The family quarters of the Third Hospital are very old and look a bit shabby, without even a gate.
He first went into the family building next door and took a look, only to find that none of the rooms there had house numbers marked on them.
"The rental ad only says No. 304. How am I supposed to find it?"
Chen Ge stood at the gate of the community with his bag on his back, wanting to find someone to ask for directions.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, a high school student riding an electric scooter entered the community.
"Hello, I'd like to ask which building is No. 304 in our community?" Chen Ge spoke from a distance, for he was afraid that if he stood out suddenly he would scare the child.
"No. 304? It sounds familiar." The high school student stopped his electric bike and pointed inside the community: "It should be inside, but I'm not sure."
"Excuse me, has anything strange happened in our community before?" Chen Ge tried to look more friendly: "The family compound of the Power Bureau across the road is also in the old city, but it looks much more lively there than our community."
"Nothing strange has happened." The high school student looked at Chen Ge. He felt that the man in front of him was a little strange.
"Yawen! Who are you talking to?" A middle-aged woman's voice came from the third floor next to him. Chen Ge turned his head and saw a woman in pajamas looking at Chen Ge with a vigilant expression, then waved to the high school student next to her: "Go home!"
"Oh, I see." The high school student rode away on his bike.
"Wait a moment!" Chen Ge didn't want to miss this opportunity. He just came to get the drawer and didn't want to make things so troublesome.
After he finished speaking, he stood at the bottom of the building and shouted to the middle-aged woman upstairs: "Sister, do you know which building No. 304 is in?"
He just shouted this casually, but after he finished speaking, the few houses in the entire building that had lights on instantly turned off their lights.
"Is it that serious?" Of the residential building in front of Chen Ge, only the middle-aged woman's house had the lights on.
"Go inside, it's the third floor of the first building on the left in the community." The older sister looked very unhappy, and she went back into the house and turned off the lights.
"You guys are overreacting, aren't you?" Chen Ge didn't leave immediately. He quietly followed the high school student upstairs.
After parking the electric bike, the high school student, not knowing what was going on, walked upstairs with his schoolbag on his back.
"Mom, what are we having for dinner?"
The high school student was about to open the security door outside when a middle-aged woman's voice suddenly came from inside: "Don't touch the door! Stomp your feet before coming in!"
"Why are you stamping your feet? I just finished my evening study and I'm dying of exhaustion."
"Do whatever I tell you to do!" The woman's voice suddenly became louder, as if she was particularly angry, which scared Chen Ge who was hiding on the second floor.
The high school student stamped his feet reluctantly, and the middle-aged woman opened the door, still muttering: "The child is ignorant, no offense, bad luck go away..."
After repeating it several times, she finally let the child into the house: "Take off all your clothes and I'll wash them for you."
"I just changed it this morning!"
"Don't eat if you don't take it off."
The security door on the third floor slowly closed. Chen Ge walked out of the corridor and felt strange: "Are the people in this community making a big fuss?"
The probability of picking a drawer on the turntable is 1%, and the probability of picking Xu Yin is 3%. From a probability perspective, the drawer should be only slightly stronger than Xu Yin, not even as strong as the red-clothed one.
"Never mind, let's get the stuff before it gets dark."
I don’t know if it’s because of the shout he just made, but there are fewer rooms with lights on in the community.
After finding the building the middle-aged woman mentioned, Chen Ge did not notice anything special after entering the corridor. It just looked very shabby, as if no one had lived there for a long time.
When I arrived at the third floor, there were two houses on the left and right, neither of which had a house number, but there was a contact number left on the door of the house on the left.
"Is this 304?"
Chen Ge took out his cell phone and dialed the number. After only two rings, the call was connected.
"Hello, we are Yihu Real Estate Agency. How can I help you?"
"It's like this. I've taken a fancy to a house in your Third Hospital's staff quarters. I'm in the neighborhood right now, and if possible, I'd like to take a look at the house tonight."
"Please wait a moment. I will ask the person in charge of your district for you." After a while, a reply came from the other end of the phone, giving Chen Ge another number: "He just got off work. I have explained your situation to him. He is on his way to you now."
"Thank you for your help."
About ten minutes later, a man in a black shirt and a briefcase stopped outside the residential building. He looked to be in his thirties and was very enthusiastic: "What a coincidence, my home is nearby. If you go somewhere else, you may have to wait until tomorrow."
"It seems that this house and I are destined to be together." Chen Ge laughed, thinking about how he managed to take the drawer away without anyone noticing: "Let's go upstairs and see what the house is like?"
"Okay." The man looked at the dark corridor and was obviously a little scared, but he didn't show it. He still had a smile on his face: "Follow me."
He took out his phone to light the way and introduced it to Chen Ge: "The transportation in this area is very convenient. There are hospitals, schools, and libraries. The house is not expensive, and there is huge room for appreciation."
When he reached the third floor, he took out a bunch of keys from his pocket. Chen Ge had Yin pupils so he could see clearly that each key had a number on it.
The key that the man was going to use to open the door had the number 305 on it.
"Isn't this room 304?" Chen Ge asked directly.
Hearing his voice, the agent almost dropped the key. He turned around and laughed dryly at Chen Ge: "This is 305, 304 is a haunted house, how can we put a haunted house..."
"What I want is 304. I don't mind if it's a haunted house or something. As long as the price satisfies me, please take me to 304 to have a look."
Chen Ge said firmly that the agent held the key to Room 304 but did not dare to open the door.
After a long stalemate, the man walked towards Room 304 with a sad face: "If I had known that you wanted to see Room 304, I would never have come here at night."
He put the key into the door lock: "304 is half the price of 305, but there are some things I need to explain to you so that you don't complain to me later."
"What's the matter?" Chen Ge concentrated his attention. He felt that the drawer he had drawn was a little unusual.
"The first owner of 304 was a gambler who owed a loan shark. He mortgaged his house to the bank to pay off part of the debt. But the interest was compounded and he couldn't pay it back. In the end, he had no other choice but to jump off a building in the community."
“Is this the origin of the haunted house?”
"If I tell you the truth, I'm afraid you won't dare to rent it." The man opened the door and said, "He jumped from the building in the middle of the night. When the police came, they found that one of his hands had been chopped off, but they couldn't find the hand anywhere in the community."