Wang Qi kept persuading Chen Ge to leave. From a stranger's perspective, he was too enthusiastic.

Chen Ge did not agree immediately. After listening to Wang Qi's story, he felt that the other party seemed to be hiding something.

"I've told you everything I can say. It's still not too late to leave now. After midnight, the apartment building will look completely different." After saying this, Wang Qi dusted himself off, turned around and walked out of the apartment building.

It was not until Wang Qi's back disappeared into the night that Chen Ge reacted. He originally planned to find the tenants in the apartment building to understand the situation, but now his doubts have not only not decreased, but increased.

"This person has a big problem. Is he crazy?" Thinking back to Wang Qi's cloudy eyes, Chen Ge felt a little uncomfortable. The man's eyes were full of fatigue and pain, which could not be faked: "It seems that he must love his wife very much."

Chen Ge walked back, and when he passed the woman's room on the first floor, he hesitated and tried knocking on the door.

"Hello, newcomer." The door of the woman's room did not move at all, but the door behind Chen Ge was half open, and a tall and thin man was leaning against the door.

He looked to be in his thirties, unkempt, with his hair and beard almost blended together, and a peony tattooed on the back of his exposed hand.

"Who are you?" Chen Ge turned around warily.

"The guy who posted the missing person notice just now is not a tenant in our building. There is something wrong with him." The tall and thin man tapped his temple: "Don't believe anything he says. If you get too close to him, something bad will happen."

This was the first time Chen Ge had seen the tall and thin man. Although he looked sloppy, his tone of voice was the most normal among the people he had met. "That man's behavior was indeed very strange, but he might have suffered a great blow because of his wife's disappearance."

"Did he tell you that his fiancée went missing near the apartment building?"

"kindness."

"Did he also say that the police told him so that's why he kept looking here?"

"That's right."

"Haha." The tall and thin man laughed. "I've lived here for nine months and never seen the police come. That lunatic is lying to you. What he said about ghosts and spirits is simply nonsense."

He took out a cheap cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth: "How could there be ghosts in this world? At most, someone is pretending to be a ghost. Okay, it's getting late, you should go back to your room."

Chen Ge thanked the man and turned to leave.

He walked up the stairs, undecided: "One of them must be lying. Who could that person be?"

Maybe he was too absorbed in his thoughts, and when Chen Ge came to his senses, he had already reached the third floor.

The paint-chipped numbers were printed on the corners of the floor. The voice-controlled lights above his head emitted a dim light. Chen Ge looked to both sides. This floor had not been renovated. The ground was dirty and there were signs of burning everywhere. The wall paint was severely peeling, like a series of crisscrossing scars.

“Why is it that only the third floor has not been renovated? Is it because of insufficient funds or some other reason?”

The voice-controlled lights quickly went out, and the entire apartment building suddenly fell into darkness.

Chen Ge has been working in the haunted house for many years and is relatively accustomed to the darkness. He did not panic. He took out his mobile phone and was about to turn on the flashlight when he suddenly saw a figure walking quickly in the dark corridor.

"Who's there?" The light from the cell phone's flashlight illuminated the third floor, but the figure was nowhere to be seen.

Chen Ge wanted to go in and search, but unfortunately, at this moment he heard footsteps downstairs.

"Is it the landlord?" If the grumpy and lame landlord saw him wandering around on the third floor, he would inevitably be scolded. Chen Ge thought for a moment, put away his phone, and quietly retreated to the second floor.

Turning the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw a short and fat middle-aged man carrying a washbasin walking out of a room on the second floor. The man was humming a little tune and was in a good mood, but when he saw Chen Ge, his face immediately tightened, and he lowered his head and walked quickly past.

"What do you mean? Do I look that scary?" Chen Ge returned to his room and lay on the bed with his backpack in his arms: "It feels like there is no normal person in this apartment building. Everyone looks like a murderer..."

Thinking of this, Chen Ge sat up suddenly. "The task posted on the phone only asked me to find the murderer, but it didn't tell me how many murderers there were. If I think about it this way, there really could be more than one murderer! After all, it involves a family annihilation case, so the possibility of a gang committing the crime is very high. No, I have to quickly investigate the case of that year."

Chen Ge took out his cell phone. His conversation with Wang Qi was not completely fruitless. At least he figured out one thing: Ping An Apartment was called Fu An Apartment a long time ago.

After typing the words Jiujiang Fuan Apartment into the search bar and scrolling back a few pages, Chen Ge saw a series of shocking words.

"A family of four was brutally murdered! The murderer disappeared out of thin air?!"

"Was it an accident? Or was it murder? What caused the fire at Fuan Apartment?"

"There's a body hidden in the building, and the case is revealed!"

Chen Ge looked through all the information related to Fuan Apartment and felt his body go cold. Reality is often more terrifying than fiction, because this is something that really happened and may even happen to him one day.

Five years ago, a villager saw a fire at Fuan Apartment and called the police.

After the fire brigade put out the fire, they began to investigate the cause of the fire and determine the fire losses.

It was just a routine matter, but as the investigation progressed, more and more strange things began to emerge.

The concrete was cracked, the window glass was broken into small pieces, and the cracks had faint smoke marks, which showed that the fire was not only fierce but also very hot and spread quickly.

There were multiple fire points at the fire scene, which were unrelated to each other, which is a typical feature of deliberate arson.

The nature of the case suddenly changed. The local public security department intervened and subsequently found four bodies in the wreckage of the building. They happened to be a family of four who ran the apartment.

This case caused quite a stir at the time and the police tried their best. However, because the fire destroyed the scene, they searched everywhere but could not find any trace of the fifth person, let alone catch the murderer.

After the apartment building was sealed for a whole year, it was transferred to the original owner's father in accordance with relevant laws. Fuan Apartment was renamed Ping'an Apartment from that time.

"A family of four was burned to death, and the murderer is still at large. No wonder there are legends of ghosts here." After figuring out the case, Chen Ge had a better idea of ​​what happened. He looked at the webpage on his phone and suddenly noticed a detail: "The report said that the original owner of the apartment building was 41 years old when he died. Later, the apartment building was handed over to the original owner's father. If you calculate his age, the real owner of the apartment building should be in his 60s or 70s now."

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