Chen Ge and Wen Qing decided to go to the first floor to look for Uncle Huang. They walked down the eerie corridor and reached the staircase.
The red iron banister had the marks of a child's hand on it. The staircase twisted downward, and the steps were covered in black and red liquid. It felt sticky when stepped on.
The windows in the staircase were sealed shut by wooden boards, and nails as long as half a finger were exposed. If one was not careful, it would cut through one's skin.
"This place is disgusting." Wen Qing was in a hurry to find Xiang Nuan, but even so, when she saw the staircase before them, she frowned. "It feels like someone is constantly dragging a large amount of trash up and down the stairs, and as they move, it leaks."
"You are too naive. What kind of trash can form this kind of black and red mucus on the ground?"
"Then, how do you think this is formed?" Wen Qing picked up the white cat. She seemed to be afraid that the white cat would step on the disgusting black and red liquid.
"Heavily injured people and bleeding bodies can form a red mucus. When the blood coagulates, it will slowly turn into this color." Chen Ge looked at the marks on the ground, and for some reason, he was reminded of something that had happened a long time ago.
When the door inside the toilet cubicle at the Haunted house first showed some kind of anomaly, Chen Ge had heard the sound of something heavy being dragged through the door, and the image appeared in his mind.
A strange monster with a face that could not be seen was using some kind of tool to drag a dead body down the corridor and down the staircase.
"This place is getting weirder and weirder. We should go to the third floor first. Be careful."
Chen Ge carried his backpack, and his nerves were taut.
Turning the corner, when Chen Ge reached the third floor, he heard a strange sound.
Creak, creak …
A door was opened and closed again and again.
"There is no wind in the corridor, and the windows in the staircase are sealed shut. The door is not moving on its own. Someone is opening and closing it."
He turned to look down the third-floor corridor. At the end of the dark corridor, a door was swinging back and forth, giving off a rather shrill sound.
"Should we go take a look?"
"Let's look for Uncle Huang first. Before we achieve our goal, we shouldn't cause any unnecessary problems, lest an uncontrollable accident occurs." As soon as Chen Ge said that, the sound of the door opening and closing disappeared. He turned his head and saw a little boy's face poking out from the room at the end of the corridor.
The child's neck was longer than a normal person's. His head poked out of the room, and his eyes stared straight at Chen Ge and Wen Qing.
"He seems to have noticed us." Wen Qing hugged the white cat. "That child's gaze is so scary!"
"Ignore him. Let's go to the first floor first."
Chen Ge was about to drag Wen Qing down the stairs when the strange child ran out from behind the door. He didn't say anything. He just stared at Chen Ge and Wen Qing.
"We don't need to care about him?"
Wen Qing and Chen Ge walked down, and so did the child. Knowing that he couldn't get rid of them, Chen Ge finally gave up.
He stopped moving and gripped the backpack tightly. He was ready to pull out the hammer at any moment.
"What is your name?"
His fingers were clenched so tightly that they were white, and the veins on the back of his hands were visible. Even so, Chen Ge's voice was as calm and gentle as ever.
"My name is Wu You. Are you here to look for someone?" The boy's voice sounded strange. It gave off an unnatural feeling, like he was trying to imitate someone's intonation.
"He can communicate?" Chen Ge narrowed his eyes. Initially, he had thought that the boy was an idiot. After all, he kept making noises at such a dangerous place. That was no different from seeking death.
"Yes, we are here to look for someone." Wen Qing was too worried about Xiang Nuan that she blurted out.
"Are you looking for a little boy?"
"Yes! That's right! " Wen Qing's mother's voice got louder. She wanted to know Xiang Nuan's whereabouts. "The boy is not tall, and he looks cute …"
"I've seen him before." Before Wen Qing finished, Wu You said with certainty, "He went downstairs."
"Went downstairs? How do you know he went downstairs? Did you see him with your own eyes? "Wen Qing wanted to double check.
"Yes, I saw him with my own eyes." Wu You did not appear to be lying.
Wen Qing hesitated for a moment before turning to Chen Ge. "Should we hurry downstairs? If we go now, we might be able to catch up to Xiang Nuan."
"Okay." Chen Ge had a feeling that there was something wrong with Wu You. He did not want to stay there any longer. He dragged Wen Qing down the stairs.
"Wait a minute, the boy did not come down from here." Wu You followed them again.
"Then, where did he come down from?"
"From the window." Wu You pointed at the sealed window in the corridor. "With a snap, he came down the stairs."
Wu You laughed like he was sucking in air. He danced with joy. "I was sitting at home, and the window was open. Just like that, he swooshed down the stairs."
"What are you talking about?" Wen Qing's face was pale. If not for Chen Ge holding her back, she would have reached out to punch the strange boy before her.
"There's no need to rush." Chen Ge stood between Wu You and Wen Qing. "The boy lives in the room at the end of the corridor. That is room 301, and the roof of the building is room 401, which is your home. So, theoretically speaking, what he said might be true. "
"Xiang Nuan would never do something like that!" Wen Qing said with certainty.
"I know, so we'd better go to his home to take a look." Chen Ge stared at Wu You after saying that. If possible, he wanted to go to every room to take a look.
"It's true. I really saw it with my own eyes. I never lie." Wu You let out that creepy laugh again.
"Are your parents home? Can we go to your home to take a look? "Chen Ge asked softly.
"My parents do not allow strangers into their house, but they are not home now. I can sneak you there." Wu You turned and walked down the third-floor corridor. Looking at his back, Chen Ge and Wen Qing finally realized that Wu You's gait was very strange. His legs were of different lengths, and his body was very uncoordinated.
After Wu You walked a distance away, Chen Ge whispered to Wen Qing, "Do you remember anyone who looks like Wu You?"
"There are quite a lot of children in our residential area, so I did not pay much attention to them. Furthermore, his face looks so strange that I do not even dare to take a second look at it."
Wu You's appearance gave off an indescribably strange feeling. He had normal facial features, but when they were pieced together, it gave off a very strange feeling.
"Come here."
Wu You waved at Chen Ge and Wen Qing. He led the two adults to his home.
The small room was painted in black and white. There were toys, paintbrushes, and many newspapers on the ground. The boy appeared to be home alone.
"This is where I saw him go down the stairs." Wu You pointed at the living room window. At that moment, the window had been closed, and the curtains were drawn tightly. "Do you want to go take a look? After he came down from here, his body has been on the ground. "
"Don't go there yet." Chen Ge pulled Wen Qing back and closed the front door. "Wu You, this is your home. It is not our place to touch your things. Why don't you go and pull back the curtains for us to take a look?"
"He came down the stairs with his head facing down. When he passed my window, he even waved at me …"
"Stop it!" Wen Qing could not take it anymore. She walked across the living room to the window and pulled back the curtains.
The glass window was covered with pictures of various boys. They were painted with different expressions, and the scariest thing was that each boy's face was covered in wounds. They looked scary.
"Is that him? I didn't lie to you, did I? "Wu You pointed at one of the boys, and there was a happy smile on his face.
"Madman." Wen Qing was spooked by the faces of the boys. It took her a long time to recover.
She forced herself to look at all the faces of the boys, but Xiang Nuan's face was not among them.
"Chen Ge, let's go. We shouldn't stay here any longer." Wen Qing crossed her arms. She felt a chill run down her spine like there were many pairs of eyes staring at her from behind.
"Isn't he the boy that you're looking for?" The smile on Wu You's face disappeared. He tore down one of the pictures that was stuck on the window and showed it to Wen Qing. "It's him, it's him! I can't forget this face for a long time. When he came down the stairs, he waved at me! "
Fear flashed across Wen Qing's face. She took a step back. "Chen Ge, let's go!"
"There's no need to rush." Chen Ge used Yin Yang Vision to scan the pictures on the window. He reached out and tore down one of the pictures. "Wu You, where did you see this boy?"
"I can't remember. Perhaps it was inside the trash bag, or maybe it was in the sewer, or maybe it was under the table or inside the cupboard. I can't remember anymore! There are too many of them! There are too many of them! "The expression on Wu You's face became scarier and scarier. His body was elongating.
"Have you seen this face in Room 405 before?" The picture that Chen Ge was holding was of a boy who had lost both of his legs. He was trying his best to crawl in a certain direction like he was trying to escape.
The boy in the picture reminded Chen Ge of the boy inside Room 405. Upon closer inspection, the boy in the picture did look similar to that boy.
“405？ Auntie Ding? This boy seems to have gone up the stairs with her! Oh right! At the time, the boy still had legs! " Wu You's words revealed a very cruel message. Initially, the boy was normal, but later, the boy in Wu You's picture lost both of his legs, and the boy that Chen Ge saw at Room 405 had lost everything below his thighs.
"Try to think back. Did the boy tell you anything?"
"He asked me to save him. He said that he missed home. No, he didn't say anything, and I didn't hear anything. He didn't tell me anything! I don't know anything! "
"Then can you tell me about Auntie Ding …"
"Auntie Ding is a good mother. She cooks brown sugar water for me. She loves children very much. She only gets angry at bad children. Auntie Ding doesn't allow me to lie. Auntie Ding even buys me toys. Auntie Ding is even better than my mother." Wu You seemed to be memorizing it by rote. Without any emotion, he hurriedly spouted out a long list of words.
This surprised both Chen Ge and Wen Qing.
"Auntie Ding doesn't allow the children to go out alone at night. The children can only go out at night when they are carried by Auntie Ding. Auntie Ding likes to spend time with the children the most …"
Wu You kept repeating these words, and he spoke faster and faster. The boy's picture on the window started to rustle like every piece of paper was trying to fall off the window.
"Chen Ge! Let's go! This boy is too scary! "Wen Qing was spooked. She kept urging Chen Ge, but Chen Ge managed to calm down.
"I think I understand now. There is a connection between the tenants of this building. The reason why Wu You became like this is probably because he saw something about Auntie Ding, and he was scared out of his wits by Auntie Ding. "
Chen Ge had no idea what had happened in real life, but from the information that he had obtained behind the door, that should be the truth.
Chen Ge did not leave. He voluntarily walked to stand before Wu You and placed his hands on Wu You's shoulders. "Don't think about that person. She is not here. There are only the few of us in this room. There are only the few of us …"
After saying so much, Wu You slowly returned to normal. He pasted the torn picture back on the window and then closed the curtains. Those who did not know would not have noticed the problem.
"Wu You, when will your parents come back? Do they know what happened to the children on the window? "
"My parents haven't been home for a long time. I've been opening the door to wait for them."
"What did they plan to do when they left home for the last time?"
"I don't know. The neighbors say that my parents left because I like to lie too much. They can't stand me anymore." Wu You had a strange smile on his face. "I have never lied before, but they all say that I am a liar. They say that everything that comes out of my mouth is full of lies."
"Thankfully, the adults all know that you are a 'liar', or else you would not have survived until now." Chen Ge could not see through Wu You, but he had a feeling that the boy was very clever. He wanted to cooperate with Wu You, but he could not figure out Wu You's real thoughts.
After giving it some thought, Chen Ge decided to leave. Temporarily, Wu You was not trustworthy.
"You should continue to wait for your parents here. We might meet again tonight."
After exiting Wu You's home, Chen Ge was about to tell Wen Qing something when the front door opposite Room 301 was suddenly pushed open.
A middle-aged man with messy hair poked his head out. His expression was dark as he stared in the direction of Room 301. Then he whispered to Chen Ge, "Stay away from that boy, he will get you killed."
"Why?" When Chen Ge entered the room, he closed the front door behind him. Unless the man was leaning against Wu You's door to eavesdrop, he should not have heard what Wu You had said inside the room.
"That boy is not normal. His parents died because of him. You'd better not talk to him anymore." The middle-aged man was about to close the door when he said that, but Chen Ge used this opportunity to sneak a peek into the man's room.
The heavy smell of alcohol covered up the stench. The room was very messy. Various trash and clothes littered the sofa, and the walls were covered with pictures of scantily clad women.
"Bang!"
The door closed, and Chen Ge signaled for Wen Qing to leave the third floor.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with that man? "
"A married man would not have those kinds of pictures all over his room, but if he is not married, then why are there so many women's underwear on his sofa?"
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