family that day.
Moreover, this young man's tone was the most stern at the time.
The old man was probably frightened by the young man and even burst into tears on the spot.
However, no one took it seriously at the time. After all, elderly people with Alzheimer's disease sometimes have the temperament of children. They will cry when they encounter a little grievance or are frightened.
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