"Female underwear?" Wen Qing did not notice those details. It was only after she heard Chen Ge's reminder that she started to feel afraid. "He is a pervert who steals underwear?"
"Wu You should have seen his secret as well. That is why he came out to stop us after he found out that we were in contact with Wu You." Chen Ge and Wen Qing stood in the corridor. Both of them spoke so softly that only the other could hear them. "What worries me the most is not the man stealing the underwear but what he said. Wu You kept the door open, waiting for his parents to come home. This means that he thought his family was just going out, but the middle-aged man said that Wu You's parents were killed by Wu You. "
"You mean to say that it was the middle-aged man who killed Wu You's parents?" Wen Qing had been following Chen Ge for a long time, and her way of thinking had slowly become similar to Chen Ge's.
"I believe it was done by many people. No one is the direct killer, but everyone is related to the death of Wu You's parents." After meeting the three tenants, Chen Ge realized that this building had its own rules, and the tenants had agreed to it. If anyone tried to break the rules, they would be targeted by everyone. "When a person witnesses a murder and they do not cooperate with the police, they will be considered as an accomplice."
"Based on what you said, I feel sorry for Wu You. After we find Xiang Nuan, how about we bring him away with us?" Wen Qing was a kind woman, but kindness was the most useless thing to the original tenants behind the door. To survive in this place, the first thing they had to abandon was the kindness in human nature.
"Let's find Xiang Nuan first."
Following the stairs to the second floor, Chen Ge and Wen Qing both stopped moving.
An old lady stood on the eerie second-floor corridor. She was holding a stained porcelain bowl in her hands. There were some coins and leftovers inside the bowl.
The old lady was originally standing outside one of the doors. She was trying to turn the doorknob, but no matter how hard she tried, the door would not budge.
When Chen Ge passed by, the old lady saw him and turned to walk toward him.
The dirty hands waved before Chen Ge. She held the bowl, and the sound of gurgling came from her lips. It was quite creepy to hear.
"Grandma Li?" Wen Qing recognized the old woman in front of her. When she saw the old lady's appearance, she was very surprised.
"You know her? From your district? "
"She used to be, but her son said she got lost. He hasn't seen her in years." Wen Qing's eyes were full of surprise. "That old lady lives a very delicate life. Her hair is neatly combed, and her clothes are not wrinkled at all. She often takes care of the flowers and plants in the garden alone."
"Could it be that her son didn't want to take care of her and abandoned her?"
"That's his mother, not an item. How can he just throw it away like that?"
"Don't overestimate human nature. When I saw the news the other day, I saw a man burying his paralyzed mother alive. Even novels don't dare to write that."
Chen Ge and Wen Qing stood where they were. The old lady's mind seemed to have been greatly stimulated. She was crazy and could not communicate. She kept pushing the bowl toward Chen Ge.
"Are you hungry?" Chen Ge did not mind the old lady's dirty clothes. He walked to the old lady's side and asked, "Do you need me to take you home?"
Through Wen Qing's simple description, Chen Ge felt that this crazy old lady was a 'good person' and someone that he could work with.
The old lady did not seem to be able to form a complete sentence. She anxiously pushed the bowl toward Chen Ge, and a strange sound came from her throat.
Chen Ge took out some change from his pocket and dropped it into the old lady's bowl, but the old lady still stubbornly raised the bowl. Her hands kept gesturing something. She did not want money but something else.
The old lady made quite a commotion. After about ten seconds of stalemate, the door to Room 206 on the second floor that was closest to the stairs opened.
"It's you again." It was a young man who opened the door. He was wearing headphones, and his face was pale like he had not seen the sun for a long time. "I just chased you out. Why did you come back?"
He looked at the dirty old man with disgust. He walked out from the room and pulled Chen Ge and the old man away from each other. "Don't let this old woman get close to you, or else she'll keep following you around like a ghost. She's so annoying."
The young man in Room 206 was the most normal person that Chen Ge had seen so far behind the door. Be it his tone of voice or his physical appearance, he was no different from the normal person outside the door.
"Xiao Sun?" Wen Qing recognized the young man, but the young man did not recognize her.
"Who are you? Never mind, I have no interest in knowing. Be quiet, I'm recording a song inside. "The young man closed the door after saying that.
"That young man is the old lady's family?" Chen Ge asked softly.
"No, Granny Lee lives in Room 205. Her son looks very scary, and he does not look like Granny Lee at all."
"Then who is Xiao Sun? He gives me a different vibe from the other tenants. " Chen Ge looked at Room 206. As the number of tenants he interacted with increased, the confusion in his heart grew. This was the world behind Xiang Nuan's door. What kind of relationship did these people have with Xiang Nuan?
"Xiao Sun is a university student. He likes to sing, and he once rented a room at Jin Hwa Apartments 206 for a period of time. At the time, he paid half a year's rent in one go, but he left after the second month. He did not even ask for the deposit. Many things in the room were left uncleaned, and the landlord complained to me for a long time. "
"What is your impression of Xiao Sun?"
"He rarely leaves his room, and he does not go to class. He is a man of few words. Occasionally, he will go to the supermarket to buy daily necessities and food. In my mind, he is just a normal otaku."
"A very normal otaku. He mysteriously disappeared after staying at your residential area for two months." When the door was opened, Chen Ge used his Yin Yang Vision to scan the interior of Room 206. He noticed several cracks on the walls of Room 206, and the paint was peeling. The interior of Room 206 was poorly decorated.
"How could he have mysteriously disappeared? Perhaps he was in an emergency and did not have the time to inform the landlord. By the way, I heard from the landlord that the room that Xiao Sun used to stay in was very messy. There were mountains of trash, and the furniture was broken. Perhaps he was worried that he would have to compensate the landlord, so he snuck away. "
"If a sheep lives with a pack of wolves, what do you think will happen to the sheep?"
"What are you trying to say?"
"If he did not turn into a wolf, then he will be eaten by the wolves. When everyone is an accomplice, if you do not want to be an accomplice, then you can only be the victim. "
Granny Lee heard everything that Chen Ge said. Interestingly enough, the agitated Granny Lee's movements started to slow down. She seemed to understand what Chen Ge was saying.
Granny Lee's reaction was within Chen Ge's expectations. He had discussed Xiao Sun in front of Granny Lee because he wanted to test her.
It was very difficult to survive in the world behind the door. Every 'person' had to have a reason not to be killed.
Wu You was a great liar, Granny Lee was crazy, and Xiao Sun looked the most normal. Therefore, Chen Ge's situation was the most dangerous. Of course, if he had already 'compromised', then it would be a different story.
The hands that held the porcelain bowl were shaking. Granny Lee could not speak. She stopped her strange movements and followed behind Chen Ge. She did not want to leave.
Everything was as Xiao Sun had said. Granny Lee was like a ghost, and she did not want to leave no matter what.
Xiao Sun should have experienced something like this before. If I am not mistaken, Granny Lee is actually reminding him, or rather, she is using this method to ask Xiao Sun for help.
Chen Ge was curious why Granny Lee could not speak. Based on Wen Qing's memory, there should be nothing wrong with this old lady's voice.
Is it because she cannot say it? Or is she afraid to say it?
They did not stay on the second floor. Chen Ge, Wen Qing, and Granny Lee, who followed behind them, went to the first floor together.
"Uncle Huang lives in Room 104. Only three rooms on the first floor are occupied. The other three rooms have been converted into storage and storage." Wen Qing also believed that Uncle Huang could be trusted, so she was even more anxious than Chen Ge. She ran to the door of Room 104 and knocked on it.
When Wen Qing knocked on the door, Chen Ge studied the corridor on the first floor.
Different from the world behind Ying Tong's door, the interior of this building did not have an infinite loop. The exit of the staircase was right before their eyes, but there was a rusted iron door that was locked. If they wanted to leave, they would have to have the key to open it.
The exit door is locked. If Xiang Nuan does not have the key, he should still be inside this building. But what if the key is with Xiang Nuan?
It had been some time since Chen Ge entered the door, but he still had no clue. He could not see Xiang Nuan's despair. All he could see was the despair of others, and Xiang Nuan felt more like a bystander.
The corridor on the first floor has the most blood stains. The black stains have seeped into the tiles, and there are patterns that look like blood vessels on the walls. This floor might be more dangerous than the floors above.
While Chen Ge was thinking, the door to Room 104 was pushed open, and then Chen Ge heard Wen Qing gasp.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Ge turned back to look, and he was given quite a fright.
The iron door to Room 104 was pushed open, and an old man with a hunched back stood behind the door. He was very short, and there seemed to be something weighing down on his back.
If that was all, Chen Ge would not have even frowned, but the scariest thing was the old man's face.
The face that was full of wrinkles was covered in bite marks, and the bite marks were of different depths, and the teeth marks were different as well. It appeared like they were created by different people.
"Uncle Huang?" Chen Ge asked with uncertainty. He forced himself to act normal.
"My surname is Huang. How can I help you?" The old man walked out of the room with his back hunched. An indescribable stench of Foul Odor drifted out from his room.
"Uncle Huang, I am Wen Qing …" Wen Qing's brows were tightly creased, and she forced herself to say this.
"Wen Qing?"
"Don't you remember me? I often bring you food. One time, you were sick, and I even took you to the hospital. I have been taking care of you every day. "None of the things that Wen Qing had told Chen Ge before this.
"I am sorry, but I am too old to remember certain things. Are you one of the tenants here as well?" The old man's face was filled with confusion. His body appeared to be very weak, and he would cough every few words.
"Of course, I live here …"
"Uncle Huang, we wish to ask you something." Chen Ge stopped Wen Qing decisively. He did not allow Wen Qing to continue.
Actually, he had already noticed that something was wrong. No one behind the door appeared to know Wen Qing. This person who was the most important to Xiang Nuan was a complete blank in the world behind the door.
The flyers that insulted Wen Qing on the wall did not have Wen Qing's face. They had turned into headless pictures.
Earlier, Xiao Sun had no memory of Wen Qing, and now Uncle Huang also had no memory of Wen Qing. This was definitely not a coincidence.
It was Xiang Nuan who pushed the door open. Chen Ge felt like Xiang Nuan was purposely protecting Wen Qing. He did not want Wen Qing to have any connection with the world behind the door.
Even if he had fallen into the abyss, Wen Qing was still the same Wen Qing that he knew in the human world.
"That is not a bad idea, but he probably did not expect that Wen Qing would follow him into the world behind the door." Chen Ge did not say that out loud. He was only thinking about it in his heart. The most important thing now was to figure out whether Uncle Huang was a friend or a foe.
"What do you wish to know?" The old man's physical condition was very poor. His hand held the door, and his back was hunched even more.
"Uncle Huang, has anyone left through this door before?"
"I don't think so. Recently, the outside world has been quite chaotic. The landlord has added a lock to the door, and the key is with the landlord. If we wish to leave, we will have to find the landlord." Uncle Huang's short sentence revealed a lot of information.
The outside world was quite chaotic, which meant that they knew about the situation in the other buildings. This residential area was a whole, and there would be connections between the buildings.
The lock was added by the landlord. If Chen Ge wanted to leave, he would have to find the key from the landlord first.
In the end, Chen Ge managed to understand one thing from the old man's words. At least in this building, the landlord was a very important person, but Chen Ge had completely forgotten about this person before.
Before entering this door, due to the lack of time, Chen Ge did not have the chance to get in touch with the landlord. Now, he could only rely on Wen Qing's understanding of the landlord to figure out the landlord's situation.
"Is there anything else? If not, I will return to my room. I'm getting old, and my legs hurt after standing for a while. "Uncle Huang was about to close the door, but he was only halfway through when the door was grabbed by Chen Ge.
"Uncle Huang, can we go to your room to sit for a while?"
The stench inside Uncle Huang's room was very thick, it was the heaviest of all the rooms. Chen Ge had a feeling that this room was hiding some kind of secret, so even if Uncle Huang did not agree, Chen Ge would try his best to get in and investigate.
"Do whatever you want."
Uncle Huang did not reject Chen Ge's rather unreasonable request. He appeared to be very tired. After saying that, he leaned against the wall and returned to the sofa inside the room.
Seeing the sofa, Wen Qing's scalp went numb again. The back of the sofa was covered with small things that looked like blood vessels.
Uncle Huang's body curled up on the sofa, and the expression on his face finally relaxed.
Wen Qing wanted to warn Chen Ge, but Chen Ge had already walked into the room. He did not seem to see those scary things at all. It was like he had returned to his own home. He casually sat down across from Uncle Huang.
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