Patting Wen Qing on the shoulder, Chen Ge whispered, "Cheer up, now is not the time to be sad and regretful."
It took Wen Qing a long time to return to normal. She took a few deep breaths and nodded.
"Next, let's go to the tenth floor and see what the landlord's real secret is. After knowing everything, we should leave this building." Xiang Nuan and the monsters in the cursed hospital have all disappeared. Chen Ge doesn't want to stay in the same place for too long. He is worried that he will miss something.
Ten minutes later, everyone gathered at the corner of the stairs between the ninth and tenth floors. They searched every corner of the house but found nothing.
"The final secret of this building should be hidden on the tenth floor. Everyone, be prepared." As Chen Ge said this, his eyes swept over Dr. Li and Datou.
Doctor Li and Datou were holding opaque bags containing lock-picking tools. They stood together, looking away and not meeting Chen Ge's gaze. It seemed that they had other plans behind Chen Ge's back.
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Chen Ge was still the same as usual, with no major changes in his tone of voice and expression, except that he no longer exposed his back and always walked with Wen Qing and Xiao Sun.
When going upstairs, Chen Ge deliberately grabbed Kong Ying and kept asking him some irrelevant questions.
When they were separated for a short time just now, these tenants were scattered in different rooms, but when they came back, Dr. Li, Datou and the Kong Ying couple were together. It seemed that the four of them had reached their limit in their tolerance for Chen Ge.
Arriving at the tenth floor, it didn't take long for the guys to pry open the door of room 1006. The more they did it, the more skilled they became.
After the security door was opened, a faint foul smell wafted out of the room, as if something had rotted and gone bad.
"Only the landlord usually comes to the tenth floor. This floor is not rented out." Qu Ying covered his mouth and nose. To Chen Ge, it was just an ordinary odor, but the residents in the building found it very pungent. On the contrary, the stench that Chen Ge found unbearable was not smelled by others.
Room 1006 was only roughly renovated, and the floor was full of stagnant water and stains.
Following the pungent smell, several people entered the house and found that there was no furniture in Room 1006 except for a large freezer.
"Is there a dead body hidden in the freezer?" Wen Qing hid behind Chen Ge, but was pulled to his side by Chen Ge again.
"Don't leave my sight. Although the corpse is scary, I won't kill you. You are not safe behind me." Chen Ge casually opened a freezer filled with rotten vegetables and meat, as well as a large bucket of purified water. "Why did the landlord prepare so many ingredients?"
Several people opened all the freezers in the house, and there was no horrible scene. The first few freezers were filled with food. Various rotten meats and raw food were scattered around the last freezer, and there were several large bags of medicine inside the freezer.
Chen Ge took a pack of medicine out of the freezer, opened a medicine bottle and took a look: "This kind of granular medicine will accelerate the decomposition and deterioration of the drug ingredients after absorbing moisture, seriously affecting the efficacy. The landlord has a large amount of this medicine. He is very familiar with this kind of medicine and should not store it in the freezer. In addition, you can see the raw meat scattered around. The visitor may just want to find a place to store the extra medicine."
"The person who had the key after the landlord died must be the murderer. Are you saying that the murderer has been here?" Doctor Li walked up to Chen Ge carrying a black opaque bag.
"I didn't say that." Chen Ge glanced at Dr. Li and said, "You have such a respectable job and your income is not low compared to ordinary people. Why do you have to live here?"
"I'm used to living here." Doctor Li replied calmly.
"Are you used to the dirtiness and mess here, or are you used to the chaotic management here?"
"I'm used to the air here. I feel very comfortable living here. I'm too lazy to move to other places." Doctor Li closed the freezer and said, "Let's go to the next room."
He held the black bag and turned his back to Chen Ge, deliberately walking past Chen Ge.
Chen Ge was carrying a backpack, his eyes not on Dr. Li at all, but tilted his head to look at the somewhat nervous Qu Ying.
"What are you looking at?"
"Nothing." Qu Ying covered his stomach with one hand and followed Dr. Li and Datou out of the room.
Xiao Sun was about to walk out, but Chen Ge grabbed his arm and said, "I want to ask you a question."
"You tell me." Xiao Sun hadn't figured out who the murderer was yet, and was thinking with a frown on his face.
"Did you hear anything when the electrician was killed?"
"I didn't hear much, but I felt that the electrician seemed to know Aunt Ding and Dr. Li. They didn't seem like ordinary neighbors." Xiao Sun could see some details, but he was thinking too narrowly.
"They had a close relationship, but Aunt Ding and Dr. Li were determined to kill the electrician. Why do you think that was?"
"Murder to silence the witness?"
"That's right, the electrician is a pervert who abuses the weak, Aunt Ding is a human trafficker with psychological problems, and the most terrifying one is Dr. Li. He is the one who planned everything." Chen Ge suddenly said this, which contained a lot of information.
"When did you know? Why are you telling it now? What do you want to do?" Following the real murderer to track him down and running all over the building, Xiao Sun felt scary just thinking about it. He didn't dare to trust anyone now.
"Everyone has their own secrets, and you are no exception. It's just that some people's secrets will not hurt others, while some people's secrets are based on hurting others." Chen Ge gently patted Xiao Sun's shoulder: "Human nature is the most complicated in the world. It is a unique mark of an individual. I won't force you to make any choice, but I hope you can think carefully before deciding what to do."
The fact that Xiao Sun appeared in the world behind Xiang Nuan's door showed that he might have some problems as well, but he was not assimilated by such an environment, and the darkness around him did not make him sink. His mysterious disappearance outside the door might also be due to this reason.
Chen Ge felt that Xiao Sun was worth winning over, and he had been observing Xiao Sun along the way.
It is difficult to gain Chen Ge's trust in the world behind the door, because Chen Ge is the kind of person who easily trusts others. However, he also has an advantage, that is, once he truly trusts someone, he rarely wavers.
"No matter what happens next, the first thing you have to do is to protect yourself and stop talking nonsense."
Before, Xiao Sun was just a stranger to Chen Ge. Chen Ge didn't care much about whether he was dead or alive. The most he could do was to help if he could.
Now that Chen Ge wants Xiao Sun to be his companion, he will naturally not allow Xiao Sun to "talk nonsense" and cause trouble.
After hearing what Chen Ge said, Xiao Sun looked puzzled and nodded subconsciously.
Big Head's screams were heard from the corridor. Chen Ge walked out of 1006 and saw Big Head sitting in the corridor, holding his stomach with his hands, and blood seeping out of the bandage.
Datou's injuries became serious, and Dr. Li suggested that he go home to rest, but Datou was unwilling to do so. He seemed to know what might happen next and wanted to stay to help Dr. Li.
Soon several other doors on the tenth floor were opened, and they found nothing useful from room 1006 to 1002, until room 1001, which was the room at the deepest end of the corridor on the top floor of the building.
Before the iron door was fully opened, Chen Ge and his friends heard a sound coming from the room, like a child crying.
"Is there anyone in the house?"
Chen Ge didn't pay attention to the child's crying at first, but when he noticed that Dr. Li also looked very surprised, he gradually felt that something was wrong.
Dr. Li, the real murderer who killed the landlord, didn't know why there was crying in the room, which meant that something must have happened in the room.
After completely opening the security door, several people saw the scene inside the house and their expressions all changed.
The floor and wallpaper of Room 1001 are covered with open eyes. There are no furniture such as coffee tables and sofas in the living room, but only a dozen square TVs of various sizes.
The televisions were stacked up one on top of the other. The screen of the one in the middle was on. The picture on it was of a child sitting in the middle of a dozen televisions. His face was pale, his pupils were trembling, and he was watching the televisions around him very anxiously.
"Xiang Nuan!"
When Wen Qing saw the boy on the TV screen, she couldn't control herself and shouted out loud.
Her own child had experienced such an experience before. Wen Qing stood at the door of the living room, her eyes instantly turned red and her shoulders trembled.
She didn't dare to look at the TV, but her eyes couldn't help but glance there. The child on the screen was struggling alone, with the expression on his face sometimes normal, sometimes hideous and terrifying, like a monster.
The key was taken away by the murderer, but Dr. Li's expression was also very surprised. He obviously didn't know who turned on the TV. This does not mean that he was cleared of suspicion, but it means that the person who turned on the TV may not need the landlord's key to enter the room.
Xiang Nuan's figure instantly appeared in Chen Ge's mind: "The person who pushed the door was Xiang Nuan. This is his world behind the door. Does he want to guide us to see the truth?"
Several people stood there, and when they were considering whether to go into the house, Xiang Nuan on the TV screen suddenly raised his head. He looked at the people standing behind the door through the TV screen.
"Walk……"
A very soft sound came from the TV, and then all the TV screens were turned on, and pictures were played one after another.
The middle-aged man in Room 302 compared the model's body and twisted the doll's joints.
A man in his fifties in Room 205 threw the portrait of Grandma Li in front of her, threw the offerings on the table all over her, and strangled her neck.
The man in 701 used a cigarette butt to burn away his fingerprints and stood next to a mirror with a knife in his hand. There was a wanted poster with his photo on it.
The young woman in Room 702 was sitting in front of the computer. She was covered in blood and the body of a middle-aged man was lying behind her. She seemed to be searching online for how to dispose of large garbage quickly and effectively.
In room 505, a man with light makeup on was wearing his wife's clothes, holding his wife's photo, looking at his frozen wife in the mirror, and posing in the same posture as his wife.
In the kitchen of Room 602, a man washed his hands over and over again. He used various tools and did not stop until the skin on his hands was rubbed to pieces. The more he washed, the more blood came out and it could not be washed clean.
In room 301, Wu You had his eyes and ears covered by an adult whose face could not be seen. His parents, who were lying in a pool of blood, were being dragged out of the living room by other residents of the building.
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Chilling videos played on the screen. Xiang Nuan was surrounded. His expression became more and more ferocious. He waved his hands and grabbed something on the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.
After he finished eating, the images on all the screens began to flicker, and as he fell heavily to the ground, the images on the screens disappeared.
The room fell silent, with the only sound in everyone's ears being Wen Qing's self-blaming sobs.
The scenes in the video are very real, and because of their reality, they are even more frightening.
"Is this the final truth inside the building?" Xiao Sun felt like he was about to be driven crazy.
"You are wrong. This is only part of the truth." Chen Ge looked at Dr. Li and asked, "Why are there no videos of you, Datou, Aunt Ding and the electrician in the videos just played?"
"Is it strange? Doesn't this just prove that we are ordinary and normal people?" Big Head interrupted.
"Don't fool yourself. You know exactly what the electrician did. You killed him to save yourselves." Chen Ge unzipped his backpack and said, "The four of you are the ones who killed the landlord."
The atmosphere in Room 1001 was solemn. After a long while, a terrifying smile appeared on Dr. Li's cold face. "You are right. The landlord saw our secret. He was killed by the four of us. Those teeth and the letter of commitment are ours. You are very smart, but you understand it too late. No one in this building will help you now."
Seeing the scary smile on Dr. Li's face, Chen Ge also laughed. His smile gave people a very warm feeling, but in this case, his smile seemed even more weird: "How do you know that I just figured it out now?"
Hearing Chen Ge's words, Datou and Doctor Li both laughed. They waved to Qu Ying, and the three of them surrounded Chen Ge from three directions.
"In fact, we lied to you from the beginning. I am not a pediatrician at all, and Datou is not my patient." Dr. Li lifted his sleeves, revealing the scary scars and needle marks on his arms: "We are both patients, and very serious patients who cannot control themselves."
They fumbled in the black opaque bag, which contained not only lock-picking tools but also two sharp knives.
"When I went upstairs, I wanted to take this thing out of the bag countless times, but I held back in the end." Doctor Li held the knife. He did not regard Chen Ge as a human being at all. His gaze was more like looking at a lamb to be slaughtered. "I always felt that the building was very noisy. Now it is finally quiet. I can become the new landlord legitimately."
"You're dreaming." Chen Ge reached into his backpack and said, "Actually, I've also lied to you. I'm not a psychiatrist at all. The patients I've treated all call me the Skull Crusher."
With his five fingers tightly gripping the hammer handle that looked like a living human spine, Chen Ge rushed forward as he finished his last word, swinging the skull-crushing hammer and hitting Qu Ying hard.
Qu Ying spit out a large mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground with an expression of disbelief on his face.
He didn't say a word, and before he could even think clearly, his chest deflated.
"Why me..."
Having lost the ability to move, Qu Ying was on the verge of dying.
"Now there are only two of you left." Chen Ge stood at the door, the barbs on the skull crusher rubbing against the wall, making a creepy sound.