Chen Ge's straightforwardness caught the woman on the other end of the phone off guard. She had never thought that someone would ask such a question.

"Excuse me, are you a ghost?"

Chen Ge repeated it again, his tone calm and natural, sounding as if he was asking, "Have you eaten today?"

The woman's breathing became rapid and she felt inexplicably irritated. Noise began to appear in the microphone and the signal suddenly became very poor.

"If you don't answer, that means you agree."

Chen Ge was holding his cell phone, leaning against the door. Someone who didn't know him might have thought he was calling an old friend he hadn't seen for years.

"I..." The woman on the other end of the phone wanted to say something, but felt it was inappropriate. She totally couldn't understand what kind of mentality the other party had to ask such an embarrassing question.

If a normal person finds out that he is talking to a ghost on the phone, wouldn’t his first reaction be to scream and throw the phone aside?

Even if you can't bear to throw away your phone, you can just hang up with trembling hands!

Why are you not only not afraid, but even come over to ask?

The woman on the other end of the phone muttered something, and the call was suddenly disconnected.

Chen Ge was not surprised to hear the busy tone coming from the other end of the phone: "It seems that he got angry after being discovered by me."

He put away his phone and stood in the dark corridor. "Three tenants of room 304 are missing or murdered. I just met the gambler and the salesperson. The woman acting as the intermediary is most likely the second owner's English teacher."

It was not even midnight yet, and Chen Ge had already encountered three different ghosts. He had a feeling that this was just the beginning.

"I don't know what strange guys I will encounter after midnight. It seems that I have to change my way of thinking to break the deadlock." Chen Ge put on his backpack and walked to the door of Room 304 with the skull crusher in hand: "Instead of being led by the nose, it is better to be direct."

The light from room 305 shone in the dark corridor. In the entire Third Hospital's family quarters, only Chen Ge's light was on.

"Most of the residents in the community live in the first two buildings. The last building seems to be a taboo for them." Chen Ge grabbed the door lock of room 304 and shook it hard twice. The rust fell off and the door frame trembled slightly.

Perhaps because multiple murders had occurred there and the police had to violently open the lock more than once, there were obvious marks of prying on the edge of the lock.

"Smashing the door is too rough and not something I like to do, but there is no better way now."

Seeing the right position, Chen Ge swung the skull crusher!

"Bang! Bang!"

After several consecutive hits, the lock was crooked. Chen Ge then stuffed the hammer handle into the crack of the door and pried it open.

"Even though there was such a big commotion, no one in the community dared to say anything. It seems that these ghosts often play tricks on them."

After entering Room 304 and turning on the lights in the living room, Chen Ge found that the room was very strange.

Furniture such as the sofa and dining table were all normal, but anything that could be opened, such as drawers and wardrobes, were all sealed with wooden boards.

“This looks a bit like a haunted house.”

Maybe it’s due to aging circuits or poor contact, the lights in the living room flicker, making people feel uneasy instinctively.

Walking to the center of the room, Chen Ge touched the back of the sofa. Although no one had lived in the room for a long time, it was spotless, as if someone had been cleaning it all the time.

"Two bedrooms and a living room. The layout is the same as room 305, but the furniture is much more worn out."

Chen Ge walked to the side of the shoe cabinet and looked at the wooden board nailed on it. He was a little curious: "Why are all the cabinets and drawers sealed? Is there something scary hidden inside?"

Swinging the skull crusher, Chen Ge smashed the shoe cabinet open. There were a few pairs of shoes thrown inside, and nothing else.

"Left by the deceased?"

Leather shoes, high heels, and slippers were stuffed in there randomly. Chen Ge tilted the cabinet to pour out the shoes. He was surprised to find that all the shoes were pierced and scratched by the fruit knife.

"Knife marks? Was it done by the tenant?"

Unable to find any clues on the shoes, Chen Ge looked elsewhere.

The living room is not big. Opposite the one-piece sofa is a TV cabinet. What’s interesting is that the drawers under the TV cabinet are also nailed shut with wooden boards.

"The item I extracted is called the Drawer That Can't Be Opened. Does that mean that as long as I try all the drawers, I can just take the one that can't be opened?"

No one could give Chen Ge an answer, he could only try it himself.

The TV cabinet was located relatively low, and Chen Ge took great effort to remove the wooden board on top.

“Crash!”

When he opened the drawer, videotapes in black boxes fell out.

"Videotapes? These are from many years ago." He took out a tape that looked relatively new and put it into the VCR under the TV.

Plug in the power, press the switch, and the moment the TV starts, it seems like a shadow flashes across the screen.

"Was it a shadow flashing in the video? Or did something just run past me?" Chen Ge remained alert. He knew very well that the gambler who lost a hand finally fled into room 304, and he might be hiding somewhere in this room now.

The videotape was from many years ago and the picture quality was very poor. The TV seemed to be faulty as well, with white bars and snow flashing across the screen from time to time.

It was a miracle that something so old could still be used. Chen Ge didn't pay attention to the details and squatted in front of the TV to watch.

The videotape records the scene in this room. The picture is completely still. The person who recorded the video should have fixed the camera somewhere.

"What is he filming?" After a minute, the TV screen still did not change. Chen Ge was getting impatient and found the remote control to try to fast forward.

The first half of the video is normal, but the second half is a bit weird.

The second half of the videotape was shot at night, and the scene on the screen was similar to what Chen Ge was experiencing at this moment.

The lights were on in the house and the camera was placed on the TV with the lens pointed at the living room, just enough to capture the living room and the doors of several adjacent rooms.

"The whole drawer is full of videotapes, which means that the person using the camera was filming his own house for a long time."

Chen Ge vaguely understood the owner's intention. He must have experienced a supernatural event, and in order to prove his thoughts, he wanted to record everything with a camera.

"As the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat. When you discovered something was wrong with this house, instead of moving out immediately, you stayed here and committed suicide." After saying this, Chen Ge held the recorder in his arms and continued to watch the video.

The image quality was very poor. When Chen Ge fast-forwarded to the end of the video, the unchanging picture suddenly changed.

The originally normal lighting in the video began to become like in reality, flickering, and every time the light dimmed, the closed bedroom door in the video would open a little.

/bk