"The landlord is a strong suspect, but other possibilities cannot be ruled out." Chen Ge scratched his head: "It would be better if we could find a tenant to ask."

Since he entered the apartment building, he saw a total of four people: a woman hiding behind the door, Wang Qi who posted a missing person notice, the grumpy landlord, and an old man in a wheelchair.

"The old man lives with the landlord, so we won't consider him for now. The woman on the first floor gives me a weird feeling. Only Wang Qi looks relatively normal. He should know something about what's going on in the apartment." Chen Ge put the thermos into the room, locked the door, and walked to the first floor.

The voice-activated light came on, and as soon as Chen Ge reached the first floor, he saw Wang Qi walking through the corridor holding a missing person notice. He stuffed the missing person notices into the crack of the door of the rental house, regardless of whether there was anyone living inside.

This unusual behavior attracted Chen Ge's attention. Others would post missing person notices in crowded places, but he chose to post them in unoccupied rental houses.

Chen Ge quietly followed behind Wang Qi, and waited until Wang Qi stuffed the last missing person notice into the crack of the door before speaking: "Brother, I understand how it feels to have a missing family member, but you should also be strong and not torture yourself by repeating these meaningless things."

Hearing the voice, Wang Qi slowly turned around, his cloudy eyes seemed to never focus: "Understand? You won't understand, and I never expect you to understand..."

Chen Ge didn't waste time talking to him. He took out his phone and pulled out the missing persons record made at the police station a few months ago: "I'm not lying to you. My parents suddenly disappeared half a year ago. At the beginning, I also collapsed and felt desperate."

Seeing the photos saved in his phone, Wang Qi was silent for a long time before he said, "I sympathize with your experience, but our situations are different. My fiancée will definitely come back. I can feel that she hasn't gone too far."

"Can you tell me about your story? We're both in this world, and maybe I can help you." Chen Ge was sincere, and what he said was from his heart.

Wang Qi hesitated for a moment, perhaps remembering that Chen Ge had helped him pick up missing person notices before, and he looked at Chen Ge with a slightly softer gaze: "You can't help me. I see that you are a good person. Listen to my advice and leave quickly. Don't spend the night here!"

"I've already paid the money. If you want me to leave, you have to give a reason." Chen Ge came here to complete the trial mission. Leaving now would be like giving up halfway, and the horror scene of the midnight escape would never be unlocked.

"Which is more important, money or life?" Wang Qi looked around and found that there was no one around and whispered, "There was a murder case in this apartment building before. Everyone nearby knows it."

"I've heard that this is a haunted house, but I can't find any related cases on the Internet. It must be a rumor." Chen Ge expressed his doubts.

"This building used to be called Fu'an Apartment, and it was renamed Ping'an Apartment after the incident. The case was quite a big deal back then, and the murderer has not been caught until now. Those who died in vain are still resentful, so they appear in the old house late at night." Wang Qi looked serious and spoke in a serious manner.

"What era is it now? You still believe in this?" Chen Ge smiled stiffly. In fact, he was more panicked than anyone else. The monster in the mirror, the love letter ghost, he really didn't want to have anything to do with any more ghosts.

"I didn't believe it at first, until later, my fiancée mysteriously disappeared nearby." He grabbed his hair in pain, unable to hide his fatigue.

"Why did your fiancée come to this place?" Chen Ge's attention was focused all of a sudden. Although the speaker did not mean it, the listener took it to heart. The situation of Wang Qi's fiancée was somewhat similar to that of his parents.

"I don't know either. In fact, I've never heard of this apartment building before. It was the police who told me about it. They said all the clues ended here." Wang Qi loosened his hand, with a few strands of hair still between his fingers. "I have no choice but to come here to look for it."

"Have you found anything?" Chen Ge was very curious.

Wang Qi opened his mouth, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and typed a line of words on the screen.

"It seems my fiancée has been kidnapped by someone in this apartment!"

Seeing the words on the phone, Chen Ge was a little surprised. The development of the matter was not what he imagined: "Brother, missing and kidnapping are two different concepts."

Wang Qi signaled Chen Ge to lower his voice. He blocked the passage with his back and opened his mobile mailbox for Chen Ge to see.

It was just a casual glance at first, but when Chen Ge saw the message in the mailbox clearly, his eyes slowly widened.

There was a text message from Wang Qi’s fiancée in her mobile phone mailbox!

The content of the text message only had two words - save me. What's even more strange is that the text message was sent around two o'clock in the morning yesterday.

"A person who should have been missing sent you a text message asking for help in the middle of the night?" After getting over the initial shock, Chen Ge quickly calmed down: "Since you received the text message, why didn't you call the police directly? Your fiancée is obviously still alive."

"You may not believe it, but every day after midnight I receive a text message from my fiancée, and the content of the text message is all these two words. And the most important thing is that every time I wake up, the text message disappears, as if it never happened." Wang Qi pointed at the bloodshot eyes and said, "In order to keep this text message, I haven't slept for 24 hours."

"As soon as you fall asleep, the text messages will disappear?" This was the first time Chen Ge heard of such a thing.

"I know you probably think I'm crazy, but everything I said is true." Wang Qi leaned against the wall and put away his phone. "Weirder things often happen around me. For example, my fiancée's things would inexplicably appear in my house without any signs. It's like she's reminding me to look for her all the time."

After hearing Wang Qi's last words, Chen Ge's eyelids twitched.

According to his experiences in the past few days, his fiancée was not missing, but was murdered and turned into a ghost, and then haunted him again. This was the only explanation. Of course, the premise of all this was that he did not lie.

"My fiancée disappeared in this apartment building. My life was changed because of this apartment. This is a haunted house, where ghosts of people who died unjustly live. Anyone who tries to get close to it will be tainted with bad luck. You'd better leave quickly." Wang Qi's face seemed a little pale, as he hadn't spoken so much for a long time.