There are unknown monsters hidden in the black fog, but perhaps due to the rules behind the door, the black fog did not spread into the house and the residential building is safe.
The community outside the building seems to be two different worlds for the residents inside. Everything they have is left inside the building, as if they will encounter something ominous if they leave.
Dr. Li closed the window, as if he couldn't see the bloodstains on the window frame.
"Only the landlord can enter and exit the residential building at will. If the tenants in the building want to leave at night, they must be accompanied by the landlord." Doctor Li looked at the thick black fog outside: "He must have felt guilty, so he broke the rules and wanted to jump out the window to leave."
Dr. Li's words caught Chen Ge's attention. This community was far weirder than he had expected.
If the tenants want to leave at night, they must be accompanied by the landlord. What if the landlord dies? What if this place is always shrouded in darkness? What if this place just repeats the same nightmare night over and over again?
Many worlds behind doors remain in a certain period of time, because this period of time leaves the person who pushes the door with a despair that he will never forget.
"We have identified the person who killed the landlord. Now we just need to go all out and catch the murderer who killed Qu Gui." Doctor Li's words sounded cold, calm, and a little murderous. He seemed to regard this building as his hunting ground.
Now a new hunter has appeared in the hunting ground. What he wants to do is to find the opponent and kill him.
"I suggest that everyone search this room again. If he is really the murderer of the landlord, there must be other clues in the house. The keys that the landlord lost should also be here." Qu Ying didn't care about the life or death of others. All he needed was his own keys. In his opinion, the only safe place in this building was his home. If his home was not safe, he would not be able to sleep peacefully every night.
"Um..." Xiao Sun seemed to want to say something. He looked at the people around him, his eyes fixed on the blood on the window frame: "Aren't you being too arbitrary? You identified the murderer based on just a letter and a few teeth? And I always feel that there is something wrong. I also searched the bathroom, and the sewer..."
"We just want to force the truth out of him. He made the choice himself. He has something to hide, so he wants to escape." Doctor Li glanced at Xiao Sun, then quickly passed Xiao Sun and looked at Chen Ge: "What do you think?"
The only person Dr. Li couldn't see through was Chen Ge. He felt that there was an aura about Chen Ge that made him very uncomfortable, as if he had seen someone of his own kind.
That was an extremely dangerous person. This was the thought that Doctor Li had when he first saw Chen Ge.
"I agree with you. The most urgent task is to catch the murderer who killed Qu Gui. Several of us have evidence of our alibi. The murderer must be someone other than us. If we fight among ourselves, the happiest person will be the murderer." Everything is developing according to Chen Ge's plan. He uses these residents to search other residents in the building. After seeing the secrets of those people, the two sides will naturally form an opposition. When the two sides are targeting each other, he slowly takes the initiative until the number of tenants in the building drops to a certain level, and then Chen Ge will show his fangs.
Chen Ge and Dr. Li share the same view. They both believe that they can be the final winner. The only difference is that Chen Ge knows that the murderer is an outsider, while Dr. Li is not aware of the situation outside the door.
One was making inferences based on the rules inside the door, while the other was designing the layout based on the situations inside and outside the door. The asymmetry of information meant that Dr. Li was doomed to suffer losses.
Everyone maintained stability on the surface, but in fact everyone had ulterior motives, except Xiao Sun, of course.
This naive young man is still playing the detective game. He wants to find out the truth and is working hard to speculate.
He didn't know that the search for the truth can only be carried out in the sunlight. When night falls and everyone around is crazy, no one cares about the truth. Everyone is thinking about how they can survive.
The men did not find the key in the middle-aged man's house. They turned the house upside down and finally gave up.
After leaving the middle-aged man's home, they started from the third floor and checked every room one by one.
If the people in the house don't open the door, they will try their best to break the door lock and get in.
The building was filled with filth and years of darkness, which was then cut open by an even darker knife.
Transvestite, cheating, murder, fugitive criminal, psychopath...
Behind each door lies a twisted soul, who keeps their dirtiest secrets, gradually losing their human appearance and turning into deformed monsters.
Chen Ge saw the bottom line of human nature in the world behind Xiang Nuan's door. They are hidden among ordinary people, and perhaps they have passed by us at some point in time.
Walking from the third floor all the way to the eighth floor, Chen Ge and his team encountered huge resistance in the process of searching for the murderer.
When the secret was exposed, most of the twisted tenants chose the most extreme way to resist. Some of them didn't care who the murderer was, they just wanted to keep their own secrets.
Dr. Li did not expect things to develop to this point. During the search, Datou was stabbed by a fugitive criminal and he himself was also slightly injured.
The trapped beasts fought hard, and the tenants tried their best to prevent the human skin they used as a shelter from being exposed.
Some use sweet words to deceive, some use violence to drive them away, some try to get away with it, and some even want to kill everyone so that they can keep their secrets.
In the entire team, apart from Granny Li and Wen Qing who was following behind, only Chen Ge was not injured. He watched coldly, his dark pupils staring at the dark side of human nature.
Returning to the ninth floor where the landlord lived, several people gathered at the door of room 901.
The murderer was not found, nor was the landlord's lost key, and everyone was dragging their tired bodies.
"Once the corridor door is opened, I must move out." Xiao Sun's face was pale and bloodless. His worldview was overturned overnight. The bloody and horrific scenes he saw in this hour were more than the restricted scenes he had seen in movies in the previous twenty years.
The high-intensity and high-frequency stimulation left him with a deep psychological trauma. He seemed to suffer from a phobia of opening doors and didn't even have the courage to push open the door.
"If we can't find the key, the lock on the iron door in the corridor can't be opened, and none of us can get out." Chen Ge was holding the backpack in one hand. He was conserving his energy and kept calling out the names of his employees. Apart from that, he didn't do anything else.
"But we've already searched most of the rooms. With so many keys, where could the murderer who killed the landlord hide them?" Qu Ying and his girlfriend were also scared. Compared with those beasts of the lowest nature, they could only be considered scum.
"I have only searched some rooms. There are still some rooms in this building that we have not visited." The truth was revealed. Chen Ge was in good shape now. He had been slacking off all the way.
"Are you talking about the rooms below the third floor?" Qu Ying nodded. Now he could only place his hopes on the first and second floors.
"No, I mean our rooms." As soon as Chen Ge finished speaking, Dr. Li and Datou's faces changed: "The murderer knows that he has been exposed, and he may choose to frame us, such as putting some unimportant evidence in our homes."
What Chen Ge was talking about was what Dr. Li and Datou did. Some of the tenants in the building died, some were injured, and some were tied up and lost their ability to move. Chen Ge is no longer afraid of the tenants in the building.
There are many scumbags and beasts living in this building. If several of them join forces, Chen Ge, whose physical fitness is not as good as before, will definitely die. Unfortunately, their selfishness and darkness gave Chen Ge a chance, allowing Chen Ge to find an almost impossible "road" in the cracks.
Doctor Li was slightly injured, Datou was seriously injured, and Aunt Ding was hiding in her room. Qu Ying was despicable and shameless and would definitely not help, so Chen Ge’s only opponent now was Doctor Li.
A showdown has become one of Chen Ge's options, but he still hasn't fallen out with the tenants in the building. If they can kill each other, why must he do it himself?
When an ordinary person enters a building like this, the first thing he thinks about is how to save his life. Then, on the premise of saving his life, he finds the key through various clues and then leaves the building. Many movies and games on the market use similar routines.
But Chen Ge's strategy is different. He wants to kill all the scum and perverts in the building. When everyone is unable to resist, even if he does not escape from the building, in a sense he has completed the level.
"We are not the murderer. Your suspicion is reasonable. We can go back to our own homes. If we find anything in someone's home, we can share it with everyone." Doctor Li's eyes were still sharp, but there was a trace of fatigue on his face. The water in this building was too deep. He knew many of the tenants' hidden secrets for the first time. "The murderer is very cunning and may use the method you mentioned. If we don't want to fall into the trap, we must trust each other."
Dr. Li and Datou knew very well that although they were the murderers of the landlord, they were not the murderers of Qu Gui. There really was another unknown killer in the building, which was why they would cooperate with Chen Ge in the investigation.
They killed the landlord and had the keys to all the rooms, but the murderer was able to enter other people's homes freely through the windows. They thought this was a huge hidden danger. Perhaps the secret in their room had been known by a third party.
People will do a lot of things to hide their dark side, and Chen Ge took advantage of this to make these perverts continue to fall into the abyss.
"Let's check the ninth and tenth floors first. If we don't find anything here, we'll start searching our own rooms. We must pay attention to safety." Chen Ge initially wanted to use the power of the tenants in the building to deal with the monster in the cursed hospital. He didn't expect that the monster would be so smart and didn't give him any chance. Now all the tenants in the building are almost dead, and he still hasn't shown up.
Without the key, it would take a lot of time for Chen Ge and his friends to open the door.
After great effort, Chen Ge and his team opened all the doors of the rooms on the ninth floor.
The six rooms on the ninth floor are exactly the same in terms of decoration style and interior furniture arrangement. If you only look at the appearance, it seems like they were cast from the same mold.
“Why did the landlord create six identical rooms?”
"The surface may be the same, but the inside may be different." Chen Ge's memory is far superior to that of ordinary people. He clearly remembered some details of Room 901. After comparison, he found many problems: "In some rooms, the mirrors in the bathrooms were removed and a mezzanine was installed inside. The walls behind some refrigerators were hollowed out. In some rooms, partitions were added under the beds, so that a person could hide inside."
"Why would the landlord do this? He's the only one on the entire ninth floor, why would he renovate all six rooms like this?" Xiao Sun hadn't realized how horrifying the details Chen Ge mentioned were.
"Maybe to imprison someone and torture them into insanity."
"How did you know that?"
"Have you noticed that all the windows in the rooms on the ninth floor are sealed with cement. The entire room is completely closed and there is no way out." Chen Ge stood next to the window: "This provides a suitable place for imprisonment. Living in such a room, after being unconscious and waking up again, can you find that you have been transferred to another room?"
"What do you mean?"
Chen Ge pointed to the tampered bed and mirror in the bedroom and said, "For example, if a person wakes up in the middle of the night and goes to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and finds that the person in the mirror is not him, will he feel very scared?"
"The mastermind behind this wants to drive the prisoners crazy?"
"It's not that simple. Have you noticed that there are unlabeled medicine bottles everywhere in the house?" Chen Ge initially thought that the landlord was dead and didn't want to waste time on him, but what he didn't expect was that the landlord actually hid a big secret.
"Are these medicine bottles the key?" Xiao Sun picked up a medicine bottle, opened it and took a look.
"If a prisoner takes a drug and falls asleep, and then wakes up and everything is back to normal, will he think he is sick? And will he need that drug even more?"
At this point, Chen Ge looked at the coffee table and the dining table: "There are unlabeled medicine bottles placed almost everywhere in all the rooms. This is also a psychological suggestion to make the people in the house more dependent on this drug. The imprisoned person may doubt the effect of the drug at first, but as the scenes he sees become more and more weird, he will slowly accept the fact that the drug can cure him. The cruelest thing is that those drugs can't save him at all, but will continue to aggravate his condition and drive a normal person completely crazy." He found a large number of medicine bottles in every room on the ninth floor, and none of them were labeled: "Doctor Li, can you tell what medicine this is?"
"Some look like sleeping pills, and some I don't recognize, they should be for treating mental illnesses, I'm not sure."
"You are the only one in this building who has something to do with medicine. If even you are not sure, then this clue means little to us." Chen Ge was about to put the medicine bottle back when Wen Qing, who had been following him and rarely spoke, suddenly pulled him.
Chen Ge understood: "There should be clues hidden in these six rooms. Let's spread out and search again. If there is nothing, we will gather on the tenth floor."
After everyone left, Wen Qing spoke up, "Chen Ge, this is medicine for treating mania. I've bought it for Xiang Nuan many times. Before the landlord moved out of Jinhua Community, there were a lot of these medicines at home."
"You said this medicine belongs to the landlord?"
"kindness."
When Chen Ge saw the medicine, he had two guesses. First, the medicine belonged to Dr. Li, because he was a doctor and was related to the landlord's death. However, the time did not match if he calculated it this way. After all, it would take a long time to build six exactly the same rooms.
The second speculation is that the drugs belonged to the landlord, and the bastard who imprisoned others was the landlord. All six rooms were built by him just to drive one person crazy.
"What kind of person is the landlord in your impression?"
"The landlord is the president of a Jinhua company, a very unfortunate old man. His entire family died in a fire, and he has become taciturn ever since. But the old man loves children very much, and he is one of the few people who doesn't dislike Xiang Nuan."
"You have a good impression of him?"
"When I was very busy, he helped me take care of Xiang Nuan."
"You let a person with mania help you take care of Xiang Nuan?" Chen Ge was surprised.
"The landlord bought those drugs for his own children. His youngest son suffers from severe mania and has never been cured. His condition keeps coming back. He has to take the drugs for the rest of his life."
"Does what he says mean it? The probability of parents, siblings, and children of bipolar patients suffering from the disease is 12% to 15%, which is much higher than the general population." Chen Ge really learned a lot from following Doctor Gao. He learned a lot of psychology knowledge through osmosis.
"But the old man was very kind. He was very nice to everyone. Everyone who met him respected him from the bottom of their hearts."
"You can still say this after seeing these beasts in human skin in the building? Their kindness in front of others is just to hide their evil deeds in private." Chen Ge spoke faster: "Did you often ask him to take care of Xiang Nuan before?"
"Not often, just once or twice." Wen Qing's face turned pale, and he thought of something bad: "Chen Ge, do you think these six identical rooms were specially modified to imprison Xiang Nuan?"
"I don't know either, but I do understand one thing." Chen Ge stood in the corner and lowered his voice: "Everything in the world behind the door is woven according to the memory of the 'door pusher'. I have been wondering since I entered here, how did Xiang Nuan know the secrets of all the tenants? At first I thought Xiang Nuan had the ability to see through people's hearts, but after listening to you, I realized that the truth is countless times more cruel than I guessed."
"the truth?"
"Do you still remember the TV in the bathroom and the densely packed wires behind it?"
"Remember." Wen Qing had a very bad premonition.
"The landlord has been spying on the lives of residents in the building through surveillance. He has seen the dirtiest and ugliest side of everyone, and then he may have let Xiang Nuan, who is as pure as a blank sheet of paper, watch these. In front of others, he tells you that the world is beautiful, the flowers are red, and the sky is blue, but behind others, he keeps telling Xiang Nuan that what is shown on the screen is the true human nature."
Chen Ge expressed his guess. He tried his best not to use extreme words, but Wen Qing almost fainted after hearing it.
She couldn't imagine that Xiang Nuan would become what she is now, most likely because of her past carelessness.