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The mid-range community is full of greenery, with a small children's playground, a small swimming pool and an artificial river. Unfortunately, the ornamental plants are not in bloom and are shrouded in gray smog.
The power has been restored, and the group took the 3-seat elevator and checked into the unused room 704.
They moved in quietly, without wearing chokers or earrings, pretending to be ordinary residents.
"Wow……"
Three bedrooms and two living rooms, fully furnished and equipped with appliances, with north-south ventilation.
Yu Xiaowan sighed that she had never seen the world, but when she found that everyone else was calm, she lowered her head in embarrassment and pretended that she had never sighed.
Lu Miao walked to the balcony and looked down.
There is a small children's playground downstairs.
On smoggy days, no children go out to play.
"How do we divide the three rooms?" Wang Keke asked everyone.
Lu Miao: "Draw lots."
There are five pieces of paper, four short and one long. The one who draws the short one stays in a room with two people, and the one who draws the long one stays in a room alone.
As a result, all four of them drew short slips.
So, Wang Keke and Yu Xiaowan lived in one room, He Pingan and Weekend lived in another room, and Lu Miao lived alone in the smallest room.
Its lovely layout was once a children's room.
The five of them went back to their rooms to tidy up.
Lu Miao placed the cactus on the small desk in the children's room, facing the window.
The dim light does not diminish the greenness of the cactus at all.
The turbid air in the room turned into fresh air after the rain, refreshing the heart.
She took out the measuring cup to fill it with water.
Wang Keke, with her hair tied in two ponytails, lay by the door, secretly observing Weekend who lived next door.
She narrowed her eyes.
The guy's ruthlessness was familiar to her, and she was absolutely sure that he often wandered in the dark and was not a good person.
Weekend noticed her prying eyes and gave her a provocative smile. "Xiao He, you should be the youngest in the team, right?"
He Pingan, who was sorting out his toiletries, answered casually, "Yeah."
He put his hand on He Ping'an's shoulder in a familiar manner. "I also started working hard when I was very young. Seeing you reminds me of my past. You can ask me if you have any questions in the future."
"Don't teach Ping An a bad lesson!" Wang Keke couldn't help but walk in. "You don't even know if the name is real, don't lead him astray."
Weekend didn't take her words seriously. "Calm down. Even though you don't understand me, I sincerely want to help my teammates."
She narrowed her eyes, a dangerous glint in them. "That better be the case, or I'll peel off a layer of your skin."
He Pingan took his hand off his shoulder. "Seeing you guys like this, I really don't want to grow up."
Wang Keke: “…”
weekend:"……"
Wang Keke was delighted: "Haha, you're in the same room with him, get ready to be poisoned to death! Hahaha."
Weekend began to doubt his own judgment. "Aren't you good teammates?"
"How is that possible? I want to beat him up all the time."
Weekends of contemplation.
"You two have such a good relationship." Yu Xiaowan said with envy.
Wang Keke and He Pingan said in unison: "You are wrong."
"Are you guys done?" Lu Miao poked his head out with a measuring cup filled with 15ml of water. "Let's go downstairs and hang out later."
"Almost."
Then they saw Deer Seedling enter the children's room and slowly water the small and cute cactus.
Yu Xiaowan accidentally told the truth: "The captain doesn't look like someone who likes to grow flowers and plants."
Wang Keke: “Uh…”
He Pingan: "...It's actually a way to relieve stress."
weekend:"……"
This team is really fun.
In the morning, more residents use the elevator.
When the elevator stopped at the seventh floor, they saw that it was crowded with residents carrying luggage. They couldn't squeeze in, so they decided to take the stairs and familiarize themselves with the environment of the stairwell.
Yu Xiaowan asked quietly: "Are those people going to live outside?"
Lu Miao is used to it. "Those who don't want to enter the realm of ghost stories will leave the area of the power outage as soon as possible. This time the power outage is in the entire community, and the scope of the ghost story area will be very large. We will try to find time to visit the entire community."
"Golden Mansion covers an area of 668,000 square meters, with 15 residential buildings, a small park, a swimming pool, a pond, and 8 artificial rivers, including an underground parking lot." Wang Keke read the introduction of the brochure. "It's okay, it's smaller than Nanjiang Botanical Garden, we can do it."
He Pingan is not worried about the area. "I hope the haze will dissipate when the ghost story area arrives."
The smog outside the building was so hazy that they needed to rely on visual glasses to see clearly objects 60 meters away.
"Someone's moving in." Weekend lowered his voice.
In the gray haze, a group of people carrying luggage walked through the children's playground.
Lu Miao looked at them warily.
The leader was a bald man with a burly figure but a bandit-like demeanor, carrying a black leather luggage bag.
There were three women in the team dragging suitcases. They were dressed fashionably, like three brightly colored mushrooms that contained highly poisonous substances.
This group of people looked over here.
"Let's go." Lu Miao urged in a low voice.
"Captain, they must be bounty hunters funded by capital." Wang Keke said confidently.
Weekend frowned. "Even bounty hunters are involved. This situation is very complicated."
Lu Miao turned around and joked: "Are there no enemies of yours in there?"
"I'm very low-key. I don't know any of them." He was confident.
She gave him a meaningful look. "They are secondary. The real problem is not them, but our colleagues."
Weekend puzzlement.
He Pingan reminded: "Another team from our department has also joined in. They are responsible for solving the strange stories in the red block all year round, and their methods are very wild."
When he heard the word “red block,” Weekend’s expression changed slightly.
"Do you regret joining?" Lu Miao noticed that something was wrong with him.
He pondered: "Does the department have regulations on what means to use to pass customs?"
"Two. First, unless there are special circumstances, it is forbidden to harm ordinary citizens. Second, unless there are special circumstances, try not to harm your colleagues."
"Understood."
After shopping until noon, they went back to wait for the "delivery man" to knock on the door.
Lu Miao opened the door and felt that the delivery man sent by the department looked a little familiar.
He avoided Lu Miao's sight and handed over a box. "This is your four-day supply of nutrients. Please check it."
She took the box slowly. "Have we met before?"
"without."
"I remember you intercepted me on the first floor of the administration building. You were from the Investigation Department."
He turned his face away and left in a hurry.
Lu Miao snorted coldly.
Lu Xingyang said that he would invest some manpower and resources to lock up the old fox, and he did it.
"I've been taking nutritional supplements these days..." Wang Keke had a bitter face.
He Pingan was calm. "It's OK. There are different flavors to choose from. There are 20 sticks in total. They counted us in for a midnight snack."
Yu Xiaowan curiously checked out the different flavors. "Wow, there are more flavors than those sold in the vending machine. Is the seafood flavor good?"
The weekend told the truth: "It smells fishy."
"ah……"
Lu Miao: "Cucumber tastes better."
Wang Keke sat slumped in the chair, feeling hopeless.
In the past two days, they ran to every corner of the community, and even took the opportunity to buy daily necessities and stroll around the community. They basically became familiar with the environment and asked the neighbors who stayed to find out the "owner group".
During the period, they encountered members of the Red Team, who were not wearing their team's logo either.
The delicate-looking woman came over and wanted to say hello, but the five members of the Fluorescent Green Team hurried away as if they had encountered bacteria.
The delicate woman's mouth twitched and she was so angry that smoke came out of her head.
Xiao Chi, wearing a filtering mask, stood under the street light with a half-smile in his eyes.
Back at 704, the five people immediately joined the owners group.
At night, the haze still covers the sky and the moon.
Weekend, with wet hair, passed by the house opposite and found Wang Keke sitting in front of the dressing mirror applying foundation.
Yu Xiaowan sat nearby and watched.
"Doesn't the strange story area come after midnight?"
"Yeah." Wang Keke was not comfortable opening her mouth.
"You're too late to come back?"
She didn't understand. "What do you mean?"
"Aren't you going to put on some makeup and go out?"
"No, I have makeup to do."
It was an eye-opener for the weekend. "You spent your time in the field of ghost stories wearing makeup?"
"Yes."
“If the rule is no water and your makeup melts, have you ever thought about how to wash your face?”
Wang Keke: “…”
At this time, He Pingan poked his head out and kindly reminded: "Sister Keke, this time it is an open-ended strange story area, and the time limit for cracking it is 48 hours."
Wang Keke: “…”
Yu Xiaowan whispered, "How many times do you want to touch up your makeup?"
Wang Keke: “…”
Lu Miao, who passed by, joined in the fun and added: "During the smog, the skin tends to become oily."
She felt hopeless: "Ahhh you guys are so annoying!"
At 11:30 in the evening, Lu Miao asked knowingly: "Keke, are you going to work without makeup this time?"
She glanced at the captain with resentment. "I've thought about it. Since it's not convenient to put on makeup this time, it's the same if I put on my coolest clothes."
The leather jacket with skull pattern, flowing tassels on the sleeves and hem, and the silver rivet boots give it a strong heavy metal rock style.
"Very cool." Lu Miao gave a positive comment.
Five minutes before midnight, WeChat notifications rang on five people’s phones at the same time.
They thought there was new news in the department group.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be an emergency notice in the owners’ group.
[Golden Court Property Management]: Good evening, everyone! We just received an emergency notice from our superiors, requiring all owners to cooperate with the government in prevention and control work!
1. Please do not go out.
2. Please stay calm and do not panic if you hear any loud noises.
3. Close doors and windows immediately, draw all curtains in the house, and refrain from looking out the window.
4. Put on the white raincoat in your closet immediately.
5. Try to hide behind cover.
@Everyone
"Is this the rule of ghost stories?" He Ping'an was slightly surprised.
"It's not midnight yet." Wang Keke repeatedly checked the time on her phone.
Lu Miao compared the time on his watch and phone and found nothing unusual. "The department group did not mention prevention and control work. On the contrary, it is a strange rule."
Yu Xiaowan suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if she was being spied on. She pointed at the paper that suddenly appeared on the door. "The rule paper has appeared!"
The golden purple text displayed the emergency notice issued by the owners' group, with exactly the same content.
But this time the rule font has changed again.
Every vertical stroke and every curved hook is so sharp that it looks like a spike; every stroke is sharp and thin, like a claw. They look like majestic brush calligraphy, but also like the weird fonts used in ghost posters.
However, the color of the font is still dreamy and romantic.
Lu Miao had no time to think about the changes in the font, and told everyone to draw all the curtains and find white raincoats and put them on.
Their ears felt a sharp pain as if they had heard a deafening noise.
"Hide quickly!"
They crouched behind the sofa, waiting for time to pass.
I was still in the mood to joke on the weekend: "It's just like the scene in a police movie where they're dodging gunfire."
00:00 midnight.
The blinding white light penetrated the curtains and shone into the room.
In an instant, Lu Miao had a splitting headache and his brain felt like it was turned into paste.
The last moment before she closed her eyes, she looked at the blurred rules on the door.
The sharply written words were twisted into a crazy smiling face.
A field of increasingly difficult ghost stories.
Are you ready?
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