The camera was placed on the TV, and the scene captured from this angle was exactly what Chen Ge saw when he turned around.
The lights flickered. Crouching in front of the TV, Chen Ge slowly developed an illusion that he was not watching a video, but was looking at the living room behind him.
The lights in the living room were still flashing, and the frequency of the flashing in reality seemed to gradually overlap with the frequency of the flashing in the video.
When the light on the TV screen dimmed, the light in the living room dimmed as well, and soon they both brightened again at the same time.
"The video is affecting reality? No, there must be ghosts at work." Chen Ge did not look back, his eyes fixed on the bedroom door that was slowly opening in the video.
Every time the light dimmed, the bedroom door would open a few centimeters. When the light flashed for the seventh time, Chen Ge saw a strand of black hair peeking out from behind the bedroom door.
"She has very long hair, so she must be a woman. Could she be the second owner of the house?" Chen Ge still did not turn around, he just held the skull crusher tightly in his hand.
When the lights in the house dimmed for the eighth time, the strand of hair was blown by the wind, and half of the face began to stick out.
Chen Ge stared at the face in the video and counted silently in his mind. It seemed that the time for the lights to dim was fixed every time.
In the video, the face of the person lying at the bedroom door tilted outwards. When it was about to be exposed, the lights in the video and in reality suddenly went out at the same time!
"Xu Yin!" Chen Ge reacted within a second, holding the hammer in both hands and swinging it towards the back!
The skull crusher hit the sofa, and Chen Ge looked around.
The room was dark, and something was vaguely moving.
After a few seconds, the light came on again.
Nothing changed in the real living room, but the bedroom door opened, just like what was shown in the video!
Chen Ge looked back at the TV. The screen was full of black and white snow, and the recording ended there.
Kicking away the sofa, Chen Ge looked at the slowly turning tape. When Xu Yin's voice sounded, he slowly walked towards the bedroom.
The wooden door was half open, and there were a few strands of women's hair on the ground. Chen Ge picked them up and rubbed them with his hands.
"You keep wearing out my patience. Be careful or I'll burn you all to ashes."
Stepping forward, I found that the bedroom was much worse than the living room. There were several rows of wooden boards nailed horizontally on the wardrobe, and the bedside table next to it was also sealed.
"All the furniture that can be opened has been boarded up. What is hidden in these furniture? Which tenant left these videos?"
Looking at the furniture in the room sealed with wooden boards, Chen Ge had an idea: "Did the tenant who took these videos find out the reason for the haunting through the videos? So he sealed up the drawers and wardrobes?"
The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed. The tenant must have seen a ghost crawling out of a drawer or some piece of furniture, so he sealed all the furniture in the house that could be opened to prevent this from happening again.
Chen Ge stopped in the middle of the bedroom. He thought of another question: "Including the female ghost just now, I have encountered three ghosts in total. All three of them can enter and exit the room freely, which means that sealing the furniture with wooden boards did not work. This means that the owner of the house may have missed sealing a drawer, or the unsealed drawer in this room should be what I am looking for."
He took Xiao Xiao out of his pocket and placed it at the bedroom door as a warning, then swung the skull crusher to open the drawers and wardrobe: "All the drawers and wardrobes are sealed. Is the drawer I'm looking for in the other bedroom?"
The small body on the ground was facing outwards, as if preparing to crawl out. When Chen Ge picked her up, he found that her hand seemed to be pointing outside the door.
He didn't care at first. When he passed the living room door, he accidentally glanced outside the door.
The doors of rooms 304 and 305 were not closed. Between the lights of the two rooms, an old lady with a hunched back was standing there.
She said nothing, facing Room 304. The wrinkles on her face looked like bean skin, which looked a little scary.
His body froze at the door, and Chen Ge subconsciously put the skull crusher behind him.
"Grandma, are you a tenant here?" Chen Ge's voice was still calm, without much emotion.
The old lady did not answer Chen Ge. Her eyes were not even on Chen Ge, but on the drawers that were violently pried open by Chen Ge.
"It's so dark, if you're fine, go home quickly." An old lady stood quietly outside the door late at night. This was definitely not normal. In fact, if it was a young man outside, Chen Ge would have hit him with a hammer no matter whether he was a human or a ghost.
"Did you open those drawers?" the old lady's voice was hoarse, and it sounded like the friction of rough bark.
"Yes, I plan to buy these two houses and I'm sorting out the furniture now." Chen Ge stared at the old man. If he made any unusual movements, he would tell Xu Yin to take action without hesitation.
"You'd better leave quickly and find a deity to help you. Maybe you have been entangled by her now." The old lady walked downstairs halfway through her words. She walked slowly and tremblingly.
"Being entangled by her? You should explain it clearly before you leave!"
Chen Ge chased him up the stairs, and the old man pointed to room 304. "An English teacher used to live in that room. She was very pretty and had a sweet voice. It seems she was murdered for love. They were separated and put in a drawer. It was not discovered until a long time later. She was very resentful, and everyone who entered this room would be entangled by her."
"English teacher?" Chen Ge felt that the old man's words were very clear and he might not be lying. But the problem now was that a weird old lady standing at the door in the middle of the night was a very weird thing in itself!
"Grandma, why are you telling me all this?" Chen Ge stood under the light and did not follow the old lady downstairs. He continued to ask, "Can you tell me how you know these things?"
"I live in the building next door, and the English teacher who was killed was my daughter." The old lady's face turned very ugly, and even her voice became a little gloomy: "You are the third one. She has done a lot of wrong things. I don't want to watch her continue like this."
"Let's go quickly. Don't stay in those two rooms." The old lady went downstairs alone. She walked very slowly, as if she was waiting for Chen Ge to follow her downstairs.
"But I have another question." When Chen Ge was about to ask the old lady who her daughter had harmed before, he suddenly received a message on his mobile phone, which was sent by the woman of the intermediary.
"Do you know why every household in that community dares not make any noise at night and turns off the lights very early? There is an old lady's ghost in their community who often follows the light and sound to find her way home!"
After reading the message on his phone, Chen Ge looked up again. The old lady stopped at the corner of the stairs, the wrinkles on her face squeezed together, and her voice became more and more weird: "Hurry up, follow me downstairs, that room is very dangerous."
Chen Ge's eyes moved between the phone screen, the old man, and the two rooms. He suddenly threw his backpack aside, and a guess slowly formed in his mind: "I can't believe any of them, and there's no need to believe them."
He called out Xu Yin, holding the skull crusher tightly in both hands: "I just want to get my things back. I am not interested in your story."