The third drawer wouldn't open no matter how hard Chen Ge pulled it. He tried to pull out the top two drawers completely, wanting to see what was inside the drawers from above.

But to his disappointment, the drawer was separated by a wooden board in the middle and could not be seen at all.

"The room is clean and tidy, and I don't want to mess it up. If you can understand me, it's best to come out by yourself."

This was not the first time Chen Ge threatened a ghost, although he himself did not know if it would be useful.

He grabbed the edge of the drawer again and used all his strength, but the drawer seemed to be stuck by something.

"Xu Yin!"

Chen Ge called out Xu Yin, and the man and the ghost grabbed both sides of the drawer.

As Xu Yin began to exert force, the wound on his body burst open again, and blood slid down his pale arm and dripped onto the edge of the drawer.

The drawer that was originally unable to be opened gradually became loose.

"Try harder!"

Xu Yin did not hold back at all. He would do whatever Chen Ge asked him to do.

Wounds opened up one after another, blood stained his clothes red, Xu Yin's face was horrible, and his hands were covered with his own blood: "It hurts so much!"

The tightly closed drawer was finally opened a finger's width, and Xu Yin's strength seemed to be able to affect the things in the drawer.

Blood flowed out and Xu Yin pulled the drawer out little by little. When it was opened about half a palm's width, several hands suddenly stretched out from the drawer!

There were men and women, and they looked different. They seemed to want to stop Chen Ge and close the drawer again.

Caught off guard, Chen Ge and Xu Yin both loosened their hands, and the drawer slammed shut again.

"Why are you doing this?" Chen Ge stopped Xu Yin who was about to open the drawer and picked up the skull crusher: "I am doing this for your own good. After all, we may work together in the future."

"I hope you will think about this carefully. I could have used violence to smash the table, or burned everything with fire, and then slowly searched among the wreckage, but I didn't do that. I am a very kind person at heart. You can ask my friends around me about this."

Chen Ge squatted beside the drawer. He was not afraid that any strange things would come out of the drawer. He grabbed the drawer handle and said, "This drawer originally belonged to me. Now I just want to take it back."

Chen Ge slowly exerted force with his fingers and tried to pull the drawer. "I won't take what happened tonight to heart. Although you have deceived me time and time again, you didn't really want to murder me. You probably just wanted to scare me away. In fact, there is no need for you to take such an approach. I am a reasonable person. If there is anything, just tell me and we can discuss and solve it together."

After saying that, Chen Ge raised his skull crusher with his free hand: "For example, right now, you have nowhere to escape. Sooner or later, you will have to face me. You might as well put down your guard and let us have a good talk."

The tightly closed drawer trembled slightly, as if the ghost living inside had a disagreement. After more than ten seconds, the originally closed drawer automatically bounced outward one centimeter.

"Yes, you have the ability to comprehend and you have the potential to be cultivated!"

Chen Ge took out the third drawer and placed it on the table. There were only a few handmade comic books in it.

"Did the painter do this himself?"

The notebook said that no publishing house was willing to publish the cartoonist's works, and in his era, physical publishing should be the only way out.

"So many ghosts came out of this booklet?" Chen Ge recalled what happened tonight and vaguely understood something. He opened the comic book made by the cartoonist himself.

The painter's painting style is more realistic and looks very weird. No wonder few people are willing to publish his comics. It's a bit unnerving to look at them for a few more times.

The entire comic book consists of five short stories. The protagonist of the first story is a gambler. He is tall and thin, with sunken eye sockets, and looks exactly like the tall and thin man Chen Ge had seen before.

The gambler was born into a single-parent family. He had never met his father and was raised by his mother.

He did not receive a good education and did nothing all day long. He was also a gambler. He was still single in his thirties and lived in his mother's house.

To him, life has no meaning, it's just living.

But when he was 37 years old, his peaceful life was broken. His mother, who had been taking care of him, fell seriously ill, and the savings that his mother had worked so hard to save were soon spent.

His mother wanted to give up treatment, but the gambler disagreed. He sold everything in the house, leaving only the old house.

My mother is still short of a large sum of money for the surgery. Even if the surgery is successful, she will not be able to do heavy work in the future.

After much thought, he started borrowing money from loan sharks.

The operation went smoothly, but the money owed had increased several times. The debt collectors came to the gambler's door and forced him to sell his mother's house. The gambler told him to think about it for one night.

The next day, the debt collector brought people from the notary office to find the gambler. When they opened the door, everyone was shocked.

There was a basin on the round table, full of blood. The gambler's left hand was chopped off, and he was standing beside the table with a kitchen knife in his right hand.

He said that he had never done anything for his mother, and now his mother could not do heavy work after the operation. If he lost this house, he didn't know where to live in the future.

So he will not sell this house. If outsiders insist on taking it away, he will pay off the debt with his own life.

All the IOUs were signed by him. He rushed out of the room holding a kitchen knife. No one dared to stop him. They could only watch him run to the eighth floor and jump down.

The gambler died on the spot, but his severed hand was hidden somewhere.

The protagonist of the second story is an English teacher who is doing internship. The old landlady rented her the living room and a large bedroom, and she only lived in a small bedroom.

After the old lady's son passed away, she became dazed and the English teacher took care of her as if she were her own mother.

The two gradually became familiar with each other, and everything was moving in a good direction.

The female teacher had to give extra lessons to the students at night and came back late. The old lady would prepare the meal in advance and put it on the table. She was old and in poor health, so she usually went to bed early.

The female teacher was afraid that she would come back and open and close the door to disturb the old lady's rest, so she would always ask the old lady to close the door when she went to bed.

One day, the female teacher came back very late. She had no idea that someone had already been eyeing her. As soon as she entered the corridor, someone rushed out and covered her mouth and nose.

She struggled frantically and fought with the murderer in the corridor. The murderer did not expect her to resist so fiercely. In order to prevent the female teacher from making any sound and attracting other people's attention, the murderer covered her mouth and nose tightly, took out a knife and killed her.

Unable to dispose of the body in the corridor, the murderer took the female teacher back to his rented room and disposed of the body.

Nothing happened that night, and the old lady found the body in the drawer of the room the next day.

The murderer was arrested five days later, but the old woman's illness became more serious. With the help of the community, she was admitted to the hospital.

At this time, the third tenant came into the house, a real estate salesman, who was also the protagonist of the third story in the comic.

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