"Still no one answered. Never mind. I'll leave school first."

An inexplicable emotion spread in Gao Ruxue's heart. She felt very uneasy and felt that everything she saw was problematic.

"Master, drive faster, I have something urgent to do."

The enclosed space made Gao Ruxue feel a little breathless. She opened the car window and the wind messed up her hair.

Gao Ruxue glanced at the crowded crowd, but she didn't feel a trace of excitement. She always felt that someone somewhere was looking at her.

"You are a student at Jiujiang Medical College, right? It's best not to run around alone at night. It's a bit chaotic recently." The driver grabbed the steering wheel and said casually, "There have been several murders in the city late at night in the past few days. The victims were so tragic. I heard that their eyes were gouged out. I don't mean to scare you. Before the murderer is caught, it's best to stay in school at night."

The driver might have meant well, but his words took on a different meaning when they reached Gao Ruxue's ears, and she couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts.

Murder? Several in a row? Why did he let me go back to the dormitory? Could he be the murderer?

In Gao Ruxue's eyes, the driver's ordinary face became somewhat eerie, and every tiny movement seemed to hide malice.

Holding the phone tightly, Gao Ruxue did not answer. She turned her head to look out the window, secretly glancing at the driver from time to time.

Twenty minutes later, the taxi arrived at Qixia Lake Community, which was the house that Dr. Gao bought in Jiujiang two years ago.

After paying the fare, Gao Ruxue got off the car in a hurry. It was almost ten o'clock in the evening, and there were fewer people coming and going in the community.

Qixia Lake Community is considered to be a relatively high-end community in Jiujiang. It has a beautiful environment and is next to Qixia Lake, but its location is a bit remote.

Entering the residential area, the street lamps emitted a faint white light. Gao Ruxue lowered her head and walked quickly forward. She did not dare to look at the bushes on both sides. The green belt seemed a little scary in the middle of the night.

"Oh no, the book and the water cup are in the taxi." She was in a hurry when she got off the taxi and accidentally forgot her things in the taxi.

The water cup doesn't matter, but the book will be needed in class later. Thinking of this, Gao Ruxue became even more annoyed.

The taxi had already left, and I couldn't go back to get it now.

She glanced at the time on her cell phone and it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. There were almost no other people in the community, but the lights on in the buildings in the distance made Gao Ruxue feel a little more at ease.

Qixia Lake Community has its own small garden. Gao Ruxue walked through it and arrived at Building No. 3. Her home is on the thirteenth floor of Building No. 3.

"The neighborhood is so quiet today."

Entering the corridor, Gao Ruxue felt a slight chill on her exposed arms. She clapped her hands and waited until the voice-controlled light came on before daring to move forward.

Compared with the past, there seemed to be no changes in the community, but Gao Ruxue always felt that something was wrong.

The words the driver had said to her in the car flashed through her mind from time to time, words like murder and eye-gouging, like a rope slowly tightening around her neck.

"Could that driver be the murderer?"

"I felt that his tone of voice was very strange. The serial murders occurred in different places. The murderer was able to commit the crime quickly within one night. He must have used transportation. The murderer is most likely a taxi driver."

"Could it be that the deceased also sat in the seat I sat on? Could there be a bloody murder weapon hidden in the trunk?"

The more Gao Ruxue thought about it, the more frightened she became. She looked back every few steps, for she was worried that someone would suddenly appear behind her.

Gao Ruxue walked to the elevator along the wall and pressed the button on the elevator. When the elevator door opened, the voice-controlled light went out.

Darkness suddenly fell, and Gao Ruxue's body froze at the elevator door. She vaguely saw a dark human silhouette in the elevator!

“Bang!”

The sound of clapping came from the elevator, and a man in a raincoat passed by Gao Ruxue and walked out of the corridor.

"Raincoat? It's not raining outside."

The wide brim of the hat covered the man's face. He was not tall, and the oversized raincoat directly covered his legs and shoes.

The man left in a hurry, and there was no blood or other suspicious things on his raincoat.

"Will it rain tonight?" Gao Ruxue glanced at the weather forecast on her phone. There will be showers in the second half of the night. "Strange person."

Gao Ruxue didn't dare to enter the elevator until the man left.

The lights illuminated the corridor. She watched the elevator door slowly close. An indescribable feeling of oppression suddenly emerged. She felt like a fish thrown on the shore, and even breathing was a little difficult.

"It's better not to take the elevator." Gao Ruxue stretched out her hand to block the elevator door that was about to close, and walked out again. She had a bad feeling when she looked at the elevator car.

Gao Ruxue ran into the emergency passage and began to climb the stairs. The stairs seemed to have no end. When she reached the sixth floor, she heard a sound from the emergency door on the first floor, as if someone else had entered the emergency passage.

"Someone is following me?"

Gao Ruxue suddenly remembered the strange man in the raincoat. At the same time, the words of the taxi driver began to appear in her mind.

"The man in the raincoat is the serial killer? Did he just kill someone in this building?!" Gao Ruxue's face turned pale. "I accidentally discovered his murder. Is he following me now to kill me?"

At first Gao Ruxue deliberately slowed down her pace and tried not to make too much noise, but under the pressure of fear, she ran faster and faster.

"I have to get home quickly!"

There were faint sounds of footsteps downstairs, and at this time it seemed that there was another person in the safety passage chasing upstairs!

The distance was gradually shortening, and Gao Ruxue ran upstairs desperately. Her home was on the 13th floor, and now it seemed that there were five floors between the two sides.

Gao Ruxue ran to the corner of the thirteenth floor in one breath, pushed open the door of the emergency passage and rushed into the corridor.

She rummaged in her pocket for the key. The footsteps in the corridor became clearer and clearer. The man was following her!

Her fingers were a little stiff, and Gao Ruxue tried twice before inserting the key into the keyhole. She turned the key to open the security door outside. At this time, the sound in the security passage was approaching, probably only one floor away from her.

“Hurry up!”

After finding the key to the door inside, Gao Ruxue inserted it into the keyhole. The footsteps in her ears had turned into the sound of running!

The other party also reached the thirteenth floor!

The retaining spring bounced and the door inside was opened. Gao Ruxue didn't bother to close the security door outside and went straight into the house.

She turned around and closed the inner door, then leaned against the door and began to breathe heavily.

“Finally home.”

After adjusting her breathing, Gao Ruxue lay on the door panel inside and looked outside through the peephole.

There was no one in the dark corridor, and the doors of each room were locked. Only Gao Ruxue's room had the security door outside, which was half open.