Chen Ge and Wen Qing decided to go to the first floor to look for Grandpa Huang first. They walked through the gloomy corridor and came to the stairs.

There were children's handprints on the red-painted iron handrails. The corridor twisted and turned downward, and the steps were covered with black and red gunk, which was sticky when stepped on.

The windows in the corridor were sealed with wooden boards, and iron nails half a finger long were sticking out. If you accidentally touched them, your skin would be scratched.

"This place is so disgusting." Wen Qing was in a hurry to find Xiang Nuan, but even so, she frowned when she saw the corridor in front of her: "It feels like someone is constantly dragging a lot of garbage up and down the stairs, leaking as they walk."

"You are too naive. What kind of garbage can form this black and red sticky film on the ground?"

"Then how do you think this thing was formed?" Wen Qing picked up the white cat. She seemed afraid that the white cat would step on those disgusting black and red things.

"Seriously injured people and bleeding corpses can form bloody mucous membranes, and when the blood solidifies, it will slowly turn into this color." Chen Ge looked at the marks on the ground, and for some reason his mind recalled an incident that happened a long time ago.

When the door in the toilet cubicle of the horror house first became abnormal, Chen Ge heard the sound of a heavy object being dragged through the door, and a scene emerged in his mind.

A deformed monster with no visible face was dragging the corpse with some kind of tool, walking through the corridor and down the stairs.

"This place is getting weirder and weirder. Let's go to the third floor first. Be careful."

Chen Ge was carrying his backpack, his spirit tense.

After turning the corner and reaching the third floor, Chen Ge heard a strange sound.

“Crunch, crunch…”

There was a door that kept opening and then closing.

"There was no wind in the corridor, and the windows in the hallway were boarded up. The door was not moving on its own, someone was constantly opening and closing it."

Looking sideways at the corridor on the third floor, at the end of the dark corridor, a security door was swinging back and forth, making a slightly harsh sound.

"Do you want to go over and take a look?"

"Let's find Mr. Huang first. Don't get into any trouble before you accomplish your goal, to avoid uncontrollable accidents." Chen Ge had just finished saying this when the sounds of the door opening and closing disappeared. He turned his head and saw a little boy's face popping out of the room at the end of the corridor.

The child's neck was longer than that of a normal person, and his head stretched out horizontally in the room, his eyes staring straight at Chen Ge and Wen Qing.

"He seems to have discovered us." Wen Qing hugged the white cat: "That child's eyes are so scary!"

"Don't worry about him, go to the first floor first."

Chen Ge was dragging Wen Qing to continue walking downstairs when the strange child ran out from the door. He didn't say anything and just kept looking at Chen Ge and Wen Qing.

"Don't worry about him?"

Wen Qing and Chen Ge walked downstairs, and the child also walked downstairs. After realizing that he couldn't get rid of the child, Chen Ge gave up.

He stopped, gripped his backpack tightly, and was ready to draw his skull crusher at any time.

"May I have your name?"

His fingers were twisted white and veins were visible on the back of his hands, but even so, Chen Ge's voice was still calm and gentle.

"My name is Wu You. Are you here to look for someone?" The boy's voice sounded strange and a little unnatural, as if he was stiffly imitating someone's tone of voice.

"Can we communicate?" Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. He thought the kid was a fool at first. After all, making noises in such a dangerous place was tantamount to seeking death.

"Yes, we are here to look for someone." Wen Qing blurted out because she was too worried about Xiang Nuan.

"Are you looking for a little boy?"

"Yes! That's right!" Wen Qing's mother's voice became louder. She really wanted to know where Xiang Nuan was: "The child is not tall and looks cute..."

"I saw him." Wu You said confidently before Wen Qing finished speaking: "He went downstairs."

"Got downstairs? How do you know he went downstairs? Did you see it with your own eyes?" Wen Qing wanted to confirm it again.

"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes." Wu You didn't seem to be lying.

Wen Qing hesitated for a moment and looked at Chen Ge: "Should we go downstairs quickly? If we go now, we might be able to catch up with Xiang Nuan."

"Okay." Chen Ge always felt that there was something wrong with Wu You. He didn't want to stay here, so he pulled Wen Qing downstairs.

"Wait a minute, the little boy didn't come downstairs from here." Wu You followed again.

"Then where did he come down from?"

"Through the window." Wu You pointed at the sealed window in the corridor: "With a snap, he went downstairs."

Wu You laughed with a sound like sucking air, and danced with joy: "I was sitting at home with the window open, and he just came downstairs like that."

"What are you talking about?" Wen Qing's face turned pale. If Chen Ge hadn't stopped her, she would have probably hit the strange kid in front of her.

"Don't worry." Chen Ge stood between Wu You and Wen Qing: "This child lives in the room at the end of the corridor, which is 301. The top floor is 401, which is your home. So theoretically, what he said may be true."

"Xiang Nuan would never do that!" Wen Qing replied with certainty.

"I know, so we'd better go to his house and take a look." Chen Ge stared at Wu You after he finished speaking. If possible, he wanted to check every house.

"It's true, I really saw it, I never lie." Wu You made that creepy laugh again.

"Are your parents at home? Can we go to your house to take a look?" Chen Ge asked in a low voice.

"My parents don't let strangers into the house, but they are not at home now. I can take you there secretly." Wu You turned and walked towards the back of the third floor corridor. Looking at his back, Chen Ge and Wen Qing realized that Wu You's walking posture was very strange. His legs were of different lengths and his body was extremely uncoordinated.

After Wu You walked a distance away, Chen Ge quietly asked Wen Qing: "Do you remember anyone who looks like Wu You?"

"There are a lot of kids in our neighborhood, so I didn't notice him. Besides, his face looked so weird, I didn't dare to look at him any more."

Wu You's appearance does give people an indescribable weird feeling. His facial features are obviously similar to those of ordinary people, but when put together on his face, it looks very strange.

"Come here."

Wu You waved to Chen Ge and Wen Qing, and led the two adults to the door of their home.

The small room was painted in black and white, with toys, paintbrushes and a lot of newspapers on the floor. The child seemed to be always alone at home.

"I saw him coming down the stairs right here." Wu You pointed at the living room window. At this moment, the window had been closed and the curtains were drawn tightly. "Do you want to go over and take a look? After he came down from here, his body stayed on the ground."

"Don't go over there yet." Chen Ge held Wen Qing and closed the security door of the living room: "Wu You, this is your home, we can't touch your things, why don't you go over and open the curtains so we can have a look."

"He came down the stairs headfirst, and waved to me as he passed my window..."

"Stop talking!" Wen Qing couldn't stand it anymore. She walked through the living room, walked to the window, and pulled open the curtains.

The glass windows were covered with pictures of various little boys with different expressions of different children. The most terrifying thing was that every child had scars on his face, which looked extremely scary.

"Is it him? I didn't lie to you, did I?" Wu You pointed at one of the boys with a very happy smile on his face.

"Crazy." Wen Qing was frightened by the faces of those children. It took her a long time to come back to her senses.

She forced herself to look at all the children's faces, but Xiang Nuan's face was not among them.

"Chen Ge, let's go. Let's not stay here any longer." Wen Qing crossed her arms. She felt cold all over, as if countless eyes were staring at her from behind.

"Isn't he the child you're looking for?" The smile on Wu You's face disappeared. He tore off a painting stuck on the window and held it out to Wen Qing: "It's him, it's him! I couldn't forget this face for a long time. He waved at me when he came downstairs!"

A trace of fear flashed across Wen Qing's face, and she dodged back: "Chen Ge, let's go!"

"Don't worry." Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to scan the paintings on the window, and reached out to tear off one of the paintings: "Wu You, where did you see this child?"

"I forgot. It might be in a garbage bag, or in the sewer, or under the table, or in the cabinet. I can't remember! There are too many! Really too many!" The expression on Wu You's face became more and more terrifying, and his body was stretching.

"Have you seen this face in Room 405?" The painting in Chen Ge's hand showed a boy who had lost both legs. He was trying to crawl in some direction, as if he wanted to escape.

The boy in the painting reminded Chen Ge of the boy in room 405. If you look closely, the boy in the painting does look a lot like that boy.

"405? Aunt Ding? The boy seemed to have gone upstairs with her! Oh, right! The boy still had feet at that time!" Wu You's words revealed a very cruel message. The boy was normal at first, but later in Wu You's painting, the boy lost his feet. The boy that Chen Ge saw at the door of 405 just now had nothing below his thighs.

"Think carefully again, did the boy say anything to you?"

"He asked me to save him, he said he missed home, no, he didn't say that, I didn't hear it, he didn't tell me anything! I know nothing!"

"Then can you tell me Aunt Ding..."

"Aunt Ding is a good mother. She cooks brown sugar water for me to drink. She loves children very much and only gets angry at bad children. Aunt Ding doesn't let me lie. Aunt Ding also buys me toys. Aunt Ding is better than my mother." Wu You spoke a long paragraph very quickly, as if he was reciting it by rote, without any emotion.

This surprised both Chen Ge and Wen Qing.

"Aunt Ding doesn't let the children go out alone at night. The children can only go out at night if they are carried by Aunt Ding. Aunt Ding likes to be with the children the most..."

Wu You kept repeating something faster and faster, and the pictures of boys on the window made a rustling sound, as if every piece of paper wanted to fall off the window.

"Chen Ge! Let's go! This kid is so scary!" Wen Qing was frightened. She kept urging Chen Ge, but Chen Ge calmed down.

"I think I understand a little bit. The tenants in this building are connected to each other. The reason why Wu You became like this is probably because he secretly saw something Aunt Ding did. He was scared crazy by Aunt Ding."

Chen Ge didn't know what happened in reality, but judging from the information obtained from behind the door, the truth should be like this.

Chen Ge did not leave. He took the initiative to walk in front of Wu You and put his hands on Wu You's shoulders: "Don't think about that person, she is not here anymore. There are only a few of us in the room, only a few of us..."

After saying a lot, Wu You slowly returned to normal. He pasted the torn painting back on the window, and then pulled the curtains again. People who didn't know would not be able to tell that there was anything wrong here.

"Wu You, when will your father and mother come back? Do they know about the children in the window?"

"Mom and Dad haven't been home for a long time. I've been waiting for them with the door open."

"What was the last time they left home?"

"I don't know. The neighbors said that my parents left because I liked to lie so much and they couldn't stand me." Wu You had a weird smile on his face: "I never lie, but they all say that I am a liar and that I am full of lies."

"Fortunately, the adults all know that you are a liar, otherwise you probably wouldn't be alive today." Chen Ge couldn't see through Wu You. He thought this kid was very smart. He wanted to cooperate with Wu You, but he couldn't figure out Wu You's true thoughts.

After thinking it over again and again, Chen Ge decided to leave first. Wu You was not trustworthy for the time being.

"You continue to wait for your parents here. We may meet again tonight."

After walking out of Wu You's house, Chen Ge was about to tell Wen Qing something when the security door opposite 301 was suddenly opened.

A middle-aged man with messy hair poked his head out. He looked gloomy and stared in the direction of Room 301. Then he whispered to Chen Ge, "Stay away from that kid. He will kill you."

"Why?" When Chen Ge entered the room, he closed the security door. Unless the man was lying at Wu You's door and eavesdropping, he would not know what Wu You had just said in the room.

"That child is abnormal. He is the one who killed his parents. You'd better not talk to him anymore." The middle-aged man was about to close the door, but Chen Ge took this opportunity to secretly look into the man's room.

The strong smell of alcohol in the room masked the foul smell. The room was in a mess, with all kinds of garbage and clothes thrown on the sofa, and the walls were covered with photos of scantily clad women.

“Bang!”

The door closed, and Chen Ge signaled Wen Qing to leave the third floor first.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with that man too?"

"A married man wouldn't have those kinds of photos all over his room, but if he's not married, then why are there so many women's underwear on his sofa?"