31 The House Where People Are Chased (Part 4)
◎As if quietly sizing up this outsider◎
One o'clock in the morning.
At the Dayangshu branch of the Public Security Bureau, the closest to the Roma City neighborhood, a suspicious-looking suspect appeared at the entrance. The man said his name was Ding Chaojie and that he had come to report a crime late at night.
He spoke incoherently, "Really, there's a house that's chasing me, and the door is green. I'm not lying."
"Someone came to my house today. I guess she's not from the Sheriff's Department at all. She's a liar."
"She tried to trick me into the Green Door. She wanted to kill me! She's a murderer. Go investigate her!"
"Don't pull me, I'm not crazy, I'm telling the truth, please."
"Who am I? I'm a thief. Oh, and arrest me! I've stolen things, broken into people's homes, and even intentionally injured someone before and then fled. I have a criminal record. Go check my record!"
"Are you crazy? Let him go now."
"You don't believe me, I, I, I am a murderer, is that okay? I have killed people!" Ding Chaojie shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Crazy, what a lunatic, Lao Liu! Quickly detain him! Don't let him embarrass himself here!"
Ding Chaojie was eventually detained in a detention room.
I didn't expect that this madman, who had been uncontrollable before, became quiet after entering the detention room.
Ding Chaojie was on the verge of collapse due to long-term mental pollution. After entering the detention room, he immediately lay down on the bed and curled himself up into a ball.
"Is this kid sick? He thinks he's going home?"
"Leave him alone. We have a lot to do today. Let him stay overnight."
"What about his criminal record he mentioned? Don't care?"
"We'll take care of it tomorrow. We don't have time now. He looks crazy to me. Maybe he'll be more normal tomorrow."
The two agents walked away muttering to themselves, and soon the sound of their footsteps disappeared.
Ding Chaojie curled up on the bed, but his eyes were not closed. His red eyes were staring at the void, and suddenly, his pupils shrank and his eyes widened.
A green door appeared on the blank wall opposite him!
At first, an outline appeared, and then the full picture of the green door emerged. There were mottled shadows on the green door, like blood that was still flowing.
Ding Chaojie's whole body was tense.
With a sound of yelping——
The green door was opened a crack, and a dark gap faced Ding Chaojie. Inside was densely packed black lines, wriggling and moving wildly.
It's coming, it's chasing us!
"Help!" Ding Chaojie shouted, "Save me!"
He quickly called over the night shift staff, "What are you doing? Behave!"
Ding Chaojie pointed to the opposite wall and said, "There's a door! A green door!"
"What door?"
Ding Chaojie: "It's catching up, I didn't lie to you! It's really catching up, save me, save me!"
Ding Chaojie grabbed the agent's collar through the iron fence, as if he was grabbing a life-saving straw.
"This is fucking crazy," the agent yelled, "Look carefully where the door is!"
The agent took a look inside and saw that the walls were clean and there was nothing on them. He wondered why Ding Chaojie was so crazy.
"Yes, please look again, please look again, don't go, don't leave me!"
The detective took great effort to pry Ding Chaojie's hands open. "If you're crazy, go to a mental hospital."
Ding Chaojie's hands were empty, and he struggled to grab at the air, trying to grab the agent's collar again, but this time he caught nothing.
"Help me, help me, I don't want to go in."
"Old Yang, don't bother with him. Let him go crazy alone." Someone called him from a distance.
Old Yang straightened his collar, feeling rather sorry for the young man. How could he have gone mad at such a young age? Old Yang said, "Calm down. Get some sleep first. I'll call a doctor for you tomorrow."
Doctor? Doctors are useless.
Old Yang looked at Ding Chaojie and said, "I'll take you to the cleaning center tomorrow."
With a click, Lao Yang closed the door after he finished speaking.
"Don't...don't leave me alone."
Ding Chaojie cried uncontrollably, his face stuck in the iron bars, regretting not choosing to go with Zhu Ning.
At least Zhu Ning could see the green door, while these people couldn't even see the door. At least Zhu Ning would listen to him and wouldn't think she was crazy.
Ding Chaojie has put himself in danger. He and the green door are now locked together and he can't even escape!
Suddenly, he felt a cold chill on his back.
Ding Chaojie didn't dare look back, he held on tightly to the iron fence. He felt that the green door was right behind him, pressed against his back.
It was as if someone was hugging him from behind.
…
It’s a pity that Ding Chaojie didn’t choose to come in with Zhu Ning. I hope that unlucky old guy can meet a good person.
Zhu Ning stood at the green gate and took a special look at the cat's eye, but did not see the eyeball that Ding Chaojie mentioned. It seemed to be just an ordinary door. Maybe Ding Chaojie was mentally polluted at the time and saw it wrongly.
Before going in, Zhu Ning sent a message to Liu Niannian: "Get ready. Come to the 13th floor of Building 22 in the Rome City Residential Area alone in an hour and wait for my instructions."
Zhu Ning actually only had a rough estimate, that it should be finished in an hour, and if it couldn't be finished, it would be considered a mission failure.
Liu Niannian replied quickly, just like he was squatting in front of the deputy chief: "Okay, boss!"
Zhu Ning: “…”
I have no idea where this rich girl's enthusiasm comes from.
Zhu Ning could find the source of the contamination by herself, but she definitely couldn't handle the subsequent containment of the contaminated spores. After much deliberation, she realized the only person she could use was Liu Niannian.
Liu Niannian's spirits are quite high, so there won't be any problem if he is kept there for one night.
Zhu Ning turned off her secondary brain and made all the preparations. Then she grasped the door handle and pushed it gently, but the green door did not move at all.
It seems that the person who can enter the green door must be the owner of the house.
It resolutely refuses any intruder to enter, and perhaps because of this, the Green Door has not been cleaned by the cleaning center for a long time.
Zhu Ning has studied the cases of purification in cleaning centers. Generally, these are large-scale pollution, which will infect the entire area if not immediately controlled. Some old and stable polluted areas are put in the back of the queue.
After all, the cost of each mission they undertake is very high, and money must be spent wisely. On the contrary, the underground organization headed by "Grave Post" created by Prometheus has been cleaning up old polluted areas.
The green door is very regular. If its current owner is Ding Chaojie, no one except Ding Chaojie can open it.
But... Green Gate is a bit unlucky today.
Zhu Ning has his own plug-in.
System: [The master item/key has been opened. Do you want to use it?]
Zhu Ning: "Use it."
With a click—
The green door opened as expected. The master key can open any door and any lock. The green door is a pollutant, but it is a door in itself.
Just like the previous two times, there will be twitching black lines inside the contaminated area, which is the background of the contaminated area.
Zhu Ning's helmet was broadcasting data: [It has been confirmed that cleaner Zhu Ning has entered the contaminated area. The pollution level is roughly estimated to be Class C. Please choose whether to report to the cleaning center's technical department.]
[Currently, the highest pollution concentration has reached 120%, and the contaminated area is 2,500 cubic meters in size, with living pollutants inside.]
The area of the polluted area is smaller than that of the hot pot restaurant, but the pollution concentration is higher than that of the hot pot restaurant.
It was also a C-rank mission, but hot pot restaurants could accommodate many people, and Zhu Ning remembered the house as having three bedrooms and a living room. Such a high concentration in such a small area might be more dangerous than a hot pot restaurant.
As usual, Zhu Ning chose not to report the situation to the cleaning center, but she didn't send another scheduled text message. If Zhu Ning couldn't control the contaminated area, the AI would automatically notify someone to come.
There was a slight bang and the green door was closed.
Zhu Ning was at the entrance hall, and like every other home, there was a living room opposite the entrance hall.
There are three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen. I have to say, it must be very comfortable for one person to live in such a big house.
Zhu Ning immediately discovered the first suspicious point. Huang Yaruo did not explain the reason why she bought the house. She was a single woman and also said in the video that she lived alone.
She has no children, no husband, and no intention of bringing her parents over.
Moreover, Huang Yaruo is not financially well-off, otherwise she would not have spent so much time and effort in the early stages worrying about whether to move.
In the wasteland, every inch of land is worth a fortune. The price difference between a three-bedroom apartment and a two-bedroom apartment is huge. Most single women would choose a one-bedroom apartment, or at most a two-bedroom apartment, to reduce their financial pressure.
Why does Huang Yaruo need three bedrooms? Does she really want to raise a child?
Of course Zhu Ning didn't change her shoes. She was still wearing a full set of cleaner work clothes to prevent contaminated spores from parasitizing again.
Zhu Ning walked around the house carefully. The furniture was arranged normally. The sofa faced the TV, and no furniture had its back to people.
I have to say that Huang Yaruo really put a lot of thought into the decoration. Red fabric sofa, warm yellow wallpaper, green curtains, and retro yet high-end flooring.
She specially matched the items and has her own aesthetic sense. At first glance, people will think that this house is really beautiful and comfortable.
Even though the house had become a haunted house, it was still very well-preserved. The walls weren't scratched at all, and the sunflowers on the table were actually fresh flowers, much more comfortable than Zhu Ning's beehive.
Compared to this, Zhu Ning even wanted to live here.
So what if it's a haunted house? Poverty is scarier than ghosts. And this haunted house even has its own positioning system. Once it recognizes its owner, it will move wherever you move.
Dream room.
Zhu Ning walked around the house and then opened the curtains to take a look.
Outside the window is a "normal" residential complex. The greening in the Rome City community is very good, and there are few people walking around in the middle of the night.
The house is perfectly integrated into the community, like an ordinary residence in this community.
With a swish, Zhu Ning tried to open the window. She stretched out her hand, but felt no wind and it was completely silent outside.
The illusion outside the window must be an illusion created by pollutants, otherwise the person who entered the green door would have escaped long ago.
If there was one thing that was particularly strange about this house, it was that it was extremely quiet. It was so quiet that the only sound in the house was the sound of Zhu Ning moving around. Apart from that, there was no sound at all.
There is no sound of wind, no subtle noise from the air conditioner, no rustling from the neighbors next door. The time and space inside the house are absolutely independent.
Zhu Ning walked around, but she didn't find any trace of Huang Yaruo, nor did she find any more clues. She was sure that she was the only one in the house.
The system allowed Zhu Ning to sleep in the house.
She opened the master bedroom and saw that an entire wall inside was made into a bookcase. Maybe the owner loved reading, or maybe it was just a decoration.
The double bed was covered with a silk quilt, and every detail showed that the owner of the house loved life. Zhu Ning habitually searched every corner, and after making sure there was no hiding place, she tried to lie down on the bed.
The bed was very soft, and nothing strange happened. No tentacles suddenly stretched out from under the bed and dragged Zhu Ning into the abyss.
Zhu Ning's foresight of danger did not move him.
Very... quiet and peaceful.
But there is something eerie about this calm, like a quiet lake before a storm.
To complete the system's task, Zhu Ning thought, she was actually sleeping in a haunted house.
If an outsider came in and saw this, they would definitely think it was abnormal. She didn't take off her clothes and was still wearing a motorcycle suit and a full-body black helmet.
Zhu Ning clasped his hands together and lay there as peacefully as a mummy.
She thought she wouldn't be able to sleep, it was too awkward. Unexpectedly, less than three minutes later, Zhu Ning's eyelids began to twitch.
Before she closed her eyes, the clock on her bedside table read 2:16 AM.
Zhu Ning closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Ding-ling-ling——
The alarm clock vibrated wildly, and Zhu Ning suddenly opened his eyes, and what he saw was a sun-shaped lamp hanging from the ceiling.
She suddenly opened her eyes, then began to breathe heavily, and was a little dazed for a moment.
What was she doing? Did she really fall asleep in the haunted house? How long did she sleep?
Warriors have absolute control over their bodies; that is their instinct for survival.
Especially for someone like Zhu Ning, whether she is a professional shooter or sweeping garbage, the main reason why she can stay calm in most situations is that she believes that she has absolute control over her body.
But just now, her sense of control over her body disappeared. She didn't know when she fell asleep or when she woke up.
Although she was not encountering any monsters or pollutants, she felt an extreme panic, the same panic she had felt when she lost control of her body.
This house is really weird.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath, blinked, and looked away from the ceiling. Something was not right in front of him.
The furniture in the house has changed.
But unlike what Huang Yaruo described in the video, the wardrobe and furniture were not facing away from her, but facing her.
The wardrobe, desk, clothes rack and green plants inside the bedroom had all been moved.
They gathered close to the bed, surrounding Zhu Ning on the bed, as if they were quietly looking at her as an outsider.
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