Unknown monsters were hiding in the black fog, but perhaps due to the restriction of the rules behind the door, the black fog did not spread into the building. The building was safe.
The residential area outside the building was like a different world for the residents inside the building. Everything they had was left inside the building like they would be killed if they left.
Doctor Li closed the window like he could not see the blood stain on the window frame.
"Only the landlord can enter and leave the building at will. If the tenants wish to leave at night, they have to be accompanied by the landlord." Doctor Li looked at the thick black fog outside. "He must be feeling guilty, so he broke the rules and wanted to jump out of the window."
Doctor Li's words attracted Chen Ge's attention. This residential area was much stranger than he had expected.
If the tenants had to be accompanied by the landlord to leave at night, what would happen if the landlord died? What if this place was covered in darkness forever? What if the same nightmarish night kept repeating itself here?
Many worlds behind the door would stop at a certain time because this time would leave the door-pusher with an unforgettable despair.
"We have confirmed the landlord's killer. Now we only need to focus on capturing Qu Gui's killer." Doctor Li's voice was cold and calm, with a trace of murderous intent. He seemed to treat this building as his hunting ground.
Now that a new hunter had appeared in his hunting ground, naturally, he wanted to find this person and then kill him.
"I suggest we search this room again. If he really is the landlord's killer, there must be other clues inside this room. The keys that the landlord lost should be here as well." Qu Yin did not care about other people's lives. He only needed his own keys. From his perspective, the only safe place in this building was his own home. If even his own home was not safe, then he would not be able to sleep peacefully at night.
"Er …" Xiao Sun seemed to want to say something. He looked at the people around him, and his gaze froze on the blood stain on the window frame. "Don't you think we are being too hasty? With just a letter and a few teeth, you have locked onto the killer? Plus, I feel like something is wrong. I've searched the bathroom, and the sewer … "
"We just want to force the truth out of him. He is the one who made the choice. He has a guilty conscience, and that is why he wanted to escape." Doctor Li glanced at Xiao Sun and then quickly looked past Xiao Sun to look at Chen Ge. "What do you think?"
Of all the people present, the only one that Doctor Li could not see through was Chen Ge. He felt like there was something about Chen Ge that made him feel very uncomfortable. It was like he was looking at his own kind.
This was an extremely dangerous person. When Doctor Li first saw Chen Ge, this thought appeared in his mind.
"I agree with you. The most important thing now is to catch the murderer who killed Qu Gui. All of us have alibis, so the murderer must be someone else. If we fight among ourselves, the murderer will be the happiest." Everything was going according to Chen Ge's plan. He was going to use these few tenants to investigate the other tenants. After seeing the secrets of those people, the two sides would naturally become enemies. While the two sides were fighting each other, Chen Ge would slowly gain the upper hand. When the number of tenants in the building dropped to a certain level, Chen Ge would reveal his fangs.
Chen Ge and Doctor Li shared the same view. Both of them believed that they would be the final winner. The only difference was that Chen Ge knew that the murderer was an outsider, but Doctor Li did not know about the situation outside the door.
One of them came up with a plan based on the rules of the door, and the other came up with a plan based on the situation inside the door and outside the door. The difference in information meant that Doctor Li would be at a disadvantage.
Everyone maintained a calm appearance on the surface, but in reality, everyone had their own agenda. Of course, that was except for Xiao Sun.
The naive young man was still playing the detective game. He wanted to find the truth, and he was trying his best to come up with a theory.
He did not know that the search for the truth could only be done under the sun. When night fell, and the people around him were madmen, no one cared about the truth. Everyone was focused on how they were going to survive.
The group did not find the key inside the middle-aged man's house. They turned the house upside down, and in the end, they had no choice but to give up.
After leaving the middle-aged man's house, they started from the third floor and started to investigate every room.
The people inside the house refused to open the door, so they tried their best to break the lock and enter the house.
The building was filled with evil. The darkness that had accumulated for many years was sliced open by a knife that was even darker.
Transvestite, cheating, murder out of passion, escaped criminals, psychopaths …
Behind each door hid many twisted souls. They guarded their dirtiest secrets. They slowly lost their human appearance and turned into twisted monsters.
Chen Ge saw the bottom line of human nature in the world behind Xiang Nuan's door. They were hidden among normal people. Perhaps at some point in time, they had even brushed past us.
They moved all the way from the third floor to the eighth floor. In the process of searching for the murderer, Chen Ge's group ran into a lot of resistance.
When the secret was exposed, most of the twisted tenants chose the most extreme method to fight back. Some of them did not care who the murderer was; they only wanted to protect their own secret.
Doctor Li also did not expect things to turn out this way. During the search, Big Head was stabbed by an escaped criminal, and the doctor himself was lightly injured as well.
Like a cornered beast, the tenants did everything they could to prevent the human skin they used to live in from being torn off.
Some used sweet words to trick them, some used violence to chase them away, some tried to bluff their way through, and some even tried to kill everyone. That way, they would be able to protect their own secret.
Of the whole group, other than Granny Lee and Wen Qing, who followed behind them, only Chen Ge was not injured. He looked on coldly from the side. His Yin Yang Vision focused on the dark side of human nature.
They returned to the ninth floor where the landlord lived. The group gathered at the door to Room 901.
The murderer had not been found, and the landlord's lost key had not been found. Everyone dragged their tired bodies.
"After the door opens, I will move out." Xiao Sun's face was pale and bloodless. His worldview had been turned upside down in one night. The bloody and scary scenes that he had seen in that one hour were more than the scenes that he had seen in the movies in the past twenty years.
The high intensity and high frequency of stimulation had left a deep psychological shadow on him. He appeared to have developed a phobia of opening doors. He did not even have the courage to push the door open anymore.
"If we cannot find the key, the lock on the door will not be able to be opened, and none of us will be able to leave." Chen Ge carried the backpack with one hand. He had been conserving his energy. He kept calling out his employees' names, but other than that, he did not do anything else.
"But we have already searched most of the rooms. There are so many keys. Where could the landlord's killer hide them?" Qu Yin and his girlfriend were given quite a fright as well. Compared to those animals, they could only be considered scum.
"I have only searched part of the rooms. There are still some rooms in this building that we have not been to." At the end of the tunnel, the dagger was revealed. Chen Ge was in good condition. He had been slacking all the way.
"You mean the rooms below the third floor?" Qu Yin nodded. Now he could only place his hope on the first and second floor.
"No, I mean our rooms." Once Chen Ge said that, Doctor Li and Big Head's expressions shifted. "The killer knows that he has been exposed, so he might choose to frame the few of us. For example, he might place some unimportant evidence in our homes."
Chen Ge was referring to Doctor Li and Big Head's method. Of the tenants inside the building, some were dead, some were injured, and some were tied up. They had lost their ability to move. Chen Ge was no longer afraid of the tenants inside the building.
There were many scum and animals living inside this building. If they worked together, Chen Ge, whose physical condition was not as good as before, would definitely die. Unfortunately, their selfishness and darkness had given Chen Ge a chance. It allowed Chen Ge to find a 'path' that was almost impossible to walk through.
Doctor Li was lightly injured, Big Head was heavily injured, Auntie Ding was hiding in her room, and the shameless Qu Yin would not help. So, the only opponent left for Chen Ge was Doctor Li.
Telling the truth had become one of Chen Ge's options, but he still did not turn on the tenants. If he could let them kill each other, why would he do it himself?
When a normal person entered a building like this, the first thing they would think about was how to save their own lives. Then they would find the key through various clues and then leave the building. Many movies and games on the market had a similar plot.
But Chen Ge's strategy was different. He wanted to kill all the scum and monsters inside this building. When everyone was powerless to resist, even if he did not escape from the building, in a way, he would have cleared the scenario.
"The few of us are not the murderers, so it makes sense for you to suspect us. We can go back to our own homes to take a look. If we find something in someone's home, we can share it with the rest of us." Doctor Li's eyes were still sharp, but there was a trace of fatigue on his face. This was the first time that he had found out about many of the tenants' secrets. "The murderer is very cunning, and he might use the method that you suggested. If we do not want to fall into his trap, we have to trust each other."
Doctor Li and Big Head knew very well that even though they were the murderers who killed the landlord, they were not the murderers who killed Qu Gui. There really was another unknown murderer inside this building, and that was why they were willing to cooperate with Chen Ge's investigation.
They had killed the landlord and obtained the keys to all the rooms, but the murderer could freely enter other people's homes through the windows. From their perspective, this was a very big hidden danger. Perhaps the secret inside their rooms had already been discovered by a third party.
To hide their dark side, people would do many things. Chen Ge had used this to his advantage to make these few madmen fall deeper into the abyss.
"Let's check the ninth and tenth floors first. If there is nothing here, we will start to search our own rooms. We have to be careful of our own safety." Initially, Chen Ge had wanted to borrow the power of the tenants to deal with the monster from the cursed hospital, but he did not expect the monster to be so cunning. It did not give him any chance at all. Now that all the tenants were dying, the monster still had not shown up.
Without the key, it would take a long time for Chen Ge's group to open the door.
After much effort, Chen Ge's group managed to open all the doors on the ninth floor.
The six rooms on the ninth floor were all the same in terms of the decoration and the arrangement of the furniture. From the outside, it looked like they had been copied from the same mold.
"Why would the landlord create six rooms that are exactly the same?"
"They might look the same on the surface, but they might be different on the inside." Chen Ge's memory was far better than a normal person's. He remembered some of the details of Room 901 very clearly. After comparing them, he noticed many problems. "Some of the mirrors in the bathroom were removed and replaced with a hidden compartment. Some of the walls behind the fridge were hollowed out. Some of the rooms even had a partition added under the bed so that a person could hide inside."
"Why would the landlord do that? He is the only tenant on the ninth floor. Why would he modify all six rooms to look like this? "Xiao Sun still did not realize how scary the details that Chen Ge had mentioned were.
"Perhaps it is to imprison someone and torture them until they are insane."
"How did you come to that conclusion?"
"Have you noticed that all the windows on the ninth floor have been sealed up with cement? The whole room is sealed up, and there is no way to escape." Chen Ge stood next to the window. "This provides a suitable location for imprisonment. Staying in a room like this, if you wake up after fainting, will you realize that you have been moved to another room?"
"What do you mean?"
Chen Ge pointed at the bedroom bed and the mirror that had been tampered with. "For example, if a person wakes up in the middle of the night and goes to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and he realizes that the person in the mirror is not him, wouldn't he feel very afraid?"
"The mastermind wants to drive the imprisoned person crazy?"
"It's not that simple. Have you noticed that there are unlabeled medicine bottles placed everywhere in the room?" Initially, Chen Ge thought that the landlord was already dead, so he did not want to waste time on the landlord, but to his surprise, the landlord was also hiding a very big secret.
"Are these medicine bottles the key?" Xiao Sun picked up a random medicine bottle and opened it to take a look.
"If the imprisoned person falls asleep after taking the medicine, when he wakes up again, everything will return to normal. Will he think that he is sick? Will he need the medicine even more? "
At this point, Chen Ge turned to look at the coffee table and the dining table. "Almost all the rooms are filled with these unlabeled medicine bottles. This is also a kind of psychological suggestion to make the people inside the room more reliant on this medicine. Initially, the imprisoned person might suspect the effect of the medicine, but as he sees more and more strange things, he will slowly accept the fact that the medicine can cure him, and the cruelest thing is that the medicine will not save him at all. It will only worsen his condition and drive a normal person completely insane. " He found a large number of medicine bottles in every room on the ninth floor, and none of these medicine bottles were labeled. "Doctor Li, can you tell what kind of medicine these are?"
"Some of them look like sleeping pills, but I don't recognize some of them. They should be used to treat mental illness, but I'm not so sure."
"In this building, only your occupation is related to medicine. If even you are not sure, then this clue is not that useful to us." Chen Ge was about to put the medicine bottles back when Wen Qing, who had been following behind him, suddenly pulled him.
Chen Ge understood immediately. "There should be more clues hidden in these six rooms. Let's split up and search again. If there is nothing, then we will meet up on the tenth floor."
After everyone left, Wen Qing said, "Chen Ge, this is a medicine used to treat mania. I have bought it for Xiang Nuan many times. Before the landlord moved out of Jin Hwa Apartments, he had a lot of this medicine at home."
"You said this medicine belongs to the landlord?"
"Yes."
When he saw the medicine, Chen Ge had two speculations. The first was that the medicine belonged to Doctor Li because he was a doctor and was related to the landlord's death, but if that was the case, the timing did not add up. After all, it would take a long time to build six identical rooms.
The second speculation was that the medicine belonged to the landlord, and the b * stard who imprisoned the people was the landlord. He had built all six rooms to drive a person crazy.
"In your memory, what kind of person is the landlord?"
"The landlord is the boss of Jin Hwa Apartments. He is a very unfortunate old man. His whole family died in a fire, and ever since then, he has become a man of few words. But the old man is very fond of children, and he is one of the few people who do not hate Xiang Nuan. "
"You have a good impression of him?"
"When I was busy, he once helped me take care of Xiang Nuan."
"You have a man with mania help you take care of Xiang Nuan?" Even Chen Ge was surprised.
"The medicine was bought by the landlord for his own child. His youngest son suffers from severe mania, and it has not been cured. His illness has been recurring, and the medicine has been on him for the rest of his life."
"Do we believe whatever he says? The parents, siblings, and children of patients with mania have a twelve to fifteen percent chance of suffering from the disease. That is much higher than the general population. " Chen Ge had learned a lot from Doctor Gao. Influenced by him, he had a good understanding of psychology.
"But the old man is very kind. He is kind to everyone. Everyone who has met him respects him from the bottom of their hearts."
"You can still say something like that after you've seen these animals in human skin inside this building? Their kindness in front of others is just to hide the evil that they have in private. "Chen Ge's words sped up." Did you ask him to take care of Xiang Nuan often? "
"Not often, just once or twice." Wen Qing's face was pale. She was reminded of something very bad. "Chen Ge, do you think these six identical rooms were purposely modified to imprison Xiang Nuan?"
"I have no idea, but there is one thing that I do understand." Chen Ge stood in the corner and lowered his voice. "Everything behind the door is woven from the memory of the door pusher. Ever since I entered this place, I have been confused. How did Xiang Nuan find out about all the tenants' secrets? Initially, I thought Xiang Nuan had the ability to read people's minds, but after hearing what you said, I realized the truth is many times crueler than I expected. "
"The truth?"
"Do you still remember the television in the toilet and the dense network of wires behind it?"
"Yes, I do." A very bad feeling rose in Wen Qing's heart.
"The landlord has been watching the lives of the tenants inside the building through the surveillance. He has seen the ugliest side of everyone, and then he has allowed Xiang Nuan, who is as pure as a piece of white paper, to watch these things. Before others, he tells you that the world is beautiful, that the flowers are red, and the sky is blue, but behind the scenes, he keeps telling Xiang Nuan that what is shown on the screen is the real human nature. "
Chen Ge voiced his own speculation. He tried his best not to use the more extreme words, but when Wen Qing heard it, she almost fainted.
She could not imagine that Xiang Nuan would end up like this. It was probably because of her own carelessness.
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